Hongkong
VOL. LX.]
Epitome
THE
Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
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Leading Articles :--
Drains and the Plague
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The Shanghai-Nanking Railway
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Death of Paul Kruger
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Russia's Motley Diplomacy
Why Russia Breaks Faith
Robbing the Mails.
Man-Traps at Ses
Hongkong Jottinga
The War
War Items
Hongkong Legislative Council
Supreme Court
The Revised Ordinances of Hongkong...
The Hongkong Electric Co., Ld.
The Punjom Mining Co., Ld. Canton
Correspondence
A Shocking Tragedy.
St. Joseph's College
Sport and Pastime
Hongkong
Miscellaneous
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 25тн JULY, 1904.
Indian crops furnish good reports since the rainfall improved.
Mrs. Archibald Little has compiled a "life' of Li Hung Chang.
Japanese casualties up to the 9th instant
were counted at 1,355.
Sir Gerald Strickland has been appointed 59 | Governor of Tasmania.
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The tribes in the Aden hinterland are quieter, and the troops are returning..
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Mr. Murphie, third mate of the s.s. Thales, was drowned while bathing in the Poh-lam river on the 10th inst. The day following, the Amoy Gazette said the body had not been recovered.
Chronicle, for Y. 50,000 damages for loss of Mr. Reynell's action against the Kobe
credit (alleged to be due to publication of an order of attachment on plaintiff's property) was dismissed with costs.
Mr. George E. Anderson, newly appointed U.S. Consul at Hangohow, is due to sail from All the reinforcements having turned up' prox. He has been connected professionally, up San Francisco by the P.M 8. Chind on the 6th
the march on Lhassa has beguu.
Great Britain's exports and imports each rose in value about £2,000,000 last month.
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The Queen was one of the sponsors at the 66 christening of Lady Carzon's daughter.
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An electric tramway between Yokohama and Kanagawa was opened on the 10th instant.
M. Waldeck-Rousseau, ex-Premier of France. was reported seriously ill on the 5th inst.
to his appointment, with the American press.
The third and last cutting in the Peiho improvement scheme was officially opened on the 11th inst. Admiral Yeh pressed the button firing the mine which blew up the dam, in the presence of an immense gathering of spectators.
A telegram to the Times of Ceylon on 30th June reports hard fighting in Tibet. The 8th Gurkhas, the 40th Pathans, and some of the Sappers stormed a main position, took it, but lost Captain J. C. P. Craster (killed). Captain C. Bliss, and Lieut. D. W. H. Hum-
Miss Carl, the lady who painted the Dowager Empress a portrait, has reached Shanghai.
The foreign residents at Nagasaki are sub-phreys were wounded. scribing to have gas installed in their public hall.
The Daily Express story of the discovery of a detailed Russian plan for the invasion of India
On the 11th July, at 'lientsin, the wife of H. is discredited.. SCHELL, of a son.
On the 16th July, at Shanghai, the wife of F. B. PFEIFER, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES
On the 2nd July, at the Union Church, Kobe, by Ptor Schiller, WILHELM JULIUS ERNST BI of Coetten (Anhalt), to MABEL GLADYS AKP third daughter of Dr. T. NISHIGAWA, of Tokyo.
Op the 15th July, at Amsterdam, Holland, the marriage took place by proxy of JAN BRINS, of Shanghai, and ALIDA ÄGTERBERG, of Amster- dam.
DEATHS.
On the 14th July at th Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, WALTER J. LISTER, of New- chwang, aged 80 years.
On the 14th July, at Shanghai, JosrrH MORGAN, of L. M. Customs, aged 59 years and 9 months.
The late storm in Formosa demolished 404 houses, and damaged 279 others. Nineteen boats were wrecked.
Singapore is sadly short of elementary school accommodation. The Straits Times is jogging the Government elbow.
A Shanghai boatman has just been imprisoned for a week for attempting to utter forged notes of the Russian Imperial Bank.
Marquis Ito intends to pay a second visit to Kores. The Korean emperor may return to Tokyo with him as an imperial guest.
The German admiral, seconded by the consul at Nanking, is said to have again asked for a lease of Poyang Lake as a naval station.
The Shanghai S.P.C.A. held its sixth annual progress made in eliminating local cruelties.
Hongkong Weekly Press. meeting on the 7th inst., and reported good
HONGKONG UFFICE: 14, DES Vœux ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of the 21st June arrived, per the v.8. Preussen, on Wednesday, the 20th ult, and the French Mail of the 24th nit. arrived, per the s... Torane to-day, the 25th inst.
M. A. Novion, one of the old-time Commis- sioners of Customs in China, died at Nice on the 13th of May last at the age of 67. He left China some four years ago.
The Kokumin Shimbun has a telegram from Peking saying that Sir Robert Hart is about to resign, and that he will be succeeded either by Sir R. Bredon, Mr. Hippisley or Mr. F. E. Taylor.
Amoy, according to its Gazette & Shipping Report, imported 14,154 pls. of rice in the six days ending 8th July, and exported 250 pla sugar, 559. pla. paper, and 348 pls. prepared
tobacco.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Telegrams relating to the war will be found the crew of the C. N. 8. Shaohsing were One European and two Chinese members of
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suffocated on entering the ballast tank to clean Yokohama is shortly to have another club, anit. Two others, who were rescued, are in the International one.
Shanghai hospital.
Capt. Lewis E. Wintz, commanding the general depot at Chatham, will retire on July 5th by reason of age, and will be succeeded by Capt. F. G. Stopford, who is about to pay off the first-class oruiser Blenheim at Chatham, on her return from a three years' commission on the China station.'
The White Star liner Baltic, which has been left that city for Liverpool on 23rd ult., and s built by Messrs. Harland and Wolff, of Belfast, week later made her maiden Atlantic voyage. She is the longest vessel afloat, her length being 725ft., and she has accommodation for 3,000 passengers and 28,000 tons of cargo. Her speed is seventeen knots an hour.
The Chinese Imperial Post has issued a new tariff which is to come into force on 1st September. By the new tariff the inter-zone puzzle which was imposed on the long suffering public is abolished and the tariff for China is simplified to two rates, local and domestic. Nevertheless the rates have been raised con- siderably in most cases, and Chins can no longer boast of having the cheapest Post Office service in the world.
The N-C. Daily News learns that as the result of the argument in chambers in the action brought by the owners of the junk Ling Lee-yuen against the Chins Navigation Company, for damages caused in a collision between the junk and the C. N. 8. Ichang, Sir Hiram 8. Wilkinson awarded the plaintiffs 812.000 damages and costs. The expert only thing of value on the junk was her masts. evidence of Capt. J. P. Roberts was that the
after the expiry of six months the import duty On April 1st the Japanese announced that
valorem. On the same day the Tobacco Monopo- ou tobacco would be one hundred per centum ad ly Law reserved for the Government, after three months, the right of importing tobacco. This has meant heary losses to importers, who are now told that the new duty announced applied only to private consumers who might, with Government permission, import tobacco for their own use.