THE
Hongkong Weekly
AND
Press
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LX]
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Articles :--
Chinese Currency
The Dardanelles Treaty
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 30TH JULY, 1904.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Sir Matthew Nathan arrived at Hongkong on 73 Friday morning by the P. & O. steamer Nubia, to take up his position as Governor of the Colony. His Excellency was met at the Blake Pier by the heads of departments both Military and Civil, and a guard of honour, with band in 75 attendance, was furnished by the Sherwood 76 Foresters.
A full account will appear in our next mail edition.
Telegrams relating to the war will be found on p. 78.
A bar is forming across the entrance to Port Swettenham.
A team of Boers was included in the Bisley 82 competitors this month.
Euphrates Valley Railway
An International Magna Charta
H.E. Mr. F. H. May
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Hongkong Jottings
My
The War
78
War Items
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Supreme Court
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
81
Important Judgment-re Chits...
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Canton Land Co., Ld.
The Punjom Mining Co., L
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Canton
H.E. Mr. F. H. May
The Italian Convent
Diocesan Boy's School..
Local Sport
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Hongkong
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Miscellaneous Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS,
Beri-beri continues to break out among the 83 Chinese coolies in South Africa.
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On the 10th July, the wife of H. HILTON, Penang, of a daughter.
On the 25th July, at the Peak Hospital, Mr. MAX HERNFELD, aged 28 years. Deeply regretted. The cortege will pass the Monument at 9 o'clock this morning.
On the 28th July, at Stokes' Bungalow, W. the Peak, the wife of J. FINLAY MILLER, of a daughter.
MARRIAGE.
On the 28th July, at St. Peter's Church, at 11 am., by the Rev. J. H. France, M.A., ARTHUR FRASER (chief officer ss. Zafiro), son of Joan FRASER, of Shetland Islands, Scotland, to FANNY MAUDE HEWITT, daughter of RICHARD HEWITT, of Birminghaus, England.
DEATHS.
At Chindras House, Matlock, Derbyshire, JOHN FISHER, formerly of Perseverance Estate, Singa- pore, aged 84 years.
On the 27th July, at his residence, Kowloon, Mr. JAMES HENRY Cox, aged 72 years.
American papers say that General Cronje, aged nearly seventy, has been married at St. Louis.
Rumour says that the gunboat Aspic has been sent to Bangkok to back up French claims against Siam.
The first through passenger train from Cape town to Victoria Falls on the Zambesi ran on
the 22nd ultimo.
A Japanese merchant has bought the wreck of the Koreetz, the Russian gunboat blown up in Chemulpo harbour.
Captain Smith of the steamer Ruby was found dead in his cabin at Singapore on the 14th inst. Heart disease was the suspected cause.
The King's reception of "General" Booth, in the uniform of the Salvation Army, was officially recorded in the Court Circular.
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Count Gallina, Italian Minister at Peking, has been appointed Italian Ambassador at St. Petersburg. He will be replaced in the Chinese capital by Signor Baroli, Councillor of Legation, who has been promoted to the rank of Minister.
A special telegram to the Singapore Free Press says that on July 14th, at Shanhaikwan, there was a row between French and Japanese soldiers, in which the bayonet was used by both sides. Two Frenchmen were killed and nine Japanese wounded.
Sanitary regulations, as against ships going Indo-China, Netherlands India. Burma, Straits from Hongkong, are in forde now at Manila,
Settlements, Shanghai, Siam, Kophai, Madras, Bengal. French Indo-China, British North Borneo and Labuan.
The members of tus Club Concordia at Shanghai met on the 18th instant and decided to proceed with the building of a
new olub house, on plans by Mr. Bedber. The total cost, including Tls. 200.000 for the site' already bought, will be Tis. 400,000,
A telegram received on the 26th inst., from our correspondent at Kobe confirms the news of the sinking of the steamer Knight Commander by the Russians reported by our London corre6- pondent. Our Kobe correspondent states that the steamer was bound from Shanghai to Yokohama.
The Japan Times reports that a Japanese teacher in Vladivostock, named Maidā, has arrived in St. Petersburg and applied for He is the Nippon naturalisation papers. equivalent of a little Englander," and thinks his country has been "led away by the ideal of territorial expansion."
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Mr. Borden, leader of the Canadian Opposition, proposed a vote of censure on Mr. Fisher, the meddlesome Indo-Minister of Agriculture. for his
in the Dundonald case. Mr. interference Fisher's retort was that Mr. Borden was “a quibbler and a pettifogger." The Speaker had hard work to restore order.
The new steamer Tuck Wo, for the China Steam Navigation Co., made her maiden trip up the Yangtsze on Tuesday last.
The Singapore correspondent of the Daily Mail has stated that he sent no telegram about a Japanese cruiser en route to the Red sea. The Free Press therefore describes Renter's message as a "fake."
Mr. Balfour sa'd in the House of Commons that the Government had drawn the attention of the Porte on the 1st January, 1903, to Kussian torpedo-boats passing the Dardanelles under the commercial flag.
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We regret to state, says the N.-C. Daily News of the 22nd inst., that Mr. Robert Graham, the chief officer of the C.N.8. Shaohsing, who on Monday made such a plucky attempt to resous two of the Chinese crew of that vessel from the ballast tank and was himself overcome by the foul air, died at the General Hospital on Wednesday, aged 31 years.
The home papers are making an outory con- The electric lighting installation at Penang cerning the exploits of the Vladivostock squadron, is practically complete. The light has already and declare that the sinking of neutralships with. been tested and found satisfactory. No publicout trial is an intolerable precedent amounting
Hongkong Weekly Press. inauguration will be made, however, until the to an act of war. The Morning Post severely
HONGKONG (FFICE: 14, DES Vœux ROAD CL LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREKT, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of the 1st inst., arrived per the steamer Nubia, on Friday the 29th inst.
works are thoroughly in order.
A marriage has been arranged, and will take place at Tientsin in November next, between Captain E. H. Daniell, D.8.0., D.A.A.G., North China, and Miss Winifred Currey, eldest daughter of Mr. Percival Currey.
At Glasgow, on the 11th ultimo, A. Shrubb, the English runner. covered two miles in 9 minutes and 9 3-5 seconds, breaking the world's professional record of 9 minutes 11 seconds, held by W. Lang of Manchester, England.
criticises Mr. Balfour's statement as failing to The Standard satisfy an indignant nation. says the situation is exceedingly grave.
Shanghai, and reprinted in this issue, affects An important judgment hand-d down at
hotel keepers in every English settlement in the East. Chits signed for drinks are covered by the “Tipplers' Act” and the amounts unpaid thereon are not recoverable at law. There is a suggestion that chits not specifying what they were for may be treated as recoverable "i.o.u.s", but this is uncertain. -