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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LX.]
Epitome
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Leading Articles :---
Registration of Servant-
Port Arthur......
Chinese Farmers' Troubles
Missionaries and Politics
Weihatwei
Hongkong Jottings
Supreme Court
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce Hongkong Sanitary Board
The National Bank of China. Limited. The Astor House Hotel Co. fl. Pakhoi
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 10TH SEPTEMBER, 1904.
A brief notice was recently discovered posted on the door of a Protestant native church in PAUS Taming-fu. It read: Commencing with the 1817th Moon, rise and kill the devils." Taming-fu
is just within the Shantung border.
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A Chinese was caught by the Japanese re- cently in the act of conveying $40,000 to the Russians in Liaoyang. the money presumably 184 being some left behind in the fight from New. chwang. Needless to say it has not reached its 186 intended destination.
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The Change of Currency in the Straits Settlements189 The Opening of Changsha
Alleged Foreign Piracy at Shanghi The US. Consul at Shanghai
Local Sport
Trade Items..
Hongkong
Miscellaneous
Commercia} Shipping
BIRTHS.
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On the 31st August, a No. 2, Hollywood Road, the wife cf J. M. SETHNA of a Son.
On the 6th September, at the Government Civil Hospital, the wife of A. W. J. SIMMONS (P. W. D.), of a daughter.
DEATHS.
On the 24th August, at 36-4, Bencoolen Street, Singapore, PETER CONCEICAO, late foreman to the Blacksmith Department of Riley, Hargreaves
& Co.
On the 2nd September, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, MARKUS. LODEMAN LYNG HARTMANN, of the Imperial Maritime Customs, aged 21 years.
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The example of those Kuala Lumpur Chinese who lately determined to sacrifice their queues. as one step towards reform in Chinese institu- tions, is affecting Borneo. The Beaufort Postal Clerk, it is said, contemplates cutting his gene off, which he admits to be a unisance.
The military authorities of Seoul have decided to reduce the number of troops in. Seoul to 3,000. These will then take the rank and dnty of policemen with their present officers as sergeants of police. This will largely increase ä useful department and abolish a number of useless so-called soldiers.
The clergyman's frock, as a cloak for mis- demeanours, has gone out of fashion in Eugland since Thomas à Becket made, his great but ineffectual stand. In China, however, it still has its value. A defendant escaped a whipping in the Mixed Court on the 1st instant, says the N.-C. Daily News. on the ground that he was
in holy orders.“
The acting governor of Hn-nan has sent 20 intelligent civil and military officers and others to Japan to study modern police methods, at the expense of the Government. The cost, about! Tls. 8,000, will be defrayed by the treasury of the province. The students left Changsha for They will re-
Hongkong Weclily Press. Yokoharia on the 16th ultimo.
Hongkong Office: 14. DES Vœux ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The Fnglish Mail of the 10th August arrived, per the s.s. Bengal, on Friday, the 9th inst.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Viceroy of Szechuan has for some time been urging the opening of Chengtu as a com- mercial port and the matter is still under consideration in Peking,
The tea shops in Peking all have notices posted up that the frequenters are to avoid the discussion of political questions, including the matter of coolies sent to South Africa.
The Ji-ji learns from Yinkow that the Japanese are turning over all the Customs receipts to the Chinese Government, but the Russians are seizing all the money at the likin stations up country.
The Daily Mail correspondent at St. Peters- burg says that in a Russian village that lit knows of they believe that we are at war because the Cossacks stole a child from the Emperor of Japan, and won't give it back.
Colonel Dov'or Misunitsky, lately in com mand of the Russian Legation Guard, a man of giant size, who was very popular in North China, was captured by the Japanese at Telihsze. and is now a prisoner in Japan.
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Lhassa. telegraphed to the Peking Government Yu Tai, the Imperial Chinese Resident at
that he had negotiated with the Mission satisfactorily and advised that, as the Dalai Lama had run away and his whereabouts had not been ascertained, the Dalai Lama should be dismissed from his position and an Imperial Decree to that effect should be issued.
M. Beau, the Governor-General of Indo-China. has signed an order interdicting the circulation in Indo-China of Japanese or Chinese pictures or plans relating to the Russo-Japanese war. The circulation of a Japanese journal which had commenced to extend in the Colony" has also been interdicted. This information appears in L'Indo-Chinois under the heading · A Good Measure."
his cutter at Nice orders to return to Paris at The man
An interesting decision was given recently by the Paris Courts. A master tailor sent to once, and enclosed a railway ticket. lost the ticket en route, and was summoned by the railway company. He proved, however, that Court held that this sufficed, and non-suited he had it when he began the journey. The
the railway company.
Reuter's Agency understands that a scheme for the amalgamation of certain of the British possessions in West Africa, which has been under the consideration of the Government for some time, will partially be put into operation will be placed under one Governor. This may next month, when Southern Nigeria and Lagos |
be regarded as the first step towards the amalgamation of Lagos and Southern Nigeria
as one Colony.
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Referring to the rise in Honan of a new lot
Boxers,” this time culled the “ Orchardists” (Tsai Ynan), the Linchingchou correspondent of the N.-C. Daily News reports that all the missionaries have fled from the southernmost
part of Chihli. He is not anti-missionary, so it is amusing to note that he describes the mission work thus:
active for three years past in
acquiring property and winning converts.
xtates.
An interesting presentation will arise out of the twenty-five hours sitting in July, the Loudon correspondent of the Sheffield Telegraph The hero of that sitting was Mr. Spencer Charrington, the venerable Member for Mile-end, who stuck to the House until after intend to present him with a piece of plate. with the final division. His Unionist colleagues
a suitable inscription. Mr. Charrington is eighty-six years of age,
A letter from the Siccawei Observatory of Commerce drew attention to the disastrous effects which have resulted elsewhere to delicate instruments from the proximity of a single trolley system of tramways, and urges that the community consider seriously whether they desire a system which will corrode their gas and water pipes, disturb their telephone lines, perhaps the time ball service, and render impossible a line of work which is recognised as having a considerable public interest.
A writer in the Transvaal Advertiser wants to know the intentions of the Government in respect to the Chinese immigration question: also. whether the statement made by Mr. Lyttelton in the House of Commons that the Transvaal would have to pay the cost of erect- | ing receiving houses in various parts of China means that the people of this country will be taxed to facilitate the means whereby the mining companies are to extract the mineral wealth of the country and forward it to absent dividend receivers abroad. A satisfactory solu- tion to some of these Celestial problems might. he thinks. tend to stimulate the market.
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Viceroy Tseu Chun-hsuan is reported to have recently received a telegraphic advice from Laichowfu to the effect that on the 16th ult, the French authorities at Kwangehowang had written to the Prefect of Laichowfu that a French warship would proceed to Laichow for the purpose of surveying and making charts so to facilitate navigation between Kwangelow- wang and Annam. On the 17th the warship arrived at Laichow and put the surveying pole on a height on Fenghwangshan and asked for due protection. Viceroy Tsen wired at once to the Waiwapu in the matter and instructed the Taotai and Prefect as well as the Bureau of Foreign Affairs to prevent the French survey- ing party from cartying out the survey.
Dr. Park, the Health Officer of Penang, has presented a long and valuable report on the more effective control of Penang's food supply. Park advises that the hawking of milk should the second part dealing chiefly with milk. Dr.
be stopped, and all milk should be sterilised. To carry out sterilisation would probably need an analyst capable of carrying out bacterio- logical investigations, and would cost about 89,000. But it would enable the standardian- tion of milk to be carried out. Dr. Looks agreed as to the importance of looking after the food supply and the supreme necessity of a pure milk supply, but was not prepared to make so many restrictions on the trade. He was asked to supply a memorandum for the
use of the Commissioners.
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