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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LX.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Articles:-
Masonry and Catholicism
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 24TH SEPTEMBER, 1904.
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The Hongkong Budget
Bad Japanese Judges
A Lost Prestige.
Our Trade with Japan. Local and Imperial
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Frontier Trudes of Corea .
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Hongkong Jottings
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Hongkong Legislative Council
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Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
Supreme Court
Marine Court
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Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ld.225
The Douglas Steamship Co., Ld.
Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ld.
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Owing to a reduction in the Government appropriation for Education in the Philippines the services of nearly 200 American teachers in the islands will shortly be terminated.
H.M. cruiser Tribune has annexed Aves Island, and has hoisted the British flag there. Aves Island is a small barren islet in the east of the Caribbean Sea, 140 miles west of
Dominica.
The Commander-in-Chief of the German Asiatic Fleet is offering ten thousand marks to anyone discovering the missing attaché Lieut. Gilgenheim, who left Port Arthur in á junk.
It was reported in Shanghai mandarin circles on the 13th instant that the British Minister in Peking has suggested to the Waiwupu that 227 China being too weak to protect Weihaiwei, she
should ask the Japanese to do so for her.
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The Hongkong Steam Water-boat Co., L
Frontier Notes
Correspondence
British-Tibetan Treaty
Impression of North Formosa
Rice Trade at Macao
Death of an American Admiral
An Erring Guide
Police Recreation Club.
H.K.C.C. Annual Meeting
Craigengower C.C. Annual Meeting.
Importa into the Philippines
Hongkong Rifle Association
Kowloon Bowling Green Club
V.R.C. Aquatic Sports..
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China Trade
Hongkong
Miscellaneous Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
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In Hongkong, the "area sneak has been favouring umbrellas of late. At Shanghai, according to the Mercury, there seems to be a mania for foreign hats among the lower class of natives. Pilfering is practised in divers' ways, but hardly in a more annoying form than in the annexing of one's hat from the stand in the hall.
Some articles, says a Manila contemporary with an evident sigh of felief, are to be admitted 232 to the Philippines free of duty after all. 233 Scientific apparatus and books, and other 236 merchandise imported for Government use, when the local market cannot supply the want, are now to come in free. The Commission has passed an Act to that effect.
At The Neuk," Peak, on the 19th inst., the wife of Captain P. G. DAVIES, A.O.D., of a daughter.
MARRIAGE.
On the 14th September, at H. M. Consulato, Swatow, China, and afterwards at Kakchio Church, by the Rev. W. F. Knox, ROBERT ALEXANDER CURRIE, eldest son of the late R. G. CURRIE, ICS, to ELEANOR MABY, third dan hter of T, W. RICHARDSON, of Swatow, Chinn, and 27, Roland Gardens, London, S.W.
In consequence of their dissatisfaction with the local Japanese headman, five thousand rioters at Sikeung, Kyongkeui province, on the line of the Seoul-Fusan railway, a few miles south of the Han river, killed him and his son and wounded four other Japanese. Japanese gendarmes have proceeded to the scene, and it is expected that the riot will soon be quelled.
The Chinese Government has decided to govern Manchuria herself, and is negotiating with the Japanese authorities on the matter. Japan has informed China that if China wished to keep Manchuria it is necessary to have at
Hongkong Weekly Press to st four divisions of a well-trained army, and
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL. London Office: 131, Fleet STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French Mail of the 19th August arrived, per the s.s. Salasie, on the 20th inst.; and the English Mail of the 26th August arrived, per the ɛ.*. Malta, on the 23rd inst.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
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if China cannot provide this a Japanese army may garrison Manchuria, the expenses being paid by China. The Chinese Government has ordered Liang Pi of Lienpingohu, attachell to H.E. Tieh Liang, to return to Peking from Shanghai in this connection.-Universal Gazette.
In Kinkiang French marines made a small row, which might have led to disagreeable con- sequences. A party from the Montcalm went on shore on the 6th instant and took to using their knives, so that two natives had to be taken to the hospital for treatment. If it had been foreigners who had been thus handled, it would have been considered a terrible outrage; being Chinese, it was but a small matter, to be settled forty by or fifty dollars. It is said that this man-of-war is in port, and makes the foreign sort of thing happens frequently, when a French
residents hail the sight of the Tricolor with Major General Corbin relieves Major-General some misgivings. Indeed it is said that the Wade in the military command in the Philip-sisters at the hospital prepare an extra supply pines on the 18th October.
of bandages when a French ship is there!
The rifles of the Russian gunboat Mandjour at Shanghai have been restored for the purpose of being cleaned.
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Recently a mysterious murder took place in a house in Queen's Road Central, Hongkong. A body of a male, but the official called in appears man applied for a burial warrant for the dead
to have thought there was something suspicions about the dead man, and he ordered the body to be removed to the mortuary. There it was found that the man had been stabbed twice in the groin with a pair of scissors (this occurred - in a tailor's shop) and the wounds filled up with tobacco. All traces of blood had been washed away. Further particulars are unobtainable, as the Police decline to tell anything concerning the affair.
A San Francisco telegram to the Manila Cablenews announces that as a result of the investigation made by Mr. Herbert H. D. Pierce, third assistant Secretary of State, in regard to the many charges of official misconduct made against Mr. Robert McWade, the U. 8. Consul. General at Canton, President Roosevelt hás removed Mr. McWade from office. A strong effort was made by friends in his behalf, but without effect. The felegram adds that the removal has met with general approval through. out the country. It is stated that as a result of the representations made by Mr. Pierce other changes in the Consular service in the Far East are likely to follow.
A Sin-wan-po despatch dated the 11th instant says: A Peking letter says that the Waiwupu has inquired of the British Minister whether Weihaiwei-will be handed back by the British authorities to the Chinese according to the terms of the agreement when the Russians evacuate Manchuria, and asked the Minister to wire his home Government regarding the matter. The Peking Government had also wired to Chang Teh-yih, Chinese Minister at London, on the same subject. Minister Chang wired back to the effect that the British Government will in no case violate the terms of the agree- ment, but will claim certain consideration in ex- change for the return of Weihaiwei.
Hunghutze are under a certain young General, a very handsome, gentlemanly, mild-mannered Chinese, a splendid horseman and a first-class shot, in fact an ideal guerilla chief. The Hanghutze get regular pay-from the Japanese, it is currently reported-footmen $15 a month, and horsemen $25, and they have to find their own mounts and ammunition. They are divided into bands of 200 or 300, each with seven or eight Japanese officers disguised as Chinese. In horsemanship and marksmanship they are fully a match for the Cossacks, and they are better led than the latter. They are very careful to do no harm to the natives or to any foreigners.ex- cept the Russians, but they harass the Russian railway guards and communications, and small bodies of Russians, terribly, for they are perfect guerillas, obeying implicitly the orders of their General, to whom the Chinese found it wise some time before the war to give high official rank. As an instance of the way the Hunghutas- operate, it may be mentioned that the other day the Russians got hold of five of them, and ✨ent - off their heads, which they stuck up on poles as a warning. A band of Hunghutse watched their chance until they got wind of a detachment of thousand head of cattle for the Russian Com- twenty-six Cossacks who were driving about a
missariat. They attacked them, killed them all, secured their arms, horses, und returned with five of the Gë their own lanoùs a case of tit