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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 17тH OCTOBER, 1904.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Penang Gazette says a new museum is .278 to be erected at Singapore at a cost of $85,00 ).
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279 The Peking Times hears that the use of all foreign paper in official circles is being dis- 280 couraged. Whether this is an expression of the 281 inward want of grace apparently prevailing .281 just now, or for economic reasons, is not quite 281 clear.
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Politics of Burma
Borerism Again
Hongkong Jottings
Supreme Court
Marine Magistrate's Court
The Shell," Transport and Trading Co., Ld.
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Hongkong Steam Water Boat Co., Ld.
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Chinese Engineering and Mining Co., Lat.
Canton-Hankow Railway
Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce
Pakhoi
Kwangai Province
A Visit to the Formosan Head Hunters..
Correspondence.
Scurrilous Publications in Peking
The Gymkhana
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The refugees from Liaoyang are flocking out- side the south gate of Peking eager to be enrolled as emigrants to South Africa, and the native 983 papers remark that this is an excellent thing for these people and will prevent them becoming
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The final spike in the railroad from Canton to Samshui was driven in the course of the last week. It was, as is customary in such cases, of silver; and it is reported that before the spike 285 had been down 24 hours it was hauled up and
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The "Fathomer.”
New Offices
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club.
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Miscellaneous
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Interport Shooting..
Hongkong
Trade Items. Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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On 5th October, at the Government Civil Hos- pital, Hongkong, the wife of Major S. R. STEVENS, 93rd Burma Infantry, of a daughter.
On 7th October, at Shanghai, the wife of the Rev. W. NELSON BITTON, of a daughter.
On 9th October, at Shanghai, the wife of J. W.
H. JOHN, of a son.
On 10th October, at Government Civil Hospital, the wife of S. WEINBERG, of a son.
On 11th October, at Hongkong, the wife of I. ROCHA, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
On 4th October, at Shanghai, A. GOLDMAN, Of Nagasaki, to JOSEPHINE HAIHOVITCH, of Shanghai.
DEATHS.
On 6th October, at Shanghai, Josephina Roza DOS SANTOS OLIVEIRA, relict of the late F. S. OLIVEIRA, of the North-China Herald office.
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A Straits Echo telegram said "An influential syndicate has been formed to create a large cotton-growing area in the Soudan which has 'been acquired by an American, who intends to import American negroes to work on the plan- tations." It is rather startling to hear that an American has “acquired the Soudan,"
A New York despatch says the Dowager Empress of China some time ago commissioned the Chinese Consuls-General in Paris, Berlin London, and Washing on to select a governess for her nephews. From the twenty who were thus nominated the Empress has selected Miss Mary Reynolds, of Iowa, a graduate this year of Northfield College.
The public servants' liability ordinance in Ceylon, which came into operation in 1899, and was meant to shield public servants from the grip of the money-lenders, ceases at the end of this year. It is asserted, says the Singapore Free Press, to have been very unpopular with the men whom it tried to protect, and, in many cases, has dealt hardly with them.
The Chinese Minister in Tokyo has wired to Peking that the only return for driving the Russians out of Manchuria that the Japanese are preparing to demand is the Chinese Eastern
On 7th October, at the Government Civil Hos- pital, Singapore, JAMES YOUNG, late master of the Indo-China 8.8. Sui Sang and of St. Ives, Cornwall.
On the 8th October, FILOMENA C. NUNN, relict railway and this has given great satisfaction
of the late CHARLES NUNN, formerly of Chin- kiang, aged 58 years.
On 10th October, HENRY RAWCLIFFE, masterf dredger 8t. Enoch, aged 46 years.
in Peking. The " Chinese Eastern Railway" however, comments the Peking Times, has before now proved an elastic term.
On 12th October, at Iloilo, P.I., of typhoid, H.
The Wai Wa Pu in reply to the Russian W. STEDMAN, of the Hongkong and Shanghai | representations about clause 9 of the Tibetan Banking Corporation.
Treaty, assures the Russian Minister that as China is herself rather more interested in the situation there than he is, it is not necessary for him to interfere, but to leave it to the Chinese Government, which sees much in the Treaty which it is impossible to confirm.
Hongkong Weekly Press.
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During the last voyage of the 8.8. Lightning from India two natives died of beri-beri. Vessels carrying native crews, trading between Hong- kong. and other ports, often make similar reports.
Rev. Mr. Kawaguchi; the Japanese Buddhist priest who got into Lhassa and escaped, will leave Tokyo on the 30th inst. and embark on a steamer at Koba on the 11th prox. on another tour to Tibet. He will first proceed to Nepaul via Burma and Calcutta, in order to present the King with a prayer of the Japanese Kwobaku sect. Early next year he is expected to Lhassa nader protection of the British Government.
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M. Lessar, Russian Minister at Peking, says he has not presented any protest to the Chinese Government with regard to the Treaty between Great Britain and Tibet. He mirely told Na Tung and Prince Ching that Russia would be displeased if China made herself a party to the Agreement in question. Na Tang is said to have replied that Tibat had actel quite in- dependently of China, and that the Treaty had not yet be in recognised by the Chinese Govern- ment.
Recently a letter was received by the Customs Taotai at Shanghai from the Consul-General for the United States asking permission for the American warships to go to Hsiang-Shan Bay in Chengkiang for gun practice and cruising purposes, the place being under the jurisdiction of the Customs Taotai at Ningpo. The matter was referred to him for decision, but in reply he says that if the American warships can be stopped from going there so much the better: if
not, then no sailors or marines shall be allowed to go ashore, there must be no gun practice, and sufficient time must be given so that the magia- trate may be able to issue proclamations for the information of the populace, and so prevent disturbances.
The agreement between the British mission and the Tibetan authorities was signed by a Tibetan official called Hut'u-kht'u (Saint; this class of dignitary, to which the Dalai Lama and Panshan Lama themselves belong, may be said to constitute the most marked and essential feature of the Tibetan form of Buddhism), who arbitrarily used the official seal of the Dalai Lams when he left Lhassa. Whether Yu Tai, Lama which had been left behind by the Dalai Imperial Chinese Resident, knowing the fact, allowed Hut'u-kht'u to stamp the seal (which had been especially provided by the Chinese government) is not known, and this is the reason, a Chinese paper says, why Taotsi Tangshaoyih has been ordered to Lhassa.
New brooms sweep clean-in China as well as other places. This has certainly been true of the new magistrate at Kiangyin, who has been in his present position shout two months. He has risen from an insignificant military position through his shrewdness and clean- handedness, so report says. The fear of man is apparently not before his eyes, as the following incident seems to prove. A sub-licentiate was both assisted in killing the French Bishop have in his place. The evidence was conclusive. The two criminals Huang and Wang who arrested for having a gambling and opium den
been brought over to Ichang and have already After a stern rebuke magistrate Ching ordered been decapitated. One of them while being exe-thè hopeful scholar to be beaten. The scholar cuted shouted out in a loud voice "None of you protested, appealing to his literary attainments, shall ever be Protestant converts." From this naming his rank; for comfort he received the The German Mail of the 19th September it can be easily seen the trouble has been caused reply: "I am not beating your degree, bat I am arrived, per the 8.8. Princess Alice, on Wednesby a disagreement between the Catholics and beating your rascality. Add one hundred day, the 12th inst.
Protestants.--Universal Gazette.
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