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THE
Hongkong Weekly
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Press
China Overland Trade Report.
YOL. 'LX.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Articles:-
The Chinese Prejudice
The Law of Contraband
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 14тH NOVEMBER, 1904.
PAGK
346
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
.345 The last has been a busy week in Hongkong, interest chiefly centering in the contraband case 346 at the Supreme Court, the fashionable wedding 346 of the Medical Officer of Health, the King's 317 Birthday celebrations, and the Interport cricket.
Several street accidents are recorded.
China and Tibet
Chang Chih-Tung as Backslider
Hongkong Jottings
Supreme Court
Marine Magistrate's Court
.348 349 353
The King's Birthday
Fashionable Wedding
353 354
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
355
Macao
355
Canton
355
Foochow
.855
Hongkong Boat Club
356
Shanghai Gas Co.
.356
Suicide at Hingham
.356
Trade Difficulties in the Interior
356
The Stranding of the "Swanley."
356
Yokohama Harbour
357
The Dairy Farm Co., Ld
.357
Trade Marks
358
The Canton-Hankow Railway
345
The Currency Question
..358
The International Institute at Shanghai
.358
The Canton Crop
.359
The .8. Kashing
250
The Hongkong Nursing Institution.
.359
Hongkong...
.359
Far Eastern Items..
360
Miscellaneous...
341
362
$63
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
On 28th October, at Shanghai, the wife of the Rev. ERNEST Box, of a son.
On, 2nd November, at Shanghai, the wife of D. WILLARD LYON, of a son.
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On 2nd November, at Shanghai, the wife of C. E. SPARKE, of a daughter.
On 2nd November, at Shanghai, the wife of J. H. HINTON, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On 27th October, at Shanghai, Albert HART- MANN, to ILSE RAMKOFF.
On 28th October, at Shanghai, COLIN HENRY RUTHERFORD, to ELSIE, daughter of the late Jas. PRICE of Shanghai..
On 29th October, at Shanghai, GEORGE JAMES THOMAS, youngest son of the late EDWARD NEW- MAN, of Chefoo, to DOROTHY JOSEPHINE, only daughter of the late F. F. CAROZZI, of Shanghai. On 29th October, at Shanghai, GWENDOLYNE THOEBURN, to George FalconeR COLLYER.
On 31st October, at Shanghai, Arnold Davi8 LAMBERT, to Margaret LILIAN TEESDALE.
On 7th November, at t. Joseph's Chapel, by the Rev. Father R. Kelly, uncle of the bride, assisted by Rev. Father Augustine, GREGORY PAUL JORDAN, M.D., C.M, M B.C.S., to MARION JOSEPHINE ORMSBY-DALY, daughter of the late Joseph Ormsby, of Dublin.
DEATH.
At his residence, No. 14, St. Francis Yard, CHAN A TONG, Government Contractor, aged 59 years.
The Dalai Lama is reported to be at Peking.
The Governor has joined the local Chess Club.
No. 20
There has been nothing particularly new or interesting from the scene of war.
After meeting for nearly thirty-five years in a room at the City Hall, the Hongkong Cham- ber of Commerce has moved into new quarters, in one of the new "sky-scrapers" built on the Praya.
The way in which foreign trade is thwarted and hindered in the newly opened treaty ports may be gathered from the long article des. cribing the difficulties of Mr. H. Bennertz at Changsha.
A judgment of the Hongkong Marine Magis- frate puts it on record that sailors may refuse Hongkong is to have a status of Queen to sail into the war area unless they have signed on with a clear understanding of the dangers involved,
Alexandra.
The New Territory has contributed its first case of bubonic plague."
Death bas removed a prominent Chinese con- tractor, Chan A Tong.
H.M.S. Rinaldo left Shanghai on November 3rd, homeward bound.
The C. B. granted to Mr. R. 8. Gundry has pleased his friends in China.
The Hongkong Dairy Farm Co. is allotting new shares in lieu of dividend.
There is much talk in Soochow of the cutting off of the queues. The military officials are very glad of this change, but quite a number-of literary men seem to think it is too sudden a change to be good.
Sir Hiram Wilkinson, Chief Judge for British Courts in China, sentenced a Sikh to death at Tientsin on October 24th. The charge was murder; the victim, another Sikh. The trial, as usual, lasted several days.
The action at the Hongkong Supreme Court, Osaka Shosen Kaisha versus the owners of the- - steamer Prometheus, raises questions of world- Messrs W. S. Bailey & Co. have launched wide interest. We publish very full reports of another (ng for Mauila clients.
The Governor is being appealed to to stop the wholesale cutting of trees by the Afforesta- tion Department.
The Hogue, cruiser, was to be commissioned at Devonport on the 27th October for service on the China Station.
Captain MacNamara, Royal Irish Rifles, will be appointed to the Chinese Regiment with effect from January next.
The Shanghai A.D.C. has scored a distinct have just played three times. triumph with "Old Heidelberg," which they
The Macao Government employees have had their wages improved all round, consequent on a more favourable rate of exchange.
Among the various moribund companies to be struck off the Hongkong register, mapy will regret the Ramie Fibre Co. Ld.
Russia has managed to reach her third base. The next feature in her game will probably be a home-run, says the Japan Advertiser.
The King's Birthday set Hongkong ablaze with bunting. The Governor reviewed the troops on the Racecourse. It was a fine turn-
out.
The unfortunate Nagasaki Hotel has been sold, with its furniture, cellar stock, &c, for
the arguments offered from day to day.
A well-known, Shanghai racing pony, Alver. stone, belonging to the "Scandypat" stable, after doing a very good gallop on the 2nd inst.. went back to his stable, and died from the rupture of a blood-vessel in the region of the heart.
The American Asiatic mentions that Wong Kim-yueu, a Chinese merchant resident at Quintaro, a town in Mexico, has refused to accept the office of Mayor of that place, although urged to do so by the principal residents of the town.
The Secretary of State for India has notified that candidates for admission to the Civil Ser vice of India must have reached their 22nd birthday, instead of their 21st, as previously required, and the age limit is raised to 24
instead of 23.
A Canton dispatch to a northern paper reports that the Belgian Consul-General at Hongkong has despatched his Vice-Consul to Yunnanfu, the capital of Yunnan province, to establish a Consulate there, 'to look after Belgian interests."
Notwithstanding the fact that shipments of Indian tea to date are eight millions ahead of last year, the Times of Ceylon is advised by wire from Calcutta that the total output will be millions short. This is most important news,
Hongkong Teleclly Press. 106,000 yen (about £10,600.) It was in liquida- and should send up prices. The Times heads
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail arrived, per the Preussen, on Wednesday, the 9th instant.
tion.
outside was the re-election of the American The principal item telegraphed to us from President. It was expected that President
Roosevelt's term of office would be extended.
Kobe is following Shanghai's example, and arranging for an international walking match. 88. No proposal has yet been made at Hongkong; but perhaps something might be done in chairs
the telegram * Good news from India.”.
There was some cracker firing, etc., especially A Hindoo holiday began on the 7th inst. at the offices of Mr. A. M. Essabhoy, Zetland Street. The premises were decorated with a profusion of Chinese lanterns and bunting. Apart from the men attached to the Indian regiments here there are many Hindoos at Hongkong.