THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL LX.
Leading Articles :-
Pakhoi
AND
China Oberland Trade Report.
· HONGKONG, MONDAY, 28тí NOVEMBER, 1904.-
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Specifications for a fine new Hotel at Kowloon are published.
No. 22
A gang of six armed robbers in the heart of the city caused some cómmation on the 22nd November. Two of them were capture
An interview with the inventor of the ball- bearing rifled gun, Captain O. C. Cullen, Japanese forged dollar notes are still circula- trying to get some guns run through to Port appears in this issue. He was in Hongkong
388 ting in Hongkong.
New South Wales has sent a Commercial 389 Agent to Shangbai.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
Epitome
.335
Registration of Chinese Partnerships In Praise of H. E. Chou Fu
.386
.386
The Political Aspects of Religion¡...........
.357
The Anglo-Russian Impasse
387
Historical Evidences.......
.888
Chinese Pedigrees
La Liberte
...389
Barbarons Chinese Punishments
389
Hongkong Jottings
Supreme Court
..390
Canton
..896
Education in Canton...
.396
.396
Macao
.397
New Hotel for Kowloon
.397
Hongkong Odd Volumes Society
.397
Hongkong Amateur Dramatic Society
..398
The Smoking oncert
.39)
Death of An Old American Naval Officer
.899
Hongkong Sanitary Institute ..
The China Traders' Insurance Co., Ld.
The Hongkong Steam Water-boat Co., Ld.
..400
Famous Inventor in Hongkong
400
An Interesting Wedding
A Very Modern Ship..........
Death of Mr. Justice Leach
West Kents Arrive
Fires at Hongkong
Oxford Local Examinations
..402
The Caufon-Hankow Eailway Concession
..402
China and Portugal
.4:2
Correspondence
..403
Fatal Accident on the Tramway
..403
Importation of Sugar at Hongkong
Deaths from Poisoning
Registration of Chinese Partnerships
.404
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club..
.404
Hongkong...
Far Eastern Items..
Trade Items
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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Arthur.
It is again announced that H.E. Edwin H. Conger, American Minister to Chips, resigns
A newly imported pointer dog fetched Tis. and will be succeeded by the Hon. W. W. 280 at a Shanghai auction.
Fires are becoming frequent in Hongkong, as the New Year approaches.
The Hongkong Police opened a recreation club .399 of their own at Happy. Valley on the 26th ..400 instant.
Peking is said to be full of placards, hostile .401
not only to the foreigners, but to the "Tartar" 401 ..401 | government as well.
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The four unfortunate Corean "physicians " who attended the Crown Princess in her fatal illness are now in prison.
The 8.8. Allanton, released by the Russian ..408 Prize Court, arrived at Muroran, Hokkaido,
Japan, on the 15th instant.
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A "building boom" is reported at the city of 405 Ichoufu. Land is at a high figure. Foreign-
style buildings are going up.
.405 ..406 .408
On 11th November, at Shanghai, the wife of DUNCAN GLASS, of a son.
On 15th November, at Shanghai, the wife of S. TH. VON GOES, of a daughter.
On 18th November, at Shanghai, the wife of WALTER ENGLAND WILSON, of a daughter.
On 22nd November, at Shameon, Canton, the wife of EMIL Hue, of a son.
Mr. J. C. E. Douglas, a British magistrate at Shanghai, is reported to have broken his collar bone by falling from his pony.
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The German gunboat Iltis went aground at the North-East Crossing beyond Kiukiang on the 18th instant. She got off safely.
Messrs 8. C. Farnham, Boyd, & Co. under-
On 22nd November, at Rocklands, 7, Robinson took the work of salving the sunken mail tender
Whangpoo, in the river at Shanghai.
Road, the wife of ARTHUR W, OUTERBRIDGE, of a daughter.
At Glasgow, the wife of W. F. S. TAYLOR, of a son. (by cable).
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MARRIAGES.
On 11th November, at Shanghai, ARTHUR JOHN KENT, to FLORENCE À INTER
On 24th November, at St John's Cathed al, Hongkong, by the ev. H. T. Johnson, M.A, Jos, eldest son of WILLIAM FROST, of Manchester, to Bertha, eldest daughter of RICHARD GLAZIER, A.B.I., B.A., A.R.C.A, of Mancheste.
DEATH.
On 15th November, at Shanghai, ALEXANDER ALLAN, Chemist, ag d 39 years.
Hongkong Weekly Press.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of the 21st ultimo arrived. per the a.s: Nubia, on the 19th instant; and the
German Mail of the 25th ultimo arrived, per the se. Prinz Mitel Friedrich, on the 23rd inst.
The Canton Regatta on the 25th and 26th instant passed off very well. The Hongkong crack rowers were unable to beat the local
men.
The American Consul at Shanghai has called upon the Trotai to punish the editor of a verna- cular newspaper which has been defaming foreigners.
The Supreme Court record includes an interesting judgment relating to rickshaw ac- oidents; and the Chief Justica's definition of
contraband.
The Chinese Government has informed the
Rookhill, director of the Bureau of American Republics.
The dividend of eighteen per cent to share. holhers and of fifteen per cent bonus to con tributors, to be paid by the China Traders' Insurance Co., Ld. next week in regarded as satisfactory.
A story from Shanghai which will probably. have reached Home before this, of a Chinese patriot attempting to assassinate a traitor to his country, needs to be taken with reserve. The man is a mere poseur.
Particulars were given in an advertisement by the Imperial Maritime's Coast Inspector. of the new light on Button Rock near Shanghai, which was exhibited for the first time at sunset on the 14th November.
A farmer from the vicinity of Tin-po-tsai was attacked by a tiger last week. A resident Chinese doctor dressed his severely lacerated shoulder, and sent him in to the Government Civil Hospital for treatment.
The latest bit of Chinese sharp practice was- that of two men who went round professing to examine water fittings. Many householders were put to the expense of replacing brass taps b-fore the rascals were caught.
His Excellency the Governor presented a number of certificates won by students at the Sanitary Institute. He pointed out how im portant were the duties of sanitary enginpers and inspectors in a place like Hongkong.
The new electric trams are now responsible for numerous accidents, and more than one fatality. The Chinese who get in the way aro stupid, but so also are the Chinese drivers. The service as yet is by no means all that could be desired.
The Green Island Cement Co., large as its output is, has found i's prereat plant inadequate to the demands made upon it. The shareholders have agreed to a fresh issue of stock, increasing. the capital by fifty per cent., in order to instal
a fresh plant.
The Hongkong A.D.C. staged the American Minister. Mr. Conger, that it has opera “Dorothy” on November 20th, decided to cancel the concession to the Ameri-onsiderable success. For the mounting of can Company for the Canton-Hankow railway. the piece no expense had been spared. Inter
in the production fall off after two or performances, however, the Hongkong public apparently wanting a rest from comie opera. The cast is so strong that some more sxacting |-piece might well be attempted, «The last pa
formal,os was given on the 28th instant.
His Excellency Chou-fu has advised the Chinese Government to employ more British for financial, and Japanese for military, reforme. The compliment is almost a double-edged
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