THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LX.]
AND
China Overland
Oberland Trade
CONTENTS.
Trade Report.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 26тH DECEMBER, 1904.
PAOK
Epitoma
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Leading, Articles :-
The Myth of the Yellow Peril
462
China and the War
462
Alliance Between China and Japan Unlikely...463
Danger of Delay
463
Bussian Outrage at Shanghai.
Opium
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Supreme Court
Marine Magistrate's Court.
Canton
Chinese Poetry
Des Voeux Road Fire Inquiry
The Weihaiwei Gold Mining Co., Ld.
The Perak Sugar Cultivation Co., Ld.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
A Chinese "Trial" pirate was sentenced at. the Supreme Court on December 19th to three years imprisonment.
The Governor's desire to have a Volanicor reserve at Hongkong is rapidly being gratified. The idea is popular.
Members of the Institution of Engineers and 463 Shipbuilders of Hongkong on Dec. 16 gave a
ball at the City Hall.
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The International Cotton Manufacturing Co., Ld..472
The Hongkong High-Level Tramways Co., Ld
Hongkong Navy League
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The Japanese have captured two vessels all ged to be blockade runners. They are the King Arthur and the Nigretia.
Cpl. J. Crawford, of the Engineer Company of the Volunteers, has been promoted to the Sergeantcy resigned by Sergt. J. Parks,
H.M.S. Albion arrived from Weihaiwei on 474 Dec. 17. On the way down she sighted and exploded a mine off Shantung Promontory.
The Murder on Shanghai Bund
Japan as China's Protector.....
Fatality at the Docks
Volunteer Presentation
Volunteer Sham Fight
Interesting Shipping Case at Shang si
Bowling...
St. Joseph's College
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Inquest
Hongkong Branch of the Navy League
475
The New Chinese Minister to Corea
476
The Children's League Bazaar
476
The Chinese in Formosa
The Mails
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Another Chinese Squeeze Stopped
476
The International Troops in China
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China and Russian Warships in Shanghai Far Eastern Items..
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Trade Items
Commercial
Shipping
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MARRIAGES.
Sergeant Bartolome, drill instructor at Hongkong, has left for Home, and was the recipient of a present and testimonial from the Volunteers.
The Taotai Shanghai has demanded from the Russian Consul the surrender of two of the Askold's crew, who are alleged to have mur- dered a Chinaman.
477 Mr. F. Smyth, formerly lieutenant in the 477 H.K.V.A., has presented a cup to be competed for (at the targets) by members of the right
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On 10th December, at Shanghai, CHARLES ARTHUR HOWARD, Chief Tidesurveyor, I.M.C., Kiukiang, to Rose Lavinia àLSFORD-SANDERS, Of Shanghai.
On 18th December, at Shanghai, ROBEET JAMES MARSHALL, M.D., to ETHEL MAY, younge·· daugh ter of ALEXANDER WRIGHT, of Shanghai.
On 21st December, at St. John's Cathedral, by the Rev. F. T. Johnson, ARTHUR WILLIAM HILL, Supreme Court, Hongkong, to EMILY FLORA VON REIFFENSTUHI, youngest daughter of the late JONATHAN HOWELL, of Cambridge.
DEATHS;
On 10th December, at the Victoris Nursing Home, Shanghai, ELIZABETH MACE, aged 36 years. On 11th December, at the Isolation Hospital, Shanghai, of smallpox, KATIE, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. A. MADAR, aged 6 years.
On 13th December, at Hankow, Frik, son of PAUL and AMALIA BLESKY.
half of No. 2 Company,
The Tanjong Papir Dock Co. Ld, has been notified by the Secretary of State that the Government intends to expropriate its property on terms to be mutually arrangod.
Efforts were made to fix the guilt on certain Chinese, in the case of the big godown fire, but, as usual in such cases, it was found difficult to obtain satisfactory evidence. Enquiries are still continui g.
Messrs Benjamin, Kelly and Potts were in- formed by telegraph, on Dec. 21 that the 8. C. Farnham, Boyd & Co.. Ld., has declared an Interim Dividend of Tls. 5 per share for the half year ended 31st October, 1904.
His Excellency the Governor presenting the prizes at St. Joseph's College on the 17th insta t, said he felt it to be one of his para- mount duties to take an active interest in all that concerned the education of the y uth of the Colony.
The Hongtong branch of the Navy League,
On 18th December, at Shanghai, WILLIAM at the annuil meeting, signalise I the departure
WALKER ARNOLD, aged 48 years.
of Messrs. R. C Wilcox and D. R. Law by eulogistic speeches having reference to the enthusiasm and energy those gentlemen had
Hongkong Weekly Press. brought to the Cause.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail arrived. per the 98. Roon,
on Thursday, the 22nd inst,; and the French Mail of the 25th November is expected to arrive, per the ss. Australien, some time to-day,
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At the Crown Lands sale at the Public Works Department on December 19th, Kowloon In land Lot No. 1,161 was bought by the Gas Company for $65,418, while Inland Lot No. 1,723 was sold to Yeung Chuk Hiog for $11,188. There was no competition.
The Weihaiwei Gold M'ning Co Ld. of Shanghai beld a meeting on Decen.bar 1 th:
An unsym,
sthetic Bank had taken steps which caused am hastily to issue debertures. The shareholders seemed satisfied that gold in paying quantities would soon be forthcoming.
No. 26.
Hongkong Spring Racing opens on February
21st.
A Chinese employed at the Naval Yard Docks was on Dec. 19 found in the dock with a frac- tured skull. He was admitted to the Civil Hospital where he now lies in a serious condi tion. How the accident occurred is unknown, but it is presumed that he fell into the dock.
The proprietor of a pork shop at Queen's Road West was proceeded against by Senior Inspector Lamble of the Sanitary Board for selling meat without a licence. The cat was found in the
shop already dressed for food. The defendant was ordered to pay $100, in default two months' imprisonment.
So soon after the p.esentation of a pair of white gloves to the Judge as a token of Hong- kong's freedom from crime, this last week': criminal session has come as a startler. Piracy, murder, and unnatural crime, involving sen- tences of death and lifelong imprisonment, are against a reputation for "spotless purity."
Local telegrams to the Daily Press 80- nounced the forthcoming purchase of docks at Singapore by the British Government; a demand by the Shanghai Tsotai that two · Russian sailors be given up to Chinese Justive for killing a Chinaman; and the arrival at Singapore of Japanese men-o'-war, going to meet the Baltic Fleet.
We are informed by the General Managers of the Tebrau Planting Co.. Ld, that they are in receipt of advices from their Manager, Mr. Larken, to the effect that the negotiations for the sale of the Company's property which have been going on for some time have been brought to a successful issue and that the same has been sold for $50,000 cash.
Mr. J. C. E. Douglas, a British magistrate at Shanghai, fined some of the crew of the steamer Nigretia for refusing to go to Vladi- vestock, and threatened to imprison them if they persiste.l. Shortly after she sailed, the steamer was seized by the Japanese, and found to be carrying Russian naval officers who had been interned at Shanghai.
In reply to "J. T. C.," Stanley Gibbons' Monthly Journal, a paper for stamp collectors. says "the letters 'D.P.' surcharged upon the Hongkong stamps stand for Daily Press, a local newspaper which is allowed to mark its stamps thus to prevent theft." One London letters were put on by the Censor on account dealer told an inquirer that the mysterious
of the war!
pert to undergo six months' imprisonment for A Chinese woman, sentenced by Mr. Gom- detaining a young girl, misunderstood the situation; and thinking it was her victim who had to go to gaol, was all smiles. The girl, labouring under the same delusion, swooned. A kindly policeman explained matters, the harpy did the swooning, and the young girl grew more cheerful.
The Kowloon Cricket Club may possibly be granted a fine piece of ground, containing some 35,00 square feet, off Austen Road, Kowloon. The only difficulty appears to be that the Kow- loon Bowling Green Club ground is situated on this plot. This club has been approached by the Government with an offer of a larger piece of land nearer the barracks and a mon tary com- pensation. The matter is still in abeyance.