THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LX.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
HONGKONG, SATUĒDAY, 31st DECEMBER, 1904.
Epitome
PAOK .481
Lending Articles :—
China Association Dinner
48!
Murders at Hongkong
.482
Corea's Case
....482
House Rent at Hongkong
483
The Apostle Thomas in India
483
A Tax on Mandarins
431
Hongkong Jottings
.484
Hongkong Sanitary B. ard
4-5
Supreme Court
480
The International Cotton Manufacturing Co.. Ld. 487 The Ewo Cotton Spinning and Weaving Co., Ld...487 The Perak Sugar Cultivation Ld.
Co.
.488
Distressed Sailors at Hongkong
Hongkong
Far Eastern 'Items
Trade Items
Commercial Shipping
BIRTHS.
498
.488
489
...189
490
402
On 17th December, at Shanghai, the wife of F.M. BROOXS8, ‹f a sou.
On 17th December, at Ningpo, the wife of the Rev. HARRISON K. WRIGHT, of a son.
On 21st December, at Shanghai, the wife of THOMAS SHIRDAN, Imperial Maritime Customs, of a daught r.
On 21st December. at Shaghai, the wife of ALEXANDER REID WILSON, of a d-ughter,
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
No. 27
The Peking fines congratulates Mr. John Foley, Traffic Manager of the Imperial Rail. ways, on the receipt of another decoration.
There are now 3.758 Russian prisoners in Recently, General Petzel called on Mr. Japan
Foley and in the name of the Emperor William presented him with the handsome
The Philippines Tariff Commissi n has sent order of the Red Eagle, in recognition of his its report t Congress.
services rendered to the German troops ever since the occupation.
Dr. George King. of the Peking Syndicate, in Lonan, North China, is reported to have died of pneumonia.
The Governor of Chekianr. in obedience to orders, is trying to enlist three thousand new troops to be drille Japanese fashion,
The report that a leading Shanghai firm had received a telegram last week announcing the recall of the Baltic Fleet was a Bunder.
The American consulate at Shanghai is now in charge of Mr. J. W. Davidson, while Mr Jno. Goodnow is in the United States. Dr.
A case in which the wisdom of Solomon might have been of no avail has been before Mr. Hazeland at the Police Court for the last two
days. His Worship was asked to decide who was the rightful owner of a chair. There were witnesses to swear that the chair was the property of the complainant; others to prove that it belonged to the defendant. The evidence given on both sides was apparently without flaw, and His Worship eventually had to dismiss
the case.
We regret to learn that a disagreeable ac- cident happened on Christmas Day to the Hon.
Knappe (Consul-General for Germany) is now Mr. F. H. May. Mr. May was acting "Father the doyen.
Capt. Dunlop, of the 8.3. Gi-ng Seng, which arrived at Singapore on December 15th from Samarang, reported that he picked up two Chinamen in the bottom of a fishing boat off Pulo Sau in the Rio Strai's.
Telegraphing from Tokyo on D c. 21st, the N.-C. Dailu News corresp ndent reported that the N.Y.K.S. Owari Mare, 1016 tons' gross.
was driven ashore in a gale, at Nemuro in
On 22nd December, at Shanghai, the wife of Hokkaido. All on board were saved.
C. P. NEWTON, of a son.
On 20th December, at Hongkong. the wife of A. BRYSON, of a son
MARRIAGE.
On 25th December, at St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, by the Rev. R. F. ohnst ne, T. BULOW VON RAVENS, son of CARL JOHAN BARON V N RAVENS, to ANNA ALEXANDRA FRICK, eldest dang ter of JOHAN FERDIGAND FRICK, Civil Engineer, Bergen, Norw‹y.
DEATHS.
On 18th I ecember, at Ningpo, HARPER SWIFT WRIGHT, infant son of the key, and J.rs. HARRI- SON K. WRIGHT, aled ne day,
On 20th December, at Shanghai, T. W. BLAN- PIED, aged 36 years.
On 21st December, at Shanghai, ELL', the he- loved wife of ERNEST MELLOWS, aged 26 years,
un 26th December, at Mid-day in Haiphong
(Tonkin). JULE D' ABBADIE, partner of the firm of Marty d' Abbadie of Haiphong.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French Mail of the 25th November arrived, per the 88. Australien, on the 27th ist.; and the English Mail of the 2nd Decem' er is
expected to arrive, per the ss. Coromandel, in the 31st inst.
Christmas" at his children's Xmasree when the cotton-wool attached as trimming to his coat caught fire, and running up the trimming set fire to a cotton-wool beard he was wearing. The fire was promptly put out, and, although painful, the injuries, we are glad to learn. were not serious. Drs Atkinson and Jordan dressed the burns and Mr. May expects to be out in three or four days' time.
A Peking letter states, according to the N.-C.
Daily News, that a wealthy notable of Anhui provine, named Sun, has succeeded in starting Mr. Hugh Richard helips. Local Auditor of spinning mill in the district of Pochon, in the a Company for the establishment of a cotton the East African Prolectorate, has been appointed Local Auditor of Hongkong in ucression to r. Hilgrove Clement Nic-lle, who has been appointed Treasurer of Ceylon.
While on a voyage between Newchwang and Kobe the shaft of the hine e steamer Vitoria
brok nd the ve-sel drifted for some distance
until-ighted by the British s'eamer Hounslow. which took her in tw to Nagasaki for repairs.
The hyena which escaped from Harmston's
Circus a Manila afforded the local scrib-s columns of copy.
The Cablenews complained hat it kept people awake with its laughing It was descri ed as "r aring with merriment'
The demand by the Shanghai Taotai for the rendition of two Russian marines charged with murdering 1 China:nan ws telegraphically reported in the Daily Press. The NC. Dy Nees explains that he propose to try them b.
In eruational law.”
An extraordinary general meeting of the Wo Shun Steamboat Co., Ld. will be held on the 9th prox., when the flowing resolution will be submitted for the confirmation of the meeting - hat the capital of the company be increase to $140,00) by the creation of 9 0 new
shares of $10 each.
At Shanghai. it appears, gas is a much cheaper
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same province. He has already obtained shares to the extent of Tis. 10, 0, of which the Grand Secretary Wang Wenshan and Generals Ma Yu-k'un and hiang Kuei-ti-the latter cormanding the division of Viceroy Yuan Shih- k'ai's foreign-modelled t oops guarding the Im- peril Palaces - have bought Tis. 60.000 worth. A special deputy, a sub-prefect named Tien Kuei, who has a little knowledge of English, it is stated, has been appoin ed to go to the United States to purchase the necessary machinery for the proposed will.
It is reported from lekin that members of secret societies from the Southern and Central provinces have been lately organising branch societies in the nighbourhood of Kalvan, on the Chihli-Mongolian frontier. The names of the secret societies are Tsaiyuan Hui (from South-western Chinli). Huu chinn Hai (Honan province), and Santien Hui (from Kwangtung pr vince). It is further stated that the emis- saries of these societies have been very success- ful, each society having obtained from 900 to 1,200 members, within the past three months The authorities, however, appear to be awa e of these things, and are preparing for eventualities.
At the 64th Annual Meeting of the Penin- sular and Oriental Steam Navigati n ompany. held on the 13th December, the Directors, after providing for the usual divid nd at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the Preferred Stock,
illuminant than electricity. A correspondent rec mm nded a dividend on the Deferred Stock of our contemporary says that he is paying of 63 per cent. for the six mon's and a bop just twice as much for light since he had the of 3 per cent making, with the In electric system put in. He has to pay half a
Dividend of 34 per cant. paid in June, distribution on th. Deferred Stock cent. for the year.
tael monthly for hire of the meter, whereas lis oll gas meter was gratis.