Hongkong
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A Chinese Inquisition Suggested The Anglo-Japanese Alliance.
A Chino-Japanese Entent..?
The War Settlements
Hongkong Charity..
Russian Revolutions
Supreme Court
Companies:-
The Governor's Scheme
Hongkong Land Investment and Agency
Company, Limited
The West Point Building Co., Ld.
Kowloon Land and Building Co., Ld.
Humphrey's Estate and Finance Co., Ld. The Hongkong Ice Co., Ld
Canton
Hongkong College of Medicine for Chinese Li Shing Scientific and Industrial College Correspondence
Alleged Murder and Armed Robbery St. John's Cathedral
Lite Bishop Piazzoli
Turbulent Chinese at Shanghai
Proposed Kuangtung-Kuangai Railway The A.D.C. Performance of “ Jane "
Chinese Warships to be Built in Japan
The Hollywood Road Holocaust
Fatal Accident at Morrison Hill Road
Fire in Queen's Road Central...
Piracy in Hongkong Harbour
Fashionable Wedding
Alarming River Accident at Canton..
Big Fire at Wuchow
The Triple Execution in Hongkong
Regimental Sports at Kowloon
Fatal Accident at Yaumati
Chinese Threats
Chantaboon Evacuated
1 and Sales
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 6тH FEBRUARY, 1905.
PAOR
Fire broke out on board the British steamer
Dundas at Shanghai on January 27th. The 73 officers' quarters were burnt out.
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It has been decided to reduce the garrison of 74 Hongkong by one regiment of native infantry-
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Coal valued at Yen 14,817,868 was exported from Japan last year; the valuo of the coal 77 exported during the preceding year was Yen 77 | 19,260,503.
At Galle the B.I. 88. Secundra was purchased by a syndicate of Moorish capitalists for very R10.400, which was considered to be a 79 satisfactory figura.
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Captain Stanley Amsbary, of the barque Atlas, shot himself dead with a revolver on the 80 23rd Jan. while his ship was at Shanghai. He
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A telegram has arrived from H.B.M. Consul at Bangkok to the Colonial Secretary, Hongkong,. dated 28th January, which states that Hong- kong is not declared infected, but is considered a suspected port, arrivals from which merit medical inspection rather than quarantine. The station for quarantine and inspection is changed from Kohphai to Kohphra.
Another concert, by command of His Ex- cellency the Governor, was held at Government House on Jan. 31. About 400 guests were présent. The Orpheus Society, under the direction of Mr. A. G. Ward, contributed. Songs were given by Mrs. Fallerton, Surgeon G. Ross, RN, and Mr. W. E. Schmidt. Mesdames Kruger and Morty gave a duet; and Miss Brown two violin solos.
The 8.8. Ferndene put into Hongkong'in dis- tress on 3rd iust. She is on a voyage from
Capt. Pennyfather, of the China Navigation s.s. Tuming has been transferred to the Sung-Japan to Java with coal. Shortly before leaving 84 kiang, vice Capt Robinson transferred to the Shantung, vice Capt. Warrack transferred to the Kansu,
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Pagain, the Igorrote murderer, is stated to have developed acute mania since his committal H.E. the Governor has granted a respite and ordered that the man be imprisoned during His Majesty's pleasure,
The fire reported by our Shanghai correspon- dent on January 24th appears to have been the largest outbreak for twelve months. The 87 premises were occupied by Messrs. Volkart 89 Bros., and Messrs. W. H. Boyd & Co.
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Proposed French Company in Chek inng British and Chinese Corporation (Limited) Hongkong
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Far Eastern Items
Trale Items
Commercial Shipping
A special telegram to our Shanghai contem- 88 porary announces (on Jan. 25) that H. B. Collins of Yokohama has been sentenced to eleven years' penal servitude, having been con- vic'ed on the charge of being a Russian spy.
Mr. A. Wright, architect and surveyor, died 89 at the Government Civil Hospital on the 2nd 9 and was buried next day. Deceased had been 90 in failing health for a long time, with paralysis. 92 He was a native of Australia, forty-two years of
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Hongkong Weekly Press.
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MÁILS.
The German Mail arrived, per the ss. Sachsen on the 3rd instant ; and the French Mail of the 6th January was due to arrive, per the 88. Caledonien, on the 6th instant.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The 8.8. Scotsman on the 1st inst. cleared for Vladivostock with a cargo of rice from Saigon. The price of gasat Hongkong was reduced on February 1st from $3.50 to $3.00 per 1,000 feet. A Singapore "boy," for stealing some of his master's, brandy, was fined for "criminal breach of trust."
On 2nd inst. the N.D.L. 8.8. Sachsen broke down off Hongkong Island and was towed to port by the tug Robert Cooke.
Official information has been received that Hongkong has been declared an infected port by the Governm nt of Madras,
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Japan the chief officer died from small-pox, and at sea the captain, chief engineer and steward all caught the same malady. The second officer- brought the ship to Hongkong, and the three sick men were transferred to the hulk Hygeia. The vessel has been fumigated, and is kept in strict quarantine.
"Kung Hay Fat Choy" we wish our Chi- nese friends with the closing of this week. Crackers and bombs remind us that another Chi- nes New Year has come. Saturday the streets in the Central District wore a roseate hue. Flower stalls adorned them, and together with the stalls of various pedlars who have all sorts of curios for sale, remind the resident or tourist of the Eastern Wonderland so much read of in story books. The appearance of the natives in their silks and satins was unusually gay and added the finishing touch to the brightness of the brightest period in the Chinese calendar.
A native, named Huang, connected with concern designated the "Pi-Chung Lu-Kuang Kung-sze," or Belgian-Chinese Railway and Mining Company, of Hunan province, having In the early hours of the morningof Feb. 1 a- been discovered by the authorities there collect- Chinese Sergeant Detective of Police, while on ing large sums of money on his own respon- dotective duty, was attacked by four law-sibility in Hankow and Shanghai, and giving breakers at Autan. in the New Territory, about six miles from Taipo. He is in a precarious
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The inquiry into the death of the coolie who was killed by the fall of a wardrobe at Morrison Hill Road on the 25th Jan. was concluded before H. H. J, Gompertz at the Magistracy on Feb. 1st. The jury returned a verdict of death by misadventure.
receipts in the name of the above named company, the Bureau of Foreign Affairs at Changsha has communicated with the Shanghai Taotai on the subject, with the request that he should warn the public of that port against accepting these unauthorised receipts, as they will not be recognised by the company.
The N.-C. Daily News says: This portion of the Chinese year appears to have been quite The Empress Dowager of China has set apart disastrous to several na ive banks here, especial- one of the secretaries of the Imperial Householdly those owned by Cantonese, as it is reported to keep her posted in every development of the war as so much was being withheld from her, and at some of the Council meetings she has surprised the Grand Council by knowing more than they do about the trend of events.
The Washington State Department, says the Japan. Herald, has directed the American Embassy at St. Petersburg to petition the Admiralty Court for a re-hearing of the case of the P. A. Line steamer drabia (captured by the Russian Vladivostock Squadron on July 22ad 100 miles north of Yokohama), on the ground that the time afforded owing to the delays incident to communication was insufficient for the perfection of an appeal before the case
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that two of the largest of these have been com- pelled to suspend payment, the first with liabilities said to amount to over Tls. 1,800,000, and the second Tls. 700,000, odd. Another Cantonese bank, it is feared, will in conse- quence find difficulty in tiding over the Chinese year, which is now so closely approaching its end. Besides the above financial disasters it is. stated that one of the largest and best-known native goldsmith shops in the International Settlement is in difficulties owing to its business manager having dabbled in exchange in con- nection with tea and silk, whereby he has failed, involving no less a sum than Tia 300,000. There are also other failures in the air, which it is premature to notice a' present.