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February 20, 1905.]
"THE DIRECTORY AND CHRONICLE FOR 1905."
CHINA OVERLAND. TRADE REPORT.
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The Rev. G. H. Davis, who for the past nine years has been chaplain of All Saints' Church, Kobe, and was formerly for three years în Hongkong, passed through Hongkong on Feb. 14 on his way to Australia and New Zealand, being a passenger by the steamer Empire. · Mr. and Mrs. Davis renewed acquain- tince with many friends in the Colony.
Fire broke ont on the second (top) floor of No. 89, Queen's Road West, a medicine shop, at about 10.3 ⋅ p.m. Mr. Lenaghan, employed The 1905 edition of the "Directory and at the Western flote', an ex-policemen and ex- Chronicle," annually published at the office of Fire Brigade man, ran out a "despatch bor' He was assisted the llongkong Daily Press, constitutes the from the Ko hing Tuea're.
by two o her civilians, Messrs. G. H. Dell and forty-third issue of the volume which has grown
Anderson, and they kept the fire under till the from a little book of less than 250 pares to a
Bri rade, under the Chief Inspector of Police, Mr. H. M. Bevis, the popular manager of the portly tome of over 1750 pages. The book is so familiar to business men in every port and city arrived. The fire, consequently, was put out in Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at Shanghai, a very short time. The top floor, which was has been dangerously ill. He has been in in Asia in which Furopean and American com-
The Hongkong some weeks, with his wife and step. mercial houses are established-from Nether-empty, was burnt, and a part of the roof. lands India to Vladivostock, that a detailed goods in the shops below were damaged by daughter. His complaint is malignant smallpox, and on Feb. 15 his condition was such that he water Thepremises are insured for $1,500. description of its general features is unneces-
was not expected to recover. He was formerly sary, except perhaps for new arrivals, who will
in Yokohama, and went to Shanghai about the find a catalogue of its contents in the advertise-
year 1898. He is very popular in the northern ment appearing in another column.
port, and has a great many sympathising frienda here. Last accounts are that he is recovering.
A truckman was charged at the Police Court on Feb. 13 with n gligence while in charge of a loade truck, whereby a riosha was broken up and its ocoup int severely injured. The truckman was pulling his load along the tram liue near No. 2 Police Station. A ricsha, with au old Chinese woman in it, was following on behind, while close upon them, with its bll ringing violently, was an oncoming tram. When the car was close apon them, the truckman swerved in the wrong direction and pinned the ricsha between his truck and the
It may be useful, however, to indicate some of the additions which have been made to the Chronicle" section of the book which com- prises the texts of all the most important treaties concluded with the dountries of Eastern Asia during the past half century, Customs Tariffs, Trade Regulations etc. Included in the present volume are the new Commercial Treaties made by China with Great Britain, Japan, the United States and Portugal; also the Emigration Convention between England and China; the treaty concluded last year between France and Siam; and the British Treaty with Tibet. Other useful additions are the Chinese Trade Marks Regulations, and also those relating to Mining and Railway concessions. Local shipping men will note an abstract of the Hongkong Pilots' Ordinance the scale of fras pilots are entitled to charge. These constitute the principal additions to
the book.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
The average amount of bank notes in circula. tion and of specie in reserve at Hongkong during January are as follows:—
BANK
Chartered Bank - H.K. and S. Bank National Bank
AVERAGE RESERVE
$3,247,626 $2,400,000 $16,063,298 $10,000,0..0 $322,119 $150,000
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Total $20,233,043 $ 2,550,000 Frederick Bicks, a sldier in the Royal West Kent regiment, met with an accident on the 7th instant which has since resulted in his dea h. A party, of which dece ised member, had been out on the evening in ques- tion, and reporte themselves at Murray Bar racks again before midnight. Hicks slept that night on the verand th of the second fi or of the brracks. In the early hours of the following morning he got up, and while standing on a stool ab at two feet high, close to the verandah rail, which is about four feet high, he toppled over. He was admitted to th Military Hospi- tal suffering from injury to the skull, and hemorrhage, and succumbed on the 12th inst
Katsumata, a Japanese, wa charged before Mr. J. H. Kemp at the Police Court on Feb. 15 with bringing arms into the colony without a permit. Detective Willen stated that he found a case, containing a varied assortment of arms
As regards the Directory section there is little to be said apart from the fact that the descriptions of the colonies, ports and settle ments, including the trade statistics of each, have been carefully revised. So many changes occur each year in the foreign communities of the
work of East that the
revising the lists of names is a
onerous task indeed, very and amply demonstrates the necessity for the moon is the only new port added this year, and defendant's cabin on the Empress of Japan. annual publication of the Directory. Kong: conce led under a bundle of clothing in the the list of residents is prefaced by a very in- Defendant pleaded guilty, but stated that he teresting description of the new trade centre. was on his way to Hoihow. He had been in No list of residents at Port Arthur is given for the arms business for five ye.rs, which th- the sufficient reason that none was obtainable, Japanes Consul could certify. His Worship owing to the siege of the fortress by the said defendant appeared to have had the arms Japanese army. The uncertainty as to the fate of conc-aled. He would inflict a fine of $1 aud Vladivostock is doubtless responsible for an im- order that they be forfeitel. Defendant asked if perfect revision of the list of residents in that he could not get them back, and is Worship city. A Diary of the War included in the book,referred him to the Captain Superintendent of ,brings erents down to the end of the year 1904. Police, who might possibly return them.
It is interesting to note that the alphabetical Chin Ching, a ricsha coolie, was placed before list at the end of the book contains upwards of Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Police Court on 16,000 names, and the separate alphab tical list Feb. 17, charged with obstructing the road near of Protestant missionaries in China, Japan Pedder Street wharf. Chan was of a humour- and Corea contains upwards of 3,000 ous disposition, and mistook his position,
on the stage. names. The excellent maps which are revised probably thinking he was and corrected, every year,
was acting the contortionist with his face, valuable feature of the large edition, and for the rest it greatly to the amusement of a number of may be said that everything is done by the pub-natives who were watching the morning pro lishers to maintain the position which this work of reference has earned as the principal and acknowledged authority for commercial and pro- fessional men in China, Japan, Corea, Straits Settlements, Indo-Chins, the Philippines, Netherlands India and elsewhere in A-ia.
FIRES.
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A report was forwarded to the Central Police Station on Feb. 11, of a fire which broke out at the store of Messrs Cheong Sang of No. 145 Aberdeen. A large part of the stock was composed of crackers, and as the fire caught on to these, noisy explosions followed. The premises were practically gutted before the fire was extinguished by the Police, who were assisted in their work by the European and Chinese staffs of the Aberdeen Dook. The damage is estimated at $560. A gallant rescue was effected by Mr. J. Wilson," a foreman in the Dookyard, who, while the fire was burning fi rcely, rushed into the building which was collapsing at the time, and pulled out a Chinese
woman who was nearly suffoca'ed.
On the 13th February the Fire Brigade answered an alarm from No. 117, Wellington Street; but it turned out to be only a chimney on fire.
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ceedings. They could not suppress their mirth His Worship took with the result that notice. Chan was found to be the cause, and in addition to the $2 fine for obstruction, he was sentenced to fourteen days hard labour, and in lieu of one day six hours stocks, for contempt of Court.
In the
The Tientsin Ties recently said: Our engineering readers will no doubt be interested to know that the building of the third (No. 102) of this type of Mogul locomotive has just been completed at the Toarshan Workshops of the Imperial Railways of North China. construction of this particular class of locomo- tive an unique arrangement of fixing the cylin- ders on to the main frames, au idea of Mr. Kinder's, by means of four large bolts has been adopted and substituted in place of thirty smailer bolts which are invariably used in This arrangement has British locomotives. the advantage over the other in the fact that the larger bolts give easier facilities for the removal of the cylinders for re-boring, or in the case of breakages. The other two locomo Lives, both of which have this bolting arrange- ment, have been running continuously on the line for one and three years respectively. They have given very satisfactory results comparing favourably with the British and American ocomotives imported into China.
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The ricsha was smashed to pieces, and the thrown out, sustaining some nasty bruises on her right cheek and forehead. The
woman
case was remanded.
Sergent Appleton of the Water Police charged two fishermen, before Mr. J. H. Kemp
at the Police Court on Feb. 13, with assault. Defendants were crew of deep sea fishing junk No. 5,968, the master (or mistress) of which is a woman. There was also on board a creditor
of the owner of the junk, who from all accounts,
was resident on board as a "bailiff" until such
time as his debt was paid. The defendants laboured under the impression that he was a
wealthy
23 man. and the junk. was sailing through the Lyeem on Pass, armed with a chop. demanded money. He informed the defendants that he had no money, whereupon they assailed per and a bar of wood they approached him and
him, the
with the chopper seriously damagin his right shoulder and left arm. The case was remanded until the 21st inst
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The Manila Cablenews says:-An ex-non-
commissioned officer of the army recently discharged here said that he was approached with a proposal to eulis as a second lieuteuant in the Chinese Imperial Reform Army the other day, but that he had concluded to remain where he was and re-enlist. The mainland papers have ben teeming with reports of ai- milar offers male
there through General
English of the Chinese army and some ex U.S. army officers, notably Colonel Dennis and General Falkenberg. It is said that nearly 7,000 Americans with active war experience have been already engaged and that in April of this year they will begin to leave for China. The creation of an army of 350,000 Chinese ander the supervision of experienced Americans is contemplat d, and the preliminary steps of the vast nadertaking are already accomplished. The lowest rank of an American will be second lieutenant, and only non-commissioned officers with a good record are claimed that the quota is nearly filled and that the number offering themselves has bean so great that a large choice his enabled the officers to pick out a splendid body of men.
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Our Shanghai contemporary says: was received here on February 3rd of the death on February 2nd at Berlin of Mr. H. Suethlage, a very well-known resident of Shanghai, who went home with his wife not long since suffer- ing, it is believed, from cancer. Mr. Snethlage's first appearance in Shanghai was as clerk in the Japanese Post-office, and he began business as a land-agent when the Japanese postal authorities were able to dispense with the services of Euro- assist ints. The Shanghai Land Investment Co., Ld., was his conception, and to the saccess of that company he owed his fortune, which he increased by the lumber business which he sub- sequently started. His widow, for whom much sympathy is felt, is the only child of Mr. W. 8. Percival of the Supreme Court staff here, and a niece of the Assistant Judge, Mr. R. A. Mowat, subsequently Judge in Japan. Mr. Suethlage was in his sixtieth year.
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