THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXI.]
CONTENTS.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 25TH FEBRUARY, 1905.-
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The corpse of a Chinese who had died of plague was found on a buoy in the Harbour on Feb. 21.
Another rison r has escapul from th American Consular gaol at Shanghai. Some 126 b dy had helped Lim.
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of the juuks coming from Port Arthur an infant was born, the poor mother being landed in Chefoo in sorry plight aft r her terrible journey.
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Leading Articles :-
• A New Point in the Law of Contraband The Ho est Chinaman
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Chang Chih-Tung and Chinese Currency Riesha and Chair Traffic
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
Supreme Court
Companies:-
Hongkong and Whampoa Doek Co., Id The Green Island Cement Co, Ld. The Shanghai Land Inve-tment Co., Ld. Soy Chee Cotton Spinning Cop,
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Correspondence
Hongkong Joc' ey Club Race Meeting Canton
Chinese C: uelty
Alleged Murder aud Armed Robbery
Beachcombers at Hongkong
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Ball at Government House ............ Hongkong Engineers' and Shipbuilders' Institute 137
Fire
The Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association Railway Travel'ing in Chica
Contraband Profits at Chefoo
Boxers
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
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A misprint which we were tempted to let go as the intelligent e mpo itor sened to desire
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lavishly buying stories."
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Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Mollison of Yokohama celebrated their silver dding on the 4th inst In the old days. Mr. Mollison came out
to
hina to the tex trade. Mrs. Vollison is still perhaps the best singer in the E.st.
Fangshui" cannot be any longer in favour at Peking. It is reported that the t 1 phone is going to be fisted connecting the Palace with all the Boards in Peking and also with Viceroy Yuan's yamen an Gen. Ba's yameu in Tung. chow.
Most recent arriva's from Shanghai rep›rt 137 that there was two feet of snow on the streets; and that it was biturly cold. The d-ck of a steamer going up river in the snow storm was almost instantly covered with a foot lyer of
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On 16th February, at Shanghai, the wife of ERIC P. HUDSON, of a sʊn,
DEATHS.
On 15th February, at hangbai, FRANK DALLAS,
agad 40 years.
On 15th February, at Shanghai, Captain PurKIS, late of the I.-C. 8. N. Co.'s steamer Kingsing, aged
49 years.
Ön 21st February, at hi• residence, No 4 Hollywood Road, HAJEE MAHOMED SADECK HAJEN EBMAIL, of Yezd, Persia, aged 60 years.
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snow.
The week ended on the 18th inst. br ught the number of plague fatalities up to nineteen, adding two. Of three cases of smell-pox, all European, one died. Que was import d from Shanghai. There were four oa es of enteric, one fatal; and one Euro, ean case of diphtheria.
The Japan Chronicl: reports that Mr. II. R. Raspe, of Raspe & Co., a very popular ratura- lised English resident of Kobe, who has been uffering from a disor ler of the nerves, abot himself in the office of his firm ou the 9th. Ho has left a widow and two children. He was 47
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years
Foreign capital to the extent of Tl« 2,900,0 0 has been offered the Kiangsi p3-ple for the Kiukiang Nanshan railway, but it is declined, althoughth people find themselves unable to raise the required sum in native circles. They pride themselves, says the Tientsin Times, on the fact that so far there is no foreign capi'al employed in their province.
The return of native opium in Chihli for the The French Mail arrived, perthe 8.8. Oceanien, 28th year of Kuang Hsu was 87,954 catties and on Tuesday, the 21st inst.; and the English the duty collected was 28.145 taels. Deducting Mail of the 27th January arrived, per the 8.8.4.221 taels as cost of collection, the balanco. Malta, on the 24th inst.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
23,923 taels, was re-nitted to the Provincial Treasury for the repayment of foreign loans The Viceroy has just report d to the Throne and the Boards to this effect.
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It is reported at Tientsin that a foreign merchant has petitioned for the right to run an electric tramway to Machiapu from Peking, and from there to Tungohow.
The marriage of Mr. Allan Stevenson, ass tant manager at the Dairy Farm, to Mise Clark, newly arrived from Hants., England, attracted a good deal of attention on February 18th. The Union Church W83 the scene. And the numerous well-wishers who attended were charmed with the bide, whose costums was very beau'iful. The happy pair are sponding the hon ymoon at Macao.
The St. Patrick's Society at Shanghai held its annual meeting on Feb. 14th. It has 68 members. Th in the accounts as "improvident Irishmen," a 14 poor members granted relief were described term which the chairman, humorously no doubt characterised as "a contradiction in itself." $9 4.15 was spent in this way. Most of the recipients were refugees from Port Arthur, in which case, if we are to believe the story of high ages there paid, they must have been improvident.
The report on the Widows and Orphan, Pen-ion Fun for 1904 is published in the ourrent issue of the Hongkong Government Gazette. The amount to the credit of the fund on the 31st December w.s $196,525.75, including $10,383,32 for iut rest. The average monthly ́contributions amount now to about $2,300. On the 31st Decembor, 19 3, the number of contributors on the books was 435, and the 3:st Dacəmber, 1904, 449, of whom 169 are bachelors, 969 are 'marri d men, and 11
Are wilowers During the yea", 63 officers joined the fund, 54 left, and 6 died. The tot 1 number of child en on the books is 369. There are in the list 27 peusioners, whose pensions aggregate $3,238,83 p ́r annum.
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In the course of a master and servant casɔ at
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Shanghai (Half & Holtz v. Reginald Rickard) the latter said he was engagel in London, and told that he could save half his salary; that although ther was a slight fluctuation in the value of the dollar it was worth 2/-, and that it would be to his advantage to be paid in dollars, and not in sterling. When he came to Shạng. hai be fount that it was absolutely impossible to save balf his salary and live decently. The dollar was only worth 1/10§, and from that time until early in 1903 it dropped gradually down
util the dollar was only worth 1/6). Witness complainel to the msuager but received no composition."--He had now left their employ. inent, and was sued for engaging with a rival firm. Verdict not yet repɔrtel.
The Man Cablenew: says :-A Chinese slave girl appealed to th offos of the proseon'ing a torney on the 13th inst for help, She was brought to Manila as a slave, and has been sold and r-sold until she has got wairy of it all and asks to be protected from her last owner, from whom she managed to escape. While the constitution of the United States prohibits slavery, the commission has male no Sergeant Sim went over to Aberdeen on specific enactment prohibiting slavery in the A Choral Soci ty has been formed at Feb. 18th to execute an opium warrant. Shanghai.
did not find any opium os the premises, but Philippines. If a slave escapes from her master, as did the present one, there is no law by which found a suspicious looking binner. This oa Thy owner can compal her to return to his Foreign goods are remarkably popular at being submitted to an export was pronounced service; but on the other hand there is no law Chungking, 84-chuan.
to be a flag of the Trial Boci-ty. For having by which action can be brought against him Hankow reports a very severe winter, the it in his possession the native was sent to gaol for holding slaves. It is understood that the most severe for fifteen years.
with hard labour for six months.
girl will be placed in a convent,
He