THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
Vol. LXI.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Articles:-
The Yangtse Basin
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 11TH MARCH, 1905.
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China is arming for eventualities that may follow the war. The Chinese army needs more than weapons, however.
The smallpox scare at Shanghai was not so well warranted, according to the statistics published within, as some others have been. The weather at Hongkong has been 164 tionally cold for more than a week. The 165 temperature fell to a little above forty deg.
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New American Ministers and Consuls Colonel Younghusband & Mr. St. John Brodrick163
Hongkong Jottings
Hongkong Sanitary Board
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Supreme Court..........
Primeval Worship in China
"Old Hongkong
Correspondence
Companies:-
Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld.
City Hall Company
The Chins Fire Insurance Company, Ld.
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Canton
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Interesting Assault Case
Alleged Attempted Murder..
Government Appointments.
A Chinese Pirate
Regimental Sports
China's Coming Crisis
Small Pox at Shanghai..
A French Telegraph System in Asia
The Ching-Han Railway.
The Butohers' Guild.
The Tes Season
Commercial
Shipping
MARRIAGE.
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Fahr.
excep-
The Chinese priests who are obstructing the enforcement of the Edict providing for schools in the temples (vide "Canton ") are not good Buddhists.
The appointment of another American consu 170 at Shanghai is taken to mean that ex-Consul 171 General Goodnow did not successfully repudiate 172 the charges brought against him.
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The biscuits about which there was much 172 litigation in the Supreme Court on the 7th and 172 8th instant, were destined for the Baltic Fleet, .173
which failed to come and claim them.
Students of " primeval" religions may be 173 amused by Mr. J. Dyer Ball's hypothesis con- cerning the round stones at Yaumati. vide "Primeval Worship; in China."] There is another explanation,"
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On 28th February, at Shanghai, BENJAMIN
CHAS. BROOMHALL, F.R.O.S. (Eng.), of Taiyuanfu, Shansi, to MARION ALDWING KLE, of London.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of the 10th ultimo arrived per the s.s. Nubia, on Friday, the 10th instant.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The entries for the Oxford Local Examina tions to be held next July closed at noon on 8th March. One hundred and one candidates
(of whom nine were girls) entered, beating the previous record of 94 in 1901. There were 18 Senior, 38 Junior and 45 Preliminary, The Bank of Japan fin ds its loans returning
on its hands,
Its unseo ured note-issues are now
below the legal limit. The Bank's loans to private individuals total 41 million yen; its loans to the Government, 42 millions; its note. issues, 247 millions; and its specie reserve 127 millions..
The farewell speeches to Dr. Atkinson at the Sanitary Board meeting appear under a separate heading. Mr. Rumjahn's compli- ments came with a good grace, that gentleman being a bit of a "heckler at times.
The "Interesting Assault Case" fully reported within was a cause celebre at Hong- kong. White men were not pleased by the Magistrates's way of putting the Chinese coxswain and English Lieutenant on a level.
An opium officer (native) had an unpleasant experience that illustrates the temper of the Chinese in the New Territory-the same people who made arrangements to murder the thousands of unsuspecting picnickers who were going to see the British flag hoisted when that territory was leased- The officer was arresting an opium smuggler, when the friends of the latter attack future, they tried to cut out his eyes. ed him. To prevent him being so sharp-eyed in
Why, asks the Japan Mail, don't more pro- fessing Christians attend public worship? This is a question which certain Japanese Methodists have been asking of late. The answers given, Methodist organ, the Gokyo, may be summed which have been published in full in the
most of the people for whose benefit they are up in a sentence. The services don't attract held; the doctrines preached are not those
which educated men want to hear preached, Dr. Takagi, th editor of the Gokyo, observed some time back that the reasons which keep people away from Church are pretty much the same in Japan as in Europe and America. Не
On the 8th March a coolie was set upon by four natives near Ping Shan in the Now
Territory, who have since been arrested. sustained severe injuries to his head which necessitated his being brought over to Hong kong in a launch and removed to the Govern. ment Civil Hospital.
We are glad to notice that the learned Chief Justice has reconsidered the question of solicitors being allowed to cross-examine debtors at their public examination in bank- ruptcy. It is not a matter of importance to solicitors only. When we ventured, in a former paragraph, the opinion that His Lordship should reconsider his decision, we pointed out that it was a matter of commercial importance.
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Tientsin papers report that the Empress Dowager sent her personal congratulations and presents to Sir Robert Hart on his 70th birthday, Prince Ching and other nobles and high officials following suit.
Wong Kam is a foki in the employ of a shoe- maker doing business at Queen's Road West. Wong took a holiday on February 25 to go to the races. When pay day came he found he was short a day's pay, and remonstrated with his master. The master refused to pay Wong for the day he was absent, whereupon a brawl followed in which the foki stabbed his master four times with a knife. He was charged before Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz at the Police Court Feb. 28 with assault. Asked if he had any- thing to say, the defendant said the stabbing was an accident. His Worship was not of this opinion, as it was extremely unlikely that a man dentally. He committed the defendant to three would be stabbed four times in succession soci-
months' imprisonment with hard labour.
The annual competition of the fire fighting teams for possession of the shield took place at West Point on March 3. Governor viewed the proceedings from an ad- His Excellency the jacent balcony and amongst others present were Hon. Mr. May and Mrs. May, Sir Paul Chater, Hon. Mr. Shewan, Hon. Mr. Gershom Stewart, Captain Smith and Dr. and Mrs. Atkinson. The ground
on which the events took place was a veritable mud puddle, hence the competitors were greatly handicapped, and times are not likely to be very satisfactory. A large crowd of spectators surrounded the square, and the housetops in the vicinity were covered with people. Perhaps the
event which most interested the onlookers was the combined wet drill. Water was pumped from the Praya and in a few moments volumes from four hoses were field was transformed into a miniature lake. shooting into the air and soon the
duty, others were running the escape ladders up alongside premises abutting one side of the square and a gallant fireman rushed ap this to give an exhibition of life saving from had been prepared for the purpose. A number an imaginary fire. Several dummies of stalwart arms held out a large sheet of canvas on the ground below and dummies
have gone hard with them, as each time the were dropped from the roof on to this. Had they been persons escaping from a fire, it would
events on the programme. dummies bumped the ground. There were six either go to Foreman Grant's or Foreman The shield will
While some of the firemen were engaged on this
Fenton's
team, but
the
yet decided: neither are the times made up in Judges have not the other events. Messrs. Badeley, Hallifax Baker and Lane superintended thecarrying out of the programme. The honour of winning Although the industrial record for 1904 in goes to Foreman Grant's team. The teams sin existence of a state of war, the cotton-spin- the time in which they performed the various Japan was remarkably satisfactory considering competing, the order in which they stand and ipdustry undoubtedly suffered. Statistics evolutions are asfollows:-Foreman Grant's.— ond Commerce show that whereas the number Cooper, Fyfe, Hedge, Counsell, Jones and aublished by the Department of Agriculture Macdonald, O'Sullivan, Lee, Rutledge, Evans, of working days per month in 1903 was 26.65 Sutherland. Time-5 min. 324 seconds. Fore- on the average, it fell to 25.70 in 1904; the man Watt's-Appleton, Fowler, Mills, Murphy, 21.46 to 20.50, and the average number of Brown. Time 5 min 39 seconds. Foreman number of working hou's per day declined from Adlington, Parr, Fox, Winyard, Earner and
These figures, if reduced to per-centages, repre- Williams, Hayes, Walker, Hedge Spencer, workmen diminished from 74,781 to 62,670. Fenton's.-Garrod, Watt, Boole, Calliford, sent a fall of 28 per cent. in days, 4.4 per cent. | Davitt, and Shepherd. Time-5 min. 564 in hours and 14.8 per cent. in workmen.
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