THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXI.]
Epitome
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Leading Articles :---
The Chinese Servant......
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 25тн MARCH, 1905.
The Taku Tug and Lighter Co. Ld. has paid a final dividend for the year of three and a half per cent. The interim dividend W88 197 three per cent.
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England and Russian views of Contraband ...198
Chinese Mining Regulations
American Ideals in the Philippines....
Hongkong Jotting
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Supreme Court
Companies
The China Sugar Refining. Co., Ld..
Luson Bugar Refining Co., Lð.
The Band of Taiwan Ld.....
Canton
Correspondence
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The appeal of Hall and Holtz Ltd. at Shanghai, against the verdict for one of their employees who had broken his agreement, has
been withdrawn.
The Chinese Government has been petitioned 199 by one of the Censors to cause workhouses to be instituted in the provinces. It is poverty, he thinks, which breeds robbers.
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Shanghai an 1 Hongkow Wharf Co., Ld....... 244
A Question of Ownership
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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Tientsin has twenty government schools and colleges, on which about Tls. 162,000 are spent yearly. There
in addition, seventeen private schools, costing annually about Tls. 15,00'
are,
Mr. Frank Browne, the Government Analyst, on Feb. 23 delivered a very interesting lecture "Radium" at the Union Church Literary 205 Club. He exhibited specimens, and demon- 2strated his
remarks by experiments. Dr.
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On 16th March, at Shanghai, the wife of E. 0. CUMMING, of a son.
On 18th March, at Shanghai, the wife of ARTHUR RUGH, of a daughter.
On 20th March, at "The Hut," Castle Road, Hongkong, the wife of C. E. OSMUND, of a daughter.
DEATHS,
On 15th March, at Shanghai, CLARENCE EUGENE FISKE, aged 43 years
On 16th March, at Shanghai, A NELSEN, Upper Yangtaże Pilot, aged 45 years.
On 17th March,
Po 'ung Shangai. ALEXANDER CHARLES WILLIAM MARSHALL, aged 12 months.
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Thomson was in the chair.
The Manila Cablenews prints a long story about an American in New York who holds the commission of "major" in the Chinese army. and who is busily engaged in drilling Chinese
over there. His "pupils are being sent back to China as drill instructors for the "big army on western lines" which China is trying to
raise.
A posthumous letter of William N. Pethick, secretary to Viceroy Li, a man who knew the Chinese intimately, after twenty seven years among them, has just been published. In. cidentally, it describes Arthur Smith's Chinese Characteristics as "at once the most amusing and the most misleading of all the books ever written by foreigners upon China.”
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The much discussed and about to be expro- priated Tanjong Pagar docks at Singapore have $1,176,851.25 to distribute as the result of ress. last half-year's working. Thes hareholders are to receive a dividend at the rate of $2 per share for the half-year, $30,000 goes to reserve against bad or doubtful debts, $200.205.73 is written off as depreciation; and the balance of $206,645.52 it is proposed to carry forward.
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14 DES VEUX ROAD CL LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS. +
The English Mail of the 24th February arrived per the s., Simļa, yesterday. the 34th
instant..
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Tientsin Hotel des Colonies is paying a ten per cent dividend for 1904.
The famous Examination Holl at Peking is being rebuilt, at a cost of Tls 500,000.
A Chinaman was on March 22 sentenced to Sour months' imprisonment for passing coun. terfeit coin.
The West Kents have gone under canvas at Tientsin, owing to the occurrence of two or three cases of small-pozi
The American Senate is considering Secre- tary Hay's proposal to establish an American District Court at Shanghai.
At the annual meeting on March 14th of the shareholders in the Shanghai Horse Bazaar Co., Ld., the Chairman (Mr. A. W. Burkill) prosperous under difficulties. The last mortgage was able to comment on a year which had been has been paid off, the building improvements have been carried out and paid for from work ing capital, and the directors were able to recommend a dividend of ten per cent, with a bohus of two per cent added.
The Japan Chronicle, says :-The announce ment, wired by Reuter, that Mr. Miller had been appointed United States Consul-General at Yokohama was, according to the local Press, received with considerable surprise at the northern port. Mr. E. C. Bellows, present Consul-General, stated in reply to inquiries that he knew nothing about the matter, having received no official notification of any change. The American Asiatic Association on the 9th instant dispatched to President Roosevelt the following telegram:-Reuter reports that Consul-General Bellows has been superseded. If true, the fact will occasion universal regret
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It is rather late now to refer to the Japanese treatment of foreign war correspondents, but a private letter received on March 20 at Hong- kong revives the subject in a remarkable manuer The writer states that Baron Komura, in con- versation with him in 1902 (or two years before the war) spoke to him of the mistakes irrespon sible correspondents had been allowed to make in South Africa; and said then that in the event of war, Japan would take steps to discourage anything of the kind in her own case,
The death is announced of Mr. Arthur H. Postal Agent for America at Shanghai, which White, late Deputy Consul-General and Deputy occurred suddenly on the 21st February at San Francisco. Mr. White retired last year from his post at the American Consulate, setting up in private legal practice. He was born at Hudson, New York in 1873 and came to Shanghai eight years ago. He had gone to America to make arrangements in connection with a large trading concern to operate in China with headquarters in Shanghai, and had carried them through to a successful issue when death overtook him so suddenly. Mr. White, says the N.C. Daily News, will be much missed in American and Masonic circles there.
At the officers' room at the Shanghai Town Hall on March 14th Major Watson, on behalf of the officers of the S.V.C., presented to Major Wedemeyer, a very handsome Japanese bowl in recognition of his long services to the Corps,
dating back from 1888. In making the pre- sentation Major Watson recalled that Major Wedemeyer had commanded the Light Horse, been Corps Adjutant, and finally Staff Officer. His record was one to serve as an example to the young men of Shanghai, and his fellow officers hoped that the bowl would be a slight reminder to Mrs. Wedemeyer and himself of their associations with the Shanghai Volunteers. They wished them both every happiness and prosperity at Foochow. Major Wedemeyer, reports the N.-C. Daily News, made a happy little speech of thanks and said it was something of a wrench to leave Shanghai after a residence there of eighteen years. The bowl would always
be cherished as a reminder of the friends who had given it.
If such a disaster as the break up of China is ever to befall the middle Kingdom, then, from the signs to be gleaned in the interior, Japan intends to have a big piece. An inland corre talking lately with a Customs Officer stationed spondent of our Shanghai contemporary was in one of the gorges and he remarked on the increased numbers of Japanese now travelling West. He compared them with the Europeans who also pass his station in numbers, but who mostly pass their time in loafing and over- feeding. Euch Japanese seemed to be there on some secret mission. They professed to know no English, although be found out afterwards they did; and each one made constant and busy use of a sketch book, marking in the rooks and the contour of the river in the gorges. Japanese officer lately on the run here has left for home, but gave out he would soon be return. ing to spend two whole years up and down the gorges at all waters, in order to get a more accurate and scientific survey of the river than any foreigner had made in the past. Japan seems to have ceased long ago learning Western ways, and is now far wiser and better than her
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