THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXI.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Articles:
4. Cheeseparing Colony
The China Squadron
Russian Prestige
The Yokohama Specie Bank, Ld.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 8гH APRIL, 1905.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
A British bluejacket, named W. Wytt, was 229 buried at Shanghai on March 27th. He
belonged to H.M.S. Sirius.
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The China Printing Co., Ltd.. at Shanghai 231 (promoted by Mr. Barry Smith, formerly of the Oriental Press) has paid a four per cent dividend.
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Snobbery in the Far East
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Bupreme Court
Companies
The Yangtaze Insurance Association, Ld.
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The Yangtaze Wharf and Godown Co., Ld
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Launch Wrecked at Shanghai
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More About Hongkong's Meat Supply
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Mahomedanism in China.
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A Labour Difficulty
Armed Robbery
Correspondence
The 8.8. "Kongnam" Ashore
A Very Suspicious Case
The Retirement of Sir Hiram S. Wilkinson
"Wireless" at Shanghai
Protection of Women at Hongkong
District Watchmen at Hongkong
Miscellaneous
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
On the 4th April, it is reported, the 8.8. Pow-an, bound for Canton, ran down a junk at Whampoa, cutting it in halves. Four Chinese
were reported drowned.
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A vagrant named Shepherd was on April sentenced to the house of detention. 235 got a ship recently but left his job, aud the
Sailors' Home refused to take him back.
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At the Police Court on April 3rd a Chinese constable, asked if the defendant was tardy about opening her boxes to be searched, said: Her body consented against the wish of her
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On 7th March, at Hankow, the wife of A. R. BORTENSHAW, of a daughter, still-born.
On 20th March, at Kulangen, Amoy, the wife of the Rev. G REYNOLDS TURNER, London Mis- eion, of a daughter.
On 23rd March, at London Mission, Hengchow, Hun n, to Dr. and Mrs. E. C. PEAKE, & son.
On 25th March, at Hangohow, to Rev. F. W. and Mrs. BIBLE, of the American Presbyterian
Mission,
son.
On 28th March, at Tientsin, the wife of JULIUS WOLDER, Imperial Chinese Telegraph Adminis- tration, of a daughter.
On 27th March, at Shanghai, the wife of S. E. SCHWARTZ, of a daughter.
On 27th March, at Shanghai, the wife of CHARLES JEDLICKA, of a daughter.
On 27th March, at Hankow, the wife of HuaH E. RAMSAY, of a son.
On 31st March, at Shanghai, the wife of J. M. TAVARES, of a son.
On let April, at Shanghai, the wife of Gro. MARCAL, of a son.
The Courrier d'Haiphong says that the French cruiser Sully is now in a worse position than before. She is further On the rock. Nothing is now to be hoped for. The loss of 25,000,000 francs is assured.
A small fire occurred at No. 76, Des Voeux the 4th April Road, a medicine shop, on
The Brigade turned shortly before one o'clock, out and confined the outbreak to the kitchen where it originated. The damage was very small.
On the 4th April Mr. F. A. Haz land inquired into the cause of death of a prisoner who died in Victoria Gaol. He was doing six
weeks' hard labour for a conviction under the Opium Ordinance. He died from natural
causes.
The body of J. W. Fisher, a bluejacket. was
recovered from the water in front of the Naval Canteen on the 6th April. Deceased was an A.B. on board H.M.S. Centurion and had been on shore on leave. It is not known how he came to be drowned.
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After much experimenting the Electric On 3rd April, at "Eilandonan," the Peak, the Tramway Company has finally decided upon two cent fares for third class passengers, and wife of ANDREW FORBIS, of a daughter.
ten cent fares for first class passengers. For
DEATHS.
On 26th March, at Shanghai, ELSIE GRACE, daughter of ALEX and ANNIE BO88, aged 8 years and 8 months.
On 28th March, at Shanghai, SUBAN PERRY WADMAN, Belict of the late Edwin Wadman, of
Ningpo, aged 67 years,
On 4th April, at Eilandonan, The Peak, the infant daughter of ANDERW and HILDA FORBES,
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Hongkong Weekly Press.
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREKT, É.C,
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of 10th March arrived, per the 8.8. Coromandel, ov Thursday, the 6th instant.
each first class ten cent section there are two third class two cent sections.
The N.-C. Daily News understands it is the intention of the Directors of the Shanghai Waterworks Company to recommend at the next annual meeting a final dividend for the past year of thirty-seven shillings and six pence (37/6) per share at exchange 2/7.
The report of the Shanghai and Hongkew Wharf Co., Ld., for 1904, shows a divisible balance of Tls. 190,256. It is proposed to pay a final dividend of Tls. 6 on the old shares. making 10 per cent for the year, and Tls. 3 on the new shares, to place Tls, 24,000 to repairs account, and carry forward the balance, Tis. 10,712.
On April 3rd at four a.m. an attempt at housebreaking was made on Messrs. Falconer and Company's establishment in Queen's Road Central. The robbers wrenched off one of the shutters and then broke the thick plate glass window. The noise drew the attention of the watchman, and the burglars ran away empty handed.
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For a small hospital in Sieng-in, Fakien, it is officially announced that "in a few months we had promises of over $800, most of the native workers giving a month's salary and many of the Christians as liberally."
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Reporting an absurd Chinese rumour, a Northern writer says:-Sometimes the foreign resident in China feels as though he were un- wittingly playing a part in a huge stage farce. How a people so sensible in ordinary life can be guilty of the whimsical absurdities that we hear and see every day, is a problem beyond the amateur psychologist.
It is announced by advertisement to-day that a constant supply of water to the Hill District has now been resumed. Thanks to the unusual amount of rain we have had this season, as well as, we presume, to the enlarged water storage accommodation the Colony now has, the period of the intermittent supply has been shorter this year than for many years past.
An inquiry WAB held by Mr. F. A. Hazeland оп April 6th into the cause of death of Kwok Chat Po, prisoner at Victoria Gaol. The desersed was one of three, a father and two sons, who were sentenced to death for murder in December 1901. The father and one son were executed, but the sentence against the deceased was commuted to imprison- ment for life, with hard labour. He died from natural causes.
Shanghai papers record the death of Mrs. G. W. Coutts, whom the Daily News describes
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a most gracious representative of the palmy days of Shanghai. She came back to China last year to accompany her daughter Mrs. C. W. Campbell, and to be with her during Mr. Campbell's absence in Szechuan, Her elder daughter, Mrs. Ritchie, is in London, but she had the pleasure of having her younger daughter and her son with her to the last.
The report to the 31st of December last of the Yangteze Insurance Association, Ld., shows & divisible balance in the account for 1903 and former years of $288,191. It is proposed to pay a dividend of 20 per cent, put $50,000 to reinsurance, and carry forward the balance 842,191. The 1904 account shows a credit balance of $623,365. It is proposed to pay out of interest earned a special dividend of 5 per cent, and carry forward the balance, $599,365.
In his article ón Infanticide in
recent issue of Mesny's Chinese Miscellany,
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General" Meany makes some very pertinent remarks on the burning question of the fate of Eurasian girls, which has become and will increasingly become, such a serious matter wherever there are large foreign communities in the East. The facts that he gives are, says the N.-C. Daily News, widely known, but they are hushed up as far as possible, though a day of reckoning must come."
The Hongkong C.M.A. leaflet for April con- tains the following:
*—“In response to a request from some of the wealthier Chinese residents of Hongkong, a preparatory school for young Chinese children has recently been opened by the C.M.S. It was at first suggested that the Society's building near to Haldon' should be used for the purpose, but as this was found to be inconveniently situated, a building at Breezy Point was chosen. Miss Carden of Fair-les has been appointed to carry on the school."
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