THE
Hongkong Weekly
China
VOL. LXI.]
CONTENTS.
Cotton Mills in China and Hongkong Common Seamen and War Risks
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Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 1st MAY, 1905.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
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Nine ew recruits for the Shanghai Municipal Police Force arrived by the P. & O. s.8. Poona.
Fukien province is being more extensively The now men have been recruited from the ranks 269 planted with the mulberry.
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Epitome
Leading Articles:-
A Real Yellow Peril
An Untrustworthy Service
Corrected Impressions
Matter for Reflection
Army and Press at Hongkong
Therapeutics in China ....
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Supreme Court
Marine Magistrate's Court
Companies:-
Geo- Fenwick & Co., Ld..
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The Shanghai Mutual Telephome Co., Ld..
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Hall and Holts
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Hongkong Neutrality
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Stranding of the 8.8. Kongnam.
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Hongkong Produce and the Imperial Institute...
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Misguided Women
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A Question of Port Law
General Hatton Presents Sports Trophies
Peking University.
Report on Public Works.
The Hospitals
Hongkong's New Public Buildings
The Harrison
Trade in War Time
The "fin Han" Festival at Hong av g
Hongkong Revenue
Hongkong's Water Supply
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Miscellaneous
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Withdrawal of Russian Fishery Rights in Cores...278
Chinese Estimates...
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
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The Korean Government has d cided to free from duty all goods, such as rice, etc., exported to America.
Chinese troops, says the Foochow Echo, are to be nuiformly armed with a new pattern
small bore rifle.
Extensive repairs are being made to the Kowloon Police pier, which has suffered con- siderably from dry rot.
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of the Royal Irish constabulary, and are described as fine strapping looking young men.
A Tokyo despatch to the Osaka Asahi, under date the 5th inst., says that the money which the Government has given to the families of soldiers who have been killed or died of wounds
or disease at the front since the ontbreak of the war, has reached the sum of Yea 10,000,000,
divided among some 20,000 families.
Mr. Geo. P. Lammert on April 26th sold by The Japanese authorities have established public auction Inland Lot No 1666, contain- post offices at Chinju, Mapho and Holo, ining 689 square feet, on which is erected No. 8, Po Hing Fong. The lot is held for 75 years Korea, and opened them to the public on the
at & Crown rent of $11. Messrs. Johnson, Stoks and Master were the solicitors for the mortgagros. Mr. Lan Kwai Pui secured the property for $9,600.
1st inst.
The Bourse Gazette declares that Russia has
only one ally at present, namely Time. And, we may add, the Baltic Fleet is busily engaged in killing that ally,
II. E. the Governor has appointed provision- ally, until further notice, Mr. Heury ursthouse to act as Crown Solicitor vice Mr. F. B. L. 20 Bowley, on vacation.
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Baron Komara, Minister of the Foreiga Office, has issued a notice to the effect that a 231 Japanese Consulate was opened at Changsha,
China, on the 1st inst.
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On 19th April, at No. 2, Century Crescent, Kennedy Road, Hongkong, to Mr. and Mrs. EVAN
ORMISTON, a daughter.
MARRIAGE
On 29th March, at Shang! ai, the Rev. G. H. SEVILLE, to JESSIE M. GREENE, both of Wenchow. On 20th April, at Shanghai, JOHN LENNOX, to JOANNA LOUISA FANNY BROOMFIELD.
The last weekly plague return records a total of 29 cases
One subsequent fatality makes the year's list number 30. Small-pox cases are two Chinese and one Indian.
Mr. Harry Halton Fox, of the British Consular Service in China, is announced to Miss Noott, a grand-daughter of Sir A. Hickman, M.P. for Wolverhampton.
mariy
Mr. W. Cowan arrived at Taiping on the 15th April from Hongkong. It is rumoured says the Perak Pionier, that it is possible he may be transferred to the Police Deportment to
On 20th April, at Shanghai, ROBERT CRIDLAND be at the head of th Criminal Investigation
FABBRIDGE, to LILIAN STUART Walsh.
On 24th April, at the Union Church, Hongkong, by the Rev. C. 11. Hickling, MARY MARGARET, eldest daughter of Mr. J. P. B. REEVE, of Brent- wood, Essex, to ALFRED. E. HOLLINGS, fourth son of Mr. T. HOLLINGS, of Taunton, Someserset- shire.
On 26th April, at St. John's Cathedral, Hong- kong, by the Right Rev. the Bishop of Victoria, assisted by the Rev. F. T. Johnson, MA, GILBART HAMILTON, eldest son of the Rev. GILEERT EDWARDS, M.A., of Gt. Haseley, Oxfordshire, to FLORENCE MABEL, daughter of GEORGE MURRAT -BAIN, Esq., Hongkong.
DEATHS.
On 8th April, at Wuchang, HELEN ISABELLA, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. ROBERT BORLAND, aged five years and eight months.
On 23rd April, at Marseilles, J. L. HOUSTON, aged 50 years.
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No Thoroughfare. Closed by order of the Government. This notice, now appearing in the corridor of the Hongkong Hotel, intimates that the passing of the general public through this well-known "shortcut" is being timely restricted.
It is reported that the Japanese Government has decided to greatly extend its postal facilities in China and Korea, on the conclusion of the war. There are at pres-nt 14 Japan-se post offic s aud 50 agencis in Korea, and 16 offices and four agencies in China.
Three Chinese water-boat men were ou Satur- day fined $20 each, or six weeks' imprisonment, for obtaining water for sale to ships from Unauthorised streams. The only authorised place to obtain water is at Laichikok, where
te Government sell it for seven cents a ton,
Hongkong Weekly Press. notities in of the 20th instant, several ships
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VOUX ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mai of the 28 h March arrived, per s... Roon, on Tuesday, the 25th ultimo; ani the French Mail of the 31st of March arrived, per sa. Ernest Simone, to-day, the 1st instant.
In pursuance of the Hongkong Government
with coal and provisions on board, destined for either 006 of the belligerents, are being detained at Hongkong. It is probable, there- fore, that Welsh coal ships will in future give this port a wide berth,
A Russian prisoner-of-war was courtmartialled at Osaka on the 4th inst. for stealing a gold watch and other personal effects belonging to fellow prisoners He was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment for ten months, to be followed, says the Nagasaki Press, by police surveillance for six months.
A recent number of the Nagasaki Press said: Owing to the appearance of the Baltic fleet in the vicinity of Singapore, the Japanese Marine Insurance companies have increased their rates of insurance from 12 to 25 per cent. for Hong- kong. from 10 to 50 per cent. for the Pescadores, Formosa and Loochoos, and from 25 to 75 per cent. for Gensan and Sonching.
The captai of the steamer Knivsberg reports that on the 7th instant in Howki Channel, Bamboo Island, bearing N.E, he exploded a drifting miue.. On the 15th inst. in Lat. 34.22 N, Long. 121.50 E., a long way. south of the Shantung Pr montory, he exploded an enormous drifting mine, nearly ten feet in diameter. He fired at it at a distance of something over 150 yards, and fragments of it fell on his deck. This is one of the largest yet reported.
Eleven shareholders addressed a joint letter to Mr. J. R. Twentyman, managing director of S. C. Farnham Boyd & Co., Ld., asking for purchase the Company's property, for the definite information about the "firm offer to
personnel of the offering London Syndicate, and for a special meeting to be called. The reply was that no meeting was necessary, and the information asked for was withheld. The shareholders replied that the directors had lost the confidence of the shareholders, who hadua right to demand a meeting, and they published the correspondence.
A young medical missionary, Dr. Forsythe, attached to the Southern Presbyterian Board of the United States, was recently attacked by a gang of masked Koreans at the house where he was lodging in a little village near Chunjin. The doctor attemp ́ed to defend himself, but he was struck a heavy blow on the bead, and was
then thrown off the verandah, a distance of four
feet. and jumped upon by the Koreans. He arrived the benefits of a robust constitution were was nearly killed, but when medical assistance
manifested and at last reports it was thought that he would recover.
The return of Chinese pilgrims from the tmbs of their ancestors has kep a number of harbour launches extremely busy during the last few days. The masters of these launches, eager to turn an honest penny, have been carry ing passengers in excess of the licensed number. The Water Police have become cognisant of this fact, and at the Police Court on April 28th placed the Masters of the Kam On and the Kam Tai before Mr. G. N. Orme for carrying 43 and 44 passengers respectively in excess of the licensed number. The first defendant was fined $50 and the second $60.