THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL LXL]
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Articles :--
K'ung Fu-Taze
Will Japan Abolish Likin?
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A Colonial Land of Promise
Municipal Trading at Shanghai
Education: The Object Lesson of China
The Powers Re-Grouped
PAOL 353
954 354
355
355
354
357
The Withdrawal of Battleships from China 358
Norway and Sweden
Hongkong Jottings
Supreme Court
Companies:-
Hongkong High Level Tramways Co., Ld. William Powell. Limited
The Nippon Yusen Kaisba
The Chins Light and Power Co., Ld
Indo-China S. N, Co.
S. C. Farmham, Boyd & Co., Ld
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 12TH JUNE, 1905.
At the Magistracy, Mr. F. A. Hazeland, in the face of the recent comments at the Supreme Court, has decided that the old established custom of allowing the Chinese Government to be re- presented in the Police Court was not null and void.
Messrs. Benjamin, Kelly & Potts were C. advised by telegraph that Messrs. S. Farnham Boyd & Co., Ld. (Shanghai), declared a Fiua! Dividend of Tls. 8 per share (making Tls. 13 per share for the year), transferred Tls 100,000 to Reserve Fund, and carried forward Tis. 34,000,
A Chinaman who was being chased by the 361 police lafe on the 10th June rushed into a house in Shankiwan Road, closely followed by his pursuer. He leaped from the verandah of the house to the ground. a distance of 25 fet, fracturing his thigh, and was removed to the Government Civil Hospital
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Proposed New Waterboat Co., for Hongkong.393 Shanghai Electric and Asbestos Co., Ld
Canton ...
Correspondence
The Canton Murder Claim
Work for H.M.S."Rambler
Commercial
Ship ing
BIRTH.
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On 3rd June, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. C. LEACH, a daughter.
The interminable discussion which has been taking place between the Chiness authorities and the Peking Syndicate in connection with Tse cbox-Taokow railway, and the iron mines within their concession area, promises. exys the Peking Times, to come to an end very shortly, with the signing of the contract.
Captain A. W. Wooster of the British steamer Bantu, which arrived from Yokohama via Shanghai on June 11, sighted part of the On 1st June. at Shanghai, LIONEL HARRINGTON Japanese fleet off Chapel Island in a thick fog,
MARRIAGE.
HOWELL, of Wuhu, to GWYNYDD MARGUERITE SMEDLEY, of Shargiai.
LEATHS.
On 30th May, at Shanghai, CHARLES SAMUEL ATKINSON, aged 38 years.
On 30th May, at Tientsin, W. STAAT, aged 33 years.
On 81st May, at Buchou, by accidental drown- ing, ALFRED BEILBY KEX, in his 61st year.
On 3rd June, the Rev. J. HUDSON TAYLOR, MR.C.S., F.B.G.S., Founder of the China Inland Mission, at Changsha, Hunan, aged 73 years.
Hongkong Weekly Press. Dress.
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of May 7th arrived, the s.s. Darmstadt, on Wednesday the 7th inst.. and the French Mail of May 12th is exp cted to arrive, per the 8.8. Oceanien, some time to-
morrow.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Sergeant G. F. Hutton Potts of the H.V.C. to be a Lieutenant.
A. seam of soft coal has been found in Honan, which is being worked by natives, and a contract has been made with the Ching Hai railway to supply all they need.
A meeting of the Singapore Chinese Christian Association recent y decided "That this ouse considers that the time has come for the Manchu Government to cease to rule China."
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No. 23
On June 9th the sailing ship Travancore was safely towed into Hongkong by the Robert (ˇooke, which went to fetch her from Harlem Bay, where she had grounded after being got off Fokai Point. Her hull was not damaged muchy beyond the "buckling of a few plates; but she had almost filled with water through the opened rivet holes and plates. A diver closed up the holes. It was not until after three return trips that the Robert Cooke got all the water out, owing to accidents to gear.
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On the 5th June after the Hon. Capt. L. Barnes-Lawrence, R. N., had sentenced the German crew of the British steamer Thyre to three weeks' imprisonment for refusing to proceed to Japan in the ship, the men were brought handcuffed to be paid off at the Ship- ping Office, which adjoins the Sailors' Home at West Point. When other seamen saw these men in irons some indignation was expressed Later, as the by hooting at the Police. Shipping Master was walking by the main building of the Home with the Chief Engineer of the 8.8. Sigami he heard something fall close to him. Turning he discovered that two empty bottles had been thrown, probably from the top verandab.
and nearly had a collision with one of the vessels. He also passed a floating mine at a distance of about fifty yards in Lat. 28' 24" north, Longship having cleared for Hongkong, though she
99' 2" rast.
Council
The Shanghai Municipal
has published the offer of Messrs. Bruce. Peebles & Co.. of Edinburgh and London, to put down a tramway system at Shanghai. Ôn a 35 to years tenancy, with Council's option purchase afterwards. the Company offers to pay £150 a year for each mile of double track. and £100 a year for each single mile.
Captain Brown of the s.s Tean which arrived
from Manils on June 9th, reports that at 5 p.m.
on the 7th instant while in Lat. 17′ 25′′ north, Long. 118′ 08′′ east, he sighted a Russian vessel with two fannels and three masts, steaming slowly in a S.W. dirastion. He signalled her that there were three Russian cruisɔrs at Manila. She replied-" Thank you.”
A Chinese girl from Queen's Road East was Hongkong that she took testing opium. so distraught at the departure of her lover from When she died, the body was taken to the Mortuary, the Police being under the im- pression that she died of opium poisoning; bu the postmortem examination revealed the fact that bubonic plague was the cause of death.
Lance-Sergeant Pitt of the Water Police gallantly rescued a Chinaman from drowning in the Harbour on the 5th June. As a launch towing a sampan was going alongside the s.s. Zafiro the passengers on board the sampan made a rush to board the launch One man, losing his footing fell into the water and was s'nking a second time when he was grasped by the plucky sergeant, who had taken a header from the Police pinnace and swam to his assistane. He was kept afloat until the launch hauled the resoner and rescued on board. No doubt, the authorities will take suitable notice of this brave act, which was the means of saving the
Chinaman's life.
The crew of the s.s. Oldhamnía arrived here yesterday by the Douglas 8.8. Hatching. On the 18th May, in the southern end of the Formos Channel the steamer en- count-red the Russian fleet. She had a cargo of kerosine in cases from New York, the was proceeding to Japan. The three officers, three engineers, two apprentices and 21 others were taken off by the Russians on the 19th May and put ou board the Russian converted cruiser St. Petersburg. The captain, chief engineer, oook and steward were take to another ship, and those taken to the St. Petersburg do not know what became of them, but think they must have been put on some Japan bound vessel. The first part of the crew were kept on board the St. l'etersburg till the 4th June when they were
put on the Indo China s.&. Waishing which
| brought them to Swatow. The officers of the St. Petersburg before they left her said the ship no longer existed.
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According to the Sin Wan-pao the German Commercial Treaty Commissioners, Dr. Knappe and his colleagues, have submitted the text of the draft treaty to Lu Hai-huan, Chinese ing fourteen points. (1) Surtax in lieu of likin; Commissioner. The text embodies the follow- (2) Settlements; (3) Bonded Warehouse Charges; (4) Mines; (5) Castoms Drawbacks; (6) Trade- marks; (7) Corporations; (8) Commercial ports; (9) Navigation at Iohang; (10) Inland Naviga tion; (II) National Currency; (12) Export of Rice; (13) privileges of Germans, (14) Exchange of the Treaty. The main points are similar to the Anglo-Chinese. American-Chinese, and Chiness-Japan treaties already concluded. The article in connection with the surtax and likin in the German-Chinese treaty is similar to that in the Anglo-Chinese treaty, excepting that the Germans want to have substantial assurances that China will herself abide by the treaty. The second articls regarding settle- meats is the same as the America Chinese treaty. Germany has a more correct appreciation of the value of China's treaty promises than had the redoubtable Sir James Mackay and his easily
satisfied associates.