THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXII.]
Epitome.
AND
China Overland Trade
CONTENTS.
Leading Articles :---
Anglo-Japanese Relations Missionaries and Gunboats More Japanese Finances
To Enslave China
The Shantung Bogie.
China's Indiscretion
Alien Immigration...
Supreme Court
Companies.--
The Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd. ..... .
The United Asbestos Oriental Agency Ltd.
Canton Notes
Pak hoi
Police Court Business
Work for Hongkong Vagrants
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 24TH JULY, 1905.
Report.
The Hongkong Ice Company, Limited, is { The Tientsin Times reporta a PAG paying an interim dividend of $4 for the half | dulness" of shipping at that port.
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The C.N.S. Yunnan, which went ashore in
the recent typhoon, is at Shanghai, very little the worse.
The Japanese have announced that Saghalien should now be known by its old name
Kalafuto."
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The Wai-wu-pu is alarmed because the Japanese are putting down a light railway at 51 Hsinming-fu.
The body of a thirty year old Sikh, tied by
the leg to a stake, under water, has been found in the river at Shanghai.
Yunnan, the provincial capital of the pro vince, is to be opened to international trade, 54 and all the Powers have been notified.
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The Naval Court
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Manila as the Trade Centre of the Orient
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China rea
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Dividends
Alleged Perjury
Guns and the Question of Defacts
Fire in Kobe Harbour
The Suicide Mania
Two Attempted Suicides.
German Fortifications at Kiaochou
Adjustments on the China Station 12 in. Mark viii.
The Illicit Opium Traffic..
Sale of Ponies
Amusements of the Chinese
Proposed Chinese Opium Monopoly
Vie roy and Magistrates.
How China Civilises
Maiden Sessions...
The Shanghai Road to the Hills
The Anti-Torture Organization
Chinese Conjugal Infelicity... Miscellaneous Commercial
Shipping..
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A Japanese telegram says that the Aborigines of Saghalien were unable to conceal their delight at the advent of the Japanese.
Mr. J. F. Boulton has been appointed to act as Assistant Director of Public Works during 56 the absence on leave of Mr. P. N. H. Jones.
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During H. E. Major-General Villiers Hat. ton's absence from the Colony on leave, Colonel 50 C. H. Darling. R.E., C.R.E., will be in com.
mand of the troops.
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Mr. Homann, of the Deutsch-Asiatische 37 Bank, is going on sick leave, and Mr. Hugo
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MARRIAGE. On 8th July, at Shanghai, AXEL EDWARD KINDBLAD, I. M. Customs, to JANE ELIZABETH TINGLE.
DEATHS.
On 7th July. at Shanghai, ANNA MAERTENS, aged 64 years.
On 10th July, at Shanghai, GUGLIELMO VALENZA, aged 18 years.
On 12th July, at Shanghai, A. CAMPBELL, late engineer, I. C. S. Taisang.
On 13th July, at Shanghai, MARGARET GUTXE, beloved wife of A. NicaoL, of the Imperial Cus- toms, aged 27 years.
On 13th July, at Shanghai, Captain O. P. DANSTROK, aged 67 years.
Suter, the sub-manager, takes over the manage. ment of the Bauk in Hongkong.
Russian and American Consulates are to be established at Chinanfu and Wei-hsien, the newly opened trading centres in Shantung. A contemporary asks: How about the British ? L'Impartial adrises the censors and high officials to take the opportunity of the Chinese Emperor's birthday to urge on the Empress
Dowager to retire and leave the Government to the Emperor.
The Japanese residents at Yingkow have decided to construct a water-works there. The water is to be brought from the
upper
reaches
of the Liao, and the works will be large enough to supply 60,000 persons.
We understand that the Russo-Chinese Bank will change its manager in Hongkong very soon, Mr. Ross Taylor, who has been Manager On 16th July, at Shanghai. GEORGE FLORENTIN
in Hongkong since the opening of the branch, WATTS, Silk Inspector, Messr2. Arnhold, Karbergis, we hear, going home on leave. & Cc., aged 34 years.
Hongkong deckly Press.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of June 20th arrived, per the 88. Prinz Heinrich, on the 17th in-tan'; and the French Mail of 23rd June arrived, per the 8. Sydney, to-day, the 24th inst.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
At Swatow, violent opposition to the railway
is still rife.
A fine swimming bath was opened at Shanghai on July 15th,
Mr. W. J. Saunders, who has been away on leave, returned to the Colony from Australia by the steamer Empire on the 13th instant, and resumes his post of Secretary to the Union Insurance Society of Cauton.
Pending the issue of an Exequatur, H.E. the Governor has been pleased, under instructions from the Fecretary of State for the Colonies, to recognise provisionally, Mr. J. G. Gonzalez de Bernedo as Consul for Chili at Hongkong.
Can the Sully be salved? The most oppo- site opinions continue to receive expression. A gentleman who has recently seen the wreck says it is "optimism carried to the verge of folly to pretend any longer that the Sully is not a total
loss."
The Governor of Shantung's recent visit to the Governor of Kiaochow was in connection with the German demand to work the salt fields around there. Governor Yang having duly inspected the salt ground has refused the
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The Sin-wan-pao reports that a army, marching through Mongolia, attacked by Chinese volunteers and dispersed. That such a ridiculous lie could be even dreamed of shows how Russian prestige must
have waned in China.
The Shanghai Pulp and Paper Co., Ld., announces that the net profit on the working of the company for the half-year is Tls. 56,113, and that an interim dividend of Tls. 6 per share for the first half of the present year will be paid to shareholders on the 22nd inst.
The Chief of Lawas, Borneo, threatened with the expropriation (by Sarawak) of his kingdom at a figure which seemed to him inadequate, travelled to Singapore and appealed to the Governor. The matter had already been decided by arbitration, and the Governor declined to interfere.
The steamer Bohira-maru, owned by the Oshiro Steamship Company, of Tokyo, struck a sunken rock at Nasamiseto, near Idzukushima, at daylight on July 7th. When the crew left the vessel it was making water rapidly. As the Rohilla-maru, the vessel is well known to foreigners, being an old P. & O. boat.
The captain of the coasting schooner Rosario has just reached Manila after a curious experi Philippines port, when the schooner dragged
ence. The mate and crew were ashore at another
anchor and blew off shore. It was so rough that the captain (given up as lost) could not take the schooner back, and made for Manila.
By order of the Supreme Court, Messrs. Hughes and Hough, auctioneers. on July 14 put
up
for sale by public auction Hunghom. I. L. No. 249, together with the building thereon known as No. 74 Des Voeux Road, Hunghom. Bidding started at $400 and was run up by
bids of $100 to $1,200, after which bids of $50 were tendered, until the amount of $1,490 · was reached, at which price it was knocked down to Mr. Kwong Fook Hing.
British cotton goods are still losing ground in
the Tientsin market. The natives are showing a marked preference every year for Indian, Japanese, and Chinese goods. The Indisa houses have lost a certain amount of ground to the Japanese, who have spared no effort to Chinese gain a strong footing in this market. textiles are not selling as well as formerly. The quality is poor and the manufacture is defective.
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French Consul-General at Tientsin. The Manila Cablenews prints a long story about the interned Russians, that they have been loading coal by night, and that the U.8.8. Monadnock hastily took aboard ammunition and changed her position. The Cablenews, in a footnote, appears to have doubts as to the in- tention of the Russians to make "the most sensational move of the war." In another issue the Cablenews adds: That, they coaled un-
The body of M. Paul Lessar, late Russian necessarily and at unusual hours is true." Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pleni- potentiary at Paking, arrived at Shanghai on July 7th by the C. N. B. Shengking and was at once taken ashore and conveyed to Fearon Road Mortuary, to wait transhipment to Russia. The body is in a sine shell, in the top of which is a small glass plate through which the body can be viewed. The coffin was accompanied by many beautiful wreaths, the gifts of several friends in Peking.