THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXII.]
Epitom....
The Boycott
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 26TH AUGUST, 1905.
Dr. Knappe, the German Consul-General, has interviewed the Taotai on the subject of the A boycott. The Taotai said he intended promptly .129: to issue a placard ordering the merchants to
resume trade in American goods.
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Leading Articles :-
The Peace Conference
The Chinese Post Office System
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The Egotism of the Chinese
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Post Scriptum
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Supreme Court
Companies.-
Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Co., Lả.
Hongkong Cotton Spinning. Wearing,
Dyeing Co., Ld....
and
Canton
Масао
Pakhoi
The Foochow Commercial Litigation
Correspondence
More Boycott Troubles
British North Borneo
Hongkong Dockyard Extension....
Saghalien Fisheries
Commercial
Shipping
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A suggestion has been made in Yokohama to form there a British Volunteer organisation, to be called the Allianc Guards." The pro- poser says that 150 men could easily be raised, and got ready in time to make an imposing show as a guard of honour to the Prince of Wales when he visits Japan.
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The readiness with which the Chinese assist their compatriots in difficulty was demonstrated by an incident which took place on beard the Ernest Simona on her present outward run. Shortly after the vessel left Saigon nine coolies Fortun- were found stowed away in the bold. ately for them there was a number of fairly well to do countrymen on board, who subscribed 11 the necessary money to pay their passages and 41 saved the delinquents the consequences of their .141 misdeeds.
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BIRTHS.
On 13th August, at Shanghai, the wife
of F.
B. PFEIFER, of a daughter.
On 17th August, at Kuling, the wife of
ARMSTRON®, of a son.
F. H.
The Seoul Press learns that the following salaries of the regulations respecting the Corean Military officials has been determined upon; viz: a General to receive a salary of yen 3,000 per annum; Lieut.-General, yen 2.001; Major-General, yen 1,575; Colonel, yen 1,176; Lieut.-Colonel, yen 876; Major, yen 12; Captain, yen 400; Lieutenant, yen 360; Officers, yen 240. They seem to us rather dear at the price.
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The s.s. München (Capfain Cox) left Shang. bai on August 19th with over a thousand- Russian refugees for Odessa.
The Shanghai Taotai on August 16th in- structed the Shanghai Magistrate, Mr. Wang, to send his runners out to discover the authors of the boycott placards which have been lately posted throughout the Native City and suburbs, and also the men who have been instrumental in posting them. The posting of anonymous placards is illegal in China and the authors, if discovered, can be punished, says the "native notes" writer of the N.-C. Daily Neros.
The following n tes appear in an appendix to the Chinese Post Office Report for 1904- In 1876 the Customs Postal Department was extended and allowed to accept correspondence from the public for transmission between Treaty ports. Postage stamps being required for the purpose, a first issue was prepared, but only appeared in 1878, comprising a set of three values in the tael currency, viz., 1-candarin (green),3-candarin (red), and 5-candarin (yellow,) In 1885 a second issue took place, the stanips being of smaller size and different colours but of about the same design and of the same values as in the previous issue, viz., I candarin (green), 3-candarin (mauve), and 5-candarin (bistre);
these were water-marked with a device known as "shell." A third issue occurred towards the end of 1894, known as the "Jubilee Issue," on the occasion of Her Majesty the Empress Dowager's sixtieth birthday. It consisted of a set of nine different values, viz., 1-candarin
On 23rd August, at No. 1, Stewart Terrace, Sub-Lieutenant, yen 300; Non-Commissioned' / (geranium red), 2-candarin (olive green). 3-
Paak, the wife of T. W HORNBY, of a daughter.
MARRIAGE.
DEATH.
ALLAN
On 22nd July, at Aberdeen, EWEN
The Takungpao newspaper published in CAMERON, eldest son of Sir EWIN CAMERON, to Tientsin states that it has received news from RACHEL MARGARET GEDDES.
Shantung to the effect that there is rumour of a widespread conspiracy on foot in that province to rise against the Germans, the date set being the 18th day of the 8th moon (16th September). It is alleged that each family is to provide one fighting man, whose equipments are to be paid by public subscription. Rumours of this kind are hardy occasionals in China, sys the N.-C. Daily News The rising did not take place, and was probably never talked of except by the native newspaper man.
On 8th August, at "Holbrook," Whitehill Road, Gravesend, England, ANNIE, MARY, the beloved wife of W. M. B. ARTHUR, formerly of the Hongkong Government. Aged 66 years.
At Peak Eospital, of typhoid, ЕDITH MAONI beloved wife of Wx. W. WILSON.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French Mails of July 21st arrived, per the s.s. Ernest Simons, on Tuesday, the 21st instant; and the English Mail of July 28th arrived, per the s.s. Nubia, on Thursday, the 24th instant.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Straits Times of August 16th announces that the Governor of Ceylon, Sir Henry Blake, has just been bereaved of his eldest son. Mr. Henry Blake, who died in Australia a week age.
The sale by public auction of valuable lease hold property in the colony, by order of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, attracted a good attendance to the sales rooms of Mr. G. P. Lammert, auctioneer, on the 24th August. The property consisted of a piece of ground in Victoria registered in the Land Office as Eection A of Sub-section No. 5 of Section C of Inland Lot No. 52, together with the messuages, erections and buildings thereon known as No. 83 Wellington Street. The ground is beld for the residue of the term of 75 years and of the further term of 924 years commencing on the 2h day of June, 1843, and subject to the payment of $7.571, the dus proportion of the annual Crown Reut, and the observance and p-rformance of the covenants and conditions in the Crown Lewe and Indenture of Extension so far as they relate to the said premises, and subject also to an indenture of mortgage in favour of
Wong Sik Hung. Bidding started at $8,000 and after keen competition was knocked down to Mr. Chun Ping for
$10,0 x
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candarin (yellow), 4 candarin rose), 5-(candarin (deep chrome-yellow), 6-candar- in (carmine- brown), 9 candarin (grey-green), 12-candarin (orange), and 24-candarin (carmine). The first six values were of the ordinary size, but the last three of a large and oblong form they were water-marked with the "yin-yang symbol, and were printed in Japan after new and varied designs prepared by the department in Shanghai, When. in 1896, the Imperial Post Office was formally recoguised by Imperial Ediot, the currency was changed from candarins (tal) to cents (dollar), and a new issue of 12 different values was ordered from Japan; but these were not ready before a year or two later. Owing to this delay, the 1894 issue bad to be continued, but with surcharges marked in dollar-cent values, viz, 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, and 30 cents; there were also revenue stamps surcharged for postage. This may be reckoned as the fou th issue, in use from January, 1897. The fifth issue was lithographed in Japan in 1898, and the designs, though sia ilar, were not identical with, and the colours were, in many cases, of different shades from, the current (i.e., the sixth) issue. The sixth issue was brought out in 1899, engraved on steel, printed by WATERLOW & SONS in London, with perforations differing somewhat from the previous set. The stamps are more elaborately wrought (bavi: g, e.g., a geometrical background) and are of 12 values, viz, -cent (seal-brown), T-cent (orange yellow), 2-cent (cardinal red), 4- ent (red-brown), 5-cent (salmon), 10-cent (deep green), 20-cent (light red-brown, 30-cent (rose), 50-cent (light green), 1-dollar (red and pale rose), 2-doll r (yellow and red), and 5-dollar (green and pale rose). The 5-cent stamps issued during 1904 were inclined to orange-yellow, and some other issues ap- proached the colour of the 2-cent stamp; and during 1905 will begin the issue of a new 5-cent slamp, mauve in colour,