THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXII.]
CONTENTS.
The Munroe Doctrine
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Epitome....
Leading Articles:-
The Mani a Money Market
Peking still the Diplomatic Contre
The Importance of Weihaiwel
Hongkong Jottings
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 911 SEPTEMBER, 1905-
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
No. 11
There are complaints in the papers of what is called "shoe-horing" at Shanghai horse anet'ons. Chinose bil in order to improve the prices for the sellers. From personal observa-
The attempt to amalgama'e the three big tion we can quite believe it, 166 Japanese brewery e mpanies has failed.
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Manila reports 28 cases of cholera, 12 fatal, sice Angust 23rd. Most occu red in Bilibid 167 prison.
Representative Government for Chi a ......
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Hongkong Sanitary Bourd
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Hongkong Legislative Counc`l
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Supreme Court
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Two Chinese Editors Banished from the Clony...170 Cinton
The American Visitors
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Mesirs Lane Crawford & Cɔ`s New Premisez
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The Foochow Case
The China Association
Correspondence
Hongkong Gymki na Club
Maca›
Chinese Gold Mine Seized
The Typhoon at Tytam Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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A telegram says that China is paying Japan the cost of the war, in return for the recovery
of Menchuria.
In a care at the Shanghai Mixel Court, an American witness said he considered it wicked of a man to call him an American, "seeing the class of some of the Americans here."
At the offices of the Public Works Depirt ment on Sert. 4 h the letting of Crown Land Lot No. 405, adjoining Shankiwan Lots Nos. 392 and 396, was put up for public anction sale. There was only one bidder for the lot, Mr. Li Fook, contractor, to whom it was knocked down for 2475, being 82 ) above the upst price.
The Magistray was again closed to the Press on the 6th September, when farther pro- 182 cedings in the perjury case in which Stephen Ledbury is charged by Mrs. Mitc' e'l with making f-lse statements when giving evidence on com-
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On 24th August, at Mokanshan, to the Rev. and Mrs. R. C. Wrtson, a daughter.
On 26th Augast, at N ngp, the wife of II. EDGREN, of a daughter.
On 26th August, at Yokohama, to Mr. and Ms. A E. PEARSON, u d ught r.
On 27th August, at "Elliot Cottage." Hong- kong, to Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM STANLEY ÁLLEN, a daughter.
On 27th-Augus, at Shanghai, the wife of E. ADLER, of a diughter.
On 1st September, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. WILFRID F. UAMLIN, a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On 18 September, at Shanghai, at the American Consulate, by the Rev. W. P. Bentley, AUGUSTUS B. MOULDER & KILLEEN M. MORRISON.
On the 6th September, at St. Joseph's Church, LOUISA JANE O'KEEFE to WILLIAM ALEXANDER STUART BROWN, 8.8. On Sanj.
DEATHS.
On 1st September, at Shanghai, Mrs. ANNIE SELLBOS, mother of Cipt. R. G. ANDERSON, Indo- China tam Navigation Co., aged 70 years.
On 7th September, LIZABETH JANS GORDON, beloved wife of ALEXANDER LUNDY GORDON, Sergeant of Police, died at Victoria Hospital Farr Road.
mission relative to an action for divorce pending in the Court of Session, Edinburgh, took place. The Daily Press was the first medium in Hongkong to ann-unce the outbreak of war, and the first to announce the tidings of peace. This creditable record was kindly pointed out to us by one of our esteemed even'ng contem- poraries; and as we ar not addicted to blowing our own trumpet, we hope this brief reference wray be regarded as excusable..
The s'camer Albenga, which loft Shanghai on August 31 encountered the typhoon on Sep. 1 and returned on the 4:h badly damaged. She took back fifty-four members of the crew of the steamer l'echili, which had fonudered in the typhoon. Only one Chinaman was drowued The Pechili was a British sta mer of 861 tous commanded by Captain Jorgensen.
Two days after the C. P. R. steamer Empress of Japan left Nagasaki. 2nd Sept mbir, she was overtaken by the recent typhoon. The rapidly, falling glas, and the prevailing rough weather, wan-d tosa on baird of its approach, con- sequently the ship was prepared for the hurricane. Her speed was reduced, and as the gale approached she was headel towards it. The mountainous waves which swept the deck crried the after well deck bridge away, while thea of the ressel's boats were torn from the dirits, but fortunately were not seriously distance out of her course, and she was over doo on arrival at Shanghai, but this was owing to her missing a tide at the Woosung Bar. Very little inconvenience was caused to passengers during the frolic of the elements, although a number of the lad'e were varj much frighten'd, and all were well leased when the typhoon had passed. On arrival at Shanghai the passengers presented Captain Pybus with an addres, eulogistic of the seamanlike manner in which he had handled his ship is the typhoon.
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THE SPANISH CONSUL AT SHANGHAI.
MISCHIEVOUS PRACTICES.
letter to the N.-C. Daily News; there will soon If the facts are as indicated in the following
have to be diploma'ic intervention. The letter speaks for its ›lf :-Sir,—I think the attention of the public should be called to a practice which, if allowed by the Chinese authorities to proceed upchecked, may led to very grave abuses. The practice I refer to is that which is apparently being adopted by the Spanish Consal of granting to thos) Chinese subjects who choose to submit to Epanish jurisdiction cor- tificates of Consular protection. For instance, a Chinman is desirous of bringing a lawsuit against other Chinese subjects; before doing so he signs a nbm'ssion to Spanish jurisdiction and then obtains from the Spini-h Consulate, a certificate of protection; the Spanish protégé then commences his suit in the Mixed Court ant claims to hare it heard before a Spanish Assessor, in which claim he is supported by the Spanish Consul. Whether this privilege of getting Spanish Consular protection can only be obtined by payment of fees I do not know, though I can hardly suppose it can be got for nothing, but c r'ainly it seems to an ordinary like myself that the grating of these certificate is absolutely unwarranted and is a very serious interfer nce with the rights of the Chinese authorities over their own subjects. A Chinese subject has his own officials to protect
person
him. Whom is it then that he is to be protecte l against? Or does the Spanish Consul claim the right to afford p otection to Chinese subjects against their own officials and against the laws of their own country?
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As far as I have been able to asce tain there nothing in the Treaties between the Foreign Powers and China which gives the Spanish Consul or, for the milter of that, any other foreign Consul, this right. By what right, therefore, does the Coasul claim to exercise this power? So long as a Chinese subject conținu »s to res de in his own native country, how can hɔ, without being guilty of what is practical'y treason to his country, submit himself to the jurisdiction of a foreign country, and plac › hims 1t under the protection of a foreign state? I un lerstand that th sa so callel orti- ficates of protection are only availible for year but CID be renewed on piy- ment of a amil! annual fee. What hap pens if the certificate is not renewed? Doss the protégé become a Chines subject again, or is he in a state, so to speak, of suspended animation btween the Chinese and Spanish jurisliction‹ ?
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Again, suppos ng one of thes protégés happens to die while his certificate of protection remains in foro, does his property davolve according to Chinese law, or does it com› under the jurisdiction of the Spanish Consul ?
Perhaps some of your readers who are more familiar than I am with Intersational Law will be able to satisfy my curiosity on these poiqts,
I am, etc.,
J. C, HANSON,
· 3)th August.