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Owing to bad weather the Japanese autumn silk crop is expected to fall short of that of an average year by 20 per cent.
The rate of interest on advances in Osaka (at the beginning of this month) had risen to nearly ten per cent per annum.
A certain Censor, in view of the order for the .208 discontinuance of literary examinations, has memorialised the Throne, recommending that
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
Supreme Court
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Canton
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Correspondence
Rules and Regulations Governing Women and
Girls' Refuges
An Admirable Chinose "Ollendorf"
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A Griffin and a Wail
Kwang Robber
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A Chinese Marriage.......
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The Canton-Hankow Railway
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The Sinking of the "Mikasa "
Heat Plus Alcohol
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V.B.C. Aquatic Sport
The "Lienshing" in Collision
Typhoon Experiences
Hongkong "Bill of Health "
William Powell, Ld.
A Chinese Awakening..
New Shanghai Co.
Commercial
A Portuguese Wreck on Nan-tcheon
Shipping
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the sale of official titles be abolished.
Russia is said to have discovered that the Russian fishing companies on Saghalien, whose rights the Russian Government has been cham- pioning for years against the Japanese, all belong to an Englishman.
There appears to be more behind the follow. ing plaint of a Manila journal :- "Eyes have they, but they se net, noses have they, but they smell not," might be said with good reason of some of the health inspectors of Manila.
The Plague Commission which has presented 27 proposals for sanitary improvements at Calcutta 217 ascertained that in one ward of the city the 217 population amounted to 145,000 per square mile
as against 36,000 in the city of London,
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A native was charged with causing an aunoyance in Kowloon on the 16th inst. by pushing a wheelbarrow that creaked
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On 10th Sep ember, at 19, Par's Lane, the wife loadly. The case was proved by Lukong W. of A. V. BROWN, of a son.
On 18th September, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. IVOR THOMAS, & SON.
DEATH.
On 2 th September, at "Calder," MacDonnell Road, LAURENCE WILLIAM MOWBRAY, the des ly beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. J. MOWBRAY JONES. Aged 2 years. ·
Way, and a penalty of $3 or seven days, imprisonment imposed,
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Last week was entirely free from plague; but during the 48 hours ending at noon on Sept 18th, a fatal case was reported at Hollywood Road. Totals now read, 29k cases, 273 deaths. Of other communicable dis ases, there was one case only, puerperal fever.
H. E. Wu Chung-hsi, the Director General of the Imperial Chinese Telegraph Administra- tion, has wired to the Viceroy at Nanking that a telegraph line will be established from Shang- hai to Soochow and to Nanking along the
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In March last the pearling vessel' Nikko, ketch-rigged, with compl-t› diving apparatus (Hoincke pump) is alleged to have been stolen from British New Guinea by the Japanese crew on board, and, it is reported, was headed for the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines, Straits Settlements, or Japan. Commanders of steamers favour by communicating with Messrs. Bowden se ing or hearing of this vessel will confer a Brothers & Co., Limited, either at Kobe or Thursday Island.
The Nagasaki Press of the 10th inst. reports the loss of another steamer from striking a drifting mine. It says:--The Japanese steamer- Sanchin Maru, owned by Mr. T. Hashimoto of Nagasaki, while on a trip from Newchwang to Dalny, came into contact with a floating mine off Port Arthur on Tuesday morning and sank immediately. The first engineer and steward are missing, but the remainder of the crew were rescued by the Kudnnon Maru which happened to be passing at the time.
The fining of a Chinese shopkeeper the other day, $25 for being in possession of a number of empty bottles, appears severe unless it ba remembered that the Chinese have a habit of filling up bottles labelled with well-known firms' names with concoctions of their own. It is obvious that this practice should be discouraged as much as possible. Mr. Francis Danenberg, aerated water manufacturer, of High Street, is not the only one who has suffered in this way. Foreigners purchasing mineral waters should carefully examine any bought from Chinese.
Journal), publishes a telegram of date Sept. 12th The Nanfangpao (South China Daily to the effect that Viceroy Chang Chih-tung has
concluded a loan of thr è million taels with the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation to meet the payment of the first instalment for the repurchase of the Canton-Hankow railway, the loan agreement having been signed o the 7th instant. Apropo, sentiment amongst the Chinese who are concerned in the repurchase of the line being strongly against placing the
Hongkong Weekly Press. thanking railway and the work will milway so that foreignors shall again be in a
commence from the end of this month, and due
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French Mail of August 18th arrived, per the es. Caledonien, on the 21st inst.; and the English Mail of August 25th arrived, por the 8.8. Chusan, on the 21st instant.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
One dog-shooter in Penang is said to have accounted for "an average of four Chinamen to every dog."
The Foy Lun Silk Filatore at Shanghai was sold by Messrs. L. Moore & Co. on September 9th for Tis. 175,000.
The deposits in the Japanese Post Office Savings Banks have increased Yen 10,000,000
in the last seven months.
line is asked for.-S'nwanpao.
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At a meeting of the Chinese Commercial Union on Tuesday, the question of Mr. Fang Wa Chun's resignation as chairman discussed. As that gentleman pos.tively de- elined re-election, his resignation was accepted, and a rote of thanks is to be conveyed to him during the five years he has been chairman for the energy and ability be has displayed of the Union. Mr. Ip Oi Shan, who was re- commended as his successor by a large number of firms, was elected, and Mr. Chan Kiang Yu was elected vice-chairman.
It has become proverbial in the colony that when a Chinese constable is dismissed the reason he advances for his disgrace is that he was asleep on duty. The complainant in a case before Mr. Hazeland yesterday on being cross examined as to his connection with the police force tendered the same excuse and explained that he sleepee walkee.”
"This provoked the Court to smiles and an officer in à reminiscent mood was heard to relate that some years ago an Indian policem in went to sleep while patrolling his beat and walked into the harbour and was drowned.
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position to have a lien on it, Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, in borrowing money from the Hong- kong and Shanghai Bank, did not venture to offer the railway as security for the loan, but it is understood, gave, instead, a portion of the salt revenues of the Hukuang province”.
A serious outbreak of fire threatening at one
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tim to destroy what is perhaps the finest resi- Sept. 10th when new "yersall, the local resid- dential building in Singapore, occurred on ence of his Highness the Sultan of Johore, wÁS observed to burst into flames. The plice from the lake in the Botanical gardens over a hidden away in extensive grounds stretching very large area. The only buildings of impor tance near at hand are the barracks of the Sher- wood Foreste s, Woodneuk, lying between the barracks and Tyersall, and Atbara and Cluny Lodge on the other side. All those plaora are however some distance away.. Tyersall is now. and has been for some time nzoccupied and has. been left in charge of the usual Malay Oficials. with four or five watchmen and guards. The Singapore Free Press gives a long account of the fire, which the Sherwood Foresters helped to put out. The ballroom wing was gutted. The total loss was officially estimated at between $40,000 and $50,00 ),