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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXII.]
Epitome
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China Overland Trade Report.
[CONTENTS.
Leading Articlos :-
The Trade of Pakhoi..............
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 2ND OCTOBER, 1905.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK,
Admiral Rozhdestvensky is now quite well
again..
The Trade of Amoy.............................................................................******2°2 There were 71.282 Russian prisoners in The Trade of Foochow .........................................................................-222 | Japan at the end of August, Hongkong Shipping ompetition
Japanese have already subscribed ien
The New Anglo-Japanese Treaty. ...........223 million yen for the purpose of providing a
The Trade of Swatow................................................................. -24 Canals
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Hongkong Jottings
Local Sport
Hongkong Legislative Council
Hongkong Cricket L'ague
Hongkong Cricket Club
Police Recreation Club ...................................................................................
Craigengower Cricket Club..
Hongkong Football Club..
The Royal Hongkong Yacht Club.
Hongkong Hockey Club
Hongkongt. Andrew's Society
A Royal Birthday.
Supreme Court
Des Voeux Road Fire Inquiry
Macao.................................
Treaty Ports or
Trading Centres"
The China Association
Companies:-
The King's English.......
Market and Middlemen at Wuchow
The Douglas Steamship Co., Ld.....!...................
Conton and Hongkong Ice Co..
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volunteer fleet.
The Mikosa's decks are undamaged. The 25 latest official return of casualties was 256 killed
or missing and 373 wounded.
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Lnd in the business quarter of Arab Street, Singapore, was recently sold by auction for as much as $46 per square foot.
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Letters continue to res h the Daily Prem denouncing Thrifty Lad" and all his works.. Even if we had not not fled that the subject was closed for the present, most of these are inadmissible. What was wanted were figures and facts of interest to both taipans and pros- pective employees. There is no benefit to be gained by publishing assertions that our sinfint, or a dirty fellow. It may inter-st anonymous corresponde t must be a liar, or a
those who have been thus assailing "Thrifty Lad" to learn that we had a correspondent who claimed to live still more cheaply, and to He and two other young men
save even more
share a 1. rge room for which they pay 35 a month they share the cost of one "boy" to look after it (89) and they share food sent in from a hot 1. what they call two portions at 680 a month." It will thus be seen that their board, lodging, and attendance costs them a
The Chartered Bank of India, ^ustralia, and China has declared a dividend for the past half year (ending June 3) of twelve per cent per little over 41 a month each: and the writes
annum, free of income tax.
The plague totals remain at 291 cases and 274 deaths; the isolated case reported last week 231 having no suce ssors. There is no other
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William Powell, Ld.
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Canton Insurance Office, Ld.....................................................
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Canton .....
Correspondence
Griffins nd their Expenses...
New Roman Catholic Bishop.......
Presentatinn at Kowloon Docks
Police. Court
Review
A Chinese "House of Lords".
Closing a Chinese Port
Alleged Murder at Kowloon
Undesirable Immi rants
Landslip on the Pray
The New Commodore
Miscellaneous
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
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communicable disease of importance recorded.
One of the best features of a sea-bath, says the Family Doctor, is the salt water inadver- tently swallowed by bathers, which is a won derful to io tor the liver, stomach. and kidneys. We presume an exc ption would be made in the case of the water of the Canton estuary..
Information has reached Hongkong that the French cruiser Sally, which was on the rocks at Bay d'Along, has now become a total wreck, 236 the last typhoon having caused her to break in 236 two. The departure of the local salvage party
has been caucelied.
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The Kiangnan Dock and Engineering Works' new dry dock is expected to be finished in a month's time, says the N.-C. Daily News. The works have three quarters of a mile water frontage. The dimensions of the new duck
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On 27th September, at Villa Alpha, Kowloon, the wife of V J. A CLOUGHLIN, of a daughter. (London papers please copy.)
DEATHS.
On oth August, at Shan, hai, Tsze MING-SHANG, late member of the Court of Direc ors of the Imperial Bank of hina, etc., aged sixty-six years.
On 5th September, at the litary Hospital, Jaokui (Tongking), U Los NEUMANN, Commis- Fiover of Customs, aged 55 years.
On 15th September, at Weihaiwei. FRANK BAIRD REID, a native of G asg w, aged 53 years. On 22nd ep embe, at Swatow, China, Fredrick ErNEST, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. PEAHNE, aged 11 months and 20 days. Californian pape » please copy.
Length (top)
Length (on blocks) Wa er on sill
365 feet. 925 19
New machinery and machine shops are also in course of erection, and before long the new com any, under the able superintende ce of Mr. R. B. Mauchan and a competent staff, should be able to undertake all kinds of ship- ping repairs with thoroughness and dispatch.
We an informed that the propaganda for the aolition of judicial tortur in hins is prog es ing steadily. The Japan se a'e, it is stat d, now getting intereste in the questio n. Som- time ago a leading Review on Law and Jurisprudence published a translation of the chapter of Beccaria aud on th: 4th Sep ember Mr. Volp ce li was received by the Minister for Just ce and was promised some valuable statistics
Hongkong lechly Press. relatig to the abolition of torture in Japan
HONGKONG OFFice: 10a, Des VœuxRoad Cl. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of August 19th arrived, per the 88. Zieten, on Tuesday, the 26th Sept and the French Mail of 1st September arrived per the ss. Oceanien to-day.
and Forinesa.
asserts that they "live like fighting cocks." The majority of letters received, being roughly aver ged, put the necessary monthly expenditure of a single young man at $150.
The Nanfangpao says:-On November 15th there will be held on the banks of the Yellow River a grand celebration in honour of the completion of the bridge, which is one of the gr-atest feats in the history of engineering. Among those expected to be present are Their Highnesses, Prince Ching and Prince huu, Viceroy Yuan Shih-k'ai. the Governor of Hunn, and other high officials. Special trains will bun from Peking and Hinkow to convey the distinguished guest, and fes's, Chinese and foreign, will be served at all im portant stations. It is r portel that 200,00 taels will be expended in the clebration of the occasion. It this report is true, it seems to us that in view of China's pover y and degradation, such extravaga ce and waste of money are exceedingly unwise. Viceroy Chang will not be prese t, as his health does not justify his taking the journey.
From the stat ment of accounts of the Dallas Horse Repository at Shanghai, it is sen that these profit for the year ending May 31, amounts to Tla. 24 62.80, and the directors propose to apportion this sum as follows:--
To pay a dividend of 8 per cent. per annum, which wil absorb
To write off good will account To carry forward to new account
„TIs. 20 00 00 4,000.00
612.80
Tls, 24,61 .30
TERRIBLE: DISASTER AT SEA.
VESSEL BLOWN UP,
Shanghai, 1st October. The Chinhua brought 79 survivors of the Eighteen cases of king-fishers' skins have longt tude 122.87, on batu day morning at 6.30 Haieshho which was blown up in lħti u ude: 85.25
been seized on board the Catherine Apcar, sayı a Calcutta telegram. he goods were shipped as medicine and tobacco, and the seizure was the result of a 'ong and careful surveillance by the Customs Officer who detected the contra bend. Birds ins of this de-cription are valuable in China, where they are in great and cons ant demand. Their export was forbiddent by Government several years ago, because of the cruelty involved in the trade,
in the el arest weather. Afotally-submerged mine stuck the forehold and the vessel sank
inside ten mi utës,
The two foreign passengers were saved, and the drowned include Engineers Mauchan and
Muir
The survivors escaped in their pyjamas by swimming.
Two boats were successfully lowered, but a third was capsized.