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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. EXII.]
Epitome
Leading Articles :--
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Military Matters
The Trade Marks Regulation
The Failure of the Luban Railway Bridge
The Fate of Manchuria.
Undivine Afation
Contentment by Intimidation
Hongkong Jottings .
Norwegian Loyalty
Hongkong Sanitary Board
St. Andrew's Ball
Supreme Court
Licensing Sessions Canton
Macao
Shanghai Statistics
Japan and Cores
Anti-Opium Pills
Incurious China
The Kinkiang-Namehang Railway
HONGKONG. SATURDAY, 2ND DECEMBER, 1905.
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FAR EASTERN NEWS,
Tientsin has iustituted a Debating Society for both ladies and gentlemen.
The pligne totals as reordelj on No. 382 remain at 298 cases and 28) deaths
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'The Opening of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway ...392 German Post Offices in Shantung
The Issue of Standard Silver Currency
The Floor of Copper Currency
Railway Profits in China
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS,
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Coolies are hing recruitel in Hupeh and Hunan for railway work in Anuam.
Some Presbyterian missionaries in the Philippines have just imported from American a most luxurious motor launch.
Messrs. Hughes and Hough offered the | steamer Macquarie for sole on Nór. 29 at Yan- | mati, but there was only a smill attendance and the vessel was bong!t în at $74,000.
The Naufangpan complains of the brusque way in which foreigners are apt to write of Chinese, even those of high rank, by omitting to give them th∙ plainest of court sy titles.
Viceroy Chang Chih tung has nearly com. pleted a volume defending his action in the matter of buying back the Canton-Hankow { 394 railway concession by the aid of a British loan, A Japanese paper has been su-pended for criticising the clau system which still prevails in Government adininistration If this were pes-ible in England, there w uld be few pap ra left
On 13th November, at Hankow, the wife of HARBY E. GIBSON, of a son.
On 17th November, at Santu, the wife of E. 4. LEBAS, of a daughter.
On 18th November, t Shanghai, the wife of FRANK GRAY, of a son.
On 20th November, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mra. C. W. M. AD, a daughter.
On 23rd November, at Shanghai, the wife of ARTHUR STANL Y, of a son.
On 23rd November, at Shanghai, the wife of FLEMING JAMES, of a daughter.
On 25th November, at Shangbai, the wife of EUG, HITNDMAN, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
On 8th November, at Tientsin, J нN AYEWARD CHURCHILL to EDITH FLORA COOPER,
On 23rd Novembe", at Yokohama. HENRY HARBIS HEAD, of Shanghai, to MABEL AGNES 'I HIRKELL, of Yokohama.
On 24th November, at Shanghai, KRISTIAN KROGH JOHNSEN and CATHARINE MARGARET GOODE.
On 25th November, at Shanghai, JOHN Cock to ANNIE, only daughter of the late R. H. WIGTOx,
Esq, of Shanghai,
On 7th November, at St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong by the Rev. J. H. France, M.A., DOROTHY HART, eldest daughter of Dr. G. H. HART, Birmingham, to JAMES D. DANBY, second son of WM. DANBY, Esq., Hongkong.
DEATHS.
The Japanese steamer, the America Maru of the Toyo Kis-a Kaisha line, made her re appearance in the harbour yesterday after a [l-ngthy absence during which she serged na an
auxiliary cruiser in the war just 'onded.
Baron Komura, when he was received in audience by the Empres D wager and the Emperor on the 16th instaut, was allowed to enter the Palace by the State gat, considered an unprecedented honour to a foreign official.
A Chinese burglar at Shanglisi is beginning a nine months' sentence of imprisonment for an cdd theft. He took from the house of the American Consul a ladys for boa, worth $200, cut it into short lengths, and hawked the pieces
round for sale.
Viceroys and Governors are to be further invested with the title of Administrator of
Mines, which, says the Nanfunguao, will place them in full control of the mineral wealth in their jurisdiction and "make them responsible for the preservation of China's gold and silver and other mines from the hands of any and all ontsiders."
The South Burma Tin Mines, Limited, has been registered with a capital of £30.00 în £1 shares. Object, to adopt an agre ment between
On 28th October, at Chefoo, Miss LISLE BAIN J. Eglinton and F. Jackson to acquire and hold
BRIDGE.
On 21st November, at Hankow, H. VEHLBER. On 22nd November, at Nagasaki, FREDERICK CASTLE MCCALLUM, youngest son of the late Major H. A. MCCALLUM, R.M.I. I., in his 40th year.
any mines, mining, water, or other rights, pri- vileges, aud concessions in Barmah, the Straits Settlements, the Federated Malay States, or elsewhere in the Malay Peninsula or other part
of Asia.
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On the 27th November at the offices of the Public Works Department, Sai Kung Farm Lot No. 2, in the New Territory, was let by public auction sale. The lease is for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown rent to be fixed for one further term of 75 years, if competent for the Colonial Gevornment so to make it, The annual Crown rental of the Lo, which has an area of about 23.50 acres, is $24. Biddin started at the upset price, 894, adros rapidly till the amount of $2,500 was reached. At this price the Lot was sold to Mr. C. H. Reunie, for the Hongkong Milling Company.
The Straits Time: of Nov. 18 says:-The Government have refused to pay the Tanjong Pagar Dock Co. the 24 per cent. that they claimed on their last half-year's working. Instead of 21 per cent. they offer 6 per cent, claiming that the balance should be appropriated to depreciation, reserve and carry forward. At the meeting of shareholders to day it was agreed that the mat ́er should go before the Arbitration Court but there was an expression of opinion by Mr. Braddell that the case should be fought out in the Law Courts. Incidentally to this spoiling of the Egyptians, it may be mentioned that Me-srs. Coode, Son & Matthews have been appointed Consulting Engineers to’the Tanjong Pagar Dook Board.
Capt. Grassi of the Italian Navy is at present in Shanghai, in connection with an extensive Chinese Government order for the installation of wireless telegraphy. The N.-D. Daily News says:-Experiments have been made, to test the value of Chinesè a-sistance, between the Italian cruiser Marco Polo and the Chinese cruiser Haishin both now lying in the harbour. These, have been completely successful. The overland scheme as at present arranged is to connect up a triangle of which Peking, Paoting- fa and Chinwangtao will be the apexes. Capt. Grassi has had previous experience of China. having ben responsible for the installation between the Italian Legation at Peking and the Consulate at Tientsin some two years ago. On the dangerous China coast the useful possibilities. before wireless telegraphy would se'm to have no limit, and we can only hope to see them put into speedy and more general operation.
Disturbances of a serions character occurred in Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, about the middle of this month. It was aunounced that a meeting was to be hell at Ejiri in opposition to certain works now in progress in connection with the river Tomoyo About ten thousand bled at Ejiri with the object of breaking up the people from the villages along the river assem meeting, which was in consequence abandoned. The mob theu made its way to Udomura, a village u ar the town, and destroyed the houses of two leaders of the opposing party. There were persons in the crowd who had possession Great activity is being displayed in the of firearms, and among the mob were to be seen
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men on horseback, apparently the leaders of the Colony was authorised to raise a sum of this furious little rising. As soon as possible | £8,000,000 for new railways, and of this sum information was conveyed to the Shiznoka £4.800,000 has already been used. A ministerial police, and an inspector and 44 men hurried to d-oree sunctions the borrowing of the remaining the scen They were too late, however, as the £3,200,000, M. Clementel, Mister of the mob quickly dispersed, “having accomplished Colonies, states that the revenues of the Colony its object." Four or five arrests were made. are in a flourishing condition, and can easily The cins of the outbreak is not stated beyond bear this additional tst of their soundness, the fact that some work is being undertaken in There is a substantial reserve fund, and the the river. It is perhaps because this work yearly Budget always shows a balance on the will benefit one village to the detriment of right side.
another that the feud has arisen,
Hongkong Weekly Press. opening up of French Indo-China.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French Mail of October 27th arrived' per the 8.8. Armand Behic, on Thursday the 30th inst, and the English Mail of November 3rd is due to arrive, per the ss. Chusan, some time to-day.
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