Hongkong
THE
Weekly Press
AND
China Oberland Trade
VOL. LXII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Artioles :-
Japan and Manchuria
Report.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 11TH DECEMBER, 1905.
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FAR EASTERN NEWS.
Martial law has beeu abolished at Tokyo. A telegram to the N.-C. Daily Newca on Nov. 398 28 said 'at plague was steadily spreading at
Kobe
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The Far East
A Sinologue's Will
The Manchuria Nogutiations II.
399
Foreign Troops in China
100
Chinese Money
10
Warfare
The Religions of China
Hongkong Legislativa Council
A Prisoner's Death
Pirates Hold up a Junk
Supreme Court
Canton
It is reported that there has been a “hitch in the Sino Japanese negotiations; but not a 400 serious one. They end in a few days.
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A suggestion is made that shipping com- 403 panies should provide for passengers waiting
rooms on hulks at riverine ports.
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The embargo preventing copper coins from .405 405 circulating in any province other than that in 107 which they are minted has been removed.
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Water Return.
Masonic Installation
Horticultural Society for Hongkong
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Hongkong Volunteers
W. A. Fitton & Co.'s, Monthly Manila
Market
Report
Naval News
A Sinologue's Will
Correspondence
Hongkong's Eminence Contested
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Negotiation with China Three Centuries Ago
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How to "Do" China Thou:h in Hongkong
411
Tender Ashore Year Apo Island
412
Hongkong Regatta
Fire on the 8.8. “Siberia
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Departure of Interned Russians
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
Ou Dec 4th a return notifies that 300 cases of plague have occurred to date; the death roll numb rs 282. There was also que fatal case of small-pox.
Mr. Pokotilow, Russian Minister, has asked for mining rights in Mongolia, but the Waiwupu declines to consider the matter till the negotia tions with Japan are concluded.
Beginning December 3rd additional trains were put on the Shanghai-Naziang run. 413 There are now four trains each way every day
to cope with the increasing traffic.
Singapore is scaudalised because an engineer, for Light or ten months' work in connection with the Tanjong Pagar Dock expropriation, demanded $100,000 and got $50,000,
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On 21st November, at Socchow, the wife of A. C. BOWEN, of a daughter,
On 2nd December, at Shanghi, the wife of F. A. DE ST. CROtx, of a son.
On the 5th December, at No. 6 East Avenue, Kowloon, the wife of F. F. ECA DA SILVA, of a daughter.
MARRIAGE.
On 5th December, at the Wesleyan Chapel, by the Rev. C. Bone, WILLIAM HENRY, eldest son of GEORGE DONALD, Esq., of Sydney (N.S.W.), to MARY, younger daughter of ROBERT WALL, of Sydney. No cards.
DEATHS.
On 23rd November, at Tientsin, JULIA CATHE- RINE RID, of Tientsin and Shanghai, aged 59 years
On 30th November, at Shanghai, HANS SOPHUS BOJESEN, Second son of the late CARL CHRISTIAN BOJESEN, D.M., aged 22 years.
On 3rd December, at Shanghai, ESTANISTAN ANTONIO BOTELHO, aged 18 years.
On 5th December at 11 p.m., at Kowloon Docks, LACHLAN M. KEBB, Superintendent Shipwright, | many years in the employment of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company; a native of Greenock, Scotland, aged 49 years.
The Japanese have asked the right to trans- form Port Arthur into a more complete naval base by the construction of new and larger docks, but the Chinese are unwilling to grant the privilege.
Marquis Ito is reported to have denied, for publication, the reports that Corea has become a Japanese possession. We can suppose only that he was referring to the tenth point of the law, ride adage.
Messrs. Benjamin, Kelly and Potts inform us that they are in receipt of a private telegram advising that the crushing of the Ranb Austra. lian Gold Mine for the past four weeks realized 690 ounces smelted gold from 5,086 tons of
sione.
The Nanfangpao says that Viceroy Chang Chih-tung has been severely denounced by a Censor for borrowing British capital for his railway redemption scheme, and has received secret instructions from the Throne to adopt measures to prevent complications in the future.
The attention of the Waiwnpn has been drawn to the fact that in many lawsuits in Kiangsu, Aubui, and other provinces, foreigners have become interested; one Shanghai firm openly advertising its ability to collect debts.
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The completion of the electric tramway in Tientsin is threatened with a serious interrüp- tion. The Japanese municipal authorities have refused permission to the promoters to lay their tracks along the Japanese bund fronting on the Peiho river-a very important section of the proposed line.
By the departure of Mr. John Hays, who has for a number of years been connected with Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master, solicitors, Hongkong loses a sportsman and an active member of its A.D.C. Mr. Hays left on Deo, 6 for Shanghai, where he intends following the practice of his profession.
News of the scarcity of salt in Japan having, reached Peking. the Chinese Government, according to a Peking telegram to the Asahi, has offered to present the Japanese Government with 20,000,000 kin of salt. The Japanese Minister has been notified that the gift is one of friendship, and that no payment would be received.
Mr. L. M. Kerr, superintendent shipwright at the Kowloon Docks, died at his quarters in the Dockyard on December 5 at the early age of 49 years. Mr. Kerr, who is a native of Greenock, Scotland, has been connected with the Docks for over 25 years. He leaves a widow felt in their sad bereavement. and one child, with whom much sympathy is
Viceroy Chou Fu's newly opened Girls' School at Nanking is supported by subsoription of the leading Taotais of Nanking, and the Viceroy has promised an annual subscription of Taels 2,000. Six lady teachers, three for English and three for Chinese, have been engaged; and there are at present thirty boarders and thirty day scholars, mostly from official families.
With regard to the German Commercial Treaty it is stated that the German Government has now added to its demands: (1) the abolition of likin and the right of German subjects to trade in the interior, protection to be afforded them by China; (2) the right of navigation by German steamers on the Yangtsze between Ichang and Chungking; and (3) the amendment of the Mining Regulations.
A moter river boat, designed for the purpose of navigating the shallow waters of South China; was on Nov. 27 launched from the shipbuilding yard of Messrs Bailey and Co., Kowloon, where it was built to the order of Mr. J. W. Kow. Fitted with a 45 1. H. P. Gardiner Kerosene Motor, the launch will oзrry 250 passengers She with a draught of only two feet. covered the measured mile at a speed of 91 miles per hour. The launch took place in the presence of a number of visitors, Miss Hill christening the vessel Tien Kong as it left
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of November 7th arrived, per the ss. Prinz Eitel Friedrich, on Tuesday the 5th instint; ad th French Mail of November 10th is due to arrive, per the Ernest Simona, some time to-morrow.
concerned.
A very interesting ceremony took place at the new Railway Station at Naziaug on Nov. 25 when the gentry of Naziang presented the Engineering Staff of the Shanghai-Nanking railway, (viz.: Mr. A. H. Collins 0, Engineer in-Chief, Mr. G. W. Eves, Executive Engineer, Mr. J. Tuxford, Assistaut Engineer, and Mr. Shen Shon-bang, Mr. Tuxford's interpreter) with eight complimentary tablets, in graceful recognition of the harmony and good feeling that had existed between the railway staff and gentry.
The thirteenth anaual report of accounts of the Nippon Marine 'Transport and Fire Insurance Co., Ltd., Osaka, has just been published. It shows that the net premia after deducting returns and re-insurances amount to Y798,561, and the working account shows a balance at cre lit of Y172,090, which sum the directors re- commend be appropriated as follows:-Reserve Fund. Y30,000; bonus to staff, Y14,900; dividend of 10 per cent per annum to shareholders, Y75,00); and balance carried forward, Y52 190. With the addition stated, the Reserve Fund new amounts to Y530,000.
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