THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
China
VOL. LXIII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome.
The Succession to the Dragon Throne
Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association
PAGR
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Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 19TH MARCH, 1906.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
The first section of the Peking-Kalgan rail- way, from Fengtai to Nankao, is now open to traffic.
The Board of Commerce has agreed to the opening of copper mines in Ningyuan district Sezchuan.
There were over 500
cases of smallpox 193 notified in Calcutta from 1st January to 10th 194 February.
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Experience has determined the Japanese War Office to discard the use of balloons and carrier 196 pigeons in war.
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Leading Articles:-
Japan and British Army Reform
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New Trade Centres in China
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French and German Relations
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China and the Powers
The Changing British Temperament
The Flood of Fiction....
The Taipo Murderere
Naval Gymkhana
Arrival of Admiral Monro
Concert at Hongkong Theatre
Wedding at Hongkong..
The A.D.C...
Fire at Hongkong Cement Works...
Correspondence
Naval News.
Supreme Court
Police Court
Canton....
Company Reports
Philippine Company, Limited.
The National Bank of China
Shanghai Dividends
Company Meetings :—
China Sugar Refining Co., Ltd.
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China Traders' insurance Co., Ltd.
Geo. Fenwick and Co, Ltd.
China and Manila Steamship Co., Ltd.
Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown
Co., Limited.
The Nanchang Massacre
A Shanghai Question
8muggling Arms Indo-China
A Big Jewel Robbery at Shanghai
Deaths at Shanghai
Christian Literature for China
The Trade of Formosa
Registration of Partnerships
The Late King of Denmark
New Japanese Customs Tariff
The Japanese Navy
The Defence of the North Eastern Frontier
A Desperate Fight in the Philippines............
Landslip at Quarry Bay
Bishop Welldon in Hongkong
America and Chinese Immigrants.
Appointments
Macao *****
Miscellaneous... Commercial Shipping
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L'Avenir du Tonkin announces that the native King of Cambodia will visit the Colonial 196 Exposition at Marseilles.
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The timber jetty at Arsenal Street Hongkong may now be used by the general public. It is to be known by the name of Arsenal Street wharf. Famine is feared in certain districts of Saigon 24 owing to the poor rice orop this season, the loss on the present harvest being even greater than last year.
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The timber in Manchuris, near the Yalu river, is to be jointly worked by a Chinese and Japanese 205 corporation which has a capital of some .205 | $10,000,000.
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The drydock Devrey which is being towed to Manila arrived safely at the Canary Islnds last week. Some slight repairs are being made 206 there before proceeding.
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The Board of Revenue has acceded to the demand that offices for the sale of office and 207 rank be kept open for one year more both in
Kwangtung and Chibli.
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At a banghai Ratepayers' Meeting held on Mar. 13th a resolution declining to recognise 208 the Chinese Consultative Committee 208 carried by a great majority.
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The name of Mr. Thomas William Clarke .208 has been added to the Hongkong list of .208 authorised srchitects under the Public Health
and Buildings Ordinance 1903.
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On March 15th, at Devonia, 11, Peak Road, Hongkong, the wife of SIMON A. LEVY, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On March 9th, at Hongkong, ANDREW, fourth son of W. J. P. BRATTIE, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, to MARJORY Kathle▸ N, youngest daughter of J. DAVIS, Under Secretary for Public Works, Sydney, N.S.W.
Hongkong Weekly Press
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The rioters at Nanchang are boldly confessing the massacre of missionaries and pleading that they were justified in the attack because the Catholics stabbed the magistrate.
Fish, salt and pork are exempted from the payment of import duties when imported into the Col ny of Macao, and the exclusive rights for the sale of salt and fish are abolished,
A Chinaman who made a mistake and insulted some Japanese ladies at Singapore was seized by the male members of the household and covered with tar. The removal of this involved a long stay in hospital, and the loss of his queue,
The annual report of the British Municipal Council of Tientsin gives the shipping of the port during 1905 as numbered 500 steamers, with a tofal tonnage of 509,249, as against 504 with 515,857, in 1904; showing a slight decrease.
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According to observations made at Hongkong Observatory during the mouth of February the maximum temperature was 64 and the minimum 56.6 deg: The amount of rain which fell during the month was 2.250 inches.
A concert was given on board H.M.8. Hecla at Hongkong on March 14th in celebration of the first anniversary of commissioning day. An interesting preliminary was the presentation by Mrs. E. Charlton of a silver cup to Charles Hurcum, leading seaman, for gallantry in saving life at sea. The noteworthy contributors to the programme were Mr. G. Evans, Mr. W. C. Danaher, the popular ship's steward, Mrs. Clark and Mr. Carruthers.
The Chinese in Annam have addressed a petition to the Waiwupu concerning the severity of the French laws under which the Clinese suffer, "and by which they have lost almost every right." The Chinese merchants request the Foreign Office to telegraph to the Chinese Minister in Paris to make represent ations to the French Government on the subject with a view to the alteration of the
The German Mail of 13th February arrived per the ss. Prine Eitel Friedrich, on Wednes. day, the 14th instant; and the French Mail of 16th February is expected to arrive, per the 88, Armand Belic, to-morrow, the 20th instant." laws.
The list of Justices of the Peace for 1906 appears in the current Government Gazette. We note the addition of several new names, including Messrs. A. S. Abduloader, Chan Tang-shang, A. Bryer, W. L. Carter, J. G. Douglas, C. Forsyth, A. R. Fullerton, W. D. Graham, Ho Kom Tung, J. A. Jupp, E, Mast, J. R. Michael. A. H. Ough, W. Parlane, J. Paterson. H. G. Simms, F. Smyth, Tong Lai- chuan, W. Wilson, Yung Hin Pong.
Messrs. Batterfield & Swire, as agents of the Ocean S. S. Co. and the China Matual 8. 8. Co., are being sued by Messrs. Siber, Wolff & Co. at Yokobama for Yen 1,541.80, damages for alleged sbort delivery of linen and flannel shipped from England. The defendants' case is that the goods were duly delivered, and lost by the plaintiffs. As is common in Japanese courts, the case was adjourned, and will probably be repeatedly adjourned before we learn the result.
We learn from the Singapore Free Press, that the E. & A. Company's steamer Austra- han went ashore in the Torres Straits last month. The British steamer Aparima sighted here on the 14th ult. and stood by the Austra lian for two days rendering her assistance, and on the third day hawars were made fast to the Australian and she was towed off the reef successfully and she was enabled to proceed on her voyage, the Aparima continuing to Singapore.
A daring robbery took place in Chefoo harbour within 200 yards of the Standard Oil Co. jetty on Feb. 20th. A pirate juuk came in from sea and attacked two of four junks which were anchored just off the jetty. The pirates were well armed with revolvers and rifles, and succeeded in getting away with 40,000 cash (four hundred " tiao "). Two junks which were loaded got under way and put to sea for fear of being attacked, but, as the pirates put to ses also, after finishing their work, there was every possibility they would capture the other two outside the harbour.
After thirty-one years' service in educational wo k in Hongkong, Mr. Alfred. J. May has retired, Mr. May arrived in the Colony in 1875 and was attached to St. Paul's College. He became an assistant master at Queen's College in January 1879, was appointed second master in 1888, and has held that position ever since. On two occasions during the absence ou leave of Dr. Bateson Wright, MË. May acted as headmaster of the College. He travelled home via America, by the Minnesota, Mr. May has always enjoyed the respect and esteem of the students in the College, and it may safely therefore be said of him in leaving the scene of thirty-one years' labour that the good wishes of a multitude of past and present students will go with him,