THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXIII.]
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 21st APRIL, 1906.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
The Shanghai Oil Co., Ltd., has been success 281 fully floated by Mr. M. Koppel.
At a meeting of the Directors of Messrs. Hall 292 and Holtz, Ltd., it was decided to recommend a .282
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The Chinese Dowager Empress has really boon ailing lately, but her ailment is said to have been only slight.
Lient-Col. C. 8. Sparkes, R.A.M.C., has been appointed a member of the Sanitary Board in place of Lieut.-Col. C. L. Josling, resigned, · We are assured by a private correspondent of the truth of the report that the Macao Govern- Under Section 10 of the Medical Registrationment has decided to open all letters in which 284 Ordinance (No 1 of 1884) H.E. the Governor, | Hongkong banknotes are likely to be contained;
has been pleased to re-appoint Mr. E. Osborue a member of the Medical Board,
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China and Franco
Japanese Tradal Eminence
For "the Man in the Street **
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Hongkong Jottings
Hongkong Sanitary Board
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Launch at Kowloon
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Hongkong Gymkhana Club
Voluntoor Rifle Club Meeting
Supreme Court
Police Court
Hongkong Supreme Court
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Victoria Gaol ...
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The Hongkong Observatory
Home and China Affairs
Magno
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The Man in the Street
The Import of Saccharino
Mr. R. W. Mansfield. C.M.G.
National Bank of China
Tragio Death in Yokohama
Sampan Capsizes at Chokwan
The Chinese Army
Shanghai Cable Completed..
· Floots
Hongkong in the 'Eighties
Commercia!
Entertaining Men of the French and Japanese
Shipping
BIRTHS.
The Waiwapa is endeavouring to negotiate .287 with the Japanese Minister the transfer of a steamship servios between Changsha and Han- kow from Japanese to Chinese hands.
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According to the Nanfangpao, the Viceroy of the Mincho has reported adversely in regard to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson aud Co.'s 201 proposal to establish steamer communication
between Shati and Chapoo.
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On April 8th at Shanghai, the wife of R. Harb, I. M. Customs, of a daughter.
On April 10th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Lewis, a daughter.
On April 12th, at Shanghai, the wife of J. HUIDEKOPER, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
The C.P.R. Empress of India, which arrived here last week, brought a shipment of silver bullion in bricks from Trail for the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, The consignment con- tained 38 bricks, each valued at about $2,000.
Messrs. Carlowitz & Co. have suffered the loss of a dwelling house at Hankow, by fire. It was occupied by their foreign staff at the river port. The Hankow Daily News says that seren bundred houses, occupying a square mile, were gutted by the same fire, the largest ever experienced in Hankow.
The Chinese Government having heard it reported that Great Britain and the United States are inclined to approve of Japanese as- sistance of the Chinese police, with a view to the protection of foreigners in China, is greatly alarmed, and has sent urgent telegrams to the
to investigate the matter.
On 16th April, at the Poak Church, by the Rev. J. H. France, M.A., LAWRENCE GIBBS, of Hong-Chinese Ministers at London and Washington kong, to ELLEN MARIA BOWLEY, youngest daughter of the Into Rov. J. W. L. BowLex, formerly Vicar of S. S. Philip and Jacob, Bristol. On April 11th, at Ningpo, the Rev. HARRISON K. WRIGHT and Miss EDWINA W. CUNNINGHAM.
On April 11th, at Shanghai, GEORGE FREDERICK BUTTON-POTTS, fifth son of the late LIPTON HOTTON-Porrs, J. P., of Firby Hall, Bedale, Yorkshire, to ESME STUART, third daughter of Captain F. H. WALLACE, of Shanghai.
DEATHS.
On April 7th, at Shanghai, Dr. MARY GALE, aged 65 years.
On April 9th, at the Shanghai General Hospital, WILLIAM CURTIs, aged 73 years.
On April 18th, at his residence No. 26, Elgin Street, MARCELLINO DE Souza, luto cashier of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., in his 68th year.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French Mail of March. 16th arrived, per the ms. Polynesien, on Monday, the 16th inst.; the English Mail of March 23rd arrived, per the ss. Delhi, on Thursday, the 19th instant,
The Peking and Tientsin Times of the 7th of April records the upsetting of a boat carrying Chineso pilgrims returning from the grave of twelve women and eight children. Twenty-one Mashifu near Tientsin, and the drowning of
women and children were saved by persons on the bank. The native papers say that these frequent disasters indicate that the worship of “dead bones" is unprofitable.
On April 17th the body of a Chinaman was found floating in the reservoir belonging to the Hongkong Cotton Spinning and Weaving Company at Causeway Bay. It was recognised as that of Chan Po, a foreman coolie in the employ of the Company. He was last seen on Sunday, when he went to the reservoir to wash himself, the inference being that while so engaged he fell into the water and was drowned. The body was removed to the mortuary by P. S. Lee.
The raport that the steamer M. Struve is a his arrical here. total wrock was confirmed by the Captain on It appears that she went ashore at Ocksen Island in a dense fog, and although the crow worked hard to refloat her, their efforts proved fatile. Shortly after she struck Chinese wreckers swarmed around her but refused to render assistance. They were bent on loot and were only kept clear of the vessel by firearms. The Captain and crew saved little of their personal effects. steamer was insured for 475,000 marks, and The carried 29,500 piculs of sugar.
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bat we still hesitate to believe it. Whether to favour a Macao bank, or to encourage the use of the new postal orders, both of which "explanations are advanced, the idea seems ridiculons. We believe the British Post Office legally has the power to intercept and deal with suspicious letters, but the public is not alarmed or injured by that. Probably an official state- ment will soon be forthcoming from Mioao, to allay excitement.
According to letters received from Chêngtu, Szechuan, the gentry and officials of that province have decided to begin without delay and a place called Chiangkou, a distance of the construction of a railway between that city about sixty odd miles. This railway will inaugurate the building of the proposed trunk line between Chongtu and Hankow, in Hupeh province, which is to be constructed entirely with fauds contributed by the people of the two provincos through which the line will run, viz.-Szechuan and Hapeh. The N.-C. Daily News understands that a Chinese civil engineer, Mr. Lo Yuo-ting, a graduate of one of the American Universities, has been appointed to superintend the construction of the new line.
Dr. Rutherfoord Harris, M.P., who has been studying the commerce of Japan, says:—“ One of the most promising investments by foreigners in Japan in the future will be the beer-brewing industry. English capital has been invested in two or three railways, but these investors, following the savings principle, are satisfied with the 4 or 5 per cent. interest the investment yields. Really enterprising British investors will not be satisfied with such returns. In this certain wealthy Japanese family towards the connection I do not approve of the attitude of a introduction of foreign capital. Evidently, from consideration of their own interests, they are putting obstacles in the way of foreign enterprise in Japan, and are also opposing the introduction of foreign capital in every possible
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hai on April 10th, the scene of the outrage Another armel robbery took place at Shang. being a tea shop in Li Hongkow. A number of ruffians entered the shop, where a riosha. owner was sitting counting his money, and took about 870 away. Some resistance being made, they fired two revolver shots, one of which went through the window, the other penetrating the ceiling. The inmates of the shop gave chase, and were shortly joined by two nativo constables and two foreigners who were passing, and the latter assisted the constables to capture two of the assailants. Losled revolvers and a miscellaneous collection of swords and knives were found on their persons. Later in the day, from information given by these men, Detes- tives Cruikshanks and Reeves succeeded in arresting three more men in a house in the Woosung Road Extension, one of whom wi possession of various arms. The stolen money severely cut about the face. They, too, were
has not been recovered.