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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXIII.]
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China Overland
Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
China and Her Teachers
The Chinese Travelling Commission
The Social Tertium Quid..................
The Chinese Customs
Russia in the Far East....
Mr. B. E. Belilios, Barrister
Hongkong Legislative Council
Loss to German Mission Hongkong Sanitary Board Supreme Court .......
Foundering of the SS. "Chukong” Government Lunatic Asylum
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 19гя MAY, 1906.
As a result of China's adhesion to the Tibetan Convention the proposal to organise Tibet into a PAGE province of the Empire has been dropped.
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The shareholders of the Shanghai Land Investment Co., Ltd., who met on May 10th, 362 confirmed the resolution increasing the capital 269 | and reducing the quorum.
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Messrs. E. S. Kadoorie and Co. inform us that .363 they are in receipt of telegraphic advices from 363 Shanghai informing them that Matchappij .361 tot Mijn, Bosch-en Landbouw-exploitatie in Langkat. Limited, have declared a second interim dividend of Tla 71⁄2 per share.
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Japanese papers state that the losses to pro- 369 perty sustained through the recent earthquakes ...370 in Formoss have reached Y13,000,000. The .371 Formosan Government has spent YI,280,00 for relief purposes, and the fund raised by the Taiwan Kiokai (the Formosa Society) amounts to Y57, 00.
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Canton ...............2 100 444 408 200
Macao
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Attempted Gaol-Breaking at Shanghai Russia in the Far East
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Correspondence
Commercial.
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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On April 29th, at Shanghai, the wife of Mr. M. ZIMMERMAN, of a son.
Oa May 6th, at the British Legation, Peking, the wife of C. C. 4. KIRKE, of a 8.n.
On May 9th, at Shanghai, to Rev. and Mrs. FRANK RAWLINSON, & 800.
On May 10th, at Shanghai, the wife of THOMAS K. MCINTYRE, of à son (still-born).
DEATH.
The Russians are much interested in the Chinese soldiers and their Japanese instructors. A German contemporary says that Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai is entertaining Capt P. A. Rossoff of the Imperial General Staff, who is studying the progress made. He is at present at the Foreign Bureau at Paotingfu; there is a possibility of his visitiug Canton and Wachow,
A contemporary says that an English gentle man named R. É. Young, who attempted to reach the summit of Fuji on April 25th, had to descend owing to ice and the extreme cold. The patobes of ice which linger on this always easy climb make it still less tedious, and are rather descend" cannot have been warranted, from a welcomed by Alpinists. The phrase "had to
mountaineering point of view.
There were 149 Hongkong marriages in 1905, On May 8th, at Shanghai, WALTER GORDON which compare with 131 in 19:4. There were STROUD, aged 27 years.
988 Chinese births (676 male and 312 female) and 301 uon-Chinese (153 males and 148 females) or a grand total of 1,289 for the year. The proportion of boy babies born to the Chinese is
during the
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It is reported by the Nanfangpao that Viceroy Chou Fu has recently memorialised the Throne with reference to the opening of Tungohow to that in July, 1898, the late Viceroy Liu Kun-yi the commerce of all the Treaty Powers, stating was ins'ructed by the Peking Government to open Tungohow to foreign trade on the same conditions as Chinwangtao and other self-opened ports in the provinces, but owing to the difficulty of raising funds for meeting the opening expenses, the matter was temporarily shelved.
A Sanitary Board coolie was prosecuted by Inspector D. J. Mckenzie for being in unlaw. ful possession of one tiger claw mounted with. gold, one gold ear drop, and one piece of gold, reasonably expected to have been stolen. It was stated that defendant was engaged in removing plague cases, and suspicion fell on him when it was discoveret that a bangle was missing from the body of one of the victim His Worship said there was no doubt that defendant robbed the dead bodies, and he would have to pay a fine of $75 or go to prison for three months.
How useful the opening of Changsha miy o, if the opening does not refer to the city proper, can be guessed from the following. A correspondent reports that the water has “risen to well over 4 ft, some say nearly 44 feet. When it is remembered that 24ft is a fairly high flood, it will be understood a little what this abnormal rise means. This is far above all previous mirks of which there is any record. It is almost impossible to pass out of the city gates in boats, the water being nearly up to the top of the arches. The water is more than half way up the rooms of the Custom House. Busines has been absolutely at a standstill for some time. The goods loaded from the steamers remainon the pontoons, there being no means of getting them off. The rush of water past Changsha is tremendous. A large hulk, moored out in the stream, has been carried way, as also some of the smaller bridge pou- toons belonging to the steamer companies. The Japinese pontoon dragged its up-river
Hongkong Weekly Press. Interesting. The deaths dann 302 foreign); anchors, the steamer alongside having consider
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numbered 6,592 (6,29 Chinese About & thousand bodies were taken to China able difficulty in getting clear. In doing so it partly fouled one of its propellers and has not yetreturned to Hankow."
to be buried.
The remains of Mr. Den's O'Keeffe, who died at the Government Civil Hospital on May 10th, were interred in the Catholic Cemetery at Happy Valley the day following. The deceased, who had been in the Sinitary Department for about five years, had a large circle of friends, who will regret to hear of his untimely end. His remains were followed to
The Legislative Council of Hongkong had an unusually lengthy sitting on Thursday. There was an interesting discussion initisted by the Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock. on the subject of the registration of partners in Chinese firms. The hon. gentleman said his scheme was different to others previously proposed : he con-
The English Mail of April 17th arrived, per their last resting place by a large number ofsidered that if thể Chi e law limiting the the ss. Oc ana, on Wednesday, the 16th instant. Sanitary Inspectors, also by the Volunteers, of
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FAR EASTERN NEWS.
Chao Erhs-n, Tartar-Gene al of Fêngtien, wired to the Waiwapu to refuse the four conditions on which Japan will restore Yingkow to China, as these conditions interfere with the sovereign rights of China.
The Nanfangpao states that the Chinese Government wishes to take steps at once to build a railway from Tsitsibar to Harbin and thus forestall any possible aggressive design on the part of the Russians who bave been survey- ing the route,
which body deceased was a member.
Although the bathing season is not yet at its height numerous launches are to be sen leaving the city each afternoon for the stretch of water which the occupants fancy for disporting them selves, but in a week or two this distinctive feature of Hongkong's social life will become as pronounced as usual. Great as the facilities are here for enjoying ourselves in the water, it has to be borne in mind that there is a fa rly large sectionfwho do not or cannot avail themselves of these opportunities. Now, it has been suggested that some man of enterprise might find a profitable speculation in erecting and equipping pablic baths at a soot comparatively wear the city to be an attractive bathing sp›t.
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liability of the partner in a firm to the propor tion of the capital which he subscribed was introduced it would meet the objectious of the Chiness themselves and would permit of a proper system of registration in the Colony. The motion was seconded by the Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, but the Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett and the Attorney General, while realising the desirabil- ity of a form of registration being introducd, spoke against it, after which the proposition was withdrawn on the understanding that bill would be drafted. Two new bills were in- troduced-one to bring the law relating to the property of married women into accord with the law of England and the other to regulate the qualifiostions and provide for the registra- tion of dentists. Three bills passed the second reading.