THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland
VOL. LXIV.]
CONTENTS.
Trade Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 25тн AUGUST, 1906.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
The Peking-Hankow line, closed by floods, was to be re-opened on Aug. 13th.
The Shanghai papers contain indignant protests at the disfigurement of the river by 111 advertisement boardings along its banks.
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Leading Articles :---
Ineffective Chinese Proclamations
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Forms and Ceremonies
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A Hopeful Report
The Legion of Frontiersmen
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
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Riotous Indian Soldiers ...........
Supreme Court.................
Macao
Fruits of the Commission
Police Court
More Piracy
Companies.---
H.E. the Governor-in-Council has appointed. a plot of land at Kai Lung Wan having an area of about twelve acres to be used as a cemetery 114 for Chinese.
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Through trains will not run from Hankow 115 to Peking until further notice, says an official .117 | intimation. The same will apply to the
Hankow-Canton line.
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Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd....... 117 The Hongkong Hotel Company, Limited.
***...113 The Imperial Maritime Customs
Receptions at the Austrian Consulate
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The Legion of Frontiersmen
Hongkong, the Biggest Port...
China and Opium
War Stores Scanal
Punch" and Mr. Haldane
New Kipling Poem
Manchu Slimness
Alleged Duplicity of China..
Yokohama Municipal Loan
Cotton Yard Trade
Coming Chinese Manœuvres
Chinese Students Crowd Tokyo
China Must Pay Up
The Opíum Farm
Cómmercial..
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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The premises known as No. 8 George Lane were on Ang. 10 offered for sile by auction by Messrs. Hughes and Hough, and knocked down to Mr. I Taz Li for $2,600.
Ninety thousand members of the Young China" party have petitioned the Travelling Commissioners to recommend a constitution with parliamentary representation.
His Excellency the Governor-in-Council has under the Public Health and Building Ordinance of 1903 decided that the Mount Davis Cemetery should be closed on and after 31st December, .120 1906.
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120 The Peking postmen have all been put into new uniforms. The men were marsballed and 120 garbed, after which their photographs were 12) taken and they were exhorted to be prompt and
faithful in the delivery of their mails.
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On July 25th, at The Hall, Primrose-hill-road N.W., the wife of C. S. ADDIS, of a daughter.
On August 11th, at Newchwang, the wife of H. F. FULFORD, B.B.M.'s Consul, of a daughter.
On August 13th, at Shanghai, the wife of Francis Ellis of a daughter.
On August 16th, at Shanghai to Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Craven, a daughter.
On August 20th, at Hongkong Hotel, Mrs. H. HAYN E8, of twins, son and daughter.
pay
The Governor of Kiangsi has telegraphed to the Imperial Government that as the result of the floods in his province it is impossible to the indemnities due to the French and the English for the disorders at Nanchang.
Three of the five labourers from South Africa who are alleged to have murdered one of their comrades by throwing him overboard at Hongkong, and who made their escape while on their way to Tientsin under escort, have been recaptured and are now in the Tientsin city prison.
The Manchurian Railway Administration proposes to open a steamship service from Tairen to carry Fashun coal to Shanghai and Hong- kong and to bring back on the return trip merchandise intended for importation into Manchuria. The capital of the new service will CHRIS-be Yen 10,000,000.
On August 20th, at No. 2, Conduit Road, the
wife of ALBERT ELLIS, of a daughter.
DEATH.
On August 17th, at Shanghai, HAROLD TOPHER CHILD, Engineers' Department, Imperial Maritime Customs, aged 30 years.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French Mail of July 20th arrived, per the sa. Polynesien, on the 20th instant; and the English Mail of July 27th arrived, per the ss, Oceana, on Tuesday, the 21st instant.
A coolie, living in Third Street, became insane on Sunday. He worked himself up to a great state of excitement, and finally declaring that Boxers were after bim, dived through the window into the yard beneath, a
distance of 16 feet. He broke his knee cap. He was taken to the asylum.
Nothing could be more definite than this. It seems to be the almost universal opinion amongst those in a position to know, writes a Peking correspondent, that this Empire is to have a constitution and parliamentary represen- tation not later than the month of Feb nary of the year 1917, that is to say, on Chinese Now Year's Day of the 43rd year of the reign of H.I.M. Kuang Hsü,
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As a result of several conferences between representatives of the Chinese and Japanese Governments, the former will construct the Mukden-Hsinmintan and Kirin-Kangohulin railways herself. H. E. Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai as Imperial High Commissioner of Railways, is therefore now sending special officials to Manchuria to confer with Tartar General Chao Erh-sen at Mukden as to ways and means.
Quarter Master Sergeant Cramer, of the Army Ordnance Department, was on August 20th found lying in the street outside the Warrant Officers' Quarters in Queen's Road Central. He was bleeding freely from a nam. ber of wounds, and he was at once taken to the Military Hospital, where he lies in a serious condition. It is thought that the sergeant, finding it rather warm indoors, went on to the balcony, and, whether he fell asleep or not, he must have lost his balance and fallen into the street.
In the case of W. Porter Boyd v. The Co. (The American China Development Hankow-Canton Railway), in which Mr. Boyd recovered judgment for Gold dollars 14,000, and which case was appealed to the Circuit Court of California, the judgment of the Consular Court of Shanghai has been affirmed. It may be remembered that Mr. Boyd sued the defendant Company for breach. of contract, alleging that he was discharged without cause; the Consular Court in Shang- hai awarded Mr. Boyd Gold dollars 14.000 and the defendants appealed therefrom. Mr. Boyd thus gets the full amount together with all costs and interest at the rate of 12 per cent.
for two years.
The Hsiangfu (Shensi) correspondent of the N.-C. Daily News gives the following amusing "There has been glimpse of Chinese methods. building of the railway, and lately two Japanese a great deal of talk here of late concerning the
arrived, as is understood, to superintend the work. The raising of the necessary money forms, however, a serious difficulty. People will not subscribe for fear they will not be able to get any return, and on the plan of building proposed they were not likely to get any. am told the proposal is to build a short line in this province in order to see how a railway works and then to wait till the people of Honan have constructed a line from Honanfu to the borders of Sheusi. In the meanwhile horses
and males will be employed instead of steam."
In the Admiralty case of H. M. the King in his office of Admiralty, v. the China Navigation Co. and the China Navigation Co., owners of Captain of H. M. dispatch vessel Alacrity, judg- the 8.8. Chinkiang, v. Commander Leatham,
L. E. P. Jones appeared for His Majesty in bis ment was given at Shanghai on Aug. 15th, Mr. office of Admiralty, Mr. J. H. Teesdale repre- seated the China Navigation Company. H. M. dispatch-vessel Alacrity and the s.s. Chink ang collided off the Shantung Promontory in thick fog at a little after 11 a.m., on July 6, 1906 ; the Alacrity is twin-screw, 1,700 I. H. P., 2,000 N. D., and was proceeding from Shanghai to Weihaiwei; and the Chinkiang is single screw, 1,985 gross tonnage, 230 N.H.P., and was on a voyage from Chefoo to Swatow with a full cargo. The result is judgment for the Alacrity with costs in the action, and for Commander Leatham with costs in the cross action.
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