THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXIV.]
Epitome
AND
China Overland Trade
CONTENTS.
Leading Articles :---
News...
Railways and Politics
Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 17тн NOVEMBER, 1906.
Theory and Practice in China and Other-
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The Tear Counsels China
Missionary Squabbles in China
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An informal meeting of the shareholders in the Weihaiwei Gold Mining Co. (1905) was held on Nov. 8th, when it was decided that the directors should put before the shareholders a¦ scheme og the lines of the second scheme submitted to shareholders, and perferably on !the basis of an increase of capital rather than O11 one of liquidation and the formation of a new company.
The following comparative table shows the 341 value in gold dollars, of the exports of the 342 | ...343 pri ciple staples from the United States to China and Hongkong during the eight months ended August 31st, 1905 and 1906,
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Modern Coins
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Inquest re W. E. Craig, Decease i
Annual Licensing Sessions
H.E. Chou Fu
How Arrears of Crown Rent are Collorted
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Serious Stabbing Affray
Supreme Court
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Murder at Kowloon
To 346 China.
Another Suicide
240
1907
Kulungsu (Amoy) Municipal Council
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Fires in Hongkong
316
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Hongkong.
Canton Noter
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Macno
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19.5 1906
Companies:-
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The Dairy Farm Co., Ltd.
International Cotton Manufacturing. Ltd.
The Foochow Lighter and Cargo Boat Co.'s
Auction
Claim for professional Servicos
Correspondence
Foreigners Attacked at Woosing
Chinese Riots at Singapore.
The Sikh Trouble at Shanghai
Japanese Shipbuilding Triumpdı British Interests at Nowelwang Remodelling of the Grand Council Commercial Shipping
BIRTHS.
347
Cofton
Cloths.
22 684,506 1966 14.399,733
Mineral. Oil.
4,6562835
2,443.585
657,416
Wheat Flour. 2133 6 199,26
52.968
1,510,426 44.855 251,463 2,024,429 The following table shows the comparative value, in gold dollars, of the imports of tea and silk into the United States for the eight mouths ended August 31st, 1904, 19:45 and 1900,
1904. 9,404840
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317
348
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Tea
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On October 4th, at Redbourn, HERTS, the wife of DOUGLAS EDMUND MCGREGOR (Shanghai), of
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Silk 34,372,336
1905.
1906. 7,919,283 7,895,500 34,032,074 32,881,544
The following decree was published at Pek- ing on Nov. 8th--By command of the Empress 340 Dowager aud in response to the memorial of Viceroy Shum of the Two Kwang provinces, who reports terrible typhoon in the Sth mouu which spread devastation over the seacoast towas of Kwa gtung province in the prefec- fures of Kanchou, Chan-chon, Lei-chon, Lien- chou and Ching-chou, as well as in Hougkong, a calamity which is the first of its kind in several tens of years that has visited the viceroyalty, we wish to express our deepest pity and sym- pathy at the great loss in lives and shipping caused by the typhoon, and hereby commad that the sum of Tls. 100,000 be paid out of the Privy Purse which is to be distributed first from the Provincial Treasury to the suffs ers. them be relieved properly and an honest distrib- ution of aid be given so that no one may be left ont of the Imperial Bounty.
On November 8th, at H.M. Legation, Peking, the wire of C. W. CAMPBELL, Esq., C.M.G., of a daughter.
On November 9th, at Shanghai, the wife of N. G. MAITLAND, of a son.
On November 12th, at Cosmopolitan Duck, the wife of T. DE FARIA-NEVES, of a son.
On November 13th, at No. 6 East Avenue, Kowloon, the wife of R. S. JUDAH, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
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On November 11th, at the Roman Catholic Cathedral, Hongkong, by the Rev. P'. de Gabardi, LEONOR MARIA ROMANA, only daughter of A. H. M. DA SILVA, Esq.. of No. 1 Victoria View,' Garden Road, Kowloon, to MANUFL AUGUSTO DE FIGULIREDO, youngest son of the late Jose MIGUELVICTOR DE FIGUEIREDO, of Hongkong.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
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FAR EASTERN NEWS.
court
At Shanghai on November 3th, a martial was held on the two German sailors of H.I.G.M.S. Iltis, charged with murdering two Japanese restaurant keepers on October 13th. The Court found that it was the Japanese who started the r w, and that the Germans acted under excitement. Both prisoners were discharged.
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Au old and respected Portuguese resident of this colony passed away at his residence in Caine Road On November 11th afler
few days' illness. We refer to Mr. C. J. Gonçalves, of the Hongkong and Shang bai Bank. Mr. Gonçalves, who was in perfect health up till a few weeks ago, had a fit in h's office and became unconscions for a time. Medical aid was summoued, and he WB8 subsequently removed to his residence, where he lingered for a week with wavering senses. Mr. Gonçalves was pronounced by the doctor to be suffering from cerebral hemorrhage, and although his condition was serious, hopes were entertained for his recovery until a couple of days ago when he was found to be slowly sinking. He died at o'clock on Sunday morning. The deceased who was 67 years old, faithfully served the bank for the long period of 43 years; in fact, from the starting of the bank. He was known by his old father of the bank, and was highly respected by all the officers and other employees of that institution. The deceased left a widow and a grown up family to mourn his loss. The funeral will take place this afternoon at 4.3, and will pass the monument at 3. p.m.
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The smoking concert recently given by the Portuguese community at the Club Lusitano in aid of the Typhoon Relief Fund, realizad 8597.24 net. Tickets were sold to the amount of $482, and drinks, &c., to $365,55, the expenses, including cost of drinks and tobacco, $210,51, being $250,31.
On the 27th ult., at the temporary offices of the South Manchurian Railway Company, General Terauchi, Minister for War, Barou Shibusawa, and other members of the Committee assembled for the allotment of the shares. recently subscribed. No applications for less than ten shares were considered, and the applicants for over ten shares totalled 11,354 Eighty-nine per cent of sub-cribers to tea shares and over were allotted. The total number of hareholders is 10,101,
A Shanghai contemporary says:-The Polic are no winvestigating what appears to be a gros piece of carelessness, to put it lightly, in the Paoshan District, ou the North Szechen Road Extension. One of the residents on that road, a sick lady whose husband is absent in his ship, was awakened at 630 am. on Nov. 9th by hearing three shots fired, apparently next door, and on making enquiries from her servants she learned that some gentleman" living in the house next to hers in the terrace had fired at her chickens with a shot gun and killed six of them. Owing to the amount of lawlessness among the Chinese in the district, and the stories she had heard of a house boy having been shot in the leg by a stray bullet, and a cow having been wounded very seriously while feeding at the back of her house, she was badly frightoned, being alou in the house, and very ill, adding to her nervous state. The police were called for, and on enquiry found the "gentleman' who admitted killing the chickens "as they annoyed him by their We understand, however, that crowing"! owing to this pleasantry
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Mr. Alex McLeod, who has succeeded Sir Charles Dudgeon as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International Institute at Shanghai made some remarks when H.E. Chou Fu, as telegraphically reported in our columns, unveiled a tablet to the memory of Mr. A. A. Low. The object of the Institute was, said Mr. McLeod, well-known. It was a young institution at present, but those connected with it had every reason to be pleased with the progress made in the last year or two. A large piece of ground had beed acquired and had been laid out, largely through the gouerons contributions of mandarins and merchants of the higher 'classes ¦ of Chinese in hanghai and the neighbouring
provinces. Other help had, however, from foreigners, and the present occasion was intended to do honour to an American merchant whose sons had liberally helped the Institute. Mr. A. A. Low had left China when he (the speaker) arrived many years ago, but his name bad remained, and he (the speaker) had knowledge of his sons, of whom much good was spoken. Everywhere Mr. Low had been respect- ed for his enterprise and integrity in business. He retired very wealthy and his sons had shown their appreciation of the way in which he had been enabled to carry on business in China by contributing a larger sum than any other single donor to the International Institute,
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