THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXIV.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Articles:-
Western Tibet: a Review
Peking Suspect_
The T'ien Tsu Hui
Moral Garlic
Finance in Japan
Japan and Lotteries Innate Chivalry
Hongkong Sanitary Board Supreme Court
Fatalities in Gambling Raids Indians Again in Evidence
Another Attempted Suicide Hongkong Volunteer Corps New Volunteer Headquarters
Engineers' Dance
The Governor's Departure
The Kowloon Dock Tragedy
Ship Launch at Kowloon.......
The Hongkong Chess Club
Correspondence
A Tentative Suicide
** Monsieur Polo
The A.D.C.
Canton
Yokohama Dook Company
Commercial
Shipping
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BIRTHS.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 24TH DECEMBER, 1906,
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FAR EASTERN NEWS.
The Kiangsi rebellion has collapsed. The 123 leaders have fled. The Imperial troops hold the 423 whole of the affected area.
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The 8.8. Petrarch was' successfully refloated on Dec. 14th by the salvage sie.mer Protector 424 and towed to the Cosmopolitan coke.
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The American Vice-Consul at Mukden has .430 committed suicide with a revolver. A letter
from/merica seems to be the cause.
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The census just taken in Hanoi gives the 431 following result: Europeans 2,300, Annamites 56,000. Chinese 2,381, Indians 110, and Japa-
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A Japanese telegram saya agrarian riots are taking place near Antunghaien and Fenhuan cheng, and are seriously affecting trade and
commerce.
According to a Taipeh message, the tickets 433 for the second lottery in Formosa are to be placed on the market on the 17th instant. The number of tickets will be 60,000.
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On December 7th, at Shanghai, the wife of J. Jesars, of a daughter.
On December 19th, Shameen, Canton, the wife of Dr. E. C. DAVENPORT, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On December 10th, at Shanghai, LEOPOLD CHARLES FELLOWES, of the London Mission, Huangpi, to MARY KATEY STRATFORD,
On December 15th, at St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, by the Rev. G. A. Bunbury, M.A., CHARLES DEARNE, elder son of the late H. W. Pearson of Clifton, Bristol, to DAIET, younger daughter of the late H. E. Ellis of Maidstone, Kent.
DEATHS.
On November 22nd, at Kobe, APCAR MICHAEL APCAB (formerly of Hongkong), in the fifty-first year of his age:
Un December 7th, at the Shanghai General Hospital, HENRI FITZ-HENRY, of the Banque de l'Indo-Chine, Peking, aged 32 years,
On December 11th, at Kashing. MARY GRIER BLAIN, eldest daughter of Rev. and Mrs. J. Mercer Blain, aged six years.
On Decembe: 14th, JOHN ROBERTSON CRAIK, Chief Clerk at Kowloon Docks. Aged 30 years.
On December 15th, WILLIAM CHARLES FURS- MAN, at Shanghai.
On December 23rd, at 3 a m., at Mountain View, the Peak, Aars, dearly beloved wife of H. F. Carmichael
Mrs. J. R. Craik and family desire to thank their numerous friends for expressions of sympathy, and beg them to accept this intimation of their gratitude.
Messrs.
E. 8. Kadoorie and Co. are in receipt of telegraphic advices informing them that the Oriental Consolidated Mining Co. have declared a dividend of fifty cents gold per share for the year 1906.
Traffic over the Siberian Railway, says a Japanese exchange, in 19 5 is given as follows: -Passengers, 1.846,422 of whom soldiers numbered 1,077.665, and settlers 30 360; private commodities, 113.122,800 poods; official com- modities, 132,952 425 poods; luggage, 539,853 poods.
The salvage steamer Protector has started operations on suother sunken vessel. She took up a position near the 8.8. Kwongchow; divers went down, tightened up the bull and ascer tained that the steamer was lying on an even keel, consequently no difficulty is expected in raising her.
Megara Gibb, Livingston and Co., agents for the E. A. 8.6. Co., have received word from the Sydney office that the s.s. Australian which has been abandoned as a total lees. Part of stranded at Vashon Head, Northern Territory,
the mails and some of the cargo were transferred to the s.s. Chingtu.
His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint Mr. T. Sercombe Smith, Folice Magistrate, to act as December, and Mr. A. B. Ogle. Lieutenant, Colonial Becretary, with effect from 15th Royal Engineers, to be his Aide-de-Camp, with effect from the same date,
According to a Japanese telegram from Seoul, the Central Treasury is now busily engaged in
coins circulation
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We have received the first number of Thể Godown, which is evidently meant as a Counter- blast to the latent Shanghai dook scheme. It is the work of the ingenious author of the Cosmopolitan at present "shamming dead' and is labelled "a Journal of Finance Cents and Non-Cents," to be "issued spasmodically.” It bas some exceedingly clever illustrations.
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The Japanese Diet is to assemble for its twenty-third session on December 25th when new members will be introduced and details as to the official organisation of the two Houses will be arranged." The opening ceremony will be conducted by the Emperor on December 28th but there will be no further meeting until January 20th, even the appointment of the Standing Committee being held over.
A Vladivostock letter published in the daɑhi states that in the ten mouths ending October last 599 steamers arrived at Vladivo took, The amount of goods imported amonnted to 22,614.360 pood and those exported to 1,056,258 pood. During October alone, 68 steamers arrived at the port. Of this number, 24 weis Japanese; 11 Russian;
Chinese: 1 Ameri- can; 11 German; 3 British; 3 Korean; 11 Norwegian, and 8 Danish.
A coolie employed at the Kowloon Dook Was brought up At the Magistracy op December 17th charged with hav ing been found in possession on the 15th instant of a dangerous weapon to wit, a sheath kife, with intent to use the same for an un- lawful purpose and not being able to give a satisfactory account of his possession thereof. He was remanded till Dec. 24th. This man has been arrested in connection with the murder at Kowloon Dock.
A daring robbery was carried ont in the village of Shatankok, near the Chinese border, on Dec. 18th. About ten o'clock in the morning a baud of armed men entered the village and proceeded to break open two houses, the tenants of which happened to be absent. This was done in full view of the villagers; but, deterred by the presence of so many armed men, none of them attempted to interfere. The robbers took away everything of value from the two house and decamped across the border.
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased, with the approval of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to appoint Mr. Basil R. H. Taylor, R.N. (retired), Assistant Harbour Master, to be Harbour Master, Marine" Officer, Registrar of Shipping, Superintend Magistrate, Emigration and Customs
Light Dues and Superintendent of Imports ent of Gunpowder Depot, Collector of and Exports in this Colony in succession to the late L. A. W. Barnes-Lawreros, ↑ aptain, R. N. (retired), with effect from the 5th inst.
On December 20th. under instructions from
Hongkong Weekly Press. putting the new di for money in the vicinity of Messrs. Ewens and Harston, Mesars Hughes
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VEUX ROAD CL. London Office: 131, Fleet Strekt. E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German mail of November 20th arrived, per the B. Seydlilz, on Thursday, the 20th inst.; and the French mail of Novembr 23rd is expected to arrive, per the 88. Salazie, some time to-day.
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the capital, due to the withdrawal of old coins now going on. It is stated that the calling-in of this money in slightly affecting the market.
The Gazette notifies that a memorial of re-entry by the Government of Lot No. 30, in Survey District II, New Kowloon, has been registered according to law, and that the cancellation of memorial of re-entry by the Crown of New Kowloon Survey District I, Lot No. 5301, has been registered according to
law.
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by public auction all that piece or parcel of ground fronting on Carnarvon, Granville and Kimberley Roads and registered in the Land Office as Kowloon Inland Lot 540, having an area of 123,28 square feet; together with the messuages or dwelling-houses known as Now. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. Ormsby Terrace, and 1, 2, 3 and 4, Ormsby Villar. Bidding opened at $100,000, running up to 3146,050 at which price the property was knocked down to Mr. Bisney.
'ongh, auctioneers, offered for "mle