THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXVI.]
Epitome....
Leading Articles:-
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
China Tea and Preference. War Books
Hollow Reforms
Doctors Disagree
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 22ND JULY, 1907.
A Tientsin correspiadent writes to a local | paper and a-ks:-" Why cannot we have good PAGE made ice here; as in other Treaty ports and 29 throughout Japan and the Far East? Pure ics-making always pays; and it is somewhat 30 extraordinary that Tientsin is almost the only 31 place on the coast where we can not purchase
pure ice; a few people here manage to get small! 32 quantities from the steamers, but only a favoured few. I am sure any man starting to
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Korean Intrigues
Colonial Parochializm
China's Magna Charta
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Hongkong Legislative Council.
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Finance Committee..
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Supreme Court
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Civil Servants' Salaries
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Hongkong Lunatic Asylums
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Medical Officer's Report
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Hongkong Hospital....
Typhoon Relief Fund
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
Hongkong Schools
Sunday Morning sensation
Death of Mr. John Dodd
Canton.......
Macao
Report of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeou
Sir Matthew Nathan
Eye Diseases Among Chinese
The Dethroned Emperor of Korea Water Return
Commercial Shipping
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DEATHS.
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Two natives who attempted to make some- thing by informing" have been discovered, and as a result one is undergoing two months' hard labour, and the other six mouths in addition. to having spent six hours in the stocks. They .40 had gone to the Opium Farmer with a tale of opium being concealed on a steamor in the harbour Their particulars were so minute that suspicion was aroused and on the adric of the police they were detained while the vessel was 43 searched. The opium was found as stated, and 43 after further inquiries bad been made, one of 43 the men admitted that they had "planted" the
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At Peking on July 8th was issued a Decree 48 in the name of the Empress Dowager granting permission to any ore to present suggestion- to the Throne as to the best and speediest manner of introducing parliamentary representation and a Constitution into the Empire
On July 6th, at Shanghai, F. A. Raan, late;
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Admiral Sah. Commander-in-Chief of the combined Peiyang and Nanyang Squadrons, has recommended to the Throne, as one of the first steps in the reorganization of the Chinese Navy, the construction of ten medium-sized cruisers of molern type to train officers and samen. As the number of officers sud men is increased each year, there will, in time, be a sufficiency of trained men to constitute propar crews for the moderate-siz d battleships and armoured cruisers that are to be successively ordered from abroad, in the meanwhile.
That great interest is taken by the Chinese community in the efforts of a number of Chinese gentlemen to prevent the damping evil was made manifest by the large gathering at the Ko Shing theatre on Saturday afternoon when the third lecture was delivered by Mr. Ho Kom. tong. Hoa. Mr. A. W. Brawin, Registrar. General, preside!, and introduced the speaker who, after & lengthy discourse on the stuitary liwa of the Colony and the growth of the evi!
practice among Chinese of casting away their dead, asked his hearers to avail themselros mora freely of the advantages of the frem district dispensaries which had primarily been established for the benefit of the poor. C
Officer, China Merchants' S. Y. Co., aged 26 years. I given to those residing in Peking irrespective insure for themselves better and healthful
On July 20th, at 7 a.m.. at the Government Civil Hospital, BEATRICE TERESA KENNETT, aged 58.
Honghong Teleekly Press.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of June 18th arrived, per the s.s. Zieten, on Wednesday, the 17th instant: and the French Mail of June 21st arrived, pr the 8.8 Salazie, to-day.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
. On July 16th an Indian watchman in the employ of Talati and Co. was attacked late at night in his matshed at Wanchai. It is believed! that his assailants were compatriots.
At any rate a commotion was heard in the locality and when the police arrived on the scene they found the man in such a serious state that he was removed to the hospital. It is understood that the man was to be a witness in the murder trial.
A sickening discovery was made on July 16 h at No. 1, Sowkeewan Road,
An Indian police man was attracted by a suspicions odour, and eventually, after the house was broken into, a corpse in an advanced stage of decomposition was found, with a wound in the throat sugges- ting suicide. It has been identified as that of an Italian male, about fifty years old, name at present unknown, who was often seen in the city following his occupation as a hawker,
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memorial through the Ceusorate, while th se in of personal rank or standing to pres-at their
the provinces may do so through their Viceroys, Governors and Tartar Generals.
These high officials must rs however sen to it that the Buggestions presented shall be of a workable and feasible nature and not of the visionary type, which experience has shown is by no means infrequent.
| Gazette, Mr.
In his report for 1906, published in the Frank Browa". Government Analysi, states that during the year an increasing number of ores and of metals wore "xamined. Most of the metals were rarions qualities of Chinese tin, of which from 4,0 4 to 8.000 tons annually pass through Hongkong from Mongtze, unnan. The refining of this tin is now one of Hongkong's small industries. The process of purificati n is carefully dour, and is quit
succ.ssful.
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By observance of the sanitary laws of Hongkong", continued the speaker, "the Chinese are certain to secure greater immanity from epidemic diseases and
surroundings." The speaker concluded an interesting addres with В song which embodied ia verse the salient points of the jaclure. A vote of thanks to the speaker and the chairman ended the proceedings.
An extraordinary general meeting of the members of the Shanghai Club was held on July 9th. It was well attended. Mr. J. C. Hansɔn was in the chair, and he moved three resolutions
Club as an Association limited by gaarantee, having for their object: the registration of the
ander the Hon. kong Ordinances, the liability of each member not to exosed Tis. 1 0; the rebuilding of the Club in accordance with the scheme of which the members bad already received notice, and the fiancial arrangement necessary for the sama; the selection of suitable plans for a Club House, and the election of a building committe. The Chairman announced that Tis. 17 900 would shortly be called for in debentures, and the total sum required for the purchase of the present property, and the re-builting is expected to ba shout T 8, 150,000. It is proposed to reat the building ia Jinkee building is in progress. The resolutions as Road. next to the Garmin Clab, while the
prop wed were adopted by an overwhelming
It is hoped that. despite counter' attractions in the mode of carriage from the mines, this tin may still be dealt with in Hong koug. As the trade and refining has now been' carried on here for five years, there seems to be a good prospect of its contiuusuc, and increase. For the first time in the history of China, a competitive, examination was held on the 3rd,, majority. 4th and 5th instant in Peking by order of the As a result of the voting for La Conssil Ministry of Elucation, of young men an 1 ladies ́ d'Administration de la Concessioa Franç sis 1, desirous of going to the United States to study Shanghai, July 10th, the following gentle under Government auspices. No less than men were elected :- seventy-two young men and twelve young ladies. presented themselves, and the following topics were given for examination on the first day, English into Chinese, and vice versa; Latin,, English compositions; translations from French, German, and arithmetic.
On the second day, hemistry and physiology; and on Composition and Algebra. It is satisfactory lo the third day, History, Geography, Chinese learn that most of the examination papers were well written, the only failures being those on guages. la These competitive eximinations are to be made annually.
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M. Brazier de Thay (French) M. J. Gaillard M. V. Barthoz M. G. Ackermann Mr. P. hisi Mr. W. Lu Gro
138 • ST Mr. W. M. Dowdall
92 Mr. J. M. Tavares
63 # Fifteen candidates were nominated and those who were unsuco asful were MM. Marthond, Ferrand, E. Taperaoax (French), and Mosera B. A. Clarke, Hardoon, and A. D. Deyn (Foreign).
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