THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXVI.]
Leading Articles:-
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 21st SEPTEMBER, 1907,
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Epitome
Good Humour and Ill Humour
The British Association
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Chinese College boys and Clothes.....
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The Proposed Sedition Bill
Free Lectures for British Merchanta
Hongkong Legislative Council
Finance Committee
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Harbour Mystery
Hongkong St. Andrew's Society
Public Works Committee's Reports Civil Service Co.-operative Society Director of Public Works Honoured.. Supreme Court
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H. E. the Governor has been pleased, under instructions received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to appoint Mr. F. G. Figg to be director of the Observatory in succession to Dr. W. Dorber.k, retired on pension
Hongkong ratepayers should be rather glad to note the announcement that after October .176 20th the British Post Office at Tientsin is to be closed. It is about time all foreign post offices 180 in China were closed, now that the Chinese 180 Imperial Post is an adequate institution.
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At a Shareholders' meeting of the Yokohama Specie Bank, Ld., held at the Bank's Head Office in Yokohama on September 11th, the 182 following resolutions were passed: Dividend, at 12 per cent. per annum. Transferred to Reserve .182 Find, Yen 500,000. Carried forward, Yen
1,955,000.
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Alleged Attack on a European
The Viceroy of Canton
The Storm
Hongkong Volunteer Corps.
Macao
Death of Mrs. Woodcook...
Kulangan (Amoy) Municipal Council
Our Water Supply.
Companies
The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown
Company, Limited....
The Douglas Steamship Co., Ltd,.
Commercial ..................................
Shipping
BIRTHS.
On "eptember 8th, ɛt Shanghai, to Mr. Mrs. BEESLEY, & ƐON.
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At Wuchow, on September 15th, the wife of J. H. PEARSON, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
On September 12th, at the Austro-Hungarian Consulate-General in Shanghai, Mr. JOSEPH NEUBRUNE to Mrs. FANNY LOWINSON.
DEATHS.
On September 16th, at the Government Civil Hospital, ALICE HESTER, the beloved wife of J. LOCHEAD.
On September 17th, at 8.43 a.m., at the Victoria Hospital, GRACE ANNETTE WOODCOCK, the beloved wife of Mr. G. A. Woodcock, Secretary, Sanitary Board, aged 43 years.
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His Majesty the King has not been advised to exercise his power of disallowance with respect to the following Ordinances:-Ordin- ance No. 7 of 1907, entitled—An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to Bills of Exobangs; Ordinance No. 8 of 1907, entitled-An Ordin- ance to amend the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903.
entered one of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's By virtue of a warrant Detective Wilden
eight cases of arms which are said to have arrived godowns at West Point on Sept. 15th and seized at this port from Japan. Two of the cases were marked "hardware", while the other six were without marks. The two cases opened were found to contain rifles of an old Mauser pattern, swords, belts pouches,
and ammunition
A Ch'aochou, Kuantung, dispatch states that the Magistrate of Taipuhsien in that province has restored the examinations for literary degrees which were abolished about two years ago and that a modern school has been destroyed by so-called "old literati." This, of course, is the aftermath of the recent memorial to the Throne asking for the restoration of literary examinations throughout the Empire, which was forwarded by the reactionary Censor Huing Yin-fang.
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which H.E. Chang Chih-tung had previously A dastardly attempt to wreck the train by decided to travel was brought to light two days ago, the lankow Daily News of 10th inst, says, when near the 110 kilometre station a huge rock, weighing approximately half a ton, was discovered on the line. Every precaution has been taken to ensure H.E.'s safety and a pilot engine will precede the special train.
A sad fatality occurred the other day at Singyangohou, Hupeb, whither the district magistrate of Hanyang, Mr. Li Fa-yi, had escorted ex-Viceroy and Grand Secretary Chang Chih-tung who was on his way to Peking. It seems that the Guard of the Ex-Viceroy's special train, not being aware that the Hanyang magistrate desired to get off, the train at Sing- Yangohou had given the signal for it to start, Mr. Li Fa-yi feeling the train move hastly arose from his seat in the ex-Viceroy's carriage and having bade his Excellency goodbye, started to jump off to the platform. In the meanwhile the train had been gathering way, and as the carried him under the train and was immediately unfortunate Magistrate jumped the momentum
orushed under the wheels.
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As the German steamer " days overdue from Hoihow it is feared that she Sallberg is six has gone in the typhoon of last week. She left
inst. Since then nothing has been heard of her and made her usual call at Hoihow on the 12th Haiphong with a cargo of coal for Hongkong
from the same port an hour or so earlier and and the worst is feared. The “Hailan” sailed and she encountered the full force of the ty. phoon so that it is certain the "Sallberg" did not escape it. The charterers, Mesurs Weng Yuen, of Hongkong, have applied to Mesara Siemesen and Co., the local agents, for news of the vessel, and it is understool] that the with a view togetting the assistance of Com- latter have approached the German Consul mander Von Kops for the despatch of the German gunboat "Tiger missing vessel
to search for the
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Hazeland at the Police Court on ept. 16th on A Chinese youth appeared before Mr. F. A. charges of obtaining $225 by false pretences, It was proved that the defendant, representing himself to be a clerk in the Crown Solicitor's office, called at No. 34, Temple Street, Yaumati, and informed the inmates he was
a man of influence. rom the mistress of this house be
Hongkong Weekly Press. before the Mixed Court at Shanghai on asked 350, telling her that if she gave him this
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of August 23rd arrived, per the s.s. Oceana, on Wednesday, the 18th instant.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
Most of the recent Paking appointments have been given to Chinese, instead of Manchus.
The evidence in a case which came September 10th proved that individual Chinese are sometimes prepared to take drastic, if somewhat weird, measures to prevent opium smoking by members of their families. The principal, Sung Su-nung, (for he was scarcely an accused) was found in Yuenfong Road with his legs shackled by wooden blocks which were sorewed around his legs. Inspector Aiers stated that inquiries had been made and it | his father adopted that novel method of appeared that Sung was an opium smoker and preventing him from going to an opium shop. Sung when questioned by the Court said that his brother had shackled him, not his father, and the latter had not ordered his brother to do so. The Assessor, Dr. Barchet, said that, ace ›rding to Chinese law the father would have been quite justified had he shackled the young man, but issued for the arrest of the brother and Sung the brother was not. A warrant was, therefore, joyfully obtained his liberty with free legs.
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amount he would get her son clerk in the office of the Crown solicitor, and a position as he would start work on $15 a month. The woman was delighted at the prospects opening for her son, but unfortunately had not $50. She had not more than $25. This amount was, sufficient for the rogue, and he took it and told the woman he would call next day. Bat he did not, instead he called at the house be a Sanitary inspector's interpreter. next door, and there represented himself to threatened to prosecute the tenant of this house for keeping it in such a filthy condition, aud further stated that he had information to the effect that this woman was kidnapping ohildren. Unless she paid him $200 he would prosecute her, and inform, the authorities regarding her second offence; She paid the Mr. Haseland sentenced him to six weeks bogus interpreter $200, but later be was arrested imprisonment and six hours' stocks.
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