THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXVI.]
Epitome
AND
China Oberland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, 8 \TURDAY, 5тн ОC OBER, 1907.
CONTENTS.
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Leading Articles :---
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Our Jubilee
Hongkong Legislative Council
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Jubilee of the Hongkong Daily Press
Hongkong Fifty Years Ago
The Evolution of Hongkong
Modern Education in China
Hongkong Sanitary Board Supreme Court
Adsetts Trial
Wedding in the Cathedral
Hongkong Cricket Club
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club.
The Sanitary Comission
Kalangsu (mo›) Municipal Council
The Cubicle Question
The British Post Cffice at Tientsin
Mr. P. W. Sergeant's New Book
The Dairy Farm Company Limited Willam Powell, Limited Commercial Shipping
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At a recent Grand Council meeting H. E. Yuan Shib-kai urged the Empress Dowager to re-employ ex ViceroyTsên Ch'un bauen. [Show] but her Majesty promptly declined to receive the suggestion.
It is stated that H.E. Lü Hai-huan is to be appointed Postmaster-General of the T. P. O.. and that be is to join Sir Robert Hart in 208 extending the new conditions throughout the Empire. In this connexion it has been decided 214 to abolish the Imperial couriers of the 215 provinces.
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The Evening Continustion Classes are about to start shortly under the name Hongkong Technical College. The Technical Collegae is now & Sub-Department of the Education Department. The Classes to be held are a follows.-(A) Fogineering Section: Building Construction; Machine Drawing; Steam; *Electricity and Magnetism; pplied Me chanica; Practica Ma bematics; *Field Survey. (B) Commerce Section: Knglish; French; German; Shorthand (including short course of typewriting); Bookkeeping (Elementary) Zen Ah-pan refused to marry her betrothed (C) Science Section: Chemistry; * Physics at Hangohow, so her adopted father promptly Those marked with an asterisk are new. sold her to a man of his own choice in Shanghai,
A Seoul message states that early on the On September 26th the girl told the Mixed morning of September 17th all the Ministers of Court magistrate that she was born at Hang: State attended at the Palace, and strongly urged 222 ohow, but her parents were dead. They had the Emperor to remove to his Majesty's new betrothed her to a man to whom she objected. residence on th t day as was arranged. At first Her adopted father brought her to Shanghai the Emperor declined, but the Ministers no- 223 and sold her. The case was remanded until the ceeded at last in persuading him o consent to 223 adopted father could appear, the girl being the removal by 3 p.m., at which time the
meanwhile sent to the "Do r of Hope'
A very interesting trade-mark case is pro-
Emperor and Empress left the Kriam Palace. The ex-Emperor bitt.rly lamented parting with 228ceeding at the Shanghai Mixed Court. The his son, and, having offered to accom any him to British-American Tobacco Co. Ltd. is proceed the new palace, proceeded th ther together wi b ing against a Chinese cigarette manufactoryady Um his favourite. At 4 p.m. General for an injunction against using packets designed something like their own. There was a claim drawn. The defence is that this is not a bona- for dam ges and forfeiture, but that was with-
fide action but an attempt to crush levit mate competition. When the case is further advanced, we hope to say something about it.
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On September 23rd, at Shanghai, the wife of W. AUG WHITE, of a daughter.
On September 24th, at Shanghai, the wife of R. W. THOMAs, of a daughter.
MARRIAGE.
DEATH.
It is notified in the Gazette that the Crown On September 24th, at Shanghai, OWEN LEWIS has resumed and re-entered into and upon Ping ILBERT, and GERTRUDE MARGARET HORWA D
Shan Inland Lot No. 1, Ping Shan in the New MOSTPENNT.
Territories, under and by virtue of the provisions conta ned in the Crown Lease of such Lot dated 17th August, 1903, as is shown on a plan signed by the Land Officer and deposited in the District Land Office of the Northern District at Tai Po, New Territories; and also for general information tha memorial of re-entry by Government of the said lot has been registered according to
On September 26th, at Shanghai, HENRY EDWARDS, Electrical Engineer, Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co., Ld., aged 28 years.
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Hasegawa visited the new place, and offered
insisting that he must remain with his sou. his congratulations to the Emperor. The ex.Emperor refused to go back to his palace,
The ex-Emperor and Lady Um spent the night at the Emperor's new palace, and there were no signs of their departure on the 18th instant. tion of the Emperor and ex-Emperor has fallen Thus, concludes the message, the monted repAFB- through, despite all the efforts made by Ministers of State.
It wan
About two years ago a soheme was submitted to the vovernment on behalf of a foreign syndicate for boring a tunnel through Victoria Peak with a view to developing the other side of the island as a resident al district not a new idea and we may appropriat ly mention in the pres-at issue that the suggestion occurs facetiously in a le ter to the Times written from Hongkong fifty years ago. Curiously enough it is associated with the name of a relative of our present Governor. H›re i‹ the extract from a letter written by Mr. Wingrove Cook-:- "Colo el Lagard is meditating deep things about mysteries which I attempt not to fathom ; for Colonel Lugard is the head of the Eng- ineers. I wish he would think it necessary for some military purpose to drive a tunnel through this Vic'oria mountain and let in the south-west monsoon." Mr. Coo a however, thought a more practio ble thing would be to take possession of the opposite penins in of Kowloon. "It is quite incomprehensible that this has not be-n done. If any other powers should do so-and what is to prevent them.P the harbour of Bongkơng is lost to me.” History reveals that this was patent to the authorities and especially to the late Sir Harry Parkes (then in the Consular servios) to whose foresight, diplomacy and indomitable energy we are largely indebted for its acquisition. Asna esteemed correspondent pointed out in the Daily Press three or four years ago, it is remarkable in a Colony which has done so much in the way of street nomenclature to perpetuate the na8 men who have been conspicuously identif with its history, that there is mot memorial worth the name in Hongkong sarly days owed so mnak,
It is a coincidence worth mentioning in our Jubilee issue that a conspicuous figure in Hong. kong in 1857 was Colonel Lagard, R. E., an nel of our present Governor, His Exo-llceny Sir Frederick Lugard. Colonel Lug rd was in command of the Engineers in the Expedition of 1857, but did not live to take part in the attack on Canton. He die in Hongkong on December 1st and was buried on the 3rd with all military honours "in the c-metery hard by the re-coarse.” Mr. Wingrove Cooke, the Times correspon ant, wrote: "It was an im. posing spectacle, for all the officers of all the European nations now present in Hongkong followed in long proo-ssion the gun carring on which he was borne to his grave. Many of those present not only knew him as an officer, whose loss at this oritical mement is disastrone to the public service, bat loved him as a man. I was one of those who mourned to te ink we shall hear no more his frank hearty laugh and receive HE. Shang Ch'i-bêng, Provincial Treasurer of Fukien, and one of the Five Travelling Lugard was a
no more his manly, soldier-like greeting. Poor victim to hard work in this Commissioners in 1906, has memorialised the treacherous olimate. He had much to do and Throne strongly urging the necessity of allow small materials to work with. He was a leader ing full liberty to the Press to criticize and without soldiers, He had to form and fashion disones public affaire, so that those in power
a corps of engineers and sappers and miners our may know the feelings and opinions of the of troops of the Hoe. His labour was incessant, masses. This is one of the foundations of and he paid the penalty which these trying national strength, and it will be unwise to Hongkong heats almost always exnot for over-distinguished man to whom the Coloný -
exertion."
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