THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXVII.]
CONTENTS.
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Leading Articles ---
Australian Army Reform
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 7TH MARCH, 1908,
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
.16 › A burglary at 14 Beaconsfield Arcade was reported to the police on Maral 1. During the night the premises of Messrs. Sayce and Co. were entered and cigarettes, razors, etc, to the value of $52 were stolen.
The China Pony
A China Coast Prophet
The Socialists and Regicide
China and Canada......
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Correspondence
"Tatsu Maru II."
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Hongkong Legislative Council
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Hongkong Sanitary Board....
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Supreme Court
Kowloon British School
Companies
China Fire Insurance Company The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ld.
166
Ramie at Shanghai and Hongkong Lady Lugard indisposed.
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Commercial..
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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On March 1st a well dressed Chinaman in jumping from a car while it was in motion got in front of another car and was knocked down ad rendered unconscious. He was taken to 166 the hospital and died shortly after admission.
On February 24th, at Shanghai, the wife of M. GOLDMAN, of a son.
On February 24th, at Shanghai, the wife of K. W. CAMPBELL, of a son.
On Sunday, 1st March, 1908, at Calçada do Gamboa, Macao, the wife of R. A. COATES, of a
son.
MARRIAGES.
On February 23rd, at Shanghai, BERTHA LAZAR- EVITCH, of Herson, Russia, to ACGUST HERZBERG, of Shanghai.
On February 27th, at Shanghai, JULIA HUNTER WOODWARD to the Rev. JOHN WILLIAMS NICHOLS. On February 28th, at Shanghai, ANDREW EDWARD SANDBACH to JANE GORDON OCUNEY
DEATHS.
On Fe1ruary 21th, at Sumatra, THOMAS RIACH, son of the late John Riach of Shanghai.
On February 26th, at Shanghai, O. F. FISHER, aged 35 years.
On February 28th, at Shanghai, ESTHER CHATHAM, widow of the late John Chatham, aged 45 years [suicide].
At the Peak Hospital on March 4th at 6 p.m. Don PEDRO ROBLEDO, Spanish Doctor.
At Sedan, France. Madame J. C. PERCEBOIS, formerly of Shanghai, mother of Mr. D.Percobois, Imperial Chinese Customs Service.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The Goimin Mail of February 6th arrived, per the s.a. Prinz Ludwig, on Tuesday, the 3rd instant; and the English Mail of February 7th arrived, per the aa. Marmora, on Thursday, the 5th instant.
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It is reported in official circles that the Chinese Emperor is so ill that I.E. Vicer y Tuan Faug has been ordered to send the well known physician, Chen Lien-fing, up to Peking
to give medical advice. Chên has been success- ful on previous occasions in prescribing for his Majesty.
On March 3rd the body of A Chinese who has not yet been identified was found near the sixth mile stone on the Taipo Road with its threat out. The circumstances certainly point to the man having been murdered, but so far the police have not been able to trace those responsible for the deed.
A telegram from Peking reports that, with regard to the Japanese steamer" Tatsu Marn," Macao, the Waiwapn has instructed Viceroy which was recently arrested at Kinchon, near Chang Jon-chun to settle the matter with the Japanese Consul at Canton and the captain of the steamer in an amicable way.
Messrs. E. S. Kadoorie & Co. are in receipt of telegraphic advices from Singapore inform. ing them that the crushing of the Raub Australian Gold Mining Co, Ltd, for the past, four weeks yielded 1,223 cz. go'd from 7,213 tons stone, and by cyanide process 249 ozs.— extra 176 cz3.-thus making a total of 1,948 ezs. —ia sll.
god said:- The Kokumin wanaper slates A Daily Press telegram dated Tokyo, Mirch
that a report has been received at Tokyo to the -ffect that the Empress Dowager of China is about to abdicate the thron in favour of the Emperor, and that she has ios'ruct d Vi oroys Chang Chih-tung and Yuan Shib-kai to act as
dris rs to the Emperor.
The pass ugers by the P. & 0, intermediate steamer Borneo" which arrived on March 2ad included Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Oaklav. Mr. Oakley is a brother of Mrs. H. E. Pollock, and bas previously been stationed in Hongkong. Ha has now come out as Superintending Engineer of th· Admiralty Works, succeeding Mr. A. D. Shortridge, who returns to England this month,
It is noteworthy that as soon as the British ships had left the waters of the delta and the West River there should be another piracy, and that the robbers should have got off. The captain of a jank reports that he was attacked by some men who carried off sixty kerowne tins from his cargo at the disappeared. The papers have taken up the matter, pointing out that this sort of thing must not be allowed or foreigners will again interfere.
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No. 10
Another robbery was reported on March 4th at the Paris Toilet Company's pre- mises. The sum of $230 was stolen from a drawer.
A Daily Press telegram dated Tokyo, March 5th said:Count Okums at an Indo-Japanese dinner, dwelt on the relation between Japan and India over a period of 1300 years and ex- pressed his admiration of English rule in that empire. He emphasised the necessity of Indians proving themselves worthy of self-government before they could re sonably expect autonomy. I took this opportunity of explaining that his commercial speech at Kobs so e months ago had been grievously misinterpreted and invested by many newspapers with a political meaning that he never intended it to convey. All he had done was to urge upon his compatriots the necessity of availing themselves of every op portunity to extend their export trade with India which at present amounted only one tenth of the value of the importa. Mr. John H. Gubbins, C.M.G., of the British Embassy was present.
INQUEST AT KULANGSU, AMOY,
SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF A LIGHTHOUSE
KEEPER
An inquest was held at the British Consulate halore I. B. M's Consul, Mr. P. E. O'Brien- Butler, sitting as Coroner, on the 20th and 22ad February concerning the death of Mr. George Russell, agod 27, a light keeper in the service of the I.M C, who was found on the verandah of a house occupied by Mr. Yokoyama, oa morning of the 19th Fobrusry, seriously injured. Mr. C. A. V. Bowra, the Commissioner, and Mr. Nielsen, Inspector of Lights were in court on behalf of the I.M.C., and tho Municipal Police were represented by the aprintendent.
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A number of witnesses having been called, the finding was as follows:-
Death from exhaustion from bleeding and The wounds wers not infiat- exposure to cold. elby any lethal weapon but probably arose from the deceased's falling against sọme steus of The attention of the Polico is sharp saba' noe. called to the fact that the man had previously bwa in doubtful company and had been
robbed."
As a sequel to the foregoing, in the Mixed Court, on the 26th February befors Mr. Ch'êu Hang Yün, Mixed Court Magistrate-with Mr. L. Gilas, of the British Consulate, sitting an Assessor, Yai Gwost Sai, 3§, brothal keeper, native of Kalangea, Go Teh Ah. 29, chair coolie, native of Has an and Lee Khit, 24, honss coolie, astive of Kulangen, were charged by the Super. intendent of Polics, with being concerned in robbery from the person of George Russell, a sum of many, a silve· watch and a obeque book, on the early morning of the 19th iast, The prisoners were found guilty, and Yai Gwoat Sai was sentenced to six month,' cogue and three years' imprisonment, and the other two prisoners to six months' cangu; and two years' imprisonment sach.