THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXVII.}
Epitome
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Leading Articles .-
The Government and the Sanitary Board
Peking Officials'
Sensational News from Japan
The Impolite Truth
China and Foreign Literature
China and Japan
Supreme Court
Alleged Infringement of Trade Marks
Missions to Seamen
Victoria British School
Wedding
Companies
The Hongkong Hotel
Hongkong Milling Co....
Hongkong Fire Insurance Co. ..............
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 16TH MARCH, 1908,
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
PAGE: A Daily Press telegram dated Tokyo, March 13th, said:-Count Hayashi entertained the
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JAPAN AND CHINA,
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Toykyo, March 6th.
The Fatsa Mara negotiations have been
! British Embassy to dinner in commemoration broken off though China agrees to the surcondar of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. In proposing of the steamer bat insista upon detaining the the toast of the Allianc" Sir Lude Macdonald - cargo pending the inspection of the pspers and 174 read a messag from the Londen Government ascertaining the status of Car-bay waters off 17 expressing confidence in the strength of the Point Cabrita ?'. Japan does not agree with Alliance. Conut Hayashi, in reply, emphasised this position. The Portuguese Minister hag 17 the effectiveness of the agreement and referred left. Tokyo an route for Macao.
to the benefits derivabl. from the agreements with France and Russ a.
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The Shanghai Tee, and Cold Storage Co., L1.10 The Government and the Sanitary Board Commercial...
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Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co ..179 George Fenwick
BIRTHS.
On March 9th, at Bremen, the wife of J. Tu. LAUTS, of a son,
On March 10th, at 7 Mountain View Peak, to Mr. and Mrs. A. HEATTIE, a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On February 29th, at Shanghai, Jous ALEXAN- DER Ross, Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, to Ella Watson Whyte.
On March 7th, at Shanghai, Thomas WILLIAM,
son of the late Wiliam Pollock, I. M. Customs Ningpo, to JEANIE MILLER ÅLEXANDER,
On March 12th, at St. John's Cathedral, Hong kong, by the Lord Bishop of Victoria assisted by
the Rev. FT. Johnson, A., JAMES R. M. SMITR
of the Hongkong and Shanghai Baking Corpora- tion to EDI. A. MOUSTJOY SANDERS, dau hter of James Sanders, Esq of South Molton, England, and sister of Dr. J. Herbert Sanders, of Hongkong
DEATHS.
On February 5th, at Folkest in. Mr3, CALDWELL, widow of the late Mr. H. C. Caldwell, solicitor of Hongkong. Deeply regretted.
On February 29th, at Tientsin, the daughter. of Mr. and Mrs. K. P. Mɛuchers, aged one year and a half.
On March 1st, at Shanghai, duace ADELAIDE HIL, aged nine years and eight months.
On March 1st, at ~hanghai. Jous Coven Qrick, of Hall & Holtz, L1, Shanghai, aged 50 years,
Hongkong ¿eleekly Press,
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During February the hottest day was the 29 h, when the temperature stood at 732, and there we e 7.2 hours of sunshine, The total
sunshine for the month was 87. hours. The coldest day was the 20th, the glass b ing 501 2.830 inches of rain during the
There were month.
As briefly mentioned in our issue of Friday a big fire occurred at West Point on March 12th by which fire godowns were gutted and their contents of tea, matting and far destroyed. The alarm was not conveyed to the Fire Bri gade until some time after seven o'clock and then every available man and available appcratus was, emploved. The two steamers were out (one from West Point and the other from the Central), as well as the fire float and six hydrants were in use. Even then the firemen found it impossible to quell the outbreak. The flames had completely envelop d the bu∙lings, the roofs had partly collapsed, and the cat flagra- tion threatened to sprial to the largo godowns at the rear abutting on Queen's Road which were filled with valuable gands. However the
brigade succ-eded in preventing the flames from spreading beyond the fire godowns and though
over 100 tons of the contents were burul the As a matter
fire has not yet exhausted itself.
of fact the fire will not likely he compet»ly ex- tinguished in less than a work's time and the brigade will have to be in attendance for s-veral days yet. The godowns belonged to Chinese owners whose loss, it is understood, is covered by insurance. The damage is estimated at $3000.
During the week two impartint er uts for The Chines Chure' in Hongking hav tik n plice. They are themser s iad cative of the eigour and ac ivity of the Chinese branch of the Angcan Communion in Hongkong. On Sunday morning last the Bishop of Victoria oped the Chapel of St. Pin's College as a
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| ship preschel on Ray. III. 8. * Baboid [ set before you an op u door," and expra sed his satisfaction that the growth of 8 Stephen's congregation had necessitated another Church
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and his assurance that bef re Ing the Chin-ge Christians
themselves build Church to take the place of the small Chipel he was able to land them for the present. The other event was the admission by the B shop on Wednesday evening last at St. Stephen's Church of two Chines gentl-men to the office of Volun-
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES Vœux Road C. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREKT, E..tary Lay Reader. They are Mesars. Li Wai
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of February 11th arrived, per the s.s. Prinzess Alice, on Tuesday, the 10th nstant; and the French Mail of February 14th irrived, per the 8,8. Tourane, to-day.
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Ching and Ng Tin Po. They were prevented by Archdeacon Binister and the sermon WAS preached by the Bish p in the cus of which he pointed that the off of Lay Rader wax au socient on- resised an ! he r. jsiced that Chinese laymen were now oɔming forward to voluntarily occupy that responsible position in the growing Church of Chias. – Contributed.
A Daily Press telegram dated Tokyo March 9th said :-The negotiations regarding the Tatsu Marn" incident are said to hagy taken an unfavourable tara. The Foreign Offt ya hara
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declines to speak for publication, but it is freely rmourd that g lel orda s have been sent to the squadron at Kyushu.
The warships at Sasebo aru said to be basy preparing to leave for destination‹ unknown. Considerable activity is apparent at Nivy Headquarters,
Tokyo, March 11th.
Count Hayashi addressing a deputation from the Seiyuksi, expressed regret that he was not at liberty to mike a state ent on the Tatsu Mara inci lent, as the situation was delicate, but he coull assure them that the dignity of Jap`n would be preserved. Cunt
Okumi.
on being intervi wed, said that the affair was trifling but every diplomatic mea08 would have to be ex'iausted befors they had recurs to the last resort,
Tokyo, March 10th. Conut Hayashi, in an interview, has declarad that it was gri- mistake to think or saz- gest that Japan had gonf an u't matum to 'hins in enunrelion with to "Faton Mara inendent.
R lying the incontrovertible fiets of the case, and patient is facs of China's ob luracy, Japan
had merely expressed ite oven at desira tha Chins would rat nsider her position in the matter,
HONGKONG UNIVERSITY.
It h
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that Mr. A. IT. Hennie, the manager of the H-ngkong Milling Company, intended to giva $100 for tha building of a university for Hongkong. M. Rennie writes to inform me that he is not the prospetivo dinge of a likh anda hef of dollars undertaking but that has the primater of the in qastion and that he will eius to be handed nger to A curt of direc nes en uplate within 21 months, if the nestry land is available forthwith, a university which will by in his opinion a credis not only to Hongkong but fo the genero is and midest danor, MA, H. N. Mody.
It is diffi salt inded to find words io which
to adequat ly carey the feelings aroused by this secon I express on of Mr. Mody's liberali y. On Friday the community was delighted with the announcement of his munificaut gift of 8350-0 for the Seamen's Institute and now another thrill of pleasure and gratificatio will by experienced by most props in the city that the genʻl-man, who is perhaps the old-st resident in th · Colony, has ad l-d another token of his open-handel manine, to Hogking an I that a long f-lt want will sooi bɩ m»t and that a un versity will take its plaes among the institutio if the city which will make it a Meoss for students in the East.