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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXVII.]
Epitome
Leading Articles.-
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
A Chance for Mr. Stead Noises
Siberian Development
A. Sinologue's "Discovery.
Ride Si Sapis
Oblique History
Cost of Civil Servica in China
Supreme Court
Companies
Union Insurance Society of Canton China Traders Insurance Company
Green Island Cement Company
The Hongkong Electric Company, Limited
The Yangtze Insurance Association, Ltd..... Yangtsze Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd.
Lady Lugard
Probates in Hongkong
Tientsin
Commercial
Si ipping
MARRIAGE.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 27TH APRIL, 1908.
His Majesty the King has not been advised to exercise his power of disallowance with respect to the following Ordinance:- Ordinance PAGE No.1 of 1908, entitled-An Ordinance to
203 amend The Fire Brigade Ordinance, 1868,
At Canton
April 18th fourteen men met their death in the place of public .265 | extention. Thirteen, who had been found 266 guilty of robbery, were decapitated, and the 206 fourteenth, who was understood to have poisoned ...267
his parents, was strangled.
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It is intended, shortly, to carry but the following measures regarding the suppression of opium (1) To urge the Viceroys and Governors of provinces to establish autiopium bureaux. (2) To send officers to every province to find out the number of opium-smokers. (3) To draw up 8 set of regulations for the punishment of officials who are slack in the suppression of opium.
that the following ten vessels are struck off On the 1st instant it was formally announced the fighting strength of the Japanese Navy :- In the Supreme Court on Apl. 20th in chambers The Fuso, Japan's first ironclad, a vessel of 269 before the Chief Justice Mr. Hastings of Messrs. 3,377 tons displacement, built in England in 274 Hastings and Hastings made an application for in Japan in the year 1890; the Kotaka and the
1877;
the Chokai, a gunboat of 622 tons, built winding up the Hongkong Milling Comp Fakuryu, torpedo destroyers of 182 tons and ..271 The application was granted and Mr. J. F.111 tons respectively, captured by the Japanese
212 Chard' was appointed receiver.
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The Chinese Emperor will personally sacrifice 272 at the Temple of Heaven on the 11th day of 274 the 4th moon (May 10) and Ea Hui, Hsi Lu, Têh Mou and Hsin Lung are commanded to offer sacrifices to Earth, the Sun, the Moon, and the Spirits of the Land and Grain, re- spectively, on the same day.
On April 18th, at Union Church, Hongkong, by the Re. C. H. Hickling, assisted by the Rev. T. W. Pearce, W11LIAM NICHOLSO# to MARY
FAIRLIE, eldest daughter f Mr. and Mrs. Alex
ander Rodger, East Point.
DEATHS.
On the 20th April, at Elliot Crescent, RUTHERFORD RUECASTLE, the youngest son of the late A. G. A:tken and Mrs. Aitken. Aged 27.
On April 24th, at the Government Civil Hospital, BERT FELGATE, demily beloved husband of Margare. Hume, aged 42 years.
Hongkong idlechly Press,
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Chinese business circles for the formation of a We learn that a movement is on foot in local syndicate with a view to acquiring, if possible, the big flour mills at Junk Bay established by the Hongkong Milling Co, which has now gone into liquidation, as a result of disastrous speculations in the wheat market.
A Daily Press telegram dated Singapore, April 21st said:-A Dutch patrol at Klung- kung Bali was ambushed on the 17th, and one officer and four men were killed, Twelve others were wounded. The troops took immediate action for reprisals, and Klangkung, which is still an independent capital, was bombarded by the warships. Java is sending re-inforcements. It is surmised that the hostilities originated in consequence of the abolition of the opium farm system.
The Acting Governor of Kiangai has requested the Viceroy at Nanking to protest to the German Consul at Shanghai against th presence of German gunboals in the inland rivers of Kiangsi province which are beyond
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VIEUX ROAD. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET. E. treaty limits. The Acting Governor has also
ARRIVAL OF MAILS. ::
The German Mail of the 24th ult, arrived per 8.s. Prinz Eitel Fredrich on the 20th inst.
The French Mail of the 27.h ul. arrived per a 8. Farra on the 27th inst.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
Owing to the prevalence in the Colony of an infectious disease of the eyes kdown as trachoma regulations is aed by the Medical Officer of Health are to be enforced in all Government and grant-in-ald Enghish Schools.
issued instructions to his subordinates requiring that from henceforth any foreign gunboats visiting inland waters that are beyond treaty limits in Kiangsi province, shall be reported at once to him.
A dispatch from Peking states that the Ministry of Posts and Communications has decided upon the establishment of a foreign steamship service which will be divided into four sections. (1) From Shanghai to America via Japan. (2) From Chefoo to Japan via Port Arthur, Newchwang and Kores. (3) From Amoy to Penang via Formosa, and also to Manila and other South Pacific islands. (4) From Hongkong to Furope. The Head Office will be established in Shanghai. Shares will be convassed for and Government funds will also be provided. The second and third section will be established first and the Company will be directed and financed by the Bank of the Minis ry of Posts and Communications (Chiao-tung be drafted for the approval of their Imperial Bank.) It is stated that regulations will shortly
Majesties.
from China in the war of 18945; and. six torpedo-boats varying in size from 53 tons to 1. The total displacement of these ten vessels is 4 967 tons.
Several hundrels of Chinese lives have been lost by an ansnnounced flooding of the Han river. The amount of loss will never be known. The native papers say that one small steamer and seven bundred big boats with innumerable
people perished including women and children, sampans were destroyed. Some two thousand for many of these boatmen had their families on board as well as the crews. The money value of the damage done they put down at upwards of Tls, 1,000). This estimate cannot be greatly exaggerated for, along the eight hundred yards of the British Bund alone, thirty wreaks can be counted, many of them junks of the largest size. Their crews are nearly all drowned. Had this happened in any other country the news would have rung all round the world, but here it will hardly be mentioned beyond the next parish. The ever patient toiling native will take it as the will of Heaven, and quietly set to to work to raise again his fallen fortunes with. out the slightest bit of clamour. One cannot readily forgive, however, the hopelessly incom- petent and careless officialdom of China which allowed this thing to happen when all could easily have been made safe, as has often been
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done before.
A very interesting and instructive lecture on Radium' was given by, Mr. Frank Browne F.I.C., under the auspices of the "Odd Volume Society" at the City Hall on the 23rd April. Sir Henry Berkeley presided. The lecturer was well acquainted with his subject and after dealing with the history of its discovery and subsequent investigations an- nounced that he was fortunate enough to possess a specimen of this mysterias element, and after some demonstrations he would hand it round for inspection. In proceeding Mr. Browne said that the experiments could be better conducted in tolal darkness and after asking the indulgence of the audience the doors were closed and the lights extinguished. The rays were plain y#visible through screens of wood, glass, iron and thin copper. Experiments mide with órystals were equally successful, willemite being conspicuous by emitting a green phosphorescent glow. The specimen of radium which was hired from home by the Society for the special purpose of the lecture, represented but a grain of the substance and its value was at least £200, Although throwing off millions of rays it was The Hoo. Capt. Basil Taylor briefly moved a caloulsted to last two hundred and fifty year,
vote of thanks.
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