THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXVII.]
Epitome
Leading Articles :-
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Hongkong House Property Shanghai
Strike Law
Royal Tourista
Education in Japan
China's Foreign Trade in 1907
Hongkong Sanitary Board
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The "Powan Wrecked. Supreme Court ....
Hongkong Legislative Council Commercial.
Shipping...
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 13тH JUNE, 1908.
A Daily Peress telegarm dated Tokyo, June 10th said :—The memorial at Port Arthur erect- ed by the Japanese in memory of the Russian dead was unveiled to day in the presence of General Nogi and representatives of the Tsar.
Mr. F. S. A. Bourne, Acting Judge of H. M. Supreme Court Shanghai has left for Seoul. It is understood that his visit, like that of the ..372 | Crown Advocate, who is at present in Korea, is not unconnected with the operation of the new Press regulations.
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Mr. J. J. Leiria, who has been Vice-Consul for Portugal in Hongkong for the past eight ...374 years, and acting Consul General since the death of Mr. A. G. Romano, received by Mail this week official notice of his appointment as 375 Consul at Hongkong, the decree being dated .375 April 23rd. The appointment is one which will give general satisfaction, not only among the Portuguese community but likewise among all 379 others whose business brings them in touch with
the Consulate.
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The Nagasaki Press gives a translation from the Moji Shimpo," which states that the British str. "Courtfield" was responsible for the collision in Moji harbour on May 25, as she was by the current on to the "Chiyo Maru. "
No. 24
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE OPIUM QUESTION.
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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'DAILY PRESS."]
SIR. In my letter on this subject which you were good enough to insert in your issue of 1st June I submitted that probably the best way to solve the financial difficulty caused by the the local opium "dots" would be to forward a decision of the Imperial Anthorities to close Memorial to the Secretary of State setting forth our inability to continue to contribute upwards of a million dollars per annum as military contribution.
The Imperial Authorities do not seem to have ordaining that the opium dens should be closed contemplated the issue of arbitrary orders,
immediately. That difficulties have to be faced in giving effect to the anti-opium policy of the Government is well known at Home and it seems to me that one, at all events, of the main objects in view in despatching the telegram to His Excellency the Governor on the 4th ultimo
Hongkong Weekly Press. The owners of the latter vessel accordingly was, by giving as much warning as possible, to
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of the 15th ult, and the parcel mails which closed in London for des- patch by the all-sea route on the 6th alt, and for despatch overland on the 13th ult.. arrived per 88. Malta on the 10th inst.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
A meeting of the Japan Cotton Spinning Association was held at Osaka on May 23 when the following resolutions were adopted :-
1.-The Association shall provide a fund for encouraging the export of cotton yarn to Hongkong and other foreign countries, with the exception of China, and this shall take the place of the prize tickets. Encouragement money will be given at the rate of seventy-five sen per bale, and will be payable on the presenta tion of the export certificates.
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began to take legal proceedings against the British steamer, but before a process could be served the Conrtfield "left, having sustained no damage to cause detention. The" Chiyo Maru" lost two anchors, which will probably be reco- vered, and altogether sustained damage estimated at Yon 17,000,
In accordance with the Settlement Land Regulations at Amoy the Senior Consul (Dr. Merz, Consul for Germany) is convening a ratepayers' meeting for the 15th inst, at which the following resolutions are to be submitted:- Houses be closed within two months of the 1. That all Opium Smoking Shops and issue of a Special Proclamation on the subject, which Proclamation will be issued immediately after the approval by the Consular Body 2-Tbat & certain limited number of shops be licensed for the sale of prepared Opium, half these said shops to be closed by the 31st March 1909, and the remaining half by the 31st March 1910.
We regret to record the death of Mr. Chiu Yu Tsun, who for many years has been the General Manager of our Chinese newspaper, the Chung Ngoi San Po. The paper which attained ita jubilee eight months ago enjoys the distinotion of being the pioneer Chinese daily newspaper, and Mr. Chiu, who had been con- nected with it from his boyhood, could_count a service of about thirty-five years.
When he joined the office the paper was under the management of the present Chinese Minister to Washington, H. E. Wa Ting Fang and his brother the late Mr. Ng Chan, and it was when the latter died that Mr. Chfu succeeded him as sub-lessee and General Manager. During the eighteen years he has had the direction of the paper he has fully maintained its best traditions and his death is deplored by his colleagues and a
2-The above resolution shall come into wide circle of friends. Mr. Chiu died at Canton force on the day on which it is adopted.
3.-The encouragement money shall only be payable on cotton exported within fifteen days after the expiration of the second term of the issue of prize tickets.
on Monday after a brief illness. A distressing sequel is that saven nephews and nieces belonging to Macao, who were proceeding to Canton by the ill-fated steamer Powan," attend the obsequies, are all missing and are believed to have been drowned.
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reduce the difficulties and so pave the way for the closing of the dens as quickly as was locally expedient.
The road is clearly open to us to memorialise the Secretary of State, who would, I should say, be likely to gratefully receive a carefully drawn appeal, clearly setting forth our financial status, and our inability to continue to contribute upwards of a million dollars a year to the Imperial Treasury,
May I again suggest that much good and meeting being held as soon as possible with a assuredly no harm would result from a public view to the appointment of a Committee representative of every section of our large cosmopolitan community which should be entrusted with the task of preparing as they may deem expedient-s Memorial for despatch to the Secretary of State through the good offices of His Excellency the Governor.
All that is now requisite is that the matter should be put before the Imperial Authorities
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proper manner, and, if a better way of doing so can be devised than the modus operandi I have ventured to place before your readers, I take this opportunity to assure you that the promoters of it will find in me a very stanuch supporter, for I realize the necessity for action and am quite willing that my scheme be shelved provided such effacement makes for the welfare of the majority of my fellow-citizens.
Surely, Sir, as you suggested in your leading article on the lat instant, the reformers at Home would "probably appreciate an oppor- tunity of proving their good faith" and should at all events, “be given the chance."
"What is worth having is worth asking for "i if we don't ask how can we expect to receive the measure of consideration which is clearly duo us in this connection ?—Yours faithfully,
G, A. WATKINS,
Hongkong, 8th June 1908,