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THE
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Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXIX.]
Kuropatkin's Prophecy.
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China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 18T FEBRUARY, 1909.
CONTENTS.
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Far Eastern News
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Leading Articles.---
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China's Financial Arrangements
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Japan and Korea
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Yunnan Railway
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Britain's Naval Defence .......
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Crime in Hongkong.
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Random Reflections ......
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Hongkong News
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Assault on the S.S. "Korea.”'.
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Death of Mr. A. P. Marty
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Supreme Court ..........
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Resignation of Mr. Justice Wise..
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Retirement of Mr. Dyer Ball
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A Plausible Burglar
Larceny from a Boarding House
Japan Notes
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Hongkong Benevolent Society.
Tired of Life
Craigengower Cricket Club's New Pavilion
Kulangsu (Amoy) Municipal Council
Unlicensed Pawnbrokers
China New Year
No. 5
The strike among sailors at Manila seems to be far from overcome yet. The agitators are in.
Honghong Weekly Dress, citing railway operatives to strike. Some arrests
HONGKONG OFFice: 10A, DES VEUX ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of the 30th December 80 last arrived per s.s. P. R. Luitpold, on the 80 19th ultimo,
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have been made in connection with the strike.
Most Shanghai residents, says the N. C. Daily news, were surprised, on awaking on the morning of the 20th Jan., to find that there had been a trees and roads were carpeted in white, and, heavy fall of snow during the night. Roofs,
doubtless, this accounted for many smiles on the faces of the Chinese who regarded this belated snowfall as a happy augury for the coming Chinese year.
of the Soya and 480, with a number of graduat The Japanese Training Squadron, consisting
es from the Naval Engineering College on board, will leave. Yokosuka towards the end of Febru
The French Mail of the 1st Jan, arrived ary on a training cruise. It will make its way to 82 to-day per M. M. steamer Salazie,
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German Emperor's Birthday
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The Manila Carnival
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Serious hooting Affray at Yaumati
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Funeral of Lance-Sergeant Milla
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Correspondence :---
Hongkong Football Club and the Shanghai
Invitation
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The Yunnan Railway.......
St. John's Cathedral
The China Association
International Opium Commission
Company Reports:-
Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co.
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Hongkong Land Reclamation To., Ltd.
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West Point Building Company
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Hongkong Canton and Macao Steamboat Co..
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China Provident Loan and Mortgage Co., Ld.
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Half Yearly Dividends
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Public Company Meetings:
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FAR EASTERN NEWS.
A large number of forged banknotes are in circulation in Indo-China.
Many Chinese at Bangkok are said to have recently discarded the queue.
Miss Gilchrist, the wealthy lady who was 87 mysteriously murdered in a Glasgow flat, has by 7 her will bequeathed £5,000 to Mr. James John-
ston, Shanghai.
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Hongkong Lan Investment and Agency Co., Ld. 91' Hongkong Land Reclamation Company
West Point Building Company
Campbell, Moore & Co., Ld.
Steamship Passage Rates
Shipping Notes
The Korean Emperor's Tour
Far Eastern Telegrams
Hongkong Appointments
Local Sport
Another Burglary
Formosan Sugar
hipping at Saigon Commercial
Bhipping
BIRTHS.
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Mr. R. W. E. Dalrymple has resigned the appointment of British Vice-Consul at Sourabaya from the 1st ult. Mr. A. C. Ballingal now acts as British Consul there.
The new naval dock at Sasebo, which is reput- ed to be the largest yet constructed in the East, is now fast approaching completion and is ex- pected to be opened shortly.
A telegram to Tokyo from London states that the advance in silver has been due to large orders coming from China, and to purchases of
the metal on behalf of China.
Mr. E. M. Janion of the Chartered Bank has .9 been appointed agent at Batavia Mr. J. Camp 13 bell another member of the Bank's staff well known in the East, has just been married at Batavia.
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On January 3r', at Hankow, to Mr. and Mrs. E. M. REYNOLDS, & 801.
On January 8th, at Shanghai, the wife of Mr. DAVID LANDALE of a daughter.
On the 10th in-tant at "Cragside" The Peak, the wife of A, H, SKELTON, of a son.
On the 12th inst. at Victoria Hospital, (Hong- kong Mrs. A. RAMSAY, of a son.
On January 15th at Shanghai, to the wife of O, H. RITTER. & son.
On January 15th, at Shanghai, the wife of the Bev. R. G. WINNING, of a daughter.
On 28th January, at "Villa Branca," Robinson Road, Hongkong, the wife of Mr. Jose M. ALVES,
of a sou.
DEATHS.
01 January 11th, a Kulatigau, Amoy, Joar PHILLIPS, late Chief Constable of the British Concession, Amoy Aged 7 years,
On January 5th, at Shanghai, EMILIE, the beloved mother of CHABLES IBURG, aged 74 years.
A Chinese newspaper published in Peking is responsible for the statement that, on the Dalai Lama's departure from Peking, the Russian Minister made him a present of 20,000 Taels, and the Dalai Lama in acknowledgement gave the Minister 24 “josses."
Captain C. W. Mead, who died suddenly last week at Manila, will be known to many in Hongkong and Canton as the former chief engineer of the Canton-Hankow railway. He died at the Army and Navy Club from acute gastritis. Thewidow and family are in Europe.
The Board of War at Peking recently wired to the various military departments instructing that, hereafter, all arms used by Chinese troops should be obtained from Chinese arsenals! Foreign weapons should only be purchased when the local supplies are found insufficient.
It is gazetted that Miss E. Finch, an American, living at No 43, Wakamatsu-cho Yokohama, has been naturalized as a Japanese subject. It is said that she is the first foreign lady to be naturalized in Japan. Miss Finch be- longs to the Independent Branch of the Evan gelical Association of North America.
a point on the coast south of San Francisco, and then turn north in order to visit the Seattle Exhibition. On its return route it will visit Vancouver and Hawaii.
We learn from a Manila contemporary that Mesars Wm. H. Anderson and t'ompany repre. senting the Green Island Cement Company. last week received the award for furnishing 30,000 barrels of their product to the Philippine above, says our contemporary, is one of the Railway Company, at Iloilo and Cebu. The many large contracts recently awarded Ander Son and Co., whose celebrated Green Island cement ranks high by test, with advantageous price. 1
The Emperor of China is ill of confuent small pox. On the 20th inst. an Imperial Res. cript was issued making it known that the young Emperor would not attend the temporary burial of his predecessor in the mountains, but as that event does not take place until the 1st of May, the announcement did not suggest an illness. The Rescript says the Emperor regards it as a duty to his predecessor to attend the funeral, but he yields in the matter to the wish of the Empress Dowager who says he is too young.
fact that serious diplomatic complications are Owing, says a Chinese contemporary, to the often caused by the molesting and robbing of foreigners travelling in the provinces by the ignorant country people, the Wai-wu-pu hast proposed to the Government that in future when foreigners apply for permits to go to the interior, whether on business or for pleasure, the high officials of the provinces through which they pass should be furnished with full particulars of the travellers and the reasons for their journeys and be requested to instruct their subordinates to publish the same in all public places for the information of the people: The Government view this proposal very favourably.
The Salvation Army, in Java, has started on a new line of work by taking up Govern- ment contracts, through its Commander, at Samarang. It has contracted to supply the Government hospitals there with rations and other supplies. The contract runs from 1909 to 1913. The Salvationists have also taken over the management of the Government - Leper hospital there for a while on trial. They had offered to run the establishment in return for a grant-in-aid from Government. The patients dislike the arrangement, from fear that they would be compelled to follow strict rules and bə made to work for the benefit of the Army. The subsidy is less than the Government outlay on the Asylum.