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Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXIX.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
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Railway Enterprise Choked by Likin
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 17TH APRIL, 1909.
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Far Eastern News...
Leading Articles:-
Influence of the Drama
United States and the Tea Duty
Hongkong Cemetery Question
Constitutional Government
Random Reflections
Hongkong News
Civil Service Cricket Club
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Sanitary Board
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Thief and a Trespasser
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Sudden Death of Mr. O. D. Thomson.
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Necromancer's Black Art .4.
"Religion and the Average Man"
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Complimentary Dinner to Dr. Wilder.
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Distinguished Visitors in Hongkong
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Supreme Court
Mission to Seamen's Institute
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Alleged Larceny as a Bailee
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An Escaped Prisoner
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A Smart Capture
Supplying a Prisoner With Food
Railways in Siam
Company Report:--
Hongkong Electric Company, Limited
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Company Meeting :-
Chins Flour Mill Company, Limited
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Yunnan and the Yangtse
Correspondence:→→→
Chinese Borial Grounds
The Colonial Purse
Home and China Affairs
Mining in Kobea
Far Eastern Telegrams
Local Sport...
Medical Missionary Movement in China
The Next Carnival at Manila
Japan's Navigation Subsidy
Depreciated Subsidiary Coin at Shanghai. Commercial
Shipping
MARRIAGE.
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FAR EASTERN NEWS.
The Spring Race meeting at Hankow takes place on the 26th, 27th and 28th inst.
The secretaryship of the Hankow Club has now been filled, Mr. Spenceley having been elected to the position.
A party of over 200 American businessmen are shortly expected at the Harbin end of the Manchurian railway on a tour of North and South Manchuria.
Mr. C. W. Fairbanks, ex Vice-President of the United States, is to take a trip round the world. He is expected to spend some time in the Philippine Islands.
The latest Manila papers report "Colonel" Bob Lore, of Harmiston's Circus, who is a patient in the San Lazaro Small-yox Hospital, to be in a very critical condition.
The report of the Bangkok Dock Company Ltd. for the past year shows a net profit of Ticals 56.172, and a dividend of 5 per cent. has been declared absorbing Ticals 40.000.
Mr. Luke E. Wright, formerly Governor- General of the Philippines, is expected to suc- ceed & r. Fuller as Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States in October next.
H.I.M. the Czar will be represented at the State Funeral, fixed for May 1, by Gen. Politsin, 323 ex-Chief of General Staff and a Member of the 327 Imperial Senate, who is expected at Peking
about the 22nd, by thej Siberian route.
It is announced that Mr. C. W. Kinder. CM.G.. Chief Engineer of the Imperial Railways in North China, who has rendered the most valuable services for over 30 years as the pioneer of railways in China, is leaving for home and is not returning.
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On the 14th April at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, by the Rev. C. E. Thompson, BA.. MAUD WILHELMINA, daughter of the late William Mitchell Thomson, of Hongkong, 10 TOBIAS, SO of the late William Leyland Hunter of Foochow.
DEATHS.
On March 29th, 1909, at Yolohan a. MARIA THERESA, beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J M. Marques da Silva Aged 2 years and 2 months.
At Bombay, KHORSED, the dearly beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrș. J. H. Ruttonjee, aged 5 years.
H, E Admiral Sir Harry Rawson, Governor of New South Wales, and his son and daughter, who are on their way home via Japan and Canada, were entertained at Government House on Monday, a large party being invited to meet them. After the dinner they proceeded to Canton.
The Hungarian clerk, whose extradition is sought by the Government of the Netherlands- Indies on a charge of having embezzled seven thousand guilders, again appeared before Mr. J. H. Kemp at the Magistracy on Tuesday. After an interview.with a Dutch official the defend- ant announced his willingness to return Batavia for trial, and the case was again
remanded.
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"ARRIVAL OF MAIL.
The English Mail of the 19th ultimo, and the parcel mail glosed in London for despatch by the all sea route on the 10th March, and for despatch overland on the 17th March, arrived per s.s. Assaye on the 16th instant.
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Under the China-Japan Telegraph Union Agreement, a cable service is to be installed and operated between Dairen (Dalny) and as a joint Japanese and Chinese enterprise. It is under-stood the De partment of
Communications, Tokyo, is prepared to begin the preliminary survey in May, and upon its completion,
to lay the cable, s, as to have it ready for service by
next fall.
The mail brings news of the death of M. Ulysse Pila, formerly well known in Shanghai, and a prominent Lyons merchant. M. Pila largely interested himself in the development of Tongking amongst other enterprises in an active career. He leaves a son, who was recently appointed French Commercial Attaché for China and Japan. several banks and companies connected with the M. Pila was a director of
Far East, including the Banque de l'Indo-China.
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A concession for working a gold mine near Port Arthur was granted before the late War. As their claim has been confirmed by the Japanese authorities, the concessionaires are said to be making preparations for resuming the work.
We have received from the Statistical De- partment of the Inspectorate of Customs, Shanghai, a copy of a List of Medicines exported from ankow and the other Yangtze ports, compiled by Mr. R. Braun of the Customs Service. The book is in two parts. Part I. gives an alphabetical and descriptive list of medicines, and Part II, a tariff of approximate values of medicines and miscellaneous goods. It is a most useful book for those seeking informa- tion of the value of Chinese medicines.
We have received through Messrs. Kelly and Walsh a copy of Hai Kuan Yu Yen Pi Hsu, a dictionary of 3,000 commonly recurring ex pressions, compiled with a view to being useful to the hinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service, with Wade's romanisation, by C. A. 8, Williams. The dictionary is arranged in alpha- betical order, and on each page three columns are given, one with the word in English, the middle one in Chinese characters, and the third with the romanized word. It is a compilation body of men for whom it is primarily intended. which must prove cf great use to that large
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Mr. A. P. Wood, presiding at the annual meeting of the Shanghai Cricket Club said :—“I am afraid I have taken up a great deal of your time, but like the boy with the plums, I have left to the last the pleasure of thanking the Hong- kong Cricket Club for sending up a team, and although beaten, Hongkong as it alway does, able to send an eleven to Hongkong this year to played a very plucky game. I hope we shall be
I am very pleased to tell you the “Baffs give them an opportunity to win back their flag. promised to send up an eleven also to play have tennis and golf, to arrive in Shanghai on May 23, We hope to arrange the first day of the match to take place on the 24th, Empire Day, when everybody interested in the game will be able to attend, and see some very fine cricket, There is no time to lose before getting our eleven into form; therefore, the ground will be opened on May 1, and arrangements will be made, if possible, for members to practice on Race days.
A contract for the amalgamation of the American General Electric Co., the Shibaura Engineering Works and the Tokio Electric Co. will be signed shortly, says the Japan Gazette. The merican General Electric Co. are big shareholders of the Tokio Electrio Co., which is now principally manufacturing electric light lamps. This amalgamation was mooted during the visit of Mr. Masuda, Director- General of the Mitsui firm, to merica, and practically settled by a representative of the
merican Company in Japan. The amalgamated capital is four millions yen, of which over one- half is to be taken up by the merican Com. pany. As the Shibaura Engineering Works' paid-up capital is one million yen and Tokio Electric Co.'s Yen. 7,0 0, the amalgamation Japanese firms. vailing itself of the merican may be effected by special payment by the Company's patents and designs, the amalgamat ed company will compete with other foreign the manufacturers in that line. It is expected that merican Japanese firm will be named "Toyo Danki Kaisha" (Oriental Electric Co.)