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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXIX.]
CONTENTS.
Random Reflections
Hongkong News
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 26TH APRIL, 1909.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
No. 17
An Automobile Gymkhana was held on the Scottish Monarch took 8 cargo from the Shanghai Race Course on the 10th inst.
Colonel Bayard of the Buffs was at Shanghai 331 last week for the purpose of inspecting the 331 Volunteer Corps.
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Dr. F. Kruger, German Cousul. General 333 Seoul, and Madame Kruger, have recently, 334 paid a visit to Mukden,
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As showing the number of tourists who are 335 already visiting Japan, a Japan contemporary 336 mentions that over yen 600 was paid by foreign
ers at the Sannomiya Station Kobe, on the 337
7th inst. in first-class fares to Kioto.
Far Eastern News.
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Leading Articles:--
India's Budget
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Railway Construction in Yunnan
Revolt in Turkey
Flogging of Criminals
An American Pacific Fleet
Chinese Banks
New Chinese Port..
Bathing Fatality at Hongkong
Death of Mr. G. Murray. Bain
Presentations to Mr. J. Gray Scott
Farewell Dinner to Mr. Gray Scott
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Hongkong General ('hamber of Commerce
Supreme Court
Delimitation of Macao.
Macao Notes
Correspondence:
Chinese Burial Grounds
Company Meetings:--
Union Insurance Society of Canton Ld..........
China Traders' Insurance Company, Limited Hongkong Electric Company, Limited
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Yangtaze Insurance Association, Limited
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Shanghai Companies..
Japan Notes
Yunnan: Its Area. Population and Inhabitants
Hongkong Ladies' Recreation Club...
Tennis Tournament in Hongkong.
Far Eastern Telegrams
Shipping Notes ...
An Unauthorised Public Meeting in Hongkong
Fooksang" in & Typhoon
Commercial Notes
Casualties in the Korean Insurrection
Commercial.
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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In a memorial to the Throne by the Board of 313 Posts and Communications it is frankly admit- ted that the imposition of Likin along railway routes is preventing the development of goods traffic on the various failways in hina.
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"Colonel" Bob Love, the manager of Harms- ton's Circus, who has been ill for some time past at the San Lazaro Hospital Manila with hemor rhagic smallpox, is steadily improving, and is now thought to be practically out of danger.
As a little group of Chinese speculators who 348 dropped a trifle of five or six million dollars in 348 acquiring the knowledge--know to their cost, says the Pinang Gazette, the price of tin is governed by a variety of factors, many of them 349 altogether beyond the control of people in 30 Malaya.
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Chinese newspapers state the Wai-wa-pu is in receipt of a dispatch from the German Minister in Peking stating that thirty-five foreign goods On the 7th instant, at Yokohama, the wife of merchants in Tientsin owe foreign firms an J. K.UTTON, of a son.
that the Viceroy at Tientsin be instructed to amount of Tls. 14,000,000. A request is made
On April 20th 1909, at the Peak Hospital, Hongkong, to Mr. and Mrs. PICARD-DESTELAN, a
son
On April 22nd, 1909. at the Victoria Hospital, Hongkong, the wife of J. MCCAFFERY, of a daughter.
MARRIAGE.
consider some remedy in the matter.
Festivities in Java in honour of the expected happy erent in the Dutch royal family include a unique item-a tiger fight at a place called Blitar. The tigers will be turned out into a On April 17th at St. John's Cathedral, Hong-fenced arena where they will be done to death kong, by Rev. F. T. Johnson, M.A. BENJAMIN by native spearmen. CHARLES MATURIN, only son of Benj min John- this kind of sport was witnessed there. It is It is many years since son, Esq. of Listowel, Co. Kerry, Ireland, to FANNY expected that there will be an ELISABETH, third daughter of Rev. Samuel Dick-attendance of spectators-running into several son Sandes, M.A. of 26 St. Paul's Road, Thoruton thousands. Heath, Surrey, England, late Rector of Marles- ford, Suffolk.
DEATH.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 1 th April, at the ge of furteen, NELLIE, daughter of Robert Kay.
On April 19th, of the Victori Shanghai JOSIAH ALEXA DEE Family Hotel), aged 67 years.
Nuring Home, ACKSON (1.te of
Hongkong lechly Pres.
L'ONGKONG OFFICE: 104, Des Vigdalina LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET. E..
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mait of the 24th Mar., arrived per s.s. Derflinger on Wednesday the 21st
instant.
The French Mail of the 26th ult., arrived per s.s. Oceanien to-day the 26th instant.
enormous
A Ceylon resident, who has had a long conversation with Sir Patrick Manson about conditions of life in the tropics, writes as follows: Sir Patrick is very much down on the love the Englishman in the tropics has for exercise and says it knocks them all up sooner or later. He says it is inherited from the old days when people flogged themselves because they thought it made heaven more certain; now people play games at the end of a day's work because they think it will keep them fit and Well "
The Indian Budget shows that during the past year the increase in revente from nim amounted to £1,041,30, but in the Estimates
for
to
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1909-1910 a decrease of £1,468,200 jis, calculated due to reduction in Bengal sales and accumulation of duty-paid Opium at Bombay. The price of Bengal Opium is taken at Rs. 1,350 per chest. The sales will be 42,300 chests. It is also surmised that 8,700 chests of Malwa opium will pay pass duty during 1909-1910 mainly in preparation for the shipment of 1911.
Arrangements, we read, have been made for the shipment of a very large cargo of Tasmanian sleepers for the Chinese railways. The steamer Huon last month, and reached Hongkong on sleepers, equivalent to 2,520,000 feet. This, is the 21st inst. The shipment consists of 84,003
the largest cargo of timber that has left Tasmania in one bottom.
(Oregon), Tacoma, Spokane, and Seattle have The Chambers of Commerce of Portland
decided to invite a number of representatives of Japanese commercial interest to visit the United States this year. Some time ago these bodies and the San Francisco Chamber, con- stituting the Associated Chambers of the Pacific Coast, gave a similar invitation to the business men of Japan, but owing to the recurrence of anti-Japanese feeling the San Francisco Cham, ber withdrew.
Our Amoy readers will be interested in the following paragraph which appears in a Peking contemporary: Since the opening of Amoy. as a treaty port, a Mixed Court has been established under the management of the sotal. This port is largely populated with Portuguese subjects who often cause friction with the natives. This coming to the knowledge of HE. Liang Tun Yen when he was there for the reception of the American Fleet, His Ex- cellency now proposes to memorialize and ask the Throne to appoint a special commissioner to protect the hinese there. The proposal has been approved by all the Grand Councillors.
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Much has been heard of late concerning of the Chinese Navy This, if we may believe schemes for the reorgaisation and development the reports, is to commence forthwith. The
compulsory military service. But the scheme is Prince Regent is now credited with a great scheme for the reform of the rmy, involving
to be pigeon-holed until China's parliament meets-eight years hence. His Highness is reported to have decided that "after the meeting of parliament, all adult males either high or low, noble or common, shall join the military forces for a period of three years, tions." before they are allowed to join other occups-
The Ningpo correspondent of the N.-C. Daily News writes:-The departure of Mr. and occasion for vrs. T. W. Lammert, on Friday,...pril 9, gave a remarkable demonstration of friendliness on the part of both foreigners and Chinese. For six years Mr. Lammert has been Swire, during which time he has gained the the Ningpo agent of Messrs. Butterfield and
and, by his genial courtesy, the goodwill and respect and confidence of the native merchants, friendship of the foreign residents. Harmony and confidence the essentials of a successful merchant's life in China-ware marked charso- teristics of Mr. Lammert's relationship with y the Chinese throughout the whole period of his residence in Ningo. Ia truly Chinese fashion they displayed their goodwill by saluting the departing steamer by firing three to four hundred bombs, and sixty thousand crackers At the invitation of the senior pilot of the port, Capt. A. J. Philbey, who had specially hired the steam-launch Shunning, a large company of foreign and Chinese friends escorted the steamer Lita to the mouth of the Ningpo river, where final fusillade of Chinese crackers conveyed best wishes for a safe voyage, and a pleasant and happy furlough in the Homeland.