THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXIX.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Far Eastern News.......
Leading Articles:--
British Budget
Coming Revolution in Ching..
Pratas Island
Slavery in Hongkong
Secret Societies in Ching
Deposition of the Sultan
China's Naval Ambitions
Random Reflections
Hongkong News
Garden Fête
St. Andrew's Sunday School, Kowloon
Supreme Court
Serious Charge Against a Soldier
Highway Robbery...
Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ld...
A Pecullar Story
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 10TH MAY, 1909.
Hongkong Weekly Press.
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FAR FASTERN NEWS.
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When the steamer Djambi which was sunk some few months ago by a French Mail steamer was put up to auction at Singapore last week the highest bid offered was $300. The steamer was bought in and will again be put up for auction.
The total amount of income from monopolies of the Formosan Government for the past fiscal year is Y. 9,616,770, a deficit of Y. 4,234,641 as against the estimates. The sum of Y. 1,468,048
amounts to Y. 2,766,593.
Wireless telegraphy has been installed at the still remaining uncollected, the actual defloit Palace Hotel, Shanghai.
The Yamato Hotel at Dalny has been enlarged 379 to accommodate 70 guests.
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Sir Alexander Hosie has gone Home, via 382 Siberia, on one year's leave of absence.
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The Filipinos observed May 1st as Labour 383 Day, and in consequence the Manila papers were
not published on the 2nd inst.
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Company Meetings:-
National Bank of China, Ld..
China Traders' Insurance Company, Ld.
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Mr. Kinder's Resignation
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Standard Oil Steamer " Ashtabula,”
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Mistaken Identity
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The Arrested Prosperity of Hongkong
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China's Finances
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Y.M.C.A. Concert.
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Macao Notes
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Delimitation of Macao.
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Anti-Opium Measures in Honan
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Shipping Notes
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Dr. Stein's Expedition in Central Asia
Shipping Boycott
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Trade Between China and Japan
Decline in Opium Revenue...
Suger Trade in Japan
Chinese Poll Tax in Siam
Crusade Against Prolonged Credit
Masonic Inaugurtion Ceremony at Shanghai Colonel Bayard and the Shanghai Volunteers The Opium Deparatment of India
Serious Car Accident in the Philippines. Foochow Wedding
The Philippines...
Immigration Into the Philippines.
The Waiwupu Building.
China the First Home of Golf
The Shanghai Races.........
Hankow Race Meeting
China Association-Annual Meeting in London
Hongkong Corinthian Yacht Club
Far Eastern Telegrams
The Pratas
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
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The dry-dock "Dewey "is to be brought from Olongapo within the next six months to Cavite, to be permanently stationed there.
General van Heutsz, the Governor-General of Netherlands India will retire from the high office at the expiration of his term of service in October.
Mr. M. Gotthardt, late assistant Workshop and Locomotive Superintendent, in the Royal State Railways of Siam, died at sea on his way down to Singapore on the steamer Deli.
A Chinese contemporary states that H.E. 387 Liang Tun-yen has been negotiating with the 387 British and Dutch Ministers for the appoint 387 ment of a Chinese Consul for Hongkong and 387 Java. 387
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387 Mr Behaghel, a German mining engineer, has entered the service of the Provincial Govern ment Mining Board at Tientsin as an advisor, Mr. Behaghel was formerly Director of one of 389 the Shantung Mining Companies.
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Five Filipinos have been sentenced to be hanged and ten others to imprisonment for 392 life for the murder of Charles H. Trotter, 393 Vicente Toledo and Jose Cayauan in the foothills .393 of Zambales Mountains last October.
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At Kirn, Scotland, on 7th instant, the wife of WILLIAM NICHOLSON, of a › on.
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MARRIAGE.
On April 24th, at Shanghai, JOHN ARTHUR, the youngest son of the late NILS MOLLER, of Steng hai, to NELLIE AUSTIN, eldest daughter of the late J. MACTAVISH and Mrs. S. M. McLEISH, of Shanghai,
On April 29th, 1909, at Shanghai, SAMUEL HOUSTON KEAN, to FLORENCE CAROLYN elder daughter of Capt. and Mrs. A. E. FLAGG.
DEATH.
On April 26th, at hanghai, JANE ELLE 1 ANDERSON, aged 40 years.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of the 7th April arrived on Wednesday the 5th inst per s.s. P. E. Friedrich.
The French Mail of the 9th April arrived
per s.s. Polynesien on the 10th inst.
Dr. Beelaerts von Blokland, the new Minister for the Netherlands, has arrived at the Capital. His Excellency travelled by the Siberian route. Until lately, he held the position of secretary to the Netherlands Parliament at the Hague.
News has reached Japan by cable of the death of the Rev. William Ashmore, D.D., formerly of Swatow. Dr. Ashmore retired six years ago after about 52 years service as a missionary in China, and had since been living in Canada.
The Chinese Imperial High Commissioner, Tang Shao-yi, and other members of the special mission were received in audience by the German The First Emperor at Potsdam last month. Class of the Prussian Order of the Crown has been conferred upon Tang Shao-yi and upon the Duke Tsai-fu, and minor decorations have been conferred upon other members of the mission.
Hundreds of foreigners have recently been visiting the Summer Palace at Peking, applica- tion having first to be made through the lega- tions. The accommodation at the Peking Hotels has been taxed to the utmost. "So great is the crush," says a report, that men are forced to sleep on billiard tables and in other inconvenient places." The boom in the Hotel trade in Pek. ing is described as unprecedented.
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A Washington telegram states Senators A. J. Beveridge of Indiana, Weldon B. Heyburn of Idaho and Joseph F. Johnston of Alabama have been appointed on a special committee to prepare a new tariff for the Philippine Islands. The appointment of the committee has grown out of the discussion of Colton tariff bill before the Upper House and the numerous amendments that have been proposed and adopted by that body.
We have been favoured by the publishers with a copy of the War Cry, the Salvation Army journal, in which we notice several references to the work of the Army in Japan and Korea. There is a picture of a property acquired at Dalny by the Army. A substantial hall put up by the Russians as a general post office has been purchased there for 3,600 yen. and the proposed alterations and the building of a wall round the property will cost another thousand yen.
The first of the China Consular Reports for the year 1908 is to hand. It is the report on the Trade of Antung by Mr. W. P. M. Russell, the acting Consul, who says that having regard to the general trade depression throughout the north of China, Antung trade may be said on the whole to have been satisfactory through the year, and that merchants, both Chinese and Japanese, seem to look forward with confidence to a promising season in view of the decision to reconstruct the railway to Mukden, which will conduce to commercial activity in many directions.
With reference to the resignation of Mr C. w. Kinder, C.M.G,, who for thirty years has been the Engineer-in-Chief and General Manager of the Imperial Railways of North China, an old resident informs us that Mr. Kinder's father was Major Kinder, R.E. who came out to Hongkong as Master of the Mint when it was first established here, and when its brief existence in the Colony ended and the stamping machinery was sold to the Japanese Government, Major Kinder went to Japan with it and ran the first Japanese Mint for five years, 1870 to 1875.
A defence of the climate of Tonkin is made by L'Annam-Tonkin. The writer says it has an exaggerated reputation for insalubrity. In refutation of this he points to the mortality statistics which he says show that the Tonkinese climate is particularly favourable to children and old people. The writer deduces also from the statistics that "paradoxical as it may seem," the European is more acclimatised to Tonkin than the native. Anyone looking at the mort- ality statistics of Hongkong might at first sight draw similar conclusions; but, as we have often pointed out, such deductions are not justifiable, because whenever Europeans, and especially children and the old people, fall ill they leave the East-for more bracing climates.