THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
China
VOL. LXIX.]
CONTENTS.
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Far Eastern News...
Leading Articles:--
Hongkong's Subsidiary Coinage
Proposed the new Peak Tramway
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A. Necessary Evil
China's Sovereign Rights"
Crock v. Kettle
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Crown Agents and Colonial Trade
Random Reflections
Disorderly German Sailors.
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Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 7TH JUNE, 1909.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
Fetween Friday and Monday last the Shang. hai Fire Brigade was called out to no fewer
than fifteen fires.
M. La Verriere, Chaucellor of the French Consulate at Hankow, fell overboard from the C. M. S. Kuling last week and was drowned.
Marquis Katsura, the Premier of Japan 465 invited Mr. Chirol, Foreign Editor of The Times and Dr. Morrison to lunch on the 26th. Mr. G. F. Montgomery, Commissioner of Imperial Maritime Customs, who went home on leave from Foochow, has resigned after nearly thirty years' service.
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Hongkong News
Supreme Court
Suicide of a Japanese
The Peak Tramway's 21st Anniversary
The Typhoon of 1908-Rewards for Bravery
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Floating Mine Recovered
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Terrible Tragedy at Sea...
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A Sea Mystery
Farewell to Inspector Withers
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Hongkong Philharmonic Society.
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The Vacancy on the Legislative Council
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Japan Notes
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The Mago Boundary
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China and the Fakumen Railway Question
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The Lai Hing Case Judgment
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Lloyds Fire Insurance in Japan
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Foreign Insurance Office in Japan
Consular Reports
Opium and Cigarettes at Foochow
Hongkong Gymkhana Club
Shipping Notes
Japan Tea Trade
Anhui Copper Mine Trouble
Rescue in the Harbour...
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
Chinese Temple Collapses
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Canton News
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Coxswain Charged with Manslaughter
"China's Sovereign Rights
The Daily Mail" Cup
Correspondence :-
The Ladies' Benevolent Society
Macao in Financial Straits...
Belgian Consul's Residence Robbed
Company Report:-
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The two little sons of Mr. and Mrs. Dulling of Foochow have been bitten hy a dog, and they are being taken to Shanghai to undergo the Pasteur treatment.
The directors of the A. Butler Cement Works Limited, at the annual meeting, which is to be held on 7th Juue, will recommend a dividend of six
per cent for the year.
Mr. Evelyn David, son of Mr. A. J. David 473 of Hongkong and a nephew of Sir Sassoon David of Bombay, has gone to Shanghai to take charge of the local branch of Messrs. 2. J. David & Co.
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The body of George Frank Stewart. the 476 bluejacket belonging to H.M.S. Cadmus, who was recently drowned at Shanghai, while attemp ting to get aboard the ship from a sampan, has been recovered.
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On receipt of news of the result of the Derby, the Stewards of the Shanghai Race Club sent a telegram to H. M. the King conveying heart 480 iest congratulations." His Majesty telegraphed
his thanks for the message.
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Cheung Chan as a Health Resort..
The Pratas Island Question
Hongkong Investors in Philippines.
China's Customs Tariff
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The Death of Captain Markham
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The German Travellers Murdered in Yunnan
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Lawn Tennis
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Interport Lawn Tennis
The Filipino Demand for Independence.......
Wedding at the Cathedral
The Star Ferry Company, Limited.
Company Meetings:-
Peak Tramway Company, Limited
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Watson and Company, Limited
Watkins' Limited
The Star Ferry Co., Ltd.
Shanghai Companies
The Legislative Council Vacancy
Far Eastern Telegrams
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The Formosan Aborigines
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Opening of the Shanghai-Hangehow Railway ...
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The Hankow Tea Market
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Spurious Soap in Japan Shanghai Trade.. Commercial Shipping
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Now that the Phillipine Assembly has come to an end great political activity is noted among the Nacionalista and Progresista parties, both of which are preparing the field for the struggle for the mastery at the November elections.
After an absence of several months Asiatic cholera las again made its appearance in Manila in a very mild form, so mild in fact that laboratory tests have failed to show but one clearly positive case out of five suspected ones.
A Vladivostock dispatch to a Japanese newspaper states that it has been decided to ruu Russo-Japanese horse races on September 483 5th, 8th, 12th, 15th 18th, and 19th next. Three hundred horses are now entered for the contests, A number of horses are expected to arrive from Moscow.
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An Imperial edict. issued by the Prince Regent of Chiua (531 behalf
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Mr. Oliver G. Ready, the Commissioner of Customs at Changsha, is going home on leave. Spinning Company has obtained through the Tokyo newspapers state that the Tokyo
agency of Messrs. Sale, Frazar & Co. a foreign | loan of Y1,000,000 at 6 per cent interest, the loan being guaranteed by the Hundredth Bank, and its proceeds to be applied to the purchase of new machinery.
Vice-Admiral Sir Hedworth Lambton with H.M.S. King Alfred, Bedford. Monmouth and Kent, armoured cruisers; H.M.S. Clio, sloop; and four torpedo-boat destroyers were at Wei- hai-wei on the 28th alt. H.M.S. Astraea, 2nd class cruiser, and the dispatch vessel were ex- pected to arrive the following day.
An Imperial Edict sanctions the request contained in a memorial from the Board of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce for an official Seal to be given to the Chinese Commercial, Association, formed for the purpose of promoting China's foreign commerce by Chinese merchants in North Borneo,
The resignation of Prince Ito as Resident- General in Korea has now been definitely accepted. Viscount Soue is to be appointed to the post in succession and has been recalled to Tokyo, where he is expected to arrive about the 23rd iust. Prince Ito will be appointed President of the Privy Council rice Prince Yamagata.
On May 29th Mr. Charles Denby, the retir- ing American Consul General at Shanghai, was entertained at a farewell banquet. So many requests were received by the promoters for permission to participate in thus honouring Mr. Denby that it was finally found necessary to abandon the original intention of a semi- private function and make the dinner of an international and public character. The in- of many of the leading residents of Shanghai, fluential general committee includes the names
committee. Mr. D. Landale being the chairman of the
A Peking telegram states that Sanmum, or Sun Moon Bay is to be made China's largest naval port. The entrance of this bay, says the Shanghai Mercury, is twenty miles W.N.W. of the Hieshan Islands. It is readily recognised by a remarkable thumb peak, 800 feet above the sea, called by the Chinese Tafou and by foreigners, Albert Peak; it rises from the northern end of Tafon Island on the northern side of the bay. There is good shelter in the ming Island, which forms the north point of the N.E. Monsoon immediately westward of Lea-
entrance to the bay. The bottom is of soft mud. About S.W., two and a half miles from Lea- theming is Sanchesan or Triple Iland. and the depth between them is ten and eleven fathoms. West, six miles from Lea-ming is a conical islet, named Cone Island, with a reef off its south end; N. W by N. six cables from Cone Island is a small islet with a rock off its south-east face. At four miles westward of Cona is a small islet. Having passed southward of Coue, St. George Island will be seem bearing N. W. by N. four miles; the water shoals gradually as this island is approached, and the anchorage is three fathoms at half a mile south of it.It is secure in N. E. winds. There is another bay northward of St. George which is shoal and full of rooks.! At the anchorage under St. George Island, San-mun bay, it is high water, full and change, feet. Judging from the chart, San-mun Bay at 10h. 20m.; and the springs rise about fifteen
appears a very poor naval port,
Emperor, orders the Board of Finance to 485 examine all outstanding tax accounts due by 486 Chinese subjects to the Government, and to write them off in cases where the debtors are ill able to bear them, thus showing that the Emperor loves his subjects "as if they were his own children.“
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The following announcements will probably be of interest to a good many people in the East:-On July 12 Mr. H. M. S. Man, of the Chartered Bank, Hamburg, and formerly sta- tioned at Hongkong, Manila, and Saigon. will be married to Miss Nora Loeck, of Hamburg. On Aug. 28 A. Murray Gibbon, also of the Chartered Bank, Hamburg, will be married at ournemouth to Miss Nicola A. L.
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