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The Late Load Ripon and Hongkong Politics...48
American Policy in China...
Weather Forecasts
The British Budget .
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The Situation in Persia
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Slavery in China
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China's Sovereign Rights
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Random Reflections
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Hongkong News
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Canton News...
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The New Chaplain of St. Andrew's Kowloon...
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Hongkong's New Statue
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Supposed Murder Near Shaukiwan
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Alleged Milk Adulteration
Hongkong Legislative Council
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Presentation to Mr. R. H. Baxter
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V. R. C. Diamond Jubilee
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An Interesting Point
Transfer of Licence Refused
Escaped Prisoner Recaptured..
A " Public Servant" Defined
Notes from Japan
Company Report:--
Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Ld..
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Half Yearly Dividends
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Hongkong University.....
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The Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co., Ltd..
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The White Wax of China ...
Chinese Mohammedans
China's Credit
Notes from the Capital
Supreme Court....
A Timely Discovery
Clever Capture of a Thief
A Soldier's Suicide
The Pratas...
Typhoon Topics
French National Fete. Sanitation in Manila
Impending Invasion of Tourists
Likin at Chinkiang
The Call of the Shroff.
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Taxation of Foreigners in Korea
Japanese Volcanoes
Manila Hotel Project...
Shipping Notes
Tientsin Chamber of Commerce
Chinese in the Philippines
Agitation Against the Chinese in Indo-China.
Far Eastern Telegrams...
The Anglo-Siamese Treaty
Electric Tram Profits in Manila
The Christian Movement in Japan. Review
Commercial
Shipping
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 19тн JULY, 1909.
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The Seoul Press says:-"It is learned from Quelpart that about 3,000 inhabitants of that
this year.
Hongkong Weekly Press,
Press, island have been attacked by small-pox and died
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VEUX ROAD CI. LONDON OFfice: 131, Fleet Street, E.C.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
The China Critic says negotiations are now taking place for the selling of the Maoshan Gold Mines to the Chinese authorities for the sum of M. 300,000, this being the amount so far expended on their development by the German Syndicate in whose possession they now are.
What promises to be a prosperous branch of local commerce is engaging the activities of Chinwangtao. This is the export of slaughtered
Hannamet has been fitted up as a refrigerating ship. The cattle are killed on board before the bout leaves,
The famine in the Kansu province is officially cattle to Vladivostok. The old Australian vessel reported to be most acute.
It is reported that a Japanose has invented a bicycle to be used in the water, and has had it patented.
Mr. M. Noma, former Japanese Consul in 54 Hongkong, has been appointed Second Consular
Secretary at the Legation in Bangkok.
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Two bankers from the Argentine are alleged .55 to have escaped to the Far East, and are wanted for absconding with a large sum and committ- ing frauds.
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Mr. John Fowler, one of the most popular men in the American Consular Service and for many years Consul-General at Chefoo, has returned to Chefoo,
The Board of Directors of the Russo-Chinese, Bank have declared the following dividends for the year 1908: Rbs. 7.50 per Roubles share; Rhs. 6.08) per Shanghai Tael Share.
The old bulk of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, which was sunk at Swatow last September 62 during a typhoon, has at last been blown up, 62 thus removing a serious obstruction in Swatow 63 harbour.
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The decrease in the exports from Nagasaki to 63 Hongkong in 1908 was as much as £71,435, and 63 the British Consul in his auuual report remarks ...63 that doubtless the boycott in South China is ......64 accountable for a large proportion of this."
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The Chinese Public Health Department has come to the conclusion that the cause of many diseases is in most cases traceable to the kerosine
lamps used in the roast meat shops and fruit stalls, and has requested the police to order the proprietors of the shops to use foreign lamps with chimneys in future.
Mr. O. Feurich, until recently accountant in the Chief Auditor's department of the Siamese Royal Railway Department, who was travelling home by German Mail with Mr. O. Eckert, another Bangkok resident, was missed between Penang and Colombo, and it was concluded that he had fallen overboard.
The Hongkong Government have, says the Rangoon Gazette, applied to the Government of India for the services of an officer with railway experience to represent them in connection with railway problems now pending in Southern China, and the question of the selection is understood to be under consideration,
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There are now 12,000 Japanese in Saghalien, and between one and two hundred Russians. They all derive their livelihood from fishing, and it is confidently affirmed that if the veto placed npon the nse of the Sashiami not remains in force these people will all have to leave the
that the veto will be conditionally revoked.
Mr. Amos P. Wilder, United States Consul-island. There is therefore a strong probability General, left Shanghai for America on Saturday 65 evening, the 3rd inst., on a few months' leave. He is due back by November 1st. During his absence Mr. P. Heintzlınanu will have charge of the Consulate.
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An examination has been held at Tientsin for the purpose of filling a vacancy in the Haiho Pilotage service. Captain Gordon, of the C.M.S.N. Co., proved the successful candidate. On 26th June, at Shanghai, a daughter to Mr. Captain Gordon was lately in command of the
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and Mrs. F. HOPKINS.
DEATH.
On the 18th July at the Victoria Hospital, MARY, the beloved wife of C. BERKELEY MITCHELL, of Amoy, after long suffering patiently borne ; aged 39 years.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of the 16th ultimo arrived per s.s. Prinz Ludwig on the 14th inst.
The French Mail of the 18th ultimo arrived per 8.8. Ernest Simons on the 19th inst.
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An interesting alteration to the code of cedure in the Courts of the Philippine Islands was recently made, by which the Spanish lan- guage will be the official language of the Court only up till January 1, 1913. After that date English will be the official language.
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She is not really my mother, but she is my mother," a small Chinese boy told Mr. Justice (Gompertz in the Summary Court yesterday, In reply to another question he said, "I remem- ber I was born in the country, and that my mother reared me and brought me up."
The Chinese Government intends, it is stated,
to recommend H. E. Tang Shao-yi to be Com missioner of Financial Reform, so that he can help the Board of Finance to readjust the national finances and carry out the currency reform, which does not admit of any delay.
It is observed by Tokyo newspapers that Queensland has ceased to have treaty relations with Japan. She duly adhered to the Treaty of Commerce between Great Britain and Japan concluded in 1894, but in consequence of her inclusion in the Commonwealth it became neces- sary for her to give notice of the termination of her adherence. Tho term of this notico
expired on June 30.
The China Critic learns that the whole of the Haiho Conservancy's last loan has been taken up locally. When it was floated and under- written by the Banque de L'Indo-Chine it was not expected that more than one quarter of the debentures would be disposed of there. The result, however, proves that there is still much · money in Tientsin for favourable investment, as well as in likely speculation.
The death occurred at the Victoria Hospital' Tientsin, on 28th ult., of Mr. Thomas S. Woods, a well-known resident, who had been ailing for many months. He had a very adventurous
career, and was at one time a man of means in
Hongkong and Tientsin. Lately he has been in charge of Messrs. Jaques & Co.'s coal yard at Hotung and was in the hospital off and on for the past year. He was about 54 years of age and of Irish birth.