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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXX.]
Far Eastern News Leading Articles:-
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Consular Jurisdiction in Korea The Hinterland of Hongkong China and the Gold Standard Whampoa Redivivus
Russia and the Yangtze Region
Random Reflections
Hongkong News
Hongkong University.
Sanitary Board
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 24тH JULY, 1909,
The directors of the Shanghai Waterworks Co., Ld., have declared an interim dividend of ...69 15/0 per share for the half year ended June
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The Planters Association at Davao in the Philippines have asked for troops to be stationed 72 there and American officers in the Moro district 72 favour the request.
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Presentation to Captain and Mrs. F. A. Brown......75 The Truth About the Pratas
Free Towing
Alleged Infringement of Trade-Marks
Quarantine on Vessels from Hongkong
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The Directors of the Great Northern Tele- graph Company have declared interim dividend of 58. per share, being at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, for the half-year.
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The Directors of the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company .78 have declared an interim dividend for the 79 quarter ended March 31 of 2s. 6d. per share,
tax free.
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A swarm of locusts descended upon Manila last Thursday. They swept in their millions over the various districts, particularly intramuros .80 and Bagumbayan. They passed in about an
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Mr. C. W. Fairbanks, ex Vice-President of 80 the United States, and Mrs. Fairbanks have been visiting Peitaiho. They go on from there to Peking and will probably return to Peitaiho to "
spend some little time resting and gathering information regarding matters Chinese."
Italian Convent
Supreme Court....
Building Collapse in Queen's Road Central
A New Solicitor
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Chinese Air-Ships
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Mr. Shelton Hooper Robbed
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An Interesting Story
Yachtsmen Encounter a Derelict
Typhoon Alarma
Opium Cultivation in Yunnan
Manila and Cholers
Shipping Notes
Seaworthy or Unseaworthy
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Foreign Universities in China
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Dr. Okada on Chinese Code
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Automobiles in Chin fand Japan.
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Consular Reports....
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Correspondence:-
The Typhoon Signal at Macao
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Marriage of Miss Phyllis Dodwell
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Chinese Naval Construction
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The Hankow-Szechuan Railway.
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Far Eastern Question in Parliament
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The Imperial Maritime Customs
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Foreigner Kidnapped...
A Costly American Holiday
Far Eastern Telegrams
The New Opium Evil
Trade in Shantung
Japanese Capital Invested in China Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
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At a sale of rare British stamps in London recently the following prices were realised: Hongkong, 1882, c.10; blue-green, unused copy, £3; 1897, 81 on $2, sage green, without Chinese surcharge, Mint state, £5; and $ on $2, sea green, variety with the sloping portion of the Chinese surcharge omitted, £3 38.
Some of the English illustrated papers by the 84 latest mail contain a reproduction of a photograph taken during Admiral Lambton's recent visit to Japan showing the Admiral as the central 88 figure in a group of Japanese ladies. "Admiral Lambton and the Anglo-Japanese Alliance" is the legend at the bottom of the picture.
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On July 22nd, at "Goodwood." No. 5, Babing- ton Path, Hongkong, the wife of W. II. DONALD, a daughter.
The Prince Regent and the Grand Council have decided to issue instructions to the Viceroys and Governors to superintend the election by the Provincial Councils of a number of gentle men to serve as probationary members of the
order the successful candidates to be all in Peking a month later.
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According to the Manila Cablenews-American the yield of gold in the Philippines was over 10,000 ounces for the year 1908.
Advices have been received.at Shanghai which indicate that there is danger of the Yang- tzekiang overflowing its banks and flooding the Settlements at Hankow. Local firms have been asked the rates for flood risks, but there is a reluctance to accept such business. The level of the river a week ago was 44 ft. 9 in, and the water was still; the godowns are 49 ft. above seR level.
H. E. Tang Shao-yi has presented two Memorials to the Throne; one on Chinese Diplomacy and the other on Currenoy. In the first he says that from what he has seen of the political situation of the foreign countries it is expedient for China to have a fixed foreign policy. In the second he urges that China unforeseen international complication are sure must have a uniform carrenoy; otherwise
to rise.
Considerable alarm is felt in some quarters in the Philippines over the fact that Hawaiian agents are in the Islands engaging labourers for the sugar plantations about Honolulu. The fear is expressed that this levy upon the already scant supply of labour in the islands will be sorely felt in the distribts where workers are most sections if the Hawaiian agents succeeded in needed. Doubtless the drain will pinch in some obtaining the 1,000 per month they are repre sented as desiring.
The Japan Gazette states that on certain dates this month performances will be given at the Hongo Theatre, Tokyo, by an old man, sixty. who claims to have been endowed with the art seven years of age, named Genshichi Katada, of magic power from a "sannin" (ittaginary be- ing supposed to possess mystic power) in the so- litude of the mountainous district in Miyagi Pre- fecture. The principal performances will, saya the Tokyo Press, consist of the striking of a large bell with his head, walking over a bed of fire and the blade of a sword, bathing in boiling water, and other miraculous feats.
in succession to Captain Hamilton, will be Com- The new chief of the London Fire Brigade,
mander Cowper, of H.M.S. Spartiat, if the
Hongkong eleekly Press, Senate on the 1st of the 10th moon, and to London Council adopt the recommendation of
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VEUX ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAIL.
The English Mail of the 25th ultimo and the parcel mails closed in London for despatch by the all sea route on the 16th June, and for despatch overland on the 23rd June arrived per 8,8. Delhi on the 21st inst.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
In consequence of the disturbances that have often been caused by the depreciation of the copper cents and the discovery that certain un- principled merchants have been in the habit counterfeit coins, the Shanghai Taotai has of importing copper from abroad to make written to the Commissoner of Customs to prohibit the importation of copper.
A Tokyo paper states that the girls of the capital "annually consume some Y50,000 of·| egg-capsulates of the whelk which are mostly produced in the Island Sea and Coast of Chiba A silkyarn factory in Nagano contemplates Captain T. C. Leah, R.G.A., has been appoint-offering egg capsulates for chewing to the ed for duty with the R.G.A. detachment, Lega- tion Guard, Peking.
A feeble but somewhat prolonged earth-quake shock was experienced in Yokohama at one minute to one o'clock on the morning of July
8th.
The Echo de Paris says it is stated at the Ministry of the Colonies that M. Millies Lacroix, the Minister, intends to visit Indo- China,
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factory girls as a means of keeping them from garrulity in working hours.”
In consequence of the steadily increasing development the Directors of the East Asiatio Company at Copenhagen are issuing a new 5 per cent. loan of 5,000,000 kr. through the chief bank at Copenhagen. The subscription rate is 99 per cent. The company is working with a capital of 15,000,000 kr., reserves of 3,750,000 kr., and a debenture loan of 4,250.000 kr.
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the General Purposes Committee. Commander Barlton Valentine de Mornay Cowper, who is forty-four years of age, has had twenty-nine years' continuous service on board men-of-war. He commanded the Plover during the rebellion in the outhern Philippines in 1899, and for and of the American Government. He was in his work received the thanks of Admiral Dewey command of the Plover during the Boxer rising, and made a successful expedition against Chinese pirates in 1900.
Suspicion having been aroused that the Chinese murderer of General Frans Sigel's grand-daughter in New York had escaped to Japan, the Yokohama harbour police instituted searches for the probable culprit on board the China and Minnesota, which arrived there from America on the 6th and 7th 'respectively, but ' found no suspicious character among the pas sengers. It is suspected by the Mainichi Dempo that one of two Chinese passengers who com mitted suicide by jumping overboard from one of the vessels during the voyage, was the murderer in question. So far as the Japan Gazette knows, there is absolutely no ground for this ingenious suspicion.
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