THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXX.
CONTENTS.
Far Eastern News......
Leading Articles:
Viceroy Chang's Visit to Hongkong
Affairs in Spain
The Likin Problem
The Trade of Hongkong
The Macas Improvement Scheme Capital and Labour
Random Reflections
Hongkong News
The Italian Couvent
Sanitary Board.
Dragon or Snake?
Sad Drowning Fatality
Supreme Court
The Tamar' in Bock
Opium Seller's Seare
Big Opium Seizure at Manila
Canton New<
An Echo of the 1908 Typhoon
The Gold Mines of the Philippine Islands..
The Chinese · Faxi-Cab
Correspondence:
The University Scheme
Hongkong as a Winter Resort
Far Eastern Telegran
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 7TH AUGUST, 1909.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
Mr. W. H. Martin, manager of the Raub Australian Gold, Mine, has resigned and is 11 going home. The new manger is expected
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A costly scheme to provide Bangkok with a water supply has received the Royal sanction. It is expected that the works will be completed
November 1912.
The steamer Kolomo, on which a serious fire jiz | occurred at Singapore just before Christmas, US necessitating the submersion of the ship, hus
heen refloated and docked.
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The annual report of the Russo-Chinese Bank states that business during last year was still unfavourably affected by the crisis in the Far East, which occurred as the result of the war. while the closing of the free port in Wladivos- tock led to a commercial crisis in the Far East. The gross profits of the bank amounted to 3.761.000 roubles (£1,850,000), as compared with 4.154,000 roubles (£2,050,000) in the preceding year, while the net profits amounted to 1,616,000 roubles (£800,000). The dividend is 71⁄2 roubles per gold share, and 6 roubles copecks per silver share, which takes 697,200 roubles (£348,600). The Chinese Government receive 266,000 roubles (£133.000) in payment of interest at 4 per
cent.
Perhaps the next mining excitement in the Philippines, says a Maila contemporary, will be an oil boom. Up to the present time consider-
At a recent meeting of the Kulangsu (Amoy) Municipal Council the agreement of the ecretary and Capt. Supt. of Police was renewed for a further period of three years, from the 1stable exploring has been carried on in a quiet 19 June, 1909, at a salary of $350 per month.
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Sir John Lyster Kaye, the Tung-kuan-shan mine concessionaire, the Peking Daily News says, agrees to give up the concession upon a 12 payment, by the gentry, of £100,000 as com
pensation. £50,000 has been offered, which
ir John has refused to accept
Britishers in Pasig dal for
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Company Reports;
Bell's Ashes as Eastern Agency, Limited The United As estos Oriental Agency, Ld Deaths from Cholera at Shanghai
Death of Captain Dougherty Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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On July 15th at . H. M. Consulate, Chinanfu,
the wife of B. GILES of a son.
On July 18th, at Weihaiwe, to Mr. and Mrs. A. R. VON STOCKHAUSEN. a sot,
On July 26th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. ARTHUR VELEIGH, a son.
On July 26th, at the Chartered Bank Hou e, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mr. GEORGE VILLER, I daughter
MARRIAGE.
On July 241h, at Shanghai, Tuomas DANIEL. second son of C, C, GRAM, form- ry of the Customs Service, Shanghai, to BAKRARA Primrose, eldest daughter of GEO. PEARSON of the China Merelant. S. N. Co.
DFATIL
On July 24th, at D. itafei, North Formos ARTHUR FREDERICK GARDINER, aged 44 rems
only surviving son of Colonel Thomas George Gardiner, late 3rd Foot (he Buff), Twicken- ham, Middlesex,
Hongkong lechly Press.
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ARRIVAL OF MAIL.
The English Mail of the 9th ultimo and the parcel mails closed in London for despatch by the all sea route on the 30th June and for despatch overland on the 7th July arrived per s.s. Caledonia on the 4th inst.
A telegram has been received in Shanghai from Mr. B. C. W. Pullen announcing his resignation of the post of athedral organist. Shanghai, the N.-C. Daily News says, loses a valuable choir-master and musician by Mr. Pullen's decision to remain in England.
way, and some wells have been drilled to shallow depths with encouraging results. Very little information concerning the oil finds has thus far reached the public, but there is no reason for holding it back, since there is room for every-
Dr. George L. Adams, geolo body in the field. gist of the Division of Mines, has just returned from a reconnaissance in the Tayabas Peninsula and has brought back samples of the oil which were collected with special care for the purpose of analysis in the laboratory of the Bureau of
Science.
The following extract from a letter in a Among recently elected members of the Royal Shanghai paper in reference to the Navy Society of Arts are Taotai Jeme Tien Yow League should possess an interest for the Com- Ph. B. (Yale, U.S.A.). Assoc. M. Inst. C. E..mittee of the Hongkong Branch of the Navy League The present is pre-eminently the Imperiál Peking Kalgan Railway, Peking, and Mr. Herbert Edward Pollard, Public Works occasion when Britain requires the support of overy association formed for the furtherance Department, Shanghai Municipal Council,
of the interests of her Navy. Let the Com- Shanghai.
mmittee of the Shanghai Branch of the League infuse some energy into the work it is consti- tuted to perform. Let it beat up members to give lectures or read papers, let it hold private meetings of the League to discuss current local naval topics and communicate recommendations to the General Committee at home, and issue an annual report of such correspondence on lines similar to those of the China Association, and I venture to predict that in the payment of annual subscriptions the Honorary Secretary and Treasurer will find no laggards."
The steamer Tjipanas, of the Dutch Java- hina-Japan line has met with misfortune. She struck on a reef near Muntok, a port in the island of Banka, the other day, and sprang a leak.
Much water entered into the tank and into hold No. 1. The water was kept down by routinual pumping until the vessel arrived at
ataria on July 22,
Bishop ('arlassare of Hankow has died of | apoplexy. It appears that he was journeying from Chehiachoang to Paiyanfu when he was suddenly seized with a heat-stroke on the road; to which he succumbed a few, ifours later. The Rev. Vincenzio-Epifanio Carlassare, member of the Franciscan Order, Bishop of Madaura, and Apostolical Vicar of Eastern Hupel, was born at Montecchio Maggiorre (Vicenza) on June 25th, 1844: He received Holy Orders in December, 1866 and arrived in China in April, 1871 He was consecrated Bishop in
eptember, 1884,
Mr. F. SA. Bourne, Mrs. Bourne and Miss Bourne left Shanghai for Home by the R. M. S. Empress of India. A very large number of friends were present on the jetty to bid them farewell, and many good wishes follow them for a pleasant holiday. Mr. Bourne has been Acting Judge of H. M. Supreme Court for China and Korea since May, 1908, and he has been very hard worked especially during the past six months. His home leave for one year fell dne at the beginning of the month r. Lindsey Smith, who with Mrs. Lindsey Smith have just arrived at Shanghai, will be Acting Judge of H. M. Supreme Court for the present.
It is a notorious fact, says the Seoul Press, that in former days Korean officials used to embezzle part of the taxes paid in by the people. In April last a law was promulgated for the adjustment of the loss caused to the Treasury in this way and also for the prevention of embezzle- ment in future. The Government has since been investigating the matter and is said to have discovered that during the 12 years between 1895 and 1907 as much as three million yen have gone astray, about three thousand Korean officials being responsible for this. To their great consternation, the Government has now demanded of those officials, against whom there is clear evidence, the repayment of their misappropriations. Already over 100 officials, including some of high rank, have been informed of the Government's determination and have promised to make good the shortage, which amounts to about 500,000 yen altogether. Those unable to pay the whole amount at once will be allowed to do so by yearly instalments extending over eight years.
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