THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland
Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXX.]
CONTENTS.
Charge Against a Soldier
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 16TH AUGUST, 1909.
No. 7
Mr. de Carcer, who has been Envoy Ex-
Hongkong Weekly Press, traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary for
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VEUX ROADCI, LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
FAR EASTERN NEWS,
A Peking telegram states that England and America have proposed that the second Opium Conference be held at The Hague.
A Committee of the leading Japanese residents at Shanghai has started a fund for the relief of sufferers by the great fire at Osaka.
A telegram was received in Shanghai last week stating that Hongkong would be unable to send a team for the projected interport 141 polo tournament.
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Leading Articles:-
The French Navy
The Antung-Mukden Railway Question
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Boycotts and Blackmail
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'Chinesery'
132
Russia as Peacemaker Between China and
Japan
132
Deoline of British Influence in China
133
The House of Lords and the Budget
Random Reflections
Hongkong News
Hongkong Legislative Council
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
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The Largest Motor Launch in the East
139
Captain of s.s. "Persia" Fined
Charges Against Ship's Officers...
The Scotch Oath
Robbery in Chancery Lane.
Steamer Captain Cautioned.
Searching a Steamer
Death of Mr. Erich Georg
Supreme Court
Company Meeting
The Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat
Company, Limited....
Company Reports:--
Darker China Teas
Boycotting the Portuguese
Hongkong University Fund
Canton News
The Opium Traffic.
Shipping Notes
The Osaka Fire
The Antung-Mukden Railway
Canton-Hankow Railway
Far Eastern Telegrams
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Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation ..110 Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Čo., Ĺd..
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A Rich Silver Mine in Kwangsi
The Colony's Water Supply Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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Mr. Th. H. Lyle, H. B. M. Consul at Chieng. mai, is proceeding home on leave. Mr. T. F. Carlisle, H. B. M.onsul at Hanoi, is also shortly going home on leave,
T. I. H. Prince and Princess Nashimoto, who have been touring in Europe, have returned home via Siberia. They made a brief stay in Seoul and reached Tokyo last week.
The Yokohama Dock Co., Ltd., is going to raise a loan of 1,000,000 yen for the expansion of its business. For this purpose negotiations ..148 have already been opened with some foreign
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On the 10th August, at Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, to Mr. and Mrs. A. VIVIAN HOGG, a daughter.
On the 10th August, at Sheerness, the wife of Lieut. J. URMSON HOPE, Royal Garrison Artillery, of a dughter.
MARRIAGE.
At St. Paul's Church, Carlisle, on the 10th inst., by the Rev. W .E. Strickland, Vicar, assisted by the Rev Canon Loftie, and the Rev. Syden. ham Dixon, uncle of the bride, GERALD BRUCE ST PIERRE BUNBURY, eldest son of Major and Mrs.
Bunbury, Bedford, and FRANCES MARY OLIVIA, only daughter of Mr and Mrs. DIXON, Blackwell Lodge, Cumberland.-(By cable).
DEATHS.
On July 24th, at Daitotei, North Formosa, ARTHUR FREDERICK GARDINER, aged 44 years, only surviving son of Colonel Thom & George Gardiner, late 3rd Fort (The Buffs), Twicken. ham, Middlesex.
On August 5th, at Balmain, Sydney, N.S.W., Mrs. LEMM, senr., mother of John Lemm, architect. -By telegraph.
ARRIVAL OF MAIL.
The German Mail of the 14th ultinio arrived per s.s. Bulow on the 6th inst.
The export of watches from Japan began in 1906, and the output then reached some Y.840,000, but in 1907 the amount decreased to Y.630,000 and in 1908 to Y.410,00 1, the principal cause thereof being the depreciation of silver. The principal markets for Japanese watches are China, Hongkong and India.
Shanghai papers report that Mr. A. Oppen- heim-Gerard, chief shipping clerk of the Standard Oil Co., has committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a revolver up the Soochow Creek. The body was recovered by the River Police and conveyed to the Mortuary. The deceased had been very nervous the past few days.
The Yalu River district has recently suffered much from floods. The old town of Antung has been almost submerged. The Japanese residing in the old town are rendering assistance, and the Red Cross Hospital and the Sino-Japanese Charitable Union are doing everything in their power to succour the Chinese sufferers. The new town has not been injured thus far.
Spain at Peking for the past eight years, and is the doy n of the diplomatic corps in the Chinese capital, is shortly leaving for Home to fill a position in the Foreign Office at Madrid.
With the departure of Mr. George Butler hanghai, says the N.C. Daily News, loses another old resident. Mr. Butler came out here as a Chozee for a Greek firm as far back as 1866, and since the late seventies he has lived almost continuously in Shanghai. Owing to advancing years Mr. Butler has decided to go home for good, and he will be missed by a large circle of friends. All the teamen met at Mr. Robert Anderson's flat, where they presented Mr. Butler with a handsome silver bowl in
recognition of the high esteem and regard in
which he is held.
Information reached Manila by mail last Saturday that Bishop Barlin, the frat Filipino bishop of the Roman Catholic Church had been critically ill at Rome and had had administered to him the last sacrament of the church last Saturday. The information was received by mail by Inbertas, but as the correspondent sending it added that in case of the death of the distinguished bishop of Nueva Caceres he would cable the fact, and no cable has been received, it is believed that he had rallied and is somewhat improved. Bishop Barlin has been ailing for several months past and was very sick when he left five months ago to make an official visit to Rome.
Mr. Havelock Wilson stated in the House of Commons recently, with reference to the pre- valence of intoxication among the Chinese, that for every white man engaged on our ships there are three Chinamen, "and when a Chinaman comes down he is supported by half a dozen policemen. Members can see it going on every day down at Poplar." We can only say with regard to this that Chinese in Poplar must be of a type very different from Chinese sailors we meet in China ports. In Hongkong, which enjoys the distinction of being in respect of tonnage the largest shipping port in the world, where Chinese sailors may be seen in greater numbers than in any other port of the world, a drunken Chinaman is an extremely rare sight, and the charges of drunkenness brought against Chinese in the local magistracy scarcely average one a month.
An interesting and probably sensational case at the Mixed Court at Shanghai last Wed- nesday was expected to commence. Det.-Sergt. Kennerly had effected the arrest of the manager and editor and sub-editor of the Chinese news- A meeting has been held in the Macao paper called the Min Hoo-pas (the "People's Chinese Hospital, at which the Chinese Com Wail") on a warrant charging them with falsely munity of that Colony resolved to send a special and maliciously publishing certain false, telegram to the Lisbon Government praying scandalous, malicious and defamatory libels of that Senhor Rocados might be retained as
and concerning one Chu Sin-tsau. A further Governor of Macao. This action shows how and more serious charge is to be preferred much Senhor Rocados' administration in Macao against the manager of the paper, viz., that of is appreciated even by the Chinese Community. converting the sum of Tls. 28,000, collected in We drew attention sometime ago to a state-aid of the Kiangsu Famine Fund, to his own ment made by the breeder of the King's Derby use. He is alleged to have established a guild winner that the horse was called after the with the object of collecting subscriptions to second son of his Japanese gardener and that wards the famine fund in question, and of a the word "Minoru" meant "success. A total of something like Tls. 28,000 received only Japanese contemporary referring to our para- | about Tis. 2,000 has been forwarded to the graph, says that the word "success is not a authorities in charge of the fund. The good translation of the word "Minoru," which complainant in the libel action is said to be an is an intransitive verb and means "to ripen; expectant Taotsi and a director of the Anhwei
Railway.
bear fruit."
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