THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland
Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXX.]
CONTENTS.
Far Eastern News
Revenue Raising in Hongkong
Leading Articles:---
The Railway Loan Business
Bureaucracy in Hongkong
The Asiatic Immigration Question The New American Tariff
Random Reflections
Hongkong News
Sanitary Board
Desperate Fishermen
A Sanitary Prosecution
Hongkong Waterworks
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 21st AUGUST, 1909.
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FAR EASTERN NEWS.
We are officially informed that Hongkong has declared Amoy released from quarantine.
The Royal Netherlands warships H.M. de 156 Ruyter. Tromp and Koningin Regentes are
at Manila.
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Electric Traction Company of Hongkong, Ltd......159 Correspondence :----
Revenue from the Liquor Trade
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The Lack of Educational Facilities at the Peak 160 The Revenue Question
The fire insurance companies affected by the recent great fire in Osaka are stated to be paying all proved claims promptly in spite of their heary losses, and are thus increasing their credit with the public.
It is stated that there are two boats - one a "Blue Funnel" and the other a P. and O., up the Yangtse River at the present time loading con- 161 signments of Chinese pork for the English
market.
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The Question of the Hour
Uttering Counterfeit Coin
Disturbance Near the Docks.
Wanted Work and Food...
French Sailor Drowned
Serious Illness of Consul-General Rublee
Second Mate Sent to Prison
Macao Notes
Surveys in Hongkong
Kulangsu Municipal Council, Amoy
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Departure of Captain C., V. Lloyd
16%
Daring Robbery....
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Repatriation Problems..
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Shipping Notes
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Mr. Clark and Captain Douglas, whose ex- 161 pedition to the interior of China resulted in the death of a Sikh alleged to have been killed by the natives of Kansu, arrived at Peking on August 1.
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Twelve Koreans are reported to have been recently arrested in Kwonwsong on a charge of
consisted lese Majesté, which
in burning
A Mysterious Disappearance in the Philippines .. 163 photographs of the Emperor and Crown Prince
Fire on Steamer Glenavon
Supreme Court
Notes from Japan
Company Promotion in Hongkong
The Straits Dollar.....
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of Korea.
F. P. Jeayes, second officer on the Philippine 167 inter-island transport Wright, is believed to have 167 committed suicide last week by jumping over- board, though no motive for the act is known. 168 Jeayes was by birth an Englishman and had
been a pilot on the Yangtse.
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"Our Philippines Experiment"
The Antung-Mukden Railway
The Nepalese Embassy
Far Eastern Telegramis
Wine Growing at Chefoo
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New Chinese Stamp for Collectors Commercial
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Shipping
BIRTH.
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At 2, Redhill, The Peak, on 16th August, to Mr. and Mrs. J. W. C, ŁONNAR, & daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On July 15th, at West Hampstead, P. W. SERGEANT to MINNIE BOUNDFORD
On July 27th, at the Cathedral, Rangoon, FREDERICK ARTHUR RICKARD, Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, to IvA CASEMENT SMITH widow of the late II. Smith, Chefoo, third daughter of the late John Smedley.
DEATHS.
At Shanghai, on 12th August, FREDERICK GEORGE TILBROOK, aged 26 years, late f Paget's Horse and
Police, Jobannesburg Mounted Transvaal.
At Shanghai, n 13th Augu-t, MICHAEL FELLER, Examiner, I.M. Custoins, Amoy, aged 44 years.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French Mail of the 16th ultimo arrived per Australien on the 17th inst.
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The English Mail of the 23rd ultimo arrived per 8.5. Devanha on the 18th inst.
Mr. Frederic Henry Balfour, of Palazzina Castelli, Via San Francisco Poverina, Florence. Italy, and late of Shanghai, formerly editor of the North China Herald and Daily News, who died on May 22, aged 63, left estate in the United Kingdom valued at £26,264.
5s. 1d.
Major G. E. Pereira, C.M.G., D.S.O., 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards, till recently Military Attache in China, is about to retire. He served in the China war 1890, when he was wounded, and during the latter phase of the South African campaign, receiving the Queen's medal and three clasps.
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H.M. Legation at Peking has reported that Chinese Government have formally sanctioned an agreement for the working of certain gold mines in the vicinity of Jehol (province of Pechili) by a company, composed of Chinese and foreign shareholders, with a total subscribed capital of 800,000 taels.
His Excellency Kao Ehr Hin, one of the Chinese representatives of the Macao Delimita tion Commission, has been promoted to the post of first secretary to the Board of Foreign Affairs. This position has just been vacated by
His Excellency Chang Yin Tong, who succeeds H.E. Wa Ting Fang as Chinese Ambassador at Washington.
A team from the Tsingtau Polo Club is due to arrive in Shanghai on Monday and will probably pay a friendly game with the Shanghai Polo Club on Tuesday. It is announced that the Hongkong team cannot go to Shanghai as, owing to the ground having been closed for three months they were unable to practise and their ponies are not in condition.
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News has been received at Foochow of the death of Mr. Schouisky, Russian Consul at that port, who appears to have died on the train while on the way home via Siberia.
In the case of the alleged manslaughter of a Chinese by Inspector Mears, of Kinkiang, which was heard before Mr. E. T. C. Werner, British Consul, the Consul decided last week that there
was not sufficient evidence to send the accused for trial and he was accordingly discharged. The prosecution in the above case on behalf of the Chinese Government was undertaken by Mr. Fleming, while Mr. Godfrey, of Messrs. Ellis and Hayes, was retained for the defence.
At Bisham Church, Berkshire, on Sunday, 18th ult., the marriage was solemnised of Mr. F. Ronald Easterbrook and Mrs. Little, widow of Mr. R. W. Little, of Shanghai. The Rev. William Farrer, Vicar of Bisham, officiated, and the bride was given away by Admiral Sir Edward Seymour, late Commander-in-Chief of Mr. Bertie Wilkinson the China Station. acted as best man, and Miss Wilkinson, daughter of Lady Wilkinson, attended the bride.
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The death is announced of Mr. Fred. Haskell, a well-known resident of Shanghai. He died Mr. Haskell came to last month in New York. China in the early sixties, when Shanghai was young and small. He was public spirited and did much for the development and extension of the Model Settlement, having served as Municipal Councillor. He was intensely inter- ested in all that pertained to the welfare of Shanghai. For some years he was at the head of the China and Japan Trading Company, in Shanghai. He retired from business about ten years ago and returned to his native land- .merica.
Sir John Anderson, Governor of the Straits Settlements, speaking at an agricultural show at Penang recently, said:" I myself am an optimist in regard to rubber and a great inany other things, and that optimism is founded on a firm belief in the intelligence and resources, of my countrymen I think it is the only thing which justifies the optimism because there is no doubt there are a great many dangers surround- ing the agricultural industry of this country- dangers that are far more numerous than any of us have any idea of -- but I feel assured that my countrymen will face that condition of things with the spirit and the courage that characterises them on such occasions, and that they will strive to make agriculture a permanent source of employment and riches to this country and the community."
Say what you will about the Germans, says the Tsingtan correspondent of the Shanghai Mercury, but they are an industrious nation, whether it comes to tilling the land or inventing airships. The Tsingtau hills and vales have changed very materially in ten years. Trees have been planted and good roads laid out every where. All the beautiful hills round
Tsingtau are either replete with modern forts, little Gibraltars, or with waterworks and signal stations. Business is also experiencing a considerable revival, they say. Whatever the reason may be, but summer guests are exception- New buildings are put up ally few this year. here and there, and among them a new Lutheran church. This community may be in need of a new church, but much more of a religious revival-more spiritual salt and less of social and moral decay.