THE
Hongkong Weekly
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Press
China Overland
Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXX.]
CONTENTS.
Far Eastern News .
Leading Articles:-
The Transvaal and Chinese Labour.... Naval and Military Expansion in China... Chinese Indifference and British Anxiety Railway Interests in China.
Random Reflections......
Hongkong News
Hongkong Legislative Council
Industry and Litigation...
Sanitary Board
Sir Francis May
The Late Mr. Calthrop.....
Supreme Court
Fire Brigade Competition Complicated Bankruptcy Prosecution A Substitute for Dross Opium
Tricked and Robbed..... ..........
The Antau Murder.......
Church Missionary Society...
The Korean Court and Prince Ito....... Canton News
Chinese Officials Dismissed for "Squeezing'
Concert at the Theatre
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Volunteer Camp.....
Military Wedding at the Cathedral...
Returned Exiles......
The Trade of Kiaochan in 1908...
The Chinese Senate
The Lama Pontiffs Commercial Shipping
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 13TH NOVEMBER, 1909.
It is reported that the late Grand Councillor Chang Chih-tung only left Taels 1,800 in cash when he died, while he owed a certain bank over | PAGE 30,000 taels.
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A native of Tsingtau has recently invented a machine which, it is stated, is likely to revolutionise the straw-braid industry.
The manipulation of the apparatus is extremely simple, and it is said that one person can turn out twelvefold more with this machine than by hand. A newspaper representative (before 420 whom experiments were made states that the .420 | manufacture, especially of the fine braids, runs ..41 very smoothly, while the cheaper and coarser .423 grades do not seem to be so satisfactory. Machines are now being made in Germany, and if the expectations of the inventor are fulfilled, Tsingtau, it is said, may become the world's manufacturing emporium for straw braid.
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At a meeting of the Kulangsu (Amoy) Municipal Council, at which there were present. 426 Messrs. W. H. Wallace (Chairman), J. S. ..427 Fenwick, Lim Nee Kar, J. Mencarini, K. 427 Taudzurabara, W. Wilson, the Health Officer, 427 Secretary and the Asst, Superintendent of Police. Several letters were read in connection 427 with an application made to the Council by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, for permission to erect a disinfecting plant in a godown on Kulangsu belonging to Messrs. Tait and Co, and after some discussion, which led to expert opinion being obtained as to the probability of 429 danger from fire, etc., arising from the plant .429 the Council decided to grant the same.
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A communication of semi-official aspect has been published by the Cologne Gazette to the 429 effect that, as the Harbin incident has been settled to the satisfaction of both the German 132 and the Russian Governments, there is no need to consider further the irritating utterances of the Novoe Vremya on the subject. The two Governments are entirely in accord. It is,
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The Roman Catholic Bishop at Seoul has written as follows to the Seoul Press :—A telegram from Tokyo, reproduced by several Japanese and Korean papers here, states that the Korean assassin of the regretted Prince Ito is a Catholic. who was also concerned in- the murder of the late Mr. Stevens in America. I am in the right in affirming that the report is absolutely false. No Catholic was ever mixed up with the murder of Mr. Stevens in America or in any manner engaged in any political that this letter does not explicitly deny that the opposition in this country." It will be observed
murderer of Prince Ito was a Catholic, but we notice Bishop Mutel was able to give that explicit denial in a telegram to the Roman Catholic Bishop of Tokyo,
An edict has been issued by HM. the Korean Emperor briefly summing up the meritorious and above all, to Korea, and expressing pro- services rendered by Prince Ito to the East, found sorrow at his untimely demise. His Majesty especially expresses his appreciation Korean Crown Prince. The edict concludes of the Prince's service as Grand Tutor to the
Wha has been ordered to 'okyo in order to attend the funeral of the late Grand Tutor, and that he has ordered the Household Department to present to the Prince the posthumous title Mun Choong. These two characters are defined as meaning "pre-eminence in morality, wide knowledge, whole-hearted devotion to the father- land, and self-sacrifice."
with the statement that H. I. H. Prince Eui
For the information of visitors to the famous ruins of Angkor, in Cambodia, General L. de Beylić has published an exceedingly interesting brochure, illustrated by sixteen capital photo. graphic gravures. There exists in Cambodia
numerous ancient monuments, some of them dating back to the VI. century, but the most beautiful belong to the period comprised between tha IX. and the XIII, centuries. The
Hongkong Weekly Press,
Press, however, considered desirable to the sortin style of architecture is Indian, but with such
the fiction obtains wide currency, the assertion that in the spring of this year a special confer. ence was held in Berlin respecting affairs in the Far East, at which the main lines of German HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES Vœux ROADC. policy in Northern Manchuria were worked
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French Mail of the 8th ultimo arrived
on the 11th instant.
The English Mail of the 15th ultimo arriv. ed on the 11th instant.
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out, and at which it was resolved to offer posi-
tive resistance to Russian influence wherever possible.
The Siberian Mail of the 22nd and 23rd way he finally, with a supreme effort, tore ultimo arrived on the 12th instant.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
Judge Lobingier of Manila has imposed imprisonment for one year and the payment of half the costs of the case upon Louis T. Grant, co-defendant with William Kennedy in the illegal importation of opium into the Philip pine islands.
modifications in detail and sometimes in principle as to entitle it to be designated Cambodian. The ruins of the great temple or palace of Angkor are worth travelling far to The season for making the trip is between September and February.
see.
Last month fêtes
were held at Angkor, attended by King Siso- wath and H.E. the Governor-General of Indo- China, and these attracted a large number of visitors.
Lieut. James H. Stewart, Jun., while out swimming off Polinao Point, near Manila, en- countered a large shark. He tried to frighten A. Cantonese interpreter named Chung Min- it
away, but the shark after a momentary dis-hing, employed in the office of the Dr. Williams' him by the calf of the leg and carried the Court last week at Shanghai with stealing appearence rose right under him and seized Pink Pills Co., was charged at the Mixed
victim below. The report adds - With the various sums of money amounting to 300 water strangling him he struggled for life during the past two months, and also with against the big brute, striking it in the head forging the name of V. Davies and thereby with his other foot and with his fists, In this obtaining a similar amount. It was stated in evidence that suspicions in regard to the accus- himself loose, leaving the muscles of his leg in ed were aroused by a customer writing to ask the maw of the shark. Striking out with all why he had not received a receipt for a payment his might he swam to the surface and headed for he had made. Enquiries were instituted at the the shore. The shark, satisfied with its "pound Post Office and these established the guilt of of flesh did not follow him. On reaching the accused, who had been six years a clerk in shore he was in an exhausted condition. He the Hongkong Police, a teacher in the Canton tore up some of his clothes and bound up his Guild School at Shanghai, employed at the injured leg as best he could to stay the flow of Netherlands Consulate-General and in the blood, and then made for town to seek such offices of a French lawyer. He had been steal- surgical assistance as might be at hand. Alling registered letters and opening them, and that could be done was done for him, and he was by forging the name of Mr. Davies had been brought to the Civil Hospital at Manila, where able to obtain payment. The prisoner confess- when the last mail left he was reported to beed to having converted a sum of $300 to his own lying in a dangerous condition.
use in this way, and was sent to prison for a year.
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