THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXX.”].
CONTENTS.
Far Eastern News
Leading Articles:-
The Political Issues in Great Britain Registration of Chinese Partnerships Singapore as a Naval Base.
China's Naval Plans ...
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Japanese Immigration to the United States. 520 The Prosperity of Hongkong Death of the King of Belgium
Random Reflections
Hongkong News
The Alleged Fraud on a Solicitor
Présentation to Dr. J. . Thomson
Bishop Ingham's Vi-it
Hongk ng Legislative Council
The Colony's Finances
Teeth of Sir William Des Voeux
Charge Against Excise Officers
Hongkong in 1978
Canton Factory Days
Serius Fire on
"Bits of China"
Supreme ''ourt
A Soldier's Death
Prinz Ludwig'
Alleged Forgery of a Will
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 20TH DECEMBER, 1909.
The Provincial Government of Yunnan is burning all the opium it confiscates. A recent report mentions the burning of 20,000 ounces on one day.
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Japan papers announce the death in France of Mr. R. D. Robison, formerly of Yokohama. Mr. Robison had been ill för a long time, and the end was not altogether unexpected. Mr. Robinson came to Japan in the early days, and The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking,
was a leading figure amongst the foreign com. Corporation has opened a sub-agency at Hong-munity of Yokohama until he retired some six kew, No. 9, Broadway, Shanghai.. Mr. E. E. Deacon will be in charge.
Certain charges have been made before the British Consul, at Batavia, against the captain 522 and one other officer of the fine ship King 522 George, recently reported as wrecked off Java, 53 and a court of enquiry is to be held in Singapore
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Mr. N. Williamson, Political Officer at Sadiya, Upper Assam, recently delivered an address before the Royal Geographical Society advocat- 29 ing the construction of a railway from India to China Lohit valley to Szechuan as a means of procuring enormous expansion of trade be- tween ludia and China.
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It is a picturesque detail as showing the way of the world, especially in official circles of intrigue in the capital, the China Times says. that the ex-Viceroy Tuan Fang of Chibli, when 534 he arrived in Peking recently had no one to greet or receive him except his own brother, Tuan Su. Otherwise he passed from the station to his new residence in the capital unnoticed
An Alleged Ferocious Dog
A Customs Prosecu ion
Execution at Victoria Gaol.
The Hongkong Do lar...
German Sailor Fatally Shot in Macao
Public Works Committee
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Canton News
The Japanese in Korea..
Shipping Notes
Hongkong ailors' and Soldiers' Home
Decorations for Officers of the I. M, ustoma
Resignation of the Shanghai Municipal Engineer
Trade with Yunnan
Local Sport
Far Eastern Telegrams
Commercial
Shipping
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The Japan Mail observes that nearly all the 536 Japanese newspapers of Tokyo allege that Dr. Morrison has ceased to be The Times' corres- pondent in Peking, and that his place is to be taken by Mr. J. O. P Bland. Our contemporary adds We believe this statement to be mislead- ing. It is true that Mr. Bland-whose brilliant contributions to the correspondence columns of The Times used to be quite a feature of the great journal when he wrote from Shanghai is to
future, but the change is only temporary. Its purpose is to give Dr Morrison an opportunity of travelling through China and Manchuria.
Forty-five tins of prepared opium were seized last week at Manila on board the Ger- mau mail steamer Prinz Sigismund, which bad arrived in the port from Australia. The drug was found in the possession of a Filipino labourer, who attempted to smuggle the contra- band goods ashore. Captain Lenz, of the Prinz Sigismund, it is stated, got to know of the illegal the seizure of the stuff by notifying the members transaction and aided the customs authorities in of the inspector's division on duty on board the vessel, who made the arrest. This is the first time a seizure of opium has been made by the customs on board a vessel coming from ports other than Hongkong.
Hongkong èèlechly Dress, replace Dr. Morrison at Peking in the immediate
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VŒUX ROAD Ci LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, EC
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The Siberian Mail of the 24th ultimo arriv.
ed on the 14th instant.
The German Mail of the 17th ultimo arriv- ed on the 14th instant.
The Siberian Mail of the 26th and 27th ultimo arrived on the 18th instant..
The French Mail of the 19th ultimo arriv- ed on the 20th instant.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
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A Singapore Polo Team is going to Manila for the Carnival. Teams are expected also from Hongkong and Shanghai. A Manila temporary remarks that Hongkong, the colony. the most neighbourly with Manila of any in the East, might be expected to send a large contingent were it not for the fact that the dates chosen for the Carnival this year in a measure conflict with an important festival at H. E. Wu Ting-fang was due in Peking last Hongkong. "As matters stand now, anyone who "week.
Hankow has been declared au infected port by the Superintendent of Customs and the Consular Body at Shanghai.
comes over from Hongkong will have to miss
races. either the last and best half of the Carnival or the The directors should deliberate well on the uatter before they decide definitely to select dates that conflict with Hongkong festival.,'
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or seven years ago. He was a partner in the silk firm of Robison and Wilkin, established in Yokohama about 1864, the business of which was taken over some time ago by Messrs. Carlowitz and Co. From 1896 to 1898 Mr Robison was Chairman of the Yokohama Chamber of Com merce (now known as the Foreign Board of Trade), and was greatly respected and liked by all who knew him,
A godown belonging to Messrs. Mackenzie and Co., of Shanghai, was completely des troyed by fire last week. The building was insured with the London and Lancashire Fire. Insurance Co, Ltd. The godown was usre chiefly for the storage of raw cotton, which afted being pressed was shipped by the owners. The value of the contents is estimated at about half a million taels, and the damage done is assesses approximately at about three lacs of taels, The contents were the property of many owners, but it is believed that each lot was covered by in- surance. Fortunately, the machinery used in pressing the cotton was situated at another godown, which will reduce considerably the inconvenience caused by the fire.
A remarkable story is related by Japanese papers in Seoul to the effect that three Koreans of unprepossessing appearance presented them- selves at the Residency and stated that they had been engaged in alluvial mining in co-opera- tion with twenty others for many years and had accumulated gold dust to the value of about best way of disposing of the gold. Rather 400,000 yen. They asked for advice as to the
doubtful of the accuracy of the story an official went to the place where they said the gold was stored and was astonished to find the statement
made quite true. Whereupon the authorities made careful inquiry, and it was decided that the gold should be sent to the Osaka Mint. It appears that these Koreans collected the gold dust from rivers having veins of the ore in their upper reaches and by digging ground over which rivers formerly ran.
Mr. J. C. E. Douglas; solicitor, of Shanghai has been to Dairen in connection with the trial of the alleged murderer of Prince barrister of Vladivostok, who asked Mr. Ito. The man's friends approached a Russian Douglas to undertake the case. Mr. Douglas visited Port Arthur, where he was. received with every courtesy by the Japanese officials The judicial authorities, the N.-U. Daily News says, authorized him to appear at the trial of the accused, if the latter so desired, and per- mitted Mr. Douglas to visit him in prison. Mr. Douglas saw the man, who appeared to have been well-fed and considerately treated during his detention. When informed that his friends had approached Mr. Douglas with a request that he should undertake his defence, the man expressed his gratification at learning that he had not been forgotten by his friends and relations. He willingly consented to his defence being undertaken by Mr. Douglas. He cannot be represented by counsel at the pre- liminary investigation, but as soon as the date of the final trial is settled Mr. Douglas will be notified and will proceed to Port Arthur.