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CONTENTS.
Births, Marriages and Deathe.. Leading Articles:
Banking Institations in the North, The Study of Engineerjog, Passage Koter to Europe. Dawn or the Mople.
War Alarms in Britain, Law-abiding Hongkong, Amending the Opium Ordinance. The Callour Coalie.
Telegrama
Pratas Island,
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The Opium Habit,
China and France.
Temple of Confucius.
The Waiwupu,
China's Tharks
America and Chion."
Canton, Hankow Railway.
Masion to Japan.
Police and Law Suita.
Railway Loan.
Copper Currency.
Geography of China.
Chinese Students,
Naval Reorganization.
Prince Chen's Mission.
Foreign Relations.
Late Empress Dowager's Privy Purie,
Germany in Shastung
Opium Monopoly.
Provincial Finances,
Mak Sun KiD.
People's H. rdships,
Lingkats.
Li Tak-sun.
Hukuang Viceroy...
Release of Chinese Editor.
Financial Superi› tandėnis, Lei Ka-ku,
Viceroy of Chili.
Governor of Kiangs".
Towboat for Man lal
- Moatings:-
Solicitor's Conduct Questioned, Forged Barkantes.
Highway Robbery.
Polles;
Suspected Miderer Arrested.
Daggers DrawD.
Correspondence |----
The Hongkong Univervily.
Wireless Telegraphy.
Song Bir's in the Colony,.
Magpies in China.
Our Telephone nod Electric Service. Miscellaneous Artioles and Reports --
Opium Trade Doomed.
Dack Co's Secretory.
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Hongkong Telegraph.
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The Hongkong Celegraph
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1909.
BANKING INSTITUTIONS IN THE NORTH,
SUPPLEMENT.
(ESTABLISHED 1881.)
SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1909.
(15th June.)
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which we do—that the cost of a passage and bird life is instinctively guided from London to China works out at the against their natural: fden?). Why,
parliamentary" train rate of a penny should the Government rush so desperat mile for Arst-class passengen, what is the to the rescue of the song birds which; ära mileage cost of an exclusive class rate by the probably well able to protect themselves Shiro fios? As a matter of fact to paraphrase and their young? The probability is that if an old maxim, it is not the pennies the magpies were exterminated the conso- that count but the, sum total which runa quent increase in the number of oog binde foto pounds sterling. The people to bencât would be far worse in its effects so far as the by the low passage rate introduced by the agriculturist and gardeuer are concerned folat owners of the Leguirs are not those re- than the Government could imagine. The aident in the Far East at least this year; magpie is not wholly devoted to the ravishing for it is safe to say that intending travellers of the nests of song birds. He is also given to Europa doing the present season have to" putting in his spare time" as a public long since made certain of their berths by scavenger and as such has a claim on the the regular mail steamers, the English, Gen Government. He is practically omnivorous man, French and Japanese liner....... And in we are told on the authority of a well-known the case of those who are on holiday bent naturalist, so that if an egg comes his way they are certain to have booked return pas- now and again he accepts it is a blowing sages. So that it is not until next year that from heaven. The real harrier of bitde the real effect of the scheme in question will be nests--songsters or otherwise—is not the appreciated. For that reason it is to be hoped magpie so much as it is the small that should the expectations of the promoters boy acting on instructions. Any evening not be realised at the outset by a plethora of couples of these young rascals can be met applications for cabins, they will not give on the higher levels carefully scanning the way to the apparent implication that the detrees for birds' nests. When the nests are mand they believed to exist was relly non- located an opportunity is sought when nos existent. The trial must be over an extended body is about and the nests are emptied. period if it is to be a trial worthy of the. Any body, who koɑwa anything about the name, and experience will show, unless we Colony at all will testify to the accuracy of aro vastly mistaken, that the enterprise of that statement. But that has nothing to da the Shire line will be adequately rewarded. with the magpie. He is officially declared At all events, we can only welcome any ar-to be an abandoned and pestiferous'pro- rangement which has for its object the fligate for whom sudden death is too good. cheapening of passenger rates from the There is just a chance, however, that the Orient to Europe and trust that this venture ultimatum issued at the instance of His Ex- is the precursor of cheaper cable rates be cellency the Governor may prove but so tween the mother country and the colonies. much waste paper, for the magple is a pro- lific breeder, laying from five to eight eggs at a time and usually producing two broods a year. All the hen magpie will have to do now in to work overtime and so defeat the machinations of an antipathetic Government,
WAR ALARMS IN BRITAIN.,
of these now institutions are far from being you the language of engineering. When you whatever may be their name, true and graduate you should feel not that you righteous" altogether.
finished your course but that you have just begun it. We prepare you to begin. By THE STUDY OF ENGINKHRING. Ieaching you the language of mathematics and engineering we put at your command (14th June.)
all the great wealth of scientific literature. One of the principal faculties in the Uni-Where, in the pursuit of your profession, verity of Hongkong-whose establishment you come to a new problem you are pre- is now, we may say, assured-will be that of pared to read what men of experience have cogineering and it is interesting to note how done in similar circumstances and to profit the Chinese themselves appreciate the value or their example. Your whole life should (rath June.).
of a foreign training in the theory and prace a continual study. A competent engineer In Shanghai, the question of banking in tice of this art. Recently a reception was not made; he makes himself. The time stitutions seems to overshadow all others, given at the Imperial Polytechnic College, that you can call yourselves engineers may Whether it is because the Chinese banks which was formerly known as the Nanyang come soon; it may never come; it all de there are less trustworthy than they are in College, to His Excellency Jeme Tien-yer, pends on yourselves. With thase comarks Hongkong or not we are not in a position Engineerin-chief of the Peking Kalgan rail of Professor Porter the most superficial mind to say, but this much we do know, that one way, in recognition of his appointment to will agree. We believe, however, that Hong seldom hears of fraudulent transactions, the post of Inspector of the Shanghai-Feng kong and Canton breed that class of student suspensions or anything of a similar cha-ching railway. His Excellency Tuan Fang who is not merely content to imbibe the racter in this Colony, at least, not où took a prominent part in the proceedings, general principles of engineering but has in the scale, which seems to prevail in the but it is with the lecture delivered by H.I. addition the will to test those principles in Northern Settlement. The Mercury of Jeme that we are concerned. Referring practical work. A few years will show how Shanghai is usually very hot in the pursuit to the fact that less than a century has far that view and belief can be substantiated, of native banks which have made defalca- | elapsed since George Stephenson built his tion in respect of their, funds. and once first successful railway, the lecturer remarked: PASSAGE RATES TO KOROPH. again our contemporary has been having "It must be remembered that the engineers. a fling at the Chinese banking institutions in at that time and even much later had great the North. It remarks, with justice, that difficulties in obtaining the right of way in In another column we give an account, in for many months the foreign bankern, mer- the same manner as when we first began brief form, of a new scheme which is intend- chants, and newspapers in China have been railways in China. But now China seems ed to benefit the traveller of moderate urging upon the Chinese-Governaval-the-10-wake-up-as-if-from-a-dream-to-cry-every means who is unable to afford the expense necessity for controlling in some effective where for railways; and it is a pity that of a first-class passage to England by the way the operations of dative banke, of which although railway building in China began regular mail liners and yet is not inclined to such a large number has recently sprung over twenty years ago we scarcely have any forego the companionship of his social into being, some with considerable capital Chinese Engineers of any repute. But 1 equals by secluding himself in the steerage. and more or less guaranteed thereby against am happy to say that it was only a few days Personally we do not consider it matters the difficulties and dangers which the foreign ago that the auspicious day came, which much one way or another whether a man banking and mercantile · community has was the day of opening the Shanghai-Feng. travels first-class or in the stoke bold so long
DOWN ON THE MAURIE. foreseen must inevitably overtake the less ching Railway, the first but one railway, as he reaches his destination, although, of satisfactory of these conecros by reason of completed, and built solely by Chinese course, the pleasures of luxury, prompt at- When a notice is issued by the Colonial their inadequate resources, and other defi. Engineers with purely Chinese money. It tendance, and the free run of a well-appoint Secretary's Department by the authority of ciencies, especially the deficiency of ready must be gratifying to those who took part ined mail-boat are undeniable. But after all His Excellency the Governor requesting all money with which to meet the noter put the building of it. I therefore earnestly the object of the average traveller-in-to-get-holders of game-liconess to destroy magpies- into circulation to amounts exceeding enor hope that these students now before us, there, and it is really no disgrace to econo- whenever opportunity offers, "with a view to mously the very maximum available funds trained under the able guidance of H. E. miss although that does not mean to say preserving song birds in this Colony," the
(16th June) within their call. It has long been pro- Tang and taught by these experienced pro that many people do look upon it in, that most enthusiastic supporter of the high Gor-
Imagination plays a large part in the phesied that the smash must come, sooper fessors here, especially those foreign pro-light. No doubt it is pleasant to travel ernment officials must sadly admit that there series of scares which the Jiagoes in Eng or later, and better sooner than later fessors, will in due course become famous comfortably and in agreeable company by must be exceedingly little business of a land have raised with the object of inducing most competent judges would be inclined to engineers after their reture, from abroad, the mail lines to Europe, by the C. P. R. or public character to transact. Such a notice the ignorant masses to believe that Germany Legislative Council.
think. Apparently the beginning of the aud do credit to themselves, to this college | Pacific Mail boats to America or by the appearing in the Government Gazette, where
is on the point of declaring war against Hongkong Water Polo Shield Competition. Das has come. In the last day of May and to this country," Of cours", these Siberian railway, but when all is said and nobody would have seen it and where it Great Britain. What object Germany should the Hsin yi Bank-suspended payment, are in the main generalities, but what dode a passenger on these ten thousand ton would have remained in sweet oblivion had have in seeking to open hostilities with the Legal-Intelligence:—
and round its doors could be seen a crowd we rejoice to ace is the spirit of fair steamers is pretty much of a nonentity it not been rescued by the press, certainly United Kingdom it is difficult to say and of depositors, some of obvious wealth, others ness exhibited towards foreign instructors. and merely a medium for the transference throws a lurid light on the activities of the even those who profess to see: Into the of the better middle class, and still others of While the Chinese are not willing that of hard cash to the stewards in the Government. We had been under the im- future find it impossible to suggest any a lower order, clamouring for their money foreign syndicates should be entrusted shape of tips. In the case of the new pression that the Department was so busily adequats reason for such a conflict. But and far from satisfied with the brief notice with the construction and control of Chinese service to which we have alluded, the engaged in grappling with the railway pro all the time the "yellow" journals of pasted on the door to the effect that though railways they have no objection to. Chinese idea is to provide passages for first-class blem, so deeply immersed in the intricacies England are stimulating the feeling of auta business would be suspended for a few days students receiving all the knowledge possi- travellers only, at a rate which compares of the opium question, suprofoundly absorbed gonism to, Germany and taking to them- it was hoped that the doors would be open-ble at the hands of Westerh professors. more than favourably with the charges made in subsidiary coinage calculations, and so selves the credit of acting the part of patriots ed again shortly The latter half of Which is exactly what the University of for second-class passengers on the principal keenly intent in an endeavour to make, both in so doing. Take the case of that my the information appeared to afford cold Hongkong is intended to provide. Another ovencas liners. The Seguira, a steamship ends meet and save the Colony from financial sterious airship which has been descried comfort, nor were the depositors particular question, which was raised by Mr. V. K. of some sono tons, is the tangible token disaster that it had no time left for the con- maneuvering over the East coast of Anglia. ly impressed when informed that the bank't Hsu, who was responsible for the construc- that the service has been inaugurated, but sideration of such pettifogging, trivial The most graphic tales have been written affairs had been put in the hands of the tion of the Shanghai-Fengching railway, at present the scheme is in the nature of ao and ridiculous matters as the habits of about the unaccountable phenomenon, and Taotni and the Chairman of the Chinese had reference to the inauguration of an experiment, a feeler to, discover whether the irrepressible magpie. But it appears as it was always scen. about midnight the Chamber of Commerce. In the absence of engineering association in China. Such there is really a popular demand for such a that in its grandmotherly anxiety. to pre-visitation was all the more mysterious. The official receivers and officials of that type a project is of distinct importance to service. If the idea proves successful then serve the amenities of the. Colony, the grossest absurdities foisted on unsophisticat in China overburdened trotais and gentle those interested in the advance of the line will become an established fact and Government is determined to suppress, banished newspaper men were eagerly accepted, men.whose interests are as manifold as must engineering knowledge among the students it is said-that-special-vessels-will-be-built to extirpate and generally to annihilate the de even the most-palpable-nonsenso-written be those of the Chairman of Chamber of who devote their studies to the understand meet the requirements of the travelling testable ruffian who defies the law by en- by the practical joker found its way into the Commerce, interests indeed so wide that ing of technical details of mechanical en public. The fact that these steamers will croaching on the eggs of the Colony's song paper. To suggest that the Germans were they may possibly include the defaulting or gineering, Mr. Hsu in this connection said: carry only one class of passengers, who will birds. Never since the days of that historic making a survey of the East coast in the embarrassed concern itself, are, we suppose, His Excellency Tang would like to see share and share alike, enjoy equal advant-gentleman the jackdaw of Rheims has there darkness of night when they might take train the only possible resources in emergencies established an engineering association in ages and he, presumably, of the same station been such a bord sapscallion as the magpis and do what they pleased during of this kind, but the arrangement can hardly China, and he fervently hopes that E. in life should be welcome. by those who of Hongkong. The archbishop was content the day time is so ridiculous as to sug- be considered satisfactory and only serves to Jeme will come to the front to be its founder, detest the condescension and patronage merely to cursa with bell; book and candle gest that those responsible for the cir emphasize the necessity for more effective as his abundant experience would ensure its which occasionally fall upon those who that arch-thief who went off with the epis- culation of the yarns are suffering from Goveromcot control and resource in the sound organization. At the present time travel at the inferior rates on the main lines. copal ring, but by order of the Government cerebral weakness. It was quite on the carda new conditions of business, and commer. China has various sorts of associations, such It cannot be said that £35 for a first-class a general licence to commit culpable homi- that the subject of German activity should cial life obtaining in China to-day. Our as educational, commercial and agricultural, passage by a vessel belonging to the Royal cide has been given against the miserable bo brought to the attention of the House of contemporary proceeds to say that in the but no engineering and has yet been found. Mail Steam Packet Company of London is magple. Hin days are numbered in the Commons sooner or later, for there are banking world, such conditions are the As you know Chinese workmen have small too much for a journey to the old country land; no more will he be allowed to cock his always some members who if they cannot root of the whole matter-effective Govern | chance of becoming educated on technical and, so far as We can make out the impudent tall and wink his shameless eye, or become famous for their statemanlike ability ment control. If that were established, and lines, and therefore engineers should reduced rate is only rendered possible by exhibit his brazen insolesce in the face of are determined to become notations for if there were adequate legal remedy for those | establish an association and issue various a mutual arrangement entered into between a long enduring public. The fat has gone their hairbrained ideas. At a recent sitting, damaged by breach of properly framed bank, kinds of magazines. No doubt Chinese that company and the Shire line. Indeed, forth that he has to go, and his departure of the House, Sir John Doughty, who is ing laws, there wou'd be an end to the industry would be greatly improved, More if the accommodation for passengers is will be hastened with a dum-dum bullet if he known as one of those highly, flamboyant growth of mushroom banks and to the over, the Chinese workmen can endure hard- limited to fifty it seems to us that the united leaves the warning unheaded. To think and excitable characters, gravely asked Bumillating experience which many of us ship, and still keep good natured, their only fares will just about meet the Suez Canal that in the midst of the stupendous labours whether the Admiralty had been informed have undergone in recent months of having defect is that they do not study and con- charges, and leave a trifle over for the cost of the Government officials the common of that quite recently an exercise was carried out our bank notes refused, not because they sequently rarely distinguish themselves in of the stewards. One is inclined to wonder garden magpie should so thrust forward bis by the German war department, namely, that were forgeries, but because they were issued engineering throughout their lives. For this whether in this new scheme we do not see lawless beak that state affairs are absolutely two large sleamers were suddenly comman The Raub Australian Gold Mining Co, Ltd. by institutions with no adequate security reason people generally consider them very an attempt to solve the problem of the ship. dislocated is to think the unthinkable. deered as Hamburg, and a number of soldiera An Earthquake.
behind them. As far as the journal in low grade and even they themselves acknow. ping conference that bugbear of Singapore Long have we wondered what was the
were marched on board, that these steaméra question, could learn at the time of writledge it. With regard to the idea of an journalism. If so then doubiless our com- cause of that wild and worried look on the
at once set out across the North Sen, steamed ing the collapse in the present instance association I should say that H.E, Tang's frères in the Southern Settlement will rejoice countenances of official members of the into the River Humber, and returned again was due entirely to the issue of "shin- proposal is a burning necessity ja order with exceeding gladness and great joy, for Legislative Council. Now add again we to Hamburg; and whether this mancurre plasters," not to any defalcations or misdeto raise the standard of our industrial in recent issue the Singapore Free Press attributed it to the banky-panky tricks was carried out completely without being meanours on the part of any officer of the life." Litile insight is to be gained from waxed 10 eloquent on the subject of ship of the Crown Agents or the delinquencies of observed by any British guardship or other bank, and thus the incident is simply the that statement as to the precise form and ping rings that it advocated pugilistic mea that office-boy who, as we showed on a pre- British authority. Mr. McKonna, in reply, Q.E.D. at the tail of the long theorems, character which such an association would sures.The whole trade of the Colony is vious occasion, is largely responsible for the said he had no information on the subject propounded so ably and so oft by the local take, but the fact that it should be thought taxed that a few firms, including foreigners, publication of the Government Gazette, Butteferred to, and he would be glad if Sit foreign Chamber of Commerce, the China of at all is a hopeful sign of the times and may receive a bribe not to compete with it was neither of these things-it was that George would communicate to him any de Association, the Peking correspondent of another indication of the energy of the pro- the Ring. This is plain language, but as infernal magpie. It is because of our real tails which might be within his knowledge. the times, by scores of well-known mer-gressive Chinese in grappling with the sub the trade of the Colony has to fight for its and declared sympathy with the Govern- Before that request can be complied with, chants and financiers, and, not least, by every ject of engineering as a whole. Now we very existence over this matter of preferenment officials in their woes and tribulations however, reference will, it is understood, be On: Juss 7, at Shanghai, DENIS EWART, Journal of a responsible character on the come to the question of what an engineering tial rebates, off with the gloves. That is that we shout "bar the magpie ! Just necessary to a certala German Erm through eldest son of Mr. and Mrs, A. R. Donnelly China Coast, or indeed throughout the Far school should be. And here we may expect the sort of way in which our contemporary precisely what he has been doing of late we whom the information was originally received. of Niugpo, to ISABELLA ELIZABETH, Second East. It may be (continues the Mercury) that that the remarks of Professor Charles J. refers to the question, and it will be interest are not in a position to tell, but this much So it was the Germans themselves who told daughter of Captain and Mrs. R. Johns of
this is but the beginning of a serious crisis, Porter will be received with attention by fog to see how it takes this new departure is certain, he has been disturbing that spirit Sir George of their feat, which does not Wobu *** On June 7, 1979, at Shanghal, EDITH ANNIE though we hope it is not. It is urged in those who look with favour on the establish- from the beaten track. For ourselves, what of restful repose which in the supreme char- seem to bear out the theory that these ex- MCDONALD, daughter of Frank McDonald, of defence of the bank, that the actual state of ment of such a department in the prospective. we should like to see is a fight to the finish acteristic of the properly moulded, highly periments are being carried out in secret. Sydney, New South Wales, to WM. DERNIS its reserves against note issues wks made University of Hongkong. The Professor for passengers from Hongkong to London. trained and truly-distinguished civil servant. We are also told that this is not the elder son of SF. Dennis, of Walthamstow, public by a dismissed employee and that limited his remarks to the relation between In such a case it is just possible that Now, if there is one thing more than another first instance of similar operations being Ecgland.
had this person been less bitter and more technical school and the engineering pro the competing lines might actually go that arouses salut's choler it is the in practiced. In the autumn of last year, On Monday, June 7, 1909, at 2.30 pm, Mas discreet, no insecurity would have been felt fession. Many students, he said, especially, the length of subsidising the willing tra- trusion of such purely extraneous subjects as about the time of the German manoeuvres, AGNES CLYDE RICKER, the sister of Dr. and Mrs. John Goddard, to Mr. DANIEL COATH, and the bank's business would have con- Chinese students, both here and abroad, feel veller to journey by their particular boats. magpies and, we believe, reporters. No a considerable body of troops was quietly Shanghai,
tinued without, what we will hope is to be that when they have completed their course and wo thould then sco such an exodus of doubt in the divine wisdom of providence and rapidly concentrated at one of the new On June 4, 1900, at Shanghai, HAROLD only, interruption. Unfortunately, bank de- of study and obtained their diploma they are Britishers bound for Europe as would there is some sort of use of these tatter military harbours, where transport had also EDBLAD to EMMA T.MAITLAND (Nee Gbodial positors are but buman, as are dismissed already made competent engineers capable cast the annual American Invasion into demalions, but not in Hongkong And as been a quietly collected. The troops were low), both of Shanghai, photog
employees, and as soon as the breath of of holding a position of responsibility. This dark and gloomy shade. Then it might it is not yet legal to boot or shoot the news embarked, and the transports put to sex, and poland and age * DEATHS; A
suspicion stirs they begin to look out for is a fallacy, a very great one, and the sooner be possible for some who have long dreamt paper men at sight, the Government have cruised about for about the same time that On May 31, 1900, a Florence, Italy, after themselves; and it is quite certain that who you students of engineering realize it, the of trip to the homeland to realise adopted the next best alternative and order it would take to make the passage to Eng Jong illness, FREDERICK HENRY BALFOURther, this special form of undue publicity is sooner will you become engineers. No their ambition. But, of course, that is all an edgeneral massacre of the magpies, so land. Then the fleet returned to harbour formerly Editor of the North-Chlua Daily adopted or not, a bank, or any other form engineering college, alther here or abroad, Jau fantasy and we must be content with that brethren of our kidney are temporarily and the force disembarked and entrained. News and Heraid,"`aged 65 years, fa On June 7, 1909, Shanghai, Joxe WIL of commercial institution, must eventually no matter what is name or reputation can all mercies and be thankful for what the safe. Candidly, such a notice as that appear The object, it is understood, of the exercise LIAM JONES, of the Chies Metual Life Insur. find itself to difficulties if, whether the hope to make a man an engineer. What gods provide. At the same time, if this pro ing in the Gaselle does smack of infantile was, among other things, to ascertain if such auce Co., Shanghai, aged 29 years. ..
public knows it or not, it cannot take up its then, you ask, Is the use of an engineer Ject of providing first-class accommodation fatuity, and tends to seduce the purpose of the an embarkation could be secretly affected On June. By 1909, at Shaughal Sorur paper. It is greatly to be feared that the ing college and why should you give for those who prefer it on intermediate boats Gareits to a reductio ad absurdum... Granted without coming to the notice of foreign Gow (Yuku) the wife of C. Schmier, 1. M. C, aged incidents referred to will not remain cons valuable time to it when after all it is at moderate rates proves the success which that the magpie le a born bandit and cromoots. Itir belleved that in thisrespect the picuous by their singularity, for disappoint. not going to make an engineer of you!, we feciconvinced will attend the venture, fagrant, dippaat freebooter, is ha the only one operation was quite successio, and that Belther
ent begets distrust, which is the mother. An engineering school does not make er on reason to believe that other ship of the kind? Have the song birds, whose the War Office nor the Admiralty of panic, and it will need cool heads and a gineers but it makes the material of which
panies will not enter into the game carollings charm the official ear, no other of what has lot of ready cash to avert a crisis, for there engineers are made: "Its robject vand. ite
bbour. If we are to accept enemies to fear? And is it got one of the That if the view of the To
place till some time later. 11 merique ground for believing, that enreral," purpose je to train you to think and to teach Baum of Bir Thomas herlands a wise dieperiations of nature that all salmal, awyrd
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H.E. Tang Shao-yi.
Hongkong University Scheme.
Fatihan Incident.
Cheap Trips to Europe
A Chinaman's Suicide.
Hongkong College of Medicine, H.E, Wu Ting-fang ay A School Visitor. Hoogkong Post Office Vageries. Balillos Public School,
Junk Held Up...
The Rat Problem.
A Charge of Negligence,
Chiners la San Francisco. Volunteer Corps Orders. Canton Day by Day. Alleged Manslaughter.. The Pacific Mail S. S. Co. German Officer Drowned, The Shanghai Alhambra,
The Mozambique, Convention,
Chinese Commemoration Stamp...
Pekin Syndicate, Rep: rt. The Langkat Case.
·Echo of the War,
Japanese-Settlement-in-Hankow:---- Yokohama Foreign Board of Trade.
The Japao Sugar Company Scandal,
Sino-Japanese Relations.
Unique Prospecting.
Rats and Plague.
British Types in China.
Commercial:- -
Weekly Share. Report.
Freight Market. Exchange
Look! and General.
BIRTHS,
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MARRIAGES.
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