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assustabt edutir, The office was, at that time, on the 1st floor of the Canton Printing Co., Queen's Road Central.
The offices, after a short period, were removed to Pedder's Hill, and in 1913 moved to 56 Morrison Hill Road.
On November 1, 1913 Mr. Matsushima returned home and Mr. Ide succeeded him as the director. On November 1, 1929 the office was removed to the present place, No. 4 Great George Street.
The Hong Kong Nippo has been the sole Japanese paper here, with the one exception: in the spring of 1921, Mr. Masumi Hirai published the Minami Shina Nippo (or "South China News") but after a year's existence the paper was discontinued. Mr. Hirai is now the director of the Canton Shimbun (the "Canton News").
The Hong Kong Nippo has now two editors; and remains an influential and popular paper among its readers.
I am indebted to the courtesy of the local Japanese Consulate for assistance in obtaining the above details.
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Further to my review of local magazines, I am indebted to a previous contributor to these notes "Old Mortality", for information about an interesting weekly journal which was published in Hong Kong from 1906 to 1908, and of which he has a complete set. This was The New Weekly which afterwards became The Hong Kong Weekly. Its first issue appeared on Saturday, August 4, 1906, and it was published at 5, Wyndham Street, being sold at 30 cents a copy, which was reduced to 20 cents two months later. It was apparently produced by members of the staff of the China Mail. The first issue has extracts from the old China Punch (mentioned in my previous article).
On January 5, 1907 the name Hong Kong Weekly was used, the format of the journal being somewhat changed. Its place of publication (and possibly its proprietorship) was altered not long afterwards, the issues from February 16, 1907 and onwards being produced from 8 Queen's Road, but printed by Guedes and Co. "for the Concerned" at 9-A Duddell Street. A distinct deterioration in the magazine set in during the following year, and the last issue appeared on Saturday, March 7, 1908, by which time it was being sold for 10 cents.
The reason for its demise was a dearth of local writers, as well as artists to illustrate the magazine: the earlier numbers contained some clever comic drawings and life-like portraits of the Colony's celebrities.
In the course of my references to the English newspapers of Hong Kong, mention was made of Mr. Y. J. Murrow, who took over the Daily Press a few months after its inception and whose son, Col. H. L. Murrow now in Hong Kong is the present proprietor. It was noted that Mr. Murrow's career merited review as a separate article of this historical series. I give to-day an extract from the Hong Kong Daily Press of April 24, 1884, which gave the obituary notice of Mr. Murrow from the London and China Express and Telegraph, as follows:
"It is with deep regret we have to record the death, on the 12th March (1884) at his residence Alphington House, Five Oaks, Jersey, of Mr. Yorick Jones Murrow, proprietor of the Hong Kong Daily Press and the China Overland Trade Report. Mr. Murrow had been in feeble health for some time, having last year been prostrated by a complication of disorders. Under the able treatment of Dr. Sir Andrew Clarke, however, and a change of air at the increasingly popular health
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assustabt edutir, The office was, at that time, on the 1st floor of the Canton Printing Co., Queen's Road Central.
The offices, after a short period, were removed to Pedder's Hill, and in 1913 moved to 56 Morrison Hill Road.
On November 1, 1913 Mr. Matsushima returned home and Mr. Ide succedded him as the director, On November 1, 1929 the office was removed to the present place, No. 4 Great George Street.
The Hong Kong Nippo has been the sole Japanese paper hère, with the one exception: in the spring of 1921, Mr. Masumi Hirai published the Minami Shina Nippo ( or"South China News") but after a years existence the paper was discontinued. Mr. Hirai is now the director of the Canton Shimbun (the "Canton News").
The Hong Kong Nippo has now two editors; and remains an
influential and popular paper among its readers..
I am indebted to the courtesy of the local Japanese Consulate for assistance: in obtaining the above details.
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*
*
*
Further to my review of local magazines, I am indebted to a previous contributor to these notes "Old Mortality", for information about an interesting weekly journal which was published in Hong Kong from 1906 to 1908, and of which he has . a complete set. This was The New Weekly which afterwards became The Hong Kong Weekly. Its first issue appeared on Saturday August 4, 1906, and it was published at 5, Wyndham Street, being sold at 30 cents a copy, which was reduced to 20 cents two months later. It was apparently produced by members of the staff of the China Mail. The first issue has extracts from the old China Punch (mentioned in my previous article).
On January 5, 1907 the name Hong Kong Weekly was used, the format of the journal being somewhat changed. Its place of publication (and possibly its proprietorship) was altered not long aftereards, the issues from February 16, 1907 and onwards being produced from 8 Queen's Road, but printed by Guedes and Co. "for the Concerned" at 9-A Duddell Street. A distinct deterioration in the magazine set in during the following year, and the last issue appeared on Saturday, March 7, 1908, by which time it was being sold for 10 cents.
The reason for its demise was a dearth of local writers, as well as artists to illustrate the magazine: the earlier numbers contained some clever comic drawings and life-like portraits of the Colony's celebrities.
In the course of my references to the English newspapers of Hong Kong, mention was made of Mr. Y. J. Murrow, who took over the Daily Press a few months after its inception and whose son, Col. H. L. Murrow now in Hong Kong is the present proprietor. It was noted that Mr. Murrow's career merited review as a sepatate article of this historical series. I give to-day an extract from the Hong Kong Daily Press of April 24, 1884, which gave the obituary notice of Mr. Murrow from the London and China Express and Telegraph, as follows:
"It is with deep regret we have to record the death, on the 12th March (1884) at his residence Alphington House, Five Oaks, Jersey, of Mr. Yorick Jones Murrow, proprietor of the Hong Kong Yaily Press and the China Overland Trale Report. Mr. Murrow had been in feeble health for some time, having last year been prostrated by a complication of disorders. Under the able treatment of Dr. Gir Andrew Clarke, however, and a change of air at theat increasingly popular health
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