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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
China
VOL. LVII]
CONTENTS.
Hongkong
Leading Articles --
The Chinese and H.E. the Governor ......... The Detection of Crime
The Gage Street Murder.
Manchuria
The Situation in China'
The Chinese and H.E. the Governor
Hongkong Ganéral Chamber of Commerce
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Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 11TH APRIL, 1903.
H.E. the Governor has been ples
Hongkong Weekly Press recognise Mr. H. M. Hobbins Viccand
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 6th March arrived, 256 per M.M. steamer Yarra, on the 7th April (32 days; the U.S. mail of the 11th March arrived, por P.M. steamer Siberia, on the 7th April (27 days); and the English mail of the 13th March arrive per P. & O, steamer Coromandel, ou 258 the th April (28 days).
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The Admiralty Dock Question.
The Currency in the Philippines
The Gage Street Murder....
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Tragedy in the Harbour
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The New Pacific Mail Liner
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Salving Stranded Steamer
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Serious Street Fight....
The Victim of Thieves
. Concerts
The Lilliputians at the Theatre
Fires.........
The Hongkong-Manila Smuggling Case
Charges Against Officials in the Philippines..
Pakhoi
Swatow...
Rumoured Unrest in Kansu
Supreme Court «...
Correspondence.......
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The Foreign Trade of China in 1902 The Lawn-Tennis Tournament Cricket......
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Miscellaneous.
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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HONGKONG.
The number of plague cases in the Colony 29 from January 1st to date is returned at 210.
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Mr. G. G. Seth has been appointed Acting 259 Sheriff and Deputy Registrar of the Supreme
Court at Singapore,
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Mr. E. E. Elias, clerk with, Messrs. E. D. Sassoon & Co., died in the Government Civil 26 Hospital on Tuesday, aged 50,
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We regret to record the death of Mrs. Wells, wife of Rev. H. R. Wells of the London Mig sionary Society, Bonham Road. The funeral 261 took place on the 7th inst, at Happy Valley.
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Sergeant J. Walters, of the 85tli Company Royal Garrison Artilley, Ceylon, has been 265 | promoted Company Sergeant-Major to No. 78 205 Company R.G.A., Hongkong, and will shortly .245 | proceed here.
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The visitors to the City Hall Library and 266 Museum for the week ended 4th April were ...... 263·16 non-Chinese and 91 Chinoso to the former, .267 and 89 non-Chinese and 2,213 Chinese to the
latter institution,
On the 6th April, at 2, Bay View, Kowloon,
the wife of S. W: MOÓRE, of a son.
At Nganhsien, Szechuan, the wife of ERNEST A. J. THOMAS, C.M.S., of a son.
MARRIAGE.
On the 2nd April, at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, ERNEST LEE, younger son of I. WINTER ALLEN, of Shanghai, to Elizabeth Emma, seco ad daughter of GEORGE E. KING, of Northwich, Cheshire.
DEATHS.
On the 27th February, at the Kealing-Cocos Is ands, ALFEED CLONŒš-R383, aged 52 years.
On the 19th March, at Nagas-iki, AARON KAPLAN, aged 66 years..
On the 21st March, at the Residency, Labuan, AGNES ANNIE, the wife of WILLIAM HUGHES
PENNET.
On the 29th March, at No. 2, Tiendong Road, HENRY GEORGE SUTTON, late Lower Yangtze Pilot, aged 68 years.
On the 31st March, at No. 18, Quinsan Shanghai, SAMUEL GEORGE, infant son of GEORGE and JANET PEACE aged seven weeks.
The lukong who is charg with the man- slaughter of a Chinaman at Au Tau. in the New Terri ory, during the quelling of a trifling disturbance that broke out there recently, was brought up at the Magistracy and again remanded.
A heavy fine was imposed at the Magistracy ou the 7th inst., upon & Chinɔman who was con- victed of acting hore as tout for gaming-houses in Macao and selling Mucio lottery tickets. I was fined altogether $1 5, and paid the money. which shows that dealing in lotteries is profit- able for someone.
Fong Kwai Sang, a school teacher, who was under remand on a charge of obtaining a bribe of $11 from Chinese, with a view to influencing his conduct, as a public officer-to wit, a police interpreter, in which capacity he was acting when the alleged offence was committed—failed to respond to his name when it was called at the Police Court on the 7th inst., and his bail of $500 was estreated. A warrin has been issued for his arrest.
Whilst a cinder-boat was lying alongside the steamer Yuen Sang in the harbour on the 7th Road,coolies throw an iron bar belonging to the ship inst. the chief officer of the steamer saw one of the
into the cinder-boat. He caught the Chinaman, and this gave the alarm to the others in the boat," whom de off. At the Police Court
sentenced to the op'ured coolie was
one month's hard labour for the theft of the bar which was valued at $20.
On the 1st April, at "Fern Villa," Dublin Rod, Singapore, JOHN DAVID STUART, aged 42 years.
On the 1st April, at the General Hospital; Singapore, Jonn D'Souza late of Sarawak, aged 34 years)
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St. Patrick's Club billiard tournazz concluded on the 4th inst, and ended in for the Kowloon Dock team. The the Royal Garrison Artillery was second prize, a cue, for the best break was won who made a break of 49 points. The prizes wer U. M. P. Remedios of the Club Lusitano presented immediately after the final tie, and following the presentation an impromptu con. cert was got up which passed off harmoniously and, with great success.
Dr. J. C. Thomson, secretary of the College, of Medicine for Chinese, seuda us a revised prospectus of the College. From it we note that sixty-eight students have been enrolled to date (1903); of whom twenty-seven have retired ton finding the examinations more severe than they anticipated, or for other reasons; «twenty?! four are now engaged in study at various stages- of the curriculum; and seventeen have succe68- ) fully passed all the professional examinations,: and been certified fit for the practice of their profession.
The usually uneventful passages to and fro of the Star Ferry launches were livened on Wedne day in one instance by a "scrap place between two passengers on the upper decki The bumping of the launch as it negotiated the guiding piles at Kowloon, an accidents! tread- ing on the toes of one party by the other, and a3 churlishly accepted apology, provided the mate rial for the "set-to," which was assuming the appearance of a first-rate "mill” when s peace- maker amongst the other passengers threw oil on the troubled waters and persuaded the pugna- cious Kowloonites to leave off “lamming” each other and go home.
Under the auspices of the Odd Volumes- Society, Hon. F. H. May, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary, lectured, in the Chamber of Com, merce on the 7th inst. on Jewish Wit and Humour. Commodore U. G. Robinson, R.N., presided over a large audience. The was rich in anecdote and very entertaining We are sorry that we cannot publish it, as M May stated at the commencement, much to the ainusemont of his hearers, that he was not desirous of his Hebrew stories becoming publie through the Press with the possible result of a the exhaustion of a stock which might other- wise last for a year or two. At the conclusion: of the lecture, Rov. E. J. Hardy contributed a few examples of Hobraio wit, and Mr. May was award cordial vote of thanks on the motion of the Commodore. --
By an accident which occurred in the harbour. on the 6th inst., the Kowloon Godown Com pany were temporarily deprived of the services of one of their launches. The Glasgow- steamer Sikh was making slowly for No. - wharf, and the Pelican, the launch › with the mishap, had one end of the mooring line on board for the purpose ing it to the wharf and thus facilita operation of mooring. On board the the Pelican, which is not much they commenced hauling in the line, and
sampan, and very light, was dragged the stern of the Sikh, whose rev struck the launch on the bow, therein and causing her to minutes. The crew were wes raised the following
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