THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LIX]
Epitome
Leading Articles :-
The War
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China Overland Trade
CONTENTS..
Kowloon-Canton Railway
Malaria and Plague in Hongkong The Japanese Protectorate in Corea
Shanghai and the China Association
Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 15TH JUNE, 1904.
Shanghai residents have organised a treat for the men of the British fleet which is now at Woosung.
The S.S. Hochheimer, of the Hansa line, Bremen, has been purchased by the Japaness Government.
The Pleiades from Yokohama has arrived at Vaucouver having been towed 800 miles after 438 losing her propeller.
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A proclamation by His Excellency the Officer .436 Administering the Government, issued
Saturday, declares Amoy an infected port.
During the absence of Sir John Keane
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The Y.M.C.A. in Hongkong
Hongkong Jottings
War Telegrama
Russo-Japanese War Fand..
Supreme Court
The New Y.M C.A. Rooms
Hongkong and Queensland
Correspondence
Canton Notes
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Pakhoi
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China Light and Power Co., Ld.
Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Aquatics
Hongkong
Miscellancous
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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from Colombo Lord R. F. Herschell is to act as Private Secretary to His Excellency Sir Henry Blake.
The dysentery bacillus is reported in Ceylon papers to have been discovered by Dr. Aldo Castellani, in charge of the Bacterio- 444 logical Institute there.
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On the 29th May, at 1, Honan Road, Shanghai. the wife of Dr. STANLEY, Health Officer, of a son,
On the 2nd June, at 2, Wayside Road, Shang hai, the wife of RUTHVEN MACFARLANE, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES
On the 27th May, at the Catholic Church, Port Edward, Weihaiwci, JOHN ALFRED WILD, third son of the late PEDRO DA SILVA LOUREIRO, of shanghai, to ADA MITCHELL, yo nger daughter of the late FRANK MITCHELL HARRIS, of Staines, England.
Jn the 6th June, at St. John's Cathedral, by the Rev. T. T. Johnson, M.A., MABIL DAISY, youngest daughter of the late H. L. MATHER, Hongkong, to ROBERT RODGER, Port Glasgow, Scotland.
DEATHS.
Since our last issue the Theatre stage has been occupied first by Mr. Willie Freear, a versatile entertainer, and now the Stanley Opera and Comedy Company is the attraction.
The contract for the conveyance of mails to the East has been signed with the P. & O. Company for three years. It provides for an acceleration of the service by twenty-four hours.
One of the new Japanese battleships to be built in England has been insured against building. launching, and other risks, for £1,360.000, covering hull
and machinery, armour and armament.
The silk season at Shanghai is stated by Messrs. A. R. Burkhill and Sons to have been a most unprofitable one to those engaged in the silk trade, the severest losses falling upon owners of steam filatures, and of new style hand filatures.
The Shanghai Electric & Asbestos Co., Ld. On the 1st June, at 15, Woosung Road, Shang-held their first annual meeting a few days ago. hai, HELEN MORRISON, the beloved wife of GEORGE The company paid a dividend of eight per cent.. ROLLO, aged 24 years.
the profits during the year being roughly 14 per cent. of the capital. Tls. 2,000 were carried forward.
On the 2nd June, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, MARY, the beloved wife of G. W. Bex NETT, of the Woosung Hotel.
On the 2nd June, at 99; Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, Captain JOHN FARROW, late Imperial
Maritime Customs.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail arrived per the sleamer Seydlitz on the 7th inst.; and the English Mail of 13th May arrived per the steamer Nankin, at daylight this morning.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Telegrams relating to the war will be found од р. 4:34
Twelve days' quarantine is imposed at Saigon on arrivals from Hongkong, Swatow, and Amoy.
A German-Dutch Company is in course of formation with a capital of Mks. 4,000,000 to lay a cable connecting the Celebes, Pelews and Philippine Islands with Shanghai. The German and Dutch Governments are giving large subsidies.
The Acting Commissioner of Customs at Yochow in his report on the trade of the port says it is to be regretted that no European Community is likely to enjoy the pure air and open plain of Yochow, doubtless the healthiest town in the Yangtse Valley.
All hope of saving the Chinese cruiser Haitien is practically abandoned. Attempts have been made to pump out some of her com- partments, but the ground gained at low tide
has been lost again with the rise of the water, and no permanent advance has been made.
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The new gunboat built in Shanghai, which has been set up at the Pasig Iron Works, has sailed for the Cottobato river, and will be used by General Wood in operations against the Moros on the river. She is 60 feet long, 11 feet 6 inches beam, and draws about six feet of water. Her speed will be 10 knots. A sister boat was shipped to Mindanao lately, in sections which will be set up under the supervision of a repre- sentative of the builders, on the lake. -
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An Imperial Decree orders a sum of Tls. 100,000 to be set aside from the Treasury of the Imperial Household towards the cost of organi- sing a branch of the Red Cross Society in China.
The second division of France's Far Eastern Squadron arrived at Hongkong on the 11th inst. It consists of the cruisers Chateau Renault, flag- ship of Rear-Admiral Fauque de Jonquières, cruiser Pascal, gunboat Decidée, and two des- troyers.
The circulation of
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silver in Formosa. is to be officially prohibited. The silver by gold notes, but silver will still be accepted in circulation will be replaced
intended currency reform at this juncture is in payment of taxes for the time being. The generally considered timely. materially affect foreign trade in Formosa.
It will not
The war has so affected the business of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha that the company's total receipts for the half year are estimated. a Japan paper says, at about one million yen less than the figures for the preceding half year. The company's reserve funds for the extension of services and the improvement of the fleet will not be increased for the present business term.
Coloniensis," writing in the Fortnightly Review, claiming to record the views of re sponsible Russian statesmen, states that during if allowed a free hand in Manchuria and Corea- the Boer war Russia offered to the Marquis Ito
to support Japanese expansion in the Malay archipelago and Oceana, especially against the Commonwealth, whose exclusion of the Japanese was intensely galling to Japan.
Shanghai Taotai that he has given no promise The Nanking Viceroy has informed the to the Consular delegates regarding the imme- diate appointment of the Chinese representatives Whangpu River Conservancy Board. required to complete the constitution of the contrary, he says he has requested the considera- On the
tion of an alternative proposal-namely, that China shall forthwith undertake the work with her own resources. This proposal, the Viceroy adds, has been embodied in a memorandum which has been handed to the senior Consul.
Chinan, Weihsien and Chontsun are to be opened to foreign trade. H.E. Yuan Shih-kai and the Governor of Shantung jointly mem-
orialised the Throne, pointing out that in Chinan railway, and the approaching construc- consequence of the completion of the Kisochow' tion of the Tientsin-Chinkiang line by England and Germany jointly, the trade at the above- mentioned centres has greatly increased, and it is believed that a still greater increase will result when these places are opened to interna- tional commerce.
"Let action be taken at once' is the Imperial order.
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Owing to the completion of the Chiao-Chan- chinan railway, which is about 800 li in length, the Chief Engineer has made a representation to the Governor of Shantung, asking permission to construct a branch line from Tung-kuan to Hsiao-chiag-ho, about 3 li distant. The Direc- tor of the Bureau of Commercial Affairs at Chinan has been instructed to devise means to procure funds for this line, which will be under Chineses control, though the material will be purchased from Germany in accordance with a clause inserted in the agreement between the Chinese Government and the German Railway Company some time ago.
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