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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LX.]
CONTENTS.
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Chinese Reformers and the Quene Chinese Railway Enterprise
Ale the Japanese of Jewish Origin
mes in Neutral Waters
Hoong Jottings
The ar
Supine Court
Hoong Sanitary Board
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 2nd JULY, 1904.
The local agents for the procuring of coolies for the Rand are said to be having some difficulty in getting labourers. The camp at Laichikok is not very full at present.
The plant for the electric lighting of Macao is going to be supplied, it is stated, by Messrs. Dodwell & Co., of Hongkong. Mr. T. Skinner 2 of that firm was responsible for the installation
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Hosong General Chamber of Commerce
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Darpment of Kowloon
Fontier Notes
Cantoa
Correspondence
The Plague at Cantou
Canton-Hankow Railway
The Haimun
Waterfowl Breeding in China.....
Reformers Pardoned
The Emigration Convention
P.&a Steam Navigation Co.
A. British Mining Concession in Anhui
Chinese Punishments
Hongkong Commercial.
Shipping
BIRTH.
Sir Mathew Nathan, R.E., K.C.M.G., the new Governor of Hongkong, was to be enter- tained to dinner by Mr. Wm. Keswick, M.P., to meet a number of Hongkong and China people, on the 20th June.
The remains of Archbishop Guidi, the Papal Delegate to the Philippines, were borne to the Cathedral at Manila on the 9th ult. to lie there in state until Friday. A Requiem Mass was conducted by Archbishop Harty assisted by 10 three American Bishops,
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The foundation stone of a new Presbyterian church for Hokien Chinese was laid at Singa- pore on the 21st ult., the Governor performing the ceremony. Of the $13.000 or $14,000 required for the building about two-thirds has been collected. Non-Christian Chinese have given 13 dollar for dollar with the congregation.
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On the 14th June, at 2588 Bluff, Yokohama, the wife of ERNEST ARTHUR TAPLIN, of a daughter. DEATH.
On the 25th April, at San Francisco, Mrs. J S. Ws, wife of the late JAMES SAMUEL WILDE, of the Pacific Mail S.S. Co., Kobe. The ashes have been sent to Kobe for interment.
Diamonds have been discovered in a certain district in Shantung, and certain Chinese merchants proposed that the mine should be worked at once to prevent foreign interest from being attracted. The Shantung officials not having espoused the matter, however. the merchants are appealing direct to Peking.
In the House of Lords last month, Lord Lansdowne announced that he had received a communication from the British Ambassador in St. Petersburg to the effect that only raw cotton suitable for making explosives had been declared contraband by the Russian Government ress. and that the declaration did not apply to piece
goods.
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According to the Manila Sunday Sun one
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LONION OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C. thing that the folks are saying there is that the Hongkong authorities will unques- tionably be pleased to receive their strayed beachcombers back to the Praya, and that they are not wanted in Manila." Considering that the ranks of the Hongkong army of beach- Manila furnishes the majority of recruits for combers, the Sun has a colossal impudence.
The French Mail of the 27th May arrived per the Tonkin, on Tuesdy, the 28th alt, and the #glish Mail of the 3rd June arrived, per them. Chusan, on Thursday, the 30th ultimo.
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Tograms relating to the war will be found
Price Ching is urging that more attention bed to engineering and surveying in the
Chinse army.
Fro Canton comes news of the death from plag of the second wife of H.E. Viceroy Shu and three maids of the Viceregal house
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Price Adalbert (third son of the Kaiser), who gently passed throuh Hongkong, had an erview with the Emperor of China at Pelur last month.
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result of the heavy rainfall numerous ps are reported from the New Territory. have also been several on the south side of the island of Hongkong.
The Acting Governor of British North Borneo, in a letter dated 8th June, has informed His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government that the port of Hongkong is declared by the Borneo Government to be quarantined for bubonic plague, and vessels arriving in North Borneo ports and Labuan from Hongkong will be medically examined, and are liable to be quarantined at the discretion
of the Health Officer.
The fact that the Empress Dowager of China has decided to sit for her photograph may not be due to the war, but the event possesses a significance not to be ignored, inasmuch as it has never happened before. It is a Japanese photographer, moreover, who has been asked to take the picture. It may at least be true that Japanese military success against the Russians has immensely increased Japanese prestige at Paking, leading directly to the triumph of Japanese photography over the photography of the rest of the world.
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From home papers it appears that the Lon- don County Council have ordered 110 houses to be taken down as uninhabitable under a penalty of £1 108. per day per house until the work of demolition is begun. A correspondent sug- gests that it is a pity that the Hongkong Government does not use. such strenuous. measures, as many of the houses in the thickly populated central parts of the city are in a most dilapidated condition.
The Electrical Magazine places i' on record that Dalay was one of the most proressive electricity to public and private requirements. communities as regards the application of
The central station, completed about twelve months ago, had a total capacity of 3,000 horse- power, with space for additional machinery of the same output. In addition to public and private lighting by electricity there was apparatus for pumping the dry docks and for driving machine, boiler, and other workshops in the harbour. The town also possessed an admirable telephone system.
A Bangkok telegram appearing in the Straits Times states that at a meeting of the European bankers and merchants it was resolved to petition the Siamese Government through the doyen of the diplomatic corps, protesting against the deplorable condition of the telegraph service in Siam. The frequent breakdowns entail heavy losses on the shipping merchants and handicap countries. Regret was expressed that the line rice transactions in competition with other
to Koh-si-chang had not been maintained, and that there was no new land line to Singapore via Penang It was further decided to condemn the dual control of the lines by different Government departments.
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As going to show that Hongkong is regarded by its neighbours as a convenient and natural place for dumping their undesirables a very good instance came to light the other day. steamer arrived from Saigon with about 150 Chinese on board. There was a case of cholera on board, so that luckily the passengers were not at liberty to come ashore until enquiries had been made by the authorities. And when enquiries were made, it was discovered that these men were the sweepings of French Indo- China gaols, deported to Hongkong, forsooth, as Some of them had marks of the cat on their being dangers to the safety of the community.
backs. They should be sent back to Saigon,
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The Municipal rates at Singapore amount to and 3 per cent. the water rate. The legal limit 14 per cent., 11 per cent. being the general ratov appears to be 15 per cent. It may interest Hongkong taxpayers-as it must certainly have interested those of Singapore-to read the following expression of opinion by the new Governor (Sir John Anderson) in the course of a debate on municipal expenditure, which raised the argument that further borrow- ing powers were needed. Sir John Anderson is reported as saying that he thought 14 per cent, for all municipal purposes including water was an excellent reason why they should fix the limit at 20 per cent. He had had some acquaintance with other Municipalities and he thought if they went to what was regarded as the more favoured country of England, if they found any place where they got their water and- their municipal rate at less than 30 per cent well, he would like to know where it was.
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