Leading Articles:-
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Army Reform
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Chinese Partnerships and Compulsory Regis-
tration
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In Lighter Vein
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Hongkong Finances
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Police Grievances
Hongkong Jottings
Hongkong Legislative Council
Supreme Court
Hongkong Sanitary Board
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The Hongkong Blue Book
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Indo-China Steam Navigation Company
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Bell's Asbestos Fastern Agency, Limited
Punjom Mining Co., Ld....
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Tebrau Planting Co.. Ld.
Canton
Frontier Notes
"Star" Ferry
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The Steamship Shanghai
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Trade in May
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The Late Mr. Dorabjee Nowrojes
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Orpheum Comedy Co.
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R. A. O. B.
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Piracy
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Corean Official at/Hongkong
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Raising a Wharf
The Bishop of Macao
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A Bunch of Books
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Mr. Nicolle's Appointment..
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Sport and Pastime
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Local Sport
Hongkong
MiscellancoUA
Commercial Shipping
In the Government Gazette distributed on Saturday appears a revised scale in which are stipulated the medicines. &c.. and quantities 48 thereof, that must be taken to sea by Chinese 48 passenger ships.
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Mr. J. B. Scrivenor, geologist, F.M.S.. hedges rather in his report on the gold mines of the Malay States. There is plenty of gold, but it is difficult of access. scattered, and expensive to get.
Gold, according to a correspondent in the Times of Ceylon, has been found in paying 51 quantities in Ceylon. Unfortunately the owners of the land refuse to negotiate except on such terms as would cripple any industry.
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Major Sir Matthew Nathan, K.C.M.G., was 53 presented to his Majesty the King by the Secretary of State on the 7th ult. At the same levée Mr. Sidney Barton, of His Majesty's Consular Service in China, was presented.
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BIRTHS. On the 2nd July, at Shanghai, the wife of M. HARDMAN, China Inland Mission, of a son.
On the 4th July, at Shanghai, the wife of G. MASON BOTES, of a daughter.
On the 14th July, at No. 1, Morrison Hill, the wife of C. H. GRACE, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 8th June, at St. Luke's Church, Wood-
side, by the Rev. W. S. Flynn, STANLEY, younger
son of A. C. W. Hobman, of Dulwich and Ber-
mondsey, to CATHERINE EMILY, third daughter of the late G. L. TOMLIN, of Hongkong. and Ms. TOMLIN, Of Woodside.
On the 23rd June, at St. John's Church, Wei- haiwei, MATILDA Kate, second daughter of the late SAMUEL PARKHILL, of Chefoo, to GEORGE EDWIN, third son of JOHN LUPTON FURNESS, of High Wycombe, England.
DEATHS.
On the 26th June, at Soochow, MARY ISABELLA, relict of the late Rev. J. W. LAMBUTH, D.D., interred in Old Cemetery, aged 72 years.
On the 30th June, at Hospital, Yokohama, ADDIE GORDON, wife of Rev. W. B. BURKE, of the Southern Methodist Mission of Shanghai.
Mr. Justice Wise was present on the 8th ult. at a dinner given at the Mansion House by the Lord Mayor to His Majesty's Judges. Sir Field- ing Clarke, formerly of Hongkong, but now Chief Justice of Jamaica, was also present.
It is reported that Mr. G. A. I. Bosanquet. who was private secretary to Sir Frank and Sir Alexander Swettenham, when they were
Governors of the Straits, is on the way to Southern Nigeria as private secretary to Mr. Walter Egerton.
memorial to Peking with the object of getting The Governor of Hunan has sent up a
the Board of Revenue to set aside Tls. 300,000
to meet expenses in connection with the opening of Changsha to foreign trade in fulfilment of the Mackay Treaty.
An Act of Congress of the United States. providing that all freight and passengers between United States ports and the Philippine Islands and between ports of the Philippine Islands after July 1, 1906, shall be transported in American bottoms, has just become law.
Spurred by the Hongkong Chamber of
Loke Yew Engineering School." Practical lessons will be given at the Government Factory, while theoretical instruction will also be supplied by the Government.
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It appears now that the troops that mutinied at Linchow, Kwangsi, are not members of the Wuchien Army as reported, but insurgents who had surrendered to the Government and had been trained into regulars, but have re- cently deserted. These men have since dispersed and no great trouble, is anticipated.
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are officially authorised to state that subject to audit, the Directors of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation will recommend at the forthcoming meeting a dividend of £1 10s. per share ; add to the reserve fund $500,000: write off property account $200,000; and carry forward about $1,500,000.
It is stated that Mrs. Mary Etzel, mother of Lewis Etzel of Denver, the war correspondent who was killed by Chinese soldiers, will file a claim against the Chinese Government for $20,000 damages. The case has been put in the hands of attorneys, who will seek the aid of the State Department at Washington in enforcing the claim.
At the annual meeting of the Russo-Chinese Bank, to be held this month, the Directors will recommend the same dividend as last year, 8 per cent, and the usual appropriations to reserves. They will also recommend that a sum of two million roubles be set aside as a special reserve in view of the existing disturbance in the Far East.
It is reasonably suggested, by one thoroughly in touch with the matter, that few coolies will be found willing to go to South Africa until those already there send home reports to their
villages as to the working and living conditions. Should these reports be favourable-of which
there is little doubt-the mine-owners will be able to get as many workers as they want.
from Peking. are becoming quite popular as a The Western Tombs, less than a day's march
place of pilgrimage. Mr. and Mrs. Conger, with a party of friends, have made a recent visit, and Professor Jenks and secretary anticipate a trip in the near future. The place is accessible by rail and furnishes many beautiful views of mountain scenery. The architecture seems to surpass anything seen at the Ming Tombs. The Western Tombs are located in the depart- ment of Ichou (celebrated for its tobacco).
It is reported that definite steps are at length being taken for the laying of the projected is to German-Dutch cable to connect the Dutch
Hongkong Weekly Press. Commerce, the body in another attempt to East Indies and the Pellew Islands (belonging
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The Franch Mail of the 10th ult. arrived,
per the s.8. Oceanien on the 12th inst.; and the English Mail of the 17th ult. arrived, per the 1.8. Simla on Friday, the 15th inst.
join the local
awaken the Diplomatic Body in Peking to a recognition of the necessity of doing something definite to bring about currency reform in
China.
to Germany) with Shanghai and the American cable to the Philippines. A German-Dutch syndicate is now being formed to carry the project into execution, the banks financing the Two Sumatra planters in the Pall Mall scheme on the German side being the Disconto- Gazette accuse Mr. Stafford Ransome of telling Gesellschaft and the Darmstadt, Dresden, and "hideous lies" in that paper, about the treat-Schoffhausen Banks. A company is to be ment of Chinese coolies in Java and Sumatra. It looked like exaggeration to say that white planters could shoot, thrash, and torture with impunity.
formed with a capital of 7,000,000 marks (£350,000) in 4 per cent. bonds. Large sub- sidies have been promised from the German and Dutch Governments.
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