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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LX.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Articles:-
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 8TH AUGUST, 1904.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Mark Twain is now back in America. Telegrams relating to the war will be found 90; on p. 93.
Newchwang has declared Hongkong an infected port.
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Mr. Frederick Sandys, the great draughts- man and painter, died on June 25th.
A Nanking despatch states that Viceroy Wei Kuang-tao has sent nearly 5,000 men to reinforce the Two Kwang troops in suppressing. the rebellion there. The majority of these Liangkiang reinforcements have hitherto been stationed in the cities along the Grand Canal,
Mr. H. C. Nicolle has accepted the post of and are said to be among the best to be had in Treasurer of the Colony of Ceylon.
the Liangkiang provinces.
The Sunday Sun avers that Manila is at present the cleanest city' in the Orient. The 94 Sunday Sun has a sarcastic vein.
H.E. Sir Matthew Nathan
Assassination of M. de Plehve
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The Dowager Empress..
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Economic Nutrition
91
Tolstoi and War.
91
Japan's Religious Loyalty
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Hongkong Street Obstructions
92
Hongkong Jottings
93
The War
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War Items
Supreme Court
Advent of H.E. the Governor
Levee at Government House
Hongkong Electric Tramways
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
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The United Asbestos Oriental Agency, Ld.
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The American-China Development Company
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Kowloon Docks
Canton ....
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Pakhoi
Anti-Christian Riot in Hapeli
A Day in the New Territory
Japanese Economics
Hongkong Coolies in the Rand Wedding in Hongkong Reviews
Bowls
Racing
Hongkong
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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Home papers are suggesting that F. Car ruthers Gould, the caricaturist and cartoonist. should have had a Birthday honour.
Sir Oliver Lodge has declared that radium was not so new and startling as to disconcert scientists. It fits in with their cosmogony.
102 | A picture in the Sphere, alleged to represent a Japanese railway station. where troops leave
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Referring to "the complete collapse of the whole of the front of the new building erected on the (Foochow) Bund for the French Post Office." the Foochow Daily Echo calls it
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significant of the risks run by allowing native builders a free hand." It seems that the rush
happened very early in the morning, and only one Chinaman was reported injured.
The Lascar crew of the Knight Commander was taken to Yokohama by the C.N.S. Tsinan on July 25th. The foreigners were retained as
102 for the front." has been recognised as a well-prisoners by the Russians. The Tainan's cap-
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known photograph of the Kobe Club.
103 The Times has added to the daily hatches. 13 matches, and despatches" list one giving betro. 104 thals. People now, says the L. & C. Express, 104 talk of hatelies, catches, matches, and despatches.
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On the 28th July, at Fair View, No. 9, Caine hoad, the wife of E. J. DE FIGUEIREDO, of a daughter.
On the 30th July, at Mountain View, the Peak, the wife of Dr. WILLIAM HUNTER, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
On the 30th July, before the Registrar-General of Hongkong, HENRY MONSEL, son of the late A. G. T. COMINE, of Aberdeen, Scotland (formerly of Shanghai), to WINIFRED GREAVES, of Hongkong. On the 2nd August, at St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, WALTER RUSSELL MCCALLUM, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, son of the late Major H. A. MCCALLUM, R.M.I.I., to MARY FRANCES CUNLIFFE, daughter of the late JOHN RANSON HUNTER, of Inverness, and of Mre. HUNTER, Grove Side, Teddington.
DEATHS.
On the 18th July, at Yokohama, Mrs. HELM, wife of JULIUS HELM.
On the 20th July, at Kuling, of typhoid fever, the Rev. CHABLES Robertson, London Mission, Hankow, aged 34 years.
On the 30th July, at the Government Civil Hospital, after a short illness, CHAS PERKINS, & native of Hobart, Tasmani, age1 36 years.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French Mail of the 8th July ex 8.8. Polynesien, and the German Mail of the 5th July ex the s.s. Prinz Heinrich ex s.s. Polynesien arrived, per the ss, Catherine Apcar, on the
8th inst.
The papers are quoting some correspondent who has spoken of the way in which Japanese messengers run round with newspaper spe: icials." The Japanese postmen also do their | rounds on the trot.
Many Turkish military men declare that they are only waiting for the final defeat of General Kuropatkin in Manchuria, says Reuter's corres- pondent in Macedonia, to let slip the dogs of war upon Bulgaria.
The M.-C. Daily News understands that the gentleman who is on his way to the Far East to succeed Mr. Willis E. Gray as Chairman of the Committee of the American China Development Company and Engineer-in-chief of the Hankow- Canton railway, is a native of Luxembourg.
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"The Japanese Government Tobacco Monopoly is now engaged in manufacturing some 150,000 cigarettes, to be called the Asahi and · Yamasakura“ brands, to the order of the War Office. The cigarettes will, says the Chronicle, be supplied to the troops at the front. The Shanghai Zionist Association sent the following telegram to the English Association, referring to the death of Mr. Herzl, the dis- tinguished Zionist: Shanghai Zionists deeply regret untimely death Herzl. Leader. Prince in Israel, fallen. Convey condolence bereaved family. Edward Ezra. President."
Some of our contemporaries announce that a new paper has been started at Seoul with Mr. T. Cowen as editor. The start has been made
only in somebody's imagination. We believe a proposal to publish a paper at Serul is at present under consideration, but it is a long way from being started yet. Mr. Cowen is busy writing a book.
A Chinese mad mullah” has arisen on the skirts of Burma. He was variously known as Hkun Li and Ah Hsai; had a retinue of fighting
men;
and announced his Royal intention to march on Mandalay. Mr. Stirling. superin- tendent of the Northern Shan States, with 25 military police, attacked and killed him and seventeen of his followers on the 8th ultimo,
tain saw two Japanese sailing vessels sunk off Izu on the 24th ult. The P. & A. chartered German steamer Arabia, with 30,000 barrels of flour, is supposed to have been taken to Vladi-
rostock.
utilised when the Japanese sank the Paryag. We Russia is still using the excuse which she read in a paper, "the garrison were unprepared should not be overdone. They ought to knowi for the last Japanese assault." A good excuse
by now (says the Globe) that the war has begun. The hardships of the common soldiers in Port Arthur increase momentarily. The latest news is that General Stoessel has begun to make stirring speeches to them on Mondays and Thursdays,
As the Russian Society for the Exploration of Central and Eastern Asia made the request, the Ministry of Finance has given permission for the duty-free exportation to Persia, and also to China, of all such arms and ammunition as are necessary for the protection of the members society sends to the countries referred to. The of the archeological expeditions," which the
arms and ammunition will be allowed also to return to Russia without the payment of any customs or duty charges.
The arrest of three officers ou activa service, Lieutenant-Colonel Rollin, Captain François, and Captain Maréchal, in connection with the case against M. Dautriche, was reported in the has not been made known offie ally. Lieutenant- Times. The exact charge brought against them Colonel Rollin was the chief of the so-called Information or Secret Intelligence Burean, of which M. Dautriche was a subordinate official
during the Rennes trial. Captain François and Captain Maréchal were also empl yed in that
bureau at the same time.
Although the Anti-Catholic riot in Ninghai (Taichow. Chekiang) had been settled to the satisfaction of the French Consul-General at Shanghai and the Catholic missionaries concern- ed, several of the most important ringleaders are still at large; some of these are attempting to revive their campaign against the local con- verts, consequently the Chekiang Governor has received a communication from the French Consul-General warning him of the coming trouble and requesting him to have the ringleaders of the last riot captured.—-Universal Gazette.
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