THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LX.]
Epitome
Leading Articles :
British Politics
Pin-Pricks
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Hongkong Afforestatio t
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 22nd AUGUST, 1904.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
No. 8
It is reported from Tokyo that a petition has been presented by the foreign residents of
Mrs. James Helbling of Fooch&w died on the Yokohama to the Japanese Government for the
5th instant.
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The Wairupu has decided to recommend the establishment of a Chinese Legution at Lisbon.
The Shanghai Mercury expects the arrival at 128 Shanghai of the Russian hospital ship Mongolia.
from Port Arthur.
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full protection of foreigu steamers on the coast of Japan by the Imperial Navy.
The Governor of Kiangsu (since appointed lises regarding the purchasing of Tls. 20,000 Director-General of Grain Transport) memoria- worth of minting machinery from a well-known foreign firm at Shanghai, for the proposed mint A Japanese stabbed a Filipino with a sword.
at Soochow. The machinery is capable of turn- cane at Shanghai on the 7th inst. The assailing out 300,000 coins every 24 hours, and the mafficker," and was afterwards profit derived from this source will be reserved
for furthering reform in Kiangsu province.
Passive Resisters
Coroners and Juries at Hongkong
After the Naval Fights
Canton River Obstructions
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The Scottish Churches
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Unattainable Ideals
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Hongkong Jottings
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Supreme Court
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ant was a
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
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arrested.
Inquests
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...135
Punjom Mining Co.. Ld.
Pakhoi
Two hundred and fifty-four deaths
were
Hongkong. Canton and Macao Steamboat Co.. Ld.135 registered at Singapore during the week Farnham. Boyd & Co.
135ending on the 30th July. The ratio per 135 thousand was 559.
The Russians expect to opeu Crailway 137 skirting Lake Baikal by the middle of next 138 mouth.
There is no immediate prospect of doubling the Siberian line.
Hongkong Children at Government Lodge
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Canton
Correspondence
The N. D. L.
Prinz Heinrich
Late M. W. Boyd's Will
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The Philippines' Gold Standard
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Kowloon Point
Mining in German New Guine
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A Freshet in South China
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The Anti-Catholic Trouble in Hupeh
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Fature of Corea
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Intelligent Anticipation in Japan
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Reviews
China Trade Items ...
Hongkong
Miscellaneous
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS,
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On the 31st July, a No. 46. Neil Road, the wife of TAN HAP Seng, of a son.
On the 18th August, at No. 2, Ormsby Villas,
Kowloon, the wife of JoHN A. PLUMMER, of a son. At "Grassbank, Oxley Road. Singapore, the wife of A. M. Sarkies, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 21st July, at Shanghai, Gabriel H, J. SHEKURY, of Shanghai, to BERYL
BLANCHE, second daughter of the late WILLIAM J. REID, of Melbou ne, und of Mrs. E. K. CHANDLER, of (Pootung.
On the 16th August, at the Union Church, Hongkong, by the Rev. C. H. Hickling, EDITH, youngest daughter of J. CRAIG, of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. to Joнy N. MURRAY, chief officer of 8 8. Fatshan, Hongkong, Canton, and Macao S. S. Co., Hongk g.
DEATHS.
China announces that she will retain her neutrality until the close of the war. After that she will probably not be allowed to retain anything, comments the Atlanta Journal.
The Sin-wan-poo says that the Wai-wu-pu has recovered a collection of astronomical gear which has been in the custody of the French Legation at Peking since the Boxer affuir.
In the hope of making profit out of the Chinamen who have displaced them from the mines some Kuffirs have taken to pigbreeding. so as to gratify the Celestials' love of pork.
The Sultan of
compulsory vaccination in his territory as a Brunei refuses to allow
raging there, but is willing that people should means of combatting the smallpox epidemic be vaccinated if they wish.
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H.M.S. Terrible, Coudr. A. T. arrived from Portsmouth on the 18th inst. with Stuart, reliefs for the Albion and Robin, About half the men on board, some 600 or so, will be transferred to other vessels. The Terrible, herself, may return to England in about a month's time.
In the course of an mbezzlement case in the
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Manila Court the prosecuting attorney said that the habit of defrauding their employers has become so common among employees in Manila that there is never a week passes in which there is not from one to ten cases of
On the 5th August, at Foochow, the wife of embezzlement. JAMES HELBLING.
On the 17th August, at the Government Civil Hospital, HAROLD CLARKE, of Carmichael and Clarke.
On the 19th August, at Government Civil Hospital, Captain R. MACKENZIE, of 8.8. Kiang Tung.
Hongkong Weekly Press.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail arrived, per the ss. Gueis nan on the 16th inst., and the French Mail of the 22nd ult. is expected to arrive, per the s.s. Ernest Simons on Wednesday, the 24th inst.
The British have shown little or no interest in the construction of the Kowloon-Cantou line. which has recently been built by Ameri- cans." (This news item occurred in the Manila Sunday Sun of the 14th inst. It does not do to expect the Britisher to keep pace with his American cousin sometimes.)
The United States Circuit Court has just given a decision that will interest passengers crossing the Atlantic, as it holds the Atlantic Transport Company responsible for the loss of a passen. ger's jewellery on board their liner Minnetonka. The company repudiated any responsibility for the loss, claiming that the conditions on which their tickets are issued freed them. but the Court held that these conditions were against decided had sought to deposit the jewellery with public policy. The passenger in the case just the purser, but finding that officer apparently them under the mattress, from which place they too busy to receive them the passenger placed
were stolen.-Laffan.
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not begrudge us the hearty laugh over this We feel sure that our missionary friends will exquisite little story. which we took from the N.-C. Daily Neros. The captain of a mail steamer says that on a recent voyage to the East a lady passonger, a missionary, had painted on her large trunk the words, The Lord is my Shepherd." Directly underneath this was the label Not Wanted on the Voyage."
The famous old U.S. ship Monocacy, which was for so many years stationed in the river at Tongku, has at last come to an untoward end. It will be remembered that some considerable time ago she was sold to a Japanese firm, and from Japan to Chemulpo. she struck a rock and last February, whilst carrying a cargo of coal sank. A visitor to Tientsin who was in a pas. As the Monocacy went down in shallow water sing vessel at the time witnessed the disaster.
it is possible she may be raised.
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Germany has taken great interest in the im provement of Dover Harbour, and the big German Atlantic liners have now made Dover a port of call. Not to be outmanoeuvred. France is displaying an interest in the provision of additional facilities for steamboat passengers at the neighbouring harbour of Folkestone. M. cemented the final stone on Cambon, the French Minister to London. Folkestone last month, and thus helped also to new pier at cement the entente cordiale between the two countries.
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An interesting little story is going the rounds concerning the last voyage from Kutchinotsu to Kobe of the Blue Funnel steamer Sarpedon, Japanese warships came up with her, and now at Hongkong. It appears that sixteen honoured her with their assistance as convoys. The captain of the Sarpedon was told to sail an outside course. The fleet, with all lights out. steamed parallel to her course, but close inshore. There seems very little doubt as to the object of this manoeuvre. The Sarpedon was being employed as a decoy, to catch the Vladivostock squadron.
The Japanese destroyers Akebono and Oboro approached Port Arthur on the afternoon of the 5th instant for the purpose of reconnoitring Saddenly fourteen destroyers steamed out of the harbour and attempted to surround the Japanese in three divisions. The Japanese exchanged a hot fire and attacked three of the Russian destroyers which were steering towards Hsiensheng Promontory, and the enemy retired to the harbour, giving way to the Japanese. Meanwhile the destroyer Ikaz ichi drove the remaining eleven Russians back reinforced her two comrades, and they jointly into the harbour. The promptness and valour profoundly appreciated, says the N.-C. Daily shown by the Japanese in this action are most News correspondent.
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