THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LX.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epítome
Leading Articles :---
International Frictions
Chinese Currency Reform (I)
Horticulture at Hongkong
Beachoombers and Beer
Corrected Impressions
Opium and Missionaries
Chinese Currency Reform (II)
Supreme Court
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 5TH SEPTEMBER, 1904.
PAOK
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
..161 The Japanese demand for coolies in Corea is giving much trouble to the farmers, who are 162 short of labour.
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The Kaiser has bestowed upon the Governor 163 of Shantung. H. E. Choufu, the Royal Order 164 of the Crown, first class.
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A Volunteer Fleet is to be constructed in 166 Japan by public subscription, to consist of vessels Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co.. Ld.167 | of 5,000 tons and upwai de. Douglas S. Co., Celebrations
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Hongkong Cotton Spinning, Weaving, &c., Co., Ld.168 Frontier Notes
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168
Pakhoi
The Typhoon
Among the Hongkong Beachcombers
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The Naval Inquiry re Hipsang
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170
Inquests
Liaoyang
The "Arabia" at Shanghai
Kowloon Docks
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Among the coolies who went down to South Africa by the Ikbal there were four cases of dysentery on arrival at Durban.
The Governor-General of French Indo-China has interdicted the circulation of Hongkong Chinese newspapers in the colony.
The Governor of Samoa, a German colony in the South Sea. is ma':ing arrangements for the 400 Chinese importation of from 300 to .174 | labourers for the use of planters on the islands.
Mission Work in the New Territory, ongkong .. 173 Fat Meat in Hot Climates
Japanese Tradė Prospects
Death of "Major" Ashley
Local Sport ..
Hongkong Civil Service Club Reviews
Far East Trade Items
Hongkong
Miscellaneous
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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.174 The Chinese now being enrolled by the Rus 175 sians as railway guards ara armed only with 175 stout sticks in case when the Russians retire they should turn and rend the hand which has fed them.
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On the 21st August, at No. 70, Range Road, the wife of S. E. GREEN, of a son.
On the 26th August, at Kuling, the wife of
ROWLAND E. WADE, of a son,
On the 1st September, at the Victoria Hospital, Peak, the wife of C. W. CAMPBELL, H.B.M. Con- sulate-General, Canton, of a daughter.
On the 3rd Sept., at No. 4 Elliot Crescent, the wife of Gro. P. LAMMERT, of a daughter,
MARRIAGE.
On the 23rd July, at Hollington, S. BARTON, of H.M. Consular Service in China, to WINIFRED, daughter of A. P. MACEWEN, of The Grove, Hol- lington, late of China, is
DEATHS.
On the 26th July at Hoechst-a-main, Germany, MARTHA POSTLER, of the Hildesheim Missionary
Scciety for Blind Girls in China,
On the 21st August, at 10, Soochow Road, Shanghai, AUSTIN RICHARD THISTLETHWAITE (late of Manila), eldest son of the Rev. R. THISTLE- THWAITE, of Preston, Lancashire.
On the 26th August, at Marseilles, JEAN, daughter of the late Dr. COOPER and Mrs. DUNCAN COOPEE, and grand-daughter of Mr. and Mrs. JOHN PRENTICE, aged four years and eight months, On the 27th August, at 3, Yuhang Road,
CHARLES JAMES ASHLEY, aged 60 years,
On the 29th August, at the Peak Hospital, GEORGE MANINGTON, of the Hongkong Telegraph, ag d 35 years,
On the 29th August, at Dinder, Caine Road, Hongkong, JOSE MARIA GOMES, aged 34 years.
Hongkong Weekly Press.
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During the five years Lord Curzon has been Viceroy, 4,946 miles of new railway were opened in India. Many new lines are in course of construction. They will be opened at the average rate of 1.000 miles a year.
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A Durban correspondent telegraphs to London journal that among the recent emigrant arrivals there is a large number of Boxers, some of whom took part in the attack on the Legations in Peking. This is too interesting to be true.
The text of the Tsar's manifesto shows that the political amnesty granted for the baptism of the Tsarevitch is so limited and conditional that very few, if any. prisoners will be benefited by it. The Chinese Empress does this sort of thing better.
Two Russian-speaking Chinese who have Dalny, and also procuring supplies for the Rus- been spying on the Japanese movements in sians, were caught by the Japanese, and after due examination executed. They were both natives of Shantung.
A Peking despatch states that the Japanese Minister. Mr. Uchida, has complained to the Waiwupu that the Chinese officials in the dis- tricts near Tiehling and Liaoyang have been discovered to have furnished the Russian forces lately with over a thousand carts, and mules to draw them, which is flagrant violation of Chinese neutrality.
A Peking despatch states that the Waiwupu has decided to establish a Legation in Lisbon, and that the first Secretary of the Chinese Legation at Paris is to go to Lisbon as Chargé d'Affaires, The Chinese Minister to the French Republic, H.E. Sun Pao-ch'i, it is further stated, will be soon also appointed Chinese Minister' to the Portuguese Court.
In connection with the new British mail contract, a foreign correspondent has suggested to the Postmaster-General that the Federal Government should stipulate that mail steamers must use Australian coal between Australia and Colombo, both ways. Mr. Mahon is said to be The German Mail arrived, per the s.8 Bayern, impressed with this extraordinary proposal and on the 30th August.
will give it careful consideration.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
No. 10
It will not have escaped the observation of the sagacious, remarks the Globe, that while Britannia rules the waves, Russia waives the rules.
Reporting more brigandage near Shanghai, the N.C. Daily News adds: These predatory visits are really becoming monotonous by reason of their constant succession of late, and if some- thing drastic be not done speedily by the authorities concerned, these desperadoes, having so often escaped with impunity, will get bolder and bolder and possibly we will find them one fine day (or night) raiding some flourishing portions of the foreign Settlements.
A circular signed by the Ceylon Colonial Secretary, and dated July 30th, is going the rounds at present, calling the attention of Government servants to a circular of 1900 encouraging Government servants to join the Volunteers. The original circular promised that absence on Volunteer duty would not count as leave. The present circular goes one better. It says that Government servants, who are Volunteers, will add to their own claims for favourable consideration. Sir Henry Blake is evidently a warm supporter of the Volunteer
movement.
The Japanese, it seems, expect to inherit Russian concessions in Corea, for it is reported that Mr. Okura, of Messrs. Okura & Co. of Tokyo, who obtained the contract for preparing the timber seized by the Japanese army on the Yalu, to be used as sleepers for the Seoul-Wiju Railway, is trying to obtain a concession from the Corean Government to cut timber in the
forest on the Yalu, should that taken from the
Russians fall short in supplying the require- ments of the railway. It is believed the autho rities are inclined to grant such a concession to Mr. Okura.
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A correspondent of the Osaka Mainichi at the front writes as follows:-"The Chinese
swarm round the dead bodies of the Russians which are left in large numbers on the battle- field. Their object is to strip off the uniform and to steal what they can. The Japanese when Russians. The Chinese are quite indifferent to possible drive the Chinese away and inter the the war, and are found working innocently on their farms, driving. horses or oxen as if they knew nothing of the fighting which is going on almost in their sight. They take little heed if a shot or two from big guns falls near them. and only run away for a time when shot falls like rain, but when the firing stops they return and begin to search for the bullets and the shot.
The friends of Mr. Norman Cullen, who came to Japan some months ago as the corres- pondent of the London Daily Mail, are much concerned by his sudden disappearance. He had lately been suffering from a severe illness, and was about to return to England, when on the 4th instant he left his quarters at the Bluff Hotel Yokohama, and after spending the night at a friend's house in Tsukiji, departed wards as far as the Uyeno Station, but from thence in a jinrikisha. He was traced after-
there no clue to his whereabouts has been found, though every effort has been made by the British Consul through the anthorities. Aš, says the Japan Advertiser, hẹ was in a very weak and depressed condition, bocasioned by his illness, his disappearance gives great anxiety to his many friends in Yokohama. Mr. Cullen, who came last from Cairo, had left the Mail's service and joined the staff of the Advertiser.
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