October 3, 1904.]
They are building a fine new market at Seremban, according to the Perak Pioneer.
Mining in Siam is practically confined to tin, gems (sapphires and rubies), and gold; their relative importance being in the order given.
Mr. M. Š. E. Angullia, the head of one of the largest native firms of general merchants and commission agents in Singapore, died on September 20th.
·H.M. Consul at Tamsui reports that the use of flour by the inhabitants of Formosa continues to increase, the imports in 1903 being 68,365 cwts., valued at £33,644, as against 52,479 owts., valued at £21,876, in 1902. The greater part comes from the United States via Hong- kong.
Judgment was given on the 19th instant for the plaintiff, W. P. Boyd, againt the defendant. the American China Development Co., in the sum of 8:3,519 gold currency of the United States of America. The judgment. which was on account of wrongful dismissal of the plain- tiff, also carried the costs of the action. The Company is appealing against the decision of the American Consular Court.
The President of the Chamber of Mines, speaking at a meeting at Johannesburg last month, said that the effect of the employment of Chinese in the New Comet Mine was that 136 white men were now working in the mine as compared with 34 in the month before the arrival of the Chinese. Mr. Schumacher stated. on behalf of Messrs. Eckstein, that the Chinese would in no way take the bread out of the mouth of any white.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
The Rangoon Municipal Committee, in ac- cordance with the Indian Tramways Act, has given its consent to the construction of an electric tramway within the Municipal limits, by Messrs. Darwood and Co., contractors for lighting Rangoon with electricity,
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On the 25th ult. the funeral took place at Happy Valley of Mr. A. E. Ewing, of the Kowloon Docks joinery department. Mr. Ewing was 35 years of age. He died at the Peak Hospital on Saturday morning, after a week's stay there, from acute pneumonia. A large number of the Dock employees and other friends of the deceased attended the funeral.
The Customs Taotai at Shanghai has com- plained to the Japanese Consul-General there | that there has been imported lately from Japan Among the votes passed in the Estimates for a number of umbrellas with sharp-pointed 1905 is the sum of $13,000 for adding an knives concealed in the handles, and that during additional storey to the Central Police Station. the past few days several law-abiding people This work has now been in the hands of the have been stabbed with these in the hands of P.W.D. for a considerable time. The scaffold- bad characters. The articles are made by a ing was erected long ago, and it was rumoured Japanese merchant at Yokohama, and not only that the of the delay in pushing on has the sale of them been prohibited at Shang-operations was that it had been discovered that hai, but the Japanese Consul has been asked to the walls were not capable of carrying another communicate with the authorities at Yokohama storey. There appears to have been no truth in with a view to stopping the export of them, and the story, however, for the roof is now being the Customs examiners have been instructed to taken off and the work of heightening the walls keep a sharp lookout for them at Shanghai and will be set about in due course. treat them as munitions of war.
Aal special meeting of the Shanghai Gener Chamber of Commerce was held on the 22nd ultimo, the principal, object being to hear from Mr. J. W. Jamieson, the British Commercial Attaché, a statement in regard to the provisional Regulations governing registration of trade marks. which have recently been circulated under the terms of the British Treaty with China and which are due to come into force on the 23rd instant. Mr. Jamieson had kindly responded to the invitation sent to him, to give such information as he might consider. from his official position, he might be competent A new Cable Company, called the German to give, and the members of the Chamber Dutch Telegraph Company, has been formed at turned up in large numbers to hear, if not to Cologne to lay a cable in connection with the criticise, him. The principal point made by Mr. cable lines of the Dutch Indies, from Menádo. Jamieson in a long and interesting statement in Celebes, riâ Guam and Japan, to Shanghai.
was that under Regulation 8 (c) holders of old The new cable will be connected in Guam with trade marks (in use for two years before an the American Pacific cable from San Francisco application to register them by anyone else) to the Philippines, and in Shanghai with the would have greater protection than they have at Mr. Scott criticised this and other German cable running from Shanghai. vid present. Tsing-tan, to Chi-fu, as well as with the Great statements of Mr. Jamieson as well as the Regu- Northern Telegraph line and the Eastern Ex-lations themselves in a long and carefully pre- tension Telegraph Company's line. The new line will be subsidised by the German and Dutch Governments.
Americans watching the development of the Philippine Islands will, says the Kalamazoo Gazette, be interested to know that F. H. Oliphant, of the United States geological survey, predicts that in a few years petroleum will be one of the commodities exported from the Islands. When pumped from the earth the Philippine oils are usually dark green in colour. By refining, an average of 8 per cent. benzine is produced from the crude petroleum and about 40 per cent. illuminating oil. The remainder is oil and tar. From the latter paraffin is
gus extracted. The cost of getting the crude oils is very low as compared with the
in expenses most other countries. Labour at the wells is extremely cheap, ranging from 10 to 12 cents a day. For this price both the native and Chinese labourers give a full day's work and provide their own lodging and sustenance.
pared speech. Eventually on the proposition of Mr. C. Brodersen, seconded by Sir Charles Dudgeon. it was resolved to appoint a sub- committee to consider the Regulations and report to the Committee of the Chamber, who would forward it to the British Minister at Peking to enable him to obtain the postpone ment of the coming into force of the Regula- tions, previously asked for by cable.-C. Daily News.
HONGKONG.
Basel Mission Chapel, at Shaukiwan. has been added to the list of places licensed for the solemnization of marriages.
An incident which might have caused a serious accident occurred at the Magistracy compound the 26th ult.. when some masonry near the roof tumbled down.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Bridou have arrived from Shanghai. Mr. Bridou will be in charge of the M. M. S. agency here during the absence on leave of Mr. G. de Champeaux.
The marriage between Commander Guy R. Gaunt, R.N., H.M.S. Vengeance, China Squad- ron, and Margaret, widow of Mr. Philip Jukes Worthington, of Leek, Staffordshire, second daughter of Sir Thomas Wardle, of Leek and Swainsley, takes place at Hongkong in Novem- ber.
Newly joined Hongkong Volunteers are Messrs. A. E. Wright. F. H. Dillon, C. E. Frith, G. W. Coysh. C. W. Ward. R. Duncan, S. G. Hames, E. F. Casey, C. M. S. Alves, and F. Ward. Messrs. A. C. Squair, P. Deacon, J. Peak, W. H. Russell, and J. H. Longhurst have given up Volunteering.
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'The marriage of Sir Thomas Montgomery Cunninghame, Bart., to Miss Alice Des Voeux, takes place in a few weeks' time, said the Globe last month. The bride-elect is the elder daughter of Sir George Des Voeux, G.C.M.G., who has been successively Governor of the Rahama Isles, of Fiji, of Newfoundland, and of Hongkong. Her mother is a daughter of the late Sir John Pender; and, originally of French extraction, the Des Voeuxs settled in Ireland some two centuries ago, and the first baronet held several administrative posts in India. The present baronet is a cousin of Miss Des Voeux. The Cunninghames of Corshill are a well-known West of Scotland family, and the present head of the family claims the Earl- dom of Glencairn. He is a captain in the Rifle Brigade, and gained the D.S.0. South African Campaign. His father also s&W service in the same distinguished regiment in the Crimes, where he won the V.C. From 1874 to 1880 he represented the Ayr Burghs in the House of Commons.
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At St. John's Cathedral on the 24th ult. the wedding took place of Mr. J. Scott Harston, of Messrs. Ewens and Harston, and eldest son of Mr. G. A. Harston. of Wentworth House, Harrogate, and Miss Dick-Melbourne, youngest daughter of the late Hon. C. S. Dick-Melbourne, M.L.C., of Rockhampton, Queensland, and a sister of Mr. C. D. Melbourne, Chief Clerk of the Magistracy in Hongkong. Rev. F. T. Johnson was the officiating clergyman. Among those present were the bride's mother, Mrs. Dick-Melbourne; the Chief Justice. Sir Henry S. Berkeley, and Lady Berkeley; His Honour T. Sercombe Smith, Paisne Judge; Hon. E. H; Sharp. Attorney-General; Dr. J. M. Atkinson and Mrs. Atkinson, Mr. F. Paget Hett, Mr. R. Harding and Mr. A. R. Lowe. The bride was given away by her brother, Mr. C. D. Melbourne. She wore a drass of grey chiffon with hat to match and carried a beautiful bouquet of white flowers. Mr. E. R. Hallifax, Deputy Superintendent of Police, was best man. After the ceremony, Mr. A. G. Ward, organist. played Mendelssohn's "Wedding March," and a wedding peal was rung on the Cathedral bells. A reception was held afterwards in the Hong- kong Hotel. The newly-married pair left by the Ieungshan for Macao on their honeymoon.
In the report on Weihaiwei for the year 1903, recently issued by the Colonial Office, it is stated that the increase in exports and imports is satis- factory, but there is still much room for improve.
The 8.3. Shahada underwent a steam trial on ment. There will be no great development until capital is attracted to Weihaiwei. It is
the 28th ult, and took up her berth for Saigon. It true that silk is made, and that the manufacture
will be remembered that this vessel was recently of beancake has been commenced on a small scale,
purchased by local Chinese from the Asiatic but what is desirable is that the silk, beancake,
Steam Navigation Co. of Calcutta, and after and other industries should be started on a large
repeated breakdowns reached Amoy in a dis- scale, with sufficient capital to enable these pro-
abled state. The owners then placed the matter ducts to hold their own in the market against
in the hands of Mes rs. Bailey and Murphy, those of Chinese ports. There can be no doubt
consulting engineers and shipbuilders, and Mr. that, as regards trade, there are many possibili-
Bailey went to Amoy and was successful in ties at Weihaiwei. What is wanted is capital
bringing the vessel to his firm's works for a general overhaul. On account of the repeated to convert these possibilities, and it is hoped that when affairs in the Far East become more
breakdowns of the engines the Government- settled the chief requisite, capital, will be invest-
Marine Surveyor before granting senger certificate insisted upon a four- ed in commercial enterprises there. The leased area of Weihaiwei is 285 square miles, and the
hours' full-power sea trial, and this was population is estimated at 150,000, including
carried out to his entire satisfaction, the 2,000 on the island. The British sphere of
engines being pressed their utmost during the influence adjoining the leased area covers 1,500
whole period without showing any defect. The square miles. A report on the agricultural and M.O.H. is privileged to record, a full week clear 1879 by Harland and Wolff: she is a wonder- For the first time this sesson the Hongkong Shahzada is 306 feet in length and was built in afforestation possibilities of Weihaiwei by Mr. Dunn, Superintendent of the Botanical and plague. The year's total stands at five fully well preserved vessel, the frames and plates-
The speed Afforestation Department, Hongkong, is printed hundred cases exactly. There was no case dur- of iron being but little worn. as part of the publication. We might make a ing the forty-eight hours ending noon yesterday. | attained was 11 knots, the engines indicating were a case of 1 1,400 horse power. The Shahzada is commanded cutting reference to these possibilities, butŎther communicable diseases refrain.
diphtheria and a case of enteric, both Chinese. by Captain Martin.
The name of Alice Deborah Sibree has been added to the register of medical and surgical practitioners qualified to practise medicine and surgery in this Colony. She is a licentiate of the Edinburgh Royal College of Physicians and of Surgeons; and of the Glasgow Faculty
Physicans and Surgeons.
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