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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL LX.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Articles :-
Japanese and Chinese Future Relations...
The British Association
Shanghai-Woosung Railway
Coolie Emigration
Street Coolie-Hire in Hongkong
Examination Report on Queen's College.
Hongkong Jottings
Hongkong Legislative Council
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Supreme Court
Zone Time for Hongkong
North China Insurance Co., Ld.
Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ld..
The Chinese and the Canton-Hankow Railway
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 22ND OCTOBER, 1904.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
No. 17
The Governor of the Straits Settlements in addressing the Legislative Council on the Estimates said; in allation to the currency question, that it was impossible to foretell the
determined, or what the ratio would be.
A recrudescence of Boxerism is reported in date at which a fixed ratio with gold could be the North.
300 A corrispondent draws attention in this -300 issue to a very patent local trade grievance.
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Plans have been approved by the Colonial Government of Macao for dredging the harbour.
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Mr. H. G. Calthrop, harrister-ut-law, has 304 304
been admitted to the Hongkong bar this .35 week.
Correspondence
.305
Macao
.345
Terrorism in Kwangtung
.305
The Recent Tragedy at Canton
306
Piratical Attack on West River Steamers
.306
The Baron Gordon" Abandoned
.306
Boxerism Again
.306
Coolie Transport Ashore
.306
Straits Corrency Question
.307
A New Barrister
.307
Extension of the Shanghai Settlement
347
Shanghai-Woosung Railway
.307
Property Sales
.307
A Visitor's Impressions of Hongkong
.307
European Constable Stabbed
Hongkong
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Far Eastern Items...
Trade Items.
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
There were 2.739 Russian prisoners of war. including 90 officers, in Japan -on the 9th instant.
Pollard's Lilliputian Opera Company has this week been playing at the City Hall, Hongkong,
to crowded houses.
A large part of the province of Kwangtung is described as being in a state of lawlessness at the present time.
Particulars will be found in this issue of two 368 instances of shots being fired by pirates at 309 foreign steamers plying on the West River.
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On 19th October, at Shanghai, the wife of J. J. JUDKH, of a daughter.
On 12th October, at Shanghai, the wife of ALEXANDER DUER, of a daughter.
On 17th October, at Shanghai, the wife of P.
WITKOWSKI, of a son,
On 18th October, at. No. 11, Seymour Road, Hongkong, Mrs. A. WEILL, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 8th October, at Colombo. EDMUND SCOTT RUSSELL, of Rich mond, Surrey, to EMILY KATE RILEY, daughter of the late RICHARD and ELIZA- BETH RILEY. of Liverpool and Singapore.
On the 8th October, at Singapore, CONSTANCE ETHEL, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. BRUCE ROBERTSON, to GILLES HENNUS, Netherlands Trading Society.
On the 14th Oc ober, at Shanghai, OLAF THO. RESEN, to Margit Elisabeth PETTERSEN.
DEATH.
On 10th October, at Ninguo, EDWARD Belbin of the Imperial Maritime Customs, aged 62 years
It is reported from Tokyo that H. H. Prince Karl Anton von Hohenzollern has made a dona tion of Yen 860 among the poor at Tokyo and
Yokohama.
A leader in this issue on the transference of the Shanghai-Wosung railway to the Chinese Railway Administration, recalls the interesting history of the initial railway enterprise in China.
The Chief Justice has set aside the award of an arbitrator in a shipping dispute involving the meaning of the word "contraband." The question is to be argued in the Supreme Court.
At the meeting of the Sanitary Board this week the Veterinary Surgeon reported the discovery in Hongkong of a case of the new cattle disease which has been prevalent in the Philippines.
Strong hopes are entertained that the ne- gotiations now in progress to secure for a Portuguese syndicate a concession for the construction of a railway from Canton to Macao
will have a successful issue next week.
The emigrant steamer Swanley, with 2,260
coolies on board for South Africa, ran ashore on the Natunas Islands, but floated off when the coolies disembarked.
The ship was badly
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS:
The French Mail of the 16th alt, arrived, per the 8.8. Maria Valerie on the 18th inst., and the English Mail of the 23rd alt arrived, per the s.8. Simla, on the 21 inst.
damaged
The contributions offered by Japanese subjects towards the Government war funds from the outbreak of hostilities in February up to the end of August were estimated at Yen 1,944 190, of which Yen 1,519,221 has already been paid to the authorities.
Hongkong Criminal Sessions have been held this week. The most important case on the list was one in which Thomas Hynes, a young man employed at Quarry Bay Docks, was charged with causing the death of a coolie. He was found not guilty and acquitted.
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The Zone time system will come into force in Hongkong after the 30th inst. This will mean an advance of 23m. 18 sec. on the present time. The reasons for the change are set forth in the correspondence between the Colonial Government and the Chamber of Commerce which we publish in this issue.
A reprint appears in this issue of a notifica- tion issued by the Commissioner of Customs at Shanghai directing the charging of certain fees against which the Consular Body at Shanghai are protesting on the ground that the charging of such fees is a violation of treaty tariff arrangements with the Powers.
A Board of Inquiry consisting of Chinese officials and the American Consul General has investigated the circumstances attending the death of a ship's compradore at Canton." The deceased was thrown into a creek by asilors in American uniform. Their identity could not be established, but the Board of Inquiry bas recommended application to the American Government to properly indemnity the family. of the deceased.
An important movement has been started in Honan to induce the Government to cancel the concession for the construction of the Hankow- Canton Railway, granted to American subjects who, contrary to agreement, are stated to be sell: ing the concession to a syndicate of another na- tionality. The movement in question has been en- dorsed this week by a representative meeting of influential Chinese in Canton. A further object of the movement is to secure the construction of the line with Chinese capital.
The report and accounts of the North Chins Insurance Co., Ltd. are reproduced in this issue. A final dividend of 4 per cent., making 8 per ceat. for the year 1943-4 is recommended to- gether with a bonus of 10 per cent. upon contributory premiums. The reserve fund, by the addition of Tis. 95,309, has been raised to Tis. 200,000, and the balance at working account to the 30th June amounted to Tls. 217,129.-The 31st ordinary meeting of share- holders of the Union Insurance Society of Can ton Ld. has been held this week and a full
report is given in this issue,
Council on the 20th just. the first reading was At the meeting of the Hongkong Legislative
taken of a Bill to empower the Governor in Council to make regulations prohibiting the importation of bounty-fed sugar. Another Bill read a first time deals with the introduction of imbecile persons into the Colony. A third Bill, read a first time, enables the trustees of St. John's Cathedral to hold and d-al with property for the purpose of promoting the work of the Church of England in Hongkong and China, A Bill was passed amending the local Emigra- tion Ordinance by bringing it into agreement in the matter of certain regulations, with the Convention signed in the present year between
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