THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LX.]
Epitome
Barbarism
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Leading Articles :--
Chang-Chi-Tung and Sir Bobert Hart...
Li Hung Chang's Alleged Treachery
Plans of the Baltic Fleet...
Supreme Court
Marine Magistrate's Court
Chinese Philosophers
Gold and Silver
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
Canton
Pakhoi
The Late Trouble in Honan
China Traders'¡Insurance Co.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 12TH DECEMBER, 1904.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
No. 24
The Peking Times reports that the Board of Commerce has requested the Waiwupu to inform the I. G. and the Customs Commis-
Honan troops are drilling under Japanese sioners that the registration of trademarks will not be postponed, and the work is to be proceeded with.
instruction.
Chang Chih Tung is said to be colloguing 428 with the Japanese.
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Reports of buried treasure at Tientsin have set a lot of people digging there lately.
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The price of charcoal in North China is re- 431 431 ported to have increased a hundred per cent.
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The new United States survey ship Fat Shanghai & Hongkong Dyeing & Cleaning Co., Ld.432 homer, built at the Kowloon Docks, may
Dairy Farm Co., Ld.
Messrs. Gregor & Co.
The Religions of China
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War Correspondents at the Ho gkong Hotel
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Lt. Col. R. G. Iremonger, of the 93rd Moral Influence of the European in te Far East..4 Burma's, left for India on Dec 8th having, it
A Chinese Patriot's Views
A Parsee Presentation
Correspondence
Out of Work
Notable Ceremony at Maca
The Fires at West Point
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.435 By the completion of the 8 oul-Fusan rail- 435 way, owned by a Japanese syndio te, Seoul may
be reached from Tokyo in fifty hours.
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Duke of Abbruzzi at Hongkong
The Rice Exchange and Foreigners
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The Chinese în Java
Alleged Theft of $25,000
Hankow-Canton Railway
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Chinese Pariahs
Manchu and Chinese
Local Experiment with Liquid Fuel
Japanese in Cores
Churches for Kowloon
H.E. the Governor at St. Joseph's College
Roman Catholic Festival
B.E. Ball
Hongkong Club Bowling Handicap.
Estate Sales.
Far Eastern Items...
Trade Items..
Hongkong...
Commercial
Shipping
MARRIAGE.
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Mr. R. Riddoch, the chief engineer of the 8.8. Anpho, died at Saigon on the 1st inst. was 65 years of age, a native of Forfarshire.
A man, a woman, and a child, were burned to 438 death in a fire at Shanghai on November 27th. 439 Starting in a firewood store, the fire gutted 483
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.439 A good deal of consideration has lately been 439 given to the case of beachcombers at Hongkong. 439 With winter approaching, these gentlemen grow 499 more insistent.
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The officials at Nanking are wondering what to do with the employees and the stock from the Imperial silk weaving factory, shut down for "economical reasons.'
On 1st December, at Shanghai, HUGH GIBSON forward as a sponsor for the proposed Chinese Wu Ting-fang is reported to have come
SMITH, to IVA CASEMENT ♪ MEDLEY.
DEATHS.
On 28th November, at Shanghai, Joss MARIA CASTRO, aged 33 years.
On 29th November, at Shanghai, D'AVID WIDLEE,
aged 49 years,
On 30th November, at Shanghai, of typhoid,
Lt, CHARLES MCMULLIN, B.N., H.M.S. Iphigenia, son of Colonel I. MeMULLIN, Chichester.
national bank and proposes raising the still necessary funds in America.
No wonder China remains poor. Twelve million taels are said to have been spent on the birthday celebrations at Peking. Much of this would be grabbed and hoarded.
It is proposed to establish a glass factory in Shansi, where the soil is suitable. The sand was formerly sent south for the manufacture of : On 1st December, at Saigon, suddenly, ROBERT porcelain, but now it is found suitable for glass
BIDDOCK, chief engineer, s.8. An Pho, formerly, 'making. of the Scottish Oriental Company, aged 65 years. į Deeply regretted.
While the steamer Cheong Lee was on the way to Yaumati on Tuesday morning, a Chinese passenger jumped overboard and was drowned. ress. His name is unknown. The police have been
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unable to find his body.
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The probable subjects of the ex-mination for LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C. the Blake Scholarship (a scholarship at Queen's
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of the 4th ult, arrived, per the ss. Bengal, on the 2nd inst.; and the Ger- man Mail of the 8th ult. arrived, per the s8, Seydlitz, on the 8th inst.”
College presented by Chinese gentlemen) are translation from English into Chinese, Chinese into English, and composition.
The Board of Commerce having granted the working of the coal mines in the Western Hills, it is proposed to establish a likin on the coal which, it is hoped, will furnish Tls. 20,000 per annum for the upkeep of primary schools.
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Forty Chinese students from Shanghai left for Evope by the Norddeutscher Lloyd s.s. Preussen yesterday. Tokyo is not to have them all. It is said that the Viceroy of Canton is about to send to Europe several students from the south of China.
The Waiwupu has applied to the American Minister for the rendition of a certain piece of reports that the Minister replied that no places land near the Chen Men. The Peking Times
cocupied after 1900 could be given back without a suitable quid pro quo.
Apropos the Russian hooliganism at Crete, the China Review says:-"We think that the episode has been made too much of; but there, any stick does to beat a dog with'; as was also the case with the Hull affair!" Adequate comment on this is impossible.
Chinese cargo carriers, suffering harsh treat- ment at the likin stations, have hit upon the device of flying foreign flags to protect their property. A sharp-eyed censor has pointed out to the Empress that this will tend to make foreigners popular, "therefore,” it should be stopped.
The chief events of the week have been the
laying of the foundation stone of the Macao cathedral, and of two Roman churches at Kow. loon: the V.R.C. regatta, in which the Canton men carried off most of the prizes; several lectures by public men: a shocking murder in which three European beachcombers were implicated: numerous fires: and several Masonic installations.
The Sherwood Foresters left for Singapore on Dec. 7 by the transport Avoca," The detachment which had been stationed here was paraded at headquarters shortly after one o'clock. The men looked very smart in red tunics with white facings, blue trousers with the red stripe down the side, and khaki helmets with a green stripe, while the officers wore the full blue uniforms. His Excellency Major General Villiers Hatton inspected them shortly after two o'clock immediately previous to their embarkation.
The Eastern Times learns that Viceroy Chang Chih-tung has recently sent up to Pek- ing a long memorial concerning the reorganiss- tion of the three Manchurian provinces of Fengtien, Kirin, and Heilungchiang. The gist status of the three provinces, appointing over of this memorial is as follows:-(1) Change-the
each of them a Governor, a Treasurer, and a Judge with Taotais, prefects, district magis- trates, etc., etc., and a Viceroy over all. (2) Reorganise the troops on the Japanese model, namely, an active army and a reserve. (3) Intro- duce gendarmes. · (4) Open additional porta to international trade. (5) Establish a Government bank in Mukden and issue bank notes as legal teuder, to be current only in Manchuria, and (6) Establish a department of foresting and fishing companies on the Yalu and Sungari
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