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Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LX.]
Epitome
Leading Articles:-
Beachcombers
AND
China Overland
Overland Trade
CONTENTS.
Anglo-German Relations
The Lagging British-Chinese Corporation
Shanghai
"Squeeze
Hongkong Jottings
Hongkong Legislative Council
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Supreme Court
Marine Magistrate's Court
Alleged Murders by Europeans
The Hongkong High-Level Tramways Co., Ld
Green Island Cement Co., Ld.
The Nippon Yasen Kaisha
Collision in the Harbour
Inquests
St. Andrew's Church.
Correspondence
Shanghai Water Supply
$10,000 Ball Refused..
Chinese Neighbourly Amenities
Li's Guilt or England's
The Chinese Emperor's Desire to Learn
The Reported Arming of China...
The Weihaiwei School
"Shrewsbury" Wrooked
New Roman Catholic Church.
Farther Fires
Christianity in 8. China
Jurors in Trouble
H.E. The Governor and His Brothers
Poor Chinese Orphans
Hongkong tiun Club
Hongkong...
Far Eastern Items
Trade Items
Commercial Shipping
BIRTHS.
Trade Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 17TH DECEMBER, 1904.
PAGK
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
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officers.
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446 There have been more fires, with as usual, 447 suspicious circumstances attending them.
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The Supreme Court has spent the week 448 arguing the merits of a tedious Chinese land 445olaim. 449 449
The Hongkong One Design Sailing Club 450 has re-christened itself the Corinthian Yacht 450 Club, and appointed Dr. Clarke its 152 modore.
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In China generally, things have been quiet. 452 There appears to be very little basis for the recent alarming rumours of a recrudescence of Boxerism.
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The fate of the Roman Catholics in the Colony has provided entertainment for large crowds of 454. both Chinese and Europeans, going round admir- 454 ing the illuminations each evening.
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The arrival of the recently released steamer "Calchas" from Vladivostock aroused some
455 interest, which was soon allayed by the refusal of the officers or crew to talk of their adventures.
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.456 The Shanghai Municipal Council, in its zealous crusade for social purity, committed an 456 irregularity which offended the Spanish Cousul, 457 and had to apologise to the Consular Body 457 in consequence.
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The meeting of the Sanitary Board at Hong. 460 kong was void of any matter calling for discus- sion, the principal item of business, referred to committee, being the need of an extra market for Chinese butchers, &c.
On 11th October, at Copenhagen the wife of K. H. LINDHOLM, of a daughter,
At Shanghai shareholders of S. C. Farnham
On 26th November, at Wuchang, the wife of Boyd and Co. Ld. are still wrangling about the Rev. HENRY ROBERTSON, of a daughter.
On 2nd December, at Hangchow, the wife of T. GAUNT, of a son.
On 6th December, at S! anghai, the wife of F SCHWYZER, of a son.
On 7th December, at Shanghai, the wife of ROBERT SUTHERLAND, Of a son.
DEATHS.
the negotiations with the London syndicate. The malcontents are rather behindband. The directors having obtained a decisive vote, present criticisms must be futile.
The week just over has been marred in Hongkong by the discovery of a singularly brutal crime. Three European "beachcombers" have pleaded guilty, in the most callous terms,
On 3rd December, at Shanghai, LEONARD S. to the murder of a Chinese sampan woman and SANDERS, aged 28 years.
On 4th December, at Shanghai, DAVID BEALE, late marine engineer in the service of the Nippon Ynsen Kaisha, aged 38 years.
Un 4th December, at Shanghai, Dzau KIT Foon (Francisco Kariles Dzau).
On 4th December, at Weihsien, JANE HELENA, wife of E. W. BURT, of the English Baptist Mis- sion, Shantung, aged 32 years.
On 5th December, at Shanghai, HERMANN ADOLF AHRENS, aged 40 years.
Hongkong Weekly Press. Dress.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French Mail of the 11th ultimo arrived,
per
the 88. Dumbea, on the 14th inst.; and the English Mail of the 18th altimo is expected to arrive, per the ss, Malta, sometime to-day.
her child, under circumstances fully reported within.
The Peak Tramway is paying $15 per share, equal to a five per cent dividend on the present market value of the shares. The profits for the year were $46.239.91. The Company is oppos- ing the new firm's application to have a terminus on the same part of the Peak.
The share market in Hongkong was father interesting during the week, Hongkong Cottons particularly attracting buyers. They re ched
$13 very quickly, the appreciation being largely due to the favourable reports of cotton crops, about which we had special telegrams in the Daily Press.
The Prize Court trial of the steamer Veteran (formerly the Thales), which was captured near Kiaochow Bay, closed on 6th December. The Prize Court decided that the vessel should be and four officers (all German subjects) and 24 confiscated. The captain (a German subject) Chinese crew were released. The cargo aboard the steamer consisted of beef, skins and boots, etc., amounting to over one million dollars.
No. 25
The war interest centered once more on the fate of Port Arthur, of the capture of which we had numerous premature reports on the 15th instant. They were caused by the fact that the Japanese have been making strenuous efforts to dispose of the remnant of the Fleet before the arrival of the Baltic squadron.
The new survey steamer Fathomer, built at the Kowloon Docks to the order of the American Government, for service around the Philippine
Islands, underwent her trial trip Dec. 12th First of all she went over the measured mile and then out to sea towards Macao, Altogether she was eight hours under steam, and during four hours at full speed averaged 10.6 knots-over half a knot more than contract speed.
A plan is on foot among certain wealthy Chinese to stem the tide of emigration of coolies abroad by opening to agriculture some 500,000. mow of land now lying fallow and uncultivated in the district of Hsuwenhsien, in Leichou pre- fecture, Kwangtung province. The lands in question are said to be rich and suitable for all kinds of cereals, and the cultivation of the sugar cane as well as hemp. There are also other extensive tracts of fine arable land in other parts of Kwangtung province, which are at present uninhabited, also to be thrown open to immigrants a arranged.
soon
as matters can be
There is a Chinese rumour at Shanghai. to he effect that a rich merchant from Tientsin
has bought ten sative junks for 50,000 taels for a certain foreigner The same merchant is now trying to get crews amongst the des- peradoes under Fan Kao-tao in Shanghai, offer- ing high wages, and intends to load the junks with beef, mutton, rice and flour and other provisions. These junks had been presumably cleared for Chefoo, but as a matter of fact they
are destined for Port Arthur. Five of the junks have already left Woosung. Another junk with provisions aboard left Woosung on the 6th instant.
The Board of Revenue Bank, an institution which has been occupying the minds of the officials of that Board for the past eighteen months, is, according to a recent des- patch from Tientsin, to be started in the middle of February next, at Peking. It is proposed that Chinese merchants and capitalists shall deposit their money with the Bank, which will also establish branches throughout the whole empire. This will enable money to be transmitted from one place, to another with ease, either by post or telegraphic transfer. The Board of Revenue will as a beginning deposit 500,000, a sum which is to be increased each year.
There is a plan on foot, according to native.
reports, to secure a monopoly of the salt that is shipped from Hangchow to the Shanghai Settle- ment. Two native ex-pastors are attempting. with the aid of influential foreigners, to get the right to control the salt market of Shanghai. They say that now the salt is being snuggled into that place and the Government is failing to get the revenue. It is not reported what offer is being made to the officials, but “the is to receive 300 tals per month for the rest of foreigner who uses his influence in Shanghai
his life and the one who wins over the Governor to the plan is to receive a pension of 100 taels
per month.
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