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Leading Articles :-
Neutrality
Life in the East
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 3RD JANUARY, 1905.
Chinese in South Africa
Litigation in China
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The Diamond Discoveries in British North
Borneo
Weihaiwei Gold 3. ines
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Canton-Hankow Railway.
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Hongk ng Jottings
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Supreme Court
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Canton
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Companies
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China Provident Loan and Mortgage Co., Ld. 46 Hongkong Land Reclamation Co., Ld...
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Major H. J. Bowman, Sherwood Foresters, has retired.
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H.M S. Vengeance has won from H.M.S. Ocean the trophy for the best shooting on the China Station with heavy guns.
Mr. W. E. Allen, of the staff of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, had his leg
Tientsin is enjoying one of the mildest broken while he was riding in North China
winters it has ever known.
A case of cannibalism is alleged to have occurred at Pootung, near Shanghai.
The B. I. steamer Landula, with reliefs for Macao, arrived at that port on January 18th
The troops were all well.
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The Honkong Land Investment & Agency Co.,
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The West Point Building Co., Ld
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Shell Transport and Trading Co. (Ld.)
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School Reports :—
St. Stephen's College Speech Day.
Ellis Kadoorie Chinese Schools Society
Unlawful Landing of Arms
Chinese Therapeutics
Chinese Mariners
Steamer under Arrest
on Boxing Day. He was dismounted and was passing behind a hired horse ridden by a com- rade when it lashed out with both feet and caused the injury referred to.
On the 4th instant General Hasegawa, Com- mander-in-Chief of the Japanese Army in Korea,
issued the following proclamation, which was communicated to the Korean Government and
The 85. Siberia, from San Francisco Jan. further notice the police service for the preserva-
foreign representatives:-
:-"From this date until brought a large shipment of gold-tion of peace in Seoul and the vicinity will be administered by the Japanese gendarmerie on behalf of the Korean police authorities."
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The Nippon Yusen shipping company has started a fortnightly service between Kobe and the now open port of Dalny.
Mr. S. S. Lyon, lately the American Consul at Kobe, Japan, died on the 1st January, of 51 apoplexy. He was 58 years old.
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Closing of an old Firm
Kwangsi's Ex-Governor
Chinese Matrimonial Methods
Japanese Stowaways -
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Invasion of Shanghai
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Japanese Porcelain Exported
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The "Askold" Homicide at Shanghai
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Hongkong Polo Club
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Hongkong Volunteer Reserves
Hongkong's New Chief Justice
Police Presentation at Hongkong
Correspondence
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Far Eastern Items
Trade Items..
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
Yesterday being the anniversary of the Accession of King Edward VII., warships in harbour dressed ship and salutes were fired.
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The Universal Gazette says it is reported that Mr. Pierpont Morgan has bought back all the Canton-Hankow Railway bonds, numbering 1,200, held by the Belgians, and the American Governmentnow maintains that the cancellation of the original concession should not be agreed to. Sir Chengtung's idea is that the original agreement will be revised and that there is no benefit in cancelling the original agreement.
The Chinese Minister to Japan (who, sp-
There was an inquest held at Shanghai,parently, is a bit of a wag) has been asked to
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On 4th January, at Peking, the wife of R. DE Luca, of a son.
On 7th January, at Shanghai, the wife of C. P. DAWSON, of a son.
(n 12th January, at Foochow, the wife of ALEXANDER MICHIE, I. M. C., of a daughter
MARRIAGES,
cause.
The Chefoo Daily News comments that "the fall of Port Arthur is an important step in the development of a bump of conceit." Our contemporary fears the Yellow Danger.
The Bachelors' Ball was given at the City Hall on Jan. 10. About four hundred people, including His Excellency the Governor, were present. The decorations were very pretty.
On Jan. 16 a police raid was made on a On 15th December, at Paoning, Western China, supposed brothel in Kennedy Street, Yaumati.
WILLIAM SHACKLETON, M.D., to ALICE SARAH KNIGHTS, both of the China Inland Mission.
On 6th January, at New York, MARGARET VINTON, only daughter of the late Rear-Admiral WILDES, U.S.N., to J. H. CRAVEN, of Shanghai.
On 7th January, at Shanghai, WILFRID Fox, younger son of Captain WILLIAM P. HAMLIN, of Greenock and Shanghai, to ROSE ELLEN, daughter of WALTER LOXTON, of Kobe.
On 12th January, at Shanghai, MARY VON SCHOONHOVEN MYERS, to the Rev. JoarrH WHITE- SIDE, of Shanghai.
On 14th January, at the Union Church, by the Rev. C. H. Hickling, W. REID BOYD, to ANNIE ALISON ROBERTON, of Nairn, N.B.
DEATHS.
On 12th January, at Shanghai, E. E. BERTHEL, aged 71 years.
On 20th January, at Hamburg, C. Erdmann, formerly partner in Carlowitz & Co.
A girl took fright, jumped over the third story verandah and died from the injuries of the fall.
We are informed that the steamer Tung Chow, which was arrested for having a cargo of unmanifested ammunition, is still in Police custody, and the ammunition is being removed from the ship to local powder magazines.
The Foochow Echo reports that the Japanese rejoicings there, over the Port Arthur affair, were "most orderly and mild mafficking." A large model of a gunboat was carried round, with a procession of lanterns, and there were fireworks, bombe, and “ banzai.”
General Stoessel and six hundred officers and men arrived at Shanghai 19th January, by the M.M. 8.8. Australien. They left the next evening. When Australien reached kong to-day, went int›
keep his eye on the five hundred Chinese who
«re members of secret societies and now re-ide
in Tokyo. He has telegraphed, says the China Review, to say that as the number of Chinese students at present is only three hundred, he will be obliged if the number which he has to watch is made up without delay to the quantity "given in his instructions.
at the
The Kiutoan Lightship, situated southern entrance to the Yangtz, was replaced by a gas-lighted lightship on the 3r December last. The new lightship is of steel. 70 feet long and 21 feet beam, painted red, with the word **Kiutoan ** on her sides in white letters. The
light is exhibited from a lantern carried by su iron column and is dioptric, group occulting of the fourth order, showing a fixed white light varied by two short eclipses in quick succession every 20 seconds. The centre of the light is 30 feet above the water and the light should be visible in clear weather at a distance of 11 nautical miles.
A Saseho telegram states that two passen. ers who were on board the Nigretin, which was captured off Fussa and is now detained at Sasebo, and who at first declared themselves to be Germans, have now confessed that they are Russians. One of them is Lieutenant P. M.
Gren, who was in command of the Russian destroyer Ratstoropny, and the other is Sub- Lieutenant W. Verloff, of the same destroyer. The examination of the Nigretia having been concluded, the Procurators in the Saseho Prize Court expressed their opinion that the vessel as well as the whole of the cargo should be
Hongkong Weekly Press. ringay, he that in quarantine. Shang: confiscated. Notice has duly been given that
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES Vœux ROAD CL. London 'OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of the 20th ultimo arrived, Fer he 8.8. Zielen, on Thursday, the 19th inst.
hai is declared a small pox infected port.
The ubiquitous Dalai Lama is now reported at Urga, in Central Mongolia, where he is passing the winter with the Chinese Emperor's permission. The report that he went to St. Petersburg is contradicted; and the account of his entry into Peking apparently forgotten.
those interested may lodge petitions for the release of the steamer or cargo. Captain Harrison, master of the Nigretia, and the officers and men of the crew, were r leased on the 3rd inst. This item from the Kobe Chronicle, and other evidence we have since observed, seems to falsify the report of the release of the vessel, to which we recently referred.
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