THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXI.]
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Leading Articles:
"Romaji
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Super-tition in East and West
The Governor's Charitable Scheme Hongkong Sanitary Board......
Supreme Court
Companies
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 11TH FEBRUARY, 1905.
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Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation 96 The ongkong, Canton and Macao Steam-
boat Co., Id.
The Shanghai Laud Inve-tm nt Co., L.d. The Shanghai Pulp and Pa ̧ or Co., Ld.
Hongkong Benvolent Society
Correspondence
Armed Robbery at Po Hing Fong
Hongkong Cricketers at Swatow
Belchers Fort Captured
Fleet Boxing
Fatlacoident on the "
Ocean
Fire on the 8.8. "Shahzada.”
How to Become a Sanit ry Inspector Death of an old ('hina Hand
Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Miscellaneous
Commercial Shipping
BIRTHS.
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H. E. the Governor ha app intel Sergt. Major E. D. C. Wolfe, H.K.V.C., to be a Lieutenant.
H.E. the Governor has granted Capt. G J.B. Sayer, b.K.V.C. leave of absence from the 10th inst. to the 31st December.
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The Hongkong Government Gazette notifies that if any person will make arrangements with the Scavenging Contractor under which the City refuse will be deposited on some reclaimable foreshore to be approved by the Director of Public Works, and build a wall to prevent the rubbish from being washed away, the Govern-- F.ment is prepared to lease to such person for of agricultural purposes the area so reclaimed at a reasonable rental and without premium for a period of 21 years.
H.E. the Governor has appointed Dr. Grüne to be Assistant Medical Officer Health, vice ↓ r. B. L. T. Barnett resigned.
The Bank of Madras has declared a d vidend at 8 per cent. per annum, placed to the reserve fund Rs. 1,50,0 0. and carried forward Rs. 1,06,083.
Thess. Hoi Ho, an old Canton River steamer. has been sold by Mr. Chee Wo to a northern 141 11 purchaser.
She will leave for Shanghai in 101 about ten days.
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The Board of Rites has issued the customary notice to all the yamens in Peking that on the 17th 1st Moon they must attend the Board with ing drums etc. as there will be an eclipse of the
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On 27th January. at Shanghai, the wife of N. SPATHE, of a daughter,
On 28th January, at Shanghai, the wife of T. E DUNN, Chinese Engineering & Mining Co., of a daughter.
MARRIAGE,
moon.
On and after the 1st March, the price of filter- ed water supplied to water-boats at Laichikok for the use of the shipping will be at the rate of 25 cents per 1,00 gallons, or 5.6 cents per tou approximately.
Last year the Philippines Insular Govern- ment deported seventy-four "beachcombers," most of whom undoubtedly came this way. On 2nd February, at Shanghai, GEORGE PAINE, Seventeen ** worthy destitute citizens of the to Margaret ÁGNES ROBERTS.
United States" were sent home in Government transports.
DEATHS.
On 23rd January, at Shanghai, Captain STANLEY AMSBURY, of Rockland, Maine, U.S.A, master of the American s.v. Atlas.
On 23rd January. at Shanghai, ARCHER F. WILLSON, of Messrs. Brewer & Co.
On 29th January, at Shanghai, EMMA TOMALLA, aged 25 years and 6 months.
On St February, at Chinkiang, JAMES KIOK- WOOD, First Engineer Imperial Maritimes Customs revenue ship Chuen Tiao, aged 58 years.
On 6th February, at Hongkong, Captain ALEX- ANDER MURPHY, aged 45 years.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of the 13th Juuary is ex- pected to arrive, per the ss. Bengal some time to-day.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Likin stations may be abolished when all the commercial treaties are signed.
The Weihaiwei Gold Mining Co. has decided upon reconstruction, and has appointed nev directors,
At the Public Works Department on Feb. 7. Marine Lot No. 2, Inland Lots Nos. 1, 3, 4 and 5, and Farm Lot No. 1 situate at Sai Kung in the New Territory, were sold by public anction to Mr. A. H. Rennie for $13,288, "being $100 above the upset price.
An order of His Majesty in Council, dated the 12th December, 1904, giving effect to the
accession of the Kingdom of Sweden to the International Copyright Convention, and to the addit onal Act of Paris of 1896, was published in the Hongkong Government Gazette.
The fourteenth case of plague was recorded on the 4th instant, four cases having occurred that week. The return for the subsequent four days gives two more. One European is down with scarlet fever, and five with small- pox. There are Seven cases of smallpox altogether.
Mr. A. G. Ward gave an organ recital on Feb. 7th at St. John's Cathedral, when Mrs Gordon sang Mendelssohn's Aria "But the Lord and Liddie's setting of Ahide with me. The composers interpreted by Mr. Ward included Hesse, Guilmant, Wagner, Marshall,
Lemare and West.
Rev. J. B. Martinet, late Procureur General in Hongkong of the Society of the Missions Etrangères died on the 7th February,
at the French Sanitarium at Pokfoolum. 110 was a Frenchman, who came to China so long ago as 1870. He was successively Procurator of his mission at Singapore (four years) at Shanghai (14 years) and`at Hongkong, since 1889. The funeral took place at the French Chapel at Pokfoolum.
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Mr. G. Courtney, a clerk in Messrs. Butterfield aud Swire's office, was admitted to the Govern- ment Civil Hospital on February 4th suffering from a dislocated shoulder and other painful in- juries. He attempted to jump on a Peak tram just as it started, and, missing his footing, was thrown from the station platform into a nullah below. Inquiry recently elicited the assurance that he was progressing favourably. The injury to his back is thought to be not so serious as was at first supposed.
The Manila Cablenews states: Owing to the death of Reverend Father Torres, late procura- tor of the Dominican missions in China, whose headquarters is in Hongkong, the Reverend Father Francisco Garcia; well known in this
city, has been dispatched to Hongkong to take charge of the procuration there-This is not quite correct. Father Garcia has come to Hongkong as assistant procurator to Father Noval, who was assistant to the late Father Torres, and his now assumad charge.
On February 3rd a Sergeant of the Dock- yard Police at Kowloon pulled a man out of the harbour near No. 1 Godown in an exhausted con∙lítion. His clothes bore the name of McIver, and he is supposed to be a leading stoker of the torpedo boat destroyer Virago. He rec-ived first aid treatment. but diel about two hours afterwards. How he got into the
water is at presnt a mystery, but it is alleged that he fell overboard from a sampan, and spans are very seldom seen in this part of the
harbour.
Tho N.-C. Daily News, reporting that Wil- liam Gifford Filles shot himself while being rowed from the s.s. Sishan in a sampan, adds :— Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, whose service he Capt. Fildes was formerly an employee of entered as second officer in February, 1893. He became chief officer in August. 1895, and became captain of the C.N.S. Wenchow in
September, 1900, resigoing in February of th following year. Since that date Capt. Filde: has held several remunerative appointments and only lately, we understand, safely ran the block- ade into Port Arthur.
Two lightdraft east sleam-launches ordered to be built by Governor Tuan Fing when he was at Soochow, having lately been completed, his xcellency has instructed Shanghai Taotai to dispatch them without delay to Ch'angsha, capital of Hunan. These launches were in- tended, the N. C. Daly News says, to be used to carry Government dispatches between Seochow ant Shanghai, and Soochow and Nanking, for the sake of speed and promptitude. Governor Tuan Fang having left this province, his suc- cessor, Lu Yuan-ting, should have taken them over, but this he has apparently refused to do and so the form r has had to send for them to
be used in Hunan.
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