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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXI
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
PAOR
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Cotton Mills lin China...
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 6TH MARCH, 1905.
Hongkong Weekly Press.
No. 9
The Manila Gablenews says that within a very short time the streets of Manila will re- sound to the clang of the street car gong and the buzz of the electric motor. The tracks of
142 HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES Vœux ROAD CL. the road are practically completed on all the
China Getting Restive
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Benchcombers
Female Education in China
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Hongkong Chamber of Commerce
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Hongkong Food Supply
144
British Trade in China
145
Universal Peace
145
Hongkong Legislative Council
.146
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
146
Supreme Court.
.149
Marine Magistrate's Court
Company Reports
The National Bank of China
China Fire Insurance Company, Ld.
The Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown
Company Ld..
Canton Notes .....
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LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET. E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail arrived, per the s.s. Print Regent Luitpold, on Wednesday, the 1st inst.; and the French Mail of the 3rd February ar rived, per the 8.5, Tówi ane, on the 6th inst.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The steamers Wyefield and Burma have been 155 condemned by the Japanese Prize Court.
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Geo: Fenwick & Co., Ld..
.153
Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld.
153
The Anglo-German Brewery Co., Ld. Hokkaido Colliery and Railway Company
154
The Shanghai Pulp and Paper Co., Ld.
The Weihaiwei Gold Mining Co., Ld.
156
The Coolie Qusation
155
The Chinese Spleen
133
sold
Hongkong Jockey Club Race Meeting
155
1. Firm's Jubilee
156
Kowloon Bowling Green Club
156
Chargos Against Consul-General Goodnow
157
The Tsar and Hongkong Medicos.....
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Correspondence
Miscellaneous
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS,
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On 29th January, at Fakumen, Manchuria, the wife of the Rev. F. W. S. O'NEILL, of a son.
On 11th February, at Weghaiwei, the wife of HERBERT L. BEER, of a daughter.
On 16th February, the wife of W. H. GILBY, (E. E. A. & C. Telegram Co.), Sharp Penk, Foo- chow, of a son.
On 18th February, at Shanghai, the wife of H. J. CRAIG, of a daughter.
On the 20th February, at No. 19, Caine Road, the wife of F. DE P. BARROS, of a son,
On 24th February, at Shanghai, the wife of T. A. STANDRING, of a daughter.
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MARRIAGES.
On 4th February, at Foochow, EDMOND G. LEBAS, of the I. M. Customs, Santu, to GUINEVERE
The German ste mer Marie Jebsen has been to the Chuyetsu Kishen Kaisha and renamed Gayo Maru,
Miss Alice Roosevelt (it is said) will:
accompany
Secretary Taft and party to the Philippines next summer, and will pay a visit to Hongkong.
In the Loochoo Islands. Japan, no rain has fallen since March last year. It is the severest drought recorded during the last 75 years.
The Chief Justice at Shanghai has ordered the Dallas Horse Repo-itory, Ld.. to pay Friedrich Schwital $2,000 damages for wrong
ful dismissal.
A new company has been organised in the United States with a capital of $500,000 to take over the plaut of the Manila Telephone Company and instal a new system,
different lines.
The 21st plague fatality is on record, last week having added two. Other communicable diseases last week were:-diphtheria, two European cases; enteric fever, two European and one Japanese case; and smallpox, one European and ose Chinese case.
The Austrian Government, on the proposal of their Consul, Mr. N. Post, have conferred the Cress of Commander of the Frauz Joseph Order, on the Italian Consul General Mr. Volpicelli, for his s. rvices when he was in charge of the Austro-Hungarian Consulate in this port.
On Feb. 2 the large four masted steamer Marquarie," after having been in the hands of Messrs. Geo Fenwick and & Co. Ld. for some time, undergoing general repairs to her machinery, ran a trial trip to sea, and round the Island. The result was quite satisfactory; the
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speed en the Admiralty measured distance near Stanley being 141 knots per hour.
In a fire which occurred at Tai Kok Tsui last week a small footed Chinese woman and her daughter were so severely burnt that they had to be taken to the Government Civil Hospital. woke up, and it was with much difficulty that The house was enveloped in flames before they the girl managed to carry her mother out of the burning building on her back. The mother has since succumbed to her injuries,
A telegram to the Daily Press dated Sings. pore, 4th March, said :-The Government Bill for the expropriation of the Tanjong Pagar Dock works underwent to-day its second A Tientsin corresponent in a contem-reading. There were two dissentients. The porary understands that a telegram has beeu| received by the Agent of the Rand that he is to "employ no missionaries in any capacity"
A wire-rope connected with a pile-driver BEATRICE, second daughter of the late H. S. BID. working on the foundations of the new post WELL, of Shanghai.
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On 17th February, at Union Church, Shanghai, the Rev. C. E. Darwent, M.A., in the presence the Swedish Consul, CARL FREDRICK, wn of OLOF BLOK, Broddetorp, Sweden, to ETHEL
office building broke ou March 2nd, and a coolie was hit on the head. He died shortly afterwards.
The St. George's Society of Shanghai has a balance in hand (from Ball Account) of Tls.
LLOYD, daughter of the Rev. W USHER, M.D., | 1,080.78, after paying all expenses. General
Tunbridge Wells, England.
On 2nd February, at Shanghai, WILLIAM BROWNE, C.M.S. Shaoshing, to EMILY MELITA HARKNIES.
DEATHS.
On 21st February, at Shanghai, Jacoв BECK- Horr, aged 61 years.
On 24th February, at his residence, Oaklanda, Bonham Road, FREDERICK WILLIAM HEUERMANN, aged 68 years.
On 24th February, at Shanghai, the infant laughter of LAURE and EINAR Jessem.
On 25th February, at Shanghai, LOUISA, the
wife of VINCENT VIZENZINGVICH,
On 26th February, at Bedford, WILLIAM Fow- LEE, formerly of Shanghai, aged 65 years.
On 27th February, at Shanghai, SAILIG GOLD- AAN, late of Nagasaki, aged 66 years.
On 28th February, at No. 9, Lower Castle Road, FELIPPE JOSE MACHADO, late of the Harbour Office. Hongkong, deeply regretted, aged 72 years.
Account disbursed $386.91 in charity, and has $950.16 left.
The Prince of Ao Han, Mongolia, after his New Year's Day, went home, had lunch, and audience at the Palace, Pekisg, on Chinese went to sleep. While he was asleep, his cook eame in and killed him with a chopper.
Hallifax, H. H. J. Gompertz, C. Mc I. A esser, During the present month Messrs E. R. E. D. C. Wolfe and J. H. Kemp, all well known
members of the Civil Service, will be leaving the Colony on leave for twelve months
The Chefoo community has unanimously handed its request for a municipality to the Consuls for transmission to the Ministers; the local Chinese merchants are naturally, says the N. C. Daily News, in favour of the change.
Governor expressed the hope that a new Port Trust would follow on the lines of Bombay and the Mersey, backed by the Government, and managed in the interests of the trade of the Colony.
The Japan Chronicle learns that the litiga- tion between the Osaka Shosen Kaisha and the owners of the British steamer Prometheus which formed the subject of an important judgement on contraband at Hongkong, has been compromised. The owners of the Prome- theus agree to bear all the costs of the proceed- ings and to pay damages amounting to $1,000. The amount originally claimed by the Osaka
only Y5,000. Shosen Kaisha for breach of charterparty was
The China Merchants S.N. Co. launched another river st-amer at Shanghai on Feb. 21st -to be called the Kianghsin. The Kianghein is a steel twin-screw steamer, built for the China Merchants Steam Navigation Co, to the design and under the supervision of Mr. T. Weir, the Company's Marine Superintendent. The hull is of steel, and is specially designed for trading on the Lower Yangtze, and of the following dimensions :--Length over all, 335ft.; length between perpendiculars, 325ft.; breadth extreme, 55ft.; breadth moulded, 44ft.; depth to upper dook, 24ft; depth to main deck, 14ft.-6inch.
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