THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXI.]
Epitome
AND
China Overland
Oberland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Leading Articles:--
Tolstoy and Land
American Foreign Policy
"Vaulting Ambition.'
Peace Terms
Russia and China
Hankow and Foreign Shipping
Chinese Abroad
The Coolie Traffic
Hongkong Jottings
Supreme Court.......
Police Court....
Marine Magistrate's Court
Companies:-
The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ld.
Geo. Fenwick & Co., Ld.
Campbell, Moore & Co., Ld.
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 3RD APRIL, 1905.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Fifty-nine books were registered at Hong- kong during 1904, as compared with 84 in 1903. The Times of Ceylon reports that a syndicate has been formed in London to lease the Ceylon Pearl Fishery for a series of years.
An important military reform is taking place in China. It is reported that the Im perial forces are to be styled Lu Chun instead 214 of Chang Pei.
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A Chinese clerk from Mr. D. Macdonald's office has been sentenced to six months' hard labour for stealing $647 from Mr. C. E. A. 220 Hance's desk.
Staff surgeon Bishop of H.M.S. Iphigenia
has identified Malta fever as
endemic
in
222 Shanghai. It is described as a low malarial-
typhoidal fever.
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Watkins, Limited
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Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co., Ld.
Education at Pakhoi.
Hongkong Rifle Association
Canton Notes
Canton's Buddist Temple
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Seizure of Counterfeit Coin
Correspondence
Victoria Gaol
A Mystery
Jewish Recreation Club
Chinese and Japanese Porcelain
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The China Flour Mill Co., Ld., (Shanghai), has paid a dividend of ten per cent for the year 1904. The credit balance of Profit and Loss account was Tls. 43,393.13.
The Tientsin Lawn Tennis Club, finding 2:4 itself with a balance in hand of over $500,
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talked of reducing its subscription of three 224
dollara a month. The Committee was asked to consider it.
Births Marriages and Deaths at Hongkong
Tang Wa Hospital....
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Hongkong's Revenue
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Miscellaneous
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Mandanao-Hongkong Steamers
Commercial Shipping
BIRTHS.
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On 15th March, at Tsouping, Santung, the wife of A. E. GREENING (E.B.M.), a daughter.
On 21st March, at Pootung, the wife of J. D.
MARRIAGES.
STRANG, of a daughter.
On 3rd March, at Nagasaki, Captain W. E. PASSMORE, of the Douglas S. S. Co. of Hongkong,
to NERA Agnes Bank8.
On 26th March, at St. John's Cathedral, Hong- kong, by the Rev. F. T. Johnson, M.A, NATH ANIEL FRANCIS MILLER, of the Inspectorate General of Customs, Shanghai, to SARAH CHAR- LOTTE HOADLEY, of Kilburn, London.
DEATHS.
On 15th March, on board the 8.8. Korea, JAMES HENRY SIMMONDS, Lower Yangtze Pilot, buried at sea, aged 38 years.
On 20th March, at Shanghai, ERNEST SCHMIDT, aged 32 years.
On 22nd March, at Ningp, THOMAS CLAUDE ROBERTSON, SOU of the Rev. and Mrs. T. GooD- CHILD, aged 5 months.
On 22nd March, on board the ss. Kingsing, travelling from Tientsin to Shanghai, VILHELM HENCKEL, born in Copenhagen, aged 21 years.
On 23rd March, at Shanghai, WINSTON LESLIE SASSOON, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sassoon BENJAMIN, aged 11 months.
Hongkong Weekly Press.
The
The 8.8. Nigretia, re-named the Ulsan-maru, will be kept for the Government service. 70,000 cases of kerosine, which constituted the cargo, were purchased from the Government by the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha
Sheng Hsuan-hui, (Sheng Tajen) is trying to buy up mineral lands near the Peking of working them, but presumably to forestall Syndicate's Concession, not with any any possible purchase by the syndicate.
intention
Two vases 5 feet high and a plate 3 feet in diameter, to cost Tls. 5,000 have been specially ordered by the Empress Dowager as presents to the Courts of England, America and Japan, together with fox furs, pearls etc., as a token of esteem.
The Korea Daily News says:-We note that the Governor of Seoul, in the course of some correspondence regarding the transfer of land to foreigners alleges that, owing to the lack of definite boundaries, foreigners frequently take in more ground than they are entitled to.
The Hunghutzes are said to have caught two Russians early this month, to have killed and shockingly mutilated them. It should be the duty of the European Powers to see that these ban lits are exterminated. Such conduct passed without comment or action has its effects for the future.
H.R.H. Friedrich Leopold, Prince of Prussia, on board the ss. Prinz Eitel Friedrich, on 28th March, left Hongkong for the north is on his Taku way to and Peking, and then to Man- churia to accompany the Russian forces.
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was accompanied by Major von Hofmann, Major
von Ralhenow Dr. Kellner and two lieutenants.
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It is reported in the North that the Japanese have shot as a spy a foreigner travelling be- tween binminton and Moukden.
At the next Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of the Yangtsze Insurance Association, Ld., to be held on the 11th of April next, the Directors will recommend the payment of a dividend to shareholders of 20 per cent $12 per sh re out of the balance at credit of 1903 account, also a special dividend of 5 per cent=$3 per share, out of interest ao- count for 1904, and the transfer of $50,00 to credit of Reserve Fund, bringing the fund up to $750,000.
Bays
Writing of Shanghai's decision to give votes to volunteers and firemes, the Tientsin Times "the measure may also prve of value to the Council and public at large, as it stends to reason no monopoly of sound judgment and well-ff to be land owners and renters, and the common-sense is enjoyed by the men sufficiently community has a right to the benefit of astute brains whether they belong to poor or rich." It seems to us that this argument is capable of considerable extensiou.
The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China on Mar. 30 received the following telegram from the Head Office in London:
At the approaching meeting of shareholders, the Directors will recommend a dividend for the past half year at 11 per cent. per annum, free of Income Tax; that £75,000 be placed to Reserve, which will then stand at £875,000, that £80,000 be carried forward as undivided profit, and that a Bonus of 15 per cent be paid to the staff of the Bank."
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The Volunteers have decided to form a Rifle Club. Sixty-five names have already been sent in and an additional thirty or forty are expected to be forthcoming. The Tai-Hang
range
will
be available for the Club daily, excepting Sundays, when it will be reserved for the usual Volunteer shooting. The annual subscription was fixed at $3, payable in advance. Major Pritchard has been elected President, Lieutenant Northcote, honorary secretary and treasurer, and Sergeant Penning and Gunner Hayton on the Committee.
Captain M. Jorgensen, of the Norwegian 8.8. Resolute, charged seven Russian Finns with refusing to proceed to Sasebo, Japan, with a cargo of coal. The men had signed on for three months to go to Hongkong and farther. The men being persistent were son- tenced to three months' imprisonment. The defendants then asked to be allowed to go back to their ship, and His Worship assented. Caplain Olaf Johannesen, of the Norwegian 8.8. Kanarven, brought a similar charge against sixteen of his crew, mostly Spaniards. In this case the men preferred two months' imprison- ment to proceeding in the ship.
It is the intention of the Telephone
Company to extend their service to the whole of the Kowloon Peninsula, and an Exchange
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CrAt Hongkong he called on Sir Matthew will be opened in Kowloon on July 1st
LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of 28th I ebruary arrived per the 88. Prins Eitil Friedrich, on Tuesday the 28th March; and the French Mail of 3rd March arrived, per the 83. Armand Behic, to-day.
Nathan, K.C.M.G.
The Manager of the Mercantile Bank of India Limited, has received a telegram from the London Office to the effect that at the forthcoming yearly meeting the Directors will recommend a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the "A" shares, 5 per cent per annum on the "B," both free of Income tax; that £30,000 be placed to Reserve; and that £15,100 be carried forward.
next, with free intercommunication between the two areas, Hongkong sad Kowloon, This will be very welcome intelligence to business men on each side of the harbour, We believe the firms already established in Kowloon are sufficiently numerous to prove that the contemplated extension of the telephone service will not only be a great public con- renience, but an enterprise remunerative to the Company from the start,
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