THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXI.]
Leading Articles :-
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China Overland
Overland Trade
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CONTENTS.
Epitoma
PAOR 235
The Mackay Treaty Ignored
Australian cotton
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Russian Credit
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Russia's Desperate Gamble...
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
Supreme Court
Canton Notes
Shanghai-Nanking Railway
Foochow Native Customs
The Mercantile Bank of China, Ld.
Opening of Hongkong Sailors' Institute
Correspondence
Public Spirited Generosity
New Church at Shek-kei
Murder by an Annamite
The Health of Canton
Alleged Infringement of a Port Regulation
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The Late Russian Minister at Peking
The Outrage near Hang-chow
Death of Dr. Edkins.....
The Late Sir R. T. Rennie
Baltic Fleet News ...
The Tientsin German Concession
The Chinese Mattle
Land Sales
Reviews
Hongkong Sanitary Institute.
A Humane (3) Decree
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
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Trade Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 6TH MAY, 1905.
Charles Smith, an unemployed sailor who has be-n staying at the Sailors' Home for some weeks past, was charged before r. F. A.¦ bazeland at the Police Court on May 1st with obtaining drinks by false pretences. Prisoner said to In-pector Collett-" If I could have got away with it, I wo ld have got away with it. You know that. You are a mau of the world."
His Worship found the defendant guilty and
sentenced him to one month's hard labour.
A correspondent writing to us from Saigon by 29 latest mail states that barring the s.s. Orel, which put in to replenish her bunkers and stores. Done of the Russian fleet called at! Saigon. There certainly was a great deal of excitement, our correspondent adds, over the news that th Fleet was expected at Cape St. James and the eventual military preparations made to enforce the ort's neutrality, but it all amount d to watching events which did not develop.
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The Slagyo Shipo commenting on the 293 prolable effect of the presence of the Baltic 293 Fleet on Japan se shipping, points out that the large importation already made of rice and the exceptionally fine local crop make the 293 capture of a few rice cargoes comparativ-ly of 29 small importance; the stoppage of supplies of raw cotton would, however, be more serious as the spinning industry is just now giving excellent results and the number of spindles has
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On 25th April, at Shanghai, the wife of W. H. | been much increased lately. JACKSON, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On 27th April, at Shanghai, GEORGE WASHING- TON NOEL, to NORA MARY SIMPSON.
On 29th April, at the Episcopal Chapel, Macao, by his Lordship the Right Reverend Bishop Dom Joao Paulino d'Azevedo Castro, JERONTO PIT. ER
PEVIER LEITE, of Kobe, to IDA MARIA, youngest daughter of Mr. C. J. GONBALVES, of Hongkong.
DEATHS.
At No. 4, Elliot Crescent, after a brief illness, KATE ISABEL MARGARET, infant daughter of GEORGE PHILIP and MARY LAMMERT.
On 28th April, at Shanghai, HILDA VALERIE STANDRING, aged two months.
Hongkong Weekly Press.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of the 7th April arrived per the ss. Malia, on Thursday, the 4th inst. at daylight.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
As
Kwan Yan BO far forgot himself in the Police Court on May 3 as to light up a cigarette while Mr. Hazeland was trying a case. a reminder of bis whereabouts, His Wor hip sentenced him to fourteen days' imprisonment in default of payment of a fine of $5.
A numerously signed petition has been forwarded to President Roosevelt asking that the American Consul at Fooohow, Dr. S. L. Gracey, be retained in his present position. In view of the service Dr. G.acey has already rendered and of the valuable experience he has acquired during his six or seven years' residence there, Foochow Americans desire that there shall be no change.
The Tientsin Times of the 8th inst. says: We learn with some amusement that according to telegrains recently received from T'aotai Liu, Consul General to S. Africa, by the Emigration authorities here, that he has not yet left Hong- kong for his post. If this is so, then it is clear some one has been telegraphing in his name, and foreign correspondents wiring from there have eridently been equally misled in regard to his arrival. The reason of his tardy departure is not clear, and it is rather surprising he has not been impeached for delaying.
At the Instance of Inspector Reidis of the Sanitary Department, G. de Champeon of the Messageries Maritimes was charged with allowing a smoke nuisance to be created in the harbour by the Company's s'eamer To kin on the 17th altimo. Mr. Reidie stated, in reply to His Worship, that so far as he knew this was the first
company prosecuted under the Ordinance. The representative of the company stated that they tried to abate the nuisance by using Cardiff coal, but sometimes ran short of this His Worship inflicted a fine of $50, and made an order prohibiting a recurrence of the nuisance.
On behalf of the Siamese Government, Chief Detective Inspector Hanson on April 25th made
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A consider b'e number of Red Cross Russian nurses, captured by the Japanese, arrived at the Hongkong Hotel on May 1st, and are left for Europe by the French rail.
The Director of Public Works in his report says that Chinese Shopkeepers were approached Ly the Government at the instance of the
Director of Public Works to reduce the length and size of their sign-boards, in the main thoroughfares especially, with the happy result that Queen's Road presents quite an improved appearance from the gain in width thus obtained. Moreover the scavenging coolies can better perform their work and waiting rickshas can keep close to the columns instead of obstructing the street traffic and entrances to the side paths. other streets in town.” It is hoped this improvement will extend to
Our Shanghai contemporary devoted a leading article to Mr. Burbank of California, the man
who is growing seedless apples and hybrid fruits. The Daily News remarks:- 'The man has come. will henceforth support a teeming population, for the Californian wouder has tamed the cactus. Its spines are gone. Its woody fibre has been developed into health-giving food, its fruit to a well-favoured sustenance fit for the support of man or beast." Ther is only ons suggestion
the fod is here. Even the desert
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ΠΟ have to male, the addition of an Evidently it is the "dessert" which henceforth has to support a teeming population.
CHINA AND THE MACKAY TREATY.
BRITISH MERCHANTS' APPEAL. TO LORD LANSDOWNE.
SHANGHAI, 3rd May. Seventy leading British merchants have telegraphed to the following effect to Lord Lansdowne, the
Foreign Minister:-
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British merchants draw Government's attention to the fact that China ignores the Mackay Treaty, rendering the same ineffective in most of its essentials. China actively opposes the promised Currency reform, ignores the pledge to make Mining Regulations less hostile to an application before Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Police Court for the extradition of an Indian foreign mining enterprise, extends an named K. Rao, late a stationmaster in the irregular taxation system in defiance employ of the Royal Siamese Railway Depart-
the Treaty stipulations, and ment. The application was made under the Fugitive Offenders' Act of 1881, and Rao is obstructs
all efforts to facilitate wanted" in Siam to answer the charge of navigation. We beg the British. feloniously stealing, taking and carrying away the sum of Ticuls 600, the property of the said Government to insist on the Treaty Railway Department. After reading papers being made immediately operative.”
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sent from Siam in connection with the charge, aud perusing the evidence adduced, His Worship was s tisfied that the depositious showed a strong presumption of the defendant's guilt, and committed him to gaol for fifteen days pending the order of the Governor. Meantime he has the right to apply for Habeas Corpus.
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[This telegram, which was drawn up by a con mittee of leading merchants, was kept for a week at offices of Messrs Brunner, Mond & Co., in order that a number of influential signatures might give full weight to it. Nearly all the British firms seem to have backed it.]
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