THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXI.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 20TH MAY, 1905.
It is reported that German troops have been landed at Haichow in Kiangan, but the raport is not credited. It is thought probable that a German gunboat has been surveying the
harbour.
Hockey is growing in popularity in Bombay, 315 especially among the natives. There are over a dozen clubs, five of them for natives. The Parsees and Hindus have taken to the game with great keenness.
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Epitom.
313
Leading Articles :-
Can China Preserve Neutrality?
214
Chang Chih-Tung
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Chinese Penal Code
East and West
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Supreme Court
Companies:-
Wm. Powell, Ld
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A. S. Watson & Co., Ld..
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J. Llewellyn & Co., Ld
Canton Notes
The Coming British Ships
An Alleged Chinese Pilate
The High Level Tramways
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"War Correspondents and Their Complaints ...318 Correspondence
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German Chinese Treaty
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Report of the Registrar of the Supreme Court Tax Official's Little Speculation
Native Now!
Murder on a Shanghai Wharf
Reviews
Commercial
Shipping
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All Chinese are not pro-Russian. A wealthy Chinese resident of Kobe, W. Sanchiong by name, offered on the 23rd April, through Governor Hattori, to contribute Yen 50.00 toward the War Funds of the Japanese Govern- ment.
The French gunboat Comèle is engaged surveying the line of the projected cable from 32 Saigon to Pontianak. The survey was completed as far as the Anambas when lack of coil and stores obliged Captain Vigoaux to g? to 324 Singapore for fresh supplies.
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Messrs. Benjamin. Kelly and Potls were on 16 May informed by wire that the Maatschappij.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French Mail of the 15th April arrived, per the ss. Polynesien on Tuesday, the 16th instant; aud the E glish Mail of the 21st April arrived, per the ss. bengal, on Thursday, the
18th instant.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Shangbai Stock Exchange subscribed $150 for a coolie who showed heroism at a fire,
and who got his hands burned.
During Monday and Tuesday vessels arriving from Saigon and Singapore landed about 54 Chinese undesirables at Hongkong. They are to be deported to the Empire of China.
Langkat have declared a dividend of Tls. 5 per share for the second quarter of 195. payable in Shanghai on the 15th proximo.
His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Japan was pleased to command that the spirits of 28.999 soldiers and 1,887 seamon belonging to the Imperial forces, who lost their lives during the war, should be worshipped Yasukuni Jinsha (Shint temple), Tokyo, on May 3rd, 4th, and 5th.
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To the stolid British intellect. Freuch news.
papers are apt to be a little too effervescent and exhilarating for regular consumption. Local French journals have been diligently studied lately, however, in case they might have some- thing new about the Balticers. Thus there has been discovered the existence of a curious office. A Mr. is mentioned as being in charge of the Mission for S'udying the Feathors of Ducks": Mais, pourquoi ?
School-boy howlers" are often very amusing, but they are not always confined to schoolboys. A correspondent supplies a sample by a young man who had left school for a commercial office. He translated A vandre"-for sale-all right; but went on :-" "Jolie charrette Anglaise," jolly English chariot-"état de neuf-equal to nine-avec cheval grande taille"--with long tailed horse-"barnais, lanternes, accessoires
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The Government Gazette notifies that Dr. Keinosuke Majima, graduate of the Imperial University, Tokyo, has been added to the register of medical and surgical practitioners-correctly-“ S'adres-r qualified to practice in this Colony; also that journal"-address "Aur", c/o this journal! the names of W. L. W. Weaser an A. Abdulrahim have been added to the list of authorised architects.
An experiment by a European with a steam plough near Twant, Burma, showed remarkable results, proving the fertilising advantages of sun and air. Adjoining fields were sown with exactly the same paddy. They produced plants with an average of 11 stalks each of 155 grains. The steam ploughed area produced plants of an average of 20 stalks and in each plant averaged 260 grains. The experiment is to be continued an a large scale in the present year.
On May 9th a crowd of blue jackets at Shanghai became mixed up in a row with a number of the Japanese crew of the N. Y. K. steamer Kinugawa Maru. The blue jackets received the worst of the ercounter as the They Japanese were armed with heavy sticks. then returned to their ship while the blus jackets went for reinforcements and returning the tried to board the merchant steamer, but owing to the gangway lading to the ship being very steep the boarding party were kept off and after a few of them had received sore heads they withdrew from the fray.
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The Osaka Mainichi has received a telegram from Chemulpo stating that small-pox, which lately made its apperance there, is increasing rapidly, notwithstanding the efforts of the authorities to suppress the epidemic.
The Hon. Mr. W. J. Gresson's departure to Shanghai has apparently caused the public of Hongkong to realise how much they thought of him, as a pattern sportsman, a sound busi- ness man, and an able legislator. On all hands we hear encomiums of the departing chief of theprincely house." It is pointed out, how. ever, that Shanghai did but lend him to Hongkong.
A mall Chinese boy, who was either desirous of stopping a tram or seeing what it would be like to get knocked down by one, refused to get off the track at West Point when the motorman pulled the bell. The tram was close upon him, still he refused to move and the motorman had to apply the emergency brake. Inspector Collett placed the boy before Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Police Court yesterday on a charge of obstruction, and we believe he was fined $100 or the alternative of two months' imprisonm-nt, and six hours' stocks.
Before Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Police charged a dumb Chinaman with using a Court recently, Sergeant Gordon, of Taimchapo, boat without a licence. By signs and writing His Worship endeavoured to get the defendant to plead guilty" or "not guilty," but he did not understand, notwithstanding the fact that when told to, he wrote his name at the Police Station. As His Worship could not proce-d with the case until the defendant pleaded, and as there appeared to be no possible hope of his doing so, the police withdrew the charge.
A speech of the Japanese Minister of Educa- tion at Nagasaki shows that our allies are not obsessed by merely martial ideas. His Excellency laid special emphasis on industrial and commercial training, which he considers vital to the progress of the country and to success in its competition with commercial rivals. But he was not satisfied to have the industrial aus commercial schools turn out skilled specialists to the neglect or detriment of moral character. To produce men of strong and noble character remains the first business of an educator, in an industrial school no less then in any other.
Goo Kim Fui, for more than forty years a Chinese merchant in Honolulu of the highest probity: an i for much of that time
the
diplomatic or consular representative in those Islands of the Chinese Empire, bas just been adjudged a bankrupt on his own petition. He went there a young man and engaged in business in a small way, but by industry and energy became rich. He bears a striking resemblance to Li Hang Chang, to whom those who know. him best say he is not unlike in intellect and character. He married a native Hawaiian woman of good linesge, and for many years be has been a pillar in the Chinese Congregational Church. a trustee of the Chinese Hospital Association, and au official in almost every one of the benevolent and social organisations of the Chinese. He has been a prominent figure at every official function for years under the monarchy, republic and territory. He is an American citizen. There is general regret at the misfortunes which have overtaken him, and much sympathy is felt for him.
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