THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
China
VOL. LXI.]
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Epitome
Leading Articles :--
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Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 3RD JUNE, 1905.
The heavy fall of rain on 30th May caused a bad landslide in Conduit Road, just below the entrance to Sir Paul Chater's new residence ...341 Two or three tons of rock and soil blocks the
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A China Manufacturing Co.. Naval Admirable Crichtons Currency Doubta
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China's Potential Militarism
Hongkong Legislative Council Hongkong Sanitary Board Zupreme Court
Canton Notes
Correspondence
A Tramway Fatality Chinese Christians "Gascoigne Road.”
Alleged Armed Robbery
Irregular Deforestation
Missionaries in Japan
Chinese "Judicial Torture Commercial Shipping
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BIRTH.
We hear that Mr. Tan Joo Chui is now no longer manager of the Opium Farm, and that Mr. Wee Kay Siang, a big shareholder, has come from Singapore to supervise the working
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A junk capsized off Kowloon Docks on the 30th May during a squall, four of the occupants being thrown into the sea. The water police under P. C. Munro were quickly on 349 the scene and picked up the crew. The masts 349 of the junk were then cut away, after which she was righted, but not before her cargo was lost.
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On 8th May, at Chenchou, S. Hunan, the wife of the Rev. CHAR. H. DEAR, A.P.M., of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On 29th March, at Kensington, REGINALD NOBLE TRUMAN, of Tientsin, to ESME THURSTON
DUNLOP.
On 29th May, at Hongkong. THOMAS PETRI, journalist, son of JOHN SMITH PETRIE, Esq., of Zoar, Forfar, Scotland, to LETTIE PARKER, widow of CHARLES PARKER, of Taku, North China,
On 81st May, at St. John's Cathedral, Hong- kong, by the Rev. J. H. France, M.A., MURIEL WINIFRED, daughter of Mrs. BATEMAN, to HAROLD KENNARD, Eon of the late HENRY J. HOLMES
DEATH.
The London Daily Mail is unfortunate in some of its correspondents. On April 26th its Hongkong correspondent telegraphed: "The cable to Hainan is cut, and it is suspected that this is the work of the Russians, or of Russian agents." Next day the Daily Mail discussed this "fresh offence against the laws of neutrality." The Hainan cable was not cut, and the Mil's correspondent must have known it wasn't. One of the Cable Company's officials said at the time: It is always breaking.
If Chinese can be taught to be as good policemen as the Japanese, they will be bad to beat. Japanese journals report, says the Japan Mail, that 52 Chinese students have just grad: uated from the Police sol.ool of Japan. 34
At his residence, No. 40, Elgin' Street, JaRGE are from Peking and 18 from Hupeh. They
FRANCISCO KRraal, age 18 years.
have received practical instruction in the dis charge of police duties. There remain still studying in the same school the following ress. numbers-Peking Students 8, Hunan Students 18, Szechuan Students 27, Hupeh Students 53, and Kiangsu Students 20. Total 126.
Hongkong èèleekly Press.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French Mail of the 28th April arrived per the s.s. Caledonien, on Tuesday the 30th ultimo; and the English Mail of the 5th May arrived, per the ss. Malto, a Thursday, the 1st June.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
It is reported that the Chinese Government intends to adopt zone time" throughout the whole empire.
The Japanese authorities at Newebwang have been supi ressing by force the pirates who infested the coast of Liaotung.
The Chairman of Weeks and Co., Limited, Shanghai, congratulated the shareholders on the fact that last year was the most successful the Company had experienced.
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Commercial Intelligence remarks that it count its hostile critics on one hand. There is not much intelligence, commercial or other wise, needed to employ the digits as an abacus,
Parts of the City were flooded on the 31st May by the deluge of rain, the drains in the low lying areas being unable to cope with the rush of water. The water at Arsenal Street, for
instance, was quite four feet deep and ajor- General Villiers-Hatton was conveyed in a boat to the stairs leading up to Head Quarters. A retaining wall at Mr. M. J. D. Steavens' house on the hill-side collapsed but, considering that it was of red brick instead of the usual rubble, this was not to be wondered at. Portions of Praya East looked more like a onal than anything else. The race course looks like s large lake.
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Chinese applications are quite possible in the case of the following suggestive little story from Harper's Weekly:-American housekeeper to Filipino servant Why is it, Ramon, that you worked so well for the Spaniards and for so little? They treat d you bidly while I treat well. They gave you only two pesos per month and you demand of me 25; I do not understand." Ramon: Ah, sonora The Sraniards were our superiors. You Americans
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With the commendable motive of raising subscriptions to assist the unfortunate members in the Kaugra district, Punjab, India, rendered homeless by the recent earthquake shocks, a meeting of managers of local Indian firms was held at the house of Seth Wassiamull Assomall, at No. 46, Queen's Road, Central. Those present were formed into a committee to canvass for subscriptions, Mr. W. Wassiamull being appointed president, Mr. B. Lekhrag, treasurer, and Mr K L. Shuksains, secretary. To date the following amounts have been collected-8. W. Assomull. $101, Pohoomull Bros, $101, 8. D. Chellaram, $101, K. A. J. Chotirmall and Co., $51, Navalrai Choithram, $11, G. Varoomal $11, J. Lekhrag, $5, D. Kamandas $11, B. Kubehand. $11, other subscribers, $34-total $437.
A certain desperado of Chuyêhsien, Shantung, with a following of over two hundred men, General Chang Tsung-pên, Major-General of voluntarily surreddered the other day to
the Yenchou Circuit of Shan'ing province, declaring a desire to reform and to enlist as regular soldiers under the Major-General. The General himself is a native of Shantung and, in view of this act of the desperadoes, favourably reported the matter to the Governor of the pro-
vince. In order to encourage other bandits and desperadoes to turn over a new leaf in the same manner the Governor promptly ordered the sum of Tls. 1,500 to be paid to the desperadoes as a reward coupled with the hope that whitewashed bandits would use their influence with their friends that were 'still out" to follow their example-and gain a reward.-N.-C. D. N.
The following from Commercial Intelligence is a timely justification of the new enterprise now being introduced. The American Consul at Hanchau reporta to Washington that the field for foreign paper in China is great, in spite of native competition. It is evident, he says, that the prices at which paper of good quality sells are such that American paper manufacturers ought to be able to sell first- class paper at a fair profit. The number of newspapers of all languages printed in China is constantly increasing, and as the increase A special correspondent of the Hongkong continues the inability of the natives to Daily Press, writing to inform us of his return manufacture suitable paper in the required from an extended tour through the Yangtze quantities at reasonable rates will become more basin and Szechuan, says: "I returned from apparent. They simply cannot produce the Sz chuan last week only, after a visit to the vast amount of paper consumed in such enter- coal mines belonging to the Chungking Syndic-prises with their limited means of manufacture. ate. I had a most agreeable trip and saw much It is probable that foreign paper manufacturers of general interest, regarding which I hope to can even now furnish papers of the sort used communicate with you shortly Perhaps, however, in China at lower prices than they are to be the most striking thing I had to notice was the had, and with good profit. The native paper general spread of the policy of ultra-centralis dealt in at Hangohan seems to be divided into ation so dear to the heart of Sir Robert Hart three grades: (1) Writing paper of the thin Doubtless some alleviation of the opposite Chinese sort, generally coloured on one side; tendency of leaving everything to the Provincial (2) the better grades of wrap; ing paper, with a officers was needed, but the experience of my visit fair proportion of rough bamboo papers, and- was that it was being carried to a dangerous | (3) Chinese black paper, used for decoration excess.”
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