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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL LII.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
PAOR
Epitome
Leading Articles :----
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 17TH JUNE, 1905.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
H.M.8. Humber, storeship, was sold by ..369 auction for $49,500,
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Roosevelt the Peacemaker
Obstacles to Peace
The Study of Tropical Diseases........
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Open Doors and Spheres of Influence
871
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Supreme Court
372
373
Hongkong Young Women's Christian Association 375 British War Vessels Arrive
Local Japanese Celebrate the Successes of Their
Arms......
A Pretty Story from Macao
375
The German transport Rhein, arrived June 12 at Hongkong, brought out 1,000 Naval reliefs for the German squadron on the Chins Station.
The Chartered Bank has paid two hundred yen on a fraudulent draft, the endorsement of which was very cunningly managed in Japan. [Page 376.]
Mosquitoes are both numerous and avid. Insect life generally seems more than normally noticeable. Peak residents remark the number ...376 of centipedes.
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H.M.S."Humber
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Sold
Kowloon Dooks
*- Mr. B. Harris, of Hongkong.”
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Hongkong Civil Service Cricket Club
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Shanghai Electric Works
376
Unnecessary Harbour Noises
Chinese Magicians as Criminal Detectors
Policeman Sent to Prison
The Impudence of the Hongkong Coolie..
Extraordinary Discovery
Plague at Hongkong .....
Important Sale of Land
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
Peace seemed certain, but the local money market, perhaps owing to previous disappoiat ments, did not turn a hair. Stocks remain quiet, their usual summer condition.
The Hongkong Branch of the Young Women's Christian Association held a very 377 successful conversazione at Government House on June 13th. His Excellency attended.
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Shanghai reports several cases of foreigners 377queesing or attempting to squeeze Chinese. 377 One policeman is imprisoned for six months for ...378 extortion. There have been no recent prosecn.
tions at Hongkong.
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The members of the crew of the British St. Kilda, who were imprisoned at Hongkong On 2nd June, at Soochow, the wife of FRANK for refusing to sail to Japan, were released a GROVE, of a daughter.
soon as it was known that the St. Kilda had been sunk by Russians.
On 7th June, at No. 191. North Ssechuen Road, Shanghai, the wife of LINQ F LOPES, of a daughter.
On 8th June, at Shanghai, the wife of C. RAAMUSSEN, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
On 8th June, at Foochow, JOHN PATRICK MACKINTOSH, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, to ELSA Caroline, daughter of Edward R. Dzzw, Commissioner of Customs.
On 9th June, at Shanghai, WILLIAM JOHN TURNBULL to BETTY WIDLER.
DEATHS.
On 30th April, at Aberdeen, FLORENCE LINDSAT, wife of ALBIANDER HOS1, H.B.M. Consul General, China.
On 1st inst., at Shanghai, ZIH CHIN-FOO. Com pradors of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, aged 65 years. .
On 14th June, at Government Civil Hospital, Mr. Paul Brewitt, aged 48 years. Deeply regretted
On 15th June, FRANCISCO C. Collago, late Inspector of Boats and Junks, Hongkong, aged 88." Deeply regrettai.
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·ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French Mail of May 12th arrived, per the 8.8. Oceánien on Tuesday, the 13th inst, and the English Mail of May 19th arrived, per the s.s. Simla, on Thursday the 15th inst.
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The water police are trying to make life more bearable at Hongkong by prosecuting those who blow steam whistles and sirens unnecessarily. The land police are expected to follow suit in the case of street noises.
In order not to hurt anybody's susceptibil- ities, and to add to the pleasure of the day, the 350 Japanese who held a fête in celebration of Togo's success, did so on one of the small islands neighbouring the Colony. | Page 576.]
A number of Chinese petitioned the Sanitary Board to allow more than one caretaker to sleep in each bakehouse. This is disallowed because dirty Chinese would sleep all over the boards on which public food is prepared. [Page 372.]
It has
Hongkong streets this week have scorched day after day under blazing sunshine. been the hottest week of the season. Verandahs and roofs have been requisitioned as sleeping
quarters. One coolie was killed by rolling over in his sleep.
The proposal that the Shanghai Municipal Council should sell to a German firm its electric light works caused a re-action in favour of the “municipal trading " principle at the northern port. It also gave rise to more comments on German enterprise in China. o -
It may be mentioned that there is a local belief current, with what amount of reason we are not inclined to commit ourselves at present, that the garrison of Hongkong is not, and has not for some time, been maintained at anything like the authorised strength,
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A Shanghai fire engine hastening to a fire on June 7th ran over and killed two Chinese lads.
The new Chief Justice at Hongkong, Mr. F. T. Piggott, has discovered an awkward dis orepancy in extradition law, na between a local Ordinance and the Treaty with China. The matter is fully explained in the judgment in re Wong Ka Cheung, page 373.
The Foochow Echo of June 2nd says that the pièce-de-resistance of a concert at the Club was 91 This wis the singing of "Beloved, it is worn." probably an operatic prayer for a new garment of some kind, the threadbare condition of which
Beloved" was desired to observe.
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Hongkong Harbour during the last week presented features of unusual interest. In addition to ships towed in in difficulties, there is the ruin of the Spanish warship Reina Christina, brought from Manila, which lies off Stonecutters Island, and has been much kodaked.
The Hongkong Sanitary Board, sensitive to the criticisms passed on their complacency towards the Hongkong Hotel Company, are endeavouring to establish a fixed principle by which to decide applications for exemption from the requirements of the Building Ordinance. [Pag. 372.}
H. E. the Governor has been spending Whitsuntide at Macao, being accompanied thither by the Hon. Mr. F. H. May, C.M.G., his A.D. C.s and Private Secretary. The party put up at the Boa Vista, where His Excellency received official calls from H. E. the Governor of Macao, the Bishop and others. He was enter- lained at dinner by the Governor of Macao on Sunday evening, numerous guests being present.
We regret to record the death of Mr. Paul Brewitt, who died at Government Civil Hospital on the 14th June. He came to the Colony 27 years ago, under agreement with Messrs. Sander, Wieler and Company, and was later connected with Mars. Carlowits and Compiny and Mes-rs. Biemssen and Company. He next took over the business formerly carried on by Mr. Rapp as an auctioneer. popular with everyone, joining in the amateur theatricals aranged by the German com- mani'y and A. D C. Mr. Brewitt was for many years Secretary of the Club Germania. In 1891 he married Miss Winnie Hazeland. He leaves a widow and two children to mourn his loss.
He was
A well-known Government servant has died suddenly at Hongkong. Mr. F. C. Collaço, inspector of junks, stationed at the Harbour
Office, succumbed on 15th June to cholers. On Wednesday he was on duty at the Harbour Office, and in excellent spirits. He is supposed to have bought and enten some penches from the fruit market near by, and when he went home in the evening bad an attack of cholera. Yesterday morning a doctor was sent for, but was unable to avert the fatal termination of the disease. Mr. Collaco le vod a widow Es mourn bla loss at Hongkong, and two grown-up children * a boy and a girl, at Bangkok years old; and in two years would havo hoon entitled to his per sion, having entered Govern• ment Service here,in 1876. He used to be in charge of the signal station at the Peak.
He was 58
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