THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXII.]
Epitome...
Leading Articles :-
AND
China Overland Trade
CONTENTS.
Far Eastern Investments.
The "Japanning" of China
British Shipping
Odessa
Anglo-Japanese Relations
The War Settlemente
The Chinese American Boycott
Some Japanese Financial Figures.
Hongkong Jottings
Supreme Court
The tranding of the
"Travancore.*
The Military Court
Canton Notes
Companies:-
China Light and Power Co., Ld. The Hongkong Electric Co., Ld. 8. C. Farnham Boyd & Co.
Telephone Developments
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 10TH JULY, 1905.
Some of the Tokyo papers calculate that Japan has to date spent 953 million yen on the
war.
It seems almost ertain that Russia has been 14 financing the Dalai Lama, who was last heard
of at Kiakhta
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The net profits of the Kawasaki Shipbuilding Co.. at Kole, for the past half year amounted to
Yen 287,696.89.
His Majesty has confered Knighthood upon the Chief Justice a Hongkong, now Sir 'rancis 25 Taylor Piggott.
Report.
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A Chinese paper at Shanghai announces that it will not publish any more American advertise- This is a good move. It did not have many, and its self-denial should increase its Chinese business.
ments.
In the compound of the Central Police Station on the 6th July 21 European, 94 Indian and 14 Chinese units of the Hongkong Constabulary were paraded for the inspection
of H. E. the Governor.
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The total annual grants to the various schools of the Colony, as published in appendix to the Governm at Gazette, are as Mr. Arialoon Seth, Registrar of the hong¦ follow: English schools, $13,582; Chinese, Vernacular, kong Supreme Court, has been awarded the $7.481; non-Chinese (one) $88;
$37,308. 27 Imperial Service Order.
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The inmates of the House of De'ention are now allowed to wear their ow. clothes, provided 28 they be clean and kept so.
Inspector of Schools' Report.
The Canton-Kowloon Railway
Corre-pondence
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The Plague
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European Opium Smuggler Fined
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European Master and Chinese "
Alleged Infringement of a Port Regulation
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Boy.'
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Diplomatic Change at Peking
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Chica and the Peace Negotiations Miscellaneous
Commercial
Shipping..
BIRTHS.
Mr. E. J. Moss, merchant, of Fo chow, has been adjudged bankrupt by order of
H.B.M.'s Court at Foochow.
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The Wai Wa Pa has finally agreed to a 29 foreign loan of three million taels for the
extension of the Foochow dockyard.
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On 8th June, at Newohwang, the wife of A. O. WILSON, of a son.
On 24th June, at Tichow, to Dr. S. W. and Mrs. BABINGTON, C.M.S., a son.
On 28th June, at Shanghai, the wife of A. SANDER, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
On 27th June, at Shanghai, DONALD MCALISTER to JULIA, widow of the late JAMES KEENAN, of Shanghai.
DEATHS.
On 3rd June, at Paoning, Szechuan, ARTHUR LAWRENCE, Church Missionary Society, aged 37 years.
On 10th June, at Newch wang, MARY ANNE IDA, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. O. WILSON.
On 13th June, at Chungking, GEORGE JOHN COLWELL (Inte I. M. Customs, Chungking), aged 36 years.
On 24th June, at Hamburg, HERRMAN SCHROE. 1ER, senior partner in the firm of Telge and Schroeter of Tientsin and Hamburg.
Hongkong Weekly Press.
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL LONDON OFFICE: 131 FLEET STREKT, E.C
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of June 6th arrived, per the 88. Scharnhorst, on Weduesday, the 5th instant; and the French Mail of June 9th is due to arrive, per the 38. Tonkin, some time
tc-morrow.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
A morning paper the first and only-starts at Singapore next month.
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Mr. F. A Irvine has been appointed to act as Registrar General during the absence on vaca- tion leave of the Hon. Mr. A. W. Brewin.
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There has been a big brewery combine in Japan, the Sapporo, Ashi, and Nihon breweries analgamating with a capit d f five million y-n.
The i-land Shin Iwojima. 480 feet high and 5,000 yards rond, which recently rose out of the sea ner the Bonia Group. iras disappeared again.
Professor William Doug'as Cox, Foreign Instructor in the 1 irst Higher Shool, Tokyo, is dead, after twnty-nine years in the Japanese (overnment's service.
The Commit e of th Tung Wah Hospital have nceived, for the year ending June, 1906, His Excellenev Sir Matthew Nathan's annual subscription of $200.
The price of coal at Moji is still rising, notwithstanding the gradual increase in the coil stock there. The average prices at the Japanese port recently were Yen 55.32 per 100 picals of lump. Yen 49.62 for mixed, and Yen 43.18 for dust coal.
George Parker, a member of the Hongkong const-bulary, while doing special duty at the Ko Shing theatre on the 1st instant, was seized with an attack of fever, and had to be remored to the Government (ivil Hospital, where he died on July 2nd.
The successor to the late Bishop Piazzoli, as Roman Catholic Bishop at Hongkong, is to be the Rev. Fr. Domenico Pozzoni, a native of Palermo, who came to Hongkong twenty years ago, and has been occupied inland as a missionary. News of the appointment arrived on July 7th.
The N.-C. Daily News understands that in- formation has been received by the local agents of the Asiatic Petroleum Company, from their principals in London, that a proposal has been made by the Governor-General of the Dutch Indies, to levy an export tax on kerosene oil at
ton. the rate of 55 shillings per
A Manila attorney complained that a Chinese witness (called by his own side) was ly'ng. The on the other side said he should "yer
The statement will certainly not be withdrawn," said Mr.Bouve complacently, I will make it prevarication, however, which
withdraw that. The Russivu prisoners-of-war now in Japan ar estimated at 60,419, comprising 974 officers and 59,445 men but exclusive of 7,81 Russians cptured in the Battl of the Japan Sea.
On July 9 there reached us an ominous rum. our concerning the native banks at Canton, for which we prefer to await confirmation. Money is unusually tight" at the native city.
The natives do not welcome the new electric trams at Singapore. At the opening, it was found that large pieces of stone had been put on the rails at intervals for a distance of thre : miles.
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The Japanese Government has released the Sado Marn from naval service. The Sudo, which was on the Indon-Yokohama un, has had exciting experieuces since the war
Very bega".
į Chan Sham, former shroff at the Magistracy, appeared before Mr. F. A. Ha eland at the Police Court on the 6th inst to answer to the charges of embezzling $1,000 and falsifying a book, the property of the Government. Mr. F. B. L. Bowley. Crown Sol citor. said he offered no evidenc, and asked His Worship to dis- was Mr. James Scott, H.B.M. Consul General' charge the defendant: The defendat
discharged. at Canton, has been awarded the I. S. O.
News has co me that the Peresviet was
refloated at Port Arthur on June 29th.
is a long word and sounds better."
In quoting from Admiral Togo's official rep rt of the Battle of Tsushima, we were struck by the opening, which began "By the help of God."
We have since seen a translation by the Japan Chronicle, which we think like i r to be correct. It makes the gallant admiral begiu, "With the grace of the Heavens and the Gode
According to the Sinwanpao, Viceroy Ynan
it Shi-kai thinks
necessary 10 establish tel graph corps in the armies under him and after due consultation with the Council of Military Reforms he had ordered his armies to have twenty men from each circuit and place them under commander Cha Yu-kang to study the necessary knowledge of a telegraph corps.
Dr.Barobet, Vice-Consul-General for America at Shanghai, left for his home in Maryland on June 24th. Dr. Parchet has been in China for about forty-five years, most of which were spent in Ningpo as a missionary. Later he entered the American Consular Service, taking charge of the Land Department, where his knowledge of Chinese stood him in good stead.
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