THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXII.]
CONTENTS,
Epitome.....
The Troublesome Trotsi
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 15TH JULY, 1905.
Messrs. Benjamin Kelly & Pott were iu. formed by wire on July 13th that the Shanghai Land Investment Co., Ld., has declared an 33 interim dividend of Tla. 3 per share.
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Leading Artioles :-
The Political Situation....
Railway Enterprise in South China
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England Through German Eyes
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Composition by Ching Hop Firm
The Canton Banks
Supreme Court
The Stranding of the "Travancore
Correspondence
Alleged Embezzlement ...
Beyond Criticism **
A French Cargo Steamer
Japanese Cotton Millers at Ningpo
The Shanghai Cotton Mills.
H. & S. Bank Sued
The Chinese "Who's Who?"
An Uncharted Rook off Namoz Island
The Hankow-Canton Railway
The Chinese Demand for a Parliament Commercial
Shipping.
BIRTH.
The Chinese Empress Dowager is still send ing her Viceroya "summer medicines"; sulphur and treacle, a doubt. For prickly heat the Imperial Quackeress (not Quakeress) has nothing to send but sympathy.
The s.s. Duferin was expected to arrive at 36 Taku Bar from India on July 4th with the 36 regiment of Dogras to relieve the 30th Punjabis 37 then stationed at Shanhaikwan. The 30th were 38 to embark on the 5th inst.
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It appears that a shareholder referred to the 40 directors of S. C. Farnham Boyd & Co.
When the news puppets of Mr. Twentyman. reached Tientsin, it appeared that the directors were Twenty man's puppies."
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On Mr. Rockhill's representations, the Chinese Emperor has ordered that all matters connected with Chines Exclusion are to be left to the Government, and the people are not 41 to interfere with them in any way.
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On 3rd July, the wife of J. R. HARDING, Im- perial Maritime Customs, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
On 30th June, at Shanghai, JAMES MOORE to MARY EVELIIGH,
On 1st July, at Shanghai, WILLIAM LEONARD THOMPSON to MARY JANE GODSON,
On 1st July, at Shanghai, WALTER ERNEST WOLSEY to GEORGINA BOURNE.
On 5th July, at Shanghai, GEORGE MICHAEL BILLINGS, B.A., to NELLIE ROSA SCOTT, only daughter of Captain J. A. SCOTT of the s.8. Sual.
On 5th July, at Enschede, Holland (by Prory), CHRISTINE JAN
of Shanghai, to HAMMINK, HAVERKATE, of Enschede.
DEATH.
On 3rd July, at Mohkanshan, DORIS, infant daughter of FRANK and CARRIE TH. RAWLINSON,
Hongkong Weekly Press.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
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The French Mail of June 9th arrived, per the 88. Tonkin, on Tuesday, the 12th instant and the English Mail of June 19:h arrived, per the 88. Coromandel, on Thursday, the 13th instant.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
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Lieut H. W. Kennett has been posted to the Right Half, No. 1 Co., Hongkong Volunteers, and Lieuls. J. S. Gubbay and J. T. Hayton to the Left Half. P. R Adams has been enrolled as a member, and Gr. J. E. Odvire has been struck off the strength.
We are officially authorised to state that. subject to audit, the directors of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation will recom mend, at the forthcoming meeting. a dividend of £1.150 per share; add to the reserve-fund $500,000; and carry forward about $1,700,000.
A Daily Press reporter on July 12th called on the American Consul-General with a view to obtaining some information anent the American boycott, but Gen. Bragg refused to be drawn.
My Government," he said. says I have bad views, so I must put them in my pocket and keep them there. From the beginning I voted against the Exclusion Act."
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So great was the noise made by the electric trams while turning the corner near the Har bour Office on July 13th, that it was impossible for the members of the Marine Court, sitting therein, to hear witnesses giving their evidence, and the President of the Court, Hon. Captain Barnes-Lawrence, had to send a coolie from the Harbour office to keep the lines watered for the approach of cars.
Mrs. Blanche Georgina Hunter, wife of Brigade Surgeon Lieat-Colonel E. J. Hunter, of the Hants Infantry Volunteer Brigide, died on June 3rd. Mrs. Hunter resided in Hong. kong for some years before her marriage, when she was Miss Wyatt (daughter of Major General Wyatt, of the 11th Devonshire Regt.) We are informed of the sad event by the | Portsmouth Times of June 10th.
We have received the 15th annual report of the Meiji Fire Insurance Co., of Tokyo (Fire business only) and note that its reserve fund now exceeds two million yen. There was an A World Federation of Chinese Students is increase of business to the extent of over thirty six thousand yea, and losses decreased nearly being organised at Shanghai.
ninety-nine thousand. As a result, the happy shareholders get a seventeen per cent dividend. dividend of twelve per cent.. and carried The representatives in South China are the
Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. forward $2,257.48.
The Tientsin Horse Bazaar, Ld." has paid a
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Lu Yuk-lin, the Chinese Consul, well known at Hongkong, has arrived at Johannesburg, and has taken up his residence there.
Not long after eating a hearty breakfast on the 10th July, when he seemed quite well,' Mr. E. Early, a chemist employed by Messrs. A. S. Watson and Co., was found dead in his bed. Deceased, who was 32 years of age, was going to England soon, his passage being already booked. He was a prominent Freemason.
The Chinese students at Foochow College gare their American principal "a warm time of heckling until he undertook to forward a protest against the American Exclusion Act. Consul Gracey tried to argue that the Great Wall of China was an "exclusion act," but the boys pointed out that there was no resemblance.
The magnitude of the damage ocasioned by the recent storm in Formosa has now become known.
A Taipeh dispatch says that investiga- tions made on the 23rd instant show that 3,643 dwellings were completely and 3.552 partially
ruined. while 2.739 were flooded and sixteen
washed away. Ten ships were sunk, 117 boats were wrecked and 14 were driven from their loat moorings. In addition, twelve lives were and thirteen persons are missing.
The numerous members of the engineering profession and of the shipping and otherinterests in Hongkong and on the China coast #ill be pleased to learn that the directors of the Hong- kong Whampoa Dock Co. have appointed Mr. William Wilson, late manager of the Kowloon establishment, to succeed Mr. W. B. Dixon sa Acting Chief Manager of the Dock Company. Mr. Wilson is exceedingly popular with the staffs, European and native, at Hongham.
We learn that there was a very exciting time on the Fatahan on h-r arrival at Canton on
the 11th July. A Chinese thief was observed actively at work annexing to himself property belonging to other passengers. On a hue ad ory being raised, the thief drew a knife and before he was secured, one man, we are informed, was seriously wounde ↳ The Captain and Chief Officer promptly pacified the Chinese passengers over the whowere naturally much excited occurrence; and the injured man was sent to the American hospital.
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While it is difficult to realise of what use the queue is to its owner, it certainly is very useful to bandits who attempt to molest him, as was exemplied by the novel highway robbery perpetrated on a Chinaman in Pokfulam Road In broad daylight on the 11th of July. native came to town in the morning to collect some money due to him, and was returning home along Pokfulam Road in the afternoon when a number of the lawless gang who infest the western district sprang upon him and dragged him off the road into the scrub.. Apparently they were up-to-date robbers, and did not hamper their movements by carrying about binding and gagging paraphe. nalia. With his own queue the Chinaman was securely gagged, while his overall trousers served as a means of binding him to a tree. The robbers secured $40 from one of his pockets. Their further
a hasty departure, leaving a parse containing search, however, was disturbed, and they made $37 in another pocket. The man was released later in the afternoon by a passer-by, and immediately reported the matter to the police, who, it is believed, are on the trail of the bandits.
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