THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitom.....
Leading Artioles :- -
Haukow
The Foreign Invasion of the East Welsh Coal
The Manila Money Market..
The World's Prace in Danger Changsha
Hongkong Jottings
PAGIN
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 7TH AUGUST, 1905.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
It is reported the Wai Wa Pu will allow the 77 four officials going abroad a monthly allowance
of Tis. 20,000.
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The Boycott
Supreme Court
Canton Notes
Importations to China
The Anglo-Japanese Alliance.
United Asbestos Oriental Agency. Ld
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Sea Bathing at Hongkong
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Alleged Adulterated Milk
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British Naval Coal supply
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China and the Pance Conference
Unusual Method of Pacifio Transport
Bow-aud-Arrow Declared Obsolete
The Boycott Rioting at Amoy
Co-operative stores at Shanghai
Alleged Bureaucratic Dishonesty at Amoy
The Hongkong Gardens
The Recent Typhoon
The Passion for Opium
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Important Purchase by Shanghai Race Club
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The Shaukiwan Murder
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H.M.S. "Humber.'
The Battery Path Affair
Sidelight on Shanghai Assessment,
Two Land Offices
An Important Letter.
Miscellaneous
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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Only Tis. 3 were offered at a Shanghai
auction for a nineteen foot sail boat, built in 1894 and still in good condition.
Mr. George Warren Swire, son of the late senior partner, is now announced to be a partner in the firm of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire.
The Shanghai A.D.C.. which held its annual meeting on July 25th, has had a success- ful season, both "financially and artistically."
Foreigners in Yokohama have been suffering from attacks of "abdominal influenze," supposed to be due to the inadequate sewer system on the Bluff.
The Kobe Shimbun states that Mr. Odagiri (the ex-Japanese Consul at Shanghai) will 88 shortly be engaged by the Chinese Government
as an adviser.
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The China Sugar and Refining Co. have declared an interim dividend of ten per cout. 83 for the half-year ending 30th June, 1995, on the 80 paid up capita'.
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In accordance with the advice of the Bishop of Macao, public prayer is proceeding there 80 that the people may be saved from earthquake.
Another shock occurred on Monday.
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On 24th July, at 20 Avenue Paul Brunat, the rife of W. H. BELL, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, of a son.
On 28th July, at Kurrahjeen, Peak Road, the wife of EDWARD SHELLIM, of a son.
DEATHS.
On 12th July, 1905, at Bombay, EDULJI
KAVABJI ARSIWALLA,
On 17th July, at Taianfu, Shantung, ALFRED
GEORGE JONES, senior missionary of the English Baptist Mission in Shantung, aged 59 years.
On 23rd July, at Hangchow, THORSTEN CARLSON, Mas er Mariner, aged 33 years.
On 25th July, WILLIAM EDWARD MASON, Foreman, Shanghai and Hongkong Dyeing and Cleaning C., Ld., aged 27 years.
On 26th July, at Shanghai, JULIUS MANNICH, aged 23 years.
On 27th July, FREDERICK JOHN FREAME, Superintendent, Shanghai and Hongkong Dyeing and leaning Jo., Ld., aged 44 years.
The British North Borneo Oficial Gazette, prohibits the export of any Straits Dollars beyond 2. The penalty for such exportation is 500 and the forfeiture of the coin.
A Shanghai vocalist, singing “Ask nothing more of me, Sweet," appears to have been the only singer who was not encored. The audience seems to have taken the song too seriously.
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The wreck of the old P. & O. Rohilla (now Rohira-maru) has been Bold for twenty thousand yen.
The Governor of British North Borneo tapped the first rubber-yielding tree in British North Borneo at Sekong estate on the 24th
June. There are now estimated to be about 57,000 trees, and the company, therefore, should soon reap the benefit of their enterpise.
In the Namhoi and Pun-ya magistracies cases have been proceeded with without torturing the prisoners, but it seems somewhat difficult for the magistrates to get out real facts owing to the non-existence of lawyers. This paragraph, taken from a Peking paper, smacks of double entendre.
On July 28th was the 37th anniversary of the birthday of His Majesty the Emperor Kwang Hsu of China. The Chinese steamers in port were dressed and several Chinese hongs displayed the Dragon flag in honour of the occasion. The leading Chinese newspapors in the Colony stopped work.
The powder-magazine in Ma Ling, Sun-tak About district, exploded on the 20th July, twelve dozen people were killed and a greater The number of houses des. number wounded.
The troyed is estimated at over a hundred. Viceroy has deputed some officers to make an enquiry into the matter.-Chung Ngoi San Po
The long-pending case between H. Bennertz & Co. and the Chinese officials is as yet unsettled. Rumour has it, however, that a settlement may soon be looked for. The case is one of interest to both Chinese and foreign residents of Chang-
sha and vitally so to the foreign merchants and those who intend to establish business of any kind in that city.
Some time ago, in reporting the punishment of a Ch namau for injecting morphia into riosha coolies, we believed it to be a novel form of depravity-for the Chinese. We note that a 975 coolies returned from South Africa on August 2nd by the s.s. Indravelli. The reason for Singapore Chinaman has just been sentemoorl to two months' imprisonment, without the their return is at present unknown, but they option of a fine, for trafficking with a hypodermie are to be quartered at the Laichikok encamp-syringe. His clients also were of the coolie
ment.
Israel's Messenger reports that a movement is on foot to organise a deputation to the Mikado to allow Jewish Settlements Manchuria and Korea after peace has been declared.
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The Oriental Construction Co., of which Mr. C. W. Mead is president, has just obtained a contract for erecting and furnishing a system of tanks at Tangku for the Standard Oil
On 2nd August, at Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.A., WILLIAM HENRY BAY, formerly of Hong- | Company. kong. (By Cable,)
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Manila lost oue of its oldest inhabitants on July 27th in the person of Gregorio Carlos, a native residing at 512 Calle Cervantes, Santa Cruz, who died at the reputed age of 107 years from senile decay.
A Tokyo dispatch states that since the Bank
LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET. E.C. of Japan raised the rate of interest on advances,
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of July 4th arrived, per the ss. Prinz Eitel Friedrich, on Monday, July 31st; and the French Mail of July 7th arrived, per the ss. Armand Bshic, to-day.
all the banks in Tokyo have been working very cautiously, with the result that many cheques have been dishonoured.
The suit of the Shanghai Building and Investment Co. against Harold D. Bassett for $15,000 odd has been dismissed by the American It appeared Consular Court, costs divided. that defendant held the amount against a greater amount of wages due to him.
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Chinese papers in the north make the amusing but suggestive announcement following:-It having been reported that Mr. Pokotiloff when passing through Mongolia applied for leave to work certain mines there, a telegram was dis. patched by the Wai Wu Pu to the Mongolian Superintendency on the 18th, that all mines in Mongolia are to be immediately opened up and worked by natives so that no foreigners may get a chance of working any.
Water and electric light are still only talked of, the firm objection of the Chinese authorities to giving foreigners any control within native limits proving a most serious obstacle to such schemes of improvement. The dilemma is that the Chinese will not allow foreign registered companies to carry out such works, while for eigners will not put capital in any but such companies, and feel no confidence in purely native undertakings of such a nature. One must recognise, says the British Consul at Hankow, with sympathy or without, that in every department of trade the Chinese authori ties are showing a determined disposition to 'recover China's sources of profit and power," in other words, to interpret with extreme strict- ness the tresty rights of foreigners.
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