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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXII.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 18TH SEPTEMBER, 1905.
CONTENTS.
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Epitome
.185
Leading Articles:-
Remarkable Floods at Shanghai
.186
The Hongkong Exchequer
.186
Japan and America
.187
Japan's Real Gains ......................
.187
The Changsha Question
Hortionlture at Hongkong
.188 .189
The Deaf Ear and the Blind Eye
Hongkong Legislativo Council
Supreme Court
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Canton
Macao
190 ....194 196
Pakhoi
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Riot at, Amoy
Boycott Discussion at Government House
Afforestation and Deforestation at Hongkong Chinese Students and their Emperor
China and th Chinese Eastern Railway The Chinese as Morphomaniacs`
Company Reports:---
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Shanghai now has six thousand Japanese residents.
The rice crop in Japan is expected to be 20 cent below last year's; but the Corean crop is a good one.
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The Manila police effected 1,072 arrests 189 during August, and recovered stolen money to
the amount of two pesos.
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.197 197 .199 199
It was reported in Japan that King Edward had sent a congratulatory telegram to the Mikado on the conclusion of peace.
Captain Meyer, of the N.-D. L. $. Preussen which brought out Prince and Princess 199 Arisugawa, has been decorated by the Mikado 199 with the Fourth Class order of the Rising
.200
The Douglas Steamship Co., Ld. ................. The Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ld.. 200 Correspondence
The Flower Show
The candinavian Crisis
Sport-Hoogkong tricket League ....
Miscellaneous ..
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS..
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202 204
On 3rd August, in England, the wife of E. T. BOND, of Canton, of a son.
On 1st September, at Shanghai, the wife of W. J. BARKINS, of a 500.
On 1st September, at Shanghai, the wife of W. J. BARKUS, of a son.
On 2nd September, at 2, Muirhead Road, Shanghai, the wife of N. WALLACE, of a daughter. On 3rd September, at Yokohama, Mrs. N. G. MAITLAND, of a son.
On 8th September at Shanghai, the wife of I. E. DELBURGO, of a daughter.
On 10th September, at Kobe, Japan, the wife of WALTBE RUSSELL MC ALLUM, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, cf a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On 6th September, at Shanghai, LEWIS PRICE On 7th September, at Kolding, Denmark,
THOMAS to ELIZABETH DUNN.
ROBERT BERNER to AGNETA MÖLLER.
DEATHS.
On 2nd September, J. J. Woods, I.M. Customs, Shanghai.
On 5th September, at the Military Hospital, Lackay (Tonkin), JULIUS NEUMANN, Commis- sioner of Customs, aged 55 years.
Hongkong Weekly Press.
Sun.
The following telegraphic advices have been received by Messrs Benjamin, Kelly and Potts from Singapore.-The Raub crashing for the past four weeks produced 753 ounces smelted gold from 6,077 tons of stone.
Mr. Willis E. Gray, of Shanghai, has entered a suitgainst the American China Development Company for $45,000. The claim is for damages for alleged breach of contract. It is expected to be set down for hearing about the 16th inst. The two new C. P. R. steamers, to be launched in October and November next, are not to be called Empress of Austria and Empress of Germany, as at first announced, at Empress of Britain and Empress of Ireland,
The gallantry of the captain, officers, and tout's crew of the str. Albenga, who rescued the crew of the foundering str. Pechili, during the recent heavy gale was marked by a presenta tion at the rooms of the Mercantile Marine Offcer's Association at Shanghai.
A table cloth, which the Russian destroye, with Admiral Rozhdestvensky, used. in the battle of the Japan Sea as a flag of truce, har lately arrived at the Tokyo Naval Departments The cloth, or the white flag, 7 by 44 feet, will shortly be exhibited before the public as a souvenir of the great naval battle.
A new bank has just started business in Shanghai under the name of the Commercial Bank and Trust Company. Connections have been formed with some of the leading American banks and, besides general banking business, the new firm will act as a trust and surety company. Fuller details are promised shortly.
On the 15th September His Excellency the Governor entertained the children of the soldiers of the Garrison, with their parents, at Moun- tain Lodge. Games were indulged in, races were run, and suitable refreshments were provided for all. Each child also received a memento of appreciate the ample arrangements made for their enjoyment.
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No. 12
The Shanghai boycott against American. products is ended. The Standard Oil Company is doing a large business in open market,
The Attorney-General has declined to file an indictment against Private Detective P. 8. Ledbury, who was committed for trial on the charge of committing perjury before Mr. A. Sath, I.S.O.. Registrar, in connection with a divorce case now pending in Edinburgh between T. A. Mitchell and: Henrietta Mitchell,of Kowloon.
An interesting sidelight was thrown on Chinese business methods at the Supreme Court on Sept. 15th, when it transpired that a contract for some building work had been let to a certain firm, who sublet it to another firm and the latter in turn to another firm. The firm who did the work had to sue for payment and the hearing of the case entailed the appearance of the contractor and the three,
anb-contractors.
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A Swatow correspondent says:- -Evidence of the stagnation in shipping circles which is upon us, is the presence of two empty steamers in the port. These have been lying here for three weeks, one of them moving to a position less in the way of the usual callers. Freights are on the down-grade; and the resumption of their duties by the regular Osaka liners points to a longer list of unemployed "tramps" in the near future. Tightness of money in the Viceroy's yamên at Canton is making itself felt here.
Mr. Jack, of Messrs. E. C. Wilks and Co., Up till now, the efforts of the salvors under Hongkong, to take the French cruiser Sully from the rocks have not met with success. Considerable progress had been made with the work, the vessel having been raised about 12 feet, but this was undone by the recent typhoon. The salvage party are still hopeful of attain- ing the desired result, and they are now repairing the cruiser's bottom and blasting away the rocks on which she is resting. Fortunately the Sully escapod, farther damage by the typhoon.
At a meeting of Chinese interested in cargo bought of foreigners and stored at the public wharves, damaged by the typhoon and flood at Shanghai, it was decided that the loss by water damage should be divided into three parts, and that the wharves should be asked to pay one- third, and the foreign sellers of the cargo one- third, the remaining third being borne by the Chinese buyers. It is evident from this that the Chinese at any rate do not think that the wharves can be held responsible for the whole loss, the question that was to be discussed at the meeting of the General Chamber of Com- merce.
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VEUXROAD Ch the occasion, and both young and old seemed to 10,088,845 tons and the number of persons
LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of August 15th arrived, per the s.s. Bayerni, on Tuesday, the 12th inst.: and the French Mail of August 18th is expected to arrive, per the B.8. Caledonien, some time
to-morrow.
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A native Filipino paper says:-"Let the Chinese and the Cantoness take care what they doing. The Filipinos do not have to igrate to other countries to make a living: we find comfort in our own blessed country. In the Philippines, there are a great number of chinos, who are protected by the law and well treated, but this tolerance may disappear if the boycott against the goods of our brother nation continues. Let the chinos beware.”
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In 19 3, the output of coal in Japan was employed in the workings was 14,941. The number of persons killed was 215 and the death- rate per 1,000 employed was 2.53. During the same year in India, the output of coal was 7,488,386 tons, the number of persons employed 86,138, the number of deaths 97, and the death- rate per 1,000 employed 113. This information is derived from a blue book-Part IV, Colonial and Foreign Statistics Mines and Quarries just issued by the Home Office. It proves, the the safety of the Indian coal mines is confirmed by even international comparison,
that
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