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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXII.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Articles :-----
Weihaiwai Vignettes British Naval Bases
Japan's Financial Future
China's Immediate Futrus
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 7тH OCTOBER, 1905.
FLOR
No. 15
The Tokyo Chief of Police has been replaced According to Manila papers, the recent by a provincial governor.
typhoon wrecked over fifty small vessels, include The Manila Municipality has bad to requesting launches, coasting schooners, &o. The 241 | the church authorities to reduce the number of Manila Navigation Co, is said to have been the
religious processions, which were disorganising heaviest loser. the traffic too frequently.
According to the Vienna Politische Corres- pondenz, Chevalier de Kuczynski, the Austro- Hungarian Minister at Rio de Janeiro, will be 245 | appointed Minister at Peking.
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Bad Chinese in South Africa
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Supreme Court
Marine Magistrate's Court
Canton
Macao
Des Vœux Road Fire Inqu ry........
Sailor's Mysterions Disappearance
Exciting Affair in the Harbour
A Chinese Girl's Suicide
Hongkong Hotel Sensation.
Thieves at Work
The Royal Sanitary Institute..........
Japan's Domestic Bonds
Chinese Physicians not without Skill
Foreigners in Chinese Dress
Japanese Land Tax in Kwangtung
Hongkong Cricket I.eague
Shanghai Bread Supply
Commercial
Skipping ..............................
BIRTHS,
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The British Court of Enquiry held ou board H.M.8. Andromeda at Kobe into the Baralong 247 Kinjo Maru collision, found that no respon 243 sibility attached to the captain, officers, or pilot 248 of the Baralong. 248 .248
The Cab'enews remarks: "It is not in the 248 Filipino's blood. this instinct for land, neither 248 is it in his nature to work the land except from 248 necessity. The “independent farmer is very
rare among the Filipinos."
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About 350 coolies returned from South Africa 249 by the Catherine Park, which vessel arrived in 249 port last week. They will be quartered in the 050
old Laichikok Camp until the vessel is ready to 252
proceed on her voyage north.
On 15th September, at Shanghai, the wife of GILLESPIE EDWARDS, China Navigation Co., of a
son.
On 21st September, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. J. R. MILLIGAN, & 800.
On 21st September, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. R. C. PHILLIPPO, & daughter.
On 22nd September, at Shanghai, the wife of Capt. F. BOYD, of a daughter (premature).
On 22nd Septe nber, at Shanghai, the wife of F. A. SAMPSON, of a son.
On 28th September, at Shanghai, the wife of H. J. WALLEM, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On 16th August, in Boston, PEHR MOLLER, of Shanghai, to MABEL LYDIA BARNES,
On 23rd September, at Shanghai, FREDERICK STEPHEN RAMPLIN, to LOUIE ELISE, Second daughter of Captain JAMES GRAY, Shangbai.
DEATH.
On 23rd September, at Shanghai, J. W. L. WALLACE, late 2nd officer of 8.8. Shengking, China Navigation Co.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of September 8th arrived per the ss. Coromandel on Thursday, the 5th instant.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Shanghai has decided, upon having a public swimming bath.
Shanghai Cathedral now has a surpliced choir of boys.
The salt production in Japsu for July this your is estimated at 47,370,000 hin,
A slight tremor of earthquake was felt at Hankow on Wednesday, the 13th instant, at about 1.30 p.m.
On Oct. 2nd the local police authorities passed a large number of " undesirables" through their hands - 31 of whom had come from Saigon and 10
from the Straits Settlements. Their descriptions were taken and they were das: patched to varions coast towns.
People who sometimes indulge in sneers at the superstitions of the Chinese have something to pon 'er in the fact that England is agitated just now over the question of women entering church without head coverings. In several churches and cathedrals, unbonne'ed women have been refused admission.
The C.M.S. Kungping, which arrived at Shanghai on September 28 from. Newchwang and Chefoo, reported: On the 20th instant des troyed two floating mines, and one on the 24th instant, with the Hotchkiss gun supplied by the Coast Inspector. All three mines were within a radius of fifteen miles of the Liaotishan Promontory.
According to a telegram published in the Eastern Time (Shihpão), their Excellencies Viceroy Chou Fu of Nanking, and Lu Yuan- ting, of Soochow, have received telegraphic instructions from the Throne to "confer together as to the best methods for purchasing the foreign portion of the capital in the Shanghai-Nanking Railway."
Mr. Oliver Bainbridge, who lately went into China to collect information about the Jews of China, writes from Kaifengfu, Honan, intimating that he has obtained photographs | and other data of footprints "obliterated by the We regard trampling of untold thousands." this as a distinct achievement; and shall be glad to have full particulars when he returns to Hongkong
The Straits Times publishes in full some correspondence relating to Mr. H. C. Brooke Johnson's expulsion from the Sarawak Club. It is admitted that the Club Committee had nothing against Mr. Johnson; but expelled him in order that the Rajah of Sarawak, with whom Mr. Johnson is in litigation, might withdraw his threat to resign honorary membership. Under the circumstances, the Straits Times considers the action of the Sarawak clabnen un-English; and if the circumstances be throughout as erprosented, we quite agree.
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The Rangoon Port Trust intend raising a Loan of 314 lakhs of rupees this month. The money for the first time in the history of th. Port is to be advertis d for at. 4 per cent, interest. Hitherto loans, either Port Trust or Municipal, have been at 4 per cent, or higher. rates varying from 8 to 14 per cent, for rates. Rangoon banks still charge Madras accommodation, or from 2 to 4 per cent, higher than Calcutta rates. Seeing the proximity of the two places it is romarkable" that interest rates in Burma rule so high as they do.
Sunday November 20 is the day fixed for the Shanghai. Sunday was chosen as the day most next international walking competition at
convenient to the majority, The primary object of the coutest is to revive interest in walking as a sport, but the international aspect of the competition is of considerable importance. The competition is open to teams of four mem- bers of any one nationality who are duly registered at their respective consulates. Prizes will be given to the first ten competitors com- pleting the course and, in addition, to the first, second, and third complete teams to arrive
It is stated in Shanghai Mandarin Circles that the Board of Revenue has appropriated the sum of half a millions taels as the first instalment towards the capital of a Bank on modern foreign lines, to be styled the Hupu Yinhang, or Bank of the Board of Revenue. The Head Office of the Bank will, of course, be in Peking, and branches are to be established without delay in Shanghai and Tientsin. For. the fr sent, the new institution is only on trial, so that should the bank "take, more capital will be introduced; if not, the bank will be olos d and wait for better times.
The Nanfangpao says: Simultaneously with the loan from the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation of Tis. 3,00,000 for the first payment of the Canton-Hankow Railway we understand that Viceroy Chang Chiht'ung has raised another loan of Tls. 1,000,000 from the same bank for the purpose of establishing a public water service in Hankow. It appears that offers for this work had been made to prominent merchants, but such offers not having ben accepted, on account of the difficulty of raising the requisite funds, the authorities have now to take over the work themselves. We learn that a British merchant proposes to contract for the erection of the works.
The following story is published in the Korea Daily News as coming from North-East Kores, where bears are reported to be numerous this year:-" •Two prospe-tors, a Chinaman and a Korean, found traces of a bear that had been raiding a corn field near their camp. They prepared a bit by placing dynamite detonators in eggs and laying them about in the field frequented by the bear and concealed themselves near by. After a short wait the bear came down from the hills for his evening meal of green corn and finding the delicacy prepared for him at once proceeded to do justice to it with the result that one or more of the d-tonators exploded, blowing his jaws to pieces, after which he was easily dispatched with
firelock."
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