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Leading Articles :-
The River Conservancy Question
America's Political Influence...........
Education in China
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China and Manchuria
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Hostility to Foreign Railway Enterprise......
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British Policy in China....
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Hongkong's Railway Loan
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Hongkong Legislative Council
The Clock Tower
Restraint of
Dodwell v Moss Judgement
Supreme Court
Interport Shooting Match
Macao
Correspondence
Alleged Unreasonable
Straits Settlements Estimates Canton News
New Ordinances
Trade-
Canton-Hankow Railway-Hongkong's Loan The Canton Sensation
Hongkong Y.M.C.A. and Class Distinctions. "Four Thousand Years of John Chinaman," Concert at Kowloon Dock
Hongkong Flower Show
Kowloon Cricket Club..
Ladies' Benevolent Society. Commercial
Shipping
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Paking is to have a corps of mounted police, like Tokyo.
Suggestions have been made that money for the construction of railways in Anhui and Kiangai might be raised by means of lotteries, but a Censor has pointed out that), winning numbers might fall into the hands of foreigners and the idea is not likely to be carried out.
At the general meeting of the Seoul-Fusan
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At the Union Church, Shanghai, on Sep.t 30th the wedding took place of Miss Debora van den Berg to Mr. Herman Hendricus Bodemeyer, one of Shanghai's prominent merchants. Miss Mand Cox acted as bridesmaid and the Misses Stewart as flower girls, while in the absence of Mr. E. C. Alexander, through an unfortunate accident, Mr. A. Artz ably fulfilled the duties of best man. After the ceremony a reception was held at the house of Mrs. B. Weinstock. where many guests assembled to offer congratulations to the happy couple, and the healths of bride and bridegroom, bridesmaid, and flower girls were proposed and heartily toasted.
260 railway a net profit of Yon 325,454 was shown and a divi lend of six per cent declared: The Seoul-Chemulpo railway paid a profit of Yen 128,258, but royalty to Government absorbed Yea 45,000 and no dividend was paid. The Nanfangpao had the following news The Peking correspondent of the N-C. from Nanking, dated Sept. 25th:-Yesterday 264 Daily News wires:The extension of the afternoon, a special meeting was called to 266 Anglo-Japanese Alliance has been welcomed by devise measures for boycotting the 40,000 cases .267* the great majority of the officials. It is said of kerosene oil recently shipped to Nanking by 267 that Prince Ching, to whom Mr. Uchida (the the Standard Oil Company. The meeting was Japanese Minister) explained the Treaty yester-hold in a spacious hall behind the Confucian day, was specially pleased and satisfied about Temple, and was largely attended. There were over nine hundred people present. The student body and merchants were well represented, and many eloquent speeches were made, all in favour of enforcing the boycott. One merchant the platform. A native agent of the Standard who made a slip in his remarks was hissed off Oil Company who had managed to dispose of a large quantity of the oil was severely criticised. Toward the end of the meeting, it was proposed to boycott him also, as he owns book-store in Nanking.
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Nearly all the telegraph Ines in the Philip. 270 pines were interrupted by the recent terrible .272 typhoon, and now that communications are being restored, reports of very extensive damage from various parts of the islands are reaching Manila from the provinces. Thousands are stated to have been rendered homeless, and along the coast there has been a great amount of damage to shipping craft.
On 6th October, at "Ian Mor," Peak Road, the wife of JoHN A. JUPP, of a daughter,
On 10th October, at 2 Mountain View, the Peak, the wife of RASIL R. H. TAYLOR, of a son.
On 11th October, at Victoria Hospital, to Mr. and Mrs. A. C. FRANKLIN, a son.
On 28th September, the wife of Mr. N. A. A, NIELSEN, I. M. Customs, Foochow, of a daughter On 30th September, at Shanghai, the wife of
F. S. ABOITIZ, of a son.
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12th October, at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank House, Foochow, the wife of C. H. M. BALFOUR, of a daughter.
DEATHS.
On 21st September, at Yochou, Hunan, WILLIAM HILL KELLY, the thirteen-months-old son of Dr.
and Mrs. WILLIAM KELLY.
On 24th September, at Kuling, MARION JOAN, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. EVERARD FRASER, Hankow, aged 3 years.
On 4th October, suddenly, at his residence, Mount Zion Cottage, Singapore, C. A. PATON.
On 14th October, at Kowloon, DANG CHEE, aged 67 years.
Hongkong Weekly Press.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of September 12th arrived, per the s.s. Prinzess Alice, on Monday, the 9th inst.; and the French Mail of September 15th arrived, per the s.8. Salasie, to-day.
A Peking dispatch states that the Waiwupu has received a telegram from H. E. Li Ching-
At a meeting of the Kulangsu (Amoy) bai, Governor of Kuangsi, to the effect that the Municipal Council last month at which there French Consul in Kueilin has asked permission,
were present: Messrs. Bruce (Chairman), Gar- on behalf of a joint French and Chinese diner, Kruse, McHaffle, and Dr. Otte, it was syndicate, to recommence work on a black lead decided to write to Messrs. Poale, Lander & mine at Maweiling (Horsetail Pass) in the sub- Co. in reply to their letter of the 23rd August prefecture of Shangszechou, which was stopped saying that it is assumed that, before they can during the past two years and over. on account of the insurrection in Kuangsi make a business proposition regarding installing The electric light on Kulangsu, it will be necessary N.-C. Daily News understands that no reply for them to send a representative to come in has yet been sent by the Waiwupu to Governor contact with the Community and, in their own Li's telegram.
interest, to make some survey of the ground to be operated on, after which any proposition they make will have the full consideration of the Council. In the meanwhile the Council is quite prepared to give the six months' option asked for, reserving all right of retails till a bona fide proposition is before them.
Mr. Basse, of Viceroy Ynau Shih-kai's foreign staff, was received in audience by the Emperor and Empress-Dowager on Sept. 16th, having been summoned to Peking for that par pose. This is stated to be the first interview granted to a European in Chinese employment with the exception of Sir Robert Hart. In this connection it is said that there is a prospect in the near future of the steel works, also the guu factory at the Kiangnan Arsenal, being reorganised under the direction of Kiangnan Dock officials. The intention, the N.C. Daily News understands, is to have experts in each branch brought from Great Britain.
The report of the Directors of the Russo Chinese Bank for the year 19 4 shows that the total profits for the year, deducting all expenses as well as interest due, and after reserving for bad and doubtful debts, amount to Rbl. 3,009,385.25. Out of this sum the Board thinks it advisable to reserve Rbl. 1,500,000-and to transfer this amount to the Special Fund created last year as a provision for losses in consequence of the
war in the Far East, The Board of Directors also propose to pay a dividend of 4 per cent and to transfer RыÍ, Rs. 364,517,42 to Pension and other Funds, 114,486.78 to the ordinary Reserve Funds.
leaving a surplus of Rbl, 160,217.05.
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The Shenpao's Hongkong correspondent sent the following to that paper :—“ A friend who has arrived from the Southern Ocean tells me that Chinese labouring at the mines in South Africa are cruelly treated to a pitiable extent and no one takes any notice of these things. Although under contract, the labourers do not receive the wages and food set down in their contracts. They are each day required to chisel out (bore ?) a depth of twenty-six inches of rook, and if anyone does not do this he is lashed with a leather whip, while a deduc- tion is also made in his wages. The foreigners at the mines even go so far as to put the very largest of cangues on the necks of the Chinese labourers and then make them work on as usual while wearing these cangues. Under the circumstances our countrymen there are dying one after another under the burdens put on them. Our Consul, Mr. Lin, takes not the who pity our brethren have no one to appeal to slightest notice of these things. Alas! those for help."
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