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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXII.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 30TH OCTOBER, 1905.
FACE
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Epitome
Leading Articles :-
Hongkong Historic Clocktower
.290
Much that Passes for History".
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Canadian Desires for China Trade
.290
The Chinese Army Manœuvres
.291
Corea
China's Confused Currency
Weihai
The Clock Tower Again
The China Association
With the Volunteers
Supreme Court
An Aileged Chinese Marriage
Canton
Presentation to the Canton Postmaster
...301
Macao
Pakhoi
"The Victoria Number "'
The Star Ferry Collision
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK,
The total number of plagus cases in Hong. kong since Jan. 1st is 295, Of these 277 were fatal.
The Cablenews reports the death of a Filipino woman on Oct. 20th whose age was recorded as 116 years.
The harbour of Tienshaug, near Tungchou, is to be thrown open to for ign trade, according to the Naufangpao.
Mr. A. H. Harris, Commissioner of Cns toms at Changsha, is shertly going on leate, 299 and Mr. O. S. Ready is to succeed him.
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A recent turn-out of the Penang Mounted Infantry Volunteers, according to the Straits Times, consisted of two sergeants, two corporals, and one priva's.
A German report says that the Japanese Government has decided to evacuate Manchuria within six months. This seems improbable, if 304 not impossible.
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Ying King
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Chinese "Steelyards
Correspondence
Canton Insurance Office, Ld....
Sales of the S.B.
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Finger Print Evidence...
Four Days in Formosa..
Death of Mr. Atwell Cor in
Chinese Anarchists
Miscellaneous
Commercial
Shipping
MARRIAGE.
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The Shanghai Coal Guild has caused some consternation at the northern port by announ 395 cing "very material increases in the prices of .306 all kinds of coal.”
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On 28th October, at St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, by the Rev. F. T. Johnson, M.A., WALTER HERBERT HOWARD, second son of WALTER HOWARD, Esq, of Ilford, Essex, to ISABEL META, only daughter of Dr. C. T. Dewar, of Jamaica, (W.I.).
DEATHS.
On 10th October, at Hankow, MARY AGNES, the beloved wife of RICHARD MALONE, of II.B.M.'s Consulate-General,
On 15th October, at Shanghai, JULIA MARIA BASTO, the beloved wife of ANTONIO MANUEL D'ARANJO E SILVA, aged 55 years.
On 10th October, at Shanghai, on bard a steam launch, JAMES E. HODGSON, 3rd engineer, steamer Kiangyung,
On 16th October, suddenly, at her residence, Mrs. KIMI NAKAMURA, of the Ikkakuro Hotel, Obama, near Ngasaki, Jap n.
On 21st October, at Shanghai, FRANCISCO PAOL› ROZ BIO,
On 25th October, at Peak Ho pital, f typhoid fever, FAIZULABHOY ESSA BHOT EBRAHIM, partner in the firm of Messrs. Abdoolally, Ebrahim & Cɔ, Agel 25 years. Deeply reg etted.
Hongkong Weekly Press. PICSS.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
Owing to the recent obstruction to traffic in the Suez Canal the mail of 26th September, per N.D.L. 8.8. Sachsen, due on Octoler 25th, did not arrive until October 30th p.m. The mail of 19th September per M.M. s.s. Tourane, due here on October 30th, is from the same canse delayed and is now expected November 2nd,
A report from Peking states that the Emperor has been confined by the Empress-Dowager, and four guards stationed over him, in connection with the recent bomb outrage.
The Shanghai branch of the Navy League sent a telegram to London asking that a wreath should be placed on the 21st inst. on Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square in the name of the Shanghai branch.
With the approval of the Rt. Hon. the Secretary of State for the Colonies, H.E. the Governor has been pleased to appoint Philip Jacks to be assistant Land Officer with effect
from the 19th instant.
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There is a soupçon of jocularity in this item from a Tientsin piper:-"The colloquial newspape for women, rocently started Peking, has been suppressed by Viceroy Yuan Shib-kai, lost it should divulge secrets."
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It is positively denied by the Shuzyo Shimpo that the Armstrong Company have entered any arrangement to start works in Japan. Negotiations are said to be in progress with some other company, but nothing defiuite has been allowed to transpire.
The Shenpao states that Governor Chên Kuei-lung, of Honan province, has written both to the Waiwapu and the Shangpu opposing the proposed opening up of certain iron deposits
in the prefecture of Huaich'ingfa, in that province, by the Peking Syndicate, giving as his reason certain clauses of the Government Mining Regulations.
The Tientsin China Reciw asks:-Hare we no municipal Napoleon, no Tientsin Washing ton, no local Coni Barton to arise and wipe out the anomaly of 9 councils, 9 sets of ricsba licences, 9 police forces, 9 expensive staffs? Austrian, Italian, Belgian and Russian. Surely German, British, French, Japanese, Chinese, the combined business acumen of Tientsin residents could evolve a scheme by which a saving of 50 per cent, could be effected in the grand total annual expenditure? Methinks, perhaps, this very business acumen precludes
such a desirable consummation.
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Governor Wright, of the Philippines, was reported to be resigning his governorship on 1st December next. It is not true.
The following notice was issued by the Haiho Conservancy Board with reference to tenders for dredging plant for the Taku Bar.-" The Commission begs to notify those firms that have sent in tenders that, the British Municipality having as yet received no reply from the Ship- proposed tax on shipping, and the question of ping Companies as a body consenting to the obtaining the required funds teing accordingly still uncertain, any award in the case of the tenders received is for the present impossible and the matter must of necessity remain in abeyance."
A tel gram received from Peking by the mandarins at Shanghai reports that the Ministers of the Waiwupu, after having duly three Manchurian provinces to international decided upon the immediate opening up of the trade, and the regulations to be connected therewith, have sent copies of the documents in question to the Shangpu and to his Excellency Yuan Shih-k'ai, Viceroy of Chibli and High Commissioner of Trade for the northern ports (Peiyang Ta-ch'ên), asking for their opinion, preparatory to obtaining the formal sanction of the Throne. An interesting exhibition Shanghai on
was given a Oct. 14th when the local fire brigades paraded for inspection. The Chairman of the Municipal Council made the following remark when addressing the men:-"It may not be too uncharitable to suspect that the monotonous upsetting of kerosine oil lamps is not wholly accidental; the Council has endeavoured to find a remedy for this epidemic bat owing to Settlement is administered it will be difficult to the exceptional conditions under which the institute remedial measures, unless we have the active co-operation of those who are more directly interested."
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Residents have been complaining of late at the length of time taken by laundry keepers in returning clothes, sometimes three weeks and and even a month elapsing from the date of their being taken away. The master washer- employees have struck for more money, and man says the trouble cannot be avoided. His this he cannot afford to give, as business is very supposed strike a Daily Press representative bad. In order to ascertain the extent of this
has visited a number of laundries in the Contral District, where he found the proprietors reticent. He noticed, however, that business was apparently suspended in a number of these usually busy places."
A Daily Press telegram fron Hochiefu Peking, on 24th Oct., said :-The first grand manoeuvres of the Chinese troops, in re-organised and modern form, began to-day (meaning Oot. 23) in the presence of the Viceroy, the Tiebliang Military Governor, and the representatives of the Powers. The northern army is defending the road to Peking. The southern army, advancing from Shantung, has come into touch with it. clever scouting work, and a fine cavalry charge Features of today's operations have been the to close. Everyone seems greatly impressed by the enormous improvement noticeable in the. discipline and general “ savvy " of the yellow
soldiers, both officers and men.
It is no exag-
gration to say that the advance made in fire years is a sensational one.
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