THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 16TH DECEMBER, 1905.
PAGR
...417
VOL. LXIL]
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Articles :-
Latinisation of Eastern Languages
418
Decay in Middle Russia
418
Japan and Russia
419
The New Cabinet
.419
Shanghai Mixed Court Troubles
420
Sir Patil Chater
420
Hongkong Legislative Council
.421
Hongkong Sanitary Board
421
The Linchow Affair
Supreme Court
Canton
Macao
A Chinese Smuggling Story
Proposed Civil Service Cooperative Store
Two Typical Decrees
425
Education n Hongkong
The Yunnan Railway
The Annexation of Brunei
A New Hongkong Monopoly
Reviews
The Nippon Yusen Kaisha
421 421 .424 426
425
The s.8. Glenogle reached Singapore from Hongkong in record time, four days and thirteen hours. She carried 1.388 coolies.
The return issned by the Observatory shows that on the 11th inst., the difference between the maximum and minimum temperature was 17 degrees.
On Dec. 9th the plague totals stood at 301 cases and 283 deaths. On the same day two Europeans and one Portuguesa were recorded to be suffering from diphtheria.
Twenty six Chinamen are in custody at Singapore, charged with being members of a 45 revolutionary society. Their motto was “Dowo
with the Manchus: up with the Mings."
The maximum average temperature in 428 | Hongkong during the month of November, .426 according observations takan at the 420 | Observatory. was 73.6, and the minimum
65 deg.
..420 ...427
The Ewo Cotton Spinning and Weaving Co., Ld...427 Storm Signals in Indo China
...-427
The Chinese Wife
497
A Curious Rumour
427
Shanghai Tramway
428
Shanghai Mixed Court
428
Impending Election to the Legislative Council Japanese Government Bonda
429
429
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
429
to
Hongkong imported from America, in 1905, cotton cloths value $52,368 (gold) mineral oil value $657.416, and wheat flour value $1,570,4 6. The respective figures in 1904 were, $24,437, $1 482,359 and $2,917,811.
Viceroy Shum wants to make a fine military road through the two Kwang, thirty feet wide. 42 He asks permission to use Chau-tung-sang's money for the purpose. Our Cauton corres- pondent sees a prospect of automobile trade!
On 10th December, at Shanghai, the wife of REGINALD N. TRUMAN, of a daughter.
On 13th December, at No. 6 Des Voeux Vill as Peak, to Mr. and Mrs. O. D. THомзON, a daughter MARRIAGES.
On 28th October, at Kensington, LANCELOT GILES, H. B. M.'s China Consular Service, to MARJORY, only daughter of Dr. R. P. SCOTT, Staff Inspector, Board of Education.
On 21st November, at Wilmersdorf Berlin, K. SCHMIDT of Tsingtao, to ELISABETH ROLOFF of
Berlin.
On 2nd December, J. J. WooDRUFF to EDYTH MITCHELL (Shanghai).
DEATHS.
On 7th December, at Shanghai General Hospital, HERMANN TRAUTMANN.
On 12th December at 2.15 p.m., at the Peak Hospital, Lurz CARLOS DO ROZARIO, son of the late MARCOs C. D› Rozario.
|
Two of the alleged Japanese demands which, according to a Chinese paper, have been refused by China are the appointment of 8. Japanese Viceroy for Liaotung and the timber monopoly in Manchuria.
A very fine new Indo-China steamer for the passenger trade between Shangbai and Tientsin, the Koonsing, is on her way out, and two new cassenger steamers are being built for the same Company to run between Hongkong and Tientsin.
The average minimum of the thermometer at Shanghai in November was 45,51, the . average maximum 67.79, and the mean 56,40, against 45.55,63,10, and 54.32 respectively in November 1904. There were two rainy days in November this year against four in November 1904.
A foreman mason was killed in the Naval
Yard on Dec. 12. While superintending
engaged in building work, a
No. 25
At Kau U Fong on December 11th, eight lots of Crown land were offered for sale by public auction by Mr. L. C. Rees, Government Surveyor. Although 8 large number of Chinese (probably intending purchasers) were present, no bids were offered, the general opinion being that prices were too high.
hair" imported into Eugland, about which such It is suggested that the bales of ChineseO
a fuss has been made on the score of anthrax infection, were not quoues, but buffalo hair. If this be true, the quaint reflection following is wasted. To the Far Eastern father of a family it must seem a strange yet solemn freak of fate, that the pigtail of his "boy," which he may have often longed to twist and pull, will, perhaps, when he goes home, be visible again upon his daughter's head."
It is reported in the Nanfangpao that, in addition to the one-cent copper coins now in current uso, two copper coins of a higher denom. ination will shortly be minted by the Peiyang Miut, viz., a 50-cash and a 100-cash piece. The new coins will resemble the knife-form coins of the Han Dynasty with antique characters and floe mill d edges. This proposal having been sanctioned by H. E. Viceroy Yuan Shib-kʼai, it is expected that the work of minting the new coins will be started before the close of the present year.
The four-masted steamer Marvarri, which was ashore below the Kiutoan Beacon, was floated at midnight on Nov. 29. She steamed on towards Woosung, and after passing the the Kintoan Lightship at 1 a.m. on Nov. 30th the pilot gave orders to the officer of the watch to make a slight alteration in the course. There was some mistake or misunderstanding, unknown Lightship the Marwarri went on shore again at to the pilot, and at about four miles from the full speed, resisting all efforts to pull her off. Her net registered tounage is 3,623 tons.
The following returus of the average amount of bank-notes in circulation, and of specie in reserve in Hongkong, during November, are certified by the managers of the respective Banks
Banks.
!
Average A mount.
Specie in Reserve.
Chartered Bank of India,
Australia and China...$ 3,664,586 $ 2,300,000 Hongkong and Shanghai
Hongkong elecky Press. cooling the craze, as the result of which National Bank of China,
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES Vœux ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French Mail of November 10th arrived per the ss. Ernest Simons, on Tuesday, the 12th instant; and the English Mail of Novemb'r 17th arrived, per the ss. Delta, ou Thursday the 14th instant.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
The historic "Board of Rites" hus been abolished.
Urga, Kalgan, Ili, and Jehol are to be opened to international trade when the Urga-Kalgan railway is completed,
|
occurred at
the brake failed to act and the boom fell to the ground, crushing the foreman under it. He only lived a few minutes after being released.
The Japan Daily Mail says that some 3,000 horses and cattle released by the Russians in South Saghalien are wandering over the country without shelter and cannot hope to survive this winter. The Japanese authorities are making strenuous efforts to save some of them, and it is hoped that about one-third of them will be preserved.
of
The erudite Mr. Kn Hung ming, Wuchaog, whose writings have aroused so much comment, bas just finished his translation of the Chinese classic known to the world
13
The Doctrine of the Mean.” He will next render into English the work to which Dr. Legve gave the title of "The Great Learn g," and which Mr. Ku considers as nothing a treatise on the subject of Ligher
but education.
Banking Corporation 13,723,957 9,000,000 Limited
68,015 40,000
Total $17,456,558 $11,340,000 Pine-apple growers in the New Territory may be glad of this advice. The Curator of the Botanic Station at Dominica makes the follow- ing suggestions with regard to the desirability of shading pine-apples during the fruiting period:-An experiment was made in shading pin-apple plants from the time of flowering until the fruit was ready to be ent. The effect was very marked, the shaded plants being heal. thier and the fruit more perfect in shape than those unshaded. Probably pine plants would benefit, if grown under light shade from the time of planting, as in Florida, but in any case it is necessary to shade during the fruiting period, if the best results are desired. To shade beds of plants is not an expensive matter Forked sticks, bamboos, and palm leaves are generally easily obtainable, and are very suitable
for the work.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.