THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXIII.]
CONTENTS.
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Leading Articles :-
Slave Trade at Hongkong Ethnographic Speculations.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 22ND JANUARY, 1906,
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FAR EASTERN NEWS.
37 A second plague corpse was found in Queen's
Road West on the 13th inst.
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The Peking Hankow(Lu-Han) railway people are about to build a branch line to Anyang in Honso, where there are rich coal mines, in order to facilitate transportation.
The Chinese Gorerument has approved the 42 opening of Whampoa as an open port, says the 43 Nanfangpoo. Weishien and Choutsup, as well
as Chinnufu, were opened on Dec. 15th.
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Extra-Territoriality in China..
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Shanghai River Conservancy
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China Situation in a Nutshell.
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Canton-Hankow Railway Taxation Trouble
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China and Russia
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International Ball at Hongkong
St. George's Ball
Hongkong to Peking.
Hongkong Amateur Dramatic Club.
The Sanitary Board Election
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The Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce
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Real Estate in Manchuria
St. Stephen's College
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Ellis Kadoorie Chinese Schools' Society
Diocesan School and Orphanage
Ellis Kadoorie School at Canton
Belilios Public School
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Anglo-Chinese District Government >choola
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The Far Eastern Shipping Combine
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Supreme Court
Pakhoi
Canton.....
Canton-Hankow Railway.
Macao
Kidnapping at Hongkong
The Visit of HR. H. Prince Arthur of Connaught
Train Accident near Canton
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A telegram from Peking says some of the Chinese high authorities are expressing their views against the Chino-Japanese convention. as China has, they allege, lost too many rights
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The Shanghai A.D.C. gave its 140th per formance on January 9th, when it presented "The Prisoner of Zenda" with signal success. The large cast received several columns of 55 praise in the local journals.
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The China Provident Loan and Mortgage Co., Ld. 7 Hongkong Land Reclamation Co., Ld. Correspondence
Old Taipingshan
Chinese Losses in the War
The China Association
Commercial..... Shipping
BIRTHS.
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The villagers of the Hakka village of Cho- chaw have seized and murdered the magistrate of the San-Sun district. The people of the district are greatly alarmed and large numbers of them have fled to Macao,
German, Dutch, and Japanese troops at Peking are reported to have indulged in New Year brawls outside certain disorderly houses. 60 Fatalities are said to have followed in con. sequence. Reports are conflicting but the be politically
On January 6th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. C. P. ALLAN, a daughter.
On January 8th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs.
ALLAN S. MALCOLM, & Bon.
On January 11th, at Shanghai, the wife of N.
affair is not believed to significant.
Chong Kit, a coolie, was killed at the Naval Yard on the 11th January. He was engaged bauling a four wheeled loaded truck, and at the entrance to the Naval Yard it ran down an incline and jammed him against a stone pillar, erushing him so severely that he succumbed to On 15th January, at 5.30 a.m., at No. 11, Sey. his injuries before he could be removed to the
hospital.
F. MILLER, of a son,
On January 14th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mr. S. ZIMMERMAN, a daughter.
mour Road, the wife of Mr. A. WEILL, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
On January 6th, at Shanghai, JAMES URQUHART GORDON, to ANNA CATHARINA VOLTMER.
DEATHS.
On 2nd January, at Kinkiang, EDMUND, son of Mr, and Mrs. Leo. J. Bale, aged 6 years,
On 6th January, at the Shanghai General Hospital, MICHAEL KIYGSTON, aged 26 years.
On January 6th, at Wuhu. JAMES WILMORE ANDREWS, of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service.
On January 14th, at Shanghai, JACOB CALLE- BANS, aged 51 years.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
A budget, it is reported from Peking, is to be issued by the Board of Revenue at the end of this year, or, according to the Chinese, the 32nd year of the reign of His Imperial Majesty Kuang Hsu.
The lines of this, the first Financial Budget of China, will be similar to those of Japan, whose methods are being used so extensively by its larger neighbour.
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Information reached the Colony privately. on January 17 that the foreign residents on the nerves." Shameen, Canton, are suffering from They fear that an attempt is to be made, before the New Year, to burn them out; and they want. guards to be landed from the gunboats in the river. This was a private message; nothing was said of any specially new grievance, and our own correspondent makes no mention of it.
The Nanfangpao says that the British Minister has approached the Waiwupu with the offer of financial assistance to the extent of Tls. 4,000,000 for the development of the trade and The German Mail of 19th December arrived, mineral resources of Manchuria. The British Minister has also urged on Chins to give per the 8.5. Preussen, on Friday, the 19th inst.; evidence of her sovereign rights over Tibet by and the French Mail of 22nd December is resuming the Tibetan negotiations and paying expected to arrive, per the s.s. Salazie, on Tues-off the compensation claimed by Great Britain connection with the Younghusband Mission. day, the 23rd instant.
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An Austrian bank is to be opened a Mukden..
The quantity of coal captured by the Japanese during the war was 98,188 tons, of which 86,363 tons were English.
A Chinaman who entered the Supreme Court on 19 Jan, was surprised to find himself, sume · marily ejected before he could take a seat. H-- was wearing a European cap and had his queue tied round his head, two marks of disrespect which could not fail to escape notice, and the, watchful officer lost no time in compelling the unlucky wight to retire until he had acquired
better manners.
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The Peking and Tientsin Times of January 6th says: Obstructive action having been taken by the local authorities at Huaiching in Honan, to the proper working of the coal mines there, the British Minister has required the Waiwupu to give instructions that this must be stopped. The Board of Commerce has decided that in future no extension of time will be allowed in. · the case of concessions which have not been opened up within the specified time, and the Waiwupu has been requested to notify the Foreign Ministers to this effect
upeh. Alas! They d The disastrous fire on beary very soon. I met laden with kerosene, and graphed by our Shanghai correspondent on the 11th inst, is supposed to have been caused by a onolia dropping a lighted match, igniting the gaseous emanations from the oil. The Taiping is over thirty years old, and was formerly the Deucalion. She was loading for Vladivostock at the time. 'The damage is confined to the cargo of kerosene stored in the lower after-hold, all of which was insured, and it is not thought probable that the cargo in the other holds suffered any damage.
On the 17th iust., Messrs. Hughes and Hough, Government auctioneers, offered for sale by public auction Section A of Inland Lot No. 178, which has a superficial measurement of 870 square fest or thereabouts, a frontage to Peel Street of 19 feet 7 inches, and a depth of :
45 feet. On the section stands the house and promises known as No. 19, Peel Street. The sale was held by an order of the Supreme Court. There was a large number of intending pur- chasers present, and bidding opened at $500, this amount being rapidly increased to $8,900, at which figuré Mr. Mak Kom Yuk, assistant compradore to Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, was the purchaser. Mr. Otto Kong Sing acted as solicitor for the plaintiff.
Mrs. Johanna Edkins, widow of the late Dr. Edkins, has had her title to a certain piece of land confirmed by the Shanghai Supreme Court. It will be remembered that Dr. Edkins left his personal property to the London Mission, and appointed Ernest Box, an official of that Mission, one of the executors. Mr. Box was under the impression that Dr. Edkins had spoken of using this piece of land to build a missionary institution thereon; but it was not mentioned in the will, and witnesses gave evidence that the land was a gift to Mrs. Edkins, and cultivated by her as a garden. The Mission did not oppose her claim to it, but were prepared to abide by the Court's order. The Court ordered the formal transfer of the land to her, with costs out of the estate,
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