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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXIII.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Articles :-
The War Stores Scandal
The Chinese Imperial Family
American Consular Service
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The Singing" of the Chinese Kettle
The Nanchang Massacre...
The Anglo-Japanese Alliance
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 5TH MARCH, 1906)
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
It is reported that a German Consulate will shortly be established at Moji.
Archdeacon H. McC. E. Prios, of Osaka, has 15 been appointed to the new Bishopric of rukien. A 15.0 0-ton steamer is being built at the Mitsu Bishi Dockyard, Nagasaki, for the T. K. K.
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Executive Councils of Hongkong & Singapore..153
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The Chinese Foreign Office has been much exercised by the presence of a British gunboat in the Poyang Lake.
The population of Saigon, according to the 159 latest municipal s'atistics, is 49,783, of whom
2,774 are Europeans.
Supreme Court
The Statue of Sir Thomas Jackson Unveiled.
The City Hall...
Property Sale...
The Teaching of Hygiene in Schools
Hongkong Odd Volumes' Society
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Hongkong Volunteer Reserve Association
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Fatal Tram Accident
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Hongkong Volunteer Troop
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Exciting Scene in the Harbour
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Canton
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Macao
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Shanghai's Budget
Royal Hongkong Golf Club
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"Can't Hustle the East"
A Shanghai Native Consulative Committee
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Great Britain and Japan...
Ch nese Guile........
Chinese Trouble Unexpected.
New Statue at Shanghai.
Floating Ice in the Gulf of Pechili
Singapore Harbour Scheme
Company Reports :-
Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld.
The recen conference of Methodists at Manila has admitted a Chinaman named Ben G. Pay as a preacher on trial.
The Corean people pay Y20,000,000 in taxes to their officials, but of this only Y8,0 0,000 Government, the rest being
reaches the
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"A body blow struck now at gambling," is the picturesque way in which the Cablenews 162 refers to the new Act for the better government
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Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown
Co., Lả
Geo. Fenwick & Co., Ld... Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co., Ld. The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ld. Dividends
Company Meetings
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of Manila.
The new China Merchants' str. Hainkong was successfully launched on Feb. 23rd and is moored in the river opposite Farnham, Boyd & Co.'s Pootung Works.
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The Narfangpao states that the Japanese timber being felled in Fangtion province is Minister, replying to the Waiwupu, says the required for building barracks, and as soon as sufficient is procured for that purpose no more will be felled.
The Shanghai to Soochow section of the Ha-ning railway is expected to be opened to public traffic this summer. It has been decided to establish stations only at the Shanghai and Sonchow railway termini, and likin paid at either station will pass the goods through to the other station without any other payment.
Sir Ernest Satow is reported in the Chinese papers to be demanding the abolition of a Bureau at Swatow established to receive royalties on merchandise. The Waiwupu, in refusing the demand, is stated to have replied that the Bureau simply collects money from Chinese merchants, and foreign merchants are not concerned in the matter.
It is reported that the Chinese and Russian Plenipotentiaries who are negotiating the present treaty have decided that the three Macchurian places near the Siberian border viz., Manchuli, Aihun and Hun-chun, shall be opened to trade, under the direction of Sir Robert Hart. These places, however, a Chinese journal says, are opened to Russian trade only, like Kiakhta, and do not concern the other
A special telegram received on the 1st Marchnations. 184 by the N.C. Daily News reports the 164 Empress Dowager to be ser ously ill and states
that her Majesty's death is not improbable.
An Indian coulemporary understands that the Chinese Government are appointing Consuls of their own at Calcutta, Madras and Bombay. This is an entirely new departure.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation165
Green Island Cement Co.
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ld. Hongkong Hotel Co., Ld.
The Shanghai Land Investment Co., Ld. Missionaries Murdered in Kiangsi
Hongkong..
Japan
Miscellaneous.
Commercial Shipping
BIRTHS.
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Mr. James Banzeville, the winner of the 1906 cup, bas presented a handsome trophy to be competed for in a billiard handicap at the Chinese Department of the Y. M. C. A. Hong. 170 kocg.
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On February 18th, at Shanghai, the wife of B. VON BUCKER, of a daughter.
On February 19th, at Shanghai, the wife of W. BRUCK HOBERTSON, of a daughter.
On February 21st, at Shanghai, the wife of M. BERNHEIM, of a daughter.
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DEATHS.
On February 16th, at Shanghai, MARIE, wife of W. J. H WETT, I. M. Customs, Shanghai,
On February 18th, at Shanghai, HARRY JOHN EASTERBROOK, assistant accountant, Shanghai- Nanking Railway, aged 26 years.
On February 28th, at the Government Civil Hospital, Hongkong, MEECIA DOLORES, the dearly beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. DE FARIA-
NEVES,
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail arrived, per the 6.&. Bayern, on Sunday, the 4th instant; and the French Mail of February 3rd arrived, per the ss. Tonkin, to-day
Operations on the Andam-Yünnan railway bave been commenced by France, but as China continues to make pretexts for interference, the French Minister has lodged a strong protest with the Foreign Office.
It was reported on March 2nd, that the Court officials demanded the Throne to dismiss the Eunuch Li Lieng-ying as a Russian servant. The Dowager Empress was enraged, but the report states that the Eunuch bas left bis post.
It is telegraphically reportel in the N.-C. Daily News that China has decided to transform Tibet into a province, and to send a high official there as an envoy to control domestic and diplomatic affairs. Ile will b kubsequently promoted Viceroy of Tibet Province.
There will doubtless be many sympathisers in Hongkong with the Japanese in Chemulpo who are agitating for a reduction of rents. The principal landlords are Germans and ‹hinese, whose tendency is to increase rather than decrease the rents, and in consequence the Japanese small traders are in a bad way.
The fifth annual meeting of the Association of Lancastrians in China was held at the Chamber of Commerce Room, Shanghai, oa February 20th, Mr. Cecil Holliday in the chair. Mr. H. W. Pilcher was elected President, Mr. W. A. Bolton Hon. Sec., Mr. J. Tyack Hon. Treas., and a committee composed of Messrs, W. J. B. Carter, J. Kerfoot, P. Crighton. W K. Stanion, C. Holliday, and C. W. Beswick. It was decided to hold the annual soirée as
usual in the Masonic Hall.
A paper to be read before the Royal Asiatic Society on Feb. 22nd on "The Chinese Banking System in Shanghai" was, says the N.-G. Daily News, the first discussion of this topic to be presented at a public meeting in Shanghai. The paper was to discuss the different classes of banks, their local control, the responsibility of bankers, the method in determining the value of various taels, The Vice-President of the Society, Mr. H. B. Morse, was to take the
chair.
A Peking telegram to the N.-C. Daily News |--The Russian Minister has unearthed a secret agreement between China and a Belgian syndicate for a loan to the former from the latter for the cost of the railway projected by the military Governor of Ili, and has lodged a protest against the unfairness of admitting any other foreign capital for a railway so closely connected with Russia. The Waiwapn has thereupon been obliged to order the can cellation of the agreement.
At the Chinese Y.M.C.A. Hongkong_on“ Mar. 1 before a large number of members," Dr. Wan Tuu-mo delivered an interesting ecture
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"The duty of the Chinese people in 'the The Nanfangpao stated that although the present day." The speaker contended that they right to build a railway from Burma to Teng should cultivate science and art rather than yush had been refused to the British Consul at the art of war. Many of his countrymen dis- Mèrgise, he bad sent engineers to survey the like the foreigner and would be pleased to The Viceroy of Yun-Kuei had approached the should remain, as many of the conveniences route, and ignored all protests in the matter.onst him, but it was to their interests that He Waiwupu, who had laid the matter before the and comforts they now enjoyed were introduced British Minister.
by him.
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