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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXIII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Lending Articles :—
The International Crisis ....
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 10тн MARCH, 1906.
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The Responsibility for the Nanchang Murdera174 The Overcrowding Evil in Hongkong The Chinese Slavery Cry...
China and Tibet...
- The Famine in Japan
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Kowloon Bowling Club
Supreme Court
Marriage of the Hon. Mr H. E. Pollock, K.C. Royal Hongkong Yacht Club.
Royal Hongkong Golf Club
A Prisoner's Death
Chinese Surgery..............
Canton
The Telephone at Shanghai
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FAR EASTERN NEWS.
The Newchwang branch of the Russo-Jhi, ese Bank has been re-opened.
The population of Osaka-the Manchester of Japan-has doubled in ten years. It is now about 1,266,000.
The gunboat Thistle, which was last year placed on the auxiliary list of ships at Devon port, is to be commissioned on 27th inst. for service on the China Station.
In recognition of the valuable services .178 rendered by Mr. F. Anderson as Chairman of Municipal Council at Shanghai a farewell dinner is to be held in his honour on the 14th .179 inst.
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Viceroy Chou-Fu and the Shanghai Municipality 179 The Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce......18 A Great Raft for Shanghai.
The Withdrawal of Tromps from Manchuria
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In Hanoi, ace rding to L'Avenir du Tonkin, a number of leading Chinese merchants in the town have abandoned their long silk garments and donned Europeau attire, their quoues also disappearing.
According to a Northern Chinese paper Sir 182 Chentung Liang Cheng, the Chinese Minister 182 to Washington, has wired to Peking that the United States now consents to allow all Chinese except coolies to come to the U.S.
The Nanchang Massacre
The Development of Manchuria
Encouraging Commerce in the Philippines
New Banking Law in the Philippines.
The Singapore Harbour Scheme
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Company Reports :-
China and Manila Steamship Co., Ltd.
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Shanghai Companies
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Company Meetings:-
The Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
Green Island Cement Co..
The China Fire Insurance Co.
Shipping Notes
Currency Problems in China
Hongkong..
Commercial
An Interesting Hongkong Banking Case...
Shipping
MARRIAGES.
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The subject of debate at a recent meeting of the Seonl Y.M.C.A. was "That the mouth of a chicken is better than the tail of a bull." A 183 report of the decision of the meeting on this 183 momentous question is not yet to hand. ..184 .185
HR.H. Prince Arthur of Connaught has 185 experienced variable and cold weather during 186 his visit to Kagoshima. His Royal Highness 188 arrived at Kobe on the 8th inst. in beautiful weather. A reception was held at the British Consulate.
On February 1st, at St. Peter's, Lutton I lace, Edinburgh, by the Rev. E. C. Dawson, THOMAS ALEXANDER WEBSTER, Second son of the late W. CAMPBELL WEBSTER, accountant, Commercial Bank of Scotland, Arbroath, to MARIANNE MAR- BABLE (SISST), elder daughter of the late JOHN FREDERICK THOMAS MARRABLE, accountant, General Tost Office, Edinburgh.
On Febuary 17th, at the British Consulate- General, Yokohama, and afterwards at the Union Church, Yokohama, HAROLD WENTWORTH DILLON SHALLARD of P. & G. Service Shanghai, and ADELAIDE EDITH PAGE, second daughter of WALTER FINCH PAGE, of Togonohama, Dzurhi, Kanagawa Ken, Japan.
On 5th March. at St John's Cathedral, Horg- kong, by the Reverend F. T. Johnson, M.A., HENRY EDWARD POLLOCK, KC, Fon of the late ARTHUR JULIUS POLLOCK, M.D, to LENA OAKLEY, daughter of the late HENRY OAKLEY, Esquire.
DEATH.
On February 28th, at Shanghai, THOMAS MAC- DONALD, Marshal of H. B. M. Consulate, aged 45
years.
to have obtained a fresh start at Hankow, where The boycott of American goods would seem it is stated indecent placards of various descrip- tions are abundantly posted about the native city representing Chinese being put in cangues
on their arrival in America.
Prince Arthur of Connaught has been exceptionally favoured in Japau. Among his experiences his diary doubtless will contain records of severe shocks of earthquake which were experienced in the neighbourhood of Tokyo on the 23rd, 24th and 25th ult.
Waiving the deeply-rooted Chinese prejudice against a post-mortem examination, the Chiness officials at Nangehaug asked the British Con- sular doctor to hold an autopsy on the body of the Chinese Magistrate Chiang. It was found that the oesophagus was injured and the wind. pipe severed. They are now awaiting the British Consul's report.
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Nineteen high Japanese officials have been given English decorations. A Tokyo telegram in the N.-C. Daily News mentions that Marquis Saionji (the Premier), Count Inouye, Mr. Kato, and General Kuroki have all received the G.C.M.G. Mesars. Tanaka, Tokndaiji and
Hongkong Weekly Press. Okazawa have received the G.C.V.O. Mr.
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VEUEROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLEET STREKT, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of February 9th arrived, per the ss. Oceana, on Thursday, the 8th inst.
Takahira has been made K.C.V.O.
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Iu advocating the abolition of the two classes on the street cars of Manila the Cablenews says: The alleged demand for two classes is but the patrician ahem of the chap at home who counted for little, and who in these far-away isles seeks to turn up his nose, believing that pose the most fashionable in nasal move ments Nonsense! Let's be Americans and plain people."
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Mr. Siemssen has resumed charge of the German Consulate at Foochow.
In Foochow a plan is on foot among the leading merchants, headed by Mr. Jika Lin, to establish a bank. Mr. Kwok Chu-lin, his younger brother, is a millionaire merchant in Formosa, where most of the Lin family pro- porty is. It is expected that the bank will adopt the name of the Japan and China Bank, and will serve as a circulating medium between Southern China and Formosal-Industrial Review.
most powerful battleship under construction, It has been said that the Dreadnought is the but as a matter of fact this statement is incorrect indisputably belongs to the Japanese battleship says a London contemporary. That honour Satsuma, which is already well advanced at Yokosuka. The Satsuma is a little larger than the Dreadnought, displacing 19,250 tons, and carries a slightly more powerful battery-len 12-inch and twelve 4.7-inch guns, with armour of about the same thickness. The other details of the Satsuma are, however, unknown to all except the British Admiralty.
The new Shanghai Taotai, His Honour Jui. Ch'èng, has taken over his seals of office from Ynan Shu-bsün, the time expired Taotai of this port. His Honour Jai Cheng, says the N.-C. Daily News, comes to Shanghai from his previous post of Toti of Kiukiang with a reputation for fair dealing and courteousness to all who have had anything to do with bim, will greatly benefit by the change from the old that encourages ns to believe that Shanghai régime, and that we may well look forward to a cessation of those constant bickerings that have marred the harmony of our relations not only with our Chinese fellow-residents but also with the mandarinate.
and Company in the large building at the The general offices of Messrs. Smith, Bell
corner of Calles Carenero and Muelle del Rey, Manila, was the scene of a fire recently. Shortly before five o'clock an alarm was sent in and a chemical engine responded in double quick time. The fire-fighters founds clouds of smoke issuing from the offices. The fire was
department, situated on the ground floor of the confined to a room adjoining the shipping building, in which was stored oils, paints, and supplies for the fleet of Smith. Bell launches. Spontaneous combustion is believed the cause of the blaze. The prompt arrival of the department prevented what undoubtedly would have proved a disastrous fire. The damage to office fixtures and furniture was not serions, Books and records were not injured.
A Peking telegram in the N.-C. Daily News dated 27th Feb, states that the Chinese high officials have held a meeting to discuss the re- ported anti-foreign movement in China. One of them stated at the meeting that both Japan and the United States had expressed fears of another Boxer rising in China, but there are no symptoms whatever of any anti-foreign tendency in the country. Certain people in the provinces, however, are cansing unfounded ramours to be spread and there have been some local riots between converts and others which have given rise to the apprehensions of Japan and the United States. The troops had been sent to the Philippines for quite a different reason, but telegrams had been sent to the Chinese Minister in Washington and those to other Powers, instructing them to declare that the reports of anti-foreign feeling in China are without foundation.
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