THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXIII.]
Epitome
Leading Articles:-
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Illegitimate Landation...
Hongkong Water Supply Schemes
Anti-Gambling Crasade at Hongkong
Merchants and Ministers...
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 24TH MARCH, 1906.
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Marshal Marquis Oyama will shortly resign TAOR his position as Chief of the General Staff in favour of General Kodama, who will be suc- ceeded as Governor-General of Formosa by ...214 General Sakuma,
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The French have made a post-mortem 215 examination of the magistrate Chiang, and the .216 Governor has asked the resident doctor at Nan-
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chang to make a post-mortem examination on 218
behalf of the Chinese Government. 219
The Danger to China
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Supreme Court
Hongkong Volunteer Troop
Kowloon School Prize Distribution
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The Continued Danger from Floating Mines
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
The Hongkong Water Supply...
'The Fog
Canton
China Sugar Refining Co., Ltd.
Shanghai Dividends
Correspondence
News from Nanchang
Shanghai Politics Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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In consequence of the frequent demands for compensation for missionary property destroyed. the provincial authorities have been instructed to make an assessment of all missionary pro. .220 | perties and revise it from time to time.
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The Japanese House of Representatives in 221 the Committee stage has adopted the nationali- sation of the domestic railways by an overwhelm- 221 ing majority and was unanimous for the
taking over of the Seoul-Fusen railway.
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On the morning of the 19th March, at the Government Civil Hospital, the wife of N. G. NOLAN, of a daughter.
On March 11th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. P. FISCHER, & son.
On March 13th, at Shanghai, the wife of L. H. GABB, of a dau liter
MARRIAGES.
On March 9th, at Shanghai, James Bell TayloR to CHARLOTTE IDA CLARK, second daughter of Mr. JAMES CLARK, I,M. Customs Service.
On March 10th, at Shanghai, Jock F. HAUS- MANN, late of Manila, to VIRGINIA OCTAVIA WALDEON, of Shanghai.
DEATHS
On March 10th, at Shanghai, Cran WI PRED JOHN CAULTON, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. GEORGE CAulton.
On March 12th, at Shanghai, Peren Sys, aged
70 years.
On March 22nd, at soon, at her residence, 13, Mosque Street, Mrs. R. F. GUTIERREZ, aged 69 years.
Hongkong Weekly Press.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French Mail of February 16th arrived per the ss. Arma, d Behic, on Tues·lay, the 20th instant; and the English Mail of Feb. 23rd arrived, per the ss. Arcadia, ou Wednesday, the 21st instant.
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FAR EASTERN NEWS.
A Japanese naval engineer usmed Kimura has succeeded in inventing a wireless telephone. Information has reached [Tongkong that the ss. Agincourt has been lost in the Torres Straits. H. M. The Empress Dowager of China has contributed Tls. 100,000 to the Japan Famine
Fund.
Mr. D. M. Nisim. of the firm of Messrs.| David Sassoon & Co., has joined the directorate of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Cor. poration in place of Mr. E. Shellim.
It is reported in Mandarin ciroles that the Waiwupu is sending a 8 ecial mission to Manchuria this summer for the purpose of deli-
miting scientifically in conjunction with Coreau officials the boundries of the two countries.
At the annual meeting of the Weihaiwei Land and Building Co., held on March 12th, the Chairman said that until the future of Weihaiwei was known it would be very injudi- cious to invest any more capital in the pace.
The monument to Will Adams at Hemimura Yokosuka, is to be restored, and the site converted into a public park. A replica of the monument is to be made in Japau of native granite and erected at the birthplace of Will Adams, Gillingham, in Kent, England.
On March 12th the German str. Fiame, 850 tons net register, was run into by the China Merchants' str. Kiangkwan, and sustained serious damage to some plates and frames. The Fiume was at anchor below the Harbour
limits, near the Cosmopolitan Dock, Shanghai.
A native co temporary reports that II. E. Sir Ernest Satow has been lately rotesting to the Waiwupu against the appointment of such a reactionary official as En Ming, late Provincial Treasurer of Kianguing, to the Governorship of Anhui province, where there are important British interests.
The following notification is published in a recent issue of tha Garette-Harbour inaster's Department-The following telegram has been received from the Commissioner of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs at Amoy: "Drifting mine blew up fishing boat two miles East of Turdabout Island on the
9th instant.
It is announced that Mr. Edward Osborne, Secretary to the Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, has been appointed to fill the tem. porary vacancy in the Legislative Council by the approaching absence on leave of the Hon. Mr. Gershom Stewart. Mr. Osborns has sat at the Council before with credit to himself and advantage to the community.
It is reported from Tientsin that Viceroy Yoan Shib-kai has arranged for the sending of about thirty mechanics, selected from amongst the best of those in the new Arsenal at Techou, Sht, to England and Germany to study of gun-casting and riflemaking. methods These men, who will be auder the charge of an official, will probably remain abroad about two
years.
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No. 12
A dispatch of the 13th instant from the north states that the Japanese have returned the Hsinmintan-Mukden Railway to China, and that the control and direction of that line will henceforth be in the hands of the Poiyang Administration.
The French and Japanese Fleets bare arrived at Hongkong. Practically the whole of the first division of the French Far Eastern quadron is returning the visit which the British squadron recently paid to Sigon, the vessels being the two armoured cruisers Montcalm and Queydon, and the six Froude, Rupière and Sabre, the only absentee destroyers, Javeline, Pistolet, Franciaque,
bing the armoured cruiser Dupetit Thouars, Admiral Richard is accompanied by Rear Admiral Kiesel on his flagship the Montcalm The Japanese squadron is smaller. Both officials and civilians are doing their utmost to please the guests.
IT.
Mr. Peter Sys, who had for many years a large practice as an unregistered physiciamin Shanghai, died on March 12th.-The N.-C. Daily News comments:-The sudden death of Mr. Peter Sys, French Peter," as he was familiarly termed, came as a great blow to a large section of the community. Before coming to Shanghai som years ago he was a hospital ward attendant in Java, and there he learnt certain remedies for tropical diseases which be usod afterwards with great success on a large num. ber of patients, often effecting oures when the patients had begun to despair. From Java he
came
to Shanghai, where he was a ward attendant at the General Hospital, a post which he resigned when he went into private practice, though he never professed to be a quiffed medical man, one great element in his success being the faith his patients had in him. It appears that he did his work all day on Monday as usual-and he was very young for his years - and seemed to be in good health, but as he was about to step into his bath, at 8 p.m., he fell back dead, apoplexy being the cause of death. He leaves a widow and family to mourn his loss.
A correspondent in Peking sent the N.C. Daily News the following account of the events in the palace at Peking, which gave rise to the recent sensational rumours. It seems that almost simultaneously with the discovery of a few bombe at the railway station, four others were found actually within the Palace precincts. The Court was in consternation and the Empress-Dowagre summoned the chief suunch, Li Lien-ying, to upbraid him for his neglect. She told him that only his long and faithful servions saved him from immediate execution. Li Lieu-
ying prostrated himself while Her Majesty stormed, and was then ordered to go and “and out m tiers. His investigations resulted in his having four young eunuchs beaten to death “whose actions had of late ben rather suspicions." and he then reported to Her Majes y what he had done. The explanation having been received in grim ́ silence, Li kowtowed and eventually confessed that old age and ill-health made him nofit for bis duty; be wished to resign. You may leave the Presence" said the Empress. Within a quarter- hour an Imperial Rescript in Her Majesty's own handwriting relieved the eunuch of all kin offices, about the Court and appointed him to the sinecure post of Inspector of Eho Park Palace. The "eunuch Taʼui succeeds to Li's honours and responsibilities.
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