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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXIII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome..
Leading Articles:-
Our Future Wheat Supply I.. Our Future Wheat Supply II. Chinese in British Colonies
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 2ND APRIL, 1906.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
PAGR The Chinese Council of Army Reorganisation intends at once to establish military schools ,926 | after the model of those in Japan. .296
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Hongkong Chamber of Commerce
A Shanghai Comedy
Silver and the Hongkong Dollar
The Peak Tramway Litigation
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
Concert at Government House
The Nanchang suicide
Supreme Court
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The Japanese Customs (and Courts) have decided that wool and cotton cloth is "alpaca," so far as the levying of duty is concerned.
It is expected that more than 171,000 men from five provinces will take part in the Chinese 232 military autumn manoeuvres at Changteh Ho.
The Shanghai A.D C., for its 141st produs: 230 tion, chose "Pinero's The Schoolmistress, 239 and gare it with conspicuous success on March
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French Convent Prize Distribution
Canton ...
Companies:-
The China Borneo Co... Ltd.
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Watkins, Limited
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The China Light and Power Co. Ltd.
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Campbell, Moore and Co., Ltd.
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Luzen Sugar Refining Co., Ltd. .............
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Yokohama Specie Bank, Limited
Shanghai Ice, Cold Storage, and Refrigeration
Company, Limited
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There have been further efforts at Peking to get Viceroy Shum transferred from Canton,
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It is notified in the Gazette that the Bacterio. logical Institute at Taipingshan has now been opened and that all communications intended for the Government Bacteriologist should in, future be sent to his office at the Institute.
Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co., agents for the Yangtsze Insurance Association, inform us that they have received the following telegram: Directors will recommend at special meeting dividend 20 per cent., special dividend 5 per cent, reserve fund 850,0 10.
An earthquake shock was distinctly felt in Hongkong on March 28th at five minutes to seven a.m. Apparently the residents in the higher levels were more conscious of the dis- turbance but certain it is that many houses were found rocking for a brief space of time.
After paying off debentures for Tls. 1,000.
but the difficulty seems to be to find officials spending $851 on the Pavilion, and remitting willing to succeed him.
There were 19cases of smallpox in one week, 242 including 15 Chinese, two Europeans, one
| Portuguess.
and one West Indian. Ouly five cases ended fatally.
China Import and Export Lumber Co., Ltd....242
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Dr. Machle, the missionary who escaped from the Lionchow massacre in such a dramatic way, has taken up duties or the Presbyterian Mission 244 | Board at Iloilo Philippines.
The China Flour Mill Co., I td.
Yangtze Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd...
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The China Market
Shipping Case at Shanghai.
China United Service Rifle Association
Hongkong Schools' Sports.......
Baluchis' Sports
Saturday's Gymkhana...
Volunteer Inspection
Correspondence
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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A slight earthquake took place at Foochow at 6.45 on the morning of March 17th. It was .245 described as one of the severest that have 24 happened in Foochow for a considerable time.
The Nanfangpao says that the Kiangsi officials in Peking are preparing a joint m-morial to the Throne with reference to the difficulties of the missionary problem in China,
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On March 17th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs JOSEPH WHITESIDE, a daughter.
On March 18th, at Shanghai, the wifo of F. C. FOCKEN, of a daughter.
On March 19th, at Shanghai, the wife of PL. BABBURN, of a son.
On March 22nd, at Shanghai, the wife of Dr. Ernest L. MarSH, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On 16th March, at Shanghai, WILLIAM KNIBB STANION to PHOEBE LAMOND, second daughter of J. B. LAMOND, of Shanghai.
On March 22nd, at Shanghai, ARTHUR MATHER Pryce to Lizziz, eldest daughter of H. W. B. VAN COBBACH, of Shanghai,
DEATHS
On March 16th, at Shanghai, ARCHIBALD CRAIG WALKEE, chief draughtsman, Shanghai-Nanking Railway
On March 21st, at the Shanghai General Hospital, MIGUEL LUIZ DE CASTRO, aged 29 years. On March 21st, at Wuhu, Doers, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs E. W. EICKHOFF.
On March 24th, at Shanghai, ISABELLA AYTON Youre, the beloved wife of JOHN DARBCCH,
Shamsi University Translation Department.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of February 27th arrived per the 88. Prins Eitel Friedrich, on Monday the 26th ultimo; and the French Mail of March 2nd arrived, per the ss. Ernest Simons, to-day.
Viceroy Chang Chih-tang has obtained from the Throne permission to establish at Wachang a college for the training of railway engineers, the funds to be provided by the provinces of Kwangtung and Ĥupan.
The Chinese Emperor is reported to be suffer. ing from a mysterious malady, the symptoms of which are an aversion to human voices and to light. On March 3rd he had an attack of vertigo, followed by a period of unconscious
ness.
Independent shipowners of Tokyo, Osaka, and Kobe have formed a Trust and have sent a representative to Hongkong, preparatory to opening a regular service between Japan" and Java, Sumatra, Manila, Saigon, Bangkok, and Hongkong.
Governor Hu of Kiangsi has wired to the Waiwapu, says the P. and T. Times, that the American and British doctors who were asked to make an examination of the body of the magistrate Chiang have pronounced that his
death was due to suicide.
The Hankow Daily News reports that on March 20th some Chinese houses there were
struck by lightning and three men killed. It
was one of the heaviest thunderstorms " ever kuown at Hankow, and lasted two hours. The Yangisze rose considerably.
The Nanfangpao states that, at the request of an official of Liling, Hu., a Japanese expert has been brought over, together with two overseers, to develop the pottery industry at that place. The clay having been found specially suitable, the provincial officials have been asked to appropriate Tls. 10,000 for pushing the enter prise, for which it is further hoped that the Shangpu will grant a monopoly for fifteen years.
$ 28 for gear, the Shanghai Cricket Club has a credit balance of $2,587, and a stock of gear valued at $750. There are 400 plaving members. of whom are 8 are absent, and 266 non-playing, of whom 68 are absent.
The Empress-Dowager of China held a secret conference recently with some beads of depart- ments, Naturally there are only guesses as to what happened, the mostly likely effort being that the Prince and the President, and Vice- President of the Wairupu were commanded to stand firm in their negotiations with foreign Powers wherever they saw the rights of China threatened.
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Messrs. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., who are about to establish mills in Hiratsuka, along the Tokaido railway, Japan, are now reported to be laying out the required tracts, which extend over two and a-half square miles on the Banyu River. The coustraction works will be commenced in the course of this year and the expense of initiating the plant is estimated at about fifty million yen.
The statement of accounts for 1905. of the Shaughai and Hongkew Wharf Co, Ltd., whose paid-up capital is Tls. 3,200,000, shows a divisible balance after payment of an interim dividend of 6 per cent. of Tla. 413,065. It is proposed to pay a final dividend of 8 per cent, making 14 per cent. for the year, to place Tls. 100,000 to repairs account, and carry forward. the balance, Tls. 57,065.
According to returns made by the authorities, at the end of 1904 there were 35,687 physicians practising in the Japanese empire. Of this number 700 were dentists. The number of doc ors practising general medicine included 1,583 graduates from the Imperial University, 3,243 graduates from the Medical College, 2,830
graduates from Prefectural Medical Schools, - and 94 holders of foreign Diplomas of Medicine.
which has been passed by the Diet, shows total The Japanese Budget for the 39th fiscal year, revenue and expenditure Y487.893.572, exsotly balancing. This includes ordinary and extra- ordinary expenditure. In addition to this, three supplementary budgets were passed. The first amounts to Y454 450,000 for the withdrawal. ‚of the troops from Manchuris and their rewards. The second amounts to Y7,200,000, for the payment of interest on loans. The third .... amounts to Y76,712,767, for the redemption of loans, payment of certain soldiers' pensions, and other purposes. The Dist passed these Budgets also.
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