THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXIII.]
Epitome
Leading Articles:-
China
CONTENTS.
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Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 16гH APRIL, 1908,
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
Famine prevails in many of the provinces of Cochin China, owing to the failure of the rice .266 | crop.
H. M. S. "Dreadnought”.
Japan and China
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Britain's Dwindling Army
.267
Is the "China Hand" a Composite Type?
..267
The New Education Bill
.267
Chinese Testimony
American Consular Reforms ....
Hongkong Jottings
.268 .208 2.9
The Peak Tramway Case Settled
Hongkong Horticultural Society
Supreme Court
Armed Robbery........
The Sanitary Institute
Hongkong Devonians at Dinner..
Victoria School Prize Distribution Canton
The Earthquake in Formosa Companies:-
.268 .270 ..270
The final detachment of the Japanese army reached home from Manchuria twenty days ahead of time.
It is suggested that the persistent rumour of Japanese attempts to buy the Philippines may mean an effort to obtain a naval base there.
The total receipts into the Treasury between 271 January 1st and 31st amounted to $954,795.92, 271 while the payments out were $1,268,557.18.
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China Light and Power Co. The China Traders' Insurance Co., Ltd.........273 The Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd...264 The Yangtaze Insurance Association, Ltd.......274 The Yangtaze Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd....274 Philippine Company, Ltd.
American Consular Reform
Consul-General Scott Retires from China
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Mr. Sin Tak-fan at Mr. Lammert's sale rooms last week secured the properties known as Nos. 349, 351, and 353, Des Voeux Road, the respective prices being $8,60, $8,300, and $8,100.
The Gazette notifies the appointment of Mr. E. Osborne as an unofficial member of the Legislative Council during the absence of the Hon. Mr. Gershom Stewart, or until further
notice.
Sir Ernest Satow having repeatedly protested 275 against the cancellation of British mining 376 concessions, the Waiwupu has replied that unless a preliminary agr emeent has been ratified it is not a valid document,
A Diplomatic Consul
The Changsha Case
Pistinguished Siamese Visitors....
Cancer in Hongkong
Notes on the Yellow River
Christianity in China
Peking View of Foreign Education
277
MiscellaneoUS
277
Commercial
.278
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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The Nanfangpao states that the Grand Coun- oil at Peking is considering the advisability of connecting itself with Viceroy Yuan Shih- kai's yamon by wireless telegraphy, in order to facilitate daily communication.
At "Villa Branca," Robinson Road, on the 11th The extract of meteorological observations April, the wife of Jose M ALVES, of a son (still-made at the Observatory during March shows born).
that the average maximum temperature for the month was 63.9, while the minimum was 58.1 deg. The rainfall for the month was 2630 inch 8.
On Saturday, April 14th, 1906, at "Rocklands No. 7, Robinson Road, Hongkong, the vưe × À W. OUTERBRIDGE, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
On April 4th, at Shanghai, HuGH KIRKHOṛs, Tientsin, to AGNES MOFFAT.
On April 4th, at Shanghai, Archibald PAIN NAZER, eldest son of the late JOHN STEWART NAZER, Shanghai, to ALICE MARY, only daughter of the late ALxx. MacCallum, of Shanghai,
DEATHS.
On March 30th, at Shanghai, GEORGE HENRY Rost, aged 29 years.
On April 2nd, HENRY Lewis, Yangtaze pilot, native of U.S.A., aged 71 years.
On April 4th, at Kobe, whilst on his homeward voyage, J. H. 8MTTH, Second Assistant I. M. Customs Service.
́‚On April 4th, at Shanghai, suddenly, WILLIAM BELL, aged 40 years.
Hongkong Weekly Press
As already reported, H. E. Viceroy Chou Fu recently memoriali« d the Throne recommending the limit tion of livery to persons under 25 years old. A Northern dispatch now reports that Viceroy Chow Fu's memorial has received the Imperial sauction.
H. E. Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, has been commanded by the Throne to draw up a number of suggestions as a basis for future negotiations with e Powers with regard to a better underst ading between Christian missions and the puple of the Empire.
Six hundred Annsmites recently went to the mairie at Hanoi to protest against the measures of the French authorities to check the progress of the plague. The meeting was noisy and tumultuous, but, it need hardly be added, the natives did not gain their end.
News has been received by telegraph that the Consular Reorganisation Bill has pa red the HONGKONG OFFICE: 10a, Des Vœux ROAD CL... Congress; and that Mr. F. D. Cheshire LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of 18th March arrived, per the ss. Fachsen, on Thursday, the 12th instant; and the French Mail of 16th March is expected to arrive, per the ss. Polynesien, to-day.
has been offered and has accepted the post of Inspector-General of Consulates in the Far East. with the permanent rank of Consul. General.
Messrs. Siemssen and Co., agents for the | steamer M. Struve, have received word that that vessel is stranded off Ockmen Island, some 500 miles from Hongkong. The vessel left here on Apl. 6 with a cargo of sugar consigned to Cholang. An sffort at malvage is considered
advisable.
No. 15
Mr. Hori Zonsei, a jeweller, of Okinawa (Luchu), applied to the Osaka Municipality for permission to exhibit a remarkable diamond at the Exhibition opened on April 1st in Osaka. The application was readily granted. It is stated that the jewel is valued at Y. 100,000, and is said to weigh about 47 grammes.
The Foochow Echo, reporting an extra- ordinary thunderstorm, says: -A sargo-boat lying off the band opposite Messrs. Jardins, Matheson & Co's premises was struck, with rather curious effect. The whole length of the mast was scored or grooved, as if a long splinter had been taken out. Only the top of the mast was burned.
The_Nanfangp 10 reports that an earthquake took place during the latter part of the second moon in the Uliasutai circuit, causing a fissure in the earth's surface of more than ten li in
length and eighty or ninety feet in width, Houses were damaged and many people were injured. In some parts of the fissure “dark coloured water" bubbled up.
The three railways to be built in Shansi, without the aid of foreign capital, are to run :-(1) From Tatungfu to Kalgan, passing through Shiopingfu, Chihuach'eng, and Shu yuanchông; (2) from Pachon to Tangkuan in Shenei, passing over the Yellow River; (3) from Pingyang to Tsechou, connecting with the Tsokou and Tsechoɑ railway,
Because & for uue teller said he would not
live to be an old man, a Chiusman residing at Reclamation Street, Yaumati, made.. a determined attempt to kill himself by autting his throat with a razor. He made a nasty. gash and pierced the windpipe, but did not out deep enough for the intended purpose, and there is now every chance of his recovering.
Another death has to be recorded as the result
of a police raid on a gambling house at Wanchai Road last week. It appears that about fifty coolies were playing or watching a forbidden game when the police entered, and the usual dash to escape followed. One man in attempting to get through a window fell to the ground, smashing up both his legs and fractur ing his skull. Another who endeavoured to escape was slightly injured.
The N.-C. Daily News learns on reliable authority that there has been a disturbance at Kinhufu, Chêkiang. A cotton mill has recently ben erected at this place, and for some reason, unknown, the people attacked the mill, destroyed the machinery and looted the (presumably foreign) manager's house. The manager has left the city. The movement seems to have been entirely directed against the mill, as according to the latest advices the mission- aries still remained in the city.
A Chinese paper states the Russian demands in treaty with China to be as follows:
“1.--The retention of the Muho, Kusaying- shao, and other gold mines in Heilungkiang“ by Bussis, because the Russian Government has spent large sums of money on them during
the last five yours.
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2.-The construction of branch lines of- Chinese Eastern Railway in the provinces Heilungkiang and Kirin.
3.--The granting of special mining, rall and commercial privileges by China to Eumis in Mongolia and Chinese Turkestan under same conditions as the Japanese have soquired in Fingtian er Southern Manchuria.
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