THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXIIL]
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Leading Artioles :-
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Infections Diseases at Hongkong.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 5т# MAY, 1906,
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
Government property at Hongkong has been formally declared open to inspection by Sanitary Board officials.
A. S. Watson and Co., Ltd., record a net profit 319 for 1905 of $15,408,59, and propose to pay a dividend of five per cent,, making ten per cent. for the year.
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Outbreaks in Chins
The Shifting of the Axis
Marketing at Hongkong
Imperial Veto and the Colonies..
Hongkong Jottings
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Masonic
Supreme Court
Police Court
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Sensational Occurrence in Victoria Gaol
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An Extradition Difficulty
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Infectious Disease Measures
Companies
The Shanghai Land Investment Co., Ltd. The Hongkong Electric Company, Ltd.. A. S. Watson and Company, Ltd...
China Association
Chinese Customs Report
Home and China Affairs
New Pacific Liner
Canton........
Macao .......
Amateur Dramatic Club
Ostasiatischer Verein ......................................
Cargo Insurance at Shanghai
Shanghai Trams ...........................................
Reviews
A Fatal Fight
The Hongkong Electric Company is paying 321 a dividend of twelve per cent. for the period of .322 ten months On page 327 there are full .322 | particulars.
It is proposed to establish an arsenal in the Imperial Hunting Park at Peking, and an expert from Messrs. Krupp is to be appointed to 326 the management.
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A long letter of considerable public interest, 927 for other communities than Hongkong, was written by a prominent Chinese citizen to the Sanitary Board. copy of it appears on page 326 of this number.
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The news that Germany is increasing its 931 naval strength in Far Eastern waters, as ....331 published in the Daily Press, caused a flutter of
interest at Hongkong this week.
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One of the Mongolian Princes is visiting 832 Tokyo. He states his chief object is to get some hints on military organization so that he .332 | may drill troops to protect the frontier. ...883
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Entertaining French and Japanese Fleets. Abbreviations of Names of Chinese Provinces......333 33 Commercia! Shipping
BIRTH,
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On April 28th, at Shanghai, the wife of J. J DUNNE, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
On April 11th, at Tientsin, WILLIAM KEMP BRADGATE, of the Imperial Railways of North China, to ELEANOR LEES POXON.
On April 19th, at Yokohama, Robert CampbeLL EDWARDS, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank- ing Corporation, and HELENA DEBORAH LOUISE, dau; hter of WALTER FINCH PAGE, Esq., of Togo nohama, Dzushi, Kanagawa Ken, Japan.
DEATHS.
On April 23rd, at Hankow, WILHELM FINNINGER, aged 28 years. Accidentally drowned.
On April 25th, at Ningpo, Mrs. KATE B. Cun. NINGHAM, aged 59 years.
On April 27th, at Shanghai, DANIEL TAYLOR BLACK, Iate of 8. C. Farnham, Boyd & Co., aged 56 years.
The Chinese Government is protesting against the use of the title Governor General leased port only and not a German colony. by the Germans in Kiaochou, seeing that it is a
The Board of Commerce bas approved the formation of a Chino-Japanese shipping com- pany to be known as the Manchurian Shipping Co. to navigate all Manchurian waterways.
A sensational case of homicide occurred in the Hongkong jail on May 1st, when one makers' bench suddenly stabbed his companion convict working alongside another on the shoe- several times in the neck. He now awaits trial.
to establish a branch Foreign Office at Kulun M. Pokotiloff has requested the Government or the settlement of international matters. It is reported that the Waiwapa intends to comply with the request.
Our Hamburg correspondent reports the death of Mr W. Reiners, senior partner in the firm of Reiners & Co., Hamburg. Mr. Reiners was Heart failure is mentioned as the cause of his very well known in Far Eastern commerce. death.
The Superintendent of Pol'ce at Hankow had a good day's sport on April 24th, after "mad" buffalo. It was through
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The Opium Farmer at Hongkong is still very busy seizing commercial consignments of morphis and other opium compounds.
The Chinese Board of Revenue, soting on the recommendation of the five Travelling W. Jenks as financial expert at a salary of one Commissioners, had decided to engage Prof, J. thousand taals a month, with a five years' agree- ment, but the State Council, fearing lost after Prof. Jenks' engagement all the foreign Minis- their own nationality engaged and make things ters would want to have a financial adviser of difficult for China, decided to postpone taking the step for the present.
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Government to appoint a Chinese offigial as co- It having been proposed by the Chinese
| has threatened that if this is done he will hand director of the postal affairs, Sir Robert Hart the postal affairs altogether. This perhaps accounts for the report of his imminent retirement. The Daily Press publio announce- ments gave the news that the partnership of Messrs. Brutton, Hett, and Goldring is dissolved, the firm now consisting of Messrs. Bratton and Hett, while Mr. P. W. Goldring is to conduct his own practice.
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Hough, auctioneers, sold Inland Lot No.: 15 On the 3rd instant Messrs. Hughes and with the buildings thereon known as Nos. 48, Lot No. 76 on which is erected the buildings Bonham Strand and 19, Burd Street, and Inland known as Nos. 60, Wing Lok Street and 265, Des Voeux Road Central. The first property was bought by Mr. Pan Hi-ping for $36,100, while the highest bid for the second was $27,200, Mr. Tang Chi-ngan being the purchaser. Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master were the solicitors for the mortgagees, by whose order the property was sold.
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The recent visit of Japanese oruisers to Manila, in conjunction with the various rumours that have lately been going of the Philippine Islands to Japan, appears the rounds regarding the possible transfer to be mightily exercising the minds of
Manila Times, of the more ignorant classes. the natives both in Manila and in the provinces. This is especially true, says the
tion has been broached almost breathlessly : To a number of Americans in Manila tha quest-
think the invasion is nigh at hand, and that "When are the Japanese coming to take the Islands ? 事 Many of the interrogators seem to
Khan order and the Islands will be swept with when it does come it will be of the Genghis fire and sword.
treaty which has been concluded between the The emential points of the Anglo-Tibetan British Minister and the Waiwupu are
(i) Great Britain recognises Tibet to be protectorate of Chins.
(ii) Great Britain will not interfere in the Power attempts to do so.
Hongkong Weekly Dies: city, tossing human beings out of its way, and internal affairs of Tibet, so long as no other
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-after a stern chase in both ricsha and sampan, Supt. Millar got near enough and shot the
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of April 6th arrived, per the ss. Dongola, on Thursday, the 3rd instant.
The Chungkuapao at Peking announces that Sir Robert Hart is about to retire; that Bir Robert Bredon is to succeed him; and that the administration of the Imperial Chinese Chinese official. These reports are without | Post Offices is to be given to a foreign-educated confirmation.
for trade with India, and erect telegraph lines.“ (iii) Chins will open some markets in Tibet
in regard to rallway, mining, and other, con- (iv) Great Britain shall have the preference cessions in Tibet, but if any such concessions are granted only Chinese shall be employed, in carrying out the works.
to Great Britain to defray the cost of the recent (v). The sạm of Taels 2,490,000 is to be paid Mission to Lhaams,
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