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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Chinese Economic Problems The China Association Report Manchuria
An Interesting Discovery China Corrupt Administration China, Tibet, and Great Britain Forthcoming Chinese "Surprise
Hongkong Jottings
Union Church, Hongkong
Supreme Court
Hongkong Police Court
Alleged Murder at Wanchai
Local Administration to be Investigated
Resumption of Insanitary Property The Bennertz Case.............
Canton
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 14TH MAY; 1906.
No. 19
The Chinese Government, following Viceroy Mr. David J. Lennox has resigned the Yuan's lead, has decided to do away with uselesscretaryship of the Institution of Engineers PAOR flowers of language in official documents. sad Shipbuilders, and succeeds Mr. C. B. Buyers as superintendent of the Peak tramway. Mr. Buyers is going home on leavO.
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The total receipts at the Hongkong Treasury between January 1st and Feb. 28th amounted to 338 81,607 631,51, while the total payments out were 339 81,862,653.65.
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Mr. C. G. Wilder, successor to General Bragg as American Consul General for Hong- 341 | kong, arrived on May 7th by the 8.3. Siberia. 342 He was accompanied by his wife and two ..342 ...312
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children.
On the top of Pahyushan at Port Arthur, ...345 surmounting a vast sepulchre where the bones 345 of 20,000 Russians and Japanese lie together is ...345 to be erected a huge obelisk surmounted by a
twelve-inch shell.
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In the week ending May 5th there were 61 cases of plague, 58 of which were fatal. noon on May 7th, 23 more cases were added, of 348 which twenty were fatal. From January 1st to that date. the total cases numbered 328, fatalities 309.
Coolies for South Africa
The Harbour Master's Report
Kinochow Trade Report
China Trade Returns
The Whampoa Deep-Water Port Scheme...
Hongkong Sanitary Board'
Tragic Death of a Foreign Policeman
The Health of the Colony
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Indentured Labour Close to Slavery.
Local Administration
Placing Bodies in the Street Hongkong Revenue and Expenditure Companies :-
Hongkong Electric Company, Ltd. A. S. Watson and Company, Ltd. The Hongkong Housing Question Correspondence
Foreign Trade of Newchwang in 1905 Earthquakes in Fukien.....
Foreign Trade Competition at Shanghai. Hongkong Gymkhana Club
Shanghai Races
Commercial. Shipping
MARRIAGE.
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Mr. E. C. Wilks, of Messrs. Wilks and Jack, ..352 laft for the scene of the wreck of the steamer
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M. Struve on May 10. This firm of engineers 352 recently purchased the wreck, and Mr. Wilks is visiting it to see what prospect there is of 353 getting the vessel off the rocks.
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A number of missionary societies in England 355 joined in presenting Duke Tsai-tse and his 356 Mission with bibles and an address. The Chi nese priests at Hongkong seem to have missed an opportunity; they should have tried to convert Prince Arthur of Connaught when he came as a guest.
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On April 28th, at Shanghai, FRANCIS BERNARD PITCAIEN, to JEANNE AREANGER.
DEATHS,
On April 27th, at, Newchwang, HENRY STEVENS LAWRENCE, aged 64 years.
On April 29th, at Shanghai, L. BOSENFELD, aged 84 years.
On May 4th, at London, H. M. BEVIS, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. (By cable).
On May 6th, Jehangir NowBoJER KATRAK, cotton and yara broker.
A man, about 62 years of age, was found at West Point on May 10th lying in the middle of the road with his head cut open and one of his legs broken. He was taken to the hospital, where the explanation was offered that the unfor- tunate man had been knocked down by a tramcar. He died soon after.
The body of a Chinaman, who had been apparently dead for some time, has just been circumstances which point to murder. Deceased, discovered by the New Territory Police under who was a farmer at Ping Shan, had a wound on COnnection with the affair. his forehead. A native has been arrested in
The Mitsui Bussan Kaisha has obtained the privilege of supplying the Chinese Government with arms. The firm will carry on the business with a capital of 250,000 taels, and have already established a head office at Shanghai.
In spite of the heavy rain the Spring Flower and Vegetable Show of the Amoy Horticultural Society was held on April 19th, but only at the Masonic Hall, Kulangsu. The officials were :---- Judges of flowers, Messrs H. F. Rankin and V. G. Savi; vegetables, Messrs J. G. Goets and H. F. Raukin; Committee:-Messrs W. H. Wallace, A. F. Gardiner, H. F. Rankin and W. Kruse; Hon. secretary, J. Arthur.
A Peking dispatch states that H. E. Viceroy Trên Ch'un-heuen, who has strenuously opposed the building of the Kowloon-Canton Railway by British capitalists alone, demanding that the line should be constructed conjointly by British and Chinese, has been informed by the Waiwapu that his object has been accomplished and that that Board has signed an agreement to that effect with the British Minister in Peking.
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Some French and British capitalists propose to establish a river service by tugs between Chungking and Ichang. It is proposed to place at the various rapids specially constructed rapid-boats" which will be worked by steam- driven drums, one in each boat, operating on a cable. It is maintained that by these menus the dangers and difonlties incidental to the navigation of this part of the Yangtase will be
overcome.
According to a Peking telegram, the Chinese Foreign Office has replied through the Japanese Minister to the Japanese Note regarding the opening of Mukden and other places in Man. churia. The reply stated that although the Chinese Government was inclined to open those
Government, according to the reports of the places without delay, yet it would be impossible to do so on the dates fixed by the Japanese Peking Minister and the Mukden General.
Duke P'a Tang (P) of the Imperial House, has been appointed to proceed to Northern Chinese Turkestan (Ili) and Uliasutai, outer
Hongkong Weekly Pressureign trade only, entered and cloarod, nearly Mongolia, to make a report on the condition
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
Last year (1905) was a record year for ship ping at Yokohama. The vessels engaged in touched the three million tons mark. The previous highest was in 1903, when the tonnage was two and a half millions. In addition there were about 1,750,000 tons of domestic trade entered and cleared.
A duel with swords has taken place between M. Laumonier, directeur of the Avenir du The French Mail of April 13th arrived, perd Haiphong. In the first encounter the former Tonkin, and M. Laumont, of the Courrier the ss. Salasie to-day, the 14th instant; and the English Mail of April 17th is due to arrive, per the sa. Oceana, on Wednesday, the 16th instant
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
Shanghai is arranging to establish its horti. cultural society on a broader basis.
Official opposition is still being vigorously directed against, the operations of the Peking Syndicate.
was slightly wounded on the right arm, after which the adversaries became "reconciled on the ground". They had quarrelled over a newspaper controversy.
The Ha kow Daily News says:—- -We learn from good authority that Viceroy Chang Chi. tung is making arrangements for the growing of sugar boet in this province on a large scale. If successful H.E. intends to erect a large plant for the manufacture of beet sugar. We do not doubt that the sugar beet will be a thankful plant to cultivate and with the new enterprise
good success.
of the Russians on the frontier line there and to reorganise, if possible, without delay, the Mongol nomad tribes in that region. These Mongols are brave and expert horsemen and would make splendid irregular cavalry to the Imperial armies just as, it is mid, the Cosmoks are for the Russian army.
Chen-to, Viceroy of Yunnan and Kaichou A memorial to the Throne from H. E. Ting province, to be permitted to establish a mint in the city of Yunnan for the coinage of silver dollars and subsidiary money, to take the place of foreign money now being widely circulated in his Viceroyalty on account of the scarcity of Chinese money itself, has been refused by Imperial Rescript, on the joint recommenda tion of the Board of Revenue and Financial Council. The Viceroy is, however, given ENG option of applying to the Minting Burona of the Nanyang Administration (Nanking and Canton) to coin for him sa much subsidiary money
many dollars" and be wishes.
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