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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXIII.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Lending Articlox:--
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 2nd JUNE, 1906.
Admiral Togo and Admiral Kabavama will proceed on a tour of inspection to Manchuria PAGE by the Manshu Marn, which was to leave 397 Kagoshima for North China on June 1st.
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Epitome.......
Far Eastern Gamblers
"Chinatown".
Subsidiary Coinage at Hongkong
.389
Hankow
499
Opium
.400
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Hongkong Legislative Council........
Victoria Recreation Club......
Supreme Court ................
f The Star" Ferry Company, Limited,
Hongkong Volunteer Rifle Club.
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Canton
Amoy
FOR A Covbeste
Subsidiary Colnags at Hongkong
A San Francisco Escape ........... The Plague
The Commission............ Food Riots in Yingshan Commercial..
Shipping
BIRTH.
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Viscount Hayashi, lately Ambassador in London, has been appointed Foreign Minister. Baron Komuis is appointed to succeed Viscount Hayashi as Japanese Ambassador in London.
H.E. the Governor, under instructions from 402 the Secretary of State for the Colonies, has ....402. appo'nted Mrs. E. Tatcher to be head-mistress 49 of Belilios Public School, in place of Mrs. E. A.
Bateman, retired.
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At Shanghai on May 27th was witnessed a 404 coincidence. Two Japanese cruisers celebrating 404 the anniversary of Togo's rigtory flow, the 405 Russian flag at the main, in honour of the anniversary of the coronation of the Tear.
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4.5 The Chief Manager of the Hongkong and 45 Shanghai Bank at Hongkong. Mr. J. Ë, M. #5 Smith, left on furlough by the s.a. Empress 406 of China. Mr. H. E. R. Hunter, the present manager of the bank at Shanghai, will relieve
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him.
The Waiwupu has wired to Viceroy Shum cf On May 24th, at Shanghai, Mrs. RICHARD Canton instructing him, says the Nanfung an, Korech, of a daughter. Premature.
MARRIAGE
On May 23rd, at Shanghai, M›RQUERITE EMMA PIETZSCH to J. HN VINCENT CHAMPEYS DAVIS.
to amend the Canton-Kowloon railway agree- ment which he has tentatively made with the factorily drawn up, British authorities, as it is not entirely satis-
The dummy rifles and bayonete which were used for military drill at Yanmati and Pokfulam
No. 22
A piece of ground outside the West Gate of Mukden, measuring about, three miles in circumference, has been selected as the inter- national trade settlement According to a Chinese report, the settlem ́nt will be under the exclusive control of the Japanese.
Mr. E. C. Wilks, of Messrs. Wilks and Jack, engineers, who has returned from his visit of inspection to the wrecked steamer M. Struve, is of opinion that that vessel cannot be salved. He says the Chinese pirates have practically stripped the ship, leaving little more than her hull.
Dr. W. W. Pearse, M.B., Acting M. O. H. was admitted M. D. of the University of Aber- deen at a graduation ceremony held on April 6th. according to a report in's Plymouth journal. This was with “highest honours"; his thesis, u contribution to the study of bubonic plague, attracting the special attention of the faulty. Dr. Pearse's, father is consulting, physician to the Plymouth Public Dispensary.
One of the pirates who held up a fishing junk at Chekwan on the 21st May has been arrested. On that oco sion a boat containing six men, three armed witli revolvers and three with pitohforks, drew alongside a junk on the fishing ground, boarded it, forced the men into the hold, ransacked the vessel and made off with jewellery and clothing to the value of $96. Only one of the robbers has been captured so far.
Tientsin state that Sir Robert Bredon
papera is the only foreigner who has yet officially con- gratulated the two Chinese officials on their appointment; that Sir Robert Hart has no in-
Hongkong Weekly Press Schools have been given up to the authoriti- tuation whatever of resigning: that the state-
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of 4th May arrived, per the -88) Arcadia, on Wednesday, the 30th ultimo.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
The number of plague cases at the end of May, was 663,
The spring meeting at Tientsin is described as ; about as fame as it possibly could bs” from a racing point of view.
The proclamation prohibiting the exportation of conveyance constwire of arms and ammunition been pontinned, for a further six months,
May 28th. It is reported, that Bir Clande Macdonald will return, te Tokyo, when he goes home on
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that Lord. Redesdale will
Ambagandor.
on the advice of the Government. It will be r membered that by a recent decision of Mr. Hazeland, the magistrate, these ware declared weapons within the meaning of the Ordinance.
The Osaka Asahi reports that according to the Captain of S. 8.“ Tankai Maru, which entired the port of Naoyetsa from Hokkaido on May 22od, a mechanical mine, at a point Long 39 35 35E.) was found drifting some 20 nautical miles off Housho (Lat. 39'25' in the direction of Tsugarn Strait on April
19th.
We gather from the Hankow Daily No a that the suggestion has been made that the missionaries interested in the relief subscriptions for the Chinese who are suffering in consequence of the floods have been discriminating in favour of victims who are professing Christians. The suggestion is indignantly denied by a missionary writing on the 18th inst.
Viceroys Yuan Shih-kai and Yang Shih. hriang have jointly memorialised the Throne, asking that the order of the Double Dragon may be bestowed upon the German Governor of Kinochon, the German Consul at Chimanfu, and three other German officials, as a recognition of drawal of the German troops. their friendly attitude in securing the with
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ment that the have fällen in London is "s pure fabrication," and that no changes whatever have taken plaos as yet in the administration of the Customs.
A Seoul dispatch states that a body of about 300 Coresa insurgents has appeared in the vicinity of An-dong, Kyong-Syang Province, and four Japanese who were engaged in gold- Japanese fled to Ponyhos, but one of the party prospecting were attacked by these men. The who remained in Pang-djyou was murdered by the Coreans. Police and gendarmes have been dispatched to the scene of the disturbance.
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Under joint ownership of foreign and Japanese capitalists, a large dry dock will shortly be constructed at Tanours, near Moji. According to a plan made by the promoters, there will exist two docks, the smaller one measuring 480 ft. in length, 60 ft. În width at bottom, 28ft. in depth; and the larger one in 600 ft. long, 7öft, wide, and 30 ft, deep. The docks are respectively able to admit ships displacing 7,000 tons and 12,000 tons.
The report of the Directors of the Hotel des Colonies, Ld., Shanghai, for presentation” to bareholders at the fourth ordinary General meeting, shows the net profit of the company during the last year to have been $43.2 The Nanfangpao pays a majority of the share. Deducting1£12,000,00 of this for the
the Canton-Hankow, Railway, are dividend of 4 per cent, already paid,
which the Board balanos left of $31989;10 available for
decided, pot i It is proposed pay a final dividend. suspicion of cent, absorbing $18,000.00, incrsson the sinking ppropriation of funds. In the absence of Jund. by $9.331,53, and carry forward, "#fler
| that it‹ is proposed by Shangon të ätart ¿theɑBuran for the Re-
Marks in that fioned on the 4 dinalis find with, the ma moon (22nd June next).
was selected ning them.
pondent, apparatly in some alarm,
lión to the fact that the Shanghai, sadisfactory explanations, it is feared, that the „formed a cadet eorps, and are | construction of the line may be indefinitely En style with modern weapons. delayed.
paying,
the sum of $2,630.92. the equivalent în tuels at
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