THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXIII.]
Epitome
Leading Articles :-
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Education in Hongkong
Inexact Terminology
The Triplice
On Experts
The Nanchang Affair
Hongkong Legislative Council
Hongkong Sanitary Board.. Supreme Court
Canton
The Hang-fire Railway.
Correspondence
Hongkong's Tumbledown Houses
Education in Hongkong
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 30ти JUNE, 1906.
The Governor-General of Indo-Chica has issued an order for the establishment of a FAGK university at Hanoi,
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The British Cigarette Company of Shanghai is gradually driving Japanese cigarettes out of the market in Manchuria and Cores.
Viceroy Chou Fu is supposed to have got into 463 frouble for criticising Viceroy Shum. It is said
that H.E Chang Chih-tung will displace him.
Native papers announce that the French 46 Minister and the Chinese deputies signed an agreement on June 20th relating to the Nan- chang affair.
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The new French Minister and the Chinese 471 Foreign Office are busy drafting new regulations
for the control of Catholic missionaries. national regulations might be better,
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Empress-Dowager's Rescript
Chino-American Trade
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Chinese Penal Code
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Japanese Finances
Dastardly Affair in Hongkong
Japanese Foreign Trade
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Review
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Forsign Masters and Japanese Ships Commercia!
Shipping
BIRTH.
On June 20th, at Hongkong, the wife FRIDERICE SOUTHEY, A M I.C.E., of a son.
DEATHS.
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A Chinese girl, aged 19 years, from Ship Street, committed suicide on the 24th June She was seen by some of her friends to leap from a wooden wharf in Praya East into the harbour, and though the alarm was given she could not be reached. Her body has not been recovered yet. It is thought that the prove- cative trouble was debt.
There was something very interesting in the sight of a European policeman capturing run away pony while the mafbo climbed a tree and watched the proceedings from a place of safety. The other morning a pony attached to a gharry was so startled when the shafts broke that he immediately bolted. After Inter-travelling some distance it was caught by &
European policeman and broughtalong to West. Point Police Station. There it broke away again but was quickly captured by another European. While the animal was kicking and lashing out the mafoo, who had followed, climbed a tree to obtain safety, and was afterwards discovered calmly viewing the situation.
A report has reached Seoul to the effect that a Corean fishing boat struck and exploded a drifting mine off Oyuta. Three out of the four men in the boat were killed or drowned.
473 The Court at Peking is abasing itself, and 474 | ordering all officials to do likewise, in order to .476 flacate the god who set ds rain. The prolonged drought is causing grave troubles in the north. A Japanese committee appointed to study of cotton culture in Corea estimates that an annual crop worth eight million sterling, or more than two thirds the value of Japan's present imports, could be produced in the peninsula.
On June 17th, at Shanghai, BESSIE NAFTALY, wife of H. A. NAFTALY, aged 24 years.
On June 23rd, at Shanghai, Čaptain Jo¤N P. ROBERTS, aged 77 years.
Hongkong Weekly Press
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
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The French Mail of May 25th arrived,, per the ss. Tonkin, on Wednesday, the 27th instant and the English Mail of June 1st arrived, per the ss. Devanha, on Friday, the 29th instant.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
A ten mile strip of the Swator-Chacchon line is finished.
Rice riots are reported in Anhwei. Shops were looted and the yamen attacked.
Some of the coolies employed by the Shanghai Municipal Council are on strike for higher pay
The Kiaochou-Chinanfu railway paid a thres¦ and one quarter per cent, dividend for the year 1905.
The French gunboat Décidée, reported badly stranded in Poyang Lake, has been refloated
without assistance.
The Hotel des Colonies at Shanghai, with a capital of Tls. 225,000 in nine thousand shares, is calling a meeting with a view to reducing the capital.
The French Minister has announced that he will discuss the framing of new regulations to gorera Roman Catholic missionaries when all the foreign Powers have agreed to do the same with regard to Christian missions, both Pro- testant and Roman Catholic.
Ought Sir Wilfrid Lawson to be sent to Shanghai as a missionary? The question suggested by the cold-blooded way in which the N-C. Doily News, reporting a fire that broke out at 3.15 pm., mentions the fact that "the firemen reeled up about 4.15 p.m."
According to a Tokyo report, plans are being formed to place the war strength of the Japa- Bese army at one million men. This is said to be due not only to the lessons of the Russo- Japanese war but also in accordance with the | requirements of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance.
At the offices of the P.W.D. on June 26th the letting by public auction sale of Garden Lot No. 28, situated on Barker Road, took place. The Int contains 6,800 square, fest, and has an annual rențal of $16. It was sold to
the round below and be able to pick himself That a man should jump from a verandah to
up
and run from the police is a rather uncommon occurrence. This, however, was an incident in an opium raid on June 24th. who is an old offender, on learning that the The suspected party, police were in the house, jumped from the verandah and ran off. He was captured a little later and taken to the Police Station, where he complained of pains in the back. Accordingly he was taken to the hospital, but was sent back as a malingerer, He continued, however, to complain of pains, and the Magistrate decided to remand him till the 29th inst. for medical observation. The Fuspicion of malingering hardly seems reasonable in the circumstances.
A enrions case of a freak of nature is reported in the vernacular papers. says the Japan Herald A two-month-old child of Mr. Idzumii Yoshiji of Daitomura, Yoshino district, in Yamato pro-ince, has since birth been suffering from a swelling just under the left eye. The child was admitted to the Ogaka Hospital on May 26th for treatment. Two days later, when an operation was performed, a diminutive human being, perfect in all parts, that the doctors are of opinion that this was a was taken from the swelling. The report adds
imperfectly under the skin of the other. It oase of twins, and that one of the two developed should be added that the native Japanese journals are quite able to cope with scarcity
of news.
Mr. C.L Gorham for $360, being $20 above the upset price. There was no competition.
A soldier of the Baluchi Regiment proseant- The body of a European sailor was founded a Chinaman for the theft of 845. It appears floating in the harbour near the Canton Wharf that one day last week the Baluchi came to on June 24th.
He was a man apparently of Hongkong with $45 in his pocket. He clang. 45 years of age, 5 ft. 7 inches in height and was
ed a five dollar bill into small money at a money- dressed in dark jacket and trousers. In his pocket was found a flat bottle, from which the changer's and wrapped the silver with the notes cork had been taken out.
in a handkerchief which he placed in his breast He was subsequently pocket. The Chinamen jostled him and one identified as Samuel Pearce of the s.s. Anglo- made off with the handkerchief containing the Canadiau.
money. The Baluchi gave chase and captured the thief, who in the meantime had passed the money on to a confederate. Determined to escape at all costs, the Chinaman pulled a knife from his pocket and ont bis queue, leaving it in the hands of his captor. Again the Buluchi followed him till the thief ran up an entry. Here the soldier kept guard until the arrival of the police, who ultimately secured the thief. He was sentenced to three weeks' bard labour and pix hours in the stocks.
The Japan Chronicle learns from a vernsonlar contemporary that a new agreement has been concluded between the Nippon Yusen Kaisha and the Great Northern Steamship Company, The agreement is binding for ten years, and differs in no material toint from the previous contract. It wan conoluded at St. Paul between Mr. Hill, President of the G.N. Company, and Mr. Yatsui, representative of Mr. Kondo, President of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha.
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