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Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXIV.]
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Leading Articles :--
China Overland Trade Report.
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The Chinese and Foreign Lore
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 14TH JULY, 1906.
An American journal, desirous of insinuating delicately that Mr. Speaker Cannon at 73 will be too old for a presidential candidate, remarks that "the American people are not in the habit of giving a man nuts after he has lost his
teeth."
The Directors of the Shanghai Gas Company, 18 Ltd, have declared an interim dividend for the 19 half-year ended 30th June last at the rate of 7 per cent. or Tls. 3.50 per share, on the paid-up capital of the Company, payable on the 25th instant.
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The Chinese and Opium
Big Ships
The Kowloon-Canton Railway
Japanese in Manchuria
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Hongkong Jottings
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
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Supreme Court
A Shipping Combine
The Government Commission
A Distinguished Chinese Visitor
Expenditure on Public Works for 1906
Drowning Fatality
Public Buildings ༤*་ ་ མ*་ས ན་
Work Under the Building Ordinance
The New Load Line
Fire on the "Taming
The Kowloon-Canton Railway
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Macao
Determined Attempt at Suicide
Correspondence ....
The Harbour Ablaze
H. & S. Bank Dividend
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British Shipping to Japan
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During the first quarter of 1906 the exporta tion of rice from Saigon has risen to 131,339 tons. The principal destinations were: France, 26 28,375 tons; Dutch Indies, 22,285 tons; 20 Philippines. 19,265 tons; Hongkong, 15,511 20 tons; and Japan, 345,826 tons.
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The new Harbour Office, which is now 26 completed and ready for occupation, will be 27 opened on Monday, 16th instant. The new office is in Connaught Road Central (New 27 Praya) nearly opposite the Hongkong, Canton
and Macao Steamboat Co.'s wharf,
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The Echo de Chine states that there has been found, blocked in the ice near Nicolaivesk, the German steamer Scrabaya, which tried to run the blockade of Port Arthur in the late war, and of which there has been no news until now. All the men on board had been frozen to death. The Parsees of Hongkong have engaged counsel to represent them in the Shanghai litigation to which we recently referred. The case is whether the trustees for certain property in Shanghai may use it for purposes not 32 specified in the trust. deeds, if objection be
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The matshed at Blake Pier is being re-roofed at present. Apparently nothing is to be done yet to remove the ugly erection and replace it with something more in keeping with the importance of this landing place.
The many friends of Mr. H. W. Merrill will regret to hear of his untimely end at the early age of 30. Mr. Merrill was taken to the Government Civil Hospital on the 4th instant, where it was found he had contracted an attack
of typhoid fever, from which he died yesterday. He was an assistant in the town office of the Quarry Bay Sugar Works, and was a well-known amateur photo- grapher, his photos in Messrs. Loong Hing's exhibition, and in a later exhibition at Shanghai, winning commendations from experts in the art.
On the 12th July by order of the mort gagee, Mr. Lammert, auctioneer, put up- for sale by public auction all that piece or parcel of ground situate at Shaukiwan Road and registered in the Land Office as Inland Lot No. 1,705. The lot has an area of 207,900 square feet, and is held for a term of 999 years granted by a Crown lease dated February 1st, 1904, subject to the payment of an annual Crown rent of $478. Erected on the said lot is the 'valuable property known as the Metropole Hotel. As at the previous day's sale, there were evidently only two intending purchasers ont of the number present. Bidding opened at $20,000, and rose: slowly to $26,000, at which figure the property was knocked down to Mr. Ley Sing-kin. Mr. F. X. d'Almada e Castro was the solicitor for the
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On the 11th July Mr. G. P. Lammert, auctioneer, offered for sale by public auction, by order of the mortgagee, section 5 of Kow-
Hongkong Weekly Press. that the fact of a workman completing twenty- loon Inland Lot No. 1,011, together with the
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
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The English Mail of June 15th arrived, per the ss. Delhi, on Wednesday, July 11th, at day"
light.
FAR EASTERN NEWS..
His Excellency the Governor will officially open the new Harbour Offices on Monday morning at 10 o'clock,
The proposed reduction of the garrisons of Indo-Chins is meeting with adverse criticism from the French journals.
The pay of the employees of the Imperial Railways in North China has been raised in order to stop the squeezing reported by one of our correspondents some time ago..
The meteorological observations, taken at the Hongkong Obervatory during the month of June show that the total maximum temperature was 87.2 deg, the minimum 78.9 deg., and the total rainfull 5:895 inches.
five years' service in a firm is regarded as worthy of a paragraph "in these days of labour troubles". Apropos we may mention, the death this week of a compositor who has been in the employment of the Daily Press for the long period of 47 years.
Prince Ching has approached the Foreign Ministers with a view to drawing up special in Chins to supersede or enlarge on the regulations to control the Christian missions indefinite clauses in the existing treaties. The Ministers are said by the Naufangpao to have agreed to receive and refer China's suggestions to their Governments for constation.
Several bathing parties had a somewhat interesting experience at Stonecutter's on Wednesday evening. The launch Kwong Tung when the mixed party on board decided that it had apparently anchored too near the shore, and was time to return they learned that the vessel had grounded. Two launches came to her assistance and after considerable excitement, due to the ropes slipping, she was pulled off and returned to Hongkong without further adventure.
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The writer of the "Lettre de Hongkong" in L'Avenir du Tonkin, says that the arrival of a French dentist in the Colony appears to have created some excitement among the Americans who exercise this lucrative balling. The teeth drawers speak of nothing less than the creation of a monopoly.. In a port so free as Hongkong it is enough to bring ridicule on oneself to express such a bizarre idea. Monopolies cannot take root in city so largely open to free competition and the development of all energies.
messuage or tenement and other erections
thereon, known as No. 10, Kennedy Street, Yaumati. Also a mortgage debt dated 21st. October 1901, on the remaining undivided moiety of the said section for the repayment of the sum of $2,700 and interest at 6 per cent. per annum. The premises are held for the residue of the term of 75 years, created therein subject to the payment of a Crown rental of by a Crown lease dated July 24th, 1900, and $7. The property has an area of 1,147 square feet. There was a good attendance, but bidding to Mr, Yeung Hing-yip for $3,500. Mr. Otto was not brisk, and the lot was eventus ly sold Kong Sing was the solicitor for the mortgagee.
particulars of an extraordinary and unaccount- Tientsin papers of the 2nd instant contain able outrage committed by a coolie on Mr. Collins & Co. The coolie entered the compound O'Hara, one of the junior mess of Messrs. of the hong about 7 a.m. on. Saturday, the 30th ult., passed the watchman without challenge, : 1ook a rifle with bayonet fixed from a stand in the hall, and made his way to Mr. O'Hara's bedside. Mr. O'Hara was fortunately half. awake and just in time realised he was being attacked. He sprang out of bed on the wall- side and shouted for help. His next room colleague, Mr. Dixon, rushed in and attacked the coolie with another bayonet, but in the meantime Mr. O'Hara had sustained several nasty wounds. It was not until Mr. Morling arrived with a stout stick that the coolie was eventually laid out. Mr. O'Hara happily escaped any fatal injury, though only narrowly. The motive for the attack is unknown, but insanity is suggested.
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