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Hongkong Weekly Press.
HONGKONG Office: 10A, DES VŒUX ROAD CL .............................. 94 LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C
The Inspectorate General of Customs..
Colonista
China's Constitution to be....
Hongkong Jottings
Supreme Court
Marine Magistrate's Court
Cherchez la Femme
In View of Piracy
Flucky Chinese Rewarded
Volunteer Church Parade Accident on a Launch Accelerated Mails........
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of July 17th arrived, per 98 the ss. Sachsen, on Tuesday, the 14th instant: and the French Mail of July 20th is expected to 99 arrive, per the ss. Polynesien, some time to-day.
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The appointment of the Attorney General, 10 Sir H. S. Berkeley, as one of His Majesty's
Counsel at Hongkong, is gazetted.
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Fruit of the Commission
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Politics or Impolitaness?
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Conference of Hongkong Cotton Dealers
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Warning to Hongkong Carriers
Alleged Triple Murder
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Macao
Canton
The Future of Shameen
Canton and British Imports
The Railway Funds
Correspondence
Another West River Piracy
Interport Cricket
China Ports and Trade
Japan's Foreign Trade
Companies.-
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Mr. J. W. Ross-Taylor, lately manager of the Russo-Chinese Bank here, has been appointed 101 general manager in Japan of the Anglo- 101 Japanese Bank.
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Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation...143 Hongkong, Canton and Alacao Steamboat Co..
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Chefoo Municipality..
Japanese Gunboat Launched at Shanghai.
A New Steamboat Service
Commercial...................... Shipping
BIRTHS.
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Dr. Sren Hedin is making good progress on his journey to the northern frontier of Kashmir. He will presumably enter Western Tibet from Chinese Turkestau in the course of the next two
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Messrs. E. S. Kadoorie & Co. re in receipt of telegraphic advice from Shanghai to the effect that the Shanghai and Hongkow Wharf and Godown Co. has declared an interim 106 dividend of 1 s. 8 per share.
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On June 30th, at Oldenburg, Germany, the wife of E. RUHSTRAT, L. i. Customs, of a daughter. On July 26th, at "Taikoo," Tientsin, the wife of G. T. EDKINE, of a son.
On August 10th, at Peitaiho, the wife of KARL F. MELCHERS, Tientsin, of a dˇughter,
On August 18th, at No. 12, Arbuthnot Road, the wife of CHABLES MOONEY, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On July 10, at Edinburgh, FRANCIS ARTHUR AGLEN, CO missioner, Imperial Maritime Customs, China, to ISABEL MARION ÁGNES (SendA), daughter of Professor BAYLEY BALFOUR, Iverleith House, Edinburgh.
On August 11, at Shanghai, GERALD Cross, Surgeon, R.N., eldest son of JoHN CRoss, M.D., London, to ETH L GRAY, daughter of James GRAT, Shanghai.
DEATHS
At the Peak Hospital, on the 10th inst, SACL AB- DULLA JOFEPH, aged 56 years. Deeply regretted. Shanghai and Indian papers please copy. [1566 On July 28th, at Ardoch, Kuling, Auick, third daughter of the late JAMES JOHNSION, banker, Dumfries, Ecotland.
On August 3rd, at the Shanghai General Hospital, LEONILDA, wife of Mr. A. HAHM, of Hongkong.
Or August 3rd, at St. Brise, Jersey, W. J. CLARKE, late of Shaughai, in his 68th year.
On August 9th, at Nagasaki, Japan,{|zan Baix NEESON, aged 2 years and 11 months.
ROZALIA PRISCA Ricci e Remedios, filhos e genros com summa magos p∙rticipam a todos os-
sens paréntes, amigos e conhecidos em Hongkong
e Macan ó fallecimento de seu caro esposa, pse e
sogro, Serafim BuNJAMIN DOS BEMEDIOS que occorreu em Shanghai aos 20 de Julho p.p., e pedem-que não se esqueçaur d'elle nas suas orações.
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Messrs. E. 8. Kadoorie & Co. are advised that the Maatschappij tot Mijn, Bosch-en Landbouwerploitatie in Langkat, has declared a third interim dividend of Tis. 74 per share making Tls. 22 so far for this year.
A dispatch from Nanchang, the capital of Kiangsi province, reports that ten men were executed outside the Tehsheng gate of that city at daybreak on July 3. They had taken part in the murderous attacks on missionaries.
From the extract of meteorological observa- tions made at the Hongkong Observatory during the month of July we note that the ttal maximum temperature was 87,7 deg the minimum, 79.5 deg.; and the total rainfall
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According to a statement emanating from Peking the Travelling Commissioners have already presented a memorial to the Emperor and the Empress. Dowager recommending the adopt on of the Japanese constitution as most suited to the special conditions obtaining in China.
The track of the Whampoa line has already been surveyed and pegged out and the prices the Company is to pay for the land published. In connection with this. it is proposed to enlarge the harbour at Whampoa and the prices to be paid for land required by Government ha e also been fixed.
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The attempt of the Shanghai Taotai to show that the Mixed Court compound is not in the jurisdiction of the Municipal Council failed. Armed police attended to stop the building that was being erected ia defiance of the Council, and though workmen came, they did not persist in the job. Volunteers were armed for a day or two, but all passed off quietly.
A Peking telegram reports the arrival in that city of Dr. Timothy Richard on the 6th inst. It will be remembered that Dr. Richard was invited to Peking by the Ministers of the Waiwupa to confer with them in reference to a proposed " Religions" Treaty for the mainteh- ance of thorough good relations between Christians and non-converts throughout the Empire.
A Tokyo telegram to the N.-C. Daily News saya that on August 8 a bundred mounted bandits attacked Pitsewo. A police troop delivered a counter-attack and after a stubborn resistance the bandits were flaslly repulsed, leaving five of their number dead and a large quantity of rides and ammunition in the handa of the police. There were no casualties on the Japanese side.
The Council of State Affairs is preparing & memorial to the Throne recommending the appointment of a Premier and two Vice Minis- ters-in-chief, who shall be placed at the head of affairs in Peking with control over the Great Boards, and that the Board of Rites be abolished as well as the minor cou ts with the exception of the Censorate. If this measure be sanctione:l Prince Ching is expected to be the first Premier nader the new régime.
There died at Chefoo on the 4th inst. Rear- Admiral Charles Jackson rain, commanding the Americau feet in Asiatic waters. The Admiral was sixty-one years old and had been in command of the Asiatic flet since September, 1904. He was spending the summer as usua at Chefoo, but had been down to the Philippines in order to receive the dry dock Dewey on its arrival there. The command of the set devolves ou Rear-Admiral Dayton, who with his flag- ship, the Rainbow, is now at Cavite.
The death took place last week at the Peak Hospital of Mr. B. A. Joseph, share and exchange broker, in his 57th year. The deceased, who occupied a leading position in the local Jewish community, beint a Hebrew writer of some repute, leaves a wife
Death was due to and four children. acute attack of pneumonis. Mr. Joseph orme to China in the 'seventies as agent for Sassoon and Company, but started business for himself io 1883.
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Kwok Tsan, the third wifeof the accountant. and manager of a firm of general dealers at 60, Bonham Strand, committed suicide by hanging on Aug. 13th. From details which the police gathered, it appears that er husband resides principally at Soochow. When last he visited Hongkong he took his first and second wives away with him. leaving the deceased here alone. It is alleged that she grew despondent, said her husband did not care for her, and at times threatened to end her life. At length she pat her threat into ex-cation, and when her room sided. cutinuously for over twelve years in
was entered on Monday morning her body was Hongkong. He was head store-keeper for the found hanging from a rail of the bed tester by Hongkong, Kowloon, and Whampoa Dock Co., | a handkerchief which was fastened round her Ltd. He died of typhoid fever.
The body of Sergeant William M. Deas, of the H; K. V. C., was interred at Happy Valley on August 18th with full military bonours. Mr. Deas was a native of Dundee, who had re-
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