THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXIV.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS,
Epitome
Leading Articles :-
Extensions at Shangbai
Difficulties Against Chinese Reform
Quarterly Trade Returns from Canton
The Bitnation in France
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 3RD SEPTEMBER, 1906.
PAGK
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FAR EASTERN NEWS.
No. 9
The Throne has sanotioned the propositions for the establishment of national paper works
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A big seam of good "smokeless" coal has and printing offices at Peking, Tientsin, and ..125 been discovered in Japan.
Shanghai, The paper factory will produce European paper, like Chinese paper, for the use of the divers administrations of the Empire. The printing works will be exclusively reserved for printing the necessary books for the public and private schools and colleges. Europeana and Japanese will be appointed to direct these
A Plea for a Dignified National Conscience ...127 Conditions in Manchuria
Congresses
Hongkong Jattings
Arts and Crafts Exhibition
Supreme Court
Licensing Conrt
Fruits of the Commission
Remarkable Chinese Story of Real Life
The Bishop on Opium
V.R.C. Fete......
Shooting ....................
The Opium Farm
Volunteer Troop Gymkhana
Macao
Chinese Pearl Smugglers.
North China
Chinese Emigration
The Extension of Shanghai Settlement
Anti-Opinm Argumenta
Wholesale Murder in Kwangtung
French Indo-Chinese Railway
Shanghai Councillors Differ
Silk in China
The Yangtse steamer Service
Canton Chair Coolies on Strike.
Pirates Attack Salt Boats
Hongkong and the Kwangtung Railway
Companies.--
Hongkong Cotton Spinning Weaving
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Sir John Anderson opened a very successful agri-horticultural show at Singapore on August 16th.
A Belgian company asked permission to install 128 electric tramways in Peking, but the application
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has been refused.
Japanese papers say that Sir Claude Mac- 130 Donald, British Ambassador, will leave for 131 home about October 15th.
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According to official returns, the foreigners ..136
.197 now imprisoned in Japan are 16 Chinese, 7 137 Koreans, 3 Britons, 3 Russians, and 1 French. ..137 man.
Several capitalists of Osaka and Kobe seek to establish a shipbuilding yard at Aizawa, in the district of Akao, near Kobe.
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138 A contemporary says that the statue of Queen ..133 Victoria in Bangkok is becoming an object of 138 veneration to some of the people, who bow to it 138 in the same way as to the figure of Buddha.
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The China Review remarks:-It is a most noticeable fact, and one that should open the eyes of many to what is going on-that, of the fourteen vessels at the Taku anchorage, no less than ten are Japanese !
peace are
The situation in Persia seems to be not unlike that in China. The disturbers of the 140 mainly students, and their ambition is a repre- sentative constitution. Reforms have been promised, but not granted.
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Hongkong Hotel Company
Dyeing Company, Limited
South Manchuria Railway Company
South Manchuria Railway Company
Shanghai's Chinese Population......
What Japanese Are Taught About England. The Tairen and Antung Customs Stations...
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Miscellaneous..
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Commercial.
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On August 31st, at 7, Stewart Terrace, Peak, the wife of the Honourable Mr. EDWARD OSBORNE, a daughter.
On August 21st, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. ALBEECHT SCHULTZ, a daughter.
A Tientsin telegram to the Daily Prese dated Aug 30th, said:-Mr. N. Laptev, consul for Russia, Portugal and Denmark, was shot yesterday in the Consulate by s Polish resident, and died to-day. The mur derer has been arrested.
Two fatalities are attributable to the thunder storm which passed ovet Hongkong on Sunday. A cook at Hunghom while preparing the midday m al was struck by lightning and killed On August 22nd, at Shanghai, the wife of S. A. instantly. A similar fate befel a youth in SEREBRENIKOW, of a daughter. [Mrs. Serebreni-charge of a sampan, kow was married at Hongkong, where she was Miss Queenie Strachan.]
MARRIAGE.
On August 11th, at the Imperial German Cou- sulate, Tientsin, CAROLINE GERTRUD, daughter of EMIL GIFTERICH, to LEOPOLD BIELFELD.
DEATH,
On August 18th, at Shanghai, ANDREW MC- KECHNIE, of Kilmarnock, Scotland, Firet Officer, Revenue Cruiser Ping Ching, Imperial Maritime Customs, aged 52
years.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS:
The German Mail of S1st Jaly arrived, per the 88. Prinz Heinrich, on Monday, the 27th nitimo; and the French Mail of August 3rd <arrived, par the s.s, Aalarie, to:day.
Nearly three weeks ago a train proceeding from Harbin for Changchun was attacked by a band of Hunghuizes near Imaho. The driver was obliged to stop, and the train WES plundered. About 50 passengers were captured. When the Russian soldiers arrived the next day they found six passengers had been killed.
Though the recent fracas between Indians and Chinese at Yaumali bas intensified the feelings of animosity between the two peoples there, the extra precautions of the polioa have prevented a recurrence of the disturbance. An outbreak was expected on Saturday, but the report so far is that all is quiet in the neigh
bourhood.
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A contemporary remarks:-Should Sir Robert Hart resign at this time his successor is almost sure to be his deputy in the administration of the Maritime Customs, Sir Robert Bredon, who is well known to be in favour of certain reforms in the personnel of the Customs staff which would be a concession to Chinese pride and help tlem to regard with less dimatisfaction the system of administration, at present entirely in the hands of foreigners,
national establishments.
Omitting cente, following were the total Customs collections for the June quarter at local ports. The figures in parentheses are for the corresponding quarter of 1906. Amoy Tls, 201,049 (189,145), Swatow Tis. 340,391 (375,471), Canton ' ls. 720,347 (713 614), Kong. moon Tis 29,108 (26,804), Samshui Tls. 36,672 (44,231), and Wachow Tls. 101,048 (137,935) The quarterly total for all thirty ports was Hongkong Tls, 8,960,971, against Tls. 9,613,371 in the same quarter of 1905.
Even at the new tariff, at which the socialists are protesting and trying to institute a boycott. Tokyo's tram service will be the cheapest in the world. From any part of the city to any other part it will be only a penny. There would be something to say if electric trams could be ran at exceptionally cheap rates in Tokyo. But they can not. Not only is coal very dear but also all the plant of the power stations and all machinery of the cars have to be imported thousands of miles over-sea, so that, on the
whole, the generating of power and the equip ping of a line cost more than they do in Europe or America.
The Chinese opium smuggler is nothing if not resourceful, observes the Bangkok Times. There came from Hongkong to Bangkok, by the Lovsok the other day, a Chinaman whose principal luggage consisted of a signboard of portentous size and weight. Never before was such a signboard brought to Bangkok. The Customs guards sat round and admired it, from every point of view. They went so far sa to bore a small hole in it and this led them to obtain other tools with the result that it was found not to be of solid wood, but of thin boards back and front, cunningly joined to a square frame. The interior was hollow and filled with fat tins all containing opium. The owner of the sign was then arrested.
A Chinese accountant carrying a parcel con- taining $10 in twenty cent pieces, engaged a chair in Wellington Street to take him to Morrison Hill Road. Before seating himself in the chair he placed his money in a corner of the seat. At Morrison Hill Road, on slighting, he entered a friend's house quite forgetting his valuable parcel. Some ten minutes after- wards he missed it, and after searching the the matter at No. 2 Police Station. He told vicinity for the chair without avail, he reported
the police he could not remember the number of the chair, but thought be could recognise the bearers. A detective was despatched to assist him in his search sad some time afterwards the chair was found on the stand near Thomas' Hotel. The accountant asked the bearers what had become of his $ 00, but they knew nothing about the matter, and on the chair being examined the parcel was found where he had left it. The coolies received a aimshaw of twenty cents.
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