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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXIV.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
British Industries and German Views ..........
Epitome
Leading Articles:--
Are American Treaties Worthless?
Evidence in Official Letters
European Hon and Asiatic Ducklings
Foreign Stock in Chinese Shops
Unprincipled Abbreviation...
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 10TH DECEMBER, 1906,
PAGE
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386
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Alleged Insurance Frands
The Bank Note Trick
༢༢༢ ..389 389 300 ..394 ..391
A New Territory Tragedy.
-394
Successful Salvage
Hotel Manager Drowned
Anti-Opium Unreason
St. Andrew's Ball.
Supreme Court
Arrival of Acting Governor
International Walking Match
Hongkong Corinthian Yacht Club
Canton
Trade With Newchwang...
No. 23
The high dollar and increased price of com.
Hongkong èèleekly Press. modities in Hanoi has induced a number of
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A. DES Vœux ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREKT, E.C ́
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of Nova-nber 6th arrived per the ss. I'rin: Eitel Friedrich, on Tuesday, the 4th instant; and the French Mail of November 9th arrival, pr the ss. Yarra
394 to-day.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
French residents to form a bakery.
co-operative
the
On November 23rd Mr. Asakawa, Japanese Minister to Mexico, telegraphed to the Foreign Offỏe in Tokyo, stating that the Mexican Government-with a view to checking the export of silver due to the advance in price
had adopted a lav imposing a duty of 10 per cent, ad valorem on the export of Mexican dollars. The law came into force on Novembǝr 19th.
This is from the anti-opiam journal Friend of China: The Chinese authorities have recently proposed to tax the home-grown drug at half the rateofthe Indian drug, on the ground of its milder properties. No sound and sufficient answer has bern attempted to their proposal; and the fact upon which it is based is incontrovertible The
Civil administration was inaugurated at New. Chinese drug is a less deadly instrument of ....39chwang on the 1st inst.
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391
British Borneo
304
-391
Correspondence..
.....395
Hongkong Typhoon Relief Fund
395
325
Ipoh Official on Chinese Pleasures
39%
Macao
.397
Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., Lt 1.
.397
The Census
304
Sectarian Squabbles in Chekiang
.398
New Bridges for Shanghai
398 -398
Shanghai Roads Congested
308
Chinese Railway Funda
.399
Medical Misadventure at Manila
399
Sir Robert Hart's Circular...
.400
Revenue and Expenditure
The Seoul Telephone Service
400
The New Swatow Railway
400
Duty on Korean and Chinese Gooda
490
Water Return
.401
His Excellency's Health
401
H.E. the Governor
401
Double Welding
41
Miscellaneous
401 401 4444
Commercial Shipping
BIRTHS.
.400
On November 28th, to Mr. and Mrs. SCHMIDT-
DECARLI, of the (ierman Bank, Kobe, a daughter. On November 27th, at Shanghai, the wife of JAMES CLARK, I, M. C., of a daughter.
On November 29th, at 10 Knutsford Terrace, Kowloon, the wife of R, W. M. LONGRIDGE, M.A.,
R.N., of a son.
On November 30th, at Shanghai, the wife of A. R. LEAKE, of a daughter.
On December 2nd, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. H BOLD SHALLARD a son.
At Shanghai, the wife of D. R. McEvɛn, of a daughter.
At Shanghai, the wife of C. RASMUSSEN, of a
BOIL.
MARRIAGES.
The Protector has begun salvage operatious in connection with the German steamer Petrarch.
The Hazel Dollar is discharging a full cargo of choice wheat in Junk Bay for the Hongkong Milling Company.
Major Pritchard is to be entertained to a farewell dinner by the members of the Hong kong Volunteer Corps on the 18th inst.
Considerable progress has been made with the raising of the suuken steam›r Kwongchow, which has now been lifted some distance from
the bottom.
The Waiwapu has obtained the permission of the Throna to draw Tls 180,0) from the Treasury of the Tientsin Customs Tuotai for the purpose of building the new offices of that Ministry.
It is stated that H.E. Viceroy Chou Fa has given instructions to instal wireless telegraph statins in Canton, Whampao and the forts at Humen (Bocca Tigris) at the entrance to the Canton River.
Viceror Shum is still at Shanghai, under medical care, it is stated. It is also added that
he is reluctant to face an audience at Peking, and wants to go direct to his new post, after a few months' holiday,
The Chinese Chamber of Commerce at Shanghai is troubled by the risk to life involved by the foreign introduction of electric trains, They have asked the Taotai to take steps to minimise the danger.
A local riot has taken place at Pinghsiang in On October 20th, at St. Patrick's R. C. Church the Kiangsi provica. The German engineers by the Rev. Father Cassidy C. C. Detective-Ser-employed at the Chinese mines retired to Siang- geant EDMOND O'SULLIVAN, Hongkong Police, fan, afterwards proceeding to Chang-ha. The son of Thomas O'Sullivan, Curradufe House, Governor of Nanchang is sending troops to Newmarket County Cork, to MARIA, third daugh- quell the outbreak. ter of the late idichael Armstrong, King Street, Cork.
In reply to a letter from the Hongkong On November 29th, at Shanghai, GEORGR | Chamber of Commerce, the Shanghai Chamber Galloway WALLACE to MIRIAM STEAD.
has agreed to recommend another memorial to On December 1st, at Shanghai, ALFRED C. the Diplomatic Corps at Paking, in connection CLEAR, to ETTA GRAY.
with currency reform, on lines similar to those sent in 1903 and 1914.
DEATHS,
On November 28th, at Shanghai, ETHEL Louise (DOLLY) the wife of Francis Schwyzer, aged 27 years,
On November 28th, at Shanghai, CHARLOTTE NEUBOURG, aged 21 years.
On December 4th at 11 p.m., Mr. T. SAKATA, sub-manager of the Yokohama Specie Bank.
It is reported that a preliminary survey has been made of the French torpedo bost destroyer Fronde, but this survey has not yet been made public. The Duck Co. are said to be preparing a tender for repairs, but it is doubtful whether the cost of these will not prohibit the vessel being again made seaworthy.
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A Seoul massage states that the Korean Finance Department has reso'ved to dispatch officials into various provinces to collect tavas. When this is done it is maintaine that it will be impossible for local authorities to extort additional sums by "squeezing." and for this reason, it is said, the Governors of districts in Chyolla Province are inciting the people to oppose the revenue officials in every possible
way.
The telephone service was introduced into Japan in 1890, and it has rapidly and steadily developed, there being at the present time throughout Japan 35 telephone exchange offices, 201 call offices and 141 automatic telephone boxes, while subscribers number 35,704 and over 30,00 more intending subscribers are awaiting their tarn to be connected. The length of the telephone lines thoughout Japan is 34.705
miles.
When the police raided the servanda' quartora at Queen's Buildings on December 7th with the view of capturing gamblers, their appearance was the signal for a stampede on the part of the lift boys and servants. Many escaped in the darkness and one lift boy who sought to evade arrest by leaping from a window on the third story lost his life. He alighted on his head and fractured his skull, dying a few hours later in the hospital.
It is reported from Peking that H.E. Chang Kong, Tartar General of Ili, Northern Chinese Turkestan, has asked permission from the Throne to borrow at the usual business rate of
interest the sum of Tls. 260,000 from the Hupu Bank (Revenue Bank) which he requires for the purchase of a complete cotton spioning and wearing plant. His Excellency intends to star his mill in the city of Turfan, situated not far south of Tibus (Urumtsi), the capital of Chine Turkestan.
A landslip occurred on Peo. 6th at the site for the new power station for the Electrio Light Company, at Wanchai, as a result of which three men were killed. About a dozen coolies were employed cutting the face of the hillside, when without warning, a mass of earth weighing three or four tons, fell and buried most of the men. Those who escaped promptly went to the rescue of their comrades and succeeded in liberating them all, but not before three of the entombed men had been smothered. The others wera uninjured.
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