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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXV.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
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A Bad Decree .................................................
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 26т¤ JANUARY, 1907.
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The Chinese Volunteers under foreign instructors made their first appearance on the Shanghai Band last week.
His Majesty the King has been advised to exercise his power of disallowance with respect to Ordinance No. 17 of 1906, entitled-An 47 Ordinance to amend the Widows' and Orphans'
Passion Fund Ordinance, 1900.
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Yuan Shih-kai.
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Another "Model Bettlement
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Hongkong's Statues...
Japan and China
Hongkong Sanitary Board Supreme Court
Another Highway Robbery
Bravery Recognised
The Governor's Return
Sale of Naval Vessels
Junk Bay Flour Mill
European Lidy Robbed
Shanghai Municipal Council for 1907
Companies:
The Hongkong Land Investment and Agenoy
Company. Limited
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We are officially informed that, subject to audit, the directors of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Limited, will recom mend at the forthcoming meeting a dividend of 12 per cont=$6.00 per share, pass $50,000 to 52 special
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and carry forward about $393,000.
The principal officia's and residents of Taipeh, Formosa, meeting on the 8th instant, resolved Y300,000 in memory of the late General Kodama to establish a museum at Taipeh at a cost of formerly Governor-General of Formosa, and Baron Goto, ex-Chief of the Civil Affairs Bureau in the Formosan Government.
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The West Point Building Company, Limited 52 Indo-China Steam Navigation Company
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Correspondence
Canton-Kowloon Railway Loan Agreement Confucian Revival
Philippine-Japanese Association
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Slave Hunter Killed
Opium Pourparlers
Administrative Experiments in Cochin-China
So Soon?
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Swatow Railway Report
Another Peking Decree
Interesting Chinese Claim at Manila
The Famine in Chinkiang
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Steamship Subsidies
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Ma Dat San, the Boycott Leader
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Canton
The "Craik Children's Fund "*
Kulangsu (Amoy) Municipal Council The Scotch Concert
Commercial..
Shipping
DEATHS.
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Messrs. E. 8. Kadoorie & Co, are in receipt of 54 telegraphic advices from Shanghai, informing them of the declaration of dividends in the undermentioned Companies:-Shanghai Land Investment Co., Ltd., Tls. 3 and a bonus of Tls. 51 per share. Lau Kung Mow Cotton Spinning
& Weaving Co., Ltd., Tls 8 per share,
The Right Rev. Dr. Joseph Charles Hoare, 6 D.D., Bishop of Victoria, Hongkong, left 57 personal estate in the United Kingdom valued at £3,694. By his will dated April 10th, 1891. the testator left the whole of his estate to his widow, Mrs. Ellen Tunnicliffe, Hoare. of "enchleys, Limpsfield, Surrey of Bishop's Lodge, Hongkong,
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On January 15th, at Manchester, England, PERCY HOWARD Twice, formerly of Shanghai, aged 46 years.
On January 16th, at Shanghai, DAVID CONKLIN (late Tidesurveyor of the Imperial Maritime Customs), aged 71 years.
On January 16th, at Kiel (Germany). C. Wrer MUSS, Lower Yangtze Pilot, of heart failure, aged 43 years.
On January 17th, at Shanghai, Soloman DAVID HAYEEN, of small-pox, aged 28 years.
and late
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Shares are now on the market of the Japan Ham Curing Company, which is being floated will be able to pay a dividend from the first year, in Tokyo. It is expected that the new concern
it is estimated that a dividend of 40 per cent and when the company is in full working order, will be available. The company's capital is fixed at Y1,000,000, in 20,000 shares, of which 5,000 are now on the market.
At Des Your Road. West near Eastern Street on January 19th a blind Chinaman was
Hongkong Weekly Press. knooket over by tramear No. 27, and had his
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VEUX ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English mail of 28th December arrived per the ss. Devanha, on Thursday, the 24th inst,
FÅR EASTERN NEWS.
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The Lyceum Theatre at Shanghai is to be repaired at a total cost of Tls. 6,034.
The chief of the Pootung native police has been arrested and sent to Nanking on a charge of conniving at the smuggling of arms at Shanghai.
The handsome edifice occupied by the Department of Communications in Tokyo has just been destroyed by fire. The loss to the Government is estimated at a million yen
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face severely cut, The police removed him to stitch a nasty gush on his forehead. to the Civil Hospital, where a doctor proceeded proved a difficult task, however, as the sufferer feared he was in the hand of robbers, and raised cries that they were trying to prick his eyes out and to robhim, the while struggling to free himself. Eventually he had to be strapped down, and then his wounds dressed.
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Messrs. G. Fenwick & Co., Ltd. launched from their new yard at North Point on January 18th one of two steel sternwheel steamers now building for service on the inland water- ways of French Indo-China, The vessel is 145 feet long and 25 feet beam, and is being fitted with comfortable and commodious accommodation for all classes of passengers while freight cao also be carried on the lower decks. A boiler of the locomotive type working under forced draft will supply steam to the propelling engines which are of the compound surface condensing type. The usual auxiliary machinery is also fitted.
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Fifty years ago this month, the Chinese servants in Hongkong were all deserting foreign employers in consequence of notices having been circulated among them that those who Chinese authorities. The relatives of loyal remained would be treated as traitors by the
servants were got at, and molested. Things were so bad that it was seriously recommended that all women and children should go to live on board the ships then in harbour, until reinforce- ments should arrive.
their respective Naval bases for the future Navy It is proposed to create four squadrons with of the Chinese Empire, under the following designations:-(1) The Lisohai (Yellow Sea) squadron, with its Naval base at Chaoshan island in the Misotao group. (2) Pohai (Gult of Pechibli) squadron, with its Naval base at Shantang coast. near Weihaiwei. (3) Chêhai Yangohêng, in the Bay of that name, où the (Waters of the Chusan Archipelago) squadron. with Naval base at Hsiangshan island, in that group, and (4) Yüchhai (Sonth China Sea) squadron, with Naval base at Pakhoi, island of
Hainan.
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Shortly after nine o'clock on January 20th fire broke out on the second floor of a roast meat shop at 101 Queen's Road West, The damage done was triding, and the inmates extinguished the fire without the assistance of Carlowitz and Co. for $2,000. At about 2 a.m. the brigada. The shop is insured with Messrs. next morning a second outbreak in a piecegoods shop on the first floor of 72 Jervois Street and spread to the second floor. The brigade, under Chief Inspector Baker, were promptly on the scene and after about an hour's hard work qualled the fire. The damage done is not serious, the water gausing more injury than the fames. 814,000 with Messrs. Meyerink & Co. 87,000 The shop was insured for with Messrs. Reuter Brockelmann & Co., and $1,500 with Messrs. Butterfield & Swire.
A SENSATIONAL ARREST AT
SHANGHAI.
January 21st, says:
A telegram to the Daily Press dated Shanghai,
In the United States' Court Mr. C. A. Biddle, general manager and secretary of the Hotel Metropole was sued for obtaining 6,000 taels on a false pretence from certain Chinese who rented the native grand staud wherein, at the last Races, the usual gambling was prohibited. Judgment was given in favour of the plaintiffs.
Judge ordered Mr. Biddle's arrest and the At the conclusion of the qivil action the institution of criminal proceedings.
JAPANESE SQUADRON DAMAGED.
A telegram to the Daily Press, dated Tokyo, January 21st, says:
for Hawaii on the 13th inst. encountered The training squadron which left Yokohams extraordinarily violent storms. The ships got sepirated, and as coal and water supplies were becoming prematurely exhausted, the flagship returned, followed later by the others. Several of the vessels lost boata, and had numbers of their men injured,
A big tidal wave is reported from Chibs.
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