THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXV.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
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Lending Articles:-
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 4TH FEBRUARY, 1907.
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Crown Agents
Powers and Persia .......
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Chinese Rebels
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The Roman and Chinese Empires
Gilbertian China
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Foreign Women in China
Chinese Militarism
Supreme Court
A Disastrous Squall
The Volunteers' Ball
The Hon. Mr. F. H. May
The Matilda Memorial Hospital
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St. John's Cathedral
Departure of Mr. T. Sercombe Smith Pedestrianism
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St. Stephen's College
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Anglo-Chinese District Schools.
Ellis Kadoorie
Diocesan School
Belilios Public School
Canton
Alleged Chinese Revolutionaries
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Singapore and district subscriptions to the 72 China Famine Relief Fund have reached about 73 827,000.
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Correspondence
Commercial Shipping
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BIRTH.
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The first plague cage for this year was reported on Jan. 25th. It was a Yuen Street West, and ended fatally.
The fret auto-bus to seat 41 pa-sengers was seen in Yokohama ou
Wednesday, the 16th January, and attracted much attention
Hongkong is being provided with a brewery. which is under construction at Woog-nei-cheong. Brewing will be commenced very shortly.
Last week's communicable disease included
the plague case already reported, three cases of diphtheria, five of enteric fever, and eleven of 78 smallpor.
The Civil Service Cooperative Store is to be opened at Beacon-fi-ld Arcade on March 25th. Members of the Army, Navy and Polic force are eligible to become shareholders.
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On January 21st, at Shanghai, the wife of A. MATHER PRICE, of a son.
On January 24th, at Shanghai, the wife of EDWARD THOMAS Joseph Blount, of a daughter. On January 24th, at Shanghai, the wife of A. D. Lowe, of a daughter.
On January 31st, at No. 8, Mosque Street. Hongkong the wife of Mr. JORGE ALBERTO BRITTO¦ DA SILVA, of a son.
Flags flying from the Donglas steamer Hailin and the figures 1660" displayed an nounced that the vessel on Jan. 25 celebrated the | completion of its sixth hundred trip to the coast
ports.
Unless the charges be mere pretexts to get otherwise objectionable men into their bands, the Shanghai native authorities evidently do, On January 25th, at Hampstend, the wife of J. believe that there are anti-dynastic spitators A. MACLEAN, of a son.
MARRIAGES
On January 23rd, at Shanghai, Dr. FRICK J. TOOKER, of Siangnan, to Dr. MARY E. FITCH,, of Soochow.
On January 29th, at St. Joseph's Church, HERBERT WILLIAM BURD, second son of Colonel- Commandant Frederic Vincent Gydfrey Bud, R.M.L.L., to NORA, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Y. V. Vernon of Hongkong.
On January 29th, at 2.30 p.m, at St. John's Cathedral, Miss MARY MARGARET PALMER daughter of Capt. C. H. Palmer, I. M.C.. Foca•how ~ to Mr. PAUL GOTTLOB Bauentz-s, of I.M.C... Pakhoi.
DEATHS.
On January 21st, at Yokohamin, Laura MALTA FERRAS HARNES, wife of Frank Hy. Barues, age 30 years.
seriously at work.
Paking in not going to punish Viceroy Shum · for his practical refusal to go to his Yun-kwei appointment. There is a rumour that he may be permitted to exchange with the Tarlar General of Mukden.
Messrs. E. S Kadeorie & Co, are in receipt af private telegraphic advices from Singapore informing them that the crushing of the Ranb¦ Australian Gold mining Co. Ltd. for the past four weeks yielded 84lozs smelted gold from 5,517 fons stone.
A Manila paper notes that Captain C. W. Mead, well known in Manila in former days, but for some years connected with the con- struction of the Canton-Hankow railway ini Chins, has returned to Manila and opened an
| office under the name of C, W. Mead and On January 24th, at Nanking, General TCHENS IC mpany, Civil and Consulting Engin sers. Ki-rova, aged 54 years, of sudden illness.
On Friday, 25 h January 1907, at Latell Villas, Certain American reformers, who talk of Kowloon, ALICE MURIEL (Moo) the youngest and England's sin against China in respect of opiam dearly loved child of Will and Nellie Hobbs-inflatter themselves that their own country is her sixth year.
clean handed. They ignore the supply and expertation of ginseng to the Far East, so equally sinful product. This reflection occurs in an American book by an American author –
On 26th January, FRANK J. MAITLAND of Messrs. Maitland & Co., Ltd, Shanghai.
On January 27th, at Shanghai, NELLIE MARY, -wife of A. V. Brown, aged 42 years.
Mr. Hulbert's work on Korea,
Co., 1 d.,. it has been decided by the Board of ceptance for the nuissued capital of 542 shares Directors that the date of payment and ac
to which shareholders are entitled in accordance with the oircular letter dated January 14th, 1907, shall be extended to March next for share. holders resident in China and Hongkong.
cil at Shanghai held a meeting with reference The members of the Chinese Municipal Coun. to the extension of the electric tramway to Sion. wei, which would necessitate the line passing through native territory under the jurisdiction of the Chinese Council. The members opposed a motion to allow the tramway to pass through Chinese territory and a memorial has been pre- sented by the Council to the Shanghai Taotai to that effect.
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by the Peking Government to appoint a The Universal Garette says:—It is decided Viceroy for Manchuria and three governors for each province. It is reported that Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai will be appointed Viceroy of Manchuria, Viceroy Taan Fang. Viceroy of Chilli, Viceroy Tsen Chun-banan, Viceroy at Nanking while Military Governor The report that Viceroy Teen Chun-bsasn Chao Erh-haun, will be Viceroy of Yunkwei. (Sham) has memorialized asking the Throne to grant him leave for a tour along the Yangsa.
is nufounded.
On the 26th January E. the Governor received a distinguished visitor in the person of Admiral C. Tamari at Government HousA, The Admiral who arrived in the Coloɑy the previous evening on board the Japanese cruiser Takachiko, landed at Blaka Pier, where a guard of honour from the Middlesex Regiment was drawn who recompanied him, the Japanese National up to receive him and the offi vers
Anthem being played by the Band as they stepped on the piers Chairs from Govèrnment House were in waiting, and the Admiral, after 'inspecting the guard, proceeded thither. H.E. the Governor returned the visit later in the day.
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ANARCHY IN KWANGSI.
FRENCH GET RAILWAY CONCESSION.
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News on Feb. 3rd from Kwangsi makes it appear that Viceroy Chon Fa has more trouble on his hands in the Kwangsi province then he can cops with. The West River pirates, entrouched and successfully fighting his troops, mer« detail when compared with the state of things inland. Our informant sums it pine saying that Kwangsi is in a state of anarchy. The rchools are comparatively empty, and arms and lethal weapons are mak. ing their appearance in surprising quantities.
The trouble that has brought things ́to a head is said to be a well-authenticated message from Peking that the concussion for the Kwangsi railways has been given to a French syndicate. bis story, at present koking official corroboration, in mid to come from Kwangui expectants_resident in Peking, and to be believed by oficialdom in the province itself. Even though there be nothing in it, we are assured that there is no doubt of ita disturbing effecta, one of which is the bolder demeanour of the lawless slement.
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