THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXV.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome........
Leading Articles:-
HONGKONG. MONDAY, 18TH FEBRUARY, 1907.
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No. 7
Mr. David Pearse, a member of the Shangbai
Hongkong dèleekly Press. Light Hors, Istoly a resident of Hankow, was
riding in the paperbant handicap on Febrnary
Hongkong Orrick: 10a, Des Vœux Road CL. 2d and was thrown from his pony into a "dey
142 LONDOn Office. 131, FLEET STREKT. E.C.
A "Hansard" Back Number
China Trade in 1908.
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Chinese Railway Schemes
.103
Bribery Corruption in China
.103
A China New Year Protest
103
Shanghai Budget
114
Hon. Mr F. H. May
104
Sudden Death of Captain Tillett
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Spreme Court
145
Kowloon Pigeon Show...
105
Death of Captain Warren
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British and Foreign Bible Soriety
1:5
The Divagations of Viceroy Sham
Companies:-
Anglo-German Brewery Co., Limited
106
Hongkong Ice Company. Limited
ing
Laon Kung Mow Cotton Spinning and Wear.
ing Company, Limited
106
The Hongkong. Canton and Macao Steam-
boat Company, Limited
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Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., Ltd.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
10%
The Soy Chee Cotton Spinning Co., Ltd. ......log
The Hongkong Companies Ordinances
Charge Against a Korean Prince
Eminent Revivalist at Hongkong
Murderous Assault
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of 10th January arrived, per the
8.9. Prinzess Alice, on Thursday, the 14th instant; and the Freuch Mail of 16h January, is due to arrive, per the 3.3. Tonkin, some time to-day.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
The Chinese Government has selected a large piece of land at Erhtaokou as the site for the
foreign settlement of the newly opened port of Changchun. Kirin Province, and the foreign concessions at Kirinfu, Harbin, Mauchuli and other opened cities in Manchuria will be selected after Chinese New Your.
In Europe, holidays make railways busier; in 19 China, they stop working like everything else, All traffic on the Shanghai-Naoking and 109 Chaechou-Swator lines is to be suspended on the 13th (New Year day). The Poking- Hankow line is probably included, but we have
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seen no announcement.
It is notified in the Gazette that T. P. 111 Conolly, senior inspector, Sanitary Depart
ment. has been suspended from the exercise of bis office for corrupt practices with effoot from 112 the 12th inst., pending the decision of the 112 Secretary of State for the Colonies regarding his dismissal from the Government Service.
The New Peak Tramway
The Roval Visit
The A.D.C..
Dumping the Dead
Japanese Shipping
Japan
A Decadal Comparison of Prices
Macao
112
The Korean Imperial Wedding
Correspondence
Railway Advances Another Step
Finest Club in Orient
Mining Prospects in Shansi
L'entente Cordiale at Saigon
113
Shanghai Hotel Keeper Sentenced Hon. Mr. F. H. May Commercial
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Shipping
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BIRTHS.
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The appointment as lay members of the Church Body of St. John's Cathedral of the Hon. Dr. J. M. Atkinson, Mr. W. Armstrong, Mr. A. Bryer (Honorary Secretary), Dr. Francis Clark (Honorary Treasurer), Mr. G. Hastings 116 and Mr. E. Ormiston; and of Mr. J. C. Peter as auditor, is co firmed in the Government Gazette.
On January 9th, at Foochow, the wife of G. SIEMSSEN Esq., H.G.M.'s Corsul, of a daugliter.
At Stokes 'ungalow West, Peak, on the 12th inst., the wife of ANDREW BATTIE, a son.
On February 14th, at Shanghai, the wife of GEORGE RUTTO: Poits, of a soul.
On February 15th, at Wanstead Essex, to the wife of ARTHUR Henry Ovuk, & son.
On January 18th, af Shanghai, to Captain J. M. DAVIDSON, 4th Bn. The King's Regt., and Mrs. Davidson, & son.
MARRIAGE.
On February 6th, at Shanghai, KENNETH OSWALD MACKENZIE, to ASTRID ALICE (Barbie), PETERSEN, grand-daughter of William A. Carlson, Barbour Master, Shanghai,
DEATHS
On February 2nd, at Shanghai, Emil Dalieto, aged 33 years.
On February 5th, at Shanghai, scit EmסARD VAN BEEGEN, aged 4 years and 11 months.
On February 8th, at Shanghai, ALICE HOBBSs, aged 26 years.
On February 8th, at Chinwangtao, D. MCKELLAR, second engineer of the steater Kaiping.
On February 9th, at 8hanghai, FRANCISCO XAVIER CARNEIRO, aged 44 vears.
On February 10th, at Shanghai, J. BarOL, Of the Imperial Maritime Customs.
On Sunday, the 10th Feb uary, Joao Marta dk GRAÇA, age 27 years, at his residenc», No. 58, Poel Street. The funeral will pass the monument at 5.30 p.m. to-d«y. Friends are invited to attend. Shanghai papers please copy.
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jump. He received such injuries that he died I soon after, He was accorded a military funers!
on February 4th.
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The British Minister has notified the Wai- wapu that the British Government has ordered number of military officers to delimit the exact frontier of Burma and Yungau. The Waiwupu has thereupon ordered Viceroy Ting | Chêa-to of Yua-Kaei to send also Chinese officers to the frontier, who will have to see that no Chinese territory will be trespassed upon. Properly speaking, there could be no question where the line of the frontier between the Rivers Lantsan (Mekong) and Lu (Salwen) should go.
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During January the mean temperature was 64 which is under the mean for that month for the last twenty years the figures being 643 sunshite, which is considerably above the mean On the other hand there were 1938 hous of!
for the two decades, 1407. The rainfall was 3.445 inches, compared with 1:32, the mean for the last twenty years,
It is reported in Mandarin circles that the Tartar General of Ili, Northern Chinese Turkestan. is anxious to obtain a foreign loan of a million taels as sinews of war for reform work within his jurisdiction, and that he has sent a special officer to confer with the officials of the Hong ong and Shanghai anking Corporation with referencs to the proposed loan, The Tartar General offers as guarantee for the return of this loan the coutributions of the Imperial ustoms, which are sent yearly to I to rna the government there.
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Returns of the average amonut of bank notes in circulation and of specia in reserve in Hong. kong, during the month ended 31st January, 19 7. as certified by the managers of the respective banks, is as under:
Average Specie in Amouut. Reserve.
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Banks
Chartered Bank of In lia,
Australia and China.... 3,204,706
[1 ongkong and Shanghai
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2,300,000
Banking Corporation, 14,394,260 10,000,000 National Bank of China,
Limited,
Total,
125,565 60,000
17,784,531 12,360, 100 We learn that Messrs. G. vou Thiel de Vries and J. Kerthals Altes, of the firm of Mesars. Bokkel Hainink, Korthals Altes, van Thiel de Vri & & Co., Amsterdam, who have been in Shanghai for the last few months for the purpose of tendering for the works for the improvement of Whang poo been invited by the aroy Chou Fu'to come River, had to Canton, as he wished to consult them about different waterworks in his provinces. They accepted th· Viceroy's invitation and we learn that the audience took place on the 9th lust. The Holland-China Trading Co. ar, the Hong- kong representatives of this firm
According to the Tokvo Mainichi Count Itagaki intends to relinquish his title and at the same time to distribute letters of advice t› all the peers in Japan, impressing upon them the advisability of making the honorary titles of the five orders of nobility nonhereditary. Some of the reasons assigned for this step are that the creation of hereditary peers is not in socordance with the object that gave ride to the abolition regarding the hereditary peers as the protectors of the feudal Shogunate. Also, that the iden of
of the Imperial Throne is deemed to be not only in contradiction to the spirit of Japanese history but as serving to establish a fortress between the people and the Throne.
Voicing what would have been the unanimous wish of the British Community at Shanghai, The death of Mise Isabella Handeren, the | had it been put before them, the Committee of only daughter of Mrs. J. Henderson, of ¦ từre China Association recently sent a telegram Glendoral", Macdonnel road, which was to H.E. Sir Matthew Nathan, Governor
| announced on Saturday, came as a painful shock of Hongkong, asking his good offices in an
sympathy with the bereaved family. to her many friends and evoked general 'endesvour to induce T.R.H. the Duke and Miss Duchess of Connaught and Princess Patricia
Henderson, who was but twenty-four years of to visit Shanghai. The invitation age, died at the Peak Hospital after a few days', forwarded to the Royal party at Singapore and ilnews from peritonitis." The funeral on on Feb. 6th the Chairmsa of the China Saturday Wa< largely attended and the Association_received a telegram from the numerous floral tributes at the grave side bore | Duke's
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A.D.C., Major-General Sir John silent testimony to the grief and sympathy' Maxwell, to the effect that arrangements already of a widespread circle of friends.
made compelled the Duke to decline.
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