THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXV.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 10TH MARCH, 1907,
PARE
Tls. 6,000,000, according to a northern con- temporary, bave been spent within the last two
15ts on munitions of war for the Peiyang army.
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Epitome.
Leading Articles :-
"Remember the Maine" Also the Mika Ideograms and Imperial Coherence
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Peckaniffian Protestations
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A Prudish Plague Precaution
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
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The Stranded "Hongkong.
Supreme Court
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Alleged Larceny of Tobaccos
Shipowners and Cargo
The China Society
Kulangsu (Amoy) Municipal Council
The Canton-Hankow Railway
Companies:-
The National Bank of China Ltd.
China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
The Hongkong Fire Insurance ('o., Ltd. Anglo-German I rewery Co., Ltd.
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LacuKung Mow Cotton Spining Co., Ltd. .........162 Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.
The Shanghai Gas Co., Ltd.
The China Merchants' Company
Canton
China Quarterly Trade Returns
Hongkong Shipping
Correspondence:
The Parsees in Persin
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
of this snm Tis 2,000,000 have been spent in Japan and Tls, 1,0 1,000 in Germany, while the balance has been divided between Great Britain, France, Belgium and Austria-Hungary
At & meeting of the cpmmittee of St. Andrew's Society accounts of the St. Andrew's
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Ball and Burns' concert were submitted. ball showed a clear profit of $700 while $192 was the amount realised on the concert after covering expenses: Roth these amounts, by the unanimous decision of those in attendance, are to be transferred to the clarity fund.
The average minimum of the thermometer in ...Shanghai in February, 1907, was 33, 63, Iba average maximum 41.46, and the mean 37,54 against 34.77. 15,92 and 1034 respectively in February, 196
The rainfall in February amounted to 237 inches, texclusive of about 25 inches of snow on the 15th) and rain or snow fell on eleren days. In February, 19 6 rain or snow fell on sixteen days.
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On March 3rd, at the Government Civil Hos pital, the wife of EDWARD JONES, of a daughter. MARRIAGE.
On March 5th, at Canton Christian College, Canton, by the Rev. 0. F. Wisner, D D., CARL CLYDE RULEDGE, of Hongkong, to AxwaKETURAH EDMUNDS, daughter of Mr. James H. Edmunds, of Baltimore, U.S.A.
DEATHS.
On February 27th, at Shanghai, P. L.. Swenses, late of H.B.M.'s Post Office, Shanghai, aged 23 years.
On February 27th, at Shanghai, BRENAN ATKINSON, aged 41 years.
On March 4th, JOSEPH MITCHELL, Lighthouse keeper of Green Island Lighthouse.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of February 8th arrived, per the ss, Malta, on Friday, the 8th instant.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
As interesting Chinese marriage will take place in the beginning of next moon when the only son of His Excellency Wu Ting Fang weds the eldest daughter of the Hou. Dr. Ho
Kai,
Captain C. V. Lloyd, who for many years commanded the river steamer Hankow which was destroyed by fire during his absence at Home on leave, has been given the command of the Faishan,
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A Chinese Imperial Decree dated February 25th says:We have received a memorial from Chou Fu, Viceroy of the two Kwang provinces, reporting the illness of Liu Yung-fu, Major- General commanding the Military Circuit of Shihehi province of Kwangtung, and asking that he be permitted to resign his post. The request is granted and P'an Slu-yu is appointed Major-General of the above named Circuit,
A Isian (capital of Shensi province) dispatch states that HF, Shen Yun, Viceroy of the Shen- Kan provinces, has given permission to a Bel gian engineertentatively to develop a place near the city of Lancheu, the capital of Kansu, where the engineer has declared to the Viceroy there are indications of the precious metal in sufficient quantifies to make the enterprise a paying concern. A later dispatch on the same subject gives the further information that, assisted by a number of men engaged from Lanchon, the Belgian engineer in question has had his labours abundantly rewarded.
The famine stricken population of Taoyuan. hsien, west of Tsingkiangpu on the mouth of the Hung's Lake and the Grand Canal, has plundered the rice boats of the Government. The whole district from here to Huchowfu is { full of pillaging bands
General Yin Chang
| sideration against the rioters, and to have every has received orders to proceed without any con- one decapitated on the spot, who is found plun. dering the rice stores. The situation in the famine districts is assuming a rather dangerous character. The troops have been augmented but are far from sufficient, to restore order and
peace.
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Mesure. Helm Bros., No. 43. Yamashita-cho Yokohama, filed a petition with the Superinten dent of the Yokohama Customs against the application of the provisions und; r No. 396 of the Import Tariff on telephone våre imported contending that 5 per cent ad valorem duty by that firm on February 12th, the petitioners should properly be imposed according to the Japan German Conventional Tariff, instead of
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The petition was, however, rejected on the per cent daty under the first named tariff,
curions ground that the provisions under No. 13 of the Conventional Tariff were applicable exclusively to telegraph wite, and not to telephone wire.
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Th licensee of the Western Hotel appeared before Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Magistrnoy on Feb, 26th on a charge of selling liquor after hours. Mr. Roberts pointed out that he was not aware he had been doing wrong as there Worship, taking this into consideration, ordered was no time specified in the certificate and his the summons to be withdrawn and the point to brought under the notice of the Captain Superintendent of Police.
We are glad
to learn that steps are being taken to arrange
The NC. Daily Neira says:-
of Foreign Manufactures in Shanghai, The for the holding of an International Exhibition
matter, it is understood, is in the hands of the China Association and it is proposed to secure the co-operation of the Shanghai General Cham. ber of Commerce, and of the American, German and Japanese Associations, favourable replies from these bodies, there will On the receipt of he no delay in learning the measure of support likely to be secured from manufacturers in the United Kingdom and the British Colonies, in Europe, America and Japan, It should be possible to hold the Exhibition towards the end
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We elsewhere announce the death at Shang- hai on Febru ry 27th of Mr. Bronan Atkinsoo, Mr. Atkinson, who had been ill for some time, was forty-one years of age. His father Mr. John Atkinson ha charge of the Loongwha | Powder Mills some thirty years ago. The
deceased gentleman started his career as architect and civil engineer about twenty years ago, when he joined Mr. Thomas Kingsmill. In 1994 he started business on his own account, being joined four years latter by Mr. Arthur 1alias Messrs. Atkinson and Dallas soon became one of the best known firms of architects in the Far East. Mr. Atkinson leaves a widow and several children, with whom deep sympathy will be felt by his large circle of friends. Ho was a prominent Ma-on.
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WRECK OF THE SS. ** · DAKOTA."
A Daily P're a telegram dated Tokyo, March 5th, said:
The ss. Dikota is now regarded as a total loss. The crew and the mails have been landed.
The captain of a Japanese steamer following the Dakota says that at the time she struck that afternoon the weather was fine, and he was much surprised by the course taken by the liner. He was watching her when she struck the reef, and and her stern high in the air. saw her plunge over until her bow was submerged It is admitted that that part of the coast is dangerous to ship- ping. It has been the scene of two previous
disasters.
The Dakota's passengers have arrived at Yokohama.
Tokyo, March 6th.
auchanged. In the event of bad weather, her The latest position of the 8.5. Dakota is break-up is considered certain. vessel is expected to arrive to-morrow.
The salvage
Tokyo, March 7th. The Nippon Yusen Kaisha oxperts have examined the Dakota and found a hol» in her bottom which they consider makes it impossible to reflost her. The captain is of the opposite
pinion
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