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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 151H APRIL, 1907,
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
The King's exequatur empowering Mr. B. Szentirmay von Darvasto to be I. and R. Consul for Austria-Hungary at Hongkong has received bis Majesty's signature,
Regulations governing prospecting and 231 mining in the Colony of Hongkong and its despendencies other than the Now Territorie e,
in the current Gazette, appear
VOL. LXV.]
CONTENTS.
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Leading Articles :-
Reporting Progress in China
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Parliamentary Inexactitudes
The British Navy
Employer and Employed...
Colonial Conferences
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April 10th: Cicadas Make Music
Matter of Opinion
212 233
Hongkong Governors
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Chinn in Tibet
Supreme Court
A Practical Dyer
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A Popular Governor
277
Sir Frederick Lugard
A Fatal Quarrel
237 738
C. U. S. R. A.
Pirates Captured in Hongkong
Hongkong Horticultural Society
A Fatal Collision
239 940
Taxing Shanghai Beef
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Correspondencs :--
Proposed Memorials to Sir M. Nathan
The Late Mr. J. M. Silva
Companies:-
Hongkong Ice Co., Ltd.
The Hongkong Canton Spinning. Weaving.
and Dyeing Co., Ltd.
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American Bishop Dies in Honghong
The Hongkong and Whampes Dock Co. Ld., has secured the contract for the repair of the steamer Netherton, The amount of the tender has not been announced.
The charter for an electric light company with Tls 200,000 capital in Kirin has been obtained by a German merchant, who is 239 nominally represented by a Chinese.
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Hongkong Land Reclamation Company, I tel. 241 Hongkong Land Investment ad Agen oy Co..
Limited
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The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf
and
Godown Company
Union Insurance Society of Canton, Co.
China Traders' Insurance Company
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Luzon Sugar Refining Company
China Sagar Refining Company.
Campbell Moore and Co, Ltd
China Light and Power Company, Limited Yokohama Specie Bank, Limited... Shanghai and Hongkew Wharf Co, Ltd. The New Amoy Dook Company, Limited Canton.......* -
Royal Asiatic Society
Chinese Place Names
Commercial
Kulangen (Amoy) Municipal Council.
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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The new
Velodrome International” in Route Voyron, Shanghai, will be formally opened on May 5, The track, which is built of hard wood, is one third of a mile in circumference and oost the promoters Tia. 10,000, Ample accommodation for dressing rooms has been prepared and a grand stand has been created for the benefit of spectators. The truck is now open for training for 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily, and many Irading local oyalists are in training for the opening evente. Beveral baad. rome cups will be presented, to amateurs only, for the cycling and motor cycling events,
In the presence of H. E. the Governor and the largest crowd that has been seen at the Valley this year, the Hongkong Football Club and the Royal Garrison Artillery took the Beld in the dual for the Challenge Shield- Both teams were in good condition, conas quently one of the fastest games of the sesson with cord. The Club played well in the first moiety notebing two goals to thetr opponents' nil, but the endurance of the soldiers outlasted that of the sivilians and in the sad they conquered, sooring three goals before the whistle sounded. As was to be expected in the final, the game was some- what rough, and the referee had to stop play OD several occasione on account of a kn being injured,
Early on April 10th a lukoog on duty in Des Vonz Road was surprised to find a trunk lying near the roadside Thinking that some burglar had left it there, the lukong took it to No. 7 Polion tation wheres European officer 240 opened it. They found that it contained the body of a little boy who had died from smallpox, The annual meeting of the Shanghai Horti- cultural Society in April 3rd showed that its financial position was entirely satisfactory. They begin the present your with the balance of nearly $880, The two shows together conta little over a thousand dollars, or about 8200 more than the receipts at the door. The quality and quantity of exhibits was improving.
Imperialeoreen dated Peking, April 3rd, are thus translated: -(1) By extra grace of her 242 Imperial Majesty the Impress Dowager, Prince Ching is from henceforth excused from tha 213 duty of introducing persons into the Imperial presence, in deference to his age and so a relief from a fatiguing daty. (!) Kah Pin is appointed 245 8 perintendent of Imperial vilk looms at Hoog- Five French missionaries from Yunnan, who were on the way to Chamutang in Tibet, have Chinese Amban of Lbama, having been informed he lost his sight. Death was due to peart that the missionaries intended to setil-in Tibet, failure. Deceased was much respected gusong the Portuguese and foreign community, and lodged a protest with the Paking Government
his foms is greally felt. The fig at the Club | declaring that the settlement of missionaries in
Lu itano was at kalf mast yesterday and remA Í NE Tibet is inconsistent with the treation; further.. more such a mettlement would probably creatu
to to-day me a token of respect to the diőrared, who was one of the prominent members of that hostilities sa ongst the Baddhists and the
institution. is funeral fakes place this-after- noon at 4.W
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On March 31st. at Amoy, the wife of LANCELOT GILFs, of H.M. Consular Service, ‹f a dau hter.
On April 6th, at Shanghai, the wife of A. W. BANE, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
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been detained in Tachienlu in Esechuan, The
On April 1st, at Shanghai, Henær Joseph BASSETT of H. I. C. M. Navy to BEETHA Eliza | Mimioanrim in Tibat. CARTER.
On April 5th, at Shanghai, CrCIL BOBIKT SLOWE, to Linda Calder.
On April 5th, at Shanghai, HlERNEST PINCKNEY WINSLOW, to SABAH Lind Bradshaw JoHNSON of Sydney.
DEATH.
On April 7th, 1907, at his residence, No. 21. Old Bailey, Hongkong, Joao Maria Antonio di SILVA, late of the Hongkong Civil Service.
Hongkong lechly Press.
HONGKONG Office: 10a,Des Vœux Road Cl. LONDON OFFICE: 131, Fleet Street, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of the 12th ultimo arrived, per the Prins Bitel Friedrick, on Tuesday, the 9th instant; and the French Mail of the fch ultimo arrived, per the s.3. Salazie, to-day, the 15th instant.
At the ufiom of the Public Works D-part- ment on April 8th the latting was offered
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of its oldest, if not the oldest, resident by The The Colony has acain been deprived of öne demise of Mr. João M. A. da Silva which look place early on the 7th April at his residence in Old Failey Straf, at the age of 70 years. The deceased gentleman joined the Hongkong Civil Service io 1858, and retired. ca p-osion twelve years ago. While in sotive
ba WIE the Government Telegraph. He was the first to Inspector of the experiment with the telephone in this Colay with kucorusful resulta. For ab ateight yeaɲu ha and Kavy an exhibition
kiser adence has been gradually failing in health, and two years
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What might have proved a dimstrous fre by public auction sale of Inland Lx No. 1,77!, discovered in the New Travellers' (Total, Da Queen's Gardens to Magazine Gap Road. The attendance of the Fire Brigade under Captain which is on the south side of the new road from Vœux Road, on April 10th, but the prompt letting is for a term of 75 years, the area of the Lyons prevented it from speeding. It Crown rental $144. The lot was sold to Mr L lot about 20 800 square föst; sad the manual thought that an oil lamp which stood on a table in the passage and which was the only light im Gibbs, of Movers. Denison, Bam and Gibbs, the plaos was the cause of the conflagration. for $4,180, being $30 above the apest price.¦ Be that
an it may Mrs. Olivor The purchase was affected on behalf of a client. | keard between throw and four o'clock is It is stated from reliable souro◄ in Peking | the morning owing to the heat and the that Their Imperial High Desses Princes Chup | smoke, and looking up mw the famen bursting (the Emperor's younger brother) and Ching into her apartment Quickly the jellem
| (Hin Majesty's uncle) recently strongly recomm rained and in very short time the Brigade,
mended His Excellency Tang Shao yì to the tunately able to gel plenty of water, was playi Throne for the post of President of the Ministry ¦ on the confiagration. In half an hour they of Posts and Communications in surorusion to ; succeeded in extinguishing the famos. the late Chang Po-kal. This, the N.-C. Daily | that time however practically the whole of News bo-rs, is being opposed by the reactionaries staircase was destroyed and part of led by Tinh Liangof the Ministry of War, who immediately store had collapsed. A is extremely jealous of H. F. Tang Shao-y, of the furniture was damaged by browse the leffae in a protégé of the Great water and the total lom is $2,000,
are insured for $5,000. Viceroy of Chihli,
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