THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXVI.]
AND
China Overland
Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 2ND SEPTEMBER, 1907,
A destructive fire has occurred at Bakodate, and the town is practically non-existent. PAGE Owing to drought the firemen were helpless, so devoted all their efforts to life saving. A correspondent places the lowest loss to the Insurance Companies at Yen 10,00 1,000. The 1:6 Maiji Fire Insurance Company are the heaviest
losers.
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Leading Articles:-
In Praise of Divagators
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Chinese and Manchus
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Trade Marks
Crown Agents
The Philippines
Chinese Decrees
Spot and Specta tors.
Supreme Court
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The Swatow Rising
The Arbitration Court The
Shark Story
Empress of China Hengkong Civil Service Clab. Hongkong College of Medicine Manslaughter at Cheungshawan Stabbing Affray in the Harbour... Murder on Dumb Bell Island
Still Another Murder
Subsidiary Coinage Commission
Dumping" Decreasing
The Fourth Gymkhana.
Adsetts
Anti-Opium Regulations in Kwangsi
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As will be seeu in our Supreme Court news 128 two solicitors were enrolled by the Chief Justice on Aug. 29. One Mr. Davidson, and the other Mr. Sargent, grandson of Major-General Sar- gent who was in command of the tro¬ps in China and the Straits twenty. vo years agɔ, 133 Mr. Davidson has joined the firm of Merers. 133 Hastings and Hastings, and Mr. Sargent that
of Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist.
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All the mines hitherto owned by the House- hold Department-in other words an assiette au beurre for the Emperor of Kores -have been transferred to the Dep r ment of Agricul. ture and Commerce. This step has two important results. The Household is deprived of a secret fund devoted hitherto, it is said, to questionable purposes, which further rendered the Throne i dependent of the nation; and in the second place the national treasury will profit by a valuable asset Money is urgently needed at present, if any effectual steps are to be taken for the development of Korea's resources.
Governor Chea K'usi-lung, of Soochow has addressed a memorial to the Throne on the subject of smoothing away the race jealousies existent amongst Chinese and Manchus. The memorial contained five suggestions recommen-
While a number of Chinese boys were ending most radical measures. A censor has also 14 August 28th bathing in a stagnant pool on a 136 piece of waste land opposite Victoria English School one of them, named Chan Tsin Hing,
of years
became entangled in the long grass and words and was drowned before assist- ance could reach him. His companions in their fright an off, but a mau arrived on the scene within a few minutes, too late, however, to save him. The water was about six feet deep.
The Raub Australian Gold Mining Co. Ltd. Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Ld.....136 Correspondence
Sharks in Hongkong Waters
The Turtle Hunters
Industrial Development in Japan Trade Marks
Chinese Abroad
Miscellaneous................... Commercial Shipping
BIRTH,
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Joha Machado, who so cleverly escaped from 137
the British Consular Gaol at Shanghai on the .138 .140 18th instant, was rearrested on the 21st by a native detective in a ten-shop. When arrested he was wearing a queue and Chinese clothes, and bad had the fore part of his head shaved in Chinese fashion. He was taken before Mr. O. G. Potier, Consul for Portugal, and on the charge of gael-breaking was sentenced to six days solitary confinement in the punishment cells of the gaol.
On Augugt 25th, at "Tantall n," Barker Road, the wife of Capt. J. DOUGLAS, of a daughter.
DEATHS.
On August 16th, at Nagasaki, of cholera, JoH › CHATHAM, for many years Foreman Fitter to the Sha gtai Gas Co., Ld.
On August 18th, at Shanghai, GOTTFRIED NEUESüss, aged 26 years
On August 18th, at the Isolation Hospital, Shanghai, A. CAROLINE LEACH, aged 23 years.
On August 2lit, at Shanghai, A. E. D. BUR- GOYNE, a native of New South Wales, and late of the Chinese Customs Service at Ningpo, aged 23
years.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of July 30th arrived, per the 8.8. Prinz Heinrich, on August 26th ;
and the French Mail of the 2nd August arrived, per the s.8. Australien, to-day.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
H.E. the Governor and party, accompanied by the Hon. Director of Public Works, went on August 29th in the launch Victoria on a visit to the New Territory.
A censor has impeached Governor Chang Teêng-yang of Chêkiang. The memorial de- clares amongst other things that the Governor has been guilty of murdering many innocent people since the assassination of the late En
Min.
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According to the "Sinwenpan a Japanese firm trading in the Japanese Settlement of Tientsin was caught this week in the ect of salling illicit arms and ammunition. It seem that Viceroy Yuan Shih-zai, received inform- ation through bi secret service agents that the Japanese in question had been secretly supplying arms and ammunition, and so ordered a trap to be laid for that firm. A secret service ng at named Kno Ten went to the firm and giving himself out as a member of a certain secret society arranged for the purchase of thirty rifles and a thousand catridges to be delivered promptly t 6 o'clock next morning. Fa Hsing Hote! This was done according to contract, and at 8 result two Japanese who had charge of the arms and ammunition were also arrested by the
Chinese authorities.
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memorialized on the same subject; he states that one of the causes of the bitter feeling between the two races is the length of the period of mourning for one's parents which the law fix s at three years for Chinese and only one hundred days for Manchus. In other words a Chinese cannot hold office for three years on account of the death of a parent, while & Manchu can do so after only three months or 80. Another recommendation of the cansor was the abolition of the Tartar garrisons in the provinces and the reduction of members to the rank of common p'ople.
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The Viceroy of the Minche provinces agaia telegraphs to the Waiwapa complaining of the appearance of Japanese Buddhist missionaries in Focehow and other districts of the Fakien pr vince. The Buddhist dostrine was imported into the island Empire from China several hun-ired years ago and it is difficult to know why Japanese Buddhists should preach now tɔ the Chinese m ssés, whose forefathers were their teachers for several generations. These Buddhist missionaries claim similar privileges to those which the Roman Catholic and Protestant nis. sionaries enjoy in China; but as this was not stipulated for in existing Treaties between China and Japan, the Waiwupu has rejected it on the ground that the Chinese do not want foreigners to teach them Baddhism, which has been one of the principal religions in China since the ang Dynasty.
An old resident of Japan passed away on the 1st inst., in the person of Dr. James Harris, Dr. Harris has had a stirring and eventful life, and was well known to old Japan residen's for bis sterling worth and genial character. Born
at Rhode Island in 1827 he thus died in his eighty-first year. He died at the Yokohama Mr. A. S. Mihara who has for som years United Club at nine o'clock on Thurs lay night been the manager of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Ist inst.), quietly and without pain. He gra- Office in Hongkong, has been transferred to dusted at New York and shortly afterwards New York. uring bia residence in the volunteered for the Crimean War, taking Colony Mr. Mihara has made many friends, medical servios under the Rascians. He was who will much regret his departure. The at the Siege of Sevastopol and after the fall Nippon Yusen Kaisha, we believe, has no he returned to Americs, where he took a short Agency at New York at the present time, rest. He was again to the fore when the North and in sending a man of Mr. Mihara's business and South were at war, joining the northera ability to "ew York it may be assumed that the forces. He served all through the wa- and Nippon Yasen Kaisha are not only looking; remained in Amerisa natil the * Stonewall to the development of their steamship service Jackson man-of-war was presented to Japan from Seattle, but possibly are looking forward by the American Government. He scompanied to the time when the Nippon Yasen Kaisha | that boat, arriving in Japan in 1888. From steamers will be running to New York via that date he made Japan his hom», practising the Panama Canal. Meanwhile, there is talk in Kobe and Yokohama, but mainly in the of a New York line via Suez. Mr. Mihara is former port. About a year ago he unfortunately succeeded in Hongkong by Mr. T. Kusumoto. had a paralytic stroke which kept him to his bed.
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