THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXVI.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 6TH SEPTEMBER, 1907,
CONTENTS.
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Epitome
Leading Articles:-
China and Japan
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FAR EASTERN NEWS.
Cholera seems to be remarkably prevalent in Shanghai and Tientsin.
Pak Yong-ho, the ex-Minister of the Korean 151 Imperial Household, left Chemulpo on the 3rd 154 inst. for Quelpart Island, to which he has been
exiled.
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Superstition
Unwieldy Empire
Local Murder Trials
The Peking Appointments
Chinese Squeeze with some Tigressions
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Missionaries.
Californians and Japanes
Political Offenders and Extradition
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Morrison Centenary Meeting
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Supreme Court
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The Des Voeux Road Murder
Adsatta
The Extradition Case
Hongkong Hotel Collapse
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Smuggling Arms........
French Street Murder
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The Dumb Bell Island Murder
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The Storm
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The Harbour Stabbing Affray
Companies
Hongkong Hotel Co., Ltd.
Shanghai Rubber Co..........
Canton
Macao
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The Late Mr. Charles Grant
The Late Mr. S. H. Shorrock, Shanghai
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Japan
Trouble in the Canton Hinterland
Water Return.
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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The Colony's total assets on June 30th amoun ed to $1,526,596.44, and its total liabilities to $207,177.34, which leaves a balance of assets amounting to $1,319.419.19.
Viceroy Yuan Shih-kai has issued an order to the Maritime Customs that all luggage of officials who travel officially, or other goods of officials shall be duly examined in the same way as those of private persons, so as to check all smog.ling."
According to the latest returns, the import of Japanese goods to Vladivostok is worth seyn million roubles against 2,200,0 0 roubles in 1903, while the corresponding figures for 166 Russian exports to Japan are 223,000 roubles 17 in 1906 and 8,200,000 roubles in 1993.
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On August 25th, at "Tantallan," Barker Road, the wife of Capt. J. DOUGLAS, of a daughter.
On September 3rd, Shameen, Canton, the wife of JAMES MCISAAC, of a son.
O September 4th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. F. LARGE, & 800.
On September 14th, at the Government Civil Hospital, the wife of JEHANOIR MUNCHERJI MAS ER, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
On August 26th, at Newchwang, Mr. R. T. TEBBITT of H. B. M's. Consular Service, to Miss ('AMELLIA L. SARGENT of Newchwang.
DEATHS.
On August 16th, at Nagasaki, of cholera, JOHN CHATHAM, for many years Foreman Fitter to the Sha gai Gas Co., Ld.
On August 18th, at the Isolation Hospital, Shanghai, A. CAROLINE LEACH, aged 23 years.
On August 28th, at Lungchow, JEAN HERI FOUGERAT, Acting Commisioner of Customs, aged 50 years,
On September 4th, at Hankow, W. J. WiGLES- WORTH, Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, aged 26 years.
On September th, at Shanghai JOHN ALEXAN- DER STEWART, in his 68th year,
On September 5th at Shanghai, NUSSERVANJEE Dhunjeebhoy Se Na, brother of Mr. SORABJEE DHUNJEEBHOY SETNA, aged 41 years.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of August 13th arrived, pr the 8.8, Goeben, on Monday, the 9th ias ant; and the French Mail of August 16th arrived, per the as. Nera, to-day.
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September 1 being the anniversary of the founding of the Kuangtung Government and the general opening of Manchuria to foreign trade, was celebrated at Port Arthur as Administration 'Day, foreigners and Chinese taking part in the rejoicings. The Governor General, in the course of his address, siid that the day was memorable, being not merely of national but of international interest. He then went on to champion zaalou ly the "
open door and equal opportunities in Mancuria, and pledged the realization of these ideals. These sentiments met with enthusiastic response.
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Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P., lft Hougkong for India on Sept. 7th by the P. and O. seamer Marmora." In the morning he breakfasted with His Excellency the Governor and Lady Lugard at Mountain Lodge and afterwards
In a chair borne by th red-uniformet gubernatorial conlies he paid a number of calls. In the P. & O). office he was introduce l to the Hon. Mr. Hewett and as he was leaving there he met an old Parliamentarian in the person of the Attorney General, the hon. Mr. Rees Davies, who was in the House of The extract of meteorological observations ommons from 192 to 1898, while Mr. Keir made at the Bongkong observatory during the Hardie was a member from 1892 to 1895. One month of August shows the average maximum of the most interesting incidents of the temperature to have been 86.7 and the morning was when a big coolie hat which Mr. minimum 783 degrees. A total of 14-855 | Keir Hardie had bought in Canton was handed inches of rain fell during the mouth, while in over to the custody of a Government Huse the suma period we had 222-5 hours of sun hine,coalie who grinned and asked "how muchee?
It is stated that the British Syndicate w ich | On board Mr. Keir Hardie was intro iuced to a has agreed to lend the funds for the construction, number of people who ware interested of the proposed Tientsin-Chinkiang Railway has notifi-d the Chinese authorities that the Railway Company will be expected to make au aunual repayment of four million taels on account of interest and instalment on the loan. A Peking dispatch states that H. I M. Kuang Hs is suffering from a chronic illness of blood spitting. The Emperor refuses to see any ember of the Imperial College of Physicians, but he has been writing ont a daily description of his ailments from which the College i expected to make out prescriptions for the Imperial patient.
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A Dily Press telegram dat d Tokyo, Sept., 9th said :- -A disastrous fire bas occurred in the foreign settlement at Kobe. Messrs. Carlowitz and Company's and Messrs. De la Camp and Company's offices and godowns have been destroyed. The damage is estimated at You Insuranos Companies. 1,010,000, and the loss falls on the British
A Wuchang letter states that members of the Hupeh foreign-mod-lled Army and representa- tives of Education in that province have lately been occupied with the project of putting up a bronze status of Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, in some conspicuous place in Wuchang. having coma to the ears of his Excellency he at once issued orders to stop the movement.
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The veto imposed by the Chinese Government upon the export of cereals from the lensed territory of Kwantung is said to have been inspired by ex-Governor Chou. Its effect has been disastrous to persons engaged in the despatch of millet and beans from Tairso, and incidentally the South Miaohurian Railway finds its goods traffic appreciably reduced. The Jiji Shimpo has an article on this subject. It tikes the lives that if China insists upou this veto, she wil be practically surrendering the leased territory to Japsu as a permanent possession, and such procedure is strikingly inconsistent not only with the attempts she has hitherto mide to assert her sovereiga power in the lease territory, but also with the rights. recovery policy which she so persistently pursues. Japan holds Kwantang under lease from the Chinese Government. Thus the right of eminent dom sin plainly is vested in China, and to allege that the Linotung Peninsula, in spite of this leas, is no longer Chinese territory but belongs to a foreign State, is a pliialy impossible position,
Returns of the average amount of hank notes in circulation and of specie in reserve in Hong- kong during the mouth end-d 31st August, 1907 as certified by the managers of the respective! banks, are as under :—
A verage Specie A mount. in Reserves,
3,448,122 2,300,000 11,000,000
Banks. Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China Hongkong ani Shanghai
Banking Corporation, 15,925,055 National Bank of China,
Limited,
248, 86 125,000
$19,621,263 13,425,000
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TREATY COMMEMORATION.
Tokyo, September 15th. In commemoration of the conclusion of the treaties with France and Russia, honours have been conferred upon the diplomatists concerned. The more
notable ins ances aro that the Foreign Minister, Viscount Hayashi, becomes a Cunt, while Ambassadors Karino (Paris) and Motono (St. Petersburg) are made barons.
Marquis Ito, received 89 a guest of the citizens of Tokyo, spoke of the disturbed state of Korea. He was sorry he could not guarantee that in future the Koreans would not bresk into open rebellion against Japanese authority, and he feared that affairs would not proceed us he had hoped and planned. He would, however, do his utmost to guide and educate the people.
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