THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXVI.]
Epitome
Leading Articles :-
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 9TH DECEMBER, 1907,
CONTENTS.
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Restricting Public Works
Marine Insurance
Moving Evente
West River Piracy
The Chinese Carnival
A Dark Year
Supreme Court
St. Andrew's Ball
Death of Mrs. Mitchell Taylor.
The Volunteers ..
Union Church Sale of Work
A Count's Adventures in Hongkong Pedestrianism
P. W. D. in 1906
West River Pirates
Evolution of Hongkong
Chinese Carnival
Kulangsu (Amoy) Municipal Council
MacBo
The Cable Ground
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FAR EASTERN NEWS.
Exchange on Deo 7th dropped to a lower point than it bas reached for two years. It fell 32 from 28.04d, to Is. 117d.—a fall of five points.
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It is notified in the Cazette that Sir Mathew Nathan having resigned the appointment, His 361 Excellency the Governor has been pleased to 365 accept the position of hon. Colonel of the
Hongkong Volunteer Corps.
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It is notified in the Gazelle, with r-ference to 38 Government notification No. 766 of 1977, that 363 the existing legislation under which the importation into the Colony of bonaty-fed sugar is prohibited, will not he affected by the additional act of the Brussels Convention.
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An Imperial Rescript has been issued throught the Grand Council ordering the Ministry of International Cotton Manufacturing Co. Ld....372 Finance to subscribe funds for the construction
Foreigners Inland.
Correspondence
A Raison D'être
Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce Catastrophe at Canton
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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On November 28th, at Berlin, the wife of Mr. E. Goetz, of a daughter.
On December 1st, at Shanghai, the wife of T. E. DUNN, Chinese Engineering & Mining Coof
A son.
On December 1st, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. J. NOLASCO, a daughter.
of the Kuangai Railway, in response to a memorial from H. E. Chang Ming-ch'i, Governor of Kuangsi province.
The extract of meteorological observations made at the Hongkong Observatory during the month of November shows that the average maximum temperature for the month was 76 degrees and the minimum 67.5 deg
There was
a rainfall of 1,265 inches and we had 122.9 hours of suushino.
Lingumo Defens ›r writes heatedly to currect “Correctus. Est "about the derivation
On December 2nd, at Shanghai, the wife of H. of E. MCCANN, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
On November 29th, at the Royal Swedish Con- sulate-General Shanghai. by Pastor A E Rydberg
Alfred Laurentius FagETHOLM to ANNA LYDIA OLSSON.
On November 29th, at the Royal Swedish Con- sulate-General, Shanghai, by Pastor A. E. Rydberg, to KRISTINA, FREDERIK ALEXIUS WENNBERG LARSSON.
On November 30th, at Shanghai, ARCHIBALD CARTER NEWCOMB, to CATHERINE EWING, both of Shanghai.
On December 2nd, 1907, at St. Peter's Church, by the Rev. C. L. Thompson, GEORGE WILLIAM CADE BURNETt, to Caroline ELIZABETH GRACE, only daughter of the late P. M. Sinnott, Esq., of Shanghai.
DEATH.
On November 25th, at Shanghai, THOMAS JOSE D'Aquino, aged 65 years.
Hongkong Weekly Press.
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VEUX ROAD CL
Pedro Blanco." He asserts that it is not
a corruption of "Pedra Branca but vice vârsa; that is, that ancient Portuguese writings spell it Pedro Blanco, and that the Portuguese spelling bas since changed.
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On Dre 4th His Majesty's sloops "Clio " and Cadmus" left for Canton whence they will proceed to the West River. The other vessels of the ftilla which is to keep the pirates in obeck left on the previous day, and all are pre- j pared for what may happes. Any news of j nirates being attacked will be conveyed to Hongkong by wireless telegraphy.
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The case of the bonze who refuses to evacuate the Barra Pagoda at Macao is peculiar. The committee are reluctant to proceed against him, because he is such an old man, over eighty, but they want him to get out. Chinese respect for age makes them fear the result of a prosecution, which might be deportation.
On Nov. 3th, after a service of 30 years, Mr. G. de Champeaux relinquished the post of manager of the Messageries Maritimes Co. In Hongkong, as he is about to retire to his native land, Franca. Mr. de Ciampeaux is a well- known and popular resident, and leaves a host. of friends behind him. On Saturday the staff of the Mesageries Maritimes presented their late chief with a handsome silver flower bisin an ebony stand. Mr. J. Millet assumes charge of the agency from this date.
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prohibit a popular vice.
The Government have taken one step more A regulation published in the current Gazette states that the importation into Hongkong through the Post Office of any lottery ticket or advertisement of any lottery or of any letter, post card or circular concerning any lottery is hereafter prohibited. The Postmaster General may seize all such lottery tickets and lotters, postoards or circulars concerning a lottery, and cause the same to be turned to the Post Office at which they were mailed.
R turns of the average amount of banknotes in circulation and of specie in reserve in Hong- kong, during the month ended 30th November. 1907, as certified by the managers of the respectivo hinks, are as under :
AVERAGE ЯРЕСТЕ AMOUNT. IN RESERVE.
BANK.
Chartered Bank of India,
Australia and Chins .. 3,496,798 2,800,000 Hongkong and 8 anghai
Banking Corporation, 13,590,819) 10,000,000 National Bank of China,
Limited,
Total,
330,131 150.000
...817,417,769 12,750.000
he board of director of the Japan Sagar Refining Company (Dai Nippon Selto Kaisha) have decided to advise a lower rate of dividend for the last period by 3 per cent, than the 20 per cont, paid for the preceding period. This 2decision to pay 17 per cent. only, together with the action of the board of directors on other matters, has created disc intent among the Oaks shir-holders Their main grievance, according to the Osaka Jiji, is that the travel- ling expenses appearing in the accounts as
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A severe shock of earthquake was felt Yokohama at 2.17 a.m. on November According to the Yokohama Observatory, had both horizontal and vertical motious. The origin was not far distant and seed to bo in Tokyo Bay. Fortunately no sp. cial damage was sustained in Yokohama, though clocks were generally stopped and flower vases on tables and mantelpieces in some hous s on the Bluff fell, and other slight damage was done.
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outing to Y10,00 are exc-ssive, thongh the explanation was made that a larger smount was required under this head on socount of the negotiations for the incorporation of the Dairi The military funeral which was observed Sugar Refining Company. The shareholders by many resideut« on Dea, 4th on its way to are mainly dissatisfied at the rate of dividend LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C. Happy Valley was that of Charles James proposed. They argue that Baron Shibusawa Bryant, a Crimean veteran who died at Tai- sad the President of the company, Mr. Sakawa, kokteni. Bryant arrived in Chias early in the who recommend a smaller dividend, hold a com- sixties, joining the police force in Shanghai in paratively small number of shares, while the 1864 and subsequently entering the Chinese larger shareholders propose that a dividend Customs. During the seven years Bryant has should be paid at the same rate as before. A been in the Colony he has lived the life of a 'protest is also to be made concerning the legality recluse, altending himself to his wanis. When of the general meeting which has been called- the deceased's hut was searched by Sergeant for the purpose of considering the recommend- | Sima $200 in bash were found, and it isation of the directors, should the proposal be
reported that he has $5000 in a local bank.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
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The German Mail of November 5th arrived per the Rs. Yorck, on Thursday, the 5th instant; and the French Mail of Nove, ber 8th is expected to arrive, per the 8.8. Armand Beh:c, some time to-day.
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