Leading Articles :---
Unfair to Japan; Unfairer to Public
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Shanghai....
Soldiers and System.......
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China Investment Corporation.
The Military Contribution
The Chientao
Reform from Below
Hongkong Legislative Council
Supreme Court
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
It is reported that the Commerce Bureau of the Southern Prefecture in Japan has issued a note warning the local export merchants .392 against the practice of making fraudulent use 392 of trade-marks. The notion taken is said to be -393 the result of advices received from Japanese 393 Consuls in China in reply to inquiries sent out .394 by the Central l'atent Office, the information 398 being to the effect that sparious imitation goods; .399 ware most numerous among import from
Osaka.
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"Flying the White Pigeon
Mr. James Daiziel's Yarns.
H. G. Brown & Co., Ltd., in Liquidation
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Macao.........
Evolution of Hongkong
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Japan
Canton
Water Baturu
The Taikoo Volunteer Range..
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
The following appointments, made by II. E. 100
the Governor, are published in the Gazelte :--- 401
Colonel H. Martin, A.M.S., to be a member of PIL .....401.
the Sanitary Board in succession to Lt. Col. .402 J. M. Reid, R.A.M.C., resigned; Messrs. E. 404 D. C. Wolfe, Inspector of School, and S. B. C. Rose. Assistant Land Officer, to be members of the Board ofxaminers, vice Messrs. T. C., Smith and A. M. Thomson, resigned; Mr. E. Osborne to be an uno Hicial member of the Legislative Council in place of Mr. Gershom Stewart.
On November 9th, on board the P, & 0, steamer Fictoria in Tilbury Dock, the wife of T. P. WAR- DROP, draughtsman, R.E., of a son,
On October 30th, at Dunmow, Essex, the wife of E. T. BOND of Canton, of a daughter.
On December 8th; at Sbanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. JOSEPH WHITESIDE, & BON.
On December 13th, at Shanghai, the wife of R. H. ELIAS, of a son.
On December 18tb, at Shanghai, Mrs. R KERMANI, of a son.
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On December 14th, at Shanghai, the wife of
IVON TUXFORD, of a son.
On December 14th, at Shanghai, the wife of J. SHELENKAMER, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On November 27th, at Ningpo, Captain ROBERT Dollfus, to Frances Mary, second daughter of Colonel and Mrs. G. Chrystie, Farnham, Surrey.
On December 4th, at Shanghai, RICHARD POLLAK to PAULA, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Bloch.
On December 18th, at Campbeltown, Argyl shire, by the Rev. John M'Queen, Lochend, N. F. Church, ALEX. Ramsay, Hongkong, to ÅGNER, daughter of Archibald Mathieson, Lochend, Campbeltown.
DEATHS.
On December 8th, at Shangbai, HARRY WRIGHT, Chief Officer of the China Merchants' Steam
Navigation Company's steamer “ Foochi," from pneumonia, aged 60 years.
On December 2 ̊th, at No. 1, Chico Terrace, Hongkong, ALEXANDEE AUGUSTO DA CRUZ Roza. Deeply regretted.
Hongkong Weekly Press.
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VEUX ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of Nov. 19th arrived per the .8. Prinz Eifel Friedrich, on Wednesday, the 18th instant; and the French Mail of Nor 22nd is expected to arrive per the as. Salavie, some time to-day.
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Į The Gazette notifies that the Crown has under and by virtue of the provisions contained in the Crown leases of Inland Lots Nos. 95 and 96 resumed and re-entered into and upon all those pieces or parcels of ground lying and being at Victoria in the Island of Hongkong and registered in the Land Office as Inland Lots Nos. 93 and 96,
The Japanese are pursuing au active tele- graph policy in Manchuria. They have established telegraph lines at Yingkow and south of that placs, and have opened public offices at Yingkow and several other places. They have conneo'ed the Japanese lines with the railway telegraph connecting with Dalay, where the lines ar joined by cable with Japan and the The Japanese offices accept messages to all parts of the world and charge Japanese rates.
rest of the world.
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An order made by HE, the Governor.in Council of the Straits Settlements, and pablished in the current Gazette, reads:- Whereas by Indian Act No. XIII of 1854 intituled An Act to repeal Act No. VI of 1852 and t› make provision for defraying the cost of the Lighthouse on Pedra Branca, and for maintaining the same, and also a Floating A telegram from Kusilio, capital of Kuangsi Light established in the Straits of Malacon, to province, reports that the city of Chinaakuan i the west of Singapore, and for the establish- has been occupied by a large number of insurment and maintenance of such further lights in gents, who are all well armed with rifles supplied or near to the said Straits as may be deemed by revolutionaries. The soldiers stationed there have been defeited. H.E. Governor Chang, Ming-obi has instructed the Provincial Com mander-in-Chief, General Ting Haai, speedily, to suppress the rebels. His Excellency has been requested by the Peking Government to give protection to the lives and property of all foreign missi naries in that disturbed district.
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Mo Ho, alias Lam Kue, appeared before Mr. F. A. Hazeland at the Police Court on Dec. 17th, charged with the murder of her husband at 59, High Street, West Point, on November 16th, by poisoning him with gelsemium. Dr. John Bell, Superintendent of the Government Ciril Hospital, was the first¦ witness called, and told the Court that defendant was admitted to hospital on the night of No- vember 17th. She was semi-conscious, very drowsy, and had slight convulsions, but gǝt better on the following day. The symptoms were those of vegetable poisoning. On the following evening witness was told that she tried to escape from hospital, and handed her committed for trial by jury. over to the police. The woman was sub equently
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On December 10th деть was received at Shanghai of the death in Rome of Mr. Joba Goodnow, formerly U. S. Consal-General at this port. Mr. Goodnow went to Shanghai, to succeed Mr. T. R. Jernigan as Consul General, 1858, and was a son of James Goodnow, Lt, is 1897. He was born at Greensburg, Ind in
Colonel of the 12th Indiana Volunteers. Mr. Goodoow graduated at the University of Min- nesota in 1879 and resided in Minneapolis until he went to Shanghai. Dar ng a portion of his tenure of office he was the Senior Consul, He; made many enemies and not a few friends, and the circumstances which led to his removal from the port are too generally known to need mention now. After leaving Shanghai he was for a Į time attached to the staff of the Viceroy at
Nanking.
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expedient," it was among other things enacted that it should be lawful for the Governor- General of India in Council from time to time to reduce the tolls payable under the said Act, in respect of all vessels or of any particular class or classes of vessels passing The Straits Lights" And whereas by Ordinance No. 11 of 1867 the powers vested by the said not in the Governor-General of India in Council were vested in the Governor in Council of the Straits Settlements : It is hereby ordered by the Governor in Council as follows: On aud after the 1st day of January. 1908, to tolls payable under Indian Act No XIII of 1854 in respect of all vessels other than Straits Traders shall be as follows: If the voyage be one in the ordinary course whereof the vessel would pass all the lights mentioned in the First Schedule hereto. at the rate of twelve and a half cents for every seven tons if paid within the Colony, or at the rate of half an anoa for every ton if paid in British India. If the voyage be one in the ordinary course where- of the vessel would pass any one or more of the said Lights, but not all of them, at the rate of six and a quarter coats for every seven tons if paid within the Colony or at the rate of a quarter anos for every 'ton if paid in British India. Provided always that no vessel shall be obliged to pay in any month a larger sum by way of tolls than at the rate of thirty-seven and a half cents for at the rate of one and a half angas for every every seven tous if paid within the Colony or ton if paid in British Lodis, and that all vessels described in the Second Schedule shall be exempt altogether from toll. Sailing vessels ander 200 tons plying between the ports of the Colony or to or from any port or place in the Colony from or to any port or place on the cost of the Malay Peninsula to the South of the ninth degree of North Latitude or to or from any port or place in the Colony from or to any port or place on the East coast of - the island of Sumatra.
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