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Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXVII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Articles .--
Cosmopolites
Likin
Piece Goods
Of Taste
Incidental
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 13TH APRIL, 1908,
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
The third steel steam launch, the Wheeler," built to the order of the Philippine Govern- 232 ment by the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock ....23% Co., left for Manila on Saturday,
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233 A private telegram informs us that the 234 directors of the Yangleze Insurance Company 234 of Shanghai are recommending a divi lend at 231 the rate of 25 per cent. in the old shares,
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Japanese Emigrants
China's Blessed Meekness
A Dootor Summoned
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Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
Sir Thomas Jackson.....
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Building and Sanitary Laws
The Public Health Bill
A New Steamer
Antang
Shipping at Hongkong.
Supreme Court
Gathering Wild Flowers..
The Observatory
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Crime in the Colony.
Development of the New Territories
Commercial......
Shipping
DEATH.
It is notified in the Gazette that the Gover- 237 nor-in-Council has decided to resume Lot 398 238 in Survey District No. 4, New Kowloon West,
for public purposes.
The owners are at present unknown.
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According to the official returns. Japan's 212 total rice crop last year aggregated 49,043,802 koku, showing an increase of 5.9 per cent, as compared with the previous year. The returns also show an increase of 11.8 per cent, over the average crops for the past seven years.
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The private yacht "Nirvana," which is owned 249 by Madame la Comtesse de Beam, arrived in port on Saturday morning from the Straits Settlements. The party on board consist of the Comtesse and a party of six. Shortly after· arrival visits were paid by Admiral Sir Hed. worth Lambton and others,
On Sunday April 5th, at 315 Abbeydale Road, Sheffield, in his 80th year, and f rtified by the last rites of the Church, FRANCIS DEALY, of Cock Bridge, County Wicklow, Ireland, R.I P.
AGRADEÇİMENTO
FRANCISCO M. P. pe GRAÇA, irmãs e sobri- nhos, PIO M. DE GRAÇA, JOSE A. DE GRAÇA e sua esposa, reconhecidos pela prova de interesse e amizade recebidas durante a doença e falleci- mento do seu muito saudoso pac, avo e 80gro FILOMENO MARIA DE GRAÇA, veem por este meio agradecer com gratidão a todas as pessoas que acompanharam n'aquelle transe doloroso, que honraram com as suas presenças o funeral, que enviaram gripaldas e que lhes deram pezames,
Hongkong, 11 de Abril de 1908.
H.E. Chang Jen-chün, Viceroy at Canton. has thrice sent in his resignation.
Prince hing has, therefore, recommended H. E. Chang Chih-tung (who was formerly Viceroy of the Liangkuang provides to the Throne as being the most suitable man for the Viceroyalty, but Chang hih-tung has refused the post on the important aud difficult position, ground that his age is too advanced for such au
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An unusual incident was witnessed on board H.M.S."Kent" on April 7th. A Chinese con- tractor had been employed to polish and renovată the furniture and to do other work on the ship the day in question Wu was leaving his work and one of his hands was named Wd Oɑ. On at half past twelve, considerably before the re- cognised time, and his master remonstrated with him. Wu became angry and seizing a hammer attempted to strike his master. The latter, however, succeeded in wresting it from him, whereupon the enraged workman rashed to the side of the ship and drew a bayonet from a bayonet rack. He unsheathed it and made a lunge at Ng, who would in all pro babilly have received the weapon in his body had it not been for the timely arrival of a marine from the upper deck who took in the situation at a glance and came to the assistance of the contractor. Ha seized the man and banded hin over to the police. He was brought before Mr. Kemp at the Magistracy yesterday and was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour.
THE BOYCOTT.
A boycott that is not a boycott is undoubtedly belog conducted by the Chinese in Hongkong against Japanese and Japanese products. In other words concerted action is being taken by some of the Chines to show their disapproval of the Japanese attitude on the "Tatșu Maru " incident but the action is in such a form that it does not constitute a breach of the law. The resentment against the Japanese is not confined to a few iresponsibles as was at first thought, but on the other hand it is far from unanimous, Of course, there are many Chinese who do not express themselves very freely on the subject but that does not indicate that there is no agitatio or feeling against the Japanese. As
matter of fact in nearly every shop in Queen's Road will be found a notice to the effect that Japanese goods are not kept in stock or that they cannot be purchased there, and one man is reported to have collected his stook of A Japanese in Kobe bewails the corruption of Japanese goods and dumped them in the har- his young fellow countryman by the pernicious bour. But the most significant movement of åll i examples of foreign business men there. He that the Nan Pak Hong, which is the guild of proceds :-"he spotless trousers with the Chinese export and import traders of Hong- mark of the folds showing conspicuously, the kong, have met and passed a series of res lations snow write bigh collar, the neck tie of bright They decided to telegraph to Chinese merchants colours, and the pattern of the stuff of the sack- in Japan to stop making farther consignments over-coat redolent with the smell of foreigns of goods from there, to arrange that goods make; a pur of spectacles to match, the glazed already contrasted for shoull arrive in Hong- bots, the style in which the hair is groomed, kong, in other than Japanese bottoms, to refuse the drooping moustaches-all these are things delivery of Japanese goods after the 30th all the time." instant, and to circularise members of the guild to affir their chops to the resolutions. When it is sated that all the Chinese firms in the guild, with the exception of three, have approved of this proceeding, it will be seen how widespread is the feeling.
Hongkong Weekly Press, which they are worried about
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS,
The German Mail of the 10th March arrived at Hongkong on 7th April, per s.. Yorck.
The French Mail of 13th March and the Supplementary mail from London dated the 14th March, arrived at Hongkong on the 13th inst., per s.s. Australien,
The Captain Superintendent of Police in his asunal report states that the following licences
1,175 Hongkong Jinrickshas. were issued during 1907–
50 Quarry Bay Jiurickshas. 25) Kowloon Jinrickshas.
37 Private Vehicles (27 Carriages, 6 Motor
Cars and 4 Hearses).
1,033 Truck' Licences,
644 Hongkong Chairs.
60 Hill District Chairs,
7- Gharis.
14,097 Drivers and Bearers. They are con
tinually coming and going, hente the large number.
The agitation among the Chinese against the Japanese still continues, and each day brings reports of various trades joining the movement. The porcelain firms are the latest to meet and pass a resolution joining the boycott. The native press have, we understand, been warned by the Hongkong Government through the Registrar General to be careful in what they say with reference to the boycott.
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