The Legislative Debate
Disranked Missionaries
Chinese Soldiers.....:
Shares
293
Reactionaries and Railways
293
Of Trousers.
304
Some Opium History
Shipping on the China Coast..
Correspondence
Mr. Osborne's Speech
ing Ordinance
96
Sanitary Law Appeals
.207
New Public Health and Buildings Bill
298
The Anti-Opium Crusade
.298
The Japanese Disaster...
Registrar-General's Report
Italian Convent
Supreme Court
Board of Trade Supervision
Companies
The Hongkong Electric Co., Ltd..
.304
The National Bank of China. Ltd..
304
Watkins Limited...
Swatow's New Post Office
305
Tientain
Shanghai Race Meeting Commercial.
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 11TH MAY, 1908.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct that the Ordinance No. 1 of 1908, en-
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Another gambling raid fatalitý took place on May 2nd. When the police visited Ulok Lane, West Point, for (he purpose of 300 executing a gambling warrant somebody gave the alarm and the usual panic ensued. One man leaped from a window on the first flour to the street below and struck his head on a door His skull was fractured aud he died step. 04 shortly afterwards in the hospital.
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No. 19
The importation into Hongkong through the Post Office of any seditions publication by any correspondende is prohibited by regulations made by the Governor-in-Connoil. The Post- may seize all such seditious
master-General
titled An Ordinance to amend the Fire Brigade publications and cause the same to be returned 292 Ordinance, 1868, shall come into operation as
to the post office at which they were mailed. and from the first day of February, 1908.
On May 7th
an American named J. His Excellency the Governor has given bis A Mackenzie who arrived here a few days 295 assent, in the name and on behalf of His Mago from, Manila, committed suicile in the 295 jesty the King, to the following Ordinance Oriental Hotel, where he has been staying since
passed by the Legislative Council-
his arrival. :-Ordinance
On presenting himself at the No. of 1908-An Ordinance to enable Hotel on Monday he was in a very exhausted Foreign Corporations to acquire and hold land condition and explained that he had had a rough in the Colony.
passage from Manila and had been very sick. He engaged a room-ons on the top floor being placed at his disposal,-and kept to it all the time. He drank a good deal of whisky, 80 called upon to restrict his supply, and all his much so that the manager of the hotel felt meals were served in his room. morning the manager entered the visitor's On Wednesday
time in the course of which Mr. Mackenzie room and engaged him in conversation for s
thanked him for his friendly intervention and Tomes and Co, in order to book his passage to asked him to accompany him to Messrs, Shewan Manila. The manager consented. transpired to arouse his suspicion that the visitor comtemplated suicide. Yesterday about and the manager five minutes past two a shot was heard and he proceeded
once informed, in the meantime called the police,
room, having Mr. Mackenzie was found stretched on the bed, partly dressed, with a bullet wound above the left temple. He expired about five minutes after- wards. One of his portmanteaux was open, and it was apparently from this that he had just taken his Colt revolver. Four of the six chambers were loaded. Deceased was about 40 years of age, of slender build, medium height, and clean shaven excepting a moustache.
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On April 18th, at H.B.M. Consulate-General, Hankow, the wife of E. H. FRABER, Esq., of a daughter.
On May 1st, at Shanghai, the wife of J. H. HINTON, & SOI.
On Sunday, 3rd May, at "Eilandonan," the Peak, Hongkong, to Mr. and Mrs A. G. COPPIN, a daughter.
On May 4th, at Tyrella Rectory, Co Down, the wife of L. A. M. JOHNSTON, of a daughter (still- born).
MARRIAGE.
On May 1st, at Shanghai, DOROTHY WIDLER to W. A. ROBERTS.
DEATHS.
On April 9th, on board the steamer Vorwaerts, between Penang and Madras, GERHARD HUGO THEODOR WILLKOMM, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Willkomm of >hanghai, aged 2 years.
On April 30th, at Shanghai, of heart failure, RAHAMIM MOSHE BENJAMIN of the Shanghai Mutual Telephone Office, aged 24 years.
On April 30th, at Shanghai, ELIZABETH, infant daughter of Alexander Nichol, I.M.C.
On May 4th, at Kowloon Hotel at 12.30 p.m. JAMES WILLIAM OSBORNE, aged 65 years.
Hongkong Weekly Press.
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10a, Des Vœux ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS,
The German Mail of the 7th ult. arrived by
the N.D.L. steamer Buelow on the 5th inst.
The French Mail of the 10th ult. arrived per 5.8. Ernest Simons to-day the 11th inst.
A special meeting of the Sanitary Board was held on May 5th to consider a report by the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon that rinderpest had broken ont on the Dairy Farm premises at Kai Lung Was. The Veterinary Surgeon stated six cows were affected and these had been put in the hospital shed and the contacts inoculated. On the moti n of the President, s-conded by Mr. Shelton Hooper, the place was, declared an infected area.
was at
to the
Nothing
On May 5th & Chinaman went info Messrs. Gaupp's shop and purchased a gold watch for $45, tendering in payment what looked like a fifty dollar bill. He was handed $5 in change and when he went out it was dis- covered that the bill was only for ten dollars, and that the figures round the sides had been cleverly altered, the one in front of the cypher being changed to five, while the words ten dollars remained distinct in the body of the bill. The police were acquainted with the matter THE RE-REVISION OF TREATIES and they are endeavouring to trace the
man.
An Indian policeman on duty at Talpo in the New Territory was on May 5th fined $25 or five weeks' imprisonment for assaulting a native and committed to prison for six wee's without the option of a fine for recklessly discharging his revolver. Apparently he was celebrating his retura from Hongkong by drinking from a bottle of gin which he had purchased until he became intoxicated. Then he stumbled into a ma shed and becoming annoyed at the cook he formance by firing two shots from his revolver sat upon him and beat him, ending bis per
in the air.
According to the "Sinwêapa" a patrol of the Imperial Guards, whilst making their rounds in the vicinity of Eho Park Palace the other day, arrested two soldiers belonging to the Foreign legation guards in Peing who daughter of å farmer named Fei, who lives at had been caught maltreating a young girl, the
the foot of Wanshou bill, just outside Eho Park, It appears that the victim resisfed the attack. whereupon the soldiers stabbed her in the side and, upon the alarm being raised and a gendarme, soldiers. Fortunately a patrol of Imperial appearing, he also was wounded by the foreign
they handed over to an officer at the Ministry Gaards came up and arrested the men whom
of War.
The Office in Tokyo in regard to the The following statement emanates from the negotiations for the coming revision of the treaties:-
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When the existing treaties were signed, the primary object was the removal of the extra- Japan was so eager for the recovery of judicial terri orial rights of foreign Powers in Japan. As autonomy and as her position in the comity of nations had not then reached its present level, quavoidable, in particular the failure to secure naturally some inequalities in the treaties were complete Castoms autonomy being disadvan- tageous to Japan. Now it must be the unanim- ous desire of the people of the Empire to remove this inequality and recover the Customs autonomy, and this is the primary object of the forthcoming revision of treaties. To what ex- be effected it is difficult to predict before the tent the amendment of the Customs stariff can
completion of a fall investigation of the matter; but the Government desires to amend it on a footing of equality with other Powers. The Finance Department has been investigating the commodities, and the Foreign Office has of late condition of production and consumption of all
and all other matters necessary for the revision also been considering the economic situation,
of the treaties,
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