THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXVII.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Articlos
A Big Ship
"Pay, Fay, Pay.
Bred in the Bone
The Real Issue
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 8TH JUNE, 1908.
It is understood that Dr. 8. P. Barchet American Assessor Shanghai bas resigned from the American Consular Service, and that his ..355 | resignation has been accepted.
PAOR
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At the Shanghai Mixed Court on May 27th, a baker called Yu Tung-tsan was charged with 366 having squirted dirty water from his mouth over 356 bread intended for sale, thereby endangering the 357 public health. Insp. Hugall of the Health 358 Department stated that he caught the accused in the act of squirting dirty water from his mouth on to some bread which he was making, and which was intended for foreign consumption. Accused was fined $5 and warned that if he repeated the offence he would be severely punished.
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The Powers in the Pacific
English Meadows
Hongkong Legislative Council
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Supreme Court
Kulangsu (Amoy) Municipal Council...
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Correspondence
The Opium Question...........
Barking Nuisance.
Venues
The Imperial Government and the Colony's Re-
Chinese on British Ships.....
Hongkong-Singapore Quarantine Regulations
Tientsin
Retirement of Consul-General Mansfeld
Companies
A. B. Watson & Co., Ltd.
Watkins Limited
Where Ignorance is Bliss
Arrival of the "
Kalgan.
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Japanese Turbine Steamer
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A Chinese Imperial Edict of May 27 says:- ...364 Owing to the fact that the country round 364 about Peking has not had a sufficiency of rain since the opening of the summer term, We recently commanded Prince Chub and others .365 to pray for rain, bat, in spite of Our prayers, no rain has fallen. Therefore We again order Princes Chan, Li, Tsai Jun, Tsai Hsun and Pu Lin, and the Imperial noble Tsai Fu to proceed once more to the various temples to offer special prayers for rain on the 2nd day of the 5th moon (May 31).
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The China Mutual Life Insurance Co., Ltd. S'hai...367 Commercial,
.367 Shipping.
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DEATH.
At No. 8 Police Station, at 2.05 a.m. on the 25th May, Police Inspector DAVID DOUGLAS CUTHBERT, aged 47 years, dearly beloved husband of Barbara A. Cuthbert, Deeply mourned
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Returns of the average amount of bank-notes in circulation and of specie in reserve in Hong- kong, during the month ended 31st May, 1908, as certified by the managers of the respec. tive banks,
Banks.
Average Specie in Amount. Reserve. Chartered Bank of India,
$ Australia and China... 3,683,358 2,800,000 Hongkong and Shanghai
Banking Corporation... 14,470,281 10,000,000
Hongkong Cleckly Press, National Bank of Chins,
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of the 5th ult., arrived by the N.D.L, s'eamer Kleist, on the 2nd inst.
The French Mail of the 8th ult, arrived by the M.M. str., Polynesien, on the 8th inst.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
Limited
204,635 150,000
No. 23
The wettest day during May was the 12th, when 0-490 inches were registered; the total rainfall for the month was 1,825. There were 2193 hours of sunshine in May, the most recorded on one day being 12 hours on the 22nd.
A SHANGHAI BOUNDARY
DISPUTE.
FOREIGN CONSTABLE ATTACKED.
The
The West Hongkew police had a brush with The N.-C. Daily News of May 28 says:- the Taotai's native police in North Chekiang Road yesterday, and as a result Police Con- stable Sinclair was wounded on the head. cause of the trouble is an old standing boundary dispute. The artificial boundary of the Settle- ment runs down the middle of North Chekiang Road and there is a post situated opposite Elgin Road which states that the Settlement boundary is a certain number of feet to the East, which would bring it at about the centre of the roadway The, road, however, is manici- pal property and the municipal authorities are entitled to police it. What the native authori- ties desire, apparently, is that the Council shall police the Eastern half of the road and the Taotai's police the Western portion.
The present trouble began on Tuesday even- ing, when some of the Paoshan police were taken to the West Hongkew station for patroll. ing the roadway. This did not end the matter, for yesterday morning more of these police were arrested by members of the Municipal Police force, a special patrol having been detail- ed for duty on the disputed territory. The captured men were subsequently released, the Taolai undertaking that they would appear at the Mixed Court to-morrow morning. Finding the foreign force augmented the Paoshan police followed the example of the Settlement con. Total....................... $18,358,274 12,950,000 stabulary, and at about noon the climax was A Daily Press telegram dated Tokyo, June reached when about thirty of the native police kong (who was in Japan on a holiday) has been alleyway, which is indisputably outside the 6b, said-Colonel Martin, P.MO, of Hong-seized foreign P. C. 177 and rushed him up an
drowned in Lake Chuzenji, near Nikko, On Settlement limits. P. C. Šinchair had tried to Friday Colonel Martin put out alone in a small drive the natives off the road, but he failed, boat for some fishing. The wind rose and the and they struck him, dragged him about boat capsized. On the news reaching the thirty yards up the alley-way and tried to Kanaya Hotel the friends of Colonel Martin take him a prisoner to the local Magi- were alarmed and the police informed. An strate's yamen. The constable, however, got police and villagers but without success. extensive search was made for the corpse by the one of his arms free, drew his truncheon and The beat off his assailants, but be sustained a wound Lake is 150 feet deep and being weedy it is on the head and his uniform was torn. presumed that the body is entangled, The In his angling expedition Colonel Martin was Navy Department is sending diving apparatus. accompanied by a Sendo (boatsman). When 400 yards from shore a cloud appeared above Nantiyama and a squall, followed by a strong northwesterly breeze, struck the lake. The boat was tossed about and finally upset. Both men clung to the bottom and tried to right her. tempted to swim ashore, taking an oar with him. When 150 yards away the Sendo noticed that the Colonel was in difficulties and swam to his assistanes, but a few minutes later he saw the officer disappear. The Sendo, feeling exhausted, returned to the boat and succeeded in gaining the shore two hours later. He reported the facts
The incident clearly illustrates the unsatis- at the hotel, and a search was immediately factory nature of the present condition of the instituted but the body was not found. The boundary question and we must hope that a British Embassy, on being informed sent divers speedy solution will be found in a further
Meanwhile an Indian constable had taken the news to the West Hongkow station that the Paoshan police had captured a foreigner and headquarters was notified. Lieut.-Colonel C.. D. Bruce and Mr. K. J. McEnen arrived on the scene on motor car and demanded at the yamên of the Paoshan Magistrate that he should hand over the men who had assaulted P.
sod of the Tientesin-Fukon Railway was out on
A dispatch frem Tientsin states that the first The Colonel, disregarding the Sendo's advice, at. C. Sinclair, but the Magistrate declined to do May 29 at that port, and that a large number of officials were present, including H, E. Lu Hai- huan. Director of the Railway.
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H.E. the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the King, to the following Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council:-Ordinance No. 10 of 1908.-An Ordinance for the transfer of the properties of the Man Mo Temple to the Tung Wa Hospital.
to the lake.
The proper authorities have been notified and developments are anticipated. Last night the Paoshan pólice were to be seen standing in
the entrance to the alleyway and the Municipal Police were patrolling the road.
extension of the Settlement,
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