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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXVII.]
Epitome
Leading Articles .-
AND
China Overland Trade
CONTENTS.
Shipping Subsidies
Chinese Army Reform.
Chinese Opinion......
Northern Ports
Hoitytoity
Hongkong Legislative Council
Finance Committee
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Trade Report.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 228 JUN“, 1908.
Messrs. W. S. Bailey & Co., the well known local shipbuilders, have received an order from Admiral Li Chan, on behalf of the Imperial | Chinese Navy for a motor house-boat to carry four quick-firing guns and to have a speed of 13 miles
per hour. The new vessel will have twin screws and draw only 2 ft 6 in. of water. She will be fitted with electric light, electrio 388 fans and lavatories all of the best finish. The .388 vessel will be 83 feet in length and the pro- 389 pellors will work in tunnels in order to attain
the speed upon so small a draft.
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Opium Smokers-An Analysis by Mr. Clementi ...392 Supreme Court
Commercial.
Shipping.
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BIRTHS.
It is quite curious that of the American lawyers at Shanghai, who marshalled themselves to attack Judge Wifey, not one comprehended the law relating to impeachments, and ignomin. ..894iously failed to frame a single allegation covered 305 by that law. There was in the van of this cohort of lawyers the ex-Attorney General of the Hawaiian Islands who, after filling a large book with his testimony, was informed by the committee that he had not stated one fact that brought his allegations within the law of im-
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On June 20th at the Victoria Hospital, the wife peachment. It is becoming clearer why some of K. H. A. CRAIG, <f a daughter.
On 20th June, at No. 6, Langford Place, St. John's Wood, London, the wife of HERBERT W. LOOKER of Victoria, Hongkong, Solicitor, of a daughter.
DEATH.
On June 10th, at Shanghai, RUDOLF LUDWIG ERNST LEMKE, Head of Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg & Co., aged 44 years.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of the 19th ult. arrived per N. D. L. 8.8. Goeben on the 16th inst.
The French Mail of the 22nd May arrived per M. M. s.s. Caldonien to-day, the 22nd inst.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
lawyers did not succeed in passing Judge Willey's examination.
The gentry and notables of Quinsan and Singyang districts have sent in a memorial signed by a large number of names to the Governor at Soochow, complaining that since the construction of the Shanghai. Nanking Rail- way foreigners have been visiting their districts in increasing numbers to hunt and shoot wild- fowl, etc. There have already been instances where fights between Chinese and foreigners have been averted by the merest chance, but as people cannot be so fortunate every time, the safest way would be to put a stop to these pro- miscuous visits of foreigners who do anything and shoot anything they please when they are in the country. This practice will be exceed. ingly dangerous to the peace and good order of the districts concerned if permitted to continue any longer.
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on board several launches soon a number of these
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Local sages say:
"Big fish out little fish, little fish, eat shrimp, and shrimp est mud. It might be fair to call the Farmer's Union and the Night Riders of Kentucky and Virginis the big fish, the Tobacco Trust the little fish and the Chinese coolie the shrimp that eats the mud. This parallel has been suggested by the progress of a representative of a great tobacco company through Shantung and North Kiangsu. He has placarded the towns and incidentally visited stors that sold imitation brands of the com- pany's goods. These cigarettes he tore open and stamped on the ground. Bat for the timidity of the little merchants who had evidently bought the goods in utter ignorance of any patent law, there might have arisen au interesting case for international equity.
On June 18th at 520 a opolie junk was run into by the steamer Loongsag off Wan- chai and as a result two coolies were drowned. The "Loongsang was leaving the harbour on her way to Mauila when the collision took place, How it occurred is not very apparent yet, but when those on boar the steamer saw that a collision was inevitable the engines were pro- mptly reversed and the force of the impact was lessened. The jank was not cat, but swinging alongside the steamer after being struck was heeled ever until her gunwale was under water. The passengers clambered up the other side, and as the accident was witnessed by those craft were speeding to the assistance of the unfortunate people who were all rescued with the exception of two. One, an old woman, drowned, and a was in the front part of the junk, Was man met with a similar fate. Another woman who had been under water for two or three minutes was pulled out in a very His Excellency the Governor has given his exhausted condition and several of the ot' ers assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty were injured in various ways. Thirty-two were the King, to Ordinance No. 11 of 1908.-An taken ashore on the police launches, and as none Ordinance to authorise the appropriation of a were seriously hurt they were conveyed to Wan- supplementary sum of one hundred and sixty-six | ohai. The junk did not sink but was very much thousand seven hundred and thirty-five dollars waterlogged. It was towed to Causeway Bay. and eighty-five cents, to defray the charges of The steamer was delayed for some time but the year 1907.
resumed her voyage before darkness fell.
A dispatch from Amoy states that Mr. Chen Pao-shen, Director-General of the Fukien Railway, still refuses to dismiss his personal friends and relatives who have been engaged without the consent or knowledge of the share- holders; and that the latter have decided to stop subscribing towards the railway shares.
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FOOCHOW.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
June 7th, Yesterday Foochow lost one of its oldesta residents and His Majesty his oldest subject in China :-
Yesterday morning Captain Shaw died at the quite a boy, in one of the East India Company's age of nearly 87. He came to Canton when ships in 1837.
He was in command for some time on the coast principally in Messrs. Gibb Lvingstone and the P. & O. Company's employ and had with the stirring times of long ago. many interesting stories to tell in connection
in 1867, and with the exception of one or two Captain Shaw settled in Pagoda Anchorage visits to Shanghai has never left the port. He was Marine Surveyor for German Lloyds Veritas &c.,-and worked until a few years ago. H- was immensely popular with all classes.
He and his family came up here last year to live and up to two or three months ago he was in his usual hearty health, Then he began to fail and yesterday saw the end.-Peace to his ashes.
was buried yesterday afternoon with Masonic honours, the whole Community attending.
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BILLS OF LADING.
The following notification from the stamp office appears in the Gazette-My attention has been drawn to the fact that certain ship- ping companies or agencies in the Colony habituallly evade the law in regard to the stamping of bills of lading and ship's receipts
1901, as amended by the Stamp (Amendment) under the provisions of the Stamp Ordinance,
Ordinance, 1902,
A receipt by chop in a chit book is a ship's receipt under the law and should therefore bear a 10 cents stamp when the freight is under $1, and a 20 cents stamp when the freight is over $3. It is the duty of the owners or agents of the vessel to stamp accordingly, and such duty applies in respect of junks as well as other vessels,
All owners, agents, &c., are warned scoord. ingly and they are recommended to keep two sets of receipts in stock properly stamped by the Office with the amounts of 10 cents and 20 cents respectively.
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