THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXVIII.]
A Threatening Calamity
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China Overland
Overland Trade Report.
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CONTENTS.
Epitome
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Leading Articles.-
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The Foreign Post Offices in China
Seditious Newspapers.
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Chinese Appreciation of Bazaars
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Shanghai Dooks
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Race Distinctions
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Reflections on the Plague Epidemic
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Suicide of Dr. Cross
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The Flood Fund Bazaar.
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Floods in the North....
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Half Yearly Dividends
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Plagne Work in Hongkong
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"Attacking the Integrity of the Bench
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China's Coal Resources......
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Chinese Heroes......
Indo-China Steam Navigation Company
Kowloon Cricket Club
The Trouble on the Indo-China Frontier
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Notes from the North...
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Tragedy at Stanley
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Brazilian Cruiser in Port
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Death of Mr. Guy Blood
Opium in the North.......
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 20TH JULY, 1908.
Hongkong Weekly Press,
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VEUX ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
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Official figures are published of the value of Dress, trade between the mainland (Japan) and For- moss for last year. The total imports into Formosa amounted to Y19,750,450, the principal line imported being cotton fabrics, valued at | about Y2,000000, none of the other items ex- ceeding Y1,000,000, in value, The total exports to Japan were valued at Y 7,881,744, including about Y7,500,000 rice, and Y2,800,000 camphor and camphor oil.
The German Mail of the 16th Jane arrived per N. D. L. 88. Goeben Jon the 15th inst.
The French Mail of the 19th June arrived per M.M. 88. Coedonien to-day, the 20th inst.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
The Board of Finance proposes to issue 40 orders for the suppression of all Provincial 41 lotteries in China.
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Fatal Accident at Hongkong and Shanghai Bank...43 Death of Captain Patterson
Funeral of Mr. R. B. Allen
The South Manchurian Railway......
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Some sixty houses were burnt at Hakodate on the morning of June 27th, the fire starting from the residence of a railway official.
It is notified that Messrs. Ñ. Moslle & Co., Ltd., of Amoy, have voluntarily gone into liquidation, and that Mr. G. W. Barton has been appointed liquidator.
The new Commercial Treaty between China 43 and Sweden was signed in Peking on the 6th 43 inst. by H.E. Lien Fang (Senior Vice-President of the Waiwupu) on behalf of the Chinese Government.
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Correspondence
The Blind and Lame
Persian and Turkestan Opium...
"A Bombshell in Manila Business Circles"
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Supreme Court.....
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Fire on the German Mail
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Japan
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Kidnapped....
Trade and Commerce
Canton
Commercial.
The Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co., Ltd..
Shipping...
BIRTHS.
Their Majesties have asked the various ministers to devise ways and means to raise funds for the Imperial Exchequer as the 47 Treasury is almost empty and loans are not
easy to raise.
Messrs. Arnhold Karberg are reported to have secured the contract to supply the Palace at Peking and the Wai Wa Pu offices with electric light plant. The ordèr is stated tɔ be a very large one.
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On June 27th, at Tientsin, the wife of H REINHOLD, of a daughter.
On July 4th, at Soochow, the wife of A. C. CLEAR, of a daughter.
On July 4th, at Foochow, the wife of Mr. N. 4. A. NIELSEN, of a son.
On July 8th, at Shanghai, the wife of W, A. Estis, of a sol.
On July 9th, at Shanghai, the wife of MAX
HOERTER, of a son.
On July 15th; at No. 2 Redhill, The Peak, to
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. C. BONNAR, 8 800.
MARRIAGE.
On July 4th, at H.B.M. Consulate-General, Shanghai, before Sir Pelham L. Warren, K.C.M.G., Consul-General, and afterwards at Holy Trinity Cathedral, THOMAS HENEY UNITE ALDRIDGE, of Kensington, London, to DOROTHY CLARE FRASER, of Streatham Hill, London.
DEATHS.
On July 8th, at Shanghai, CATHERINE (Kitty), daughter of J. G. and L. Carnaghan, aged 2 years
and one month.
On July 10th, at the Shanghai General Hospital. JENNIE WADE, aged 47 years.
On July 18th, at Peak Hospital, MAUD, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs H. Haynes, aged 1 year and 11 months, Deeply regretted.
On July 14th, at the Peak Hospital, CHARLES GUY BLOOD of the firm of Messrs. Palmer and Turner, aged 83 years.
Three men have been condemned to death in connection with the recent attempt to poison the troops at Hanoi. Other men alleged to be implicated are under trial. A Chinese chemist and his four boys have been arrested on a charge of having prepared the poison.
It is reported by wire from Liaoyang that the Asiatic Petroleum Company of England has selected a site for that purpose south of the has decided to erect oil tanks at Liaoyang, and railway station there, which has been approved by the South Manchurian Railway Company.
The American cruiser squadron left Hankow for Shanghai on the 6th inst The squadron consisted of the cruisers Rainbow, Cleveland and Denver, and the guoboat Callao. There were also at Hankow on that day the British gunboat Kinsha and the French gunboat Décidés.
In recognition of services rendered during the war, H.M. the Emperor of Japan has been pleased to confer on Mr. David Crowe, dock master at the Mitsu Bishi Dockyard and Engine Works, Nagasaki, the Sixth Class of the Order of the Rising Sun; and on Mr. J. Mansbridge; | foreman rigger and diver at the Dockyard, the Sixth Class of the Urder of the Sacred Treasure. A Manila newspaper to hand by Tuesday's the 9th, 262 cases, of which 124 were fatal, were mail announces that "Cholera gains some.' On notified from Pasgasinan province. In the day of 334 cases and 185 deaths. From January five provinces affected there was a total for the 1 last there have been 5,229 cases and 3,476 deaths in the Philippines from the malady, or in other words, an average of about 20 cases a day.
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It is stated in Japan papers that 20,000 Japanese troops are operating in Korea against the insurgents. The Japan Mail remarks :- "Absolute silence continues to be preserved with regard to the doings of the Japanese troops. The general impression seems to be that they have almost stamped out the insurrectiod, but apparently it is considered expedient not to publish details which would merely farnish material for exaggerated stories."
News from the North states that the Yangtze is rising considerably; the dyke of Anking (capital of Anhui) is in danger of being flooded and several streets on the eastera bank of the Yangtze have collapsed into the river. Aboat fifty houses have been swept away at Ch'iho and the dyke of Ch'ing tsaowu is flooded. Hsinchoa, Lichicho, Luchichu and Chionchiapao (in Huangohou prefecture, Hapeh,) are also flooded and the damage done is considerable.
Mr. Ralph Paget, British Minister Pleni- potentiary, Bangkok, has received_instructions from the Foreign Office to proceed to England at once. It is not definitely known whether he will return to Bangkok, but on his departure Mr. W. R. D. Beckett will act as Chargé d'Affaires.
It is currently reported, says the Siam Observer, that Mr. Paget's sudden sum- mons is due to something in connection with the new Anglo-Siamese Treaty, as otherwise he had not expected to leave Bangkok till October
next.
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Mr. E. T. Bethell, late Editor of the Korea Daily News, who was recently sentenced by the court to twenty-one days' imprisonment as a first class misdemeanant, was brought before Mr. Bourne, Acting Judge, at the Supreme Court, Shanghai, on Saturday last to give security for his future good behaviour. Lordship said prisoner had been ordered to give and he would be satisfied with the sum of £200 security to be of good behaviour for six months, in prisoner's own recognisances and one surety of £150. If prisoner would enter into that recognisance he would be discharged, if not, he would have to be deported from China. Prisoner entered into the necessary recognisance and was thereupon released.
The firm of Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co. drapere and outfitters, who have branches in Shanghai and the Straits Settlements, has been Incorporated under the Companies' Acts. The capital of the company is £600,000, divided into 400,000 six per cent. cumulative preference shares of £1 sach and 200,000 ordinary shares of £l esoh. The average profits of the businesses carried on by the firm, on the basis of the last five years, is stated in the prospectus to bavs been £55,914. Os, 5d. To this is added £7,243 178, 5d. the amount of rents hitherto paid for 22,535 rent receivable from part of new promises prémisse now taken over by the Company, and let at Shanghai and Colombo. This gives a total per cent. dividend on preference shares Karplus of £65,692 17s. 10d. After payment of the "kix of £41,692 17s. 10d. is shown. The pureliane price was fixed at £510,000, of which £32 was for goodwill, '
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