THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXVIII.]
Epitome
Leading Articles.
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China Overland Trade
Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Warfare Against the Mosquito The Government of China... Opium-Precept and Practice The Cabinet Crisis in Japan. Hongkong Legislative Council Canton
Correspondence
Hongkong and Opium.....
A Hongkong Trade Mark Cage Hongkong Sanitary Board
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 25TH JULY, 1908.
Mr. F. D. Cheshire, Insp-ctur-Geural of American Consulates, has gone home on a few PAGE months leave.
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.63 A man named Albert Heraux (alias Wagner. alias Messionen) who had abedon-led from Shanghai with considerable sums of money lue been arrested at Harkow.
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M. Klobukowski, the new Governor-Gineral of Indo-China, is expected to leave Wars illes for the Far East on the 27th inst accompiaid 6 by Messrs icanon and Deloncle.
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Th Vicoy at Napking on instructions from the Waiwupu has wired nd ordered the Shanghai Tai to pay £14,000 to the Deutsch Ana ische Bank to be sent over to Berl n as an instalment of redemption of the foreign loan through Arnhold, Kirberg and Co. due on the 1st July
be Shangha Tuotai his replied to the Viceroy that he has done so. —S nw inpao.
An important conference was hel in Peking he Coromandant of Niue Gates, and the Civil a week ago, between His Highness Prince Su Governor of the Capital, to discuss the question of the establishment of heal cuncipal govern. ment in Peking as a mid-l fr other a fies. A
r. Parlett, British Vice Consul at Thirgh, 61 has been appointed Cousal at Hakodate, and
Mr. Wawn of the British Legation at Tokyo,ny of the proped detailed regulations was will go to Tairen as Vics.Consul.
drafted by the confereno and is to be submitted to the Throne for Imperial sanction.
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Act ons against a Canton Firm
Opium Statistics
Ophthalmic Disease among Chinese
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The P. & O. Far Eastern Service
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Reflections at Macao
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Canton Hankow Railway
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The Development of Hankow
Kulangsu (Amoy) Municipal Council
The Flood
Flood Fund Bazaar
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce Supreme Court
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The Council for the State have memorialized the Throne requesting their Majesties for a Decree to put in force the Criminal Code by H.E. Wu Ting rang and Hsu Chia Puu. ...64 The request was granted.
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BIRTH.
The Board of War has wired to the Viceroys of the Liang Hu stating that it should be made known to the officers under their control that .72 it is forbidden them to make soldiers do the
work of household servants.
It appears that the circulation of photographs of a white seaman whose dead body was found On July 16th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. C. in the harbour last week has resulted in his J. HEAD, & daughter.
being identified. Deceased was Herman Graiser, a fireman employed on the 8.3. "Reider."
DEATHS.
On July 16th, at the Shanghai General Hospital, ALEX. B, SHORT, aged 34 yıars.
On July 14th, at Singapore, MARY ISABEL CARRUTHERS, wife of John A. Martin.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of 29th June and the Parcel Mails which closed in London for despatch by tle all sea route on the 17th June and for despatch overland on 24th June arrived per s.s. Delta on the 22nd inst.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
Mr. T. M. Haskins. Chinese Secretary to the American Legation at Peking, died of supposed cholera at Peitaiho on the 12th inst. He had just been promoted to be Vice-Consul General at Shanghai and was quite a young man.
Mr. V. A. Cæsar Hawkins has recently severed his long connection with the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and has joined the Board of the Imperial Bank of Persia. Mr. Hawkins is at present in Persia on an inspection four,
The Chinese Merchants in the South Seas subscribe 15,000,000 Taels towards the con- (says Chinese Public Opinion) are willing to struction of a Chinese Navy on condition that Chinese men-of-war are stationed in those seas to protect Chinese interests there.
The Central Government has wired to the Viceroys and Governors of Provinces notifying them that the following classes of people are debarred from starting societies for the dis cassion of political affairs-Military, polioe, priests, professors and students, persons under the age of 20 years, women, ex-convicts, illiterates.
A big fire oconrred id Tientsin on the 13th inst. when the Arcade is the French Conce+- sion was destroyed. The building belonged to the Tientsin Land Investment Co. Ltd. It the Arcade Amusement Co. were insured in a was insured and will be rebuilt. The gods of
but it is stated that the salvage will bring in a German office only a few days before for $15,000, good sum and the loss will not be a heavy one.
In view of Russian intervention the move- morts of the exp-ditionary force sent to suppress the Hunghusz have been suspended for the time being. Hi E. Hsu Shih-chang, Viceroy of Manchuria, has drafted special Hunghatsze, and these regulations have been regulations for the operations against the accepted by the Russian authorities. They only await the sanction of the Throne before being put into practice.
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from the north from a reliable source that His Shanghai Mercury" has received news Excellency Yuan Shi-kat has appointed Mr. T. H. Kingsley, (formerly manager of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Co.) general manager of the Chinese new mines at Ma Chia-kow. Our contemporary understands that these mines are the same that Sir John Jordan is now asking Mining and Engineering Co., Ltd. claim, but the Chinese to close and which the Chinese which the Chinese state they have no right to.
There seems to be a growing demand in China for foreign loans. The Throne has sanctioned the raising of a foreign loan for the purpose of redeeming the Lu Han railway. A Hankow paper states that the Wai-Wa-pu has raised a loan of Tis 1,000,000 for three years at seven per cent per annum interest from the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, the sum to be devoted to the needs of the Ministry of Posts and Communications. We see it also stated that the Kiangan Railway administra- tion desire a foreign loan of three million
The latest mail brings news of the death of Mr. David McLean, who joined the staff of the
dollars. This is the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation on the foundation of the bank in 1865, and became manager of the Shanghai branch and later was appointed manager in London. Mr McLean died at his home in Aberdeenshire at the age of 76.
On the 9th July a child was born to Prince Tao (the Emperor's brother). second child and is to be named Pu Kai.
The American battleships "Maine" and "Alabama," sent out in advance of the fleet are expected to reach Manila on the 27th inst.
The property offered for sale by Mr. G. P. Lammert. auctioneer yesterday- shares in cer-
A Singapore, telegram to the Daily Press dated July 21st states: A gang of fifteen Chinese tain buildings and lots of land at Kowloon-attacked the district surgeon, Dr. J. W. was withdraWD.
Mr. Thomas C. Kinney, senior partner in the firm of Messrs. Kinney and Lawrence, Manila, died on the 18th inst from heart failure, following peritonitis.
Barrack, and a contractor named McLean, near Gambang resthouse, Kuantan, Pahang, on the McLean was severely wounded. The murderers escaped, taking with them $8,000. 15th inst. Dr. Barrack was killed and Mr.
عمر
Yesterday was the birthday of the Emperor European calendar, is 34 years of age. The of China. His Majesty, according to the Chiness papers of Hongkong, excepting those who are in opposition to the reigning dynasty, suspend publication for one day in honour of the occasion. Really the 28th day of the sixth moo (July 26th) is the Emperor's birthday, but that date having been pronounced unlucky, because one of his predecessors on the Throne Decree, has always been celebrated on the 23th diet on that day, the birthday, by Imperial
of the sixth moon.
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