THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXVIII.]
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Leading Articles
Flour Milling in the Far East
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 14TH SEPTEMBER, 1908.
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All opium divans at Hankow were ordered to be closed by the 5th inst.
With reference to recently current rumours in Shangbai, it is stated that legal proceed ings will shortly be instituted in the matter 176 of the charges that have been publicly made .176 against his Honour Judge Wilfley.
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The contrrot for beef for the German Go vernment in Tsingtao, for the ensuing twelve 178 months, has been swarded to the North Queene- land Meat Export Co., L1, Townsville. These 180 packers were the successful tenderers last
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The Opium Trade in South China.. America and Hawaii
The Hongkong University Project
Other University Projects
The Thibetan Indemnity.
Random Reflections
The French Convent in Hongkong
The Recent Typhoon at Canton
Public Companies :---
United Asbestos Oriental Agency; Ld.
The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ld.
The Douglas Steamship Co., Ld.
Dyeing Company, Limited...
The Decline in Trade
Macan
The Promenade Concert
Launch at Kowloon Docks.
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The Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk, C.M.G.
Hongkong University
St. Andrew's Society
Improvements at Macao
New Industries near Hongkong
Wireless Telegraphy in Kwangtung
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Bailways in Kwangtung
The Hongkong Cotton Spinning, Weaving and
The "Entente Cordiale " at Canton Notes from the North
The Loss of the "Dunesra.
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The Origin of "Pigeon English
Canton
Supreme Court
Correspondance
The Bishop Hoare Memorial
Hongkong
Commercial
Shipping
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A notice has been issued warning mariners that flating mines are again making their appearance near Vladivostook and in Amur and Ussuri Bays. There is great apprehension that these mines may still retain their explosive element.
It is reported from Peking that the coneos- sion for the Canton Maca Railway has been car celled by the Chinese Government with the sanction of the Portuguese Minister, as the Concessionaires have failed to construct the line with within the stipulated time.
Great damage to oropa has been caused in 184 the province of Shantang by torrential rains. 184 Traffic on the railway between Tsingtao and 185 Tainanfu was interrupted for a few days. 185
Bandreds of peasants are reported to have been completely ruined by the rains.
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On August 20th. at Foochow, the wife of JAMES HELBLING. of a daughter.
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DEATHS.
noon, NONA EMILY Langley, widow of PERCY At the Matilda Hospital at 4.90 yesterday after LANGLEY.
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His Majesty the Emperor of Japan has been pleased to confer upon Mr. W. H. Donald the Order of the Rising Sun, 6th class, in recog nition of his services as war correspondent during the Russo-Japanese War. Mr. Faust su, the Japanese Consul, on September 8th handed Mr. Donald the Order.
We are officially informed that at the half yearly meeting of shareholders of this Bank. held at the Head Office, Yokobams, on the 10th instant, it was resolved to pay a dividend of 12 per cent. p.a. for the half year ending the 30th June 1903; to add to the Reserve Fand Yen 1,113,000 to the next account. 500,000; and to carry forward the sum of Yen
Sir Alexander Hosie, Kt., Commercial Attaché at Peking, will represent the British Foreign Office at the international opium commission which meets at Shanghai early in
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According to the writer of notes on native affairs in the N.-C. Daily News, Nanning, which has been made the provincial capital of Kwang- si instead of Kweilin is destined to become increasingly important commercially and poll. tically. A schems to connect Pakhoi, Nanning and Kuangtung by_rail has been broached by the Ministry of Posts and Communicatione, and it is practically certain that it will be carried out before long.
various railways under proposal and to carry Owing to lack of funds to construct the
out the necessary reforms, the Peking Govern. ment intends, says a writer in the N.-U. Daily News, to conolade a number of loans with the wealthy Chinese merchants in the South Paciflo Islands. It is stated that the lenders shall be treated exactly in the same manner as the British and Chinese Corporation and other syndicates that have lent money to the Chinese Government. It is further stated that the latter bas declared that if any one can persuade the Chinese merchants in those islands to lend money to it, he will be highly rewarded. It in reported that Prince Tai-Clea may possibly be sent down South to contract the loans required.
Death bas removed another well known figure from our midst, says the Shanghai Mercury, in succumbed at the General Hospital from the person of Captain D. A. MacDonnell, who
stroke of paralysis. The deceased was well known along the whole China Coast, where be was constantly piloting foreign men-of-war as well as other vessels. He was also well known as Yangtza pilot and in his time has taken some of the biggest ships that have ever gone up river up to Aankow. The deceased was 64 Irishman by birth, forty-eight years of age, and first settled in China about twenty years ago, when for several years he was in the employ of the C. M. 8. N. Co., which servios he left to take up piloting. He was well liked for his hearty and genial manner and was a welcome addition to any company. His last active service was a few weeks ago when he
piloted the Brazilian oraiser Benjamin Constant from Shanghai to Hongkong.
Statesmen and Ministers of State now living The Hochi asks how many of the Elder will be able to visit the Grand Exhibition of Japan in 1917. The paper then points out the
Hongkong Weekly S5 January. The Colonial and Indian delegates ges of the Genro and Ministers in 1917 as
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VEUX ROAD CL LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of the 12th August arrived per s.s. Lutzow on Wednesday the 9th inst.
The French Mail of the 14th ultimo arrived per 8.8. Fille de la Ciotat on the 13th inst.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
The native city of Hankow now has electric light. Current was supplied on the 29th alt. for 1,800 lights, and applications for the in- stallation of 2,000 additional lights had been received.
have not yet been nominated, and possibly India will be represented by an experienced official from the Bombay Presidency.
A telegram from Peking states that the report of the recall of HE. Wu Ting fang, Chinese Minister in Washington, in consequence of certain statements made by his Excellency concerning the suggested American-Chinese Alliance, is untrue, and that the Grand Council bas never proposed anything of the sort,
From Tonking papers we learn that the (French military authorities are vigorously prosecuting the operations against the Chinese revolutionaries on the frontier. Two serious engagements were fought at the end of August. At Hoang-au-Phi a French force of about 300 ander Captain Bonnet was attacked by a large body of "Reformists," and the fight lasted three days when Commandant Leoreux arrived and attacked the Chinese from the rear, killing 40 of them. The French losses were two killed sad two wounded.
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GENRO.
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Marquis Inouys Marquis Matsukata Prince Yamagata Prince Ito Prince Oyama
MINISTERS,
Marquis Katsura Baron Hirata ... Baron Oura General Terauchi Mr. Komatsubara Viscount Okable Count Komurs Baron Goto Admiral Salto...
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The paper adds that the majority of the prosent Elder Statesmen and Ministers will be unable to ses;the Grand Exhibition in the event- of its postponement.
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