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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXVIII.]
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Leading Articles.-
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China Oberland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
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The Crisis in Lancashire
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SED OCTOBER, 1908.
Major Probyn, of the Army Medical Corps, has been appointed Sanitary Specialist in South Chins. This is a new appɔintment.
Passengers arriving in Shanghai on the 23rd PAGE inst. by the Siberian and South Manchuria 235 Railways, from London, accomplished the fall
journey in fifteen days four and a half hours,
A meeting of the Board of Directors of the North China Insurance Co., Ltd was held at | Shanghai last week and a final dividend on account of 1907 was declared of 7 per cent on the paid up capital, and a bonus of 15 per cent to the company's contributors
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Great Britain and the Two-Power Standard...237 Random Reflections
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Hongkong News..
Death of Mr. L. A. M. Johnston
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The Charge against a European Merchtat Canton News
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The "Paul Beau" Affair.
Macao News
Distressing Fatality at Kowloon
Typhoon Warnings
Fatal Fire at Hunghom
Supreme Court..
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club...
Hongkong Cricket Club
The Hongkong Football Club...
Distinguished Visitors.
A Solicitor's Suicide..
Kulanga Municipal Council
The Building Collapse at Yaumati An Attempt to Defraud
Commercial
Shipping
DEATHS.
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According to a Seoul despatch, the authorities 242 have issued an order that the Imperial adiot for the removal of the top-knot is to be enforced, as it is considered disloyal for the old fashioned method of wearing the hair to be followed after 242 being discarded by the Imperial families and 243 high officials.
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Mr. Kliene, Commissioner, I. M. Customs, 245 Hoihow (Hainan) has been transferred; Mr. A. 246 W. Cross, recently stationed at Soochow, has 246 been appointed to relieve Mr. Kliene.
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Frank Smith is being transferred temporarily to Soochow, from Wenchow and Mr. Napier, who has just returned from leave has been .250 | appointed to Wenchow,
On 25th September, at Daitotei, Formosa, JOHN KENNEDY BARLOW, aged 21 years. eldest son of J. K. BARLOW, Gravesend, Kent. Drowned while bathing. (Home newspapers kindly copy). On 28th September, at "Goolistas," Conduit Road, Hongkong, ELLIE B. (MAT), the dearly beloved wife of THOMAS I. Boss, aged 47 years.
On the 30th September, L. A. M. JOHNSTON, Fostmaster General, Hongkong.
A fund is being raised at Hankow to provide a General Hospital. The probable cost of the bospital is roughly estimated at $60,000. It is recognised that this sum cannot entirely be raised by private subscription, bat. in the event of sufficient response being made to the appeal, it is believed that the balance required could esily he obtained by means of debentures
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Sir A. Hosie, the British Commercial Attache at Peking, calls attention to the opportunities for enterprise afforded by the fair which is held of the Province of Szechuan. In recent years, in the spring of each year at Chengtu. the capital
this fair has become a commercial and industrial | exhibition, attracting visitors bad manu- facturers from all parts of the province.
Norman Taylor, the second officer of the
Hongkong lechly Dress, Fusarang, arrested and probeonted at Manila
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES Vœux ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of the 4 h September and the parcel mails closed in London for despatch by the all sea route on the 26th August, and for despatch overland on the 2nd September, arrived per s.8. Delta on the 30th September.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
M. Klobakowski the new Governor-General of Indo-Chins came out to Saigon on the M. M. steamer Caledonien,
Shanghai papers report the death of Mr. Arthur Wood, second British Admiralty pilot, after a lingering illness.
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for having on his person and in his poss-ssion 49 cans of opium and a large number of lottery tickets, was on the 25th inst sentenced to one year's imprisonment and a fine of P1,000 and the costs of the case on the opium charge, and to a fine of P500 and costs in the lottery ticket
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The following is from a Hankow paper :--- While an Englishman was passing the Railway Co's property is a sampan come coolies who were loading rails on to a track shouted
Foreign Devil" and pelted the sampan with stones The foreigner got out and asked why be was attacked, thinking there was some mistake but the coolies threatened him with their bamboos and drove him into the water. He regained his sampan after a ducking and being very much bruised,
Mesara Carlowils and Co. has had a suit pending in the United States Court for China at Shanghai, against M. J. Black, from whom the plaintiffs claimed Tls. 20,000 as damages for defendant's refusal to accept delivery of The defendant had left Bhanghai and is watches ordered for the Shanghai Watch Club,
believed to be “somewhere in Americs. The case was therefore dismissed without prejudice to plaintiffs taking further action should de- fendant return to Shanghai
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A large Chinese hotel off the Honan Boad, Shanghai, was destroyed by fire last week, The insurance amounted to 47,000 tiels.
The Chinese in Shantung threaten to boycott the Germans a certain mining agreement entered into between a German syndicate and the Viceroy, with the approval of the Wal-Wu Pa, is not oncelled. The plans of the people are set forth as follows:-1.—--Not to buy or sell German goods; 2-Not to do any for the Germans; 3.-Not to send their children and relatives to any schools or colleges where (Ferman teachers exist; 4-- Not to travel by the Kisochon-Tsinan railway.
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Chempo on the 15th inst., it was decided to At meeting of foreign merchants held at
take action as far as possible to prevent Japanese from registering trade-marks of foreige goods in Kores. As a result of the meeting a letter was sent to the Residency. General the next day stating that it had been brought to the notice of the signatories that application had been lodged by Japanese subjects for the registration of trade marks belonging to and used for many years by Britis, German, and other Foreign Firms doing Business in Korea, and they begged leave to enquire whether it is the intention of the Burea to grant such registration.
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The Korean journalist, Ying Ki Tak, who has been charged before the Japanese Court at Seoul with embezzling money subscribed towards the food for the redemption of the National Dabt, has been found not guilty, and soquitted. This base has been in progress for several weeks Ying was connected with a vernacular paper in Seoul owned by Mr. E. T. Bethell, The paper was hostile to Japan and opened a subsorption list towards a fand for the re- demption of the logos Korea had obtained from scribed, and Ying was charged by the Japanese Japan From 60,000 to 70,000 Yen was sub-
authorities with having embezzled some of the money The result shows the charge to have broken down.
HONGKONG LAW COURTS.
The report of the Director of Public Works refers to the work on the Law Courts as follow:
provision of a third Court were made and the The necessary alterations resalting from the
whole of the walls of the building were complet- ed up to the level of the second floor. The colonnade, which practically surround the building. was completed up to the level of the main cornice and a considerable portion of the cornice itself was set. The stones composing the sphitrave of the colonnade vary from 14 from about 3 to 34 tons. Dressed granite to 15 feet in length, whilst esch stone weighs aggregating 28,218 cubic feet, was not in the work and good progress was made with the carving of the "massive stone figured,'&o, which will adorn the pediment on the weat front of the building," Granits balusters to the number of 50 were prepared, bringing the total of those ready for Azing up to 950. The average number of masons employed daily wan floor was set and the concrete forming 147. [Most of the steelwork for the second
ceilings of the first floor corridors was Tenders for the joinery and fittings, rec to complete the building were called for he alpse of the year.
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