THE
(Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXVIII.]
Epitome
Leading Articles .—
Thibet
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
The Revival of Romanism in England.. Japan and the Pari-Mutuel....
The Welcome to America's Flooet
Indian Aspirations
British Foreign Policy
Hongkong's Opinm Revenue and the Military
Contribution
Random Reflections
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 26ти OCTOBER, 1908.
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FAR EASTERN NEWS.
Cases of cholers are reported at Fusan in 283 Korea and at Moji and Kuchinots in
Japan.
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Arrangements are under consideration for 284 establishing an Anglo-Chinese portal service 285 between India and Lħarsa.
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The Foochow winter race meeting has been fixed for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday the .286 | 14th, 15th and 16th December.
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Hongkong News......
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Farewell Dinner to Admiral and Mrs. Stokes
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Suicide of a Ship's Officer
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Discarding the Quene
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Trouble Ahead in Thibet
Local Sport...........................
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Public Companies
Canton Insurance Office Limited
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Humphreys Estate and Finance Company.
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The North China Insurance Co., Limited
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Siam Commercial Bank
290
Interport Shooting
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The Stranding of the Hailan
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More Undesirables
Volunteer Camp.....
Camp Notes
A Suspicions-Looking “Bundle.'
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Japan papers report that there is consterna. tion everywhere in Japan over the prohibition of the pari-mutuel at race meetings.
It is proposed to strike ten million one-tael coins next year at the Tientsia Government Mint, and to call in from circulation the silver dollars by degrees.
Mr. H. B. Ollerdessen has been elected captain of the Shanghai Recreation Club's football team and Mr. R. J. 8. Brandt vice-captain for the ensuing seaSOD.
The post-mortem examination of the remains 292 of Captain A. Renaud, of the dredger engaged in the Conservancy works at Shanghai, revealed no traos of arsenical poisoning.
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Impending Departure of a Prominent Sportsman...232 The Death-Roll of Korean Insurgenta
The Question of China's Currency
Conditions in the Philippines
Canton News
The North River Flood
Correspondence :--
Roofless Nurseries at Kowloon
An Emigration Story
An Interesting Debate....
Kidnapped
Distinguished Chinese Visitor
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Japan's notification of her intention to .203 reduce the Japanese force in China by upwards of one half has gratified China. The fatimtion is regarded as evidence of a change in Japanese 296 policy.
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The Powers who will be represented at the 296 International Anti-Opium Conference which will be held in Shanghai at the beginning of next year will be Americs, Britain, France, Holland China and Japan.
Japan's Campaign Against the Formosan Tribes 296 Reclamation of Sea-Front at Chemulpo
A Crying Evil
Shanghai Trade
Supreme Court
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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Souvenir cloisonné cups are to be presented 297 to the American sailors at Amoy A Chinese .302 | and will certainly form a unique reminder of an 300 contemporary says they are exceedingly pretty
On October 10th, at Anping, Formoss, the wife of H. W. ARTHUR, of a daughter, (Una Fliza- beth.)
On the 22nd October, at South Face, Beacon Hill Tunnel, the wife of FREDERICK SOUTHEY, A.M.I.C.E., of a daughter.
MARRIAGE
On the 8th October, at Hongkong, ALEXANDER COLBOURNE LITTLE, F.R.I.B.A. of the Public Works Department, to CHRISTINE Davidson WILSON, only daughter of RICHARD GIBB, J.P., and Mrs. GIBB of Bishopbriggs, N.B.
DEATHS.
On 19th October 1906, at No. 1 Lyttleton Road, Hongkong, MADAME E. RICCO, aged 42 years.
On 19th Sept mber, 1908, in England, EDMUND HAMILTON SHARP, Trustee of the late GRANVILLE SHARP.
occasion which comes but once in a lifetime.
The T. K. K. “Tenyo Maru" left Shanghai at 7 p.m. on Wednesday the 21st inst., sod arrived at Hongkong at 4.30 p.m. Friday the 23rd inst., making the trip in 45 hours, or s speed of a trifle better than 18 miles an hour.
The marriage took place at Kobe, on Octobr 10, of Mr. A. Whitworth Allen of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank to Miss B. Lucas, youngest daughter of Mr. H. Lucas, one of Kobe's oldest residents. The bride is a sister f Mrs. Barton of Amoy who was present at the wedding with her two children Mabel and Campbell.
The gentry of Fukien have raised the sum of consented to by the Board of Finance, but Taels 4,000,000 to open a Bank which has been recently, says a Chi ese contemporary, is has come to light that some foreign shareholders are also interested. Some high officials have accordingly wired enquiries on the matter.
The coming naval review at Koba is definitely
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The Yokohama Amateur Dramati Club care rehearing "Dorothy.
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cholera in Manila through the medium of As a precaution against the further spread of prohibited vegetables, it has been decided to destroy all the Chinese and Filipino truck gardens in which such vegetables are grown within the city limits and to indemnify their owners for their loss,
The Wai Wa Pa has presented a memorial to the Throne on behalf of the Chinese Com- missioner investigating Constitutional law in closing a set of books on English Constitu Great Britain, H. E. Wang T Shieh,
tional law translated into Chinese, An Edict shall be sent to the Constitutional Bureau. has been issued commanding that the books
Grand Councillor Yain Shih-kai at one of the recent conferences urged that lotteries should be probibited, as gambling at the very beat, not. withstandig the fact that generally pay a certain royalty to the imperial the promoters
exchequer, is always a source of evil. majority of his colleagues endorsed bia views, but it has been decided that the Viceroys and
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the Governors should be first consulted before the Government issues any definite instructions.
To commemorate the birthday of the Empress- ! Dowager among sailors of the American Fleet - an interesting souvenir has been designed and Mercury. It takes the form of a fan, on one side completed by Shanghai work manship, says the
at Amoy, and on the other representations of of which is a print of the Nan Pu-To Temple
the Chinese and American fags. On this xide is also printed the menu of a Chinese dinner with which the men are to be entertained, commene- ! ing with bird's nest soup, and going through a list of over half a dozen Chinese delionoios. "It is intended that 5, 00 men will sit down to the dinner, and each will receive a fan.
Dr. Dominador Gomes has been sentenced to pay a fine of two thousand pesos and sosta - Manila for having in his possession a large and imprisonment in case of insolvency, at antity ofq morphine. One of his confederates, Estanislao Carballo, was sentenced to pay a fine of P500 on the same charge and the others charged with like offences were acquitted. The other charges against Gomes and his confederates were dismissed for lack of suficien. proof on the part of the Government that an illegal use was made of the morphine found in possession of the socused. Dr. Gomes at once gave notice of appeal from the decision to the Supreme Court.
at this port is determined to make itself felt in The Swalow correspondent of the N.-C. Daily News writes.-The German community the development of the new China. Recentl it collected sufficient money to send a batok of lads to the Garmun Medical School at Shanghai, lada who had learned German in the Minion School at Kinying : and now a dispatch from l'u
Hongkong Weekly Press, announced for the 17th of November. His appears in the papers setting forth the existence
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VEUX ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLEEt Street, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German mail arrived per sa. Kleist on the 22nd inst.
The Franch mail of the 25th September arrived par as. Tourane on the 26th inst,
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Majesty the Emperor will come down from · German-Chinese Society in Berlin, arrive at Kobe on the morning of the 17th, the care of Chinese students prooveding to Nara to Maiko on the peceding day, and promoted by the Deu soh-Asiatic Society, for when he will embark on the cruiser “ Amma,“ Germany for study. Both objects are pršice- Consul H. B. Layard, of Honolulu, is expected worthy, and it is only a pity that other in Manila this month to assume the duties of nations, who have institutions similar to the British Consul General at that port, vice Mr.
Berlin organisation, do not secure the help of W. J. Kenny, retired. Since the retirement of
the magistrates in making them knows. It in the Consul General the office in Manila has not impossible that such societies could secure been in charge of the vice-Consul, Mr. Hugh a corresponding member in every port, to chom intending students sould apply for information.
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