THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXVIIL}
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 14TH NOVEMBER, 1908.
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Epitome
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Leading Articles.-
The Chinese Intellectual Standpoint
The Dalai Lama ..
China and the Opium Question.
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America and China
.346
The Kaiser's Interview
Random Reflections
Hongkong News......
Oxford Local Examination.
Sanitary Board
Mistress and Boy
A" Penang Lawyer."
Lady Jordan has returned to Peking via Siberia.
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Dr. Sven Hedin was prevailed on to deliver a lecture at Shanghai on Journeys in Tibet"
A British artist has been granted per mission to paint a picture of the Summer Palace at Peking.
Mr. Robert Jamie, lafe of Singapore, who 346 died on September 3rd, left personal property
amounting to £42,095.
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The Dalai Lama's birthday presents to the 348 Empress Dowager were: 1 golden Buddba 548 image, 100 Thibetan incense sticks; 1 purple 348 gem and 24 screens.
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The King's Birthday
The Birthday Ball...
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Shot in a Street Riot-Inquest..
349
A Dishonest Servant
The Need of a Fire Brigade at Peking
Supreme Court
.351
Swatow and the Electric Light.
Commercial...
Shipping
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BIRTHS.
On October 29th, at Hankow, to the Rev. Mrs. H. CASTLE, & son.
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We read in a Peking paper that the Bishop of the Russian Church in Peking has visited the Dalai Lama and conversed with him for about two hours on missionary affairs,
Mr. C. A. V, Bowrs, the Commissioner of Customs at Amoy, has been transferred to 354 Mukden, and will be succeeded at Amoy by Mr. Wilzer, the Commissioner at Lapps.
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On October 29th, at Shanghai. to Mr. and Mrs. M. JAFFER, & son
The cash sweep'payments for the Shanghai Championship at the recent race meeting were ; 1st, $19,681.20; 2nd, $5.623.20; 3rd, $2.811.60. The total value of the tickets taken was $34,240. The Throre in response to a memorial from the Viceroy of Canton,, has corferred on the Commissioner of Customs at Canton (Mr. Paul
At Foochow, on the 5th November, the wife of King) the order of the Double Dragon, 3rd C. H. M. BALFOUR, of a daughter.
MARRIAGE.
On 7th November, at the Registrar General's Office, Hongkong, JAMES CAMPBELL LOGAN of Hongkong, to KATIE LILLIAN SOMERVILLE Of London.
DEATHS.
On October 8th, at London, VIOLET DEADY KEANE, of Shanghai.
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H. M. the Emperor left Tokyo on the 9th inst, to witness the Naval Manœuvres, His Majesty will first go to Nara and will proceed from there to Kobe where the naval review is to be held.
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The new Siamese postage stamps which are to be issued this month on the occasion of
the longest reign aɑlebrations in Bangkok, are larger than the ordinary stamps, both broader and longer, and instead of the portrait of His Majesty, the new statue of the King has been reproduced. The statue has been very carefully printed and the stamp is of handsome design.
Prince Ching, mys a Peking paper, was much concerned when be read that there were some two hundred and twenty abandoned mines in Chion, and personally instructed H. E. Pa Ting not to grant permits to open mines in future noless it is proved to his satisfaction that" the mines in question would be likely to produce good results, so that the people shall not throw away their money in reoksems undertakings
The following paragraph in a Peking paper must have caused a flatter in the dovecotes of the Legation quarter at Peking :-“The interpreters who accompanied the Dalai Lama on his visits to the Foreign Ministers have taken notes of the various conversations. These will be written up and banded, for information, to the Grand Council, the Wal Wu Pu and the Board of Dǝpendencies.” Some of these conversations will doubtless prove very interesting reading for the Chinese Govery-
ment officials.
Bhanghai papers report the sudden death of Mr. W. H. Marshall, a journalist popularly known sa "Voloano." Marshall, who the N.-6. Daily News says, “just missed being one of America's great writers." The death is also reported of Miss Violet Deady Keane, Super- intendent of the Telephone Company. Bhe died in London at the residence of her father, Mr D. D. Keane, K.C. Another old resident, H.E. Hsu Shih Ch'eng has propose that the in the person of Mr Jose Maria Guedes, passed stamp tax on opium be doubled in the Fengtien, away on the 3rd instant after an illness extend- Kirin and Hai Lung Kiang districts The taxing over fourteen months. Mr Guedes went was formerly 200 cash and this he proposes to change into 400 esob.
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It is reported in Chinese circles that H. E. Yuan 8bih-kai, Grand ouncillor and President of the Waiwapu, proposes to purchase the On November 1st, at Shanghai, WILLIAM H. | library of Dr. G. E. Morrison, "The Times'” MARSHALL, aged 55 years.
On November 3rd, at Shanghai, E. RUDLAND' aged 59 years.
On November 3rd, ut Shanghai, JOSE MARIA GUEDES, aged 62 years.
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The P. & O. steamer *Somali" on ler last trip brought out nine brides to happy residents in the Far East, leaving one at enang, two at Hongkong and the other six are now in the Paris of the East (Shanghai.)
Japan, like Hongkong, is importing as is "Train loads of cats, numbering in all 5,000, are reported to have left Chicago recently for shipment to Japan, and other similar shipments are to go forward. From Chicago, of all places!
Mr. Boomgardt, formerly an Inspector under the Taiping Sanitary Board, Federated Malay Statea, brought an action for libel at. Penang in respect of an article published in the "Straits Echo" dealing with Sanitary Board matters at
The English Mail of the 16th ultimo and th
tila | Txiping. The plaintiff was awarded $5,000 parcel mails closed in London for despatch by { the all sea route on the 7th October and for despatch overland on the 14th October arrived per 8.". Oceana on the 11th inst.
and costa on the higher scale.
One of the Hongkong vernacular newspapers is now suggesting that the American visitors to Amoy were not so pleased with their recep tion as has been reported. They declare that the men had not suffieisut to eat and that the general arrangements made by Dr. Mark were far from satisfactory. Such statements are probably actuated by jealousy because there can Tue Japanese Diet is convened for the 22nd be little doubt that both officers and men were instant.
bighly delighted with their reception.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
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to Shanghai in the eighties from Hongkong, and became proprietor of Messrs Noronha and Sons' printing establishment. Liter on he was interested in several mining enterprises and subsequently carried on business as a share and land broker. He was member of several reli- At various times Mr. Gundes gious societies, expended large sums in Shanghai in assisting of distress. Many years ago he was decorated by the King of Portugal for usevions rendered to his Government at Macao.
It has already been pointed out that the Chinese Government did everything they possibly could to make pleasant the stay of the visitors at Amoy. They even besought the assistance of the Y.M.C.A., a fact which is not without significanos, Mr Bærd, of the Foochow Branch, came down to Amoy where his Association equipped one of the matabeda na a reading and writing room and also acted as a left luggage bureau gratis. Moreover they nodertook on behalf of the Government, the distribution of the sigars and cigarettes, to the men. Each man was entitled to five aigars and twenty cigarettes per diem, their allowané being checked by means of tickets, - Bixty böy from the Union College, Amoy, sssisted in sale of picture postcards here and did a very good work. In the same matahed was a branch of the Chinese Imp risi Po«t Offos under the charge of Mr James Ross and four Hugulat clerks. With three thousand men on ground at once it can be understood that the staff had no easy time. There were no foke than 60,000 pcstoards sold. In the Y.MIT tent, so the number mailed can be i
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