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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXVIII.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 23RD NOVEMBER, 1908.
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Cholera has broken out at Singapore, two or three fresh cases being discovered daily. The rictims are mostly Chinese.
Mr. G. W. King. Police Magistrate at Shanghai, was married last week to Miss Helen Fanny Morphett, danghter of Mr. E. Morphett. barrister-at-law, of Hove. Sussex.
Chinese telegraph rates are to be reduced 20 per cent from the first day of next year with a view to popularising the telegraphs and ex- 360 tending the system throughout the Empire. .361 ...362
The following questions were tabulated for ...362
discussion by the Chinese Government after the 262 Birthday festivities : (1) Reform in Tibet; (2) The reform of officials; (3) 1 he raising of funds for the Navy.
CONTENTS.
Far Eastern News
Leading Articles .—
The Future in China
The Late Emperor of China
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The Regency
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The Situation in China
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The Chinese Sky-God
Building Collapses in Hongkong
Death of Prince Ching
Random Reflections
Hongkong News
Canton News ...
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Fatal Cycling Accident
Arrival of the Buffs
Dairy Farm Company, Limited
Emigration Agent Duped
New Y. M. C. A. Branch at Wanchai
Hongkong Corinthian Yacht Club
Interesting to Traders...
The Peak Vurder.
Papal Jubilee..........
Lawlessness in Kwangtang
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Important Case Under the Liquor Ordinance
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Supreme Court
Railways in China
Death of the Emperor of China
Death of the Empress Dowager
The National Mourning
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The Situation at Peking
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Rumours of Impending Trouble
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
Death-Bed Edicts.
The Shanghai Libel Case
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German miners have discovered a gold mine at Hai Ning in Shantung. and have asked China to permit them to operate it in conjunction with 368 Chinese capitalists. The Wai Wu-pu has firmly
refused the application.
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Establishment of Customs Stations on Railways 375 Manila's New Water Supply Commercial.
Shipping.
BIRTH.
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On November 8th, at Shanghai, Mrs. L. C. B. EDMONDSTON, of a daughter.
DEATH.
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The Board of Finance at Peking has decided to withdraw the dollar currency from circula. tion. It is apparently not yet settled whether a limit of three or five years shall be set for this after the new tael currency is issued..
A Hankow paper states that the hull of the 8.8. Hanping which sank at Shanghai after collision with H.M.S. Flora, was insured with
the Union Insurance Co. of Canton for Tls. 100,000 and the cargo for $40.000 with the Mannheimer Versicherungs-Gessellschaft.
Four high officials at Manila have recently undergone operations for appendicitis. They are Mr. Shuster. Commissioner of Customs; Mr. Gilbert N. Brink, Assistant Director of Education; Lientenant Greenwell, A. D. C. to the Governor-General; and Attorney Hargis.
Four native Banks have suspended payment at Hankow. Their liabilities amount to Tls. On November 17th, at Hongkong, HORACE E. 3,700.000. The compradore of the Hongkong and WADMAN, aged 48 years.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of the 21s: Oolcber arrived per ss. Goeben on the 19th ins'.
The French Mail of the 23rd October arrived per 8.8. Dumbea on the 23rd inst.
FAR EASTERN NEWS,
The death is announced in England of Mr. H. E. Bush, senior, of Newchwang.
The Russians have decided to withdraw their garrisons from North China leaving only a Legation Guard.
The South Manchuria Railway Company has engaged a German expert to assist in the general management of the line.
With a view of improving the China tes trade, the Board of Agriculture and Commerce is sending deputies to the tea-growing provinces of the Empire to furnish reports.
Shanghai Bank is said to be the heaviest loser. It is reported that his loss is Tls. 500.000. Other native Banks are practically unaffected.
The President of the Ministry of Justice has notified the Provincial Authorities that henceforth in all cases in which the punishment has hitherto been" bambooing a fine shall be imposed in lieu thereof and has ordered the authorities to remit the fines to the Board every quarter.
A Hankow journal compliments the fair sex in that city thus: The ladies of Hankow are certainly very industrious as there is scarcely a male kind in the port who does not proudly gently worked by a pair of fair hands. Happy sport a festive waistcoat, which has been dili.
men of Hankow.
H.I.H. the Emperor of Japan reviewed the fleet at Kobe on the 18th inst. when practically the whole of the navy assembled. The m-iew was to have taken place the previous day, but it was postponed owing to a gale. The postpone ment was a disappointment to the enormous concourse of people who had foregathered.
The historic old town of Cavite. Manila con temporary says, is a very lively place these days. with no cholera on her health list, liberty for men of the Pacific fleet, two merry-go-rounds running day and night, and moving pictures at; the theatre every evening. It has quite a metropolitan air, and the residents dread the time when the fleets leave, and the town settles again into stillness.
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It is stated that the Board of Posts has retoed the appointment of a foreigner as en- gineer-in-chief of the Swatow-Chao-Chow rail- way on the ground that such appointment was contrary to the express orders of the Board.
The subsidiary coinage of Siam is to be con· verted to the decimal system. The new money includes bronze, nickel and silver coins, and the two first mentioned varieties will have holes of varying dimensions in the centre. It is expected that the bronze coins will be put into circulation The new coins have been during this month. made in Belgium.
A northern journal is informed that no correspondent of a home paper will be permitted to visit the forthcoming Chinese army man- œuvres in the South. The Central Government excuses itself on the ground of expense. expect that the decision means merely that no correspondent will be the guest of China. Local papers will be permitted to send representatives, as guests, to the South.
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A correspondent informs the Bangkok Times that grave fears are being entertained for the safety of a lot of the rice planted. In many cases the rice plants are flowering under water, and then the high winds recently experienced, have blown large areas on the water. Fortun- ately the rains have ceased up-country and it is hoped that the water will begin to drain off the too heavily flooded fields.
An auction of race ponies was held at the ranged from Tls. 10 up to Tla. 500 for Kanda- Shanghai Horse Bazaar last week and prices
har Chief. In all seventy-two animals were Kandahar Chief realised Tls. disposed of. 500. Superb Tls. 350, Frosty Morn Tls. 260, Temeraire, Tla, 225, Gissler, Tis. 205. Eltz, Tls. 234. Mysore Chief Tls. 220, Portland, Tis. 155, Kingsway Tls. 160, and Raceland Tls. 150.
It is stated that a proposal is under considera- tion to transfer the control of the Imperial Chinese Post Office from the Inspector-General of Customs to the Board of Posts and Com- munications, but no definite action is likely to be taken until 8ir Robert Hart returns to Peking. In the meantime the Chinese Govern- ment is desirous of arranging that the Treaty orders, China on her part agreeing to accept Powers shall agree to accept Chinese postal
those of the Treaty powers.
Macao is once more to have a newspaper. The first foreign newspapers published in the Far East were produced at Macao, but in the Portuguese Colony newspapers seem, like the gods, to die young. The list of papers which make a long one. Recently Macao has been for Macao has had during the past century would
some time without a newspaper. This "long felt want" is now about to be supplied by Mr. C. J. da Silva, the advocate. The name of the paper is to be A Verdade.
The Industrial Bank of Japan is reported to have affected a provisional contract with London and Paris underwriters for a loan of Y20,000,000 the loan being guaranteed by the Japanese Government The issuing price is £97, and it bears interest at 5 per cent. per annum, the principal to be redeemed within twenty-five years. Half of the loan will be issued in London and the other half in Paris. It is understood that the whole of the loan will be supplied to the Korean Government, which will utilize the money for the development of commerce and industry in the peninsula.
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