THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXVIII.]
Leading Articles --
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 7тя DECEMBER, 1908.
CONTENTS.
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Far Eastern News.
The Future of the Pacifio
Peace in the Pacific
Western Education in China..
The Position at Peking
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Emperor Francis Joseph's Diamond Jubilee...398
Hongkong Appeal Court.
A Building Collapse
Side Lights on China's Trade.
Random Reflections
Alleged Acceptance of a Bribe
Hongkong News
The Government and the Boycott....
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Hongkong Weekly Press,
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FAR EASTERN NEWS.
The Hongkong Government has declared 400 Singapore to be an infecte i port.
400 .401 .401
Foreign Insurance Business Outside Treaty Porta 441 Hongkong A.D.C. Performance of "A Country
Girl"
Hongkong Legislative Council
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The Constitution of the Hongkong Appeal Court 401 Faded Femininity
The Scottish Ball
Pope's Sacordotal Jubilee
Public Companies:-
Dairy Farm Company
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The International Cott n Manufacturing Co, L1.48 The Ewo Spinning & Weaving Company, Ld....48 The National Mourning
Rebel (hief Killed
Serious Riot in Fatahan
The Shanghai St. Andrew's Society postponed their annual ball until December 22nd owing to the incidence of the Chinese national mourning. Mr. L. C. Hopkins, late British Consul General, at Tientsin, and Mr. H. Brady, of Chefoo, have retired from the service, after loug and meritorious careers.
Two Metropolitan officials have been ordered to be sent to the New Dominion (Chinese Turkestan) to work on the military post roads there as convicts for entering the precincts of the Imperial Palace without permission.
In memory of the late Emperor and Dowager
Saul 49 Empress of China, the Dead March in 409 was played at the close of the morning services 49 at the Cathedral and Union Church Shanghai. 410 last Sunday,the respective congregations up.
standing.
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Hankow papers report the death of Dr. Ph. 412 Spruyt, which took place in Brussels from 413 pleuresy. It appears that the deceased left the Continent to return to Hankow. On the way out via Siberia, he was taken ill and had to return to Europe.
Japan Notes
Imperial Edicts
American Association of China
The Revolutionary Outbreak at Anking
410
The King of Siam's Eventful Reign
8.8. "Fatahan" Affair........
Canton News
Punishment for Head Shaving
Civil Service Cricket Club
Emperor Francis Joseph I Diamond Jubilee...
The American Fleet at Manila
414
Supreme Court
411
Interesting Shipping Case at Shanghai
411
Far Eastern Telegrama
415
Japan-American Agreement
415
The Chinese Emperor's Accessi..nal Edict.
.415
The Defenders of changhai
The Amoy Club
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Commercial...
Shipping
BIRTH.
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The American papers in Manila condemn Ad miral Sperry in unmeasured terms for his "avoidance of the decencies of social inter- course at Manila, and for his absurd insults to the Governor-General, the Army, and the 416 Americans resident in the Philippines."
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Admiral Sperry, after declining to allow the men of his fleet shore leave, finally consented to allow the men to disembark in squads under the command of their petty officers, provided he On the 24th November, the wife of P. NALIN, obtained the approval of the Naval Department of a doughter.
At Kobe, on the 21st instant, the wife of Jas. L. ROBERT ON, of a daughter
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At Victoria ospital, Peak, on the 30th Novemi- ber, 1908, the wife of E. V. Hazeland, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
At Christ Church, Colombo, on 30th November,
CHARLES GORDON STEWART, Joungest son of the
late Dr. JOHN MACKIE of Brechin. to (İERTRUDE IRVINE, youngest daughter of the late JAMII GUTHRIE of Hope Park, Broughty Ferry.
DEATHS.
On Tuesday, November 17th, at Shanghai,
CARL BEHBEND, Architect, aged 31 years.
At Bombay (by telegram) on the 23rd Novem ber, SOBARJEE BYRAMJEE BHABHA, formerly of Hongkong.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of the 4th ultimo, arrived per 8.8. Beulow on the 3rd instant.
per
The French Mail arrived on the 7th ins'. 8.8. Ernest Simons, with Loudon dates to the
6th all.
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at Washington. The Flect left Manila on the 1st inst.
The death took place by drowning at Hankow on the 17th inst. of Mr. Devereux of the I. M. Customs. The deceased was very near sighted and while walking near the race course he is supposed to have fallen into a deep pond and was drowned. The body was later recovered and an inquest was held. The deceased was well known at several ports.
to
various
The Shanghai Taotai has made, loan amounting to Taols 3,000,000, Chinese Banks throughout the Settlement and the Nantao District. The placing of this large sum in the current accounts of these banks, says a Shanghai contemporary, has done much to relieve the financial stringency, and great credit is due to the Taotai for his prompt and efficient action in this matter.
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Sir Alexander Hosie, C.M.G., the British Commercial Attaché at Peking, strongly recommends the British manufacturer and merchant to study carefully the "Analysis of Foreign Trade now published annually by the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs. The tables which these volumes contain, he says, will impart more information regarding the foreign trade of China than hundreds of pages in. writing.
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The trial of Chang, one of the Korean assas sins of Mr. D. W. Stevens, began on Nov. 16th in San Francisco.
In his command orders, dated Tientsin Nov. 18th, General Waters says:-On the melancholy occasion of the death of His Majesty the Emperor and Her Majesty the Dowager Empress, Officers of the North China Command will wear, when in uniform, a band of black crape round the left arm as prescribed by the Regulations. The mourning will be continued until the 21st November. Officers will abstain from attending public functions, no bands will play, and flags will fly, at halfmast, until 11th December, inclusivė.
The fu that the Public Works Department in Tonkin i set local industrial interests aside by getting out a steamboat from Hongkong has created much comment at Haiphong. The steamer was built by Chinese shipwrights at Hongkong. The Department secured it from the agent of a Hongkong Chinese Syndicate for $116,000, of which $86,000 went to the builders, That journal criticises sharply the Department for giving the work to foreigners, instead of to the shipbuilding yards at Haiphong and Saigon, which can turn out a similar class of vessel any day.
says
the "Avenir du Tonkin.”
A determined fight, we learn from a Manila contemporary, is to be made by the Manila Merchants' Association against the adoption in The whole matter has been referred to the the Philippine islands of the metric system.
legislative committee.. The American mer- chants are, in the main opposed to it, while the Filipino tradesmen feel that they would be lost beyond recovery in the intricacies of what seems
to them a needless substitute of a well under- The stood system already in general use. promise of the Governor-General to meet the business public half way in the proposition is regarded as encouraging.
Mr. Richard Markwick, who had for many years been connected with the China Mutual Insurance Company at Shanghai shot himself on Friday morning last.. The deceased was in Hongkong in 1861. and had been a resident of Shanghai since 1883. Almost from the time that the China Mutual Insurance Company came into being he was employed by the firm, and although for a short period he joined the service of the Shanghai Life Insurance Com- pany, he afterwards returned to his previous employment. Mr. Markwick had been ill since the middle of September and had been away from the office since that time.
The Shanghai Mercury reports an amusing incident which occurred in the Settlement the other day. A short time ago a new factory for the manufacture of socks started in rivalry to an old established institution, and between the two the greatest bitterness prevailed. Then the elder establishment took action, and by way of hitting at their competitors the managers had a series of attractive globes get up before the works. On these were printed various animals, but in place of their heads were printed the heads of the promoters of the rival concern along with various remarks upon them, all more or less uncomplimentary. Such a display had its effect, and within a short time of the appearance of the caricatures a free fight occurred between the workers in the different factories. This was not quelled until the police appeared on the scene, and it was found necessary to put the ringleaders under arrest.
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