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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXVIII.]
Far Eastern News
Leading Articles.—
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China `Overland. Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
International Penny-a-word Telegrams The Balkan Question
An Unfulfilled Treaty Obligation..
China and Opium
Asiatic Immigration
Random Reflections
Hongkong Newa
Masonic
Hongkong Legislative Council
Two Lukongs Murdered at Macao
Trade Mark Decision in Japan
Sanitary Board
The Prevailing Excitement at Canton..
Canton News
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 12TH DECEMBER, 1908.
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The foreign residents registered at Tsingtau PAGE according to the latest published return num- ber 1,654 comprising 1,412 Germans, 22 Ameri- cans, 14 Austrians, 9 British, 7 Swiss, 7 Dutch, 4 Russians; 8 French, 2 Danish, 2 Italians, 1 Turkish, 9 Indians, and 161 Japanese.
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According to the prospectus the proposed electric tramway between Swatow and Chengh'ai 423 is to be thirty li long. It is anticipated there will be a good passenger traffic and the possibility of goods transport service is held in view. The 426 capital is to be $300,000. Bridging two branches of the river Han will be an expensive part of the
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Viceroy Chang Opposes the Opening of Waichow 428 Emigration to Mexico Prohibited
Swatow-Chaochonfu Railway.
Supreme Court
A Soldier's Death
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The Spanish Consul of Shanghai, Mr. A. F. Arias, upon his investigation into the pro- fessional conduct of Mr. G. D. Musso with reference to the registration as & Spanish protégée of Wong Chow-sun has found that so far as the Spanish Consulate was concerned, Mr. · Musso's conduct was throughout Although the fees paid by the woman to Mr. correct.
Musso were paid at the time she was recognized into the merits of this point, an agreement as a Spanish protégée, the Court could not enter between Counsel and client having interceded, which the Court would not be justified in dis
sing. At the same time, as the Court would have been ready to pass censure, if necessary, upon Mr. Musso, within the limits of its
The Mitsu Bishi firm is now constructing a a paper mill at Toroku. Formosa, having pur-jurisdiction, it takes opportunity of praising chased about six million tsubo of ground there last spring. The Company invests Y.300.000 48 for the present, and will increase its capital up to one million yen as the business progresses. Materials may be secured from the vicinity of Toroku. The mill will begin work from July or August next year.
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A Bond or an Agreement?
The Stamp Ordinance
Shipping Notes
Sporting Notes
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The Foreign Population in China.
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The King of Siam Record Reign Celebrations
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The Filipinos and Self-Government
Closure of Vladivo took
The Nippon Yusen Kaisha
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Archdeacon Moule on the Reform Movement
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The Japanese Navy
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The Invention of Paper and Printing
British Shipping Past and Present
The London School of Tropical Medicine
China's Trade.
Kulangsu (Amoy) Municipal Council
Typhoon Feary
Commercial
Shipping
ARRIVAL OF MAIIS
A bill setting aside the sum of four million pesos for the construction of four Philippine cruisers is to be presented to the Assembly at its next session. It will be proposed that these cruisers be purchased from the United States 434 government if possible and if there should be 434 none available that the koels of four be laid ..435
down immediately upon the passage of the bill, in the United States.
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The English Mail of the 13th November and the Parcel Mails closed in London for despatch by the all sea route on the 4th November and for despatch overland on the 11th November arrived per s.s. Delta on the 11th inst.
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The American Consular staff at Shanghai is to be augmented by the appointment of two interpreters, holding the rank of Vice-Consul- General. These appointments have been given to Mr. Butler, the present Mixed Court Assessor, and Mr. Willard B. Hull, Vice-Consul in charge at Canton. The appointees will each perform the duties of interpreter, and in addition will share the work at the Mixed Court.
Within a few weeks of his departure from Shanghai, Col. Watson is receiving many well- earned tributes to the work he has carried through while connected with the Shanghai
Mr. Musso for having undertaken in divers instances the defence in forma pauperis of poor Spaniards, which, within the knowledge of the Court, involved considerable loss of time to him. The Mixed Court recently withdrew its per- mission for Mr. Musso to appear in that Court on account of this case.
The death is announced at Seoul of Mr. T. E. Hallifax, one of the oldest foreign residents in the Far East. His connection dates back to a time shortly after the Indian Mutiny when he went to India to take up an appointment in the telegraph service of the East India Company. In the year 1871 he went to Japan under con- tract with the Japanese Government and did good work there in connection with the installa- went to Korea, and in 1888 Mr. Hallifax super- tion of the telegraph service. From Japan he
by telegraph. His subsequent career in Korea intended the work of connecting Seoul with Fusan has been that of a master in the Royal School for instruction in the English Language, a position from which he was retired a few months ago on account of his advanced age, the Government recognising his services by a decoration and a
substantial honorarium. Most of the Consular Body in Seoul attended the funeral and the Vice-Minister of Education was among those present. The Imperial Band was present, by courtesy of the Household Department; and it
of Mr. Eckert, their director.
Weekly Press, Volunteer Corps. The Portuguese Co. S.V.C. played a funeral march under the conductorship
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FAR TASTERN NEWS.
In the action by Mr. E. T. Bethell against the North China Daily News, for libel plaintiff has been awarded $3,000.
For the first time since the plague established itself in Rangoon a week passed without any death from this disease last month.
Sir Charles Dudgeon has joined the London Committee of the Yangtsze Insurance Associa tion in the place of the late Mr. C. M. Dyce.
Cholera is reported to be very prevalent in the Kinchow district of Shasi. Over 90 per cent. of the population are stated to be affected, but this! is doubtless a very much exaggerated estimate.! A death from hydrophobia is reported from Hankow, the victem being Mr. Nicola Haus- man, controller of the Peking-Hankow railway. Mr. Archibald Rose, who has been in charge during recent years of the Shipping Office of the British Consulate-General, Shanghai, has gone to Tengyueh, on the Burma frontier, to assume duty there as Acting Consul.
showed their appreciation of his services in a signal way last week when they met and handed over to the retiring commandant a handsome silver afternoon tea service. The function took place in the Portuguese Club, when there was a very large attendance of volunteers and the general public.
The proprietors of an organ of the Chinese revolutionists in Tokyo has been proserited for a breach of the Press Laws. The prose cution alleges that the journal contained an article advocating the establishment of a republican form of government in China. In the course of the trial the defendants were asked to explain the article and what government it was they objected to. They replied that the reference was to the Chinese Government and
that they considered the time had come when China should have a form of government similar to that of the United States and Switzerland. The trial was then continued in private, such a course being deemed advisable for the public good. The Public Procurator demanded that the defendant should be severely punished. A large number of Chinese students assembled near the courthouse and threatened distubances, but were kept in check by a strong force of police.
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The new Emperor is to be known as Hsuan Tung. Now, according to Stent, (says a writer the Shanghai Mercury), Hsuan means Proclaim, to declare, or to read loudly," "Tung means lead, a leader, the beginning, or the whole.** A very pretty field lies here for the ingenious, or ingenuous, translator. The new baby ruler may be the proclaimed leader," and if so, whom is he to lead, where is he to lead them, and against whom? Or he may be the "declared origin of a new era, the "preclaimed beginning" of a fresh regime, or a score of other things. It does not seem that these titles are necessarily prophetic. Kwangsu," the official name of the late Emperor, literally means tinuation of glory," not perhaps the epithet which will be
most eagerly seized on by historians of the future to describe his reign. So Tungchi," the name of the predecessor, meant Peace and order," the that which was won by rebellion and foreign peace" being
war, and the "order such as followed the exhaustion brought about by them. The China Times says that "Hauan Tung means “to publish to all" it doesn't say what is to be published. That is one of the charms common to telegraphese and wen-li alike.
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