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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXVIII.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Far Eastern News Leading Articles .—
Checking a Disgusting Habit British Politics
Reform in China
The Age of Invention
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 21ST DECEMBER, 1908.
The Government of the Philippines has PAGR offered prizes as an incentive to agriculturists
499 cultivating tobacco.
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Dr. Sun Yat Sen, the leader of the Reform 40 party in South China, is, according to latest
advices, now at Bangkok.
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The Regent on Education
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The Canton-Hankow Railway
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Hongkong's Opium Question.
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Reform of the British House of Lords
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Random Reflections
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Hongkong News
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Canton News
St. John's Lodge Installation
The 8.8. "Fatahan" Affair
A Soldier's Death.
Hongkong Legislative Council
Japanese Military Expenditure Japan Notes
The Trade of the Philippines
Supreme Court
The funeral of the late Empress-Dawager is fixed for the fourth day of the second moon of next year (February 23rd).
Lieutenant H. E. Large, 3rd Battalion Middlesex Regiment, has been appointed Gar 445 rison Adjutant at Singapore.
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The Robbery at the Ewo Cotton Company's Office 455 Interesting Extradition Argument
Correspondence :--
A Sensational Announcement
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The first ice in the river at Tientsin was seen this winter on November 27th. It was expected that the port would be closed by the 10th inst.
The Hon. Cecil Scott Napier (32), Hampton Court Palace, S. W., and of Shanghai, son of the late Field-Marshal Lord Napier of Magdala left estate worth £2,650.
The Straits Times says there is no truth. in the rumour that the cholera is spreading 456 rapidly in Singapore. The number of death:
continues at two or three daily.
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A Hongkong Boy at Oxford
A Gamblers' Retreat
Baliios Public School
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Kulangen (Amoy) Municipal Council
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The Hongkong College of Medicine.........
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The New Peak Tramway
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Coxswain's Reward for Bravery
A Revolutionary Movement
Death of Sir Ewen Cameron
Foochow Races
Shipping Notes
The New Power in China
Unemployment in Japan.
The typhoon of the 5th inst, seems to have done considerable damage to property in the Philippine Islands. The loss of life on land and 4.57
808 does not happily, appear to have been 457 457 great.
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Libel Actions in China and Japan
Reviews
Japan and the Trade Marks Question The Terrible Calamity at a Straits Quarry Commercial.
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Shipping
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BIRTHS.
On December 2nd, at Shanghai, the wife of WM. YOUNG, of a son.
On December 3rd, at Shanghai, the wife of J. OWEN, I. M. Custom, of a son.
On December 3rd, at Wuchow, the wife of ALAN WILSON, Chinese Customs Service, of a daughter.
On 14th December, at the Government Civil Hospital, te wife of Sergeant WM. DAVITI, H.KP., if a daughter.
On 14th December, at Victoria Hospital, the wife of R. H. CROFTON, & Son.
DEATH.
On December 3rd, at Shanghai, JoHN CHRIS- TOPHER NICHOLAS, late of I. M. Customs Service, aged 40 years
ARRIVAL OF MAILS
The German Mail of the 18th November arrived per 8.8. Derflinger on the 17th inst.
Among recently-elected Fellows of the Royal Colonial Institute are the Rt. Rev. C. J. Corfe, D.D., late Bishop of Korea; Mr. Roger D. Acton, of the Straits Settlements, and Mr. Herbert A. Hope of the Federated Malay States.
Owing to the limited number of experienced Chinese nobles of ability, the Prince Regent proposes to send a large number of young members of the nobility to Europe and America to pursue their studies there for a period of at least three years.
We note in the passenger list of the 8.8. Derflinger, which arrived here last week the name of Professor Dr. Friesland. Dr. Friesland is a professor of Philology, and father of Mr. G. Friesland, managing partner of Messrs. Melchers and Co. in Hongkong.
Shanghai papers contain full reports of the libel action brought by Mr. E. T. Bethell against the N.-C. Daily News. It appears from the evidence that Mr. Bothell had required the defendants to pay him $25.000 as damages. The Jury awarded $3,000.
President Roosevelt has informed the Mer- chants' Association of Manila that, though the trip he has planned makes it impossible for him to accept their invitation to him to visit the | Philippines now, he earnestly hopes that at some time not far distant he will be able to go to the islands.
A safe was stolen from Messrs. Brunner
Hongkong Meleekly Dress, Mond and Company's offices at Shanghai on the
Mond and Company's offices at Shanghai on the night of the 5th inst, and was subrequently found in a field off Markham Road, but the HONGKONG Office: 10a, Des Vœux Road CL. contents, estimated to value Tls. 3,000, were LONDON OFFICE: 181, FLEET STREET, E.C. missing. Five men and two women are charged
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
Monsieur J. C. G. Bertrand has assumed charge of the French Consulate at Manila.
The Shanghai Amateur Dramatic Club are staging "Peter's Mother" at the Lyceum Theatre.
with being concerned in the robbery.
Another of the popular concerts givog by the band of 8.M.8. Fuerst Bismarck took place in the City Hall on Dec. 16, and was well attended. The various musical items on the programme were rendered with consummate skill, and the applause of the auditors bore testimony to the fact that they were highly appreciated.
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The Grand Secretariat has requested the Wai- wa-pu to notify the various Ministers abroad that the birthday of the Emperor Hauen Tung will be kept on the 13th day of the first moon in each year.
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Another Chinese loan in view is one of 1.500,000 taels for forestry purposes. H. E. Tong Shao Yi, who has gone to Washington a special ambassadorial mission, had the matter in hand and intended, it is said, to negociatiate with the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. The matter remains in abeyance during his absence, other means of providing the necessary funds having failed.
The official mourning for the late Emperor and Empress Dowager of China expired on Saturday. Red chops are again to be used on official dispatches. The Constitutional Bureau has had the despatches from various Powers to China on the death of the Emperor and Empress Dowager bound, and has entitled the volume the Sympathy of the Five Continents on the Imperial Deaths." These are to be sent to various educational chambers for the inform. ation of the people.
The steamer Kamping, which sank on the of the river Pootung side
at Shanghai after having had a collision with H.M.S. Flora some time ago, is still lying in & submerged condition and from the present out. look it appears, says the Shanghai Mercury, that she will be there for some time to come. A coffer dam was built round the hatches and by this means most of her cargo of pig iron was discharged. Since then the coffer dam has sunk below the surface of the water and the ship itself has sunk in the mud to a depth of seven feet. It is believed that a coffer dam will have to be built round the entire ship before she can bo finally raised.
Sir Robert Bredon, acting Inspector-General of Customs, accompanied by the Senior Members of the Inspectorate Staff, Messrs. Hillier, Chief Secretary; Piry, Postal Secretary; and Hemeling, Chinese Secretary, attended by special arrangement, in the Imperial Palace to pay their respects to the remains of the late Empress Dowager. The acting Inspector- General was accorded the treatment of an official
of the First Class, and he and his staff made their bows in the presence of the Imperial coffins at the same place as officials of that rank. The Shanghai Times believe that this is the first occasion on which any members of the General, have attended any ceremonial "in the Customs service, other than the Inspector?
Palace.
A London paper to hand by yesterday's mail says.It would seem that the City will shortly be offered the opportunity of subscribing for a security of an exceptional character. For some time past a railway has been in process of construction in the Philippines under the auspices of a well-known international firin of contractors, and it is, we believe, the intention of the promoters to offer for subscription shortly This capital will have the guarantee of the loogl 4,000,000dol. of the bonds secured upon the line.
Government, and it is believed the bonds will have a special value from the fact that the United States Government has agreed to accept them up to 90 per cent. of the r fare value for security against deposita by the Treasury. They will bear interest at the rate of 4 per cent., and it is expected that they will be offered here and at New York, the issue price being 95.
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