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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXIX.]
CONTENTS.
Far Eastern News
Leading Articles.
The Proposed University for Hongkong Yuan Shih-tai
: Plague Rate at Shanghai
What is a Merchant?
Foreign Interference with China
The International Opium Commission
Japanese Emigration to America
Random Reflections .......
Hongkong News
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Dividend
Police Smoking Concert
The Volunteer's Ball
The Recent Deportations
The Sanitary Board Election
The "Silver King'
Appeal
New Year Robberies
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 18TH JANUARY, 1909.
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Proposed!Hongkong|University-The Governor's
St. Stephen's College Extension
Ellis Kadoorie Chinese School Society
The Canton Medical College................ ......... .....................
Heavy Sentences on Stowaways
Truck Coolie's Incarceration
Supreme Court
The Yuvarajah of Mysore at Hongkong
School Prize Distributions:----
Hongkong Philharmonic Society's Concert
St. Stephen's Girls' School
Diocesan School and Orphanage.
Anglo-Chinese District Schools
Queen's College
A Japanese Nobleman Disranked
Indian Items ......
The Calamity in Italy
Various Estimates of Yuan Shih-kai
Foundering of a Japanese steamer..
The Poppy in China....
Canton News
Canton-Hankow Railway
Burglary at Madame Flint's.............
The "Eastern" Stowaways
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FAR EASTERN NEWS.
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The closing of the second half of the opium shops in the Settlement of Shanghai which was * Mr. E. Gordon Lowder, of the LM.C., is mak-effected with the close of the year passed off ing a tour of inspection of all the Custom houses. without trouble, and since then the various The Government of India have intimated that shop-keepers engaged in the trade have not more than 13,600 chests of Malwa opium commenced establishing themselves in other 84 shall be exported in the calendar year 1909.
businesses. Shen Chia-peng, the High Commissioner who 35 compiles legal codes, is stated to have decided to 36 adopt British laws in compiling the commercial
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H. I. M. the Emperor of Japan telegraphed a message of sympathy to M. Fallieres, President 89 of the French Republic, on hearing of the recent 19 attack on his person.
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Lt.-Colonel G. E. Pereira, C.M.G., D.S.O. Military Attaché in Peking, whose term of service in China expired on December 31, 1908, is proceeding home via Hongkong.
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Prince Tsai Tze has drawn up an estimate of
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Honan and Min-Che Provinces, for the pur- poses of the reformed Navy, next year, and has presented it to the Prince Regent.
The Chinese Government has issued new regulations for the examination of telegrams 49 with the object of stopping the revolutionaries ...50 from using the telegraph service as they have hi- therto done, for the dissemination of their ideas.
It has been ascertained, that the upkeep of the Summer Palace at Peking has cost about two million taels per annum. As the Empress Dowager does not desire to occupy the Palace. the Prince Regent has decided to substantially reduce this expense to the State.
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The Japanese Resident at Seoul has recently permanently prohibited the publication of a Japanese paper there, named the Keijo Shimbun,} on the ground that the paper recently printed series of articles prejudicial to the relations 56 between Japan and Korea and injurious to public order and peace. The paper had been in existence about two years.
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Disappearance of a Chinese Merchant at Yokohama 55 Billard Championship at Hongkong.... The New Chinese Currency Proposition Foreign Trade of Japan.
Shipping Notes
Indo-China Finances
The Chinaman at Home......
Far Eastern Telegrams
The Rice Crop Commercial Shipping..
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One of the Koreans who was charged with complicity in the murder at the San Francisco of Mr. D. W. Stevens, the Japanese Adviser at Seoul is reported in the latest San Francisco papers to have escaped from the city. One of the papers says :-" The escape of Chun is one of the most remarkable evasions of justice that has aver occurred in this city, in that it appears to have been occasioned by the neglect of the officers of the law, who for months after his idisappearance have only now discovered that he as gone." It is ten months now since the murder was committed.
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Judging that the destruction caused by the present earthquake in Italy will furnish much known Japanese seismologist is being sent to material for study, Professor Omori, the well-
Italy. Investigation into the damage done to buildings, waterworks, and other engineering works at Messina and Reggio will prove very instructive to architec's and engineers and accordingly an architect and a civil engineer will accompany Professor Omori. The party is. expected to leave Tokyo on or about the 15th.. instant for the scene of the calamity, travelling by the Siberian Railway.
Referring to the article which we recently reproduced from a London contemporary on the growing popularity of China tea, a Colombo As those in the know are contemporary says:-" well aware, China' tea is given a fresh innings in the U.K. when the price of common Ceylon do not see anything more in the 'boom.' and Indian tous go up. This is inevitable. We This is borne out, too, by a diagram before us showing the deliveries of china tea for home. consumption with relation to the quotation for good ordinary Indian and Ceylon pekoe souchong during the last ten years. The only year in
Sir Havilland de Sausmarez, Judge of H.B.M's 57 Supreme Court for China and Korea, has recently .57 undergone at Home a third operation for ap-which the deliveries of China tea did not fully
pendicitis, which, it is satisfactory to state, has proved more successful than the previous ones; and it is hoped that within a very short time he will be once again restored to good health. His leave of absence has been extended for a period of six months, and he is expected to return to Shanghai sometime in October.
On January 6th, at Shanghai, the wife of Mr. DAVID LANDALE, of a ‹aughter.
On the 10th in tant at Cragside" The Peak, the wife of A. H. SKELTON, of a sun.
On the 12th inst, at Victoria Hospital, Vra. A.
'BAMSAY, of a son.
DEATH.
In view of the discovery of plague in rats at Shanghai, Dr. F. W. Thompson of Hankow publishes an appeal to the community of Hankow to undertake & general campaign against. rats throughout the concessions. No trace of plague has yet been found at Hankow, but in view of the present existence of rat plague at Shanghai and the constant steamship communication be- tween the two ports, Dr. Thompson points out that the position of Hankow is one of anticipa- ress, tion and that prevention is better than cure.
On January 5th, at Shanghai, EMILIE, the beloved mother of CHARLES IBURG, aged 74 years
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The Lutzow with the German Mail arrived on the 13th inst.
The French Mail of the 18th Dec,, arrived per s.s. Polynesien on the 18th inst.
respond, to the advance in the British-grown. common tea price was last year. If the China tea imports prove to be considerably higher this year it will be because it was making
gup for coming more slowly than usual.”
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The measures to be taken by the Hongkong Government to regulate the spitting habits of the. Chinese have excited a good deal of interest in Indo-China and the Strait Settle- ments. The Pinang Gazette in a leading article on the subject remarks" One of the chief causes of mortality among the Straits Chinese is phthisis; taking one week at random, we find that sixteen persons died of this disease within Municipal limits during the seven days ending December 19th. It is an incontrovertible fact that the principal channel of transmission of phthisis is expectoration by The Prince Regent has decided to reform the infected persons. The efforts of the French Civil Service of China. New regulations are public health authorities to reduce the mortality being drafted. At a recent conference with the in France from this cause by checking the High Ministers of State the Prince Regent spitting habit have been crowned with success. raised the question of the appointment of the Yet the local Chinese, who will benefit more. Viceroys and Governors of the provinces and than any other section of the community, if the His Imperial Highness is reported to have said disgusting and insanitary habit can be eradi that in future careful enquiries should be made cated, apparently regard the Anti-Spitting into the age, parentage, character and career of Ordinance as a piece of down-right grand- all candidates for such important posts before re-motherly legislation, if not an unwarrantable commending them to the Throne for appointment. interference with the liberty of the subject.”
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