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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXIX.]
CONTENTS.
Far Eastern News Leading Articles :—
England and the Opium Question Budget Speculations in England.
Signs of Trade Revival
Corruption at Peking
The Policy of the United States in Asia
Random Reflections
Hongkong News
An Armed Robbery Charge
Sanitary Board
Hongkong Branch of the China Association `St. Andrew's ('hurch, Kowloon
Supreme Court
The Harbour Master and Debased Coinage Anglo-Portuguese School Silver Jubilee
The Recent Armed Robberies
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Great Britain and Tibet
Canton News
The Holocaustat Canton
Company Reports :--
Humphreys Estate and Finance Company.. Kowloon Land and Building Company Ld.
Shipping Notes ..
Far Eastern Telegrams
Commercial..
Shipping
BIRTHS,
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 6TH FEBRUARY, 1909.
Among the passengers from England by the P. and O. mail steamer which arrived yesterday were the Rt. Rev. Bishop Price of Foochow. PAGE and the Rt. Rev. Dr Boutflower, the newly.
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98 The Chinese Government are reported to have engaged for six years three American financial experts, Messrs. Hatch, Gulfoyle, and Grant, who are at present devising means for an issue of Chinese Imperial money, both in bank notes and coinage.
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Japanese papers report that despite the great caution exercised by the Chinese Government 104 the smuggling of arms at Macao, Amoy, 106 Canton, and Swatow is still being carried on, and the number of Chinese junks captured for carrying arms is on the increase.
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On January 22nd, at Shanghai, the wife of M. W. TAIFFENBERG, of a son
On January 24th, at Shanghai to Mr. and Mrs. JAMIESON, a daughter.
On January 25th, at Shanghai, the wife of Wx. MOWAT LAW, of a son.
To Mr. and Mrs. G. HUYGEN, a daughter, HEDWIG, at Canton, 81st January, 1909.
MARRIAGES.
On January 22nd, at Shanghai, WALTER FURT ANDREWS, to EDITH SARAH WATKINS, both ef khanghai.
On January 25th, at Shanghai, HENRY (EORGE HILL to IDA BIBERMAN, Mosir, Western Russia.
On January 26th, at Shanghai, ARCHIE WILLIAM BRANKSTON to ELIZABETH DOOLEY, of Manchester, England.
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DEATH.
On January 2nd, suddenly, at Annfield, Rothesay, JAMES HALL (late of Shanghai), in his 61st year.
Hongkong Weekly Press.
The Filipino Chamber of Commerce has cabled to the resident Filipino commissioners in Washington asking them that they petition the Congress of the United States for the suspension for the period of three years of the tax imposed on live cattle imported int the Philippine island.
The Government, says Chinese Public Opinion, intends to start compulsory education in the Metropolis next Spring, but the Board of Edu- cation finds that there are serious financial difficulties in the way, as there are some 148,000 houses in Peking and, assuming each house to send one child to school and each school to hold 100 children, over one thousand schools would be required.
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On Thursday at the Kawasaki Dockyard, Kobe, the first of three sister ships, built to the order of the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, is to be laununod. These ships are to be 6,000 ons gross and to have a displacement of 11,500 tons. Tacoma Maru is the name to be given the ship launched to-day.
Mrs. Beatrice Mauricia Anderson and: Mr. Walter George Stevenson, now of Manila, were married at Christ Church, Yokohama, on the 25th ult. The preliminary, ceremony took place at the British Consulate General, Mr. John Carey Hall, H.B.M.'s Consul-General, perform- ing the ceremony. The witnesses were the bride's brother-in-law, Mr. H. D. Jones, Manager of the Yokohama branch of the Hong- kong and Shanghai. Banking: Corporation, and Sir Claude MacDonald, G.C.V.O., •G.C.MG., K.C.B., H.B.M.'s Ambassador. to Japan......
Mr. John Noble, of Messrs. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., of. Newcastle-on-Tyne, the well known shipbuilders and gunmakers, is on a visit to Japan accompanied by Mrs. Noble. Mr. Noble came out via Siberia joining his wife on board a N. D. Lloyd steamer in China. Mr. John Noble has come out to inspect the new steel works at Muroran, a joint enterprise, of his firm and Vickers, Sons & Maxim, and, the Hokkaido Tanko Kisen Kaisha. He will shortly be joined by Mr. Albert Vickers who, by the way, was recently elected Master Cutler of Sheffield. The new works will shortly be started and will be devoted to the production of highclass steel for gun forgings, etc. It will be under the direction of experts from the The King has granted his Royal licence and Imperial Japanese Navy with the assistance authority to the following gentlemen to accept of specialists from the English works. Mr. and wear the decorations conferred upon them Noble will also inspect the Explosive Factory in recognition of valuable services rendered by at Hiratauka, which is just starting the manu- them:-Mr. Walter Thurlow Lay, Commissioner facture of cordite, for the Japanese Govem. in the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs ment. These works have been built by rm- Service and Mr. Edward Vincent Brenan, a strong, Whiteworth & Co. in conjunction with Deputy Commissioner in the same service, the the Nobel Explosive Co, of Ardeer, Scotland, Insignia of the First Class of the Third Divis- In both the above cases the Japanese Govern- ion of the Imperial hinese Order of the Doublement is pledged to support the enterprise by Dragon, conferred upon them by the Emperor the purchase of a certain quantity of the of China.
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The Swatow correspondent of the N.-C. Daily Newa, writing on developments at that port, says: The Imperial Customs' ground is being rapidly occupied with houses built for the foreign staff. Mr. S. H. Harris, the late Com- missioner, who is now at Kowloon, will long be
We have received a copy of the annual report or the Leper Home founded at Tungkun, South China, in 1905 under the charge of Dr. John E. Kuhne, M.3.C.M. The average daily number of inmates during the past year was 124. The debit balance, which at the end of September
Weekly Press, remembered as the "Building Commissioner. 1906, was $10,908, has been reduced to $6,502.
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VEUX ROADC LONDON OFFICE: 131, Fleer Sraskt. E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of the 8th January and the parcel Mails closed in London for des- patch by the all sea route on the 30th Dec., and for despatch overland on the 6th Jan. arrived per s.s. Britannia, on the 4th inst.
FAR EASTERN NEWS. Heavy snow fell at Hankow on the 20th alt. and at 4 a.m. the thermometer was at 20 degrees Fahrenheit.
An official notification has been received in Hongkong that Singaporehas been declared free of quarantine restrictions.
A new Post Office, new examination shed, new houses for the Harbour master, and the outdoor staff, a new signal tower, and a new steam launch, are monuments to his professional zeal, and his care for the comfort of his subordinates. | In a short time the service will have a complete and self-contained plant, the result of his foresight and broad views. At the back Swatow is extending rapidly along the deep creek. Godowns are being erected, and new streets formed, not in bewildering variety as in the old days, but on a system, controlled by the police. and here again the hand of the late Com- missioner is seen. A Commissioner can do much to secure harmony of aim among the landholders in such a place as this, and he secured it. We want now a leader who will persuade the Chinese into a national system of municipal government which will enlist the help, and so the contributors of the foreign community-Verb, Sap."
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Grants amounting to $1,930 were made by the Edinbugh and London Mission to Lepers. The Chinese Community of Hongkong contributed $1,758 and the annual subscriptions from the officials in Canton amount to $1,024. report is illustrated with portraits and photographic views of the settlement, but the plates, the smaller ones particularly, are poor and not well printed. Particulars are given in it of many of the cases under treatment and the Director confirms the statement of the Indian Commission that the disease is contagious but not hereditary. His inquiries go to show that 155 patients out of 167 have clean family history. Some observations are on experiments with recorded in the report on ex nastin, but the experiments have not been sufficiently extensive to enable him to give an opinion on the subject and an appeal is made for a sum to enable a new supply of nastin to be bought for this purpose.
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