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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXIX.]
Far Eastern News...
Leading Artioles ----
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China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 15TH FEBRUARY, 1909.
CONTENTS.
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Yuan Shi Kai
China and the Millenium....
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Opium Statistics
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Reform or Revolution?
.116
Peace and Preparedness for War...
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Army Reform...
.117
Random Reflections
.117
Hongkong News
.118
The Banitary Board
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Retirement of Dr, Bateson Wright...
.119
Dance at the King Edward Hotel.
An Unknown Tongue
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Chinese and Crackers
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Alleged Armed Robberies
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Disobeying Banishment Orders
.119
Volunteer Church Parade
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The Yaumati Shooting Tragedy
Armed Robberies ....
Naval Officer's Gallant Act
A Triad Society Member.
The Manila Carnival
Mistaken for & Dutchman
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Church Missionary Association.......
Opium Trade
Opium Commission
Chinese Opium Statistics.
Opium in Yunnan
Canton News
Macso News
Supreme Court
New N.Y.K. Liner
Correspondence :-
Chinese at the Oxford Locals
Japan and Manchuria
Typhoon of 1908-
Rewards for Gallantry
Company Report:--
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS
The German Mail of the 16th ultimo arrived arrived per s.s. Prinzess Alice on the 12 inst.
The French Mail of the 15th ultimo arrived 119 to-day, per s.s. Tourane.
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FAR EASTERN "NEWS.
The opening of branches of the Tai Ching 120 Bank in Japan, England and Germany is 120 under consideration.
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The Tsingtau Hotel Co, Ltd. is being wound up. Mr. Ph. Lieder has offered 40 per cent for
the whole of the shares.
The completed section of the Canton-Hankow 126 railway, in Kwangtung province, earned a profit
of $127,376 in the last Chinese year.
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The Grand Council at Peking has been again discussing how the import of silver dollars into China can be reduced, but the discussion stands 128 adjourned for a month.
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Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. 129 Company Meetings:-
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Humphreys' Estate and Finance Co.. Ld.... The Chins Provident Loan and Mortgage
Company, Limited
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Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat
Company, Limited.
Kowloon Land and Building Co., Ld.
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Shanghai Companies.... Reminiscences of China by Sir J. McLeavy Brown 131 The Suicide of M. Bonheurs Far Eastern Telegrams. Commercial...
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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A very modern innovation is reported from Peking. From April 20th next every one entering the Forbidden City" will be required to show a photograph of himself.
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A meeting of exporters was held at Hankow the 2nd instant, to protest against the arbitrary action of the River steamers in raising the price of freight by Tls. 1.20 per ton, thus entailing enormous loss on the trade.
Soochow is now provided with, electric light works. Machinery capable of lighting about 6,000 lamps has been installed and some 3,000 lamps are already in use and in a short time the railway station will be lighted by electricity.
Mr. A. W. Maclean, of the German Consular 133 Service, died last week at the General Hospital 136 in Shanghai. Mr. Maclean, who, as his name implies, was of Scotch descent, came out to Shanghai in 1904, and since the absence on leave of Mr. Schirmer has been acting as German Assessor at the Mixed Court. Death was due to appendicitis, for which he had an operation. He never rallied, and died a week
On February 4th, to Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Cox, at Woosung, a daughter.
On Friday 5th February, at Hongkong, SAMUEL WEINBERG, late of the Standard Oil Company. Aged 37 years.
At Victoria Hospital Peak, on the 13th inst,
the wife of S. BAKER, of the 8.9. Kumsang, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On February 5th, at Shanghai, WILFRID HAWKINS, to FRANCES MARY WANSTALL.
At St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, on Febru ry 11th, 1909, by the Rev. F. T. Johnson, M.A.,
ARNOLD, son of Mr. and Mrs. GUSTAV KÖRLER, of Walsrode, Hannover, Germany, to ROSINA, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. PIERCE HARRIS-PUROELL, of Shanghai.
DEATH.
On February 4th, at Shanghai, Karl ZIMMER, assistant at H. I. German M.'s Consulate General, aged 88 years.
later.
The man who murdered his wife recently on board & French mail steamer, between Singapore and Saigon was named Massol and is described in the Indo-China papers as being honourably known in Cambodge where he had resided for ten years.
He was manager of a cotton factory at Ksach-Kandal. He appears to have fired five shots from his revolver at the unfortunate young woman four causing fatal wounds in the head. They had been married four years, and there are three children of the marriage.
The ingenuity of the Chinese opium smuggler is great. On the arrival of the Paklat recently at Bangkok the Customs officials found 87 taels of opium on the person of a Chinese. The opinm was very cleverly concealed in a sun topee, the lining of which had boen removed, and fitted with tin. By unscrewing the top of the topee, the opium could be extracted. When the Loosok arrived in Bangkok the same day the officers handed over to the Customs officials 279 taels of opium which they had found on board.
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The death is reported at Tientsin of Mr. C. Lenox Simpson, of the Imperial Maritime Customs. Mr. Simpson came out to join the I. M. C. in the early sixties, and has been a Commissioner, for upwards of thirty years. Until recently he was stationed at Ningpo.
Brigadier General Clarence Edwards of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, urges Congress to pass the measure recommended by him and by the Secretary of War, giving pensions to certain classes of employes of the Philippine government. General Edwards made a masterly statement of the matter to Congress and both by writing and orally begged the members to pass the bill at once. The Bill applies only to officers receiving for ten or more years service at the time of retirement an annual salary of not less than 6,000 pesos.
A bill providing for the re-establishment in the Philippines of the insular lottery as conducted under the Spanish regime, is now in preparation by one of the members of the Assembly. It is claimed for this bill that it will produce for the insular treasury more funds than any law on the statutes barring the internal revenue act. This is claimed for it in view of the fact that the income from that source in 1897, the last year of its operation, was 85,431,012 Mexican currency of which $1,347,743, or 25 per cent, went to the insular government, the rest being expended in the cost of operation and the prizes distributed to the winners.
Mr. J. H. Scott, President of the Chins Association and senior partner of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, was entertained at dinner by the committee of the Shanghai Branch of the China Association, recent- ly while among the guests was Sir Cecil Clementi Sinith, G.C.M.G., Senior British Delegate to the Opinn Conference. Owing to the shortness of Mr. Scott's stay in Shanghai and the little space within which arrangements could be made, it was not found feasible to make the entertainment one of the whole Association; but as many as possible of Mr. Scott's personal friends were present. Mr. W. Adams Oram, manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, had kindly lent his house for the occasion, and a most enjoyable evening was spent.
There was a narrow escape from disaster at the launching of the N.Y.K. steamer Kitano- maru at Nagasaki recently. The Tenyo-maru. was allowed to enter the harbour and approach her moorings just as the Kitano-maru was about to take the water. Fortunately the Tenyo-maru was sighted from the Dockyard a very short time before hydraulic pressure would have been applied to accelerate the launch; blocks and shores had been removed and the officials in charge of the operations had a few minutes' anxiety lest the Kitano-maru should leave the ways without waiting for pressure to be applied The dimensions, etc., of the new steamer, which are practically the same as those of the sisterships Kamo-maru, Hirano-maru, and Atsuta-maru, are as follows :--Length, 465 feet, Breadth, 56 feet; Draught, 34.6 feet; Tonnage; gross, 8,600 tons; Horse-power, 7300; Speed, 16 knots. The keel of the steamer was laid down on January 7th, 1908, and her building has been supervised by Lloyds' and the Teishinsho Surveyors. She was, the Nagasaki Press believes, the first large vessel to be laid down and built at the Yard without the supervision of a foreign naval architect. She is a twin- screw steamer and will be fitted with reci procating engines.
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