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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXIX.]
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HONGKONG. MONDAY, 1ST MARCH, 1909.
FAR EASTERN NEWS..
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Scott returned to Shang- hai from Tairen on the 17th inst.
At a general meeting of the Bombay Burmah 159 Trading Corporation Ltd, a dividend of Rs. 300 per share on the original issue and Rs. 75 per
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Far Eastern News....
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Leading Articles :---
The Queen City of the Easti
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The Amnesty
The Cloud's Silver Lining
Armed Robbery in Hongkong
Cairo to India Railway
The Fakumen Railway Question
The Cure of Leprosy
Random Reflections
Hongkong News
Kowloon British School
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Institution of Shipbuilders and Engineers
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Official Visit of the Governor of Macao
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Hongkong Horiticultural Show
Hongkong Legislative Council
Proposed Boat-Shelter at Mongkoktsui
Excitement on the Prava
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A.D.C. Performance of "a Country Girl'
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Alice Memorial Hospital
Outport Municipal Councils
Execution at Victoria Gaol
Chinese Girl's Suicide
Sequel to a West River Collision
Supreme Court
Canton News
Canton-Hankow Railway
New Solicitor Enrolled.
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Foreigners and Mortgages on Chinese Property
in Canton....
Company Reports :---
Hongkong Fire Insurance Company, Ld.
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Soy Chee Cotton Spinning Co., Ld....
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Company Meetings
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share on the third issue was declared.
The Foochow Echo announces the engagement of Mr. F. T. Lachlan, of Messrs, Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ld. to Daphne daughter of Dr. & Mrs. T. Rennie, of that Port.
The premises of Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg and Co. at Shanghai on the 16th instant were burglariously entered by, thieves who made off with clocks, watches. etc. to the value of several hundred dollars.
The Chinese Government, it is stated, will 168 shortly open Lien Shan in the Gulf of Pechili 168 about 200 li north of Shauhaikwan as a free 168 port. The harbour is ice-free, and could, it is .169 declared, be made superior to Dalny.
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Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company.........175 Hongkong Hotel Company.
Hongkong Ice Co., Lâ,
Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co., Ld. Shanghai Land Investment Co., Ld..
Outrage in Kowloon....
St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon
A Policeman's Death
Death of Mr. Haver Dræze
A Hat Trick
New Shanghai Club..
Opium Commission
Collision at Chinkiang
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Hongkong Jockey Club Off Day Races Ruffs' Regimental, Gymkhana
Sale of Ponies
Hongkong Perjury Case..
Directory and chronicle for 1909.
Annual Report on Kiaochan
Far Eastern Telegrams
Shipping Notes
Commercial
Shipping ..........
MARRIAGE.
Mr. John Noble of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., and Mr. Douglas Vickers, of Messrs Vickers, Son & Maxim, who are staying in Tokyo in connexion with the Muroran Steel, Foundry, were received in audience by the Emperor last Monday.
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Sir Ewen Cameron, K.C.M.G., formerly London manager of the Hongkong and Shang. 17 hai Banking Corporation, who died on December 176 10, left £52,755 net. He gave £50 to the 176 Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation ...176 Athletic Club in London.
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A proposal to admit lady players as unofficial members of the Kobe Golf Club on payment of an annual subscription of 5 yen was considered at a special meeting of members and rejected by 22 votes to 11. A resolution to allow ladies to use the links on Saturday afternoons and on Sundays after 4 p.m. was also rejected by 26 votes to 9. Mr. Hansell, who moved these re- exhibition of Kobe selfishness," and said he solutions, declared the result to be " "another
world where ladies were not admitted. believed there was not another links in the
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With the death of Senhor Antonio J. Diniz an old resident of Shanghai has passed away and the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank loses: a member of its Staff who had served it well and faithfully for forty-one years, Senhor Diniz was born in Macao in 1841 and arrived in Shanghai on May 29, 1861. After a brief term of service with the North-China Herald, he joined the firm of Messrs. Smith, Kennedy and Company, with whom he remained for six years, until they went out of business.
In January 1868 Senhor Diniz entered the service of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, working at the Hankow Öffice with Mr. John Walter during the tea season.
The first half yearly balance-sheet of the Siam Steam Navigation Co., Ltd. shows a net profit of Ticals 172,767.31, whereof it is proposed to the cost value of the steamers and 10 per cent. utilise Tcs. 39,339.25, being 5 per cent. p.a. on p.a. of the launches, junks, etc.-as depreciation, leaving Tes. 133,428.06 to be divided as follows in accordance with the Articles of Association of
the
ompany:-5 per cent. for the half year to the shareholders absorbing Tes. 100,000; re- After a long trial Mr. Justice Secrombe muneration to the Directors Tos. 3,342.80; to Smith has given a verdict in favour of Mr. Abe carried to the Reserve Fund Tos. 10,000; Emslie Benzie, formerly secretary of Messrs. further dividend to the Shareholders 1 per cent. Howarth Erskine, Ltd., in the case against him Tes. 20,000; to be carried forward to next half 178 claiming $44,800 and $1,400, respectively, as
year Tos. 85.26. ...178 damages for fraudulent misrepresentation in a 179 certificate given by him in connection with the
floating of the new Hogan & Co.
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The Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs 180 have just published their annual list of light- houses, light vessels, buoys and beacons on the coast and rivers of China. The total number of 182 these lights is now 408. A number of charts show the position and kind of lights, and the letter- press gives much detailed information of great value to navigators in Chinese waters,
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On the 20th February, at Bootle, Liverpool, ALFRED MOLineux Lester, of Shanghai son of the Rev. GEORGE LESTER of Liverpool, to PANSY MARY, daughter if the late ROBERT LAW of Shanghai
Hongkong Weekly Press, Press,
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of the 27th January, arrived per s.s. Kleist, on the 26th inst.
The French Mail of the 29th January, arrived to-day, per s.s. Nera.
From the Home papers now to hand giving particulars of the disaster to the White Star liner Republic we learn that her commander was Captain Sealby, who for many years had the command of one of the Company's steamers running between San Francisco and Hongkong, and is therefore personally known to many of our readers. His friends will read with interest the appreciation of his heroic conduct recorded in the published reports of the desaster.
Judge Rufas Thayer, who has recently been appointed by the President Judge of the United States Court in China, was entertained at dinner by a number of friends at the hery hase Club Washington, on the 16th ult, and was to leave Washington on the 21st to take up his new duties. Henry E. Davis presided t speeches and an evening of general good the dinner, which was followed by a number of
fellowship and regretful farewells. hinese music, by gramophone, was played while the dinner was in progress.
Strobel, General Adviser to the Government The remains of the late Mr. Edward H.
of Siam and Minister Plenipotentiary, were cremated at Bangkok recently with State ceremonial. His Majesty the King, the Crown Prince and a large member of other royalties were present. Mr. Strobel was an American," and the coffin.was draped with the Siamese flag and the Stars and Stripes. It is seldom, remarks the Bangkok Times, that the body of a European dying in Siam is cremated, though cremation is the regular mode of disposal of the dead in this country. In recent years at least, the only instance that anyone seems to recall is the cremation of the late Dr. Gowan, who was at one time His Majesty's physician.
Twins were born on the Hitachi Maru on her present voyage. Among the passengers bound three children. During the voyage out, Mrs. for Singapore were Mr. and Mrs. Sheedy and
Sheedy was safely deilvered of twins-boy and girl-an event perhaps not unparalleled but certainly rare in the annals of the sea. As bofitted the occasion, the babies were given Hitachi as a Christian name in each case; but the Japanese officer who reported the occurrence in the Boarding Officer's register on arrival here, rather complicated matters by making the Sheedy: Female-Robert Hitachi Sheedy- following entry:-Male-Kathleen Hitachi
Mr. Sheedy comes out after a year's furlough to take charge of the Detective Station Penang.
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