THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXIX.]
CONTENTS.
Far Eastern News.
Leading Articles :—
British Politics
Free Trade between America and the
Philippines
New Light on Parthian History The Game of Beggar-My-Neighbour Japan's Alleged Seizure of Pratas
The Chinaman as an Engineer
Anglo-Siamese Treaty.
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 29TH MARCH, 1909.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
Japan is providing at Port Arthur a Higher Industrial School to accommodate 800 boarders, It is expected that Mr. Henry C. Ide, a former 250 Governor-General of the Philippines, will be 251 appointed American Minister to Spain. 252 1
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On her voyage from across the Pacific this 253 time the Tenyo-maru got into communication with Japan by wireless telegraphy when she was 1,350 miles out.
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Random Reflections.
Hongkong News
Japanese Government and the Pratas Islands
Canton News
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Correspondence -----
Ministering Children's League
Supreme Court
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
I rench Convent -chool Prize Distribution
European and his Tram Fare
China's Service of Loans and Revenue
Renaming Hongkong Streets
Piracy at Castle Peak
Puisne Judgeship
Flogging of Criminals in Hongkong
Lord and Lady Meath in Hongkong
Hongkong University Scheme
Marriage at the Cathedral: Forsyth-Moir.
Property Sale at Canton..
Prospective Rival to Macao
Hongkong Regatta
Gigantic Fraud
Signor Brambilla, one of the Italian delegates attending the International Naval Conference, has been appointed Secretary to the Italian ...256 Legation at Peking.
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Mr. C. H. Oliver, who resigned from the 259 Imperial Maritime Customs service last year! has rejoined with the rank of Commissioner and has been appointed Chief Secretary of the Customs at Peking.
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H. E. Viceroy Chang is to pay an official visit to the Canton-Kowloon railway works 261 (Chinese section) at Tai-Sha-tau on April 7th and will lay the foundation stone for the General Offices and Station buildings.
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Aiamese who murdered Mr. Kaiser, a Swiss
Probable Reduction of Chinese in the Philipines. .263 subject, ten months ago, has just been executed
Chinese and Japanese Characteristics.
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at Bangkok, in the presence of several represent tatives of the German Legation (which has 263 charge of Swiss interests there), and about half a dozen other foreign residents at the Siamese capital.
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Death of Mr. Theodore Speidel........
Company Reports
Yok hama Specie Bank Limited
Green Island Cement Company, Limited
Chica-Borneo Company, Limited..
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Union Insurance Society of Canton, Limited
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China Traders' Insurance Company, Limited
Mercantile Bank of India, Limited
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Company Meetings
China Sugar Refining Co., Limite
Luzon agar Refining Co., Limited
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Serious Charge against a Postal Employee
American Squadron Entertained
Record Trip
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New Opium Edict.....
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Opium Discovery on the "Prinzess Alice"
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Bishop Brent in Hongkong
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Philippines and Free Trade with the States
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Far Eastern Telegrams
Explosion on a River Steamer
Shipping Notes
Commercial
Shipping
DEATHS.
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The Commandants and Officers of the German Detachments of Tientsin and Peking were received in Audience by His Highness the Prince Regent on March 11th and the larger part of the German Detachment left Tientsin by steamer on Sunday the 14th inst. The Detachment is proceeding home by the steamer Kleist
The Straits Settlement Gazette announces that Captain James Williamson, who is well- 269 known in Hongkong as having been for many years captain of the steamer Telemachus, running between Hongkong and Saigon, has been granted a licence to act as a pilot at Singapore.
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At Kirn, Sc tland, Mrs. HENDERSON (widow of the late John I enders n) for many years resident ir Hongkong.
On the 14th inst., at his re idence. No. 7 Chancery Lane, Hongkong, CHARLES CLEMENT WHOLTERS, aged 9 years.
Monsieur Henri Gourdon, Director General having arrived several days ago from Saigon of Public Instruction in Indo-China. is in Manila He is there for the purpose of investigating the insular school system with the view of applying Indo-China. as much as is practicable to the schools of
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The Straits Times inquires whether bridge is becoming less popular in the Straits? The question is suggested on glancing over trade returns and finding that during the last quarter of 1907 playing cards imported into the Colony were valued at $9,962, whereas for the three months ended December 21, 1908, the figure was $1,569.
The Hon. R. H. Thayer, Judge Wilfley's hai, and Mr. F E. Hinckley, olerk to that successor at the United Sates Court at Shang
Court, were visitors to the Supreme Court of Hongkong one day last week. Judge Thayer was seated on the bench with Sir Francis Piggott, while Mr. Hinckley was accommod- ated alongside Mr. C. D. Melbourne, Deputy Registrar, until the adjournment of the Court.
It is stated that Admiral Coerper will be relieved of the command of the China squadron He is to be succeeded by Rear Admiral In- in the near future and return to Germany.. genohl, due to arrive at Shanghai, from Europe, on May 23. Admiral Ingenohl is a brother of Mr. Ingenohl, manager of the Oriente Cigar Factory, Manila, and was previously in com- mand of one of the Garman warships in Far Eastern waters.
The earthquake shock experienced at Yoko- Moss, one of the oldest foreign residents of the hama on the 10th inst. is described by Mr. E. J.
port, as the worst he has experienced during a residence of forty years. On the Yokohama Bluff 96 houses suffered damage more or less. severe, and 294 were slightly damaged, the cost being estimated at 25,000 yen. But in addition to this much damage seems to have been done to private collections of Japanese porcelain.
According to a report in the Osaka Jiji the Oriental Glass Manufacturing Company, which was organised with joint Japanese and foreign. capital amounting to Y2,000,000, and erected a great factory at Noda, Osaka, has got into serious difficulties. Recently a meeting of promoters. was held, attended by Baron Shibusawa and Messrs. Okura Kihachiro, Murai Kichibei, Loonen, and another foreign gentleman, and after a protracted debate, it was agreed to wind: up the concern.
Speaking of the British acquisition of three- Siamese states under the recent treaty, the Pinang Gazette states that this acquisition: of territory will afford the Rritish merchants of developing new and valuable markets, in the the Straits an opportunity of opening up and place of those which they lost of recent years. That loss, it must be remembered, has been mainly due to circumstances beyond their control, but also largely to their lack of enter conditions of trade and competion. prise and inability to adapt themselves to altered
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS
The German Mail of the 27th February, arrived per s.s. Goeben on the 25th instant.
The French Mail of the 26th February, arrived to-day per s.s. Ernest Simons.
The Manila Government "mindful of the sudden collapse of a hotel in Hongkong." making immediate repairs on the Oriente threatened by white ants. This building houses the Bureaux of Agriculture, Constabulary Lands, Civil Service and others.
The German cruiser Leipzig, accompanied by the naval transport Titania, has left Manila for Apia, Samoa. Vice Admiral Coerper, com manding the China station, left on the Titania, for a trip of inspection of the German possessions in the Pacific, Captain Wurmbach. of the Feurst Bismarck, and senior officer of the station, succeeding temporarily in command of the Far Eastern squadron.
The Nagasaki Press states that news was the Kamikawa-maru which arrived at Nagasaki on March 9th, to the effect that goods recently brought by some sixty. British and German steamers to Vladivostock
amounted to about 50,000,000 yen in value. Further imports were expected; consequently duty which it was anticipated would be collected. during the forthcoming four years seems to have been lost. Business is in a dangerous state on account of speculative imports. Japanese in Fusan, Korea, chartered steamers for sending goods to the Siberian port before it was closed to free imports,
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