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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXIX.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
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Far Eastern Newɛ......
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Leading Articles:-
Shackleton's South Pole Expedition
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Philippines and Free Trade
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Foreign Loans to China
Slave Traffic in Hongkong
Canton-Kowloon Railway
Random Reflections...... Hongkong News
A Shooting Adventure
Aberdeen Murder
Japanese and Jiujitsu
Canton-Kowloon Railway
River Steamer Disabled
Supreme Court
An Old Trick
Company Meetings:
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 12TH APRIL, 1909.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
Mr. B. Twyman, H.B.Ms Consul at Chengtu leaves Shanghai by the Tenyo Maru en route for Home on furlough.
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Colonel "Bob" Love, the manager of Harms ton's Circus, was attacked by smallpox at Manila, He was removed to the hospital last Saturday.
H.I.H. Princess Kuni of Japan was a passenger by the N, Y. K. steamer Atsuta-Maru, which passed through Hongkong last week. Her Im 297 perial Highness is on her way to Europe to 297 rejoin her husband.
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It is announced in the Shanghai papers that Mr. H. A. Lammert is from the 1st inst. asso ciated with the firm of W. Funder & Col .301 auctioneers, and signs the firm per procuration Recent Peking papers mention that H.E. the Viceroy of Canton has suggested to the Board of Communications that "the steamship service in the neighbourhood of Canton should be improved."
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Green Island Cement Company, Limited China-Borneo Company, Limited Weihaiwei Land and Building Company, Ld. ...309 Yangteze Wharf and Godown Company, Ld. ...308 China and Manila Steamship Company, Ld.. .308 Anti-Opium Crusade in China“
Far Eastern Telegrams
Departure of Lady Lugard.....
Sir Frederick Lugard on "Alministration Alleged Failure to Assist the Drowning
Weddings
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
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Major-General Broadwood was at Shanghai on the 1st inst. en route to Japan. The General is proceeding home via Siberia on short leave return and expects to
to Hongkong in .806 September.
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On April 8th, at Green Park House, 134 Picca- dilly, London, the wife of Mr. R. E. BELILIOs, of a son. (By wire)
MARRIAGES.
On the 24th March, as St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, by the Rev. F. T. Johnson. M.A., GEORGE GRANVILLE SUTHERLAND, youngest con of the late Rev. W. Forsyth, D.D. of Abernethy, Strathspe, N.B., to MARGUERITE ELIZABETH elder daughter of the late Frank Moir, Esq, of Dundee, N.B.
On the 3rd instant, at HB.M. Consulate General Canton, before H. H. Fox, Acting Consul General, and afterwards at Christ Church, Shameen by Rev. P. Jenkins, EDWIN ALFRED STANTON of Canton, to VIOLET MACKBILL, daughter of George Mackrill Smith, formerly of Canton
DEATH
At Tientsin on the 8th inst, FREDERICK PERRIN COOPER formerly of Japan, aged 49 years.
Hongkong Weekly Press,
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of the 10th ultimo, arrived per s.s. Buelow on the 7th inst.
The French Mail of the 12th ultimo, arrived on the 12th inst. per 8.8. Tonkin.
The act authorizing shorter hours for civil service employees in the Philippines during the hot months, passed by the Assembly on March 12, was passed by the Commission without change on April 5th.
The Board of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce intends to memorialize the Throne to establish a large Government Silk anut factory on modern principles with the object of developing the trade.
H. B. M. Chargé d'Affaires at Bangkok that no petitions against the Treaty have been informed the Bangkok Times on the 25th ult. presented to or received by the British Legation from Chinese, Indian or other British subject
The death is announced at Hangchow of Mrs. Moule, wife of Bishop Monle, and mother of Mr. George Moule, Commissioner of Customs. Mrs. Moule had just passed her eighty-first birthday and had spent half her life in China principally at Hangchow.
out reliefs for several vessels on the China The British cruiser Andromeda which brought Station, left for home on Saturday. She took her departure at day break the sailors op board cheering and the band playing as she steamed out of the harbour.
It has been decided by the South Manchurian Railway Management to place the Saikio Mara, the well-known sister ship of the Kobe Maru, on the Dairen-Shanghai run sometime this month or early in May, so that the service will become twice, instead of once a week as hitherto.
Manila now possesses what is believed will eventually become the Coney Island of the Far East. This is Palomar Park, an aggregation of amusements which should become very popular. The human roulette wheel which made such a hit at the Carnival is to be in operation day and night.
The St. Andrew's Society of Shanghai last week entertained Mr. C. M. Bain at dinner at the Shanghai Club on his relinquishing the office of Hon. Treasurer of the Society and bowl in token of the Society's appreciation of presenting him with a handsome silver rose
his services.
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A jiujitsu class for ladies has been formed in Tientsin.
Two traders named Carroll and Wolf are reported to have been murdered by the outlaw Jikiris and his band at Siminor Philippine Islands between four and six o'clock on the morning of March 16th. Siminor is a small place on the Sulu Sea and is within the zone of the outlaw's operations. Regulars and Cons- tabulary are working on the case.
A proposal to build a hospital for Chinese to the memory of the late Dr. Paulun of Shanghai is receiving an amount of financial support which testifies eloquently to the great respect in which the deceased gentleman was held in the Northern Settlement by all classes of the com- munity. On the 31st ult. the subscriptions which had been received amounted to $7,615 and Taels 2,820.
A remarkable achievement in wireless telegraphy has been effected by the Aki Maru, between Seattle and Yokohama. On leaving the former port the Aki Maru began a series of wireless communications with Seattle station, which was kept up without the slightest difficulty throughout the voyage. The vessel reached Yokohama on the 4th inst., and success. fully reported her own arrival to Seattle, a distance of 4,240 miles.,
Mr. A. W. Pontius, of the American Con- sular Service, reached Shanghai last week from Washington, en route for Swatow, to which place he has been appointed as Consul. Mr. after studying in Peking as a student inter- Pontius came to China several years ago, and preter he was appointed Vice-Consul-in-charge at Tientsin, and afterwards Vice-Consul-in- charge at Newchwang. He proceeds to his new post after a week's stay in Shanghai.
in Nagasaki on the 21st ult satisfactorily ex- The U.S. transport Sheridan, while staying changed wireless messages with Manila, the distance between the two ports being 1,500 miles. At 4.25 a.m. on the 24th inst. the Japan Gazette received the following telegram from the T.K.K. liner Chiyo-maru, by "wireless " via Ochieshimusen, the most northerly wireless station in Japan
-“Chiyo-maru March 24th 3 a.m. 1,358 miles off Yokohama. All well GREENE,'
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Tokyo, is a passenger by the N.Y.K. Atauta- Baron D'Anethan the Belgian Minister to
Baroness D'Anethan accompanies her husband. maru, which left for Europe on Wednesday The Baroness is a sister of Mr. Rider Haggard' the well-known English novelist, and is herself the author of several books of conspicuous literary merit. Capt. Taylor .D.C. to H.E. the Governor went out to the ship to welcome the distinguished visitors and escorted them to Government House.
A disastrous fire for the second time in two years swept the Paco district of Manila last Wednesday afternoon with an intensity that left a large part of the district in ruins but caused no loss of life nor injury. The fire started from a cause still unknown in the interior of the district near the Concordia
ollege and within an hour swept away several hundred nipa houses and about 25 residences of Europeans and Americans to the value of perhaps P100,000, besides burning the Santa system for nearly two hours, and putting the Ana telephone cable, tying up the street railway Paco fire engine temporarily out of commission.
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