THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXIX.]
China
CONTENTS.
Far Eastern News
Leading Articles:-
Peking Canards
Late Emperor of China
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Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 15TH MAY, 1909.
FAR FASTERN NEWS..
News has reached Ceylon from Suez that 397 Mr. N. Lazarus, the optician, has died of
The Boycott
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Manchu-Chinese
Marriages
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Malaria in Hongkong
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Random Reflections
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Hongkong News
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Hongkong Legislative Council
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Government House
A Chinese Love Story
Sanitary Board
An Abduction Charge
A Valuable Find
Supreme Court
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Illicit Opium
Reckless Driving
Interesting Fortune Telling Case
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A Story of the Sea
Company Meeting:
Dunlop Rubber Plantation Co., Ld
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Preferred Jail to Exile ..
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Canton Municipal Council
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Shipping Notes
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Contemplated Improvements at Haiphong
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Serious Floods in the West River
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A Bishopric for Archdeacon Banister.
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Trade of India
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Notes from Japan
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The Unwritten Law
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China Association-Shanghai Branch
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The Emperor's Funeral
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The Siberian Mail
Currency in China
Civil Service Estimates
Imperial Wedding in Japan
Tennis Match and Distribution of Prizes
Shanghai Races
London Rubber Reports
Far Eastern Telegrams
Review
Opium Cultivation in India
Commercial
Shipping
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The golden wedding anniversary of Wr. and Mrs. E. A. Still, of Cantou, was announced in a Londou paper on the 5th ult.
Lieut.-Colonel M. S. Riach, Queen's Own ('ameron Highlanders, ou completing the qualifying period in command of the 2nd Battalion. stationed at Tientsin, has been promoted brevet-colonel.
Governor-General Smith of the Philippine Islands, was a passenger on the Nikko Maru proceeding to America, and while in Hongkong was a guest of H. E. Sir Frederick Lugard at Government House.
Mr. A. W. H. Bellingham, engineer to the British Municipal Council at Tientsin. has been nominated by the Chinese authorities to succeed Mr. C. W. Kinder. late General Manager and Engineer-in-Chief of the Imperial Railways of North China, Tongshan,
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The Shanghai Police, in accordance with unicipal notification have blocked the Alhambra by erecting stout bamboo barriers across the Siccawei road, and only people furnished with police permits are allowed to pass the barrier. Recently the police made a 413 raid on the Alhambra and remored the roulette wheels, and an interesting police court case has resulted in which an Indian watchman has been 415 charged with threatening to shoot Colouel
Bruce, the Superintendent of Police.
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A St. Petersburg correspondent says it 416 appears certain that the Government will meet the demands of the Central Russian manu- facturers, who are asking for increased trade facilities in the way of lower tariffs. insurance, &c., on the routes serving the Far East. The abolition of free imports at Vladivostock is On May 3rd, at Shanghai. to Mr. and Mrs. W. proving of inestimable value to industry in P. O MIDDLETON. a daughter.
BIRTH,
MARRIAGES.
At Kobe, on the 17th instant, JOHN JULIUS DARE, Orly son of the late JOHN CATTO ABELL, Of Aberdeen, Scotland, to VESTA. youngest daughter of the late Rev. J. L. ATKINSON, M.A.. D.D. of
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On March 3'st, at Croydon, H. R. YOLESIAS, ti ENID MARY, daughter of late E. E. DEAR, of Hongkong.
On Friday. April 23rd, at Shanghai, HERBERT HENRY, youngest son of the late WILLIAM FOWLER. and Mrs. FowLER, of Shanghai, to GLADYS third daughter of
r and Mrs. J. HAXTER LAMOND, Shanghai.
Hongkong ¿èleekly
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Central Russia, and if the Government acts as it is expected, it will mean that foreign goods will be practically shut out of the Far East.
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Under the proposed Chinese Naturalization Code, it is provided that Chinese may be naturalized foreign subjects and vice versa. In- termarriages between Chinese and foreign sub- jects are also allowed. It is laid down that undertakings of voluntary consent must be in made in all cases and must be placed on record with the Chinese Government.
A correspondent of the N. C. Daily News identifies one of the two Germans murdered in Yunnan as Dr. Brunhuber whom he knew some years ago in Shanghai. He was formerly on the staff of the Koelnische Zeitung and when he went home two years ago he said that he should be out again to travel in and learn more of the Far East. Since then he has travelled in India, China, Korea and Japan and again returned home. In a letter from him dated Bhamo, No- vember 8, 1908, he told how he intended to go through to the Yangtze and so down to Shanghai. the native tribes of the district and not Chinese. His murderers at Weiksi are understood to be
Chinese Public Opinion, a small newspaper which has been published in the Chinese Capital for about twelve months. has ceased to exist, and in its place we have the Peking Daily News, The former paper had occasional assistance from English journalists in Peking, but the new journal will be entirely under Chinese manage-
ment.
Its measures will be Chinese, its methods will be Chinese; its principal will be Chinese; its sympathies and convictions, its head and heart will be all Chinese " Mr. Li Sum Ling (formerly of Hongkong) whose name was prominantly associated with the New York Herald's advocacy of an alliance between the of the new paper. United States and China, seems to be the Editor
Under the caption "La Traite des Jaunes," a Haiphong contemporary comments on the traffic in human flesh" destined for the flower boats of Canton which goes on from that district. Severe repressive measures at Haiphong have merely caused a diversion of the trade.
"The sous of Heaven are unwilling to give up a commerce so remunerative though presenting enormous danger. Haiphong is the place where the kidnappers-Annamite and Chinese women In view of the unsatisfactory state of horse--still operate, and it is only the port of em- racing affairs in Japan, the Vladivostock Race barkation that has been changed to Hongay. Club, which is under Government control, has They do not employ any brutal force, but they been approached by several of those interested gain their ends by persuasion with the assistance in racing in Japan, with the idea of affording of a drug in the drink they induce the girls to Japan racing men facilities for sending their take, making them foolish and irresponsible for horses to race at Vladivstock. The Coramittee their actions. of the Vladivostock Club are very anxious to offer every possible inducement to horse-owners to send their horses to Vladivostock on account of the present scarcity of race-horses at that port, and have made proposals for their Autumn Meeting.
The report of the China Export-Import-and Bank-Compagnie zu Hamburg for 1908 shows available profit of m. 1.255.200. The usual 4 per cent.. dividend is declared, and an extra dividend of 46 per cent. making
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VOUX Road C. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET. E.C.50 per cent. in all. The total reserves
ARRIVAL OF MAIL.
The English. Mail of the 18th April, and the parcel mails closed in London for des- patch by the all sea route on the 7th of April, and for despatch overland on the 14th April, arrived per s.s. Oceana on the 12th inst.
are m. 1,500,000. A balance of m. 5,282 is carried forward. The report states that busi- ness in general in Japan was little favourable. In North China matters were only brought to a more or less satisfactory result by great exer- tious. Conditions were highly unfavourable, The Company had in Southern China a small quiet but healthy business. The surprising fluctuations in silver again impeded business.
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It was with much regret, says the Foochow Echo, that Fodochowers bade their departing Commissioner of Customs,-Mr. J. F. Olesen,- farewell, for during his one year's administra- tion he has won the hearts of the Foreigners and Chinese alike. A broad-minded, kind- hearted, genial man, his presence was welcome wherever he went, and his interest in the junior members of the Customs, made them his constant companions. Those transferred to Canton with him consider themselves exceed. ingly fortunate to continue under his manage- ment. In the morning the Viceroy and Chief Officials assembled at the Commissioner's resi- dence to bid him farewel and welcome his successor, and in the evening his many friends saw him off at the Jetty, the Chinese honoring him with the usual cracker accompaniment. Sincere wishes, expressed with as sincere regrets at losing him, follow Mr. Diesen to Canton.
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