THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXIX.]
Far Eastern News
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
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Leading Articles
Socialistio Legislation
Misrepresentative Legislatures..
The Hongkong Plague....
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China and the Customs Tariffs..
...512
The Japanese Residence-General in Korea 512
The Anti-Opium Movement
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Hongkong's Opium Revenue
513
Random Reflections
Hongkong News
H.E. Tang Shao Yi in Hongkong.
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Canton News
A Deceptive Appearance
Supposed Murder on the Railway.
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Macao Notes
Catastrophe in the Beacon Hill Tunnel
The University Project
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 218T JUNE, 1909.
No. 25
A Japanese contemporary learns on good
Hongkong delechly Press. authority that the Chinese Government has
HONGKONG Office: 10a, Des Vœux Road Ci, LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET. E.C.
FAR FASTERN NEWS.
The King of Siam has had a most interesting tour round the coasts of his country.
The Cotton Seed Oil Mill of the Japan Catton Trading Co. at Hankow has been des 515 troyed by fire.
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Allegations of Misconduct Against a Solicitor .....517 The 8.8. "Fatahan" Affair
Alleged Ferocious Dog
Hongkong Legislative Council
Vistoria Gaol
Belilios Public School
Opium Smuggling
Shipping Notes
Correspondence -
The Cost of the Railway.
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The steamer Glenogle when between Hors. burgh and Singapore rescued six members of the crew of a wrecked Chinese junk and brought them to Hongkong.
A fire occurred in the organ loft of the Union 526 Church, Shanghai, last Monday, and damage was done to the organ and fittings to the extent of Tls. 400 before the fire was extinguished.
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Death of a British Vice-Consul.
Supreme Court
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Serious Fire on the 8.8. "Kutsang
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Ill-Treating a Child
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Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G., C.B., D.S.O
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Great Earthquake in West Sumatra
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Railway Development in China
Medical Teaching in China
The World's Coal Supply
New Homeward Passenger Service
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Shanghai Sharebrokers in Court
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Steel Making in China
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Shanghai Public Companies
The A. Butler Cement Tile Works, Ltd
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The Shanghai Mutual Telephone Co., Ltd
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Inspection of Paracel Islands
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Customs Gazette
Far Eastern Telegrams
Opium Exports from India
Hongkong Lawn Tennis League
Hongkong Cricketera in Japan Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
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The export of Japanese oranges abroad has grown from Y79,000 in 1897 to Y1.000.000 in 1908. The orangesare chiefly exported to Siberia, China, Korea and the United States.
Gold to the value of 7,000 pesos has been taken out of the Antamok mines near Benguet since January 1st, 1909. These are the ines in which Mr. M. A. Clarke is largely interested.
A Japanese trade journal states that the total number of Japanese cigarettes sold last year was 167.000.000 in China proper, 2,333,000,000 in Manchuris and 456,000.00 in Korea.
By the outward M. M. mail steamer Armand Belic from Marseilles, M. Gourbeil is coming from Paris on his way to Saigon, where he is to be the new Lieutenant Governor of Cochin China, in place of the late M. Bonheur.
The application for the inauguration of a steamship service on the Yellow River from a foreign syndicate which offers in return to con- struct embankments to prevent flood, has met with a curt refusal, says a Chinese contemporary. During the hearing of a coining case at At Shanghai, on June 6th, the wife of L. E. Bangkok, the other day, it was stated that if Hongkong dollars were made into ticals the profit on each would be 6d. That is apart from the cost of freight in taking the dollars to Bangkok from Hongkong.
CANNING, of 8 sqn.
MARRIAGES.
At Shanghai, on June 7th, DENIS EWART Don- WELLY of Ningpo, to Isabella ELIZABETH JOHNS, of Wuhu,
At Shanghai, on the 7th June, EDITH ANNIE
MCDONALD, t. WM. DENNIS.
At Shanghai on June 7th, AGNES CLYDE RICKER,
to DANIEL COath.
At Hongkong, June 19th, CYRIL FRANÇIS WOGAN BOWEN-BOWLANDS, to Mrs. ST. LEGER PARSONS.
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DEATH.
At Shanghai on June 7th, JOHN WILLIAM JONES, of the China Mutual Life Insurance Co. thanghai, aged 29 years
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The duty collected by the Imperial Maritime Customs during the first quarter of the year on foreign and native opium amounted to Haiwan 120.549 as compared with the amount collected in the corresponding quarter of last year.
taels 354,669, which shows a reduction of Taels
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interested to know that Minoru (the name of Followers of "the sport of Kings" will be
the King's horse which won the Derby) is a Japanese word meaning Success." Colonel
Walker, the breeder of the horse, informed a correspondent that the horse was called after the second son of his Japanese gardener at Tally,
Kildare.
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Superintendent Nakemura, of the Japanese Police Force at Hankow, has been stabbed to death in his residence by a police sergeant, who after committing the deed jumped from the verandah and committed afterwards hari-kiri. He, however, did not succeed in killing himself The French mail of the 21st ultimo, arrived and was removed to hospital in a critical der 8.8. Armand Behic to-day.
condition.
The German mail of the 19th ultimo, arrived per 8.s. Yorck on the 13th inst.
placed orders with the Kawasaki and Mitsu· Bishi Shipbulding Yard at Kobe and Nag- asaki for the construction of one cruiser each of 5,000 tons. The Osaka Iron Works are said to have also received orders from China for three or four vessels of smaller size. The contracts are reported to have already been signed.
The many friends of Captain W. H. Lunt, of the C.M.8.N. Co., will be interested to learn that his youngest son has left for the United States to study for the Ministry. Mr. Lant will study at Worcester College, a well known seat of learning in the Eastern states. This is believed to be the first time that a Shanghai born boy has gone home to study for holy orders. He has the best wishes of many friends for his future career.
A stabbing affray took place at Shanghai last { Sunday which almost resulted in murder. A sailor from the German gunboat Luchs had an altercation with a sailor from the French cruiser Alger, and words led to blows. The Frenchman slapped the German, who afterwards hit the other on the head with a bunch of keys, where- upon the former drew a knife and stabbed the German. Neither of the mens' injuries were of a serious nature.
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An Imperial proclamation has been issued at Peking reducing the likin dues hitherto levied upon merchandise travelling upon the Shanghai- Nanking Railway. The reductions amount to from twenty to fifty per cent. A rescript issued at the same time stated that no other charges should be made upon merchandise travelling by the Shanghai-Nanking railway, and announcing that heavy punishment would be the result of any infringement of that order.
The wedding of Major Nathan, R.E., the popular agent and general manager of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Co., and Miss Erie Detring, the eldest unmarried >daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Detring, was to take place at St. Louis Church, Tientsin, on the 15th inst. The civil marriage was to take place at the German Consulate on the 14th inst. The China commonly current report that Major Nathan Times says it may be useful to state that the had become a Roman Catholic is a more piece of gossip absolutely without foundation. remains of the Jewish religion, and she remains Roman Catholic.
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Yokohama has just lost two of its oldest lady re- sidents, namely, Mrs. Lowder and Mrs. William- son. Mrs. Lowder and Mrs. Williamson are
daughters of the Rev. S. R. Brown, an American missionary, who, with his wife and family, arrived in Japan forty-nine years ago last November, Mrs. Lowder is the wife of the late who was associated with Sir Rutherford Alcock Mr. Lowder, a well-known lawyer in Yokohama,
in the early days. She has been very active in all philanthropic work there both among Europeans and Japanese, and has been deservedly held in high esteem by all sections of the com- munity. Mrs. Williamson is the widow of Judge Will iamson, a prominent lawyer of Cleveland, who was identified with some of the great rail. road interests of the country. Mrs. Williamson has been on a visit to her sister in Yokohama
during the past twelve months. Both ladies have been the recipients of many manifestations of respect lately from their father's former pupils and their many apanese friends, as well as from foreign residents.
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