THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXX.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Far Eastern News................
Hongkong and the Opium Question.
Leading Articles:-
Chinese Finesse
The Situation in China.
Shipping "Rings
Missionaries of Empire
Random Reflections
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 5TH JULY, 1909.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
Mr. B. G. Tours, of H.B.M.'s Consular service, who has been home on leave, has just teken 2 charge of the Consulate at A moy.
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On the Fulfillment of Prophesy.
The Chinese Post Office
Hongkong News
The Canton Self-Government Society
Boycotting Macao
Canton News
European's Supposed Suicide
A Sensational Rumour...
Escape from Victoria Jail Hongkong Legislative Council The New Territories
Hongkong Fire Brigade Piracy in British Waters... The Hongkong Post Office Hongkong Volunteer Corps
The Forthcoming Cat Show
Mr. W. S. Jackson, of the Yangtze Insurance Association, who has been seriously ill in 4 Tientsin, has returned to Shanghai and is now
well on the way to recovery.
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The Prince Regent has given 60,000 taels towards the relief of distress in the province of Kansu, where a state of famine now exists in consequence of the long drought.
The International Skating Rink, Limited, at Shanghai has been successfully floated. The Directors will proceed to allotment and will give the necessary notice to shareholders in due
course.
At the forthcoming annual meeting of the Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co., Ld., the Directors will recommend a final dividend of 10 Tls. 24 per share, making Tls. 5 per share for
the year ended April 30 last.
The crusade against cigarette smoking continues at Foochow. In an anti-opiam pro- 12 cession there last week two loads of cigarettes were carried by coolies to be burnt with the 13 collection of old opium pipes and opium-smok-
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Capture of Pirates at Macao..
Victoria Recreation Club
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Commercial Intelligence
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Baguio
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The Hongkong University Project..
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Shipping Notes
Licensing Court
Notes from Japan
Emigration and Immigration
Mr. Willard D. Straight
The Fire at West Point
Bathing Fatality
Retirement of a Popular Official
Ladies' Whist Drive at Kowloon
Hongkong Plague Statistics
Supreme Court.....
Copper Mining in China
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Friction Between the Chinese and Japanese Courts 18
A Japanese Polar Expedition
Another Opium Edict..
Dr. Morrison and the Japanese Press
A Cry from Chinatown
Human Hair Trade
H. E. Tang Shao-Yi on Currency
Germans v. Japanese at Hankow
Admiral Lambton and the Bacon Letters.
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Preliminary steps have been taken by the Board of Posts and Communications and the Japanese Minister, acting on behalf of the South Man- ...18 churian Railway Company, for the negotiation of a loan of $2,150,000 for the construction of the Kirin-Changchun Railway. The loan, it is Chinese Post Office and the Foreign Administrations 19 understood, is for twenty-five years at five per cent. The accountants and engineers will be Japanese.
The South Manchurian Railway.
Company Meeting:
Messrs H. Price and Co., Ld.
The Trade of Hongkong ..
Official Summer Mecca of the Philippines Hongkong Gymkhana Club
Far Eastern Telegrams....
Commercial
Shipping
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A junior college, duly empowered to award 20 the degrees of bachelor of arts and bachelor of 21 science, has been unostentatiously opened in 21 connection with the Philippine Normal School The curriculum is an abridgement of the classical and scientific departments of standard American universities, and the degrees will be conferred after two years' work in addition to the regular four years of high school.
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At Royston, Herts (by telegram), the 23rd
The lowest bid for the construction of six wooden lorchas for the Quartermaster's Depart-
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The remains of the late Dowager Empress of China are to be interred in October next.
"Our share in the Shire Line, which trades from London to Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, China and Japan, is (said the Chairman of the Royal Mail Line) gradually developing, and this Company is in a position to take advantage of any improvement in the trade of the East, or any great awakening of China, which many people foretell, which, of course, I fully realise doubtedly China is being gradually opened up may be many years coming about, but un- with railways."
The profit of the Shantung Railway Company amounted in 1908 to m.2,965,377, against m.2,903,480 in 1907. A dividend of 44 per cent., the same rate as for 1907, was declared. The result was unfavourably influenced by the decline of silver, in consequence of which the receipts of $2,599,940 (1907, 82.355,696) have only given m.4,645,099 (1907, m.5,036,043). The receipts of the four months of the current year amount to $1.080,000, ie,, 28 per cent. higher than in the previous year.
A Washington telegram states that the latest name under consideration as a possible successor to Mr. Rockhill as United States that of President Minister to China is Jeremiah W. Jenks, of Cornell University. President Taft is well acquainted with the work of Professor Jenks in the Philippines and China, in connection with the study of economio and financial conditions in the Far East as a commissioner and agent of the United States Government, and some inquiries have been made to learn the disposition of the Senate in case his nomination as Minister to China should be sent to that body.
The Singapore Free Press in a leading article on the discussion which has taken place in the Hongkong Legislative Council on the Opinm Bill, says:-"Like Hongkong we shall need to protest against changes in systems or practice which dislocate our finance by being too hastily adopted. And we, too, may need to ask for Imperial assistance to augment our sources of revenue, destroyed by the action of the friends The experience of the present Government.
of this Colony, in the past, of the Colonial Office combined with the Treasury, has not been so satisfactory as to lead us to accept un. hesitatingly the principle of "sacrifice the revenue and trust to us afterwards to make it up."
That is what the Hongkong members" were asked to do, and they naturally objected.
Colonel Bruce, the Superintendent of Police at Shanghai, mentions in his report that there are a great many unemployed foreigners in
June, the wife of CHARLES W. MAY, Hongkong|ment at Manila was submitted by the Hong. Shanghai; so many that their number "would
and Shanghai Bank, a daughter.
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kong and Whampoa Dock Company. This company's bid was $22,800.00 for the six lorchas. The other bidders and the amounts bid by each as follows: Fred Wilson and Company, $28,000; El Varadero de Manila, $32,000, Juan Rodriguez, $35,300; Cho Chung Lung, 36,500
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The Secretary of the Shanghai-Hangchow Ning-po Railway informed the Shanghai cor- respondent of the Times that the statement to the effect that the competition for the supply of locomotives to the Company was limited to German manufacturers,is incorrect. The lead- ing firms of all nationalities were asked to tender, and the German firm of Carlowits, The German mail of the 2nd ultimo arrived | having sent in the lowest estimate, received the for as leist, on the 29th June.
order in the natural course of events.
ARRIVAL OF MAIL.
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come as an unpleasant surprise to many people." There seem to be three classes of them: Un- employed, honestly so-called, who would work if they had the chance; Unemployed who don't want to work at all so long as they can find other people to keep them, and whose desig nation should rather be Unemployable; and lastly growing youths, mainly Eurasian, require to be strictly and constantly supervised in order to keep them out of mischief, and, I regret to say, at times out of crime." Larceny and obtaining goods under false pretences figure amongst the chief orimes of which these youths are guilty. How to secure these boys a chance to live respectable lives is, the report says, a matter for the community rather than the police.
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