THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXX.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 13TH SEPTEMBER, 1909.
Alleged Embezzlement by a British Accountant...225
CONTENTS.
Far Eastern News......
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217
Leading Articles:—
The Chinese Sailor ......
218
Likin and Customs Duties atņe
218
The Rubber Boom.........
.219
China's Import Duties..
220
The Macao Boundary Question..............
Prince Ito on China
Random Reflections...
220 .221 221
Hongkong News
The Landing of Foreign Troops in Hongkong
202
Death of Well-Known German Resident
.222
Hongkong Legislative Council
223
Hongkong University ............................................................¶X
1225
Military Funeral at Macao..
225
Hongkong's Distinguished Visitors.
.226
H. M. 8. Clio" Damaged in Collision.
226
Supreme Court
227
Macao Notes
.228
Canton News
.228
A New Health Resort
.229
Hongkong St. Andrew's Society
229
Chofera in the North
229
The New Chinese Minister to Washington
Correspondence:
*****...229
The Lack of Educational Facilities at the Peak 230
Neglected Sanitary Work
230
Death of the Bishop of Nueva Caceres, P. I.
.230
China Tea
Company Reports:
The Hongkong Hotel Company, Limited
Company Meetings :-
China Light and Power Company, Limited
Hongkong Hotel Company,
The Yokohama Specie Bank, Limited
Far Eastern Telegrams....
The Trade of Canton for 1908
Chinese Railway Frauds...
Annal Report on Weihaiwei Philippine Minerals
Hongkong Gymkhana Club. Local Sport
Notes from Foochow Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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No. 11
Dr. Cawas Laloaca, who was murdered at the
Hongkong Weekly Press, same time as Sir Curzon Wyllie, was insured
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The Siberian Mail of the 13th and 14th ultimo arrived on the 5th inst.
The Siberian Mail of the 18th ultimo arrived on the 8th inst.
The German Mail of the 12th ultimo arrived on the 3rd inst.
The Siberian Mail of the 20th and 21st ultimo arrived on the 11th inst.
The French Mail of the 13th ultimo
arrived on the 13th inst.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
High hopes are entertained of a very good rice orop in Siam. †
It is reported that the Wisconsin University baseball team is on its way to the East..
The Siam Electricity Co., Ltd., proposes to pay a dividend of six per cent. for the half-year. The Bangkok Dock Co., Ltd., advertise that they are prepared to supply Blériot aeroplanes at Tcs. 7,000 each.
The Osaka Fire Relief Fund in Shanghai, which was closed on the 31st ult., amounted to 235 Tls. 422 and $2,296.
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A new rubber issue, the Java Consolidated, is foreshadowed with a big capital of £400,000, ..236 the acreage being 10,000.
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On September 1st, at Shanghai, to Mr. and
Mrs. H. T. BINGHAM, & son.
On September 2nd, at Shanghai, the wife of A. H. ERIKSEN, of twins, boy and girl.
On Sept mber 3rd, at Shanghai, to Mr. and
Mrs. JOHN JOHNSTON, & FOn.
On September 4tb, at Shanghai, the wife of W. J. E. FORSYTH, & son
On September 5th, at Shanghai, the wife of
GEORGE CORMAC✨, & SON.
On September 7th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. W. 8. Ross, a son.
On the 7th September, at 9, Stewart Terrace, Peak, Hongkong, the wife of Captain B. A. CRAIG Royal Army Medical Corps, of a son.
On the 11th September, at No. 4, Elliot Crescent, Robinson Road, Hongkong, the wife of GEO. P. LAMMERT, of a daughter.
DEATHS.
On the 1st day of September, 1909, at Hong- kong, ABDOOL RAHIM SOONDERAM, aged 32 years, On September 2nd, at Shanghai, ROBERT WILLIAM infant child of Mr. and Mrs. H. T. BINGHAM, aged 1 days.
At Shanghai, on the 4th September, GEORGE BAKER, Superintendent, Cosmopolitan and Inter- 1 ational Docks, aged 41 years
On September 8th, at Shanghai, GEORG HIRT, of F. W. Rosenbaum's, aged 32 years.
On September 7th, at Shanghai, LIZETTE ELAINE LOUREIRO, the beloved wife of J. E. Loureiro, aged 40 years.
The Indian opium revenue to date this year is eleven and a half lakhs behind the estimate, the falling off being entirely in connection with the Bengal article.
Mr. R. Scott Orr Stewart, one of the junior officers of the P. and O. steamer Palma, died as the vessel was proceeding up the river to Shanghai last Thursday.
The accounts of the Singapore Electric Tram- ways for 1908 show a surplus of £24,294, but after charging debenture interest and royalty there is a loss of £4,040.
The Government of the Dutch Indies has
decided to make a deep-water harbour at Deli, on the north coast of Sumatra, in the vicinity of extensive petroleum springs.
Lady Hornby, widow of the late Sir Edmund Hornby, formerly Chief Justice of H.B.M.'s Supreme Court for China and Japan at Shang- hai, died on July 20th in South Devon.
An agriculturist contributes to L. Avenir du Tonkin an article drawing attention to the enormous export of beans from Manchuria and advocating the culture of the plant in Tonkin,
Some sensational arrests have recently been made at Hanoi of Annamites who have been promoting among domestic servants and others in foreign employ a revolt against the French.
with the Ocean Accident Corporation for £2,000. The claim for this amount was admitted by the company on 11th ult.
The P. & O. steamer *Peshawur is duo at Hankow next month to load frozen meat for Europe. The steamer has 6,000 feet more refrigerating space than the Palermo which took the last consignment to London.
T. E. Na Tung and Liang Tun-yen have decided to invite the British Minister to the Waiwapu for a final discussion of the Tung- kwanshan mine question, and to request him to order Mr. McGuire to leave the mines forthwith so as to prevent complications.
to put a stop to gambling is shown by the heavy sentence passed recently on two Chinese tailors who were caught playing a gambling game in their residence at Nagasaki. Each man was ordered to be imprisoned for one year.
That the Japanese authorities are determined
The Kuo Pao of Peking has suggested that a National Press Association be formed for the mutual protection of its members in case of their freedom of speech and writing being attacked. All Chinese newspapers in China and abroad which approve of the idea are invited to send in their names.
The American transport Sheridan on her arrival at Manila last week reported that when over 3,500 miles from North Head, Washington, her operator picked up communication with the Washington station and messages were taken and received. This is considered to be the most successful test of wireless telegraphy thus far accomplished.
What goes to show that money for good investments is not as scarce in Bangkok as in Singapore and other places in the East is the fact that of the shares recently offered to the public by the Bagan Rubber Company, Limited, some 36,5 ticals worth were taken up in Bangkok alone in a few days, and the secretary reports applications stil coming in.
Says the B. N. B. Herald: Those of our old officials who remember when it took weeks, sometimes months, to get to the interior, and then with great risk, can hardly realise the fact. that gymkhanas are held at Tenom, and that excursion trains are advertised to attend the
Interior Gymkhana at single fares for the return journey. It is a sign that North Borneo is forging ahead and getting quite up to
date.
Rev. A. H. Francke, the well-known Tibetan
Archaeological Department in Rupsho district scholar, who is exploring on behalf of the on the borders of Western Tibet, has already made several notable discoveries. Amongst them is a whole library of manuscripts dating back over eight hundred years; also the texts of a treaty made in the sixteenth century between Bashahr and Tibet, and various pre-Buddhist hymns.
According to Japanese reports the population of Chientao numbers over 110,000. The bulk The British gunboat Thistle has arrived at of these, that is 82,999, are Koreans, of whom The 37,161 are men and 80,828 women. The Nagasaki from Weihaiwei for repairs. flagship King Alfred was expected to arrive at number of families is 16,101.hinese number Nagasaki from Weihaiwei with the Monmouth 27,373, there being 3,900 families containing on or about the 12th September. The Commander 17,198 men and 10,173 women. The apanese of the British China Squadron will probably have only 50 odd families of over 200 men and remain at Weihaiwei. Both vessels are to be women. The Chinese officials and troops are
excluded. repaired at the Mitsu Bishi yard.
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