THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXX.]
Far Eastern News Leading Articles:-
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
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The Proposed Duty on Liquor Financial Reform in China. Lessons for China from Canada The Import Tax on Liquor
Random Reflections....
Hongkong News
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 18TH SEPTEMBER, 1909.
Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg and Co. are report- ed in a Hankow paper to have, secured the PAGE Contract for lighting the city of Changsha with
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The N.Y.K. Iyo Maru is described by a Straits contemporary as the first merchant ship .242 to enter the port of Singapore with wireless 244 telegraphy.
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Alleged Murder
Hongkong Legislative Council
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Sanitary Board
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Canton News
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A Narrow Escape
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"At Home" at Mountain Lodge
Accident to Mr. J. J. Leiria
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Promenade Concert at Kowloon
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The Chinese Navy.
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Supreme Court ....
Master and Servant
Smuggling Opium Into the Philippines
China and Japan
First Free Sugar from the Philippines
The American Tariff-and the China Trade..
Local Sport
Chinese Trade and Silver
Opium Suppression
The P. & O. Steamers
The Trade of Amoy for 1908
"China for the Chinese ".
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Mr. Fairbanks, Ex-Vice-President of the United States, accompanied by Mrs. Fairbanks, arrived in Shanghai last week and are staying at the Palace Hotel.
The Acting-Governor General of the Philip pines has stated that he takes upon himself the whole responsibility for the deportation of twelve
Chinamen last month.
Four Chinese are being charged at Shanghai with wilfully setting fire to a godown belong. 254 ing to Messrs. Shewan, Tomes and Company, in which goods to the value of Tls. 30,000 were stored.
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The Japanese Military Manœuvres
Far Eastern Telegrams
Japan's Improved Prospects
Another Japaneso Boycott Threatened
The World's Navies
The Recent Deportations from the Philippines Insurance Co. Defrauded
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Commercial
Shipping
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BIRTHS.
While on her way up the Huangpu last Friday, H. M. S. Astræa ran into and sank a cargo boat laden with bales of silk.
The crew of the boat was rescued and most of the silk was recovered, in a damaged condition, from
the water.
Dr. Felves, the ship's surgeon on board the steamer Rajaburi, died from heart failure 257 while the vessel was going up to Bangkok on August 28th. The deceased was very well known among the shipping fraternity in Hongkong and the Far East.
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On August 18th at Katrineborg, Sandefjord, Norway, the wife f BJARNE AAGAARD, of a son.
On 15th September, at 52 Peak, to Mr. and
Mrs. HAROLD SHALLARD, & son.
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On the 16th September at Kowloon, the wife of J. H. KEMP, of û daughter.
MARRIAGE.
At St. Joseph's Church, Hongkong, on the 18th September, KATHLEEN ELSIE LysauGHT to ALFRED JOSEph Walters, Chief Engineer s.s. Charles Hardouin,
Singapore papers announce the death of Capt. Heinrich Oehlers, who had been a resident of Singapore close upon fifty years and was well known amongst the older members of the com- munity. Capt. Oehlers was born at Itzehoe, Schleswig-Holstein, in January, 1839, and was therefore 70 years of age at the time of his death. It is announced in Manila that free transporta- tion from Manila to Hongkong will be given by the C.P.R. agents to passengers travelling across the Pacific by the Empress steamers. The Great Northern Steamship Co's. Minnesota, since making Manila a port of call has charged the Hongkong rate of £45 to the Pacific coast of America.
Fines of P. 400 apiece were imposed by the Manila Court last week upon Tan Nga Hui
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À Chinese contemporary states that a proposal has been put forward for an increase of duties on wines and tobacco in China.
The following extract is from the Gazette of the Merchant Service Guild :—The Guild have addressed themselves, in a very emphatic way, to the Foreign Office regarding the diabolical treatment of Mr. W. G. Lawson, M. S. C., chief officer of the s.s. Rubi, who, together with Mr. Mo ormick, second engineer, was arrested and treated in a most cruel and degrading way by the American Customs authorities at Manila,
the charge--for which there was no foundation whatever-being connected with opium smug- gling. We trust that good will arise out of the
Guild's action in this serious affair.
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The Resident Superior recently addressed a telegram to the President of the Haiphong Chamber of Commerce intimating that he had received a petition from native merchants and other influential natives of Hanoi requesting the immediate interdiction of the export of rice and paddy until the next harvest, owing to the increasing price of this staple food, and the Resident Superior asked for the views of the Chamber on the subject. The Chamber, though opposed in principle to the interdiction, acquiesced in the suggestion, having regard to the special conditions resulting from the actual situation in the country, on the understanding that exporters are permitted to export the cargoes they now have in their godowns.
To date, says the Peking Daily News of the 4th inst., about 500 students have been registered for the examinations to be held by the Waiwupu and the Board of Education for the purpose of selecting students to send to America. Of this number about 150 have registered for technical courses, and 350 for general collegiate courses. The first examination will be held to-day in the new Examination Hall, adjoining the premises of the Board of Education, and will be in Chinese literature. The examination of the second day will be in English composition and literature.
xaminations will begin at 7.30 and last till 6 in the afternoon. Students who fail to pass these two preliminary examinations will not be permit ted to take part in the examination in mathematics, history, modern languages, physics and chemistry, which will be held from the 9th to the 12th. Only 100 students are to be sent this
Hongkong Weekly Press, and four other Chinamen for the illegal posses- year to enter various universities in the United
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of the 20th ultimo arrived on the 15th inst.
The Siberian Mail of the 25th ultimo
arrived on the 17th inst.
The Siberian Mail of the 21st and 28th ultimo arrived on the 17th inst.
The Canadian Mail arrived on the 18th inst..
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
An engineer artificer of H. M. S. Britomart died in hospital at Hankow on the 1st inst. from
cholera.
The latest Calcutta paper to hand states that he Lalcaca Memorial Fund amounts to nearly ourteen thousand rupees."
sion of opium. Tan Nga Hui claimed the responsibility for the ownership of the entire lot, but his claim was not made good. Tan Nga Hui was also sentenced on another charge of smoking opium to a fine of P. 300.
A gloom spread over the community of Shanghai last week on the announcement made that both Mr. Coath, superintendent of the Pacific Commercial Cable Co., and Dr. Goddard, an occulist, both merican citizens, had died on the same day of cholera. The deceased gentlemen were related and had lived in the same house. Earlier in the week Mr. Georg uirt, a German resident, had died of cholera.
Several residents of Navotas, Philippine Islands, a neighbouring fishing village, awake to the advantages to be reaped thereby, have held a meeting for the purpose of collecting the neces- sary capital to embark upon a fish canning enterprise. It is proposed to can the Philip pine sardine, of which there are a large number of varieties. Steps are to be taken to secure the services of an expert to get the business started.
States,
The following appointments in the Chinese- Imperial Maritimes Customs service have been ssistants :-N. E. Bryant, notified:-Indoor E. Laporte, L. H. Lawford; all to Shanghai; Chief Tidesurveyor-J. L. Lutz, to Amoy. Examiner:-E. Stevens, to Amoy. Transfer: are as follows:-Indoor Assistants:-J. Klub- len Peking to Shanghai. J. de W. Jansen Shanghai to Swatow. M. Kitadai Dairen to Amoy. J. Deveira Shanghai to Hangohow.
A. C. W. O. Law Shanghai to Wuchow. Bisterfel Hangchow to Shanghai. H. D. Hilliard Hankow to Swatow. H. Darby-Tyndall Swatow to Foochow. E. E. Moran Peking to Foochow. E. H. Campbell Foochow to Shang- hai. R. S. Hunter London to Peking. Ont-
door Assistant Examiners - J. J. Gormann Yoohow to Shanghai. J. Wolff Harbin to Shanghai. F. W. J. Schaaf Newchwang to Harbin, O..B. J. Konig Shanghai to Yoohow. FW. H. C. C. Biestor, Assistant at Wuchow, andJ. Bromley, Chief Examiner, Tientsin, have been granted leave.
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