THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXX.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 27TH SEPTEMBER, 1909.
PAGE
261
CONTENTS.
Far Eastern News........
Leading Articles:-
The Liquor Tax in Hongkong.......
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The Polar Discovery
263
Liquor Law Misconceptions
.263
Change and Progress in China
264
British Imperialism
261
Random Reflections...
.265
Hongkong News
265
The Typhoon at Foochow
266
Reported Wreck of a Small Steamer
267
Feared Loss of H.M.S. "Clio"
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The New Territory Murder
268
The Kowloon-Canton Railway
268
Hongkong Legislative Council
269
Thunderstorm Fatalities.
271
The Import Tax on Intoxicating Liquors
272
Liquor Law in Operation
272
Sir Edward Grey and the Opium Traffic.
273
Government House
Marriage of Mr. Harry Hancock
The Railway Sensation
Canton News
Hongkong Cricket Club Open-air Concert........... 273 Notes from Japan
Company Reports :---
.273
Macao Notes
274
The Douglas Steamship Company. Limited ......274 The Hongkong Cotton Spinning, Weaving &
Dyeing Company, Limited
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Company Meeting :--
The Yokohama Specie Bank
275
The Opium Company
Supreme Court
Shipping Notes
Honesty and Nationality
The Pan-Anglican Thankoffering..
Aeroplanes for Siam
Chartered Bank Dividend
Correspondence
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The Unofficial Members of Council. and the
Import Tax.
The New Liquor Duties
The Liquor Tax
St. Andrew's, Kowloon
The Interport Carnival
Local Sport
Cricket Noter
Far Eastern Telegrams
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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Cholera has again broken out at the General
Hongkong Weekly Press, Hospital at Hankow. There was an outbreak in
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of the 25th ultimo arrived on the 22nd instant.
The French Mail of the 27th ultimo arrived on the 27th instant.
The Siberian Mail of the 1st instant
arrived on the 25th instant.
the hospital last year, and it is alleged that these ontbreaks have been due to the ice used, which was not supplied by the Hankow Ice Works.
Cholera prevails at or in the district of Ying- kow, Newchwang and Antung-Hsien, the China Times says, and the Japanese authorities in Japanese and Korean ports are exercising quarantine measures in respect of arrivals from those ports.
A newspaper at Samarang hears that a scheme is on foot to build a large dry dock at Macassar, the chief port of Celebes, along with all the workshops required for repairing ships. It appears that the Royal Packet Navigation Co., favours the idea.
We learn from the Japan newspapers that
The English Mail of the 3rd instant the death of Monsieur Albert Chaix, agent of arrived on the 29th instant.
the Messageries Maritimes Cie at Yokohama The Siberian Mail of the 8th instant from sunstroke. Monsieur Chaix died at the since 1907, was due to complications resulting arrived on the 27th instant.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
The French cruiser Alger was at Chemulpo
on the 10th inst.
Senor Marques, the new Governor of Macao, 278 arrived in the Colony on the 22nd instant from 278 Timor.
278 The boycott directed against Japan, according .278 to the Peking Gi Pao, is assuming a serious
aspect in Tientsin.
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The Board of Revenue, according to 279 Peking contemporary, has decided to send a Com- mission to England to study financial matters. Mr. Eitaki, the Japanese Consul-General at 284 Shanghai, who has just been recalled to Tokyo, will probably be appointed Consul-General at
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On September 14th, at Shanghai, to Dr. and Mr. BALEAN, a son.
On eptember 14th, at Shanghai, the wife of Mr. F. CROSSLEY, of a d›ughter.
On September 16th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. M. WINTELER, a son.
On September 16th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and
Mrs. O. STRUC® MEYË, & 5on.
At Forebank, Magazine (Jap, Hongkong, on the 26th inst., the wife of J. F. BOULTON, of a daughter
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MARRIAGES.
At the Union Church, Hongkong, on 18th
September, by the Rev. T. W. Pearce, JOHN WEMYSS, fourth son of the Rev. JAMES STEWART, D.D., V.D., of Peterhead, to EFFIE, second daughter of the late ALEXANDER GRAHAM, solicitor, Crieff, and Mrs. GRAHAM, Atholton, Crieff, Scotland.
On the 25th September, at West Southbourre, Hants, A. F. B. LAVESAT, Esq., R.N., of Alvestoke, to KATE ELEANOR, daughter of W. E. CLARKE, Hongkong.
DEATHS.
On September 8th. at Hankow, S. M. SEVERIM, aged 58 years.
On Septem er 15th, at Chaosan, near (hangsha, E. FORM, Capt. of ND.L. steamer Mei Fu, aged
35 years.
On September 17th, at Shanghai, PETER C. SIMONSEN (U. S. Navy, retired), aged 60 years.
Chientao.
Mr. C. W. Fairbanks, late Vice-President of the United States, arrived in Manila on Saturday by the Siberia. Mrs. Fairbanks accompanies her husband.
We regret to learn that two more deaths from cholera have occurred in Chefoo, viz., Ar. J. A. Masson, of the I. M. C., and a schoolgirl named Mabel Botham.
M. Fleuttieaux, the French postmaster at
Cantón, was on Monday entertained to dinner on a flower boat by members of the French com- munity prior to his departure for home on leave. New premises for the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China have been built at Bangkok, and were formally opened on the 6th inst. by H. R. H. the Siamese Minister of
Finance.
In some quarters it is rumoured that Sir Percy Scott, who made the China Squadron famous for its shooting, will return there as the flag officer commanding the squadron at no distant date.
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Mr. Matsuoka, Secretary of the Japanese Legation at Peking, will take up the duties of Consul-General at Shanghai, in succession to Mr. Eitaki, who has been appointed Consul
General at Chientao.
At Kuala Lumpur, & Mr. Macdonald, who is charged with culpable homicide by causing the On the 25th September, BESSIE; the dearly be-death of a coolie at Uu Piah mine, has been loved wife of R. H. A. CRAIG, Prison Department, committed for trial to the Assizes! The Chinese Hongkong, after a long and painful illness patiently of Kinta are interested in the case.
borne.
German Hospital.
After an absence of eighteen months Sir Havilland Walter de Sausmarez, Judge of H.B.M.'s Supreme Court for China and Korea, returned to Shanghai last week, accompanied by Lady de Sausmarez. They travelled from Home by the Siberian route.
Chungking at the head of the Yangtsze Gorges will soon be lighted by electricity. Should the venture prove a success, of which there appears no doubt, a powerful water works plants will also be installed. Messrs. Arnhold, ? Karberg and Co. are the contractors. The plant is now on the way out.
Singapore is agitated over a ghost story. A local resident declares that he saw the ghost of a beautiful bronze woman, dressed in white, in Government House domain recently. The wo- man, who was searching for something that she had lost, conversed with the resident and then suddenly vanished.
The sanctuary of the famous Nikko Temples hitherto closed to visitors, is now opened on special application, each applicant being request- ed to pay 10 yen in the form of a
prayer fee." Japanese and foreign lovers of the antique con- tinue to visit the sanctuary, and the revenue of the Temples is said to be increasing.-
No confirmation has been received at the American Consulate at Shanghai of the rumour recently published in a Boston newspaper that the Hon. Amos P. Wilder, Consul-General for the United States at Shanghai, will probably be appointed to the position of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, in succession to the Hon. J. B. Reynolds. Dr. Wilder is at present in the States on furlough.
Discussing the recent Manchurian settlement, a San Francisco contemporary remarks -
"Sovereignty cannot be disassociated from power. We may repine as much as we please, but the sovereign of any country is he who has the power to compel obedience and does compel it. And upon that unquestionably sound theory the Mikado of Japan is the sovereign of Southern Manchuria, and the Czar of all the Russias the sovereign of Northern Manchuria. To the extent that they desire to exercise authority in Manchuria they do exercise it. And in both cases they exercise it in violation of treaties to which this country and many other countries are parties. What are we going to do about it ? "
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