THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXX.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Far Eastern News.... Leading Articles:-
HỌNGKONG, SATURDAY, 30TH OCTOBER, 1909.
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Hongkong's Subsidiary Coinage Problem......378 Constitutional Government in China
The British Postal Agencies
Oriental Studies.
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The Late Prince Ito
Railway Earnings in South China
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An Historical Comparison
Random Reflections...
Hongkong News
Sanitary Board
The Volunteer Concert
Armed Robbery in Hongkong.
Hongkong University
Admiral Lambton's Successor
Hongkong Legislative Council
Canton News
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FAR EASTERN NEWS.
A fine of $7,000 was imposed by a Singapore Magistrate the other day on a Chinese for having been in possession of illicit chander.
Dr. Wilbur Chapman, the leader of the Chapman-Alexander Mission Party, is reported in the Japan papers as being seriously ill in Korea. The nature of his illness is not stated in the telegram.
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. P. Bland, accompanied 382 by Dr. Gattrell, passed through Tientsin on the 382 14th instant, en route to Peking. Mr. Bland is much better and appears to be completely recovering from his recent illness.
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The Cafe Weismann Prosecution........
Pratas Island
The Late Prince Ito
Supreme Court
Correspondence :-
The Military Rebate........
The Clock Tower
Strike of Ship Painters
New Solictor Admitted
An Amah's Heroism.
The Langkat Case at Shanghai.
The Japanese Navy
The "Ragnar " Founders
Local Sport.....
Sporting Notes
The Kowloon Customs Report
Far Eastern Telegrams
Company Meeting :-
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No. 18
At a meeting of the Perak Sugar Cultiva tion Company, Ltd., held at Shanghai last week, audit of the accounts, at the forthcoming an- it was decided to recommend, subject to the nual meeting of shareholders, the payment of a dividend of Tls. 10 per share (20 per cent.) for the year ended August 31, 1909.
Arrangements have just been made for the importation into the United States of 50,000 tons of Chinese pig-iron. This is not the first cargo of steel-making pig-iron from the Han- consignment, say the N.-C. Daily News. A large yang Iron and Steel Works, Hankow, has already been delivered in New York at 70s per ton c.i.f., which is well below the price quoted by Pittsburg smelters for delivery on the Atlantic seaboard. Besides a wealth of raw materials in the Yangtsze Valley, the natural shipping facili- ties are good.
A Chinese firm at Shanghai was fined $200 385 last week for imitating Messrs. Murray and .315 | Lanman's Florida Water trade-mark. The .386
Mixed Court directed the fine to be divided .387 between two local charities in equal proportions. arrived at Hankow from Kinkiang recently in The new French gunboat Loudart de Lagree
The United States Consul at Halifax, 13 hours. This vessel is of the most modern .389 General David F. Wilber, who has been ap-type and commanded by her designer, Capt.
pointed to a similar position at Kobe, will be succeeded at Halifax by Mr. James W. 388 Ragsdale, who is at present Consul-General at
St. Petersburg and was formerly at Tientsin.
Telegraphic news has reached Japan of the death of Mr. E. H. Gill, one of the oldest residents of Kobe. He died at Banff, Canada, 392 where he went to recruit after an illness in ...392 Kobe during the early summer. Mr. Gill had for many years been in the firm of Messrs. Browne and Company. The body has been embalmed and is to be brought back to Kobe for interment.
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North China Insurance Company, Limited The Chinese Engineering and Mining Co., Ltd......393 Commercial
Shipping
MARRIAGE.
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On the 26th October, at Union Church Hong- kong, by the Rev. C. H. Hickling, FRANK MALCOLM CRAWFORD, son of the late D. R. Crawford, to NELLIE BADIE, eldest daughter of H. B O. STEVENSON, of Glasgow and Liverpool.
DEATHS.
On October 17th, at Shanghai, WALTER JOHN CHICK, late of Changsha, aged 51 years, deeply regrettee.
A new Y.M.C.A. building was formally dedicated at Manila last week, and Mr. Fairbanks, ex President of the United States, delivered an address on the occasion. The total cost of the building was P.245,548.91. President Taft sent a telegram reading: Congratulations on energy and generosity shown in erection building. Have every con- fidence in its great future."
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Mr. A. Schmidt, the Commissioner of the Chinese Customs at Harbin, met with a nasty accident recently. Owing to a swerve of his horse he was thrown and, either by the fall On October 17th, at Wusih, China, Mrs. JOHN or a kick, his jaw was broken. Pluckily remount- H. STEWART, of Trenton, N.J., U.SA., aged 61|ing, he rode home and was taken to the hospital,
years, mother of Mrs. G. F. Mosher.
On October 18th, at Shanghai, ALFRED DENNY LOWE.
Hongkong Weekly Press.
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VŒUX ROAD C. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E..
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of the 1st instant arrived on the 27th instant.
The Siberian Mail of the 1st and 2nd instant arrived on the 27th instant.
The Siberian Mail of the 6th instant arrived on the 29th instant.
The Siberian Mail of the 8th
arrived on the 29th instant.
instant
where his jaw was reset and no serious damage is likely to result. In fact, Mr. Schmidt was at work the next day with his face incased in plaster of Paris.
Padang, a West Sumatran port well known in the commercial world for its coffee exports, stands in the enviable position of having had no failures among its traders, European, Chinese, and native for years, so says a Batavia paper. Trade rests there on such solid foundations that several firms have had to move into new offices to meet the increase of business. The old offices are taken up for trading purposes the moment they are vacated.
The Japanese Foreign Office is to dispatch a number of Trade Commissioners abroad to report constantly on the conditions of trade and industry and to promote the development of Japanese commerce and industry, taking a position corresponding to that of the Financial Agent of the Government in financial matters. At first four Commissioners will be appointed -two in Europe, one in America, and one in China. The vote for the officials is included in
the Budget for next year,
Audmart, who was formerly in command of the Olry and has made several voyages to Chung- king. After coaling at Hankow she was to proceed up the Han River to Changsha, later going to Ichang, where she
will prepare for her journey up the rapids. Her command- er expects to make the voyage from Ichang to Chungking, where he will turn over the vessel to her new commander, he himself returning to France.
At the last meeting of the Kulangsu (Amoy) Municipal Council the Captain-Superinten dent of Police reported the steps that have been taken to prevent the spread of hydrophobia wi- thin the Settlement. All dogs, whether owned by foreigners or Chinese, are, until further notice, to be kept tied up and under control. If allowed out they must wear muzzles, even if they are being led on chains, &c. Muzzles have been ordered and will be supplied at cost price by the Council on application. This order came into force on the 29th September, when the Council invited, by "Express," the earnest co-operation of both Foreign and Chinese resi dents in the Settlement in their endeavours to stamp out rabies. Instructions were also given that any dogs found without muzzles ofter the 29th September were to be destroyed. since been issued to owners of dogs on applica- muzzles arrived on the 4th October, and have
tion.
The
A quiet, unassuming but eminently useful and public-spirited citizen was lost to the Shanghai community last week when Mr. Alfred Denny Lowe, until recently the respected taipan of Messrs. Geddes and Co., succumbed to an
intestinal trouble of some duration. Mr. Lowe
did excellent work for Shanghai as a member of the Municipal Council, and socially he was prominent in the A.D.C., the St. George's Society and other organizations. He had been in Shanghai upwards of twenty-five years. He came out originally as Chazee for Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. Since the beginning of the present tea season Mr. Lowe had occupied the position of tea-inspector for the Trading Company (Messrs. Molchanoff, Pechatnoff & Co.) at Hankow and in his new position had been very successful until illness prevented him from continuing business. He leaves a widow-a member of a very popular Shanghai family— and five children, three of whom are now in the
Homeland at school.
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