THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXX.]
Far Eastern News..
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 8TH NOVEMBER, 1909.
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Leading Articles:-
Russia and Japan in Manchuria
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Sedition in Korea
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China's Awakening
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The Political Centre of Gravity in Europe.
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Australian Defence
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American Trade with the East
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Chinese Pork
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The Subsidiary Coinage Question.,
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Random Reflections
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Hongkong News
Supreme Court
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Annual Licensing Sessions
Alleged Levying Distress Warrant Without
Authority
Alleged Assault by Excise Officers
Interesting Star Ferry Prosecution.
A Bankrupt Prosecuted
Canton News
Macao Notes.
Firemen at Practice
Smoking in Court
A Volunteer Wedding in Hongkong
Hongkong Volunteer Corus
Tragic Death of Mr. H. G. Calthrop
Hooligans at Yaumati
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.
Eyre Diocesan Refuge..
Engineers' Institute Smoking Concert
The Japanese Emperor's Rirthday
The King's Birthday
Appointment
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FAR EASTERN NEWS.
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It is stated that the Viceroys and Governors in the provinces have replied to an order from the Ministry of Justice, stating that they have strictly forbidden the infliction of indiscriminate tortures on prisoners in the district magistrates' yamens. They have reported that they will deal severely with any cases in which torture is resorted to against their instructions.
Mr. James P. Lawler, chief of the Philippines Customs Secret Service, and Mr. J. J. Keith, assistant chief of the Customs Secret Service, have resigred. Mr. Lawler's resignation becomes effective on November 14, the date of his sailing on the transport for the United States, while Mr. Keith's separation from the service became effective the instant it was decided upon,
A telegram from Peking to the Hankow Daily News states that owing to the disputes regarding the settlement of the boundary question in Macao between H.E. Kao Erh.
The Portuguese gunboat Rio Lima is to be Chien, the Special Commissioner, and the Portu- sold by public auction at Macao.
Mr. H. Bonar, British Consul-General at Kobe, has been transferred to Seoul. Mr. Ronar's successor in Kobe is Mr. R. de B. 40 Layard, Consul-General at Manila.
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We are informed that the Directors of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation have decided to open a branch office of the Bank at Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, F.M. States.
Entries for the Hankow. Autumn Race Meeting closed on the 25th ult., the total en- trance fees amounting to $2.214. There are 20 ...410 griffius and 17 old ponies entered, with 21
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Steam Whistles in the Harbour
A Trick that Failed
New Ordinances
The Cafe Weissmann Prosecution
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Company Meeting :--
The Steam Laundry Company, Limited
The Manila Opium Case
Ministering Children's League Bazaar
The Shanghai Races..
Second Day's Results
Third Day's Results.
Local Sport
More Opium-Smoking Officials Degraded
Danish Interests in Siam.
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Far Eastern Telegrams
Chinese Railway Loans
Financial Statement for August
The Funeral of the Empress Dowager
The Viceroy of Chibli on China's Commerce
Terrors of the Re Sea
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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411 The Hongkong stables represented at the 411 Shanghai Autumn Race Meeting were Buxey's 412 with seven ponies; John Peel, seven; Ellis Kadoorie, four; and Mr. H. P. White, two (Barry and Triad). Sir Pani Chater, Mr. T. F. Hough, Mr. H. P. White and r. Dupree 413 attended the meeting.
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On October 29th, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. T. TOLEDANO, a daughter.
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On November 5th, 1909, at Glendarnal Mac. donnell oad, Vict ria, Hongkong, to Mr. and Mrs. J. J. STODART KENNEDY, a daughter.
MARIAGES
On November 4th, 1969, in Union Church, Hongkong by the Rev C. H. Hickling, ROBERT DAVIDSON, of Shanghai, to JESSIE DUFFES FREW, daughter of r William Frew, of Edinburgh.
At. St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, on the 6th of November, 1909, by the Right Rev. Lord Bishop of Victoria, si ted by the Rev. FT Johnson, M.A. and the Rev. A. B Thornhill, M.A, DORA, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs W. G. Hun phreys, o H. WILLIAM ARMSTRONG,
DEATH.
On the 25th September, af er a short illness at 2*, Incaster Avenue, H dley Wood, Barnet, ISABELLA, widow of the Rev. Dy R ALL, M.A., M.D, of Canton, China, and mother of J. Dyer Ball IS.O., age 93 years
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IN MEMORIAM.
In loving memoryf WILLIAM GRULER FROST, late engineer, . M. S. "Empress of Japan," who died on August 18th, 1908.-Never forgotten.
Some few days ago several Canton officials left in a small Chinese gunboat for the Pratas in order to formally take over the island in the name of China. They encountered bad weather and had to return without reaching their destination. A larger vessel has been secured and will again set out for the island in a day or two.
A model of a new type of aeroplane is reported, the Japan Chronicle says, to have been constructed by a Mr. Okai Zenjiro, of Osaka. The model is now at the Patent Bureau for official investigation. Mr. Okai claims to have experimented with the aeroplane before the subject had attracted much attention from the public in Japan.
The recent typhoon at Foochow seems to have entirely ruined the crops in the district. In a memorial telegraphed to the Grand Council the Viceroy says: There will not be a single grain to be reaped, and starvation among the people is imminent." The Viceroy has been instructed to provide a relief fund out of the revenues of the province.
A British subject named A. Lynch, unemploy. ed, was by order of the Governor of Hopan, brought in custody to Hankow charged with travelling to Kaifeng Fu without having a passport. The case was heard at H.B.M.'s Consular Court, when defendant was ordered to leave Hankow the same day, or in default to be imprisoned for fourteen days.
guese, the Waiwupu has decided to deal directly with the Portuguese Minister in Peking. We learn from an authentic source that there is no truth in this statement. The Commissioners completed their eighth session last Saturday.
built in England from designs by Captain A river tug named Shu Tung, which was Plant, and afterwards put together by the Kiangnan Arsenal Dock Co., has safely steamed up to Chungking in one week after leaving Ichang. She had a large passenger flat in tow, and carried a considerable amount of cargo. A telegram from Captain Plant says the Shu Tung steamed up all rapids, and the engines worked very well. The spead attained was over six knots per hour.
In conferring the degree of LL.D. upon the Hon. L. R. Wildey, formerly Judge of the U. S. Court for China, President Y. Stanley Hall spoke of Judge Willey as follows
First Judge of the U. S. Court for China; opposed by organized corruption and attacked by slander, he yet restored to America by his strict enforcement of law, her damaged reputa tion in the Treaty Ports of China; an upright and fearless Judge, an incorruptible representa- tive of what this country should mean and stand for in the Far East; Doctor of Laws."
News from Lhassa is always difficult to obtain, and it is uncertain whether the Dalai Lama haş yet reached the capital of Tibet. He was known to have left Sining early in June, his route being by way of Tankori and the Koko-nor, and it was anticipated that he would arrive at Lhassa by the middle of September. It will be in- teresting to learn the nature of his reception by the Lamas and the Chinese officials. It is, however, fairly certain, says an Indian paper, that he will never regain his old political influence in Tibet.
There is a very common idea that the Malay is a race that is dying out, killed in its own country by the enterprise of Chinese, Tamils, Javanese (who, however, are kinsmen of the Malays), and Europeans. To those who come out East expecting to find a few miserable remains of a once powerful race, whose probable fate is that of the noble red man of America, if not that of the Australian aborigine (says the Java Times), it comes as revelation to find a sturdy, independent, and courteous race; whose language runs from Suez to Australia, and who, so far from dying out, are yearly becoming
more numerous.
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