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There have been nearly twice as many cases of plague in Kobe this year as have occurred in Hongkong. According to the latest papers ..478 four or five cases are reported daily.
The U. S. Pacific Fleet has won top position in the target practice this year, and Rear Admiral Harber's Squadron at the Philippines ..481 stands second in the list of squadrons.
America an the Philipines.
The China Newspaper Press ........
The Dismissal of Tuan Fang
The Lords and the Constitution
The Canton Self-Government. Sóciety...
Random Reflections
Hongkong News
Jubilee of the German Club, Hongkong..
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Licensing of Public Houses in Hongkong
Death of Mr. A..C. More
Canton News ....
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Hongkong Legislative Council
The Scottish Hall
Viceroy Fuan's Dismissal
Interport Cricket
The National Service for Seafarers
The Moosa Ebrahim Case
The Armed Robbery at West Point.
Supreme Court
Alleged Forgery of a Will
The Opium Commission
Interport Cricket Match.
Interport Tennis
Lord Kitchener and His Staff in Japan
China Association
Company Meeting:-
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It is reported from Honolulu that the steam- 486 ship Korea, of the Pacific Mail line, picked up a wireless message on her present trip at .489 4,305 miles, breaking all previous world's records. At an auction of race ponies held at the Horse Bazaar, Shanghai, last week some excep- 490 tionally good prices were realised. Gemini was bought by Mr. Marshall for Tls, 2,500, Sagittarius by Mr McBain for Tls. 2 00 and Pegasus by Mr. Sidebottom for Tls. 1,200.
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The International Cotton Manufacturing Co., Ld. 495 The E. E., A. and C. Telegraph to .. The Ewo Cotton Spinning and Weaving Co., Ld 495 Notes from Japan.
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Local Sport
The King's Birthday Celebration at Shanghai Far Eastern Telegrams
Commercial
Shipping
DEATH.
Ching Sih-tsa, described as a hemp broker of Frenchtown, Shanghai, is charged with being concerned with another man not in custody in withdrawing 1,900 bales of hemp value Tls. 14,000 from the godown of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire in Frenchtown without presenting 497 his bills of lading, thereby defrauding the
complainants.
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In the prospectus of m.24,000,000 new shares of the Shantung Railway Company at Berlin it is stated that the development of trade has experienced a further increase The receipts
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At Macao on Tuesday evening shortly after six o'clock a fire broke out in the neighbourhood of Patane, resulting in the destruction of three buildings. One was a joss-stick store, and the others were rice and tea stores.
A collision occurred last week at Tung-
on the chow,
Yangtze River, between the C. M. steamer Kiangkwan, Capt. C. Frigast, and the N.D.L, str. Meishun, Capt. E. Minningo. Both steamers were awaiting passengers at that port of call when the strong wind then blowing caused them to come to- gether with the result that the Meishun struck the Kiangkwan amidships, close to the engine- Fortunately there was no loss of life, and after room, tearing a large hole in the latter's side. making temporary repairs both vessels were able to proceed to Shanghai under their own steam. An examination showed that both steamers were so badly damaged that they will have to be docked before going on their usual runs.
A Kiukiang dispatch published by a Chinese contemporary says that a loan of Tls. 4,000,000 will be concluded with a foreign Power, for building a railway from Nanchang to Kiukiang, The loan will bear interest at 6 per cent., and the annual contribution of Tls. 300,000 by the Kiangsi province for the expenses of the line will be utilized as a sinking fund to pay off the loan. This fund should be collected by the syndicate and no direct communication will be allowed with the Central or Provincial Govern- ments. The loan will not be secured on the line, neither will it be issued in foreign names, bat in Chinese in order to avoid public stricture. It is stated that the loan has been negotiated through an Expectant Taotai who is heng Kung-pao's nephew.
At the Peak Hospital, Hongkong, on the 2nd during the past nine months of the current year the British steamer Kazembe, en route from
inst., after a long and paiuful illness, HENRY JOHN SMITH, aged 68 years.
Hongkong Weekly Press, Press,
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES Vœux ROADC), LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The Siberian Mail of the 10th ultimo arriv-
ed on the 29th instant.
The German Mail of the 3rd ultimo arriv-
ed on the Ist instant.
The French Mail of the 5th ultimo arriv- ed on the 6th instant.
amount to $2,276,000, against $1,722,000 in 1908 The company anticipates for the year 1909 a somewhat higher dividend than that for the past year of 43 per cent.
Captain and Mrs. Cocker, of the C I. M. service, left Foochow last week after a brief
Manila papers publish the information that New York to the Far East, including Manila, caught fire while discharging at Aden. The conflagration was disastrous and the cargo was A general average of seriously damaged. twenty-five per cent. has been declared at New The Kazembe has Cocker, says the Echo, have made many friends deposit of 25 per cent. in Foochow who regret their departure, and the aboard a big miscellaneous cargo for Manila members of the Club will miss a lively enter- port, including supplies for the insular purchas tainer in the genial Captain. Captain Cockering agent, the quarter, master's department, the has been transferred to Hangchow. His
navy, and large quantities of Christmas goods for Manila merchants. The Kazembe is operat- successor at Foochow is Mr. C. Andiet.
ed by the Bucknall Steamship Lines, Ltd., of While H. M. S. Thistle was bound down river London, and is a vessel of 4,658 tons displace- at Shanghai last week and when abreast of the
ment. She was built in 1907 by A. Stephen N. Y. K. Wayside wharf, something went and Sons, Ltd., of Glasgow, and is rated by wrong with her steering gear and she swung Lloyd's as 100 A 1. Niigata Maru, which was anchored close by. across the stream, colliding with the steamer
Neither vessel sustained any serious damage, and after the steering gear had been attended to the Thistle resumed her trip down river.
The Siberian Mails of the 12th and 14th Japan will be incidentally involved as the ultimo arrived on the 4th instant.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
The Hankow A. D. C. played last week "His Excellency the Governor.'
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The mill of the largest Russian Flour Com. pany at Harbin has been destroyed by fire.
It appears, writes the Japan Mail, that there is likely to be another Chientao question, this time between Russia and Korea, and of course
guardian of the Peninsular Empire. The matter appears to be that the boundary stone between Russian and Chinese territory has been gradual- ly moved back for a distance of over three miles by Korean settlers in Russia. The explanation given is that the land in this vicinity is particularly rich, and its Korean cultivators moved back the boundary stone so as to place their farms beyond the reach of the taxes levied upou land under Chinese jurisdiction.
who has been practicing in Singapore for the Mr. Montague Harris, a barrister-at-law, past six years. applied to the Supreme Court at Shanghai last week to be admitted to prac- tice in that Court. Both the Chief Judge and the Assistant Judge sat to hear the application, which was opposed by the Crown Advocate, who submitted with regret that the applicant was not a fit and proper person to be admitted to practice, the contention being based on newspaper report of proceedings taken against Mr. Harris in the Singapore Court resulting in his being fined $100 or four- teen days for contempt of Court. The hear ing was eventually adjourned, in order to give Mr. Harris time to procure an affidavit of fitness, the Chief Judge suggesting that the person best able to satisfy the Court would be -one of the Judges of Singapore.
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