THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LXX.
CONTENTS.
Far Eastern News.....
Leading Articles:-
A Hongkong Eyesore
Educational Problems in Hongkong....... The Political Situation in Europe....... Public House Reform in Hongkong..... The Sea Carriage of Plague
Random Reflections.
Hongkong News
Impending Departure of Dr. J. C. Thompson. Departure of General Machado...
A Disputed Magisterial Ruling...
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 11TH DECEMBER, 1909.
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Japan is sending about 20,000 exhibits to the Anglo-Japanese Exhibition to be opened in London next year.
The death is reported of Mr. A. W. Harvey Bellingham, M.I.C.E.. Engineer of the British .502 Municipal Council, Tientsin.
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The Prince Regent has approved a memorial 504 by H. E. Chang Jen-chin, Viceroy at Nanking, 505 for permission to erect a Provincial Assembly House in Nanking at a cost of Tls. 120,000.
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A great interchange of posts and many pro- motions in the Japanese Navy were announced on the 1st December. Six new vice-admirals and fourteen rear-admirals have been created. been appointed Naval Admiral Togo has Councillor, Vice-Admiral Kamimura Com- Admiral Shimamura Commander-in-Chief of the mander-in-Chief of the First Fleet, Vice- Second Fleet, Vice-Admiral Ijuin Chief of the Admiralty, Vice-Admiral Uriu Commander-in- Chief at the Yokosuka Naval Station, Vice- The Viceroy of Fokien has, upon the petition Admiral Dewa Commander-in-Chief at the of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Indo-Sasebo Naval Station, and Vice-Admiral Kato .507 China, requested the Waiwupu to negotiate Commander-in-Chief at the Kure Naval
with the French Minister in Peking for the Station. - ...510 abolition of the poll-tax on the Chinese there.
The Japan Chronicle states that the Governors of Hyogo and Osaka and the head officials of soventeen Government offices in Kobe and Osaka have subscribed for a presentation Satsuma tea service to Mr. Henry Bonar, 512 | Consul-General at Kobe, as a token of respect 512 and esteem, on the occasion of his transference
to the corresponding post at Seoul.
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Sanitary Board
Hongkong Legislative Council
A Full Court Decision Reversed
Alleged Larceny of a Ring
A Fatal I
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Bu lding Collapse
Supreme Court
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Naval Wedding at St John's Cathedral
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French Convent Bazaar
Welcome to Y. M. C. A. Secretary.
Educational Problems in Hongkong
Wanchai+hurch, Hongkong.
Correspondence :--
The Eyesore on the Praya
Suppression of Opium
A Tragedy at Kuling
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
MARRIAGES.
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We notice that a telegram translated by the 513 Shanghai papers from a Chinese journal in that .513 port says it is learnt that the Hongkong Gov- .516 ernment has granted to the American firm which recently applied for it a monopoly of the wireless telegraph business in the port for twenty-five years. This
On December 1st, at Shanghai, 7 UMPHREY R. U. OTTRELL DORMER, R.N., to MARY ISABELLA MOLLOY, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Molloy, Shanghai.
announcement
is
the
At 21, Old Bailey, Hongkong, the wife of Mr. premature: the Government still has FRANK J. V. JORGE, of a son.
application under consideration.
We
that Mr. F. Cloud, the observe American Consul at Mukden, who according to the Tokyo telegram we published this week has been recalled, was last week at Shanghai, and was to have left by the Korea for America ou Friday last. According to a paragraph in a Shanghai contemporary Mr. Cloud has been transferred to the State Department at Wash- ington. Apparently this transfer was directed before the publication of the report by Mr. Cloud which has been so much criticised in Гаран.
On the 7th December, by special licence, at Hongkong, CHRISTOPHER BERKELEY MITCHELL, Captain-Superintendent of Police, Kulang-u, Amoy. to MAUD AGATHA, widow of the late E. W. DE TUNZELMANN, Surgeon, K.N.
DEATH.
On December 3rd, in London, JEAN JARDINE LANDALE, infant dau, hter of Mr. and Mrs DAVID LANDALE, aged 11 months
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of the 12th ultimo arriv- ed on the 9th instant
The Siberian Mails of the 17th, 19th, and 20th ultimo arrived on the 10th instant.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
Several Chinese merchants of Shanghai have lately opened branches at Dairen.
Mr. E. M. Hobart-Hampden has been ap- pointed Japanese Secretary to the British Legation at Tokyo.
A report is current that Count Wolff, Metternich zur Gracht, German Ambassador in London, is shortly to be succeeded by Baron Mumm von Schwarzenstein, Ambassador at Tokyo and formerly Minister at Peking.
Bishop T. A. Hendrick, of the diocese of Cebu, died last week of cholera. As many as sixty cases of cholera were reported in Cebu, on November 30th, and of these 52 were fatal. A Manila contemporary says --"It is believed that the wells on the other side of the city have become infected and steps have been taken to cleanse and thoroughly disinfect them. This is the third time in a month that the disease has appeared in this sudden and virulent form, gathering in such numbers daily." The latest reports show the epidemic to have subsided as suddenly as it came..
Father Algue, the Director of the Manila Observatory, in a lecture last week, told how the work of the Jesuits, who have been foremost in that class of studies, had commenced in the Philippines in a very humble way in 1865, by Padre Faura, the inventor of one of the most modern barometers in existence. Speaking of the work that has been accomplished within the walls of the Manila institution, he mentioned the fact that the Jesuits there hold the world's record for the measurement of clouds at high al- titudes, cirrus clouds having been measured in 1897 at an altitude of over 67,000 feet. He told how the violent storms known as baguios are formed, of their destructiveness, of the number in a given time, 594 having occurred since 1880 up to date, and of the time they generally visit the archipelago,
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The annual meeting of the Perak Sugar Company took place at Shanghai last week. At the close of the meeting Mr. W. D. Little proposed and Mr. R. H Gore-Booth seconded the following resolution:-"That out of the amount carried forward the sum of Tls, 2,000 be appropriated for the presentation to Mr. W. V. Drummond of a testimonial, in whatever form he may choose, this as a mark of the share- holders' recognition of his long and valuable services to the company." Mr. Little referred in complimentary terms to Mr. Drummond's connection with the company as Chairman for a period of 27 years. The resolution was carried with acclamation and Mr. Drammond made a suitable reply.
The Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements has passed an Ordinance imposing The tax is expected to add $300,000 per annum a tax of five cents per gallon on petroleum.
to the Colony's revenue. The products taxable are what are generally known as the mineral oils, but they do not include any liquid or sub- stance which has a flashing point higher than 150 degrees Fahrenheit. All petroleum taken out of a vessel, on which it has been imported, will, unless intended for transhipment only, be taken to what is termed a dutiable petroleum store, licensed for the purpose, and when removed from the store, otherwise than for export, it must pay duty of five cents per gallon. There are eight gallons of kerosene oil in one case. The tax per case will therefore be 40 cents. By rules which the Governor-in-Council is empowered to make, a fine may be imposed for breach of such rules not exceeding $1,000 for each offence, and an addional $50 for each day on which the offence continues.
has commenced publication in Paris. Each A Revue du Commerce en „Extrémé-Orient
article is printed in French and in English. An address to readers in the first number says:
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"All travellers in Eastern Countries have been struck with the inferior state in which our trade is as compared with that of our rivals, not only in their colonies but also in our own possessions. This is deplorable and dangerous from the political as well as commercial point of view, political interests being closely bound up with the commercial ones. Does this state of things depend upon superiority of the foreign merchant over the French? We do not believe it. The French merchant's activity, affability and honesty are recognised everywhere. On the other hand, the French article is always and everywhere, prices being equal, preferred to the foreign article. If the Frenchman does not succeed where others drive a thriving trade, it is because the others are best informed of the needs and of the tastes of the native, object of the review is to make known French products to Eastern buyers.
"The
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