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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LI.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 24TH MARCH, 1900.
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Striot quarantine precautions have been taken at Kwang-chau-wan, with the consequence that the receipt of mails there is considerably de- layed.
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Major Sir Horace W. Macmahon left Hong. kong for Colombo on the 21st inst. by the German mailboat Stuttgart. He is proceeding
to South Afrios.
It is understood, says The Kobe Chronicle, that the Barfleur is to be one of the very few 196 foreign war vessels permitted to witness the .197 approaching Japanese naval manoeuvres, which .198 will be on a scale never before undertaken by
Japan,
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CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Woek, &o.
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Leading Articles :—
Canal Schemes and British Trade
Belling the Dowager
China's Trade in 1899
The Development of Shanghai
The Watchful Attitude
The Frontier Outrage....
Hongkong Legislative Council.
The New Territories Land Court Bill
Supreme Court
Hongkong Sanitary Board..
The Case of King Lien-Shan
The Yunnan-Burmah Frontier Outrage
The Murder of Major Kiddle and Mr. Sutherland..
Destruction of the New Hongkong Bank Building at
Peking...
The Murder of an Indian Soldier.
The Military Tattoo at Headquarter House....
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
The Vengeance of the Empress
"The Trans-Siberian Railway "
The Theatre
Entertainment on U.¡S. 8. "Monaduock
London College of Music
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Watkins, Limited
The Queen Miles, Limited
Hongkong Hotel Co., Limited...
China Sugar Refining Co., Limited..
Straits Insurance Co., Limited, în Liquidation
Indian Famine Relief Fund...
Tung Wa Hospital......
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Correspondence
Canton....
Macao
Manila..
Cricket...
Football
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club Hongkong and Port News, Commercial..
Shipping
MARRIAGES.
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It is reported from Manila that Admiral Watson will be relieved from the command of the United States squadrom in the Philippines 199 by Admiral George C. Romey, who leares San ..199 Francisco on the 31st of this month. Admiral Watson will assume command of the United States squadron in China and Japan.
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The Straits Times says that President 201 McKinley, believing the war in the Philippines to be ended, will shortly withdraw half the troops operating there. In view, however, of our Manila Correspondent's recent letter we should think the step will not be taken at once. There are still too many discordant elements at .203 | work in the islands.
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No. 12
The Imperial Decree which we publish on another page was not, it appears, meant for the public, but the Governors of the provinces te which the unfortunate Hanlins belonged. I was inadvertently telegraphed from Peking, says the North China Daily News, with the Grand Council, in causing the arrest of the five Hanlins, simply ordered the Board of Pan. ishments to send those in Peking to their native provinces where, it was stated, the local antho- rities put them under strict surveillance, Bat on the other hand, the decree of the 9th was despatched as a “secret” decree to the Governors themselves that they might know what to do being made at Peking to ascertain who revealed with their prisoners. Investigation is now the arrangement and sent the secret deores to Shanghai to be published. It is to be hoped that investigation will be in vain.
result that the real sentences were known. The
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General regret will be felt at the news that .264 .204 Lieut. David J. Koswiek, of the 12th Lansers, 204 the second son of Mr. Wm. Keswick, M.P., of 204 Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., was killed in the recent fighting in the Free State, at the age of 24, haring bad several marrow esespes 107 previously. His elder brother, Mr. Henry
Kenwick, is now on his way to South Africa.
Baron Nakajima, and Musers. Takenouchi, Oye and Omiwa, promoters of the Seoul-Fusan railway, accompanied by twenty-four engineers and experts. left Kobe for Cores on the 9th inst. by the Hige-Maru. The party, says The Japan Gasette, will first proceed to Seoul and, after having obtained the permission of the Govern- ment, will commence a survey of the proposed railway route. The most difficult part for the construction of railway is between Osaw and Reisan, a distance of 200 miles. The districts river called the Nak-dong, the bridging of are mountainous, and moreover there is which will be a gigantic and difficult picos of engineering. Usually the river is dry but in dating the neighbouring country. The efforts case of heavy rains it overflows ̈îtä banke, inun- of the surveyors will mostly be directed to mak- ing a project for the bridging of this river, and the survey must be finished before July, when It is stated, says The Straits Times, that Mr. the rainy weather sets-in. The promoters of Treacher, Resident of Perak, will not return to the railway propose to achieve their object by the East, and that Mr. Redger, at present obtaining Government support in the next sen- Acting-Resident in Perak, will not as Resident-sion of the Diet, by means of accurate estimates General when Sir Frank Swettenham goes on leave, which the latter is expected to do very Mr. Treacher resigns the servise, there will be soon. Obviously, as their correspondent says, if
much movement among the Malay Statem officials.
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At the Union Church, Victoria, Hongkong, on the 21st March, by the Rev. G. J. Williams, Karn G. MACALLAN, fourth daughter of James Macallan, Esq., Aberdeen (Scotland), to Capt. WM. MACKAY, of the steamer Propontia, son of Capt. Mackay, Har- b.ur Master, Fraserburgli.
On the 1st March, at the Peak Church, Hong kong, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, M.A., JAMES MIDDLETON BECK, of the Eastern Extension Tele- gra,.h Company's Service, to ALICE 'CAROLINE, o ly daughter of Bruce SHEPHERD, Hongkong Civil Service.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 17th February arrived, per P. M. steamer City of Rio de Janeiro on the 20th March (31 days); the Canadian mail of the 27th February arrived, per C. P. R. steamer Empress of China, on the 21st March,
(23 days; and the Gorman Mail of the 7th February arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Weimar, on the 23rd March (44 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
H.M.S. Victorious will leave Hongkong on the 26th inst., homeward bound.
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The Echo de Chine gives a rumour that the plague has made its appearance at reking.
The death of Kateten Ku, the famous Formosan bandit who gave the authorities so much trouble, is announced.
Work is being pushed vigorously on the Bel- gian (Peking-Hankow) Railway. About seven miles from Hankow, several thousand men are at work. Rails are laid, and two Belgian locomotives are running to and fro, pulling the flat cars used by the workmen. A third locomotive is being set up. Nearer the city, work has not progressed so far. Heaps of stone on the flat plain behind the city indicate the general course of the tracks, but there is nothing to make one hope that the traffic can
begin soon.
The desired extension of the foreign settle- ment at Shanghai, the negotiations about which have been concluded in accordance with the desires of the Council, includes the Railway Station and the new Rifle Range, as well as the large amount of property in the district which has been bought by foreigners, but for which hitherto it has been impossible to get foreign title deeds. When this district comes under and policed, and proper titles obtainable, it will the control of the Municipal Council, is lighted become one of the favourite country residence districts in Shanghai. It is within easy reach of the business centres, and be easily ren- dered a splendid suburb.
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as to the cost of the undertaking, etc., in the bol- leation of which they are now about to engage. ed upon the adoption of a broad gauge line. it may be added that the promoters have droid.
Captain Morita, a military attaché in the Japanese Legation, who has been travelling in Manchuria since September last, returned to Peking recently, after completing an inspeo- tion of Kirin, the Amur river and Liaoyang. He reports that wosk on the railway in Man- charia by the Russians was suspended in the winter time. The line was already finished in parts, but the work was done very carelessly, and travelling on the line in some parts was dangerous in the extreme. He had travelled by the East China Railway, which was already completed from Yingking (Nowchwang) to Port
Arthur. The rails were laid and materials were being daily transported, but the line has not been opened for passenger or goods traile. Captain Morita was told by Rumians that the line would be opened to the public from Port Arthur to Fengtien (Menkden) by way of New- ohwang and Halching, in eighteen months. A. section of the line has best laid temporarily, but travelling on it was extremely dangerous, owing to the steepness of the gradients, which One section was finished, and it was somewhat in some cases were followed by sharp curves. stronger and better, but Captain Morita comes to the conclusion that the line on the whole is badly constructed and will net compare with the lines in Japan.