THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :—
The Relief of Peking
The Missionary Outrages
Russia and the Crisis
The Naval Yard Extension
Shanghai and the Peking Story
The Crisis: Telegrams
Supreme Court
The Crisis in China
The Relief of Peking.
The Sailors and Soldiers' China Relief Fund The Li Yuen Street Gambling Case.
The Gage Street Cutting and Wounding Case Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Ld. The Hongkong Hotel Company, Limited Canton
Sandakan Notes
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS,
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 25TH AUGUST, 1900,
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The repairs to the U.S. battleship Oregon, now in dock at Kure, will, it is understood, take about a month to complete.
Two young Siamese princes, selected by the 138 King of Siam, are on the way from Bangkok 138-to Europe to be trained in the German Army.
Rear Admiral Skrydloff, who has been ap- 140 pointed commander of the Russian Pacific Squadron, has been promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral.
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The Russian Government are sending two first-class cruisers, one ironclad, two transport ships, and ten torpedo-boats to strengthen their Pacific squadron.
The Red Cross Society at St. Petersburg has 153 despatched a Field Hospital with 200 beds, with surgeons and Sisters of Mercy, to Odessa, 153 for the Far East.
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On the 2nd August, at Wuchow, the wife of P. F. HAUSSER, H.B.M. Consul, of a son.
On the 12th August, at "Biarrits," Singapore,
the wife of W. PATCHITT, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
On the 4th July, at Shangbai, Mr. H. FEER, in- terpreter attached to the French Consulate- General at Shanghai, to Mademoiselle MARIE LOUISE, daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel
JEAN EMILK Oliveau.
On the 5th July, at the English Church, Odessa, by the Rev. Arthur Stevens, JOHN DILL Ross, only son of the late Captain John Dill Ross, of Singapore, to ELLEN MARGARETHA, youngest daughter of J. F. H. TRAUTMANN, Esq., of Odessa, and formerly of Shanghai.
DEATHS.
At Vladivostock, on the 30th July, SARAH JANE HAZEL (YOUNG), the wife of Dr. JAMES A. GREIG, medical missionary, Kirin.
At Balik Pulau, Penang, on the 12th August, 1900, ELIZABETH JANE Mary (Betsy), the dearly beloved wife of E. L. M. DE Souza, aged 54 years. At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 18th August, MARGARET MONTGOMERY, relict of the late James Smrти, aged 48 years.
At No. 17, Broadway, Shanghai, on the 13th August, 1900, CUTHBERT HODGSON, aged 40 years. On the 14th August, 1900, at Z 195, Miller Road, Shanghai, CARLOTA MARIA Cerqueira da COSTA, aged 67 years.
On the 23rd inst., Lieut.-Col. M. R. RYAN, M.D., Royal Army Medical Corps, Principal Me- dical Officer, China and Hongkong, aged 48 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 19th July arrived, per P. M. steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, on the 19th August (31 days); the Canadian mail of the 30th July arrived, per C. P. B. steamer Empress of India, on the 21st August (22 days); and the German mail of the 23rd July arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Preussen, on the 22nd August (30 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The news of the week from the north will be found in the telegrams from our correspondents
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The chief Signal Service Officer of the United States has given instructions for the fitting up of wireless telegraph stations in the harbours of the Philippines.
hai, undergoing an extensive overhaul. Her H.M.S. Esk is in the Old Dock, Shang- commission will shortly expire. Her present crew when relieved will most likely be sent up North for duty.
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The American authorities in the Philippines have arranged to isolate all the lepers from the islands in three islets near the port of Cebu. To make room for the lepers, all the inhabitants of the islets will be removed to Cebu.
There are at present two naval hospitals st Nagasaki for the reception of wounded and invalided officers and men. One is the Russian hospital, in which there are now five officers and 27 men under medical treatment. The other is the French hospital, temporarily opened in the French convent, in which 90 officers and men are being treated.
On the 23rd inst. expressions of regret were general throughout Hongkong when it became known that Lieut.-Col. Ryan, the Principal Medical Officer of the army for Hongkong and China, had passed away at about ten o'clook that morning at the Hongkong Club, where he had rooms. The deceased had not been well for some four or five weeks, being troubled with fever, and latterly he experienced an attack of pneumonia. On Wednesday it was observed that his condi- tion was serious and a constant watch was kept dually, and in the morning succumbed, at over him. During the night he sank gra the age of 48. The Colonel had only been in the Colony since the commencement of the year, but notwithstanding his short residence amongst us he had already made his presence felt, being one of the most valuable and energetic members of the Sanitary Board, to which he was appointed by the Government at the begin- ning of March. It was at his suggestion that the Board decided to hold committee meetings The 3,000 martini rifles, with bayonets, ac- coutrements and 14 million rounds of ammuni. considering a comprehensive soheme of sanitary of the whole Board with the primary object of tion, required for the possible armaments of reform for the Colony, which he undertook to British subjects in treaty ports in China, and draw up, and which the Government invited for local levies, were despatched with the Ord-the Board to submit to them. The funeral nance Field Park in the Matiana, now on her took place at 5 p.m. yesterday. passage from Calcutta.
Mr. Th. Collmann, the Adviser to the Siamese Post and Telegraph Department, has been pro- moted to be Inspector-General in that depart- ment. The appointment is for five years. The post is a new one.
The Telegraph Companies informed us on The hospital ship Carthage arrived at Hong- the 22nd inst. that a cable has been laid be-kong on the 23rd inst., and has attracted much at tween Chefoo and Taku and is now opened for traffic, the present Chinese landline rates being maintained. Until further notice it will be ad- visable to address telegrams for Tientsin and beyond to care of the respective forts at Taku.
A letter from Amoy mentions that there are a number of natives of Foochow at that port and adds that they wear a kind of badge and that they are armed. The badge would denote that they belong to some secret society or organised band of some sort. Eleven of them have been arrested. Their appearance at Amoy points to their having found that they were being too closely watched in Foochow to make it worth their while to remain.
tention, she being a conspicuous object with her white hall and the red cross displayed on her funnels, bows and stern. She has undergone considerable internal alterations, and good and comfortable accommodation has been provided for 15 British officers, 15 British soldiers and
Native soldiers. The beds, 6 feet 3 inches by 3 feet, are fitted with copper spring-mat- tresses and mosquito-curtains, and over each is an invention of Captain Holland, I.M.S., con- sisting of a small trapeze arrangement so that the patient wishing to rise to a sitting position may assist himself by means of hanging bars. There is an operating room, dispensaries, dis infecting room, washing rooms and accommo
dation for British. Hindoos and Mahomedana; Minister at St. Petersburg, to the Japanese arrangements. She is fully equipped for six A telegram from Mr. Komura, the Japanese so that they will not interfere with each others' Foreign Office, states that an Imperial Ordin- months' service. The following comprise the en- ance was issued on the 4th inst. decreeing that,tablishment of the ship-British Section— as the affairs in Chins required a special appro- Captain C. G. Spencer, R.A.M.C., in charge, been obliged to raise the Customs Tariff, and ters A. M. Waterhouse and Hill, Pack Store priation of money, the Russian Government has Assistant Surgeon E. J. Noronha, Nursingi Sla-
that the existing Customs Tariff on the goods Sergeant F. Ripton, lat Norfolk Regiment; imported into Russia would be raised by between Nursing Orderlies Privates Townsend, E. 10 and 50 per cent. The telegram added that Lang, E. Attison and 8. Hari, 1st Norfolk the rate of duty on rugs and earthenware had Regiment, and seven men, Army Hospi bean raised by 30 per cent., and the rate on silk, | tal | Corps. Native Section-Major W. porcelain, and ivory by 10 per cent. No change Sykes, 1.M.S., in charge; aptain yo has been made in the duty charged on other Scott-Moncrief, I.M.S.; three hospital Japanese goods. The Imperial Ordinance took tants, one havilder, ten regimental orderlies effect on the 5th inst.
thirteen men of the Commissariat..
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