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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LIL]
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China Overland Trade Report.
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Epitome of the Week, &c. Leading Articles --
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 27тH OCTOBER, 1900.
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Misapprehensions and Mistakes about China 322 Old and New Policy in China.....
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The Kwangtung Revolt
The Anglo-German Agreement
The Elections
The Crisis: Telegrams.
Hongkong Legislative Council
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Supreme Court
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Auctions of British "loot" were going on briskly at Peking in the early part of this month. The Prize Fund amounted at the end of last month to upwards of $50,000.
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In view of the nature of the country the siege train sent to China from the Cape will probably be sent back home, leaving their equipments and armaments-4 inch and 7 inch guns and bullocks in India en route.
News from Kwangtung province tells of the 323 continued success of the rebels. Details will be According to Japanese papers, while the per- 323found on another page. Last night, however, sonnel of the new Cabinet is still entirely un- news of an Imperialist victory came to band. known, it is understood that it has been decided
so far that Count Inouye and Mr. Kato, former-. General MacArthur, the new Military Go- vernor of the Philippine Islands, has contractedly Minister, to St. James's, will be admitted to 327 feyer in Manila. The latest reports, however, ister of Finance and the Minister for Foreign the Ministry to hold the portfolios of the Min-
328 show that the attack is not a serious one.
Affairs respectively."
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A London telegram of the 22nd instant 329 announced that the Globe understands that .330
Britain has leased from the harbour works 330
contractors the port of Chingwantao for eight .330 330 months." .330 ..331
The Crisis in China
Occasional Notes
Hongkong Volunteers in Camp
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The Murders and Piracy on the Nao-chau
Concert at St. George's Hall
The Staunton Street Backyards Case Soldiers and Sailors' China Relief Fund Changes in the Pacific Mail Company Singapore Estimates for 1901
Macao...
Canton
Manila
Correspondence
Alice and Nethersole Hospitals....
China Traders' Insurance Company, Limited The Dairy Farm Company, Limited
Cricket.......
Football
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
"A New Magazine
The Fire on the Rohilla
The German Circular Note to the Powers
Curious Story Prom Peking
Foochow
Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS,
The report that the Imperial Court had 331 already reached Haianfu was incorrect, as later 332 news arrived on Wednesday that it was still on 332 the borders of Shansi and Shensi, at the town of
Tungkuan.
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The French military transport Caravane, an 333 old vessel pressed into use during the present crisis, was sank near Kobe at the beginning of this week after a collision with the Japanese 334 Yamaguchi Maru. Three men from the
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According to a German trade journal, the 337 value of military rifles exported from Germany 340 to China in 1899 was Tls. 4,400,000, against Tls. 1,400,000 in 1898; artillery fuses, Tls. 2.500,000, as compared with Tls. 1,500,000 in 1899; and gunpowder Tls. 900,000, as against Tls. 500,000 in 1899.
At the American Pres. Mission School House, *Kanazawa, Japan, on the 4th October, the wife of
THOMAS D. BEGG, Kuling, of a son.
On the 17th October, at No. 5, Caine Road, the wife of Captain J. F. MESSER, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
At Christ Church, Rangoon, on the 26th. Sep- tember, 1900, WILLIAM RUSSEL WELLS, Assistant Engineer, P.W.D., Burma, to, ALICE LOUISE, the second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jno. E. G. VILLA. On Wednesday, the 10th October, 1900, at All Saints' Church, Tientsin, by the Rev. H. Mathews, EDWARD BRIDGE LEES, eldest son of the Rey Jonathan LEES, of Tientsin, to MARY BEATRICE, eldest daughter of the late P. L. MARTEN, Esq., and of Mrs. MARTEN, of Great Berkhamstead,
Herts.
On the 23rd October, at the Peak Church, Hongkong, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, HERBERT E. TOMKINS, to MURIEL, daughter of. the late Arthur ANDERSON,*
ARRIVALS OF MAILS. The American mail of the 22nd September arrived, per T. K. K. steamer Nippon Maru, on the 20th October (28 days); and the French mail of the 23rd September arrived, per M. M. steamer Tonkin, on the 23rd October (30 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Vice Admiral Sir E. H. Seymour returned to Shanghai on Wednesday from Taku.
The newly-appointed Belgian Chargé d'Af. faires to Siam, M. Le Vionnois, arrived at Bangkok on the 5th inst.
The announcement is made from St. Peters- burg that Prince Gagarin has been appointed
Consul at Nagasaki.
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Viscount Aoki, the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, has not followed in the wake of the Premier and other ministers, who tendered their resignations, for, it is said, he has deemed it advisable not to leave the portfolio under existing diplomatic circumstances until a new Ministry has been organised.
M. Pichon, French Minister at Peking, has replied to the Chinese Note that hostilities cannot cease until the heads of Prince Tuan, Kang-yi, and Tung Fuhsiang have fallen. Last Saturday the report was telegraphed from Shanghai of the suicide of Kung-yi, but the news was considered doubtful.
A Seoul telegram dated the 10th inst. states that, through the medium of the Japanese Min- ister to Corea, Mr. Shidehara, Director of the Japanese Middle Academy in Yamanashi, has been engaged by the Corean Government as Academy. The salary is stated to be Yen 200 an instructor in the newly established Scoul
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month.
"The N.-C:Daily News, referring to the report that Tao Mu, who was transferred recently from the Viceroyalty of the Shon-Kan to that of the Two Kwang provinces, has sent in to the Empress Dowager a memorial resigning his new post on account of old age and chronic illness, says: The Empress Dowager's rescript has, however, not yet been received by the memorialist. Apropos of the above, it is stated in local mandarin circles that, should Viceroy Tao Mu be permitted to resign, the next Viceroy of the Two Kwang provinces will pro- ably be Ting Chen-tu, at present Governor of Yunnan.
The new Japanese constitutional Political Association is about to publish an organ called the Seiyu, under the editorship of Mr. Shiga Juko, Messrs Zumoto (of the Japan Times), Asahina (of the Tokyo Nichi Nichi), and Tokutomi (of the Kohumin), with other well-known writers as advisers. Marquis Saion- ji will have supreme control..
Russian emigrants to Eastern Siberia, it is stated from a St. Petersburg source, are under going great hardships, owing to the Chinese outbreak. The refugees from Manchuria filled Irkutsk and other towns already packed with emigrants. The barracks are full to overflow. ing and in the railway stations men, women; and children are camping out without proper shelter, but fearful of missing any chance of escaping by the railway to some town where their misery will be less.
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We have received a letter signed "A Refor
which unfortunately we cannot publish mer," in the absence of our correspondent's name as a guarantee. We may, however, mention that the writer, referring to our, remark about the evil associations in Hongkong of the name of Triad, says: "There are black sheep in every fold How can it be helped with the Triads, who' number millions and millions?
This is a civilised movement, and Chinese who have been trained and educated in the West will be prominent actors."
Although a new anti-foreign Taotai has been appointed by the Imperial Government to Shanghai, he has not yet proceeded to take up his post. It is thought that the earnest prayers of the leading natives at Shanghai have induced Viceroy Liu Kung-yi to delay sending him on. The new appointment of the anti-foreign Ya Chang to the Governorship of Hupeh has caused great alarm among the loyal officials, and the story obtains that the Shanghai Consuls. have been appealed to by the Viceroy at Wachang to protest, as otherwise troubles in the Yangise Valley are certain to follow.
Chinese there exercising lately, reports the Some alarm has been aroused in Java by the
Straits Times, in a striking manner their power of combination. At Samarang thus was shown when, at a performance of Harinaton's hea Mr. Love, the manager, called a Căinarian who had bought a ticket to book for obstruction in the tent. The result was such resentment that no Chinaman would visit the circus. The Chi- nese boycott then marred the circus at Solo, an interior town: at other places visited by the circus the Chinese to a man shunned the formances This has started Yellow Peril in Java. The held to point to the existence secret Chinese organisation, which are kept under striet discipline.
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