ཡབྷཀམ ཀཱམིཡཱ མཧཱཏྟཱ ཝཱ ཨཱཝཎཾཡ
THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LII.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Lealing Articles :—
The Drift of Events in China
Honouring the Empress Dowager
The Blake Pier
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 8TH DECEMBER, 1900.
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446
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What the Trans-Siberian Railway has done ...447 The Case of King Lien-shan
447
The China Association and the China League 449
The Crisis: Telegrams
148
Hongkong Sanitary Board
448
The Crisis in China.
451
Public Meeting on the Relief of Typhoon Sufferers452 St. Andrew's Ball
Fire in Queen's Road Central.
452
453
454
Daring Escape from American Transport Grant.... 454 Tua Society of St. Vincent de Paul Arrival of Earl Beauchamp in Hongkong
454 Lady Blake at the Woman's Conference, Shanghai 451 Canton
Peking and Tientsin News
Correspondenco
A. S. Watson & Co., Limited
Supreme Court
455
455
455
456
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The Perseverance Piracy
..460
Cricket
.460
Football
.460
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
461
Bowling
461
Boxing Exhibition at the City Hall
462
Boating...
482
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
Hongkong Chess Club
Reviews
462 462 462
..463 46:3
Cable Connection of the Philippines and the U.S.A.463
The China Station
Tae Dangers of Uncertificated Navigators The Typhoon at Guam...
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
THE
No. 23
Hongkong Weekly Press English ambasadors are not opposed to a
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS,
The French mail of the 2nd November arrived, per M. M. steamer Oceanien, on the 3rd Decem- ber (30 days); and the German mail of the 23rd October arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Prinz Heinrich, on the 4th December (42 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Viceroy Liu Kung-yi has ordered the present Taotai of Shanghai to remain at his port until the arrival of a successor next year.
An attempt was made last Sunday at Tientsin to explode the East Arsenal. The two Chinese who undertook the task only succeeded, however, in blowing themselves up.
It is stated from Shanghai that all the foreign 463 warships on the Yangtze dressed ship and fired 464 salutes in honour of the Empress Dowager's .465 birthday on the 1st instant.
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On 19th October, at Conway Terrace, Paignton,
the wife of W. H. PHILLIPS, F. I. Inst., late man- ager of the Pumjum Gold Mines, Pahang, of a daughter.
On the 20th November, 1900, the wife of the Rev. W. R. STOBIE, of Wenchow, of a daughter.
On the 28th November, 1900, at Pootung, Shanghai, the wife of PETER MUNGALL, of a daughter.
On the 30th November, 1900, at 5, Range
Villas, Shanghai, the wife of J. J. MANSFIELD, of
a son.
At Sassoon's Villa, Hongkong, on the 3rd De cember, the wife of JAMES WALKER, of a son.
On the 5th December, 1900, at the Peak, Hong- kong, the wife of E. J. Gnter, of a son.
On the 8th December, at Leipzig (Saxony), the wife of P. SACHSE, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
At St. George's Church, Penang, on the 16th
November, by the Rev. W. H. C. Dunkerley, M.A., Colonial Chaplain, JAMES FORBE: to ANN SIN- CLAIR CHEYNE, only daughter of the late Patrick CHEYNE, Turriff, Scotland.
At St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, on the 21st November, 1900, ROWLAND ALLEN, L. L. B. of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law, youngest son of William ALLEN, of Leek Staffs, to MAUD ANNIE, third daughter of the Rev. Hugh BACON,
Rector of Baxterly Merivale and Hurley.
DEATHS.
On the 20th November, at 10.30 p.m., at No. 13, Wilkie Road, Shanghai, the son of Čapt. JELLICOE, aged 7 months.
On the 29th November, 1900, at 4, Makalee Terrace, Shanghai, CLAIRE MARION, infant daugh- ter of William BRIGHT, Chinese Customs Service, aged 21 months and 12 days.
At the Peak Hospital, on the 5th December, NICHOLAS BELFIELD DENNTS, Ph.D., of Sands kan, B.N.B., District Judge and Protector of Chinese, aged 62 years.
According to a native telegram received in Shanghai from Peking on the 3rd inst, the Foreign Ministers and Chinese peace-negotiators met that day to examine one another's creden
tials.
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The U. S. Minister at Peking, Mr. Conger has cabled to Washington that the German and
modification of the punitive and indemnity Later he clauses of the Peking agreement. cables that the Ministers accept a modification, and he expects negotiations to open next week.
The last issue to hand of the P. & T. Times gives, on the authority of "a well informed Chi- nese," the remarkable story that the Heir Apparent of China is not Prince Tuan's son at all, but the Empress Dowager's, and that he was secretly given over to Tuan's charge in infancy. The story is stated to have come originally from a friendly eunuch, who used to visit a Christain bookseller connected with one of the Peking missions.
Gloomy news arrived from Tientsin on the 4th inst. Placards predicting an outbreak are said to be posted over the Native City, and a prominent Chinaman of the place urges the Allies to prepare for trouble during the winter, warning them at the same time to desist from the punitive expeditions into the interior. Count von Waldersee, however, reported last week that the allied expeditions were gradually accom- plishing the work of pacification.
A Washington telegram of the 1st ult. states that Mr. Hay had telegraphed to Mr. Rockhill, the United States commissioner in China, notifying him of his appointment to the post of councillor to the American Legation in Peking and direct- ing him to proceed at once from Shanghai to Peking to assist Mr. Conger in that capacity in the negotiations for a final settlement. It had been intended to appoint Mr. Rockhill and with Mr. Conger to conduct the negotiations, Major-General Wilson fellow-commissioners
but the Government abandoned this purpose because it appeared that no other Power intend-
A correspondent of the Jimmin says that Russia is increasing her military strength ined to appoint commissioners. Corea, and that she is now engaged constructing a fort at Masampo, the work being pushed on with all possible rapidity.
Early in the week the Empress Dowager was reported to have consented to the Emperor's return to Poking. The latest news is that the Imperial Court is preparing to leave Hsianfu, very probably for Wuchang.
A correspondent writes to the N.-C. Daily News from Weihaiwei that piracy is very bad in that part of the Yellow Sea, and though boats and men belonging to the British tor- ritory are suffering, the navy do not seem to be taking any steps to repress it.
At a meeting of the Consular Body at Shanghai on the 28th ult. it was decided to publish a prohibition of the importation of arti- cles which may be used in the manufacture of war material. Mr. Odagari, the Japanese Consul, however, under instructions from his Government, has withdrawn his name from the list of Consuls signing the proclamation.
It appears that the paragraph in our Shang- hai telegram which appeared in our issue of last week about Huai Ta-pu, the recently promoted Manchu President of the Board of Rites, should-
have read as follows "Huai Ta-pu is reported dead while proceeding to Hsianfu." The death is stated in a Taiyuanfu telegram to Shangbai
to have occurred on the 25th ult. in a small town to take up his new post. It was Huai Ta-pu in Shansi. Huai Ta-pu was going to Hsianfa who tried to prevent a reform memorial of one of his secretaries, Wang Chao, from getting to the Emperor in 1898, and was cashiered for his pains. Huai Ta-pu and Kang Yi, by their exertions, enabled the coup d'état to be so swift and successful.
President McKinley in his message to Con- gress says that friendly relations between the United States and Great Britain continue. The need of a definite demarcation of the Alas- of culprits in China is demanded. Compensa kan boundary is emphasised. Full punishment
tion, partly payable by increased guarantees of The harbour works at Vladivostok, especial- the security of foreign rights and the opening ly the repair of the Tsarevitch Nicholas dook, of Chins to the commerce of the world is and the construction of two new dry-docks, suggested. The message declares that the in- ' ¡ having a length of about 700 feet, are being fluence of Japan, as a factor in promoting the actively pushed forward. decided to build two ship-building yards for the fair commerce, cannot be over-estimated. The It has also been general interests of pesos and order and of construction of ships up to 3,000 tons. The President in the message defines the pro- Minister of Marine has further resolved to in-gramme of the United States in the Philip- crease the number of docks in the Baltic ports, pine Islands as the upbuilding of an enduring beginning with Reval.
and self-administering community,'