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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL.. LIII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Lending Articles :-
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 5TH JANUARY, 1901.
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The Record of the Year
The Demands of the Powers
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China and the Nations
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The Question of the Empress Dowager
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The Crisis: Telegrams
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The Trouble on board H.M.S. Barfleur
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Third Subscription Concert
Taikoo Sports
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The Novoe Vremya announces that the management and working of the Manchurian
Hongkong Weekly Press Railway and also the construction and working
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 30th November ar rived, per M. M. steamer Indus, on the 31st 9 December (11 days); the American mail of the 6th December arrived, per T. K. K. steamer Nippon Maru, on the 3rd January (28 days); and the English mail of the 7th December ar- 11 rived, per P. & O. steamer Peninsular, on the
4th January (28 days).
Kowloon Dock Dance
Theatre Royal
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Zetland Lodge Installation and Banquet...
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St. Peter's Seamen's Church and Mission Canton
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Hoihow Athletic Sports
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Northern Notes
Correspondence
The Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining
Co., Limited.
Football
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Despatches at the beginning of the week 15 announced that the Kansu rebellion was 15 spreading.
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Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited
Supreme Court.....
Cricket
Hongkong Volunteer Corps.
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Local and District Events, 1900
H.E. Wu on the Foreign Press in China Hongkong and Port News
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Commercial.
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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15 Dr. Morrison, telegraphing to the Times from Poking, condemns the German operations in North China and advocates the separatiza of 17 the British troops from Count von Waldersee's
command.
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On the 25th December, 1900, the wife of H. M.
THOMPSON, I. M. Customs, Shanghai, of a daughter. On the 25th December, 1900, at Shanghai, the
wife of B. C. da Silva e Souza, of a son,
On the 27th December, 1900, at 12, Woosung Terrace, Shanghai, the wife of C. C. WILLIAMS,
of a son.
MARRIAGES.
On the 19th December, at St. Andrew's Cathe dral, Singapore, by the Bev D. Holland Stubbs, ARTHUR COULCHER to JENNETH AMELIA THERESA HABEKOST.
On the 29th December, at St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, by the Rev. G. A. Bunbury, HARRY FODEN, Acting Paymaster H.M.S. Brisk, eldest son of Harcourt FODEN, of Plymouth, to MAUDE, only daughter of the late Marcus D. LOGAN, of Fiji and Sydney, N.S.W,
DEATHS.
On the 21st December, 1900, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, ROBERT DOWNIE, late Master
of steamer Pekin.
At Singapore, on the 22nd December, Marie LUCIE, the wife of Sir Lionel Cox, Chief Justice
of the Straits Settlements.
At 28, Sophia Road, Singapore, at 11 a.m. on the 22nd December, Mr. GEORGE E. Croplet, chief clerk to the Resident-General, F. M. S.
At 66, Chapoo Road, Shanghai, on the 2ith De- cember, 1900, EZELINA AURIA DA SILVA, aged 32
years.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 20th December, 1900, FREDERICK, youngest son of J. DEAPER-BENTLEY, aged 6 years and 6 months.”
At Colombo, on the 1st January, EDITH JANE, the dearly beloved wife of Wm. SHEWAN,
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On New Year's morning there was a great parade of all the British troops in Shanghai in honour of the Empress of India. The British and Japanese Volunteers were also present at the parade.
A court of enquiry was held on Thursday morning on H.M.S. Barfleur, now in Hongkong Harbour, with regard to some troubles which have occurred recently with the mon. The mon have since been allowed their usual privileges and leave.
According to Peking native rumours, W largo back the Emperor Kwang-Hsu to Peking. It carts are being prepared at Hsianfu to bring is also stated that Hu Ping-chih, ex-Governor of Shansi, has been ordered to Hsianfu to ac- company the Emperor to Peking.
On the reassembling of the Japanese Dict in the New Yoar a representation is to be made to the Government, urging it to undertake the work of cutting a canal from the north end of Lake Biwa to the coast of the Japan Sea in order to allow steamers to pass from the Japan Sea to the Pacific via Lake Biwa. This woull involve the making of a large canal from Lake Biwa to Osaka Bay.
The New Year's Honours list includes the bestowal of the C. M. G. on the following:- Mr. Bigham, attaché at Peking; Mr. P. L. Warren, Consul General at Hankow; Mr. W. B. Carles, Consul at Tientsin; Mr. C. W. Campbell, vico-Consul at Shanghai; and Mr. E. H. Fraser, Congul at Hankow. Major L.S. T. Halliday, H.M.S. Orlando, who so distinguished himself at Peking, has received the V. C. and Major J. B. Johfistone, H. M. S. Centurion, the C. B.; Miss Bourgingnon, Mrs. Bellingham and Mrs. Droste, all Tientsin ladies, have been awarded the Royal Red Cross,
of the Eastern Chinese branch pass into the Russian Government's hand on the 1st instant. The Vestnik (St. Petersburg) proclaims the necessity of rebuilding the Siberian Railway on account of the faulty original construction.
On the 22nd ult. the joint note of the Allied Powers was signed by their eleven representa tives at Poking and on the 24th ult. there was a sitting of the diplomatic corps held at the re- sidence of the doyen, when the Note was pre- souted, together with a Chinese translation, to the Chinese Plenipotentiaries. On the 1st inst. the Emperor had accepted the Powers terms. our Shanghai correspondent telegraphed that
The N.-C. Daily News Tientsin correspon dont telegraphed on the 27th ult:-The Fourth Brigade is leaving for Yangtsun, the Boxera being reported to be in strength to the west- ward of that station. Various reports of bodies of Chinese advancing have been current lately that have come to nothing, but the information is presumably reliable on this occasion. The general attitude of the Chinese is sullenly- hostile. They are obviously awaiting a chance. The peace terms are disbelieved here. There are for notorious Boxer leaders associated with Lingchang and Prince Ching. They are reported to have been recently urging the leaders outside Peking to rise again.
The United States Government have deter. mined to put down the insurrection among the Filipinos with a firm hand, and the proclama- tion issued by General MacArthur just before Christmas is the most forcible declaration of the policy of the Government towards the
insurrection than has ever been issued. Re- ferring to this last manifesto the Manila Times says:-After carefully studying the conditions it can be seen that the Filipinos as a whole are not in sympathy with the insurrection and that Aguinaldo and his officers are merely a party of adventurers, seeking another "treaty of Biac- na-bato," by which they might be induced for the consideration of a few thousand dollars to
when his canse" was bought for $400,000 and leave the country. Aguinaldo's treachery_was manifested on the memorable occasion in 1897, he was allowed to escape to Hongkong, deserting his "beloved compatriots" and renonncing his country.
The N.-C. Daily News in its issue of the 24th alt. says:-We ar glad to be able to state on the best authority that the report current in Peking and Tientsin that the German expedi- tion to Kulgan met with any reverse is entirely unfounded. The only delay, a very brief one, was when Count York, finding that General Ho was awaiting him with a large force, sent back for guns, but during the whole expedition no opposition was encountered. As to, the melancholy death of Count York, it appears that, as he was very cold in the hut in which he was sleeping, a stove was brought in. adjutant slept in the same place, only a curtain dividing them. The adjutant heard some noises in the night, but did not think they were of any importance, and in the morning Count York was found dead, as already reported. In the post mortem examination his lungs were found to be so seriously diseased that the fumes of the stove, which would not have hurt him if he had ben in good health, overpowered him.
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