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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LIII.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :—
The Peking Negotiations....
The Evacuation Question Britain's Sea Trade
European Flests in Chinese Waters.......... The Census
The Loss of the City of Rio
Hongkong Legislative Council
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 2ND MARCH, 1901.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
No. 9.
Prince Ching and Li Hung-chang, according to the Asahi, have appealed to the Government at Hsianfu to recognise that the troops under 3,000 picked Shantung troops are being sent Governor Yuan are the best drilled and most by Yuan Shikai to escort the Emperor Kwang, disciplined of all the Chinese troops and that Hau from Heianfu to Peking.
some companies of them should therefore be chosen as an Imperial bodyguard. They have notified the Governor of the matter, but Yuan made three conditions before he would accept the arrangement.
The N.-C. Daily News learns that the German naval authorities are engaging pilots with a view 171 to an eventual expedition up the Yangtaze 172 | River.
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Private advices received in Shanghai from 172 Hsianfu report the flight to Ninghsia of 172 Princes Tuan and Chuang, Duke Lan, and
General Tung Fuhsiang.
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It is announced that the Japanese Comman- der, Major-General Fukushima, will return 174 from North China when Field Marshal Count .174 | von Waldersee leaves there for Japan.
The Crisis: Telegrams.........
The Disaster to the City of Rio.
Census Returns for the Colony Harmston's Cirens.
Canton
Tientsin
Swatow
Foochow
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited
Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co., Limited
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Typhoon Fund
Supreme Court
The Norvegna Arms Caso
Hongkong Race Meeting
Football
Hongkong Rifle Association
Boxing Championship Tournament Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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A Tientsin telegram to the Mainichi reports that Austria has taken possession of nearly 500,000 tsubo of land on the left bank of the Peiho at Tientsin, just above the Italian con- 177 cession.
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According to a Tokyo despatch to the Asahi, the Japanese Government has decided to intro duce into the Diet a series of regulations im- posing certain taxes upon foreigners holding perpetual leases in the former Settlements, which they have hitherto declined to pay on the ground that the treaties distinctly state that no further taxes than those already paid shall be imposed on such property. Mr. Denison, the stated, had the task of drafting the Regula- Foreign Adviser of the Government, has, it is tions. It is not explained how the provisions of the treaties are to be surmounted.
An Asahi telegram of the 14th ult. from The Boxer leaders Chih-sui and Hsu Cheng Russians are assembled at Kinchow, north of Peking says :— It is reported fhat 30,000 179 yu have been executed, in the presence of a
Port Arthur. It is understood that the representative of the Allied Powers. Yu Hsien is officially reported to have been bely, and the Chinese at Peking are much excited. Russians intend to occupy the town permanent- .....185 headed at Lanchon.
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At "La Lyra," Kampong Java Road, Singapore, the wife of Mr. NATHANIEL RUCHWALDY, of a
daughter (stillborn).
On the 14th February, at 53, Grange Road, Singapore, the wife of J. O. ANTHONISZ, of a daughtër.
On the 25th February, at 15, Mosque Junction, the wife of Mr. M. J. E. DA CUNHA, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
At Hankow, on the 14th February, by the Rev. Griffith John, D.D., Albert Lister Gr10, L. M.S. Yochou, to ELIZABETH AUGUSTA WYLIE, L. M. 8.,
Hankow.
DEATHS.
On the 18th February, 1901, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, WILLIAM HAMBLIN, aged 24
years.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on Sunday, the 17th February, 1901, GEORGE SAMUEL WILLIAMS, late 2nd Engineer of the steamer Fungshun, aged 20 years, son of Mrs. J. T. PEAR- BON and the late Captain W. WILLIAMS.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
Arrangements are being made for the des- patch of a number of Chinese from Foochow district to Sarawak to cultivate the ground. The proposal is to send 2,000 men within the next two years, all to be of the farmer class. 600 men have already left for Sarawak.
Advices received at home from Malts on the 21st ult. reported the battleships Canopus and Ocean had been ordered to proceed to China, and the Ocean, Captain the Hon. Assheton G. Curzon-Howe, left the port on the 23rd for that destination. The Glory, Goliath, Canopus, and Ocean are sister vessels, which were laid down in 1896.
The British Government has apparently definitely decided to have a Resident in Johore, This is an appointment that has been contra- likely to be made this time. dicted. It would seem that the appointment is As Mr. Clifford's services will now be available, on relinquishing the Governorship of North Borneo, it is possible, of course, that he might receive the now.post.
A Tokyo telegram of the 13th ult. states:- Field Marshal Count von Waldersee's plan to visit Japan was telegraphed to a certain reliable party in Tokyo. The Governor of Hiroshima, who is in Tokyo at present, is discussing with the Government matters relating to the accom- modation of the German Commander while at Hiroshima It is reported that the Commander will visit Tokyo as well.
On the 22nd ult. the Pacific Mail Steam- ship Company's steamer City of Bio de Janeiro sank at Fort Point, San Francisco harbour, with a loss of 104 lives. Among those drowned were Mr. Rounserelle Wildman, United States Consul General at Hongkong, Mrs. Wildman, and their two children, Messrs. C. Dowda'l and H. C. Matheson of Shanghai, Mr. and The French mail of the 25th January arrived, Mr. Alfred Hart of Manila, and Captain Ward of the City of Rio de Janeiro. The per M. M. steamer Annam, on the 25th Feb-news reached Hongkong on the day of the ruary (31 days).
disaster.
Another Asahi despatch, dated Seoul, 15th February, says: The Russian Minister to Seoul was again received in audience by the Corean Emperor last night. The Kojo Shim bun reports that the Russians at Masampo are pressing the local Governor to hold the third auction of land promptly or to accept respon sibility for the damage caused by his hesitation in the business.
Acting on instructions from the War Office, the military authorities here are despatching to Peking at an early date four hundred men of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers to relieve the Aur- tralian contingent, which has been_stationed in the capital since the relief of the Legations, and is now to return home. The relieving force will be made up of one hundred men each from B, D, F and G Companies of the Fusiliers, and will be under the command of Major Everitt. They are to be retained as a part of the permanent Legation Guard, and as preparations for their departure are being rapidly pushed forward, it is expected that the men will leave for the North in a few days' time
The Japanese Premier, Marquis Ito, making business before the Imperial Diet. touched on a statement in the House of Peers on general the question of readjustment of finance. The Premier said he had long appreciated the ne- cessity for some such measure even from before the Japan-China war. He had undertaken to begin the work several times, but he had as yet failed to carry it out into effect. The post bellum undertakings, which had resulted in a remarkable expansion of the Government finan- ces, had led him to feel the necessity for investigating the national resources, both for practical and financial reasons. Not only had the Government extended public works, but the people were also enger in promoting all new enterprises, one after the other, the least regard for the national resou ce mediately on entering once last begun an investigation of the national resources which he had long had in mind,
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