THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LIIT.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c. Leading Articles :-
The solidity of China
A Suggestion about Manchuria
Russia's Position
The Sanitary Board Election
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 20тH APRIL, 1901.
Hongkong Weekly Press
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL. 318 LONDON OFfice: 131, Fleet STREET, E.C.
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The Report of the Food Supply Commission ..320
New Praya Reclamation Scheme
The Crisis: Telegrams
Hongkong Sanitary Board
New Praya Reclamation Scheme
Sanitary Board Election ..
The Vitriol Outrage
The Raising of the Canton River
Ricksha Coolies Housing Scheme
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 15th March ar rived, per T. K. K. steamer America Maru, on the 12th April (28 days); the English mail of the 15th March arrived, per P. & O. steamer 323 Coromandel, on the 13th April (29 days); the Canadian mail of the 25th March arrived, per 324 C. P. R. steamer Empress of India, on the 16th 324 April (22 days); and the German mail of the 6th 325 March arrived, p、r N. D. L. steamer Prinz 325 Heinrich, on the 17th April (42 days).
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Food Commission's Report ..
Hongkong's Finances
Theatre Royal
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The West River Disaster
Canton
325
Correspondence.
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The Green Island Cement Co., Limited.
327
China Borneo Co., Limited
.927
China Light and Power ('o., limited
327
Olivera Freehold Mines, I imited
Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co.,
Limited
328
The Yangtsze Insurance Association, Limited Yokohama. Specie Bank, Limited
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Supreme Court
.329
Hongkong Rifle Association Annual Meeting.
.330
Lawn Tennis,
.330
Royal Hongkong Golf Club.
331
The Political Obstacles tó Missionary Success in
- China
Liquid Fuel...
Murder of Mr. Stonehouse
Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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On the 7th April, 1901, at No. 2, West End Lane, Shanghai, the wife of J. GREGOR ?, of a son. On the 9th April, 1901, at No. 21, Miller Road, Shanghai, the wife of O. A. MADAR, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
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On the 8th April, at Bethesda, Bras Basah Road, Singapore, by Mr. A. R. Thoburn, Mr. Joan CLEMENT LUFF, E. E. A. and C. Telegraph Com- pany, to ANNIE, daughter of Mr. A. L. KOENITZ, Frankfort House, Singapore.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Hsiangyang, Northern Hupeh, is said to be favoured as the new capital of China, in place of Peking. It is said that the Empress Dowager refuses to go to Peking.
No. 16.
Aguinaldo has taken the oath of allegiance to the United States after rauch hesitation. The inst. His act is stated to have been brought ceremony took place on the evening of the 1st | about by the arguments of the Chief Justice. Aguinaldo is also stated to have signed a mani- festo to the Filipino people, calling on them to accept United States sovereignty. It is said that he will probably accept President McKinley's invitation to visit the United States.
We have received information from a per- 17th instant that part of the Imperial Winter fectly reliable source that at 11 p.m. on the Palace at Peking which was inhabited by Field Marshal Count von Waldersee, including the travelling asbestos house brought by him from General von Schwarzkopf fell a victim to the Germany, was burnt to the ground. Major- fire, the origin of which is unknown. There is stated to be no reason for suspecting incen- diariam.
According to a New York despatch the United States Consul at Yokohama çabled the report that Japan is on the verge of a financial crisis, owing to her extravagant expenditure and 'ex- oessive flotation of foreign loans. The recent loan proposals have failed, one immediate result being that Japan is trying diplomatically to ar-
Manchuria and Corea. Mr. Costes, however, denies this report. He says that he forwarded but not mentioning any diplomatic subject. a despatch in February about Japan's finance,
It is announced that the Northern Pacific Railway has chartered eight steamers to run from Tacoma to Liverpool by way of the Farrange a compromise with Russia regarding East, commencing this May.
It is reported that Mr. Alger, speaking to an interviewer, said that the time had now arrived for a thoroughly pacific policy in the Philippines, and 25,000 troops were quite sufficient for the work to be done.
On Wednesday night during a gale at Woo- sung H.M.8. Centurion dragged her anchors and fouled the ram of of H.M.B. Glory, damag ing a wing compartment and necessitating her starting for this port to-day to dock and repair. The Glory was not injured.
A fight took place at Nagasaki on Wednesday evening, the 10th inst., between same of the men of H.M.S. Barfleur and some French soldiers and sailors. Oue British sailor was killed and three seriously wounded before the French officers could stop the fight.
the McLeavy Brown affair was amicably settled Seoul telegrams of the 2nd inst. state that at the audience granted by the Corean Emperor and that the Corean Government had forwarded to the British Minister on the previous day, an official note to Mr. McLeavy Brown and withdrawn the notice of dismissal.
At St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, on Mon- day, the 8th April, by the Rev. D. Holland Stubbs, W.H. B. ALLEN to FLORENCE, Becond daughter of First Class Master Gunner Surra, R.G.A.
On the 10th April, 1901, at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, A Russian semi-official statement of policy M.A., GEORGE FREDERICK STOOKE, L.B.C.P. & pursued in China contradicts the German Em 8.E., of Ichang, to JESSIE JANE GRAHAM, L.R.C.P. paror's statement that the Tsar suggested the &S.E., daughter of David Graham, Esq., Dun-appointment of Count von Walderses to the fermline, Scotland.
On the 10th April, 1901, at the U.S. Consulate, Shanghai, MARGARET CECELIA MOLLOY, of New York, to HENRY Augustus Branscom, of Ogden,
Utah, U.SA.
DEATHS.
On the 3rd April, 1901, at Newchwang, Mrs. SUSANNA LISTER, native of Sunderland, relict of the late William LISTER, in her 67th year.
On the 8th April, 1901, at No. 2, West End Lane, Shanghai, Mrs. MARIAN GREGORY, the wife of John GREGOET, aged 23 years.
On the 9th April, 1901, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, EENEST MICHEL, aged 50 years.
At Medan, Netherlands-India, on the 9th April, PATLLI, eldest daughter of Mr. J. H. WICH KR3,
At No. 105, D. Orchard Road, Singapore, on the 10th April, Louis RODECK, of Germany (Granse), aged 48 years.
though Russia immediately informed the command in Chins, and further says that al- Cabinets of the Powers of her assent to the appointment, it did not imply any intention to deviate from her own programms later.
The Tokyo correspondent of the Mainichi reports that a section of Japanese politicians is recently suggested in a Russian journal. They advocating an alliance of Russia and Japan, as
urge
to the Russo-Chinese treaty regarding Man. that Japan should abandon all opposition churia, and concentrate her entire strength in Corea. Strange to say, the correspondent writes, Russia has given up her designs on Corea, and the politicians believe that Japanese policy will undergo a change shortly. This report must be taken with a good deal of
reserve.
At the beginning of the week the New York Herald stated that Mr. Rockhill had reported from China to be approximately as follows:-- the indemnities claimed by the various Powers Russia £18,000,000 Germany £14,000,000, States £3,000,000, Great Britain £4,800,000, France £8,000,000, Japan £6,000,000, United Belgium £1,158,000, Italy, Austria, and Spain together £6,000,000. However, according to the Times Berlin correspondent, this statement is "exceedingly incorrect" and aroused Indig- nation, while it is said in authoritative quarters thst Germany's claims amount to £12,000,000, £13,000,00“. Russia's to" £17,000,000, and France's
Kangai and Brechuen. Recently an American Fresh missionary troubles are reported from
bought land at a place called Kianfu, Kiangsi The Echo de Chine states that Chaps and in order to build a chapel. The people rose. Lentay in Tibet have been destroyed by up and hindered. The local official could brigands, who captured and tortured a French manage the affair, so the American tele priest, M. Mussot; on the demand of M. Bɔns to his Minister, who told the Trung-li d'Anty, French Consulat Changking the Viceroy They ordered the Kiangsi officials to of Szechuan has sent a forse to endeavour to case to the satisfaction of all. Th resens M. Mussot. Mosymian has also been Episoopsl pastor has sent a ma destroyed by the brigand, who are threatsning affair. Another case has occur Tachionla. The same papers report that the la, Szechuan. A Boman Catholic indemnity claimed by the French in Szechuan | been destroyed, and the priest driv on account of Yü M' n-txe's outragos has been | French Minister at Peking has best paid in full.
̈“of the affair.