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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:-
Indemnities and the Tariff
Concession-Hunting at Tientsin The Corean Loan
Plague and the Sanitary Authorities
The Question of the Coal-Tax.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 11TH MAY, 1901.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
.983 Dr. Chester Rowell's name is mentioned in connection with the post of United States ..384 Minister to Japan.
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The Portuguese cruiser Adamastor, which 385 has long been a familiar sight here, left Singa- 386pore for Lisbɔn on the first instant.
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386 Mr. Root has cabled to General MacArthur 386 to reduce the U.S. army in the Philippines to .388 3,500 men. General Chaffee succeeds to the
supreme command in June.
Education at Queen's College
The Crisis: Telegrams.....
King's Message to Hongkong
Hongkong Sanitary Board.......
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce.
The Epecial Jury Question
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The Stranded Sobradu...
New Praya Reclamation Scheme
New Synagogue in Hongkong
Theatre Royal
Canton
Northern Notes
Correspondence
A. 8. Watson & Co., Limited.
Reviews
Supreme Court
Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Shanghai Races-Spring Meeting.
Railways in Burma
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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On the 6th inst., Viscount Cranborne in the House of Commons informed Mr. Redmond that it was not understood that Russia had 393 receded from her intention of evacuating .393 | Manchuria.
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.394 It is reported that Prince Ching and Li 393 Hung-chang have asked the British Minister to request the Rev. Timothy Richard of Shang- .397 hai to proceed to Shansi and settle all the 398 indemnity cases there.
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At Shanghai, on the 27th April, 1901, the wife of W. BULLARD, of a son.
On the 28th April, at Paya Jambu, Sumatra, the wife of W. PERCY PINCKNEY, of a son.
On the 29th April, 1901, at Astor House, Tientsin, the wife of H. SCHELL, of a daughter.
At Shanghai, on the 30th April, 1901, the wife of E. M. CARION, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 2nd May, 1901, at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges,
M.A., FREDERICK LARGE, to ANNIE WILLIAMS, both of Liverpool.
DEATHS.
On the 30th April, 1901, at Hamburg, JOHN SCHMIDT, of Shanghai, aged 36 years.
On the 5th May, 1901, at Bombay, Sir DINSHAW KANOCKJEE PETIT, Bart., aged 78 years.
At the Peak Hospital, on Sunday, May 5th,
BY COOK HOWORTH, aged 31 years, At No. 4, Knutsford
Kowloon, WILLIAM ARTHUR RANDLE, 1 chief officer of the steamer Kaifong.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
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The French mail of the 29th March arrived, per M. M. steamer Laos, on the 5th May (42 days), the American mail of the 9th April arrived, per I. K. K. steamer Hongkong Maru, on the 7th May (28 days); the Canadian mail of the 15th April arrived, per C. P. B. steamer Empress of Japan, on the 7th May (22 days); and the English mail of the 12th April arrived, per P. & O. steamer Bengal, on the 10th May (28 days).
A letter is published from General Tung Fahsiang to Yung Lu, in which the former states that he acted entirely under the latter's order. He now contrasts his own disgrace with Yung Lu's honours.
The Peking correspondent of the N.-C. Daily News telegraphed on the 26th April: -The sale by the Ameri ns of their shares in the Hankow-Canton Railway will probably result in grave political consequences.
The steamer Hc 'ching, Messrs. Douglas La- praik & Company, arrived from coast ports on Thursday, and proceeded at once to Kwloon Dock to be fitted up as a transport. The Hai- ching has been chartered to convey some of the Indian troops back to Caloutta.
At a meeting of the Allied Generals at Peking it was unanimously agreed that the administra. tion of Peking should be allowed to revert gradually to the Chinese. The Field-Marshal's former proposals as to strength and disposition of the troops were confi. med.
The N.-C. Daily News speaks of the Cheng- wu-chu, a new board cons itated by the Throne for the transaction of Government business. It consists of Prince Ching, Li Hung-chang; Wang Wen-shao, Kun Kang, Yung Lu, and Lu Chuan-lin, with Liu Kung yi and Chang board is ostensibly a reform commission for the Chih-tung as advisory assistants. The new
administration of affairs until the return of the Emperor, but really it is to be a Council of Regency.
No. 19.
Dr. Morrison telegraphs to the Times that the Ministers of the Powers generally favour a loan of sixty-five millions under international guarantee. They unanimously recommend as securities the Imperial Maritime Customs and an increase of the import tariff to 10 per
cent.
General Staff, has been appointed Military Commissioner to the Taotsi at Kirin, and Colonel Baron Uexkull, also of the General Staff, has been assigned the same position with the Taotai at Tsitsihar The duties of these Commissioners consist in coming to an under. standing with the Chinese with regard to all questions concerning the accommodation, food, transport, and all other details affecting the Russian soldiery in Manchuria,
Lisut.-Colonel Manakin, of the Russian
A Tokyo telegram states that the Japanese anthorities are making constant inquiries as to the actual transport capacity of the Siberian railway by the despatch of competent officials there. The latest report is said to mention that 725 engines are used on the railway, 117 | of them being exclusively used for the con- veyance of troops. The number of roofed war- riages is 6,000 and of unroofed carriages there are 2,300. The number of special carriages and water tank cars is 650, being a total of 8,950 in all.
A Seoul telegram to the Asahi says that although Great Britain and America are not pleased with the French loan affair, it seems unlikely that they will officially protest against it to the Corean Government. There is not sufficient ground for a protest. It is under stood that the Japanese Minister to Seoul has not yet lodged a protest either. A Jiji tele- gram dated Seoul, April 27th, says:~The re- port that the British Minister to Seoul has lodged a demand with the Corean Government for a lease of Port Hamilton has not been con- firmed yet.
There was quite a flutter at Newchwang on Sunday, the 21st April, says the Shanghai Mercury, the occasion being the arrival of the steamer Leeyuen, Captain Johns, the first vessel flying the dragon flag astern and the C.M.S.N. Co.'s flag at the fore since the Russian occupation of the port. As song as she arrived she was boarded by the Russians, who placed an armed guard on board and searched the vessel, the object being stated at the time as being to confiscate the vessel. But representations having been made of the ab- surdity of such in view of the fact that war foregone, and the vessel sailed on the 25th had not been declared against China, this was
safely.
A. Tientsin native paper states that the pro- vincial authorities in Kaifengfu are repairing The Admiralty have given orders for the the old palaces of the Sung dynasty, A.D. 950- following ships serving on the China Station 1126. A large quantity of China dinner ser- to return to England during the financial vices, etc., had also been provided by the officials year 1901-1902, on being replaced by ships in anticipation of the near arrival of the Court, sent out to relieve them:-The first-class battle-which, according to the Universa: Gasette, ship Centurion, for seven years flagship of the leave for Kaifeng, the provincial capita Commander-in-Chief of the China Station; of Honan within the next fortnight. This the first-class battleship Darfleur, flagship of is said to be due to an urgent appeal of the second in command on the China Station, which was transferred from the Mediterranean to the China Station three years since; the second-class cruisers Bonaventure and Her- mione, the second-class gun vessel Linnet, and the first-class gunboat Peacock.
Grand Secretary, Sun Chis-nai, on the grouns that the famine-stricken province of Shensi no longer bear the burden of feeding the semy of Court followers in that province. The abo is alleged to be from a reliable souros and fairl trustworthy.