THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL LIII.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &o... Cam. Leading Articles:-.
The China Association's Report The Russians at Tientsin Great Britain and the Indemnities Some Japanese Views on China. The Vitriol Case
The Sale of Tainted Food
The Crisis: Telegrams..
The Need of Municipal Freedom in Hongkong,
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce....
The Plague ...................
The "St. David " Manslaughter
Canton
Manila
Weihaiwei
Messrs. A. 8. Watson & Co., Limited...
Correspondence
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, 25TH MAY, 1901.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Mr. Conger, U.S. Minister at Peking, returns to China in July.
3,300 British troops leave China immediately. 425 It is hoped that there will be further reductions
shortly.
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The Japanese papers publish disquieting news of the spread of plague in Formosa, especially at Tainan,
H. B. M. Consul at Amoy has notified the Government that bubonic plague exists at that 428 port, several cases occurring daily.
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429
No. 21.
The defences of the British Legation at Peking are reported by a Peking correspondent built running parallel, on the north, with to have been begun. "A strong wall will be
Stewart Road and the, south wall of the Im• · perial City, on the west with Gaseles Road. It will be enflanked and loopholed. Without the wall will be a clear space to come and approach. Within, the present buildings will be either utilised, where serviceable, as in the Carriage. Park, or demolished if useless to make space for parade and recreation grounds."
Natives from Peking who have come down.. to Shanghai (says the N.-C. Daily News) report.. that it is proposed to change the name of the
On the 19th inst. H.M.S. Astraca was sud-Chunwên gate of Peking into the "Ketteler" 428 denly ordered from Shanghai to Chemulpo. No fresh news is to hand as to affairs in Corea, but details as to the proposed expedition from Weihaiwei will be found on p. 429.
429 432 The Wanchai Warahonse and Storage Co., Ltd... 433 Supreme Court
Review
Watson's Mineral Water Factory
.434
..497
It is stated that the Corean Government is very anxious to avoid payment of any damages ..............437 in event of the cancellation of the French loan; 437 but that the loan will be cancelled even if it be necessary to pay the compensation claimed.
Proclamations have been spread broadcast in Chihli, according to the native papers, exhorting the people to return to their homes and resume their ordinary avocations. Therefore they are returning in great numbers, and planting the spring crops.
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
Hockey
.498
Yokohama Races
498
General Gaselge
.438
Russia and Japan
438
Burma's Relations with Siam.
498
A Wonderful Story
.438
Hongkong and Port News
Shipping
BIRTH.
499
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The Chinese Court, according to our Shang: hai correspondent, has issued an urgent Imperial Decree ordering Prince Ching and Li Hung- chang to conclude terms of peace. The famine in Shensi has rendered the stoppage of the
On the 20th May, the wife. of A. VON PUSTAU, Court at Hsianfu impossible. Canton, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 8th May, 1901, at Newchwang, John C. MARTIN to MARIE ÅLEXANDRA HEUCKENDORFF.
At the British Consulate, Shanghai, on the 11th May, 1901, FREDERICK WILLIAMS-ROWLAND, I. M. Customs, Shanghai, to ELIZABETH MABEL
TURNEE, of Hongkong.
On the 14th May, 1901, at H.B.M. Consulate, Shanghai, afterwards at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., James
HECTOR WATTS, C.M.G., of Tientsin, to SALOME LOUISA, eldest daughter of OSBORNE and Salome Elizabeth MIDDLETON of Shanghai.
DEATHS.
On the 11th May, 1901, at No. 4, Amoy Road, Shanghai, CLARA BEUN, the wife of William BRUN, aged 48 years.
On the 20th May, 1901; R. M. MEHTA, aged 42
years.
The telegram appearing in our issue of the 20th inst., reporting the safe arrival of H.M.8. Woodcock at some port, on the Yangtze doubt what that port was, the name being apparently, unfortunately left it a matter of mutilated. It is perhaps most probable that Chungking is meant. It will be remembered that H.M.S. Woodcock last April reached Suifu, 250 miles above Chungking. To reach Chinkiang would certainly be no feat.
Marquis Saionji, President of the Japanese Privy Council, and Acting Premier, was ap tion of Marquis Ito was at the same time pointed Premier on the 10th inst. The resigna-
accepted. The Saionji Cabinet has not been formed yet; but it understood that Count Inouye will be appointed Minister of Finance. Most of the members of the late Cabinet are expected to resume office. It is understood that Marquis Yamagata and Marquis Saigo, Count Matsugata and Count Inouye met and urged Marquis Saionji to accept the premiership.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 19th April arrived, per M. M steamer Natal, on the 20th May (31 day); and the English mail of the 28th April arrived, per P. & O. steamer Parramatta, on the 24th May (28 days)..
The Universal Gazette states that from
at Peking, the German Minister, it seems, sent a despatch recently to the Chinese Plenipoten tiaries demanding the payment of 2) million taels as part of the German indemnity by the
gate (K'ê-tê-lin-mên) after the late German Minister Barou von Ketteler, and the Drum Tower hitherto known as the Eastern Tower or "Tung P'ai-lou" in the vicinity of which the late Baron was murdered by a petty officer ·· Memorial Arch or "Hsin-piso P'ai-fang." In. of Yung Lu's personal corps last June, into. this connection, according to the Shênpao's editor, "it is improbable that the Plenipoteti. aries will consent to such a proposition.”
On the 20th inst., Vicount Cranborne informed,, the House of Commons that the British Govern- ment desires a moderate indemnity from China, Government, he continued, is unalterably op- so as not to infringe commercial interests. The posed to China raising the import duties to 10. per cent, as security for the indemnity, unless this step be accompanied by improvements such as the abolition of the lekin dues. The Govern. ment also opposes a joint guarantee by the Powers. Later in the week Lord Lansdowne in the House of Lords stated that the British
pay
Government had suggested that China should demnites, and should earmark certain sources of
the Powers in bonds representing the ini Chinese revenue, the yield being paid to a special-- Powers. The advantage of this arrangement,.... receiving board for distribution among the Lord Lansdowne said, is that, should China . default, the Powers affected could by collectively concerted action be assured of compelling pay. ment.
mates, for the year 1901, by Mr. Acton, second.
In a report on the German colonial esti- secretary in His Majesty's Embassy at Berlin,
balanced at £552,500, being an increase on the we learn that the estimates for Kiaochau are estimates for the current year of £52,837. 10s. The State grant-in-aid is fixed at £537,500, as tion of £2,500 is foreseen in the receipts from against £489,00) for the year 1900. A reduc- the sales of land, and an increase of £1,250 in the receipts from direct taxation. Under the head of non-recurring expenditure, the follow- ing items occur :-£5,000 for the erection of s light at Techalientan; and £15,000 for the construction of a floating-dock, the necessity for which is stated to have been demonstrated; in the interests both of the Imperial navy and of the mercantile marine. Under the head of receipts are the following
| end of the 4th moon (the third wook in June). | £5,000 (£7,500); diren - Rems:-Land sales,
£2,300 (£1,250); Upon receipt of this money the Germans will miscellaneous, £7,500 (£,912.- 10.); State at once withdraw from Peking. Failing pay, grant, £537,50) (£489,000). The recurring ment of the amount demanded within the period expenditure includes: Civil administratio given, the German forces will remain and the £38,153. 2. (£39,206. 5a); military administe Chinese Government will be called upon to pay tion, £112,836, 2, (£93,220, 4a.); joint expendi their expenses at the rate of one million taoisture of civil and military: administration per month.
£70,1 15«. (£86,307. 80. 16m.).