THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LIII.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Wesk, &:.
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The Government of Hongkong Approaching Return of the Court Japan, Russia, and the Telegraph Manchuria
Village Sanitation
The Evacuation of Chihli
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 3RD JUNE, 1901.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
A plague of locusts in Anhwei Province is 444 | causing much unrest.
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Li Hung-chang has presented a Note to the 445 Ministers at Peking, by which China agrees to 446 pay 450,000,000 taels, with 4 per cent. interest.
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The Missionary Troubles and a Proposed Cure 446 The Crisis: Telegrams...
The Need of Municipal Freedom in Hongkong :
Part III
Hongkong Sanitary lloard
The Plague
Canton
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A Mainichi telegram says that Min Yei-kwan of the Corean War Department ordered from France 25 quick-firing field-guns some time ago, which are to be delivered shortly.
Admiral Sir E. H. Seymour, G.C.B.. is 452 expected at Woosung in the Alacrity on the 1st inst. He will probably go straight up the river to pay a farewell visit to the Viceroye, 454 and then call in at Shanghai on his way back.
According to the Japanese papers, Mr. 455 Hayashi, Japanese Minister to Seoul, issued a notice on the 16th inst., that Jihukpo, to the west of Masampo, will be used as a Japanese concession. The negotiations respecting a site for the concession are reported settled..
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New Dredger for Honkgong
Japan's Colonial Venture
Swatow
Peking
Northern Notes
The "Hongkong Junta" again
Corespondence
The Star" Ferry Co., Limited
Review
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Hongkong Gun Club
Yokohama Races
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Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Suipping
BIRTHS.
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Vico-Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, the new 463 Cominander-in-Chief of the British naval force in China, with his staff, proceeded by the White Star steamer Oceanic from Liverpool on May 8th, and was to travel by the Canadian Pacific Railway and steamer, via Vancouver and Japan,
On the 17th May, 1901, at Mohkanshan, the wife of the Rev. A. KENNEDY, of a son.
On the 26th May, at Shameen, Canton, the
wife of F. A. BRÖCKELMANN, of a son,
On the 26th May, at Malowchow Station, Lappa, the wife of R. J. WHITE, I.M.C., of a son.
On the 27th May, at "Lustleigh," Peak, the wife of E. F. STOVELL, of a daughter.
On the 20th May, at Stolzenfels, Peak, the wife of HANS SCHUBAET, of a daughter,
MARRIAGES.
On the 15th May, at St. Andrew's Church, Shiba, Tokyo, by the Rev. A. F. King, M.A, WILLIAM BENJAMIN, eldest son of W. B. MASON, of Tokyo, to ADA, youngest daughter of J. WINSTANLEY, of Yokohama.
On the 25th May, at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A, JOHN NIGHTINGALE, Chinese Imperial Maritime Cus- toms, Wenchow, to ELLA CORA SAW, of Pittsburg, Pa, U.S.A.
On the 28th May, at St. John's Cathedral, by the Rev. F. T. Johnston, RALPH LITTMANN to DAISY ETHEL MOLLER, both of Shanghai.
DEATHS.
On the 18th May, at the Victoria Nursing Home, Range Road, Shanghai, Lieut.-Col E. M. DAMLA, I.M.B.
On the 20th May, 1901, at Pagoda Anchorage, ELIZABETH CHARLOTTE, the wife of H. A. McINNES (I:M.(.), aged 47 years.
On the 27th May, 1901, at Shanghai General Hospital, CARLOS C. ENCARNACAO, of Hankow, aged 36 years.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 25th April arrived, per O. & O. steamer Doric, on the 24th May (31 days); the Canadian mail of the 6th May arrived, per t'. P. R. steamer Empress of China, on the 28th May (22 days); the German mail of the 17th April arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Sachsen, on the 29th May (42 days); and the American mail of the 3rd May arrived, per T. K. K. steamer Nippon Maru, on the 31st May (28 days).
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to take over the duties of his command.
The people of Moji are endeavouring to secure the establishment of the new British Consulate on their side of the Shimonoseki Straits. The Kobe Chronicle understands that a deputation from Moji has arrived in Kobe, and will proceed to Yokohama and Tokyo to press the superior claims of their town as the site of the Consulate.
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The consent of the Throne has been obtained by the Plenipotentiaries to change the name of the Tsungli Yamên into Waiwupu Board of Foreign Affairs. The building, according to the N.-C. Daily News Peking correspondent, has been turned over to the Chinese, and it was intended to open this new Board on or about the 25th ult.
The insurgent generals, Mascardo and Lacuna, having surrendered in the Philippines, the U.S. Governor-General has signalised the fact by the release of 500 prisoners. General Malvar, on the other hand, has refused the amnesty and
delared himself President in succession to
Aguinaldo. He has about 2,000 men under his immediate orders. General Cailles has agreed to surrender.
The four German battleships at Woosung, the Brandenburg. Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm, Weissenburg, and Wörth, received orders on Saturday last to be prepared to leave for home on the 31st ult., but later orders came by which their departure was delayed for a few days. It is understood, the N.-C. Daily News says, that the.e will shortly be a general reduction of the foreign garrison at Shanghai.
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Russia has agreed to the British proposal for a mixed Commission; the ministers at Peking are said unanimously to desire later Commission to consist of the heads of foreign banks.
It is stated, says the N.-C. Daily News, that Viceroy Chang Chihtung is very desirous of either suppressing or gagging the native Press especially in Shanghai. The Viceroy states that these newspapers published a lot of rumours and unreliable news and that the recent opera- tions of the French and German troops on the Shansi-Chihli borders were really due to these unreliable reports. It is said that the Mixed Court magistrate at Shanghai has sent a circular letter to the various local vernacular newspapers informing them of Viceroy Chang's intentions regarding them.
The New Press of the 27th ult. says:-A Nanking despatch to hand states that it was currently rumoured among the high official circles there to the effect that it is the intention of the Powers to place Prince Chun (the brother of the Emperor) upon the Throne, in the event of His Majesty the Emperor Kwang Hou not going back to Peking within the coming 5th moon (June), and that they have decided to ask their Excellencies Liu Kung-yi, Chang Chi Tung, and Tao Mu to act as Imperial Regents. Upon hearing of this, Viceroy Liu is said to have been much upset, and as a result to have wired to the Court at Hsiaafu praying the Emperor to fix a date to depart for Peking without delay.
A Japanese vernacular paper states that the affray which took place at Nagasaki between British and French marines in April last, in which a British bluejacket was killed, has come up as a diplomatic question. The British minister to Tokyo addressed an official note to the Foreign Department and asked the Japanese authorities why the French cruiser Neve was allowed to leave before due search for the man responsible for the death of the British blue- jacket was instituted. The Foreign Depart. ment referred to the Nagasaki Court officials, who looked after the case, and the Chief Publio Procurator of the the Court replied that the his powers, but that the necessary enquiries as detention of a foreign warship was not within' to the offender were duly carried out. Whether the Foreign Department replied to the British Minister and whether the latter was satisfied with the roply is not stated in the Japanese
press.
With reference to the rumour that unless the Emperor returns speedily to Peking there control of four high Chinese officials, thereby, is an intention to place the Empire under the
as it were, partitioning Chins amongst her own sons and not amongst the Foreign Powers, the following report (says the N. C. Daily News) darins: (1) The Liangking and Min-Châ is now circulating amongst the local man provinces to be under the Viceroy Liu of Nanking; (2) Hunan, Hupeh, and Szechuan to be under the Viceroy Chang of Wushang; (3) H.M. storeship Humber, which arrived in Kwangtung, Kwangai, Yunnan, and Kucichau the harbour on the 29th inst. from Weihaiwei under Viceroy Tao of Canton; (4) Shantung, and Chemulpo, reports that all was quiet at the Shansi, Southern Shensi, Honan, and Chihii latter place. The expedition from Weihaiwei in under Governor Yuan of Chinan. Finally, connection with the Corean trouble, although Northern Shensi, Kansu, Chinese Turkestan, ready to start, had not been despatched when Tibet, Mongolia (Inuer and Outer), and Man- the Humber left on the 23rd inst. There were churia to be under the Emperor (the Empress then at Chemulpo H.M.cruisers Astraea and Isis. Dowager and her Reactionaries, of course), Affairs at Seoul were also quiet, and altogether," who is to be given the liberty of doing what- although cordial relations did not exist, the ever His Majesty may be pleased to command aspect of affairs generally was encouraging. in the matter.”