THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LIV.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
The Foreign Office and the Far East
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 20TH JULY, 1901.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Governor of Shansi has telegraphed to the Rev. Timothy Richard announcing the 62 62 safe arrival of eight Protestant Missionaries 63 at Taiyuanfu.
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In Lower Laos a rebellion has broken out against the French authorities, arising from the imposition of the fresh taxation. The rebels mainly object to the poll-tax.
The correspondent of the Standard at Brussels states that a syndicate of Belgain, French, and 70 Russian capitalists being formed for the 70 purpose of constracting railways in China. 70 The capital of the syndicate will be one thousand
Leading Articles :-
The Withdrawal from the North
Foreign Railways in China
The Plague in Hongkong
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The Crisis: Telegrams
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Hongkong Legislative Copacil
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Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
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Mysterious Affair near Amoy..
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Report of the Inspector of Schools
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Canton
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Macao
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Tientsin
Sandakan Notes...
Manila
Philippines under Civil Bule
Northern Notes
Correspondence
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Hongkong Cotton Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing
Company, Limited...
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United Asbestos Oriental Agency, Limited.
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Supreme Court
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Hongkong Cricket Festival, 1901
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Shooting Match at Kowloon
Royal Hongkong Golf Club
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A Singapore Criticism of Hongkong Municipal
Affairs
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British North Borneo
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Gunnery on the Terrible
Commercial
Hongkong and Fort News
Shipping
BIRTHS,
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million francs.
H.M. sloop Mutine, which is to be sent to the China Station, has recantly been completed by Messrs. Laird. She is of 98 tons displacement and 1,400 i.h.p. She carries six 4-in. Q.F. and four 3-pr. guns, has a speed of 13.25 knots, and her complement is 130 men.
It is reported from London that the official estimate for the repair of the Imperial palaces, 76 temples, etc., at Peking amounts to 5,000,000 taels, while the repairing of the roads for the
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On the 30th June, at Newchwang, the wife of J. N. SEGERDAL, of a son.
On the 1st July, at All Saints' Vicarage, Tientsin, the wife of Rev. G. D. ILIFF, of a son.
On the 8th July, at No. 28, Sophia Road, Singapore, the wife of Dr. J. M. HANDY, of a son. MARRIAGES.
On the 22nd June, at All Saints Church, Batu Gajah, Perak, by the Rev. H. Pyemont, Chaplain, GEORGE LOVERIDGE BAILEY, of Tapah, Perak, to FLORENCE ANNIE BAILLIE-RULE, youngest daughter of the late Thomas BAILLIE-RULE, of St. John's, Woking.
On the 9th July, at the Armenian Church of St. Gregory, Singapore, by the Rev. B. G. Gasper, Vicar, ARBATHOON MARTIN SARKIES, late of Java, to REGINA, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. CARAFIET, of Singapore.
DEATHS.
On the 9th July, at 93, River Valley Road, Singapore, suddenly, A. ALLAN, Superintendent of the Savings Bank, aged 45 years.
On the 12th July, at Tokyo, YABUSABURO WOOYEDA, Director of the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, aged about 50 years.
On the 13th July, at Kowloon, DOROTHY EDITH, the beloved daughter of Wm. W. and Eaith WILSON, aged 7 months.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
return of the Court via Honan and Chibli to Peking reaches another 3,000,000.
The King of Siam, who has been on a visit to Jara, landed at Shanghai on the 17th inst. lunched with H. E. Sir F. A. Swettenham, He was accorded an official reception, and
Sir F. A. Swettenham at dinner the same the Acting Governor. The King entertained
night.
The French Mail of the 14th June arrived N. Y. K. steamer Biago Maru, on the 15th per July (31 days); and the English Mail of the 21st June arrived, per. P. & O. steamer - Coromandel, on the 18th July (27 days).
appointment as Russian Minister to Peking as The Novoe Fremya regards M. Lessar's a guarantee that China will maintain friendly His advice will be of great value when Russia decides to bring the Central Asian Railway into direct communication with Peking, via Chinese Turkestan.
relations with the Powers.
a more
Ever since it has become known that the antiquated and useless Tsungli Yamên is to be abolished in favour of something on have been many guesses as to who would be modern basis, says the N.-C. Daily News, there appointed, as the first Presidents and Vice- Presidents of the new Ministry, a number of names having been, off and on, tentatively published as prospective members of the new Foreign Office. The Universal Gazette now publishes the latest prospective Presidents, namely, Wang Web-shao, and Chu Hung-chi,
President of the Board of Works.
No. 4.
The British Minister to Tokyo has forwarded an official note to the Japanese Government with regard to the establishment of a British Consulate at Bakan; but the Government has not yet replied.
The Sanmun Bay affair, according to the Universal Gazette, has at last been arranged by Viceroy Li Hung-chang with the representative of the Power which is credited with having designs upon the place. It is not yet known what are the so-called "arrangements," but it seems that Viceroy Li Hung-chang has recently wired to the Chekiang provincial authorities at Hangchow assuring them that "the acute part of the crisis had passed and that nothing unusual need be anticipated from foreign quarters."
A Calcutta telegram of the 28th ult. says :— "Under instructions from Government the Marine authorities in Caloutta have chartered yet another transport, the Kaifong, to proceed to Hongkong to bring back troops. She will be fitted up as a trooper for cavalry." Simla despatches give the following dates for the Indian troops leaving Hongkong this month:
A number of Chinese merchants in Shanghai engaged in the Newchwang trade received from their agents at that port on the 6th and 7th inst. telegraphic news stopping all goods from being sent up North, until further notice. The reasons given are that the insurgents, generally styled Red Beards" (Hung Hu-tze), are overrunning the whole of the region between Newchwang and Moukden, preventing com- North, and stopping all trade routes. Many munication between the two points and further
merchants have already suffered from the insurgents, who carried off all the goods that fell into their hands, whilst several supercargoes
have lost their lives.
-The Sumatra with a detachment of the 16th Bengal Cavalry and Miscellaneous Head- quarters Staff on the 20th; the Glengyle with the 20th Bengal Infantry, the Malerkotla Sappers and Staff of the 3rd Brigade on the 20th, and the Nevasa with No. 4 Co. Bengal Sappers and No. 2 Co. Bombay Sappers on the 21st July.
News wrote on the 2nd inst. that all the local The Peking correspondent of the N.-C. Daily
authorities emphatically deny that Tung Fu- hsiang is contemplating rebellion against the Empress. They say he is still in high favour with that lady and has nothing to gain by rebellion. The general sentiment of the people is, however, that a future outburst of anti- foreign feeling is inevitable. How long it may be delayed will depend upon the precautionary efforts of the Foreign Powers to prevent it. While they are vigilant and maintain a con- siderable force in the country, there is not much to fear. But as soon as it is at all feasible another uprising will take place. The Con- servative party will only yield their stupid opposition to progress and reform with their
lives.
There are a number of changes taking place in the personnel of the Corean Customs service, according to the Ostasiatische Lloyd. The Commissioner at Fusan, M. Laporte, a French- man, has been transferred from that port to Chemulpo. His successor will be Mr. Osborne, an Englishman. Mr. Chalmers goes as Acting Commissioner-General to Seoul. English diplo- macy during the trouble with the Coreans Has certainly gained the victory. It seems that the. Commissioner-General, Mr. McLeavy Brown, intends to leave Seoul in a very short time on long leave, from which he will not return to his post in Cores. It is reported there that a near relation of Sir Robert Hart's will be successor to Mr. McLeavy Brown. It cannot be denied that he is entitled to a great dea! of praise for the work he has done in Corsa, but on the other his unbending will at the Corean Court in Seoul, hand he has made a number of enemies through
It now seems that the British are willing to comply with the old wish of the Corean Gor- ernment by appointing someone else in Mr. Brown's place.
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