THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LIV.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles ;----
Hongkong: Naval and Military Works
The New Territory Report
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 26TH AUGUST, 1901.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The Canadian mail of the 30th July arrived, C. P. R. steamer Empress of India, on the 20th August (21 days); the German mail of the 9th July arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Prins Heinrich, on the 22nd August (44 days); and the American mail of the 25th July arrived, per P. M. steamer Peru, on the 23rd August (29 169 days).
Shanghai and the Tramways Scheme
Great Britian and German Trade.......
159
The United States and the World's Commerce.160
Sir John Carrington's Resignation
160
The Crisis: Telegrams
.161
The Late Empress Frederick
161
Hongkong Sanitary Board
161
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
164
Building in Hongkong.
Fatal Collision in the Harbour
The New Territory in 1900
165 166 .167
Confiscation of Prescriptive Rights in the New
Territory
.168
Tientsin
Northern Notes
Foochow
Correspondence
171
The Universal Trading Company, Limited
171
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd.
172
Great Eastern & Caledonian Gold Mining Co., Ltd.172
Hongkong Hotel Company, Limited
.172
Reviews
173
Supreme Court
.175
Interport Rifle Match
Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
169
169 .169
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Prince Henri d'Orleans has died at Saigon after a serious operation on the liver.
Russia is reported to be equipping an ex- .178 pedition to work coalfields in Szechnen.
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On the 11th August, at Foochow, the wife of G. SIEMSSEN, H. G. M.'s Consul, of a son.
On the 18th August, at Malacca, the wife of TILDEN ELDRIDGE, of a son.
On the 15th August, at No. 3, Quai de France, Shanghai, the wife of Bernhard BuscHMANN, of
& Bon.
On the 16th August, at 210-2 Queen Street, Singapore, the wife of Capt. C. B. MADDOX, barque Mathilde, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 7th August, at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, by the Rev. W. H. Dunkerley, Colonial Chaplain, REGINALD JOHN BAYARD, eldest son of Reginald B. B. CLAYTON, late of Maryborough, Queensland, to BEATRICE, fifth daughter of the late Charles DICKENS, of Gads Hill, Kent.
On the 13th August, 1901, at Christ Church, Yokohama, by the Right Rev. Bishop Awdry D.D., assisted by the Rev. Thomas Wright, Rev. WALTER J. SOUTHAM, B.D., of Hongkong, to Miss SABAH E. GOLDSTONE, of Toronto, Canada.
DEATHS.
On the 20th July, on the s.8. Sachsen, at sea, near Suez, ARTHUR STMONDS COTTAM, dearly beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. COTTAM, aged
14 months.
On the 20th July, at Kulangsu, Amoy, EDWIN KLIENE, aged 28 years.
On the 1st August, at Chefoo, MINA BLANCHE, daughter of J. REMUSAT, aged 61 months.
On the 10th August, at 28, Seward Road, Shanghai, FLORENCE MAT, second daughter of
David TILBuen.
On the 11th August, at Ningpo, GUSTAV Kultzau, aged 43 years.
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On the 12th August, suddenly, at Johor Bahru, James Hinet ALLEN, third son of the late Mr. and Mrs. C. M. ALLEN, of the Perseverance Estate, Gaylang, Singapore, aged 28 years.
On the 13th August, at the Shanghai General Hospital, Lio Carl August von VAUFNDORFT, & native of Zabetits, Germany, and late of the I. M. Customs, Ningpo, aged 41 years.
On the 18th August, at "The Bluff,” CATHERINE, the wife of Lawrence GIBBS. The funeral will pass the Naval Hospital Gates at 9 a.m. to-day.
On the 23rd August, at 6.30 a.m., at Macao; MARIA ANNA" Josuzna Pereira Marguns, the beloved wife of Lourenço Marques, aged 76 years.
Colonel Marchand, of Fashoda notoriety, has been appointed to the command of the French troops in China.
A serious breach has occurred in both banks of the Yellow River, causing immense destruc- tion of property in Shantung, south of Chinanfu.
It is very probable, the N.-C. Daily News declares, that the Tariff Revision Commission will sit in Shanghai, where all the necessary information will be readily available.
A Paris despatch of the 10th inst, says: -The Standard reports from Tientsin that the British troops have occapied the Summer Palace (Peking). The other Powers have protested.
The N.-C. Daily News learns with much pleasure that the interviews between the Viceroy at Nanking and the Consuls, with reference to the conservancy of the Huangpu were satis factory, the Viceroy falling in with the principle of the scheme, of whose ultimate execution there is little doubt.
Dr. Morrison telegraphed to the Times last week that Sir E. Batow had notified the Chinese plenipotentiaries that unless the an- thors of the Chuchou massacre were punished forthwith, Britain would have to reconsider the arrangements for the withdrawal of her troops.
2,000 troops from Governor Yuan Shikai arrived west of Peking on the 6th inst, under the command of General Chisag. The presence of these troops is taken as a guarantee of order. In fact the Chinese people are said to appear not to recognise any troops as worth anything
No. 9.
Yuen Shikai has ordered five Regiments to start from Tientsin to Peking and the remainder to start on the 6th November, according to Northern native papers.
The three Corean district officials of Quel- part, who showed such anti-Christian tendencies during the recent disturbances there, were examined by the French Chief Justice Crema- sier, and will probably, it is said, be sentenced to death.
We received on the 22nd inst. from the Colonial Secretary's Office the information that plague is no longer epidemic in this colony, and that Clean Bills of Health are now issued. The epidemic which has now come to an end, involved 1,619 cases (1,537 Chinese, 52 other Asiatics, 30 Europeans) and 1,548 deaths (1,503 Chinese, 34 other Asiatics, 11 Europeans).
It is stated from Chinese sources in the North that the Paoting railway, which was built by the French, is only used for conveying material to the Legations and passengers and troops, but that the Chinese seldom travel by that railway. The two plenipotentiaries have accordingly, it is said, arranged with the French representative to destroy the railway after tho Court's return. This story, if true, disposes of the report that the French intend to keep their garrison, consisting of some 1,300 troops, at Paotingfu as a railway guard in the same way that the Manchurian railway is guarded by the Russians, and the Peking and Shanhaikwan railway by the British.
A special Imperial Rescript was sent from Hsian to Prince Ch'ing for transmission by telegraph to Shanghai when Prince Chun was there last month. The terms of this, which are now mado public, are as follows:-Tsai Li, Prince Chun, is now on his first journey to foreign countries. He should therefore be all the more careful in his speech and conduct and attention to his general health. To Chang Yi (Chang Yenmao) is deputed the direction of all core- monies, eto., requisite on occasions like the present, and he mast give his entire attention to the same. After the said mission has been accomplished, Prince Chun must return im- mediately to China, taking care, however, to observe carefully the customs, peoples, and general condition of all the countries he shall visit whilst abroad, so that he may gain benefit, experience, and instruction from his sojourn in other countries.
The following official intimation has been sent to the various high provincial_authorities by the advisers of the Empress Dowager at Haian concerning the fature movements of the Court:-" As already announced to your Excel- lenoy, their Imperial Majesties the Empress Dowager and Emperor have decided to change the date of their departure from Hsian from the 1st of September to the 6th of October next. When the Court arrives in Honan province will brand's off for Kaifeng, the provinci capital, where the 67th birthday anniversag According to our Shanghai morning con. the Emprem Dowager-10th day of the temporary, an authoritative communication moon: Wednesday, 20th November, 19 from Peking, under date the 12th inst., mys to be celebrated before the Court proceeds that it was then practically decided that the ther on towards Peking. In fact their Im- tariff of five per cent. ad valorem on articles perial Majesties will not leave Kaifeng for now on the free list (with a few exceptions to Peking until after the 22nd of December next-- be indicated) will go into effect two months 12th day of the 11th moon. Special Imperial after the signing of the final protocol Cargo instructions have been sent to Bung Kner shipped as late as ten days after the said sign. | (Manohu), Governor of Homan, with reference 'ing will be excepted.
except those of Yuan Shikai.