THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LIV.]
AND
China Overland Trade
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :—-
PAGE
231
H.E. the Governor on Hongkong's Position 32
The Censu
283
Japan's Progress
283
Fresh Missionary Troubles
284.
French Activity in South China
.:.284
Possibilities of Indo-China
235
Occupations in Hongkong
.285
The Crisis: Telegrams
Hongkong Legislative Council 'Hongkong Sanitary Board
Trind Rebels in Kwangtung Census Returns for the Colony
285 .285
288
Trade Report.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 7TH OCTOBER, 1901.
No. 15.
In British North Borneo, the adherents of
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dress Mat Salleh (the gentleman who died so fre-
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The Canadian mail of the 9th September 286 arrived, per C.P.R. steamer Empress of China 289 on the 1st October (22 days); the German mail of the 21st August arrived, per N.D.L. steamer Sachsen, on the 2nd October (42 days); and th American mail of the 4th September arrived per T.K.K. steamer Hongkong Maru, on the 2nd October (29 days).
The Evacuation of Peking
Musical Notes
290 290
Engineers' Concert
291
Dinner at the Club Lusitano
291
Professional Supervision of Building Works in
Hongkong
291
Methods of Dealing with Plague
292
Swatow
292
Tonkin Notes
292
Sandakan Notes.
293
Northern Notes
293
Correspondence
293
Douglas steamship Co., Limited
.293
Great Eastern & Caledonian Gold Mining Co., Ld. 294
Canton Insurance Office, Limited.
295
Yokohama Specie Bank, Limited
295
Supreme Court
Points for the Jockey Club
Sporting and Other Notes
Cricket
.295 296 296 297
Football
Third Gymkhana Meeting
The Chinese Import Duties
Finances of the Straits Ɛettlements
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Count ron Waldersee is reported to be some. what seriously ill.
Sir Frank Athelstane Sweetenham, K.C.M.G., has been gazetted Governor of the Straits Settlements.
It is rumoured that the British, North 297
Borneo Government intends greatly increasing 297
the Customs dnes there on the 1st January 299 298 next. 209
300 801
On the 18th September, at Foochow, the wife of H. SHELLEY Brand, of a son.
On the 2nd October, at "Woodbury," (iarden Road, Kaulung, the wife of ЕтHELBERT FORBES SKERTCHLY, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 21st September, at the British Epis- copal Church, Foochow, by the Rev. Llewellyn Lloyd, WILLIAM HENRY WALLACE, of the Hong kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, sou of the late. ALEXANDER WALLACE, Esq., M.D., of Colchester, to LAURA, eldest daughter of THEODORE MOOREHRAD, Esq., of the Imperial Maritime Customs at Foochow.
On the 26th September, at H.B.M.'s Consulate, before Consul-General Shanghai,
Warren, FREDERICK JAMES STACH, of Park House, St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia, to JOSEPHINE HOMBERT, of Shanghai.
On the 1st October, at Saint John's Cathedral, by the Rev. F. T. Johnson, M.A., GEORGE HARRY, only son of GEORGE DANN, Maidenhead, to GRACE MINNIR, youngest daughter of T. C. SWEET, Willesden Green, London,
DEATHS.
360 Japanese troops arrived in Shanghai on the 26th ult. to relieve the Marines in garrison on the Yangtzepoo Roal. The latter are their way back to Japan.
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A Seoul despatch received in Tokyo on the 19th ult. stated that the French and Russian warships went up the Taidoko & few days ago | and took in a large quantity of smokeless coal
near Pingyang.
Prince Chun has left Europe for China, having embarked on the Bayern at Genoa at the beginning of the month. The projected tour has evidently been abandoned, as was reported before.
A token of French activity in China is to be seen in the opening of the cable between Amoy, Tonkin, and Annamı. This is the tangible result of the manœuvre which gave rise to the recent Amoy scare.
According to the Norddeutsche Zeilung, Germany has placed the astronomical instru- men's looted by her troops at Peking at China's disposal, but China has renounced possession, as the difficulties of re-erecting them are too great.
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quently) are reported to have attacked and killed a Government servant near Tenom. They escaped and have entrenched themselves strongly, awaiting the advance of Government troops.
An official despatch from Wuchang last week stated that Viceroy Chang Chih-tung has re- ceived permission from the Empress Dowager to meet her at Kaifeng. H. E. will therefore leave Wachang for Honan some time during the beginning of November next, remaining at the new capital nntil after the celebration of the Empress Dowager's sixty-seventh birthday an- niversary.
Saturday, the 28th nlt., was the anni- of the birthday of Their Most versary Faithful Majesties the King and Queen of Portugal.. The Consul-General, Sephor Conselheiro Romano, held an "At Home at his residence, "Duart," Arbuthnot Road, from noon to 1 o'clock, which was numerously attended by all the foreign consuls, the press and members of the Portuguese community of Hongkong. The members of the Club Lusitano celebrated the occasion by a banquet, as reported elsewhere.
The Universal Gazette states that the Peace Plenipotentiary Li Hung-chang received a telegram recently from the Chinese Minister at London containing an assurance from the British Foreign Office to the effect that the Tientsin-Peking railway, which has been under the British charge since last year, will be returned to the Chinese Government as soon as the whole of the foreign allies have been withdrawn from Peking, and that the Chinese Government must understand that it is not the intention of England to canse China any trouble in insisting on the control of this railway.
A Wachang despatch to Shanghai reports that to prevent any pretence on the part of foreign concessionaries of the Lu-Han Railway sending foreign troops to act as railway guards along the line now being constructed within Hupeh province, the high authorities of Wu- chang have sent instructions to the Brigadier- General commanding a force near Hankow to detail several companies of his troops to protect the workmen and materials along the line and to continue adding men to act as railway guards as the building of the line progressed. Some three battalions or abont 1,500 well-armed men are to be utilised in this way for the present in Hupeh province, commencing from Hankow; and it is also reported that the high anthorities of Honan province, through which the Ln-Han Railway is also to pass, have received secret in- structions from Hsian to detail a somewhat large force, or say, 2,500 men, to act in the same capacity and so forestall any movement on the part of the French to send “railway guards into Honan from Chihli. A report emanating anxiety and excitement amongst the Yangtsze from a reliable source states that there is much Valley high officials, as well as those of Shau- A Manila telegram of the 30th ult. reports tung and Honan, as to what will be the nature the surprise of an United States garrison in of the German officials' reply to Governor Yuan Southern Samar, P.I., by a party of 400 Shi-kai's demand for the evacuation of Chinese bolomen. The garrison consisting of 12 men territory by German troops, for upon the result of the 9th U.S. Infantry was rushed, only of this will depend in a great measure the thirteen men, with eleven wounded, getting future action of mandarindom, aggressive or away. The rest were killed or captured, in-subservient, so far, at least, as inland railways cluding three officers.
A grave situation is reported from the On the 21st September, át Tsingtao, Rechtsan-Yang tsze. Rebellion is threatened on account of the floods and the peculation by the officals walt Dr. Uno EHRHARDT, aged 37 years.
On the 22nd September, at the General Hospital, of the relief funds. Troops are being raised in Shanghai, Captain C. H. MCCASLIN, Pilot, aged Kiangsu, Anhwei, and Hupeh to defend the
threatened districts. *66 years.
On the 25th September, at Nagasaki, SIMEON FROST LAWRENCE, aged 64 years.
On the 28th September, at 9 p.m., at Dunottar, the Peak, ROBERT COOKE, Acting Manager, Hong kong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited, aged
61 years.
On the 1st October, at 2 a.m., at the residence of Mr. Isidore Xavier, Macdonnell Road, ERNESTO FRANCISCO DO Rozario, aged 57 years.
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