THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LIV.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Weck, &c.
Leading Articles :-
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 12TH OCTOBER, 1901.
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304
China and the World's Peace Prospects... Building and Surface-Crowding in Hongkong 394 The Gage Street Murder.
The Naval Yard Question
The Crisis: Telegrams
The Kwangtung Rebels
Hongkong Legislative Council
Swatow
Tonkin Notes
Politics in the Philippines
Peking
Northern Notes
Correspondence
Change Doings
Union Insurance Society of Canton, Limited
Sporting and Other Notes
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Kwangtung rebellion seems to have turned out a failure, tbe rebels having apparently fled precipitately. Details will be found on p. 306.
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According to the German journal Local- anzeiger, the Emperor Kwang Hsn addressed a letter to Prince Chun, while the latter was .308 in Germany, announcing his intention of huld- 308 ing & review at Woosung next spring.
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A telegram from Hsianfu on the 6th inst. 310 announced that the Chinese Imperial Court left for Kaifeng that day. Great preparations, it was announced, were being made at the various stopping places on the Court's route, entailing heavy expenses.
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Annual General Meeting of the Hongkong Jockey
Club
Cricket
Hongkong Rifle Association
Hockey.
Hongkong Boat Club
Royal Hongkong Golf Club Hongkong and Port News Commercial Shipping
BIRTHS.
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Governor Birch of British North Borneo has visited the Sultan of Brunei. They are ....314 said to have conferred on the subject of the British North Borneo Company renting two 315 districts from the Sultan. The latter is said to be willing on condition that the local chiefs 318 agree to the proposal.
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On the 21st September, at Tientsin, the wife of Lieutenant V. G. W. KELL, South Staffordshire Regiment, of a son.
On the 5th October, at Shanghai, the wife of WILLIE A. MACE, Customs'. Service, of a daughter -EDITH.
On the 5th October, at 4, Canton Road, Shang hai, the wife of J. EM. LEMIERE, of a daughter.
On the 8th October, at lan Mor (West), the wife of JOHN A. JUPP, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
MAY
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A decree has been issued by M. Doumer, Governor-General of Indo-China, exempting the residents of Lars from service under the flag. The residents of the territories under Tonkin jurisdiction situated to the north-west of Clobo, and those of the posts on the Rivière Noire, are also exempted.
The N.-C. Daily News hears on good authority that the sale by the Chinese to Russia of the Huishén, Haishao and Haiyung, the three cruisers built at the Vulcan Yard, Stettin, and of two torpedo-boats has been concluded. The price paid for the five ressels is $5,000,000, which is certainly a good bargain, as the three cruisers alone recently cost China six and a-half
On the 11th September, at Dublin, JoHN HENRY PRITTIE PERRY, Chinese Customs, to JAMESON.
On the 5th October, at H.B.M.'s Consulate-million dollars. General, Shanghai, by Pelham L. Warren, Esq., C.M.G., and afterwards at Holy Trinity Cathedral, by the Rev. C. J. F. Symons, B.A., GEORGE VINCENT TARIK, youngest son of FRANCIS JULIAN MARSHALL, late of H.B.M. Office of Works, Shanghai, to IDA MARY, youngest daughter of ALBERT EDMUND ALOAR, late of Shanghai.
DEATHS.
On the 1st October, at No. 23, Quinsan Road, Shanghai, MARIA FRANCISCA GUTTERRES, aged 59
years.
On the 3rd October, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, WILLIAM ANTHONY SIMMONS, of West Norwood, London, late of Hall and Holtz, Ltd., aged 30 years.
On the 6th October, at No. 129, Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, the infant son of LEONARD KERR,
aged 3 weeks.
Some fresh details in connection with the Gage Street marder of the 10th January last will be found in the leading article on p. 305 and a letter referring to the subject is published under "Correspondence." The actual murderer of Young Ku Wan, it will be seen, has been executed at Canton, bat his accomplices remain napunished for their gross violation of British territory and murder of a British subject.
As the Corean Government has adhered to the idea of getting rid of Mr. McLeary Brown, ho has not been received in audience by the Emperor for eight months. Lately, however, according to Japaness reports, the feeling of the Emperor and the Government appears to have softened towards the Commissioner of Customs, as he was received in audience by the Emperor toward the end last month.
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No. 18.
As a result of last month's orders, the French brigade of occupation in China will be made as follows:-The 16th Regiment of Colonial In- fantry formed of three battalions, one of which will be stationed at Shanghai; the 17th Regi. ment of Colonial Infantry of two battalions; three batteries of Colonial Artillery, one being stationed at Shanghai; two companies of the 6th Regiment of African Chasseurs; one de- tachment of Engineers of the 1st Company of the 19th Battalion, and various detachments of marshals, guides, and hospital attendants, &o. The Colonial troops withdrawn from Pechili will be removed to Tonkin.
The Shanghai mandarins received last week despatches dated about six weeks earlier from Kweilin, the capital of Kwangsi province, re- porting the passage through that province of a large body of Annamese (so-called) " navvies," led by a proportionate number of Frenchmen, en route for Yunnan "to construct the rail- There are." continues one despatch, way. "grave reasons for thinking that the strangers are not what they apparently seem, and the provincial authorities can only keep a sharp look out whilst obeying instructions sent by the Chinese Plenipotentiaries at Peking." This confirms what we have already, heard from the South.
It is now officially denied, says the N.-C. Daily News, that H.E. Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, and Governor Tuan Fang of Wachang, have been allowed to go to Kaifeng to meet the Empress It Dowager on her arrival there from Hsian. is stated that the application to meet the Court was merely one of etiquette and not made in earnest. However, the Viceroy and Governor in question are not to leave Wuchang, the personal attention in former owing to the great importance of his post necessitating Wuchang, and the latter for being compara- tively new to Wuchang and the necessity of his keeping to his post to get acquainted with his
new duties.
Telegraphic advices have been received in Shanghai from South China to the effect that a very long memorial, emanating from the principal gentry and literati of a number of the large cities of the two Kwang provinces, has been sent to the Chinese Plenipotentiaries at Peking, urging in very strong language the wishes of the Emperor's subjects in the southern provinces of the Empire that his Majesty should be allowed to return alone to Peking, and assume the reins of Government for the good of the country, and threatening in no veiled language that if this is not complied with the whole of the South of China will`rise in rebellion.
A Taotai's proclamation has been recently
Hongkong Weekly Press hoped that hereafter the relations between put up in Shanghai stating that he had received
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS..
The American mail of the 12th September arrived, per P. M. steamer China, on the 10th October (28 days, ; and the English mail of the 13th September arrived, per P. & O. steamer
oromandel on the 10th October (27 days).
England and Corea will be more friendly.
A Ningpo letter to a Shanghai native paper states that the French Consul there has gone to Yungkiang, to the Northern Roman Catholic Cathedral, which he has appointed as the place of sitting for his court.. He has hoisted his flag and has issued proclamations. Over thirty persons have come into Ningpo with suits which they wish the Consul to try. It is said that at the conclusion of these trials, the Consul will visit all other places in the province, and personally investigate all lawsuits in which con- verts are parties.
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a despatch from the Russian Consul-General complaining that in the interior there were certain Chinese selling a sort of paper to the inhabitants purporting to be "the certificate of Russian graduated student" with the declaration that the purchaser would be fully protected whenever troubles arose in China As their object is simply to mislead the people and to obtain money thereby by frand the Taotai warns the people under his jurisdiction not to purchase such false documents or they are liable to land themselves in trouble, and adds that any one who shall be able to arrest guilty parties will be suitably rewarded.