THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LIV.]
CONTENTS.
New Territory Finance
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 21ST OCTOBER, 1901.
PAGE
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No. 17.
Major-General Sun and twenty-eight officers of the Chinese army have passed through
Hongkong Weekly Dress Nagasaki on their way to Tokyo. These
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The German mail of the 3rd September ..326 arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Kiautschau, on the 15th October (42 days); and the American mail of the 20th September arrived, per O. & O. steamer Doric, on the 18th October (28 days).
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles:-
The Court's Return and the Future
320
The Secretary of State and the Petition
321
Exclusion of Foreigners in Peking
.321
Japan's Progress
.321
A Public Works Commission
322
A Disgraceful Road in Hongkong
.323
..323
Hongkong Legislative Council
Hongkong Sanitary Board.
Sir John Carrington's Retirement
Queen Victoria Memorial Fund..
328
A Distinguished Japanese in Hongkong...
328
H.E. the Governor and King Lien-shan.
328
Concert at Kowloon
.328
The Meeting of the Planets
329
Macao
329
Swatow.
-329
Tonkin Notes
330
Correspondence
.330
Canton Insurance Office, Limited..
330
North China Insurance Co., Limited
.331
Supreme Court
Sporting and Other Notes
Cricket
Hongkong Boat Club
Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Hockey.
A New Life-Saving Apparatus
Tramways for Shanghai
334
A Native Paper on the U. S. Exclusion Bills Hongkong and Port News
334
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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On the 27th September, at Newchwang, the wife of A. B. J. VAN EFB, of a daughter.
On the 4th October, at Hangchow, the wife of S. N. BABINGTON, M.R.C.S. Eng., L.R.C.P. Lond., of a daughter.
On the 7th October, at 15, Hankow Road, the wife of C. H. GODFREY, of a son.
On the 10th October, at 39, Range Road, Shanghai, the wife of J. WOLDER, of a daughter. On the 11th October, at Foochow, the wife of HUGH SUTHERLAND, of & 8on.
On the 15th October, at Treverbyn, Peak,
the wife of H. E. TOMKINSs, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
On the 5th September, at Holy Trinity Church, Bournemouth, by the Rev. Canon Eliot, WALTER KING, to LOUIE MAUD BLACKWELL,
On the 2nd October, at H.B.M. Consulate, Newchwang, H. P. MILLER, of Imperial Chinese Postal Service, to ALICE M. LLOYD, daughter of the late EDMUND LLOYD, of Cardiganshire, South Wales.
On the 9th October, in St. John's Cathedral, by the Rev. F. T. Johnson, JAMES LAIDLAW MAXWELL, M.D. (Lond.), of Tainanfoo, Formosa, younger son of Dr. MAXWELL, 49, Highbury Park, London, late of Formosa, to MILLICENT BERTHA, daughter of the late LESLIE SAUNDERS, I.C.S., Chief Commissioner of The Berars, India.
DEATHS.
On the 18th October, at Wongnieobeong, ANNIE, the wife of F. E. SHUSTER, aged 41 years. On the 14th October, at No. 11, Knutsford Terrace, Kowloon, Captain ALEXANDER WILLIAM Ross COBBAN, in his 45th year.
On the 16th October, at 430 p.m., at No. 1, Ormsby Villas, Kowloon, ALEXANDER GEDDES AITKEN, aged 65 years.
Iu England, HAROLD ASHTON, late of Messrs. Holliday, Wise & Co., Manila,
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Rear Admiral Grenfell, who succeeds Rear- Admiral Bruce on the China Station, is a passenger by the P. & O. s.s. Ballaarat, which passed the Canal on the 15th inst. and is due about the 9th or 10th November.
Northern native papers last week stated that at the end of the extra ten days' leave of absence asked for, Lin Kung-yi found himself so much better that he has asked to be allowed to resume his usual functions, much to the joy of all in his jurisdiction.
We were informed from the Colonial Secre- fary's Office on 12th inst. that there had been no cases of plague in Hongkong during the last ten days, and that the Colony may be now con- sidered as free from plague in accordance with the Venice Convention.
The Foreign Office has announced that. Sir Alfred Bateman and Mr. Alford, late Chairman of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, have been engaged for some time in revising the Chinese Customs in accordance with the Pro- tocol, Sir James Mackay and Mr. Anderson, of Shanghai, co-operating.
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officers have been despatched by their Govern. ment to witness the military manoeuvres to be held shortly in the north-eastern districts of Japan. On the conclusion of the manœuvres the officers will investigate the Japanese military system, and will return home during November next.
The Japan Mail says:-"The British and residents of Hongkong have subscribed a sum as well as the American other European
of thirty thousand dollars towards a memorial to her late Majesty Queen Victoria. and the Chinese community have contributed thirty-five thousand dollars for the same purpose. monument ought to be something very hand- some. Our contemporary perhaps does not appreciate the fact that the monument in ques- tion will be in London.
The
The Mainichi publishes the two following telegrams concerning Russia and the Newch- wang Railway-Tokyo, October 8th.-A Pek- ing despatch states that Russia is preparing to hand over the Newchwang railway to China in the hope that Great Britain will then transfer the Peking Shanhaikwan railway to China. It is reported that the Russian Minister to Peking is negotiating the matter with Li Hung-chang. -Peking, October 8th.-Russia will abandon control of the Shanbaikwan and Inkao (Newch- wang) railway. Russia now desires that Li Hung-chang will ask the Powers to follow the Russian example on the Peking and Shanhaik- wan railway.
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A telegram received in Tokyo says that Rus- sia has asked China for a concession to build a railway from a point on her present Trans- Asian line to Maimaichin on the Mongolian frontier. Russia's railway activity in Asia is very striking, comments the Japan Mail, especially when one comes to consider the pro-
of the money. She seems constantly obliged to have recourse to the French exchequer for the purposes of her home finances, yet she spends immense sums abroad The negotiations for placing the Japanese on railways which are not likely to give any bonds on the American market. as already adequate return for many years to come.
energy is certainly very admirable. reported, are drawing near a satisfactory con- clusion. Marquis Ito, who is now in Chicago, at the front in her case never remains idle for is said to have been commissioned to arrange a moment. Every agent, military or diplomatic. the price at which the bonds will be placed. that she has abroad, seems to devote his untir- The Japanese authorities are eagerly awaitinging energies to the one business of extending
her empire. Marquis Ito's report.
The Sin Wen Pao learns that the Japanese Government has declared its anxiety to with draw the troops now garrisoning Shanghai, as there is not the least sign to show that their presence is required, but the Government for certain reasons has to restrain from carrying ont this intention as long as the troops of other powers are still staying at Shanghai.
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The Universal Gazette is responsible for the statement to the effect that Li Hong-chang has been lately closely secreted with the Russian Minister at Peking, negotiating, it is alleged, concerning the three Manchurian provinces. Owing, however, to the exceedingly private nature of the meetings the public, apart from thenowledge that they related to Manchuria, have not been able to get even an inkling of Last year the Japanese representative in what actually took place between this well- Seoul urged the advisability of erecting light-known Russophile and his Muscovite master. houses along the Corean coast, and offered Japan's assistance in carrying out the work. Cores replied that she intended to do it herself, but she did not do it. Russia has now taken up the matter, not in the sense of proposing to build the light-houses herself, but only in the role of an adviser that such a measure should not be neglected any longer. Corea's reply is not reported.
From
information received through other sources,, the N.-C. Daily News says, there is probability that the result of the negotiations mentioned above will not be far from what was prognosticated in its columns several weeks "of the most northerly ago, namely, the "lease portion of Manchuria, that is to say, the Chi- Amar region or Heilung-chiang, to Russia-" on certain conditions,”
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