THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LIV.]
CONTENTS.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 30TH DECEMBER, 1901.
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Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :--
Anti-Dynastic Trouble in Honan
The Empress Dowager and her Friends
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Piracy in the Canton Delta.
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The Coolie Question
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Charges of Missionary Interference
Questions for the U. S. Congress
Hongkong Legislative Council
The Crisis: Telegrams
Hongkong Sanitary Board.
The Case of Amok at Tientsin
City Hall Annual Meeting
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Out of Doors in Borneo
Peking
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Nanking
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Northern Notes
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Correspondence
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High-Level Tramways Co., Limited..
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Engineers' and Shipbuilders' Ball
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Cricket
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Football
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Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
On the 8th December, at Tientsin, the wife WM. A. HARDING, of a son.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
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Governor Tuan Fang, of Hupeh, is stated to have been appointed to Shantung in succession to Governor Chang, who has had difficulties with the German authorities.
A special telegram to the N.-C. Daily News, dated Yentsinhsien, Honan, 16th December, says: Their Majesties arrived from Hsin- tion yesterday afternoon (15th) at 5.30 o'clock, precisely, and remained here overnight. This morning there was heavy fog, and at 10 o'clock a gale arose which towards night has not yet ceased. The cold is severe; similar to the weather experienced on the 13th-the day before the departure from Kaifêng. Yesterday's weather however was quite clear and mild, which was most fortunate for their Majesties' comfort.' The Court arrived at Chihsien, Honan, on the afternoon of the 18th inst., from Weihaifu, and on the 25th reached Shengtefu. Yuan Shikai is reported to have advised the Empress Dowager to proceed no further than Paotingfu until the Powers hand over Tientsin-a proceeding on the part of the Viceroy ill calculated to inspire
Marquis Ito arrived in London on the 24th confidence in him. instant
The French loan against the security of the Chinese indemnity was covered no less than 24 times.
The seat of civil and military government of 527 Eastern Siberia and Northern Manchuria has
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On the 8th December, the wife of EVAN MATHEWS, of the Chinese Engineering and Min- ing Company, Tongshan, of a daughter.-
On the 15th December, at Shanghai, the wife of A. W. MAITLAND, of a daughter.
On the 16th December, at Shanghai the wife of N. KRELL, of a son.
On the 17th December, at 6, Soochow Road, Shanghai, the wife of R. H. ELIAS, of a son,
On the 20th December, at Ranfurly, Conduit Road, Hongkong, the wife of F. A. WENDT, of a daughter.
On the 20th December, at Soochow, the wife of the Rev. W. B. NANCE, of a son.
On the 21st December, at Hockliffe, Guildford, the wife of EDWARD A. IRVING, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES,
Qn the 7th December, at St. George's Church, Penang, by the Rev. F. W. Haines, B.A, Colonial Chaplain, WILLIAM STUART, DUNN, Assistant Municipal Engineer, Penang, to Lizzie (Dor), third daughter of Capt. E. Bradbery, Harbour Master, Penang.
Or the 16th December, at St. Andrew's Cathe dral, Singapore, by the Rev. W. H. C, Dunkerley, M.A., Colonial Chaplain, EDWARD ARTHUR COOK, of Ipoh, son of the late WILLIAM HENRY COOK, London, to MINNIE JANE, second daughter of THOMAS WREFORD, Leamington, Spal
On the 16th December, at St. Andrew's Cathe dral, Singapore, by the Rev. W. H. C. Dunkerley, Colonial Chaplain, CHARLES BASIL WHITEHEAD, son of JAMES NICHOLAS WHITEHEAD, of Torquay, Devon, to ETaFL MAUD, only daughter of Col. J. A. LITTLE, late Consulting Engineer, Indian Staff Corps.
DEATH.
On the 16th November, at Lahad Datu Estate, B. N. Borneo, L. Octave JoURDIN, of fever.
been transferred from Habarovsk to Harbin.
An Italian Consulate, says a Corean tele- gram, will be established at Seoul. The Italian Consul, who arrived there recently, waited upon the Corean Emperor on the 14th inst.
A delegation representing American agricul. tural and industrial experts has arrived at Vladivostock in order to make studies with regard to the establishment of farms and the opening up of Siberia.
Mr. II. P. Wilkinson, British Claims Com- missioner, arrived at Shanghai on the 18th inst. from the North, where his exertions have been crowned with conspicuous success and bave resulted in general satisfaction. He has now to undertake the settlement of British claims at Shanghai and the Yangtsze ports.
Hankow last month, said:- I desire to record a Dr. Morrison, telegraphing to the Times from question frequently addressed to me here. The British Government appears to be unaware that its Bluebooks are habitually read to the Viceroys by translators. Does the Government consider that the publication of confidential communica- tions from friendly officials is calculated to pro- mote frank intercourse? The unenlightened Chinese, ignorant of the traditional procedure of the Foreign Office, regard it as simply a breach of faith.
Besides the 10,00 Manchu troops, including the Imperial Guards, which accompany the Court on the return journey towards Peking, the N.-C. Daily News says that a private Kaifeng telegram of the 14th instant states that the Army Corps under the octogenarian, Marshal Sung Ching, numbering some 23,00) men of all arms, will march about a mile's dis- tance on the right flank of the Imperial cortège, and the division of General Asia Yü-hsiu, about 8,000 strong, will guard the progress of the Imperial Court on the left flank, keeping a regular distance en route from the vicinity of the Imperial cortège.
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A Peking telegram at Christmastide reported that the Chinese plenipotentiaries object to four terms of the Manchurian Convention. Firstly, they cannot accept Russia's demands for the exclusive training of the Chinese troops, the limitation of the numbers of the Chinese garri- son of Manchuria, and the appointment of a Russian commander. Secondly, they state that Russia must evacuate Manchuria before three Thirdly, China cannot agree not years' time.
to open any mines in Manchuria without Russian consent and partnership, or to employ solely Russian capital. Fourthly, if Russia returns the Newchwang railway to Chins, the latter cannot agree not to open branches without Russian consent and partnership, or to employ solely Russian capital. The plenipotentiaries state that they will forthwith discuss the other terms of the Convention, and in the meanwhile they beg M. Lessar, the Russian Minister at Peking, to give them an answer on the above four points.
The N.-C. Daily News among its "Notes on Native Affairs" says:-The report that the Empress Dowager has the intention of appoint- ing Pa Lun, Prince of the 4th Order, as Heir Apparent upon her arrival at Peking would appear to be premature, and as a matter of fact so contrary to the usual policy of that shrewd and strong-minded old lady that the very announcement would seem to contradict itself. In other words, Prince P'a Lun is twenty-seven years old, having been born in 1874; and as the Empress Dowager's ambition is to get hold of some youthful member of the Imperial Clan- the younger the better having no intention yet of relinquishing what she has, it seems improbable that she would even dream of putting one who has attained the age of manhood, possessing independence of mind and holding opinions of his own, in a position which could easily interfere with her own policy and work destruction to the party supporting her if such an Heir-Apparent had the desire to do so. It is true that Prince P'a Lan, as the first charac- ter of his name designates, belongs to a junior branch to that of either the present Emperor or the late Emperor Tung Chih, who is in "want " and of an heir, but “circumstances alter caseS the circumstance of P'u Lun's age must alter his case in the opinion of the Empress Dowager.