THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LV.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles:-
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 15TH MARCH, 1902.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
President Roosevelt has signed the Philip .195 | pines Tariff Bill.
PAGN
The VI divostock merchants are petitioning 198 M, de Witte, Russian Minister of Finance, to extend the Customs frontier into North-east Manchuria.
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The New Tariff Negotiations
Russia and Manchuria
Queen's College .......
The Coolie Question and Registration
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The Crisis: Telegrams
Siamese Outrage in Patani ......
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Hongkong Legislative Council
Hongkong tanitary Board
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
The Health of Hongkong.
The China Association Meeting at Shanghai
Queen's College in 1901
Mr. A. G. Ward's Subscription Concert. Entertainment at Canton.
Swatow...
Saigon
Correspondence
Hongkong Hotel Co., Ld.
The Wanchai Warehouse and Storage Co., Ld.
Supreme Court
Cricket
Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Hongkong Volunteer Corps .....
Views of a Japanese Statesman -
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial.
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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The Japan Mail &dvises the Japanese Govern. ment not to endeavour to collect the house-tax from foreigners by forcê, but to have the ques. tion arbitrated.
The report of the Canadian Commission on 201 Japanese immigration advises legislation on the lines of the Natal Act unless Japan enforces its .202 inhibition act preventing emigration.
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A Reuter's telegram, dated 11th March, says: 203-Russia, in yielding to China, undertakes to withdraw from Manchuria within eighteen months, if the latter's signature is given to the proposed convention.
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In answer to enquiries regarding Shantung, Germany has assured the United States that she has no intention of excluding the citizens of other nations from any advantages to be 205 enjoyed there by Germans.
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M. Delcassé, French Minister of Foreign 207 Affairs, speaking in the Chamber, said that the 07 Anglo-Japanese treaty could not modify French 207 policy which is likewise directed towards the
maintenance of the integrity of China.
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On the 27th February, at Hankow, the wife PAUL I. DE HEES, of a son.
On the 2nd March, at Chemulpo, Corea, the wife of CARL WOLTER, of a daughter.
On the 11th March, at the Government-Civil Hospital, the wife of JAMES WALKER, of a son.
-DEATHS.
On the 1st March, at the Shanghai General Hospital, Sister ANNE ALLEGRE (Sister Superior, Shanghai General Hospital).
On the 1st March, at the General Hospital, Kuala Lumpor, W. H. LANE, aged 31 years.
On the 2nd March, at Mission House, Stamford
Road, Singapore, the Rev. W. H. GOMES, B.D., aged 74 years.
On the 5th March, at Pootung, Shanghai, DOROTHY ANNIE, youngest daughter of J. B. and A. E. JACK, aged 6 months.
On the 7th March, at Canton, DAVID DUNCAN, of the Impe ial Maritime Customs, native of Aberdeen, Scotland, aged 36 years,
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Chinese merchants from Port Arthur are arriving in Shanghai, according to our corres- pondent there, in accordance with orders to remove their families, as Port Arthur is pre- paring for a war between Russia and Japan."
Four or five wealthy Chinese towkays, are pro- ceeding to England for the Coronation from the Malay Native States. It is stated that a num- ber of Etraits-born Chinese from Singapore also intend going to Eugland to see Coronation.
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The Corean Government have decorated the Foreign Ministers who aided the ratification of Treaties with Corea. Mr. Waeber, Russian Minister, and Count Inouye, Japanese Minister, were decorated with the highest order, and the Ministers for France, Germany, and Belgium were decorated with the second-class order.
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Our Canton correspondent writes under date 7th March that it appears from telegrams received in Canton from the missionaries in The Kwangsi that they are in no danger. reported rebellion, they state, is not very serious; General So Yun-chou has already returned to Lungchow, and a speedy restoration of peace is expected.
The Universal Gazette learns that of the twenty-four articles of the Commercial Treaty proposed by Sir J. Mackay to the Chinese Commercial Commissioners, four have been contested, namely, the import of foreign salt, the export of Chinese rice, the general throwing HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL. open of the whole country to international trade,
and the opening of Peking as a Treaty port.
The N.-C. Daily News of the 3rd inst. says that in consequence of the very much regretted illness of Mr. Pelham L Warr D. Consul- General, Mr. G. D. Pitzipios has been appointed Acting Consul-General. Mr. H. E. Fox is transferred to the Consulate at Chemulpo, and is to be succeeded in the Shipping Office at Shanghai by Mr, H. F. King.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 7th February arrived, M. M, steamer Ernest Simons, on the 10th March (31 days).
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The Shanghai Times says:- "The German
residents at Tientsin have raised 20,000 marks to erect a monument in memory of the German soldiers who died in China during 1900 and 1901. The monument will be erected at Hong- kong." After this we shall expect to hear that a monument to the British soldiers will be erected at Kiaochau, and one to the Japanese at Port Arthur.
The hearing of claims at Shanghai for compensation by British subjects against the Chinese Government closed with the application of Mr. Fitzgerald Wintour, when £500 were awarded as compensation for wounds sustained at Peking during the siege. The Commissioner, Mr. H. P. Wilkinson, is now considering the question of interest on the amounts of claims that have been passed.
The Sinwenpao learns that Viceroy Yuan Shikai intends, in view of the return to China of Tientsin, to create a cor¡ s of military police for that city under the direction of Mr. W. Quincey, formerly of the Hongkong Police. Mr. Quincey is a native of Quinsan, and was a protégé of the late General Gordon, who took him when quite a lad to England, where he was sent to school for a few years.
It is announced that a bishopric will be cata- blished this year for Manchuria, having its seat at Peking, and that in one of the Manchurian towas an Orthodox monastery will be established as a settlement for a mission. A sum of 50,000 roubles has already been assigned by the Ecolesiastical Department for the erection of the centius, head of the Peking Ecclesiastical Mia- monastery. The Archimandrite, Mgr. Innc-
sion, is designated as the probable future bishop.
The Rajah of Patani, one of the Malay States under Siamese suzerainty, lying north of He Perak, has been kidnapped by the Siamese was lured to a house and asked to sign a treaty whereby he abjured his right of governing his own State. When he refused, he was surround- ed by Siamese soldiers and carried on a gunboat up the coast. The Patani Malays are frantic. and serious trouble is feared. The Governor of the Straits Settlements has been asked to interfere.
According to the Universal Gazette's Peking - correspondent, the Chinese Minister to Japan recently wired to the Chinese Government to the effect that China should at once send a telegram to Japan congratulating her upon the conclusion of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance But when Viceroy Yuan Shikai heard of the Minister's advice, he telegraphed to Peking from Paotingin, requesting the Government not to carry it into effect, and saying that, instead of congratulating others, China_onght to feel ashamed of having had to depend upon others for support.
A native despatch to Shanghai from Taiyuan, capital of Shansi, slates that as Taiyuan was 1900), that city, according to the Peace Protocol, lost its privilege of holding literary examinations for the licentiate and M.A. (Hsiuts'ai and Chüjen) degrees for the period of five years.. An alternative has, however, teen found by the authorities to get around the prohibition in the selection of the district city of Hankou, some twenty-five miles from Taiyuan, to hold these examinations, thus making the prohibitory clause a more farce.
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