THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LV.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles:
Abuse of the British Flag
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The Municipality and the Consuls at Shanghai408 France and Sing
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The Peking Shanksikwan Railway .......................... 409 Lord Pauncefote's Death
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The Coronation and the Navy
.410
Blake Pier and the Clock-Tower
.410
Hongkong Sanitary Board
.411
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
.412
The Health of Hongkong...
Death of Mr. David Gillies
.412 .412
The Late Lord Pauncefoto..
...413
The Hongkong Coronation Contingent
.413
Registrar General's Report
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Competitive Examinations in the Police Force ...414 The Union Church
France and Siam
The Rebellion in South-west Chihli
Canton....
Swatow...
Foochów
The Han Cities Revisited
Peking
Northern Notes
Correspondence
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.415
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.416
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 2ND JUNE, 1902.
DEATHS,
On the 26th May, at 11, Chaoufoong Road, Shanghai, MARGUERITE (DAISY) Cartman, niece of F. A. and A. L.¦ CARTMAN,, and youngest daughter of E. S. CARTMAN, Batoum Gardens, London, aged 8 years and 8 months.
On the 28th May, at his residence, No. 49, Hollywood Road, F. MaxоMED, aged 60 years,
At Shanghai, JOHN RALPH CHARLES, son of THOMAS and KLARE TATLOCK, aged 21 years,
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The cholera figures in Manils on the 29th ult, were six cases and five deaths, the smallest on record since the beginning of the outbreak.
The Crown Prince of Japan has decided to start on a tour of Europe and America in May, 1903. He desires, during this tour, to see all that is possible of Western life. Vice-Admiral Prince Arisugawa, Marquis Ito, and ́s mumber of Court officials are to be ordered to attend the Prince Imperial on his tour.
Hongkong Weekly pressing a protective union, the aim of which is to
The native working men in Manila are form
raise the standard of wages. Already the HONGKONG OFFICE; 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL. employees of the two largest printers' and litho LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREKT, E.Cgraphers' firms have been demanding a 50 per cent. increase to-day, the 1st June, or else they threaten to strike
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The Canadian mail of the 5th May arrived 416 per C. P. R. steamer Empress of China, on the 41628th May (23 days); the German mail of the 417 29th April arrived, per H. A. L. steamer Ham- 417 burg, on the 28th May (29 days); and the American mail of the 1st May arrived, per O. & 419. steamer Doric, on the 30th May (29 days).
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China Light and Power Co.
A. S. Watson and Co., Ld.........
Supreme Court
Coronation Celebration Fund
420
Hongkong Army Rifle Association
420
Hongkong and Port News
421
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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On the 22nd May, at 92, Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, the wife of COLIN BUCHANAN, of a son. On the 22nd May, at Roseneath, Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, the wife of ARTHUR DABELSTEIN,
of a son,
On the 26th May, at 6, Quinaan Gardens, Shanghai, the wife of FRED, C. QUIEN, Jun., of a
son,
MARRIAGES.
On the 19th May, at St. Joseph's Church, Singa. pore, by the Rev. Vicar F. I. Soares, assisted by the Rev. C. Victal, ALFRED PEREIBA, Singapore Municipal Service, to EUGENIE A. M.DE FONTAINE, only daughter of the late A. M. DE FONTAINE,
of the Straits, Sandakan and Perak Police.
On the 20th May, at the Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., PEROT ERNEST, second son of W. T. WEBB, of Welling, Kent, England, to CATHARINE MARY, second daughter of Henry SHEPHERD, of Bristol, England.
On the 20th May, at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., ( HARLES JAMES LINDSAT, eldest son of J. A., STEWART, Shanghai, to FRANCIS TRYPHENA, Younger daughter of Wm. Richard Courron, of Dean Court, Buckfastleigh, South Devon, and of Bar- Kingdon Manor, Staverton,
On the 32nd May, at Bulsar, Bombay Presidency, RHANGIR, Son of H. BUTTONJE, of Hongkong, to BAÑOO, youngest daughter of RUSTOMJRE DHU
HOY-POSTWALLA, of Bulear. DEATHS:
On the 6th May, at Chefoo, of scarlet fever, JAMER WILCOX CARRALL, Commissioner of
Customs.
14th May, at Chefoo, of scarlet fever, DOROTHY FAWOUS, CARRALL, youngest of James Wilcox CARRÄLL.
Huchow; China, Ika MAY
and Mrs. J. T. Prooron, Hongkong, HLIN
Robert
Bengal Lancers, aged 57 years. (English pers please copy);
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Great numbers of Chinese immigrants have arrived at Vladivostock and the Russians are reported to be perturbed by the movement.
General Fukushima, the Commander-in-Chief in the early part of the campaign in 1900, goes to England to rep esent the Japanese Army at the Coronation ceremonies.
It is reported that another British firm bas offered six shillings a share above what Mr. Alfred Holt offered for the China Mutual Steam Navigation Co.'s business.
An expedition is leaving St. Petersberg to explore the communications of Western Mon- golis, especially the navigability of the Kara Irtrish, with a view to promoting trade between Russia and Mongolia.
The Japanese Minister at Seoul lodged a protest with the Corean government against the junction of the Corean and Russian tele- graph lines at Wiju The Chinese Minister at Seoul contradicted the Russian statement on the matter. The Corean government laid these accounts before the Russian Minister, and the latter, according to a Japanese telegram, decided not to make further claim to the connection.
A Decree of the Empress Dowager was issued on the 24th May, commanding Prince Chun to offer sacrifices on behalf of the Emperor and Empress Dowager before the remains of the late Marquis Li Hung-chang, Grand Secretary, Viceroy, etc, etc, whose coffin is about to be transported from Peking to Anhwei province for burial in Hofeibsien. As a further token of the bounty of the Throne to the deceased statesman, the rank of an ex- pectant Metropolitan Official of the 4th grade is bestowed upon his adopted son, Li Ching- fang--sometimes styled Lord Li-ex-Chinese Minister to Japan,
The P. &. T: Times writes:-"The agreement signed by Sir Ernest Satow and their Excel. lonoies Yuan and Hn provides for the rendition of the railway on June 1st subject to certain contingencies involving the consent of the other Powers. The military transport arrangements, made by Count von Waldersee and the B. R.
Captain Hayazahi, of the Mikasa, has publicly A., are to remain in full force. There will be a British co-director with German and Japanese expressed his profound sense of the gracious assistant director as at present. China will fulfil attention King Edward showed to him and his all contracts and agreements made by the B. R... officers, on the occasion of the launch of H.M.S... and whenever possible material will be Queen at Davonport.
The Osaka Asahi hears of a now service between Seattle and the Philippines-to be established by Boston and Philadelphia capital. iste--which will use Yokohama, Shanghai, and Hongkong as intermediate ports.
It is expected that the first payment of the indemnity, to be paid to the German merchants and companies for losses sustained during the Boxer troubles, amounting to one-seventh part of the whole amount, will be made very shortly. News has been received through a Ger- an source from South Chibli, stating that some of the insurgent bodies, which have been scattered by the Viceroy's troops, have attacked the Lu Han Railway, between Poking and Hankow. They have burned a bridge, and some railway material. - The Belgian engineers have been withdrawn to Chengtehfu. It would seem that this movement is not the outcome of an organised advance in force.
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obtained by open contract. Russis has objected to the agreement, aud insists on a Russian co- director equal in power to the British: France, as usual, backs ber ally, and insists on the same con- dition, so that the only possible issue now, seems to be a military directorate composed of mem- bers of all the nations or a non-military board of management. Another essential condition of the proposed arrangement is that Russia is at the same time to restore the Shanhaikwan railway-station and workshops as well as that portion of the line extending to the Great Wall, and the bridge at the same place Fremya characterises Bir Ern as audacious and argues demanded constitute ■ br Russian Railway Ag St. Petersburg land: that Rus chúria & in
observamos af Convention,
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