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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LVI.]
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Epitome of the Week, &o.
Leading Articles :-
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 28тя JULY, 1902.
Hongkong Weekly Press
No. 4
The United States statistics show that the
Press past year's trade with the Philippine Islands
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Lord Lansdowne's Mistake.
The Coronation
Sit James Mackay's Trade Proposals
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China's Currency
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Legal Adviser for Peking
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The Wearing of the Queue
The Panama ('a' al
Boxerism in China...
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Chinese Labour Problem
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Stowaways to the Philippines
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The King's Park
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Monument to Deceased Soldiers
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The Typhoon
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Hongkong Legislative Council
The Hongkong Volunteers
New Barrister Admitted to Supreme Court
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
Chinese Stowaways to the Philippines
The Coronation
The Hongkong Corenation Contingent
The Coronation Naval Review
Russia's Changing Policy
New Postmaster
Entertainment at Kowloon.....
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 21st June arrived, per O. & O. steamer Gaelic, on the 20th July (30 days); the German mail of the 21th June arrived per N. D. L. steamer Bayern, on the 23rd July (29 days); and the American mail of 66 the 28th Jane arrived, per T. K. K. steamer Hongkong Maru, on the 26th July (28 days).
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
amounted to $5,000,000, as against 394,507 before the annexation took place. These figures are exclusive of military supplies.
During the week ended 19th July there were in the Colony 21 cases of plague (19 Chinese, 1., Indian and 1 European) and 20 deaths; 6 cases of cholera (1 European, 1 Japanese and 4 Chinese) and 5 deaths; 2 cases of enteric fever (1 European) and 1 death. During the 48 hours ended at noon on the 21st inst. 7 new csses of cholers, all Chinese and 6 fatal, were reported, Other 22 new cases with 20 deaths were reported up till noon on the 25th inst.
Lord Lansdowne, replying to Earl Spencer in the House of Lords, said he was inclined to think that Lord Cranborne's statement with reference to the Anglo-Japanese alliance had caused more perturbation in England than in Japan. The Japanese.had chown conspicuous
creditable to them. The statement referred -to was the now famous utterance that Britain did not seek alliances but granted them, which Mr. Balfour afterwards explained away.
The new Hongkong coinage has been put in rigour of judgment and a moderation highly
circulation.
Mr. E. H. Sharp, barrister-at-law, Hongkong, 74 has been made King's Counsel.
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Prince Komatsu was to visit Krupp's great 75 ordnance works at Essen last week.
The Singapore Murder..
Honour to Mr. E. H. Sharp, Barrister-at-Law.
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The Chefoo Calamity
Peking
Pakhoi
Chefoo
Fooohow
Northern Notes
Water Return...
Correspondence
The "Shell" Transport and Trading Co., Ld.
The McAuliffe-Ryan Matoh
Hongkong and Port News
Shipping
Supreme Court
Commercial
BIRTHS.
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A new Portuguese weekly paper, O Patriota, has been established in the Colony.
The cholera epidemic in the Philippines is 76 showing no signs of abatement.
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Mt. L. A M. Johnston, Collector of Revenue Duss, Singapore, has been appointed Postmaster- 78 General for Hongkong.
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Much damage was done to buildings and 80 native craft, in the Harbour by the typhoon of the 18th inst., and more than a dozen lives were lost.
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On the 2nd July, at Amoy, the wife of Rev. A. J. HUTCHINSON, of the London Mission, of a son, ÅRTHUR George.
On the 11th July, at 61, Western Road, Penang, the wife of J. CHALMERS REID, of a daughter.
On the 12th July, at Chefoo, Mrs. H. C. AUGUSTESEN, of a daughter.
On the 17th July, at Swatow, the wife of ULICK WINTOUR, I. M. Customs, of a son.
DEATHS.
On the 3rd July, at Kuala Gris, Kelantan, W. REDPATH, of New Zealand, Dredge-Master in the employ of the Duff Syndicate," Ld. while bathing.
Drowned
On the 8th July, at Penang, Marie Florence, widow of the late Capt. J. F. MILLS, of Penang and Rangoon, aged 45 years.
On the 13th July, at Marble Hall, Penang,
JAMES LOGAN, Surgeon Dentist, second son of the
Isto ABRAHAM LOGAN, of Penang.
On the 14th July, at Nagasaki, EDGAR
BLECHYNDEN, aged 8 years.
On the 15th July, at Stevenside, West Gate, Shanghai, SARAH KERR, MD,, of Woman's Union Missionary Society of America, aged 35 years.
On the 16th July, at Payah Lane, Singapore, FELICIA CONSTANCE (Conny), the eldest daughter of H. and M. E. ANGUS, aged 9 years and 5 months. On the 17th July, at the Shanghai General Hospital, ALEXANDER CUBENY, Jr.
A Berlin telegram of the 19th inst, states that the Government of the United States and the Pope have arranged all pending questions of religious interests in the Philippines.
Viscount Cranborne states that Sir Ernest Satow, British Minister at Peking, will shortly report on the whole question relating to the French position in the International Settlement at Shanghai.
Again reports are published by the Press that the sale of Macao to Germany is imminent, but they are officially declared to be absolutely unfounded, says a Berlin telegram of the 11th inst. to the Ostasiatische Lloyd.
A London telegram received on the 24th inst, stated that. Baron Watanabe, having visited the greater part of Europe, has arrived in London. When interviewed, he said he had
Eupopean financial and commercial questions. no special mission, but was closely studying In view of the result of the analysis at Shanghai of the stomach of Hugh Gray Owen, one of the victims of the Chefoo School poison- ing fatality, a verdict has been returned at the inquest at Chefoo of death from cholera. This disturbs the ptomanine poisoning theory.
Lord Lansdowne, replying in the House of Lords to a question by Earl Spencer, said Russia had agreed to evacuate Manchuria in three periods, and that Newchwang would pro- bably be restored in the second. The Govern- ment belived that Newchwang would be restored at the same time as Tientsin.
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We are happy to be able to announce that His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased provisionally to appoint Dr. F. W. Clark, the Medical Officer . of Health for Hongkong, to be a Member of the Legislative Council vice Mr. F. J. Badeley and is a fitting recognition of the valuable resigned. This honour to Dr. Clark is unique
services he has rendered to the Colony. The appointment is as popular as it is well-deserved. Dr. Clark's sound judgment, his debating abilities, and his thorough knowledge of Hong- kong and its health requirements will make him a distinct acquisition to the Legislative Council.
In the House of Lords, Lord Lansdowne stated that he had received from Sir James Mackay a hopeful proposal with reference to the lekin question, which afforded a promising basis of arangement. Before accepting the proposal the Government would consult the best authorities in England and China. Sir James Mackay also reported an agreement, for the protection of trade marks, an extension of the system of bonded warehouses, the improvement of the Canton River and Yangtze approaches the equalisation of duties on goods carried by junks and steamers, the recognition of thể obligations of Chinese shareholders in British companies, and a general agreement” establising a national currency.
According to the latest advice received from Manila by the Rosetta Maru, the strike of the operatives in cigar factories of Manila; showed every sign of coming to an end, as owing to the combination and firm attitude showed by the Cigar Manufacturers' Union a good many of the operatives offered to return to work at the old scale of wages. It was expected that several of the leading factories wou'd re-open- and commence work on the 21st instant. Thế Filipino operative is now made keenly alive to the fact that any exhorbitant demand for an increase of his wages means entire cessation of- the cigar industry, aid it is confidently, in Manila that there will be no made to goad the manufact extremity.
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