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HONGKONG. MONDAY, 25TH AUGUST, 1902.
Hongkong Weekly Press
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL. 140 LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET. E.C. 141
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 16th July arrived. per O. & O. steamer Doric, on the 16th August 143 (31 days); the Canadian mail of the 28th July 14 arrived, per C. P. R steamer Empress of India, on the 19th Angust (22 days): the German mail of the 9th July arrived, per N D. L. steamer Prinzess Irine, on the 19th August (41 days); and the American mail of the 24th 16 July arrived, par T. K. K. steamer Nippon
Maru, on the 21st August (28 days).
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The Commercial Negotiations
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
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Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
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The Health of Hongkong
Mishap on the Peak Tramway
Chinese Carpenter Strike...
Piracy by Beachcombers in Shanghai
A. Criticism of Hongkong Buildings
Canton
Pakhoi
Vladivostock
The Trouble in Northern Siam
Foochow
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Northern Notes
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Correspondence
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Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
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Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Id
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Olivers Freehold Mines, Ld.
Queen Mines. Id.
The Hongkong Hotel Co., Ld
Supreme Court
The Wreck of the Adelheid
Water Return...
Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Mr. W. H. Taft, Governor of the Philippines, reached Singapore ou the 14th by the Prinzess Trenc and left for Manila next day on the U.S. 151 | guuboat General Alaea.
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The U.S. Treasury Department has decided that the immigration laws of the United States 157 apply to native residents of the Philippine Is lands and foet› Ric› entering the States.
Un the 9th August, at No. 27, North Soochow Road, Shanghai, the wife of T. DANENBERG, of a daughter.
On the 9th August, at Frankfort-on-Maine (Germany), the wife of W. GESSNER, Shanghai, of a daughter.
On the 9th August, at Birkenhead, England, the wife of W. P. KER, H.U.M.'s Consul at Wuhu,
of a son.
On the 10th August, at 11, Seymour Road: Shanghai, the wife of Lt.-Col. H. (inEANY, I.M.S. of a daughter.
On the 19th August, at the Peak, the wie of G. W. C. PEMBERTON, of a daughter.
On the 19th August, at Clifton Gardens, Conduit Road, the wife of FRANK SMITH, of a 300.
On the 21st August, at 10 p.m., in the Govern-
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Mr. Sharretts. U.S. Tariff Commissioner, having been recalled by his Government, left Shanghai ou the 18th inst., having sigued the new Tariff on the previous Saturday.
The British Admiralty have ordered Capt. Percy Scott's aiming apparatu, known as the
dotter," intended for distribution
од the China Station, to be despatched as soon as possible.
The whole of the population of Guano Islands. consisting of 150 persons, in the Torishima group to the northward of Boniu Islands, south-east of Japan, have been over whelmed by a volcanic eruption.
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The Tientsin Provisional Government was dissolved on the 15th inst. Governor-General Yuan Shikai entered the city at noon, while all foreign troops, headed by the German regimental band, evacuated the city late in the afternoon.
A Hunan co respondent reports that two members of the China Inland Mission, Messrs. J. R. Bruce and R. H. Lowis, have been killed in a riot at Ch'encheo (Hunan), caused by a rumour of their having administered poisoned medicine. The Chincse Imperial Post Office was also demolished in the riot and the post- master wounded, probably fatally.
It
now reported from Peking that the temporary retention of H.E. Wu Ting-fang a Chinese Minister to Washington was the work of Viceroy Yuan Shi-kai, who greatly admires the useful work done by Wu for China since 1900, and is of opinion that his removal at the present juncture from Washington would be detrimental to the Government.
The Times Shanghai correspondent tele. tariff was signed on t e 16th inst. by the represen. graphs that the Protocol of the new Chinese
tatives of Great Britain, America, Germany, and Japan, unreservedly, and by the Austrian Belgian, and Dutch representatives ad referen. dum. The Chines Commissioners are unable to sign without imperial sanction.
The Japanes Minister at Washington has de- clared that Japan has no intention f claiming the sovereignty over Wake and Midway Islands. A previous telegram, it will be remembered, stated that the United States have ordered vessels to visit Wake and Midway Islands, south-east of Marcus Island, where the Japanese were reported to have settled; the United States claim the Islands, but have no objection to Japanese settlers on them unless Japanese sovereignty is asserted.
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In our Portuguese contemporary ◊ Patriota we notice a latter signed R."--this is the initial, by the way, of the consular agent for France at Macao-on the subject of French designs on China. The writer thinks that the Portuguese Government did wrongly in pre- The official organ of the Russian Navy De-France, and that too much has been made of the venting the sale of the Boa Vista Hotel to pr.ment estimat s the loss incurred on the
ment Civil Hospital, the wife of Inspector BAKER, steamers run in connection with the Chinese Hongkong Police Force, of a daughter.
Iastern Railway at two and a half million roubles since the scheme was started two years
MARRIAGE.
On the 16th July, at the Church of St. Stephen the Martyr, Avenue Road, Regent's Park, by the Rev. Frederick Hopkins, of Haddon Hill, Vicar of Holdenhurst, Hants (father of the bridegroom), assisted by the Rev. James Halliburton Young
Roctor of Shipmeadow, Suffolk, FREDERICK GARDNOR HOPKINS, to GWLADYS CAROLINE, youngest daughter of the late ARTHUR WELLESLEY WALKINSHAW, of Foochow, China.
DEATHS.
On the 10th August, at Iskander Hall, Jahore, ELIZA KIASBERRY, eldest daughter of the late Rev. B. P. KEASBERRY, wife of DATO MELDRUM, aged 63 years.
On the 13th August, at 33, North Soochow Road, Shanghai, MAUREEN, infant daughter of Joun and ANNIE LANG NIVES, aged 6 months.
On the 16th August, at the Peak Hospital, RONALD MAITLAND HUTT N POTTS, youngest son of the late LIPTON HUTTON POTTS, Firby Hall Bedale, Yorkshire, and of Mrs. HUTTON POTTS, Harrow-on-the-Hill
ago.
Viceroys Yuan Shi-kai, Liu Kung-yi, and Chang Chih-tang, ju interviews with the declaring that China must make a supreme American Tariff Commissioner, united in effort to promote commerce and friendly intercourse with Europe and America.
An Odesta telegram to London reports a widespread and virulent epidemic of cholera in Manchur'a and says that along a considerable posts, while the Chinese are dying like flies. section of the railway men are deserting their In the neighbourhood of Harbiu whole villages have been deserted.
The Chinese quarter in the town of Pon- tianak has been burned down, the damage amounting to one million dollars. Pontianak is near the west coast of Dutch Borneo, on the Kapuas River. It has been a free port since it was ceded to the Dutch in 1856. Its total population at the last estimate was between 8,000 and 9,000.
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affair. Incidentally, "F." in citing the Hong- kong papers omits to mention that the Daily Press was considerably the first to call attention to the Boa Vista affair and its sequels.
A letter received from a thoroughly trust- worthy Chinese correspondent at Nanning states that the rebellion is entirely at an end. He confirms the previous information that the rebellion was of the nature of isolated struggles between bands of bandits and outlaws against succeeding in cutting up parties of the latter. the Imperial troops, the rebels occasionally
It seems that it is quite rue that General Ma, one of the ablest (hinese officers in the South, the Imperial troops were gross exaggerations. was killed, but the tases of wholesale defeats of Though the rebellion, so-called, is at an end, a disquieting feature of the situation is that large quantities of up-to-date rifles are still imported constantly. The Chinese complain that there are smuggled over the Tonkin frontier. The Indo-Chinese Government should look into the matter, for as long as modern weapons are imported, so long will the outlaws be able to meet the Government troops on equal terms.