THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LVI.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles:---
The British Empire
Russia and Manchuria.
French Projects at Kwanchanwan
The Hunan Murder
The Native Labour Question
Daring Robbery in Harker Road
Hongkong College of Medicine for Chinese
The Health of Hongkong....
The Hunan Murder
The Pontianak Fire
Capt. Percy Scott's Loading Tray
An Interview with General Dorward
The Szechuen Rebellion
The Trouble in Northern Siam
Newchwang
Northern Notes
Correspondence
Hongkong Hotel Co., Ld.
Supreme Court
Reviews
Hongkong Polo Club Gymkhana
Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Hongkong Chess Club
Praise for H.M S. Orean
Abolition of Slavery in the Philippines The China Medal
Governor Taft on the Philippines Hongkong
Miscellaneous
Commercial Shipping
BIRTHS.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 30TH AUGUST, 1902.
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HE. the Governor. Sir Henry A. Blake, 159 and party are likely to arrive in the Colony about the 9th prax by the C.P.&. liner then due.
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The Siam Observer gives an authoritative contradiction to a report that the Government of Siam is sending troops to Kelantan or some other par. of th· Malay Peninsula.
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Our London correspondent. telegraphed under, date 25th August:-Th French authorities are considering the project for establishing a naval bass at Kwanchauwan, between Nivet 161 and Fort Bayard, involving a cost of £1,250,020. It is reported that the re-establishment of free trade in Vladivostock is being considered 165 by the Russian Ministry of Finance, as it is 165 found impossible to guard the frontier of several thousand versts to prevent smuggling, and the 167 only logical way out of this difficulty is the return to the old state of affairs, i.e., free trade. 169 The Universal Gazette's Peking correspondent 169 reports that the Wai Wu Pa has recently 169 informed the foreig. Ministers at Peking to the effect that the quarantine regulations now in force at the Treaty Ports are too arbitrary 17 for the Chinese to endure, and that they are 171 requested to take immediate steps to have these 172 regulations relaxed.
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On the 24th July, at Blackheath, England, the wife of ARTHUR SUGDEN, I. M. Customs, of a son. On the 14th August, at Tientsin, the wife of
G. BUTLAND, of a son.
On the 18th August, at 195, Miller Road, Shanghai, the wife of G. H. Rose, of a son.
On the 19th August, at No 36, Nanking Road, Shanghai, the wife of J. J. JUDAH, of a son.
On the 27th August at the Government Civil Hospital, l'ongkong, the wife of FRANK BROWNE,
of a son.
DEATHS.
On the 17th August, at Berlin, CARL WILCK, aged 56 years.
On the 19th August, at the Shanghai General Hospital, ELIZABETH, the wife of En. G. WILSON, aged 52 years.
Mr. Thomas Henderson Whitehead. the home papers state, has been appointed joint manager of the Chartered Bank of India, Caleb Lewis. We congratulat Mr. Whitehead Australia and China, in conjunction with Mr.
on this merited distinction, which unfortunately, however, seems to dispose of any hopes of his retur. to Hongkong)
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The Japanese vernacular papers state that the question of the House Tax is to b submitted to th› Hague Tribu ral. It is added that the Japanese authori i have proposed that the judgmsat should he draftal in Japanese English. Freach and Gs man, bat that the representative at Tokyo insists that it shall be in Freuch and Japanese only.
General Chaffee, who has been on a visit to Mindauto, and is now on his way back to Manila, has cabled to the War Department at Washing- toa that the cutlook in the island is so threatening that it is ab olutly necessary to advanca on the fort of Bacolod, and mike a determined show of forcs. General Chaffee has been grauted full power to deal with the
i situation.
The Hayasuki Press understands that the shipping
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The N.-C. Daily News says, in its Notes on Native Affairs, that General Ma Wei-ch'i. Szechuen, who is still in Kwangtung province, Provincial Commander-in-Chief designate of has asked for and obtained permission from the Throne to enlist a brigade of some 5,000 Can- tonese troops to take with him to Szechnen to suppress the Boxers there.
The Standards Odessa correspondent rays that Russia's fulfilment or repuliation of the agreement to evacuate Manchuria depends upon the settlement of the question of the retention of or retrogre sion from the right bank of the Amur river. If the territory on the right bank is retroceded it is considered that "Russia's position will prove perilous. It is believed in St. Petersburg official circles that Russia will formally annex the whole of the right baak up to the Khingun mountains.
No particulars are to hand of the eruption on Torishima, Bonin Islands. The Tokyo authorities have sent a party of engineers and other officers to investigate the matter on the spot. There were about 150 inhabitants, and 40 houses. on the island. The captain of the NY.K. Hyogo Maru, who first brought the news of the disaster to Nagasaki, fears that very few if any of the inhabitants of the island have escaped death, and that great destruction must have been dealt to animal and vegetation.
A Saifu correspon leut. quoted in the N.-C. Daily News, says: "The rebels, or outlaws, are gathering together in large numbers to the
much at their hands. The continual change of south of us, and many of the gentry have suffered
mandarins here is a menace to peace, and both the British and French residents feel it is time something was done to stop this action of the higher officials, who are simply filling their pockets at the expense of the unfortunat› mgistrates. We have had no less than four
Hsien magistrat 's here in soveà months!
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The British authorities have lost no time in
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preparing for the investigation of the murder of Messrs. Brace and Lovis, says the N.-C. Daily News in its issue of the 25th inst. Lancelot Giles, of H.M's Consular service, has gous to Changsha, the capital of Hunan, ia H M.S. Snipe to take the deputy of the Go- vernor of Hunan to Changteb, and accompany him to Chênchou to investigate the tragedy. This prompt dispatch of a British Consular official in a British gunboat will give graat satisfaction to al: the fellow-subjects of the murdered missionaries,
Hongkong Weekly Press quarters of the Chinese Eastern master, in the opinion of the Chine Tariff
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 25th July arrived, per M.M. steamer Laos, on the 26th August (32 days); the English mail of the 1st August arrived, per P. & O. steamer Bengal, on the 29th August (28 days); and the American mail of the 1st August arrived, per P.M. steamer Peru, on the 29th!August (28 days).
Railway Co. will shortly be moved to Dalny, and that port will accordingly bзcom the Japan an1 China in connection with the rail s'arting point for the steamers rauning to
way service. It is said that the Company con template a considerab'e extousion of this ship ping service.
The Paris Temp: announces the imminent opening at Paris of negotiations on the subject difficulties ein be smoothed over. of Siam. It is considered that the existing desire to arrive at an understaud ng. Siam has To prove its requested Francs to designate a functionary who is to hold an important position at Bangkok. Ostasiatische Lloyd telegram, promises France Meanwhile, the Russian Press, according to an
Russia's support against Siam !
It would seem that there is somthing the
Commissioners, Sheng and Lü, with reference to the recent si ning of the Tariff Tretty by siouer, a: may be seen from the gist of a Mr. Sharretts, the United States Tariff Commis
telegram pablished in the Sinwenpao, ssut the latter part of last week by th former to the Chinese Minister Wa, at Washington: -The American Tariff'ommissioner, Mr. Sharretis, clandestinely sigaed th, Tarif Treaty, without formally notifying us, and then suddenly left your Excellency to enquire from the Unitel for his own country. We therefore reqaust States Government whom they intended to appoint to sign in our presence our Tariff Treaty with that Government in the event of our
receiving Imperial instructions to sign the said
document.