THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Oderland Trave Report.
VOL. LVI.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles:-
The New Commercial Treaty.. Canton's Trade in 1901...
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 13TH SEPTEMBER, 1902.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
It has transpire that the majority of the 16 torpedo-boats now being built at the Newsky yard. St. Petersburg, will be sent to the Far East this year.
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According to Japanese advices, Russia is ....199still recruiting Chinese soldiers in Manchuria, 19 and the Chinese Minister at St. Petersburg bas 199 | been instructed to enter a protest. 199
The Weihaiwei Regiment
The Wom in Missionary in China
America Enterprise in the Far East
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The Return of H. E. the Governor
Presentation to Major-General Gascoigne
The Health of Hongkong
A New American-Asiatic Venture
Hong song Volunteer Contingent
The Chenchou Murder
Mr. Stewart Lockhart on the Weihaiwei Regiment200 Singapore's Water Famine
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Population of Federate-i Malaya
Siam's Finances
Macao
Can'on
Northern Notes
Corea
Correspondence
The Hongkong & Whampas Dock Co., Ld.
Campbell, Moore & Co, Ld
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Universal Trading Co., Ld.
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Supreme Court
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Alleged attempted Fraud on Shanghai Bank
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V. R. C. sports
Hongkong Chess Club
The Kwangsi Troubles
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
The steamship Oregon is fitting ont at Seattle,
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and will sail on the 15th November with a party 201 202 of manufacturers with exhibits, for a six months' 202 cruise to Russia, China, Japau, the Philippines, .202! Straits Settlements, India, Mauritius, South 203 Africa, Australia, and. Hawaii, with a view to the expansion of Amer cau commerce in general.
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Cholera has now become widely spread over many parts of Japan, and the Government has therefore decided to strictly enforc medical 208 inspection of passengers on steamers and trains. 208 On shore the umber of cholera inspection 210 officers will be iacreased, and the cleansing of premises and examination of the people rigo-
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On the 26th August, at Taiping, F.M.S, the wife of WILLIAM ROUBE, of a son.
On the 27th August, at Hwanghien, the wife of Rev. C. W. PRUITT, American Southern Baptist Mission, of a son.
On the 2nd September, at Soochow, the wife of Walter C. WOOD, of a daughter.
On the 2nd September, at Keppel Road, Singa- pore, the wife of G. W. STRUYS, Warehouseman, Tanjong Pagar Wharf, of a son.
On the 4th September, at "Woodside," Grange Road, Singapore, the wife of ROWLAND ALLEN, | barrister-at-law, of a sou
MARRIAGES.
On the 23rd August, at Newchwang, by the Rev. J. Carson EDWARD MCKILLOP YOUNG, M.B.C. V., to KATHARINE CONSTANCE SAMPSON, L.B...P. & S, second daughter of Arthur B. SAMPSON, Barnard Castle, Durham, formerly Under Secretary to the Government of India.
On the 10th September, at S. John's Cathedral, by the Rev. F. T. Johnson, CHARLES LDINGTON, only son of C. E. V. MERRALL, of Brentwood and Bradford (Eng.), to GWEN, eldest daughter of DANG CHEE, of Hongkong and Sydney (N.8. W.). DEATH.
On the 1st September, at 7, Woosung Road, Shanghai, MARIANNE, relict of the late George L. SKINNER, aged 58 years.
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rously enforced,
A Peking despatch to Shanghai states that Leasing of the proposed disbandment of the 1st Chinese Regiment of Weihaiwei and the high state of efficiency attained by them under their British officers, Prince Su, who is Command int of the Peking Genda merie, it is reported, has been lately conferring with Sir Ernest Satow about enro'ling one hundred members of the Weihaiwei Reg ment into his highueses, newly-organis d Gendarmerie to act as drili instructors.
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We understand that the Chinese Government, in recognition of his ten years' service as head of the Tung Won Kwan at Canton, has bestowed on Mr. John A. Summers the order of the double dragon, third class.
The St. Petersburg journal Sviet, discussing the world's naval arrangements, urges that in face of the Anglo-Japanese combination in the Pacific Russia must concentrate her energies on quintupling the fighting strength of her prosent squadron in Chinese waters.
The Japanese Minister of Commerce has ar- rived at Pretoria. It is understood that his mission refers to the question of the immigra tion of Japanese agriculturista into South Africa and also to the import on Japanese pro- ducts and the possibilities of a direct steamship service between Japan and the Cape.
The hearing of the case at Singapore against Joseph Gouin, a Frenchman, indicted on a charge of the murder of a ricksha coolie at Tan- jong Pagar by cutting his throat with a razor, was fixed for Monday, the 8th inst. Mr. Lowell, barrister-at-law, was assigned to defend the prisoner, and a special jury was to be em- panelled. On the 11th inst.. at the Singapore Assizes, the accused was sentenced to death. Gouin, it may be remembered, arrived in Sin- gapore by the German mail steamer Tanglin, having been picked up off the coast of New Guinea, with three other French convicts who had escaped from Noumea, the capital of New Caledonia, in a stolen boat. The German steam r kiudly (?) landed them at Singapore. Early on the morning of the 6th July Gouin murdered a ricksha-coolia with a razor at Tan- jong Pagar, The coolie was able to leave his ricksha and run to the station, where he died. The police followed the blood-stains and found Gouia walking along Koppel Road. He was saturated with blood and smelt of drink. Gouin was a well-built man, between 40 and 50 years
served his defence until the Ass zs,
The Kobe Chronicle learns that the protocol
for the arbitration in the case of the dispute
The Peking Syndicate is proceeding very satisfactorily with its work in northern Honan, the N.-C. Daily News r. ports. The earth-work old. Brought up at the Police Court, he re- for the railway has been began in Weihui pre- fecture, and mining operations are being com- m nced in Suiwuhsien, The foreign en rineers engaged are being ted in the most friendly mauner hy offi ials and people ulike; they are especially fortunate in that the harvest this year in northern Hona is a record one--the best in ten years-and everyone is in a good tmper accordingly, aud the engineers have had no trouble whatever in securing all the labour A together, the outlook is most they want. promising.
A steamer which has returned to Yokohama from the scene of the Bonin Islands eruption reports that, on arriving at the scene of the disaster, after a careful surrey a safe landing place was discovered, and several men were lauded to search for the missing. These parties stopped on the island for the day and the day after. The condition of the island is described as appalling. It was thickly covered The French mail of the 8th August arrived, with lava, and not a cottage nor habitation of any kiud could be made out. Two doad cows, per M. M. steamer Oceanien, on the 7th Sep-in an adrauced state of decompo ition, were Not a living soul was tember (30 days); and t e Canadian mail of the discovered on a hill.
found in shore. Smoke was issuing from 18th August arrived, per C. P. R. steamer the crater when the party was at the island, bat Empress of Japan, on the 9th September (22 the submarine volcano seems to have decreased days).
in force considerably.
over the interpretation of certain clauses in Article XVIII. of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty and the corresponding articles in the French and German Treaties was signed on the 28th ult. between Barod Komura Minister of Foreign Affai s, acting for the Japanese Government, and the Ministers of Great Britain, Germany, and France, acting for their respective Govern- ments. The protocols are written in English, French, and Japanese; and wi I be published in the Official Gazette in due course. The arbitra- tion will be held under the rules laid down at The Hague Conference. Our contemporary understands the three Powers who are parties to the ar.itration have eight months in which to draw up ther case, after which the Japicese Government will have six months in which to reply. If full advantage is taken of the time allowed, it will b, about two years
before a decision is reached, and it would be iuteres ing to know if the collections of the House-tax are to be enforced during that time. The Chronicle farther understands that the arbitration will not be confined specifically to the House-tax, but will deal with the interpreta-
tion of Article XVIII, as a whole.