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VOL. LIVE!
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China Oderland Trave Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitoine of the Wind, &e.
Larling Articles e
Germany and tha Shangh
Question
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 600 DECEMBER 1902.
Extremaliot
The Public Health and Buildings Hill
Rader-muin- atul the Water Supply
The Pan-Germanic Movement
The Kriti-it Cou-ular Service ....
Hongkong Legislative Council
The Coronation Medal
The clungchow Mas-aero
Etopiry into Collapses of Buddug- Thuvatre Royal
Marac
Canton
Amoy
Swalow .....
Northern Notes
Correspondence
Supreme Court
Crieket
Football
Royal Hongkong Yada 't lul, Rifle Match
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
No. 23
We regret to announce that Mr. A, E. Buck the United States Minister to Japan, died suddenly of heart dis ase at Tokyo on the 4th inst.
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M. Coombes, the Frenel Premier, begged the Badgel Committee to aletai : from reading General Voy ron's report about the
A Peking despatch to Japau says it has been Boxer E6 disturbances.. The Committed by a majority ¦ ascertained that the report to the effect that the of nuevo e devid al fo rer six the reparf, but to ! Russians were actually engaged in constructing maintain severy as to its embeds,
a railway from 1. ke Baikal to Changchakaó, near Peking, is entirely unfounded.
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I. Who de Chine says that M. Delojoslo has written to M. Heleuse recommending to his patriotic solicituds thousands of Laotians, 111 | Cambodiaus, Annamities, and Chinese, French 14 | subjects or protogós, whom the convention of the 7th of October abandons pitilessly to forture and slavery!
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fo the Prench Colonial Minister. characterising tho estaldusliment of a gold 116 | standard in Miam which we annoured here;
last Saturday as au pronomie calenlatel to entail the gravest consequences to the finances of Indo-China, and port'cularly to the rice-market al Saigon. He lands the immediate nomination of a commission of enquiry; to present a solution before the 1st January. M. Daumergne has decided to institat" dis Commission and promises to take the neenssiry measures to avert the erisis the atoning Fronekt possessions in the Far Eas! immediately the Co mission has formulated an opinion.
On the 29th November, at the Mercantile Bank House, the wife of F. H. VLars, of a difighters
MARRIAGES.
on the 22nd November, at the Presbyterian Church, Singapore, by the Rev. 8 8. Walker, Graham Hetemisos, Shipyard Superintendent, Riley Hatg.eaves & Co, Lal, to AGNES Rustria lx2, only daughter of the late Joms RaŁ.
On the 22nd November, at S. Macy's Church,
hitala Latrupin, by the Roy. Frank G Swindell, PERCY Perteng, setupel so of Lieut. Colonel DACRES WILLIAM Wish, of Allerson, Foddi weit, Sant. Devim, to S PRIA MARTARST, youngest daughter of the late Girowok Barter and Mrs. Hather, of Wraxter, Ashburton Rog (, Nutluset, On the 3rd December, at 8. John's Cathedral, by the Rev. P. T. Johnson, MA, Cani, Eusst PATA MATTITESSES, son «d Cą. MvrEITIESSEN, Queen's Hussars, Berlin, to ELLA MARA Enru kis
daughter of ti d. W. Ki.... Hoang ang.
DEATHS.
On the 1915 November, a' the Genral thospital, Singapore, Joun M. JARDA, Superintendent Shipwright at the Koppel Harlanur Section of Tanjong Pagar Dock computty's Works, aged 18 years.
On the 25th November, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, CHARLES CINTZ, agost 38 years,
On the 26th November, at No 56, Noath Soo- chow Rond, Shuanghai, Cuvates Bewick QUU KLUB, aged as yours.
On the 1st Horeber, at Koala 11
Dorks, ANDREW HARVik, for 21 years Foreman Moulder with the Hongkong and Wharaper Hook cu, II Deeply regretted.
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Cur London co, respond out telegraphing on the 3rd just, gave the following details with reference to the Shanghai evacuation question --
The official correspondence with regard to the evacuation of Shanghai was published to day. It appears that Germany, in respouse to Lord Lansdowne's enquiries, ensated to the general forms for the evacuation of the port, hat in Get dr sho stipulated that the Peking Government and the Yangtzo Viceroys should engage not to grant any Power special politic I. military, m ritine, or bennomic advantages nor to allow the eupation of any other poins commanding the river either aluce or below | Shanghai. Prince (hing denied to Sir Ernest Satow, H.BM Minister at Peking, that Ger-
many had submitted any e nditions † • Chua, int Sir Ernest Satow ascertained that Prince Ching had already accephal Germany's proposals. Lord Laosdowne Cion in-fructed the British Minister to inform Prince Ching Chat his double dealing was de q ly resental and that Great Britain would not be bound by any plogos limiting Chines and our fredom of action regarding the maintenane juf onder and the protee'i m of our intere ds in the Yangtsz, region. Japancorlidly supported Grow Ritain. Germany intimates that sh·les reived assu. i raness from thing and regarded her conditions jas fulli led. Lord Lausd, who replied that dir
understood that these assura es referred to f the whole of Chins, exelaling the swerviga
Hongkong doleekly press erritorist rights already alienated
Hongrong Office: 14, Des Vaux Road ('t.. \ London Officɛ: 11, Fleet Street, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The Am rican mail of the Sth November arrived, her P.M. steammer Barot, an th9 H Peceniter (26 days).
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quent votre pindence indicates that th. evacuation of Shanghai is now only a unifter of transports.” Referring to the subject earlier in the work, the London Stud teil; assumed that the Franco-Gerurin postpone ment of the evacuation of Shanghai concerned the Yangtsz› question, and said that the matter might ba confidently left to Lord Lacslowie, whose principal task with regard to China now is to keep the Yangtsze pe vinces primarily a British sphere of influenes,
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Hanneken writes to the P. & T. Times to dissipate the fears that Chang Yen mag, Mr. Dofring, and himself have any sinister designs in their agitation with regard 15 the Chinese Engineering and Mining Co. AIL they want is to know clearly what has become of 6925 000 of the capital. They disown Mr. Yang altogether.
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Owing to the remarkable success of tea-grow- ing in the Caucasus, the Russian Ministry of
has decided to establish Agriculture industry on sound basis, and to this end will import experts from Chiur. India, and Coylan. The prices realised for this season's yield of fourteen tous varied from twenty six to fi ty-twn pence per pound.
Mr. Auston Chamberlain, speaking in the House of Commons, sail that when the Eastern mail arrangements are revised, he will hour in mind the suggestion of the P. and 0). Company that their steamers call at a port in British North Borneo, but in view of the small correspondence, and intricate navigation, it was hardly likely that the change would prave jus itiable,
The Tions in a sympathetic articla CR dap meso politics, especially in connection with their Naval Scheme and Land Tax, says that the Japanese are a proud and patriotic people. Marquis Ito will prosecute the policy of naval extension if accepted in power, and he hopes that a compromise between the supporters of the Naval Scheme and the opponents of the Land Tax will by possible.
At the request of the Japanese Commisioner and the Russian Commissioner, negotiations in connection with the now treaty were resumed on Monday, says the Shanghai Times of the 26th ult, by the Chinese Commissioner, La Hai Huan. The topic of the day was inland navigation and free access to the interior. This conference was the first since the death of Lin Kung Yi. The revised tariff has not yel been accepted in its entirety by the Russian and French Governments,
The newly revised Am-rican Chinese Treaty is said to contain forty articles.
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The Boruco dinner has been held in London, two hundred guests assembling under the pra sidaney of Mr. Richard B. Martin. M.P.. Chairman of the British North Borneo Company Mr. W. C. Cowie, of the London Court of Directors, announced a hope that the British Government would as-ist the company to raise loan of half a million sterling, wherewith to redeem its debentures and prosecute promising developments. Sir George Goldie advocated the wholesale introduction of Chinese labour. Renter is informed that the Borneo Company has applied to the British Government for a loan or the guarantee of a loan of half a mil lion sterling hearing interest at the rate of three per cent, per annum.