THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Oderland Trave Report.
VOL. LVII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c...... Leading Articles :-
The Record of the Year
The Peace of Europe
Humiliated China
Yunnan Railway Question
Fires in Hongkong
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 3RD JANUARY, 1903,
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Health of Hongkong
Plucky Chingmen
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The Evacuation of Shanghai ..........................
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Entertainments
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Theatre Royal
Masonic Affairs
Se men's Mission
Macso
Swatow
Hoihow
Foochow
Northern Notes
Correspondence
China-Borneo Co, Ld.
Hongkong High-Level Tramways Co, Ld. Supreme Court
Cricket
Football....
Rifle Match ....
Local and District Evonta, 1902
The Rumoured Movement in the North-West Chiness Eastern Railway Co.
Hongkong
Miscellaneous
Commercial
Shipping
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BIRTHS.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Italian Ministry has fixed the indemnity
due to the Italian missionaries in China 14,000,00) francs.
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Mr. A. H. Savage Landor arrived at Cha g hai on the 28th nlt. by the Pacific Mail & s China, and has come on to Hongkong.
H.E. Wei Kuang-tao, Viceroy-elect of the 5 Liangkiang provinces, is expected to arrive at
Nanking on or about the 19th January.
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A great ceremony took place at Shanghai the laying of the foundation-stone of a grand German post-office in the British settlement.
Viceroy Yuan Shi-kai has proposed and the Imperial Government has accepted a scheme for the formation of a Depar ment of Communica. tions on the Japanese model, having complete control of China's postal service.
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The following two telegrams are dated 8 Seoul, December 22nd:-- The object of Ye 9 Yong Yik's visit to Port Arthur is, it is rumoured, to negotiate for a loan [from Russia] on the security of mining concessions i Hang- Ken-To and Peng-an-To districts "The entry of the Russian bluejackets to the capital has been stopped."
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News is coming from Kausu, according to a Peking despatch, confirming the idea tha' everything is quiet there. The rumour of a revolt of Tung Fu-hsiang is apparently caused by the fact that the Governor-General of Shen- kan had given orders a few weeks ago to a Mohammedan military mandarin to enlist fold-
On the 30th December, at Hongkong, the wife of Reginald Dowsett Thomas, s.s. Nanning, ofiers for the Governor-General of Szechuen for
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On the 30th December, at the Peak Hospital, Hongkong, the wife of J. F. WRIGHT, Manila, of
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MARRIAGE.
On the 29th December, at the Union Church, Hongkong, by the Rev.. H. Hickling, SAMUEL FARREL (8.8 Sungkiang), to JANE JANET AITKEN, youngest daughter of the late JOHN AITKEN, of Greenock.
DEATHS.
On the 22nd December, at Shanghai, EDOUARD BASTIEN, aged 69 years.
On the 27th December, at 1130 p.m., at Sperangee," Peak Road, RACHEL, the dearly beloved wife of DAVID HASKELL, aged 37 years. Deeply regretted
On the 30th December, at 6.15 p.m., at the Peak Hospital, GRACE ANNIE, dearly beloved wife of JOHN SCOTT HARSTON, aged 27 years. [3503 On the 31st December, 1902 at Shanghai, ALFRED AGUstus LoureIRO, beloved son of the late JOSE DA SILVA LOUREIR, H.M.F.P.M.'s Charge d'Affaires at Tokyo and Mary Loureiro, Hongkong and Japan papers please copy.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
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the suppression of the rebellion in that province, which orders, however, were subsequently with drawn.
There are at present four merchant steamers under the Corean flag, but the peninsular Government possesses no navy. The Osaka Asahi learns that the Kawasaki dockyard, Kobe, has obtained the contract for the con- struction and arming of a Corean cruiser. The cost is fixed at 500,000 yen, of which 50,000 y-n is being paid in advance. This, the first Corean warship, will have a displacement of 1,8 0 tons and a speed of 14 knots, and is Government intended to be employed as a transport, and lighthouse and Customs cruiser, in ordinary times. She is to be ready for sea in 18 months. The cost of construction is to be appropriated from Customs revenues, and it is reported that Mr. McLeavy Brown, Chief Commissioner of Corean Custom, is on of these who signed the agreement for the Corean | Government.
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H. Lehmann. of Messrs. Arnhold. Karberg & Co, who returned to Shanghai from home on the 27th December, was found dead in bed on the morning of the 31st, having committed SS suicide for some canse unknown. Mr. Lehmann passed through Hongkong only a little while ago on his way to Shanghai after a two months' holiday at home. He had lived in the northern port and had been connected with the firm for many years. He was well-known there and popular, and the news of his tragic death will be received with profound regr t among the circle of his friends and acquaintances. The telegram which the representatives of the firm bere got app ising them of the affair contained no further particulars than a given above. Mr. Lehmann was a man of file physique, so that his action could hardly have been occasioned by ill-health; it is thong that mental-derange ment may have been responsible for the tragedy.
The American mail of the 3rd December arrived, per P.M. steamer China, on the 31st December (28 days); and the French mail of the 30th November arrived, per N.Y.K. steamer Sasuki Maru, on the 2nd January (33 days).
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Complaint has been lodged with the Wai Wu-pu by the Russian Ministér in relation, to the operation of the railway north of Shanhaik- was, the Shanghai Times says. It is said to have been one of the stipulations of the transfer of the railway from the Russians to the Chinese, that if persons of other than Chinese nationality were to be employed as executive or in an advisory capacity on that section of the road, such appointement should fall exclusively to Rossians. The Russian Minister is said to bə
fiading fault because several appointments have
fallen to Britons.
A Shanghai native paper's Peking correspon- dent writes that “Ġeneral's Eu's policy in quelling the Kwangsi rebellion has been pardoning those insurgents who surrendered. Lately he has again asked permission of the Grand Council to pardon a prominent rebel leader, Hsin Ching-sen and others. The Grand CouncI replied that the General's policy could be used as a temporary remedy only, but could never be pursued as a permanent one. Again the rebel leader Hsin and others are of a most fickle nature and full confideuce should not be given to their promises, so the General must test them to their fall before accepting their surrender."
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Authentis information has been received at Harbio, says the Vostochny Viestnik of Vladivostock, to the effect that bands of Chinese marauders (Tunguses) have appeared in Southern Manchuria. The native population at Teitsihar and in the vicinity has also of late shown signs of hostility towards foreigners, whoso position is fast becoming serious. The local Chinesa Governor, or Drian-Dzun, hesitates to deal with the marauders, though for his own personal safety he has already strengthend the guard around his honse by several hundred soldiers Although a repetition of the late Chinese troubles in this part, when we had no railway completel, no troops in readiness and no gans, is hardly probable, it will nevertheless be necessary for the authorities to adopt proper measures in good time; otherwise the least delay in case of au uprising might lead to serious consequences.
A meeting of the Penang Chamber of Com- merce, at which a resolution was passed in favour of a gold standard, was held on the 16th ult.. with Mr. Robert Yeats in the chair. Some of. the speakers wanted the Chamber to mention - a conversion rate. The Chairman in dissenting said that the time for discussing the exchange rate would be when the report of the Currency Commission came before the Legislative Council, The balance of opinion expressed leaned to a 2/-! dollar. Another strong point made was that the change to gold should be made now before disastar: arises from the dollar dropping to 1/6 or 1/4, The Miners' Association discussed the Car reacy Question at a meeting at Kuala Lumpar and passed a resolution in favour of holding o to a silver basis. The Miners held that à löm dollar suited them, and that they would never- be able to get their coolies to consent to ori understand the proposed change. The United Planters' Association have held a meeting sty Kuala Lumpur at which it was decided by eight votes to one that the firing of the local currency on a gold misis would be beneficial to the planting commy. The resolution further declared that the conversion should take place on the basis of e sovereign with decimal subsidiary coinage.