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Epitome of the Week, &o
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The Currency Question
The Threat from Tung Fu-hsiang
Russia and Corca
Building Collapses in Hongkong
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
Diocesan Boys' School and Orphanage
Evacuation of Shanghai Completed
Disturbance in West Cheliang
The Situation in Kansu
Closing the Siam Mints
The Philippines Tariff and Currency
The Worship of Confucius
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The Navy League Annual Meeting
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Launch of the Kinshan
Trave Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 17TH JANUARY, 1903.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 12th December arrived per N.Y.K. steamer Hakata Maru and M.M steamer Salazie, on the 14th January 44 (3 days); and the American mail of the 19th December arrived. par T.K.K. steamer Nippon Maru, on the 16th January (23 days).
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
A Japanese telegram from Loudon on the 30th 1 ecember say that Russia i despatching 53 seven additional destroyers to the Pacific.
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The Political Situation in Japan
Indian Notes
Christmas at Balik Papan......
Peking
Presentation of Med is at Weiha:wei
Correspondence
China-Borneo Co. Li
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China Provident Lon and Mortgage Co., Ld.......
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National Bank of China, Ld.
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Supreme Court ..
Enquiries into Collapses of Buildings
Cricket
Football
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
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Royal Hongkong Golf Club..
Hongkong
Miscellaneous
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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The Hunan correspondent of a Shanghai native writes that the Chengchow authorities are now selecting a suitable site for the erection of a
monument to the memory of the two murdered English 'missionaries. At the same time the Magistrate has sent workmen to Chiyang to procure large stones which are to be consigned to Chengobow by boats and carts. In consequence heavy expenditure will be involved but the stones in Chiyan 2 are noted for their uniform white colour almost resembling jade stono, Probably the monument will b completed in April next. The native conve:ta have all returned and resumel their former o cupations while the civil and military autho- rities are more vigilant than ever in protecting the missionaries,
With reference to the disturbance, in Kansu of which we wrote ou the 13th inst..itis interesting to note that H.E. Sung Fan, Viceroy of Shensi and Kansu, recently tlographed to the autho-
The Chinese official holidays in Chilli beginities of Chihli stating that "there has been on January 17 and end on February 16. Seals will be locked and put away during these days, si and only urgent business tran acted. The pres- 55 sure of work does not look as if it were extreme. ,56
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M. Delcassé,-meling one of the French 57 Colonial party's chief objections to the Siamese 57 Treaty, has concluded an additional clause, by which Siam engages to errect no new fortifica- tions in the provinces of Battambang and Si n-reap or within 25 kilometres of the right buk of tho Mekong.
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On the 27th December, at Tientsin, the wife of H. SCHELL, of a daughter.
On the 30th December, at Ningpo, the wife of
H. BISMARCK, I.M.C., of a daughter.
On the 2nd January, at 2, Astor Terrace, Shang
hai, the wife of GEO, PEARSON, of a son.
On the 5th January, at 2., Whangpoo Road, Shanghai, the wife of WALTER F. HAURIS, of a daughter.
On the 9th January, at Muirhead Road, Shang- hai, the wife of JOHN BLECHYNDEN, of a son.
On the 12th January, at No. 10, Seymour Terrace, the wife of C. H. LAMMERT, of a son.
On the 13th January, at 1, Queen's Gardens, the wife of Capt. F. D. GODDARD, Marine Surveyor, of a daughter.
On the 13th January, at 2, Bowring Villas, the wife of SIDNEY J. POWELL, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., of a son.
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On the 14th January, at No. 9. Caine Road; Fair View," Hongkong, the wife of EDWARDO J. DE FIGUEIREDO, of a daughter.
DEATHS.
On the 10th November, at Chungking, HAROLD
SHELDON, the second and cn'y surviving son of the Rev. J. and Mrs. PARKER, aged 3 years and 9 months.
On t'e 22nd December, at Nanking, PAUL WADSWORTH, the only son of the Rev. WILBUR A. and JULIA B. ESTES (the latter deceased), aged 1 month and 3 days.
On the 6th January, at 22, C aon'oong Road, Shanghai, of consumption, ZELIE JEANNE ROSA HUNNEX aged 20 years.
On the 6th Janu ry, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, WILLIAM PRUN, Acting Chief Gaoler of H.B ́M.'s Gaol, aged 33 years.
On the 10th January, at Shanghai, ARTHUR RICHARD MILLER, late of Fobes & Co., aged 31 years.
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On the 14th January at Folkestone, Mrs. H. M. PLAYFAIR, widow of the late Lieut.-Colonel G. W. PLATFAIR, Madras Staff Corps, and mother of GRO WF. PLATFAIE, Hongkong, aged 71 years.
The bulgat of the Gorman Ch`n garrison provides 200,00 marks as first payment of a hospital in Peking, which will cost 570,220 marks. 2,100,00 marks will be necessary to China satisfy the claims of private soldiers. will pay the interest Dow overdue in monthly instalments of Tls. 250,000 each whereof Ger- many will get in all Tls 600,470.
The New York Post states on unquestionable authority (our London correspo, dent tele- graphs) that Mr. Hay, the United States Secretary of State, has made a strong declara. tion in support of China's contention that four hundred millions Haikwan taals are all China can pay without serious financial difficulties. The United S`ates intends to accept payment on that basis.
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A telegram to L'Echo de Chine says that a new decree reports the decrees of the last and 23rd of April, 1:02, in reference to the organisa. tion of the French forces in the Far East and
in the Atlantic. The report which precedes the decree states meanwhil、 the ufilty of maintaining the réserve division at Saigon united to the Far Easteru squadron under the same command,
difficulties between the Mahommedans and dis- banded soldiers in Kanan with the result that rumours were invented that they were anti- Christian crusades so that the missionaries at
Ping Liang were about to take refuge in quieter regions. I at once appointed deputies to in- vestigate and preserve peace and the local authorities used every effort to retain mission- aries and promised every protection, so the latter have not loft as intended. Now the dis- banded soldiers have been dispersed and this prorfacs is as quiet as can be.'
Import nt changes are contemplated in the U.S. Philippine Commission. It is probable that within a few months Judge William H. Taft, chairman of the Commission and Governor of the Philippine Islands, will resign to accept a place on the United States Supreme Court bench, and that Mr. W. W. Rookhill, now chief of the Bureau of American Republics, will be appointed to fill the vacancy on the Philippine Commission created by Judge Taft's transfer to the Supreme Court at Washington. When he has been promoted to the Supreme Court it will be in fulfillment of a promise of President McKinley. Judge Taft resigned from the Federal Circuit bench in Ohio to accept the ch-irmanship of the Philippine Commission at the urgent solicitation of "the late U.S. President.
the Ministers of State in Corea, still continues, The agilation to remove Li Yo-Yok, one of
but without effect, says the Kobe Chronicle, the Emperor strongly refusing to listen to the agitation. The trouble is said to be due to jealousy among the officials. It appears, how. ever, that the Japanese Government has inter- voned in the dispute: A Secul telegram to the The Sin Wan Pao's Naukin correspondent Mainichi states that, in reply to a Note addressed writes that the case of the 8 Kowshing, which to the Corean Government urging the dismissal was sunk by the Japanese while she was on her of Li Yo-Yok, who is said to be under the pro- way to Corea in 1891, has leen dragging along | tcotion of a foreign Governme t. the Corean for sev ral years and has not been settled. } Government stated that Li Yo-Yok was not Lately, the British Government again tele- | appointed to his office by the recommendation graphed to its Minister at Pking instructing him to reopen the matter with the Chinese Government. It has been settled now that China is to pay Great B itain Tis 280,000 in order to settle the whole m tter, and the sam is to be borne by the Nanting administration, the Nanking Treasury to subscribo one half and the other half to be subscribed by the Soochow Treasury.
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of the Russian Minister, bat by the command of the Emperor, and he was not under the pro- tection of any foreign Power. A request was · therefore made that the Japanese Government should withdraw its advice M. Stein, the Russian Chargé d'Affaires in Seoul, has addres-ed a Note to the Japanese: Chargé d'afaires, de- claring that Russia has no intention of gaining any advantage through