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THE
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LVII.]
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Epitome of the Week, do
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 28TH FEBRUARY, 1903.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Emperor of Jaj au intends to review the Japanese Flect at Kobo on April 10th.
M. Leszar, owing (o Il health, has left St. 11 Petersburg for Monto Carlo.
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An important decision of the Supreme Court of the United States indicates that Congress
Banquet to the Chinese Minister to Washington...153 | a'ready has the power to curb the Trusts.
The Medical Report for 1902
Port Hamilton
Chinese Labour for South Africa
Japan. a Commercial Morality,
Theatre Royal
Death of Dr. Canton
A New Masonic Building
Death of Prince Komatsu of Japan.
Dr. Pentecost at the City Hall.
The City Hall.....
Amoy
Foochow
Correspondence
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Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ld.
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The Novoe Vremya states that it has been „154 | decided to increase the staff of the Russian ..154 | legation at Peking by the addition of a Second
Secretary and two student interpreters.
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Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co., Ld.159 China Fire Insurance Co,, Ld.
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Farou Hayashi, the Japanese Minister in London, has been ini iated into the Empire Lodge of Fre masons. His Excellency is the first Japanese initiated into the Lodge,"
The Ostasiatische Lloyd reports that the new German railway in Shantung is making 169 rapid progress; the first consignment of coal .161 from the Weihsien district has arrived there. .161
Supreme Court
Review
Cricket
Football
l ́ockey
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club.
Hongkong
Miscellaneous
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Japan and Coren
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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According to a Peking despatch, the Com 16: mander at Moukden telegraphs that Russian 1.2 troops in Shingking and Kirin are to withdraw by the 1st of March. The second evacuation will be effected by the 8th of April.
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On the 18th February, at Ningpo, the wife of A. WACKER, of a daughter.
On the 24th February, at No. 2, Fairview, Kowloon, the wife of E. 8. Judau, of a diughter. MARRIAGE.
On the 18th February, et 8. John's Church, Hankow, by the Rt. Rev. J. A Ingle, M.A., Bishop of Hankow, and the Bev. A. M. Sherman, BA, Chaplain of the Port, HAROLD CYRIL SPENCER, youngest son of the late THOMAS CHARLES BELL, of Eastbourne, to EDITH MART, youngest daugh- ter of the late Rev. Joнs Mortimer STEPHENS,
of Bristol.
DEATHS.
On the 17th February, at the Nursing Home, Shanghai, Robert Hamilton MOOREHEAD, elder son of THEODORE Moorehead, Fpochow, aged 24
years.
On the 20th February, at 9, Soochow Road, Shanghai, Join CHAMBERS, aged 01 years.
On the 24th February, at No. 6 Chancery Lane, Hongkong, JUDITH MARIE RODRIGUES, the beloved wife of L. F. DA COSTA VIRIVA RIBEIRO. Deeply regretted. Lisbon paper, please ɔɔpy.
We received on the 21st inst. from the Colonial Secretary's office a copy of the following telegram from the Colonial Secretary, Eiuga- pore, to the Colonial Secretary, Hongkong, dated 20th February, 1903 : Hongkong declared to be infected,"
According to a recent New York despatch, Pre ident Roosevelt is particularly firm in his intention to do everything in his power to make Congress pass the measure reducing the tarif ou imports from the Philippines to 25 per cent. of the Dingley rate.
The new coinage to be turned out by H.E. Yuan Shikai's mint includes Kuping tael pi-ces, a little larger than the present Mexicans, 50- ta l-cont, 20-tael-cent, and 5-facl-cent_pieces, with three kinds of copper coins, Al-cash, 10-cash, and 5-cash pieces, but only 10-cash coins will be minted at the ontset.
The Tientsin correspondout of the N.-C. Daily News, telegraphing on the 28th inst. says:-A native banker of this city, uncle of the Yokoham Specie Bank compradore, decamped on Thursday. His liabilities are said to exced Tls. 1,000,000. It is feared that a foreign bank is among the creditors.
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According to the San Francisco papers, the Gaelic brought back thirty-eight Chinese" who by the border route, and were ordered to be unsuccessfully tried to enter the United States
deported.
The contract which the Milani Bússan Kálshá has with the Corean Government, securing a monopoly of the output of ginseng for thres years, is now expiring, but the M.B.K.. says a Japan paper," has the option of renewal upon terms to be mutually arranged, and negotiations to this end are now in progress,
L'Echo de Chine learns telegraphically that M. Deloncle, deputy for Indo-China, has laid before the Chamber a resolution inviting the French Government to distribute the complete text of the agreements concluded with China on 7th September, 1901, the diplomatic corres pondence relating to the Anglo-Chinese Treaty of 5th September, 1902, and the evacuation of Shanghai.
A special despatch to the Shanghai Times dated Chongin, January 28, says: --- The notorious female leader of the Boxers in this province, Liso Kwan Yiu (Liao, the Goddess of Mercy) who was some time ago incorrectly reported to have been slain in a battle with the Imperial troops, fell into the hands of the soldiers under Magistrate Tien Tsun Feng, only a few days ago, and was subsequently des pitated.
The Sin Wan Pao mys that it has been the (stablished custom of Kwangtung to have census taken of the males and females within its precincts at the end of every year. Last year the statistics presented to the Viceroy and Governor and to the Peking Government by the Kwangtung Provincial Tre surer stated that the male population of that province was 14844,544 while the female population was 14515,594, making a total population of 29,360,138 in that province.
A Peking despatch states that it is reported that Prince Su has obtained the consent of the Throne to establish a sort of Mixed Court in the Tartar City, where the Manobus of the Blue Banner Corps have their allotted re- sidence. It is intend. d, a ys the N.-O. Daily News, to hold judicial sittings in the new Mixed Court to try petty cases such as aré conducted in the Mixed Court in Shanghai. of the fifth rank, or higher, who can speak For this purpose. Prince Su is selecting omcors foreign languages, thereby enabling them to converse personally with the foreign assessors who will be appointed to try foreign-Chiness
Hongkong Weekly Press The Leadon Press does not regard Lord petty cases with them.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French Mail of the 23rd January arrived, per M.M. stegmer Ernest Simos, on the 23rd February (31 days); the American mail of the 28th January arrived, per O & O steamer Garlic, in the 25th February (28 days); and the Eoglah mail of the 30th January arrived. per P. & 0 simmer Faletta, on the 28th February (29 days)
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Cranborne's exposition of British policy in the Middle and Far East as reassuring. The Times, in the course of a leading article, essimistically remarks that we do not want to see the pitiful story of our policy in China repeated in South Persia,
The Times declares that notwithstanding the majority obtained by the Government in the Army debates has been the largest during the session. the weight of the argument has been❘ distinctly against the Government Hence Mr. Balfour's allusion to the Government's d. cisions not being irreversible. The Standard gives prominence to a letter charging the Times with inconsistency, and comparing the article in its issue of the 24th February with one published on the 11th March, 1901.
Manila Cablenews, announcing that the Bill In a New York telegram appearing in the making the gold peso: the unit of value in the Philippines had been passed by the Senate, it is stated that the peso will have a standard weight of 12 9-10 grains and the silver pesos a standard of 416 grains. Subsidiar is also provided for Fire million- will be coined at once, Spanish i will case to be legal tender on January To maintain the parity, the Philippine Goveri ment is authorised to larno od amount of len millio American gold early conference an of its being-conourr Representatives.