THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LVIII.]
Epitome
Leading Articles :-
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Railways in China
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The New Ordinance and the Housing Question 381 Bussia's Position
Hongkong and other Observatories.
Arms-Smuggling into China
**Confucianist Christians **
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Kwangsi Famine Relief
Chinese and the Ordinacce
Robberies i Hongkong
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The New treet Tramway!
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Opium-Making in Hougkong
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Notes from the Botanic Gardens
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The Tientsin Siding Dispute
Arm -Smuggling into Chins
The wangsi Troubles
A Canton Kidnapping Tale,
Canton
Pakhoi
Correspondence
Supreme Court
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Hongkong Electric Co.,
China Light and Power Coll Ld.
New Amby Dock C›., Ld..
Tebrau Planting Co. Ed.
Royal Hongkong Golf Clu
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce Hongkong
Miscellaneous
Commercial...
Shipping
BIRTHS.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 18TH JULY, 1903.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The plague cases in the Colony since the 1st January numbered at noon yesterday 1,347. The U: S. warships A bany, Cincinnati and Raleigh are expected at Singapore from Colom. bo on their way to the China station.
It is now stated that the Cabinot crisis in Japan was due to the interference of the "Elder Statesmen." who hampered the Ministry's action without sharing its responsibility.
On the 13th July. Marquis Ito was appoin ed President of the Privy Conncil of Japan, there 44 by abandouing the leadership of the Seiyukai. 44 The Katsura Cabinet remains in office, and
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Bangkok papers congratulate Mr. Tower ou his transfer from Bungkok to Munich and 46 Stuttgart as British Minister-Resident to Bavaria aud Wurtemberg, which was announeed in Renter's telegrams to the Siamese capital.
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The Japanese training fleet, which was last 48 reported at Thursday Island, is going direct 48 from Manila to Chemulpo, avoiding South China ports on account of plague. The squadron is due at Yokosnka at the ead of August.
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The Universal Gazette is informed that the On the 26th June, at Taipeng, F.M.S., the wife Directors of the Chekiang Bureau of Mines
of E. R. SALISBURY, of a son.
On the 3rd July, at Kala Lumpur, P.M.S., the wife of H. L. TALBOT, Commissioner of Police, F.M.S, of a daughter
On the 3rd July, at the Homcstend, Northam Road, Penang, Mrs. THOMAS GAWTHORNE, of a daughter.
have engaged a French and an Italian engineer at a salary of a thousand dollars per month each to prospect on their behalf the mining regions in Chuchow, Yenchow, Wenchow, and Taichow. The China Times says that immeuse quantities of coal are being hurried to Newchwang and On the 5th July, at No. 30, Haskel Road, Port Arthur.-The same paper also states that Shanghai, the wife of C. WRITE, of a daughter.parties of Russiaos and Japanese are confronting
On the 10th July at the Occidental Hotel, Elgin Road, Kowloon the wife of JEHANGIR H.
RUTTONJEE, of a son,
On the 16th July, at Weihaiwei, the wife of LEWIS WALL, R.N, of a laughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 7th July, at Manila, by the Rt. Rev. C. II. Brent, D.D., Fishop of the Philippines, ARTHUE WILLIAM OUTERBRIDG to JESSIE HALLIDAY WOODWARD.
On the 16th July, at S John's Cathedral, Hong- kong, by the Rev. F. T. Johnson, M.A., CAR LINE ELLERT, widow of the late F. ELLERT, of Shanghai, to ALFRED D. S. POWELL of the I.M. Customs.
DEATHS.
On the 5th July, at 1 Sophia Road, Singapore, Mrs. L. BURKE (nee HAZLEWOOD), aged 63 years. On the 9th July, at the Peak Ho pital, C. F. E. MANICUS, of Amoy, aged 13 years,
each other a Jehol, where the Japanese have acquired a tract of land entting clean cross the proposed Russian railway route.
Some neasiness is said by home papers to be felt in German official circles at the steady increase in the Bu-sian naval forces in the Far Erst, and in what are regarded as the growing signs of serious complications in Chinese waters The German Government has resolved, there fore, to reinforce its Eist Asiatic flest by the addition of several of the finest ships of the Navy.
Mr. Hamilton Kingis now Envoy Extraordin- ary and Minister Penipotentiary of the United States at the Court of Bangkok. Mr. Tower's appointment baring lapsed, Mr. Hamilton King is now the only Minister Plenipotentiary in the resident in Bangko. The Ministers of Austrin, Hungary, Belgium, and Portugal accredited to Si mare also Ministers Plenipotentiary, bat they do not reside in Siam,
Hongkong Weekly Press diplomatic corps at Bangkok, that is to say
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131 FLEET STREET. E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 12th ult, arrived by the M. M. steamer Yura on the 14th inst., (32 days); the American mail of the 19th ult., arrived by the s.s. Kere on the 16th.inst, (27 days); and the English mail of the 19th ult, ́arrived per P. C'☎ steamer Bengal on the
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We hear on excellent authority that the latest local observations have resulted in the discovery of the transmissi ility of the plague bacillus by cockroaches. This, as will readily be seen, has an important bearing on the ques tion as to what part the contamination of food plays in the spread of the scourge. Incidentally, also, it teads to redeem the character of the rat, as it is now shown that so many other living things are capable of conveying plague.
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The new Siamese Minister to London is to be Phya Raja Nupiabandh, present Siamese Minister to Tokyo, who is a popular diplomatic representative in Japan.
Li Do-sai, ths Corean Minis'er for Foreigu Affairs, has for the fifth time tendered tis
resignation to the Emperor It is blered that a change of Ministers will affect the scheme for the opening of Wiju, s Li Do-sai was a warin supporter of the project. We so that
Seoni telegram to the Kokumin states that Mr. Jordan, British Minister in Seoul. had received instructions from the British Govern- ment that he should advise the Coreau Govery- ment to open Wijn to the trade of the world.
hai states that a couple of days before that date A Peking despatch of the 3rd inst, to chang
a band of some two hundred well-armed mounted robbers made a sudden raid upon the Empress Dowager's favourite Palace at Eho Park, took the guards left there by surprise and ‹arried off a quantity of plunder before anything could bo done to stop them. The robbers, it is reported. retreated afterwards towards the Southern Hun- ting Park. Viceroy Yuan and General Ma Yü- kun have sent troops to go after the bandits.
The Chines› native journal Supao at Shanghai has been suppressed at the instance of the local Chinese maudarins, the offices being soaled up named the Kuo Min Jih Pun, or "National ou the 7th inst. But it seems that another paper Daily Paper," has been established, as ́s con- tinuation of the Supao. The trial of five men Court. Shaughai, on the 15th inst, befors Mr. accused of "sedition began in the Mixer San. Mixed Court Magistrate, and Mr. Giles, British Assessor. After the charges hd bзẻ 1 formulated the case was adjourned unt1 Ines- day next.
The N.-C. Daily News Tokyo correspondout telegraphs the following news about Coea, under date the 8th just.:-The Russians have said a telegraphic cable between Antuug, on the north-side, and Yong Ampho, on the south side of the month of the Yala river, without consulting Corea, whereat Japan has protested, inasmuch as Cores is bound by convention not to allow any foreign Power auy telegraphic privileges which interfere with Japanese veste ! interests. Japan is pressing for the opening of Wiju to forsign trade On Corea's pleading the objection of Russia, Japan has replie that any such objection is entirely irrelevant, inas- much as the power of decision is vested scaly in Corea.
term of Rear Admiral Harry T. Grenfell, On the completion next September of the
second in command on the China Station, he will be succeeded by Rear Admiral the Hon. Assheton G. Curzon-Howe, who last month hauled down his flag as second in ́o mmsnl of the Channel Fleet. Admiral Grenfell's flag is flying on the Albion, but it is reported that Admiral Curzon-Howe's flagship is to be the Leviathan, first-class armoured cruiser, which was commissioned at Portsmouth on n the 16th alt. by Captain the Hon. Walter G. St pford, to replace the Argonaut. The China Squadron is to be reinforced by the transfer of the Vengeance, fi st-class battleship, Captain Leslie C. Stuart, from the Mediterranean Station. She was commissioned at Portsmouth in April last.