HONGKONG, MONDAY, 24тн AUGUST, 1903.
No. 8
Hongkong Weekly Press Daily News telegraphed on the 14th August:
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VŒUX ROAD CL. 138 LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
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New Russian Appointment...
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A Petty View of the SkpoolCase
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Malaria in Hongkong and Elsewhere
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"Empress of India" in Collision
Barbarous Official Murder at Peking
The Case of Inspector Mowen.
Court Witnesses and their Recognisances..............
Notes from the Botanic Gardens
The Typhoon up the Coast...
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Pollard Comedy Company at the Theatre Royal...142 The New Territory in 1902. H.
Photographic Exhibition in Mormosa
New Territory Notes
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Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.. ...146
Canton 46926-1934
Vladivostook
Correspondence
Supreme Court
Sir Ernest Satow and the China Association.
Sporting Notes
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Hongkong
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Water Return..............
Miscellaneous... Commercial... Shipping
BIRTHS.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The Canadian mail of the 9th ult., arrived per C. P. R. steamor Empress of India on the 18th inst. (40 days); the German mail of the 21st ult. arrived per N. D. L. steamer Bayern on the 18th inst. (28 days); and the American mail of the 23rd ult., arrived per steamer Doric on the 19th inst. (27 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Marshal Su, late of Kwangsi, has been sentenced to decapitation in the autumn.
After three days of blank plague returns oue more fatal Chinese case was notified in 150 Saturday's return, making the second case in 150 Hongkong last week.
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On the 30th of July, at Newchwang, the wife of D. C. LLOYD WILLIAMS, of daughter (Marjorie). On the 2nd August, at Yokohama, the wife of EDWARD C. DAVIS, of a daughter.
On the 3rd August, at No. 12 of 6 Yamamoto- dori, Ni-chome, Kobe, the wife of J. A. FARIAS, of Nagasaki, of a daughter.
On the 3rd August, at Negishi, Japan, the wife of Charles V. Sazz, of a son.
On the 9th August, at 4, Dublin Road, Singapore, the wife of Captain J. G. FOLLETT, of a daughter. On the 9th August, at Babington," Barrack, Road, Penang, the wife of A. C. VALPY, of a son, On the 10th August, at Love Lane, Shanghai,
the wife of HAROLD F. KING, of H.B.M. Consular Service in China, of a son
On the 12th August, et 3, Boundary Terrace Range Road, Shanghai, the wife of F. LARGE, of a daughter.
On the 18th August, Woodside, Singapore, the wife of J. RUMNAY NICHOLSON, of a son.
On the 19th August, 158, Praya East, the wife of WILLIAM FARMER) of a son.
MARRIAGES.
At the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Roberts, Philadelphia, by the Rev. F. W. Fair, D.D., FREDERICK HOWARD KEN, to CAREY MILDRED, youngest daughter of the late C. HAINES, of Salum, Ohio, U.S.A.
On the lat July, at S. Luke's Church, South Melbourne, Australia, by Canon Dickenson, M.A., JOSEPH WHITELEY. KER to RUBY EVELYN, youngest daughter of the late ISAAC and EDITH
HOLT, Murtoa.
On the 8th August, at Yokohama, GEORGE MASON BOYER, youngest son of the late Captain FERDUBICK SANEE BOTES, R.N., to ROSALIE LEONORA KUHN, eldest daughter of the late MAURICE MONTAGUR KUEN, of Yokohama.
DEATH.
On the 20th July, at York, BENJAMIN CHAPMAN, father of ARTHUR CHAPMAN, Govern'rent Asses
aged 71 years,
H.M.S. Leviathan arrived at Singapore on the evening of the 20th inst. A cable was received next day ordering her to sail full speed to Hongkong. She left at daylight on the 22nd.
Orders have been received from home that the cruiser Argonaut is to refit here instead of proceeding home on the termina-ion of her commission, the three years of which expired in April last.
On the 14th inst. Sie Ernest. Satow left
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to
Woosung by H.M.S. Eclipse, which was to convey him to Weihaiwci and Shanhaikwan, whence he was to proceed by train to Peking.
The N.-C. Daily News Tioutsin correspondent telegrapbs nuder date 16th August:-Ching Kuan, Special Commissioner to Jup a in 1858, is expected at Tientsin to carry on his rearch for Reformers. The educated Chinese here are in a state of alarm, and are auxionsly enquiring protect them.
whether the Consuls here are authorised to
The Peking correspondent of the N.O
~The rumour that a convention with reference to Manchuria has been signed between Prince Ching and M. Lessar, the Russian Minister, is prevailing again, but the truth of it is uncertain; but that many despatches have been sent and received lately between the two above-mentioned dignitaries is true.
A correspondent at Shanhaikwan writes to the N.-C. Daily News under date the 8th inst::- There are several m ́n-of-war anchored some three miles from the shore, apparently Italian and Japanese. Tientsin men are already finding a falling-off in the business there, Russians in Manchuria shipping the sable and other skins direct to Russia; and if Russia annexes Mongolia, which is probable, English and German houses in Tientsin will suffer in their skin and wool + trade; yet Germany will not join in a protest.
We received on the 17th inst. the following telegram from our Shanghai correspondent:- "Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's steamer Poyang is in quarantine at Klukiang. Captain Phillips, Chief Engineer Campbell, the chief mate, second engineer, and Chinese pilot are all dead of cholera, while two more of the orew are sick." The Poyang is a steamer belonging to Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, which runs from Shanghai to Hankow. In the latest Shanghai Hong List Captain Vallack is registered as in chief engineer, so that there have evidently command of the Poyang, and Mr. Marray as been changes since the beginning of the year.
It is reported from Peking, says the N.-C. Daily Neics, that the Viceroy of the Shen- Kan provinces, Sung Fan, has recently tele- graphed to the Grand Council stating that the Tib tan tribes quartered in the so-called Tiao department have started pillaging the country in the vicinity of that region causing con- siderable trouble to their neighbours. The Viceroy further stated that he had already seut a force of Government troops to overawe the raiders, but that as the Tiad district also closely borders Sungpan in Szechnen province, the Grand Council is requested to instruct the Szechuen authorities to send the Major- General of the Sunpan cirouit and his com- mand to join forces with the Shensi troops and so surround the aiders if possible,
To-day, the first day of the seventh Chinese moon, is the fête-day of Lao Tsze, uuder of A "Strong Foreign Policy League" has been Tauism. The whole seventh moon is observed by Chinese Tauists and Bud bists us ኢ festival of All Souls, and exhibitions of groups of statuettes, dwarf plants, ancestral tablets, etc., are to be seen, while music and fire-crackers are indulged in.
Saturday was the 54th anniversary of the assassination of Governor Amaral at Macao. From this crime, which was one of a still more audacious and borrible nature than our own recent Gage Street murder, though resembling it in the particular of the Chines official Comp icity, was the beginning of Macao's independence from China.
We received the following from the Colonial Secretary's Office on Friday evening: -Referring to Government Notification No. 375 of 15th June, it is hereby not fied that telegraphic information has been received from the Government of the Straits Settlements that the Prohibition against Chinese Immigration from Hongkong has been removed.
| inaugurated in Japan. The Japan Times con=" siders the League unnecessary, when such a policy happens to have the endorsement of practically the whole nation." In its report of the meeting at which the league was inaug. urated, the Times says:-Prines Konoye, Count Okuma, and Count Itagaki, whose absence from the meeting was very much regretted by: those present, cach sent an address to the gather- ing. Prince Konoye said in his address that Japan must not hesitate to present a resolute fent against Pussia if the latter continued to keep hold of Manchuria. Count Okuma Com pared the patriotic enthusi sm of our people to the fire in a volcano ready to burst forth at any moment, and wondered why our should be so timid when it had su support: Count Tagaki saw Russia; which had advised give back the Linotung- should be allowed to occupy Kobe Chronicle rebukes the and certainly someof the speeches
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