THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LVIII.]
Epitome
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 21st SEPTEMBER, 1903.
PAUS ..203
Leading Articles:
Major-General
Sir William
Gascoigne's
Doparture
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The City of Waichow
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British Enterprise on the Low r Ya glaze
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The Registration of Servants
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Bobbery with Violence in Hongkong
Hongkong Legislative Council
Ship Building in Hongkong
Colonial Estimates
Departure of General Gascoigne
Departure of Commander Murray Ramsey
Capture of Hongkong Thievos in Canton
Russia's New Manchurian Demands
Another D ring Robbery in Hongkong The Trans-Sibe in Breakdown
Notes from he Botanic Gardens
H.E. Viceroy Shum
New Terri ory Note
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No. 12
Antang, otherwise known as Saho, has been
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German mail of the 18th ult, arrived, ...208 per N.D.L. steamer Seydliti, on the 16th inst. 211 (29 days); and the American mail arrived, per
steamer Coptic, on the 18th inst.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
At a fire at Hangohow recently no less than 213 600 houses were destroyed. Six people were 213 killed and many injured.
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According to a Tientsin paper, H.E. Viceroy Shum is trying to get recilled. Is this also an ..214 invention of his enemies?
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Hongkong Cotton Spinding, Weaving and Dyeing
Canton
Tain tao
Sir Henry Blake's Appointment to Ceylon
The Opium Farm
Correspondenco
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Supreme Court
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Douglis Steam-ship Co., Ld.
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Union Insurance Society of Canton Ld.
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V.R.C. Aquatic Sports
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Hongkong Football Club
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The Tonkin Fire
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Meesing on Coasters at Shanghai
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A Steamer Capsized
Japan, Russi, and China
Hongkong
Commercial..
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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We learn that orders have been issued that the awugs on all British warships are to be of the same colour as the ships.
Formoss has suffered so much from storms this year that the output of camphor is expected to show a considerable falling off.
Yang Chu, the new Chinese Minister to Japan, is a Cantonese. Before he proceeds to Japan from Peking his coming south to this week fetch his family.
L'Echo de Chine says that the students of the 224 Peking University are doserting for fear of being classed as reformers. This is one of the results of the Empress Dowager's ideas of good
On the 5th August, at Johannesburg, the wife of H. WARRINGTON SMITH, of a son.
On the 25th August, at Tapah, Batang Padang, Perak, the wife of JNO, FRED GIFFENING, Inspec- tor of Road, P.W.D., of a daughter.
On the 1st September, at Butterworth, Province Welle ley, Straits, the wife of OWEN H. WAIT, of the Public Works Department, of a dughte, On the 1st September, at Bush Lane, Bangkok, the wife of W. EVERS, of a son.
On the 2nd September, at Klang, Straits, the wife of WILLIAM ROUSE, F. M. S. Railways, of
a son.
On the 4th September, at Pulo Bukom, Strait, the wife of J. BERRY, of a daughter,
On the 8th Septe uber, at Singapore, the wife of A. G. HILLS, of a daughter.
On the 13th September, at 9, Woosung Road, Shanghai, the wife of F. H. NEALE, of the China Inland Mission, of a són.
MARRIAGES.
On the 7th August, at Muswell-hill, W. WILL, to Harris, daughter of the late C. ALLINSON, of Singapore.
On the 11th August, at the Roman Catholic Church of S. Mary the Virgin, Sandakan, British North Bor e, by the Ray. Father DaVette Anu, JOSEPHINE YMBAN, to HENRY ALEX. GUNN, C.C, P.W.D., Jesselton.
On the 20th August, at Leeuwarden, Holland, the marriage took place by proxy of JAN JOACHIM BEUNGEE of Tientsin and MARIE LOUISE PLAN-
TENGA of Leeuwarden.
On the 9th September, at Shanghai, at the German Consulate-Gene al by Vice-C nsul Mu ler, and afterwards at the German Church by Pastor Boie, ELLIE, second daughter of Mrs. GEORGE CLARKE, to KARL F. MELCHERS of Tientsin.
DEATHS. On the 4th August at Brighton, J. EZEKIEL of Hongkong, aged 43 years.
On the ist September, at Penang, G B. IZOLPH. On the 9th September, at Sing pore, EPIPHANIO LAWRENCE MANUEL De Souza, aged 58
years. On the 18th September, at the Government Civil Hospital, JACK, the dearly beloved son of Inspector and Mrs, C. W. BRETT. At rest.
government.
The Manila papers publish a telegram stating that the French Government decided on the pro ect the interests of citizens of France. 9th inst. to forward more troops to China to
This hardly seems probable.
It was reported recently in Shanghai that the Japanese Consul-General had asked the Taotai for a piece of ground for a Japanese Settlement at Pootung; but the desired land is now said to be in the Yangtzepoo region.
The Shanghai Mercury reports that a letter dated September 2nd states that plague broke out in Newchwang and though not yet officially aunounced it is reported that 2:0 deaths had occurred up to date of writing.
The German Minister to Seoul has advised the Corean Government that Germany has no business interests in either Wiju or Pingyaog, and does not feel either pleasure or pain in the opening or closing of these places.
A secret conference has taken place between M. Lessar and Li Lien-ying, the Empress Dowager's favourite enauch, at White Cloud Temple, near Peking. It is supposed to have had reference to the making of a loan from the Russo-Chinese Bank, i.e. from Russia.
Mr. J. P. Rodger, C.M.G., who succeeds Sir Matthew Nathan in the Governorship of the Gold Coast, has been in the Federated Malay States Civil Service since 1882, when he was Chief Magistrate in Selangor. He was Acting Resident of Selangor, 1884-88; Resident of Pahang, 1888-96; Resident of Selangor, 1896- 192; and last year was made Resident of Perak. L'Echo de Chine states on the strength of a report from an authorised Chinese source that Marshal Su hus died in prison. Shanghai Mercury says that in view of this incident, if one considers the efforts made in his favour by M. Dubail before the Chinese Government, one is justisfied in asking if the unfortunate marshal died a natural death. But the report is as yet unconfirmed.
The
Tatungkou, as one the of the two ports to be opened in Manchuria. Antung is claimed to be far the superior place.
The British Consul-General at Tientsia has succeeded in getting the Bri'ish Government to issue the China medal and cleap to the members of the Tientsin Volunteer Corps, not British subjects, who served in the defence of Tientsin in 1900.
It is reported on good authority, says the N.-C. Daily News, that Russia made a com. munication to cur authorities to the effect that she would be pleased to see British Consulates established at Harbin and Moukden. The reply of our authorities was that they were contemplat- ing sending Consuls to these towns, but that they would, of course, be accredited to the Chinese Government.
The British Minister at Seoul is said to have preferred a new demand to Corea, namely the opening of Kigampo, about fire miles below Yong-ampho. Kigampo is the port where the Japanese troops were landed during the Japan- China war. The place considered advantage- ous for off-setting the work of the Russians at Yong-ampho. As may be imagined, says the received a definite answer. Kobe Chronicle, this new "demand" has not yet
open.
The Corean Government is seeking to make the cloring of Phyongying & condition of ing Wiju, but Japan s rongly objects, inasmuch as there are two hundred Japanese settled in Phyongyang. According to the correspondent at Tokyo of the N.-C. Daily News, rumour attributes this proposal of Corea to Russian suggestion; but Corea has long evinced a desire to exclude all foreigners from Phyongyang, in order that she may build a palace there.
negotiations between Japan and Russia at St. Petersburg will be that Japan will be free to construct not culy a Seoul-Wijn railway, but a railway also going beyond Wija. "It is absurd," says the Japanese paper, "to think that Dalny is a good terminus for a trans- Asiatic railway. Fnsan is the terminus, and it must finally take the place of Dalny." The Asahi's attitude strikes us as at least impolitic
The Asahi thinks that the result of the
The N.-C. Daily News correspondent, ander date Tokyo, 15th September, wrote:-A de- putation of politicians visiting the Premier, Count Katsura, yesterday urged that the new Russian demands constitute an insult to Japan, inasmuch as direct negotiations between Japan and Russia are in progress. If these new de- mands: rẻ granted by China, it will indicate that the latter Power is also unfriendly to Japan; it is therefore necessary to insist on a definite answer from Russia. The Premier, in reply, declared that the Government will take no step which will impair the national dignity or the prestige of the empire.
A report has obtained currency in the Colony that the Sherwood Foresters, our pres at garrison regiment, are not to stop with us; and, in fact, that their reliefs have already started, although no mention is made of the new regiment's name. As is well known, the Sherwood Foresters were badly crippled by sickness when they left South Africa for the Far East, and the trying olimate of Hongkong and of North China, where half of the regiment is, has not tended to restore their condition to what it should be. Jn connection with this rumour it is just possible that it has its origin in the despatch from home of a new draft for the regiment; certainly we can obtain no confirmation of it.