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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland
Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LVIIL]
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Articles :-
The Situation at Peking
Affairs i the North.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 26TH SEPTEMBER, 1903.
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Hongkong Weekly Press
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The America Maru with the American Mais of the 26 h ult. arrived on the 23rd inst. (28 229 days); and the P. & O. Coromandel with the 230 Euglish Mail of the 28th ult. arrived on the 230 24th inst. (27 days).
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The Currency Question
227
Hongkong Naval Dockyard
.227
Hongkong Sanitary Board
.227
Hongkong Chamber of Commerce
228
Arrival of the Chinese Minister to Japan
229
The Wave of Crime in Hongkong
The Sunken Chinese Offiser
Piracy in Chinese Waters
Ordination at the Cathedral
Volunteer Promeua le Concert
Theatre Royal
230
Notes from the Botanic Gardens
230
Mr. R. Shewan and the Dockyard Question..
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Canton
...231
Macao
Pakhoi
Yunnan
Hsianfu
Correspondence
Supreme Court
Sporting Notez
Cricket...
The V.R.C. Aquatic Sports.
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Queen's College Sporta...
236
Hongkong Football Club
A Rival to the Pacific Mail Robbery at Vladivostok Hongkong
236
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Miscellaneous
Commercial.
Shipping
BIRTHS.
232 ..292
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
H. E. Yeng Chu, new Chinese Minister to ..232 Japan, passed through on his way to Canton on
232 | the 22nd-23rd inst.
.233 2:33
Japanese papers announce that the standing 235 squadrou consists now of twelve battleships and
twelva torpedo-boat destroyers.
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On the 9th September, af. Yokohama, the wife of C. J. WHITNEY, of a daughter.
On the 13th September, at Wuhu, the wife of R. D. WATT, of a son.
On the 15th September, at 80, Kyo-machi, Kobe, the wife of IRVINE WILLIAMS, of a son.
On the 16th September, at No. 1, Sungkiang Road, Shanghai, the wife of GEORGE MCBAIN, of
& son.
On the 16th September, at "Shamrock," Kam- pong Java Road, Singapore, the wife of A. PODMORE-WILLIAMS, of a daughter.
On the 17th September, at S. Thomas's Walk, Singapore, the wife of Rev. E. G. EVANS, of a son and daughter.
On the 22nd September, at "Calder," Mac- Donnell Road, the wife of J. MOWBRAY JONES, of
a BOIL.
On the 24th September, at "The Cottage," the wife of EDWARD A RAM, of a daughter.
DEATHS.
On the 11th September, at the French Hospital, Bangkok, H. GRAGE, aged 35 years.
On the 12th Septeluber, at Bangkok, Captain PAUL PANNENBERG Chief River Inspector, Har- bour Master's Department.
On the 15th September, at No. 15, Burmah Road, Singapore, LIZARDA, the widow of the late THOMAS AUGUSTINE D'CRUZ.
On the 16th September, at the Victoria Nursing
Home, JANE DONALDBON, of Shanghai.
On the 16th September, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, CARL J. THORBOE.
On the 16th September, at 9, Woosung Road, Shanghai, JOHN ERNEST, only child of JOHN HENRY and ELLEN COBA NIGHTINGALE, of I. M. Customs, Wenchow, aged one year.
On the 18th September, at his residence, No. 44, Caine Road, A. A.H BOTELH`,
On the 21st September, at Kowloon Decks, E. J. MAIN, Supt. Engineer, aged 57 years.
At No. 9, Lloyd Road, Singapore, IDA LEONORA, daughter of FREDERICA and GRACE D'ALMEIDA, aged 5 years and 2 months.
The N. C. Daily News gathers that there is a very good chance of Ynan Shu-sün retaining the Shanghai taotaiship for some months yet.
The Chamber of Commerce of Saigon is stated to bave inaugurated a movement to induce the French Goverument to lay a cable from Saigon to Manila.
The sensational Peak shooting affair con- cluded at the Hongkong Criminal Sessions on the 21st inst., Vincenz, who shot and wounded a chair-coolie on the 3:d inst., being sentenced to one year's imprisonment.
Mr. W. R. D. Beckett was expected at Bangkok about the 18th inst. to take up the position of H.B.M. Consul at Bangkok. Mr. U. E. W. Stringer was to leave a out the time of Mr. Beckett's arrival to take up the post of Consul at Chiengmai.
H. E. Shum, Viceroy of the two Kwang provinces is expected back in Chuton in about a week's time. This may be taken as auguring well for the progress of the Imperialisti cam- paign in Kwangsi; but authentic news of the operations is unprocurable.
The Universal Gazette says that in response to the summons from Peking ordering Wu Ting-fang to proceed to the capital, the Chinese treaty commissioners wired back to the Throne asking that Wu might be xcused from starting at once, owing to the fact that the new American treaty has not yet been completed.
Mr. Shuster, Insular Collector of the Philippines, has filed a brief in the base of Mr. Frank Aller, who recently went out as expert acountant to the Chartered Bank and
admit'ance by the U.
Was
refused
Customs authorities as being a contract labourer within the meaning of the laws of the United
States.
The Philippines Commission has already appropriated from its current funds $5,500, 00 io United States currency for the purchase of bullion and alloy for the new coinage, and it has now been decided to establish a fuud of three millions of the new pesos for the future purchase of bullion, and so obviate the necessity of making further appropriations for this purpose.
No. 13
The N.-C.Daily News quotes a Canton letter announ ing the death by decapitation of Chan King-wa. Lat that ex-official has, never- theless, been in Hongkong, with his head on, not two days ago,
Rumours are plentiful that Viceroy Chang Chih-tring will not return to Wuchang, and he is even said to have expressed his desire to give up the Hukuang viceroyalty. The only difficulty is to find him a post at Peking worthy of his merit, such as the presidency of some Board. The present Acting Viceroy of the Hukuang obtain the substantive appointment if Chang provinces is reported to be most anxious to
Chih-tung does not return,
It is reported from Peking, says the N.-C. Daily News, that the Waiwapn recently. received a telegraphic dispatch from H.E. Hu Wei-tê, Chinese Minister at St. Petersburg, · to the effect that he has learned from a reliable source that the Japanese Government has lately come to a secret understanding with Russia, in which China is to be made the scapegoat, and suffer to an extent which the Chinese Govern- ment cannot for the moment properly imagine.
It is well known that the Russian squadron now mobilised in North Asiatic waters has received great reinforcements from Europe, but the extent of the fleet is not definitely known. Some of the Japanese vernacular papers give the strength of the squadron as consisting of nine battleships, with an aggregate tonnage of 110,232, and five armoured cruisers representing 49,016 tous. Their armament amounts altoge- ther to 217 heavy guns and 570 smaller guns, with 69 torpedoes,
A Government Gazette Extraordinary publish- ed ou the 21st inst, 'notified that vessels from
Hongkong and Canton carrying no Chinese deck passengers, and having no contagious disease. on board, will not be subjected to the medical inspection at Wo.sung, provided that the doctor of such ship files a certificate with the Commissioner of Customs at Shanghai imme- diately on arrival that no case of contagious disease is on such ship. Vessels arriving at Saigon from Hongkong without passengers, but with non-prohibited merchandise only, have free pratique immediately upon arrival after inspection by the Sanitary authorities.
The N.-C. Daily News quotes the experiences of a traveller who has just made the journey from Moscow by the Siberian line in 15 days. Unlike recent passengers in the homeward dir. ection, he made a most rapid and successful trip, and found the trains much more comfortable than on the trans-continental lines of Amerios. The train was the ordinary express, and not s Wagon-Lits, but was beautifully equipped. It foods, which had washed away the metals for was the first to get through after the recent
three short stretches in Manchuria. These
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damages were due to the fact that the line as yet has not been permanently laid stone bridges are in process of erection in many places. and embankments are being · strengthen The flods have now subsided. If Russi troops are being hurried along the line in great | number, their movements are being kept wonder
fully quiet, scarcely a soldier being seen the From Moscow to Dalny took whole way. thirteen days and five hours, and as the steamer left Dalny within four hours of the of the train, the through trip to was made in what is about record tim