THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LVIII.]
Epitome
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Leading Articles :-
Japan and Russia
The Opening of China
The Ninghai Troubles
The Police and Crime
Belleville Boilers
A Proposed Anglo Russian Journal.
A Martyrs' Memorial for Shanghai
Hongkong Jottings
Japan and Russia
The Alleged Peking Phot
The Question of Manchuria.
The Typhoon
The Volunteer Camp
Charitable Bazaar.....
Notes from the Botani Gardens
New Territory Notes
Canton...
Port Arthur
Correspondence.
Supreme Court
Boat Disaster on Shamohun River
Foochow
Caso against a Compositor
Curious Case at BangkoX.
Sporting Notes
Hongkong
Commercial,
Shipping
BIRTHS.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 2ND NOVEMBER, 1903.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK
The Grand Stand at Hankow was completely .314 burned down on the 30th ult. The Grand 314 Stand adjoins the British Settlement, Hankow, 315 within the walls at the east end of the City.
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Japanese papers state that the British Minister at Seoul is urging Corea to give him a definite 316 reply about the opening of Yong-ampho, as 317 be wishes to lay the matter before his
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It is stated that two commissioners, one French and one Chinese, are going to Foochow from Peking to overhaul the rsenal accounts, which do not appear to have been altogether ...319 satisfactory, to the Chinese at least. ....320
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We received on Tuesday afternoon from the Colonial Secretary's Office the following noti- fication:The Colony having been free from babonicplague for ten days, clean bills of health will be issued from this date.
The Japanese Minis'er to Siam, Mr. Inagaki has been promoted to the rank of Envoy 327 Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Japan is the third Power to appoint & Minister Plenipotentiary to be resident in Bangkok.
On the 1st October) at Sandakan, the wife of RICHARD SCOTT-ATKINSON, Superintendent of Posts and Telegraphe, of a daughter.
On the 16th October, at Seremban, the wife of
F. J. WELD, of a daughter.
On the 17th October, at 12, North Szechuen Road, Shanghai, the wife of G. DIEDRICH, of a daughter.
On the 23rd October, at Shanghai, the wife of W. J. MILLER, of a son.
On the 24th October, at S. Joseph's Church,
STEPHEN SCOTT ELICK to ARGARET ISABEL, daughter of the late. P. THOMAS, of Australia.
MARRIAGES.
On the 12th September, at Partick, Glasgow, DUNCAN GLASS, of Shanghai, to MARY BELL, fourth daughter of ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, solicitor, Glasgow.
On the 20th October, at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. C. J. Symons, CHARLES ETHELBERT SPARKEO MARGARET ETHEL ANNIE WHITE.
*DEATHS.
On the 14th September, at Helmsley, Yorkshire, HANNAH, wife of J. TROUP, late H..'s Con ul General at Yokohaiah, aged 58 years.
On the 2 th October, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, HEINRICE CARL MUELLER, aged 66
years.
On the 25th October, at No. 27, Woosung Boad, 8 anghai, C., Do RoZABIO, aged 33 year». On the 27th Octoffer, at Rostock, Germany, A. SCHORNEMANN, partner of Messrs. F. Blackhead & Co., aged 60 years
(By wire).
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The American Mail per steamer China arrived on the 26th ult. and the German Mail of 29th September per H.A.L. steamer Hamburg arriv- ed on the 29th ult (30 days).
Reuter in a telegram dated Lozdou, 28th October, says: It is considered at Tokyo that the Russian fortification of Yong-ampho, now officially reported, may lead to important devel- opments as infringing Corean integrity,
On the appointment of the Hon. F. H. May to the Acting Governorship after the departure of H.E. Sir H. A. Blake. the Hon. A. M. Acting Colonial Secretaryship of Hongkong. Thomson, Colonial Treasurer, will take the
Prince Adalbart of Prussia, who was to learo Genoa on the 28th ult. on board the Gorman Mail König Albert, has received orders to join H.G.M.S. Hertha, ou the 27th November in Hongkong. He will do service during the next two years on this station.
war.
I is said that six hundred Japanese residents of Daluy are making preparations for im- mediate departure to Chefoo in the event of At Port Arthur, on the contrary, it is alleged that, according to orders issued by Viceroy Alexieff, the Japanese residents will be coll cted and sent away by a foreign steamer in the eveut of hostilities breaking out.
The Supao prisoners, says the N.-C. Daily News, have now been in custody for nearly four mouths, and as yet uo date has been fixed for their trial All except one are detained at the Central Police Station The other is isolated at Hougkew. Surely by this time some arrange- ment ought to have been made about the trial of the accused. It is opposed to all ideas of justice to keep alleged offenders imprisoned for so long a period.
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Renter's agency at Tokyo wires that the Japanese Premier, being interviewed by Ruter's agent, raid that Japan was parsuing negotia. tions with Russia in strict accordance with the spirit of the An.lo Japanese Alliance, which aims at the preservation of peace and the status quo. The Premier presumed that Russia was. actuated by the same peaceful spirit and that there was nothing in the present situation to
warrant alarm.
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Mr. R. W. Mansfield. II.BM.'s Acting Consul-General at Shanghai, wrote on the 18th ult. to the N.-C. Daily News :-I am authorised by His Majesty's Minister in Peking to state that there is no ground for the statoment in Reuter's telegram that thers has been an attempt to explode the magazino in the British Legation. A store-room was broken open and have been recovered from the thieves. a variety of articles stolen, nearly all of which
Last week two large one-hundred and twenty pounder breech-loading Armstrong guns were transported to Woosaug from the Kiangnan arsenal under escort of a force of Chinese gunners. The N-C. Daily News says tha this is a part of the scheme of the late notorious Kang Yi for the refortificati n of Woosung, drawn up by him in the winter of 1899 just before the Boxer troubles. Viceroy Wei of Nanking has now taken upon himself to work out Kang Y.'s scheme.
According to a Tokyo despatch to the Osaka Asahi, the Japanese Government's call for estimates for a new battleship has been re- sponded to by the six principal shipbuilding arms in England, and the estimate sent in by Messrs. Vickers is reported to have been the lowest. The Japanese authorities will therefore conclude a formal contract with the above-named firm at an early date. The battleship to be constructed will be of 16,250 tons displacement,. and is expected to be ready for sea iu 30 mouths.
It will be remembered that on the 10th ult. the leading members of the Chinese community of Hongkong resolved to present a farewell address to H.E. Sir Hory A. Blake on the occasion of his departure from the Colony to Take up the Governorship of Ceylou. The European community has also decided to pre- sent an addres, and it has now been agreed to make the address a joint one. A committee of four, including members of the Legislative Council (unofficial) and the Chamber of Com- merce, have been deliberating upon the form of the address, which will be open to signature by the residents of Hongkong when it has been drawn up. There will be no other address, we believe, except of curso such as may be presented by members of the Civil Service to H.E. the Governor.
The Asahi publishes the following telegram dated, Peking, 10th O. tobor:-The wives of the foreign Ambassadors and Lugation officials were received by Their Majesties the Emperor and the Dowager Empress at the summer Palace to-day. It is believed that they ar3] to be invited to a garden party. The Russian Minister to Peking was absent yesterday on account of indisposition, and it has been noticed that neither the British M ni-ter for any
of his assistants presented thems Ives at the palace either yesterday or to-day. The British Minister's al sonce is attributed to the Supao affair. His action is commented upon in various ways, there being those in the diplomatio circle who view it favourably and others who view it unfavourably. The diplomats, however, admit that thy garden party at the Summer Palace is always old and too formal. Majesty the Emperor seemed to be in better health than he was at the Spring presentation;: but the health of the Dowager Empress seemed to be waning.
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