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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LVIII.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Articles:-
The King's Birthday
New Russo-Chinese Complication
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 16TH NOVEMBER, 1903.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
PAGE The King Birthday was duly celebrated in ...345! Hongkong on the 9th inst.
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Au European East-Asiatic Commercial Com pany has been formed in Lyons for the purpose of furthering French commerce with China and Japan.
The Russian military authorities have recently 348 bought as much as 50,000 mow (8,333 aeres) of land near Moukden for the purpose of building barracks thereon.
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Mr. Shewan's Dockyard Scheme
Anglo-French Arbitration
Naval Birthday Honours
The Late Professor Momsen's Appeal
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Hongkong Jottinge
The Kings Birthday Aniversary
Victoria Memorial Hospital and Jubilee Road
The New Law Courts
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Shoot ng Accident in New Territory
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Hongkong Letters via the Siberian Route
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The Poverty of Hongkong Museum
Wanchai Industries
Bowling Club Smoking Concert
Canton
Swatow!
Foochow
Japan
Supreme Court
Oxford Local Examinations
Sporting Not s
Interport Rifle Match
Cricket
Football
Royal Hongkong Yacht (Jul
Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Bowling
Huckey
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Commercial
Shipping
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The Empress of India's Collision Case
BIRTHS.
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The Turkish Consul at Singapore, Atouala Bay, jumped from a runaway gharry, returning from the ceremony at Government Ho se on the night of the 9th inst. and was killed.
The Birthday Honours include the following: Admiral Sir Cyprian Uridge, G.B.; Admira
Sir A. H. Markham, Rear-Admiral Lord Charles Beresford. Vice Admiral John Fellowes, 358 and Admiral A. F. R. de Horsey, K C.B.
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The Foochine Echo mentions a rumour that the Forch w waterwork scheme has fallen 36 through owing to the inability or unwillingness of the Government to supply any capital.
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The Stock Exchange in Tokyo towards the end of last month recovered from the partial panic that overtook it for a few days. It seems that the news of Viceroy Alexi f's journey to S. 361 Petersburg was the cans of the alarm.
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Lan-Mor," Hong-
On the 6th Novembernt " kong, the wife of J. ATT JAMESON, of a son.
On the 6th November at 9. Woosung Road, Shanghai, the wife of Jen N. Hayward, of the China Inland Mission, of a daughter.
On the 7th November, a‡ No. 2, Thorburn Road, Shanghai, the wife of GEJ. HARMAN, of a son.
On the 7th November at Thorburn Road, Shanghai, the wife of Gad J. HARMAN, <f & SUN.
On the 9th November, at 10, Macdouneli Road, the wife of B. T. WRIGHT, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 5th November, at Christ Church, Ningpo, by the Venerable Archdeacon Moule, R.D., assisted by the Rev. A. J. Walker, B.A., the Rev. WILLIAM JOHN WALLACE of the C.M.S. Taicher,
to ANNIE REBEKAH SAVELL ASHWELL, of the
C.M.S. Ningpo.
On the 6th November, at Holy Trinity Cathe- dral, Shanghai, by Rev C. J. Symons, B.A., HENRY STANLEY CONSTERDINE, of Shanghai, to BRATRICE SCHOLEFIELD. Manchestér.
DEATHS.
On the 30th October, at Burlington, Vermont, U.S.A., CHARLES SEYMOUR, fo many years United States Consul at Canton, aged 82 years.
On the 6th November, at Park House, Quinsan Road, S anghai, NELLIE, pfant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. E. THOMAS, aged 7 months and 26 days.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of the 18th October arrived by the N.D.L. steamer Pring Heinrich on the 10th inst. (30 days); and the American Mail by the Nippon-Maru arrived on the 13th inst.
The Singapore Municipal Estimates for 1904 provide for a revenue amounting to 84,037,350.
against $1,923,750, the estimate for 19. The outlay is set at $2,029,000 against $1,976,600, the figures for 19083 Special Services require $215,000 iu 194.
Col. J. R. L. Macdonald, formerly Commis sioner at Uguda, is about to advance into Tibot with a larg escort of troops owing to the diliatoriness of the Chinese aud Tibetaus, who have kept the British Frontier Commissioners idling on the frontier for mouths.
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The Kobe Chronicle reports that the Coreau troops at Wiju and Pingyang are inclined to be hostile towards the Japanese, this being merely due to the fact that they are influenced of the strength of the Russians, not that the Russians have instigated them. The outrages committed by the Corean troops on the Japanese at Wijn are the result of disputes about the division of profits on the timber trade. In connection with the anti-Roman Catholio Crusade in Ningbai, Chekiaug, the French are said to have made the following demands from the hinese authorities. (1) The punishment of local authorities. (2) The capture and
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punishment of the leader of the rist. (3). Indemnity for buildings of the mission destroyed. (4) Indemnity to families of con. verts killed. Auother account says that there is a fifth clause "not disclosed, but believed to be the most important of all.
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The report that Germany has promised Russia her active support in the Far East is doubted; it is believed that the main outcome of the conference between the Tsar and the Kaiser was the promise of German support to the Austro-Russian reform scheme for Macedonis.
N.C. Daily News, Mr. Hagiwars, Secretary According to the Tokyo correspondent of the of the Japanese Legation at Peking, now visit- ing the Yaln Valley, reports that the rumours of Russian military movements at Wiju emanated from Japanese subjects, who sought thereby to conceal their own lawless seizure of timber-cafts. It is true that there are Russian soldiers in the vicinity of Wiju but then they are solely engaged in pro sequel to his application to the Russian tecting the interests of the lumbermen. Äs a commander at Antung, Mr. Hagiwara was admitted to Yong-ampho, where he He reports that it is difficult to determine courteously received, and given every facility. whother the building at Yong-ampho is really a fort inasmuch as there are n guns mounted and its position is very bad; bat it is of solid construction and indicates an intention of permanent occupation.
The Ostasiatische Lloyd pablished a despatch effect:-Chinese officials deny that there is any dated Peking, 5th November, to the following trufhin the report of Viceroy Ynan Shi-kai being about to be sent to Canton, and to be replaced in Chili by Chou-fu. the Governor of Shantung. [This report was published only by the pro- Japanese paper Tung. Wen Hu-Pao, interpolates the Lloyd's Editor.] The presence of Ynan Shikai in Peking and his audience with the Empress Dowager were caused by the re-occupa- tion of Monkden by the Russians.
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The Japan Mail writes :-There is a sugges- tion in some quarters that Viceroy Alexieff's suddon visit to S. Petersburg is subjective rather than objective; in other words, that he
wants to go the rather than is wanted to go. of c uncils in Russi hampers the hands of the This new hypothesis assumes that the division Viceroy and renders it impossible for him to does not greatly matter which construction we assume a definite a'titude towards Japan. It accept. Each has virtually the same practical result, namely, that the Viceroy's visit to S. Petersburg is
an event pregnant with the gravest consequences for Eastern Asia. We are forcibly reminded of Mauravioff's celebrated journey to the Russian capital in 1853. and of the memorial he presented to the Tsar on that occas.ou, a journey and a memorial which had as immediate result an imperial order for the occupation of Sakhaliu, and as ater consequence the annexation of the whole region between the Bureya and the sea.
The Norddeutscher Lloyd Co. have come to terms with the Rickmer line of steamers by baying two of their Hongkong-Bangkok steamers, and chartering three others. It is of Bremen (Imperial German Mail line) bought three years now since the Norddeutscher Lloyd up the China coasting fleet of the Scottish and Oriental Steamship Company, thereby seonring a good slice of the China Coast trade. The Hongkong-Bangkok trade fell almost entirely into their hands, and this they continued to enjoy for some considerable time. About six months ago, however, fiye German steamers, belonging to the Rickmer with the Norddeutscher Lloyd, and freights Line, were put on this run in competition accordingly were cut by each company in turo. As a climax, the Norddeutscher Lloyd, determined to run the others off this trade, carried rice from Bangkok to Hongkong free of charge. Apparently, as the Rickmer line was able to hold out and the state of affairs was unsatisfactory and expensive to all concerned, the companies have come to terms
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as mentioned.