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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LVIII.]
Epitome
Leading Articles :-
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 30TH NOVEMBER, 1903,
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No. 22
Hongkong Weekly Press News says that the Corean Government was
Departure of Sir Henry Blake from Hongkong383 HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL. The Kowloon-Canton Railway
LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
The Situation in the North
The Condition of Queen's College The Sanitary Board's Constitution
Amoy's Trade in 1902
Sir Henry Blake's Departure.
The Administration of Hongkong.
The Northern Crisis
Prince Adalbert in Hongkong
King's Park, Kowloon
Licensing Sessions
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail arrived by the Konig Albert on the 25th inst., the Canadian Mail arrived by 396 the Empress of China on the 24th inst., and the American Mail arrived by the Coptic on the 28th inst.
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The Hongkong-Manila Bun
Hongkong Nursing Institution
396
The Report of Queen's College
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Notes from the Botanic Gardens.
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Canton
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Foochow
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Port Arthur....
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Northern Notes
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Correspondence
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Reviews
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The Yong Ampho Incident
Supreme Court
China Traders' Insurance Co., Ld.
Across the New Territory
Sporting Notes
Football
The Hongkong Steam Water-boat Co., Ld.
Shooting
Cricket Yachting
Hongkong
Miscellaneous
Docks in the Far East
The Foochow Arsonal
Commercial... ..... ............
Shipping
BIRTHS.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Tokyo correspondent of the N.-O. Daily on the point of declaring Yong-ampho an open port, when M. Pavloff, the Russian Minister, made a strenuous protest and caused the Government to postpone the declaration,
The Chinese Government is reported to have consented to the establishment of a German Government Agent in Chinanfu, Shantung, whose power will be equal to that of a Consul, Matters affecting German interest in that region will be subject to this agent, whose establishment in China has been due to the near completion of the German railway between that city and Kiaochou.
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A severe shock of earthquake was felt in Yokohama, on the 10th inst.; while the Japan Times mentions a report that on the northern side of the Imperial University the earth has never ceased trembling since last month. The
The Empress Dowager of China was born 68 existence of such a disturbance is tes ifled to 399 years ago on Saturday, the 28th inst.
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The P. & O. 8., Malta, conveying Sir Henry Blake, is dus at Colombo on the 3rd prox,
A foolish article in Le Courrier d'Haiphong advances various reasons why the three provinces of Yunnan, Kwangsi, and Kwangtung, must be 406 regarded as the French sphere of influence in 407 Southern China.
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The Japanese Consul at Newchwang reports ..107 to his Government
that the quarantine ......168 enforced there against vessels coming from Shanghai and ports in South China, including Hongkong, has now been abolished.
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On the 15th November, at Blanche Villa, Scott's Road, Singapore, the wife of H. A. Scott, of a daughter.
On the 16th November, at 7, Sahid Ali Road, Singapore, Mrs. Langham CARTER, of a son.
On the 18th November, at 8, Chaoufoong Road, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. J. W. S. NEESON, a daughter.
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On the 20th November, at the Government Civil Hospital, the wife of J. J. LysAUGHT, of a son. On the 24th November, at "Ranfurly," Conduit Road, the wife of F A. WENDT, of a son.
On the 24th November, at " Waterford," Mac- donnell Road, the wife of I. M. XAVIER, Public Works Department, Hongkong, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 17th November, at Holy Trinity Cathe- dral, Shanghai, by the Rev. C. J. F. Symons, B.A., WILLIAM MCCRONE, of Stevenson, to ISABELLA CAMPBELL PROVAN, of Glasgow, Scotland.
On the. 19th November, at the residence of Mr. D. Willard Lyon, 85, Range Road, Shanghai, by the Rev. A. P. Parker, PHILIP LORING GILLETT, of Seoul, to Bertha Louise ALLEN, of Colorado Springs.
DEATHS.
On the 12th November, at his residence, 16, Bluff, Yokohama, NICOLAS PHILLIPPS KINGDON, aged 75 years.
On the 15th November, at No. 12, Wilkie Rod, Singapore, VIVIAN EMIL GORDON, the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. HOGAN, aged 2 years and 4 months.
On the 15th November, at the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, JOHN WILLIAM HARDING.
On the 16th November, 32, Seward Road, Shanghai, KATHLEEN AGNES, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. KINGSBURY,
On the 17th November, at his residence, 48a, Sinza Road, Shanghai, JOHN SMEDLEY, only son
the late SAMUEL SMEDLET, aged 62 years,
It is stated in Chinese quarters in Shanghai that Hsianfu has been changed into Changanfu, and that Feng Lin-fang has been promoted to be the sub-prefect of that fu. The reason given for this change is that the Empress-Dowager contemplates going to Hsian,
A Tokyo despatch to the Osaka Asahi says that the Japanese authorities have estimated the strength of the Russian army at Port Arthur at 8,000 infantry, 1,200 artillery, 150 cavalry, and 300 sappers, and about 4,400 other troops at various forts in the vicinity of the port,
T'he P. and T. Times says:-- "When the Russians entered Moukden and turned the Tartar General and other officials out of their yamens, the Tartar General attempted to restrained by his friends." It was evidently commit suicide by swallowing gold, but was not Russian gold.
Letters received in Shanghai.rom Manchuria state that Chinese merchants and traders are
leaving Moakden daily in large numbers, bound for Shantong and Chili, there being no doubt amongst the people of Manchuria that war, sither between China and Russis, or Japan and Russia, cannot be avoided,
The N.-C. Daily News Peking correspondent telegraphed on the 16th November:-General Wogack arrived bere yesterday to report on Manchurian affairs, and as the means of inter. communication between Viceroy Alexieff and M. Lessar, the Russian Minister at Peking, whose opinions on the question are supposed to differ.
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by the seismograph kept in the Imperial University. The cause is not yet known, and the people in the neighbourhood are greatly terrified, lest they should suddenly be entombed alive some fine morning.
N.-C. Daily News from Singapore says that, as An extraordinary anonymous letter to the
China's Manchu Government has sent assassins to Hongkong and other places to kill Chinese, reformers, the reformers in their turn have sel assassins to Peking to remove the Empress Dowager and her Manchu advisers, and various high provincial officials, "but not the Emperor Kwang Hsu, who takes the reformers' part." Further, while the Manohu Government has devoted $140,000 to the removal of reformers, the latter have set aside $250,000 for the removal of their enemies. Our Shanghai contemporary rightly does not attach much importance to the letter.
The Japan Mail writes:-If Russia have any bonest intention of averting the calamity of war, it is time that she spoke definitely. She is playing with fire at present, and although she thinks perhaps that to extinguish the flames speedily if they break out is within the compass of her great power, we give her Emperor the credit of being a peace-lover and we believe that many of her wisest patriots have no desire to force Japan's hand. The whole responsibility rests with her, and her perpetual procrastination is creating a situation intolerable to all nationals in the Far East. She has some obligations to discharge besides those dictated by her spirit of imperialism.
On the afternoon of the 15th inst. Prince Ching called on Mr. Conger, U. B. Minister at Peking, and told him that he had learned that Balkans and the Far East. He asked Mr. Germany intends to support Russia both in the Conger if the report was accurate. Mr. Conger, referring to the re-occupation of Moukden, said it was a childish threat on the part of Russia to oppose the opening of Moukden and Autung. Mr. Conger father remarked with regard to the Japanese-Russian negotiations that the Powers were anxious to avert a war between these two Powers, and that as Japan was eager to win the goodwill and sympathy of the Powers, the negotiations might be expected to reach satisfactory conclusion, although the progre was very slow. This, at least, is the Mainichi'? account,