THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LVIII.]
Epitome
Leading Articles -
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
TADE
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 14TH DECEMBER, 1903.
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The Standard says that if the encroachments of Russia are to be stopped, now is the time to do it, when Jspaa can flesi a blow effectively, but no friend of Japan can contemplate a col- lision without the deepest solicitude and sorrow;
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL. 428 LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.whatever her present vulnerability may be
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of the 6th ult, arrived per .431 | P. & O. steamer Simla, on the 7th inst. (32 days); and the German Mail of the 10th ult, arrived by the N.D.L. steamer Kiautechou, on the 10th iust. (31 days).
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
A strong draft of the Sherwood Foresters 130 loft Parkhurst on the 7th inst., en route for 436 Hongkong. They were unaccompanied by their 436 wives and families, which is significant.
Japan and Russis
The Health of China Ports
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Cruelty to Aruals
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Limits of Newspaper Discussion
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Cotton
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Hongkong Jottings
Hongkong Législative Council
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
New Commander-in-Chief in Hongkong.
Rough Weather Outside Hongkong
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A Shipping Scandal
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The Meat Supply of Hongkong
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New Harbour Office
435
The Charity Bazaar
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The Ministering Children's League.
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Young Men's Christian Association..
Masonic Installation.....
Notes from the Botanic Gardens
The Kisochan Budget
Canton
Pakhoi
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Correspondence
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China Traders' Insurance Co., Ld.
438
Nippon Yusen Kaisha
Supreme Court
Inquest on Sergt. Mann
Sporting Notes
Football
442
Royal Hongkong Golf Club
442
Shooting
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A Queen'■ Road Joss-House
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A British Possession Near Hongkong ...
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Hongkong
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Miscellaneous
Commercial i Shipping
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Cricket
BIRTHS.
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The Governor having left Macao for Europe. fhe administration is now in the hands of the Bishop, Chief Justice, and Barbour Master, Dr. Luiz Forte is acting Colonial Secretary.
Owing to Mr. Giles, the British Assessor's 411 absolute rejection of the Chinese Magistrate's 441 premature judgement in the Mixed Court, the 442 Supao caso has been stopped pending reference
to Peking.
The Emperor of Japan opened the Diet on the 10th instant. At the conclusion of the sit- ting the Diet ananimously adopted a resolution censuring the Ministry for its conduct of foreign affairs. The Diet is dissolved to-day,
The German Chancellor Count von Bulow 416 declared in a speech in the Reichstag on the 6th inst., that Germany has no concern with Manchuria and is not deterred by the crisis in relations with Russia, the Far East from assiduously cherishing her
On the 16th October, at Edinburgh, the wife of E. H. FRASER, Consul-General at Hankow, of
a son.
On the 25th November, at 48, Grange Road, Shanghai, the wife of G. SCHUDEL, of a daughter. On the 27th November, at 48, Bubbling Well, Road, Shanghai, the wife of the Rev. W. GILBERT WALSHE, of a daughter.
On the 27th November, at Foochow, the wife of L. M. F. GEANT, of a son.
On the 29th November, at 5, Montford Place, Shanghai, the wife of W. T. WATTS EVANS, of a daughter.
On the 30th November, at Shanghai, the wife of W. F. LODER, of a daughter.
On December the 11th, at Stokes Bungalow, the Peak, Hongkong, the wife of the Rev. WALTEE J. SʊUTHAM, of a son.
DEATHS,
On the 29th November, at the Victoria Nur-ing Home, HERMANN MAASS, of Heilbronn, aged 23 years.
On the 5th December, at the London Mission, Hongkong, HELIN DONALD STEVENS, Matron, of the Nethersole Hospital.
The Russian Government, according to the Ostasiatische Lloyd, has notified the other Powers that the re-occupation of Moukden by Russian soldiers was the answer to the refusal of China to discharge a Taotai who unfriendly to the Russian residents at Moakden-
was
Lussia has almost inexhaustible reserves and may expect to recover kereafter whatever she is temporarily compelled to forgo.
telegram to the Jiji, that the Russian Com. It is reported from Moukden, according to a mander there has declared that the Tartar General and his office must remove outside of the city. The Chinese troops in the city are also to be withdrawn. The Commander has further declared that Shiyatashion and Kaijin- shien are important stations for the recruiting of mounted bandits, and that these places will be governed by Russia in future.
The two Chilean battleships Constitucion and Libertad hars been bought by Great Britain, not by Japan, as at first supposed. The price paid was £1,875,000. The Constitucion" and Libertad (as they were provisionally called) They are vessels of 11,800 tons and 13,000 i.h.p., were built at Elswick and Barrow respectively.
being fitted with Yarrow large-tube boilers. They are 466 feet long. 71 ft. broad, and their draught is 247ft. Their armour is 7-3 in belt, 3 in. deck, 7 in, above belt 3 in, bulk-head, and 10-7 in. gun position. They carry four 10 in.. fourteen 7.5 in., fourteen 14 pr., four 6 pr., four Maxim, and two light guus, and have two submarine torpedo-tubes; and their speed is 19 knots.
The rumours of the impending Russo-Japa- nese settlement are daily becoming more persistent and precise, said a Reuter's des patch last week end. The Associated Press of New York publishes a circumstantial tele. gram from 8. Petersburg stating that, as a result of the Tsar's action, Russia's reply makes ouly minor modifications of Japan'; proposals, which, if accepted, Russia will acknowledge Japan's right to a protectorate of Corea, while making reservations regarding Daral stations and fortifications threatening the sea communications of Port Arthur and Vladivostock. Russian concessions for freedom of trade in Corea will be guaranteed and the question of the evacuation of Manchuria left in aboyance.
The Corean Foreign Minister in his reply to The N. C. Daily News Tokyo correspondent the Russian Minister's objection to the opening telegraphed on the 29th November: Events in of Ryong-an (Yong-ampho) points out that his dicate the probability of a coalition and per interference with the affair was equivalent to haps fusion of the Seiyukai and the Progres-interfering with the integrity of Corea. On sists, with the probable result that the Cabinet | the other hand, the Corean Foreign Minister will meet with strong opposition in the Dist. inormed the Japanese Minister that the pressure unless it shows some progress in the negotioxercised by Japan to secure the opening of ations with Russia.
Corean ports exceeds the usual limits of diplo matic procedure. A Mainichi telegram says: The appointment of a successor to the late The note sent in by Mr. Hayashi now proves to Bishop Anzer of South Shantung is causing have been of an unofficial nature. The note was some difficulty, says a telegram to the couched in such very strong terms that the For- Ostasiatiske Lloyd, as the proper man for theeign Minister returned it to Mr. Hayashi with a place cannot be found. The reception which request that he would not interfere with the do- Bishsp Auzer had in Rome by the Pope, as well mestic administration of Cores. All the same, us by the Secretary of State and the Prefect it is believed that the note has opened the eyes of the Propaganda, was exceedingly hearty, of the Corean officials to the peril they are run- and has shown the great consideration in whichning, and they are likely to take up a strong at- he was held by the Vatican.
titude vis-à-vis Russia.