THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LIX.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Articles :-
The Japanese White-book Japan's Object in the War ... Port Improvement in China The Chinese Imperial Post. Hongkong's Health in 1903 Deportation to Hongkong Hongkong Jottings The War
Marquis Ito in Corea
The Tsar and his Advisers
Sons of the Sea
Hongkong and the Filipinos
Great Fire at Kowloon.
Hongkong's Health in 1903
Notes from the Botanic Gardens
Foochow
Supreme Court
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 18TH APRIL, 1904.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Sir Matthew Nathan, our Governor-designate, 2-9
reached Liverpool from West Africa on the .290 19th ult.
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The Consul-General for Japan has forwarded (299 £11,000, the first instalment of the London
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Vice Admiral Skrydloff, commanding the Black Sea fleet, has been appointed to succeed the late Admiral Makaroff in the Far East.
Washington news states the Russian Go- vernment has given notice that newspaper correspondents using wireless telegraphy will be treated as spi s and shot. This requires con- 29 firmation.
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Interesting Enquiry at Hongkong
The City Hall
Kowloon Land and Building Co., Ld.
Review
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Royal Hongkong Golf Club
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Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
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Water Return
Hongkong's Assets and Liabilities
The Japanese and Russian Forces
Hongkong
Miscellaneous
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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According to L'Echo de Chine, it is announ- ced from S. Petersburg that King Edward has the intention of intervening after the war to regulate the difficulties actually existing between Russia and England,
Sunday was the ninth anniversary of the signature of the treaty of Shimonoseki between 304 Japan and China. The upsetting of that treaty, in favour mainly of Russia. led more than any- .306 thing else to the present war.
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On the 25th March, at the London Mission, Weichen, the wife of the Rev. A. H. BRider, of a son (ALBERT LI NEL).
On the 31st March, at Tientsin, the wife of A. H. WATTS, Engineering and Mining Co., Ld, of
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On the 1st April, to the Rev. G. W. and Mrs. SHEPPARD, at the Methodist Mission Compound, Ningpo, a son.
On the 4th April, at No. 128, Range Road, Shanghai, the wife of G. GUNDRY, of a daughter
On the 7th April, at Gimel, Switzerland, the wife of PERCY B. WALSHAM, Chinese Customs Service, of a son.
On the 12th April, at Swatow, the wife of ARTHUR MAGGOWAN, of a daughter,
DEATHS.
On the 31st March, at Tientsin, HAROLD VON MITEREN.
We received on the 14th inst. from the Colonial Secretary's Office the following mes- sageIt is understood that according to present arrangements Sir Matthew Nathan starts from England for Hongkong in July
next.
We see that. owing to the indisposition of Mr. E. H. Cox. Mr. Cowen has resumed the editor. ship of the China Times. He has not been deported yet! In fact, he appears to have emerged successfully from his struggle with the authorities.
A Canton correspondent of a Saigon con- temporary states that Viceroy Shum has been endeavouring to negotiate among the Euro- pean houses a loan of $200,000 to meet the expenses of military operations against pirates in Kwangsi.
It is reported that the prolonged arbitration before Sir Hiram Wilkinson at Shanghai in regard to the recent collision at Woosung be- tween the P. & §. 8. Ballarat and the C.N.S. Changon came to a conclusion last week, but the decision has not yet been rendered.
On the 2nd April, at the General Hospital. Shanghai, JOHN Mossor, eldest son of JOHN Mossor, West End Lane, Hampstead, and eldest The London Morning Post's Chefoo corres- grandson of the late ROBERT Mossor, of Long-pondent wires that an increase of anti-foreign Sutton, Lincolnshire, aged 40 years.
policy is permeating to Peking, and that there is a grave possibility of China's neutrality being broken soon, in spite of official assurances to the contrary, by a general upheaval of the people.
On the 16th April, on board the Hygica, WILLIAM FRANK BAMSET, manager of Kowloon Gas Works, age-1 32 years.
The Tsar and Tsarita of Russia, according to Renter. attended the Admiralty Church, S.
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The Naval reserves at Sebastopol have been mobilized partly to reinforce the orews at Port Arthur and Vladivostock and partly for the Baltic Fleet.
Reuter's correspondent at S. Petersburg wires that General Kuropatkin has decided to make Fenghangchweng the first line of defence proper, although he intends engaging the Japanese as soon as they cross the Yalu. A strong force is entrenched at Haiohing to block the Japanese advance if they land at the head of the Liaotung Gulf.
The official text of the Anglo-French agree- ment, in reference to Siam, says that the two parties, disclaiming all ideas of annexation of territory and being resolved to abstain from anything opposed to existing treaties, agree that their action shall be exercised freely in the spheres of influence East and West of the Menam basin respectively.
The Customs Report on the foreign trade of China for 1903, notes under the heading of Revenue that of the Southern ports those in Fohkien about held their own, and Kwangtung ports-especially Canton-had an improved collection, with the exception of Pakhoi, which continues to lose ground. The report also notes a transference of trade from junk to steamer at Canton. To the total collection Shanghai and the north generally contributed reduced amounts, and the Yangtsze and Southern ports generally larger amounts.
Commerce are drawing up a joint memorial to the Throne recommending the abolition of the old Courier Post Department and the handing over of the transmission of all Government and official despatches throughout the Empire to the Chinese Imperial Post established by Sir Robert Hart. The funds hitherto paid out for the support of the old Courier Post are recommended by the memorialists to be handed over to Sir Robert Hart for the extension of the new Postal Department in order to meet the requirements
The Chinese Boards of Revenue, War, and
of the case.
Admiral Makaroff's name was very prominently It will be recalled by many that the late before the world sight or ten years ago as the inventor of a method of minimising the effects of collisions at sea. On the 22rd of January, 1896, the Admiral explained his scheme before the members of the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce. Mr. A. McConachie, who presided
on
the occasion, mentioned, in introducing Admiral Makaroff, that His Excellency had occupied himself in the study of similar schemes since he was a young lieutenant, and in the Seventies one of his inventions"a collision- mat
was exhibited at an exhibition in Vienna, and received such general attention and approval as to lead to its adoption by most European navies. His suggestions for the improvement of bulkheads also favourably
Hongkong Weekly Dress Petersburg, at a Memorial Service after the impressed naval constructors, and the distinc
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French Mail of the 18th March arrived. per the 8.8. Polynesien, to-day. The English Mail of the 25th ultimo is expected to arrive, per the s.s. Chusan, on Friday the 23rd inst,
Port Arthur disaster. The Tsarila wept throughout the service. 8. Pet rsbarg is a ity of mourning, amusements are cancelled, and cafés closed.
A statement that General Gallieni, the Governor-General of Madagascar, would shortly replace M. Beau as Governor-General of Indo- | China, is now declared to be unfounded. M. Beau, who was to have come to France on leave during the summer, has decided to remain at his post in consequence of the situation in the Far East.
tion his ideas on these subjects gained for him was recognised by his own Government and rapid promotion followed. The Admiral's lecture in Hongkong in which he suggested a “false nose" for ships, and a law to compel ita general adoption, attracted a deal of attention in shipping circles throughout the world, but the scheme had its defects and still remains in the realm of suggestions. The Deceased was here some six or seven years ago and made himself very popular, His death is much re- gretted by all who met him,