HONGKONG, MONDAY, 3RD OCTOBER, 1904.
Hongkong Weekly Press. Dress.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail arrived, per the 8 s. Zieten, on Tuesday, the 27th of September; and the 244 French Mail of the 17th of September is due to arrive, per the 8.8. Capri, on the 4th i st
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More Missionaries
The Premier as Philosopher
The Cotton Growing Association
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The Chinaman Abroad
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Watching an Unseen War
Hongkong Jottings
Hongkong Legislative Council
Supreme Court
The Douglas Steamship Co., Ld.
William Powell, Limited
Canton Insurance Office, Ld.
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S. Moatrie Co., Ld.
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The National Bank of China, Limited
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Canton Notes
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Canton Trade Report for 1903
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British and Foreign rade at Singapore.
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Singapore Harbour Schemes
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River Steamer Burnt out.
Blaze at West Point..
Why there is no Tsar-Kaiser Treaty Trade Items.....
Miscellaneous
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Hongkong Pilots
The R.C. Cathedral Campanile
Hongkong
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Italian Minister in Peking seems to have been greatly perturbed by a talked-of Boxer rising in Honan, which, however, did not take 249 place.
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The Japanese have effected & 250 change along the Liaotung coast in regard to ...250 piracy, having dispersed many of the bands
around Newchwang.
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No. 14.
Out of thirteen culprits who murdered
Catholic priests at Shih-nan, and were senten-
ced to be decapitated, ten have been already consultation with the French Secretary of the arrested and three are still missing. After due Legation at Peking eight of the culprits were decapitated and two have been ordered to be tried at Ichang again.—Universal Gazette.
In the opinion of the editor of our local contemporary Cheung-kok-po ("The China") there will be another Boxer outbreak after the Japan-Russo War. In the same manner that Minister Kong Hi was sent to South China to raise funds for military purposes before the Boxer trouble, Tit Leung has left on a similar mission. The Kwangsi rebels are at present creating considerable disturbance, not only in Kwangsi Province itself, but also in a part of Kwangtung.
The sixty-one Russian marines, with four officers. who were brought to Hongkong by the 8.8. Humber, and interned here, left the Commodore's ship Tamar on the 26th ult. for the quarters prepared for them at King's Park. Kowloon. Military transport officers superintended their removal to the camp of internment, the moving occupying about an high-hour. Very comfortable quarters they found in the cantonment, where they may have to abide a very long time. The officers have spring mattresses and mosquito nets, and the men can scarcely complain at the accommoda- tion provided.
A large meeting of high-caste Hindus was 256 held at Poona on the 26th July to celebrate
the anniversary of the Act permitting caste Hindu widows to remarry.
On the 10th September, at Shanghai, the wife rf FRANCIS ELLIS, of a son.
On the 19th September, at Chefoo, the wife of Gustav GippERIOH, of a daughter.
On the 19th September, at Shanghai, the wife of M. W. TEIFFENBERG, of a son.
On the 20th September, at Shanghai, the wife
of WALTER REGINALD PARKIN, of a son.
On the 20th September, at the Victoria Hospital,
Barker Rcad, the wife of YouNG HEE, of a daughter.
On the 20th September, at Shanghai, the wife of JAMES KERFOOT, of a daughter.
On the 22nd September, at Shanghai, the wife of P. ZUEN, of a son.
On 25th September, at Shanghai, the wife of EUG. HYNDMAN, Jr., of a son.
MARRIAGES.
The steamer Ascot arrived at Durban on the 22nd Sept. and delivered all the coolies well The Swanley sailed from Chin Wan Tao for Durban on the 24th ult, with 2,250 coolies on board.
It is reported that 21 Japanese gendarmes have been killed by insurgents at Gilan in Formosa. These gendarmes were part of a squadron of 70 engaged in searching for dis- affected persons.
It is stated. says the China Review, that a sister of Prince Mirski, the newly-appointed Russian Minister of the Interior, is a Sister in the General Hospital in Shanghai, and is much loved for her kindness and nursing ability.
The Waiwupu, upon the receipt of the full text of the Anglo-Tibetan Treaty on the 7th ult., wired to Yu Tai to the effect that he must not sign the treaty as there are points contrary ANIEL GEORGE, youngest son of the late FRANCIS to China's sovereign rights.-Universal Gazette.
On the 14th September, at Yokohama, NATH-
MAITLAND, of London, to ELEANOR ISABELLA, only daughter of OTIS AUGUSTUS POOLE, Of Yokohama.
On the 19th September, at. Shanghai, ROBERT, eldest son of the late B. I. LENT, to MARY, eldest daughter of T. MACMURRAY.
On the 20th September, at Shanghai. ALLAN S. MALCOLM, 8on of the late WALTER Malcolm, Glasgow, to ISABELLA JACK, daughter of GEORGE FRASER, Mount Florida, Glasgow.
On the 22nd September, at the Chal Leah Synagogue, GUSTAV ERRIG, from Kobe, to Miss PAULINE SCHAPIRA, from Paris.
On the 24th September, at St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, by the Rev. F. T. Johnston, JOHN Scott Harston, eldest son of GEORGE ALFRED HARSTON, of Wentworth House, Harrogate, to MABEL HILDA, youngest daughter of the late Hon. C. S. Diox-MELBOURNE, M.L.C., of hock- hampton, Queensland,
DEATHS.
On the 18th September, at Lausanne, Switzer- land, ANNA CASEMENT SMIDLET, late of Shanghai. On 25th September, at the International Cotton Mill, Footung, FANNY CURRIE, aged 39 years,
On 26th September, at Shanghai, Jou. NoLTING, aged 64 years.
On the 28th September, at the Government Civil Hospital, Lawrence Mallory, aged 58 years.
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Owing to the Macao Government's delay in handing over the ex-Namhoi Magistrate to the Viceroy at Canton it is rumoured that several promised concessions. including the water supply concession, are being withheld by the Chinese Government.
A quantity of four-inch shells and small ammuutiou-surrendered to the American forces in 1898-while being loaded on to lighters preparatory to dumping in the bay, exploded in front of tlie Arsenal, at the mouth of the Pasig River, killing two and mangling seven Filipinos. Mad dogs are one disagreeable feature of life at Bangkok. Several cases of hydrophobia are reported. Early this month Mr. R. G. Macfarlane, of the Bombay Burma Trading Corporation, was bitten there by his own dog. He has gone to Saigon for the Pasteur treat- meut.
to as having been prdered at Woolwich for The quick-firing guns which Reuter refers India are, says the Straits Times, merely part Indian field batteries for which provision of a consignment for the re-arming of the
was made in Sir Edward Law's last Budget. The only urgency about their supply is to enable them to be completed and paid for before the close of the current official year, when in accordance with the existing Indian custom any unspent portion of the grant sanctioned for their purchase will lapse. The order sent home was for the re-armament of both the Field and Horse Batteries in India, and the number of guns requisite for this purpose is so large that it is by no means an easy matter to get them all completed and sent out before next April.
The
A rather serious quarrel occurred between. -
A Italian and Chinese soldiers at Peking. drill grounds just north of the Legation quarter, company of the former were on the glacis, or
engaged in drilling and gymnastics. Twó Chinese soldiers were among the bystanders watching the exercises when, it is said, one of them made some uncomplimentary remarks con- cerning the Italian drilling. They then went inside the enclosure, when the Italian soldiers ordered them from the ground because of their soldiers, and one of them took off his belt and not being in uniform. This angered the Chinese struck an Italian soldier in the face. them was captured. Ten Italians were detailed Chinese then started to run away, but one of to pursue the other soldier, which they did as far as General Chiang's Yamen. The Italians fired their rifles in the sir, forced their way A Corean named Riyukio, who returned from past the sentry, and met the General, who ordered, Russia on the 5th Sept.. has been received in them from the place. The Italians departed. audience by the Corean Emperor, to whom he Fortunately a company of Chinese soldiers delivered a secret message from the Russian which is quartered at the General's Yamen were Government. It is said that the communica-out at target practice. Had they been at honie tion is of a kind to considerably retard the there might have been serious trouble. No carrying ont of a progressive programme insatisfactory settlement has as yet been made of Corea.
the matter.—Mercury,
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