THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXIII.]
Epitome.
Leading Articles :-
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Chinese Provincial Administrators
The Trouble in Natal
PAGR 297
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The Reception of the Merchants Shipping Bill.299
A Propos San Francisco .....................sation
Réligions Mammals
Russia's Far Eastern Interesta..
St. George and Egregious England
The Anglo-Saxon Brain
Hongkong Jottings
Beggars and Beachcombers
Legislative Council Vacancy.......
Supreme Court
Palice Court_............................................96.
Coolie's Big Jump
Canton
Correspondence
Belilios Medal for Gallantry
Abolition of Torture in China
Ban Francisco Catastrophe
Shanghai's “Last Chief Justice."
Foreign Trade of Japan
In Memoriam: Robert William Little The Nanchang Affair
Companies
Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd. China Traders Insurance Co.
The Yangtaze Insurance Association,, Ltd. Philippine Company, Ltd.
The Shanghai Mutual Telephone Co., Ltd.
Interesting to Volunteers
*Designing Corpse Factories ''
Japan after the War
The Late Mr. Little Reviews
Commercial Shipping
BIRTHS.
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 3.)TH APRIL, 1906.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
Foochow falt another earthquake shock on April 14th.
It is stated that the German Minister will receive the Order of the Double Dragon in recognition of the German troops being with drawn.
The first trip of the train de luze over the entire distance from Peking to Hankow Was 301 covered in thirty-six hours and exactly up to -30% the time-table schedule.
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The Chairman of the Municipal Council, Mr. 36 Ceoil Holliday, at noon on April 24 inserted the first spade in connection with the laying down 807 of an electric tramway system in the Shanghai
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selt ement.
According to a cable received at Manila, the .3'9 Yaami Hotel at Kyoto, Japan, was totally des
troyed by a conflagration at midnight of April 17. No lives were lost, although the hotel was .....810 | fall of foreign guests.
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The Jih Jih learns from a reliable source that the Russo-Chinese conference has fallen 311 through in consequence of the Russian refusal to ....modify their demands, and the impossibility on ...818 China's part of granting any one of them.
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The following telegram has been received by the Colonial Secretary from the Acting Com. 312 missioner of the Chinese Imperial Maritime .313 Customs at Swatow : Mine reported in Lati- tade 34 degrees 30m. N. and Longitude 122 degrees 40m. E”
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On April 17th, at Port Edward, Weihaiwei, the wife of ROBERT WALTER, Colonial Civil Service, of a daughter.
On April 21st, at "Villa Branca," the wife of A. M. L. SOARES, of a son.
On April 29th, at Derrington, Peak Road, the wife of J. G. SCHROTER, of a son.
DEATHS.
On April 11th, at Chefoo, MARGUERITE ANTOIN- Err, wife of Major A. A. 8. BARNES, Transvaal Government Emigration Agent, aged 28 years.
· On April 20th, 1908, at Whampoa, DOROTHI MARGUERITE, the beloved daughter of V. J. and LOUISA E. McLOUGHLIN, aged 3 years and 6
months.
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It is stated in Peking that the Emperor has such a predilection for Mr. Uchida as Japanese Minister that he has addressed an autograph letter to the Emperor of Japan requesting that His Excellency may be allowed to remain at Peking for another term.
In the week ending April 21st, there were 44 cares of plague at Hongkong, of which 37 ended fatally. In the next 48 hours there were 15 more, of which 13 ended fatally. The total to date is 246 cases. The smallpox return for that week was nine cases, eight fatal.
Shanghai native city officials are still anxious to copy Tientsin, and remove the surrounding healthfulness of the outskirts of the city has wall. At Tientsin, we read, the general
On April 20th, at Shanghai, ROBERT WILLIAM been increased by the fine open space represented LITTLE. B.A., Orop, F.J., in his 87th year.
by the new wide roadway (on the site of the On April 20th, at Chinkiang, MART
C. | wall). ROBINSON.
IN MEMORIAM. On the 27th April, 1903, at Amoy, LIONEL BRABANT Langford WHEELER, eldest son of Col.
WHEELER, A.O.D.
Hongkong Weekly Press
According to the Nanfangpas, Baron Mamm has protested to the Waiwupu against the action of the Chinese authorities in forbidding Chinese landowners from selling land to foreigners outside the boundaries of the Settlement at Shangbai. This is one of the things we should think China justised in doing.
A few days prior to April 18th a raid was made upon American constabulary st Malolos, Phili pines. About sixty ladrones, armed with HONGKONG OFFICв: 10▲, DES Vœux ROAD CL. | native swords, ́entered the quarters and LONDON OFFICE: 131; FLEET STREET, E.C.secured some gaps and six hundred rounds of ammunition. Three guards were killed, and nearly all the rest had wounds to show.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail of March 27th arrived, per the 88. Prinz Heinrich, on Wednesday, the 25th inst; and the French Mail of 30th March arrived, per the ss. Caledonien, on Monday, the 90th instant.
France has abolished the harssing identifios. tion regulations in regard to Chiness immigrants | arriving at Saigoo. The withdrawal of the regulations takes affect from May 15. The Avenir du Tonkin mys that this step was class intended to boycott the colony unless the hastened by reports that the Chinese coolis
regulations were done away with.
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The Honan Governor bas petitioned. year's extension of the privilege of official ranks. Doubtless he has planned turnover for 1906.
Chang Chih-tung advises in future that in any Christian cases the missionary interested be present at the hearing, and if there is any thing contrary to justice in the decision he can then lay the matter before his own' Consul; but not interfere with the magistrato directly they would have no locus standi in « British, We cannot see why, they should meddle at all;
Court.
greatly angered at receiving an unsatisfactory. It is reported that the Russian Minister WAR,
tions of the Manchuria negotiations; and that reply from H.E. Tang Shao-y! on the condi-
he has declared that China's besitation is evident proof of insincerity. Russia, he says, has made her own decision and he will at once: orien Russian women and children residing. în: Mag:: ohuria to leave for home,
It is an open secret, says the Hankow paper that His Excellency the Viceroy Chang. Chị. tung, has purchased through a local Japanese firm a considerable number of used-up old and obsolete guns used in the late Russo-Japanes war, in order to make a show at the appro rohing Chinese military manovres." A considerable quantity of Japanese horses have also been con- tracted for, for the same purpose. Thong ars probably in the same ooridition as the guns.
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Reports to the Pioneer from Shigatse show that the prestige of the Tashi "Lama had enormously increased since his visit to India His reception on returning kóme wan a most enthusiastic one, and for, the past month wor- shippers have been crowding to Shigatse to par renewed homage. The feelings of the Tibetans towards the British have become most cordial, the news of the honours paid to the Taslil'in India having spread throughout the country.
Government troops operating against the It is reported from Chêngtu, that the Tibetan insurgents in Shanpi, in the Pat'ang region, fell into an ambush on the 13th April, and had to leave over two hundred in killed and wounded on the field. This is the ssqond operating in that region this year, and IE reverse suffered by the Government troops Viceroy Hai Liang is sending strong rainfores ments to restore order and suppress the
surrection.
A Peking dispatch in the Nanfangpao that Sir Ernest Batow has again addr quod Waiwapn with reference to the oncessión” for building the railway from Soechów to Hang- chow and Ningpo, stating that unless some definite reply from the Chinese Goritumenį is received during April the British and Chinese Corporation will order their engin to proceed with the survey of the line in to get ready to commence the work of struction.
It is said that the rumours of a revolutionary movement in Peking originated through the sta yarns of a Chinaman in 'the United This Chinaman informed his Amerloun that a great anti-foreign movement was in China. This led to a scars, and the ing of the news to the For Peking. From the Fo
instructions quickly spread to the
polios to carefully