WEI-HAI-WEI.
(From Our Own Correspondente)
- WEI-HAI-WEL, March' zzud. The important telegrams which have chine to hand of late, and what they mean for Welba wei are still occupying our attention. Nothing has happened since my last to throw any farther light on the fate of the 1st Chinese Regiment,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY APRIL 8, 1902.
bris odds 'ong the sea-wall The old acupied Chinese houses of Major Bruce and Colonel Tower, together with the stabling ateher tached to the have been pulled down, and in the
space thus created, in about the centre of the Bund, are to be erected quarters for
the Financial Assistant, and a Town Hall, at a cost of about $10,000. The latter will contain a good-sized room, 56ft. by 26, which with a gallery will be capable of seating 20 persons,
TIENTSIN DAY BY DAY.
(From Our Own Correspondent)
TIENTSIN, March 22nd,
The rain 1 mentioned in my last turned to snow and for two days Tientsin has been buried in raw white slush, for the snow at this season is too wet to call anything else. It has been very welcome, as calculated to check small.
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whether its demise is to be sudden, whether it and will be available for concerts etc. This pox and other diseases which have been hang-
is to be a case of
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will gready improve the appearance of the front. It only wants a Company with some go and enterprise in them to buy up the remaining Chinese houses, and erect in their place a row of English villas, and we should have a very respectable promenade. Don't Companies of this kind grow in "ongkong?
Reports are again being circulated about
THE CITY BEING GIVEN OVER,
the date being either May 1st or July 1st but investigation shows that the rumours are based on very slender foundation and quite as likely as not are started in some quarter where the wish is father to thought. That the Ministers At the western entrance to the town a new
discuss the question at intervals is most prob market place is to be opened, together with a new dairy and a cement watering-trough. Thee, and that most of them are in favour of Lut giving up the place scenis equally true. Colonial Office.
the German Minister is so far resolute in his disapproval of the proposal until the river and bar have been inckled by an expert, and made navigable. Count von Waldeisee's parting in- structions and advice were that the city should be held untill this river work was carried out,
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have been sanctioned. I'am unable at present to give details beyond the fact that among other things provision has been made for the.com- struction of twenty miles of main ronds in addition to these already in existence. Of course an important work soon to be taken in hand is the new Commissioner's House, which whatever its site, is bound to be a prominent and commanding building.
or whether it is to take place at all. A new Quartermaster has arrived, and taken up his residence on the front. This does not look as if anything verysudden is going to happen. The North China Daily News irreverently suggests the epitherapdoodle as an appropriate. description of the statement of Lord Onslow on the future of Wei-hai-wei and its garrison Possibly; Lord Onslow told us little to the point, but the remarks of the N. C. D News, in the same, article, on the method of disbanding." the regiment are open to the same charge. That Journal supposes that when in future the Chi- nese soldier is summoned home by his grand. mother for spine domestic function, instead of being punished for desertion as heretofore, a dollar will be put into his pocket and he will be told to stay away. This also is something very much like flapdoodle." The process of dis- banding," if it takes place at all, will be a gradual one; the thing will be done 'decently and in order. Length of service, and not the summons of a grandmother, will be the basis on which the men will receive their congé, in batches as their time is up. No doubt many of the same men will form the police force foreshadowed by Lord Onslow, who was, after all, only acting as the mouthpiece of Mr. Chamberlain, into whose control the colony has passed. As, i am told, a small boy put it in his letter home-it and bigh-water mark a bank of earth is being with visions doubtless of Sikh policemen fleat ing before his mind. Dear Mother," the fond epistlecran, "the Chinese regiment is to be disbanded, and there is going to be a lot of babbits instead." -
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But anyone on the spot will heartily endorse what the N. C. D. News says of the climate of Wei-hai-wei. It is now
Great activity prevails on King Hull Poist, sone hundreds of coolies are engaged in the extension of the
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as he maintained if it was not done before the city was handed back it never would be done after, China's undertakings ever have been carried out and are not likely to be at this crisis, in fact she has already done her best to
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of the Protocte, therefore why should she not do the same with the stipulation for the Feiho Conservancy, Von Walderses maintained this was the last trump card in the hands of the Powers and should not be highly thrown away. British sense of propriety and legality will not; allow us to find any excuse for retaining the city because its retention was not specified
in the Protocle and in fact its return was understood. But surely a great many other other things were understood when those articles were signed. It was understood that there were to be no examinations: no arms imported and ammunition made, yet both things have been going on. It was understood that the forts and walls razed were not to be rebuilt; but Yuan has long since arranged for te reconstruction of the Black Fort and Wall so soon as he gets back the city? It is argued
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raised of considerable extent. Mr-Vernon is sinking $14,000 in making a site for his house, and he is determined not to be far from the sea. Round the next point again, is the bay with the Iron Pier, still in a fair state of preservation, which ought to be at once taken in hand, re paired and improved. It is a much better structure than the jetty referred to above, it would make an excellent promenade piar, and would be quite close to the new Commissioner's House, if that is built on Grafton Point... May be the military band for which the N.C..that News longs will some day be found giving is no justification for our doing the same. la OF CANTON AND HONGKONG, LISTED, will concerts on this pier!
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THE PERFECTION OF SPRING, just du English spring, with clearness and cloudlessness thrown in. Why the holiday maker, the seeker after rest and change, should
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the fall of the year presents once more an unexceptionable climate. And here, mayhap,
nor start with so adious a comparison; as the Editor of the P. and T. Times. But all
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the NCC. D. News will find a cure for another well-wishers of Wei-ni-wei feel bound to but the Government and Officials class are as strongly advocate this-the prohibiting of the Narcissus Bay. If this were enforced, it would
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soldiers of Hongkeng to its cooler shores, and half-battalions in turn will, in all probability," be quartered here. Thus will the N. C. D. News have the military band it pants for it would never get it out of the first Chinese Regiment
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in the appearance of the place in a single year. The denuded slopes would be clothed with firs and young oak trees. The only inconvenience the Chinaman would be put to would be that he would have to cut down trees and tear up shrubs on the northern slopes of the hills instead of the southern, and it would make a world of
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a hold it is not so easily cast off again. made into a silken purse." True, the writer miles of British territory, and the predestined
Jung Lu is reported to be immediately proceeds to while away this Queen of Far Eastern watering places" is to statement by speaking of "its natural advant- be tied up for ever to an ugly Chinese name age" etc., but the proverb sticks, that is the that means nothing more or less than "a jelty." "Alea in the ear" the average render takes We hope Mr. Lockhart will come away with him, and the impression created is
rescue. We hope the new Commissioner will bad. The writer may argue that the proverb signalizę, is only intended to apply to the commercial prospects of Wei-hau-wei, but he goes on to suggest the possibilities of mineral wealth "if" (on examination) it has the qualifications to become an industrial centre, it undoubtedly will. But if it has these possibilities, the pro- verb does not apply, for the "saw's ear" may be made into a silken purse after all. As a matter of fact, if die sole asset to which Wel hai-wei could lay claim was its climate, if that was all
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and the coronation of the king by a christening. | We hope he will find some Christian, some significant, some British name for the scene of bis future labours. Hongkong has its Victoria; Wei-Hai-Wei wants something of the same sort.
Signs are not wanting that the Territory is gradually passing under the sway of the Co- lonial Office, Chief among these is the
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and some excellent advice which Prince Ching has endeavourned to give the Dowager has fallen on deaf ears under Jung Lu's influence. I have heard, but I cannot say for certain, that the "German speaking lady, wife of an official, who was recently taken into the Palace as an interpreter, has been and even now is a public woman of low character, and berpresence at the audience was an insult to all. Mrs.
Conger has I hear been entertaining a party of Chinese ladies including ousf Prince Ching's concubines. Yuan, bas obtained posthumous honours for General Nieh who was killed here in 1900. Special shrines will be erected to his memory and he is appointed Grand Guardian of the Heir Apparent. The Dowager has in
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If will be of interest to stire brie. what has been done, what is being dong, and what might be done quickly and at a small cost to make Wei-hai-wei more like a British Colony, more British watering-place, I have dealt with. the first in a previous letter, but will recapitalate the main items the new road frons half Moon
THE OUTBREAK IN HONAN.
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THE KWANG-SI REBELLION.
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