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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LI.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c......
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Leading Articles :---
The United States and Commercial Policy in the
Pacifie
Bribery and the Chinese Population ............................
237
The West River Piraoy Question
Japan's Financial Growth......................................................
The Corean Crisis
Supreme Court
Hongkong Sanitary Board.
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce....... Robbery on Board the Empress of India
The Ghastly Find at Kowloon
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.288 289 292
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Variety Entertainment at the Theatre Royal................................297
Manila.
Foochowṣa-*
Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co., Limited
Hongkong Hotel Co., Limited.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 28TH APRIL, 1900.
Our Shanghai correspondent on the 26th instant telegraphed that the Hon. Sir Nicholas John Hannen, Chief Justice of Supreme Court for China and Japan, died at 8.15 p.m. that night
M. Defrance, French Minister at Bangkok, arrived at Saigon from Singapore on the 5th inat. to coufe, it is said, with the Governor. General of Indo-China on the Franco-Siamese question.
No. 17
The London Gazette announces the follow ing change in the Consular Service in Chins :- Mr. Alexander Hosie, as Consul at Kiukiang; Mr. J. Noel Tratman, as Consul at Nanking; Mr. C. W. Campbell, as Consul at Wuchow; Mr. E. T. C. Werner, as Consul at Kiungchow: Mr. E. F. Bennett, as Consul at Saumao; Mr. A. J. Suudius, as Consul at Yo- chow; Mr. G. D. Pitzipios, Vice-Consul at Pagoda Island." Shangbai; and Mr. W. P. Ker, Vice-Consul at
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the officers of the Volunteer Fleet cruisers An Odessa correspondent states that among recently returned there from the Far East, there is a strong belief that the enormons gar-
The Empress Dowager moved with the 294 Emperor and Heir Apparent to the I Ho Park on the 7th, though several memorials were sent account of the disturbed state of the provinces. in begging her not to leave the Palace on
H.M.S. Alacrity arrived in Nagasaki harbourrisons being formed at Port Arthur, Dalui, aud on the 20th inst., with Admiral Seymour on board. Captain A. H. Smith-Dorrien, of the 1.299 | Alacrity, is to take temporary charge of the Bonaventure, now on her way to Manila, Captain Montgomerie, R.N., having been in- valided home.
The Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co.,
Limited
Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals
Correspondence ......
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Hongkong and Port Newз............................................................................................. Saipping
MARRIAGES.
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It is reported from Peking that the Chinese .300 Government has proposed to close the Govern- ment Dockyard and Engine Works at Foochow, | owing to considerations of finance. It appears, however,, that the French engineers in the service of the dockyard are strenuously opposed to this measure.
On the th March, at All Saints' Cathedral, Bathurst, N.S.W., by the Right Rev, Dean Marriott, CARL WILHELM GEORG, of Hongkong, to FLORENCE BEATRICE, eldest daughter of Doctor W. E. CORTIS,
of Bathurst.
At Chr st 8 Church, Ramsgate, on the 17th March, 1900, G. T.. CROOK, late of Hongkong, to DoRA EDITH ALLEN,
DEATH.
On the 19th April, at Swatow, M. BOYD BREDON, Commissioner of Customas, aged 45 Fears.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
Apart from plague there were no cases of/ Communicable disease in Hongkong between the 14th and 21st instant. Of the 21 plague cases, 18 were in the City of Victoria and three outside; there were 16 deaths from plague during the week. From noon of the 21st to noon of the 27th inst. there have been 31 cases and 23 deaths.
A Tientsin resident writes that tremendous strides are being made with the Reibo River Improvement. There has already been a very marked rise, and it is expected when the rains come, they will practically flood the river, and so wash away all the surperfluous mud and make it once more fit for navigation. The lighters now come up full, whereas they used to be only half-loaded.
coercive layer for compelling the Japanese to Vladivostock will shortly be utilised usa abandon their pretensions and acquisitions in Corea. The Commander of one of the cruisers expresses his conviction that before, or by the end of the current year, Russian influence in the Far Easteru peninsula will have become so absolutely dominant that the Japanese will feel themselves morally constrained to give up the struggle and retire from the many important enterprises they are now prosecuting in Corea ; and that will open the way for the gradual. assumption of a Russian Protectorate.
We regret to learn that Mr. M Boyd Bredon. 19th inst. Mr. Boyd Bredon was forty-five years. Commissioner of Customs, died at Swatow on the
time Customs in 1831, taking up the position of of age and entered the Chinese Imperial Mari-
In 1884 he was the assistant in charge at Hoi- Private Secretary at the Inspectorate, Peking. how, and he advanced by promotion until he Japan War Mr. Boyd Bredon was commissioner was appointed commissioner. During the China- at Chefoo, and as that was the nearest port to Weihaiwei, his responsibilities, during the seige of the latter place and the operations arɔual Ninghai, greatly increased and were ably dis- charged. He returned from a holiday at home last year and was appointed to Swatow, The Robert Hart, and has a brother in the same deceased was an able official, a relative of Sie...
Peking. service who is the Deputy-Inspector-General at
The American mail of the 23rd March arrived, per O. & O. steamer Gaelic, on the 22nd April (30 days); the French mail of the 23rd March arrived, per M. M. steame Oceanien, on the 22nd April (30 days); the American mail of the 31st March arrived, per T. K. K. steamer Hongkong Maru, on the 27th
· April (28 days); and the English mail of the Power. It is understood that Russia's hasty members of the Reform Party in Shanghai According to The North China Daily News
A Japanese telegram, dated Seoul, 13th instant reports that a secret treaty has been signed between Russia and Corea. But this much is known, it continues, that Corea has agreed not to concede Kiossi-to to any other
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30th March arrived; per P. & O. steamer ¦ change of front, in connection with the have received news from T
Coromandel, on the 27th April (28 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Admiral Sir E. R. Fremantle, G.C.B., C.M.G. who arrived at Shanghai on the 17th inst by the English mail on a trip round the world, left again on the 18th in the Tungchow for Weihai- wei, whence H.M.S. Endymion will take him to Japan.
Masampo affair, was due to a move on her part
treaty.
to secure
this
quarters in received secret instructions from Prince Ching Peking that when Viceroy ITung-chang It is stated that Russia, having decided to to send Admiral Yeh of the Peiyang squadron, start the work of evangelization in Cores, the
who happened to be in Canton at the time, to Russian Minister has visited the Corean For Proceed with two of his fastest cruisers, the Church: One Greek Church missionary has of eign Minister to talk about the site for a-
Haitien and Haishow, to cruise in the vicinity, already arrived in Seoul and conducted on the 25th ult. at the Russian Legation the first baptism ceremony, the number of the Coreans who underwent it being about 150 men and women altogether.
be issued by Secretary Long to the organizing News from Washington has it that orders will board which will make arrangements for the establishment of ■ U.S. naval station at Peart
Singapore in order to assist the assassins on the track of Kang Yu-wei, Viceroy Li telegraphed back to Peking that he thought the plan impracticable for the present at least
on the alert and very watchful over the -as the members of the Reform Party word
that it was his duty, simply was a curt and imperative one t safety of their leaders. - Viveroy -
that he would be held failures. The upshot
H. M. Edgar left: Hongkong on the 23rd| instant for home via Singapore with time-expired crews from the fleet M:S. Bonaventure left the same day for Manila HMS.«Brisk: arrived in the harbour on the 25th inst. from Shanghailzfely at fi sot alor Bacima edi back-}}arbour, Hawaii. Hear. "Admiral #Bradford" the orders, as he
chief of the Bureau of Equipment, has brought. rapidly over the northern- to the attention of the department the impot,
tance of establishing a station at
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