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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 9тH JUNE, 1900.
A Seoul telegram received in Japan, states that the land dispute at Masampo between Russia and Japan will probably be peacefully settled, as the Japanese owners are now inclined to dispose of their ground at a reasonable price.
The first torpedo vessel ever completely con- structed in Japan is now being built at Yoko- 397 suka. Her displacement is to be 53 tons, her horse-power 1800, and speed 24 knots. Not 398 only the hull but also the engines are of Jap-
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CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles:-
The Boxer Outbreak
The British Flag and the Right to Use it
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The "Kow-shing" Case
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Supreme Court
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Trooping of the Colours
The Extraordinary Affair at Aberdeen
Two Imperial Decress -
The Harbour Master's Report
Canton
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Swatow Notes
Manila
Sandakan Notes
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
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anese manufacture.
A squadron of mounted native scouts is to be 399 organised by Lieut. Col. Wilder in the Philip 400 pines under the name of the Squadron of Philip 400 pine Cavalry. Manila is talking of raising
local militia, for which the patronage of the army, navy, and Civil Commissioners will be
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On the ōth instant, at "Melton House," West Dulwich, London, S.E., the wife of PAUL JORDAN, of a daughter.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 3rd May arrived, per P. M .Steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, on the 4th June (32 days); the French mail of the
6th May arrived, per M. M. steamer Laos, on the 4th June (29 days); the English mail of the 11th May arrived, per P. & O. steamer Bengal, on the 7th June (27 days); and the American mail of the 11th May arrived, per O. & O. Steamer Coptic, on the 8th June (28 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Hancock, with the American Phillippine Commission on board, left Hongkong for Manila on the 1st inst.
A recent Seoul telegram to Tokyo stated that a French subject had been engaged as adviser to the Corean War Department.
A Pioneer telegram of the 26th ult. announced a report from Washington that torpedos are being placed in all the Japanese harbours in anticipation of an early conflict.
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The Tokyo correspondent of the Nagasaki Press says:-"Owing to the financial strain, which, it is said, has necessitated the floating of another foreign loan at the instance of Count Matsukata, the Cabinet is showing signs of dis- ruption.
Marquis Yamagata is the first to announce his intention of resigning, in favour neither of them has agreed to accept the res- of either Marquis Ito or Count Inouye. But ponsibility, so that the Premier has still to jog along on the thorny path of politics."
Railway Company to Corea, has returned to An engineer recently sent by the Seoul-Fusan Japan, and reports the arrangements that have been made. The construction of the line will be tarted at Seoul, and the course will be throught Chung-chong-do and the northern part of Kyung chong-do, the distance being 300 miles. The number of stations has been fixed at forty-one and the cost of the work is esti mated at some ¥25,000,000. The Corean Go- vernment highly approve of the work, and the Imperial House authorities have decided to de- fray Y20,000 towards the expenses. There is a good demand for shares among the wealthy
The Lu-Han Railway, according to Wuchang native reports, is in a very critical stage, there being insufficient funds available to proceed with the construction of the middle section of the Railway to connect with the two ends in process of building from Peking and Hankow, and the failure of the funds leading to the enforced-Coreans. idleness and consequent resignation, in some in- stances, of the European engineers engaged in
all speed, to see what he can do.
An Extraordinary Government Gazette, issued in the Federated Malay States, dis- poses of the rumour that Siam had ceded certain Malay States to Great Britain. All that has happened is that an agreement has been made between the two countries regarding a rectification of boundary between Perak and Pahang, on the one hand, and the Siamese province of Raman and the Siamese depen- the other. By this agreement Perak gets a dencies of Kedah, Kelantan, and Tringganu on
little more territory than before.
A correspondent who has just visited Hunan the work. H.E. Sheng has gone to Hankow with province writes to the N.-C. Daily News very enthusiastically. He says the alteration in Siangtan, for instance, is something wonderful, and none except those who saw the Siangtan of old can have any idea of the greatness of the change. "But it is only an illustration of what is going on all over Hunan," he says. "The whole province is ripe for innovations and im- provements of every kind."
And in Changsha he was much struck with the fine buildings. Many of the shops are large and well stocked. and all the streets, whether wide or narrow, are Some of the streets, are comparatively wide, remarkably clean, and well paved with large slabs of granite. "The population of Changsha," he continues, is supposed to be more than half a million. If I may judge from what I saw of the city, I should say that this estimate is rather below than above the mark. The population of Changsha is larger than that of Siangtan; but Siangtan occupies the first place commercially. I was delighted with what I saw of both the city and the people of Changsha."
A list of casualties to British officers has just been issued in Burma, which shows that in over twenty years only two Civil Police Officers have lived to receive pensions. Of these one died within seven months of the receipt of pension and the other remains the solitary survivor. Between 1886 and 1898, twelve-years, of officers of and above the ranks of Inspector, 47 died of disease or accident, 11 were killed in engagements with Nagasaki papers announce that Sir Henry dacoits or died of wounds, 16 were wounded in Blake, Governor of Hongkong, is expected such engagements, and one was drowned.
Gov. to arrive there very shortly from Northernment pensions are calculated on the theory China, preparatory to spending the next that everybody will survive to pension age. On the facts the Burma Government might offer pensions equivalent to several times the ordinary pay.
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H.M.S. Pique is now expected to wait at Singapore until the arrival of the torpedo boats Janus and Otter, which she will convoy to Hongkong. These two boats arrived at Port Said on the 9th ult.
The King of Siam has conferred the 1st class of the order of the Crown of Siam upon Col. Koeler of the Russian Army. The 4th class of the same order has been conferred on Mr. C. Robyns, Asst, Legal Adviser to the Siamese
Government.
It is reported that as a result of the recent tour to England of Mr. Soma, the President of the Yokohama Specie Bank, arrangements have been made between the Japanese and a certain capitalist in London, for a Japanese loan to be raised in England.
On the 5th inst. H.M.S. Rosario reached Hongkong, where she joins the China Squadron. She is a twin-screw steel sheathed sloop of 980 Claud A. W. Hamilton. She takes the place of tons displacement, in charge of Commander the Rattler. The Rosario was built at Sheer mess in 1898 at a cost of £65,578, and is fitted with Belleville tube boilers, the engines indi- cating 1,400 horse-power with a speed of 182 knots. She was commissioned for service on the China Station on the 20th March last at Sheerness, and after taking in stores put to sea on the 31st of that month and had a fine passage out. The Rosario carries two guns, 6 4in. and 4 3-pounder quick-firers, and has a complement of 104 officers and men.
Affairs in the North during the past week have moved with great rapidity. A Tientsin telegram of the 2nd instant announced that the Paoting-fu refugees (who, it afterwards ap- poured, were a party of Belgian engineers en- gaged on the railway) were cutting their way Peiho river to Tientsin, whence a party was through the Boxers and were coming along the
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starting to meet them. Twenty-three of them ultimately arrived at Tientsin after terrible sufferings, and all wounded. It appeared that no missionaries were with them, as was at first
and Norman, of the Church of England Mission announced, but the deaths of Messrs. Robinson at Yunching, were confirmed by a Shanghai telegram of the 5th instant. On Friday the news reached Hongkong that all communication between Tientsin and Peking had ceased on Tuesday, the 5th, and that six hundred Euro- peans had been landed to protect Tientsin with six guns, the Chinese inhabitants being in a great state of terror. The same evening arrived the news from the British Legation at Peking that nearly 1,000 men had been landed by the joint fleet, including 308 British.
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