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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LII.
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the leek, &c.
Leading Article
Affairs in North China
The Situation in Peking
Tariff Revision
Wireless Tilegraphy as Applicable to China
The Proposed New Rifle Corps
The Crisis in China
Supreme Court
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Crisis in Ging
The Disaster ingas Vœur Road
Sad Accident ine Harbour
Serious Landaliy
The Population Shanghai
Macao
Canton
Swatow
Manila
Correspondence
Victoria Recreation Club..
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
The Trade of Baigękok for 1899.
Aguinaldo's New Proclamation
American Lossed in the Philippine War Hongkong and Fort News
Commercial
Shipping
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 7TH JULY, 1900.
M. Doumer, the Governor-General of French Indo-China, is expected to leave Saigon for France by mail on the 28th September.
The Telegraph Companies on the 5th inst. 2 reported that on account of the irregularity 2 and increasing uncertainty of the Chinese telegraphic service between Chefoo and Shang 3 hai, all messages are being duplicated by steamer
between the two ports.
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5 A Seoul telegram says that the King of 10 Corea has decided to remove his capital to a place in the Phyeng-an province, in view of the 13 present situation in North China.
The telegram also adds that another battalion of 14 Corean troops will be dispatched north for the 14 defence of the Corean frontier.
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The troubles in Chins seem to have affected 15 Formosa. News is published about a junk 15 smuggling a large quantity of arms and
ammunition to a place on the coast in the neigh bourhood of Takow, and about symptoms of renewed disturbance in the neighbourhood of 16 Kagi. The Authorities are said to be acting 16 vigorously.
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The U. S. flagship Brooklyn, which reached Hongkong from Manila on the 28th ult. with Admiral Remey and some 340 men, left for the At Nagasaki, on the 22nd June, the wife of G. north on the 30th ult. and on the same day the E. MOSLEY (of Singapore), of a daughter.
BIRTH.
DEATHS.
On Saturday, 23rd ult., at Kobe, WILHELM SCHMIDT, aged 46, a native of Hamburg.
At Ventnor, Isle of Wight, VIRGINIA, widow of the late Jos pH FROST EDGER, formerly member of the Legulative Council of Hongkong; and dearly beloved mother of Mrs. BURGE, of Shang At the Government Civil Hospital, Hongkong, on the 4th July, Mrs. MARGARet Nolan, of Wex- ford, Ireland, aged 60 years.
hai. By telegraph.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
U. S. 8. Princeton arrived from Manila. She left for Canton on the 1st inst. at 7 a.m. for the purpose of seeing how things are there.
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The Butch cruiser Holland, which arrived on the inst., was in Hongkong harbour built at Amsterdam in 1896 at a cost of £285,700. Her displacement is 8,900 tons, her draught 17 ft. 8 in., and her deck armour 2 in. thick. Her armament consists · of two 5-9 quick-firers, six 47 guns, four 2-9, eight 14, four muzzle-loaders; and she has four torpedo-tubes. Her speed was 196 knots on her trial trip.
From a classified list of the Japanese Navy. published in the Japanese native press, it seems that Japan has at present 135 vessels, including 6 first-class and 2 second-class battleships; 6 first- class, 9 second-class, and 5 third-class cruisers; 2 first-class and 13 second-class gunboats; 4 despatch boats and 10 coast defence ships; 1 torpedo tender and 12 torpedo-boat destroyers and catchers; as well as 7 first-class, 31 second- class, and 27 third-class torpedo-boats. These figures, however, include the battleships and cruisers now being built in Europe and also a despatch boat is under construction at Yokosuka.
The Pinang Gazette points out the great ordered from India to China. The 1st Bengal mixture of race and religion in the regiments
Lancers or Skinner's Horse consists of 4 squad- rons (Hindustani Muhammadans); the 1st Madras Infantry or the Pioneers, of 1 co. (Muhammadans) 2 cos. (Tamils) 1 co. (Telegus), and 4 cos. (Mixed); the 22nd Bombay Infantry, of 2 cos. (Jugars), 2 eos. (Mers), 2 cos. (Raj- A new crew has been detailed at Devonport puts), and 2 cos. (Hindustani Muhammadans); to recommission Her Majesty's gunboat Esk the 24th Bengal Infantry, of 4 cos. (Sikhs), 1 co. on the China Station. The Eek has already (Dogras), 1 co. (Punjabi Muhammadans), and been twenty years in China, and her machinery 2 cos. (Pathans); the 1st Sikh Infantry, of 4 ccs. is reported to be in fairly good condition. Her (Sikhs), 1 co. (Dogras), 2 cos. (Pathans), and 1 00. hall, however, is much worn, and in need of ex-(Punjabi Muhammadans); and the 7th Bengal tensive repairs, and this is to be done by private Infantry, of 8 cos. (Rajputs). From this, it contract at Shanghai. The new crew for the will be seen, that the 1st Bengal Lancers and the Bak took passage to China in the cruiser 7th Bengal Infantry are the only two regiments Argonaut.
which are solid in race and religion; but that, where the regiments are, as regiments, mixed, the companies are solid, except in the case of the 1st Madras Infantry, which possesses four mixed companies.
The telegraph line across the Malay Penin- sula, from Singora to Kedah, has now been completed and opened, so that it has only to be joined on with Province Wellesley and Penang to give the public a new and direct line of com- munication between Bangkok and Singapore. It is understood that Mr. Collmann, the Adviser to the Siamese Post and Telegraph Department,
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The French mail of the 1st June arrived, per M. M. stesmer Tonkin, on the 2nd July (31 days); the American mail of the 6th June arrived, per O. & O. steamer Gaelic, on the 4th July (28 days); and the English mail of the 8th June arrived, per P. & O. steamer Malta, on the is shortly going on a tour of inspection over the flashing, of the Third Order, showing one
6th July (28 diys).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The hs of the week from the North will be fount in the telegrams from our correspondents on p. 5.
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His Excellency the Governor, Sir Henry Blake, And party arrived in Hongkong on the 30th ult. by the M. M. steamer Laos.
H.MIS. Plove Lt. Comdr. Cowper, arrived in Hongkong harbour on the 4th inst. from she left on the 28th ult. She for immediate service. nese officials of Shanghai on the through the Provincial Trea to H.B.M.'s Consul General a sum among to 350,000 in all, contributed by them to
de Indian Famine Fund. The Treasurer at Joochow contributed. Tla. 5,000 to the same Fad.
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The local Chị 30th ult, remitt surer of Nanked
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Baron von Ketteler, the German Minister, who is reported murdered by the Chinese troops on the 13th ult., came out to China in 1880 and became a student interpreter in 1881. After wards he was interpreter at Canton and in 1883 he distinguished himself, in company with certain other residents, mainly German, in the putting down of the riot in Shameen which broke out on the 10th September gwing to the killing of a Chinaman by an European. In 1884 he was made Secretary of the Legation at Peking. There he remained until 1891, after which he was appointed German Minister to Mexico. He married a rich American lady, and in 1899 returned to Peking as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. He was a good Chinese conversationalist and spoke the Peking dialect very fluently. It appears from the Ostasiatische Lloyd of the 1st inst. that he was attacked and wounded on the 18th June on his way to the Tsungli Yamên. He died at the Tsungli Yamên. Interpreter Cordes was also wounded, but reached one of the Legations.
Notice is given by Mr. A. M. Bisbee, Coast Inspector at Shanghai, that the character of Gutzlaff Light has been changed. The new illuminating apparatus is Dioptrio, Lightning-
white flash every 5 seconds. The new Light- house stands on the eastern end of the summit of the island, 144 feet N. 774 deg. E., magnetic, from the site of the old Light; and the Light, which is elevated 283 feet above the level of the sea, should be visible in clear weather at a dis- tance of 23.7 nautical miles. The tower is a steel structure, 25 feet high, with a total height vane of 464: from the base to the lantern feet. The tower is painted white. Ap- proximate position:- Latitude, 30 deg. 48 feet 37.2 inches N., Longitude, 122 deg. 10 feet 13.2 inches E.-Under the heading of "Swatow District" Mr. A. M. Bisbee further gives notice that Captain D. Mackensie, of the steamer Kweilin, reports that his ship struck bottom at 4.56 a.m. on the 4th instant with East Point, Namos Island, bearing north true, and Three Chimney Bluff Point bearing 8. 70 deg. W. true, the Kweilin drawing at. the time, at the point of contact (the bilge keel), about. 14 feet. In the above position British Admiralty Chart No. 1,957, small. corrections to January 1893, shows 14 fathions
of water.
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