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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles-
The Crisis in North China
A Creditable Display of Mobilisation
Yangtze Affairs
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 4TH AUGUST, 1900.
press of China, on the 31st July (22 days); and the English mail of the 6th July arrived, per 81 P. & O. steamer Chulan, on the 2nd August (28
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The Death of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 83 Li Hung-chang's. Mission
An Appeal for our Defenders in China.
Interview with Count Okuma on the Chinese
Question
The Crisis: Telegrams
Supreme Court
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Crisis in China.
Sailors and Soldiers' Chins Relief Fund
Requiem Mass for the Late King of Italy
Our New Q.C.'s
The New Volunteer Headquarters
A Hongkong Chinaman and the Borers Hongkong Schools in 1899
Canton
Swatow
Manila
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The news of the week from the North will be found in the telegrams from our Correspon- 84 dents on p. 85.
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Bishop Scott has returned to Tientsin from
Weihaiwei.
A tri-monthly steamship service has been established between Port Arthur and Chemulpo. General Frey and staff, of the French Army, 92 with 153 men, arrived at Nagasaki on the 20th
ult. and left for Taku on the 21st ult.
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A gentleman who has recently visited Port Arthur told the N.-C. Daily News that the Russians' principal objects at present were the subduing of Manchuria, and the guarding of her interests in Corea. For this reason she cannot spare more troops for Tientsin or Pe- 96 king.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. The Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co. 95 Consular Reports
The Hongkong Volunteer Corps
The Philippine Commission..
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS,
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On the 17th July, at Mateu, Weihaiwei, the wife of C. F. Hoca, of a son,
At "Dunara," Chefoo, on the 20th July, the wife of W. GARDNER, of a son.
At 83, Institution Hill, Singapore, on 22nd ult., the wife of JOHN WATT, of a daughter.
At Ka Lee, 17, Nanking Road, Shanghai, on the 26th ult., the wife of EDWARD J. F. BLOUNT, F.F.A., A.L.A., F.S.S., of a son.
At 4, Kimberley Villas, Kowloon, on the 29th July, the wife of Mr. W. C. JACK, of a son.
At Hongkong, on the 1st August, the wife of ARTHUR SUGDEN, I. M. Customs, of a daughter.
At Kowloon Dock, on the 2nd August, the wife of A. G. EWING, of a son.
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MARRIAGE.
At St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, on July 21st, by the Ven. Archdeacon Perham, assisted by Rev. G. Knight Clarke, ARTHUR T. D. BER- RINGTON, Acting Legal Adviser, Federated Malay States, to BEATRICE, daughter of Rev. James RATHBORNE, Rector of West Tytherley, Hants.
DEATHS.
On the 15th July, at Chefoo, MARIE MAGDALENE, infant daughter of Francisca and Georg Diss- MEYEE, I. M. Customs, aged 10 months. Deeply regretted.
On the 23rd July, at 1 a.m., at his residence, No. 10, The Bund, Shanghai, DAVID BRAND, aged
55 years.
On the 23rd July, at his residence, 14, Tien- dong Road, Shanghai, CHAS. LUDWIG BEETFELD, late pilot of the steamer Kiang-foo, aged 62 years. At Shanghai, 23rd July, at 1 a.m., DAVID BRAND, aged 55 years.
At the San Juan de Dios Hospital, Manila, July 25th, Mrs. Jon MACNEILL, daughter of Richard Bair, C. E., Dundee, Scotland, and wife of JOHN MACNEILL, missionary to seamen, Manila, repre- senting the American Seamen's Friend Society.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 30th June arrived, per 0. & O. steamer Doric, on the 28th July (29 days); the French mail of the 29th June arrived, per M. M. steamer Ernest Simons, on the 29th July (30 days); the Canadian mail of the 9th July arrived, per C. P. R, steamer Em-
For conspicuous bravery at the capture of the Taku forts, the Tsar has conferred the Fourth
Class of the Order of St. George on Captain Dobrowolski, commander of the Russian gun- boat Bobr, who commanded the combined squadron, on Captain Sillman, commanding the gunboat Korietz, and on Lieutenants Szaryts- cheff, Dedeneff, and Titoff.
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Mr. W. W. Rockhill has been appointed by President McKinley Special Commissioner and Chargé d'Affaires in China for the United States.
H. M. S. Highflyer, which is reported on her way out to the China station, is a 2nd class cruiser of 5,600 tons displacement and 10,000 ih.p. (Belleville boilers). Built at Glasgow in deck armour from 1 to 3 in. Her guns are 1898, she has gun-position armour of 3 in. and
eleven 6 in. Q,F. and fifteen smaller Q.F.'s. Her speed is 20 knots and her complement 477. She is a sister-ship of the Hermes and Hyaci ith.........
The N.-C. Daily News says:-There has been some little friction lately between the hina Association at home and the Shanghai branch of that once valuable body. The Shanghai branch has been urging steps which the some- what comatose home committee has regarded as being indecently vigorous. At last the home committee has succumbed to the insistency of Shanghai, and has carried out Shanghai's re- quest, but at a serious cost, for Mr. R. S. Gun- dry, the honourary secretary of the association since its formation, has resigned, this arduous post.
We publish elsewhere an interesting interview which Mr. Francis McCullagh, a Tokyo journa- list, has had with Count Okuma. The Count one e of those it will be remembered, was who took part in the Japanese revolution of 1868, and through it rose
to office. In 1873 he was appointed Minister of Fin- ance, and held that post till 1881, when, The transports which arrived in Hongkong through a disagreement with the Premier, Harbour from India during the week were Marquis Ito, he resigned. In 1888 he became, Lalanda and Pentakotu (30th nltimo), Urlana but his efforts to push forward the revision Duke of Portland, Sirha, Virawa (29th altimo), Minister for Foreign Affairs for a short time, and Nowshera (31st ultimo), Canning and the treaties with foreign nations made him un- Natiana (1st instant). The departures for the north were Sirha (29th ultimo), Islanda (30th), popular, and he had to resign. After his first resignation in 1881 he organised the Progres- Pentakota, Virawa, Duke of Portland, and sive party known as the Kaishinto, and their Urlana (31st), Nowshera (lat instant), and
power has steadily grown till, in 1896, it Natiana (2nd instant). H.M.S. Marathon carried him into office as Foreign Minister. arrived on the 29th ultimo, H.M.S. Wallaroo | The (ount has always advocated party gove on the 30th. H.M.S. Mohawk sailed for Canton, ment for Japan, and in 1898, after the H.M.S. Wallaroo and H.M.S. Marathon for the Marquis Ito's Ministry, he organised the Shanghai on the 31st ultimo.
first Government ever appointed in Japan on a party basis, though he did not long remain in office.
The new Commander-in-Chief of the French troops in Indo-China, in succession to the late General Borgnis-Desbordes, is General Dodds. General Dodds was nominated to this post as early as January, 1896 - his service in Dahomey having won him a reputation and arrived soon after in Tonkin. To the general surprise, on the 23rd July he was superseded by General Bichot. There was a great outory friend of M. Rousseau, Governor of Tonkin, about the affair, Gen, Bichot being a personal However, General Dodds has at last attained the post which was not unnaturally the cause of so much bitterness to him before.
The transport Jelunga, which is due here on Monday week, when she left Portsmonth on June 30th took the following officers, in addition to 430 seamen, 124 Royal Marine Artillery, and 216 Royal Marine Light Infantry ----Com- mander J. B. Eustace, Lieuts. J. B. Mansell, A. H. Betty, T. B. Noble, and H. M. Wilson ical staff; Surgeons J. Miller, R. Mandy, and Staff-Surgeon W. E. Holme, in charge of med A. Gaskell; Sub-Lients. W. E. Middleton, ♪! P. Ligard, F. C. Harvey, Assistant-Paymaster R. Burridge, Mesars. H. W Lawrence, The Straits Government intends to amend Knight, F. Harrison, and T. Slings, Mr. the Chinese Immigrants' Ordinance of 1880. pert, carpenter; Mr. Cox, boatswain; This arose from the fact that doubts have been Shettle, assistant clerk; Royal Marine Artillery sometimes felt and expressed as to what places-Major F. Kappey, Capt. H. Worthington are included in the expression "China" in the and Lieut. J. B. A. Leahy, Royal Marine Light Chinese Immigrants' Ordinance. It is obvious Infantry-Capts. C. M. Parsons and H. D. E that, for the purposes of Chinese immigration, O'Sullivan, Lients. J. Hazel, H. S. L. Rich the word should be considered rather as a geo- mond, and C. Rooney, all for service graphical than as a political expression. This Naval Brigades. - The Jelunga also Bill has been drafted in order to settle the large consignment of medical and field meaning of the word. It is so defined as to in- and ammunition, six 12-pounder field elude Hongkong and other places such as two Marima, The 12-pr. guns are int Formosa which, though essentially Chinese, take the place of those that have been have ceased to form part of the Chinese Empire. Capt. Percy Scott, C.B.
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