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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
China
VOL. LII.]
CONTENTS.
AND
Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 8TH SEPTEMBER, 1900.
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500 German troops landed in Shanghai on Thursday, the 6th inst.
It was announced on the 4th inst. that tele- graphic communication with Chefoo had been restored.
Owing to the prevalence of cholera in and 180 about Negapatam, all emigration from Southern 181 India to the Straits has been temporarily 182 stopped.
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Japanese shipowners are said to contemplate the establishment of a regular mail steamship communication with the Caroline and Ladrone Islands, the new German Colonies. Four boats -the Tokai, Fumpo, Chomei, Shippo-will be engaged in the new line.
term may represent) has appointed Li Hung- The Chinese Government (whomever that
that with the Powers. Our Shanghai corres- chang and Yang Lu plenary peacemakers to pondent points out that Yung Lu's appoint- author of the scheme whereby the foreigners were to be exterminated by the "Boxers."
Mr. John Foster, the well-known U.S. jurist, who was special adviser to Li Hung-chang in 184 1895, has been appointed third U.S. Peacement is simply farcical as Yung Lu was the 188 Commissioner to China.
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Epitome of the Week, &c.
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Leading Articles :-
The Proposed Retreat from Peking
178
The New China Blue-Book..
The Missionary Question
The Crisis and the Telegrame
South Africa
The Crisis: Telegrams
Casualties of the North-China Field Force
182
Supreme Court
183
The Entry into Peking
The Crisis in China
The New Royal Naval Canteen.
Canton
Amoy
Swatow
Formosa
Manila
Correspondence
The Hongkong Cotton Spinning, Weaving and
Dyeing Company, Limited
.190
Hongkong Cricket Club
191
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
191
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
188 .188
Brigadier-General Cummins and Staff left Calcutta in the Wardha (second trip) on the 189 29th August, and are now on their way to
Hongkong.
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191
On the 1st inst. four mission compounds at Chian, Kiangsi, were attacked and destroyed. The officials, however, rescued the missionaries and escorted them into safety.
The Telegraph Companies informed us on 191 Thursday morning that a cable has now been laid 194 between Chefoo and Port Arthur and that it 196
was open for service from the 6th inst.
At Wuchow, on the 2nd August, 1900, the wife of P. F. HausSER, H.B.M. Consul, of a son.
On the 17th August, at the Grange, Logan Road, Penang, the wife of F. S. B. GAFFNEY, of a
son.
On the 24th August, at Villa Blizabeth, Singa- pore, the wife of G. FRIEDRICH, of a son.' ;
At West Hongkew, on the 26th August, 1900, the wife of MAJOR JAMES CHAMPION, of a daughter. At 35, North Soochow Road, Shanghai, on the 27th August, 1900, the wife of the Rev. H. BAR TON, C.M.S., of a daughter.
At 5, Shantung Road, Shanghai, on the 27th August, the wife of the Rev. J. D. LIDDELL, of Mongolia, of a son.
At 9, Quinsan Road, Shanghai, on the 29th
August, the wife of C. C. BOJESEN, of a daughter.
DEATHS.
At Kobe, on the 26th August, 1900, JANIE, the wife of SAM WAKEFIELD, aged 38 years.
At Shanghai, on the 29th August, at 4.45 p.m., JOSIE QUINN, wife of JOHN COOPER, aged 36 years. At Shanghai, on Wednesday, the 29th August, CLARA ANNE, wife of E. A. ROBERTS, Chinese Customs Service, aged 37 years.
At Shanghai, on the 29th August, SARAH BOSE ANNE, wife of William Weston CLIFFORD, and only daughter of the late John CLEVERLY, of Lampeter.
On the 30th August, at Shanghai, WILLIAM T., infant son of P. B. PATTISSON, Captain Superin- tendent of Police, aged one month.
At Shanghai, on the 30th August, WILLIAM TARIK, and on the 81st August, BERTHA, the twin son and daughter of Pierre B. PATTISSON, Captain-Superintendent of Police, aged one month.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 3rd August arrived, per T. K. K. steamer America Maru, on the 1st September (29 days); the English mail of the 3rd August arrived, per P. &. O. steamer Clyde, on the 1st September (29 days); the American mail of the 26th July arrived, per 0. & O. steamer Coptic, on the 2nd September (38 days); and the German mail of the 6th August arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Hamburg, on the 4th September (29 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK. The news of the week from the north and about Amoy will be found in the telegrams from our correspondents on p. 182.
It is stated that French capitalists intend to run a line of steamers between Haiphong and Hongkong, with calls at Pakhoi. The French named place. are buying up large tracts of land at the last-
A boat arriving at Shanghai last week from Wallaroo at Kinkiang, Daphne at Wuhu, Her- Yangtze ports reported the Pique at Hankow,
Marathon near Chinkiang. mione at Nanking, Rosario at Chinkiang and
The British transports arriving in Hong. kong on their way north during the week were Dalhousie, Nerbudda, Mombassa (1st), Pundua, India (3rd), Lalpoora (7th.) The departures for the north were Humber, Maine (1st), Mom bassa (4th), India and Dalhousie (7th).
the Japanese steamer Futami Maru on the 1st Lloyds' Agent at Manila visited the wreck of
inst. in the Compania Maritima's as. Churruca, formally abandoned the vessel, and brought staying by her. away the remainder of the crew who had been
effort to discover the whereabouts of the Em- Viceroy Liu Kung-yi has been making every press Dowager, and sent messengers to Shantung, Honan, Shansi, and Moukden, as well as to the capital itself. On Tuesday news arrived that the Emperor and Empress Dowager both arrived at Taiyuanfu, Shansi, on the 30th ult.
The new Siamese telegraph line down the Malay Peninsula, which almost establishes Singapore, has not yet been opened to the direct communication between Bangkok and public on account of differences as to the tariffs for a settlement are being conducted through on the branch line to Penang. Negotiations the British Chargé d'Affaires at Bangkok.
On the 1st inst. the Philippine Civil Commis- of a legislative body at Manila. In political sion entered upon their deliberations in the form status the Commission will be paramount, and the military Governor will act under its author- ity and enforce its enactments. moners are: William H. Taft, Luke E. Wright, The Commis- Dean C. Worcester, Henry C. Ide, and Bernard Moses.
writes-An anti-Japanese association at Amoy A correspondent of the Nagasaki Press appears to be in active opposition to the Japa-
nese.
A notice insisting on the necessity of restoring Formosa to China has been circulated reported that the circular fell into the hands of among the members of the association. It is the British Consul, who made its contents public.
Christian Mission at Yunnan-fu only eleven have Out of twenty-two members of the Bible
something has befallen the remaining eleven, arrived here safely as yet, and it is feared that who left Yunnan for Hongkong within a few hours of the former batch. The various Con- suls en route have been notified, and enquiries side of Yunnan. set on foot among the Chinese authorities this
The announcement at the beginning of the present week that Russia had proposed the with- aroused a general feeling of consternation drawal of the foreign troops from Peking has among residents in China. Shanghai is stated to have been indignant over the matter, and certainly the feeling in Hongkong is not less strong. The reported firm attitude of Ger- many, on the other hand, gives satisfaction. tention to the prohibition of the import or ex- Our Macao correspondent writes calling at- port of firearms, a notice relating to which we have already published. The gunpowder mono- poly in the colony has also been temporarily suspended. The new Krupp guns which were brought to Macao with the Portuguese troops have been mounted at various points in the
U.S. gunloat Castine arrived at Amoy, and city, and a feeling of confidence has been restored.
the Russian cruiser Rurik on the 2nd. The situation there has much improved, and affairs are calming down. The Japanese troops which were ordered from Formosa have been detained at Taipeh and will not proceed to Amoy. The last news to hand indicates that the British and Japanese have both withdrawn.
On the 1st inst. H.M.S. Mohawk and the
On the 2nd inst. several members of the Im- perial Maritime Customs staff who were in the siege of the Legation at Peking arrived in Shanghai. In spite of the long siege they are reported to be well. Among other details of the under the British Legation, which it was in affair they related that a mine was discovered tended to explode on the day after the Relief son arrived in Shanghai in the course of the Column arrived. Other members of the garri.
week.
The Eastern Extension, Australasia and Sherard Osborne arrived at Hongkong on the 5th China Telegraph Co.'s twin-screw! steamer at 8 a.m. from Singapore. She is bound for Woosung and will be engaged in repairing on the 28th December. 1899, to take sound- the cables in the north. She left Singapore ings for the new cable from Freemantle to Mauritius; also to repair the line between at Singapore on the 15th August last, where Sydney and New Zealand. She arrived again she shipped four tanks full of cable, which is as much as she can carry. The vessel was built in 1878 and steams 10 knots. She reels drums at an average rate of six knots an hour, out the cable over a system of rollers and and takes it on board at about 31 or 4 knots. The Sherard Osborne laft again on
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