THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LII.]
Epitome of the Week, &c.
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 29TH SEPTEMBER, 1900.
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Nows has been received in Shanghai of the murder of eleven Belgian missionaries in Mon- golia by bandits.
Mr. R. J. Wilkinson leaves Penang for Singapore to take up the duties of second assis- tant Colonial Secretary.
Mr. Kinder, who is in chargo of the North China Railway, estimates that it will require £700,000 to repair the line frem Peking to Tientsin.
General Barry of the U.S. army is lying 245 seriously ill at St. Bernard's Hospital, Nagasaki. He arrived from Taku a short time ago on an U.S. transport.
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Leading Articles :---
The Emperor's Restoration: A Preliminary
to Peace.
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Looting and its Concomitants
238
The First Entry into Peking
The China Association
239
The P. W. D. and Dangerous Buildings
239
The Royal Naval Canteen
The Crisis: Telegrams.
Supreme Court .....
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
Hongkong Branch of the China Association
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The Story of Peking..
The Crisis in China
The Naval Yard Extension
Collapse of a Building in Hollywood Road.
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The Volunteers' Concert...
Trial Trip of the 8.8. Stanley
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Canton
Macao
253
Correspondence
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Hongkong Cotton Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing
Company, Limited
253
The Douglas Steamship Company, Limited
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The Union Insurance Society of Canton, Limited
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V.B.C. Aquatic Sports.
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Hongkong Volunteer Corps
The Hongkong Rifle Association
Shanghai Race Club
Hongkong Polo Club
Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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The final list of the Indian Famine Relief Fund in the Straits and Malaya shows a total collection amounting to about $73,064. The Singapore subscriptions reached $58,119. Re- mitted to India, the total amount represented 108,582 Rupees.
Considerable progress has been made in the construction of the Takao-Tainan Railway in Formosa, and it is expected that the line will 255 255 be completed by the middle of next month. 255 The opening ceremony will take place on No- vember 3rd, the birthday of the Emperor of 256 Japan.
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On the 15th September, 1900, at 6, Makalce Terrace, Shanghai, the wife of FREDERICK DUM- FRIES, of a son.
On the 15th September, 1900, at 54, Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, the wife of R. E. Toze, of
a son.
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Mr. Byron Brenan, C.M.G., H.M. Consul- General, is expected in Shanghai about the 2nd proximo. Mr. Pelham Warren, who has been replacing Mr. Brenan during the latter's absence on leave, will remain at Shanghai for the pre- sent, says the N-C. Daily News, this not being a convenient moment for "swapping horses." called the Hwal-pin-tang, a body who aim at News is reported from Coron of a society fleecing the wealthy for the benefit of the poor, prove a source of nuisance to the authorities, This society, says the Nagasaki Press, must who, contrary to the usual leniency shown to evil doers, have taken vigorous steps to suppress it. No doubt the Boxer rising in China and the drastic measures taken by the Powers against them have produced on the Corean rulers a vivid sense of the importance of checking the unpleasant propaganda. It is reported that some of the ringleaders have been arrested, but it is not stated whether their dangerous career will be brought to an end. Another item of dis quieting news is that Han Kin-sul, ex-Minister of State, and a few others have been arrested on suspicion of holding communication with poli- tical exiles in Japan.
On the 20th August last the American Association of China sent to Mr. Conger, the The American authorities have commenced U. S. Miuister at Peking, a telegram of hearty the construction of a dry dock system in the congratulations on the relief of Peking, ox- Philippines at Subig Bay, near Manila. Ex-pressing also their admiration for the gallant cavations have already been made for four docks, the largest being 600 feet long and 80 feet wide; the smaller docks are about 250 feet long and 30 feet wide.
On the 16th September, at Singapore, the wife Commodore F. Powell, who has been given successful deliverance; for all of which we are
of B. MOBIER, of a daughter.
At 5, Museum Road, Shanghai, on the 17th September, 1900, the wife of ALFRED HILL, of a daughter.
On the 20th September, at "Merion," the Peak, the wife of A. W. WHITLOW, of a daughter.
At 39, Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, on the 22nd September, 1900, the wife of CHARLES
WEDEMEYER, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
At the English Church, Nagasaki, on Monday, the 17th September) 1900, ELLWOOD GARFIELD BABBITT, youngest son of Dr. Henry S. BABBITT, of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, to ANNIE, eldest daughter of Captain Robert Neill WALKER, of Nagasaki, Japan.
DEATHS.
On the 13th September, at 48-7, Waterloo Street, Singapore, DAVID DOMINIC, son of Mr. J. and Mrs, ALLAN, aged 16 years.
On the 15th September, 1900, at 32, North Sco-
chow Read, Shanghai, EITH MARJORIE, aged eight months, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. E. F. GEDYE, of Wuchang.
On the 16th September, at 1 a.m., at her resi- dence, 82, Institution Hill, Singapore, SUBANNAH, wife of Archibald CAMPBELL.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS. The American mail of the 29th August arrived, per T. K. K. steamer Hongkong Maru, on the 26th Sept. (28 days); and the English mail of the 31st August arrived, per P. & O. steamer Malta, on the 27th Sept. (28 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The news of the week about the Chinese crisis will be found in the telegrams from our corres- pondents on p. 240.
The Naval and Military Record says:-
the good service pension vacant by the promo- tion of Capt. Craigie to flag raak, is in com- mand of the naval establishment at Hongkong, and is recognised throughout the service as an officer of great merit.
defence of the garrison and the bravery of the relievers. Mr. Conger has sent the following reply, dated Peking, 1st September:-Dear Friends. It is comforting to know that during our terrible siege, our friends were thinking of us, and that everything was being done for our profoundly grateful. Your hearty telegraphic congratulations gave us all great pleasure. Your message has been given general circula- tion and all bid me thank you every one most sincerely. We have had a hard time, but are The report of the Straits Survey Department all right now, and ready for the reconstruction Singapore exceeded the departmental outlay by half a century is not to go for naught. Em- for last year shows that the fees received in and reformation that must come, if the work of over $62,000. The report strongly urges a re-phasising my personal appreciation of your kind survey of Singapore island, owing to the interest and cordial congratulation, I am, yours inaccuracy of the old surveys. It is also very sincerely, E. H. Conger pointed out that the Government does not possess a topographical map of the island of Singapore.
According to the N.-C. Daily News, writes a correspondent long resident in China, Sir Ernest Satow, the Minister at Tokyo, is The death-blow has been given at Wachow
to change places with Sir Claude MacDonald water concession being carried out. The official on the West River to any chance of the Inland
and go to Peking. "It would be difficult to make a worse selection. Sir Ernest Satow, though per. who was to have initiated the preliminary measonally popular, has never made any mark in sures was removed many months ago by the Governor of Kwangsi, at the instance of the lekin officials; and we now learn that the office which had been provided for his occupation has been sold, to be used either as an eating house or gambling-shop, or possibly as a combination
of the two!
It will be remembered that the Japanese Government, at the outset of the Chinese trouble, made a disbursement of fifty million yen for the purposes of the China Expedition. It is stated that owing to the improvement of the transport system and a large quantity of spoils in the shape of rice and cereals, consider- able saving had been effected. Roughly speak ing, the expenditure has so far amounted to some eleven million yen, the whole of which however, has not yet been paid. There are several millions of yen in silver captured at Tientsin and Peking to set against this.
Japan, and as a Minister has not gained the respect of the British residents. His only re- commendation for the post is, in fact, that he has always been ready to coincide with the Mikado's Government. It may be advisable to remove from Peking the other; but Sir Claude has always been handicapped by the British Foreign Office, who have ignored his warnings and ad- vice, and undermined any influence he could have brought to bear on the Taungli Yamen. Ho certainly deserved better treatment than to be sent to a nominally lower, though certainly more agreeable, post." Another re- port comes from London to the effect that
Mr. Byron Brouan, C.M.G., is coming out as Minister to China to relieve Sir Clande MacDonald, whose term of office soon expires.” This report, of course, is incompatible with the other story, but some are inclined to give credence to it.
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