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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 22ND DECEMBER, 1900.
VOL. LII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Weck, &c. ......
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Leading Articles :-
Pacification
and Peace Negotiations in the
North
The Policy of Persistence in China The Chinese and Respect for Antiquity
100 450 490
The French in Swatow Neighbourhood
.491
The Progress of the Concert
.491
492
.492
492
The Nightmare of Imperialism
The Crisis: Telegrams
Hongkong Legislative Council
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Crisis in China
.494 .496 .497
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 20th November 493 arrived, per P. M. steamer China, on the 20th
December (30 days).
498
The Navy League
Tactical Exercises in the New Territory
Murderous Assault at Shatin
Occasional Notes
.498
Count von Waldersee and the Chinese Representa-
tives
499
The Japanese Navy.
499
Canton
499
Manila
Foochow
500
Chungking
500
Correspondence
Fund in Aid of Sufferers from the Typhoon Seamen's Church Mission and Fund
501
The Italian Convent
502 502
A. S. Watson & Co., Limited
502
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
No. 25
The steamer Thales, which arrived on the 19th inst., reported H.M.8. Mohawk and the French cruiser Descartes at Foochow, H.M.88. Argonant and Isis and two Japanese men-of-war at Amoy, and the German cruiser Bussard at Swatow.
Tientsin is now under a provisional govern- ment composed of various nationalities with Mr. Tenney, late of the Tientsin University, installed as secretary. The head-quarters of this Government is now inhabiting what was Li Hung-chang's yamen.
Owing to the steadily increasing communica- tion between Formosa and Japan proper, a pro- posal will be submitted to the Japanese Imperial Diet at the forthcoming session in favour of laying another cable between Keelung and Nagasaki, in addition to the existing cable be- tween Keelung and Ohama in Osumi Province; The expense involved in carrying out the new
Sir Frank Swettenham is expected back in undertaking is estimated at 1,600,000 yen. 500 Malaya about the first week in February.
Hongkong High-Level Tramways Co., Limited ...504 Supreme Court
Cricket
Football
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Boxing Tournament
Hockey
Hongkong Volunteer Corps....
Present Needs in the Philippines
Wife Murder at Manila.. Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
504 506
The N.-C. Daily News is informed that a lieutenant and twenty French marines are pro- ceeding to Chungking to protect French` in- terests at that port,
Sheng, formerly Taotai at Shanghai, and 506 the Governor of Chekiang, have been appointed 505 by an Imperial Decree to settle questions con- 506 nected with the Chuchou massacre.
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A Reuter's telegram of the 18th inst. says 507 that Mr. Hay has cabled fresh instructions to Minister Conger removing certain obstacles, making it probable that all the Ministers will 512 sign the Note.
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At No. 2, Caine Road, on the 15th December,
the wife of T. DE FABIA-NEVES, of a son.
At Kowloon Dock, on the 19th December, the
wife of D. T. Baldwin, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
M. G. de Champeaux, agent at Hongkong for the Messageries Maritimes Company, in- formed us that according to a telegram received on the 16th inst. from Singapore the French mail Salazie would have to stop at Saigon on account of an injury in her shaft, which will be repaired there. Mails were to be transhipped at Singapore on board the P. & O. 8.5. Chusan, Passengers and cargo were to be transhipped at Saigon on board the M. M. 8.8. Tamiss.
In the P. & T. Times of the 1st inst. Lieut" General von Lessel, commanding the German expeditionary forces in China, emphatically denies the charge of unnecessary brutality brought against the German troops at Tientsin. A Tokyo telegram of the 6th inst. states that On the 8th December, at St. Andrew's Cathe-Lieut-General Kodama, Governor-General of dral, Singapore, by the Ven'ble Archdeacon Per-Formoss, has been recalled to Tokyo. It is being, or something must have happened that hain, FLORENCE MARY BARTLETT, daughter of the lieved that Baron Kodama will be appointed Inte John Edward BARTLETT of Peverel Court, to succeed General Katsura as Minister of Aylesbury, Bucks., to ALFRED JAMES FRASER, 800
Army. of J. C. FRASER, formerly of Yokohama and Liver- pool.
The difficulty over the credentials of Prince On the 10th December, 1902, at Holy Trinity | Ching and Li Hung-chang was settled by an Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, Imperial Decree, intelligence of which was re- M.A., assisted by the Rev. A. B. Price, of H.M.S.ceived on the 14th inst, authorising the Chinese Aurora, and the Rev. E. F. H. Smith, of H.M.S. Centurion, ANNIE NICOLL, youngest daughter of the late Alexander NICOLL, of London and New York, to Lieut. Walter J. Matthews, R.N., son of the late Edward Matthews, London.
At the Peak Church, on Thursday, the 13th December, 1900, by the Rev. F. T. Johnson, M.A., ROBERT PATE DIPPLE, of Shanghai, to LOUISA JENEVERA ELLIOTT, only daughter of W. J. H. ELLIOTT, of Woodlands, Hampshire.
At St. John's Cathedral, on the 15th De- cember, by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Victoria, assisted by the Rev. F. T. Johnson, M.A., LOUISE, eldest daughter of J. D. BUCKLAND, and grand-daughter of the late Stephen BUCKLAND, to FRANK HIRST HEBBLE THWAITE, youngest son of the late Joseph Hirst Hobble THWAITE, of Merford, Yorkshire.
DEATHS.
At the General Hospital, Singapore, on the 6th December, at 6 p.m., LINDSAY DTKOOK (late E. P. C. 22), aged 31 years, after a brief illness.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 11th December, 1900, Matte Juliva CantERWALL, aged 60 years,
plenipotentiaries to place the Imperial seal on their credentials. Previously to this certain of the Ministers refused to recognise the status of Prince Ching and Li Hung-chang.
In the Japanese Budget. for 1900-1901 the stimate of revenue amounts to 236,716,170 yen. while the expenditures aggregate 233,936,699 yen, showing a balance of 2,779,470. Addi tional estima es are provided for in a special budget, the revenue boing 15,181,734 yen, and the expenditure 16,956,450 yen- deficit of 1,774,716 yen. The total balance, therefore, is 1,004,753 yen.
In a Government Gazette Extraordinary on the 18th inst, it was notified that Monday, the 24th December, will be observed as a Public Holiday, in addition to the three prescribed Public Holi days, Christmas Day, the 26th December, and will also be observed as a holiday by the Go- the 1st January. Wednesday, the 2nd January,
circulated by the banks that they will close for vernment Departments. A notice has also been public business on Monday, Tuesday, and Wod- nesday next, the 24th, 25th, and 26th instant.
There must have been some misunderstand-
has not as yet reached us, to make the Germans attack General Mei, says the N.-C. Daily News of the 15th inst.; perhaps a misconception similar to that which led an English force to attack another Chinese General the other day. General Mei has been one of Yuan. Shi-kai's right-hand men; he has been noted for hin vigour in suppressing Boxes, guarding the it would seem that the German Commander Shantung frontier, and protecting missions, and has been misinformed by his interpreters or guides.
No news beyond hearsay has been received here conarming our Tientsin correspondent's allusion to a supposed reverse experienced by Count York's expedition to Kalgan, says the N.-C. Daily News, and it is strenuously denied, awe mentioned, that the expedition met with, a reverse at all In this connection, the Daily News has been favoured with the follow- ing extract from a privats letter dated Peking, Considerable disaffection seems to exist in the 5th instant:-"The Italian troops political circles in Siam in regard to the agree- yesterday from Kalgan, where they foună ment which has just been concluded between | deal of cold and no enemy. A . Great Britain and that country. By it Britainment of Italian sailors, which was left abrogates the schedule of taxes in fire sections after a village, was attacked by Boxe of the 1856 Agreement, on the condition that were repulsed at the point c the the taxation on the land held by British subjects leaving some of these f in Siam nowhere exceeds similar taxation in | Signor Bichi, was slightly wounde Lower Burma.
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