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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LIII.]
CONTENTS.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 19TH JANUARY, 1901.
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Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles:
China and Her Capital
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The First Stage of Ponce Negotiations
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The Gage Street Murder
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Mysteries in North China.
Malaria Prevention
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The Question of China Reparation
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The Crisis: Telegrams
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Murder of a Reformer in Gage Street
The Turning of the Canton River..
H.M.S. Glory.
The P. & 0.8.8. Banca
The Powan in Collision
The Trouble on Board H.M.S. Barfleur..
Pollard's Jilliputian Company
Harmston's Gircus....
Our Boys at Canton
Important Customs' Caso in Japan Correspondence
The Star Ferry Co., Limited
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Supreme Court
Cricket
Football
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Royal Hongkong Golf Club.
Hongkong Volunteer Corps.
Amoy Races
Cricket at Amoy.
Shanhaikwan
Northern Notes
A Hongkong Case Before the Privy Council, Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
No. 3.
Yesterday being the two-hundredth anniver. sary of the establishment of the Kingdom of Prussia, all the German men-of-war in the Har- bour dressed ship and fired a salute of twenty- one guns at noon in honour of the event.
The railway line between Pehtsang and Lotai, according to the Japanese papers, has been fin ished since it was handed over to the Germans, who pushed on the work. Only a bridge ro- mains to be spanned, and this is expected to be completed by the 15th inst.
It was ramoured in Shanghai on Monday last, according to the N.-C. Daily News, in local mandarin circles that a high official had received news from Hsian that the Empress Dowager is determined not to leave Hsian for Peking until the middle of February next, not at least before the Allios leave Chihli province.
A Hsian despatch, received by members of the Reform Party here, says the N. C. Daily News, states that H.E. Li Hung-chang has suggested to the Court to recall Hsu Shiu- p'ang, Minister to Corea, that he may assist in the peace negotiations now going on in the A Census will be taken of the whole Colony North, and that the suggestion has been fol. on the night of the 20th instant.
220,000. Russian troops are engaged in the Far East, including those protecting the
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H.M. the Emperor of Japan has bestowed 62 the third order of the Rising Sun upon Colonel
Wogack, of the Russian army.
Colonel Buck, the U.S. Minister to Japan, 65 who has obtained leave of absence, was to leave 68 Yokohama by the Siam on the 8th inst.
At Tsingtao, on the 4th January, 190, the wife of Dr. SCHRAMEIKE, of a BON.
On the 5th January, 1901, at 20, Whangpoo Road, Shanghai, the wife of Dr. Paulun, of a daughter.
On the 10th January, 1901, at A 1,339, Broad- way, Shanghai, the wife of RICHARD J. GOULD, late of Kiukiang, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 31st December, 1900, at H.B.M.'s Con- sulate, before H. E. Fulford, Esq., C.M.G., and afterwards at St. Nicholas's Church, Newchwang, - by the Rev. A. B. Turner, M.A., Arthur BULKE- LET IFFLAND VAN Ess, of Messrs. Bush Brothers, to LILLIE, only daughter of Charles FARMEE
On the 15th January, at St. John's Cathedral, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, assisted by the Rev. E. H. Good, Chaplain of H.M.S. Tamar, G. J. F. GEIGER, Esq., Royal Welsh Fusiliers, to MARY, eldest daughter of Commodore and Mrs. POWELL.
At
DEATHS.
Glentawe," Scott's Road, Singapore, D. PARRY DAVIES, Tanjong Pagar Dock Co., aged 38
years.
On the 2nd January, 1901, at Ningre, the be- loved wife of Gustav KultzAU...
On the 5th January, 1901, at 9, Albany Gar- dens, Shanghaf, EoSA LLOYD, C.M.S. West China
Mission
H.E. Yuan Shu-hsuan arrived at Shanghai on the afternoon of the 11th inst. and took over the seal of the Shanghai Taotaiship next day.
A London telegram of the 14th instant stated that "Peking reported the signature of the Agreement between China and the Powers."
His Majesty the Emperor of Corea has been nominated Honorary Knight Grand Comman der of the Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire.
The Japanese section on the Poking and Tientsin railway has been handed over to Field Marshal Waldersee, in accordance with instruc- tions from home.
Mgr. Favier landed on 18th ult. at Marseilles. He will act as intermediary between the Pope and the European Governments in matters re- quiring the considerations of the Holy See.
The courtmartial on H.M.S. Barfleur tor- minated yesterday in one of the accused men being sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, and two to six months' each. The fourth was acquitted on Tuesday last.
lowed.
The U.S. War Department has sanctioned Gen. MacArthur's suggestion for interning the leading Filipino rebels in Guam. A peti- tion, signed by 2,000 non-combatant Filipinos and urging the cessation of hostilities, was shelved last week in the United States Senate, after a Senator had denounced it as treasonable and offensive.
The Russian Budget estimates the expense of putting the troops on the Amur and in Siberia on a war-footing at 62 million roubles. An account of the entire material loss cannot yet be submitted. The estimates for 1901 in- cluded an advance of 82 million roubles to the Manchurian railway companies. The Tsar's proclamation declares his peaceful intentions and the "sublime Christian work" of Russia.
The Emperor, according to a Haian telegram of the 9th inst., has received a despatch from Viceroy Lin Kung-yi of Nanking, urging im- mediate sanction of four matters of national
importance, namely:-1-That the present dividing lines between Chinese and Manchus be levelled down. 2. Schools of Learning for all Manchus and Chinese to be built through the Empire. 3.-Such schools to be free to all. 4.Manchus to be allowed to trade and learn business like Chinese.
Vice-Admiral Pottier has made the following disposition of the French fleet in Chinese waters. The fleet has been divided into three groups: (1) in the Gulf of Pechili, composed of the cruisers Guichen, Pascal and Friant, the boats Vipère, Décidée, and Alouette, the torpedo- boat destroyer Ta-kou, and the despatch
gun-
The proposal of the United States to | Bengale. Of these one will be statizer esse
transfer the peace negotiations from Peking to the States has been rejected by the othor Powers, and Japan is reported to object to the transference to any foreign capital.
On the 5th January, 1901, at 33, Seward Road, Shanghai, Huen McCALMONT, youngest son of
A Wuchang despatch received in Shanghai Chas. E. and Lily W. MOLLAND, aged three years. last week says that the Emperor Kwang Hsu
On the 8th January, 1901, at 18, Broadway, Shanghai, JOHN SHAZRIDGE KNOWLES, late Secre- has several times of late telegraphed to the tary of 8. C. Farnham, Ld., aged 63 years.
Viceroy from Haian asking questions concern On the 8th January, 1901, at the General Hosing the whereabouts of a number of Reformers: pital, Shanghai, ELEANOR HARBE, wife of A. of 1893. The replies of the Viceroy have not Stewart ANNARD, of Tientsin.
yet been made known.
at Chefoo,
oo, and the rest Nagasaki, one or more at Taku as base. (2) at Shanghai, composed of the cruisers Admiral Charner, Chasseloup Late- bat, and Jean Bart, and the gunboats Surprise and Lion. These will watch the Yangteze, the neighbouring islands, and the coast down to Foochow (8) from Foochow to the Tonkin frontier. The cruiser Descartes, and the gun- boats Styz, Avalanche, Argus and Vigilante, The D'Entrecarteaux and the transports are not included in this scheme. The former has gone to Japan to give the crow a rest.
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