January 19, 1901.3
Major-General Lorne Campbell has issued a notice in Tientain, prohibiting the presence of any Chinese after 9 p.m. in the streets of the British Concession, except in the case of ricksha coolies actually in carrying foreigners.
The formation of three additional Indian in- fantry regiments has been sanctioned and two more are contemplated. The new regiments will be employed for garrison duty at Mauritius, Singapore, Hongkong and Ceylon, the Imperial Exchequer bearing the cost.
An official despatch has been received by the Japanese Naval Department stating that the Japanese first-class battleship Hatsuse (15,240 tons), which is under construction in England and is almost completed, will leave for Japan towards the end of this month.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
Latest mail advices from New York state that Lieut. Hobson, of Merrimac fame, is still very ill in a private hospital there,
The first vessel to arrive in Rangoon from the new German possession, Kiaochow, reached the Burmese port last month. She was the steamer Athesia, and on reaching Rangoon she loaded rice and rice meal for London to the ex- tent of about 10,000 tons.
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The following appointment has been made at Burgeon Walter H. S. Stal- kartt, M.D., to the Alacrity, to date December 7. The School of Chinese, started under the auspices of the China Association, has been re- moved to more commodious premises in Vernon. Place, London. Already there are some ten students.
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From latest telegrams we find that among those who died of wounds at Vryheid was Lieut. Woodgate, of the 2nd Lancasters." Lieut. Woodgate, who will be remembered here, as well as at Singapore, was a cousin of Gen. Woodgate, mortally wounded on Spion Kop. Lieut. Lippert, of the same regiment, was killed. A number of changes in the British con-
The Time Observatory at the end of the spit EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED sulates at Japan are reported. Mr. Wawn, who connected by a line to the Telegraph Office. In at the mouth of the Singapore River has been
KINGDOM AND CONTINENT.. is at present in the Consulate at Kobe, has been connection with the establishment of a stan-
1900-1 appointed to Nagasaki, where he takes the place dard time throughout the Malay Peninsula of & First Assistant. Mr. Wawn will be succeed- from the 1st inst., signals will thus be able to ed in Kobe by Mr. E. H. Holmes, of, the Yoko-be sent direct to Malacca, Ponang, &c., daily. hama Consulate. Mr. Gordon will be Acting Assistant at Tamsui.
As a sign of the strength of the Russian -reinforcements now coming East it is to be noted that the Volunteer Fleet steamer Fladi. mir arrived at Singapore on the 6th inst. from Odessa en route for Vladivostock with 938 soldiers on board. The Kherson, of the same fleet, arrived on the previous afternoon from Nagasaki for Odessa. "She had 1,480 soldiers
on board.
Quarantine regulations tell very hardly on through Singapore the other day, had made all commerce. The U.S.S. Kilpatrick, which went
arrangements to take 700 tons of coal there, but when some trouble arose out of a plague patient for the wharf, and steamed at once outwards on board the Wing Hon, she declined to make
for Manila.
Hankow and Shanghai ...... Amoy Foochow Canton
1899-00
lbs.
lbs.
573,270 11,244,976
457,700 16,174,605
11,818,246 16,632,365
EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO UNITED STATES AND CANADA.
1900-1 1899-00
16,063,001 12,345,300 .11,308,831
Shanghai Amoy Foochow
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9,851,272
27,372,732 - 21,696,572
Dunmall, arrived at Singapore on the 3rd inst. The telegraph ship Sherard Osborne, Capt. Commander John D. Daintree, of the Am-been on cable work. An unfortunate accident from China and Cape St. James, where she has phitrite, in Chatham Reserve, relieves Com- took place on the vessel on the night of the 28th mander Ernest Gaunt at the Naval Depôt, Liu- alt, the head man in charge of the picking up EXPORT OF TEA FROM CHINA TO ODESSA Kun-Tao, and assumes the newly-created post gear getting by some means caught in the of Queen's Harbour Master at Wei-hai-wei. and being literally cut to pieces. This, says a service contemporary is another "stone-frigate" appointment for the new navi- gat ng officers, and, considering the climate, more desirable than that at Hongkong.
The new Burma rice orop, according to the estimate, will be the largest on record. As it is hoped there will be no famine in India, prices will probably be lower than those of 1900. In Siam the prospects of the present crop are said to be excellent, and Bangkok and Saigon will doubtless supply a good deal of the demand for China and the Straits. Japan now buys Burma rice pretty regularly, finding it more profitable to export her own grain.
Telegraphing to the Times on the 6th ult., Dr. Morrison makes the following remarks on Kang Yu-wei-To-day several of the foreign Ministers received a printed, appeal, dated Singapore, November 14, from Kang Yu-wei, urging the restoration of the Emperor and the arrest of the reactionary officials, and warning them to keep careful watch over the so-called friendly Viceroys of Southern China. Kang Yu- wei, since the publication early this year of his propagands disclosing the greatest ignorance, combined with views almost as antagonistic to foreigners as those of the reactionaries he con demns, has lost all influence here.
Lieut. Braunersreuther, the Captain of the Port at Manila, in his annual report to the Military Governor, gives some interesting figures showing the advance of the port. The tonnage of the entrances, during the fiscal year of 1900, was 800,902.50, as against 396,863.17 in the preceding year, or an increase of 101 per cent.; the coastwise entrances in 1899 were 191,187.88 and in 1900 were 375,045.36, an increase of 96 per cent foreign clearances in 1899 were 366,190.12, and in 1900 were 782,354.10, an in- crease of 113 per cent coastwise clearances in 1899 were only 196,092.57, while in 1900 they amounted to 345,337.19, or an increase of 76 per cent
are aware
The P. and T. Times of the 22nd ult. has the following about Miss Bourgignon of the Vic toria Jubilee Hospital, Tientsin, who has since received the Royal Red Cross, as our readers Too much praise cannot be bestowed upon the Matron for the plucky way in which she has conducted her work single-handed, often in the face of very trying difficulties, and all too frequently without that encouragement and sympathy from without, which is of such ma- terial assistance in the fulfilment of arduous responsibilities.
And we must not forget, too, that in addition to the strain of work, Nurse Bourgignon had the misfortune to lose all her personal and most valued effects, many of them unreplaceable.
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Captain William Leckie Hamilton Browne,
1899-1900 1898-99
lbs.
lbs.
of Her Majesty's ship 'evern, died somewhat Shanghai and Hankow... 35,474,308 25,478,107 suddenly at Harwich on 12th ult. He held the silver medal of the Royal Humane Society, EXPORT OF TEA FROM JAPAN TO UNITED awarded him in 1871, while a Sub-Lieutenant, for jumping overboard and holding up, until assistance came, Lieutenant L. Edge, R.M.L.I., who had fallen into the Harbour at Hongkong.
Yokohama
Kobe
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STATES AND CANADA.
1900-1 lbs.
1899-00
Ibs.
23,854,555
25,365,874
12,185,183-
18,875,452
36,039,738
39,2+1,326
SILK.
Except four men whose health obliged them to go into hospital, the Royal Marines who re- turned to Chatham from China last month were despatched to their homes on Saturday for a few weeks' furlough. One of the number, Private Tickner, took part in the defence of the British Legation in Peking, and was wounded in both legs and in the right arm by rifle bullets.
CANTON, 5th January.-Tsatlees and Re-reels, Before leaving Peking he and the other Marines another $10 to $20 per picul, and a fair business No settlements are reported. Filatures--Declined were each handed a cheque for £5 11s. 8d. by has been done. From prices paid quotations are: Sir Claude Macdonald, on behalf of the sub- $755 for Miu King Lun 11/18, $760 to $745 for scribers, members of the Legation. Tickner is Kwong Shun Cheong and Kwong Sun Hang 11/13, still suffering from the effects of that rough $735 for Kwong Sun On 1/13, and $730 for Kwong time. Privates Good and Snook, who were King Cheong, Wing Wo Lun and Yee Wo Loong with Admiral Seymour's force which attempted 9/11, $725 for Kwong Wo Ching and Kwong to relieve the Legations, were both wounded. Yuen On 9/11, and Ying Cheong and Kwang Sun Private Layton, one of the four in hospital at
On 11/13, $720 for Kwong Wo Shang 9/11 and Chatham, was shot at the side of the head, just Kwong Wo 11/18, $710 for Man Po Sing 10/12, below the eye, and the bullet, coming out at the
and Kwang Sun On 13/15, $695 for Min Tai lower part of the head, re-entered his body at Cheong 10/12, and $685 for How King Cheong the shoulder. The others in hospital are Pri-18/15, 1645 to $635 for Hing Lun, Tung Hing and vates Tristram, Inch, and Warren, who have Soey Wo Cheong 11/18, and $605 to $585 for Best broken down as the result of the strain and un-
No, 3 18/15 and 14/18. Short-reela-Have been healthy conditions in Peking.
in little enquiry for New York. From prices paid quotations are: $780 for Kwong Wo Tai and Kwong Wo Hing 14/16, $700 for Yu Wo Cheong Extra Waste have been settled at $78 to $80 per 14/16. Waste. About 1,200 piculs of Extra- picul. Appended are quotations in Canton, with laying down cost in London and Lyons, Exchange 4 months sight, 2/1, and Fcs. 2.67 per Dollar.
EXPORT OF SILK FROM CHINA AND JAPAN TO EUROPE.
Shanghai
1900-1901
1899-00
bales
bales.
32,348
67,300
11,418
15,779
43,766
78,079
The Government yacht Sea Belle left Singa- Hon. A. Murray, Colonial Engineer, and Cap- pore on the 7th inst., taking as passengers the tain Craufurd, E N., the Master Attendant of to survey a possible site for the proposed new the port. They were en route to Palan Aor lighthouse on that island. The proposed Pulau Aor light was originally suggested last Feb- ruary by Captain Symons, of the P. & O. 8.8. the direct run from Hongkong to Singapore Parramatta, who represented that vessels on often travel 1,300 miles without seeing a light and that therefore it would be advisable that they should have some light to enable them to ascer- tain their position before pulling up at the Horsburgh light at the entrance to the Straits With commedable expedition the matter was pushed through at Singapore and $20,000 for preliminary expenses were voted in this year's EXPORT OF SILK FROM CHINA AND JAPAN Budget, and, if everything is satisfactory, the lamp, without the necessary tower, can be pur-
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chased next year for £4,000. Ship-masters, however, are by no means agreed that Pulau | Shanghai
or is the best site, but the difficulty is that Yokohama the most natural one, Pulau Mankie, is in the hands of the Dutch.
Yokohama
1899.00
1900-1901
bales
4,750
12,081
16,820
83,553
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