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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL LHI.]
CONTENTS.
Epitomo of the Week, &c. Leading Articles:-
Queen Victoria ́.
The Death of the Queen
Tariff Revision
Liu Kung-yi on the Bituation..
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 26TH JANUARY, 1901.
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The Anglo-German Agreement
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Market Accommodation
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The Mourning for the Late Queen.
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The Trouble on H.M.S. Barfleur..
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The Lilliputians at the Theatre Royal
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Harmston's Circus
Schemes for the Future of ‹ hina
Canals in China,
Japan's Trade in 1900
Canton
Hongkong and Whampoa Dook Co., Limited
Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co.,
Limited
West Point Building Co., Limited.
Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., Limited Supreme Court
Cricket
Football
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club.
Hongkong Volunteer Corps..
Cricket at Amoy.
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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The Misotze insurrection which recently sprang up in the prefectures of Chênyuen and Szenanfa, Kueichan province, is, according to
Press meial despatches received at Nanking, suppress
HONGKONG OFFICE : 14, DES VŒUX ROAD CL LONDON OFFICE: 131, Fleet Street, E.C.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
"The Americau mail ol the 22nd December ar- rived,
per O. & O. steamer Coptic, on the 19th 77 January (28 days); and the German mail of the 7824th December arrived, per N. D. L. steamer
Sachsen, on the 23rd January (30 days).
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
granted the aborigines their rights which had ed by the Governor of the province, who at once been curtailed by the dishonest local man- darins.
The issue of the Universal Gasette, dated 13th inst., stated that the Allies are contem plating an expedition into Shansi and have Universal (lazette is also responsible for the already made the necessary preparations. The statement that there are now three Italian war reported that they are making preparations to vessels lying just off Sanman Bay, and it is land troops.
The Chih Pao states that the British are enlisting Chinese soldiers in Tientsin City, bat not in large numbers. It is probable that these - "soldiers are really military police. The same paper reports that the mounted brigands who were causing some trouble down the Peiko Her Majesty Queen Victoria died at Osborne river recently are infesting the suburbs of
at 6.30 p.m. on the 22nd instant.
On account of the death of H.M. the Queen, 87 His Excellency the Governor has cancelled all
engagements for the present.
On the 14th January, 1901, at No. 2, Astor Tering of the Privy Council at St. James's Palace The King took the oath of accession at a meet race, Shanghai; the wife of Geo. PEARSON; of a..
son.
On the 16th January, 1901, at 1, Acushnet Villas, Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, the wife of J. L. REMUSat, of a daughter.
On the 19th January, at Singapore, the wife of J. WINTER, of a daughter.
On the 20th January, at No. 4, Belilios Terrace, Horgkong, the wife of J. OWEN HUGHES, of a
son,+
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MARRIAGES.
At Shanghai, on Wednesday, the 9th January, HORACE, son of William WARREN, Melbourne, to GERTRUDE SOPHIE, youngest daughter of the late Arthur WIGAN, Launceston, Tasmania.
on the 23rd inst. He announced that in accord ance with his beloved mother's wish he would assume the title of Edward VII.
Tientsin City now, and regrets that they have managed to get in, as they are bound to esusS, trouble.
H.M.S. Glory arrived in Hongkong Harbour” on the 18th inst. from the south. We have al-
sister ship of the Goliath, and is a first-class ready given the main facts about her, but we may recapitulate her chief figures. The Glory is a battleship of 12,950 tons displacement and 13,500 i.h.p (Belleville boilers). She was built by Laird at a cost of £844,057. Her armour is-side, 6 in.; bulk-head, 12 in., gun-position A Memorial Service will be held in St. John's 12-5 in., Harveyed steel; dock-plating, 3-2 in, Cathedral, Hongkong, on the morning of the
3he carries four 12 in., twelve 6 in., q.f., eigh- 2nd prox, the day of the funeral of her late Ma-topedo-tubes. Her speed is 18-25 knots and her teen smaller q.f., and two light guns; and five jesty, Queen Victoria. The service will be complement 700 men. choral. There will also be a service in Chinese in the evening.
It is reported from Japanese sources that Field-Marshal von Waldersee will return to Germany in March or April next.
By the Rev. Father Meneuvrier, at Penang, on the 14th January; ARTHUR JAMES MCCLOSKY, M.B.C.M., District Surgeon, Salangor, to AGNES ELEANOR LEICESTER, third daughter of J. F.vilege of providing a guard of honour for the The New South Wales Marines had the pri- LEICESTER, St Aubyn, North Australia.
national flag in Peking on the 1st instant.
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On the 15th January, 1901, at 168, Calle Nueva, Ermita, Manila, Philippine Islands, by the Rev, Jay C. Goodrich, JOHN BROWNHILL, of Hongkong, to MABY M. WILSON BEEE, daughter of D. M. WILSON, Esq., Bo'ness, Scotland.
At St. Colomba United Free Church, Helens burgh, N.B., on the 18th January, by the Rev. Adam C. Welch, B.D., ALFRED LEONARD DE MOENAT, of Malakoff Estate, Province Wellesley to MARGARETHA LOUISE FRIDA, eldest daughter of George SCHOELLES, Esq., Rayenshaw, Helens- burgh.
At St. John's Cathedral, on the 19th January, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, M.A., HALLY SARAH ELLEN, only daughter of the late H. A. HOLMES Esq., to Llewellyn T. A. C. Shillington, of Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland.
*** DEATHS.
On the 12th January, 1901, at Chemulpo, Dona Lunas, the eldest beloved daughter of Cast and Dona Lunes, aged 14 months:
On the 16th January, 1901, at Shanghai, Haz- INT MARY, the beloved wife of Robert E. NELSON, R.N., aged 55 years.
cables last week, there have been no telegrams Owing to the interruption of both Shanghai received from the North since the 16th inst.
Japan, says a Japanese contemporary, for the Two million_taels have been demanded by railway repaired by her and handed over to Field Marshal von Waldersee, who in turn handed it over to the British.
The following changes in the Consular ser- vice in China were notified last month :---- -Mr
Herbert Francis Brady, to be Her Majesty' Consul at Chungking, and Mr. Michie Forbes Anderson Fraser, to be Her Majesty's Consu)
at Pakhoi.
It was understood at Singapore early month that the Government had received in formation that their Highness the Duke Duchess of York were due there about th middle of April. This was of course before the death of Her Majesty. It is not known yet how this event will affect arrangements.
Nine of the twelve Japanese first-class battle. ships and cruisers, designed soon after the conclusion of the Japan-China war, have been completed and brought home. They are the battleships Asaki (15,447 tons), Fuji (12,446), Shikishima (15,088), and Yashima (12,140),
Tokima (9.855). With regard to the remainder (9,803), Adsuma (9,458), Asuma (9,855), and well as the cruisers Idiumo (9,006), Yakumo
the battleship Hatsuse (15,240 tons), and the and by the middle of next month for home, erniser Iwate (9,906) are expected to feare Eng while the battleship Mikasa (15,210) is to be
in England. named three warships are under construction completed by the end of this year. The last-
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