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China Overland
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VOL LIII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c. ......
Leading Articles :---
The Shansi Atrocities
Tientain Railway Troubles.
Education in Hongkong
The Police Forge in 1900
The Nicaragua Canal
Army Reform
The Crisis: Telegrams...
Meeting of the Finance Committee
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
Hongkong Legislative Council
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Hongkong Weekly Press
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 9th February ar- rived, per O. & O. steamer Doric, on the 9th 117 | March (28 days); the French mail of the 10th February arrived, per M. M. steamer Ernest 222 Simons, on the 13th March (30 days); and the English mail of the 15th February arrived, per 24 P. & O steamer Chusan, on the 15th March (28 221 days).
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Proposed Private Nursing Institution for
olony
Piratical Comedy on the High Sess
Trial Trip of the Sainam
Outrage of the Praya
Presentation of Medals to the Police
Hongkong's Finances
Missions to Seamen
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The Dallas Company at the Theatre Royal
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Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals
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Canton
Saigon
Manila
National Bank of hina, Limited
Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co., Limited
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Robinson Piano Co., Limited
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China and Manila Steamship Co., Limited
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Watkins, Limited
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Supreme Court
Reviews
Cricket
Football
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club.
Hongkong Volunteer Corps...
Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co.,
Royal Hongkong Golf Club.
Brigandage Around Tientsin
teamer Sunk in Bombay Harbour Hongkong and Port News Commercial Shipping
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Japanese have informed China that, whatever advantages Russia acquires in Man churis, Japan will require the same in Fukies. Mr. E. C. Ray courteously informed us on the 10th inst. that he had received a telegram from. Messrs. Bush Brothers, of Newchwang, stating that the river was free from ice and open to navigation.
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A reward of five hundred dollars has been 234 offered by the British North Borneo Govern. 234 ment for the discovery of coal. on, or in the 215 vicinity of, the railways to the north and east 235 of Beaufort, Province Dent.
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The United States in an identical note to the 236 Powers last week declared that they deem it 236 inexpedient for the Chinese Groverement to make an independent arrangement with any foreign power while
peace negotiations are progressing in Peking.
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On the 3rd March, 1901, at the Margaret Williamson Hospital, Shanghai, the wife of Joan JURGENS, of a daughter.
On the 7th March, 1901, at 9, Pei-ta-ho Lane, Shanghai, the wife of James Hutchison, of a
son,
On the 9th March, at No. 16, Quinsan Road, Shanghai, the 'wife of Mr. P. A. PEREIRA, of a
son.
MARRIAGES.
On the 23rd February, 1901, at the Roman Catholic Church, Hankow, J. E. Da Coɛta, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, to Mrs. CATHARINA BEATRICE DE JESUS,
On the lat March, 1901, at H.B.M.'s Consulate General, Shanghai, and afterwards at the resi. dence of the bride, by the Rev. C. Goodrich, D.D., HugH MACKINNON, late master of the steamer Hsinyu, to MARY ALICE AYER, M.D., of the Ameri- can Presbyterian Mission, Boochow.
On the 4th March, 1001, at H.B.M.'s Consulate- General, Shanghai, by Byron Brenan, Esq., C.M.G., and afterwards at Trinity Cathedral by Rev. H. C. Hodges, MA., Ernest Mortimer, only son of the late John Mortimer THOMAS, Esq., of
Shanghai, to NORAH MARGARET, younger daughter of Ernest Walter TISDALL, Esq., of Shanghai,
DEATHS.
On the 1st March, 1901, at Shanghai, MARY MUIR HUTCHnson, the wife of Archibald Laxo, aged 40
The Opinion says that the French authorities intend to raise three more regiments of native infantry. This will bring up the strength of the army in Indo-China to 50,000 men. Rumour connects the increase with expected troubles in Cambodia and Siam.
H.M.S. Borfleur left Shanghai for Nagasaki fortnight. It is not unlikely, according to the N-C. Doily News, that Admiral Seymour will the Duke and Duchess of York there. go on from Hongkong to Singapore to meet
on the 6th inst. and will return in about a
tion between the British and Russians at Tien- It is reported from London that there is fric-
tein respecting the construction of a siding ou the Peking-Tientsin Railway. Mr. Kinder is said to have been ordered to proceed with the protection of an armed force, if necessary.
A despatch from Sir Charles 8. Eoott pub- lished with the permission of Count Lamsdorff states that any agreement about Manchuria was merely in the nature of a modus vivendi between the Russian military and the Chinese civil au- thorities, and that Russia in nowise departs from her public pledges to evacuate Manchuris
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In the House of Commons this week Lord George Hamilton gave an explicit denial of the charges of pillage and plunder against the British troops in China. General Sir Arthur Ganelee, he said, had reported that looting was openly tolerated among certain of the Allied troops, but that he took effective tria Mania, the beloved | measures to prevent the British from partici. wife of Henrique L. NORONHA,
pating.
On the 6th March, at Singapore, Mrs. GrozGIANA FERRÃO, aged
On the 8th March, at her residence, Ball's Court, Hongkon
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It is notified in the Gazette that, pursuant instinctions from the Secretary of State for the Registrar-General in Hongkong, held conjointly: Colonies, the offices of Colonial Secretary and since the 28th March, 1895, will agains be separated, and while the Hon. A. W-Brewin is į appointed Registrar-General, the Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, C.M.G., will continue to hold the office of Colonial Secretary.
The Peking correspondent of the N.-C. Daily tion Quarter has been settled in principle; the News telegraphed on the 8th inst.:-The Lega- location of the Customs will be amicably arranged. The Embassy to Germany is delayed. The deputy appointed to the mission of con the reinterment of those who died in the Lega- dolence to London is not acceptable; meantime tions during the siege takes place to-morrow, (Saturday).
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The Welsh Fusiliers who are going North to. Peking embarked at 2 o'clock on Thursday relieve the Australian Naval Contingent afternoon. Previously to the Chingtu leaving Douglas Wharf she was visited by H.E. Major-- General Gascoigne and staff, while the band of the battalion (2nd Batt., B.W.F.), played them on board. By 4 p.m. all was ready for des: parture and the Chingtu left the wharf amid hearty cheering. She sailed from the Harbour on the following morning.
A New Press telegram, dated Peking, 4th March, says: There was a huge conflagration last night at the Summer Palace, Yuan-ming. yuan, at the foot of the Western Hills, fiveTM miles north-west from the Peking city well. The celebrated Temple of One Thousand Years, which contained a colossal image of Buddha, înt completely destroyed. The place was guarded. formerly by Russians, and latterly by British and other troops of the Allied Forces, but it was not known how the fire originated. Boxer incendiarism is suspected.
A Poking telegram to the New Press (Shang- hai) reports considerable difficulty with regard to the delimitation of the area proposed to be reserved for a foreign settlement in the Tartar holding out very stubbornly for the retrocession City, Peking. The Chinese commissioners are of all their government ysmens in the vicinity of the Logation quarter. The Foreign Minis ters claim that no Chinese places whatever, not even the Imperial Maritime Customs offices, can be allowed in that quarter. The difficulties on this point are becoming acute,
H.M.S. Ocean (Captain the Hon. A.( Curson Howe) arrived on Monday morning fro
alta, which she left on the 2nd ult., and take her
place among the British battleshipa în station. A sister ship of the Glory and Hol the Ocean is a first-class battleship of 12,850. tons displacement and 18,3′ 0 i,h. p. She was built at Devonport in 1900 at a cost of £881,248. Her armour is: - Side 6-in., bulkhead 12-in., and 3-2in. Her guns are :—four 12-in., twelve 6-in.. gun position 12-5in., II:8, and deck-plating q.f., eighteen smaller q.f., and two li She carries fire torpedo tubes, of which are submarine, has a speed of 18.25 a Complement of 700 men. Her chief o are: Captain, Hon. A. G. Carson How C.B., C.M.G, Commander, A. U. Henniker Hughan Lieutenanta, P.D ́A. de Banemaren, J. C. La FH.M. Jackson, A. E. Edwardi, A. N. A. Sulivan: Lieut. RNR JI Capt. RM, F. R. Boyle; Lieut.A AW.G. Ridings; L'est. RM, L. C. L
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