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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LIII:]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 27TH APRIL, 1901.
No. 17.
The Echo de Chine says the laying of the
Hongkong Weekly Dress Amoy cable continues regularly, as was to be
339 HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, Des Vœux Road CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
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Leading Articles:-
Where Count von Waldersee has failed France in Sonth and West China........
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Afforestation in Hongkong.
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Hongkong's Food Supply and the New Terri-
tory
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Commercial Losses of the States in China
The Crisis: Telegrams...
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Hongkong's Message to the Duke of York
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce.
The Health of Hongkong in 1900.
Mosquitoes and Malaria
The Murder of British Sailors at Nagasaki
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Aguinaldo's Proclamation to the Filipinos....
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The Royal Visit to Singapore
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The City Hall..
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Theatre Royal
Hongkong Legislative Council
Gaol Administration in Hongkong
Concert at Kowloon Institute
Canton
Swatow
Tientsin
Manila
Northern Notes
Correspondence
Review
Supreme Court
The Vitriol Outrage
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The Political Obstacles to Missionary Success in
Meeting of Justices
Garrison Athletic Meeting
Lawn Tennis
Mr. John Roberts in Hongkong
China.....
The P. & O. 8.8. Sobraon Ashors
The Russian Fleet in the Far East
H.E. Tao Mu's Letter to Singapore... Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 22nd March arrived, per M. M. steamer Indus, on the 21st April (30 days); the American mail of the 23rd March ar-
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foreseen. "We are even a little astonished, the Echo de Chine continues, "at the fuss which has been made about the event, the preliminary arrangements of which date back two years.
A Shanghai telegram to Japan says that the contemplated transfer to the German ng of price for which was to be deducted out of the the China Merchants shipping company, the
rived, per P. M. ateamer City of Peking, on the indemnity due to Germany, has been abandoner - 343 24th April (32 days); and the English mail of owing to a strong protest from the Chinese
Government. 344 the 29th March arrived, per P. & O. steamer 344 Ballaarat, on the 26th April (28 days).
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Bengal Lancers are to remain here for the present, the order for their despatch north 343 having been cancelled.
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The German steamer Hainan was totally .348
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In a Government Gazette Extraordinary pub 353 lished on the 24th inst. Manila was proclaimed "a port or place at which an infections or con- tagious disease prevails."
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We hear on good authority that a Chinese syndicate is in course of formation here to develop the trade between Formosa and the Northern Chinese ports and Japan.
In the accounts prepared by the Admiralty 359 under the Naval Works Act, under the heading "Increased Estimates," the Hongkong Dock. yard Extension figures for £700,000.
It is reported from Moukden that the Russians On the 14th April, 1901, at 1, Nanking Road, have lent Teeng Chi, the Tartar-General of Feng tien, four hundred thousand taels to enable him to raise a military police force in the pro-
BIRTHS.
Shanghai, the wife of PAUL E. ZUEN, of a daughter.
On the 17th April, 1901, at Shanghai, the wife of G. CECIL- SMITH, of the China Inland Mission, of a daughter,
At Elliot Crescent, Robinson Road, Hongkong, on 19th April, the wife of CARL ROGGE, of a Son.
MARRIAGES. At St. Mark's, Seremban, on the 9th April, by the Rev. F. H. Haines, Colonial Chaplain, Malacca, H. MONTAGUE HATCHELL, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Federated Malay States Civil Service, son of Colonel HATCHELL, of Tunbridge Wells, to MARGARET, fourth daughter of the late H. C. PHILPOTT, Esq., of Upton-on-Severn, Worcester
shire.
DEATHS.
vince.
We understand that the Italian Admiral is negotiating in Hongkong for the purchase of some small steamers, easily convertible into gunboats, for patrol work at Canton and on the rivers of southern China.
It is stated from Shanghai that, notwith standing all reports to the contrary, the Court has made arrangements to leave Heian at once. Its destination is, however, secret. The pro- vincial authorities have been ordered to stop sending supplies.
On the 18th April, at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, by the Rev. W. H. C. Dunkerley, JoHN Aguinaldo has issued a manifesto (the text of J. BATCHELOR to Lauristina Gurnet, of Surbi-which we print on another page) saying that the ton, England.
country declares unmistakably in favour of peace, Hence he unreservedly acknowledges the sove- reignty of the United States in the Philippines oral MacArthur has signalised, the event by and advises the insurrectos to do likewise. Ge- liberating one thousand Filipinos, prisoners of
On the 12th April, 1901, at Shanghai, HENRY EDWIN HALL, aged 60 years,
At St. John's Lodge, Malacca, on the 12th April,
HELEN MARGARET NEUBRONNER, widow of the late Louis NzUBBONNER, aged 78 years.
At 11, Chaoufoong Road, Shanghai, on the 17th April, 1901, FRANK ARTHUR Kingsmill Bowker, aged 4 years and 5 months.
**In India, on the 18th March, HUGH MCPHERSON MITCHELL, only, son of the late Lient-Colonel Sir Charles Bullen Hugh MrTCHELL, R.M. LI. G.CMG ent. Governor of the Straits Settle- men aged
On the 19th
1901
It was reported amongst the local mandarins at Shanghai last Friday that Prince Ch'un, Special Ambassador to Germany, may probably arrive there from the North in about a month or five weeks from hence, en route to Europe. Prince Ch'un will have the distinction of being the first Prince of the Manchu dynasty who has ever visited Shanghai.
The Chungking correspondent of Echo de Chine writes that the deliverance of Father Mussot (whose capture by brigands on the border of Tibet we have already reported) is due to the pressure put on the Viceroy of Szechuen by M. Bons d'Anty. H. E. Kwei acted loyally and energetically, but he was badly seconded. Monseigneur Giraudeau fortunately let M. Bons d'Anty know the extent of the danger, and the Viceroy acted vigorously, with the result that the bandits were defeated, Father Mussot delivered, and two chiefs of the band decapitated. It is said that M. Bons d'Anty is about to depart, and is to be replaced by M. Haas.
T.R.H. the Duke and Duchess of York and
drove
Cornwall arrived in Singapore on Sunday morning. They were received by HE. the Acting Governor, Sir Frank A. Swettenham, K.C.M.G, at Johnston's Pier, and through the midst of enthusiastic crowds in gaily decorated streefs to Government The troops and the Volunteers lined the In the evening Their Royal Highnessen through the brilliantly illuminated. China-town. On Monday morning. dresses were presented at the Tow the assemblage was most bri Volunteers furnished a the evening there ment House, and Their Royal Highne on the Ophir on Tuesday, at 2 p.m.
According to the N.-C. Daily correspondent, in the fire at the Count von Waldersse's fireproof
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