THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LIV.]
AND
China Overland Trade Beport.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 17TH AUGUST, 1901.
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Leading Articles :----
The Government and Mr. Osborne
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The International &itnation
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The Fatal House Collapse in Cochrane Street 139 Submarine Warships.
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Public Speaking and International Politics ...140 The Navy League and the Admiralty
Hongkong Legislative Council Memorial to the late Queen Victoris
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Meeting of the Typhoon Relief Fund Committee...149 The Insanitary Condition of Hongkong: Part II The China Expedition & onours and Promotions Масло
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Swatow
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I abour in the Philippines
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Weihaiwei
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Corea
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Correspondence
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Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ll... Universaí Frading Co., Ld.
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Supreme Court
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping .........
BIRTHS.
Hongkong Weekly Press
No. 8.
The correspondent of the Times at Odosas siates that Russia is endeavouring to colonise Hongkong OFFICE: 14, Des Vœux ROAD CI plant a Cossack colony on the Chinese border.
the Amur territory, and that she intends to
London Office: 131, Fleet Strakt, E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 12th July arrived par M. M. steamer Yarra, on the 12th August (31 days); the American mail of the 17th July arrived, per T. K. K. steamer Nippon Maru, on the 17th August (28 days); and the English mail of the 19th July arrived, per P. & O steamer Parramatta, on the 19th August (28 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
General Voyron is expected to reach Shanghai .152 from Japan about the 22nd inst.
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On the 7th July, at Chalfont St. Giles, the wife of A. G. WISE, of a son.
On the 15th July, at Sandakan, the wife of W, G. DABBY, of a daughter.
On the 27th July, at Yokohauma, the wife of A. UNGER, of a son.
On the 28th July, at Foochow, the wife of J. W. ODELL, of a daughter.
On the 3rd August, at Shanghai, the wife of L. J. Luz, of a son.
On the 8th August, at “ Langlands," 112. River Valley Road, Singapore, the wife of ERNEST Alfred HILCKEɛ, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
On the 29th July at Ichigaya, Tokyo, in the presence of G. H. Scidmore, Deputy Consul- General of the United States, hy the Rev. William Imbrie, D.D., assisted by the father of the bride, CHARLES SUMNER GRIFFIN, to MART
AVERY, daughter of the Rev. D. Crosby Greene, D.D., of Tokyo.
On the 3rd Angust, at Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A.. GWENDOLINE MELITA, second daughter of the late Wilmer HARBIS, of Shanghai, to Charles PASEDAO ALLAN, of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
DEATHS.
On the 23rd July, at Seoul, Corea, WILLIAM DUFLON HUTCHISON, aged 43 years.
On the 29th July, at Foochow, the infant daughter of J. W. Odell.
On the 5th August, at 72. French Bund, Shanghai, THOMAS FORD, for many years Wharf- inger to the China Navigation Co., Limited, in his 67th year.
On the might of 11th August, at the Peak Hospital, FRIDERICK W. WOOD, aged 42 years, of York, England.
On the 14th August, at No. 21, Belilios Terrace, FORTUNATO ANTONIO CORDEIRO, aged 34 years.
On the 14th August, at 1, Macdonnell Road, Kowloon, the wife of H. J. CzuL, of a son.
The promotion of Mr. John Nowell Jordan to British Minister in Corus was gazetted this
week.
The Chinese Government is reported to be intending to appoint the Manchu Tahaishima as its new Minister to Russia.
The BiH brought forward in the House of Commons by Captain E. G. Pretyman, M.P., Civil Lord of the Admiralty, with regard to | Naval Works, provides for coaling facilities at Hongkong, our London correspondent in. forms us.
The Noro Vremya in a recent issue expresses astonishment at Japan's actiou in fitting up a Naval Station st` Maidzuru, which fronts Vladivostock. Commenting on the fact, the paper says Japanese preparations to drive the Russians from the Pacific Ocean will end in failure anyway.
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The French Minister to Seoul is reported to have lodged the following demands with the Corean Government as an outcome of the rioting in Quelpart-1. The Corean Government to pay 4,160 yen as compensation for damage done to the houses and property of the French missionaries in Quolpart. 1,000 you to be paid by the Corean Government for a Corean employee of a missionary, who was killed by the rioters. 3. The converts who were exiled in further punished. A list of 50 rioters to be connection with the recent rioting not to be
forwarded to the Corean Government for ponishment according to Curean law.
Reuter telegraphed on the 12th inst. that the delay in the signing of the Protocol by the Powers is due to England objecting to Powers with microscopie commercial interests | enjoying an oqaal voice with herself on the proposed international tariff revision commis- xion. However, from our own correspondentis | despatch, it seems that Dr. Morrison has telegraphed to the Times that the Protocol is practically ready for signature. The Ministers have agreed to Bir Ernest Satow's suggestion to exclude the clause about the appointment of an international commission relative to the conversion of duties to specific purposes. The list of exempted articles comprises gold and silver coin and bullion, foreign coreals, rico, and flour.
The Universal Gazette states that arising out of the crisis in the North and the opportunities offered generally, the Consuls of Great Britain, Russia, Japan and France at Hankow havO informed Viceroy Chang Chib-tang of their intention to follow the eximple sot by the German Consul of that port with regard to the extension made to the German Settlement, which was granted last year by the ChinesaI authorities. It' appeared that the Germans The Americans are at last making a move to palled down about 150 yards of the city wall of Hankow, near the Tangchi gate, in the direction of their extension settlement, in occupy the island of Mindoro, one Philippine group. It is the only place where the insurgents have been allowed undisputed consequence of which the Consuls of the other Powers, whose settlements are to be sway up to date. Arthur Howard, an American
extended as well, desire a'so to pull down the deserter is said to be the insurgent governor of city walls which at present limit their several
the island.
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of the
His rule will probably be short
It is announced that instead of M. de Witte,
the Russian Minister of Finance, his assistant, M. Romanoff, will tour the Far East. Accord. ing to home reports M. de Witte has postponed his projected visit to Manchuris until next spring, partly on account of his health and partly because of the state of the country. He spends the summer at Wiesbaden.
The Kaiser cordially received Count von Waldersos at Hamburg this week on his return from China, kissing him on both cheeks. The display, however, was limited to the military, and the general reception was very quiet on account of the Empress Frederick's death. The Kaiser has bestowed on the Count the order Pour le Mérite, and has reappointed him Inspector-General of the Third Army Corps Also the 9th Regiment of Field Artillery is in future to bear Ĉount von Walderseo's name. A further decoration was the G.C.B. from King Edward.
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settlement boundaries,
Lord Lansdowne states that negotiations concerning Article XI of the Joint Nots regarding commercial facilities in China mar place than Peking, and that a conference may possibly be transferred to a more convenient be held including representatives of all the
great commercial interests in the East. Wo hope this means that the promise made by Sir Claude MacDonald, when British Minister at Peking. to the Chambers of Commerce at Hongkong and Shanghai that no change would be agreed to in the Tariff without reference to them, is about to be redeemed. It is evident from telegrams procoding the above that Sir Ernest Batow has not been in accord with his colleagues at Peking. Unfortunately there is a conflict of interests. Most of the Treaty Powers are careless of the Tariff, but very eager tó fingar the indemnity; Great Britain cares compara- tively little for the indemnity, but is greatly concerned about the Tariff.
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