THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LIV.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
HONGKONG. MONDAY, 23RD SEPTEMBER, 1901.
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Second Enquiry into the Cochrane Street Collapse 242
Rabies in Macao
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
A telegram 18ceived in Shanghai on the 13th inst. from Peking reported that Viceroy Li Hung.chang's condition was very serious, and that he had been unconscious for several hours: Later news announces an improvement.
It is considered rather significant that Tung Fuhsiang's troops, who were still guarding Hsianfu, were disbanded as soon As it was heard that Major Pereira, Dr. Smith, sirf Mr. Duncan were approaching that-eity.”
According to the Ostasiatische Lloyd. Govor nor Yuan Shikai has issued orders to collect a poll tax of 30 cents per head throughout the province of Shantung in order to provide for 245 his part of the money for the war indemnity.
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Leading Articles :--
President McKinley's Death
Russia and Manchuria
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Building in Hongkong
Roads in the Colony
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The Public, the Police, and the Coolie
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Canton's Trade in 1900
The Crisis: Telegrams
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Hongkong Legislative Council
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
Exciting Incident on the Sainam...
Pirates in Hongkong Waters
An Impudent Chinaman well Served
Russia and Tibet
Straits Settlements Consu
Nanking's Trade in 1900
Swatow
"A View of Captain Superintendent May
Northern Notes
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Correspondence
Queen Victoria Memorial Fund
Union Insurance Society of Cantou, limitl
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Supreme Court
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Sporting and Other Notes
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Boxing
Hongkong Football Club
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
Water Return
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Mohammedan Wedding in Hongkong ..... Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
As a mark of respect to the memory of the late President McKinley, half-hourly guns were fired from sunrise to sunset on the 17th inst. 246 from H.M.8 Albion and Tumar, U.S.8.. 249
Monterry, and from the land battery at Arsenal Street.
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With reference to the reported refiremont from office of Viceroy Liu Kung-yi of the Liangkiang provinces, enquiries made amongst those closely connected with the Viceroy who are at present residing in Shanghai fail to con- firm the news. It may therefore be conjectured 1.254 | that for the next two years at any rate, there is no likelihood of H. E.'s resigning the Nanking Viceroyship so long as H. E. is in good health.
According to a Chinese telegram, H.E. Lo Feng-lu has been designated As Chinese Minister to Russia, but the Russian Government has declined to receive him. The story runs that Russia objects to him as being too pro- British. The Osaka Mainichi's London corros- pondent maintains that Wu Ting-fang. Chinese Ambassador at Washington, has been trans- ferred to London, while Lo Feng-lu has been moved from London to St. Petersburg.
On the 5th September, at Hakone, Japan, the wife of C. S. ADDIS, of a son.
On the 8th September, at Kuling, the wife of A. LAIDRICH, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 27th August, at the British Consulate, Yokohama, ALICE LILIAN, widow of the late B. SPAIN of Toronto, to J. W. WEAVER of Yokohama. On the 4th September, at Christ Church, Yoko ama, by the Right Rev. William Audrey, D.D., Bishop of Tokyo, assisted by the Rev. W. T. Austen; HOWARD G. Barrie, M.D., C.M., to WINNIFRED JULLA, daughter of the late Hon. JOHN MACDONALD, of Toronto, Canada.
On the 9th September, at Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, FREDERICK THOMAS, of Dublin and Pientain, to TEMPERANCE WADE, of Falmouth, England.
DEATHS. -
On the 2nd September, at All Saints', Tientein, BABIL DURNFORD, infaut son of the Rev. and Mrs. G. D. ILIFF, aged two months and two days. On the 14th September, at the Government Civil Hospital, ALEXANDER G. R. WHITE, son of R. J. and M. WHITE, of I. M. Customs, Macao, aged 4 months. Deeply regretted.
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The following telegram is published in the Gazette :-"Governor, Hongkong. Following telegram received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to be repeated by me.
Powers have tocol signed 7th September. consented to Chinese import duties being placed on treaty basis of effective 5 per cent. Maritime imports including articles hitherto free, with exception of rice, cereals, and four of foreign origin. Now tariff will come into force two months after 7th September and exception has. Leen made only in case of nierchandise en route (for) ten days at latest after 7th September. Duties will be levied ad valorem pending conversion spécific duties. Swettenham."
No. 13.
The pacification of the island of Leyte, P.I. is now assured the last insurgent leader. Lt. Col. Pacheo, having surrendered to the United States authorities and offered to bring in all the men under his command.
An Asahi telegram, dated Tokyo, 3rd Sep- Manchuria in the middle part of last month tember, says: -During the wet season in several villages were entirely washed away. Vast areas of cultivated ground lay under water for days, and a large number of men and beast have been drowned. The Manchurian railway was seriously damaged. The loss of the temporary bridge over the Tashiho is reported to be the heaviest blow to the Russians. The telegraph wires were out at several places. The coolies employed on the railway stopped work as they had to protect their own dwellings and property, The repairs to the damaged line are making but slow progress. Trains are run in the districts where the flood was not serions, but even there traffic is váry irrégular. An engineer is reported to have left Port Arthur on the 24th ́ult, for Manchuria to ascer- tain the extent of the damage.
According to recent advices from Hoihow, the French soom to be making things lively in that otherwise quiet city. Several of the French officers are behaving very much as conquerors, and are intimidating the peaceful natives generally. Chinese merchants of good standing are strongly protesting against the French invasion and interference, although they fear the latter have come to settle. Only a few days ago a party of French officers shot at a sampa boy because he did not reply to their The boy was severely call, being asleep. wounded, and was eventually handed over to an American missionary doctor, and the Chinese official was compelled to square the matter by asking the Frenchmen to pay the boy's parents $50. As Hainan has not yet become French ing it will soon be-it might do no harm for a territory though the Chinesɔ foreign gunboat to look up Hoihow.
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The Times of India, speaking of the Dook- yard question at Hongkong and the undoubted advantages from a civilian point of view of the removal of the Yard to the mainland, says :— Against all this must be set the strategical considerations which induced Mr. Gibson
Bowles to call for the erection of new docks on the eastern side of Gibraltar. The Hongkong site is approached only by two strongly-guarded channels, and the height of the Peak and other hills protect it from a bombardment from the south or sea side of the island. A. Dockyard on the mainland would be more open to a land The last number to hand of the Ostasiatische | attack than the present Yard, and would be far
Hongkong Weekly Press Loyd refers to the difficulties in connection more difficult to protect against a naval assait.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 21st August arrived, par P. M. steamer City of Peking, on the 16th September (26 days); and the German mail of the 19th August arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Hamburg, on the 18th September (30 days).
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with Prince Chun's mission of apology to Ger- The story of the Kaiser demanding a Route from Prince Chun's snite at least and so causing the delay at Basle, our contemporary denounces as an English invention; the Kaiser nerer demanded a kowtow either from the Prince or from his suite. In this case it is curious fact that surprise has been expressed in Germany at the Kaiser's attempt to revive the kowtow
The truth is that the Ost wiatische
Lloyd is now more notable for its Anglophobia than for its accuracy, and its comments on the affair of Prince Chun are merely in harmony with the general tone of its editorial articles.
The Admiralty evidently consider that these advantages far outweigh any beneft which might accrue to Hongkong from the proposed removal. They have spent £150,000 of the million and a quarter estimated for the exten- sion, and an even stronger case, than has been made out in favour of Kowloon will have to be brought forward to induce Parliament to call s halt, and have the whole matter reported_upon once more. The interruption of the Prays frontage on Hongkong Harbour is unfortunate, no doubt, but it is a matter of amali importance compared with the maintenance of a strong
naval station.
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