THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LIV.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c..
Incendiarism at Tientsin
HONGKONG. SATURDAY, 9TH NOVEMBER, 1901.
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Lending Articles :--
Russia, Manchuria, and the Powers
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Siamese Finances
President Roosevelt
Affairs in the Philippines
The Attack on Col. Benson's Column
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The Crisis: Telegrams.
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Queen Victoria Memorial Fund
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Honouring Major-General Gascoigne
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Piracy in British Waters
Curtailing the Water Supply
The New Tung Wah Hospital
Dr. Cantlie on Hongkong
The War in the Philippines
The Struggle for Life in Hongkong
Canton
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Building Against Earthquake in the Philippines. 382 Northern Notes ...
Shanghai Races→Autumn Meeting
Cricket
Correspondence
Supreme Court
Football
Interport Shooting Match
Boxing at the City Hall
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Chinese Imperial Court is to arrive at Kaifengfu on the 14th inst.
Chang Te-yi, it is reported, has been appointed Minister to London. Wn Ting-fang has been recalled from Washington.
It is alleged that an attempt has been made on the life of the Empress Dowager at Honanfu. The story is discredited.
H.E. Li Hung-chang. Viceroy of Chihli, died on Thursday, the 7th, the news being received in Hongkong on the same evening.
Na Tung, ex-Boxer leader and late Special Envoy to Japan on the mission of apology for the murder of Mr. Sugiyama, has been ap- pointed to the Chinese Foreign Office tem- porarily.
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The Russian terpedo-boat destroyers Sterliud, .384 | Ossetr and Forel, now in the Baltic Sea, have 384 been ordered to join the Far Eastern squadron. The ironclad Peter the Great will also be des- 387 patched after alterations have been carried out.
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The U.S. military authorities are fortifying 388 Manila with Gatling guns. They deny that 390 they apprehend any trouble in the city, but they evidently mean to be prepared. Gatlings have been placed on the ramparts of Fort Santiago so as to command the river-month.
On the 17th October, at the London Mission, Peling, the wife of Rev. T. HOWARD SMITH, of &
son.
On the 26th October, at No. 23, Range Road Shanghai, the wife of 'DAVID GOLDMAN, I.M Customs, of a daughter!
MARRIAGES.
On the 16th October, at St. Andrew's Church, Chefoo, by the Rev. A. E. Burne, Captain ERNEST ALFRED RUSSELL HOWELL, Indian Staff Corps, to LILIAN LUCY, second twin daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ECKFORD, of Chefoo.
At the Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, Singa- pore, on the 29th ult., by the Rev. Father H.
ALOYSIUS AHIN to Rivet,
MARY of eldest daughter WILHELMINA, Especkerman.
PATRICK
DEATHS.
Samuel
On the 27th October, on board the steamer Ettrickdale, in Shanghai Harbour, FREDERICK HOWARD, Shanghai Licensed Pilot, aged 50 years
On the 25th October, at 203, Miller Road, Shanghai, VIRGINIA ANTONIA, wife of EMILIO SANCHES DEL Aquila, aged 20 years.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 29th September arrived, per M. M. steamer Earnest Simons, on the 6th November (38 days); and the English mail of the 11th October arrived, per P. & O. steamer Ballaarat, on the 8th November (28 days).
A Government Gazette Extraordinary notifies that Monday, the 11th inst.. will be observed as a Public Holiday in this Colony in honour of His Majesty King Edward's birthday, instead of to-day, the 9th inst.-a change which will be generally welcome, Saturday being a mail day. The Levee, of course, will still be held to-day.
A Port Arthur despatch states that the Tsar has sanctioned an appropriation to meet the expenditure for Port Arthur, where the follow- ing projects are to be completed before the end of 1902-1. Th western portion of the port to be dredged, so a to enable large warships to anchor there.
2. A canal to be dug in the western part of the port. 3. An independent squadron to be organised for the protection of the port. 4. Naval corps to be organised and drilled. 5. Dock to be repaired.
Vice Admiral Bendemann has received in- timation from Berlin that he will be recalled within two months, his time having expired, says the Mercury. It further intimates that his successor will be Rear-Admiral Geissler, late Commander of the battleship squadron in China. As Vice-Admiral Bendemann will leave Shanghai within a few days, in order to go first to Kiaochau, and then stay for the winter in Southern waters, the German Asso- ciation has given a farewell dinner to His | Excellency.
The Manchurian Convention is still unsigned; the Chinese Court is said to have rejected it. The Times correspondent at St. Petersburg says that the negotiations are not denied there. It is understood that Germany wishes Russia to remain, but there is more reason for the evacuation. The bad feeling which would be created between Russia, on the one hand, and Great Britain and Japan, on the other, by Russia remaining in possession, provides Count von Bulow with an excuse for playing the
honest broker."
No. 20.
It is stated in a Japanese vernacular journal that the Emperor of Corea recently issued an order to Mr. McLeavy Brown, the Chief Com missioner of Customs, requesting him to appropriate 200,000 yen yearly for five years out of the Customs revenue for the purpoze of erecting lighthouses on the Corean coast, and ulso to appropriate 1,610,000 for the construc. tion of water-works in Seoul.
Questions have been asked (says the N.-C. Daily News) as to why the 11th of November has been fixed on for the introduction of the new Customs tariff, when the Protocol was signed on the 7th of September, and it was provided- that the new tariff should be put in force two months after the Protocol was signed. The explanation is very simple; the 11th of Novem ber is a Monday, ie, the first day of the working week, and it is also the first day of the tenth Chinese moon, therefore a convenient date for beginning a new system.
The Yueh-Han Railway, or the projected line between Canton and Hankow, according to a Hankow despatch received in Shanghai, has already begun work from that port southwards, and it is further reported that the syndicate which has the contract in hand under the name and designation of the Hua-Mei Kung-sze, i.e., Chinese-American Company or Syndicate, has deposited the sum of Tls. 300,000 with the Hnpeh high authorities as earnest for the purchase of land at Pinghsiang which lies on the route of the proposed railway towards
Canton.
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Sir Ernest Satow, His Majesty's Minister at Peking, arrived in Hongkong on the 5th inst. on board H.M.S. Blenheim upon a visit to The Minister came on shore the port.
and his launch shortly after two p.m., was saluted by the warships lying in the
Sir At Murray Pier,
Ernest Harbour.
Wrottesley, received by Flag-Lieut. H.E the Governor's Private Secretary tem- porarily, and took his sest in the chair sent down for his conveyance to Government House. The band of the Royal Welch Fusiliers was in attendance, also a guard of honour from the same corps. On arriving at Government House the Minister was welcomed by His Excellency the Governor. Later in the afternoon the party paid a visit to the Peak, returning to Government House for dinner, to which a numerous company had been invited.
The fifty million yen which it was proposed to raise by the sale of the Government bonds in America, the Kobe Chronicle says, was intended to be chiefly used for the redemption of domestic Government bonds and for the carrying out of the projected public works, the surplus, if any, being devoted to the fund for new works next year and the repayment of loans. Now that the scheme has been abandoned, the Government has two alternatives-either to find a new source of revenue or to postpone some of the projected works. According to a vernacular paper, Mr. Sone, the Minister for Finance, takes a very optimistic view, and no particular change will therefore be made in the financial scheme. He intends to continue all the works now in pro- gress, only making some alterations in the order of their being carried out. In case the funds in hand are found inadequate, the Minister for Finance intends to draw the amount from the indemnity money or postpone the repayment of the loans from the Bank of Japan,
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