THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LV.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &o.
HONGKONG. MONDAY, 27TH JANUARY, 1902.
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Leading Articles:-
The Question of the Empress Dowager
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The Hon. J. H. Stewart Lookhart's Appoint-
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The Late Postmaster-General
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A School for European Children in Hongkong.. 55
The Water Famine
The Navy in China, 1900
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The Manchurian Convention
A New Peking Official Journal
The Crisis: Telegrams
Hongkong Sanitary Hoard.
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
Death of the Postmaster-General
A Bacteriologist for Hongkong
The Attack on the Nanning
Honours for the thins Expedition
Fire on the Bygdo in Harbour
The Cathedral Chaplaincy
Hongkong Benevolent Society Peking
Northern Notes
Correspondence.
Hongkong Weekly Press
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English mail of the 20th December 56 arrived, per P. & O. steamer l'arramatta, on 56 the 19th January (30 days); the Canadian mail of the 30th December arrived, per C. P. R. steamer Empress of India, on the 21st January
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} In connection with the recent case of piracy on the West River above Shiuhing-when th steam-launch Wong Fut, and a passenger-boat which she was towing were boarded by twelve pirates, the launch ultimately being seized by six of the pirates to enable them to escape from a guard-boat that had surprised them-we learn that the two members of the launch's crew who were held as hostages by the pirates to secure the safety of six of their number who fell into the hands of the guard-boat's crew, have been released.
Foreign quarters within the Imperial city at Peking are only four. One is the Roman Cathedral-the Pei-tang-on the west side. A
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ber arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Hamburg, on 59 the 24th January (33 days); the American 60 mail of the 28th December arrived, per O. & O. steamer Coptic, on the 25th January (28 days); and the French mail of the 27th December arrived, per M. M. steamer Salasie, on the 26th January (30 days).
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Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co., 1d... 63 West Point Building Company, Limited.
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Hongkong Volunteer Corps
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Supreme Court
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Racing Notes
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Cricket
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Football
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Bowling
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Medical Missionary Society in China Hongkong and Port News
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Commercial
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BİRTHS.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Chief Engineer and staff of the intended Yueh-Han Canton-Hankow, railway will leave the United States for China next month.
The Marquis of Lausdowne said that a reduc- 70 tion of British troops in China would depend on the condition of the country and the action of the other Powers.
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On the 9th January, the wife of C. A. O. BUTZER, of Malacca, of a daughter.
On the 11th January, at 63▲, Bluff, Yokohama, the wife of WM. KING, of a Son.
The correspondent of the Telegraph at Washington states that President Roosevelt has ordered the return to China of $376,000, the value of the silver seized by American marines at Tientsin.
A Seoul despatch of the 11th inst. states that On the 15th January, at Shanghai, the wife of the loan by the Coreau Government is expected ANDREW BURT, M.E., F.G.S., of a daughter.
to be a failure owing to the opposition of Japan, Great Britain, and other Powers. The so-calle Corean Company is stated to be a small concern with a capital of only 100,000 yen and the re- presentative of the concern is only a speculator.
MARRIAGES.
On the 16th January, at H.B.M. Consulate, and afterwards at the Union Church, Shanghai, by the Rev. A. M. Craig, M.A., of Kelso, Scotland, assisted by the Rev. C. E. Darwent, M.A., ARNOLD, eldest son of ALEXANDER HOTSON, at one time of Rangoon and now of Riverside, California, to KATE, eldest surviving daughter of the late WILIAM HYDE LAY, H.B.M. Consul, Chefon.
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Martin, near the north-east end. The other two are Bishop Scott's mission and the rented house of Dr. Morrison, the Times correspondent, in the south-east corner, near the former hole in the wall made by the British, north of the British Legation. These latter persons, it is said, living in rented houses, will move out to other and more convenient quarters; Renter's agent, who has been occupying a house in the same quarter, has already moved.
A correspondent, writing from Peking to a Shanghai native paper, says :-According to a promise made to the Chinese Plenipotentiaries by the Russian Minister, M. Lesssar, a portion of the Russian garrison in Manchuria ought to have been withdrawn as soon as the Court had returned to Peking. It is over a week now since the Court's arrival at Peking and yet there are as many Russian soldiers in Manchuria as ever; consequently the Chinese Plenipotentiaries visited the Russian Minister, yesterday, to remind him of his promise, but to their great surprise the Russian Minister told them, in reply, that he could not do anything in the matter until he had heard from his Government.
The Washington correspondent of a Manila paper says:-A proposal has been submitted to Congress for the government of the Philippine Islands, which is suggested should be inaugurat- ed in the year 1904. This proposed government is to contain a Governor, assisted by a Council of Secretaries, all of whom will be nominated by A Seoul despatch says:-Russia has con- the President of the United States, who will structed telegraph communication between remain in office for a period of four years. It is Usuri and Keiko, crossing over the Tomanko also suggested that there be a Supreme Chamber, with a view to connecting it with the Coreau in which one hundred Filipino representatives telegraph system. The Corean Government will have right to a seat, and will be nomi- On the 20th January, at the Wesleyan Chapel, Wanchai, by the Rev. C. Bone, ROBERT, fourth addressed an official note to the Russian Min-nated by the President and by a popular cham- son of JOHN WALPOLE, of the Woodlands, Gerrards.ister to Seoul and ordered him to suspend work ber, which, in turn, will be elected by universal Cross, Bucks, England, to ELLEN, the only c'angh until the Treaty about the affair is satisfactorily suffrage. It is also proposed that the Philip-
concluded. ter of the late H. J. FAUNCH, of Hongkong.
pines be represented by two representative Commissioners in Washington,
DEATHS.
On the 11th January, at No. 14, Wilkie Road, Singapore, JOHN EUGENE GEARY, aged 69 years.
On the 12th January, at 84, Yangtzepoo Road, Shanghai, of scarlet fever, KATHLEEN EMILY CAMERON, eldest child of W. M. and Mrs. CAMERON, aged five years and five months.
On the 13th January, at the General Pospital, Shanghai, GEORGE HOWARD, Chief Inspector of the Municipal Police, aged 54 years, after 28 year service in the Shanghai Municipal Police
On the 14th January, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, of scarlet fever, CHRISTINA, eldest daughter of WILLIAM and MARGARET TAYLOR (of Messrs. Farnham, Boyd & Co.), aged 7 years.
On the 15th January, at the Victoria Nursing Home Shanghai, ROBERT SIDNEY HARVEY, aged
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A London despatch dated the 10th inst. to| the Jiji states that in connection with the dis- pute between Russia and the United States con- cerning Newchwang, Mr. Hay, U. S. Secretary of State, has had a prolonged interview with Count Cassini. the Russian Ambassador. The same telegram states that Great Britain and the United States have requested Russia to withdraw her troops from Newchwang.
Japanese papers, say that the suspicions movements of the Italian squadron lately reported in Chinese waters, which it was sug. gested at the time might mean another "lease," a renewed demand for have culminated i Sanmun Bay. The Italian Minister visitad the Foreign Offics at Peking on the 1 th inst. and made a formal request, but it was immediately rejected by the Chinese Pleni- potentiaries, who issued an official note to that effect.
It is stated from a reliable source in the North that the Empress Dowager has sent special secret instractions from Peking to the provincial authorities of Honan, at Kaifeng, "carefully and reverentially to keeptheImperial Palaces built in that city in proper repair, as the Court may require them at any time during its travels. What led the Empress Dowager to send such an order to Kaifeng, the N.-C. Daily News says, time will certainly show, and if recent news to hand is to be depended upon, one need feel no surprise if this happens sooner than só se expect, Meanwhile the Taiyuanfu correspondent of our A good many Shanghai contemporary writes:- new buildings have been erected at the back of the Governor's yamên, and hence there is a rumour that the Empress Dowager intends to come secretly to reside here, but this is scarcely oredible.
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