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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LV.]
AND
China Oberland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 18T FEBRUARY, 1902.
CONTENTS.
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Epitome of the Week, &o.
Leading Articles :--
Great Britain and Germany...........
The Sanitary Board and Professor Simpson's
Report
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Emperor of Japan is understood to have sent a telegraphic message to Peking, 74 congratulating the Emperor and Empress
Dowager on their safe return to the city.
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A School for European Children in Hongkong 74 Missionary Troubles near Swatow
The N.-C. Daily News says:-We are usthorised to contradict, officially and absolutely the report that the Italian Government has demanded of China a lease of Sanmen Bɔy.
According to Tientsin reports, a number of missionary chapels and compounds have been destroyed in Chihli and several converts injured, whether fatally or not has not as yet trans- 80 pired.
Music for the Public..
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
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Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce..
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Hongkong Benevolent Society
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Tragedy in the Hongkong Hotel
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Music for the Public...
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The Scotch Concert
Mr. A. G. Ward's Organ Recital
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Art Exhibition in the City Hall..
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The Hanoi Exhibition, 1902
Swatow
Northern Notes
Correspondence
Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., Limited
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Shanghai native
papers 81 condidate for the post of Special Ambassador to 82 King Edward's coronation in the person of the 32 son of Prince Ching, who has moreover a good
chance of being selected.
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Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co., Ld. 84 Hongkong Ice Company, Limited.
Supreme Court
Cricket
Football
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
From a Cottage in Kowloon
British and Japanese Prestige on the Yangtsze Hongkong and Port News Commercial... Shipping
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BIRTHS.
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Sir Clande MacDonald, British Minister to Tokyo, telegraphed to London a few days ago that Prince Komatsu will proceed to England to represent the Japanese Emperor at the 87 coronation of King Edward VII.
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The N.-C. Daily News gives the following as 88 the disposition of the first indemnity payment from China to the Powers:-Russia, 29 per 89 cent; Germany, 20; France, 15.7; Great 39 Britain, 11; Japan, 8; United States, 7; Italy, 6; Belgium, 2; Austria-Hungary 1; Holland, 92 0.2; Spain, 0.1. Our contemporary nuder. slands that this is only a temporary arrange-
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On the 18th January, at Nagasaki, the wife of J. KRAUSS, of a daughter.
On the 18th January, at the Wesleyan Mission, Hankow, the wife of the Rev. H. B, SUTTON, of
8 son.
On the 20th January, at Pootung, the wife of H. M. THOMPSON, I. M. Customs, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 6th January, CHARLES HUNT, Imperial Maritime Customs, to EMMA LOUIZA, only daugh-
ter of L. J. TANDBERG..
On the 21st January, at the Church of Our Saviour, Broadway, Shanghai, by the Rev. Benj, L. Ancell, MARGARET, daughter of Mrs. ELIZA MACPHERSON, of Philadelphia, U.S.A, to ALBERT OWEN LOOSLEY, of Ningpo.
DEATHS.
• On the 21st November, at his residence, Aner- ley, Surrey, EDMUND READ, eldest son of the late EDMUND READ, formery of Shanghai and Canton, aged 84 years.
On the 22nd January, at No. 11, West End Lane, Shanghai, WINIFRED DOROTHY, second daughter of BENJAMIN and FANNY. WANSTAL, aged 9 years.
ment, the commission being not yet definitely
No. 5
A correspondent writes to a vernacular jour- nal in Shanghai:--” According to a report in the Shanghai foreign press, the Court has issued a Decree for the decapitation of the notorious Tung Fuhsiang. But, from the most reliable authority here, I learn that such a Decree was never issued. The Court has only decreed the perpetual imprisonment of Tong Fuhsiang. This Decree was issued on the 4th instant when the Court was still in Pao- tingfu."
The Peking correspondent of the N.-C. Daily- News writes:-The Russian Minister wrote lately to the Chinese Plenipotentiaries as follows: I have an agreement made with the late Li Hung-chang that no other nation shall have anything to do with any future foreign-disci- plined army of the Peiyang. I am therefore surprised that your Government is about to engage Japanese military officers to organise and discipline the new army of the Peiyang. As such a step affects the interests of my country, I must ask for a reply to my despatch.' To this the Plenipotentiaries replied: disciplined army of the Peiyang is intended for the suppression of malcontents and desperadoes. There is no other object in view. With refer- ence to the engagement of Japanese officers bis is only a report without any founda- tion."
The
Viceroy Yuan Shikai, according to the N.-C. Daily News Peking correspondent, has secretly reforms in the formation of the Chêngwa Ch'u memorialised the Throne suggesting certain (Board of Government Affairs) :-(1) That there should be engaged an Advisory Staff consist- ing of a Briton, an American, a Japanese, a Russian, a German, and a Frenchman. (2) The officials of each province shall send two or three well-known enlightened and experienced The Universal Gazette learns from a recent arrival from Kirin, Central Manchuria, that men, who thoroughly understand the needs and the Russians, with the intention of introducing condition of their own provinces, who shall form Russian colonists into the country, have pre-invite and avail of the services of men who have an advisory staff on provincial affairs. (3) To tended to the Manchurian officials that there is a serious famine in Siberia and Russia, and there-
constituted or instructed.
fore ask leave for 10,000 Russian "refugees," including their women and children, to settle for a time in Kirin, and also that several thousand huts be built there for the "refugees" by the Chinese officials. The Tartar General of Kirin, Chang, is therefore in a quandary, and called recently on the Russian Governor at Harbin asking that the entrance of the “refugees" into Kirin be deferred until the spring, to give him time to arrange the
matter.
A. Shanghai native paper stated last week that the Central Government at Peking has sent peremptory orders to the provincial authorities at Canton commanding the turning over to the control of the Imperial Maritime Customs in that city without delay the ordinary native customs administration. This arose
been abroad and possess good education and experience, regardless of the rank they hold. (4) To select able and talented men from the Foreign Ministry. The above were four of Viceroy Yuan's principal suggestions for the reform of the Government.
According to a Chinese report from Tientsin, the foreign Ministers have agreed to hand back the administration of the city of Tientsin to the Chinese authorities on the 5th March next. The same authority states that before his death the late Li Hung-chang was approached by the Italian authorities, who requested him to use his influence to persuade the Chinese Government to grant them a concession at Tientsin. But Li Hung-chang rejected the demand and the Italians felt very much disappointed. Subsequ ently, however, they seized a large piece of land on which are many native houses, on the east
Hongkong Weekly Press through strong opposition to the new step bank of the Tientain River. They have since
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by vested interests in Canton, amounting almost to resistance vi et armis. According to news received in Hongkong on Thursday, the Hoppo of Canton has been obliged to yield to the Imperial orders and the native customs are about to pass into the hands of the I. M. C. authorities. The change is to be effected as There have been no arrivals of mails during from the 8th of February, Chinese New Year's
Day. the week.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
improved the roads and built a Police Station on the land. But they impose a greater tax on the houses within the limits of the land than that collected in Tientsin by the Tientsin Provisional Government. It is said that the Board of Foreign Affairs in Peking will take up the matter in hand soon and ask the Italians why they took the land before the Chinese Government consented.
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