EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Messrs. Conger, Bainbridge, and Ragsdale have been appointed to a commission to ascertain .816 the damages which American citizens sustained .317 through the Boxer rising.
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The Proposed King's Park National Imitativeness. Departure of the Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart 318 The Health of Hongkong.
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Macao and the Plague..
Cholera Victims in Canton
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Suicide of Mr. O. Wegener.
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Hongkong in. 1901.
The Harbour Master's Report..
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Opening of Kowloon School..
The Union Church.
Macao
Pakhoi.
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Olivers Freehold Mines, Ld. Queen Mines, Ld.
Supreme Court
Shooting March--Army v Navy Lawn Tennis
Hongkong Chess Club
Trade at Newchwang
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King Edward has received His Highness the Crown Prince of Siam, and conferred upon him the Grand Cross of the Victorian Order on the occasion of his attaining his majority..
The Washington Senate has adopted the Bill renewing the Chinese Exclusion law. The Bill applies also to American insular territory, but admits official teachers, students, merchants, and travellers everywhere.
In addition to the Volunteers who are going home to take part in the Coronation festivities, .328 it is reported that detachments of Police, the 328 Hongkong Regiment, Chinese-Sappers and 329 Miners, and 1st Chinese Regiment, from Wei 328 | baiwei, will be sent.
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The Vladivostock Stock Exchange com- mittee has petitioned the Government to station a Customs cordon on the land routes from Manchuris and Cores, as the stream of foreign goods entering Manchuria rendered ....331 Russian competition almost impossible.
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On the 14th April, at No. 23, Szechuan Road, Shanghai, the wife of TH. MAYER, of a daughter.
́ MARRIAGES.
On the 2nd April, at Manila, P.I., STEPHEN HERBERT CHAMBERS, of Kentucky, U. S. A., to AMELIA (MILLIK), second daughter of T. DAVID- SON, Secretary; U.S. Consulate-General, Singapore. On the 8th April, at S. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, by the Rev. W. H. C. Dunkerley, JAMES RICHARD CHADDOCK, of Pahang, to EVA ALICE, Second daughter of ARTHUR MACGLENCHY, of Pahang, late of Castlemaine, Victoria.
On the 12th April, at S. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, by the Rev. W. H. C. Dunkerley, FREDERICH WEHEIM LORENZ FRITSCHE, of Ham- burg, to CHRISTINA ISABELLA, daughter of E. WOODWORTH, 8.8. Pin Seng.
DEATHS.
On the 13th April, at the General Hospital, Singapore, JAMES ELLEETOS, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, aged 25 years.
On the night of the 19th April, at his residence, Horse Repository, JOHN KENNEDY, aged 56 years, B. MIDDLETON (Green Island Cement Company), of New Zealand, died suddenly of cholera, at Fat Shan, near Canton. Interred in the English Cemetery, Canton, on the 23rd inst. New Zealand papers please copy.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS." ~*~- The English mail of the 28th March ar rived, per P. & O. steamer Sumatra, on the 24th April (27 days).
It is reported from Manchuria that the branch line to Moukden is being pushed on very rapidly and construction-trains should be run- ning throughout its length in less than a month. Very strict orders prevail with regard to all non-Russian travellers on the railway, and military passports are absolutely necessary.
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Major-General Creagh, V.C., presided on the 8th inst. at a meeting at the Gordon Hall, Ti ntsin, convened by Mr. Harding, when a Mounted Volunteer Corps was constituted and the first members enrolled.
It is persistently stated that the Japanese Government, in apportioning their new naval Vickers. Sons, and Maxim, for a first-class programme, have placed an order with Messrs.
be of somewhat similar contraction to the battleship. This vessel, it is understood, is to
battleship Mikasa, which Messrs. Vickers recently handed over to the Japanese. The Mikasa is, up to the present, the most formidable warship afloat.
As already reported. Prince Komatsu, who is going to England to be present on behalf of the Japanese Emperor at the Coronation of King Edward, is taking valuab'e presents to the Royal House of England from the Emperor. In addition to these presents, the Grand Order of Merit and the Collar of the Chrysanthemum Order will be bestowed on King Edward, the. First Order of the Crown on Queen Alexandra, and the Grand Cordon of the Chrysanthemum on the Prince of Wales.
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It is reported from nativo Newchwang that a mob of over forty Russian beggars have recently invaded that port, who infest the Chinese quarters and lake by force. anything they may see and desire from the counters of shops or the stalls and stands of petty vendors and hawkers. The natives dare not resist for fear of the Russian military patrols assisting their ragged countrymen, thereby causing the sufferers to lose more then if the beggars were allowed their own way.
The death is annonuced at Peking on the 5th
A Paolingfu despatch to the N.-C. Daily inst., after a long illness, of Marquis Li, the eldest News states that a number of towns in the son and heir of the late first Marquis Li Hung-prefectures of Taming, Chibli, have joined chang, at the age of 40. He died of diphtheria the rising against the authorities levying and leaves a sou, aged 21, to inherit the title and the missionary indemnity in that province, vast wealth left by the first Marquis. Before and that the movement had assumed such inboriting the title the last Marquis Li was serions proportions that the Major-General of Taming Circuit was powerless to suppress it. known as Li Ching-shê.
Further, that Viceroy Yuan Shikai had been applied to for aid and that two of his disciplined regiments had left Paoting on the 13th instant for the scene of disturbance. A Taotai who had been previously sent by the Viceroy to investigate matters was badly mobbed and had to flee for his life.
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The Jupauese Star-ding Squadron is at present The squadron consists engaged in manœuvres. of forty-five battleships, cruisers and gun-boats, in addition to twenty-five torpedo-destroyers and torpedo-boats. Operations had to be suspended through bad weather on the 9th inst. and two the harbour of torpedo-boats put into Hosojima, presumably for slight repairs.
A Japanese de patch, dated. Tientsin, 9th April, says The international Fettlement at Amoy having been approved, the Japanese Minister bas demanded that two, thousand Formosans now residing in Fobkien should be granted the right of participating in the control of the public affairs of the Settlement, but the demand has been refused by the Ministers of the other Powers.
A Peking telegram, dated the 12th inst., to the Osaka Osahi says:—It is believed that a proposal to open Moukden, Harbin, and other important places in Manchuria fo foreign trade will be made during the negotiations on the revision of Trea' ies of Commerce with China, as the first step for the throwing open of Man- churia: The proposal will be made by Japan, Great Britain and the United States.
Owing to the unexpected opposition shown by the high provincial authorities to the quer- tion of the constitution of the Board which is intended to control the conservation of the Whangpo River, says the N.-C. Daily News, it is reported in local mandarin circles that the Consuls in Shanghai have referred the matter to the Ministers of the Foreign Powers at Pek- ing to come to a definite settlement of the question with the Chinese Plenipotentiaries. There is a feeling here, however, that, à la Chinoise, the Plenipotentiaries will reply that having already given their consent " on an Im- perial basis," the local conditions of the question lie with the provincial authorities," "and" the Foreign Ministers will finally be asked to refer the matter back again to Shanghai, and see-sawing back and forth, until the Go become tired with the matter, or new succeed them, when the question will, be shelved for a time.
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