Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Oberland Trade Report.
VOL. LV.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c. .
Leading Articles :---
The Macao Extension Question.................
Tariff Revision
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The Shipping Combination Hongkong and the Tropical School of Medicine361
The Water Famine
The Antecedents of the Anglo-Japanese Agree.
ment
The Manchurian Convention
The Water Supply
The Health of Hongkong.
Dr. P. T. Manson's Funeral ..........
The Kaifong Stowaway Case.......
The Barnes Company at the Theatre Royal Fires in Shanghai Silk-Factories
Bwatow.........
Foochow
Peking
Correspondence Supreme Court
Shat ghai Races-Spring Meeting. Lawn-Tennis
Hongkong Golf Club...
Rifle Shooting Match
Hongkong Chess Club Hongkong and Port News Commercial Shipping
BIRTH.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 10TH MAY, 1902.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Au important Association, after the model of Lloyds, has been formed in Japan, with Prince Arisugawa as President and Prince Konoye as Vice-President.
It is stated that King Edward's reception of Count Matenkata was characterized by great cordiality. The Count afterwards attended an evening Court at Buckingham Palace. He has received innumerable invitations to public functions, including a luncheon at the Mansion House and a dinner given by the Bankers' Association.
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.362 .962 It is reported from Lisbon that no progress .363 has been made with regard to Portugal's claims from China for an extension of the 364 Macao territory, and that the Ministers of the 364 Powers at Peking strongly oppose the claims
The Seculo of Lisbon comments bitterly on
· England's selfishness in giving no support
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to her oldest ally.
Lord Alverstone (formerly Sir Richard .366 Webster) presided this week over a meeting in 366 London to promote more extended and more 367 systematic Church missions in the Far East. 367 A proposal was made to found a second bishopric in North China. The Archbishop of Canter- 367 bury dwelt on the Church's vast responsibility 367 owing to England's relations with China and
Japan.
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On the 27th April, at No. 42, Selegie Rond, Singapore, the wife of SIMON MARBECK, of Kuala Lumpur, of a son.
Į MARRIAGES.
On the 26th April, at S. George's Church, Penang, ly the Rev. Frank W. Haines, B.A., FREDERICK J. t. Ross, Barrister-at-law, Penang, to LUCY MARGARET, widow of the late JOHN ALLAN On the 26th April, at H.B.M. Consulate, and afterwards at St. Joseph's (hurch, Shanghai, by the Rev. Fr. M. Kennelly, S.J., JANE MABEL, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. WILLIAM QUINCEY, of Shanghai, to Giorge J. LincoLN, second son of Mr. and Mrs. GE ROE NETHERTON, of Kilburn, London.
DEATHS.
On the 23rd March, at South Darthmouth, Mass, U.S.A., from paralysis, GEORGE HENRY WHEELER, of the Standard Oil Company of New York.
On the 28th April, at Takaradzun, Japan, EDNA H. THORN, daughter of EDGAR VOORIS and FRANCES HASTINGS THORN, of Yokohama,
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The trial at Singapore of threo Chinese for the murder of Mr. Rutherford on the 9th ult. closed on the 3rd instant, two of the men being sentenced to death, while the third got fourteen Since then, as a years for housebreaking. result of this murder, great severity has been shown in dealing with robbery cases at the Singapore Assizes, and seven men between them got 107 years' imprisonment---over 15 years each
It is stated that Sheng Kungpao has lately received a despatch from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Peking announcing its favourable consideration of the question of establishing Chinese Consulates in important centres of trade in British territories. This despatch it seems wes the outcome of a telegram to the Chinese Foreign Office from Sheng, in which he stated that he had found the British Commissioner, Sir J. Mackay, willing to consider favourably the quest on of the establishment of Chin so consulates in British territories, under the favoured nation clause, and asking whether 1910
clause inserted in the new treaty should be considered as settled.
Rumours are again circulated of a probable visit of the Russian statesman and nancier, the Far East. He will leave
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An Association has been formed in Tokyo for the purpose of founding hospitals in China, inasmuch as such a course is considered the best means of securing Chinese sympathy with Occidental science.
Our Manila correspondent telegraphed on the 4th inst. to the following effect :-Colonel Baldwin's field battery and two battalions, of infantry in Mindanao bare captured Datto Bayan's main fort. The eighty-four survivors in the fort surrendered to the United States troops. The defeat was a crushing one, the Filipino dead piling the trenches The Ameri- cans lost seven officers killed and three officers and thirty-seven men wounded, The second fort is now in view. The Sultan of Taraco bas asked for a conference with the United States authorities.
According to the Universal Gazette the British Minister, Sir E. Satow, and Vice- President Hu Yufen. bave just signed an agreement which provides that Great Britain shall restore the Peking-Shanchalkwan Railway to China on the 20th June next, on condition that the other Powers agree to it. Another provision of the agreement is that British mili- tary officers shall be appointed as Associate Directors of the Railway Administration, to look after matters in connection with the transportu. tion of foreign troops by the railway. However, A Peking telegram of the 2nd inst. to the :-The British-Chinese Ostasiastische Lloyd says :- agreement about the returning of the Shanhai- kwan-Peking Railway, which will take place on June 1st, has been signed.
A Peking despatch of the 28th ult, to the Osaka Asahi savs:-The Minister of a certain Power has addressed a note to one of the Chinese plenip tentiaries with reference to the report that the Chinese Government had agreed to give special privileges to Russia, independent of the Manchurian Convention, before it was signed. The Chinese plenipotentiary replied that the report was unfounded. The foreign Minister went on to ask what the Chinese Govern- ment would do should the repo:t turn out to be true, and the plenipotentiary replied that he could not look into the future. The Uni versal Cazette's Peking correspondent re ports that, in addition to what has already appeared in the Shanghai papers in regard to the Manchurian Convention, there are sixteen special articles which are being kept perfectly secret by M. Lessir and the Chinese plenipo- tentiaries.
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It is reported in Shanghai mandarin circles to the effect that it is proposed to open the following cities to International trade this year, or early bext:-Chibli province: the prefectural city of Shuntienfa (Peking); Kwangtung province: the district city of Chiangmeuhaien
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 4th April arrived, per M. M. steamer Laos, on the 6th May (32 days); the Canadian mail of the 15th April arrived, per C. P. R. steamer Empress of Japan, on the 6th May (22 days); and the English mail of the 12th April arrived, per P. & O. steamer Ballaarat, on the 8th May (26 days).
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and travelling by the Siberian Railway to Vladivostock, will remain there about a week. From Vladivostock he will again take the rail way to the Liaotung peninsula, callin' at Nicholesk and Harbin en route. Dalny will b specially inspected. By this the end of July will have been reached and subsequently the Minister will proceed to Tientsin and Peking, thence retracing his steps to Corea, whence, after visiting Seoul, Chemulpo, Masampo and other places, he will cross to Nagasaki, and go on to Kobe, Kyoto, Yokohama and Tokyo. At the end of August or the beginning of Sep. tember, Mr. de Witte will return to Russia, via Vladivostock,
province: the prefectural cities of Changshafu and Changtèfu; Anhwei province: the pre- fectural city of Anch'ingfu (Nganking); Szechuan province: the prefectural city of Changtufu and the departmental city of Hsuchou; and Kiangsi province: the inde- pendent sub-prefectural city of Hukon. (f these eight cities, four are provincial capitals and the headquarters of the Governors or Viceroy of the provinces concerned, that is to say, Shuntien (Governor of Peking); Ch'angsha (Governor of Hunan); An'ching or Nganking. (Governor of Anhui); and Chễngtu (Viceroy of Szechuan),
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