THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LV.]
AND
Trade Report.
China Overland Trade
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles:---
The question of Chinese Consulates Plague-fighting in Bombay
Press Correspondents in the Far East
The Development of Kowloon ...........
The Health of Hongkong.
China Squadron Prize Firing..
Big Fire in Wellington Street
Fire on the "Tingsang."
The Manchurian Convention
Death of Captain Burke, C.B.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 24TH MAY, 1902.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
It is stated that the Russian Ministers of War and of Communications will visit the Far East during this summer.
The N.-C. Daily News Peking correspondent telegraphed on the 12th inst.:-The majority of .396 the Ministers of the Grand Council are opposed to Viceroy Yuan Shikai's proposition as to the. .397
engagement of a foreigner to act as Adviser to the Chinese Government.
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The Japanese court-martial at Hiroshima 98 which has been trying Colonel Awaya, Major 398 Hayashi and Paymaster Naito on charges of 399 looting in North China, has given a verdict of "Not Guilty." It is believed the officers will be released from prison immediately.
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Dr. Morrison telegraphs to the Times from Peking that the agreement to restore the Shan- 400 haikwan railway to the Chinese has evoked 100 opposition on the part of several Powers, 401 notably Belgium and Russia, on the ground of
the undertakings which Li Hung-chang gave. 401
Alleged Boxer Propaganda in Honan
Canton
Peking
The Chihli Insurrection
Northern Notes
Correspondence
Supreme Court
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The Star Forry Co., Ld.
A. S. Watson & Co., Ld.
Water Retürn..........
Hongkong Volunteer Corps Hongkong Chess Club Hongkong and Port News Commercial Shipping
DEATHS.
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Lord Cranborne in the House of Commons last week promised that enquiries should be made into the report that the French had 402
acquire certain Chinese territory near Macao. .402
This is the report which we published in our 403 issue of the 15th inst., from our Macao corres- 403 pondent.
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We learn from a correspondent that a new 403 law has gone into effect by which all foreign 404 newspapers arrived at Vladivostock are sent to Moscow to be examined by the censor-which, he says, probably means the last of them. At any rate the Hongkong Weekly Press has not been delivered at Vladivestock since the new law was passed. We wonder whether Manchuria will be affected by this arrangement.
On the 19th April, at Jerusalem, Palastine MENASHE EZEKIEL, formerly of Shanghai, China, aged 71 years.
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On the 5th May, at Yokohama, MAXWELL, only son of Mr. and Ms. MAX SURTH, aged 16 months. On the 8th May, at Colombo, on her way home, MARGARET MCCOWAN, the wife of GEORGE STOTHARD, of Bubana Estate, Teluk Anson, Straits Settlements..
On the 12th May, at Frankfort House, Lloyd Road, Singapore, JESSIE, the youngest daughter of A: KOENITZ, aged 14 years.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 23rd & pril'arrived PH. (termer China, on the 21st May Lys); and the English mail of the 25th per P. & O. steamer Chusan, on 3rd May (28 days),
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Le Courrier Faigonnais says that news from Sam and Laos, or rather from the disturbed district which divides them, is reaching Saigon with more and more difficulty. Another French detachment was ready to leave Saigon at any moment. A telegram of the 13th Just, addres- sed to a friend by M, Klobukowski, French Minister in Siam, says: All is well st Bangkok:"
Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, with officers and staff (nineteen in all), was to be presented to the Japanese Emperor and Empress at 10.30 a.m. on the 16th inst. and then to be invited to dine with the Emperor at noon on the same day. Count Katsura, the Premier, Viscount Tanaka, Minister for the Imperial Household, Marquis Tokudaij, the Grand Chamberlain, Baron Komura, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sir Claude MacDonald, British Minister, and General Okazawa, Chief of the Emperor's Aides-de-Camp, were also to be present. This is the first occasion on which the staff of a foreign Admiral has been invited to dine with the Emperor of Japan.
A conference of the foreign Ministers to Seoul was held at the Japanese Legation in that city on the 6th inst. to consider the invitation of the Corean Government to send special Envoys to the ceremony to be held in Septem- ber in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Corean Emperor's accession to the Throne. It was decided that the Powers should not send special Envoys, but that the respective Minis tors should represent their Governments. The Corean Government is understood to be nogo- tiating with the Russian Minis or to Seon! for the withdrawal of the consent given to the Russian proposal regarding the connection of the telegraph lines at Wija. Their efforts are certain to be without result.
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A Yokohama telegram, datod the 13th May, reports:--The N. Y. K. steamer Kakanoura The Temps (Paris) professes to regard the Maru (1,555 tons) collided with the British railway agreements with China as tantamount twin-screw second-class cruisor Eclipse (5,600 to an, abrogation by England of the policy of tons) yesterday afternoon while leaving the the "open door," and says that England wishes barbour. The Eclipse was badly damaged, a to prevent Russia's acquisition and consolidation hole four feet in diamotor being made amid- of a political hegemony at Peking by the conships, while a guu was also injured. The quest of the Chinese railways The Temps adds cruiser has been taken to Yokohama ( Yo that it is a contionation of the system which kosuka) for repairs. The Wakanours Maru sustained no damage. It is reported that the produced the Anglo-Japanese Alliance.
accident was caused through the steering gear-- of the Wakanoura Mara refusing to act, but it has since been tested and found to be in good order. The Nippou Yusen Kaisha has, apolo- gised to the Admiral (Bir Cyprian Bridge) for the damage douo to the Eclipse.
We reported already, says the Ostasiatische Lloyd, that the 3,000 German Troops who are now in Chibli will be reduced to 1,600 men, who will form the German part of the occupation garrison, until all Powers see fit to withdraw their troops. Orders are now received in Tientsin to send home at once 1,100 men of the German garrison. Three hundred of these have to leave Tongku so promptly that the German Mail, on the 24th inst, can take them on board when leaving Shanghai for Europe.
About 2 p.m. on the 18th inst., says the Kobe Chronicle, Count Katsura, the Premier, and Baron Komura, Minister for Foreign Affairs, immediately on the conclusion of the Cabinet Council, waited on the Emperor at the Imperial l'alace, remaining till about 4 p.m. It is sta ed that the business considered at the Cabinet Council was the policy followed by a certain Power" in regard to the disturbances in China, and the possibility that the Anglo-Japanese Alliance might be brought into practical opera- tion. Ministers reported to the Throne the result of the Council's deliberations.”
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A Tokyo gentleman; who has spent some time at Dalny investigating trade conditions. seen by a correspondent of the Asahi, stated: that all works at Dalny, except the work on the ground, are now suspended. It is believed that projected works in connection with the harbour, &c., will be actively put in operation on the return of the superintendent engineer, who is now in St. Petersburg. The construc tion of the East China Railway would appear be says, to be suspended. : Some of the railway sleepers used have been found to be rotter, but there is no attempt to replace them, the pur- chase of materials having ceased. He further. more states that the report that the authorities disallowed - Japanese travell Manchuria was not correct, not comply with the regulations being so debarred.
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