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our Parisian contemporary does explain Nor can we. The Novoe remya speaks of "a breach of the Anglo- Russian Railway Agreement of 1899.' This agreement states in its second clause:- "Great Britain, on her part, engages not to seek for her own account, or on behalf “of British subjects or of others, any rail. way concessions to the north of the Great "Wall of China, and not to obstruct, directly or indirectly, applicatio as for rail- way concessions in that region supported Now by the Russian Government." eighty miles north of Shanhaikwan is of course north also of the Great Wall, and a literal interpretation of Sir ERNEST SATOW'S agreement, as summarised above, is in con- flict with this clause. However, the exact wording of the convention of the 29th April has yet to be seen, and, as we have said, the North-China Daily News correspondent has an explanation of the object of the provision in question. We should like to call atten- tion to a note written on the 16th (28th) April, 1899, by Count MOURAVIEFF to Sir CHARLES SCOTT, which was intended to complete the notes exchanged respecting the partition of spheres for concessions,"
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[June 2, 1902. Nagasaki to Weihaiwei, will then divide, part remaining in the Gulf of Pechili and the remainder coming to this port. It seems possible that the suggestion of the PRINCE OF WALES for a worldwide British naval celebration has brought about a modification of the former scheme, which may have contemplated a greater display at Yoko- hama. All this, however, is merely surmise. Fortunately, owing to the size of our fleet on this station, it is open to combine fairly imposing displays here and at Weihaiwei with the visit of a detachment of warships to the principal port of our new allies." BLAKE PIER AND THE CLOCK. TOWER.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
In 1874 he became Chief Chief Justice. Justice of the Leeward Islands, whence he proceeded in the same year to take up the position of Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, having received the honour of a knighthood. In 1876 he was transferrel to a similar post at the Foreign Office, wherein he became permanent Under-Secretary of His diplomatic abilities State in 1882. caused him to be appointed First British Delegate to the Conference at Paris for drawing up an act relating to the navigation of the Suez Canel. The next step was to the post of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United Ten years more saw States in 1899.
him created first Baron PAUNOEFOTE of
Preston, and appointed as First British Delegate to the Hague Peace Conference-- a bigh proof of the regard in which his Government held him. No better recom- mendation, indeed, to such a position could be found than his ten years' occupation of the British Embassy at Washington during a period when many a difficult question was discussed between the British and United States authorities.
we are sure conduct Was that the news of Lord PAUNCEFOTE's death
such that
Y his
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(Daily Press, 29th May.) The present wet and inclement weather gives great prominence to the need for a shelter at Blake Pier. When the pier was constructed this necessity was fully recog nised, and it formed part of the design for the new Clock Tower to be erected at the head of the pier. The plan for the Clock Tower was duly selected, and this included waiting-rooms in the basement of the structure for the use of passengers arriving As usual, at or leaving from this pier. "been agreed to record in the present has been received with regret in the States, there was about a year's delay in getting as envoy to which he had died" in harness,'
this eminently desirable and useful work "additional note the Agreement arrived at
as it is with sincere sorrow in the placed on the estimates, but this was done "with regard to the line Shankaikuan-
Newchwang, for the construction of which British Empire. Though doubtless there by Governor Sir HENRY BLAKE before a loan has been already contracted by the are but very few now in Hongkong who he left for England, and it was fondly hoped "Chinese Government with the Shanghai-ean remember Mr. J. PAUNCEFOTE when he that tenders would be called for at once was practising as a barrister in the early and the work proceeded with. As a matter "Hongkong Bank, acting on behalf of the "British and Chinese Corporation. The sixties or when he attained the Attorney-of fact, we believe, the tenders were called “general arrangement established by the Generalship in 1866, and few even who for, but, so far as we can judge, the work is not being proceeded with. What the "above-mentioned notes is not to infringe know that Lord PAUNCEFOTE had any con-
reason may be we are at a loss to imagine, in any way the rights acquired under the nection with Hongkong, yet he alway's took said loan contract, and the Chinese great interest in this Colony and was its unless it be that the Public Works Depart- "Government is at liberty to appoint both genuine well-wisher. It may be remembered ment is too busy to look after it. It can "an English engineer and an European that the portrait of Lord PAUNCEFOTE hardly be a question of cost, for the erecting serves as the frontispiece to a book on
of the Tower has been sanctioned, and the "accountant to supervise the construction "of the line in question and the expenditure Colonial and American Attorneys-General by question of a few thousand dollars more our local Registrar of the Supreme Court,
or less should not be allowed to delay "of the money appropriated to it. But it
remains well understood that this fact Mr. J. W. NORTON-KYSHE. This portrait the construction of a work so greatly required. Plake Pior is the principal "cannot be taken as constituting a right and another are in the Supreme "of property or foreign control, and that library. Hongkong has not forgotten al- public landing-place in the Colony, and is the line in question is to remain a Chinese together the connection of the deceased of course largely used, but it provides no line, subject to the control of the Chinese with the island, and joins sincerely in shelter either from the drenching torrents
mourning his loss.
of rain with which, to our joy, we have «Government, and cannot be mortgaged or
been favoured this month, or from the alienated to a non-Chinese Company."
blinding glare of the tropical sun. It is no Now we may well ask, what about the It has
slight ordeal for ladies, for instance, to Shanhaik wan-Newchwang line ?
be exposed to the elements when going to not been restored to Chiva, and if it is to
see friends off to a steamer, or when wait- His be restored, will the restoration be bona-fide ?
ing for a boat or steam-launch. Russian conduct with regard to the railways during the troubles up north was marked
Excellency the Governor was quite alive to by constant bad faith. The ominous way
the importance of providing for the shelter in which China is being reminded of the
of passengers at this pier, and wished the work to be executed with all possible des. patch; he will, we imagine, be somewhat surprised and disappointed to see that no progress has been made with it on his return. We doubt pot Major-General Sir WILLIAM GASCOIGNE will be equally con- cerned at the delay, when his attention is directed to it, for His Excellency has always evinced a warm interest in the prosecution of works of utility in the Colony. We the erection of the Tower and shelters will trust that, in the interests of the public, soon be undertaken, for the work is not only necessary, but also greatly to be desired in order to get rid of the existing Clock Tower, as it constitutes a serious obstruc tion to passenger traffic in Queen's Road and Pedder Street, besides blocking out a
adjoining buildings. great deal of light and air from the
conditional nature of the evacuation of Manchuria does not promise well for the future.
LORD PAUNCEFOTE'S DEATH.
(Daily Press, 28th May.) The death of Lord PAUNCEFOTE can scarcely be considered less than a national calamity, so ́eminent have been the late diplomatist's services to his country. It is true that only within the past few months an attempt has been made in Germany to itapugn his attitude toward the United States in the matter of the Spanish- American War; but the calm with which the purported revelation was received in the United States is a fitting commentary on the attempt. Born in 1828, JULIAN PAUN-
was educated on the Continent and Marlborough College and proceeded to Inner Temple in 1852. Coming to Hong kong, his first appointment of importance as to the post of Attorney-General in this sland in 1866, after holding the Acting post 1865- In 1869 and 1872 he was our Acting
THE CORONATION AND THE NAVY.
(Daily Press, 30th May.) It is not perfectly clear from REUTER'S telegram what are the exact arrangements for the combined British naval celebration all over the world on the 26th June. We
We were
are told that a division of men-of-war will be sent to each of the principal ports on each station, but we do not know whether this means British ports only or others as well. On this station, for instance, will the celebrations take place at Hongkong and Weihaiwei_alone or also at Shanghai and the Japanese coast? informed some time ago by several leading Japanese papers that the British and Japanese fleets would hold festivities at Yokohama in honour of King EDWARD's Coronation, and it seems intrinsically pro- bable, in view of the newly formed alliance, that some such ceremony should take place. There is now a considerable British squa- dron in Yokohama harbour, including the four battleships Glory, Albion, Goliath, and Certain Japanese journals have Ocean. stated that these vessels, with the Blenheim, Endymion, and Alacrity will remain at Yokohama until after the day of the On the other Coronation celebration. hand, it is reported from Tokyo that the squadron will leave Yokohama at the end of the present month and, sailing by Kobe and
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*Subsequent advices from Yokohama seem to make it clear that it has been decided to have no naval display-as far as British vessels are concerned at Yokohama, whose foreign re- sidents are said to be greatly disappointed. --ED. D..P.
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