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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
Vol. LV.]
AND
Chira Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
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Leading Articles:-
Pesce in South Africs
Communications of the British Empire
Mr. Chadwick and the Water Question President Roosevelt and the Filipinos
Telegrams:.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 7TH JUNE, 1902.
At the end of May, the first shipment left Manchester of 500 bales of goods destined for China and Japan via Vancouver. It is affirmed 425 that a distinct saving will be made by adopting
this route.
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The U.S. Senate has adopted Mr. J. D. 426 Long's amendment to the Philippines Govern- 428 ment Bill granting the Filipinos the Bill of 428 Rights section of the United States constitution, 428 with the exception of the right to trial by jury
and the privilege of bearing arms.
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Hongkong Legislative Council
Vacancies on the Legislative Council
Departure of the Hon. T. H. Whitehead
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Sinking of the Pakshan
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Justions of the Peace
Late Petty Officer Grounds...
The Health of Hongkong..
Cholers at Macao
The Hongkong Coronation Contingent
Bairon
Peking
Northern Notea ..........
Correspondence
Hongkong Chess Club
Land Dispute at Ningpo'.. Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
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The Messageries Maritimes as. Annam ran on to a rock off Gutzlaff Point on Wednesday 436 night. Assistance was sent at once and the 437 | Annum was refloated. She anchored off Gutz- 437 laff, leaking badly in her fore-compartment. A tender was despatched to land the passengers
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and mails.
A Japanese capitalist made a proposal to H.E. Chang Chih-tung to purchase the Wuchang and Hanyang cotton-mills, butthe project was 440 abandoned owing to the strong opposition of 442 the Grand Council and the Foreign Office. Viceroy Chang Chih-tung now desires to lease the cotton mills, the silk filature and hemp factory to Chinese merchants.
On the 29th May, at No. 11, Yuen Ming Yuen Road, Shanghai, the wife of WM. MCAUSLAN, of a daughter.
DEATHS.
On the 15th May, at 7, Logan Road, Penang, WINFRED CARFRAR, the wife of . M. DUNDAS- MOUAT.
On the 25th May, at Swatow, PETER GARRIOCK, Master of 8.8. Chefoo.
It is reported from Paris that the former Governor-General of Indo-China, M. Doumer, will probably be appointed Minis er either of Foreign Affairs or of the Colonies. This would be considered as the inauguration of a Great Asiatic policy of France, says the Ostasiatische Lloyd. In this case, an appropriate Comment would be "Look out for squalls!”
In view of the fact that plague and cholera is raging at Manila, Hongkong, and Formosa, says
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The Japan Gusette learns from a reliable source that negotiations between Sir Claude MacDonald, British Minister, and the Foreign Office, regarding the Gilmour case, have been practically brought to a settlement. Upon the arrival of a reply from England, the case, it is stated, will come formally to an end.
Viceroy Kwei Chun of Szechuen has just issued a proclamation, requesting the people to guard themselves against the misleading reports, purposely fabricated by ill-disposed people for the purpose of creating disturbances, and draw. ing their attention to the great calamity which the late Boxer insurrection has brought on the Empire. The Viceroy's proclamation con.. oludes by offering a reward of Tls. 300 for the capture of any Boxer ringleader within the limits of Szechuen province.
The 8.8. Ajax, bound for Shanghai and Yokohama, touched a reef off Jeddah, in the Red Sea, telegraphed our London correspondent
on the 4th instant. Her two holds are full of
water, and she has been beached. The Ajax is a stern-screw steamer of 7,040 tons, and was built at Greenock, on the Clyde, in 1900, by' Scott & Co. Her dimensions are:-Length, 442ft,; ̈breadth, 52ft. 8in.; depth, 32ft. lin. The steamer, the port of registry of which is Liverpool, is owned by the Ocean Steamship Co., of whom Messrs. Butterfield & Swire are the local agents.
Hongkong Weekly Press Tokyo telegram, and that cholera has also 22nd and 90th Bombay Infantry and the 5th
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, Des Vœux ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREKT, EC.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English mail of the 9th May arrived, pør P. & 0. steamer Parramatta, on the 5th June (27 days).
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Russia has ordered from the firm of Smulders, of Rotterdam, a new dredger for Port Arthur, costing £33,000 sterling.
Mr. Lionel Charles Hopkins has been ap- pointed. Consul-General for the Provinces of Chihli and Shenai, to reside at Tientsin.
The Earl of Minto's disallowance of Acts passed in British Columbia imposing disabilities on the Japanese has been approved by the British Government.
A nephew of Li Hung-chang is said to be going to the Philippines as Chinese Consul. in sucosssion to Chen Ye chiang, who arrived în Horgkong the other day from Manila.
The Chinese Minister to Tokyo, H.E. Tsai's, alleged secret despatch advising,he suspension of the sending of Mudents to Japan has been now definitel
be a forgery devised by
Thai merely suggested
selecting the students'
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A despatch dated Simla, 17th May, says.- The movements of troops announced to be car- ried out in June and July included the return to India of the 2nd Rajputs, the 31st Burma Light Infantry, the 4th Punjab Infantry, the - 1st Battalion 4th Gurkhas, the 14th Sikhs, the broken out at Shanghai, the Japanese Home Infantry Hyderabad Contingent, and also the Department has is ned instructions to the despatch to China of five regiments. The fol- Marine Quarantine Offices at Yokohama, Kobe, lowing regiments have been selected to proceed to China in relief and are likely to start shortly. Nagasaki, and Moji ordering the officials to exercise strict medical inspection on all vessels The 10th Jas from Barrackpore, the 3rd coming from the above mentioned places, Burma Irfantry from Rangoon, the 21st Pun-> A Peking correspondent writes to Tientsin:-jab Infantry from Jubbulpore, the 30th Punjab Echoes of the stir over the Railway Agreement Infantry from Mooltan, and the 10th Bombay will of course have reached Tientsin; I need Infantry from Ahmedabad. Should eventually a sixth regiment be sent, it will be the 4th not say the business caused a lot of talk up here,
how much the Minister's action Bombay Infantry from Sangor. All regiments nor need I say and bearing throughout the negociations have go on field-service strength in men and peace gratified his co-nationals in the Capital. I strength as regards officer, fancy the Union Jack at the Ch'ien Men Station will be a good deal weather-worn before it is finally hauled down,
The Japanese newspaper Nippon strongly opposes the proposed extension of the Japanese Navy and says:-The only course left now is to maintain the existing force of the Navy. If time should como when a surplus of revenue is realised, then the extension of the Navy may be undertaken. At present such a course would only provoke the hostile feeling of the Powers on the one hand, and paralyse the business of the Empire on the other.
General Fukushima's attendance at the ceremony of the Coronation of King Edward is not the sole object of his journey. The Japanese General goes to England to arrange.| matters relating to the Army necessary as a result of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, just as Admiral 1juin will arrange matters relating to the Navy. At first General Terauchi was selected for the mission, but his appointment as Minister for War requires his presence at home.
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The Swatow correspondent of our Shanghai morning contemporary writes that fighting between so-called Protestants and Roman Catholics has closed. The one side professed, he says, to be composed of followers of Mission A, while the other drew its inspiration from Mission B. In answer to enquires from the
Haien, Mission A disclaimed all jurisdiction in civil matters over lawbreakers, and allowed the law to take its course. Mission B, through its mover in the trouble while entering a petition representative, endeavoured to disown the prime at the Tamen in favour of his followers. But the native workers threatened to resign in a body, and the head of the Mission had not the moral courage to persevere in the right course, and allow the Magistrate a free hand in settling affairs The prime mover, encouraged by his immunity, has sent his mes-engers lo, the camp of his eneniles, offering them the alter stive of joining Mission B, or country. So it is in many places, magistrate, dares not to more
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