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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland
Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LV.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c. ......
China Coronation Honours .......
The_Carryingout of Professor Simp un's
Recommendations .. ......
Leading Articles :-
King Edward's Illness
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HONGKONG. MONDAY, 30TH JUNE, 1902.
Hongkong Weekly Press
No. 20
A correspondant telegraphs from Chengtu, Szechuan, that the Boxer propaganda has been proceeding steadily in the district since Feb- ·
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, Des Vœux ROAD C1.rary. On the 17th June the Yuughsión mission LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.0.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
station was destroyed and a Methodist preacher (presumably a native) and nine members of the mission were beheaded, The Chungking cor- respondent of the North.China Daily News telegraphs that an insurr, ction has broken out in the sub-prefecturo of Tzechou, in the same province. The officials are helpless, and matters are serious.
The American mail of the 27th May arrived; per O. & O. steamer Coptic, on the 24th June. (28 days); and the German mail of the 27th 489 May arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Sachsen,nounced are a baronetcy for Sir Thomas Jack-
on the 25th June (29 days).
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. Hongkong Harbour Control
.481
The Foreign Community'
481
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The United States and the Philippines
.48.
Postponement of the Coronation
.482
Hongkong legislative Council
484
Hongkong Sanitary Board
187
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
.488
The Health of Hongkong.
The Cautón Bun
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.489
Hongkong Education in 1901.
489
The Fire Brigade in 1901..
.490
The Chinese and the Pabi'c Health Bill
490
Canton
491
Swafow
491
Weihaiwel
491
Pakhoi...vox
Northern Notes
Correspondence
Watkins, Ld.
Hongkong Electric Co., Id.
Supreme Court
The Stranding of the Robert Dickenson
The Shanghai Newspaper Libel Case
Coronation Celebration Fund.....!
Water Return...
Royal Hongkong Golf Club
The Road Dispute at Ningpo.. 'International Affairs in Corea
Affairs at Dalny
Police Detention in Japan
Hongkong Volunteer Corps Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
493 493
493
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The event of the week of course has been the illness of King Edward. Particulars of the local reception of the news, alterations of .493 arrangements, etc., will be found on pp. 482-484.
494
The China Coronation contingent, 494
including 405 Hongkong's representatives, arrived in England 495 on the 23rd instant. 496
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497 It is now settled that a sixth regiment of 497 Native Infantry from India shall be included 497 in the relifs for China. The regiment selected
is the 14th Bombay Iufantry.
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498 499 500 .501
On the 15th June, at Shanghai, the wife of Major R. SOUTHEY, 30th Baluchis, of a son.
On the 15th June, at Tanglin, Singapore, the wife of Captain C. M. O'REILLY, 3rd M.L.I., of a daughter.
On the 17th June, at 199, Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, the wife of ERICH WILLKOMM, of a daughter.
On the 19th June, at 14, Whangpoo Road, Shanghai, the wife of A. W. DANFORTH, of a daughter,
On the 23rd June, at Lewknor, Mount Gough, Peak, the wife of MARCUS WARRE SLADE, Barrister at-law, of a daughter,
On the 25th June, at No. 6, Moreton Terrace, Shaukiwan Road, the wife of A. F. RAMSEY, of a
Bon.
MARRIAGES.
On the 14th June, at H. I. G. M.'s Consulate, and afterwards at the German Church, Shanghai, PAUL WESTENDORFF, to ANITA L'OHBs, both of Hamburg.
On the 18th June, at St. Joseph's Church, Shanghai, by the Rev. Father Kennelly, S.J., LESLIE HANBARD, the eldest son of Dr. J. E. GABB, of London, England, to Sorms, the eldest daughter of D. BEALE, of 8.8. Sanuki Maru.
DEATHS.
On the 13th Juno," at Chefoo, ELLEN, wife of JAMES F. BROUMTON, of the China Inland Mis- sion, Shanghai.
On the 22nd inst., at 520 am., at "Belvior," one time Captain of the China and Manila 8. S. Colla 8. Bemeralda, aged 50 years.
Wanchai Road, Groner Augustus TaYLEE, at
At Shanghai, Walter Tudway, last surviving son of the late A. C. Paires, of Whitstone, Shepton Mallét, aged 56 years.
Bishop Iunoc nte has been appointed chief of the Russian Orthodox Mission at Peking. A sum of £16,500 has been granted to the Bishop tor store the Mission, and the maintenance grant has been doubled.
The Diploma'ic Corps at Peking on the 14th inst. arranged the final distribution of the Tls. 450,00,000 War Indemnity, by reducing in proportion the claims of each of the interested States 1 his agreement was made unanimously. Barou Komura, Japanese Foreign Minister. has notified that the agreement relating to a Japanese settlement in Masampo, Corea, which
two countries, has been ratified, and will co-e has been signed by the representatives of the
in'o effect immediately.
A Japaneso papers states that, as the reports of the Chinese Government respecting the si uation in Kwangsi ato regarded as very untrustworthy, officers will shortly be sent by the Japanese General Ary Staff Department ́to report on the situation in the province.
The Chinese cruiser Kdi-Chih was blown up at her moorings at Hsiakwan, near Nanking, at 12.30 on the 22nd instant. About 159 lives were lost.
The catastrophe was due to the explosion of a powder-magazine. The Kai-Chih was a cruiser of 2,110 tons and 1.600 i.h.p. Built in 1882, she carried two 8.2 in., six 5.9. in, and eleven smaller guns, and her speed was 14.5 knots
Lord Cranborne, answering a question by Sir Charles Dilke in the House of Commons on the 23rd, declined to make a statement as to the the Powers in the matter of the evacuation of attitude of the individual representatives of Tientsin. The London Daily News, referring to the delay in the withdrawal of the troops, says that the policy of dishonestly procrasti nating in this way is not helping to regenerate China.
The Far Eastern Honours at present, an-
son, a knighthood for the Hon. C P. Chater, the G.C.M.G. for Sir Ernest Satow, the K.C.M.G. for Mr. l'e'ham Warren, H.M, Consul at Shanghai, the C M.G. (as well, ap- parently, as the Companionship of the Imperial Service Order) for the Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, and the Companionship of the Impe ial Service Order for Mr. W. J. Archer, H.M. Consul at Bangkok. and Mr. G. T. Hare, Secretary for Chinese Affairs, F.M.S.
According to a report made by Yang Tak, Chinese Secretary for the Army, who was sent from Peking to Mongolia to report on the situation there, the de-igns of Rassia in Mongolia ro unmistakable. If the territory
dia not receive able administrators the position would be very dangerous. The above is contained in a Peking dispatch to the Asahi, which goes on to say that Yuug Tuk spoke of the great difficulties experienced in the course of his journey through Mongoli, saying that at ore time he scarcely expected to return to Peking alive.
It is reported in local mandariu circles, says the N.-C. Daily News, that Mr. Odagiri, Japanese Consul-General here, who has been appointed Commercial Commissioner by the Japaneso Government to negotiate the new tariff with the Chinese Commercial Commis sieners, Sheng Kung-pao and Lu Hai-buan, had his first formal meeting with the latter on Monday afternoop. Messrs. Taylor and Hip- pesley, Commissioner of the I. M. Customs, were also present on the occasion, while Mr. Odagiri was accompanied by the Japanese Assistant: Commercial Commissioner and an interpreter.
With reference to the so-called rebellion in• Kwangsi, an European (formerly a Govern ment servant) who is presently in the Colony after some months spent up-country, makes the statement that, although he has been resident in the very heart of the district in which the disturbances are reported to be ruging, he has heard more about the trouble since coming to Hongkong than he did during his sojourn in the interior. He is stationed about 25 miles above Wuchow. There are, he says, a great many soldiers in the neighbourhood, but as for rebels they practically do not exist. Village robberies have been frequent; but these were the result of the poor being famine-stricken owing to the dry season The only capture of
that of 24 men-not a very considerable body rebels" which our informant heard of was of insurgents, it will be admitted, The stories which found ready credence - here as to the s seriousness of the "outbreak” seem to have had their foundation in the imagination of the
tellers.
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