THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LVI.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
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CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c. Leading Articles:
The Abolition of Lekin
The Commercial Treaty
Hongkong and the Cororation
Railways to Canton
Marcus Island
New Treaty Porta
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 2ND AUGUST, 1902.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
No. 5
M. Doumer is on visit to Russia with the intention of submitting to the Tsar and the heads of the Russian naval and military
Count Matsukata has visited Count Lams- departments his views on the Franco-Russian
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84 Prince Tsai Chen has departed home via
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situation in the Far East
The New York Tribune and Sun discuss from an unfavourable point of view Captain Rosehill's claim to Marous Island. The Standard's cor. respondent says that the disposition is 1 lain on the part of the United States to avoid all An Imperial Decree, dated the 27th alt., contention with Japan. The Tokyo corres
The next Red Cross Congress will take 85 place at Tokyo.
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The Anglo-Chinese Presa and China
The Health of Hongkong
Departure of H.M.S. Terrible
Decoration of a Native Officer
Marcus Island
Report of the P.C.M.O: for 1901
China for the Chinese
Canton
Swatow
Kwangsi
Northern Notes
Correspondence
United Asbestos Oriental Agency, Ld.
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sioner of Commerce.
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Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co., Ld. 93 Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
Supreme Court
Reviews
Hongkong Chess Club
Portsmouth News
Chinese Ministers to Foreign Countries
Japanese Naval Expansion Programmo
The Chinese Eastern Railway
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
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The German Navy office has agreed upon a new type of river gunboats for China. The boats will be of 170 tons and a depth of 61
centimetres
The Corean Government is now enforcing quarantine regulations at Chemulpo on all vessels arriving from or by way of China ports and Hongkong.
Lord Cranborne states that the Government will certainly insist upon equality of treatment 96 for British, French, and German postal 96 packages to China.
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The St. Petersburg jingo paper, the Novoe 97 Vremya, says that now is the time for Russia 97 to act in Corea. She has studied the peninsula 100 quite enough and possesses more information
than Japan does about it.
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On the 17th July, at Swatow, the wife of ULICK WINTOUR, I.M. Customs, of a son.
On the 22nd July,_ at 20, Whangpoo Road, Shanghai, the wife of Dr. FAULUN, of a daughter. On the 24th July, at No. 115, Bubbling Well
Road, Shanghai, the wife of C. GILBERT DAVIES,
of a son.
DEATHS.
On the 10th July, at Weihaiwei, drowned whilst bathing, CHARLES G. ROBERTS, missionary, aged
25 years.
A telegram to Japan from Peking informs of a constant interchange of communications between Russia and China in regard to the evacuation of Manchuria by the Russian troops. The despatch comments on the fact that Russia seems in no hurry to bring this about. What then is to be made of Count Cassini's
assurance to Washington ?
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O Patriota of the 30th ult. states that of late large quantities of arms have been imported into Macao, and adds that their supposed destination-the arms not being required for use in. Macao-is the interior of China. The jour- nal comments on the complications that might arise for the Portuguese Government, and draws the attention of the Ministry of Marine to the
On the 21st July, at the General Hospital, Singapore, WILLIAM FENN ELVEY, aged 44 years. On the 22nd July, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, Tour WHITE, V.C., late 93rd High-matter. landers, aged 78 years.
On the 24th July, at the Shanghai General Hospital, JEANNE CHARLOTTE, wife of Mr. W, J. HUNNEX, aged 43 years.
At Raceview "Cottage," Singapore, VICTOR, son of JOHN PEREIRA, aged 5 years.
It is reported from Peking that certain French and Russian capitalists have lately beeu trying to obtain from the Department of Rail- ways and Mines in the capital a concession to construct a railway between Foochow and Hankow. The proposed railway on leaving the Folkien frontier will enter and pass through
In consequence of the news that Captain Rose- hill is about to leave Honolulu with a party to take possession of Marcus Island, the Japanese Kasagi, with a diplomatic official on board. Government have sent thither the warship
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The N.-C. Daily News says in its "News on Native Affairs "Intimate friends of the enlightened Viceroy Tao Mu of the Two Kwang provinces, whose resignation was recently accepted, state that H.E. was forced to abandon publ e life owing to the bitter and determined hatred of the palace eunuchs, who thwarted H.E. in every way they could and incessantly and maliciously slandered traduced him before their Majesties. Finding that he could do no good to his country while H.E. put up the usual Chinese plea of illness, the eunuchs held sway in the palace precincts,
and so got permission to resign office. The cause of this vindictive hatred of the eunuchs was owing to a suggestion of Viceroy Tao Mu for the abolition of ennnchs from the palaces for ever.
The Times Shanghai correspondent states that negotiations for a commercial treaty between Great Britain and China are practically con- cluded, and that a draft of the proposed treaty has been unconditionally accepted by China. Great Britain has expressed her willingness to support China in her policy of reform. China will open Kongman, Changsha, Ngan- kin, Wanhsien, and Waichow as treaty ports. There is now only the article abolishing lekin which awaits British approval. It is. stated that the quid-pro-quo to China for the abolition of lekin, is a surtax which will make the taxation on foreign imports between ten and eleven percentage ad valorem, according to the present system of valuation. The commer- cial community at home is said to be satisfied with the new treaty.
The Bun Hin Gyan collided with the Prins Alexander near the Muar on Tuesday, the latter steamer sinking, with a loss of 9 lives. The
Hongkong Weekly Press Kiangai and thenes into the Hupeh provincial Bun Hin Gum is an iron screw steamer of 449
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 27th June arrived, per M. M. stea ner Polynesien, on the 29th July (32 days); the Canadian mail of the 19th June arrived, per C. P. R. steamer Empress of China, on the 30th July (40 days); and the English mail of the 4th July arrived, per P. & O. steamer Chusan, on the 1st August (28 days).
The Ferchow-Hankow Railway will not touch the proposed Canion-Hankow, or Yueb-Han Railway, which will pass through Hunan province and thence into Hupeb.
It is reported from Kaifeng, the capital of Honan (says the N-C Daily News in its Notes on Native Affairs), that certain employees of the Peking Syndicate, which has large mining and otter concessions in the two provinces of Shansi and Honan, have been recently visiting Kaifêng, whence it has been learned that the syndiote may probably begin opening certain province) in the coming autumn, and that in mines in Huaich'ingfu prefecture (Honan connection with the mines a short railway will also be tentatively constructed.
registered tons and 199 net tons. She was built and engined at Glasgow in 1878 by the firm of T. Wingate, and was owned by Mr. Lim Ho Puan. Singapore. Her dimensions are:- Length, 18 ft.; breadth, 22 ft.; depth, 10 ft. 9 in. The Prins Alexander, which was owned by Mr Lim Tjip Hiang, of Singapore, 'was. built and engined in 1872 at Port Glasgow by Blackwood and Gordon. She was a larger steamer than the Ban Hin Guan, having a gross tonuage of 1,009 and a net tonnage of 728. Her length was 140 ft., breadth 30 feet and depth 17 ft. Neither steamer latterly was river flowing into the Strait of Malacca thorugh classed in Lloyd's Register. The Muar is a Johore and Negri Zembilan, where it rises. Its mouth is in 2 deg: 3 min. N.
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