THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LVI.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :-
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 8TH SEPTEMBER, 1902.
PAGB
175
The Public Health and Buildings Ordinance.....176
The Treatment of Undesirables in Hongkong177 The Shanghai Conservancy Question
Plague Inoculation
Hongkong's Assets and Liabilities
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Hongkong Weekly Press
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The German mail of the 5th August arrived, per N.D.L. steamer Pring Regent Luitpold, on the 4th September (30 days); and the American 182 mail of the 9th August arrived, per O. & 0. steamer Coptic, on the 6th September (28 days)
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The Desert of Lop......
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The Anglo-Chinese Commercial Treaty
179
Hongkong Legislative Council
179
Hongkong Sanitary Board
181
The Health of Hong song...
181
Alleged Murder on the Chingtu
181
The We lington Street Robbery.
Ellis Kadoorié Schools..
Hongkong Observatory and Storm-Warnings
Marriage at the Cathedral
The Servant Question
The Ceraunograph
The Shanghai Tramways Scheme
The Bonin Islands Eruption
Siamese Affairs
Canton
Pakhoi
Foochow
Vladivostock
Co:respondence
Campbell, Moore & Co., Ld
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Co., Ld.
Supreme Court
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Hongkong Cotton pinning, Weaving & Dyeing
Hongkong Water Polo Shield Final
Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
A series of earthquakes has taken place in the Moro country, Philippine Islands, near the American headquarters. Sixty natives are re- ported to have been killed, but no Americans.
The opinion prevails in Berlin, according to a despatch from that city, that "the Siamese question can be solved without further 191 difficulties. if France will respect the com- 192mercial rights of the oʻher Powers."
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On the 9th August, at "Sunny Side," Kuching, Sarawak, the wife of V. L. NEUBRONNER, of a daughter.
On the 23rd August, at Ramoth, Penang, the
wife of J. G. BERKHUIJSEN, of a 8 n.
On the 29th August, at Singapore, the wife of A. T. WILLIAMS, of a soİL.
On the 30th August, at "Budleigh," Singapore, the wife of GEORGE BRINKWORTH, of a son.
At 10B, Yuen Ming Yuen Road, Shanghai, the wife of WILLIAM HARRIS, 11.B.M. Office of Works, of twins, son and daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 3 th July, at East Blatchington, Sussex, F. A. DE ST. CROIX, of Shanghai, to Locy
ELIZABETH Tuck.
On the 24th August, at the Nederland l'otel, Penang, ANNETTA GRUTZ to ZAIDEL SHEPeria.
On the 29th August, at St. John's Cathedral, G. S. PALMER, 5th I.H.C., to IDA HOWARTH, youngest daughter of the late H. J. HOLMES,
solicitor.
A telegram to the N.-C. Daily News, dated Kobe, 28th August, says :--Mr. F. Wilson, & passenger by the N. Y. K. Suikio Maru from Shangai and ports, died on board at 6 am. The ship has been quarantined, two of her boys showing symptoms of the disease.
A corporation has been organised in California with a capital of $1,000,000 gold, to promote trade with China in consequence of the conclusion of the Tariff Treaty. It is also reported that arrangements ar proceeding to induce China to buy American cotton through the New York exchange instead of through Liverpool.
Our corresponent at Singapore telegraphed under date ad September, 13 p.m-The severe drought here continues. The situation is serious as only one week's supply is left. The supply to the town is now limited to two Lours per day. It is suggested that a trial should be given to the firing of big guns in the air as a means of bringing rain.
On the 2nd September, at St. John's Cathedral, by the Rev. F. T. Johnson, JOHN JACKSON, son of SIDNEY JACKSON, of Longfield, Carrickmacro:8, Co. Monaghan, to ELSIE, daughter of Dr. STOCK-mi-sioner-General o the St. Louis Exposition, WELL DUNWICH, Brisbane.
DEATHS.
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On the 26th July, at Edinburgh, L. SOMERVILLE, late of Manila, aged 36 years.
On the 22nd August, at Kobe, J. M. BEAM, citizen of the United States, aged 43 years.
H.E. Tao Mu. Viceroy of the Kwang provinces, received at Canton on the let inst. with special honours Mr. John Barrett, om.
who was presented to him by Mr. R. M., No. Wade, U.S. Consul at Canton. The audience was followed by a large tiffin of the leading Canton officials at the Prefect's yamèn. H.E. Tak Sow, Acting Viceroy, when re- turning at the U.S. Consulate the visit of Mr. John Barrett, assured the Commissioner and the U.S. Consul, Mr. R. M. McWade, that, for the benefit of foreign commerce and the promotion of friendly relations with America, the Viceroy would issue a proclama- tion that the two Kwang provinces must parti- At Eastbourne, EMILY SUSAN PATERSON, widowcipate in the St. Louis World's Exposition on of the late WILLIAM PATERSON, of Beech Grove, an unprecedented scale. Mr. Barrett returned Sydenham Hill, and of Singapore.
to Hongkong on Thursday.
On the 28th August, at the Nursing Home, Shanghai, GUSTAVUS FITZ-ROWLAND, the infant son of R WLAND R. WADE, aged 2 years and 2
months.
On the 29th August, at Saigon, W. KINDLIMANN, Manager of Diethelm and Co.
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American capitalists are planning to establish bauks in the business centres of Chi-a.
Owing to the heavy rains causing the rivers to overflow their banks several hundreds of lives have been lost in Nepaul, while great damage has been done to property.
A Berlin telegram to the Ostasiatische Lloyd saysThe report of Laffan's Burean, according to which the Netherlands intend to join the Triple Alliance and are willing to sell the Riouw Islands, opposite Singapore, to Germany, is here declare to be absolutely false.
We are able to state, on absolutely reliable authority, that the Welsh Regiment now in garrison here will be relieved about the middle of October by the 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters, the old 45th Regimout, better known as the Derbyshires. The relieving battalion has seen service in South Africa, and brings to Hongkong a splendid fighting record, there being on the colours of the regiment to which it belongs no less than twenty-four engagements, exclusive of those fought in the South African War. Their uniform is
scarlet, with white facings, and their badge the united red and white rose. The com. manding officer is Lieut. Col. Wylly, C.B, whose term of command expires in February, 1903. The Fusiliers go to India.
Mr. Harry Panmure Gordon, the expert in Chinese and Japanese finance, has died sud- denly. Mr. Panmure Gordon was formerly well known out in this part of the world, in the firm of Lindsay and Co., of Shanghai, Hong- kong, etc., being in command of the Sh. nghai Mounted Rangers Volunteers during the Tai- ping rebellion. Born in 1837, Mr. Gordoù was educated at Harrow, Oxford, and Bona. He received a commission in the 10th Hussars and served for four years, after which he abandoned the army for commerce and came out to China for five years On his return to England he
became a member of the London Stock Ex- change, where he remained for some thirty years, bing senior partner of the firm of Panmure Gordou. Hill & Co. The deceased was a man of versatile ta tes, being known, among other things, as a breeder of colli. dogs.
An Imperial Edict has been issued abolish- ing lekin stations in China. It declares that, during the period of negotiation for Bew commercial treaties with foreign states, an understanding has been arrived at for an increase in the import and export duties. Never- theless, contrary to expectation, the Anglo- Chinese Commercial Treaty was not signed on the 31st alt. Sir James Mackay, Great Britain's representative, refused to sign owing to the indefinite wording of the Imperial Edict on the question of the surtax le cancelled his passage to England, which he had already booked by the next Empresa steamer. was understood that the terms of the Treaty were not questioned, the matter being simply / one of interpretation of the Imperial decree. The Treaty was ultimately signed on the night of the 5th inst. Mr. Conger, United States Minister at Peking, has been instructed to conclude a treaty with China similar to the Anglo-Chinese Treaty.
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