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Hongkong Weekly Press
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD ÜL 214 LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C 214
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
he English mail of the 15th August arrived per P. & O. steamer Valetta, on the 13th Sep. 217 tember (29 days); and tle German mail of the 19th August arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Preussen, on the 17th £eptember (29 days).
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Chinese Employers and the Strike
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A Press Censorship at MacRO
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Hongkong and the St. Louis Exhibition
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Theft of Fifty Thousand Dollars
Interesting stowaway Case.
Alleged Attempted Fraud on the Hongkong and
Shanghai Bank
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Death of Mr. D. R. Crawford
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Daring Attempt at House-Breaking
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The Hongkong Coronation Contingent
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Severe Typhoon off Japan
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The commercial Treaty
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Macao
Canton
Pakhoi
Peking
Northern Notes
Correspondence
Universal Trading Co
Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ld.
Taujong Pagar Duck Co.
Supreme Court
Review
Hongkong Cotton Spinning, W. & D. Co., Ld. ...221
V.B.C. Aquatic Sports
Cricket
Hongkong Football Club
A Cinton Robbery
Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Water Return
Seismic Disturbances in the Pacific.. An Insect Victory at Hongkong Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Numbers of Russian troops and immigrants are a riving in Manchuria.
The Chinese Court has gone to the Summer Palace. This is the first visit in three years,
A Peking telegram to Tokyo states that sixty Russian missionaries have arrived in Manchuria with the object of propagating the Russian Orthodox faith.
H.M.S. Terrible arrived at Plymouth on the 116h instant, and disembarked the invalid. She then proceeded to Portsmouth, where a 225 public reception was organised.
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M. Yermoloff, Russian Minister of Agri- enlture and State Domains, notifies that 226 Japanese and American poachers captured on ..226 the Siberian cast will be liable to three months' 220 imprisonment, while their ships and cargoes
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On the 2nd September, at Bangkok, the wife of FREDERICK SAMPSON, of a daugter.
On the 8th September, at 18., Nanking Road, Shanghai, the wife of Major O'BRIEN, 14th Sikhs, of a son.
On the 12th September, at the Laou Kung Mow Cotton Mill Shanghai, the wife of 11. Foox, of a daughter.
On the 14th September, at the Peak, Hongkong,
the wife of DAVID WOOD, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
On the 6th Septembe, at Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, ly the Rev. C. J. F. Symons, WILLIAM THOMSON, marine superintendent, Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, to ALICE ANN AITCHINSON, widow of the late Captain James PRICE, and youngest daughter of the late J. W. ORD, marine surveyor, Amoy.
DEATHS.
On the 1st September, at Chefoo, Madame R.
PEREZ, née Jaffray.
On the 10th September, at Balshagray Avenue, Partick, Glasgow, DAVID B. CRAWFORD (late of Messrs. Lane, Crawford & Co., Hongkong). By cable.
On the 10th September, at 3, Chusan Road, Shanghai, DENHAM GUTHRIE, the infant son of J, M. HARLOF, aged 2 months and 19 days.
On the 11th September, at the Shanghai General Hospital, G. DOUGHERTY, of the Imperial Mari- time Customs Service, Ningpo.
On the 16th September, at 6 pm, at Nagasaki, Captain W. WENDT,
On the 17th September, at the Peak Hotel, MARJORIE, elder daughter of H. S. VaughaN, aged 7 years and 1 months.
A despatch from Seoul to the Japanese Kekumin states that the British Minister to
Corea has notified the Coreau authorities that his Governmeut desires to review the Anglo- orean Treaty when, in April, 1904, its second term of ten years expires.
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The late Acting Commissioner at Weihaiwei, Major-General ir A R. F. Dorward, in the annual report for Weihaiwei, states that it is not the present intention of the Government to refortify the station, but to retain it as a flying naval base and depot, and as a drill-ground and
sana'orium for the China Squadron.
The Russian Ministry of Communications is considering the question of resuming the survey of the route for an extension of the Central Asian Railway from Tashkend, capital of Russian Turkestan, to Peking. It is stated that the surveys, begun three years ago, were abandoned owing to the state of the money market.
It is reported that the Russian Ministry of War is elaborating a scheme for the defence of the Amur River, in view of possible disputes with Japan. It is proposed to create a squad- ron of small swift topedo-boats for the lower reaches, to plant electrical mines in the river. bed, and to patrol the upper reaches with gunboats.
The London Globe, commenting favourably ou a resolution of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce passed on the 16th inst. in support of a fast and reliable Atlantic steam. ship service, undertaken by the Canadian Pacific Railway Co., suggests that steps should be taken to ascertain what the increased cost will be and then whether it is possible to increase the present subsidies.
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The Colonial Secretary informed us on the 18th inst., that Hongkong, having been free of plague for a period of ten days, is therefore declared to be a clean port. Clean bills of health are now issued.
Great Britain has selec'ed Sir Clande Mac- Donald, and Italy the Commander-in-Chief of the Italian squadron in Far Eastern waters, to represent them at the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Coronation of the Emperor of Corea..
The U.S. Treasury Department has decided that invoices of merchandise shipped from the Philippines to the United States must be cortified to at the port of exportation by some foreign consul or two reputable merchants, the Philippines being, for customs purposes, foreign territory. The certification by the U.S. Collector of Customs cannot be accepted, as it is illegal.
Baron Lessar, Russian Minister at Peking, has advised the Russian Commander to expel the British employees of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs who were sent to resume charge of the Manchurian Postal Service. The New York Times describes Russia's expulsion of foreigners from Manchuria as a piece of high effrontery and a cynical notification that Russia does not intend to evacuate Manchuria.
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The latest news from Chenchou received at Changsha reports the arrest so far of sixteen rowdies. Some belong to Chonchou city and others to villages lying in the near vicinity of that city who happened to be in Chenchou on the occasion of the murder of Messrs. Bruce and Lowis, it being one of the regular weekly market days. Not one of the sixteen would, however, confess himself to be the head of the riot, and the officials are -till looking for the man.
Our correspondent at Shanghai, on the 15th September, telegraphed:-"Armed Boxers enter- ed Chingtu to-day. Some of them were killed or captured in the streets of the town. The shops are closed and the military are patrolling the place. The situation is serious." A tele. gram of the 18th, however, notifies that the that the shops has been reopened. Part of the officials have regained control at Chengtu and city wall has fallen down owing to heavy
rains,
Yuan Shi-kai is much concerned ith the receipt It is reported from Tient-in that Viceroy
1 den with 10,000 Mausers and sixty pompoms, of news, first from Germany, that a steamer
with the necessary ammunition, left Hamburg in June last, presumably for China. But the moment the steamer had left Hamburg all trace of her was lost until it was learnt that she had arrived in some Philippine port in July, where the munitions had been transhipped into another vessel. Then came news that the cargo had arrived in August at Macao, where a steamer flying the Chinese flag took over the arms and ammunition. From this spot all trace has been lost. Eeo: et enquiries made at all the treaty ports at the instance of the Peiyang authorities have failed, so far, in giving the needed enlightenment, and it is thought that the cargo was meant either for the Kwangsi rebels or to arm the rapidly multiplying Boxers in the Yangtze Valley. The above story is from the N.C. Daily News's Notes in Native Affairs. We wonder if the Macao Government's attention has been drawn to the statement.
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