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Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles: --
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 11TH OCTOBER, 1902.
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The Anglo-Chinese Treaty
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H.E. Lin Kung-yi's Death
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Russia in the Near and Far East
The China Association Meeting
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The Illegal Opium Farm.
The Spoliation of Siam
Telegrams
Hongkong Lagislative Corneil
The China Association
Garrison Changes in Hongkong The Fire at Amoy... Horrible Cruelty to a Girl Poutificial Jubilee of Pope Leo XIII Enquiries into Collapse of Houses The Neill-Frawley Co. at the Theatre Organ Recital at the Union Church " Hongkong's Trade and Finance in 1901 Hongkong Observatory and Storm-Warnings Canton
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
It is reported that an earthquake has des- troyed the United States naval works on Guam island.
Major-fien ral Sir A. R. F. Dorward has been reappointed to the command of the Singapore
garr.sou.
The Monkden division of Manchuria, as far
as the Liao river, was restored to China by
Russia on the 8th instant.
H.E. Liu Kung-yi, Viceroy of the Liang, 276 Kiang provinces, died from dysentery, at 277 Nanking, at 8 am, on the 8th inst. He was 74
years old.
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As had been arranged with the late II.E. Liu 278 Kung-yi before his death, all the foreign troops are to be withdrawn from Shanghai on the 1st
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November.
It is rumoured at St. Petersburg that M. de Witte. Russian inister of Fiuance, intends 281 visiting Corea with a view to strengthening the 2-3 ¦ position of M. Alexeieff, Russian representative a Seoul, and reorganising Corea's finances.
Macao
Peking
Northern Notes
Union Insurance Society of Canton, Id
Yachting in Hongkong ....
Hongkong Gun Club
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Royal Hongkong Golf Club
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Cricket
Hongkong Chess Club
Hongkong and Port News
('ommercial.
Shipping.
BIRTHS.
St. Petersburg papers, discussing the reports of agricultural aud industrial depression on the Russian side of the Amur River, contrasted with the prosperity on the other side, advocats that the whole Amur basin should iu future belong to Russia.
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A Russo-Japanese Society has been establish- ed at Moscow for the purpose of promoting Russo-Japanese commerce. It establishes a mill
at Minsk for wearing Japanese raw silk.
Owing to the latter's illness, General and Mrs. Chaffee have decided to abandon the journey through the Suez to New York, on the McClellan and instead will go home by way of San Francisco on the army transport Sumner.
The Philippines Commission having certified that complete peace exists throughout the islands, except in the region of Luke Lanao, in the island of Mindanao, President Roosevelt has, in accordance with the Art of Congress. ordered that a census of the archipelago be taken.
Cholera is raging in the js'and of Samar and threatens to depopulate the island, says the Manila Cablenews, In many villages where formerly there were 2,000 inhabitants. thore are now only a dozen or so, the remainder h ving fled to the hills, where dead bodies to the number of hundreds are lying about where they died.
The Times commenting on the reference of the Japanese House-Tax question to the Hague Arbitration Court, eulogi es the court sy and good humour displayed by both parties, as also the graceful and becoming concessions on the part of the Japanese Government, which show a high sense of what befits Japan as a great
power.
A Tokyo despatch to the Mainichi states that the Japanese officials concerned in the A Japanese loan of five millions sterling was house tax question are busy preparing the offered for sub cription at par on Tuesday, the documents to be forwarded to The Hague 7th inst. It was issued in bonds of 1,000 yen i Arbitration Tribunal. It has been decided that each at a guaranteed exchange of 2s. to the yen.the Japanese Government shall nominate one The Globe says that nothing can be more desir-committee and the three Treaty J'owers another. 290 able from the point of view of England than The umpire in the case will be a certaiu that Japan should be strengthened and supported European sovereign, but the name is not made in finauc, her one weak poiut. The loan has
public. been well covered.
wife of
On the 21st September, at Tokyo, the JOHN TRUMBULL SWIFT M.A., of a sou,
On the 22nd Septeuiber, at Prye Sugar Estate, Province Wellesley, Straits, the wife of Jons I AMB, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
The German Government is doing its best to induce German subjects to settle in the Kino- chau territory, and in view of this has issued an Imperial order which indicates that such Germans who are engaged in permanent service of the Gov ruor of Kiaochau and who either On the 4th Octobe, at HB.M. Consulate and afterwaAls at Katchioh Chapel, Swatow, by the belong to the army or to the civil officers of Rev. Murdo Mackenzie, FREDERICK CHARLES, State, if they let their families come to the fourth son of the late R. T. BUTCHER, of Brent-settlement they will have free passage out and ..ford, Middlesex, to MARIE CATHERINE (MITA), | home for them, in addition to compensation for youngest daughter of the late Captain F. W. the rent of the residence at home. The family FOCKEN, of Swalow.
comprises wifs and children, and such relations who live in the family at the time of leaving home.
-DEATH.
On the 6th October, at 7.30 pm., at Elliot Crescent West, Robinson Road, CARL JOHANN PAUL, youngest child and only son of CARL and CAROLINE ROGGE, aged 17 months and 17 days,
Our Amoy correspo.dent telegraphed on the 5th October: "A great fire broke out here at 10 o'clock on Friday morning, the 3rd instant, starting in a baker shop in Fourth Street. The flam s spr ad rapidly toward the Bund. The total native business portion Amoy was as also were hons Douglas Lapiaik & Co., Jardine, Matheson & Co., and Dauver & Co. The Printing Press and other hongs and the Custom Houss escaped owing to
A despatch dated Washington, 28th Septem. ber. says:-Admiral Robley D. Evans has cabi, d the Yangtze River to Ichang to investigate the Navy Department that he has started up rumours of American mission disturbanc› at this Department has no knowledge of the nature of place which had reached him. As yet the
the disturbances, but if the several American missions located there are thr-aten d, it is
as ured that Admiral Evans will affo d th Americaos amp's protection.
The Russian undertakings at Dalny are, according to latest news, progressing very favourably. The advance of the port has had the result of increasing very rgely the number of Japanese merchants and labourers there, and the necessity for the appointment of a Consul to Dalby has become evident. Mr. Uchida, Japanese Minister to Peking, has laid the matter before his Government, and the result
cousulate desired during next year.
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the strenuous exertions of the i uropeans. The shipping in the harbour lent assistance. Captain Fife of the Wenchow was killed. On Saturday about 2,000 houses had been burnt, involving a loos of many committed suicide. The fire lasted till Satur millions of dollars. Several [native] merchants
Trade is at a standstill." Further details will be found on p. 277.
The American wail of the 11th September arrived, per T.K. K. steamer Hongkong Maru, | day morning. on the 10th October (29 days).
been signed at Paris. Siam cedes to France A Tie ty between France and Liam has
the provinces of Meluproy aul Basso, also the territory on the Great Lake between the rivers Rolnas and Peckkompong. France evacuates Chantaboon. Siam may keep troop, but only Siamese officered by Siamese, ou the right bank of the Mekong. In the event of Siam desiri g to constract ports, canals, or railways, within the Siamese portion of the Mekong basin' French assistance is to be preferentially sought
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