THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LVI.]
AND
China Oderland Trave Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles:
Germany and the Yangtsze Question The Evacuation of Shanghai Piracy in the Canton Neighbourhood Blake Pier and the Clock Tower
The Illegal Opium Farm.....
Tengyuen as a Trade Centre
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 17ти NOVEMBER, 1902.
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Attack on an European on the West River
Street Dangers in Hongkong..
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
The King's Birthday
Sir W. M. Goodman's Knighthood
1 he Chengchow Murders
The A.D.C. Performance of Liberty Hall
The Public Health and Buildings Bill.
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Japan and the Siamese Question
383
Canton
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Swatow
383
Ar
moy
384
Northern Notes
384
Punjom Mining Co., Ld
384
China Traders' Insurance Co., Ld...
385
Supreme Court
Enquiry into Collapses of Houser
Sporting Notes
Interport Shooting Match
Cricket..
Football
Hockey
Shanghai Races
New Liner for the Far East
A Series of Tragedies
Hongkong and Port News Commercial. Shipping
BIRTHS.
Hongkong Weekly Press.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The German mail of the 14th October arrived, per II AL. steamer Kiautschou, on the 12th November (29 day~); and the American mail of the 15th October arrived, per P.M. steamer Peru, on the 13th November (29 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Japanese garrison has been ordered to vacuate Shanghai on the 22nd instant. The 385 London Daily Mail learns that Shanghai is to
be evacuated unconditionally.
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On the 4th November, at Swatow, the wife of V. J. MCLOUGHLIN, of a daughter.
Beside the battleship Retvizan the cruisers Diana and Pallada are now proceeding to the Far East. The St. Petersburg Novosti states that Russia intends sending immediat ly another ironclad and two armoured cruisers.
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Lu Hai-kwan, the Chinese Treaty Commis. 392 sioner; Yuan taotai; Li Chan-chun, the Pro. vincial General; Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge; H.B.M. Consul General Mansfield; Major Maxwell, Commanding the British garrison at Shanghai; Deputy Inspector-General | re- don. I.M.C. Messrs. H. R. Kinnear, Vice chairman, and J. O. P. Blind, Secretary of the Municipal Council; M. P. Brunst, Chairman of the Freuch Council at Shanghai; and many Consuls left Shanghai for Nanking on the 13th inst. to attend the obsequies of the late Liu Kung-yi
On the 7th November, at Woosung Road, Shanghai, the wife of JOHN DEWAR, of a daughter. On the 7th November, at 27, Range Road, Shanghai, the wife of H. R. H. THOMAS, of a daughter.
On the 11th November, at Smith's Villas West, Magazine Gap, the wife of P. E. HEERMANN, of a
son.
MARRIAGES.
On the 31st October, at H.B.M.'s Consulate,
and afterwards at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., GEORGE JOHN, youngest son of G. HARMAN, of Hongkong, to BERTHA, daughter of EDWARD HAMILTON, Shanghai.
On the 1st November, at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., ANDREW GRAHAM, L.R.C.P. & S.E., of the Church of Scotland Mission, Ichang to JEANIE, daughter of the late ROBERT WE18, of Kirkcaldy, Scotland. On the 4th November, at Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., THOMAS KAY, son of THOMAS KAY, Farmer, Ren- frew, Scotland, to JANET PATRICK, eldest daughter of Major J. R. WOOD, Renfrew, Scotland.
On the 12th November, at St. Joseph's Chapel, Hongkong, by the Rev. Father Augustine, J. MOWBRAY JONES, eldest son of J. WILLIAM JONES, * Lasswade," Forest Hill, to ANITA D'ALMADA E CASTRO, fifth daughter of the late J. M. D'ALMADA E CASTRO, Hongkong.
Mr. J. Henniker Heaton, M.P., in the House of Commons on the 13th inst., asked the Post- master-General whether he was aware that letters fom China to England arrived by the overland rout in 26 days as against 44 days by steamer. Mr. Austen Chamberlain stated that lie believed it was a fact that letters sent from Chefoo to Lendou took 16 days on the journey. The possibilities of the Trans-Siberian route, he added, would not be overlooked in settling the mail service of the future. The steamship con- tracts were terminable in January, 1905, by two years' previous notice.
The Berlin correspondent of the Mo ning Post reports that the Peking Government has formally yielded to Germany's demand for the neutralisation of the Yangtsze Valley. The Morning Post in a vigorous article strongly deprecates any overtures with or retreats before Germany. Other newspapers comment on Lord Cranborne's extreme reserve and demand a frank and explicit statement in Parliament. The Daily News gives special On the 3rd November, at Shanghai, NANCY, Prominence to a statement affirming that the younger child of the Rev. J. MILLER GRAHAM, of object of the visit of the German Emperor to England is to secure British sanction of the United Free Church of Scotland Mission, Germany's claim in the Yangtsze region, as the On the 4th November, at "The Bluff," Yoko-price of Germany's quiescence while the Anglo- 1 ortuguese negotiations with regard to Delagoa Bay are proceeding. The Daily News vigorously protests and says that we are iu imminent danger of a surrender in comparison with which the Fashoda affair was trivial.
Manchuria.
DEATHS.
hama, JOHN RYCROFT, the eldest son of JoHN BYCROFT BEST ES RE, late of the Pongal Civil Service, aged 52 years.
On the 4th November, at Kobe, JAMES SAMUEL WILDE, of Manchester, England, aged 39 years.
No. 20
The news is confirmed that Mr. Bragg, United States Consul-General at Havana, and Mr. Rublee, United States Consul-General at Hongkong, exchange places.
A Brussels despatch states that it is officially confirmed that "China has granted rights of foreign possession to King Leopold's territory on the right bank of the Yangisze." This is rather cryptic.
The war and other vessels in Hongkong harbour dressed ship on the 9th inst. in celebra- o'clock a royal salute and feu de joie were tion of His Majesty's Birthday, and at one given and the National Anthem played.
Seven hundred Chinese robbers attacked and captured the town of Bodune to the south-west of Kharbin, Manchuria, in the beginning of October. A Russian force sent to dislodge them entered the town on the 24th of October, and executed the leader. The Russians wil garrison the town until the attacks cease,
Mr. Evans, a constable in the service of the British Consul at Canton, was attacked on a junk by pirates whilst he was travelling up the West River, and seriously wounded, having no less than six bullets in his body. He was picked up later by the Kong Nam and conveyed to hospital at Canton. Mr. Evans i‹ said to be a Crimean veteran. Details will be found on p. 379.
The Universal Gazette says that Mr. Kinder, Chief Engineer of the Northern railways, has been in the Chinese railway service for many years and is much trusted by his employers. Mr. Kinder had never before this shown any intention of resiguing, while the Chinese authorities would not let him leave the service without grave cause; but since the transfer of the Railway by the Allies to the Chinese, he has evinced an intention to resign, the cause of which is unknown.
The birthday honours include Knighthoods to His Honour W. Meigh Goodman, Esq., Chief Justice, Hongkong, and E. F. Alford, Esq., for- merly of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., the latter for services in connection with the revision of the Chinese tariff; Grand Cross of S. Michael and S. George to Sir James Mackay and the Honorary Grand Cross of S. Michael and S. George to Count Maisugata; Honorary Commander of S. Mi hael and S. George to His Highness the Sultan of Pabang; and Com- panion of 8. Michael and S. George to R. W. Mansfield, Esq., British Consul at Amoy.
The 9th instant was the birthday not only of King Edward VII. but also (being the 10th day of the 10th Chinese moon) of the the Empress Dowager of China. In connection with this, we may note that the Sin Wen Pao states that on every touth birthday anniversary of the Em- press Dowager, an unhappy event happens to the country, as on her fortieth birthday anni. versary the Empress Dowager lost her son; on her fiftieth, the French occupied Annam; and on her sixtieth, the Japanes entered Cores and
annexed Formosa. Her seventieth birthday will come off the year after next, and as every tenth year of her life seems to be an unfortun- ate one, some of those at Court propose that the country should celebrate her seventieth birthday next year (when she is really sixty- nine years old)."
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