China and the Yangtsze Question Piracy in the Canton Neighbourhood
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The Troubles in the Two Kwang
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The Peace of Europe
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An U.S. General on Warfare
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The Water Question
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Fire on the Indrapura
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The Janet Waldorf Co at the Theatre Royal
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Kates and Taxes in the East
The New U.S. Consul for Hongkong
Interview with Sir James Mackay
Sauntering in Japan
Canton
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The contract for thirty locomotives for the
Hongkong Telechly Dress Japanese Government has been securel by
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES Vœux Road CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 17th October arrived, per M. M stomer Indus, on the 19th November 39 | (33 days); and the American mail of the 22nd 399 October arrived, per CPR. steaner Ta tar (transferred from the O. & O). steam. r Caplic) on the 18th November (27 days).
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Hongsong and Whampa Dock Co
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New Steamers Launched
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Cricket
Football
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club. ...
Interport Shooting Match
The Hongkong Regatta
Fire at Yokohama
Japan's Naval Extension Hongkong
Miscellaneous Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Russian Ministry of War has decreed 403 the establishment of a mobilisation department 443 at Harbin, with railway station commandants 405 at Port Arthur, Harbin, and through Manchuria.
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A Kiel telegram, reporting the arrival there of a Russian squadron of seven ressels on their way out to the Far East, mentions the crews as 3,000 strong, the guns as 247, and the displace- mut as 45 0) (1 tons.
After the banquet of the New York Chamber of Commerce this week, General Young handed +48 to the reporters pr sent the text of a speech which 49he war urable to deliver. In it General Young contended that the only humane war was ode that was fast furions, a id bloody until a speed? and was reached. The Japanese, he said, would have ended the war in the Philippines sooner than the Americans had done.
On the 31st Octobe, at Yokohama, the wife of
ERNEST MILES HOBART AMPDEN, of a son.
On the 4th November, at Butterworth, P.W., Stra ts, the wife of W. H. R. ALLEN, of a son.
On the Stlu Noveuiber, at Chinkiảng, the wife of E. MOLLOY, I M.C., of a son.
On the 9th November, at. No. 8, Love Lane, Shanghai, the wife of A. W, BURKILL of a son.
On the 10th November, at Souchow, the wife
of J. A G. SHIPLEY (Changshu), of a daughter.
On the 10th November, at No 5, Yuen-wing yuen Road, Shanghai, the wife of H. J. WALLEN,
of a son.
On the 10th November, at the Lodge, Govern- ment Hill, Singapore, the wife of A. W. O'SULLIVAN, Asst. Col. Secretary, S. 8, of a soft.
On the 11th November, at Sngapore, the w fo of Walter CECIL MICHELL, of a da ghter.
MARRIAGES.
Cu fle 20th October, at All Saints' Church, Ticutsin, by the Rev. G. D. Hiff, Sara Jase, daughter-in-law of J W. RAG DALE U.S Cousal, to Captain DAVID COLLY YOUso, 4th Georkha Rifles, Indiau Saff Corps.
On the 4th November, at S. Ma y's Church, Kuala Ludup, by the Rev. F. G. Swindell. Chaplain, SAMUEL CECIL YEOMANS, to HELEN MINNIE, the second daughter of THOMAS KEIT, retired Perak Civil Service.
On the 8th November, at Nagasaki, ALBERT RUSSELL, of Nagasa'i, to ELIZABETH SWATTON, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. J. MANSBRIDGE, of Nagasaki.
DEATH.
On the 15th November, at his residence, No. 9, Quinsan Road, Shanghai, Lieutenant C. C. BOJESEN, D.M., aged 38 years.
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L'Echo de Chine says that a book containing the Convention with Siam has been distributed M. Duloncle, re- to the French parliament. gistering Limself as apaiust the convention, characterises it as insufferable. The Paris Temps, defending the just concluded Franco-
Siamese Conceution, affirms that Lord Rosebery in 193 informel the French Government that
Le would not hesitate to run the risk of a great war to stop French from anexing that • a [ provinces of tiam.
After the usual courtesies hyl been paid by and to these who had gone to Nanking to attend the late Viceroy Lin Kung-r 's obsequies on the 15th inst., H.Ë Viceroy Chang Chih- turg presi'el at a lanqn-1 to 74 guests, having Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge on his right and Dr. W. Krappe, German Consul-Geporal at Le Viceroy fausted the Shanghai, on his left Empreis Dosag r, the Emperor of China, the Admiral foreign sov raigas, and the guests Bridge replial for the last-n ind. Next day the visitors were reesived in the Viceroy's yamen. The funeral procession started at 10:30 a in. Enormons crowds were assembled. The highost Nanking officials were followed by Admiral Bridge, the freign Consuls and naval and military officials, the Customs staff, and foreign civilians, all combining to pay the late Lin Knog yi unprecedented honour. The Viceroy thanked the foreiguers for their attendence. Twelve foreign warships fired minute guns in token of respect.
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Messrs. Dubbs, of Glasgow.
The annual dinter of the China Association has been beld in London, Admiral Seymour and Sir James Mackay boing the principal guests. Mr. William Keswick, M.P., who presided, said that he believed the Maokay treaty with China was an arrangement equally advantageous to China and Great Britain.
The Pa-ca-piu lottery at Macno was put up to auction on the 17th inst. and the monopoly was sold for $145 200. As the last farmer of this monopoly only paid $74,900, the Macao Government receive a handsome increase of $70,300. It is felt in Macao that, with the increased revenues from suck monopolies, those on the necessities of life might well be abolished.
One of the results of the recent hubbab about Kelantan, says the Strait T mes, is noticeable at the mouth of the Kelantan River. The Siamese flag which formerly floated from the flag-staff there is now supplanted by the flag of Kelantan. The Siamese gunbo t'has also been White Elephant" still withdrawn; but the waves over the Siamese Commissioner's residence at Khots Bahru where there is a light guard of Siamese soldiery under the command of a Danish officer.
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Yen Wu Ling, Colonel of the Yi Brigade, one of the military officers concerned in the Cheng- chow massacre, ou learning of the punishment in store for him has committed suicide. His se. tence, according to the decree, was decapita- tion after the autumnal as-iza. It appears by advices from Tientsin that Yu Lien San, Governor of Hunan, tried to save this officer reporting that he was less culpable than Lui Liang Shi, commander of Chengohow garrisor, and Yea Wu Ling's ranking officer. This attempt to substitude a superior for an inferior in th disgrace of decapitation has provoked suspicion that the Governor may have hopo thus to work off a personal grudge. The circus ance that the effort failed is regarded at Peking as absolving the Governor from investigation as to his motive in urging such a departure from precedent. He may have to pay dearly for it.
A Canton despatch of the 6th instant to Shanghai statos that the Empress Dowager, having somehow been informed on the 4th instant, correctly or not remains to be seen, that the proscribed Reformer Kang Yu-woi bas returned from exile to Canton, immediately sent on the same day an edict under her own seal to Cinton, addressed to the Manchu Acting Viceroy Tak Sow, asking him whether he was aware of the fact that Kang Yu-wei was in Cauton, and if so why be had shown such indif- ference in the matter as to make no attempt to arrest her arch enemy. This edict struck con- steination into the hearts of the mandarinate of that city, and they are now busily engaged, openly as well as secretly, in trying to obtain some clue to the Reformer's whereabouts, in order not only to set the Empress Dowager's hoirt at rest, but also their own for the preser- ration and continuity of their several official buttons and posts. In well-informed circles in Canton it is, however, not considered likely nor probable that Kang Yu-wei would so rashly tempt providence and his hitherto good fortaue the toi's of bis bitter enemies the Manchus. by venturing to Canton and putting himself in
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