THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Oderland Trave Report.
V. L. VLI.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 29ти DECEMBER, 1902.
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Leading Articles :-
The Quarry Bay Riot
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Tung Fu-Hsiang's Movements
414
The Water Question
495
Hongkong Legislative Council
495
Hongkong anitary Board
496
Rot at Quarry Bay
196
497
437
497
498
The Christmas Holidays
"Iheatre Royal
Canton
Lokyo
Manila
Northern Notes
Correspondence
Hong ong High-Level Tramways Co., 1 d.
Supreme Court
Review
Sporting Notes
Cricket
Enquiries into Collapses of Buildings
Football
Hongkong Chews (lub
Hongkong
Miscellaneous.
Comme.cial. Shipping
BIRTHS.
No. 26
Hongkong Weekly Press
Weekly Press No way, has been chosen to set as umpire in
Mr. J. Gram, formerly a Minister of State ő
the House Tax arbitration between Japan sud the Powers.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The German mail of the 25th November arrived per
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On the 10th December, at No. 2, Sungkiang Road, Shanghai; the wife of HARRY DE GRAY, of
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On the 10th December, at No. 3, Westlands Bungalows, Penang, the wife of TH. J. VAN Rossum, of a son.
On the 11th December, at Singapore, Mrs. PERCY L. WAIT, of a son.
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On the 13th December, at 93, Bubbling Well Boad, Shanghai, the wife of A. Hotson, of a son. On the 20th December, at "Ian Mor" (West), Peak Road, the wife of JOHN A. JUPI, of a son.
At Kuala Lumpur, the wife of F. MINJ OT, clerk of works, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 1st December, at S. Nicholas' Church, Newchwang, by the Rev. F. II. Sprent, FRNEST WILLIAM SHARPLES, to HESTER ISABEL HENCKEN-
DORFF.
On the 11th December, at S. Andrew's Cathe-
dral, Singapore, by the Right Rev. the Bishop of Singapore and Sarawak, assisted by the Ven. Archdeacon Dunkerley, ARTHUR HENRY, &cond son of the late CHABLE BAGNALL, Whithy, York- shi e, to MARY STEWART, younger daughter of JOHN FRASER, Inverardran, Crianlarich, Perth- shire, late of Singapore.
On the 15th December, in the Presbyterian Church, Singapore, by the Rev. S. S. Walker, M.A., JAMES T. DOBBIE, of the Siam Observer, Bangkok, son of JAMES DOBBIE, schoolmaster, of Ayr, Scotland, to LILIAS, daughter of Mrs. I'EN- DERBON, of 565, Springburn Read, Glasgow,
On 25th inst., at the Union Church. Hongkong, by the Rev. . H. Hickling, WILLIAM HUNTER, eldest son of the late Rev. Wa. HUNTER, OF MAC- duff, Abe deenshire, to A ARIE ALICE RAE, youngest daughter of ALEXANDER RAE, of ulter, Aberdeenshire.
DEATHS.
On the 10th December, at 153, Serangoon Road, Singapore, MARIA LOUISA, the wife of E. D. KRAAL, aged 59) years.
On the 11th December, at Foochow, WILLIAM I ITOAIN GALTON, aged 69 years.
EPITOME OF THE WEFK.
Renter's Peking correspondent telegraphs that Russia is pressing China to assent to the establishment of a Russian Customs Postal service in Manchuria independent of the Chinese Maritime Customs posta' service.
M. C. Hardouin, French Cousul at Canton, has been appointed General Secretary to the Indo-Chinese Government. The appointment is regarded as indica ing renewed efforts
the part of France to promote trad
with Yunnan aud and political relations Kwangsi.
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The Kushing corespondent of the Mercury wrote on the 16th iust.-Ta Mu has been brought to Kashing, and the family is now receiving visits of condolence. The funeral is to take place next mouth. We hear that it is to be conducted quietly, without a great deal of pomp and ceremony.
According to L'Echo de Chine, Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, baving heard that there ·re still tome Boxers in bis province, and that they learn the Boxer business during the night, has given str ct orders to his subord nates to employ themselves diligently both night and day, in order that they may arrest all bad obarac:ors, etc.
The Londou Standard's Odess correspondent emarks that Russian service journals are pressing upon the St. Petersburg government the absolute incumbency of creating a Russian Pacifiò fleet able to
prevent Japan from establishing naval supremacy in the Far East. The steady increase of the Japanese Feet is viewed at St. Petersburg with serious | misgivings.
Our e rrespondent at Shanghai wired on the 7th De ember:-A reliable letter from Ehensi that General Tung Fu-hsiang is in Kansu Knys preparing ten thousand well-found troops and buying large quantities of grain and fodder for his soldiers. His intention it is believed, is to exterminata all fore gners in the provi ces of Shensi aud Ka su and to seize Hsianfu. A On the zu li December, at 9.30 pm, at 33, Holly-friendly ficial is advising all foreigners to wood Road A. CHERJEE MANECKJEE MEHTA, leave Kansu. The Chinese authorities at Pek- manager, Messis. Tata & Co., Hongkong, aged 55
ing appear to be unwilling or powerless to years.
controlTung Fu-hiang Viceroy Chang Chih. tung is disgusted and earnestly desires to retire.
On the 23rd December, at 28, Caiue Road, ELIZABETH, the dearly beloved wife of G. J. W. KING, aged 45 years.
The railway siding dispute is cow in Mr. Detring's hands for the final decision of the only point which still remains undecided.
A Peking despatch, says the N.-C. Daily News, states that the plot to wrest the control from the present Director-General of the China Merchants' Co. has failed and that to all appear- anecs there will be no change made for some time yet.
A Changsha, Huuau, despatch states that owing to the previously reported breaking into Kneichon province of a large body of Kwangsi rebels, and the probable invasion by them of Hunan territory, the authorities of that province have sent two regiments to Paolingfu, and are also raising new battalions to strengthen the present territorial army.
L'Echo de Chine says that the steamer Amiral Exelmans has been chartered by the French Government to take away the French garrison from Shanghai. The withdrawal will be completed in one operation, probably on the 24th or 25th of this month, as soon as the necessary preparations for the conveyance of the horses and mules of the battery of artillery can be made on the transport. The Shanghai garrison will relieve the detachment now at Kwanchauwan. Lt. Colonel Diguet, the Com- mauder, will proceed from Kwanchauwan to Tonkin, where he will have the command of an important military district, a post usually held by a full colonel.
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A report from Tokyo is to the effect that the Japanese Government has now added to the estimate of expenditure in the budget for the next fiscal year a sum which is to be devoted to the expansion of the Navy. It is calculated that 62.348.269 yen is required for shipbuilding, 29,001,3-3 yen for armament, and 8,510,722 yen shore-a grand total of for buildings on 99,860,305 yen, the disbursement of which it is proposed to carry over the next eleven years in instalments. A proportion of this amount now finds a place in the present Budget, viz., 2,687,682 yen. This is made up of 1,241,088 yen
This swells the total estimated national expen- for shipbuilding and 1,446,594 yen for armament diture of the coming year to 243,236,654 yen.
Alarming rumcurs are current, says the China Times, of a plan which is said to be on foot in the Palace at P. king to do away with the Em- peror and substitute Yung Lu's princely son-in-
law.
Yung Lu is, according to this story, grow- ing nervons at the prospect which comes daily nearer of the Empress Dowager's gradual retirement from active control of affairs, owing to her old age, and does not like the contempla. tion of his being put into the background should tooner or later the Emperor r.gain control. there will be a great struggle of parties, and the present scare is probably a mere nticipation of it. Not much importance is to be attached to the talk of the Peking tea-shops in matters of f et, bat some note may well be taken of the general political uneasiness which is the fertile source of origin of these rumours.
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