THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LVII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c... Leading Articles:-
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 26TH JANUARY, 1903.
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Hongkong Weekly Press
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL. .63 LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
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China and the Indemnity
Germany and Russia
Chinese Immigration
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Reform in China
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Commercialism in Modern Life
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Shanghai and its Government The Currency Question
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The English mail of the 19th December [64 arrived, per P. & O. steamer Coromandel, on 64 the 17th January (29 days); the Canadian mail of the 11th December arrived, per CF.R. steamer Empress of India, on the 20th January (40) days); and the German mail of the 23rd December arrived, per N.D.L. steamer Stuttgart, on the 24th January (32 days).
Hongkong Sanitary Board.
Crown Prince of Siam in Hongkong
Hongkong Diocesan Choral Festival
Queen's College Prize-Giving
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The s.8. San Cheung
The Nanking Eund Collapse
Macao
Swatow
Pakhoi
Japan
Nangkin
Manchuria....
Chefoo
Correspondence
China Provident Loan and Mortgage Co., Ld...
The National Bank of China, Ld.
Hongkong Land Investment Co., Ld.
The Murder of Mr. Evans
West Point Building Co., Ld.
Supreme Court
Reviews
Sporting Notes
Cricket
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Football
Water Return
Hongkong
Miscellaneous
Commercial Shipping.
BIRTHS.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Temple of Heaven railway station at Peking has been suddenly abolished, and coolies 71 started removing the rails on the 19th inst.
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On the 22nd inst. being the second anniversary .72 of the accession of King Edward VII, the ship- 74ping in the Harbour here was gaily decorated 71 and the warships fir d the customary salute.
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According to a statement in the Peking and Tientsin Times, there appears to be 7 foundation for the statement that the Chinese ...78 Court is contemplating the enforced adoption of European clothes by Chinese officials. This is an instance of the absurdities perpetrated in .83 the name of reform. Meanwhile the real reforms,
of course, are not carried out.
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On the 26th December, at Wonsan, Corea, the wife of C. E. S. WAKEFIELD, of a daughter, NORAH. On the 8th January, at Pasir Panjang, Straits, the wife of H. LALLEMENT, of a daughter.
On the 12th January, at 8, Chusan Road, Shanghai, the wife of RONALD C. HOWLETT, of a
aon.
On the 16th January, at Shanghai, the wife of
S. P. WHITE-COOPER, of a son. On the 18th January, at No. 5, Wild Dell, the wife of J. BAGGARIDGE, of a son,
On the leth January, at "The Acacias," Robinson Road, Kowloon, the wife of W. KING,
of a son.
On the 22nd January, at No. 2, Gomes Villas, Kowloon, the wife of L. P. Glissmann, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
On the 3rd January, at Penang, Dr. JAMES
second daughter of A. A, MolxTYRE.
DEATHS.
The Morning Post's Berlin correspondent states that the Press there mentions with displeasure the intention to raise the Japanese legations in Europe to the rank of Embassies. The Lokalanzeiger observes that the majority of the Powers are averse to the promotion, but are obliged to consent if England favours Japan's proposal.
The Lord Mayor of London presided at the celebration of the seventy-ninth anniversary of the Birkbeck Institution on the 21st inst, when Baron Hayashi, the Japanese Minister who gave away the prizes, said that the country which wished to rank high must prove its superiority in work and products. His Government, he said, never failed to impress this fact on the Japanese.
EXILE SMITH, Assistant Surgeon, to ALICE WARD, standing China's refusal to give her authority, A Laffan's telegram says that, notwith.
Russia is constituting a Customs office at Dalny, with the intention of establishing similar stations throughout the railway district of Manchuria. The refusal, however, of Chinese Imperial Customs is likely to bandicap assistance from Sir Robert Hart and the
On the 11th January, a Shiakwan, Nanking, HARRY EDWIN MEADE, Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's Agent, aged 27 years:
On the 18th January, at No. 4, Kuagping Road, Shanghai, WATSON W. RICH, chief engineer of the Hankow-Canton Railway, aged 61 years
On the 18th January, at Shanghai, FELIX FREDERIC CAROzzi, of the Mercantile Marine.
On the 16th January, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, Justus WILHELM MEILENHAUSEN, aged 58 years.
On the 19th January, at the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai, James Campbell GRANT, aged
52 years.
On the 19th January, at his residence, at Walkeshwar, Malabar Hill, Bombay, ValubHDASS BALMOOKUNDASS, one of the partners in the firm
Abdoolally Ebrahim & Co.-^` (By wire.)
the scheme.
Mr. Morrison, tid. waiter at Samshui, was wound on the 21st iust, by a pirate who fired from a cabin of the passage-boat On Fut, which journeys between Canton and West River ports. The On Fat had already been searched for board, and five men had been arrested. A second pirates, who were known to be disguised on search was made, Mr. Morrison going to the On Fat with some armed Chinese, one of whom shot Mr. Morrison's assailant dead. Four men were captured. Mr. Morrison is doing well.
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The weather has been so severe in the Inland Sea of Japan that the sea was frozen over in places near Metajiri.
There is outspoken sympathy expressed in Australia with the whites in the Transvaal who are protesting against the introduction of Chinese labourers into the mines.
It is not considered probable that the Straits Currency Commission's report can be ready before the middle of next month, when it is: expected that it will be first communicated to Singapore.
There were still cases of plague in Tokyo when the last mails left Japan, and the in- habitants of the Azabu district declare that it was deliberately imported into their midst by blundering officials,
A Russian flotilla of 25 vessels has been formed to protect the navigation of the Amur and the Usari against Chinese pirates, to watch the Manchurian bank, and effect a speedy mobilisation in the event of war.
It is reported that Na Tung, who is to follow Prince Taai Cheng as representing Chinese at the Osaka Exhibition, h s been ordered to makə investigations with regard to the Japanese adoption of a gold currency.
It is stated that the long pending question of the Seoul electric railway has been settled and The representative of the latter is said to have that it is to be sold to a Belgian syndicate, arrived in the Corean capital. This railway is heavily in debt to an American firm which supplied the materials and constructed the
road,
The China Times learns from an anthoritative source that a gotiations for the purchase of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Co. by the Chinese Government have been broken off and the project abandoned. Powerful influences w re brought to bear to prevent the sale, which would probably not have conduced to the good fortune of the company.
China has suggested to Washington that if the Powers insist on a gold indemnity she should be allowed to collect her customs dues in gold. The United States reply that, China having agreed to a silver indemnity, she is unable to give her assent. Great Britain has proposed a reduction in the instalments by the prolongation of the period of forty years in which the total is at present payable.
The N.-C. Daily News correspondent tele- As a r.sult of the fall in silver, the instalment graphs ander date Peking, 13th January:-
now payable to the Powers on account of the indemnity is increased by Tis. 3,000,000, for which the Ministers have repeatedly prossed the Chinese Government. The lattor is still b sis, representing that in the present un- appealing to be allowed to pay on the silver favourable position of China's finances no more can be provided than the tsel amount agreed upon in the Peace Protocol. This appeal has not been favourably received by the Foreigu- Ministers. Some of the highest officials in Peking propose, as a means of making up the deficiency, to make the Customs duties payable
absolutely decline to agree. The provincial on the gold basis, but to this the Powers officials fearing an increase of the burdens laid on them, are strongly opposing the payment on the gold basis, and the Chinese Government is accordingly in a greatly distressed condition.
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