THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
V1L. LVII]
AND
China Overland
Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG. MONDAY, 9TH FEBRUARY, 1903.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, de
PAGE .95
Lauding Articles: -
The Canton Rumours
nd a Sequel
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Anglo-German Relations in thing
The Missionary Question
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Hougkong and the Currency Question The Canton Scare
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
94
Presentation of Red Cross at Government House
99
The Wreck of the Alexander MacNeil
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The British quadron in Tonkin
The A D . in His Excellency the Garecaur
Pollard & Lilliputians
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Canton
Swatow
Japan
Corea
Tientsin
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Northern Notes
Kowloon Land and Building Co., Ld.
Hongkong Ice Co., Ld.
163
Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., Ld.
143
Hongkong, Can'on and Macao Steamboat Co.. Ld 143 Hongkong and shanghai Banking Corporation.. Punjom Mining Co., Ld.
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Supreme Court
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Review
Sporting Notes
Cricket
Football
Shooting
Pigeon show at the Kowloon Hot !
Hongkong Chess Club
Sequel to a Shanghai Newspaper Case
Hongkong
Miscellaneous
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
Hongkong èèleekly Press
Hongkong Office: 14, DES VOUX ROAD C London Office: 131, FLEET STREET. E.,
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English tail of the 2nd January arrived, per P. & O. steamer Malta, on the 31st January 29 days); the American mail of the 3rd January arrived. per 0. & 0. steamer Coptic, on the 1st Februŵry (29 days; and the German mail of the 6th January arrived, per N.D.L. steamer Preussen, on the lith February 31 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Russians have now got a telegraph wire of their own from Yingkaw, ria Shanhaikwan, to Peking.
The Standard's Odessa correspondent says 1 6 the Russo-Chinese Bank has been commissioned 16 to place a loan if 41,0:0,000 fianes in Paris for 107 Chinese railway extension.
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The river gunboat Snipe's foar-oared boat, 18 with Dr. Rowan, was ca¡ sized in a blizzard at
Kiukiaug on the 28th ult. were drowned, but Dr. Eowan was saved by 19 swimming. The boat was lost.
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On the 4th November, 19 3, at 7, Granville Avenue, Kowloon, the wife of JOHN LEMM, of a daughter.
On the 18th January, at Nagasaki, the wife of
MARCUS MESS, of a son.
On the 19th January, &t Kobe, the wife of ROBERT YOUNG, of a daughter.
On the 19th January, at Chefoo, the wife of JOHN R. GREAVES, of a son.
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On the 21st January, at Shanghai, the wife of F. H. WALLACE, of a daughter.
On the 22nd January, at Fernbill, Singapore, the wife of S. BEHR, of a son.
On the 23rd January, at Hankow, the wife of M. Rappaport, of a daughter.
On the 24th January, at 3, Museum Road, Shanghai, the wife of A. D. Lows, of a daughter. On the 31st January, at No. 12, Park Lane, Shanghai, the wife of W. SCHOENẴN, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
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On the 17th January, at Pangkok, F. W. COOKSON, of the Royal Siamese Naval Depart ment, to Miss SOLOMON, daughter of the late F. SOLOMON, Royal Bangkok Police Department.
On the 29th January, at the Union Church, Shanghai, by the Rev. C. E. Darwent, M.A., JOHN HARVIE, of Glasgow, to JESSIE MACDONALD, Maryburgh Boss-shire.
DEATHS.
It is reported that Buren Gansburg has arranged a loan from Russia to Corea of 006,000 yen on the security of the taxation of the three southern provinces of Corea.
All the Chinese arrested in Hongkong and charged with conspiracy in connection with he recent rumoured plot to captur Cantou
and kill the officials, were liberated at the Magistrecy on the 2d inst.
It is alleged, 8 ys the Straits Times, that 1,000 Siamese troops are assembled in Xien Khan (Ch ́engkản), neir the "neutral zone," where famine is said to be raging and matters are generally in a chaotic state,
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The Siberian Press says that gratifying success has attended the expedition working behalf of the recently formed Russo- Munchurian mining syndicate. Gold has been found in the neighh urhood of Kirin province and Moukden, and the yield seem to warrant mining operations,
The Russian cruiser Askold, which arrived here on the 2nd inst, and forms the latest addition to the Russian Beet in these waters, was launched ut Ki-l in 1900. She ir a vessel of 6,000 t ng dis-
placement and 19,000 ih.p. (Schulz), has 3-inch deck armour, carries t velve 6-in Q.F, twelve 3in., eight 12, two 14 in., and two maxim guns, and s torp di tubes, and ber spead is 23 knots. Th· Ask?' ('git for Nagasaki on the
On the 14th January, at Tientsin, ROSALIE | 5th inst. LOUISE CLIFFORD, infant daughter of OLIVER A Peking telegram of the 22nd ult. 8‹ y8 :— CLIFFORD, aged 10 months.
On the 21st January, at Ipoh, Perak, JoHN HENRY, son of JAMES and DORA CRAWFORD, aged 1 year and 8 days.
On the 1st February, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, FERDINAND LEOPOLD SEEBERG, late of L.M. Customs, aged 44
years.
In Bangkok, J. M. E. DE JESUS, for many years assistant to the East Asiatic Company, Ld, aged 39 years.
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No. 6
Cholera is again making its way in the Southern provinces of the Philippines. The reports of the 31st ult. show a general increase in the number of cases. The situation is most
alarming in the Moro c.untry, where the natives are dying off by the score. The total number of cases reprtel in the islands up to date was 125,810.
The Japanese cruisers Itsukushima, Hashidate, and Matsushima, which ato shortly starting ou a prolonged cruise as far sonth as New Zealand, are expected to arrive in II ugkong about the 23rd iust and to leave again on the 28th, Thence they go to Singapore. Batavis, Australian and New Zealaud ports, Manila. Amoy. Corea, and home,
The N.-C. Daily News says that the statement in a contemporary (which we alluded to recently) 'bat the demolition of the railway station at the Temple of Heaven, Peking, had been decreed, and that the rails were being removed, is quite incorrect: the only fonuation for it is that some disused sidings in the grounds of the for the rice traffic, were being reLoved under Temple of Agriculture, originally laid down
Mr. Kinder's direction.
A telegram to the N.-C. Daily News dated Peking, 28th January, says - No answer bas been returned by the Legations to the Chi- cese petition in regard to the payment ment is now obliged to recoguise that there of the indemnity; but the Peking Govern-
is no hope of the Powers agreeing to the payment of the Customs duties in gold, and that the continued payment of the indemnity on the gold basis i‹ inevitable." correspondent says that the English, French, the Board of Foreign Affairs against the and United States Ministers bave protested to
appointment of Yu Lien-san to the Governorship.
of Sbausi.
The same
President Roosevelt has sent a message to dwelling on the injury to international trade Congress with notes from Mexico and China, resulting from fluct ation in silver. The niessage recommends legislation which will en- able the United States to co-operate with gold- standard countries for the purpose of establish. |ing the stability of silver. It is now reported that the United States' Government proposes to appoint a commission of three financial experts representing the United States to an interna- tional monetary conference on the lines indicated by Mexico and China, or to any kind of international exchange of views promising SUCCESS. The commission will not commit the United States to any change in the currency system.
The N.C. Daily News says that a despatch from Changsha, much delayed in transmission,
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has been received to the effect that rebel bands from Kwangsi, who have ever ince last autama been threatening to cross the borders, have now actuallky crossed into Hunan and pillaged the frontiers, being joined by numerous parties of Kolao Huis. It is further reported. The Buss an Gorerument is reported to be that many skirmishes had taken place between determined to establi h a Castons at Daluy the troops and the invaders, who have succeeded in spita. of the opposition of Great Britain in retaining their hold of the country, ie band Japan and America The Chinese Governanly being driven back into Kwangsi, which neat appear to be about to alter their actitude feat has been made much of by the Hunsu towards the Russians. Princs Ching is still Governor, 1 Liensan, and his subordinate, who, undecided about the matter and Sir Robert ou the cther bacd, have naturally forgotten to Hart is urging him to reject the Russian | report the many reverses suffered by the troops demand,
in other par tsof the province,
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