March 14, 1903.]
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CHANG CHIH TÚNG,
WAR
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
like it and requested one of the ladies acting as interpreter to ask the bowl from the Empress Dowager as a prezent. As it had been arranged by direct request of the foreign ladies that no presents were to te given or received, the inter- pretress naturally thought the request most extraordinary and declined to mention the subject to the Empress. But the legation lady services of the English-speaking Chinese lady was not be headed off that way, so the were secured and the request was present- d. prised and remarked that she was not aware The Empress Dowager was somewhat sur- that presents were wanted but if the lady desired this bowl she could have it. So the Empress Dowager sent out and had two bowls of the same quality brought and presented to the lady. Observers were impressed at this strauge behaviour. The Chinese are wonder. ing if that is the custom in foreign society. Conger and was accepted by the Imperial A return invitation was given by Mrs. Princesses who went to the American Legation To-day at the home of the Imperial Princess, the foreign ladies are again entertained. the adopted daughter of the Empress Dowager,
There are other indications that the ladies of these social relations with the foreign ladies. | high rank in Peking are most pleased to hold They accept invitations not only to the legat ions lighted at this introduction to what is more or but to the homes of missionaries and sem de- less a new life to them.
HONGKONG AND MANILA TRADE.
The following article is taken from the Manila Cablenews :-
Chang Chih-tung, Acting Viceroy of the Liangkiang Provinces and substantial Viceroy of the Lukwang Provinces, etc., has me- morialised the Throne as follows :-
Since your humble subject entered into the official service he has had the honour of having his first and only audience at the time when he was Governor of Shansi in 1884, having been ordered to proceed to l'eking to listen to the Imperial instructions, being thence appointed Viceroy of the Liangkiang Pro- When removed to the Hukwang he was relieved from going up to Peking to receive the Imperial instructions. But on the 24th day of the 9th moon of 1894 and again in the third moon of 1898 he was ordered to proceed to Peking to have Imperial audience. However, on the former occasion having mean. time been appointed acting Viceroy of Liang kiang, he was relieved from doing so, and then on the latter occasion after arriving at Shanghai he was ordered to go back to his post. So on to 1991, in the eighth moon, when the Imperial cortege was at Kaifeng-fu he again applied for audience. His request was not granted and on the 11th day of 12th moon in 1901 Lin Kang yi was ordered to proceed to Peking to have Imperial audience by telegraphic order and upon Viceroy Lin's return to Nanking your memorialist was commanded to proceed to Peking. But on the 15th day another decree from the Empress Dowager was received saying that until treaty rovision completed your memorialist should postpone proceeding to Peking. Thus again another year has since elapsed during all of which time | his eyes have been turned towards Metropolitan Arrangements have been made by the local sky with longing for Imperial audience. The the Canadian 1'acific Railway Coagents of.. new Viceroy Wei Kwang-tao, of Liangkiang,(Smith, Dell and Co ) and the China and Manila will arrive at Nanking sometime in the 2nd Steamship Co., Ld. (Warner, Barnes & Co.. moon(March) and will take over his seal, and your Ld.) to run a new passenger service between memorialist will be then reliered from the acting Manila and Hongkong in connection with the viceroyship and will have leave. Accordingly at well-known Empress line. The Rabi and Zafiro, this period he desires to proceed north to have the two latest and most modern steamers on the the honour of meeting Your Majesty, with Hongkong and Manila run, do not need a de. whom he has louged to have andiec ce for the scription here; their merits, speed and their -last twenty years.
Your memorialist should comfort are well known; they are the only like to personally state the circumstances of the steamers regularly ou the run which have new Commercial Treaty which was recently accommodation amidships and they are of negotiated, and also to discuss reforas in educa modern construction 'and compare favourably with ocean liners in any part of the world. These steamers in future will leave Mani's every Friday in order to connect with the Empress line; and intending passengers to Canada, the United States and turope have now unrivalled opportunities for a comfortable and luxurions sea voyage from Manila to Vanc over. The discomforts of the China Sea are avoided as the new service is a speedy one and the Rubi and Zafiro only keep their passengers on the Chins Sea for two nights; thus much of the inconvenience in crossing the China Seu is avoided. Every arrangement has been made for the comfort of passengers in Itong. kong and for their speedy transfer from the Rubi and Zafiy to their hotel where passengers my stay for three days before the departure of the Empress bots and have the opportunity of visiting and seeing the sights of the wonderful towns of Hongkong. Canton and Macao. A regular service is everything.
tion, military training, and other important State affairs in detail, etc." The above memorial was duly sanctioned with "vermilion " pencil on the 26th ult. and the Viceroy was ordered to proceed to Poking for andieuce,
From excellent sources we learn, the China Gazette says, that Chang Chih-tung's great desire at present is to be appointed President of the Wai Wu-pu (Board of Foreign Affairs) and it is probable that he will attain his desire. We are at a loss to understand what the London Globe meant by speaking of Chang Chih-tung's degradation which was referred to in a London telegram the other day. He is in high favour or he would not be so anxious to go up to Peking, when the expense of such a journey must be a serious consideration to such a poor man as the great Chang, to his credit, is to-day.
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Writing on the 25th ult. the Peking cozres- pondent of the N.-C. Daily News says : --
To-day there is the third of the series of "'entertainments or social interchanges between the ladies of the Legations in Pak ng and the ladies of the Palace. The first was the function at the palace given by invitation of the Empress Dowager. About forty ladies were invited and as this was the second or third time most of the ladies had seen Her Majesty the greetings were quite cordial Mrs. Conger and Mrs. Uchida had long and interesting conversations with the Empress Dowager and the other ladies mingled together in most pleasant relations. They were all greatly assisted by Miss Kaang who speaks German and English, as well as her native tongue, and is a most accomplished lady, While refreshments were being served in the dining hall one of the ladies observed a beautiful yellow bowl from which the Empress Dowager was taking fruit, She desired" one
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At the last meeting of the Union Church Literary Club, Mr. W. O. Sims read a paper 00 * Jihn Ruskin.”
An ́interesting debito followed.
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The entries for the Oxford Local Etamina- tions have now closed. Eighty-nine fees have 35 preliminary candidates. Four of the last been paid, there being 18 senior, 38 junior, and
are girls.
Museum for the
The visitors to the City Hall Library and were 333 non-Chinese and 104 Chinese to the week ending 7th March, former, and 62 non-Chinese and 3,675 Chinese to the latter institution.
ben added to the list of non-official Justices of The names of the following gentlemen hare
the Pence :-Mentrs. Anthony Babington, Chau Sni-ki, 'I'. H. Cochrane, W. A, Crniokshank, W. C. Moxon, H. Pinckney, H. E. Pollock, K.C., H, T. Davis, H. E. R. Hunter, Lan Chu-pak, G.
Wong Kam-fuk, R. T. Wright. Ahmet Ramjahu, A. H. Skelton, Wei Wa-leen,
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and we recommend all travellers who intend to risit or who are returning to the United States, Canada or Europe to purchase a through ticket from either of the above mentioned firms. Mr. H. B. Darnell, the Eastern Travelling Agent| of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co., is expected very shortly in Manila from Japan and he brings with him details of arrangements which bavo been completed for summer tours to China, Japan and Canads and the United tates, and he will be welcomed as a boon by those desirous of getting away from the heat during our trying summer.
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On the 9th in-t, three lots of Crown land were sold at the offices of the P.W.D. New Kowloon lot No. 1, the firs' lot in the New §1;0 to start with, and was knocked down to Mr. Territory to be put up to anėtion, was bid for at
bought by Messrs. Palmer and Turner for at $1,620. Lot No. 1,679, Bowen Road, was A. Denison of Messra, Denison, Ram aud Gibba
$520. Inland lot No. 1,680, Causeway Bay, was bought ly Chinese for 81,845.
The following returns of the average amount of bank-notes in cironlation and of specie in reserve during February, as certified by the managers of the respective banks, appear in the Gazette:—
Banks.
Chartered Bank of India, A¤ë.
tralia and China Hongkong and Shanghai Bank-
ing Corporation National Bank of ‹ hina, Limited
Average Spoole in Amount. Reserve.
$
$ 3,5 7,713 1,650,000
14,022,213 7,500,000 444,714 150,000
Total
$17,074,659 $0,300,000 the premises of the Victoria Hair Dressing During the night on the 7th instant Saloon, situated on Connaught House, were broken into by thieves, the ground floor of
and goods, consisting of razors, umbrellas, per fumery, meerschaum pipes and cigar holders, to that the burglars bruke open the side door in the the value of about 81,0° 0 stolen. It appears lane leading to the Daily Preas office, and thus entered the stores. The police have the will speedily be able to capture the thieves and matter in hand, and it is to be hoped that they
trace the missing property,
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Aboat 2 p.m. on the 11th inst. Sergeants Kerr and Bevet observed smoke issuing from a house at 326, Des Voeux Road Wast
occupied as a atore by Mesars. Wo Sing & Co, dealers in matting. They at once gave the alarm and before many minutes the Fire Brigade were on the scene under Mr. A. Mackie. Chief Inspector, and Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse, Assistant Superintendent, and oon, three hoses did the Brigade exert themselves that they were playing upon the flames. So strenuously managed to extinguish the conflagration before apartment was gutted and some large bundles it had spread farther than the kitchen. This
of matting were destroyed. The damage is not serions and is said to be insured with Messrs. Siemssen and Renter, Brockelmann. P. C. Shepherd had a narrow escape from injury by falling débris.
Seven Chinamen were brought up on remand at the Police Court on the 7th inst, charged with stealing from a native trader and a married countrywomau money and clothing to the value of $3,914 on the 20th ult. All the parties arrived from cingapore on that day, and when the complainants got ashore and began to look out their baggage they found to their dismay that the box in which the money and clothing The advance in the price of zilver in the face were locked was missing. The police were of fixity which is being advocated in the communicated with, and the box was traced to Straits, the Philippines and China induces a a Chinese boarding-house, where, în “a room Singapore writer to suggest that possibly the occupied by eight men, seven { of them the action of the American President to prop up defendants, it was found broken open and rifled silver is stimulating bull operations. Therefore of its contents. The men, in whose possession he says:-"Let us take advantage of it and fix | most, if not all, of the money and goods were the highest possible ratio in the meanwhile.found, were arrested and charged, but for want After that the bulls and bears will have no terror of direct evidence the case against them failed
and they were acquitted.
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