Page
THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
W
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LVII.]
CONTENTS.
Hongkong
Leading Articles :
The Dumping of Plague Bodies...
PAOK .419
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 15TH JUNE, 1903.
No. 24
According to the P. & T. Times of the 30th
Hongkong Weekly Dress utt., the Empress Dowager is said to contemp-
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VŒUX ROAD CL. .420 420 LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C.
...420
The Plague Epidemic
Russia in Manchuria
Free Trade..........
...421
The Mail Contract
.422
The Straits Currency Question
422
Paling as a Treaty Port
.423
The Wedding of Captain Arbuthnot and Miss
Blake
423
The Health of Hongkong
The Kwangsi Famine
425 125
New Tung Wa Hospital Branch
....425
Bacteriological Department în 1902.
...426
A Chinese Clan-fight
427
Murder by a Foreigner in Shanghai
427
Canton
....428
Pakhoi
..128
428
429
..429
429
429
429
The Situation in Kwangsi
Northern Notes
Corean Affairs
Tibet
C. rrespondence
+
Kwangsi Famine Fund
430
430
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The Ernest Simons, with the French mail of the 15th ult., arrived on the 14th inst. (3) daye) the Nippon Maru, with the American mail of the 16th alt, arrived on the 13th inet. (29 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The plague cases from the beginning of the year to date in Hongkong armored 1,170 at noon at Saturday.
HE. Tsen Chun-hsuen, the new Viceroy of the Two Kwang, passed through Hongkong 40 yesterday on his way to Canton.
China-Borneo Co., d
Nippon Yusen Kaisha..
Hongkong's Assets i nd Liabilities
China Mutual Life Insurance Co., Ld.
431
Supreme Court .....
431
A Test Case at the Polica Cburt
Hongkong
Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Commercial..
Shipping
BIRTHS.
The Chinese Throne sanctioned on the 11th 432 inst., the scheme for building & railway from
Shanghai to Nanking,
.432
.432
432 .431
On the 4th May at Dorking, the wife of HUGH CLIFFORD, of a daughter.
On the 31st May at 275, Woosung Road, Shanghai, the wife of LESLIE H. GABB, of the Shanghai Waterworks Co. Ld, of a daughter.
On the 1st June, at No 1, Carter Road, Shang- hai, the wife of HHARKER TAYLOR, of a daughter. On the 1st June at No. 11, Museum Road, Shanghai, the wife of W. H. MOULE, of a son.
On the 3r 1 June, at 3, Seymour Road, Shanghai, the wife of IIERBERT GEORGE DOWLER, of a son.
On the 4th June, at S. Peter's Rectory, Shang- hai, the wife of the Rev. J. LAMBERT REES, B.Sc, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 1st June, at Shanghai, at the Church of Sacred Heart of Jesus, Hongkew, by the Rev. Father J. Savary S., CARLOS C. DA COSTA, third son of the late FRANCISCO GOMES DA COSTA, to MARIA LOURDIS, eldest daughter of ULIVIO A. VITIRA.
On the 3rd June, at H.B.M. Consulate and afterwards at the Church of Our Saviour, Hongkew, by the Rev. Fleming James, PERCY MONTAGU, youngest son of THOMAS BRESLEY, of Warrington, Lancashire, and "Springbank," Stretton, Cheshire, to RUTH HUNTER, eldest daughter of the late ANDREW MC ELVIE of Greenock, Scotland.
On the 8th June, it Union Church, by the Rev. C. C. Hickling, WILLIAM G. GERRARD, son of PETER GERRARD, Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to ELIZABETH A. PORTER, daughter of MORGAN FORTE, Lexham Gardens, South Kensington, London||
DEATHS.
On the 3rd June, Shanghai, RoBT. BRADSHAW MOORHEAD, late Commissioner, I. M. Customs, Ningpo.
On the 6th June at his residence, 103, Bluff, Yokohama, CHARLES DAVIS Moss, aged 60 years.
On the 6th June at Yokohama, CHARLES D, Мова.
On the 18th Just pm., at his residence, 6, Peaconsfield Arcade, ALBERTO R. ELIAS, Consul for Pera, Hongkong
Small-pox is said to be still prevalent in Peking, and L'Impartial says that over 1,000 deaths are recorded from this disease alone.
Our Shanghai correspondent informs as that the working of the Marconi telegraph-between the Italian Legation, Peking, and Taku is quite succesful.
The French gunboat Olry relurned last week to Chungking owing to her boiler bursting when on the way to Suifu. and two injured.
'wo men were killed
A hurricane has occurred in the Philippines in which four Americau steamers, including the transport Sumshui, have been lost. The loss of life is not yet known.
Herr Lyburg, German Consul-General at Batavia, has been transferred to Yokohama, re- placing Herr Coates, who has been appointed Minister at Bangkok.
1 Official returns have been published of the number of Japanese iu Siberia at the end of last year. In Vladivostock there were 2,996, in Nicalisk 544, in Khabarovsk 201, in Nicolaeffsk 250, and in Blagovestchensk 203.
L'Echo de Chine says. in reference to the recent miners' outbreak in Yuanan, that M. Delcassé has received a telegram from Peking announcing that all the French citizens have arrive at Yunnanfu under escort, and would be quite safe there.
The Board of Revenue, Peking, was burnt on the 9th inst., at night. To prevent the flames spreading the French Hespitel and the Board of Rites were intentionally destroyed. Foreign troops were employed to extinguish the fire, which was fortunately not serious,
Yokohama has been declaced a plague-infected port by the Russian Government. A death from the disease occurred in the barbour of that port on the 28th ult, the victim being one of the Chinese crew of the Hamburg-Amerika steamship Aragonia.
late replacing Priuce Ching, "who will not get well." applied for sick leave and there was nobody to All the officials of the Waiwapa have
negotiate with M. Lessar.
According to the Japanese paper Mainichi the Manager at Peking of the Russo-Chinesa Bank is reported to have stated at a dinner party. recently that Russia intends to take possession of the Yalu Valley and will eventually open negotiations with Japan for the dividing up of Cores,
:
One of the Chinese students in Japan has returned and gone up to Peking for the purpose of watching the Government policy with regard to Russia. This looks, says the P. & T. Times, as if they were very much in earnest over there, and as if an element of
danger to her own peace was alfady being
created within China's borders.
The Universal Gazette gathers that Viceroy Kwaugtung a number of troops who were Tsen is bringing with him from Szechnen to
efficient in putting down the disturbance in the former province. Over six hundred of these troops are reported by the Gazette to have arrived at Hankow by steamer from Ichang and nine hundred more were expected in a few days
!
The Tokyo correspondent of the N.-C. Daily News reported on the 4th inst. that the session of the Japanese Diet closed that day without incident. The House of Peers passed all the facial measures as amended by the Lower House, but has adopted a represention con- demning the reversion to the policy of making loans for the prosecution of public works, except in unavoidable cases. Both Houses passe! the Bill extending the Formosan camphor monopoly system to the whole Empire.
states that 5,000 of the Hufer or monatel The Sinwenpao, says the N.-C. Daily News, bandits of Manchuria who were recently eulisted by the Rus iaus and organised by them, are to be received into the ranks of the Moukden army, with the sanction of the Russian authorities, and further that the Tartar General Tsông Chi is desirous of sending his new levies to the vicinity of Shaphaikwan for the purpose of being amalgamated with the Chiness forces there. As Viceroy Yuan Shikai is in com- mand over Shanhaikwan and the troops there are his, he may suspect some ultimate design in this latest phase of Russian complaisance in allowing men armed and organised by them to join the regular troops.
The Shanghai Times publishes a despatch of the 3rd inst. from Nanchangfu. Kiangsi province, in which it is stated that among the students of the Provincial College for Western Learning established there by the former governor, there are more than twenty who propose to go to Japan to join the Volunteer Corps, recently formed by the Chinese students, now studying, for the purpose of following the Japanese army to Manchuria to fight the Russians in the event of war breaking out between Russia and Japan on account of Russia's refusal to evacuate Manchurie. The students have also asked their Director to introduce physical and military drill into the College, and to use the piece of land at the back of the College premises as a drill-ground.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.