THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOLS LVX.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Articles
Railways in China...
Customs Returns: January-March The Future of Cores. Tibet..
The Bagdad Railway. Hongkong Sanitary Board The Health of Hongkong Canton's New Viceroy... Festival at Macao
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 20TH JUNE, 1903.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
.436 The Wei Walpa has officially notified the 4.6 Legations at Peking that all trouble in Yunnan is en led and all the foreigners are under military 437 guards and no auxiety need be felt,
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Lient General Baron Kodams, Governor- ..439 | General of Formosa, is to visit England 439 shortly, going thence to the Transvaal to inspect the working of the British colonial system
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The Siamese royal yacht the Mahuchakkri, which visited Hongkong not many months ago 141 when conveying the Crown Prince to Bangkok, is again on her way North to meet Prince Chao Fa Chakrabliongse, who is travelling across Siberia.
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Volunteer Church Parade
China and Portugal
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The Manchurian Negotiations
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The Manufacture of Rebel
Canton Aotes..............
Peking
Tibet
Correspondence
Kwangai Famine Fund
"Shanghai Mercury," Ld.
Bro ers' Case at Shanghai
Supreme Court
Victoria Hecreation Club
Cricket Averages
Athletics at Amoy
Chinese Amok at ingapore!
The Uraga Dock Company's Difficulties
Plague in Hongkong.
The Straite Currency
Hongkong
Miscellaneous ... Commercial..
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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An Imperial rescript has been issued to the 44 Chinose treaty commissioners, ordering the transfer of negotiations from Shanghai to 414 Peking. Negotiations with Japan have been broken off owing to Japan demanding the opening of sundry ports in Manchuria.
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There is a rumour in Singapore, says the Straits Times that the false telegram which 448 Kang Yu wei received from the alleged Emperor of China recalling him to Chiua from Darjeeling was despatched from Peking by a Singapore Chinese who is at present in
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On the 6th June, at Moh! ansan, the wife of the China. Rev. J. C. GARRITT, of Hangchow, of a son.
On the 8th June, at 150, Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, the wife of PAUL WESTENDORFF, of a
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On the 13th June, at" Tor Crest," Peak, the wife of A. G. GORDON, of a con.
On the 15th June,jat Government House, Wei- haiwel, Mrs STEWART INCKHAEт of a daughter.
On the 15th June, at Macao, the wife of GEORGE MACKENZIE, I M. (ustomis, Lappa, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
On the 9th May, at Sirbiton, M. S. NAPIRR to ALICE CAROLINE MARY daughter of 1.te J HN PATERSON, of Am y
Lord Lansdowne in the House of Lords on the 16th June, said that Great Britain had serious cause for complaint at the manner in hich China has dealt with applications for railway concessions and that he would be obliged to remonstrate strongly. Sir Ernest Satow was returning to China" with full instructious to energ tically support the Fiows of the Government.
On the 23rd May, at the Roman Catholic Cathedral, Saigon, Cochin-Chira, FREDERICK BUTLER MADDEN, to MARGARET THERESA (DAIST) MCCABE, eldest daughter of P. MCCABE, of Wood-attack d having succumbed. The plague cases side, Crowthorne, Berkshire, England.
DEATHS.
On the 4th June, at fchang, THOMAS CHARLES BURCHETT, I. M. Customs, aged 38 years.
On the 10th June, at Helsingborg, Sweden, NILS MOLLER, of Shanghai, aged 78 years.
No. 25
The Union, Shanghai, of the 11th inst., says: Last week four British 'men-of-war in a stripg went up the Yangtsze. Of late years men-of- war of all flags represented in Chins have paid frequent visits to the river ports, it having suddenly dawned upon the authorities at home that it is a wise step to show the natives their flags. Jube used to be the month when rioters delighted to attack foreign property, but they now appear to have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of energy on their part,
General Kuropatkin, Russian Minister for War, arrived at Tokyo on the 12th inst According to the N. Daily News, the Japauese papers heartily welcome him, but the Jiji reminds him that Japan is a constitutional country, where the Government must conform to the popular will, which was inclined toward an alliance with England long prior to that alliance being actually concluded, and which is now quite fixed as regards the Manchurian and Corean ques ions; whereas Russia's temporary occupation of Manchuria, being independent of the wish of the Russian nation, is easily terminable by the volition of Russia's statesman.
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The movement for the opening of Northern Chins still goes on-on paper at least. The Peking correspondent of the N.-C. Daily News telegraphed on the 9th inst. :- The Chinese who recently secured the right to construct a railway between Changchiakon (Kalgan) and Peking have decided to commence the work, and they are now endeavouring to get the necessary capital subscribed.” On the same day our contemporary's Tokyo correspondent telegraphed :--"? There are evidences of the growth of public opinion in Japau in favour of opening Moukden and Tatung, a proposal which was originally included at Shanghai in the negotiations for th revised commercial treaty."
The Japanese Navy Department is at present engaged on plans for the three battleships and Dr. J. M. Alkinson, Principal Civil Medical | five cruisers, the construction of which was Officer, izformed a representative of the Hong-recently approved by the Dist. The plans will kong Daily Press on Thursday that there was no be sent to Mr. Matsuwo, Naval Constructor. doubt the epidemic of plague in the Colony is Insp ctor, and Captain Iwamoto, who are at on the wane. Among Europeans it had not present in England, and on receiving the been of a virulent character, only four out of 27 report of these officers orders for the con
struction of the new ships will be given. It is believed that the Luilders will be selected from the following British firms, all of whom have previously built vessels for the Japanese Navy:-Messis. Armstrong and Mitchell; the Thames Iron Works; Messrs. Vickers, Sons and Maxim; and Messrs John Brown & Co. manslaughter.
from the beginning of the year to noon yes lerdry numbered 1,216.
Mr. R. M. Campbell, bill and bullion broker, shot himself fatally at Shanghai on the 17th inst. Mr. Roderick Campbell was one of the most familiar figures among the Shangbai bro- kere, and was well known in Hongkong also.
Hongkong Weekly Press His death will be very generally regretted in
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German mail of the 12th alt, per steamer Freussen, rrived on the 13th inst., (32 Haye); the Canadian mail of the 7th ult., per Empress of India, arrived on the 16th inst., (40 day~); and the English mail of the 22nd alt, per P. & O. Falläärat, arrived 18th inst., (27 days).
both laces Mr. Campbell leaves a wife and Several daughters living. He followed the pro- fession of a broker for many years in Shanghai. No explanation of the act is yet to hand.
The Peking correspondent of the N.-C. Daily News telegraphed on the 11th inst. The Russian inister, M. Lessar, called on Prince Ching at his private residence yesterday, and formally opened negotiations on the Manchurian questi n. Prince Ching has denied himself to all the other Ministers during bis sick leave, but M. Pokotiloff of the Russo-Chinese Bank was allowed to have several interviews with him and secretly negotiated with him prior to returning to Russia.
The wires from the United States, remarks a home contemporary, would make it appear that Great Britain is accepting a silver bond for the amount of the indemnity. This is not the case. The British Government adheres to the opinion that the indemnity is a gold debt, and is un- likely to alter this opinion unless all the Powers agree to accept taels at any price instead of gold. The Government, however, has agreed to accept payment of the amount iu taels which is represented by the exchange at the time of the rotocol But this sum, or rather its sterling equivalent, is placed to account, and the difference represesting the fal at its present value in gold and the value (34.) fixed in the Protocol is carried forward for adjast- ment later on.
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