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Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LVIII.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
The Manchurian Question
The Price of Food
Anti-Plague Serum in Hongkong
Straits Currency·····
A New Plague Suggestion from Bombay
German Policy
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Health of Hongkong
Alleged Russo-Japanese Understanding
The Late Lo Feng-lu
Improvements at the Theatre
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 4TH JULY, 1903.
No. 1
According to a Northern despatch, H.E.
Hongkong Weekly Dress Chang Chih-tung has been permitted to return
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VEUX ROAD CL Q LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, E.Ç.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The Coptic with the American mail of June 7 3rd arrived here on the 30th ult. (27 days); the P. & O. Coromanilel with the English mail of the 5th ult, arrived here on the 2nd inst. (27 days).
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A Trip to Sam Chun.
The Recent Rain-storm.
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Report of the Principal Civil Medical Officer Canton
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Manchuria
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Correspondence.
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Chins Light and Power Co., Ld.j
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Hongkong Volunteer Corps
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Hongkong Water Polo Association
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Bribery Charge at Police Court....
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Hongkong
Miscellaneous
Commercial..
Supreme Court
Shipping
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BIRTHS.
EPITOME.
The year's plague total now numbers 1,277 with 1,122 deaths. Details will be found on p. 6. Only one case was reported during the 24 hours ending at noon yes erday.
A Seoul despitch says that a number of 13 Court officials have been arrested in connection 13 with a plot to administer poison to the Emperor
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The Russian Minister at Seoul has promised that some rafts seized on the Yalu belonging to ('oreans shall be returned. The rafts were seiz- On the 29th May, on board the Spanish mailed on the ground that all the forests on the Yalu steamer Isla de. Luzon, off Socotra, the wife of JUAN MENCARINI, I M. Customs, of a son, ALFONSO. On the 21st June, at ** Omdurman," Dalvey Road, thy wife of REGENT A. J. BIDWELL, preina turely of a son (still-born).
At M lchin, Mecklenburg, Germany, the wife of G. ATZENROTn, of Hongkong, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
On the 18th June, at the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Hongkew, by the Rev. L. le Cornec, S.J., EUCLIDTO POSSIDONIO XAVIER to PREFETUA FELICITA COLLACO, first daughter of
ALEXANDRE J. COLLACO.
On the 22nd June at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., JAMES H. LOGAN, EJE. A. and C. Telegraph Co., to MINNIE, second daughter of the late Captain SAMUEL Lord, of Shanghai.
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On the 22nd June, at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Singapore, ALEXANDER HAMILTON ACHESON, B. I. 8. N. (o, to Annie Margaret, widow of the late WJ HAMBLEY of the Ooregum Gold Mie, South India, and elder daughter of J. E. O'SHAUGHNESSY Q,E., Madras P.W.D. (retd.).
On the 27th June, at S. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, by the Rev. F. T. Johnson, M.A, ARTHUS MACHOWAN of Swatow, to KATHLEEN DE SALES.
DEATHS.
On the 18th June, at Kuala Lumpur, HENRY On the 22nd June at the International Hospital, Kobe, GEORGE H. FERGUSON, late Chief Engineer of the P.M. steamer Biberia.
CHARLES MAARTENEZ, late of Ceylon
On the 25th June at Shanghai, MARIAN PAUL, wife of Captain A. E KNIGHT, aged 63 years and 6 months.
have been leased to Russia.
Major Younghusbaud ani Mr. White repre- senting the Indian Government with a small escort of Pioneer wil meet Tibetan and Chinese officials on the borders of Sikkim early this month to discuss trado questions.
The Tapanese Minister at Seoul bas informed effective steps to check the illegal agitation the Corean Government that unless it takes
against Japanese banknotes, he will himself take suitable action, and will also hold Corea responsible for the los resulting from their circulation being interfered with.
to his former position of Viceroy of the Hukuang provinces.
To-day, the Fourth of July, the Postal Tele-- | graph ompany,in connection with the opening of the now cable to the Philippines and other insulsr possessions of the United States in the Pacifio. will make an effort to circle the globe from its New York offices in forty seconds. The message will be sent from the main office of the Postal Company at 253, Broadway, New York, and it is expected that it will be receive on the opposita side of the room 4') seconds after the operator. sends it on the other. This feat will follow immediately after the exch nge of me sages between President Roosevelt and Governor Taft. The message will travel over but two lines practically. These will be the land and ocean wires of the Postal and the Commercial Ca'le Company, which may be considered one, and those of the Eastern Cable Company.
A telegram dated London, 16th June, says:- Renter learns that the telegram received in Peris from Bangkok relating to Kelantan is incorrect. The green eut was completed some months ago. The administration of Kelantan is not in the hands of the British, and no British forcs of 310 has been despatched to Kelantan, where there are only a few Sikh and Pathan guards.
The N.-C. Daily News of the 27th ult writes:How much Russin regards the claim that the Yangtsze Valley is Great Britain's sphere of influen e is shown by the fact that she is now endeavouring to obtain from the * throne, through a Mr. Pollak, who is the Russian stalking-horse, a concussion to build railways from Hankow to Chêngtu, the capital of Szechnen, and from Hankow to Fuochow. These railways will, of course, have to be daly guarded, and the result may be judged from the present condition of Manchuria, and of Shan- tung, which is completely Germanised through- out the line of the Germsn railway. The Daily News learns that the qousent has been obtained of T. E. Chaug Chih tung, Yuan Shi-kai, and Sheng Kung-pao, and of the Waiwapu, to these proposed Russiau railways, and the necessary imperial edict is now being sought.
A despatch dated Tokyo, 25th June, to the N.. Daily News is to the following effect:- Public impatience is growing daily in Japan, with reference to the Manchurian question. steps to terminate the harassing suspense which The soborest journals are advocating resolute
checks all peaceful development. They declare that the nation will be a unit to support tre Ministry in strong measures, the sole respon- sibility for which will rest with Russia. conucil of all the leading statesmen bas baeu hold at the Pa ace with the result, it is rumoured, that the Government will address a protest, direct to St. Petersburg; but the best information denies that any such resolva has yet been taken, and attributes. to the outcome of the negotiations at Peking. If Government the intention of awaiting the they are injurious to the interests or rights of Japan, the Ministry will not shrink from. the necessary measures. The gravity of the following Birthday honons for the Far East: but it is believed that rumour exaggerates We have to record the bestowal of the situation is fully re ognised in official circles.
-A knightship for Mr. Charles J. Pudgeon, the weakness of the Chinese Government for his good service in the matter of the Treaty Another correspondent writes under date Pek- Creaga, V.C.; a knightship for Chief Justice has decided to take strong diploma revision; the K.C.B. for General vir OfMoors | ing, 26th June:-"The Japanese Governme Hiram S. Wilkinson, who las now nearly completed thirty-ine years in the Consular service and of the Bench in the Far East; the C.M.G. for Mr. R. E. Bredou, Imperial Chinese Customs, and for Mr. G. Mobsby, Yangtaze pilot.
against Russia Mr. Uchida, the Minister, informed the Board of Foreig
Waiwupn) of the above decision expecting that the Chinese Gove revert to its former line of action place it dependence on Japan,
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