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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LVIII.]
CONTENTS
Epitome
Leading
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The "Supa" Case
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The New Waterworks Ordinance.
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A Sanitary Experiment
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Reservation and Health
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The Cubicle Question
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Wachow's Trade in 1902).
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China and Other Teås
...100
Australia's Colour Bine
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Hongkong Legislative Council
...101
Prevention of Plague
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The Naval Dock Question
Buildings on the Praya Reclamation
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The Italian Couvent.......
The Theatre Royal
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Promenade Concert at Kowloon
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Sir Ernest Satow in Bombay..
Investigation of Rinderpest in China
U.S. Naval Gunnery........
Notes from the New Territory Canton
Foochow
Chingkiang
Honan ....
Great Flood at Chifoo
Correspondence
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 10TH AUGUST, 1903.
Hongkong Weekly Press
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 7th alt: arrived, per Hongkong Maru, on the 4th inst., (28 days)
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The plague cases for the year number 1,382 105 Very few cases occurred during the past week,
on two days of which blank returns were issued
Mr. Balfour, replying to Mr. Norman in the House of Commons last week, said that Sir Ernest Satow had been telegraphically in- .106 structed that the Shanghai prisoners should not
be surrendered.
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Messrs. Armstrong & Co. and several other 108 foreign shipbuilding yards, says the Japanese Press, have been requested by the Japanese Government to send in their estimates for the 108 construction of a battleship of 16,000 tons.
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The China Times states that the Manchurian and Siberian railways are to be opened this month for direct goods traffic between Dalny Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steam-boat Co., Ld.110 and European Russia, and the railway round William Powell, Limited....
United Asbestos Oriental Agency, Ld.
Bell's Asbestos Eastern Agency Ld.
Review
Polo Club Gymkhana af the Happy Valley A Warning to Hongkong
Hongkong
Miscellaneous.
Commercial.
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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the southern end of Lake Baikal is to be opened to traffic next year.
M. Boissonas, the new French Minister at Bangkok, was interviewed at Saigon about three weeks ago.
He would not let cut anything further than assurances that the coming treaty with Siam will give France preater rights and 113 privileges than the treaty which was wrecked 114 because it did not go far enough in that .116 direction!
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On the 24th June, the wife of the Reverend E. THOMPSON, C.M.S., Taichow, of a daughter (Olive Marjory).
On the 20th July, at Kuling, the wife of WILSON HERBERT GELLER, London Mission, of a daughter (MURIEL AGNES
On the 31st July, at 19, Quinsan Road, Hong- kew, Shanghai, the wife of the Rev. J. W. CLINE, of a daughter.
On the 31st July, at 4, Cameron Villas, Peak, the wife of J. OWEN HUGHES, of a son
On the 31st July, at Swatow, the wife of C. E. A. SACHAU, I. M. ustoms) kowloon, of a son.
On the 3rd August, at No. 4, Elliot Crescent, Robinson Road, the wife of GEÓ, P. LAMMERT, of
a son.
At Ashburn Lodge, Logan Road, Penang, the wife of A. OECHSLE, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
On the 25th July, at the Presbyterian Church, Penang, by the Rey. Stephen Walker, M.A., WILLIAM GORDON, Gedong Estate, Bagan Serai, to JESSIE, daughter of the late JAMES WOD,
both of Aberdeen.
DEATHS. On the 25th July, at Broome, W. Australia, JAMES RONALD, late chief engineer O. 8. 8 Co.'s 8.8. Sultan.
On the 31st July, at 40, Kange Road, Shanghai, JURGENS BAHR, aged 66 years.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, WALTER PAULINI, aged 25 years.
Cur' Kobe correspondent telegraphed under date 7th August : The Messageries Mari times steamship Tonkin caught fire yesterday in Kobe harbour. Ignition was due to some chlorate of potash in the cargo. The ship was beached at night. The forepart was destroyed, and the cabins aidships, twenty feet of deck, and the aft funnels were damaged.
dated the 21st July says:-The signs of the A Tongku despatch to the China Times
occupation of foreign troops are. gradually disappearing. Lately the German military have removed all the stores that they had on the ground in the Tongku Reach and which they commandeered from the Railway Company, adjoining Messrs, Jardine, Matheson and Co.'s land. Then the fence and brick houses want, and now they are removing the wharf. Only one small house which they built remains, which they handed over to the Austrians, where they keep a few men.
The N.-C. Daily News publishes the following telegram, dated Tokyo, 30th July:-The Corean Government contemplates the repurchase of the lands privately acquired by the Russians at Yong Ampho (at the month of the Yalu), and thereafter leasing these lands to the Russian holders, thus legalising the tenure that was original'y obtained in ceffance of the treaties. This display of Corea's tendency to condone the Russian aggressions has been the cause of comment in Japan, where the Russian Fettle ment at Yong-Ampho is regarded as a second Port Arthur in embryo.
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The census of the Philippines, which has jus been completed, gives the number of the Filipinos at 6.976,574, with about another 650,000 for the wild tribes. Some difficulty was experienced by enumerators in the provinces of Bacau, Rizal, Laguos, Batangas and Albay, duo to roving hands of ladrones, and in four instances the enumerators were held up.
From a Reuter's despatch to Bombay it appears that about the middle of last month it was semi-officially announced at Washington that the Conference at Port Arthur was "an im- portant step in Russia's plans to arrange for the internal administration of Manchuria in a manner to allow of the opening of ports desired by the United States and Japan without the undue sacrifice of Russian interests."
The Imperial edict of the 30th ult, ordering Marshal Su to be handed over to the Board of Punishments to be tried for the orime of en- couraging his troops in Kwangsi to oppress the people and for pocketing the pay of "dummy troops, should, according to the law of the land, send the ex-Marshal into "the region of beadless spirits," says the N.-C. Daily News. As the almighty dollar now-a-days reigns supreme, in
king especially, there are still some hopes for Ma shal Su, and his sentence may therefore be commuted to that of banishment to Chinese Turkestan or the Chinese Amur (Heilungchiang) that, of course, is what his friends hope for the ex- Marshal.
There is once more a rumour in Peking to the effect that the Empress Dowager is thinking of abandoning the actual capital for the purpose of residing in Kaifeng," the capital of Hauna. She had already com- municated this intention to her Councillors when the Court had its quarters there in the autumn of 1901 on its way back from Hsian
Pekin. It is reported that orders were recently given to the authorities in Kaifeng to have the palace repaired and maintained in such a condition as to able the Empress Dowager to make it her residence at any moment. for this same reason the junks specially built The Courier de Tientsin says that
in 1901, when the Court had to oross the Yellow the road leading from the river to the palace. River near Kaifeng, are being repai:ed, as also
H.E. Sir Ernest Satow, G.C.M.G., British Minister at Peking, arrived in Rongkong on the 6th inst, by the P. & O. s.s. Sumatra, which vessel he joined at Penang, after bis visit to Rango n. It had been hoped that he would be able to break his journey here, but unfortunately he is hastening | on to Peking and sailed by the Sumfara ⚫n the 8th inst. He was met on his arrival on the 6th inst, by Sir John Keane, A. D. C. to | H. E. the Governor, and Mr. E. A. Hewett, Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, and proceeded to Mountain Lodge, where he stayed on the 6th and 7th inst. the course of the afternoon he met the Committee of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce. Proceedings were private, but it is to be hoped that at least the gist of the discussion will shortly be made public, "for it cannot fail to have beou of wide interest, and the brevity of Sir Ernest Batow's stop hərə has prevented any such proceedings as occurred in Bombay.
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