THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LIX.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Articles :-
The Progress of the War
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HONGKONG, MONDAY, 4TH APRIL, 1904.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
In spite of strong American opposition, China has denounced the Chinese exclusion 254 treaty, which will expire on the 27th December
254 next.
The Dominion Government has disallowed, on Imperial grounds, three Acts of the British Columbia Legislative Council, imposing restric- 258 tions on the Japanese.
Hill District Reservation
Plague in Hongkong in 1903
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Hongkong Jottings
256
Hongkong Legislative Council
The War .....
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Japan During the War.
Hill District Reservation Petition
259
Hongkong Volunteer Corps Inspection.
259
The "Hymn of Praise"
Hongkong Odd Volumes Society
Notes from the Botanic Gardens
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Presentation at the Sanitary Board.
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Masonic Installation...
260
Canton
260
Manila
Weihaiwei
Supreme Court
Licensing Court
Mr. Sercombe Smith and the Police Inspectors Watkins, Limited.
Chinese Insurance Co., Ld.
Sporting Notes
Cricket
Football
Hongkong Schools Athletic ports
R.G.A. Regimental Sports
Bowling
New Japanese Explosive.....
Hongkong
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
Corea notified the Japanese representative on the 24th inst. that the resolution for the opening of Yong-ampho on a date to be announced has been sanctioned by the Emperor.
One plague case was reported in the Colony 261 during the day ending at noon on Thursday, the 31st March, a Chinaman being found dead on ..: 62 some vacant ground near a building-yard at
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266 The London Gazette of the 23rd ult. an- ..266nounced that the rank of major-general in the Army had been bestowed on Colonel Villiers Hatton, C.B., Commanding the Forces in 267 Hongkong and China.
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A Russia semi-official announcement says that the import of China teas for, Russia has been arranged via London, and any gap caused 27 by the war will be filled up by an increased im-
port of Indian and Ceylon teas.
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On the 16th March, at Ewo, Hankow, the wife of ARTHUR K. CRADDOCK, of a daughter.
On the 20th March, at Singapore, the wife of
W. KELLIE SMITH, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 21st March, at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, ly the Right Rev. Bishop Cassels, assisted by the Rev. J B, Ost, JOHN SOWDEN SYMONS, to ANNIE GARDNER BLAIR, elder daugh- ter of Captain and Mrs. T. JoHNs, of Shanghai,
On the 23rd March, at the Holy Trinity Cathe- dral, Shanghai, by the Eev. J. B. Ost, BARON HORACE GOWING, of the Imperial Maritime Revenue Cruiser Service, to MARTHA ELIZABETH RISON, daughter of JAMES EDWIN RIBON, of Trow bridge, Wilts.
On the 25th March, at the British Consulate- General, Stanghai, by Sir Pelham Warren, C,M.G., H.B.'s Consul-General for China, and aft-r- wards at the oly Trinity Cathedral, by the Rev. W. Gilbert Walshe, CHARLES RIEVELEY, only son of the late CHAS. RIEVELEY, of Malton, Yorkshire,
to MARY EDNA, second daughter of WILLIAM
WILBURN MARSHALL, of San Diego, California.
DEATHS.
On the 3rd March, at the General Hospital, Shanghai, WILLIAM ALLAN, aged 48 years.
On the 24th March, at Chiakiang, Captain ALPHONZO T. FRIEND, of the Indo-China 'Steam Navigation Co., Ld., aged 70 years.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The German Mail arrived, per the 6.8. Prinz Heinrich, on the 30th ult., and the French Mail of the 4th ult. is expected to arrive, per the s.s. Annam sometime to-day.
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According to the N.-C. Daily News Tokyo correspondent, the side issues in Marquis Ito's mission to Corea include a loan to Corea of five million yen on liberal terms, and the engagement of advisers for the improvement of the Imperial Court. These will probably be arranged.
A proclamation from the Commandant of Vladivostock urges the inhabitants to remain; but only those will be allowed to stay who possess a specified amount of cereals calculated to be sufficient to last for eight mouths. The Banks are closed and no money is circulating.
The Kaiser-recently on a visit to King Victor Emmanuel of Italy-is reported to be in ill-health, his condition causing some anxiety. It was reported that the police at Rome discovered an Anarchist plot against the Kaiser, and took extra precautions to ensure his safety.
The Russian Press has discovered a fresh grievance against the United States in the proposal to lay a cable from Japan to Guam. This is a private proposal by a commercial cable company of old standing, which the U.S. Government has been considering with reference to its neutral obligations.
Mr. J. D. Davidson, formerly U.S. Consul- General in Formosa, and now designated for Antung, arrived in Shanghai by the P. M. S. China, together with Mr. Cheshire. Mr. Davidson will leave by the first opportunity for Chefoo, whence he expects to proceed in a gun- boat to his charge in the newly-opened port.
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We have received from the Colonial Secre- tary's Office a copy of the following telegram received from the British Consul at Anping, Formosa :- Plague prevalent in Tainan dis- trict, None in "An ing. I akow: temporary medical inspection of pa-sengers leaving An- ping for Japan only enforced from March 10th, British Consul.”
No. 14
The salary of H.E. Sir Henry Blake, ds Governor of Colombo, was, by vote at the last Legislative Council held in Colombo, raised from 80,000 rupees to 96,000 rupees per annum, of which 18,000 rupees is to be regard- ed as an entertainment allowance, to be used by the Governor, or in his absence on leave, by the Officer Administering the Government.
It is reported that the Corean Court has granted a concession for the working of a gold mine at Shojo to France, and a similar con- cession for another mine to Germany. The report requires confirmation. There is nothing improbable in the news, however, as it is known that the Japanese authorities have raised no objection to mining concessions being made by Corea to foreign countries.
It is stated in 8. Petersburg that a con- siderable Cossack force is operating in the East-south-east of the Japanese communications between Auju and Pingyang, apparently with the object of preventing a junotion of the troops landed at Chemulpo on the West, and Gensan on the East, of Corea. It is reported that 8,000 Japanese have marched across the mountains from Gensan to Yangtok on the road to Pingyang.
Tibet Mission advices, dated the 14th March, state that terrific thunderstorms are raging south of Jelap. The post at Rorathang was struck by lightning, and all the lines and buildings burnt to the ground, together with four thousand maunds of supplies. A mule- driver was killed at Gnatong by lightning. Another large convoy has reached Tangla, series of snowstorms. having experienced a The weather was terribly cold. Twenty mule- drivers were frost-bitten.
An American paper says:-"The spectacle of the mighty Russian Empire, with its terrifying military traditions and its symbolio ravenous bear, sprawled on all fours, in a continual whine for the sympathy of the world, would be one to touch the pity of mankind were it not so essentially grotesque."
The writer proceeds, like many others, to couple Count Lamsdorff's Circular with M. Muravieff's remarks, and to demonstrate the American view that Japan has the better position in facts and law.
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The Straits papers publish the following Loudon telegram, dated the 21st inst.:-Accord- ing to Reuter's Tokyo correspondent, the British Minister there refuses to endorse the application made by Mr. Hales, the Daily News correspon- dent, to accompany the Japanese army. The grouad for the refusal is that Mr. Hales's reports from the Transvaal were slanderous to the British army. The Japanese Government requires the Ministers' endorsements to such application from all correspondents, Mr. Hales was therefore excluded.
News from S. Petersburg says that the troops between the Yalu and Pingyang have been compelled to retire on their entrenchments on the south bank of the Yalu, before the first Japanese Army of 40,000 men, whose advance ghard, with artillery, has occupied and fortified
forty-five mile li e, extending from Kasan to Anju, Yeng Pieng, and Pekchin "Any further advance is improbable until the streams are clear of ice, as the retiring Russians have destroyed the bridges over five rivers on the road to Wiju”. Nevertheless the advance is proceeding.
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