THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LIX.]
Epitome
AND
China Overland
Overland Trade
CONTENTS.
Leading Articles :-
Progress of the War.
Naval Losses of the Belligerents
Harbour Improvement and the I.M.C.
The Kowloon-Canton Railway
"The Real Yellow Peril"
An Official Army Journal
Hongkong Jottings
The War
The Battle of the Yalu..
New Japanese Loan
A Scare at Macao..
Walks in the New Territory
The Dallas Co., at the Theatre Royal.. New Territory Notes
Canton Notes
Pakhoi
Manila
Medical Officer's Report for 1903
The Supreme Court in 1903....
A. S. Watson & Co., Ld.
Registrar.General's Report for 1903
Star Ferry Co., Ld.
Panjom Mining Co.
Supreme Court
Reviews
Polo
Hongkong Chess Club
Billiards
Russo-Japanese War Fund.
Philippine Currency
Coolies for the Rand.
A Canton Incident....
Hongkong
Miscellaneous, Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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Trade Report.
HONGKONG, MONDAY, 30TH MAY, 1904.
The Fatshan-Samshui section of the Canton Railway is to be opened on Wednesday next, the 1st prox.
The Japanese disasters have been received in Russia without exultation. The newspapear 391 give a tribute to the gallantry of the Japanese
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The increasing evidence that the Russians are deliberately strewing the high seas with mines is evoking strong protests from the British Press, according to Keuter,
According to advices just received, the scheme for establishing an Imperial Government Bank of China is progressing. It has the Empress 401 Dowager's strong support.
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Russia has notified the Antwerp and Rotter- dam shipbrokers that she wants thirty more .403| large steamers, deliverable at Libau by the end of
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The Times correspondents steamers Haimun 406 has returned to Nagasaki, with her wireless 406 telegraphic apparatus. damaged by bad weather experienced in the Straits of Tsushima.
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The Daily Telegraph states that Japanese agents have just purchased several steamers in Antwerp of 2,000 and 3,000 tons.
It is reported that at Kwangchouwan recently, a reconnoitring party of Tonkinese riflemen, under the command of French non-coms., was attacked by the insurgents who infest the region of Kwangchouwan. One sergeant was killed. In another engagement, three riflemen were killed, and two murdered in the island of Tanhai. Their bodies were horribly mutilated. Serious repressive measures have been taken.
It is reported from the North, says the N.-C. Daily News, that there is great panic amongst the people still left in the city and environs of Moukden, owing to a rumour spread by the Russians there that the moment the Japanese forces come near Liaoyang the Russians intend to set fire both to that city and to Moukden and then retreat to Harbin, In consequence of this all who are able to leave Moukden are doing so to seek safety elsewhere.
The s.s. Tweeddale left for Durban on the 25th inst. morning with 1.055 coolies, the first batch from Hongkong for the South African mines. steamers have been The following other the two
According to Japanese papers, Chilean warships recently sold to a firm in New York are sold with ab undertaking that they 48 shall not be resold to any belligerent Power. .409 The despatch of the huge painting of the 400 Dowager-Empress of China from Peking to the 8. Louis Exhibition is regarded by the natives as an omen that Her Majesty will not ontlive this year.
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On the 17th May, at Ningpo, the wife of the Ber. A. R. KIPLER, of a BOD.
On the 11th May, at Hankow, the wifofe GILLISON, London Mission, of a son.
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On the 18th May, at Tsingtao, the wife of Dr. SCHRAMEIER, of a daughter.
On the 20th May. at 2. Gomes Villas, Kowloon, the wife of L. P. GLISSMANN, of a daughter.
MARRIAGE.
On the 7th May, at Yokohama, WILLIAM, son of Jean D'HARTY, of Redbourn, Herts, to EDITH REBECCA, third daughter of HENRY WELLS BURE, of S. Albans, Herts, England.
DEATHS.
On the 16th May, H. R. FOSTON, Assistant E. E. Telegraph Co., Singapore, aged 38 years.
On the 25th May, on board the German mail 8.8. Bayern, ALFRED B. GLOVER, Inte of Nagasaki
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ARRIVAL OF MAIL.
According to the Peking and Tientsin Times it is hoped that Wang Chou, who has a good chance of dying in his miserable prison, will be released at the Empress Dowager's birthday celebration.
Russia has ordered one hundred Whitehead
torpedoes of the latest model, which have hitherto only been in the possession of the Japanese. France, Italy, and Austria have also given orders for the same.
We received on the 25th inst., from the Colonial Secretary's office, a copy of the following telegram from the Secretary of State, London, to the Officer Administering the Government, dated the 25th May :-"Governor leaves; Mar seilles 1st July due 30th July."
The British Foreign Office List gives a des- cription of a new flag which has been selected by the British authorities to distinguish H.B.M.'s Consulates. The new flag an Union Jack with a Tudor Crown on a white circular shield in the centre. The Tudor Crown is of the same shape as that on the present postage stamps.
We have received from the Colonial
Secretary's Office a copy of the following telegram from the British Consul at Bangkok to the Colonial Secretary, Hongkong, dated 25th The German Mail arrived per the steamer May:-"Kohphai quarantine on arrivals from Hongkong and Swatow. Medical inspection Zieten, on the 24th inst.
imposed on arrivals from other China ports."
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
War telegrams from our own correspondents, etc., will be found on p. 397, and a description of the Yalu fight, the first European account, written by our special representative at the front, on p. 398...
On Sunday night, the 29th inst., our Manila correspondent telegraphed to us to the follow ing effect:-"The Constabulary have arrested Ricarte at Mariveles, where it is presumed that he was waiting to be smuggled over to Hong- the famous kong." Ricarte is, of course, "Viper," the insurrecto chief so such wanted by the U. S. Constabulary in Luzon,
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chartered as transports for the conveyance of 8,000 to 10,000 coolies from China to Durban ----- The Brinkburn, Courtfield, and Cranley, owned by Messrs Harris and Dixon, London; and the Indravelli, owned by the Indra Line, Liver- pool. The passage money has been fixed at £5 per head.
The Ostasiatische Lloyd publishes the follow- ing, dated Peking, 21st May :-The report that the German Minister has consulted the Wai- wupu with a view to the placing of guard troops on the Shantung railway is a pure invention. As the Chinese intend to fully protect the rail- way themselves, which they have done also in the past to the fullest satisfaction of all concerned, there was no reason why the German Minister should consult in this matter the Chinese Government at all.
A scare arose during the past week in Hong- kong and Macao in connection with the pro- ceedings for the extradition of the ex-Namhoi Magistrate, Poi or Pui, from the Portuguese Colony. Early in the week a small Chinese squadron, six vessels in all-none of them very
formidable-entered Macao harbour and an- chored there. It was imagined by some that the intention of Viceroy Shum was to intimidate the Macao aathorities, who are slow in handing over the fugitive. However, there seems to have been a great deal of exaggeration in the rumours, and nothing serious has come of the affair.
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The N.-C. Daily News 'reports that a parliament" consisting of all the Viceroys and Governors of provinces, to meet once a year to discuss matters relating to their various jurisdictions, with the object of obtaining unanimity of action throughout the Empire, has been recently recommended to the Throne in a joint memorial from Viceroy Yuan Shi- hk'ai and Yung Ch'ing, a Manchu member of the Grand Council and Co-Chancellor of the Pe- king University. It is further proposed that this assembly of high provincial authorities shall be presided over by a Prince, assisted by two Imperial Commissioners, elected by the Throne for the occasion. It has not yet transpired how the recommendation has been received by the Throne.
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