THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LIX.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome.
Leading Articles : ---
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 4TH JUNE, 1904.
Fresh reports continue to reach Shanghai of stray mines wandering about the Gulf of Pechili. Japan papers state that it was a Japanese 413 engineer, Mr. Masahide Yoshida, who installed
the telephone system in Canton.
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China's Future Needs
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A Scare at Maoso .....
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Japanese Occupation of Dalny
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The Tibetan Question
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Hongkong Jottings
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The War
Supreme Court
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Sanitary Surveyor's Report
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
The Canton-Samshui Railway
A. S. Watson & Co., Ld.
Punjom Mining Co.
Star Ferry Co.. Ld.
Amoy Notes
Hongkong
Commercial.
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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The cruiser Iphigenia, Captain W. B. Fáwckner, sailed on 27th April, from Ports- mouth, to relieve the Talbot on the China Station
The Universal Gazette writes:-Mr. Lessar, the Russian Minister at Peking, has become much milder and more reasonable, diplomatically. The Waiwupu issued a circular to the
The Waiwupu has notified all the provinces of China that all lekin-stations are to be abolish-Diplomatic Corps the other day relating to the ed from the 1st of January next.
The appointment has been gazetted of Mr. T. Ffennel Carlisle as H.B.M.'s Consul for French Indo-China, to reside at Hanoi.
The Philippine Constabulary have arrested 419 Ricarte at Mariveles, where it is presumed that 420 he was waiting to be smuggled across to Bong
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Madras and Bengal have re'mposed quar- 422 antine regulations against vessels arriving from Hongkong owing to the existence of plague in the Colony.
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On the 25th May, at Kenilworth, Barker Road, Singapore, the wife of J. L. VAN HOUTEN, of a son. On the 29th May, at No. 1, Ormsby Villas,
Kowloon, the wife of Jewn BYRON SCOTT, of a daughter,
It is stated that Admiral Cooper, with a portion of the United States ships on the Asiatic station, will be at Chefoo some time during June. The squadron will probably include the majority of the battleships and cruisers.
Captain R. T. Toke. Welsh Regiment, who has been serving with the Chinese Regiment of Infantry at Wei-hai-wei, and who was with the China Expedition of 1900, has been ap- pointed Assistant Military Attaché at Tokyo,
Owing to the increase in the commercial re- lations of the Straits with French Indo-China the Banque de l'Indo-Chine has received the ress necessary authorisation from the French Minis ter of the Colonies to open a branch at Singa.
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Chinese Red Cross Society, and the Russian Minister was the first to affix his signature to it. indicating acquiescence.
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Mr. Allen, the United States Minister, reports that the Corean Government is not now grant- ing mining or other concessions, hence, to positions, Mr. Allen says: The Corean applications for such are useless." In regard
Government is not now in need of foreign assistants, as mining or other engineers, physicians, advisers, teachers, army officers, &c.
We take the following from the P. & T Times-The Peking official who conveyed the portrait of the Empress Dowager_ to Shanghai. carried with him the customary Imperial com- mand for the first samli of the season to be sent up to the Palace, and it was accordingly sent up to Peking, carefully packed in ice, a few days ago. The custom is to reward the fisherman catching the samli with the weight of the fish in silver.
We see that according to the latest American papers, an excursion steamer will leave San Francisco within a very short time to visit accessible points in connection with the Russo. Japanese war. The ship will be chartered for the round trip and will be conducted somewhat after the style of the famous Cook's tours. The advices mention particularly the Gulf of Pechili and Newolwang, indicating that the tourists pass close to Chefoo.
LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET. E.C.the regulations for the prevention of the intro- The Government of Bengal has notified that
The question of the defence of Indo-China duction of plague by sea, issued by Government, continues to be much discussed in Paris. On will be enforced in the ports of Orissa and in the land side, military organisation is sufficient- the port of Chittagong against vessels arrivingly complete to render the Chinese frontier secure. from Hongkong.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of May 6th, and the French Mail (delayed owing to the strike at Marseilles), arrived per steamer Ballaarat, on Thursday, the
2nd inst.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK
The Rinwenpao states that it is reported from Newchwang that no less than 8,000 mounted bandits-not Hunghutze-are lurking in the vicinity of that port waiting for the abandonment of the city by the Russians to fall upon the un- lucky inhabitants and plunder them.
The Matin pablishes a report from Lyous, which it has every reason to believe is authen- tic, that Russia has ordered from a French
Telegrams, etc., relating to the war will be factory in Saint Chamond, war material to the found on p. 416.
The Government disfavours the recommen. dation of the Royal Commission that a conscript home defence force should be created.
The P. & O. Company's steamer Macedonia which left London on April 29th took ou board £29,781 in silver coin for Hongkong.
Recent events in the arena of the war have created a very pessimistic feeling in Russia. Upwards of 1.360 arrests have been made in Russia for political offences.
The contract for the conveyance of mails to the East has been signed [with the P. & O. Company?] for three years. It provides for an acceleration of the service by twenty-four
hours.
value of nine million franes, and that Japan has also expanded seven millions for the same purpose.
Word has been received in Tientsin from the two Japanese prospectors who were up there last year prospecting for petroleum, saying that though they are satisfied with the results of their visit, they have abandoned the idea of doing anything in the way of mining, at least until the war with Russia is over.
Messra, Jardine, Matheson & Co., the general managers, inform us that they have received the following telegram from the Board of Directors of the Indo-China S. N. Co., Ld., London :- "General Meeting of Shareholders will take place on the 7th June, when it is proposed to declare a dividend of 5 per cent."
The Delta, however, is virtually unprotected, and under pressure of possibilities arising from the present war, plans have been formed for standing force of 30,000 maintaining there a European troops in three divisions. The naval defences are still in a rudimentary condition. Since 1891 about £1,500,000 have been spent, but except at Saigon, and at one defensive point in Annam, the coast is virtually open, and it is bitterly admitted that Hanoi and one or two other important places could offer no resistance.
With regard to the grounding of the German steamer Quarta, which stranded in the Kurus- hima Channel near Imabari recently, the Kobe Chronicle says the question has arisen as to who shall be held responsible for the damage. the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, the charterer of the steamer, or the owners. It is stated as a general principle of shipping law that the damage aris- ing out of such an accident shall be borne by the owner, the shipper of cargo, and the charterer who receives freight, in proportion of their respective interest in the vessel. The value of the Quarta is about 250,000 yen, and the cargo about 50,000 yen, while the freight receivable by the Shosen Kaisha is not more than 3,000 yen. Estimating the damage causen by the accident at 10,000, the loss to the Shosed Kaisha will be only about 400 yen.. The owner of the steamer will thus bear the greatest loss.
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