THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LX.]
The Legislative Council
AND
China Oberland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 8тí OCTOBER, 1904.
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General Hasegawa, who was in Tokyo about a week ago, has been appointed to the command of the Japanese garrison in Cores.
The Japanese have released the crew of the .958
8.8. Georges, captured by them a short time ago. .259 .259
The crew has left on board the s.s. Peiping to 260 return to China.
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Articles :---
British Shipping and Contraband
Flippancy
Poker
China and Tibet
Russia and Germany
Hongkong Jottings
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Supreme Court
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Chinese Carrenoy
Launch Traffic..
Hongkong Legislative Council
Tokohama Specie Bank, Ld.
Canton Notes
Correspondence
A Hongkong Salvage Syndicate
Lappa Trade Report
Kowloon Trade Report
Boxer Agitation Again.
Volunteering in Hongkong
An Arrival from Newchwang
Death of i afcadio Hearn
Volunteer Concert
The law Vindicates Itself
Kowloon Cricket Club
Reviews...
Hongkong
Miscellaneous.
Trade Items Commercial Shipping
BIRTHS.
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A St. Petersburg report states that Com. mander Rudnieff, who commanded the Variag at Chemulpo, has suddenly become insane and 262 has been confined in an asylum.
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The Jews of Tientsin have bought a new 264 piece of ground for a synagogue and cemetery. The Bent cemetery has been found too marshy:
pr the monuments are fallen down.'
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One hundred Chinese students, gathered from 266 all the Provinces in the Empire, left Peking on September 26th for Japan, in order to enter the Military Academy at Tokyo as cadets.
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A Greek named Vangelis was making himself a nuisance at Peking by his lawless treatment of the Chinese. He has been deported to 270 Japan. where freebooters are more quickly
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Mr. W. M. Hewlett, who was a student in 272 Peking during the troubles of 1900, has just 273 returned from a year's leave at Home and has 276 taken Mr. Fletcher's place as assistant at the
British Consulate at Tientsin.
On 27th S ptember, at Shanghai, the wife of
HARRY E. GIBSON, of a son.
On 28th September, at Tientsin, the wife of Gor D. B. BIDWELL. of a daughter.
On 4th October, at No. 5, Victoria View, Kow- loon, the wife of F. A. BROWN," f a son.
MARRIAGE.
On 28th September, at Shanghai, CHARLES MARTIN JULIUS WULFF, to Mrs. MARIA GRANDON,
DEATHS.
On 28th September, at Shanghai, E. LEHMANN, of the Imperial Maritime Customs, aged 30 years. On 28th September, at Shanghai, JANS ARL RONENBERG SÖRENSEN, third engineer of the Cable steamer Store Aordiske, aged 26 years.
Prince Ching contradicts the rumour that there has been any talk of cutting off the queue. but the Jiji says the report was not circulated altogether outside, as it is known a censor did try to memorialize on the question.
A Shanghai jury, inquiring into the death of Hugh Gow, late second stoker on H.M.S. Vestal, found that he was accidentally drowned in the river there. A sampan coolie said he saw the man jump in the water. He was in &
drunken state.
Prince Carl von Hohenzollern had an au- dience of, and tiffin with, the Emperor of Japan on September 26th. The Emperor returned his call next day. Count Arco-Valley, the German Minister, was giving a dinner in the Prince's honour.
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The Sinienpao states that Tengchou (near Chefoo), Shangtang province, is now suffering from an epidemic of small-pox, the principal |
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The Chinese Resident in Tibet is urging the construction of a private telegraph line between Lhassa and Peking to avoid their messages having to pass through any foreign hands.
Sixty-five convicts belonging to the peni tentiary of Pulo-Condor, off the coast of French Cochin-China, have made a desperate bid for liberty, says the Petit Journal. They were being conveyed to Co-on in a sloop, when they suddenly rose in revolt and felled the steersman by a blow on the neck. The warders were thrown overboard, and when last seen the sloop was headed north-east.
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The China Review learns on very high anthority that H.E. Tong, the Tientsin Customs Taotai, has been ordered to Peking immediately, in order to receive instructions and thereafter proceed to Tibet at once for the Imperial Government, in consequence of the steps taken by the Russian Minister to point out many serious matters in connection with the recent treaty just signed by the Tibetan authorities and approved of by the Chinese Amban.
A dangerous pirate whom the Chinese authorities have been trying for a long time to get hold of has just been captured in Macao and handed over to the Canton authorities. He claims (!) to bare killed about 200 people, ncluding a whole company of soldiers to the number of 40 who had been sent to arrest Government servant who had been sent to him. He was taken while asleep by a Macao inspect the house which the pirate used as his headquarters. The name of the captor is Mr. J. F. Cidade, of the Macao Public Works, and he is entitled to a reward of $20,000 offered by the Canton authorities for the capture of the desperado.
Russia is stubbornly opposing the attempt of England and the United States to curtail its privileges with regard to the restriction of trade with Japan. It declares that unless these two countries can be stopped from supplying the islanders with foodstuffs, railway materials, cartridges, powder a id dynamite, Russia's chane 8 of ultimate victory will be seriously compromised. It asserts that England and America have developed a contraband trade unprecedented in the history of war, and charges that the whole equipment of the
Weekly Press. victims being children, of whom it is alleged Japanese reserves. 250,000 men, was smng-
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French Mail of the 2nd Sept. arrived, per the s.s. Capri, on the 5th inst.; and the English Mail of the 9th September arrived, per the 8.8. Coromandel, on the 6th inst,
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
A telephone system is being introduced into Canton by the chinese officials.
that only thirty-five to forty out of one hundred manage to survive the attack.
Admiral Bayle, the Commander of the French | Fleet in the Far East, is offering a reward of $5,000 for trustworthy information of the actual whereabouts of Commander de Cuverville, French Naval attaché in Port Arthur, who left that place on the 17th August last.
Washington wires 29th ult. that Mr. Cong rhas telegraphed that China has promised Americans and British shall have the preference if foreign capital is required for the extension of the Han- kow railway to Chinkiang. Mr. Conger wishes to know soon if American capitalists care to embark in the enterprise.
gled from the United States. Hence Ras- sia's extraordinary efforts to station commerce- raiders on all the shipping routes to the Far East.-China Review.
In Amoy a strange practice exists; the bead paupers are paid every month by the native shops sums of money ranging from balf a dollar to three dollars, and as there are over thres - thousand shops, it may be taken for granted that the amount thus obtained is very consider- able. In return for this money, these paupers profess to protect the shops from molestation by the native disorderly elements. Realising the evil of the practice," the native gentry are now desirous of appropriat ng the funds to organize a police force whica will be far more The British destroyer Chamois has been efficient in maintaining peace and order, and sunk while executing her steam trials off the the paupers will be put at the Industrial Insti- Ionian islands. All on board were saved. The tate, where they will be able to earn an honour- Chamois was a destroyer of 300 tons displaceable liveli ood without creating any trouble with the protest that they have been robbed of their bread by the organization of a police force.- Universal Gazette.
A Shanhaikwan report of two balloons carry-ment and 30.4 knots speed, built by Palmer's ing news into Port Arthur is regarded as Co. at Jarrow in 1896. She was commanded by balloonsoy.
Lieut. Sydney H. Tennyson.
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