February 14, 1895,]
The new German flagship Irene arrived on the inst
The death rate last month was for the British and Foreign commucity, civil population, 21.6 and for the Chinese community 17.1.
"CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
MISCELLANEOUS,
A slight earthquake was felt at Foochow about 5.30 p.m. on the 27th ult. The shock lasted about thirty seconds, producing a tremu- lous and rolling motion.
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The German steamer Albingia was at Chin- kiang on the 2nd inst. According to the N. C. loaded with guns, dynamite, and munitions of war Daily News she came out from Hamburg and is for the Chinese, and being afraid of capture by the Japanese made a detour to reach her des
tination.
This notified in the Gazette that under the provisions of Section 3 of the Reformatory
We (N. C: Daily News) are in a position to School Ordinance, 1886, His Excellency the
. On the 27th January, we learn from the Japan Governor has by writing under his haud certi- positively and emphatically contradict a recent Gazette, the splendid record of peaceable treat- fed that the West Point Reformatory School is home telegram concerning Col. Denby's views ment accorded to the Chinese residents in Yoko- Atted for the reception of such youthful offen-ou the prospects of peace. It was on the face of hama was broken, and at one time it looked as if ders as may be sent there in pursuance of the cautious a diplomat as the Peking doyen should Tong Cheong, a printer, was keeping the Chinese it extremely improbable that so experienced and
some very serions outrage would be committed. above-mentioned Ordinance,
Robert Fraser-Smith, proprietor and make such a startling admission as that there New Year, at his own house No. 51, Main Street, editor of The Hongkong Telegraph, died at his would be no prospect of peace till the Japanese in company with upwards of fifty of his friends, and residence here on Saturday night from conges the American Micisters as intermediaries rendered For some reason their merry-making was offen- were in the capital; the present delicate position of all were as merry as if Port Arthur did not exist. tion of the lungs. Mr. Smith arrived in Hong the utterance of such an opinion still more un-sive to a mob of Japanese, who made a determined kong about nineteen years ago and joined the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co. as clerk He likely, and we can assure our readers it was as assault on the premises, battering at the doors left that office in 1881 and started the paper groundless as it was untrue.
and windows. The terrified Chinese fled from which he has since conducted with great but
the back way-the Chinese always have a back- sometimes misdirected energy.
door to run away by-and sought the protection of Messrs. Caughell and Dow at the Banquet Restaurant, which was given. The noise alarmed other residents, but the policeman who usually stands at the corner was absent, and so informa- tion was sent to the Central Station. The mob learning this fact dispersed.
With reference to the accident to the N.P.S. Cos steamer Victoria at Moji on the 28th ultimo, we learn from the Agents here, Messrs. Dodwell, Carlill & Co., that they have been advised of the safe arrival of the steamer at Kobe on the 31st and that, as the damage proves on thorough examination by the local surveyors to be less than was at first feared, the permanent repairs will be effected afloat at Kobe so as to permit of the Victoria's sailing thence about the 20th fustant, possibly sooner. The cargo shipped at Hongkong will, therefore, be carried on to its destination by the Victoria herself. The telegrams do not say whether it will be neces- sary to discharge any of the cargo in order to complete the repairs.
The last volume of the Botanical Magazine, for 1894, is dedicated by Sir Joseph Daltou Hooker to Mr. C. Ford, Superintendent of the Botanical and Afforestation Department, Hong- kong, in the following terms:-" Dear Mr. FORD-It is both a duty and a pleasure to offer you a dedication of a Volume of the Botanical Magasine, a work which contains figures of so many interesting and beautiful Chinese plants introduced by you into the Royal Gardens of Kew. Let me at the same time offer you my hearty congratulations on the success of your official labours as Botanist and Forester, which have contributed so largely to the resources, the health, and the beauty of your Island Home. Believe me, dear Mr. Ford, most truly yours, J. D. HOOKER."
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Five of the battalious of the Liangkiang pro- vinces that had been sent to Shanghai for the protection of the Kiangnan Arsenal, started for the Yangtze ports on the 20th ult, This, the N. C. Daily News says, is in obedience to commands from Nanking, the Chinese authorities evidently believing at last that Shanghai is intended to be outside the sphere of warlike operations and that the Japanese will not be likely to disturb the
A contributor to the Shanghai Mercury Kiangnau Arsenal from the Shanghai side at writes:-From Chefoo it is reported that the any rate. llence attention is being solely con- German Consular authorities at that port have fined to strengthening the Yangtze and sea suddenly awakened to a sense of the obligations coast defence of the province.
of neutrality, and have therefore ordered all A Nowohwang letter quoted by the N. CGerman military instructors, &o, at Weibaiwei Daily News states that as soon it was rumoured to leave the Chinese to themselves. I have no that the Japanese intended to attack Yingk'ow doubt that the ten brave Teutons so ruthlessly a panic ensued amongst the people in the native recalled from the path of duty and dollars are portion of the port. Numbers moved into the greatly disappointed; also, considering the man- foreign settlement, paying exorbitant sums for ner in which neutrality has been ignored else rent, while a still greater number engaged carts where, and the very good thing being "made in to flee to Shanhaikuan. Notice, however, was Germany" out of the war, it seems to me that posted informing the people that General Sung the Consul might in this case have winked the was determined to protect Yingk'ow at all costs, other eve" until the fighting at Weihai was over. and that 80,000 mon would be ready to meet the Certain it is that the Chinese will not appro enemy should they march northwards from Kai- ciste the niceties of such international courtesies chow. Quiet was accordingly restored, especially and that German prestige will suffer in conse when large numbers of troops were seen march quence. Most Foreigners lately employed in ja ing southwards from Newchwang proper. military or naval capacity by the Chinese have,
with war risk additions. it may safely be presumed. been drawing pay Whether such a game was over worth the candle is an open question; but being in it the Chinese may well expect from the players some show of example as well as of precept. That it is an unpleasant we may admit, but such are the chances game of the
Company's project were to be completed by next December, so that the building of the docks themselves may be started within the year. At first the smaller dock, 350 feet long, will be pro- ceeded with, the larger, 500 feet long, being undertaken should occasion require.
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At a recent meeting the Yokohama Dock Company presented a list of its assets to the shareholders, together with a full report on the work done since its establishment last year. Copies of all the documents connected with the oating of the concern and of the estimates In the China Medical Missionary Journal drawn and plaus prepared by the late General there are some notes by Dr. Kerr on the bubonic Palmer for carrying out the scheme were distri- plague. Notwithstanding the great difference buted. It was stated that the work of reclama in conditions the epidemic ran its course parition and the general constructive part of the pase in Hongkong and Canton and ended simultaneously in both. statistics do not exist to show the comparative mortality in the two cities, and the reader must form his own opinion as s to why the plague disappeared from Canton just as soon as it did from Tongkong. The Permanent Com- mittee of the Sanitary Board, referring to the vast amount of work done by the volunteers. affirms that it is still of the opinion that to the thorough cleansing and disinfecting of the houses in which the plague cases had occurred they owe Dr. the speedy stamping out of the plague.' Kerr narks
and on certain conditions consequences of the plague and states that "evidence of the enlightening effect on the Chinese mind is shown in the fact that about the middle of the epidemic a tempor-
in put up ary plague hospital was
the western part of the city of Canton, which had the merit of being thoroughly ventilated and was kept very clean. It was a large matshed built on piles over the water, and was an ideal hospital for an epidemic, except that the loose construction made it noisy when any one moved about in it. The Chinese are now building a new hospital in the city, in which it was at Arst the plan to have partly foreign treatment. The man who favoured this has died, and it remains to be seen whether the managers will still carry out the idea. It is, however, only a question of time. There are some sight or more drug stores in the city which sell foreign medicines, aud there are not far from a hundred physicians in the Province who have been educated in the Medical Missionary Society's Hospital who are engaged in practice. The work of our lady physicians in the families is now an important factor in gaining favour for Western medicine."
war.
A native correspondent of the N. C. Daily
News, writing from Peking, states that the Prince of Ching, better known to the Peking world as the Beileh (Prince of the Third Order) I-Kuang has been under a cloud ever since the battle of Pingyang last September. It seems that the Emperor had good cause to be disgusted with the Prince, whose assertive ignorance of foreign politics-President of the Tsungli Yamên though he was-had lulled bis Ma- jesty into
The N. C. Daily News says:-An officer com-
false security! When asked manding a British man-of-war landed at Nanking a few days ago, wearing his uniform, as he was by the Emperor what should be done against about to pay an official visit to the Chinese the aggressiveness of Japan the Prince of authorities, when he was hooted at and mud was Ch'ing is said to have averred that nothing need thrown at him by the valiant Nanking "braves be feared and that diplomacy and a show of who represent the garrison. A complaint was force would easily frighten the audacious made to the Chinese Commander, but that islanders. The Prince did not care to show to worthy thought he had sufficiently done his duty his Majesty certain despatches dated April, May, by merely sending his card on board the man-of-and June, 1894, which he had received from the war without a word of apology or regret, though Imperial Resident at Seoul, Yuan Shih-k'ai, and be did send a petty mandarin and a soldier "to Tong Shao-yi, the Acting-Resident, in which all protect" the Britishers next time they went on the ambitious intentions of the Japanese had shore, which had the effect of preventing a re-been clearly explained to the Tsungli Yamên, and petition of the unruly behaviour fit complained declaring that strong measures were most ne- of. It is to be hoped that Admiral Fremantle cessary. After Pingyang, however, the Seoul will not allow this insult to be passed over quietly. despatches were carefully read and too late
Count Oyama, Commander-in-Chief of the opened the eyes of the Emperor. Japanese Second Army Corps, has addressed what led to the reinstatement of Prince Kung the following letter, dated Shantung Point, to Imperial favour, but not until a scene had 24th January, to the Consuls at Chefoo:-In occurred in the Palace in which the chief actors case our army should find it necessary to occupy were the Emperor and the Prince of Ch'ing. Chefoo, it is our intention to give as much The crestfallen Prince finally left the pre- "Well, so be it! protection to the neutral inhabitants as the sence with these words:
As soon as But the moment the enemy crosses into military necessities will allow. the place is in our possession aud before any Tientsin territory, let your head answer for your Japanese troops enter the concession we will follies!" The next day the Prince of Ching send a force of gendarmes to the Concession asked for sick leave, which was granted, and at I also declare hereby the expiration asked to be relieved of all his and establish order. that apart from any question of international Court and metropolitan posts with the command rights I will do my best to avoid as much as of the Peking Field Force, on the ground of pre- possible imposing our belligerent rights(quarter-tracted illness. He was given another couple of ing, requisitions, etc.,) on the neutral inhabit-months' leave and allowed to retain only his Court ants and their property.
sinecures. he rest being taken away from him.
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