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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLI.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :~
French Ambition
China and Japan and Foreign Intervention
The China-Japan Treaty..
The Hongkong Sugar Industry..
Local Self-Government for Hongkong.....
The Water Supply
HONGKONG: THURSDAY, 23RD MAY, 1895.
Senhor Joaquim Valdez, being about to leave Shanghai, has resigned his position as senior .877 consul, and at a meeting held on the 15th inst. Dr. O. Stuebel, Consul General for Germany, was designated by the consular body to fill that post.
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Steam-Launches and “Man-Power" Boats on
the Canton River
The Treaty of Peace between China and Japan
The Exchange of Ratifications at Chefoo..
Japan Taking Over Formosa
Financing the Indemnity
Supreme Court :-
Linstead and Davis v. Griffith
Hardy v. Saville Smith-Judgment
Hill v. Gomes
In re Yu Chung Ng.
The Fatality on the Prudence
The Attack with a Chopper
A Writ of Habeas Corpus
Beriow
China Present and' Past
A Tientsin telegram of the 14th inst, to the 380 China Gazette says:-The Yellow River has either overflowed or burst its banks near ....381 Chou-chon-fa in Shautung, causing widespread 881 devastation, the overflow waters reaching the
Peiho and filling it with mud,
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The principal Cantonese residents at Shang- 383 hai, we learn from the N. C. Daily News, held 383 a grand banquet on the 13th iust, to celebrate .383 the retirement of "The Bottomless Purse "for 383 so Li Han-chang has been nicknamed in Canton from the Viceroyalty of the Two Kwang pro vinces.
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The Wreck of the Pakin-Marins Court of Inquiry...385 Café Chantant at the City Hall....
A Chinese Junk Overhauled in British Waters
Prosecution Under the Building Ordinance
Clearing Chairs off Pedder's Wharf
A. 8. Watson & Co., Limited..
The Plague at Macao
Consecration of the Right Rev. Bishop Piazzoli.
The Shropshires and the Plague..........
Loss of the Spanish Steamer Gravino
The Fall of the Anhwei Faction...
Hongkong Cricket Club Lawn Tennis Tournament Bowling Matoh
Hongkong Golf Club
Hongkong Rifle Association
Over 2,000 famine-stricken refugees have, the China Gazette says, overrun the neighbourhood 380 of Tongshan, causing great inconvenience ...386 around the mines. Chong, one of the directors ..386 of the Company, has contributed Tla. 20,000 in money and 10,000 piculs of grain to meet the distresses of the suffering wretches.
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The Bangkok Times announces 389 Siamese Government has appointed a European 389 judge of the International Court there. Mr. 390 Kirkpatrick, the Assistant Adviser, has been commissioned to act in this capacity in certain 390 cases.
It is expected that this appointment will 390 so improve matters as to make it much more easy .390 | to recover monies in the International Court. .390
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No. 21.
The Peking and Tientsin Times of the 11th inst, says :- -We notice in the Customs Shipping Report that a large quantity of sycee has been coming forward lately from Shanghai. Since the 26th ult. no less than Taels 2,900,000 have arrived per various steamers. We understand the treasure in question found its way to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank vault, and is presumably for Chinese Government purposes.
Daily News, it is reported in official circles that According to a Peking telegram to the N. C.
Wang Wen-shao, Viceroy of the 1ün-kwel Provinces and acting Viceroy of Chibli, will be confirmed in his last post and the vacancy thus made in the first-named Viceroyalty will be given to Chang Hsü, who was called to Peking from his governorship of Shansi in the early part of has presented a memorial for the third time February last. The Viceroy. Li Hung chang
since his return from Japan on the 21st of April last, asking to be allowed to retire from public life. No rescript or edict, however, bas, so far, been issued in reply.
A largely attended meeting of Fire Insuranes Agents at Shanghai was held on the 16th inst, we learn from the Mercury, to take into consi- deration a proposed agreement between the home and local offices and a draft tariff of rates. Upon the motion of Mr. Probst, seconded by Mr. Fleet, Mr. J. A. Ballard was called to the chair; and introduced a series of resolutions dealing with the above questions, the whole of which were adopted. It was decided that the new scale of rates should come into force imme- diately; and a Commitee was appointed, con- Vice Admiral Buller, the new Commander-in-sisting of Messrs. Ballard, Butterworth, Fleet, 393 chief of the fleet on the China station, arrived by Kempthorne. W. D. Little, Probst, and T. W.
the P. & O. steamer Ravenna on Friday. His Excellency hoisted his flag at 1 p.m. on the Alacrity, and stayed with H.F. the Governor At the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, on the 7th until Monday, when the Alacrity sailed for April, JOSEPH SMITH, late of Hongkong.
Nagasaki with the Admiral and staff. The Undaunted left on Tuesday for the same destina
Representative Government in Hongkong Butchera" Strike at Shanghai
The Bimetallic League.
Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping...
DEATH.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
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Such, to watch the interests of the combination. The basis of the agreement between the home and local offices is that a cash disconut of 10 per cent. is allowed in lieu of contingent bonus: and the rate now current for first-class dwellings and godowns on the Shanghai side of the river is a quarter per cent, less this discount.
'he Hon. P. Le Poer Trench, the Minister to
The English mail of the 19th April arrived,|native paper the Queen of Korea has expressed Japan. left Yokohama on the 10th inst. by the
per P. & O. steamer Ravenna, on the 17th May (28 days); and the American mail of the 23rd April arrived, per P. M. steamer Coptic, on the 20th May (27 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Hongkong continues free of plague, but at Macao the deaths from the disease number from twenty to thirty daily.
H.E. Li Han-chang, the late Viceroy, left Canton on Saturday last in a gunboat and is now staying at the Naval College at Whampoa. One of the China Merchants steamers is to convey
him to his home in Anhwei.
The full text of the treaty between China and Japan has now been published. It agrees in the main with the summaries issued in advance, except that no mention is made of the opening of the West River.
The annual meeting of the shareholders of A. S. Watson & Co., Limited, was held on the 18th inst., when the report and accounts were adopted. Some questions asked by a share holder led to a lively passage of arms with the chairman.
According to a Seoul despatch to a Japanese the desire that a gold mine may be granted to Count Inouye in recognition of his services in effecting administrative reforms. Why, cor- tainly, says the Nagasaki Express, the Count is to be congratulated if the mine is anything like a paying one, but some mines are deep and don't give themselves away to passing strangers!
Canadian Pacific steamer. It was understood he was going on sick leave, but it would appear that he has resigned, for a Reuter's telegram since received states that Mr. Ernest M. Satow, C.M.G., at present British Envoy at Morocco, has been appointed to Tokyo. The return of Mr. Satow to Japan will be welcomed by re- sidents in that country. The following is his It is reported from Tientsin, according to the record :-Swatow, Ernest Mason, C.M.G., is a N. C. Daily News, that the Chinese Government B.A. of London University; passed a competitive will present Mr. Foster, the American adviser to examination and obtained an honorary certificate, Li Hung-chang at Shimonoseki, with the sum of July 5th, 1861, was appointed a Student Inter- $150,000 in recognition of his valuable services to preter in Japan, August 20th, 1861; accompani the cause of peace between China and Japan, ed the late Colonel Neale, Her Majesty's Chargé The Viceroy Li will, it is said, further supple-d'Affaires, and was present at the action of ment the government grant by a handsome Kagosima, in September, 1863, on board Her addition to the amount above-named as a private Majesty's ship Argus; was appointed an Inter. mark of esteem and appreciation.
Bricklayers in Tokyo, to the number of over one thousand, struck work on the 5th because they were required by some of the coutractors for the Tokyo Waterworks reservoirs and the Mito Railway viaducts and tunnels to give a twelve hours day for an eleven hours' wage, The Choya Shimbun regrets to think that the evils accompanying civilisation are now entering the country, and that a bitter fight between capital and labour is threatening to lead to terrible suffering.
preter for the Japanese language, April 1st, 1865; and Japanese Seeretary, January 1st, 1868. Acted as Interpreter to Admiral' Koper at the bombardment of Shimonosaki, in Septem ber, 1864 Was given the local rank of second Secretary to the Legation at Yedo, July 20th, 1876. Was made C.M.G., August 15th, 1883, Was promoted to be Agent and onsul-General at Bangkok, January 16th, 1884; and then to be Minister Resident and Consul-General, Feb. ruary 17th, 1885. Was transferred to Monte Video, December 17th, 1888. Was appointed to Morocco, October, 1894,