THE
Hongkong Weekly Press China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLI.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :-
The Development of Manufacturing Industry in
Ching
The Szechuen Riots
Bimetallism and the Ratio
The Queen's Reign
A Common Currency for the Far East. The Publication of Plague Statistica...
Affairs in South Formosa..........
Events in Nerth Formosa. (...........................................
A Diary of Recent Events in North Formosa
Supreme Court :--
In the Matter of Chan Yan U
Death of a Defendant
Hongkong Sanitary Board.
Plague Precautions
Presentation to Inspector Mann
The Plague...:
Hongkong Electric Co., Limited
The Raub Australian Gold Mining Co., Limited
Hongkong Rifle Association
Correspondence :-
The Chinese in the Public Gardens
Battery Pathway
The Publication of Plague Statistics
The Currency Crisis in Tonkin
The Szechuen Outrages
The West River
More Comment on the Inkstand Incident
The Prospects of the Sugar Industry in Formosa
The Canton Customs Report
Kowloon Trade Report for 1894.
Canton Notes
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping......
MARRIAGES.
AND
HONGKONG: WEDNESDAY, 26TH JUNE, 1895.
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The N. C. Daily News of the 19th inst. says it understands that the proposed Russian loan to China is not yet definitely accepted.
Governor Creagh of British North Borneo and Mrs. Creagh left Labuan for Singapore in the steamer Banjermassin on the 12th inst. They are on their way to Europe.
We learn that the French gunboat Forfait 480 which left Amoy the other day, has gone to
Wenchow for the protection of the French mis 481 sionaries, disturbances having broken ont
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The installation of H.E. Sir C. B. H. Mitchell 482 as District Grand Master of the Eastern 482 Archipelago took place at Singapore on the 14th inst. at a special communication of the Grand 488 Lodge of the District.
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The Governor of Cochin-China, who went to Hué recently to pay a visit to the King of Au 434 nam, took with him some handsome presents for 484 His Majesty specially ordered from France, con- 485
sisting of two magnificent Sèvres vases, two tea services, and two coffee services, also in Sèvres .485 485 porcelain,
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The report of Russia having sent a notice to 486 the Japanese Government demunding the with 487 drawal of Japanese troops from Korea is denied 488 by the Japanese semi-official journal the Nichi Nichi Shimbun, which says it learns from the 192 authorities that Russia has never advanced such
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The weather this year in Nanking and Hang- On the 20th June, 1895, at the Union Church, Hong-chow has been, the Mercury says. exceedingly kong, by the Rev. Dr. Morris, FREDERIK JAN HAVRE favourable to the mulberry, and it is now almost DROEZE, Consul General of the Netherlands for certain that an exceptionally fine silk crop will South China, to Mademoiselle MARIE MELANIE be had. Finer weather has not been experienced GALFRE, of Genève (Switzerland).
[1299 At the British Legation, Tokyo, on the 12th inst.,
for ten years, when the best kind of a year for Professor JOHN MILNE, F.R.S., of the Imperial silk was obtained, Japanese University, to TONE, daughter of the late Horikawa Noritsune, Abbot of Ganjo-ji, Nishi Hong- wan-ji, Hakodate.
DEATHS.
On the 18th June, 1895, on board the steamship Poochi, from Wenchow to Shanghai, CHARLOTTE, the dearly loved wife of Dr. J. H. LOWRY, Wenchow.
1326 At Shanghai, on the 19th of June, 1895, JOHN HAALCKE, aged 31 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 25th May arrived per P. M. steamer City of Peking, on the 21st June (27 days); and the Canadian mail of the 3rd June arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of India, on the 25th Jane (22 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
It is reported that three million yen is to be disbursed from the War Fund for laying a cable
between Formosa and Osumi, Kiushia.
The annual meeting of the Hongkong Electric Co, Limited, was held on the 22nd inst., when the report and accounts were adopted and passed.
M. Pilinski, who has been acting as Minister for France at Bangkok during the absence of M. Pavie on the buffer state Commission, has, it is reported by the Progrès de Saigon, been recalled to France.
There are again rumours, the N. . Daily News says, that Sir Robert Hart is going home, Inspectorate-General of Customs will be carried that Mr. Cartwright is retiring, and that the on by Mr. R. E. Bredon and Mr. Hippisley The latter is, it is said, to be succeeded at Shang- hai by Mr. M. Boyd Bredon.
No. 26.
The annual report of the Raub Anstralian Gold Mining Co., Limited, shows that the debit balance at profit and loss account bas been re. duced from £1,755 to £1,389, thus showing profit on the year's working of less than £400.
The situation in South Formosa remains un- changed, the Japanese not having yet arrived and the foreigners at Auping being protected by a British guard. In the North everything is quiet, the Japanese having established com- plete order, and business is proceeding as
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The Shanghai native papers report that Tong, late" President" of the Formosan Republic," is in Nanking, where his family also is.
He has bad several interviews with Chang Chib-tung and has consulted him about the numerous affairs he has now to settle, but all this, the Mercury says, is being kept very secret.
It is reported that the revised Treaty of Com. merce between Japan and Russia was signed at St. Petersburg on the 8th inst. by M. Labanoff, Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Mr. Nishi Tokujiro, Japanese Envoy Extraordin- ary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia, According to the Japanese press Germany aud France will conclude the revision of their Treaties with Japan ere long, as Russia has already signed hers. This prompt settlement with the three Powers is due to the fact that they promised to show an exceptional friendliness to Japan if the latter consented to their proposal with regard to the returning of Liaotung to China.
the 10th instant, the Canton Viceroy despatched According to despatches from Swatow dated General Chang, the Provincial Commander-in- Chief of Kwangtung, on the 4th instant to crush the Changlobsien iusurrection with only 1,500 men, assisted by the sedentary garrison of that district, numbering 500 men. At the same time the naval Commander-in-Chief of the pro- vince, Admiral Cheng, was ordered 10 with repeating riffs, to crush the Huichou re- despatch a naval brigade of 500 men, armed bellica in the district of Yangan. But another despatch, wired to the local mandarins yesterday. The natives report, the Mercury says, that al-afternoon (18th inst.) from Huichou, reports the ready a number of people have been looking about in Soochow to find suitable sites for build ing godowns and wharves, and attempting to buy. The owners, however, in most cases refuse to sell, thinking that, as it is to be a Treaty port, they will be able to realise better prices in a few years.
The prohibition of the immigration of Chinese into the colony from Hainan and Swatow, on account of plague, has been removed, the epidemic at those places being at an end. Im. migration from Macao is still prohibited, but the disease is disappearing at that Settlement also. There have been a few sporadic cases at Hongkong during the week.
On the 13th inst. a godown in the occupation of Messrs. Mourilyan, Heimann and Co.. Yokohama, was completely destroyed by fire. It was at the time full of tea already packed for shipment. The loss is estimated at about $120,000. The cause of the fire is unknown, but it is surmised that some coolies had been smoking near the place and the live embers which they probably knocked from their pipes wore blown into the godown and so brought Iabout the disaster.
defeat on the 9th and 12th instant respectively of both the naval brigade and the land forces by the rebels. Changlo is in Chiayingchou sub- prefecture, near the Fukien frontier, while Yungan in Huichou prefecture is south of Swalow.-N. C. Daily News.
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Says the Japan Mail:-When the designs of Russia and France have matured; when they have provided a sufficiency of pretexts to justify some territorial "re-adjustments in the East, England will be fully prepared to step in and take her share. She has never yet been "left" in a game of scramble, and there is no prospect of her record being presently changed in that respect. Russia can have her port on the Pacific; France may push a little farther up the valley of the Meikong. England, in that event, will simply alter her position to suit these changes. It is all very bad morality, we admit, but jast as a corporation is beyond the reach of libel, so a nation cannot be arraigned before any tribunal of ethics. If the millenium is ever to come, it will be inaugurated by a union of the Anglo- Saxon race all over the world. In the mean- while nations that have not passed their zenith mast grow, by fair means if possible, but at any rate grow.