THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIV.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.....................
Leading Articles:-
A Cure for the Plague
The Opening of the West River
Li Hung-chang and the Relations between Russia
and 'China
The "Mack and Truck" Trade .......
The Governor of the Straits and the Municipalities
tion Ground.
Supreme Court
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The Navy and the Defence of Hongkong
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New Regulations for the Wongneichong Recrea
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Ship Thieves on the China Coast
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A New Post Office Required
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The Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
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A Cure for the Plague
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Suicide of the Dean of Macau
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Hongkong Golf Club
Hongkong Rifle Association
of Life
Fire on a Ship in Harbour.......
Earthquake and Tidal Wave in Japan -Great Lose
Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Limited
The Raub Gold Mining Co., Limited
Hongkong and Port News...
Commercial
Shipping
MARRIAGES.
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At the Peak Church, on the 27th June, 1896, by the Rev. Alfred Iliff, BERNARD HOUGHTON, I.C.S., Deputy Commissioner, Burma, to ISABEL EDITH, second daughter of the late H. T. VICKERS, Barris- ter at law, of Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
[1502 On the 20th June, 1896, at H.B.M.'s Consulate. Tokyo, and afterwards at Trinity Cathedral, Tokyo, by the Right Reverend Jolin McKim, D.D., Bishop of Tokyo, Uncle of the bride, resisted by the Rever end J. M. Francis, B.D., CHARLES WYKEHAM MALE, youngest son of Colonel James Francis BIRCH, late S.O.P, Liverpool, to MARGARET KER FOOT, eldest daughter of the Reverend George WALLACE, M.A, San Mateo, California.
DEATHS.
At Bombay, on the 10th June, H. R. DAUVER, of Dauver & Co, Amoy.
[1503 At Shanghai, on the 23rd June, FERDINAND HINGELOT, Manager of the Russo-Chinese Bank, aged 40 years.
At Royat, France, on the 25th June, WILLIAM BRAND, of Shanghai.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English mail of the 29th May arrived, per P. & O. steamer Pekin, on the 27th June
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 2ND JULY, 1896.
Colonel Sartorius, V.C., the new Military Attaché of the British Legation, arrived in Tokyo on the 17th June.
A cure for the plague is reported to have been discovered by Dr. Yersin, the cure con- sisting of the subcutaneous injection of a serum obtained from the cultivation of the plague bacillus.
Mr. Beauclerk, the Secretary of Legation at Peking, has, we learn from the Tientsin correspondent of the Mercury, been sent to Chefoo to investigate the land case there and ascertain to what extent British interests have suffered.
Fire broke out on the 29th June amongst the cargo of the British barque Glen Caladh, in Hongkong Harbour. The vessel was fully laden and was to have left for America on the 30th. The fire was not subdued until the holds had been filled with water and the loss
will be considerable.
It is rumoured (although there may be nothing in it) that, with the appointment of Rear Admiral Oxley to be second in command under Vice Admiral Buller of the squadron in the Far East, Singapore will be made the head- quarters of the Rear Admiral as Hongkong is the headquarters of the Vice-Admiral.-Straits Times.
A telegram to a native paper states that it is the intention of the Viceroy Liu Kung-yih not to proceed with the Nanking-Woosung railway, nor with the new roads at Nanking itself, as it is his intention to devote the money which those works would cost towards the purchase of an ironclad and the strengthening of the navy China Gazette.
The Provincial Treasurer of Kiangsi is in receipt of instructions from the Board of War, stating that steam-launches can now run in the inland waters in that province. Before the present Chinese month is up we shall see the launches c of the Fu Kong Company in full Swing plying for hire at Kiukiang and the neighbouring places.-Mercury!
A terrible catastrophe is reported from the north-east of Japan. On the 15th June the whole coast line of Iwate, Miyagi, and Aomori Prefectures, and of Rikuzen Province, a stretch of land measuring from 150 to 200 miles in length, from Sendai Bay on the south, to Hachinohei and the eastern head of Aomori
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At the Hongkong Criminal Sessions on the 23rd June Fung Poong was sentenced to death for the murder of a district watchman named Lau Fai. The murder was committed in connection with an armed robbery.
A telegram received on the 21st June by the N. C. Daily News from private sources at Peking announces the completion, within three and a half miles of that city, of the bed of the new Tientsin-Lukow Railway, and that, in spite of rumours to the contrary, the rails will be laid and ready for traffic before the end of this year.
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A new tariff having been notified by the Shanghai and Hongkew Wharves to come into force on the 1st July, a representation was addressed to the General Agents, Messrs.^ Jardine, Matheson & Co., by Mr. E. A. Hewett, Acting Agent of the P. & 0. Mr. G. Sutherland, Agent of the Mutual Line, Mr. J. Chapsal, Agent of the M. M. Co., Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, Agents of the O. S. S. Co., and Messrs. Dodwell, Carlill & Co., Agents of the Shire Line, objecting to the increased charges, but the General Agents adhere to the new tariff as notified:
The Tientsin correspondent of the Mercury, writing under date of, the 16th June, says Mr. Grille arrived here last week from Peking. He has signed the contract for the Tongkin- Kwangsi Railway. By this you will see that France and Russia have the best show and most influence both in China and Korea, Russia and France mean business, und, in spite of seven other tenders by seven different nationalities, they have received the contract and, mark my words, they will grab the Hankow-Liukohchow line. This little business has made Herr von Brandt, Krupp, Sheng Tactai, Chang Chih-` tung, and several others rather sick, and before long you will find our Imperial directors Hu, Wu, and Sun the same way.
(29 days); and the German mail of the 1st June Bay on the north, was inundated by a tidal because by doing so. he had on one.
arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Preussen, on the wave, accompanied by great seismic disturbance, 30th June (29 days).
The loss of life is variously estimated, but is believed to be not far short of twenty thousand.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The plague at Hongkong appears to have exhausted itself, very few cases now occurring. The captured ironclad Chen Yuen has had her repairs and alterations completed at Yoko suka and was taken for a satisfactory trial trip on the 18th June,
Beveral important reductions in rates for telegrams from Hongkong to the Straits, Dutch | Indies Borneo, and Macao will come into force on the 1st July,
The eunuchs in Peking appear to be having a rather bad time of it at present. According to despatches received from the capital, out of six eunuchs who had been engaged in brawl over seats in a Peking theatre lately, and who accidentally killed a gendarme who came to stop the row, three are to be summarily executed and the remaining three exiled to a distance of 4,000 li, or 1,200 miles. Another eunuch who had the temerity to present a memorial praying for internal reforms in the Central Government was also executed.
Emperor of the Sacred Ediots of the Kanghsi (17th century) prohibiting eunuchs from interfering with, state affairs. Another eunuch, the alleged sworn brother of the now- cashiered Wên Ting-shib, one of the principal The adjourned annual meeting of the Raub founders of the Reform Association and a Gold Mining Co., Limited, was held at Brisbane devoted supporter of the Reverends - Gilbert on the 22nd May, when the report and accounts Reid and Timothy Richard, has also been sum were passed and the Mining Manager's recom-marily executed in Heilungchiang, to which mendation that the crushing plant be increased this eunuch had been exiled for the frivolou to a hundred head of stampers and that reason of being Wên Ting-shin's sworn brother- electricity be adopted as a motive power was The cause of this eunuch sexecution considered. It was decided for the present to to have been exciting add only another battery of twenty head, making mutiny, but his death the total number of stampers forty, and to and the same despatch hold another meeting in December next to Tartar General consignif consider the proposition with regard to elec is said to have contained tricity.
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