THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVIIT.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 24TH SEPTEMBER, 1898.
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CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c. ..........
Leading Articles:-
The Tinies on Spheres of Influence and the Open
Door
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The Trans-Siberiau Railway and Military
Value
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Native Views on the Fature of the Philippines...246 Fevers and Mount Davis Cemetery Interchange of Officials between Great Britain
and the Colonios
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Reported Murder of the Emperor of China.
Serious Fire at Shanghai
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Anti-Foreign Riot Near Chungking..
The Position at Manilaj.
Supreme Court
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Narses Memorial Fund...
The Kwangei Rebellion
Interesting Ceremony at the Contra! Police Station
The Weihaiwei Convention
Post Office Prosecutions
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Douglas Steamship Co., Limited
Messrs. 8. C. Faralam & Co., Limited
The Punjom Mining Co., Limited
French and British Influence in Kwang-tung
Correspondence
Rebellion in Szechuan
The Forward Movement in China...
Ilongkong and Port News
Commercial
-Shipping
MARRIAGES.
M. Doumer, Governor-General of Indo-China, leaves for France on the 28th September.
General Otis having presented an ultima tum to Aguinaldo requiring him to remove his troops from Manila, Aguinaldo complied, and on the 14th he marched his army off, with colours flying and bands playing, and produc ing an excellent effect.
According to the Courrier de Saigon of the 14th September Admiral de la Bouniuière de Beaumont is seriously ill with chronic dysentery and his doctors have advised his immediate 248 return to France. His Excellency was to leave
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The M. M. steamer Eridan, which arrived recently at Saigou from Manila, hal on board as passengers about sixty Spaniards returning 253 home: The greater number, the Courrier de ...233 Saigon says, were prominent merchants whose 254 business has been seriouslyfcompromised by the war and who have wound up their affairs in the colouy.
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The Sinwenpao publishes a special telegram from Peking to this effect that the Imperial 258 cousnut has been given to the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung's scheme of sending, at once, fifty of his ablest and brightest young military officers to study their profession in Japan, and that the young officers will probably bo sent to Tokyo at an early date.-N. U. Daily News.
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On the 10th September, 1893, in St. John's Chapel, Shanghai, by the Rev. F. L. Hawks Pott, in the presence of U.S. Consul-General John Goodnow, the Rev. GOUVERNEUR FRANK MOSHER, to FANNY SOTTILARD STEWART, of Trenton, New Jersey, U.S.A.
On the 12th September, 1898, at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. J. Ost, FRANCES MAUD younger daughter of the late Barnes DALLAS, to LEWIS FILANCIS TAYLOR, Lieut. R.N.R., only son of the late Rt. F. Taylor, of Duncaster,
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The German mail of the 22nd August arri- ved, per N. D. L. steamer Darmstadt, ou the 21st September (30 days).
A severe typhoon was experienced in Japan on the 6th September. A number of houses were swept away and two hundred and fifty deaths are said to have been caused by the harbour; amongst other casualties the sailing storm. Some damage was done in Yokohama ship Lyndhurst drifted foul of cruiser Marco Polo, inflicting damage upon her estimated at yon 18,000,
the Italian
A propos of the anecdote about Dr. Grace being disposed of by a Public School team for a very small score, and the hymn for evening chapel containing the line "The scanty triumphs Grace bath won," an old Marlburian, who has a lively recollection of the incident, informs us that it was at Marlborough it occurred, and adds the following further reminiscences Overheard at the match when Grace played the School: Companion (who had been bowled })--- "I could not see that blessed ball." Grace.-
I could see the one that got me, but I could not stop it.' At lectures a few days afterwards: Question Name the Three Graces of mytho It is reported that the leader of the Kwang.logy." Smallboy's auswer:-"W. G. Grace, si rebellion has been captured and executed, and together with a number of his followers.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
H.M.S. Daphne left Bataria for the Coco Islands on the 9th instant.
A nickel subsidiary coinage has been intro- duced in Siam, the coins representing twenty, ten, five, and two-and-a-half tical cents respec- tively.
News has been received by wire from Hankow that the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung has au- thorised the establishment of a tea manufactur- ing company with Foreigu and Chinese share- holders.-N. C. Daily News.
The first stone of the new British Con. sulate at Hoihow was laid on the 19th Septem- ber by Mrs. O'Brien Baller, the wife of the Consul. A new building for the French Con- sulate is also in course of erection.
naming the three Grace brothers. Some 5,000 persons, consisting of clerks, runners, and petty scribes, supernumaries, officials, have been thrown out of employment by the recent abolition at Peking of the six minor Boards or Courts, and many of them are said to have spent considerable sums of money in buying their posts, which thus became trans. ferable to their descendants, a practice which has been current for some two thousand years in this country. As already stated in these columus, the chief officers and secretaries have been provided for by being turned over to the Board of Control of Railways and Mines, and Boards of Agriculture, Arts, and Commerce for employment; but it is the smaller fry who will suffer by the general disbandment.-N. C. Daily Netre
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No. 13.
The rebel chief Yu Shau-tsz is giving con. siderable trouble in Szechuen. He holds a French
priest in captivity, as already reported, and recently he organised a riot at Hochow, near Chungking, in which the American Mission was looted and the Roman Catholic Mission destroyed..
In an interview at Calcutta, Mr. Allan Arthur, who has just returned from giving ovidence before the Currency Committee, was asked to "sum up City opinion on the whole Currency question. He said: There is a growing feeling in the city of London in favour of a gold standard for India. and indeed there would be little objection to it were India to gradually acquire a gold stock. The idea which is disliked in connection with introducing a gold standard is the proposal to borrow all at once a large puantity of gold, thus upsetting the money market.
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Reports, regarded as credible, have been received from Shanghai to the effect that the Emperor of China has been murdered. There has been an uneasy feeling for some time past that grave events were impending in Palace at Peking, and the news of the Emper- or's murder, should it be confirmed, will cause little surprise to those who have watched the recent course of politics in China. The young Emperor had thrown in his lot with the reform movement, by which many interests were threatened, and which, if fully carried out, would have involved the retirement of the Empress-Dowager from direct participation in the Government. This old lady assumed the Regency yesterday, which lends confirmation Emperor Kwang-Su was born in 1871 and suc- to the reports of the Emperor's death. The
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ceeded to the throne, at the death of they Emper- or Tung-Chi, on the 22nd January, 1875. He was married on the 26th February, 1889, but has no childron, and the succession to the throne will in all probability cause much in- trigue. The outcome may be the institution of some form of foreign control.
The Times of Ceylon makes the following re- ference to General Augustin and his family: Amongst the passengers on the Prinz Heinrich were Augustin, the fugitive Governor-General of the Philippines, and his wife and children, all bound for their own country. Augustin only speaks Spanish, and an interview with him was, therefore, precluded, added to which he is very reticent on the subject of Manila affairs and his escape from Manila. He is a well-built man, just turning grey, but he looked very haggard while here, and, it is said, underwent experiences in Manila just before he left that were enough to turn his hair grey. His wife was in an even more parlous condition, however. As our readers know, she was captured by Aguinaldo's rebel troops, and held a prisoner till Manila surrendered, and she bore evidence of having gone through a very rough time. Her face and her body were covered with sores, due, she says, to having been imprisoned in collars and dungeons, and she was wretchedly thin; while, to crown her misfortunes, when the Prinz Heinrich met a typhoon just after leaving Hongkong, she was thrown to the deck and broke one arm, which yesterday (30th Her August) she was carrying in splints. children were covered with boils and sores, and the whole family, in fact, looked very miserable.