THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVIII.] :
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Wesk, do.
Leading Articles!--
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 29TH OCTOBER, 1898.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 23rd September arrived, per M M. steamer Oceanien, on the
British Sovereignty over the New Kowloon
Territory Piracy on the Kwangtung Waterways .............846- 25th October (32 days). Affairs in Thibet
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Legislation Against the Japanese Yen in the
Straits Settlements....................................847 Mr. Stead on Sir Claude MacDonald Kang Ya-Wel...................................................................................................847 Outrage on Foreign Engineers at Lukouchso.......348 Destruction of Telegraph Lines by Chinese Soldiers ..348 Supreme Court .......................................................
.........................348 The Arrangements for the Princess Henry of Prussia's
Visit
The Volunteers In Camp
Riot at Canton
Affairs at Manila.
The Hating's Trial Trip
The Future of the Philippines
Seizure of Opium
The Russians at Kewchwang
Probable Revision of the Chinese Tariff
-The Dairy Farm Co., Limited
The North China Insurance Co., Limited
The Punjom Mining Co., Limited
Raab
Shanghai Engineering, Shipbuilding, and Dock Co.,
Limited
| The Hongkong Rifle Association
Football
Correspondence
Great Fire at Shanghai..................................
Penay Post..................
The Peking-Hankow Railway The Canton-Hankow Railway The Newchwang Railway..
EPITOME OF THE WEEK,
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The Siamese Government have sent a repre- sentative to India to study and report upon the educational system of the country.
A branch of the China Association has been formed at Kobe and the inauguration is to be celebrated by a dinner sometime next month,
Mr. J. W. Jamieson, Acting British Consul at Szemao, has been directed to join the Burmo- Chinese Frontier Commission, and was to report at Bhamo on the 1st of next month.-N. C. 451 Daily News, 351
850 850 361
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Shanghai is keeping up its reputation for the launching of sensational rumours, Not only has the Emperor been murdered over again, but it is now said that the Empress-Dowager has also been made away with.
Mr. Chun Fai-ting, Manager of the China Merchants' S. N. Co. at Shanghai, has also been appointed manager of the Shanghai- 354 Woosung Railway, vice Tsai Erb-yuan, who
goes to Yanghuhsien as district magistrate.
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The Beresford Mission........................................855 The Situation at Peking
The Illness of the Emperor Reported Attempted Escape of the Emperor............355 The Imperial Actors and the Emperor's Foreign
Clothes
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855
The Men the Empress-Dowager Truste Jung Lu and the Peking Garrison ......................................................356 The Chinose in Japan........................................................................866 The Szechuan Brigand..................................................................................................................356 The Yellow River
....866
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An Open Letter From Kang Yu-Wei Interview With a Progressive Chinaman...............866 The Imperial Council of Ten The Japanese Conventional Tariffe and Consular
Curtificates Formosan Development.......................................357 Ownership of the Formosa Cable...........................958 The American Pacific Cable.......................358 Japan as a Manufacturing Country _3934-.....................368 The Paris Conference Alleged Atrocities of the Philippine Insurgents ......358 Affairs in South Luzon and Cebu........................868 Hongkong and Port News .........................................................ð69 Commercial... ..................................................................................360
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BIRTHS. On the 22nd October, at 31, Broadway, Shanghai, the wife of F. E. WILKINSON, H.B.M.'s Consular Service, of a daughter.
At the Peak, Hongkong, on Tuesday, 25th Octo ber, 1898, the wife of WH TRENCHARD DAVIS,
of a son.
MARRIAGE.
HIG M.-Consul, and afterwards at All Saints At Kobe, on the 8th October, by F. Thiel, Esq. Church by the Rev. G. H. Davies, AMELIA JOYCE, eldest daughter of the late E. J. SMITHERS, U.S. Consul at Hyogo, to ALFRED BUSCHEL, son of Gustav Büschel, Roebel, Mecklenburg, Germany.
DEATHS.
At Shanghai, on the 14th October, 1898, ANNIE, the beloved wife of John GILLIE2, aged 37 years:
At Messrs. Siemssen & Co's, Shanghai, on the 20th October, 1893, FRIEDRICH WILHELM KOCH, aged 39 years.
The case at Bangkok in which a British In dian subject named De Silva was charged with the abduction of a girl named O'Donoghue ended on the 8th October with a verdict of guilty, The prisoner was sentenced to seven years' penal
servitude.
The China Gazette says:-Dr. Sun Yat Sen has returned safely to Japan after a short visit to Shanghai. He wore foreign clothes and short hair during his sojourn here and only his friends knew his whereabouts in the Foreign Settlement.
The English engineers engaged on the Paotingfu Railway were attacked on Sunday by a party of Chinese soldiers and two were injured. Soldiers have also broken down a quantity of telegraph line, and telegraphic communication with Peking and other places in the North was for a time interrupted..
No 18.
The N. C. Daily News learns that since the recent great fire, Hankow, including the For and thieves, and it is even unsafe for bankers eign Settlement, has been overrun with rowdies to send sycee through the streets of the Settlę. ment, though taking the usual precautions.
On the evening of the 25th October a riot took place at Canton, on Canal Road, opposite Shameen, in consequence of a boat that had anchored in the canal being ordered to move on by the French Settlement Police. There was some stone-throwing, and the Shameen Volun tears were called out, but Chinese troops succeeded in dispersing the rioters.
The British North Borneo Herald says:—A sad accident has resulted in the death of Mr. Reynolds, Superintendent of Telegraphs, which occurred on the Kinabatagan River on the evening of the 28th of September last. Mr. Reynolds left Tamoi on the 28th, and reached Krangan Pagar below Quámote the same even- ing. Here his boat struck a snag in going through the rapids, and every one was thrown into the water. Arumugan, Mr. Reynolds' boy, states that he held him up by his hands for a short time, but on account of the strength of the current he was obliged to let go, when Mr. Reynolds, not being able to swim, immediately sank and was carried away. Mr. Reynolds' body was found at Belat on the 18th, and has been buried in a grave adjacent to Mr. Valbergs' near the Telegraph station. Messrs. Graydon and Kotta examined the body, and saw it properly coffined, Mr. Rowe conduct- ing the burial service. The Government flags were half-masted for the day when this news was received. Much sympathy is felt for his widow and seven children who are in Sandakan,
The Harbour Regulations for open ports 10th October, and the French flagship Bayard were put into operation at Yokobama on the and the American ship Sam Schofield were ordered to new anchorages outside the break- water. There was some trouble, however, in A Simla despatch of the 7th October states that connection with the French flagship, which the services of Captain H. R. Davies, Oxford-did not remove to the place designated' as shire Light Infantry, have been asked for by the a man-of-war anchorage. Admiral Mori, the Government of India for employment on the pro- Harbour-master, paid a visit to the vessel posed survey expedition to be undertaken by the and inquired when the removal would take Yunnan Company, Limited, in Yunnan.
place. The French Admiral asked that the Bayard should be allowed to remain where she was lying, as her propeller was out of order, and ultimately said if the Harbour- master offered objection he would ask permis- sion from the Minister of Communications. There appears to have been a good deal of excitement in connection with the incident, and mention was even made of an intention
on the part of the Japanese to use force to compel observance of the regulations, but ultimately the Minister for Communications assented, to the request of the Admiral that the flagship should remain inside the breakwater until her repairs were completed; but as her then position
a little more northward, and the Admiral interfered with the anchorage of merchant vessels, she was ordered to take up a position consented to do so. The Nagasaki Press learns on good authority that the Govern ment is now contemplating the engagement of a foreign adviser to each of the Harbour Masters at Yokohama, Kobe, and Nagasaki, for the purpose of cultivating a good under. standing between the commanders of foreign vessels and the Japanese Harbour officials,
The fate of the Emperor still remains in doubt. On the 17th October Dr. Dethève, medical attaché of the French Legation, accompanied by the First Interpreter, M. Vissierė, was E
allowed to
visit a personage represented to be the
Emperor, and as M. appearance it is said there could be no doubles Vissiere is well acquainted with His Majesty's mistake. If it be true, however, that one or of the Emperor are kept in the Palace to represent him when it is deemed desirable, imposition on the occasion of the French doctor's visit might not have been impossible. Another report is that His Majesty was poi- soned immediately after the visit of Dr. Detheve. It has also been rumoured that the Empress Dowager has been made away with.
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