THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL
XLVIII.J
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitoms of the Wosk, do..
Leading Articles:-
Lord Charles Beresford's Mission and the Chinese
Reform Movement.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 5TH NOVEMBER, 1898..
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In London, on the 29th October, SYDNEY ARCAL- BALD BALLANCE, of North Finchley and the London Stock Exchange, to LILIAN BESSIE, youngest daugh-
ter of D. R. CRAWFORD.
DEATH.
At the Chartered Bank, Shanghai, on the 27th British Relations with Thibet .....................366 October, WALTER TURNER ROGERS, 60 of George
.366 | Rogers, of Stamford Hill, London, aged 26 years.
The French Claims on Fashoda
Spread of Plague by Scientific Experiments 367 The Disturbance at Canton
The United States and the Philippines The Post Office
367
............867
.367
Jingoism and the Chinese Question Success of Lord Charles Beresford's Mission ...808 Supreme Court
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The Canadian mail of the 10th October of
.........................................368 arrived, per C. P. R. steamer Empress
.369 India, on the 1st November (2a days).
Affairs at Manila...
Visitors from Manila.......
..369 .370
.370
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Annual Licensing Sessions
The Charges against Letter Carriers ...................871 Piratical Attack on a Steam-launch.
Chinese Rebels in Hongkong
Neglecting & Notios of the Sanitary Board......
872
The Magistracy Farewell Address to Hon. H. E.
Wodehouse
Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co.,
Limited
..373
The North China Insurance Co., Limited ..............373 Jelebu Mining and Trading Co., Limited
The Yah Loong Cotton Spinning Co., Limited .........374 Saturday's Gymkhana
Cricket...
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club Football
The Hongkong Rifle Association The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
.373
.374
...375 .375 376 .376
The Shanghai Races ...................................................376
Correspondence
...........877
The Damage to the Rising Star.....................................................................878 The Bank of China, Japan, and the Straits, Limited,
and its Chinese Shareholders
............................................878
A Reply to Kang Yu-Wei
The Emperor's Fate Still in Doubt
404
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.379 ..379 .379
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Lord Charles Beresford's Mission has already borne fruit, the Chinese Government having consented to the raising of a force of two thousand men to be officered by Englishmen.
A Foochow telegram of the 24th October to the N. C. Daily News announces the death on the previous evening of Pion Pao-chuan, Viceroy of the Min-Che provinces, after a protracted illness..
A Peking telegram of the 21st October to the Japanese papers reads:-The United States is endeavouring to obtain the privilege of con- structing a railway between Kwangtung and Shanghai, with a branch line to Fukien. Japan will most probably protest against the action of the United States, when the fact is officially announced.
Official sanction has now been given to Attacks on Foreigners at Peking....................379 | Japanese emigration to Peru. It was given on the favourable report received from Mr. Murota, Japanese Minister to Mexico, who has been touring through Peru since June last to enquire whether or not the country is adapted to receive Japanese emigrants. Mr. Murota is now on a tour through Guatemala, Central America.- Kobe Herald.
Plots and Counter-Plots..... Destroying the Telegraph Lines ..... The Mobbing of Japanese in Peking Another Result of the Empress Dowager's Decrees 379 The Korean Coffee Pot Conspiracy
870 Hongkong and Port News ........................380
Commercial................. Shipping
..............................................................................................381
BIRTHS.
On the 1st November, the wife of JAMES A. Low- So, of a daughter.
On the 1st November, at No. 1, Mountain View, Peak, Hongkong, the wife of HERBERT J. GEDGE,
of a son:
MARRIAGES.
On the 24th October, 1898, at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., the Rev. W. ADAM MCCURRACH, of the English B.M.S., Shansi, to CLARA NOVELLO, only daughter of R. SCHOLEY, Esq., Bradford, Yorks, England.
On the 24th October, 1898, at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, MA, the Rev. THOMAS J. UNDERWOOD, of the English B.M.S, Shansi, to FANNY ROBERTA, eldest -daughter of the late Robert WHITE, Esq., of Brigh
ton, England.
At Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, on the 27th October, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., the Rev. JOHN HEDLEY, English Methodist Mission, Laol- ing Shantung, 10 ANNIE SMITH, daughter of William WHITEHEAD, Esq., of Blyth, Northumber land, England.
On the 27th October, 1898, at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shangliai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A, GEORGE EDWARD BURGOYNE of Shanghai, to ELIZA FRANCES HAWKES, of Telgamouth, De vonshire, England.
According to a Tokyo telegram translated by the Kobe Chronicle, the sentiment of the Japanese Government towards the Chinese refugees, while friendly, is that revolutionary propaganda cannot be permitted there. The Japanese Government rather hopes that reforms in China will be carried out by men like Li Hung-chang or Chang Chih-tung, who have both influence and responsibility.
A Reuter's telegram states that the United States Commissioners at the Paris Peace Con- ference have demanded the absolute cession of the Philippines. From an American despatch we learn that the United States decline to take over the Philippine debt. A portion of this debt was floated, practically compulsorily, at Manile. The position of the holders of the bonds is an uncomfortable one. *
Messrs, Carlowitz & Co, courteously inform us that they have received telegraphic informa tion of the total loss of the steamer Kenmore on her voyage from New York to Shanghai. She passed the Canal within the last four or five days and the loss probably occurred in the Red Sea, The Kenmore was a quite new steel steamer of 3,800 tons gross, built at Glasgow this year by Messrs. C. Connell & Co., her managers being Messrs. J. Gardiner & Co.- N. C. Daily News.
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No. 19.
The San Francisco Chronicle says:-Large quantities of cotton are being shipped to the Japanese by the various Pacific steamship lines. Seventeen thousand bales will be shipped through this port. The inference is that the cotton manufacturing industry is not languishing in Japan, although business generally is repre- sented as much depressed in the island empire.
The N. C. Daily News says it is satisfactory to know that the various railway projects that were in the air have not been interfered with so far by the coup d'état. The British concession- aires have obtained the right to build the pro- jected line between Kowloon and Canton, and the American Syndicate have made the stipulated deposit on the Canton-Hankow line, and the necessary surveys are to be promptly proceeded with.
The American (Manila) of the 27th October says:-Editor Delgado, who has been publish- ing the La Voz Espanola, a Spanish paper in this city, was placed under arrest last evening and lodged at the quarters of Company K, Thirteenth Minnesota, for safe keeping. The Spanish writer has disregarded various warn- ings from the Provost Marshal and continued to fill his paper with abuse of every American, from the President down to the privates. The charges published in his paper are of such a nature as to incite the Spanish inhabitants to riot. Therefore his paper was suppressed and himself arrested.
It is reported from Tientsin that a body of troops, belonging to the turbulent Kansu corps. of General Tung Fu-hsiang, while travelling by the Tientsin-Shanhaikuan Railway to the vic- inity of Peitaiho, attacked some foreign ployees of the railway on the same train. Brickbats were used by the "braves" and some of the foreigners were injured and had to re- turn to Tientsin. The troops then became so mutinous that the native authorities in the vic- inity had considerable difficulty in restoring order. A special telegram to the N. O. Daily News states that in the attack by "braves" belong- ing to General Tung Fu-hsiang's Kansu Corps. upon foreigners on the Tientsin-Shanhaikusu Railway, in the vicinity of Peitaiho, a gineer pulled out his six-chambered revolver and emptied it upon the murderously inclined soldiers, killing two of them outright.
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The Independance Tonkinoise says :--“ There is announced the formation at Hongkong of an Anglo-Chinese Company which, under the presidency of the rich compradore of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, at Hong kong, intends to open branches at Hai- phong, Hanoi, Lackay, and Mengtzu. So we are going to allow ourselves to be invaded by foreigners and to let them monopolise what little business there is! It seems to us that the conquest of Tonkin has cost France so much
blood and treasure that the Metropolis has no right to regard its industrial and commercial future with indifference. How much capital is there lying unproductive in France or earning only paltry interest which ably employed here would increase ten-fold the volume of business and assure the economic development of our colony!" The Avenir du Tonkin, commenting on the above, joins the Independance in coll- demning the indifference of the Government to the development of the colony, but regards the introduction of foreign capital with satisfaction.