THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVIII.J
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Artioles:---
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 24TH DECEMBER, 1898.
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The Shanghai Chamber of Commerce and Lord
Charles Beresford's Mission............
.........518 The Post Offics
The Desecration of Glenealy Rookery Major Bower's Chinese Regiment...
Hongkong Legislative Council......... Supreme Court
Murder of a Traveller in Thibet
The Leopold Case at Yokohama
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Glenealy
The Japanese in Formosa
Killed by Electricity
Opposition to Steam Traffic at Fatshan
Plague at Canton
Liquid Fuel
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Ladies' Benevolent Society
Railways in Indo-Chins
The Perseverance Lodge
Victoria Regatta
Polo
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The Working of the Post Office
Trying to Bribe an Inspector
Great Eastern and Caledonian
Limited ......
Olivers Freehold Miass, Limited Raub
"Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Correspondence
Gold Mining Co.,
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The Empress Dowager's Reception
Great Massacre in Hupeh
Railway Engineers for Shantung
Heavy Weather in the North
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The Burmah Boundary Commission..............
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Manufacture of Arms and Ammunition in Chioa
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The Russian Position in Manchuria
A Korean Concession......................
Russia and the Miao-tao Group
Missionaries and the Reformers..
Lord Charles Beresford's Movements
Mr. Pritchard Morgan's Szechuen Concession Hongkong and Port News Commercial......................................
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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Count and Countess Alexiadre di Danto arrived at Singapore from Earope by the Prina Heinrich. The Count is on his way to Bangkok as Italian Minister to Siam.
The steamer Toyo Maru, formerly the P. & O. steamer Zambesi, uas been sold to a Chinese syndicate at Yokohama for 65,030 yen. She was built at Glasgow in 1873.
Mr. Parloff arrived at Shanghai on the 17th December by H.R.M.S. Gremia tchy from Port Arthur and is to make a rua to Hankow, after which he proceeds to his post at Seoul. The Gr miustchy returns to Port Arthur.-N. C. Daily News.
We hear that the Chinese at Canton, both mandarins and populace, are well satisfied with the verdict and sentence in the Toulmin case. but consider it a hardship that the friends of the murdered man should have been called upou to pay the costs of the trial.
A special telegram to the N. C. Daily News dated Nanking, 11th December, says:-H.E. Viceroy Liu is still determined to resist the de- mands of the French, and the cruiser Descartes has returned to this city and anchored opposite Hsiakuan as if waiting for further develop ments.
The Siam Free Press contradicts the rumour that Mr. Lilie seeks to be naturalised in France, Mr. Lillie has given that journal to understand that he intends to remain a British subject. Early next year, Mr. Lillie leaves Europe for Japan and China, but whether in a commercial or a journalistic capacity is not certain.
A Chinanfu, Shantung, telegram reports that H.E. Li Hang-chang, Imperial Inspector of the 580 Yellow River, arrived at that city on the 11th instaut and was met there by H.E. Jen Tao- vung, Director-General of the Yellow River, and Chang Ju-mei, Governor of Shantung. prior to a joint tour over the whole region.— N. C. Daily News,
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At Swatow, on the 15th December, the wife of J. SCHLÜTER, of a son.
At 1, Seymour Road, on the 18th December, 'he wife of . E. HODGINS of a son.
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At 4 Seymour Terrace. 01 the 19th December, the wife of Mr. Ge ». GRIMBLE, of a dughter.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The German mail of the 14th November arrived, per N.D.L. sleamer Prinz Heinrich, on the 16th December (32 days); the French mail of the 18th November arrived, per M. M. steamer Indus, on the 19th December (31 days); the American mail of the 19th November arrived, per O. & O. steamer Belgic, on the 21st December (32 days); and the American mail of the 16th November arrived, per P. M. steamer Astec, on the 23rd December (37 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Lord Charles Beresford is now visiting the Coast Ports on his way down from Shanghai to Hongkong and is expected to leave Hong kong for Japan on the 5th January.
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No. 28.
The N. C. Daily News publishes the follow- ing special telegram dated Chungking. 12th December:-The Chinese General Chou has been captured by Yu Man-tze. There is reason to believe that force will be used to suppress the brigands, but it is not safe to rely upon the troops.
We bear that the Chinese Government is send. inga commercial mission to Europe and America, which is on its return to make a full report to the Throne, especially with reference to the es• tablishment of a Board of Trade at Peking. The mission leaves in the spring and returas in
the antama. It will consist of two members, hoth of whom, we understand, are connected with the direction of the Imperial Bank of
China.
A sham-fight took place at Shanghai on the 14th December between the crew of H.M.S. Phoenic and the Shanghai Volunteers. The general idea was as follows:-Shanghai, was fully protected, bat as parties of the enemy (Phoenix) had been ravaging the country in the neighbourhood, a force composed of all arms was detached from the Shanghai garrison with orders to, if possible, find their main position and dislodge them from it. According to the report of the N. C. Daily News the Volunteers in trying to carry the enemy's position exposed themselves to annihilation.
December at No. 4 Clark Quay, a godown A fire occurred at Singapore on the 11th occupied by Messrs. Sandilands, Buttery and Co., which was stored with a quantity of copra, black and white pepper, tapioca, coffee, &c. The building, which was owned by Mr. Goh Ban Whatt, of 4 Clerk Quay, and which was insured for $3,000 with the London and Lancashire Co., was completely gutted. The damage to the produce, which is covered by insurance with the National Insurance Co. of Ireland and the Northern Insurance Co., $40,000 each, estimated at between $50,000 and $60,000.
From the N. C. Daily News we learn that
There is published in the Gazette a despatch Isai Taotai sent on the 16th December & dis- from Viscount Gough to the Marquess of Salis- patch to the British and U.S. Consuls-General bary, dated Berlin, 21st October, reading as of Shangbai notifying them that he is now
follows:-With reference to Sir F. Lascelles' re dy to commence the work of delimiting the despatch No. 252 of the 6th ultimo, I have the boundaries of the British and American Settle-honour to inform your Lordship that it is ment extensions, in obedience to instructions stated in the Cologne Gasette that within the from Viceroy Liu at Nanking.
territory included in the free port to Kiaochau, no duties will be levied on goods to be consumed in the German distriot, with the exception of an excise duty on opium. Only goods in transit from and to Chinese territory will be subjected to duty, according to the rates fixed by the Treaties.
A salvage party under the direction of Mr. Moulsdale, the Manager of the Tanjong Pagar Dock Co., was to leave Singapore on the afternoon of the 14th December for Labuan in the Com- pany's tug boat Mercury, with pumps and other uecessary gear, to render assistance to the 8.8. Abuna, which has been wrecked near Labuan while on a voyage to Port Arthur, laden with coal.
A few days ago a missionary family_narrowly escaped extermination at Souchow. It appears the cook had been dismissed and a couple of days afterwards all the members of the family were taken ill. Medical aid was called in and
We (Straits Times) have already reported the accident to the steamer Abana, recently stranded near Labuan. Messrs. Syme and Co., Lloyd's Agents at Singapore, ask us to give publicity to a telegram they have received from the Master of that vessel. He states that the rook on which the ship struck is not marked on the charts, and he gives its exact position sa lat. 5.6.45 N. and long. 115.6.45 E. The
it was found the whole family had been poisoned rock is described as a pinnacle, having m
with arsenic, the cook having placed the poison in the baking powder. Fortunately the quan- tity was excassive so that it induced vomiting, which saved the lives of the intended victims. Search was made for the cook, but he had already made his escape.—Union.
depth
of 29 feat of water over it at half ebb, the rise and fall of the tide being 10 feet. A temporary buoy has been placed to mark the position of the danger, a very real one to vessels entering Labuan Harbour, as it is almost in the middle of the western entrance of Brunei Bay.