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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Oberland
Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLIX.J
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, do.................................... Leading Articles:
The China Association's Definition of the Open
Door
the French Demands at Shanghai
The Futility of Alliances
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 21st JANUARY, 1899.
A small steamer named Atsuta Maru, 184 41 tons, was burnt at Hakodate on the 20th Dec-
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M. Rolin Jacquemyns, the General Adviser to the Siamese Government, is now returning to Bangkok from Belgium, where he has been on leave. 43
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Imperial Expansion and the Growth of Trade... 4
Bimetallism and the Ratio Disarmament Proposals
Supreme Court.
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Crisis in the Philippines...
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A lecture on the Philippines was delivered 48 by the Hon. John Barrett in the Shanghai 47 Municipal Hall on the 13th January, under the 48 auspices of the Shanghai General Chamber of 48 Commerce. It attracted a very large audience, who listened with much interest to his very interesting address. Mr. E. F. Alford presided, and at the close proposed a hearty vote of thanks to the lecturer, which was seconded by Mr. Dudgeon, and carried unanimously.
The China Association and British Policy in China
Arrival of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers
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The Loss of the steamer Glenavon ............................................................ The Pantomime
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H.M.S. Immortalite's Commission
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H.M.S. Grafton and St Enoch in Heavy Weather Correspondence
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The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
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Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Hongkong Ride Association .................. .............
Wanchai Warehouse and Storage Co., Limited
The Emperor Kwang-su
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We understand that the Captain of the Chinese gunboat that was sent after Kang 53 Yu-wei at the time of the latter's flight from Peking has been arrested and thrown into gaol at Peking for his failure to catch the fugitive, or, in other words, for not taking him off s British man of-war. We are also informed that two Weiyuans who lived in the same house as Kang have been arrested. The work of 56 hunting out the reformers is evidently still
going on.
The China Provident Loan and Mortgage Co., Limited 54 Lord Charles Beresford at Shanghai.......................
Fire at Shanghai
Riot Near Ningpo
Raub Gold
Hongkong and Port News
Shipping.
BIRTHS.
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At the China 'erchants' Lower Wharf, on the morning of the 9th January, the wife of A. A. DA Roza, of a son,
On the 16th January, at 2, Canton Villas, Kow. loon, the wife J. W. L. OVER, of a son
MARRIAGES.
On the 18th January, 1899 at the British Con- sulate, Shanghai, and afterwards at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, T., J. HOVELL, to M. E. EDWARDS, the eldest daughter of 8. EDWARDS, of Llangollen, North Wales.
On the 14th January, 1899, Shanghai, at the St. Joseph's Church, by the Rev. Father Colombel, 8. J, ALFRED MAKI, to ANNIE CARROLL, only daughter of the late Jimm Carroll, both of Japan.
At the Boman Catholic Cathedral, Hongkong, on the 14th January, by the Very Rev Father B. Vigano, J. WILLIAMS N, master of the steamer Chow Fa, to ELIZABETH, eldest daughter of Capt. John (E RY, Singapore.
DEATHS.
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At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 9th January, 1899, HENRY SYLVA, aged 7 years
On the 12th January, 199, at No. 1A, Ming hong Road, Shanghai, of pneumonia, ARTHUR MARIA, the dearly beloved son of Serafim Benjamin
ad Rosalia Prisca Dos REMEDIOS, aged 20 years and 8 months.
At the Astor House, Shanghai, of pneumonia, on Sunday, 15th January, IRWIN THOMAS BARRET, son of the late Thos. L. Barret, of Louisville Kentucky,
U.S;AM
At the Peak Hospital, on the 16th January, ALFRED MACANDREW, second fficer, Chinese Im periil Maritime Customs R. S. Feihoo, aged 24
years.
MACARRIVALS OF MAILS.
There have been no arrivals of mail during the week.
OLEPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Batavia Nieuwsblad is glad to see that its recently published sketch of the importance of Pulo Way as a maritime station to compete ledgement ou the part of the Government. with Penang and Singapore finds an acknow- There is a proposal under consideration by the Government to review the tariff for docking at Sabang Bay, on Pulo Way, in such sense as to bring the charges there at least down to those ruling in Penang and Singapore and if possible
to cut under them.
Various rumours are in existence as to the question of the ownership of the submarine cable between Tamsui and Foochow, actual fact of the case. however, appear, a The Japanese paper states, to be as follows. The Chinese Government for the purchase of the Japanese Government had negotiated with the cable line for 100,000 yen, and afterwards obtained the consent of the Dist and included the estimate in the Budget at the end of December last. France objected to the transfer of the ownership of the cable, but the objection ment. Some years ago when the cable line has been disregarded by the Japanese Govern-
Great Northern Telegraph Company, & con- was opened to Wladivostock via Korea, by the tract was entered into between Russia. Japan, and Korea, binding Japan not to establish any cable line in connection with the Asiatic Continent, and, as the Japanese Government explained to the Diet, this contract is binding for three or four years, even with regard to the line between Formosa and Foochow. There fore, it has been arranged that the control of the line should be placed, for the present, in the hands of the Great Northern Telegraph Com- pany, on condition that the Japanese Govern ment pays the sum of 300 yen a month to the company for the control of the cable. The price of the cable in question was actually paid to the Chinese Government at Peking on the 6th inst, when the ownership of
A Masonic Ball was given at Shangbai on the the line was at last assumed by Japan. 18th January,
Nagusaki Press.
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No. 3.
Senhor Galbardo, Gove. nor of Macao, has at last obtained the sauction of the Lisbon Gov- ernment to the purchase of a dredger for work in Macao harbour.
The Shanghai mandarins received on the 14th January an important telegram from bang_reporting the capture by rebels- Shinan prefecture, Hupeh province, on the Koluo Hui-of the district city of Changlo in 12th instant, and the reported murder of the district magistrate, besides other officials. Changlo is about a hundred miles to the south- west of Ichang, as the crow ties, and borders night ago troops sent by Viceroy. Chang visited on the Hupeh-Hunan frontier. About a fort-
and having restored order were sent back to the place and drove the malcontents into Hunan Ichang.-N. C. Daily News.
The following appears in the published minutes of the Shanghai Municipal Council:- Plagne Bacillus.-The attention of the Council has been drawn to the experiments now being carried on in the Municipal laboratory with this bacillus, which include the inoculation of animals and to which it is stated is attached some considerable risk. Reference has been made to the Health Officer and to the Chair- man of the Sanitary Board, both of whom are of opinion that the risk is small and should for combatting an outbreak of the disease in be taken in case of the necessity arising Shangoui. It is, however, decided that the experiments be forbidden and all the bacilli destroyed.
We translate the following from the Courrier d' Haiphong :—It is stated that a concession for the working of the iron mines discovered in Cambodia has been applied for by manufacturers resident in Japan. f what nationality are the applicants? We have strong reason to suppose. that they are English. Their intention is to convey the mineral to Japan and there ex- tract the iron that it contains. We hope their application will be decisively refused. If these iron fields exist, as is stated, the benefit of their working should be reserved for construction of railways in Ludo-China will Frenchmen and not given to foreigners. The assure an important and certain opening for this new industry. If we are correctly informed, M. Magnin, the great manufacturer and conseiller général for d'Aisne, who gaye a banquet to M. Doumer, has embarked at whom he is a personal friend. He comes to Marseilles with the Governor-General, of Tonkin to study the means of establishing the metal industry here. No doubt M. Doumer will have made him acquainted with the situation we have described aud will have requested him vestigations in that direction. Before giving
nake his first in concessions of this kind to foreigners the Gov- ernment ought to promote a national industry for the exploitation of the agricultural and mineral riches of Indo-Chins. In default of M. Magnin other Frenchmen will be f
be found to study the project and take it up if the prospects make it worth their while." We do not think our contemporary need distress itse about the prospect of English capital being invested in mining ventures in Indo-China: Ventures already made in that direction have not been encouraging! The mines may be rich enough, but the official obstruction encountered could hardly be surpassed even in China.
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