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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIX.]
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China Overland
Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles:--
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 4TH FEBRUARY, 1899.
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Mr. Keswick, M.P., and Eastern Interests
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The Shanghai Branch of the China Association
on Great Britain's Duty in China
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Piracy on the West River,
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The French Demands at Shanghai
A Legislative Absurdity
The Shanghai Fire Brigade
Hongkong Legislative Council....................... Supreme Court
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The German Emperor's Birthday
Suicide at Yokohama
The Shanghai Defalcation Case...
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A French post office has been opened at Kwangohowwan.
A Faking telegram of the 21st January published in the Japan papers says that the work on the construction of the railway from. Kiaochad to Tainaufa is to be commenced next month.
Mr. J. A. van Aalst, Acting Postal Secretary in the Inspectorate-General of Customs, Peking, has received the substantive appointment. Au Assistant Postal Secretary is to be appointed. 92-N. O. Daily News.
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The Hon. John Barrett on the Effects of the Late War 92 St. John's Cathedral Church
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Pantomime
Accident at the' Theatre Royal
The Study of Malaria and Mosquitoes
Kowloon Land and Building Co, Limited
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Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steam-boat Co., Limited 99 The Hongkong Ice So., Limited
Notes on the Guns at Kimpai Forts....
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Boyal Hongkong Yacht Club
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The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
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Correspondence
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The Shanghai Branch of the China Association on
The Situation
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The Philippines Commission
The Situation in the Philippines
Manila and Hongkong
Arrest of Railway Director General Hu
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The Rebellion in Anhui
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The Rebellion in Hupeh
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A Missionary's House Destroyed by Fire
Shanghai Municipal Council
Another Serious Fire at Shanghai
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A Rọngh Voyagé....... .....
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Encouragement Law
The Trade of Kobe and Yokohama
The Rebellion in Szechuan
Proposed Amendment of the Japanese Navigation
Weihai roi...
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Hongkong and Port News Commercial...............................................................................105
Shipping
Sir Claude MacDonald is likely to go home in March ou leave. Overwork has been res- ponsible for a not altogether satisfactory state of health. It is quite probable that his leave of six months will be extended.—Mercury.
A Chungking telegram of the 27th January to the N. C. Daily News states that the Taotai there has been replaced, during the absence of the English and French Consuls, by the 'T'aotai who was disgraced there daring the riots of
1886.
No. 5.
In order to be able to carry out more effes- tively the scheme of raising a Volunteer Corps in Canton the Acting Provincial Judge Ng and the Expectant Taolai Cheong have received instructions to jointly issue a proclamation ordering a census to be taken of all the inhabitants of Canton, including the priests and nuns, with particulars of their incomes and expenditure, and all houses and shops are to be numbered.
We hear that the new Yangtze Regulations are about to be issued by the I. M. Customs, The chief point in the Regulations lately drawn np is that merchants need not pay import duties at Shanghai on cargo intended for River Ports as bitherto, but only when the cargo arrives at its destination; similarly export duties on cargo, sent down from River Ports for shipment abroad, will be payable at Shanghai and not at the port of origin as hitherto. We also believe that un- call for passenger steamers are to be opened on der the Regulations a couple of new ports of the Yangtsze.-China Ġazette.
A gentleman who recently passed through It is proposed to establish an Army Sanitar- the districts in Kwangsi Province which were inm at Nagasaki for the use of the United last year the scene of rebellion and its suppres. States troops at Manila. The Nagasaki Presssion states that the orops in the fields were all warmly supports the proposal and ealogises Nagasaki as the healthiest port in the Far East
and an ideal sanitarium.
The Ostasiatische Lloyd learns that the Brus- sels Société Generale, the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, and several other Banks in Antwerp and Liège, have decided to found a Belgian-Chinese Bank, with a capital of 30 million francs (£1,200,000).
standing and will not be harvested, as the people
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were either all killed or feared to return and gather the harvest. Whole villages and towns were tenantless and in other towns whole streeta were unoccupied, the late inhabitants having been exterminated. It appears that rebels and troops alike waged a war of extermination, neither man, woman, or child being spared. The district is watered by a river discharging into the West River at a point about thirty miles above Wachor and is in extent some fifty or sixty miles long by forty or fifty miles wide. Another gentleman, who saw numbers of muti- lated corpses floating down the river during the period of the rebellion and its suppression, states that most of the corpses were headless and that they were made up equally of m and female and young and old persons; he men. A Kobe telegram to the N. C. Daily News tioned the fact that he was most impressed and reads:-
-The Nippon Yusen Kaisha's steamer disgusted by the sight of the headless body of Yamaguchi Maru, from Seattle, took fire on a woman with the headless body of her infant Thursday (26th January). She made Ogino-secured to her back. hama (in Rikuzen, on the east coast of the
Lord Charles Beresford embarked on the America-maru at Yokohama on the 26th January for San Francisco. The British --¶¶.....................................108 | Consul, the Governor of Kanagawa, the mem- bers of the Chamber of Commerce, and a large number of British residents bade him farewell
BIRTH.
On the 29th January, at Amoy, the wife of T. G. GOWLAND, of a son.
MARRIAGES. !
At Shanghai, on the 24th January, 1899, by Rev. J. A. Sadka and afterwards at H.B.M.'s Consulate, E. M. EZB to Rosa, sixth daughter of M. HAI- MOVṬICE.
kong, by the Rev. Father S. de Maria, CHARLES TH MAS ROBINSON, of Walhan Green, London, to BRIDGET BURKE, of Blackheath..
at the hatoba.
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We have to acknowledge receipt of the first
On the 28th January, at Joseph's Church, Hour main island, on the Bay of Sendai) this morning. number of the Journal of the American Associa....
Passengers and crew safe. Fire still burning. tion of China, printed at the Shanghai Mercury We hear that the Hon. J. H. Stewart Lock-Office. The American Association of China was hart, who is a passenger by the next outward English mail steamer, is to be seconded for six months from his office of Colonial Secretary for the purpose of organising the administra tion of the new Kowloon territory. For the present, it is understood, the finances of the new territory are to be kept distinct from those of the colony generally,
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
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The French mail of the 30th December arrived, per -M. M.. steamer Sydney, on the 30th January (31 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
We (Echo) understand that the Provincial Authorities have withdrawn their opposition to the locality demanded by the Japanese Govern ment for a settlement at Foochow, on the con- dition that Chinese at present in occupation should not be required to move immediately. Negotiations will be concluded as soon as the Japanese Consul agrees to the above stipulation.
The Ostasiatische Lloyd says that the Ger- man Government has selected in the new.con cession at Tientsin a lot measuring 1.12 hectares with the intention of building a Consulate on it. The building in the English Concession serving at present for this purpose is to be sold, and the proceeds will be used towards defraying the cost of the new building. The sale by public anotion of the lots in the German Concession-the whole of which belongs to a Syndicate, at the head of which stands the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank—is to take place in a very short time.
constituted at a meeting held at Shanghui on the 16th December last, its primary objects being the furtherance of American trade and other interests in China and the defence of American rights. The provisional Committee authorised the printing of the Journal with such extracta from the minutes of the Committee's meetings and copies of correspondence as might be likely to prove interesting to the members of the Association, and the hope is expressed that the permanent Executive Committee to be elected will see fit to continue its publication tervals, The present number contains minutes of the meeting at which the tion was constituted, the minutes of a meeting of the provisional Committee, and correspond once that has passed with the American Aslatio Association (New York), Lord Charles Beres- ford, and the United States Minister, The Association has not been idle ince atitution and it is evident that it has beters it a wide field of usefulness.
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