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China Overland
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 18г PRIU, 1899.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &o.........................................
Leading Articles:-
The British and Russian Spheres of Influence
258
Partition or Reform
258
Railways in Yunnan
268
Dr. Döberek and the Manila Storm Warnings ...259
Cremation....
.260
Supreme Court
The War in the Philippines
:60 .261
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
.261
The Scotch Concert......
.263
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
.263
Mr. Granville Sharp on Cremation
Special Meeting of the Sanitary Roard
64
Reviews
The Charges against an Artilleryman
...265
Football
.265
Hongkong Rifle Association
..286
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
..266
Mount Macdonald Mines
267
Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co.,
Limited
.267
Shanghai and Hongkew Wharf Company
268
Correspondence
270
French Activity in Yunnan
Progress at Kiaochau
Another Mahomedan Rebellion
Hongkong and Port News
70 .270 ....270 .270 ..270
Shipping
Collision at Woosting
Commercial.
264
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...272
28th March (32 days); and the American mail! of the 1st March arrived, per P. M. steamer City of Peking, on the 36th March (29 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK
Shanghai now has its own Pasteur Institute. The Echo Macaense states that no cases of plague bave occurred at Macao.
The capital of the Russo-Chinese Bank has been raised to 7,500,000 gold roubles, equal to £1,200,000 sterling,
Steps are being taken at Shanghai for the formation of a German Association on the lines of the China Association.
Sir Claude Macdonald left Taku on the 23rd March in H.M. flagship Bonfleur for Weihaiwei, where he was to stay two or three days before going on to Shanghai.
Der Ostasiatische Lloyd denies that the Bel- gian syndicate has been unable to carry out its engagements with regard to the proposed Pe. king-Hankow railway.
Arrangements for the taking over of the new Kowloon territory are now in progress and dur- ing the past week officials have been going over the ground selecting sites for the police stations At Nagasaki, on the 29th March, the wife of E. and other Government offices to be established A. MEASOR, of a son.
BIRTH.
MARRIAGES.
At Yokohama, on the 3th March, 199, by the Rev. E. Champneys Irwine, M. A., in the presence of J. F. Gowie, Esq., Consul-General of the United States, JOHN RISLEY PUTNAM, of the I. M. Customs Service, China, second son of Mr. Justice PUTNAM of the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, N.Y, U.S.A., to CHARLOTTE BROWNELLE IVES, youngest daughter of Major Chauncey Ives, of Chambersburg. Penn., U S.A.
On the 18th March, 1899, at Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., ALFRED WRIGHT, of the Imperial Chinese Railways, Tien- tsin, to FLORA ANNE MACDONALD, of Adelaide, South Australia.
DEATHS.
At Tientsin, 12th March, 1899, R. B. MOSTYN, aged 58 years.
At Foochow, on the 18th March, JAMES FEATHER- Stonhaugh WILKINSON, aged 39 years.
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there.
We (Rangoon Gazette) hear from Bhamo that Captain Davies and Captain Ryder, who are travelling in Yunnan in connection with the Yunnan railway survey, were stoned by a mob in Momein. The Prefect came to their rescue, took them into his own yumen, and punished the rioters.
The Peking and Tientsin Times says that Messrs. William Forbes & Co. have secured the contract for 6,762 tous of rails and fasten- ings to be delivered at Tang-ku this Autumu, and a similar contract has been placed with Messrs. Jardine Mathesou for delivery at Ying-
kow in the Autumn.
The friends of Mr. Dmitrevsky, lately Rus- sian Consul-General at Shanghai, will learn with great pleasure that his health is restored and that he is on his way back to the Far East in the Ernest Simons. He goes to Korea, in Fcharge o: the Russian Legation at Seoul during the absence on leave of Mr. Pavloff.-N. C. Daily News.
On the 19th March, at the r sidence of Mr. P. da Silva, Yokohama, F. A. Core, an old British resident in Japan.
On the 24th March, H. C. SPARROW, on board the German mail steamer Sachsen. By cable)
On the 22nt March, at Combay, MEHRBAI, the eldest daughter of SORABJEE ESTONJEE DADY BURJOR, aged 25 years. Deeply regretted. (By telegram.)
On the 24th March, at Bouray, BANOOBAI, the remaining surviving daughter of BORARJEE PESTON- JEE DADY BURJOR, aged 11 years. De ply regretted. (By telegram.)
On the 27th arch, at Lombay, SORABJEE PËS- TUNJEE DADY BURJOR. Deeply regretted. (By telegram.)
·ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 24th February ar- rived, per M. M. steaner Ernest Simons, on the
The American forces in Luzon are now mak. ing a forward movement, General Wheaton's brigade advancing towards Malolos. According to the latest advices the Filipinos were being steadily driven back, but they were offering a desperate resistance and inflicting substantial losses on the attacking force. The Filipinos' own losses are heavy,
No. 18.
The property of the Foochow Tea Improve- ment Co., Limited (in liquidation), is advertised for sale by auction. This is a melancholy ending to what seemed a promising venture, but it is to be hoped nevertheless that further efforts in the same direction may be made,
The following notification, signed by the Harbour Master, appears in the Gazette The attention of this Government has been directed to the fact of the illegal use of the British flag on certain vessels.. Only vessel. having certificates of Imperial registry under the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, or vessels having certificates of Colonial registry under Ordinance No. 26 of 1891, are entitled to be recognized as British ships and to fy the British flag.
Kang Yu-wei left Yokohama for America by the Idsumi-maru on the 22nd March. Before leaving he paid avisit to the British and United States Legations, and had an interview with the Ministers. It is reported in the Japanere vernacular press that owing to the fact that the assistance rendered by certain Japanese to Kang Yn-wei and other Chinese refugees had injured the feelings of the Chinese Government officials the authorities caused the Japanese concerned to persuade the refugees to leave the country. It is said that some yen 7,000 was collected as travelling expenses for Kang and others.
On Saturday a writ was served on W. F. Sylvester, of the firm of Louis Spitzel & Co., of Tientsin, by an officer of the United States Consulate-General, on board the Messageries Maritimes steamer Caledonien. The writ was in a suit filed with the United States Consular
Court at Canton on March 17th, 1899, E. B. Drew versus W. F. Sylvester. E. B. Drow seeks to recover the sum of 15,000 taels alleged- to be due under a bond to the petitioner from the defendant, which provided that the Ameri- can steamer Abbey should convey direct to the port of Singapore, and to no other place, 500 Mauser rifles and 500,000 Mauser cartridges. On the strength of this bond a Customs permit was granted. The sbipment, however, was not landed as agreed in Singapore, but proceeded to the island of Luzon. The steamer Abbey was seized on or about the 25th September last, and is at present in the hands of the United States Naval Authorities.
Professor Jordan, in an address given at Stanford University on "The question of the
· But civil service reform Philippines," said: is the special abhorrence of most leaders in the movement for annexation; the petty offices the Philippines promise are the basis of half their influence. Is there any guarantee of better things when civil rule in the islands shall suc- ceed martial law and the natives are turned over to amateur experimenters in colonial adminis tration? The appointment of civil offosals in the Philippines means a carnival of the spoils. men. The United States must prepare itself - for scandal and corruption in greater measure than it has ever yet known. Already such A Peking telegram published in the Japan scaudals are ripening in Manila if we may trust papers states that the British marines were the guarded language of our volunteer soldiers. withdrawn from that city on the 23rd March, The "embalmed beef” and the rotten commis- and that the Russian marines will also be with- | saries are only the first instalment. What shall drawn in a few days. The Japanese troops will follow will be more flagrant. There is one leave the city by the middle of April_next. Adepth lower to which we may fall +Infinitely Japanese paper states that the foreign forces worse than politics in the army is the French have been withdrawn from Peking at the request system of the army in polition. That is the
next stage of imperial decadance. of the Chinese Government.
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