THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLIX.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, do..
Leading Articles:-
The United States and the Philippines
Disorder in Shangtung
The Kowloon Extension
Lantao
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 15TH APRIL,.1899.
ARRIVALS. OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 9th March arrived, per O. & O. steamer Gaelis, on the 8th April (30 days), the French mail of the 10th March arrived, per
M. M. steamer Salazie, on the 11th 298April (32 days); and the English mail of the ..299 17th March arrived, per P. & O. steamer
800 Coromandel, on the 13th April (27 days).
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK
Monday next, the 17th instant, has been 210 appointed the date for hoisting the British flag on the new territory recently added to the colony of Hongkong. The ceremony will take place at Taipo.
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The Shanghai Wharfage Dues
TheKowloon Extension
Outrage on a British Officer at Macao
The War in the Philippines
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Proclamation to the People of the Philippine Islands308
Hongkong Sanitary Board
TheMedical Officer of Health's Report
Medical Inspection in Japan.....
The Disaster on the Pratas Shoals
Entertainment on Board H.M.S.
Victorious
Water Return
A French Growl at English Holels and English
Colonies ..
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The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
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Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co.,
Limited
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Straits Insurance Co, Limited
The Yokohama Specie Bank, Limited..
The New Amoy, Dook Company, Limited
Correspondence
Great Britain and Siam .....................................
The Kiaochow Railway
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The Anti-Foreign Outrages in Shantung..
Germany and China
Fire Insurance on Native Risks at Shanghai.
Inland Waters Navigation....
Storm on the Yangtze
Formosa
Another Demand for Territory.
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The Friction Between Germany and America in the
Philippines
Hongkong and Port News Commercial........................... Shipping
BIRTHS.
The first stone of the cotton factory at Hai- phong was laid on the 2nd April. Most of the leading officials were present, the Governor- General being represented by deputy, and the affair was treated as a fuuction of importance
Mr. M. Boyd Bredon, Commissioner of Cus- 314 toms, who has just returned to Hongkong from 314 leave, is appointed to Kiungehow, Hainan. 314 Mr. James H. Hart, Commissioner of Customs, 314 who has also been at home on leave. is expected
at Shanghai next week.-N. C. Daily News.
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A proclamation to the people of the Philip pine Islands has been issued by the American 316 Civil Commissioners in which promises of good government and respect for civil rights are held
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On the 12th April, at "Dunford," Peak, the wife of H.-W. BELL, of a Fon.
On the 12th April, 1899, at the Bungalow West,
the Peak, the wife of PAUL BREWITT, of a ton.
MARRIAGES.
On the 3rd April, 1899, at the Cathedral, Sling- hai, by the Rev. H. Newcomb, JAMES ARTHUR PRATT, to LUCY MARGARET MOINNES, eldest daughter of H. A. McINNES, I. M. Customs.
At the Roman Catholic Church, Kobe, on the 4th April, HENEY ALFRED SENNETT, to MARIA Map- DVLENA GUATINI.
out, but the unconditional surrender of the insurgents is insisted upon in the first place.
Consul-General Wildman is in receipt of a telegrain from HE, Major-General Otis as follows: "Vessels under a foreign flag can clear at the Consulate for Iloilo and Cebu only, not for other island ports. You may clear vessels under the American flag for any Philippine port open for trade. Trade with Negros Island and
northern Leyte ports now very active.
Mr. Fearon, Chairman of the Shanghai Muni- sipal Council, has been on a visit to Peking. A result of the visit, the N. C. Daily News understands, is that the Diplomatic Body have decided to confirm and enforce the new Land Regulations without waiting indefinitely for the Tsungli Yamen's approval; and that the extension of the Settlements is really in a fair way of being arranged satisfactorily.
A Peking telegram received by local man-
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It has at last been decided where HM8, Victorious will be docked. Not finding the six inches to spare" sufficient to risk dooking the battleship at Hongkong, she will leave the harbour to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock for Japan, instead of starting to-day on a four day's prize-sho ting trip. On arriving at Yokohama preparations will be immediately started to run the warship into Yokosuka dook; but before being able to get in she will have to be lightened to a 25-feet draught.
Mr. C. J. Dudgeon, of Shanghai, who is leav ing for a holiday at home, received a cordial send off at the Shanghai Club on the 5th April. Mr. Byron Brenan, Consul, General, acted as spokesman on the occasion and in concluding his speech said it had been their intention to offer Mr. Dudgeon a piece of plate as a mark friends-there are 200 on the list—but, unfor- of the esteem in which he was held by his many tunately, it was not yet ready, so all they could do that day was to assure him of their good ment of them would follow him later on. wishes, and say that a concrete silver embodi
H.M.S. Grafton arrived at Woosung on Monday evening, 3rd April, at six o'clook, with Sir Claude MacDonald on board, having left Weihaiwei on the fat. Sir Clande was conveyed Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s launches and left to Shanghai the same evening in one of MessTE. shortly after (midnight with Lady MacDonald in the China Merchants' steamer Kianggüļfor Haukow, escorted by H.M.S, Linet. The N. C. Daily News of the 10th April says :--- H.M.S. Grafton liss gone up to Nanking to meet Sir Claude Macdonald, who leaves Han- kow to-morrow. The British Consul-General, Mr. Byron Brenan, is also going to Nanking this week to meet the British Minister there.
Cathedral, Shanghai, on the 4th April, when A pretty wedding was solemnized at "'rinity Major Hamilton Bower, commander of the new Chinese Regiment at Weihaiwei, was naited in matrimony to Miss Ainsley. The bride was at- tanded by three charmingly dressed little brides- maids, the Misses Inglis and Milles, and was herself most charmingly dresse 1. The bride- groom, who was attired in the handsome uniform of the Bengal Lancers, was attended by Lieut. Newman, of the Bonaventure, the officers and men of which were present in great force. The ceremony was performed by Rev. H. C. Hodges. After the honeymoon. which will be spent
On the 5th April, 1899 at St. Joseph's Church, Shanghai, by the Rev. F. C. Frin, S.J., ROBT. J LEA WEIGHT, E. E. Telegraph Co., son of Jas Wright, Singleton, N.S.W., Australia, to EDITH,
nd daughter of the late Alexander and Ellen | darins at Shanghai states that H. E. Li Hung- Shanghai, the happy couple will proceed CAMERON, of Warayure Station, Western Di trict, chang arrived at the capital from the Yellow Weihaiwei.—China Gazette. Victoria, and Moreland House, Coburg, Victoria, Australia.
At St. Joseph's Church, Hongkong, at 3 p m., on
Tuesday, the 11th April, JAMES RALPH CAPELL, second son of George Capell, Watford, Hertford shire, to HELEN (RANNIE) HAHN, second daughter of Albert Hahn, Hongkong.
DEATHS.
On the 2nd April, at Miyanoshita, ALEXANDER O. KLEINWORT, a native of Stettin, Germany, in his 50th year.
At Shanghai, on the 4th April, 1899, GUSTAV KB-MSIR, aged 58 years.
On the 6th April, suddenly, at 3, Scott Road, Shanghai, JOHN JUSTER, frmerly an old resident in Hongkong, aged 67 years, deeply regretted. (By telegram.)
On the 11th April, at the Government Civil Ios- pital, H. SEBASTIAN HART, of Shanghai:
At Nanking, on the 21st March, 1899, HANNAH BOSHER, of the Society of Friends, and for over six years a nurse at the London Hospital.
River on the 1st instant and had a special au- dience of the Empress Dowager on the 2nd. The Empress Dowager treated H.E. with great consideration, giving him a stool to sit on, beneath the Throne, after he had performed the nsual obeisances.-N. C. Daily News.
At Macao, on the 10th inst., Colonel Brown, D.S.O., the military attaché of the British Legation at Peking, while on a visit to Macao, became involved in some difficulty with the Portuguese authorities owing to his failure to take off his hat while a religious procession was passing. Contradictory accounts of the affair have been given, one statement being that Colonel Brown was placed under arrest, while on the other hand it is denied that there was any arrest. It is admitted, however, that his hat was knocked off, and that he went in company with a Portuguese officer to the British Consulate.
What's in a namel
name? An Indian comtempor ary remarks very appositely—It is unfortunate that the bubonic plague has come to be called the plague par excellence. Plague”** hast its suggestions of deadliness and spreading infeo. tion, and a disease that comes to be called by that name comes to be more dreaded than diseases which, though they may commit more havoc, are called by lees spalling names. Cholera. small-por, malarions fever, the dengue fever,
yellow fever, typhoid fever, diphtheria, diabetes, dysentery, may be and often are more largely fatal than the bubonic plague, but are they as much dreaded? The experience of London, commemorated by Defoe, and the name by which the disease is called, have combined to make it terrible. Let it be called bubonia some other such name, and it will with the diseases which, however, too common and numerous to exalte