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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIX.]
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China Overland
Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Wook, &c.
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Leading Articles:-
The Kowloon Mistakes and their Consequence
The Weakening of the Police Forco and Knock-
down Robberies on Ladies
Russian Railway Connection with 'Peking
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Taxation in China and Elsewhere
The Chinese Regiment at Weihaiwei Franco-German Relation
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Fleas and the Conveyance of Plague Infection ...412 Increased Taxation ..........
Servants Registration
Affairs in the New Territory
Affairs in the Philippines
Supreme Court
Another Highway Outrage
The Weichow Rebellion
The Benlawers Ashore
Increased Taxation.................
Fire in Hollywood Road...
Hongkong Rifle Association ................
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 20TH MAY, 1899. ·
EPITOME OF THE WEEK
Mr. Covel, a leading cotton manufacturer of Boston, bas arrived in Shanghai on a tour of in- vestigation of the cotton industry in China. Mercury.
It is notified at Kiaochan that from the 28th June the Mexican dollar is to be the standard coin. One, two, and five pfennigs pieces are being struck for the subsiding currency.
Freedom (Manila) says:-"The local banks are now accepting U.S. currency, which will now be accepted by merchants the same as gold." Does this foreshadow the adoption of the gold standard for the Philippines?
No. 20,
A Seoul telegram of the 6th May, translated by the Kobe Chronicle, states that another hitch has occurred in the negotiation of the Chind- Korean Treaty, the Chinese desiring to pay Customs duties in the depreciated Korean cur reucy, instead of in Japanese coin, thus obtain- ing an advantage of from 20 to 25 per cent. The Korean Foreign Department refuses agree to this arrangement, and negotiations are therefore at a standstill.
Freedom (Manila) says :— Recently while Ber- geants Wilson and Hill with a detail were clearing out some secluded nooks of the Anda street police station they found a hole in the wall which had been closed with stones and masonry. Within were found eight skeletons; these bones were apparently Filipino remains, From the Ostasiatische Lloyd we learn that judging from the shape of the heads, and 419 Dr Knappe has received a telegram notifying undoubtedly the unfortunates were walled in ..419 him that he bus received the substantive ap-alive and left to die by starvation. .418 pointment of Consul-General for Germany at 419 Shangbai, in which he has for some time past 419 420
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The Volunteer Corps......
The Observatory Report......
The Harbour Master's Report
Correspondence
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Shanghai: its Industries and its Approaches
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The Shipbuilding Industry at Shanghai..
German Steamers on the Yangleze
The Extension of the Shanghai Settlement......
The Germans in Shantung
The Extension of Macao..
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The Movements of the Italian Squadron......
The North-German Lloyd's Fortnightly Service
An Anti Foreign name for the Empress Dowager's
Body-Guard..
Trade Dispute at Newchwang
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Liqued fuel at Shanghai....
Return of the Peking Syndicate Surveying Party
Sexrational Case at the Shanghai Mixed Court
A Russian Mining Venture at Weihaiwei
The Mineral Wealth Japan
Can the Chinese Progress
Hongkong and Port News Commercial..
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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been acting.
Only ten tea steamers are going to Hankow this year. One of them is the Glaucus, another the Oanfa, while the remaining eight are Rus- sian Volunteer steamers. The Glaucus will take Russian teas which will be transhipped at London to their destination.--Union.
The Peking correspondent of the N. C. Daily News writes:-The current of summer migra- tion sets strongly toward Peitaiho, and beside the residents at the British Legation, only a. small number of Pekingites will visit the West Hills this year. Having derived so much bene. fit from the breezes of Peitaiho last summer, it 428 is probable that the I. G. will find his way 428 there again this year.
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At Hanoi, Tonkin, on the 7th May, the wife of EUGENE JUNG, Vice-Resident de France, of a son, Henri Lucien. (English papers please copy).
On the 9th May, 1899, at the Spanish Consulate Kulangan, Amoy, the wife of 8. T. STEPANOV, of the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs, of a Daughter.
At 5, Lyemoon Villas, Kowloon, on the 17th May, the wife of the Rev. J. H. FRANCE, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
On the 11th May, at the Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H C. Hodges, M.A., HAROLD WILLIAM, youngest son of O. G. PALDY, of Romford, Essex, to to ALICE, eldest dangliter of Williani M. KERFOOT,
of Dukinfield, Cheshire.
On the 15th Way, at the Peak Church, Hongkong, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, M., FREDERIC OSMUND STEDMAN, M.D., London, to LILLIAN MABEL LE MESURIER, daughter of ('olonel T. A. LE MESURIER, A.S.C.
DEATH.
At No. 9, Hongkong Road Shanghai (the resid- ence of her son-in-law, J. 8. Nazer), on the 8th May, 1899, JANE ANN, the relict of the late ANTHONY FIED SAMPSON, of Hongkong, in her 70th year.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 21st A April arrived. per M. M. steamer Tonkin, on the 19th May (23 days).
The Chinese papers report that on the 8th May the dismissed Imperial Tutor Weng Tung-ho received an important telegram from the Tsungli Yamen. What its contents were is a matter of much speculation amongst the Chinese. Weng Tung-ho has been living very quietly in Shanghai for some time past and has developed a decided penchant for various foreign things and the superior comforts of Western civilization which he formesly detested.-China Gazette.
Referring to the Yokohama race meeting, which was to begin on the 8th May, the Japan Herald says it should be at least memorable for one thing, viz., that this will be the last occa. sion, if Japanese laws against lotteries are to be enforced, that a Pari Mutuel on the course, or race lotteries elsewhere, will be possible Those, therefore, who are addicted to these diver: sions, adds our contemporary, will do well to make the most of what may probably be a last | opportunity..
From Tonkin papers we learn that the So- ciété des Houillères de Tourane has been re- constructed under the name of Société des Magasins Généreaux et des Houillères de Tourane with a capital of 3,500,000 francs. The major portion of the capital has been sub scribed by the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas, the Société Générale, the Comptoir d'Escompte, and the Banque de l'Indo-Chine. The balance has been supplied by M. Pila and a Lyons Syndicate, The direction will be in France and all the above named banks will be repre- sented on the Board.
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at Woosung on the 8th May from Kiaochou,
The German cruiser Kaiser, which arrived
was to return thither on the 12th with the newly- appointed Rear-Admiral Fritze in command. Admiral Fritze, with his aide-de-camp, Lient- Capt. you Proths, came out as passenger in the N.D.L. steamer Preussen and is comparatively a stranger in Chinese waters. In 1889 he was Captain of the Adler when she was cast on the rocks at Apia during that memorable typhoon; afterwards he was appointed as Commander, of the Samoa squadron, and latterly he held a post in the Admiralty at Berlin.-N. C. Daily News.
We regret to learn that telegraphic news has been received of the death on 12th May of the London Manager of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, Mr. Thomas Forrest. Mr. Forrest had been in indifferent health for the last eighteen months. By his untimely end-he was only fifty-four years of
Bank age-the
loses a man of every considerable ability and one who commanded the unanimous respect and esteem of the staff and all he came in contact with. Close on twenty years ago Mr. Forrest was Manager of the Hongkong branch and was widely known throughout the Far East and India.
The past week has seen a further extension of British sovereignty on the Mainland. Early in the week it became evident that some im. portant movement was on foot, and eventually an expedition in force was despatched, but the greatest reticence was observed by the authori ties, and it was not until the object had been successfully accomplished that information was forthcoming. Her Majesty's Government, to mark the r sense of the duplicity of the Chinese authorities in connection with the taking over of the New Territory, sent out instructions that Kowloon walled city and Shamchun were to be occupied. For humanitarian purposes it was desired that bloodshed should be avoided if possible, and it was accordingly directed that the preparations should be conducted with the greatest secrecy and that a force sufficiently overwhelming to show the futility of opposition should be employed. These instructions. carried out and on Tuesday Kowloon walled city was occupied by a small force of the Royal Welch Fusiliers and the Hongkong Volunteer corps, while the main body of the troops, un- der the direct command of Major-General Gascoigne, occupied Shamchun. No opposition was encountered in either cas