THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIX.J
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China Overland Trade Report.
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CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c. .....
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Leading Articles:
The Suppression of Highway Robberies
The New Boundary Line
Peace Negotiations in the Philippines....
Affairs in the Philippines
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Admiral Dewey in Hongkong
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The Queen's Birthday Celebration.
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
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The Mutual Store Embezzlement Case..........
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Fraudulent Emigration to the United States
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Increased Cost of Living
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The Late Captain Clegg
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The Plague
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Charge of Obtaining Goods by False Pretences
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The "Star" Ferry Co., Limited
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The Kweishan Rebellion
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M. Doumer's Visit to the Frontier
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The Punjom Mining Co, Limited
Raub Results
Correspondence
Reviews
The Mangosteen...
The Accident to the Benlawers
Japanese Commerce with China and Trademarks
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 27TH MAY, 1899.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK
General Viscount Kawakami, chief of the General Staff of the Japanese army, died at Tokyo on the 11th inst.
Admiral Dewey arrived at Hongkong on the 23rd May in his flagship, the Olympia, home- ward bound via the Suez Canal,
Mr. W. P. Ker, Acting British Vice-Consul at Shanghai, bas been appointed Assistant Chi- nese Secretary at the Legation at Peking.
Mr. Ralph Paget, Second Secretary of H.B. M. Legation in Tokyo, left that capital on the 15th May, after six years' residence, for his new post at Cairo.
The Anglo-German loan of 50 million taele for the construction of the railway from Tien- tsin to Chinkiang is said to have been signed on the 10th May.
Capt. Sewall, the master of the American .441 barque B. Sewall, who was charged at Penang with the murder of & coloured man on board his vessel, has been acquitted.
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A Perilous Voyage......
Affairs in Shantung
Reported Renewal of Disturbances in Szechuen........
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Another Railway Rumpus
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The Emperor at Yokohama ....
The Opening of Samsah...
The Sensational Care af Shanghai
Ichang........
Japanese Labourers for Queensland.
Captain Wingate's Journey
Wreck of the Selkirk...
The Russian Demand on China
The Now Treaty Port of Funing
Compulsory Murder.....
Admiral Deway and Admiral Diederichs The Manila Customs
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Owing to the long continued drought there is great scarcity of water at Macao. To provide for the public requirements, the Government has stationed water boats at the Praya Grande (443 | and in the Inner Harbour.
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The Echo Macaense gives publicity to a report .442 that Governor alhardo has determined, for .442 sanitary reasons, on a reconstruction of the S. ...42 Lazaro district, the existing houses to be demo
lished and the district laid ont afresh.
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Chinese Arrested in Yokohama
The Foreign Conlony in the Hokkaido Hongkong and Port News
Commercial.
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Shipping
BIRTH.
At Shameen, Canton, on the 18th May, 1899, the wife of A. LAY, I. M. Customs of a son.
DEATH
At Kobe, on the 10th May, the Rev. HENRY HALCOMBE RHEES, D.D., a native of New Jersey, USA, in his 71st year.
At Yokohama, on May 1'th, Joanna Francisca De Souza, of Macao, aged 59. years.
At Shanghai, at 3 a.m. on Sunday, 14th May,
1899, ELIZABETH ANN, the beloved wife of T. W. WRIGHT, I. M. Customs' Service.
On the 17th May, at his native place, Surat, (Bombay Presidency), NUSSERWANJEE D. OLIA, late of Amoy, aged 64 years.
On the 18th May, at Swatow, Capt. THOMAS HEAKETH CI EGG, late of the China Navigation Com- pany's steamier Kaifong, aged 52 years. Deeply regretted.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 20th April ar-
The new Commissioner of Customs at Kow. loon, iu succession to Mr. Hillier, is to be Mr. Paul H. King, lately stationed at Hangchow. Now that Kowloon has ceased to be Chinese a change in the name of the Customs office may be expected.
H.M. Flagship Centurion has challenged Shanghai to cricket, tennis, and other sports to come off at Weihaiwai in the first week of June, Colonel Bower's Chinese regiment is also anxions to play Shanghai at polo.-N. C. Daily News.
The American Government has offered to
the Filipinos a plan of Government, under which the Governor-General is to be appointed by the President of the United States and there is to be an Advisory Council elected by Filipinos. Negotiations are now proceeding.
The Peking and Tientsin Times says the Board of Revenue has been making the unwel- come discovery that China's national expendi- ture exceeds her revenue by about ten million taels, while the Board of Revenue's expenditure overtops the mark by a similar amount, so that a deficit of twenty millions has to be made up by a curtailment of sundry and various squeezes. rived, per P. M.steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, free of plague as yet. No doubt cases of the We understand that Canton city is considered on the 20th May (30 days); the American mail disease have occurred, but not in sufficient of the 28th April arrived, per O. & O. number to attract any marked attention. steamer Coptic, on the 26th May (28 days); There are, however, some cases at Honam, and a good many in the Fati district. The disease and the English mail of the 28th April is said to be prevalent also in the Tungkun arrived, por P. & O. steamer Nubia, on the 26th | district, which adjoins the Hongkong New May (28 days).
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The death is announced of Rear-Admiral S Nomura, a Commander of the Japanese Stand 4th May, at Tokyo. By his death, the Japanese ing Squadron. The sad end came on Thursday, Navy has lost one of its ablest admirals. He took an active part in the recent war with China. -Nagasaki Press.
The business of Messrs. Riley, Hargreaves & Co., Singapore, has just been turned into a limited liability company with a share capital of $875,000 and $225,000 in 6 per cent, deben. tures. The shares are divided into 2,750) seven per cent. cumulative preference shares of $100 each and 6,000 ordinary shares of $100 each. The ordinary shares were applied for five and a-half times over.
The New York World suggests that as the Filipinos are neither "insurgents" nor "rebels," not having recognised American rule, the best and most truthful term by which to designate them is "contumacious two-dollar chattels,” as the $20,000,000 to be paid to Spain, divided by 10,000,000 the number of Filipinos purchased, gives that small sum as quotient." There is nothing like simple arithmetic to settle any controverted point.
Mr. R. de Malherbe, formerly of Messrs. Bovet Bros. & Co., and for some years Secretary of the French Municipal Council at Shanghai, left for Canada. where he proposes to establish himself on a ranch, by the Laos on Friday morning, 12th May. He is a fine and fearless horseman, a thorough sportsman in feeling, great amateur actor, and a genial friend, and his departure is regretted by a very large circle of friends, but it is not likely that he will ever entirely sever his connection with Shanghai.-—- N. C. Daily News.
From the Lusitano we learn that plague has again made its appearance at Macao. The first case occurred in the middle of last week and the disease is said to have been introduced by a Chinese priest from Hongkong, who on his arrival went to lodge at No. 2o, Rua de S. Paulo, where he died the next day. Several other cases occurred in the same house and in the neighbourhood. One
of the persons attacked went to Patane, and died there two days later. Strict precautions have been taken, a sanitary cordon being established round the infected district, and no individual allowed hoped by this means that the disease may be to leave unless it be for the hospital. It is prevented spreading to the other districts of the city. Medical inspection of vessels arriving has also been established,
Brewing pays well in Japan. The working account of the Japan Brewing No. 2 united, added to the sum of $14,172.20 brought for- for last year shows a profit $96,307.35, which ward from the previous year, makes the total net profite $110,479.55. Deducting from this $23,625.00 for the interim dividend of 15 per October, 1898, a balance is left of 886,854.55, cent. and part bonus to chief brewer paid in
and will be disposed of as follows:-To payment which has been paid over to the new company. of $15 per share on 1,500 old shares in the old company (making a total for the year of 30 per cent.), $22,500.00; depreciation on buildings and machinery, $10,00 1,00; auditors' fees and bonns to staff, including a special bonus to chief brewer on retirement, $5,126,50; carried for- ward, $48,228.05; total, $86,954.55,