THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL XLIX
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, do..
Leading Articles:
Trade on the West River and the Inland
Navigation Rules
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 18′′ JULY, 1899.
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No. 1.
It is rumoured in native official circles atShang.
Mr. R. W. Hurst, H.B.M.'s Consul recently returned from furlough, left Shanghai that the Dowager Empress is in great fear. ...bai on the 18th June to relieve Mr. P. L. of having poison put into her food and has so-
Warren, Consul at Hankow..
cordingly given the control of the Imperial A Reuter's telegram of the 27th June states! kitchen to her nephew, the Grand Secretary Russia has assigned Roubles 18,000,000 for and Gereralissimo! Jung Ln, who has placed 3 the improvement of Vladivostook, and will a number of old retainers and well-tried ser. expend Roubles 2,000,000 of the amount im-vants to keep watch over the Empress Dowa- mediately.
ger's daily menu. N. G. Daily News.
Anti-Foreign Movements in China. England's Duty in China .........
The Proposed Retrocession of Shamchun
The Policing of the New Territory
Anti-Missionary Disturbance near Foochow ...
Brigand Outrage in Manchuria
Outrage on German Engineers in Shantung ................................. Anti-Foreign Disturbance at Mengtsu
Hongkong Legislative Council
Supreme Court
The Acting Chief Justice's Remarks in the Hopkins
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The Un Loong Murder Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce ....................... 10 The Proposed Retrocession of Shamchun............... 13 The " Ployer" fired on at Bocca Tigris............. 12 Macao and the Chinese Customs The Alleged Anti-Foreign Feeling at Wuchow. 12
The Mysterious Death of an American Blue-jacket The Fatal Accident in Wyndham Street Volunteer Prize Distribution... Dr. Atkinson on Plague and Sanitation. Reviews
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The Gymkhana.............
................ ....... ........................................................ 15 Indo hins Steam Navigation Co, Limited 16 The Hongkong Electric Co., Limited. Hongkong and China Gas Co., Limited .................. 17 The Punjom Mining Co., Limited......................................... 17 Raub
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The Japan Matt says:-A naval veteran of the United States passed away, in the person of Cap- tain G. W. Coffin, on 15th June at his residence, No. 45-A Bluff, The deceased was last in com mand in these waters, of the U.S.8. Charleston, but just at the out-break of the war with Spain was invalided home, owing to heart trouble.
the disease compelled him to resign and cap- On reaching the States he was appointed to a post on the Pacific Coast, but the rapid progress of Overtures fortain Coffin returned to Yokohama only to die. He had a distinguished career in the Navy, and
M. Doumer, Governor-General of Indo- China, who recently made a visit to Yunnan-sen, did not make a long stay there. He arrived on the evening of the 7th June and left again at four o'clock on the afternoon of the next day.
At a special meeting of the Shanghai rate. payers held on the 20th June it was resolved the question of disposing of the Municipality that it was not at present expedient to consider electrical plant and business, the purchase had been made by Sir Charles
Ross.
An Imperial Ordinance has been published in the Official Gazette of Japan announcing that the new. Treaties with Great Britain, Italy, Russia, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, Sweden and Norway, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Spain, will come into force on July 17th next, and the new Treaties with France and Austria Hungary on August 4tb.
there is no doubt he was heart broken when he left it, and fretting gradually brought about his death.
On the 4th June, a Chinaman at Bangkok informed the police that two of his friends had house in Bangrak. by two other Chinese; and just been stabbed and disembowelled, in their that a third man had been stabbed in the thigh. The police hastened to the spot and found mat 18 The policing of the Shanghai settlement exters as had been described by their informant.
tension and the collection of taxes in the new area are to commence on the 1st July. The extension amounts to over 5 square miles, ........................................................................................ 19 | which, added to the 24 square miles of the old settlement, makes the total area of the Cosmo. politan Settlement something over 8 square miles.
The Italian Claims in China ............................. 19 The New German Minister to Chins .................. 19
The Cost of Empire........................................................................... 19 Hongkong and Fort News Commercial. Shipping
BIRTH.
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On the 9th June, 1899, at 24, Belilios Terrace, the wife of P, H. ROLFE, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
At Hongkong, on the 26th June, George Mad KENZIE, Chinese Customs Service, Lappa, to GRACE, daughter of Francis MORRISON, Bracklay, Tarves, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
DEATHS.
At Yokohama, on 15th June, GEORGE W. COFFIN, aptain, United States Navy.
A Kobe, on the 16th June, after a painful illness, ROBERT PATON, a native of Paisley, Renfrewshire, for many years Manager for the Hiogo Gas Co., Limited, in his 54th year.
4t Addeley, Southend, on the 19th June, KATE, the dearly beloved wife of ALFRED R. Bowman, of Shanghai
At Hongkong, on the 28th June, R. C. VANIA, Alerchant, aged 60 years, of acute nephrites, deeply regrette. Bombay and Surat papers please copy.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 25th May arrived, per P. M. steamer Taelic, on the 25th June (31 days); and the, German muil of the 29th May arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Bayern, on the 26th June (28 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
EPITOME
The Weihaiwei Land and Building Company Limited, has been successfully floated,
On 15th June two hundred
undred colliers lost their lives through an explosion in the Toyokuni coal- mine, in Fukuoka-ken.
Owing to the competition on the Pacific, the new season's teas are being carried from Yoko-
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murder at Vladivostock of Mr. C. Wahling, of News has been received at Nagasaki of the
the Vacuum Oil Co. Brief particulars only are given, from which it appears that the unfor tunate man was murdered in the night by bis Chinese servant, who with a hatchet smashed in the head of his master. Revenge for a sup- posed grievance is said to be the motive for the crime.-Nagasaki Press.
At Manila early on the morning of the 17th Jane, Senor Paflo Nalda, a well known medical practitioner, was murdered by his native servants while asleep in bed, He was on the point of returning to Spain and had collected a good deal of money the previous day. The deceased had sent his wife and family to Spain by a provions steamer. The murderers had stabbed their unfortunate victim through the breast, cat his head open, and then thrust the knife into his abdomen and left it there. The coachman and two accomplices have been arrested.
El Noticiero is in receipt of news from Samar to the effect that two British subjects residents in one of the villages of that island. were taken prisoners by the Filipinos. On the report becoming known an English oruiser, probably the Grafton, which was lying in the harbour of Cebu, was immediately despatched to Tacloban to claim from the authorities there the release of the British prisoners. The comman der, not being able to successfully press his claim by diplomatic means, resorted to a more practical way of settling matters by landing a force of Marines, while the ship was cleared for action, This firm Attitude on the part of the British had the desired effect, the Filipinos immediately re- leasing the prisoners without exchanging a shot, and thus much unpleasantness was averted. Manila Times.
The guilty parties had escaped. The men who had been stabbed died the next day. The polios upon this arrested ten men on suspicion. The houses of these men were searched. A number of Chinese books, seals, and moulds, and a yellow parchment, said to be the certificate of a secret Society, were seized. In addition to this the knife which was hidden away in a corner of search-party also seized a long blood-stained
room.
Extracts from a letter written by Lieut. R. E. H. James, formerly of the Royal North Lan- cashire Regiment, who is now stationed at Wei- haiwei, are published in the Times of Ceylon. Under date of 11th May Lieut. James writes:
We passed Weihaiwei at about 12 this morn |íng. It looks just like Devonshire in its wilder parts. A beautiful spring day—English spring
with blue sky, sun, and a clear, sparkling sea, We all landed at Chefoo and went about to- gether.
We went straight to the Agent's, who told me there was no boat for Weihaiwei until Saturday
The town
is very English; you see dozens of them on the home costs, only the Chinaman has got here somehow. It is very prettily situated with s. ring of hills behind the town, and a " Mount Lavinia" jutting into one side of the harbour, with the Consulates and their different flags atop and a large expanse of country on the other side full of snipe. The coast is all small bays and little headlands. The sea is greeny- blue and is land dotted, with a splendid tide— high and low-with sand and pebbles made for paddling. Do not talk of the beauties of Ceylon. This is the country to live in-the beauty England with a better climate. No one ever, dies here, and no one ever has a head. Large in- comes, good stone houses, cheap living, and good servants; shooting where you list, and ponies for
if I was married I would never go home unless my wife wanted to," Of Weihaiwei Lieut James does not say much, but he declar be "the I
healthiest place in China."- after one day's expérience, but the opinion may prove correct notwithstanding.