THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLX.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c. ...........................
Leading Articles:
Hongkong and the Chinese Customs
Sir Robert Hart and his Detractors.............
Methods of the lekin Collectorate
How Official Appointments are made in China ¡The China Tea Trade and its Over-taxation.
Supreme Court
The Russo-Chinese Bank at Shangha.........................................................
Affairs on the Majuland
The Hainan Lekin Farm .....................................
The War in the Philippines
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 8TH JULY, 1899.
It is generally understood, says the N. C. Daily News, that the Viceroy at Nanking has 25 consented to the Extension of the French Set-
tlement at Shanghai.
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The Chinese Engineering and Mining Co.'s 27 shipping office at Tientsin has been destroyed
by fire.
The property was, however, fully covered by insurance.
The Shanghai Municipal Council assumed control over the extended area of the Conces- sion on the 1st July. The event was unmarked
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The Camphor Monopoly in Formosa .............................................. 31 by any ceremony.
The Hospital Sisters' Memorial
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Plague
The Law as to Verandahs....
The Piers Ordinance
Hongkong and the Chinese Customs
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The German tug boat Habicht left Shanghai on the 28th June with a dredger in tow for 83 Kiaochau, the dredger being intended for the
| deepening of the harbour.
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The Opening up of the "Longshore Sunstroke Route
to Aberdeen...
Fight between Guard-boat and Lekin Station
The Missionary Disturbances in Fokien
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited
Indo-China Steam Navigation Co, Limited
Royd and Company, Limited
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The Hainan Lekin Farm, for the levy of the 35 duty on kerosine, cotton, and cotton yarn. 35 is, we believe, to be done away with, owing to 85 the representations of the Consuls.
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No. 2.
The China Gazette of the 30th June says We are glad to hear that a telegram has been received here stating that the pressure by the Chinese, as it is alleged under Bussian influ- to remove Mr. Claude Kinder from his position in the Northern Railways has been removed."
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The Japan Herald states that the late Mana ger of the Yokohama branch of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Mr. H. M. Bevis, has been appointed by the Board of Directors as Chief Manager, during the absence on leave of Sir Thomas Jackson who expects some eighteen months after his departure from to be away, our contemporary understands,
Hongkong.
On the 18th June at Weihaiwei- Admiral
Seymour caused the emergency call to be hoisted consisted of the Victorious, Barfleur, Centurion, ashore. Notice was given to the fleet which Iphigenia, Rattler, Aurora, Bonaventure, Brisk, Alacrity, Linnet, and Whiting at 9.30 am. The Mr. Byron Brenan, Consul-General at Shang-signal was hoisted an hour afterwards and by 11 36 hai, left for home on 1st July by the Empress 36 of India ou leave, and Mr. P. L. Warren takes charge of the British Consulate General during his absence.
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Correspondence relating to the arrangements to be made with the Chinese Customs in reference to the junk trade between Hongkong 8 and China is published in the Government 38 Gazette, but it contains little that is new and
the final decision is not stated.
China Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Raub
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Correspondence ...
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The Mengten Riot
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The Tonkin Customs and the West River Trade
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Quiet Expansion......
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The Anti-Railway Riot at Kiaochan
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Mr. Fleming's Murder
A Big Squeeze
The Commander-Chief of the Chinese Army
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New Weapons for the Chinese Army
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The Explosion in the Hokoku Coal Mine
Controlling Christianity in Japan
The Electric Tramway at Peking
The French Claims in Szechuan .......... Trintao.
Hongkong and Port News Commercial............
Shipping
MARRIAGE.
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39 The memerial to Miss Higgin and Miss 39 Ireland, the Hospital Sisters who died in 1898 of plague contracted on duty, has taken the form of a stained glass window, which has now been placed in St. John's Cathedral. The design is the work of Miss Kate Coughtrie.
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At All Saints Church, Tientsin, on Wednesday. 14th June, 1899, by the Rev. G. D. Iliff, MARIAN. daughter of Archie CRAWFORD, of Taku, to AUGUSTE FH. LANDBERG, Taku. -
DEATHS.
At the Grand Hotel, Yokohama, on 20th June, FRANCES DANA, the wife of FREDERICK C. WAL Corr, of New York Mills, New York.
At Baan (Straits of Shimonoseki), at 2.30 a.m. on 23rd June, of apoplexy, JOSEPH L'AVIESON (Mesers. Samuel Samuel & Co.).
At Bakan, on the 23rd June, JOSEPH DAVIESON, from a stroke of apoplexy.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 2nd June arrived per M. M. steamer Yarra, on the 4th July, (32 days); the American mail of the 1st June arrived, per T. K. K. steamer Aztec, on the 5th July (34 days); the English mail of the 9th June arrived, per P. & O. steamer Coromandel, on the 6th July (27 days); and the American mail of the 9th June arrived, per P. M. steamer China, on the 6th July (27 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Mr. Council Playfair assumed charge of HBM. Consulate at Foochow on the 24th June Vice Mr. Consul E. H. Fraser, who goes Swatow,
Tang Tsing Sz and Cheong Tin were on the 5th July sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of Hongkong for the murder of Tung Cheong, at Un Loong, in the New Territory.
The murdered man was shot and thrown into a
creek as a punishment for having been engaged
as
a bill-poster in posting the Governor's proclamation in reference to the taking over of the Territory. Another similar case is pending.
The Shanghai mandarins went down in a Chinese gunboat to Woosung on the 21st June which had on board the famous General Su, of to meet the French mail steamer Caledonien, Kwangsi, who has been most popular with the French officers on the Tonkin borders, due to the former's uniform courtesy and readiness to assist whenever the latter applied to him. General Su will remain in Shanghai only a few days, when he will go on to Peking for special audience with the Empress Dowager.
N. C. Daily News.
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three Chinese torpedo-boats on There are
o'clock those available, namely, 1,700 men, com- posed of 1,300 seamen and 400 marines, all fully armed, carrying two hundred and fifty rounds of ammunition and equipped with two
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and ambulance corps by their own boats. It provisions, were landed with their field
time in this brilliant manœuvre.—V. C. Daily is reported the Iphigenia made the best
News.
Prince Henry of Prussia left Nagasaki on 24th June with his flagship the Deutshland and the Gefion for Kobe, whence he will proceed to Yokohama and Tokio. The Japanese were very anxions that he should visit Japan-to which he has already paid one visit, when he was a mid- shipman-and very anxious that no contretemps should occur while he is there. Unfortunately Tokio is very empty in the summer, everyone who can having gone away to the mountains or the seashore. The German | Rear-Admiral Fritze is also going to Japan with his flagship
the Hertha and the Irene. The new This is
going to Kiaochau as guardship for a month, and thence to Japan. The new German gun- vessel Jaguar is expected on this station in about a month's time.-N C. Daily News.
The following clipping from a Manila paper gives fuller and more correct information respecting the rescue of two British subjects than has been previously published :—El Noti- taken prisoners by the Filipinos at Samar oiero 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 becoming known H.M.S. Peacock, which was lying in the harbour of Cebn, was immediately despatched to Tacloban to claim from the aut
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rities there the release of the British The Commander (Capt. E. St. John), In making mention of the recent piracy com- able to successfully press his claim by Hongkong correspondent of the Echo de Chine of settling matters by landing an mitted on the Wo On, on the West River, thematic means, resorted to a more pract (Shanghai) says:-"Dans le récit de cet acte de while the ship was cleared for action. piraterie une phrase est à relever:
attitude on the part of the Britishe river to desired effect, the Filipinos assist the Sandpiper to suppress piracy." Oning the prisoners without exchangi aurait pu croire que c'etait le Sandpiper qui thus much unpleasantness wa portait assistance aux torpilleurs chinois puisque two British subjects who had le Sikiang tont entier est ean chinoise. Il were Mr. John Richmond, parait qu'il n'en est pas ainsi, mais que le Sand Stevenson & Co., and Mr. Jones piper est chez lui. will long continue chez lui on the river.
We hope the Sandpiper Smith Bell & Co. After embarking on board
H.M.S. Peacock they were conveyed to Iloilo.
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