JM 7811899.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
SHORE UNSTRI KE ROUTE"
TO ABERDEEN.
IN FOKIEN
nection with this import, more could perhaps be| THE OPENING UP OF THE “LUNG | THE MISSIONARY DISTURBANCES done than is at present by the Hongkong Government in safeguarding the Chinese re venne, he present system of licensing an pium farmer leaves much to be desired, and the
ittee would suggest that the Government should give its consideration to the formulation some other scheme which will not only pro- vide an effective check on the import of the drag but will trace it also to consumption or exportation.
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Rule 1. -No person to be allowed to traverse
this proposed route nuless in perfect health, and to have a medical certificate from Doctor "Jim."
Foochow correspondent" writes..
tha
more correofto
SUGGESTED RULES IN VIEW OF THE OPEN- since the missionaries from up-country arrived
ING UP OF THE GERSHOM - STEWART #
at Foochow violent placards have been post at Kienning and elsewhere saying that all the STROKE ROUTE TO ABERDEENA
missionaries are to be killed and their property destroyed and the mardarius sent about their business. There seems to be considerable unrest and what by, some called auti foreign spirit, but it would, in our correspondent's opinion, be settlement at Foochow and in the surrounding say an anti-missionary spirit. In the foreign country foreigners are everywhere well received and such troubles as befalls shooting parties from Hongkong to Castle Peak Bay are de known. Lay opinion at Foochow seems to be that missionaries have no right to go to places ed. where they may reasonably expect to be molest-
2.-Every traveller to be provided with a box of Beecham's Pills, Mother Siegel Syrup, Eno's fruit salt, Dr. Lalor's phosphodyne, a green veil, bine spectacles, a spinal ice bag, a large white umbrella, & band fan, &c., and a copy of Dante's Inferno" and Milton's "Paradise Lost" for perusal on the road.
While, however, the Committee are prepared to sanction some sacrifice in revenue in order to secure in prepetuity the freedom of the port, they would point out that in addition to, and apart from, the objections already named to the proposals of the Chinese Imperial Martime Customs, the damage to British prestige iu Chins, and in the Far East generally, by the practical conversion of this Colony into a Chi- nese Treaty Port would be most serious, and in the eyes of the Cantonese, at any rate, would
3. A doctor to be stationed at every mile, redno Hongkong into a dependency of the in a comfortable shelter provided with ice. Chinese Empire. Rather than accept an ar
restoratives, Bovril, and cocktails, to be assisted ragement so humiliating, so darogatory to by the Chimese medical students to care for all Great Britain, and so detrimental to the Col-travellers struck down by the sun, ony's best interests, the Committee would be disposed to recommend the abrogation of the Convention and a reversion to the previous conditions.-I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient servant, -
R. CHATTERTON WILCOX,
Secretary.
4.- All travellers to be insured in the Accident Insurance office each traveller also to have made his will and executed a power of attorney in care of dangerous illness.
5.-That a cold storage room for those suffer ing from the sun be also provided and that all indisposed persons be placed therein. That a To Honourable T. Sercombe Smith, Acting date spaces left vacant be kept ready for use sufficient supply of tomb-stones with name and Colonial Secretary.
OPPICKR ADMINISTERING THE GOVERN- MENT TO H.B.M. MINISTER, PEKING,
Government House,
Hongkong, 5th August, 1898. BitI have the honour to acknowledge Your Excellency's despatch of the 11th July, received on the 25th July, enclosing copy of a letter from Sir Robert Hart in which he sets forth the arrangements necessary in his opinion for the recent extension of Hongkong territory. In reply, I beg to transmit copy of extract from a despatch addressed by me to the Secre. tary of State for the Colonies dealing seriatim with the numbered paragraphs of the Inspector General's letter-I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient servant,
W. BLACK, Major-General, Administering the Government, His Excellency Sir CLAUDE MACDONALD. K.C.B., K.C.M.G., Her Britannic Majesty's Minister Peking.
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OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT TO H.B.M. MINISTER, PEKING. Government Honse, Hongkong, 15th August, 1898. Sir-So as to keep Your Excellency ac- quainted with the course of events in Hongkong regarding the Convention signed on the 9th June last, i have the honour to enclose copies of a letter from the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce and of my despatch to the Secretary of State transmitting the same.
over the foolish wayfarers who traverse this
Burning Fiery Furnace Road."
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6. That the following names be given to the different points of interest on the Sunstroke Route" from Kennedytown to Aberdeen, viz:- 1, Bacillus Bay; 2, Germ. Iulet; 3, Bubonic Creek; 4. Peat House Point; §. Cemetery Prospect; &, Sunstroke Corner, 9, Valley of View; 6, Cold Comfort Harbour; 7, Necropolis
the Shadow of Death; 10. Cremation Creek; 11. Deadmau's Point; 12, Purgatory Cause- way; 13, Limbo Lane; 14, Shadrack, Meshak, and Abednego's pest; 15, Fire Worshippers Hill; 16. Hades Creek; 17, Mount Misery, and that at Aberdeen the "Sunstroke Route Necro- polis" be opened.
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The Foochow Echo of the 24th June gives the following account of the rioting::
Last week we recorded the burning of the C.M.S. t'hurch and Mission-house in Kienning City and the fortunate escape of the Mission aries on the 15th inst. Three native assistants were brutally murdered and without doubt the same fate would have overtaken the English ladies had they not been warned in time and managed to get away. The hospital is about two miles ontside the city and this was Rigg was able to make good his escape. The next attacked, but happily not before Dr. building was not burned us was expected, which
may
be attributed to the interceding of grateful natives who had received relief there, The mob, however, were not to be balked altogether and and 1-th_inst. were very trying days to the they looted the place instead. The 16th, 17th, friends of the Ret. H. S. and Mrs. Phillips and miles beyond Kienning. Nothing direct or Miss Sears, who were stationed at Kienyang, 40 reliable had been heard of them; but each of these three days reports of rumours reached Foo- chow which left little hope of their ever being seen again alive. Early in the morning of the 19th a message was received announcing the certainty of their deaths. Suspense was at an end: the worst 7.-That on the site of the present Jubilee home. The consternation was great. What had happened; and the news was telegraphed Memorial stone beyond Kennedytown a statue was to happen next? All missionaries from of Mr. Gershom Stewart be erected as "The stations west of Foochow had been recalled and Champion of Lost Causes," holding in his hand a launch had been sent up to Sueykow in charge the Mount Austin petition and the sebeme for of the Rev. White and Rev. Walsh of the the verland" Sunstroke Route to Aberdeen. CM.S. to bring all down, but then the question We propose later on to publish the extra was, would those at Kucheng escape in time? military precautions that will need to be taken The gloom cast over Foochow by the reported on account of the cutting of this new road deaths, however, was not of long duration. Be- round Monnt Davis, and we notice that it in-fore noon Mr. Consul Fraser issued an "Express creases the military contribution to 30 per cent. on the Colonial revenue.
FIGHT
MOONSTRUCK.
BETWEEN GUARD-BOAT AND LEKIN STATION
OFFICIAL SMUGGLING,
[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]
Wuchow, 80sh June.
As an instance of the way the Chinese, Government do things the following is interest
I need hardly add that the suggestion made therein as to aiding the Imperial Maritime Customs in the collection of Opium duties pre-ing:- supposes as a sine qua non the total withdrawal
servant,
of Chinese Customs Stations and of their Ssunchow-why, history does not relate Com- A guard boat was sent from this place up to revenue craft from the waters of Hongkoning down river the guard boat thought they I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient might as well earn an honest penny by carrying a little cargo. One of the lesin stations, think ing that swindling of all kinds should be solely and submit to examination (squeeze). Gnard their monopoly, hailed the guard boat to stop boat refused. Lekin station fired gaus. Guard boat fired guns. Result, 10 or 11 men killed. Yesterday bodies were spread out for the Ma
Nice country! Nice Government! gistrate's inspection on the river bank here.
W. BLACK, Major General, Administering the Government. His Excellency Sir CLAUDE M. MACDONALD, K.C.B., F.C.M.G., Her Britannic Majesty's Minister, Peking
The coal mine in Wakamatsu Prefecture where such a terrible explosion occurred on the 14th instant, is of considerable magnitude. At the time of the accident the number of work-
men employed was 800, and the daily output was about a million catties. It is estimated that the loss resulting from the catastrophe will he at least a hundred thousand yon. The principal owner, Mr. Hiraoka, is now travelling in Europe. Japan Mail,
The Singapore Free Press of the 26th June says:-A number of German officer and en- gineers (twenty-two in number) arrived by the Bayern last week to fill vacancies as they occur Holt. The Hecate has become the Patani, and in the local vessels formerly belonging to Alfred the Deucalion on Wednesday will become the Sandakan,
making it publicly known that H. E. the Vice- roy had received a telegram from the authorities in the country advising the safety of Mr. and Mrs. Phillips and Miss Sears in the magistrate's yamen at Kienyang. Of course general relief was felt, and the telegrams despatched home early in the morning had to be contradicted. The false reports are said to have been the work of the Kiangsi bostmen. The Rev. HS. Phillips and party after having been sheltered in the magistrate's yamen for three days, left Kienyang on the 19th instant with an escort provided by the magistrate, and arrived. Sueykow, where they were met by the Boy. body of recalled missionaries, to Foochow White and Rev. Walsh and brought, with the
We mentioned last week that it was thought
the mob was composed of the same class of men as those engaged in the Kucheng Mas ac That may be, but it is not at all certain w of the Kienning people for foreigners the instigators of this rinting were. The known and they are quite capable of any business of this kind without prompting. The placards, which about a month ago charging the foreigner all sorts of atrocities and calling people to rise and kill them and destro property, were at once ordered down by the authorities. - Similar plac posted about Kienyang with the addit charges against foreigners that they constructed in their premises to throw the city guild and all the officials went bodies in. Ou the invitation of 1 house and premises, and, being satisfie gent proclamation was issued by the