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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLX.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, do.
Leading Articles:-
Italy's Designs in Chica
The Administration of Weihaiwei
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.103
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 5TH AUGUST, 1899.
.102 Mr. Francis and British Rights over the New
Territory..........
......... 102
The Customs Question at Trintan and Hongkong 103 The Governor at Taipohu
The Secretary of State's Despatch on the
Kowloon Disturbances
.103
...108
The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank's Note Issue 104 Our New Territory,.
Supreme Court
Hongkong Legislative Council
.104 ..106 ...106
The Arms Dealers and the New Arms Ordinance......107 The Secretary of State on the Kowloon Disturbance...108 Mr. Francis Impugas British Soverignty in the New
Territory....
Execution at Victoria Gaol
108 ..109
Important Sale of Property .................................109 Hongkong Sanitary Board
.110
The Silk Trade Interrupted by the Lawlessness in
The Disorder in Kwangtung...
The Assessment for 1899-1900
More Highway Robberies
.110
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Boyal Welch Fusiliers Gymkhana Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation .........111 Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Co., Limited 111 Olivers Freehold Mines, Limited Tebrau Planting Co., Limited
The Typhoon in the North
Correspondence
The Chiness-Custom at Teintau
The Stranding of the Bonaventure.
The Woodlark's Voyage
112
......118 .113 .113 .114
116
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Foreign Enterprise and British Stagnation at Haakow 115 The "Opening" of Youhou
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
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Prince Heury left Nagasaki on the 23rd July in the Deutschland for Kiaochau.
The convicted Un Loong murderers were banged in Victoria Gaol on the 31st July.
The office of Messrs. Middleton and Smith
fi.e on the night of the 26th July. tea merobants, Yokohama, was destroyed by
We hear that a large German steamer with a quantity of arms and ammunition has arrived at Macao. No doubt the of bulk these goods will eventually find their way into the hands of pirates and banditti.
The following aunouncement appeared in the Straits Times of the 26th July-The quaran- tine imposed on arrivals from Penang has been removed, no fresh case of plague having oceur. red for the last ten days.
The Bangkok Times of the 21st July says:--- The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co. Lioited. of Hougkong, whose representative has just left Bangkok, has secured the contract for two new gunboats for the Siamese Govern-
ment.
It will hardly be believed, though it is an actual fact, that the acting British Consul at Hankow seriously and earnestly protested against H.M.S. Woodlark being sent into Hunan waters, on account of the hostility she would encounter at the hands of the Hunauese, and be pointed out that he could not be respon sible for her safety.-N. C. Daily News.
We understand that Mr. Artacho has entered an action for libel against Mr. Howard W. .120 Bray in respect of certain statements made by the latter in a letter addressed by him to Mr. Stead, the editor of the Review of Reviews, and
On the 2nd August, at 9, Belilios Terrace, the published in the June number of that magazine. wife of DUNCAN CLARE, of a soui,
MARRIAGE.
On the 20th July, H.B. M.'s Casulate, Yuko hami, WILLIAM GEORGE SMITH, of the Noble's School, Tokyo, to EDITA GREIG, of Dartford, Kent, England.
DEATHS
At No. 1, Soochow Road, Shanghai, on the 23rd July, 199, ARTHUR LEWIS COOPER, aged 28 years, dearly beloved and youngest a. of the late Willian Cooper, MI.C.E., Bombay.
At Wuchow, 24th July, 1899, of typhoid fever, FRITZ, the beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. SCHWEIGER, aved three years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 30th June arrived per M. M steamer Ernest Simons, on the 29th July (29 days); the Canadian mail of the 10th July arrived, per C. P. R. steamer Empress of China, on the 1st August (22 days); the American mail of the 6th July arrived, per T. T. K steamer Nippon Maru, on the 2nd August (27 days) and the English mail of the 7th July arrived, per P. & O. steamer Chusan, on the 4th August (28 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
On 2nd August H.E, the Governor visited Taipohu, where he received in audience about three hundred of the District and Sub-District Committeemen of the New Territory.
The letter refers to Aguinaldo and incidentally Artacho, who is referred to in unfavourable makes reference to his alleged clemency to
terms.
At Osaka the other day an officions Japanese policeman stopped a jinricksba in which a for- eign lady and her little girl were riding and objected to the dress of the child. The little girl, seven years of age, was wearing a light summer frock with short sleeves. The intelli. gent policeman considered the nudity of the child's arms an infringement of the dress re- gulations for enforcing the wearing of proper clothing amongst the lower classes. What if this aforesaid intelligent policeman were turned loose in a foreign ball-room!
Tonkin like Hongkong is flooded with Canton fen and twenty cent pieces. The Avenir has English money." Our contemporary says that an article on the subject which it heads "False
"this money is only Chinese in appearance and is in reality false English money which the English strike at Canton for their greater piece is worth only six and a half cents. At profit." According to this authority the ten cent this rate, for sixty-five cents a good French dollar can be obtained, which explains how it is that the country is flooded with the coins. Seeing that we in Hongkong are fellow sufferers with Ton- kin in this matter it is rather unkind of the Avenir to attribute the evil to British turpitude. Also our contemporary exaggerates the defici ency in the value of the coins when it says the ten-cent piece is only worth six and a
half cents.
No. 7.
The Manila Comercio has brought down upon itself the vials of ecclesiastical wrath because it meeting and another aunouncement of a meeting published an announcement of a Protestant convened for the formation of a Masonic Lodge. The Archbishop has written an admonitory letter to the paper on the subject and the Jesuits have stopped their subscriptions and also the supply of the Observatory notices, though the paper is at liberty to copy the latter, which his intention of appealing to the Pope. What are publicly exhibited. The editor expresses would have happened to the unfortunate man if these occurrences had taken place before the advent of the Americas and while the priests still held undisputed sway in the islands? It is unplea ant to see a useful institution like the Manila Observatory mixed up with such a con. temptible business.
Mr. R. B. Moorhead, Commissioner of Cus- toms, in his report on the trade of Hankow for last year, saya-Egret feathers and pheasant, skins have been a new venture; 754 catties (value Hk. Tls. 114,236) of the former were shipped during the year. This trade is depen- dent on the caprices of fashion, and it cannot be looked upon as a stable one. These much- sought-after feathers are developed in the birda only when they are breeding. To obtain them the birds must be killed; it will not take very, long, therefore, to exterminate the species, as has practically been done in North and Sonth America. It was a sad sight for sportsmen to see pheasant skins being carried by thousands through the streets in July and August, Large prices induced the country people to catch and kill these birds for the representative of frm from Paris, who shipped them to France; ladies. there to be made up into hats or toques for.
bai notable Li Chêng-yung to be Chief Com
A Peking telegram reports the appointment on the 24th July by special decree of the Shang missioner of Mines in the province of Szechuan. This gentleman, says the N. 6. Daily News, although an unattached Taotai in rank has had bestowed upon him the civil premier button- remarkable honour-and is well known amongst Chinese for his public spirit and philanthropy, having given within the last few years nearly Tis. 200,000 out of his own pocket towards the relief of famine sufferers in the Yangtze Valley and Shantung province. His last gift was a very large sum to the Famine Fund of North Kiang su and as no more decorations or rank conld. properly be given him under his present status of a Taotai, be was called to Peking a short time ago for a special audience before the Empress Do wager who apparently desired to satisfy her curio. cheerfully give Tls 200,000 of his own, without sity and see what a private individual who could so
asking for any reward, looked like. It appears, also, from the announcement of the above ap. pointment that the audience proved satisfso- at all anxious for an official life. Mr. Pritchard tory, although it is well known H.E. Li is not Morgan's syndicate in Szechuan will have doubtless a good deal to do in the future with H.E. Li Cheng-yung, that is, if he does not find some excuse to get out of his unwelcome honour. We may add that H.E. Li is a man of high integrity, alive to needed reforms in China, and will be rather a help to foreigners in Szechuan than otherwise. His civil premier button makes him equal in standing to a Pro- vincial Treasurer,
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