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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLX.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitoms of the Wook, &c. Ladick Articles:
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 19т¤ AUGUST, 1899.
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The Financial Position and Keswick's Share Bill 142 The Diamond Jubilee Memorials......................... .............................142 Lifts and Rates
Supreme Court
Typhoon at Kobe
Hongkong and the Diamond Jubilee....
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Reported Anusxation of Sanchau Island by France....147 Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
The Typhoon at Foochow
Affairs in the Philippines,
Aguinaldo's isrother in Hongkong
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Fire at Hunghom Dock.
Extension of the Tung Wa Hospital “.....
Church Missionary Association.
The Baichiu Rising.............................................................
The Taiping Piracy
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Lieut.-Colonel A.R.F. Derward. D.8.0., has heen appointed Colonel on the Staff of the Royal Engineers, to act as Civil and Military Commissioner at Weihaiwei.
According to a Peking telegram published in the Japanese papers the Russian Government bas resolved to renew its demand on China for the construction of a railway to Peking.
Mr. Commissioner P. von Tanner handed over charge of the Foochow and Santow Customs to Mr. Commissioner Walter Lay on the 3rd .149 | August. Mr P. von Tanner leaves to-day (5th) 150 in the Haeshin for Shanghai en route for 150 Europe and he carries with him the good wishes of the community. Whether as Com- missioner of Customs or in social life he has been much appreciated during his residence here and Foochow can ill afford to part with so good a sportsman.-Echo,
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Increase of Steam Navigation in Canton Waters......162 Correspondence
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited
Hongkong Hotel Co., Limited...
Protection of Game in Chius
The Arms Trade....
The New Tex Duty in Formosa
The Chinese Commissiouers to Japan Hongkong and Port News Commercial. Shipping
DEATH.
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The Committee in charge of the Hongkong 154 Memorials of Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee held a meeting on the 15th August at which it was decided to proceed with the Hospital for .156 Women and Children, for which a site has been selected on Barker Road. The question of the Diamond Jubilee Road, however, is to be referred to the Secretary of State, the military authorities having objected to the construction of a sea level road between Kennedytown and Aberdeen, whereas the Committee hold them selves bound by the terms of a resolution passed at the time the subscriptions were collected to the effect that it was on that particular section that the money subscribed should be expended.
On the th August, THERESE EYMARD. beloved wife of Claude M. S. EYMARD, at her residence, No. 154, Bluff, Yokohama, aged 52 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 14th July arrived, per M. M. steamer Salazie, ou the 13th August (3 days); and the English mail of the 21st July arrived. per P. & O. steamer Bengal, on the 17th August (27 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The N.C.Daily News says the rehearing of the Bank of China case is now postponed to October, owing to Mr. Shên Tun-bo's services as judge being no longer obtainable.
The German gunboat Jaguar arrived at Singapore on the 6th August from Kiel and, we learn from the Free Press, was to leave on the 14th for Herbertsbohe to take on board the Governor of German New Guine, who is to proced to the Carolines, Pellew, and the Ladrone islands in the Pacific, recently pur- ohased by Germany from Spain.
Alarming reports continue to be received of the lawlessness revailing in Kwangtung, where the land routes and the waterways are infested with banditti and pirates Business is serious ly interfered with, the silk trade in particular being disorganised, owing to the danger at- tending conveyance of produce or of the funds obtained by the sale of the same. A long list of outrages has been laid before the Hong kong General Chamber of Commerce, and he Committee of that body has made represent stions on the subject to the British Chargé d'Affaires at Peking and to the London Cham- ber of Commerce. The employment of British gun-boats is recommended for the extirpation of piracy.
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One of our vernacular contemporaries states that the Spanish Government has under con- sideration a proposal to impose a heavy duty on fans imported into that country. The Kyoto. Chamber of Commerce apprehends that in case of the proposal being carried into effect, the export of fans from Japan will be largely affected, and has applied to the Foreign Office for further information on the matter. The value of the faus exported from Kyoto to Spain is valued at some 250,000 yens yearly.—Kobė Chronicle.
hand of Great Britain in the recent proceedings The Ostasiatische Lloyd professes to trace the with reference to the reported Chino-Japanese alliance. Great Britain, according to our con- the chestnuts out of the fire for her, and this temporary, always wants someone to snatch
time it is Japan that is to do so. The article concludes as follows:-" Germany has hardly a direct interest in the matter. Let our repre sentatives be on the watch, however, when new events" transpire affecting Germany, so to use them that they shall contribute to the develop. ment of our recent policy." This we take to mean that in the writer's opinion Germany also should be on the watch for any chestnuts that may be snatched from the fire by others.
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The death is announced of Professor W. K. Burton, which took place at 9.10 p.m. on the 5th instant in the University Hospital at Hongo, Tokyo. The Japan Mail says Professor Burton had been in indifferent health for some years, and when in Formosa last summer be was attacked by a combination of illnesses, all" The Police authorities at Bangkok, we learn aggravated by, if not directly due to, the very from the Siam Observer, have made a very trying climate of the island acting upon a man clever seizure of forged Hongkong and Shanghai of impaired constitution who never knew how Bank notes at Sampeng. A Chinaman with a to spare himself when duty called. The imme- number of notes amounting to about Tos. 3,00', diate cause of death was acute inflammation of proceeded to a shop to obtain chauge, but the the liver consequent on dysentery Professor shop-keeper, suspecting that the notes were not Burton was a man of rare scientifio attainments genuine, gave information to the Police and and still rarer nobility of nature. He did the utterer of the forged notes was arrested. It splendid work in Japan during the fifteen years then transpired that the man was the servant of his residence here, not only in the field of of a Chinese pawnbroker, and the latter's sanitary engineering, but also in that of photo- house was thereupon searched with very satis-graphy, a specialty which he pursued with such factory results, another lot of spurious notes broker made a feeble attempt to commit suicide being found. Upon this discovery the pawn-
by outting his throat, but Mr. Hartnell inter- vened before a serious wound could have been inflicted. The accused man was to be produced before the Portuguese Consular Conrt.
tee's report the San Francisco Chronicle says: Referring to the Indian Currency Commit- The interesting question which the probable action of the Indian Government raises is: Will China now be persuaded to imitate the course of India and Japan, and in that event will the South American countries follow suit? There are some who believe this will be the final outcome. If it is. one of the most vexatious features of international trade will be removed, namely, the violent fluctuation of exchange, which is the invariable accompaniment of dif- fering currencies. The successful working of the scheme to bring the whole world to a uni- form standard, however, depends on the con- tinuation of the enormous annual yield of the world's gold mines which has become a feature of recent years. Should there be any disap- pointment in that regard and the gold supply prove inadequate there would he no end of trouble in the future,
success as to win a world-wide reputation. He lad bereavement all who knew him will sympa. seaves a widow and a little daughter, with whose
thise.
Syndicate is by no means asleep. An arrange- We learn with much pleasure that the Peking
out
ment has been made with Messrs. S. Pearson tors, to undertake the whole" work of the and Sons, Limited, the great railway contrac- Syndicate in Chins, and they are to send their own men and make the detailed surveys! at once, and commence construction as soon as possible. reduction of the staff of the Peking Syndicate This arrangement involves the
here, all the detailed work being taken over by the contractors, but Captain Purvis will remain to represent the Syndicate bere and Mr. Currie will probably stay on to accompany Messrs. Pearson's people into the interior.·· For British personally concerned in the anocess of interests generally, as well as for those who
Syndicate, it is very encouraging to serious work on the concessions obtained North is to be begun at once, and we have doubt that, if our Foreign Office will only show a little firmness for a change, the results will be satisfactory to us all-N “C1 Daily News,
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