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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLX.J
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Weck, &c................................................................................................. Leading Articles:
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1899.
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The Inland Navigation Rules Discriminatory Duties on Formosa Tea ...... .267 Cremation and the Overcrowding of Hongkong
Cemeteries ...............................
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Mr. A. W. Bash, agent of the American Rail- way Syndicate, and family left Shanghai by the Gaelic for their home in Seattle.
The Conseil Superieur of Indo-China is to hold its annual session this year at Puom-penh. The session-opens on the 16th October.
Opium Smoking and Suicide...........................................267 Owing to the destruction of its office by fire, Hongkong Sanitary Board
already reported by telegram, the Hiogo Even Outbreak of Rinderpost at Pokfulam ...................... 270ing News has temporarily suspended publi.
Inland Waters Steain Navigation......
The Disaster to the White Cloud
The Hungbom Murder
Special Licensing Beations....
Prosecution by the Sanitary Board
V.R.C. Aquatic Sports
Union Insurance Society of Canton Limited
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The following little item comes from Bang- kok:- We thought Oom Paul would injure himself. Now his credit is impaired. A One Pound note of his, sent from South Africa to the Bangkok Times, has been refused by the
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank here.
The Hupao's Tientsin correspondent states that Chang Ben-mao, Vice Director-General of Northern Railways, is now engaged in borrow. ing money to construct a short railway from Peking to Kalgan, and that it is believed that Authoritative telegrams have been received.
an English syndicate will undertake the job. .275 says the N. C. Daily News, denying the exis- This railway is evidently the Chinese answer to .276 tence of plague at Chefoo. Quarantine is being the Russian scheme of building a branch line enforced there against infected ports. The to connect the Manchurian railway with Poking. reports from Newchwang are still very unfav--N. C. Daily News. ourable.
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China Traders' Insurance Co., Limited
The Douglas Steamship Co, Limited
The Punjom Mining Co., Limited
The Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co.,
Limited
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Raub Gold
Correspondence
Prince Henry's Movements
The Competition in the Formoss Shipping Trade
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A German View of England's Abstention From the
Paris Exhibitions
The Plague at Newchwang
A U.S. Sailing Ship Destroyed by Fire
Marshal Bu
The Recent Thibetan Riot...
Japan's Ten Million Loan......
Hongkong and Port News
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Colonel Dormer, C.E. the new Governer of Weihaiwei, left Shanghai on the 21st September for that port, accompanied by Col. Fraser, C.E., from Hongkong. We (China Gazette) under- stand that extensive building operations on bar- racks and forts will be shortly commenced at Weihaiwei.
The Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, says the Hyogo Evening News, has begun, importing pig iron from Hangyang. Hitherto the firm has imported English iron only, but the recent rise in quota- tions led them to make a trial of the Chinese iron, which is obtainable at 60s. a ton-138. less than the English iron. The iron is stated to compare very favourably with the average According to telegrams in the Japanese foreign article: its quality is not first class, but papers the opening ceremony of the Seoul- the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha is stated to, have Chemulpo Railway was held on the 18th Sept. made arrangements for a regular supply of iron Some 200 invited guests came down from Seoul from the Hanyang Iron Works, and there is to take part in the ceremony, the guests includ-considerable consternation in the Japanese iron 282 ing the Ministers of State, Foreign Represen- 282 tatives, and other foreigners and Koreans.
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Another Mission Destroyed in Szechuan....................................
The Growth of Hankow.
Commercial
Shipping
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Die Geburt einer TCHTER zeigen Capt. J. PETERSEN und FRAU geb. PAULSEN.
Hongkong, September, 20th 1899.
MARRIAGES.
Mr. E. H. Conger, the U. S. Minister to China, arrived at Hongkong on the U. S cruiser Princton on Thursday morning on his way to Canton, and was visited on board by Consul-General Wildman. He resumed his voyage on Friday afternoon calling upon His Excellency the Governor in the morning. On his return from Canton he will make a longer stay in Hongkong, and will leave by the Doric for Shanghai on the 8th Oct.
On the 18th September, at H.B.M. Consulate, Kobe, and afterwards at All Saints' Church, ALEX ANDER WILLIAM CROMBIE to EISIF, daughter of the late E. J. SMITHRS, formerly U.S. Consulate, Kobe.
At the Cathedral, Shanghai, on the 20th Septem-says-The Cosmopolitan Dock, when visited ber, 899, by the Rev. H. Newcombe, the Rev. C. W. ALLAN, Wesleyan Mission, Wusneh, to CLARA LOUISA, only daughter of M. and B. HOLMES, of York, England.
On the 2nd September, at H.B.M.'s Consulate and afterwards at the Union Church, Kobe, by Rt. Rev. Bishop Foss, WILLIAM KING to IISE, second daughter of the Rev. Dr J. L. ATKINSON, D.D.
DEATHS
At Kobe, on the 13th September. at the Inter-
national Hospital, V. H. THOMPSON, of Kobe, aged
32 years.
At Kobe, on the 13th September, REGINALD HENRY, the only and beloved son of E. A. ST, CLAIR SMITH, aged 3 years and 3 months. Deeply regretted.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 19th September, 1899, after a long and painful illness, HARRIET, the beloved wife of William SANDERS, Imperial Maritime Customs, Wuhu, aged 60 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 25th August arrived, per M. M. steamer Tonkin, on the 25th Sept. (31 days); and the English mail of the 1st September arrived, per P. & O. steamer Parramatta, on the 29th September (28 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
An agency of the Hongkong Post Office was opened at Weihaiwei on the lat September.
The N. C. Daily News of the 23rd September yesterday, had a most busy appearance. Strewn about the yard were the bent frames of four other boats similar to the Suitai, and a fifth boat, the Suian, will be ready for launching by the next spring tides. Preparations are also being made for a sixth vessel for the West River to the order of the China Merchants, In home style we may well say the yards are full and orders booked ahead.
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Information of an interesting character has been furnished to the Tokuo Asahi, with refer- ence to the purchase of Japanese railway deben- tures by foreign capitalists. The latter are now willing, our contemporary says, to invest their money at 5 per cent. provided that, first, the amount of the railway's capital is definitely fixed; secondly, the dividends paid since the opening of the line are clearly set forth; thirdly. an undertaking is given that no loan has been previously contracted, and that none will be hereafter contracted; and, fourthly, that the interest on the debentures is paid abroad so sa to secure it against taxation. Japan Mail.
Referring to the return of the American Peace Commissioners to the United States the Manila Times says:-The Peace Commission is still to retain it offices and transact business as usual in the Concordia. All that has happened is that Colonel Denby and Mr. Worcester havé been suddenly recalled to Washington. They are to return, because they are going to Wash ington for the purpose of holding consultations with Admiral Dewey and Mr. Schurman and then laying their views before. Congress, when it meets. Probably, if all goes well, Colonel Denby will return as soon as possible to these islands. There is no reason for any soare ben-
In consequence of the obstructions caused in the narrow streets of Soochow by the large number of well-to-do young Chinese anxious to become wheelmen, and acting on representations made by the more sober and sedate citizens, the three district magistrates of Soochow city have issued a joint proclamation forbidding the rid-sation whatever. ing of cycles by anyone except foreigners, mis. sionaries, and converts. This ought to give an impulse to conversion.-N. C. Daily News,
The China Mutual steamer Chingwo, which was ordered to leave Singapore barbour without landing her passengers, for a breach of the quarantine regulations, returned to Amoy, when where she landed her passengers, and she has since resumed her homeward voyage. She had on board a number of coolies from Amoy for the Straits and her breach of quarantine regula- tions was in having called at Hongkong on the voyage, the immigration of Chinese into the Straits from Hongkong being at present prohibited.
The steamer Tategami-Maru arrived at Na saki from Onomichi on Saturday morning. September, with the U.S. troops from the ed steamer Morgan City. During the day the troops were disembarked and taken to godowns belonging to a local foreign firm, which had been comfortably fitted up for the men's tion. The Ohio arrived on the 11th from and, after cosling, was to convey the tro that port. In connection with the wred interesting snap-shots have been taken of the postal employes in the US. ser of the pictures shows the transpo the stern, with men swimming sud
from the sinking