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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLX.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c. ............................................................
Leading Articles:--
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 4TH NOVEMBER, 1899.
..........373
Sir Claude MacDonald on Affairs in China ......74 Banitary Conveniences aud Insanitary
.374
Arrangements. Overcrowding and its Effects on Plague Epidemica 375 The Ladysmith Disaster
Kang Yu-wei-An Unwelcome Visitor
Hongkong Legislative Council
Supreme Court
..375
.376 376 .375
The Sanitary Board and the Insanitary Properties Bill 880 Affairs in the Philippines
Kang Yu-wei in Hongkong
The Cost of Salaries, Pensions &................................
The Colony's Miliary Expenditure
.880 ...880 ..380
The Post Officea Revenue and Expenditure ..........380 The Stranding of the Shantung
880
The Capture of British Troops in the Transvaal
Collision near Capsuimoon
Piracy in Cauton Waters
The Loss of the White Cloud
.381. .881 381 .381 .381
The North China Insurance Co., Limited
The Perak Sugar Culivation Co, Limited
.............383
The Punjom Mining Co., Limited
Raub
The Weihaiwei Land Investment Co., Limited
The Bank of China and Japan, Limited. Boxing Contests at the City Hall
The Volunteer Encampment..........................
Football Notes......
Cricket.......
Shanghai Autumn Race Meeting...
.386
Collision Between French and Chinese at Kwangchau-
Wan ......¶.....................
..387
Russia China and Japan
Piracy on the Yangtɛze.......
Chingwantao
....387 .388 .388
The Freight Squeeze in Singapore
..858 .389 .389 .392
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial.
Shipping
BIRTHS.
.384 .385 ...385 ....385 ......386 .385 ..386
On the 27th October, at Kellett Crest, the Peak, the wife of H. W. SLADE, of a son.
[2716 On the 8th October, at Ormsby Villas, Kowloon, the wife of ALFRED HENRY MANCELL, of a daugh-
1er.
On the 19th October, Robinson Road, Kowloon, the wife of Dr. J. H. SWAN, of a daughter.
On the 31st October, at No. 12 Belilics Terrace, the wife of J. M. XAVIER, of a son,
MARRIAGES. --
On the 22nd October, 1899, at the English Church, Nagasaki, Japan, by the Rev. A. R. Fuller, FRED KRICK BENSON, Chinese Customs Service, to META, daughter of the late Aug. BERLET, Ottawa, Illinois,
U.S.A.
At the Cathedral, Shanghai, on Monday, the 23rd October, 1899, by the Rev. 11. C. Hodges. M.A., the Rev. J. D. LINDELL, of the London Mission, to MARY, third daughter of Henry REDDIN, Esq., Glasgow.
At 4, Singkeepang Road, Shanghai, on the 25th October, JAMES PALLISER, late of the Municipal Sanitary Department, aged 62 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English mail of the 29th September arrived, per P. & O. steamer Bengal, on the 28th October (29 days); and the Canadian mail of the 10th October arrived, per C. P. R. steamer Empress of India, on the 1st November (22 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Mr. Greathouse, the American adviser to the Judicial Department of the Korean Government, who has been ill for some time, died at Seoul on the 21st October.
No. 19.1
The plague at Newchwang is evidently yield. ing to the cold N. W. winds from Mongolia, as within the past few days telegraphic returns have only recorded six or seven cases per diem instead of the former hundred or more.-China
Gazette.
Imperial of Japan is fixed for next spring, It is stated that the marriage of the Prince
There was some idea of an Occidental trip for the Prince before the ceremony, but the pre- seut plan is understood by the Japan Mail to be that the marriage shall take place first..
A private letter from Weihaiwei dated the 11th October which has been courteously com. municated to as (N. C. Daily News) says:
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Yesterday we had a great sham fight. Wo were against the Marines and Royal Blues and with the Chinese. We gained the day easily, the Chinese really doing splendidly, their move.
A special telegram to the N. C. Daily News,ments being perfectly under control, and they dated Chungking, 26th October, says the head- man at Kweiyang, who is charged with the murder of Mr. Fleming, has been arrested and identified. The Chinese are petitioning the authorities at Peking with the view of getting
him released.
were as calm as old stagers; you would have been astonished." Those who know how willing, courageous, and faithful the Chinese are when well treated will not be astonished that those who have enlisted under Colonel Bower have already earned this warm commendation from one competent to judge.
A few days ago the Kuowenpao had a scath.
The Echo de Chine says that at the audience at which M. de Giers presented the translation of the account of the Czar's travels in the Faring article on official ignorance, and cited vari- East before he ascended the throne, the Em. press Dowager occupied the throne, and the Emperor was seated below her and did not speak a single word during the ceremony.
From Japan papers we learn that Dr. Murata Shoto and ten other Japanese doctors and four assistants have been engaged by the Taotai of Newchwang in connection with plague work at that port. Their term of engagement is for six months at a salary of 200 taels a month. Dr. Murata was an assistant in the Infections Diseases Hospital of Dr. Kitasato, the noted bacteriologist.
Messrs. Lamke and Rogge inform us that they have received a telegram from Messrs Wm. G. Hale & Co., Saigon, to the effect that quarantine has been taken off at that port. The following telegram was received by the Government on Thursday from H.B.M. Con- sul at Saigon: -"Free pratique granted to
arrivals."
In consequence of the absence of rain pro- clamations were posted at Canton on the 25th October ordering the people to abstain from On the following day the Viceroy, Governor, meat and prohibiting the slanghter of cattle. At the Consulate of the United States, at Tientsin, Judges, Magistrates, and other high functiona- ou Monday, the 23rd October, 1699, by the Rev. Cries went officially to the Dragon Temple in A. Stanley, WALTER SCOTT EMENS to KATHARINE the old City to offer up prayers for rain.
THORBURN MÁCGOWAN.
At the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Shanghai, in the 26th October, 1899, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., GE RGE EDWARD STEWART, to MARIE CATHERINE, eldest daughter of Gorge PEEBLES, of Shanghai.
On the 28th October, at Canton, by Superintendent Kollecker, HUGO KAMMEL, of Hongkong, to ELS BETH BLINDOW.
DEATHS.
On the 0th October, at Tokyo, ERNST KELLMAN, a native of Hamburg, Germany, aged 44, of heart
failure.
--At-No. 24 Shimoyamale dori, Nichome, on the 21st October. ELIZBCETA Þorra, betoved wife of PERCY SWAN SYMES, aged 37 years.
We (N. C. Daily News) are indebted to Capt. J. H. Brown, of the steamer Tamsui, for the following report, dated Newobwang, the 18th inst.:-Passing the N.E. Promontory, 8 a.m. 17th instant, observed signals flying from signal staff at Light House as follows:- "Report to the Customs a schooner wrecked bereabouts." I expect it to be a lumber vessel bound North, either to Tientsin or Nowchwang. Saw several pine planks floating about in the neighbourhood of the Promontory. Experienced a violent N.W. gale on the 15th and 16th inst., and no doubt during that gale she ran on the rooks. We could see no signs of any wreck along the coast,
ous illustrations. When Portugal notified hør desire to have a representative at Peking for instance, the officials were taken aback, not knowing of any such country. Many of them, our contemporary avers, hold the belief that the reason Western Powers are so desirous of
obtaining land in China is due to their being tired of living in their ships, and wanting some terra firma to locate on. In the same way they share with the masses the belief that the real object of the Missionaries is to obtain black eyes for their nationals at home, who are con- demned to the disfigurement of yellow and green eyes, and covet the inky darkness of Chinese optics. It seems hardly credible that such childish ignorance can exist in China's official classes, but it is a fact that it does so exist in a great many instances, and we cannot marvel if difficulties and dangers beset the path of foreing enterprise under the circumstances.--Peking and Tientsin Times.
Hongkong is not the only place where mem- bers of the criminal classes are able to secure employment as domestic servants. Tokyo
time ago, to assassinate a maid-servant in the that Sekiguchi Shozo, who attempted, some newspapers contain a statement to the effect
employment of a well-known British resident, proved, on investigation, to be an escaped
criminal who had committed seven murders in. Osaka and been sentenced to penal servitude for life. How a man who had perpetrated such a series of crimes failed to pay the penalty with his life, and how he happened to be at large, we are not told. The story (remarks the Japan Mail) goes on to say that the gentle- man whose household had been thus disturbed
we omit names subsequently engaged a man named Abe Sojiro in the place of the ex-assas- sin, and took the precaution of reporting the fact to the police The
latter, on inquiry, found that Abe was
8 an ex-gambler, who had been sentenced, four years ago, to five months imprisonment. Pleasant people to shelter the “bosoms of our families.”