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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:—
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 18TH NOVEMBER, 1899.
The Inland Navigation Rules and the British
Minister's Responsibility
The Canton Guilds and the Lekin Question Piracy in the Canton Waters............ Russo-Japanese Friction
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The Custom House at the new part of Yo- chow, in Hunan, was to be opened on the 13th instant.
Mr. Joseph Walton, M.P., arrived at Shang- .410 hai on the 9th inst. from his tour on the
Yangtze.
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The United States and the Open Door in China 411 The Military Contribution Question...
Steam Laundries and their Cause of Failure
Hongkong Legislative Council
Wreck of the U.S. cruiser Charleston Retrocession of Shamchun to China...... The Lekin Question at Canton ......... Sensational Social Incident at Calton Hongkong to Wuchow and Back.. Annual Licensing Sessions.
The New German Mail Steamer
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Occasional Notes......
The Interport Shooting Match..
Football Noteß........................... · ...........................
-Football
Hongkong Volunteer Corps.
The Hongkong Boat Club....
American Trade Interests in Hoogkor g..
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Perak Sugar Cultivation Co,
Limited..
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Correspondence
Wreck of a Coal Hulk at Kisochau
The Plague at Newchwang
The New Russian Port Talier.wan ....
Chinese Government and
Designs
Mr. J. McLeavy Brown, the head of the Cus. toms and other government departments at Seoul, is at present on a visit to Shanghai.
The U.S.S. Monococy with the Hon. E. H. Conger, American Minister, arrived at Shang. hai from the Yangtsze ports on the 11th inst.
A branch of the American Asiatic League, which is an organisation on the lines of the China Association, has been established at Kobe.
A Shanghai contemporary states that the third Secretary of the Russian Legation at Tokyo has been appointed Adviser to the Kor. ean Government, vice Mr. Greathouse, deceased.
The United States cruiser Charleston was wrecked on the morning of the 2nd instant, on an uncharted rock off North Luzon. The crew 4:3 displayed perfect discipline and were all saved,
reaching Casuagin Island in the ship's boats.
The Singapore Diamond Jubilee Memorial scheme has come to hopeless grief. At a meet- ing of the Committee held on the 6th inst, it was resolved that a Bill be introduced in the
423TM ..424 .424 .4.4 the Reported Italian
The Newchang and Port Arthur Railway
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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424 Legislative Council authorising the return of
the subscriptions.-
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On the 14th November, at Windermere," Kow- loon, the wife of FRANK SMYTH, of a son.
At Yokohama, on November 4th, the wife of C. H. WILSON (Hongkong and Shanghai Bank), of
MARRIAGES.
A EOD.
On October 31st, at Yokohama, WILLIAM WOODCs
GREENE, Chief Officer in the N.Y.K., to JESSIE
MATILDA BOOTH, third daughter of Geo. Booth, of
Yokohama.
On the 8th November, 1899, at St. Joseph's Church, Shanghai, by the Rev. Father . Kenne ly, SJ., ALBERT EDWARD EVANS. of Path, Et gland, to GRACE EMILY GUNDRY, of Shanghai.
The Japan-American_Commercial Journal says that the Central Tea Guild of Japan is How favoured by the Government with a yearly Journal remarks, they are enable to undertake subsidy of 70,000 yen, by which means, the
the further expansion of their business.
last two steamers left the Hanyang Iron Works, From Hankow we learn that the week before
with 2,000 tons steel rails. There are a good one with 2,000 tous pig iron for Japan and one
by inexperienced coolies handling beavy steel number of accidents, broken legs, etc., caused rails.--Mercury,
The painting of some of the men-of-war At the Peak Church on the 4th November, black has naturally given rise to considerable 199, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, WILLIAM NEW-speculation as to the reason. We hear that a TON, of Hongkong, to DITH MARIAN POUND, daughter of the late Henry Pound, of Upper Clap ton and Eastbourne, and of Mrs. Henry Pound, of "Linkwood," Tooting Bec Common, S. W.
DEATHS.
On the 28th October, at Taiping, BLANCHE EDITH, wife of HARVEY (ALDICOTT, P.W.D., aged 36 years. At his residence in Tokyo, on November 2nd, A. MACMILLAN, aged forty-eight years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The German mail of the 16th October ar- rived, per N. D. L. steamer Koenig Albert, ou on the 14th November (29 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
general order has been issued by the Admiralty that all Post Captains' commands are to be painted black before January next. The order is not peculiar to the China station, nor is it ently. It is understood to have reference to likely that it will be continued in force perman- certain contingencies in connection with the present situation. The smaller boats are not affected by the order.
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Sir Claude MacDonald, the British Minister, who is accompained by Lady MacDonald, ar- rived at Hongkong on Tuesday night by the N. D. L. steamer Koenig Albert on his return from leave of absence and proceeded north by the same steamer on Thursday morning. Sir Claude and Lady MacDonald spent Wednesday at Government House.
Major Alfred A. E. Wrottesley, R.E., who was stationed in Hongkong a few years ago, has been drowned at Teneriffe, probably whilst bathing. He was brother of Lord Wrottesley, whose son, Captain the Hon W. Wrottesley, few weeks ago, thus wiping the name out of died at sea while returning home from India a
other uncle, who is retired. the Army list within a month, except for an-
Much disappointment and indignation have been expressed in Hongkong during the past week owing to the retrocession of Shamchun to China. This town. it will be remembered, was occupied in May last to mark the British Government's sense of the duplicity of the Chi- nese Anthorities in connection with the taking over of the New Territory. The evacuation by the Military took place on the 11th inst.
A Bill has been introduced in the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements to prevent the propagation of plague. The statement of objects and reasons sets forth that the Venice Plague Convention of 1898 having been adhered to by the British Government, it becomes in. oumbent on the Colonial Government to in- troduce such legislation as will enable it to deal, in accordance with the Convention, with and the exportation of susceptible goods from tions relating to the departure of passengers ques.
districts infected with plague. The present
to carry out effectually the provisions of Chap- will give the Government the powers requisite Bill is brought forward with that object. It
Regulations prescribed by the Convention. ters IÍ., III., and IV. of the General Sanitary
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Dr. Manson in the course of his inaugural address at the London School of Tropical Medicine dealt with the question of plague prevention. According to Dr. Manson, in order to prevent plague all we have to do is to extirminate the rats. That looks sensible. The doctor omitted to tell us, however, how the extirmination is to be effected. The Australians have expended much thought bits, but without success. The extermination and money on the attempt to extirminate rab- of rats would, we fear, be found an even more impossible undertaking. The most that could be looked for would be to diminish their their contact with man and his surroundings. numbers in human habitations and so prevent For that no expedient can equal the keeping of a well fed ost. If the Government offered inducements to the Chinese to keep oats and to feed them well perhaps Dr. Manson's taunt that plague goes on in Hongkong as if there were no such thing as sanitary science would not be so well deserved as it appears to be at present. The expedient of offering a payment for rats caught in traps has been tried and has failed to produce any appreciable effect in diminishing the number of the rodents. A cat ou every floor of every house would prove more successful. But if that measure?"
banish sleep.
Mr. Kakei Otani, the President of the Yoko- hama Chamber of Commerce, contributes an article on The telegraphic service between the United States and the Far East" to the Japan American Commercial Journal. He advocates a Pacific cable and concludes his article as fol- lows:-"As the cable, besides requiring an enormous capital, affords a great advantage to the commerce of North America and of the Far A parcel post is about to be established be. East, the Governments concerned should be tween the United States and Japan.
quite willing to assist the enterprise, which would, moreover, affect the political situations. Captain Hiraoka, who has been ordered to the We shall endeavour to induce the Japanese Go- scene of the Anglo-Boer war, was to leave Yoko-vernment to guarantee such aid as they can sama by the Bingo Maru on the 8th inst, and render to the cable company if it should be resorted to we would in banishing: rata -will tranship at Bombay for Natal.
founded on a firm and steady basis.”
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