THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. L.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, do..
Leading Articles :—
Reform in Chi-a.
The Hongkong Volunteers......
A Year's Work in the Philippines
Occasional Notes
"The Teoman of the Guard, or the
́and His Maid"
The Crisis in China......
Hongkong Legislative Council
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Fatality on the Wheeling
Supreme Court
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 17TH FEBRUARY, 1900.
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Merryman
Hongkong Contribution to the War Relief Fund
South African War......
The Royal Naval Seamen's Iub
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Lient. Wade of the Royal Lancaster Regi ment killed at Spionkop on the 24th ult, was a son of the late Sir T. F. Wade, British Minis- ter to China.
The Hongkong Jockey Club have reduced their prices of admission for the Spring Race Meeting to the former figures, namely $5 for the meeting or $2 per day.
For the week ending 10th February, two cases of bubonic plague were reported in „107 || Hongkong and three deaths. A case of enteric .108 fever on board H.M.S. Iphigenia was also re- ....108 ported. There were three cases of small pox
..18 and three deaths.
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Hongkong General Chamber of ommerce......................... Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., Limited............111 The National Bank of China, Limited
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China Fire Insurance Co., Limited
- Olivers Freehold Mines, Limited
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The Naval Yard Extension
News from the Philippines
The Visit of the Iltis to Macao... Macao News
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Indo-China will be well represented at the Paris Exhibition this year M. Doumer, the Governor-General, is spending nearly £80.000 on his section, which covers a third of the tot area of ground set apart for colonial exhibits. ...113 One of the typical buildings in course of erec. tion is a reproduction of the King of Cambodia's pagoda.
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The Tien Ten Hui of China .........................................................................119 Racing Notes *************
Football
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club Shooting
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On the 5th instant, at Shanghai, the Sui-on, the second new steamer for Messrs Arnhold, .....................116, Karberg & Co's river line, went on a trial trip to the Woosung Spit buoy and back. All parties were satisfied and she was to leave on her maiden voyage for Hankow a few days later. The vessel burnt liquid fuel and is commanded by Captain B. H. Fahlers.
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The Royal Artillery Gymkann More Piracies on the Canton River............................................. ..116 Hongkong and Port News............................................... Commercial Shipping
MARRIAGE.
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At Hongkong, on the 4th February. MARION IRENE, youngest daughter of the late J RIDDELL, Erg, of Sydney, N.S.W., to SYDNEY W. MOORE, Master of the C. N. Co.'s steamer Sungkiang.
DEA 1 HB.
At Welbeck Street, London, on the 26th Decem- ber, 1899, of cute pneumonia, CHARLES WILLIAM BAIRD, son of the late Charle Robert Baird, writer, Glasgow.
At his residence, Fernside, Robinson Road, on Sunday, the 11th February, EDWARD BURNIE, in hi 58th year..
ARRIVALS OF MAILS,
The American mail of the 16th January arrived, per T. KK. steamer Hongkong Maru, on the 12th February (27 days), and the French mail of the 13th January arrived, per M. M steamer Sydney, on the 14th February (32 days)
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
H.M.S. Peacock arrived at Shanghai on the 6th and was to proceed up the Yangtze.
There were 13,341 visitors to the City Hall Museum last week, of whom 262 were Europeans. The German cruiser Kaiserin Augusta hav- ing completed her extensive repairs at Shang- hai has left there for Kiaochon.
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The Shanghai A.D.C is producing a farcical comedy in three acts, entitled " A night out," by Georges Feydean and Maurice Desvalieres.
The Portuguese gun-boat Zare, 558 tons, 135 crew, and 5 guns: arrived at Singapore on the Srd inst., from Colomu, b und for Macao.
It is said to
to be quite true that the Emperor of Chins recently tried to escape from the Palace, but got no farther than the city gate.
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An accident occurred on Tuesday evening, 6th inst., at Shanghai, resulting in the drowning Peacock. It appears the gumboat was coaling of James Tozer, a obief stoker on board H.M.S. during the evening and deceased, while walking over the boats alongside, slipped and fell into the river. He was seen to fall but efforts to recover the body were unsuccessful. Deceased was 39 years of age and would have been a time- expired man in another 12 months. Informa- tion was given to the River Police but the body
had not been found.
Major-General Dickson, commanding the garrison at Singapore, has been appointed, by telegram, to command a cavalry brigade in front. Major-General Dicksou served in the South Africa. He leaves immediately for the latter part of the Zulu War of 1879 with the Native Carrier Corps, for which he received a medal and clasp. He served in the Nile
Expedition, 1884-85 with the Camel Corps and was present at the action of Abu Klea, being severaly wounded. For this work he received the medal with two clasps and the Khedive's Star.
No. 7.
At a recent general meeting of the Shangbai Volunteer Corps Captain Donald Mackenzie was unanimously elected Commandant of the Corps, on the motion of Major Brodie Clarke, seconded by Captain Trueman. Captain Mac- kenzie, R.M.II., is Assistant Superintendent of Police, and was formerly adjutant of the Shanghai Volunteers. Under his command the S. V. C. will undoubtedly become a efficient force.
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Mr. E. Bard, a prominent member of the French community at Shanghai, and manager there of Messrs. Olivier de Langenhagen and Co., has died from influenza. 'he deceased was the first captain of the French Volunteers there, and chairman in 1897.98 of the French Municipal Council. He published while at home lately an excellent book on China. He was buried with military honours in according which the Volunteers of the Infernational Set- tlement assisted their French confreres.
Many residents will regret the death of Capt. Burnis. He arrived in Hongkong about. 1861, was officer and master in the service of Douglas Lapraik & Co.'s steamers up to 1877; then he joined the late Capt. Cairns as marine surveyor. After Capt. Cairns' death be carried on business on his own account. He was active and hard working up to four months ago, when he was laid up with an attack of heart disease. The deceased was well known in the colony, and all over the coast of China was well liked and behind a widow, three sons and three daughters. respected by all who knew him. He leaves The remains were interred in the Protestant Cemetery, Happy Valley.
The Chinanfu correspondent of the Mercury, writing on the 15th ult.. says:-Three of the murderers of the Rev. Mr. Brooks have been arrested in the vicinity of where the orime was committed. They were brought to Chinau, at once examined by the Governor and forthwith sentenced to death. One of them said that Mr. Brooks was wounded in seventeen places, that he himself had dealt the twelfth blow, the fatal one, in order to put the foreigner out of misery. They reported eight others as implicated in the crime. When asked why they killed Brooks, charge such acts of diabolism as the Harcan one of them laid to the young missionary's tracts are full of. Mr. Brooks' body has been encoffined and transported to Pingyin.
On Friday afternoon the Isla de Luzon, one of the Spanish prizes captured by the Ameri- cans, returned to the harbour after under- going her final trial. The trial was eminently satisfactory, and the vessel will start for the Philippines in about a week. She is now in commistion. Captain Bleeker is in command. During the trial the navigation and general
The Hongkong Volantes Corps orders for the week ending Feb. 7th contain the follow. ing-Lieutenant-Colonel ir J. W. Carring-working of the essel was carried out by her ton. C.M.G., having returned from leave, re- corps, dated 7th February, 1900. On resum sumes appointment of commandant of the
ing command of the corps the commandant desires to express his sincere gratification at the great increase in the numbers and efficiency of the corps which has taken place during his absence, and at the same time to place on record ranks lie to Colonel R. B. Mainwaring, C.M.G., his sense of the deep obligation under which all Royal Welch Fusiliers, and Major M. M. Morris, R.G.A.. for their services, so generonsly ren- dered and so fortune in their results, in holding the command during the last ten months.”....
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own officers and orow. She steamed out to the being applied during the roynge. The vessel was south-west of the Ladrone Islands, various tests
not put under forced draught, but she was sub- jected to a very strict speed test, ranging from extreme slow to full power, a speed of a Hittle over eleven knots attained. All the guns in the battery were fired six times, and the guns were and target practice was made at a range of 1,200 tested at extreme elevation, extreme pressure, yards. Naval-Constructor: Hobson and Lient.- Commander Burgdoff constituted the Board of Inspection Mr. W. C. Jack was present on behalf of the Dook Company.