ནས་ འགས་མད་པར་འ ས་ བཅ་ད་
THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. L.J
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &o...... Leading Articles :—
Decay and Disintegration
The Government and the Mob in China.
The Inland Waters Dead Letter
The Chamber of Commerce and the Inland Waters
Concession
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 3RD MARCH, 1900.
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The Yushin Nippo states that the population of the city of Kobe on the 31st of December last stood at 236,159, living in 56,417 houses.
The Hongkong City Hall Museum during the week ending 25th February was visited 141 by 115 Europeans and 2,266 Chinese, in all by
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2,381 persons.
The annual execution of condemned crimi- nals will not take place in Peking till next year, being postponed in honour of the Heir Appa. rent's election.
Authoritative news comes from Peking that
146 the late Mr. Brooks was not mutilated before 147
he was killed. The report is that he had several wounds on his body. none of them fatal, and his death was due to decapitation.
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China and her Mines...
The ase of King Lien-Shan
Arrest of King Lien-Shan in Macao...
Imperial Decree
Supreme Court
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Meeting of Justices
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Situation in the Far East..
Thehronicle and Directory or 1900...
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The South African Fund
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Hongkong Jockey Club
150
Sale of Race Ponies
151
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
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Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited
George Fouwick & Co., Limited
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The China-Borneo Co., Limited
The Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., limited
Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godow
Limited
Co.,
Tientsin Notes
Canton
Manila...
Further Details of the Frontier Outrage
Japan and the Gold Standard
Hongkong and Port Newa...
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
The Emperor of Japan has conferred the Order of the Rising Sun, 5th class, on
Mr. Brindley, in recognition of the service rendered az by him in the capacity of Engineering Instruc-
for at the Kosakuban-kyoku, Akabanno.
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Lord Brassey's Sunbeam, after leaving Singa- pore, was to proceed to the Mediterranean vía ..154 Colombo and Egypt. Lord Brassey does not expect to reach England till April, as he wishes to inspect the Mediterranean squadron, etc.
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At 14, Kut-ford Te rac, ou the 26th instant. the wife of JOHN FERGUSON, Marine Engineer, of a daughter.
On the 27th February, at No. 35, Wanchai Road, the wife of H. Dixos, of a daughter.
On the 28th February, at Luginslund, the wife of Mr. E. GOETZ, of a daughter (still-born).
MARRIAGE.
On the 25th January, at M. Gladbach, ALFRED JULIUS ENGELBRECHT VON PUSTAL to RNESTINE LUISE ANTONIE NIEDERGESAS.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
It is reported that the wedding ceremony of the Crown Prince of Japan will take place about the 12th of May. An Imperial ball will be given to celebrate the occasion and over 1.060 foreign and Japanese guests will be invited.
The recall of M. Doumer, the French Go- vernor General of Indo-Chinu, is stated to be
imminent. What the Courrier Saigonnais calls his fantastic administration" has not given satisfaction at Paris, and his policy of bluff and of doctored budgets has aroused indigna- tion among the French colonists.
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Chinaufu has reported that he alone has in his care five thousand native Christian refugees who have fled from the attacks of the I Ho Ch'uan or Boxers. The missionaries througout Shantung hare, in a leas degree, a similar work of protec-
The French mail of the 26th January arrived tion to perform. per M. M. steamer Tonkin, on the 25th February (30 days); and the American mail of the 1st February arrived, per O. & O. steamer Doric, on the 2nd March (29 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
A Government Gazette Extraordinary was issued at Hongkong on the 1st instant giving the Jurors' List for this year; 101 special and over 900 common jurors.
It is expected that H.M.S. Bonaventure will leave Shanghai for the south on the 18th. She will be succeeded by H.A.S. Hermione, which expects to stay there about two months.
Mr. Robert M. MeWade, who is to be consul for the United States at Canion, to succeed Dr. Edward Bedloe, is a resident of Philadelphia and a member of the Manufacturers' Club. He is a well-known newspaper man, having been coo. nected with the Ledger.
It is announced in the Manila El Comercio that from Thursday next, the 1st of March, two new Philippine ports. Lemery in Luzon and Calivo in Panay..will be open to trade, by order of the American authorities.
the number of cases of Bubonic Plague which bare The Hongkong Sanitary Board's Return of
heen reported as occurring in the colony between 1st January and 28th February of this year state the total cases at 15 and the total deaths at 14
The week ending 24th February showed the cleanest bill, there being only one death and no fresh case.
Li Ping-bêng, the notorious ex-governor of Shantung and now the Empress Dowager's New Broom, which is to sweep the Yangtze Valley clean of all dishonest and self-seeking mandarios, is-expected to leave Tie¤isiu for the South very soon and may arrive at Shangbai in one of the first steamers upon the opening of navigation in the Peibo.
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It is now stated that the company of Russian soldiers whose presencein the Yalu district and at Wujn was recently reported, are a sanitary corps en route for Port Arihar. The explanation leaves us still in doubt as to the reason of their presence in that part of the Far East, though it is conceivable that a journey through Manchuria for the taking other observations relating to hygiene purpose of observing climatic conditions and may have been considered necessary.
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No. 9.
We see from a correspondent that on the Tientsin-Newchwang line the metals now go the whole way and one gets through in 3 days by three stages; viz, from Tientsin to Shan- haikuan in one day; there one has to detrain day takes one to Kinchon, at the N. corner of and spend the night in the hotel. The next
the Gulf, where the traveller again gets out and sleeps; the following day brings one to Now- chwang. When the line is in full running trim, the latter two stages will be done in one day. The Company is providing hotel accommodation at Shanhaikuan.
Among the passengers who arrived here by the Tonkin was Mr. A. G, Angier, proprietor and editor of The London and China Express, who is on a tour round the world. He proposes to stop in Hongkong for a few days, and after visiting Manila and Borneo to proceed home via America, making short stays at Shanghai and Japan on the way. It is four- teen years since Mr. Angier was last in China and, like of hers who have revisited us after even shorter absences, he is astounded at the immense progress made by Hongkong. We who have beon here during its recent growth can form little idea of what Hongkong, compared to what it used to be.
The most importaut Japanese coal-mines, says Le Monde Economique, are those of the is- land of Kiusiu, and they furnish 87 per cent. of the total yield of Japan. The principal mine is that of Muke, which has been worked since the your 1468, and which, formerly Gov. rn- ment property, is now owned by a wealthy company. It produces 1,000,000 tons a year, and its miners are recruited from a neighbouring reformatory. The production of coal in Japan, reached 6,00,000 tons 1897. Prices have in- which was estimated at 200.000 tons in 1888,
creased, during the same period, 130 per cent. In 1895, there were 157 mines and 54,000 miners; the exportation of coal was 927,000 tons in 1882, 974,000 tons in 1888, and 3,500,000 tons in 1897. The amount of co 1 consumed in the manufactures of the country has increased ten- fold since 1888; in that year it was 146,000 tons, whereas in 1898, 1,553,000 tons were used in home industries.
According to the Peking correspondent of the North China Daily News, much comment is made as to the cause of the English Legation's absence from the customary retorn visit to the Tsungli Yuméu of the Ministers' New Year's calls. A member of the staff when questioned said it was simply because Sir Claude had gone to the hills for a week, being slightly indisposed, and consequently the staff could not go without him.
Nobody believes this. The Japanese went all the same and represented him. Ramour Minister was really indisposed, but his staff
has it that Sir Claude is offended because Mr. tigate the Brooks murder, has not been treated Campbell, who has gone to Chinaufa to inves-
with the respect he should have ben. And this is a very probable explanation, for we know very well that English prestige is at very low ebb in China. The Boer successes in the Transvaal have persuaded the Chinese that England is no longer "in it," to use an expres- sive slang phrase. This does not argue that the Chinese are more unfriendly to England than they would be to any olber Foreign Power them, and it matters very little to ninety-nine in the same fix. A foreigner is a foreigner to hundredths of them what his nationality be.