THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland
Overland Trade Report.
VOL. LI.J
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Wook, &c.........................
Disingenuous Ministerial Explanations
Leading Articles :--
Want of Policy in China ..........
China in the House of Commons.
Hongkong Legislative Council
Supreme Court
The Piratical Attack on the "Tung Kong".... The Departure of the Hon. T. H. Whitehead
Sad Discovery in a Hongkong Hotel
Russia and (ores
Avenging the Boundary Commission Murders Water Return........
Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals
The Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 14TH APRIL, 1900.
News has arrived from Allahabad that Mr..! A. H. Gunter, Punjab Civil Service, and Lieutenant Green, K.E., were murdered last month while out shooting near babkadr, North West Frontier. No details are given, and ne motive is assigned for the crime.
Official notification has been received in Manila, but not as yet published, that the Fighth Army Corps is to cease to exist, and that the military forces of the United States in the Phi- 258 lippines are to constitute a separate department 246 to be known as the Department of the Philip 257 pines.
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On the 28th of last month there was nearly a riot at Weihaiwei, some 700 Chinese having assembled, with arms of a most curious variety, to protest against paying taxes. About 420 of the Chinese Regiment, however, surrounded the malcontents and, behaving admirably, succeeded in disarming their compatriots without a single .260 fight.
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Olivers Freehold Mines, Limited
The Yang-tsze Insurance Association, Limited Correspondence
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Canton
Sandakan Notes
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Royal Artillery Sports
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
Hongkong and Port News...
Commercial
Shipping
Trick Cycling in the Happy Valley.....
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At 24, Morrison Hill Road. Hongkong, 7th i: st., the wife of JoHN J. PLAK, of a son.
MARRIAGE. On the 7th Ap il, by the lev rend J: II. France, WILLIAM Chaplain St. Peter'- Church, Hongkong, FRANK BAMBEY ta į LIZABETH TING.
PRATH.
Captain SMITH, master ss Taksang, at sea from cholera on the voyage from Bangkok. Buried or let inst, on 1 land of Puluway.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 9th March arrived, per M. M. steamer Ernest Simons, on the 9th April (31 days).
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Gonzales and Morales, two well-known Pilip pine ladrones, were executed at Carlos on the 30th alt.
It is reported from Amoy that H.M.S Alacrity, with His Excellency Admiral Sir E H. Seymour on board, arrived there on the 7th inst. H.M.S. Edgar (Captain E. G. Fleet) arrived at Hongkong on the 11th instant. brings reliefs for the China squadron and left Plymouth on the 2nd ult.
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The Emperor of Japan will visit Kobe about the middle of this month to inspect the Naval manœuvres and review the fleet. The details are not made public. It is reported, however, to be the intention of the Japanese Government to allow the public to witness the manoeuvres when they shall have reached that stage in which the contending squadrons engage in fighting,
It turns out that the tax to be imposed on Japanese tea godowns at Vladivostock was due to the mistake of the officials! A telegram has reached the Central Board of Tea Guilds from its representative at Vladivostock, stating that it has been decided that no tax shall be imposed on the leg godowns, the attempt that was made to impose the tax being in cousequence of a misinterpretation of the aw on the part of the officials. Japanese tea merchants have been apparently as successful as Japanese fishermen.
We are glad to see," says a West River correspondent, "that H.M.S. Tweed, accom. panied by torpedo bost No. 3, has again ap- peared on the West River to check, if not sup press, piracy in these waters. Since H.MS. Sandpiper met with her accident a d returned to Hongkong, there have been two cases of piracy both attended with loss of life. We also feel great pleasure that Mr. McGil, who, when in charge of the ill-fated torpedo boat No. 36, made himself so popular on the river, bas ro tarued again, this time in command of torpedo boat No. 38, a better and a faster craft, which shows that the Naval Authorities have the same good opinion of Mr. McGill as have his numerous friends and acquaintances.”
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It was reported in Shanghai mandarin circles on the 3rd inst, that Their Excellencies Sheng and Nich, in conjunction with Sir Robert Hart, have succeeded in obtaining Sir Claude Mac- donald's consent to an addition of 7 per cent ad valorem to the duty on foreign' imports" making the future duty 12 per cent, in all Further that the duty on opium will remain as before, as also duties on Chinese goods.
Judge W. H. Taft, the recently appointed president of the Philipine Commission; sį oke on the subject of the Philippines at a dinner in his honour in Cincinatti last month. He said:----
The commission is not organized. Its mem bers have never conferred together. I speak therefore for myself alone. I am not now end never have been an expansionist. I have always hoped that the jurisdiction of our nation would not extend beyond territory between the two oceans. We have not solved all the problems of popular government so perfectly s as to justify our voluntarily seeking more diffoult ones abroad. I do not think, in this instance, that we have voluntarily sought them. Circumstances beyond our control, the sequel of the Spanish war, have thrust on us responsibility for the future govern ment of the Philippines. The proposition is vigorously denied by high-minded and consicon. tious men, and by some with a fury of super- lative and epithet that is hardly consistent with a judicial attitude or an impartial con. sideration of the question. My conviction is that the calm investigation of the future historian into all the conditions existing at the time of taking each step toward the present sit- nation in the Philippines will lead him to con- clude that President McKinley and his adminis- tration selected in each orisis the only alternative which a due regard to our national and inter- national obligations would permit.”
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A correspondent who has recently visited North Borneo speaks very hopefully of the prospects of tho new port of Jesselton, situated in Gaya Bay ou the west coast of North Borneo. It will te remembered that it is to be the terminus of a railway, the other end of which is at Beaufort on the Padas River, whence the existing line runs to Weston. A contract for this Jesselton-Beaufort line has been signed by the British North Borneo Company in London, and construction is to commence almost at once. Jesselton is situated almost opposite the old settlement on Gaya Island, burned by Mat Sal- lh four years ago. The Gantian settlement at the northern end of Gaya Bay was formed replace it, but it has not been found a very suitable spot, and to carry the railway line along Captain Sherman, of the Wo Kwai, which to Gantian, instead of stopping two or three runs between Wuchow and Hongkong, arrived miles below at Jesselton, would mean a big in Hongkong harbour on the 8h inst. aud bridge over the Inanam river, which would be a reported a brush with pirates at Wong Mun pass costly proceeding. The new spot is much better the previous day. Two boats loaded with armed adapted both as a settlement and as a port. men suddenly made their appearance and shots The pier to be constructed-which will have the were fired at his vessel, several striking her. As railway taken to its head-will have a depth of soon as the pirates made their, appearance the 26 ft. of water, quite sufficient for all the ship- crew rushed down below, but Captain Sherman ping that is likely to require accommodation for some years to come. It is hoped that with prevented the men in the wheel-bouse from es- caping by erecting a barricade of bales of fea- these facilities and with the production of coal, thers which he was bringing down to Hongkong which exists along the track of the railway, that as cargo. The Captain then seized his Win- the Admiralty may be induced to look favouracly, A diplomatic report on the finances of Den-chester and, though alone, prepared to give the on Gaya Bay as a naval base. At the present mark for the last three years notes the starting pirates a warm reception. He fired two or three time the necessary Government buildings, the of the so-called · East Indian Company" for shots at the pirates, who deemed it prudent to Resident's house and Constabulary Barracks are the purpose of developing the relations between
get out of the way. The Wong Kwai had pass-being constructed at Jesselton. Denmark and the Far East, and in particular ed H.M.S. Tweed and a torpedo boat abont ompletion the Resident will take up his with Siam.
there and Gantian will be abandoned. seven miles up the river.
H.M.S. Centurion returned to Hongkong from practice on the 11th inst. and left again nxt day for Nagasaki, whence she will proceed to Weihaiwel to await the arrival of the Admiral. It is annouuced from Newchwang that Mr. Hosie, British Consul and Chairman of the local Sanitary Board, is going home on leave via Siberia. It is understood that be will be relieved by Mr. Fulford of the Legation.
On their