THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LI.J
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 19TH MAY, 1900.
No. 20
The Japanese Crown Prince's wedding on The Shanghai Mercury says:-It is rumoured the 10th instant was a simple but impressive in the Settlement that the foreign jurist, to whom ceremony, according to telegraphic despatches, he dispute over the case of the Indo-China, 143 Great popular enthusiasm was manifested steamer Kowshing is according to Mr. Brod
throughout the country. The weather was
tick's statement in the House of Commons to le splendid. Addresses were presented by for- referred, is the President of the United States eigners at Kobe and Yokohama.
who will be assisted by the Hon. Mr. Foster, a official capacity during the the Chino-Japanese well-known lawyer, who visited the East in an
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CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &o....
Leading Articles :—-
The Commission's Task in the Philippines...
The China Association in 1899..
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Malaria and the Mosquito...
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The United States and the China Trade
Hongkong Legislative Council...
The Reception of the Terrible
Supreme Court
The Murder of an Indian Soldier.....
The Theft From the Dallas Company Supposed Suicide by an American The Theatre
Entertainment at the Club Lusitano
The Botanical and Afforestation Report Japan's Third Naval Expansion Schemo Japanese Immigration in the United States
A Jacobite Relic in Shanghai .................... Macao
Canton
Correspondence
The Alice Memorial and Nothersole Hospitals Humphrey's Estate and Finance Co., Limited
A. 8. Watson & Co., Limited
Hongkong Volunteer Corps ....
Hongkong and Port News... Commercial
Shipping
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The Nagasaki Press speaks of a report from 346 Peking that Russia has obtained the right to extend the Trans-Siberian railway as far as the Chinese capital. To achieve this end, it is 349 stated that Russia has distributed three million taels in the shape of bribes among the Minis- ters of the Peking Government.
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war.
The mandarins of the Shanghai neighbour. hood have received despatches from the South reporting the existence of a widespread rebel- lion in the provinces of Kwangtung, Kwangsi, Kweichou and Hunan. So far it is only known that the rebels are under one leadership, but full details are expected to arrive in a few days from the officials of the disturbed provinces in question. provinces the Boxers are reported to be getting From Shantung and Chihli stronger and stronger.
The Lu Han line having been completed as far as Chung-ting, the Russians have asked the Government, it is said, to send the proper officials with them to define the railway grant already held 351 by them for the line from that point to Tai Ynen the provincial capital of Shansi, and to assist them in purchasing the land for the line.
The Manila Times reports:-General Panta- The first passenger steamer up the Yangtszeleon Garcia, the rebel General who accompanied for Ichang and Chungking via Hankow starts Aguinaldo in his will o'-the-wisp chase through on her maiden trip on the 23rd instant. The the mountains with General Young's cavalry Pioner has been specially built for the passenge column at his heels, has been captured by Cap- of the river, and as well be seen from the notice tain Smith, General which
Fuaston's. Adjutant- appears elsewhere she offers facilities General, at Jsen, in the province of Nueva celebrated Yangtszes Gorges, for first-class passengers who wish to see the Ecija. When taken, Garica was on his slok-bed too ill to move, and was carried by stretcher to San Isidro, Funston's headquarters, where he is now receiving treatment in the hospital.
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On the 14th May, at Government House, Ber- muda, FRANCES ISABELLA, the beloved wife of Lieu enant-General G. DGBY BARKER, C.B.,
Governor and Comm nder-in-Chief of Bermuda, aged 59 year..
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On the 15th inst., at Idlewild, Seymour Road, HENRY HO SHAI-KAN, son of r. Ho TUNG, 20 months. Deeply regretted.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The Canadian mail of the 19th April arrived. per C.P.R. steamer Empress of `Jupar, on the 12th May (23 days); the German mail of the 4th April arrived, per N.D.L. steamer Sachsen, on the 15th May (41 days); and the American mail of the 17th April arrived, per 0. & O. steamer Doric, on the 16th May (29 days),
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Sir Henry Blake, with Lady Blake and Miss Blake, arrival at Tientsin on the 4th instant.
Shanghai has sent a third remittance, amount ing to Rs 45,000, to Calcutta for the India Famine Fund.
By order of the Imperial Governor of Kino- chow the ports of Hongkong. Canton, Manila, Hoihow, and all Formosan ports have been declared infected with plague.
Ill-feeling against the Hankow railway is reported to be growing, partly owing to several accidents which have occurred in connection with the construction and partly through the alleged bad conduct of the railway men.
The Corean Government's attempt to secure a loan of silver for the purpose of coinage is said to have been unsuccessful, the conditions being prohibitive, but it is anticipated that no difficulty will ultimately be experiencd in get. ting the money.
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The death is announced from Bangkok of the Princess Banna Bimon, aged 20, eldest daughter of H. R. H. Prince Nara. Her illness, which has ended so fatally, is attributed to over-exertions in nursing cholera patients, at her honie. The Bangkok Times of the 7th instant an ounces the death on the previous day of a ten-year old son of the King of Siam.
An United States War Office return issued on the 13th ult. states that the American mili tary forces in the Philippines number 63,585 officers and men, of whom 30,847 are volunteers. General Miles, Commander-in-Chief, in the course of an interview at Philadelphia, expressed considerable doubt as to whether it would be possible to reduce that large army in the course of the next few months
It is reported from Selangor, that Mr. G. T. Hare, who accompanied Sir Frank Swettenham on the Terrible to this port, is charged with a special mission in China by the Government of Federated Malaya. Mr. Hare has been asked, it is said by the Government to-touch at certain ports in China and inspect the porcelain potteries there. Mr. Hare is also to bring away with him they may be employed in the porcelain industry Chinese labourers from the potteries, so that which the Federal Government proposes to intro- duce in the States as an experiment.
good results are already apparent from the A Japanese vernacular paper remarks that recent Naral Manoeuvres. The squadron's move ments in the attack on the Miyama Defence Forts are reported to have been of especial benefit. The journal says the attack on an immovable fort by ships is the most difficult of all operations, as was proved at the bombardment of the fort on Liu-kungtao off Wei-hai-wei dur. improvements in squadron movements in such ing the China-Japan war. Investigations and a movement have been made and sought by
the Naval authorities since and the results were Forts towards the conclusion of the Manoeuvres. tested at the attack on the Miyama Defence The result was highly satisfactory.
The collection of lakin in these settlements, subject of a letter from the Chairman of thre says a writer in The Shanghai Mercury, is the Municipal Council, published in the last min- utes. I am pleased to see that the matter has been taken up by the ouncil in the way it has. A petty official had been arrested and the Council bad agreed to release him should bail be forthcoming to the extent of Tls. 1,000, and the Tuotai objected to it, etc. Such serious cases oaght to be dealt with a firm hand- and the Chinese Goverment ought to be given: to understand that a repetition of such a viola tion of socal regulations will not be tolerated. The excuses made by the Taolai are extremely lame, but it is to be hoped that the steps taken will put a stop to lekin runners over trying to make squeezes in the Foreign Settlement · again.
A Simla telegram of the 12th ult. reported that matters seem to be settling down on the Upper Burma frontier. Mr. Scott and his demarcation Mission had got well to the south- recently made upon them, and were continuing east of the Was country, where the attack was the alignment of the border unmolested. Mr. Hertz also, and his party, continued the message, north east of Bhamo, and friendly negotiations had got back from their expedition to the were proceeding with the Chinese authorities for the settlement of this part of the border and to prevent a recurrence of the attacks on British officials. A telegram a fortnight later says:-A report has been received from Mr. Scott's survey party on the Burmo-Chinese bor- der to the effect that Nalawt was to have been already demarcated from the south and here reached on the 19th inst. The line has been joins the section of the frontier on which Mr. Scott has been engaged, and the latter's task Mission may be expected to commence the march therefore, is probably by now completed. back into Barma almost immediately.
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