!
THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LI.J
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
357
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week. &c.
Leading Articles :-
The Inland Waters Opening and the New Blue
Book
The Chinese Emigration Question
Overcrowding and the European Population
358 358 359
Szechuan Revisited
360
Supreme Court
The Queen's Birthday Celebration in Hongkong
The Relief of Mafoking
The Tragedy in the Harbour
Burglary in Beaconsfield Arcade
Indian Famine Relief Fund
The Population of Hongkong
Japanese Safety Matches
Canton
Manila
Correspondence
31
The Star Ferry Co., Limited
Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co.,
Limited
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
Commercial
Hongkong and Port News
Shipping
DEATH.
360 3GŁ 364
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 26TH MAY, 1900.
Tan. Ex-viceroy at Canton, and Viceroy Sun of Yun-kwei, who have been stopping in Shang- hai for some time, left on the 15th inst. in the China Merchants' steamer Haean for Peking.
The Secretary of State has made his consent to the formation of a Singapore Rifle Corps conditional to its not interfering with the re- cruiting for the Singapore Volunteer Artillery.
It is reported from Peking that wild reports and rumours are being circulated in the city, and placards have been posted uot far from the 361 Legations, while well-poisoning stories are also
365 current.
365
366
360 366
36
367
368
370
370
376
It is reported that the greater part of the Russian Asiatic Squadron is now lying at Port Arthur. These vessels are expected to proceed northward before the end of next month, to spend the suminer at Vladivostok.
The U.S. flagship Baltimore, with Rear-Ad- miral J. C. Watson оп board, arrived at Hongkong on the 18th instant, from Woosung. 372 The Baltimore left for the United States on 374 the 23rd May, going by way of the Seuz Canal. A despatch from the Secretary of State was laid before the Singapore Legislative Council on the 15th inst.. expressing the opinion that the Governor of the Straits Settlements should be paid a salary equivalent to £5.000 sterling
At his, brother's residence, Canton, on the 18th instant, CHUN LEY KUM, of Hongkong, late of Melbourne, Australia, and Straits Settlements, aged 60 years.
Melbourne and Straits Settlements papers please
copy.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
in future.
The Peking Derby on the 5th inst. (Peking Spring Meeting) was won by Messrs. E. de Cartier's and Wihlfahrt's Battery Wheeler, Sir Claude Macdonald's Hazard being second. The Champion Stakes on the same day were also car- ried off by the joint owners' horse.
No. 21
According to a Seoul telegram received by the Japanese authorities, all the demands for mining concessions preferred lately by the Uni- ted States and French Ministers at Seoul have been rejected by the Corean Government. It appears that Japan's claim for the concession of the Chokusan gold mine has also been refused.
It is stated that the Japanese Minister for tion to the Governors of the various cities and Foreign Affairs, who recently issued an instruc- prefectures, requesting them to give every Corea, has ordered the Governors to give similar assistance to emigrants proceeding to China and
assistance to the people going to Eastern Siberia.
The minor Government servants in Singapore have their grievances about the cost of living and it is reported that they are about to appeal to the Secretary of State, seeking alleviation in the form of an increase in compensation. A. non-Government man writes to the Straits Times, complaining that it is not only on Gov. ernment servants that the hardship of increased prices falls.
The auriferous veins, rumoured for more than two centuries to exist in Siberia, seem at last to have been found. At least, the Tageblatt hears from St. Petersburg that the Englishmen who were authorised to prospect for gold near the eastern coast of Siberia, on the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk, have discovered immensely rich strata, described as a second Klondike. Colonel Osborne is said to have gone to St. Petersburg to ask for a concession for exploit- ing the goldfield. The Russian Government, however, seems disinclined to grant any conces sion to foreigners.
The French mail of the 20th April arrived, per M. M. steamer Indus, on the 19th May A Calcutta paper has the following telegram (29 days); the American mail of the 25th Aprilf State for India has sanctioned the proposal from its London correspondent:--The Secretary arrived, per T. K. K. steamer Nippon Maru, on
that Civil Officers shall in future count the the 24th May (29 days) and the English mail greater amount of leave as pensionable services; Yokohama Harbour.
: of the 27th April arrived, per P. & O. steamer also an increase of appointments eligible for an Clyde, on the 25th May (28 days).
additional pension of R1,000.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Mr. J. Patrick, assissant Inspector of Schools. Perak, died in Penang Hospital, recently.
Among the departures from Hongkong by the Japan on the 24th instant were the paid off crews of H.M.S. Whiting and Fame,
A Seoul telegram states that Mr. Gubbins, the newly appointed British Minister to Corea, arrived at the Corean capital on Sunday, the
13th instant.
Sir Claude Macdonald is steadily improving in health. He returned to the capital more than a fortnight ago and has fully resumed his official duties.
The torpedo-boat destroyer Fame sailed from Hongkong for Weihawei on the 20th instant. H. M. S. Orlando left the harbour on the 22nd instant, also for Weihaiwei.
THE Shanghai Taotai has just done a graceful act, which will be generally appreciated by foreigners, in making a personal contribution of Tls. 1,000 to the Indian Famine Fund.
H.E. Sheng, Director-General of the Lu-Han Railway, etc.. returned to Shanghai from Peking on the 16th inst., accompanied by a large suite, numbering eighty-two persons. It is reported that H.E.'s stay in Peking for the last six months was not only an expensive one, but that he has lost some of his former in- fluence there.
The Japanese Government has instructed the local Governments not to give passports for labourers going to Hawaii under any circum- stances till further notice. The immigration question as regards Hawaii requires (a Japanese paper remarks) the consideration of the Japan- ese authorities prior to the new Hawaiian Bill coming into operation. The Japanese Immi. gration Companies are making urgent com- plaints over the instruction.
With reference to a report in a Boston paper that Aguinaldo was in Singapore, that he had been interviewed there and that he had an- nounced to the Straits Times his intention of returning to Manila, the Singapore journal says: "We do not say that Aguinaldo is not, or was not, in Singapore, but we are quite sure that he has not had communication with the Straits Times, nor has any Straits Times repre- sentative interviewed him.”
The
10th inst. of the U.S.S. Hancock, with members The Japan Mail reports the arrival on the
of the Philippine Commission on board, in The members of the Commission are Judge Taft (President), Judge Ide, Mr. L. E. Wright, Professor Bernard Moses, and Professor Dean Worcester. families of several of the commissioners will stay at Yokohama during the summer to avoid, the unpleasant hot season of Manila. The Hancock was expected to remain at Yokohama proceed to Manila via Nagasaki. till Thursday, the 17th inst., when she was to
It is stated by the Japanese paper Chino that Baron Kodama, Governor-General of For- mosa, and Mr. Goto, Chief of the Civil Govern- ment Department, have interested themselves greatly in the problem of spreading Japanese aid to schools, fostering the establishment of a influence in Fuhkien. By giving substantial
newspaper, promoting the organization of a sericultural station, and encouraging navigation, they have succeeded in winning much public approval, so that the people of Fuhkien have come to regard Japan as a most desirable neigh- bour, and are showing a disposition to take her for a model in everything. There are traces of the enthusiastic penman in this paragraph, says – the 'Japan Mail, but we may assume that it contains some grains of truth. And yet a writer in Harper's Weekly in an article entitled "Japan's Failure in Cores" hints that Fuhkien should- ultimately, in event of China's break up, fall to the United States, as Japan has shown her in. competence to govern such a province.