THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LIL}
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :-
Affairs in North China.
H.E. Li Hung-chang's Departure.....
The Cable Question
The Trade of Pakhoi..
The Need of Public Ground in Kowloon
The Crisis: Telegrams...
Hongkong Legislative Council
Supreme Court
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
The Crisis in China ...
Imperial Deoree
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 218T JULY, 1900.
Four additional ports are declared open in the Philippine Islands, Ubay, Mabanga, Guin- dulman and the Island of Bohol.
It is notified that in the year 1901 not more 42 than 48,000 chests of Bengal opium will be 42 offered for sale and not more than 4,000 each month, half from Benares and half from Patna.
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Three months' notice will be given if the 44 quantity is reduced.
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Hawaiian papers announce the formation last 45 month of an association of the prominent Chinese of Honolulu, all naturalised citizens or Hawaiian-born, for the purpose of securing their rights in the Territory and their recognition
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Proclamation by Chang Chih-tung and Yu Yinlin 50 Inquiry into the Recent Fire
The Fooksang Piracy Case
Affray in Queen's Road East
Plague Treatment
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The Gymkhana
Missionaries in China
The Population of Shanghai
The Attempt on Kang Yu-wei at Singapore
Appointment of Secretary of the Philippine Com-
The United Asbestos Oriental Agency, Limited
mission
Canton
Correspondence
Consular Report
Indo-China Steam Navigation Company
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
The Hongkong Rifle Association
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial-
Shipping
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as American citizens.
The total number of foreign refugees arrived at Nagasaki from North China exceeded 600 on 52 the 12th inst. Of the above 10 are at Moji, 100 at Unzen, and the remainder at Nagasaki, where the authorities are endeavouring to obtain hotel accommodation for refugees.
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On the 13th inst. we received a telegram from Singapore to the following effect :- Two Japanese were arrested here and im- prisoned. They sought an interview with 55 Kang Yu-wei, the Chinese Reformer, and it was suspected that they intended to assassinate 56 him. They have been banished for five years
and have gone away by the Sada Maru,
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It is stated that in view of the importance of the Far Eastern question, it is probable that an association, consisting of business men and On the 19th July, 1900, at 1, Seymour Terrace, members of Parliament interested in China, will the wife of E. W. MITCHELL, of & 800.
BIRTH.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 15th June arrived per M. M. steamer Annam, on the 15th July (30 days); and the English mail of the 22nd June arrived, per P. & O. steamer Coromandel, on the 19th July (27 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The news of the week from the North will be found in the telegrams from our Correspon- dents on p. 44.
Mr. Jesus Alvarez Perez has been accorded recognition as Consul of Portugal at Manila.
Lieut. Fernie, of the 22nd Punjab Infantry, has started with a company of the Punjab In- fantry for Amoy and is comissioned to hire 2,000 coolies at that port for service with the Expedition.
The King of Siam has decreed the abolition of slavery in the North-western, provinces of his dominions, the measure taking effect on the 21st September next. The slaveowners will be compensated.
Mr. Frank Taylor, who has been appointed by Viceroy Liu Kung-yi Acting Inspector- General of Imperial Maritimi Customs, is the statistical secretary to the Statistical Depart- ment of the IM.C. at Shanghai.
H. B. M. S. Whiting left Nagasaki on the 6th nst, direct for Taku. It was at first thought that she would go to Hongkong to have her damaged boiler repaired, but it has been decided to despatch her to North China.
be formed shortly with the object of educating the people by speeches and lectures as to the value of the interests which the British Empire possesses in the trade of the Far East, and of formulating and advocating a definite policy to be pursued by Great Britain when the present outbreak has been suppressed.
Shanghai from River ports on the 7th inst., The C. M. S. Kiangyung, which arrived at reports:-H. M. S. Pique and Linnet at Han- kow on the 4th instant; H. M. S. Woodcock at Kiukiang on the 5th instant; H. M. S. Snipe at Wuhu on the 6th instant; H. M. S. Hermione at Nanking on the 6th instant; H. M. S. Esk and a Japanese cruiser at Ching- kiang on the 6th instant; H. M. S. Rosario passed through Woosung on the morning of the 7th bound up river.
Chinese aver that Prince Tuan, the rebel Emperor, is not a member of the Imperial Clan at all. He is supposed to be the son of the Fifth Prince, Prince Tun, the fifth son of the Emperor Tao Kuang and uncle of the Emperor Kwang Hsu, but it is known to many in Peking that he is a suppositions son, his mother being a nurse in Prince Tan's family. By collusion with Prince Tan's wife, the child who is now Prince Tuan was introduced as the Princess's son. Though a Manchu, he is thus not really of Imperial decent.
It is eminently satisfactory to learn, says the Pinang Gazette, that, in the short period of have been able to unite by telegraph Penang eleven days, the colonial officials and employees and Province Wellesley, and therefore the Native States, with Siam and Kedah. With a minimum of 21 cents for a single mes- sage, Penang, the Province, and the Native States, can talk by telegram with Kedah and Siam, at three cents a word, which is, after all, a foreshadower of communication by rail between those parts, at three cents a mile,
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The figures of the Pay Department in the Philippines show that the United States are paying at the rate of over $32,000,000 (göld), per annum for the maintenance of the troops in the islands. 21 paymasters are kept contin ually busy looking after the department.
With reference to a report current in Hong- kong on the 17th inst. that H.E. the Governor had disallowed the proposed formation of a corps of additional volunteers (over 32 years of age), alarm the Chinese, we are authorised to state for the reason that such a step was calculated to that this rumour is absolutely without founda tion. On the contrary His Excellency would gladly view any movement which did not in- terfere with the present volunteer oragnisation.
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On the 15th instant the transports Nairang cruiser Isis arrived the same night and and Zibengla arrived at Hongkong. The
the Itinda and Nuddea also reached Hongkong, followed by the Dido on the 16th, on which day
Nawab on the 19th. The Taisang left on the The Uganda came on the 18th, the Umta and
14th with another company of Welsh Fusiliers. for Taku. The Nairung left on the 15th, the Itinda and H.M.S. Bonaventure on the 16th, the Zibengla and Nuddea on the 18th, the Uganda, Umta, Nawab and H.M.S. Dido on the 19th.
have received orders to proceed to Jambi waters It is reported that two Dutch men-of-war in connection with the proposed military expedi tion thither. The Sourabaya Courant says that the Jambinese are a war-like race. They are expert in throwing up fortifications, and also Winchester rifles imported from the Straits possess a large stock of Lee-Metford and Settlements. That journal also points out that war in Jambi will be hailed with delight by many traders in the Straits, who have latterly done little in arms-dealing owing to the increas- raffic. ing difficulties in the Acheen contraband arms
The following are the details of the official career of Dr. Mumm von Schwarzenstein, the Foreign Diplomatic Service (after having passed new German Minister to Chins. He joined the ̈ the examination in law and taken the degree) in 1885; he was appointed attaché to the Ger- Embassy in Washington from 1888 till 1822. man Embassy in Paris in 1887: Secretary to the
In 1893 he was Secretary to the Legation at Bucharest. In 1894 on leave. From 1895 to 1899 clerk (Privy Councillor of Legation) in the Foreign Officer Berlin, Political Depart ment; 1899, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Luxembourg, and during this appointment for six months chargé d'affaires at Washington.
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The N.-O. Daily News says:-We learn that the stoppage of work on the at Woosung is largely due to the action of Sir e Chinese fort Henry Blake, the Governor of Hongkong. While passing through here the other day by the French mail from Japan, he had an inter- view with H.E. Sheng, and drew Sheng's traveller, to the fact that the captain of some tention, not as Governor but as a private foreign man-of-war might consider the menace to all foreigners.and might make mind to destroy it. We hear that She so much impressed by this suggestion telegraphed it to Viceroy Liu, orders back that the fort was not to be put into dition which would make it formidable to Foreign Power,