THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LIV.]
China
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :-
AND
Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG. SATURDAY, 31sT AUGUST 1801.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.,
181 The China League has appealed to Lord Lansdowne against the enforcement of a higher import tariff against existing contracts for goods to be brought into China.
182 182
The Chuchou Massacre
France and Yunnan
Nearing the End of Negotiations.
183
Questions before the Legislative Council
183
The Crisis: Telegrams
Hongkong Legislative Council
The Case of Inspector Mills
A Local Sea Serpent
French Railways in Yannan
China and Whitechapel
Swatow
Tonkin Notes
.183
The fact of France's telegraphic establishment 184 at Amoy is emphasised by the receipt at this office of a letter with the inscription Burean 188 Telegraphique Français à Amoy.”
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192
188
180
189
Russian Outrage at Newchwang
189 190
Northern Notes
190
Correspondence
100
Queen Victoria Memorial Fund
191
Supreme Court
191
Making Unnecessary Noises
Review
Sporting and Other Notes
The Gymkhana
Hongkong Rifle Association
Hongkong Cricket Club
British North Borneo
The Naval Yard at Hongkong
194
Hongkong and Port News
195
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
192
193
103
要求
There is an agitation in Germany against the removal of the astronomical instruments from the Peking Observatory. The Press urges their restoration to China.
Judging from a report on the coal resources of the Philippines, by C. H. Barritt, Chief of the Mining Bureau at Manila, coal will prore
one of the chief sources of wealth in the islands.
On Wednesday morning, at Shanghai, the 194 old Junior Mess of Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co. was gutted by fire. The China Fire Insurance is interested to the extent of 817,500.
194 194
105 .198
On the 12th August, at Miyanoshita, Japan, the wife of F. H. FRASEK, H.B.M.'s China Consular
Service, of a son.
On the 19th August, at Shanghai, Rev. D. and Mrs. MACGILLIVRAY, of a daughter.
On the 21st August, at Hafton, Singapore, the wife of W. März, of a son.
A fierce campaign is being conducted against Malvar, one of the irreconcilable insurgent leaders in the Philippines. It is said that American deserters and renegades are in com. mand of his troops.
The newly created Wai-wa-pu, or Foreign Office, has extended to all open ports, from the 1st of July last, the facility as to the "Draw. backs," which the Governor-General of Nan. king agreed to some time ago.
The Havas telegram of the 21st inst. states that Lieutenant-Colonel Marchand has been
On the 22nd August, at Raffles Hotel, Singapore, appointed to the head of the staff of the China
the wife of T. SARKIES, of a son.
DEATHS.
On the 31st July, at West Cottage, Wimbledon Common, HENRY Lowcock, aged 65 years,
On the 6th August, nt Shanhaikwan, John ARTHUR CECIL, youngest son of JOHN and JENNIE RICKERBY of Tongshan, aged one year ond thres in nths.
On the 28.h August, at the Government Civil Hospital, Louisa Jank UsHER, beloved wife of ALBERT COLLETT, Inspector of Police. (Wiltshire papers please copy.)
On the 27th August, at the Government Civil Hospital, BEHERAM ADAR ERANEE, of Eranco Bungalow, Kowloon.
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ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 28th July arrived, per M. M. steamer Indus, on the 26th August. (29 days); the English mail of the 2nd August arrived, per P. & O. steamer C'husan, on the 29th August (27 days); and the American mail of the 2nd August arrived, per 0, & O. steamer Coptic, on the 30th August (28 days).
Brigade, not to the command of the French troops, as Reuter reportal.
The delay in the announcement of the death of Prince Henri d'Orleans seems to have arisen through the breakage of telegraph lines in Indo-China. Consequently the news reached Europe long before it was known in China or in Indo-China itself, except the neighbourhood of Saigon.
The Echo de Chine learns from a reliable source that news has been received from the
Belgian missionaries in Manchuria, of whose position Li Hung-chang could give no in formation. Their situation is rather critical, but it appears that Tung Fuhsiang and Prince Tuan are not thinking of attacking them.
The cara'ry officers who were recently in China are persuaded that the Chinese pony is peculiarly suitable for work in India, and could be easily adapted to the new mounted infantry which it is proposed to call into existence
there. With the consent of the India Office a number of these ponies have already been sent to India to be submitted to certain military
tests.
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No. 10.
The German Emperor has conferred the rank of non-commissioned offloor upon each of the German guard who took part in the defence of the Legation under the command of Lieut. Count von Soden.
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Mr. W. W. Rookhill, U. 8. Commissioner, is considered at the State Department at Washington to have rendered admirable service during his stay at Peking, and, it is said, a high diplomatic appointment in Europe will be offered to him.
The Vengeance, battleship, which is being hastened forward at Portsmouth for service on the China Station, is to be ready for her gun trials by the first week in September. Her 12-in. guns can be loaded at any degree of training and olevation.
It is already known that very great distress has been caused by the recent floods in the Yangtze Valley, says the N.-C. Daily News. The hills round Wuhu are crowded with fugitives from the flooded districts, numbers are already dying, and widespread famine and pestilence are expected.
The following appointment has been made at the Admiralty:-Commander: M. Woollcombe, to the Argonaut, to date July 23. Lieutenants: F. G. St. G. Brooker, to the Tamar (T.), H. B. Wilson, to the Ocean, undated; M. MeG. Lockhart, to the Sandpiper, in command, to date September 3; H. C. J. Grant, to the Terrible (1st and G), to date August 12; H. L. Watta-Jones, to the Plover, in command, to date August 31. Sub-Lieutenant R. G. Hamond, to the Pigmy, to date August 12.
Dr. Morrison telegraphed to the Times last week that the Imperial Court was still con- sidering the Protocol; in the meantime im- mense quantities of arms and ammunition were being manufactured at the Chinese armonais and also imported from abroad Our Bhanghai correspondent telegraphed on the 28th instant that, according to a Peking despatch, the Ministers' meeting had approved of the Imperial edict forbidding the import of arms. The Protocol would be signed on the receipt of two more edicts, expected that night.
According to despatches received in Shanghai- from Peking, the personnel of the now Ministry of Foreign Affairs-besides the Controller- General, Presidents and Vice-Presidenta usual to the Boards of Peking, already noted in thes columns the other day-will consist of two Principal Secretaries, .e., Left and Right or Senior and Junior; two Under Seretaries, Senior and Junior; and twenty-four Attaches, namely, eight of the 1st class (Lang-chung). eight of the 2nd class (Yuan-wai·lang), and eight of the 3rd clam (Chu-shih).
A correspondent writes to the Standard that the overtures Russia is supposed to be making to Japan are to be backed in a more_tangible Prince Chun remains for the present at form by a loan from France to assist Japan in Basle. The explanation given is the Prince's her present financial diffealtios. This loan indisposition, but the Daily News correspondent would presumably be backed in a way by Rumia, says that the delay is due to political reasons, a position that Japan could scarcely accept, the Kaiser declining to receive the Mission whilst we may point out that France is apparent- until the Protocol has been signed. The Gerly getting weary of playing the accommodat man Press attributes the delay to objections ing banker for Bussia. Apart from the story, to the arrangements made for the Prince's Japan would in return probably be asked for
terms which she could not agree to. reception at Berlin.
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