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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLI.1
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :—
The Foreign Trade of Japan and the Silver
Question......
HONGKONG: WEDNESDAY, 17TH APRIL, 1895.
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The Harbour Master's Report
282 The Appointment of a Medical Officer of Health. 282 Scarcity of Water and the Plague.... Presentation of Colours to the Hongkong Regiment ..283 Hongkong Legislative Council Hongkong Sanitary Board...... H.M.S. Severn
Alice Mem rial Hospital.,
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The Mutiny and Attempted Murder on the Launberga. 86
Outbreak of the Plague at Macao.............
Disastrous Explosion at the Woosung Forts
The Peace Ne otiations
The "Feima" Channel Blocked..
Seizure of a British Steamer by the Japanese.. Affairs in South Formosa
The Japanese at the Pescadores.
Hongkong Rifle Association
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Mr. George Brown, British Consul at Kiu- kiang, has gone home on leave, and is succeeded by Mr. Brady, lately stationed at lehang.
On Saturday the Hongkong Regiment was presented with its colours by H. E. the Governor on the Cricket Ground. The spectacle was a brilliant que and there was a large attendance.
The trial of Koyama Toyotaro fr the at- tempted assassination of Li Hung-chang took place on the 30th ult. before Judge Tsarnoka, presiding, and Judges Shoda and Ando, As- sciates, and Public Procurator Karobe. The Court sentenced Koyama to penal servitude for life.
287 The Tamsui, on arrival at Shanghai from 287 Swatow, reported being stopped on the 5th .287 instaut, when nine miles S.S.W. of Turnabout, .287 by two Japanese men-of-war, which were in search
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The Government, the Shipping Firms, and the Strike.288of a certain steamer. It is more than probable, Presentation to Mr Bruce Shepherd
The Harbour Master's Report for 1891
The Silver Question
The Yangtsze Insurance Association, Limited
Correspondence →→→
The Japanese occupation of Formosa and British
Trade
Hongkong News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
290 the N. C. Daily News says, that the vessel in .290 question has already reached Shanghai,
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Terms of peace are reported to have been arranged between Japan and China The amount of the indemnity is said to have been reduced from $400,000,000 to $300,000,00) and 29% the territorial concession is to consist of the 206 Lino-tung Peninsula, no mention being made of the island of Formosa in the last report Russia, however, is said to object to Japan acquiring any territory on the mainland.
On the 12th instant, at 27 Caine Road, the wife of [81
M. A. A. Souza, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
On the 15th inst., at St. John's Cathedral, Hong. kong, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold. FRANK SMYTH, of Manchester, to EUPHEMIA BEATRICE MARY PLUM MEE, younger daughter of J. T. Plummer, Esq. of Hongkong.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 14th March arrived, per P. M. steamer City of Peking, on the 11th April (28 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Sporadic cases of plague have occurred at
Масао.
Vessels entering the ports of Tonkin from Hoihow are to be subjected to sanitary inspection in consequence of plague having appeared in
Hainan.
The Easter meeting of the Hongkong Rifle Association was held on Friday, Saturday, and Monday. The weather was fine and the meeting was a great succèss.
The dies for the new British dollar were shipped to Bombay from London on the 5th inst., and there is therefore a likelihood that the new coins may be issued towards the end of
next month.
According to a Tokyo telegram of the 7th inst. to the N. C. Daily News. Li Chin-fong (Lord Li) has been appointed Plenipotentiary, and has been formally acknowledged by the Japanese Government.
The Singapore Secretary of the Raub Austra- lian Gold Mining Company, Limited, has re- ceived the following telegram from Raub, dated 4th April: Crushing finished. 2,500 tons stone realised 1,050 oz. smelted gold." This is about 81 dwt, to the ton-an average crushing.
Since the beginning of crushing operations towards the end of 1890, with delays and difficul- ties by food and disturbance, delays and difficul- ties caused by machinery lost or damaged in transit, Raub has succeeded in crushing eighteen thousand seven hundred and forty tons of stone, for a return of fourteen thousand five hundred and eighty-six ounces of smelted gold, worth nearly £58 000, or say roughly $450,000.
By courtesy of Captain Nercock, of HIM.S. Caroline, which arrived at Shaghai on the 6th inst., the Mercury is informed that the Caroline visited Haichow on the 3rd inst, but there were no indications of the Japanese in that vicinity; where it was anticipated the Japanese would land preparatory to an advance on Nanking: Owing to persistent fags the Caroline had difficulty in approaching Haichow and was co siderably delayed thereby.
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Telegraphic intelligence has been received by Mesars. Wieler & Co. that the steamer Nord, on a voyage from Nagas ki to Shanghai, has been lost, and that the captain and crew are safe. No further particulars have been received.
The Shanghai Volunteers were inspected on the 6th inst. by Major Faithfull, of the Hong- kong Regiment, who complimeated the corps and said he would have much pleasure in making a favourable report to the Municipal Concil. Unfortunately as a spectacle the inspection was robbed of a good deal of interest by the rain, which began shortly before the hour appointed for the assembly, and continued in a pitiless downpour right through the parade.
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The anunal report of the Shanghai Horse Bazaar Co., Limited, shows a net balance to the credit of profit and loss account of Tls. 13,6 9, inclusive of Tls. 456 carri d forward from last a conut. An interim dividend of 3 per cent. was paid last November, which amounted to Tls. 2,700, and the directors now recommend the pay. ment of a final dividend for 1894 of 5 per cent., or Tls. 4,500, which will leave a balance of [Ils. 6,439 to carry forward to this year's accounts.
A Yokohama telegram of the 6th April to the Mercury states that General Sakuma of the second division has been appointed Viceroy of Liaotang. General Ngoi, of the first brigade, has been pro. moted to the command of the second division. General Ibaraki, head of the Civil Administra- tion at Kinchow, has been appointed head of the Viceroy's Bureau of Administration. General Fukuhara, director of supplios for the second army, has been appointed Chief of the Viceroy's staff.
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At the commencement of the peace nerotia. tions, we learn from the Japan Mail, the Viceroy Li proposed that an armistice be de- clared as terms of peace. Such a proposal had, of course, a step preliminary to negotiating been anticipated. The Japanese Plenipoten- to an armistice, but that before agreeing tiaries replied that they were not averso to it, they should require China to comply with certain conditions. Those conditions were, first. that Japanese troops be placed in occupation of Tientsin, Taku, and Shanbaikwan; secondly, that all the forts, barracks, and armaments at those places should be handed over; withdraw ber
China should
A special telegram to the N. C. Daily News thirdly, that dated Tokyo, 8th April, says Reports that troops from their positions there; fourth- Japanese soldiers killed all the wounded at Tien-ly, that Japan be given control of the railway chunngtai having been published, General Kawa. from Shanhaikwan to Tientsin; and fifthly, that hami wired to Marshal Nodzu, who indignantly contradicts the unfounded calumuy. Apparently the reports are from prejudiced and inimic quarters Letters from independent correspon dents with the three divisious of the Japanese Army engaged support this denial.
It is now stated, says the Kobe Chronicle, that the Ting-yuen is less injured than was at first believed. A minute examination is said to show that she is not structurally damaged by the dynamite exploded when she was aband ned by the Chinese, and that by patting new engines into her and repairing the damage done to her hull, she can be ad led to the Japanese fleet. Several divers are to be sent from Yokosuka to Wei-hai-wei, with the object of raising her. Those who saw the vessel shortly after the surrender of Liukung were of opinion that the Ting-yuen was so greatly injured that it would be impossible to float her. There is to be an attempt also made to raise the Ching-yuen.
China should pay all expenses incurred by Japan in carrying out the above conditions. The Viceroy took exception to these terms as 100 stringeut, but asked permission to con sider them maturely, which request Was of course complied with. Au interval of two days consequently ensued, and when, on the 24th nltimo, the Plenipotentiaries met again the Viceroy urge that Japan should modify her demands. Receiving a firm refusal he declared, after some further expostulation, that under such circumstances he desired to with draw his proposal for an armistice and to com mence the peace negotiations at once. It was therefore decided that the conference should ro- open for the latter purpose the follwoing day. It was on his return from this conference that the attempt on the Viceroy's life was made, iu atonement for which the Emperor granted the armistice at present in force. The convention does not affect any regions other than those of Chihli, Shinking, and Shantung.
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