THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL XLI.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :--
The China-Japan Treaty and the Powers
Civil Service Reform...
The Government and the Unofficial Members
the Sanitary Board
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Representative Government in Hongkong .340 The Medical Officer of Health and bis Qualifica.
tions
The Drainage System
An Anti-Footbinding Society...
A Public Library for Hongkong
General Barker's Farewell
The China-Japan Treaty...
The Situation in Formosa
Japanese Imperial Proclamation
The Terms of the Treaty
Release of the Yiksang
The Plague.
Fire on the M. M. Steamer Melbourne
Presentation to the Colonial Surgeon
tary Board....
Death Inquiries....
Resignation of the Nominated Members of the Sani-
The Audibility of the Gap Rock Fog Signals
The Currency of French Indo-China..
Supreme Court :-
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Lee King & Co., Appellants, v. Carlowitz & Co.,
Respondents.....!
An Abandoned Slander Action
Shanghai Spring Mesting, 1895.......
Opening of the New Central Market, Hongkong Another Capture by Pirates in Tonkin
HONGKONG: THURSDAY, 9TH MAY, 1895.
The Mercury bears that an order has been issued authorisng missionaries to be permitted to purchase land in the interior of China,
A special telegram to the N. C. Daily News dated Nagasaki, 3rd May, states that the re- maining vessels of the Russian fleet had left that port with sealed orders,
The Emperor of Japan contracted a cold in the train whilst on his way to Kyoto, and in 340 consequence the festivities which were to have 341 been held in Kyoto on the 30th of April were .341 postponed.
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As the Hon. P. Le Poer Trench, Minister to 342 Japan, is leaving for England on the 10th May .342 on account of ill health, the First Secretary of the Legation has been appointed chargé .343 d'affaires.
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A few sporadic cases of bubonic plague have occurred at Hongkong. Immigration from Macao and Swatow, where the disease is epidemic, 344 has been prohibited, and vessels arriving from .344 Cauton are subjected to medical inspection.
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Great uneasiness prevails in Formosa, where the Chinese troops and populace have become 345 turbulent in consequence of the news of the intended surrender of the island to Japan, and Marines have been landed for the protection of ..351 | foreigners.
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Hongkong Cricket Club Lawn Tennis Tournament ...351 Hongkong Golf Club
The Interport Shooting Match
Hongkong Rifle Association Correspondence -
The Anti-Footbinding Society Henry Purcell's Bicentenary Hongkong and Port News... Commercial Shipping...
MARRIAGE.
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The German Minister at Bangkok bas issued a notification that in future no servants of the .361 Opium and Spirit Farmers will be allowed to board German vessels for searching purposes. 351 Henceforth only Customs House officials will be recognised as authorised to undertake this work. Admiral Fremantle left Formosa a day or ....355 two ago for Chefoo and is due at Nagasaki about the 15th inst. Admiral Buller is due by the next English mail and on arrival will hoist his flag on the Alacrity and proceed to Nagasaki, where he will take over command
On the 5th inst., at the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception, Hongkong, by the Rer. Father Pedro Gabardi, JóSE PEDRO BRAGA, to Miss OLIVE PAU- from Admiral Fremantle. LINE POLLARD,
[950 DEATH.
Sydney, in his 70th yea", LUDOLPH THEODORE MEL On the 5th inst., at his residence, Sammerhill, LIN, the beloved father of Mrs. EMIL NIEDHAEDT,
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 29th March arrived
per M. M. steamer Manche, on the 3rd May (35 days); the English mail of the 5th April arrived, per P. & O. steamer Rohilla, on the 6th May (31 days); and the German mail of the 8th April arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Karlsruhe, on the 8th May (30 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The New Central Market at Hongkong was opened on the 1st inst.
The Shanghai Spring Race Meeting was held on the 29th and 30th April and 1st May, and the off-day on Saturday, the 4th May.
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No. 19.
While the M. M. steamer Melbourne, with the outward bound mails, was at Saigon, on the 24th April, fire was discovered in one of her holds. Her mails and passengers were trans- ferred to the Manche, which brought them to Hongkong. The fire in the Melbourne baving been extinguished and the necessary repairs 1st instant, arriving on the 4th. effected, she left Saigon for Hongkong on the
bears a peaceful appearance. The treaty between The political situation in the Far East now China and Japan was ratified by the Emperor ratifications was to take place at Chefoo yester- Kwang su on the 2nd inst. and the exchange of day. Japan has withdrawn her claim to the Liaotung Peninsula, so that Russia and the Powers acting in concert with her have no longer any ground of objection to the settlement arrived at,
The directors of the Mercantile Bank of India submit a general statement of the affairs of the bank, comprising bal.nce sheet and statement of profit and loss account for the twelve months for that period, after providing for bad and ended on December 31st, 1894. "The net profits doubtful debts, and including £1.049 14s. 11d. brought forward from last account, amonot to £17 930 9s. 7d. Out of this sum there has al- ready been paid £4,637 10s., being an interim: dividend for the half-year ended June 30th at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the “A” shares of the bank. The directors now recom- mend a distribution on the "A" shares at the same rate for the second half of the year. will absorb a further sum of £4,687 10s.. and This will leave a balance of £8,555 9s. 7d. to be car. arrangements are being completed for disposing ried forward. The directors would mention that of the present leasehold premises of the bank in London and for taking other suitable offices effected. The directors think it well to repeat whereby a considerable annual saving will be that the capital of the bank is in sterling, and that all sterling liabilities are provided for in sterling."
Another case of seizure of Europeans by April a strong band landed at Port Wallut, the News, that Chang Taotai, nephew of the Viceroy pirates in Tonkin is reported. On the 24th
It will be remembered, says the N. C. Daily port of shipment for the Kebao coal mines, and carried off M. Lyaudet, the Kebao Company's Li, and ex-Director of the Peiyang Board of manager, and his wife and child. Prompt pur-Ordnance, who returned to Nauking shortly suit was made, but the pirates made good their after the exposure of his having harboured a escape. Great indignation prevails in Tonkin Japanese spy in his department at the com at the outrage.
mencement of the war, was arrested last winter
above case, and that there having been no by the Viceroy Chang Chih-tang, acting under instructions from Peking anent the criminal proof to convint Chang Tantai of the charge made against him, the Nanking Viceroy had released him upon subscribing Tls. 300,000 to the war fund
the results of the war so far as China is con- The Japan Mail thus expresses its view of cerned:-Japan has shown the nation's what China is; has laid her prostrate for them to dissect at their convenience. What and how rapid will be the advantago they take of the situation we have no skill to prophesy. but that China will raise herself from the dust and recover the status of a great empire we can not for an instant believe.
From recent
de patches from Nauking, we now learn that this unlucky Taotai has again been arrested, again in accordance with instructions from Peking, bis accuser this time being none other. The Shanghai manager of the
than the widow of the decapitated General Wei Daily News-As several letters have appeared been supplied with proper modern weapons, Insurance Co., Limited, writes to the N. C. The widow states that if her late husband had Straits Ju-kuei, the ex-Commander of the Sheng division. in your columns referring to an attempt made which to induce a London company to treat for the Sheng division to be armed with, according to the Viceroy Li had intended the acquisition of the Straits Insurance Company, the assertion of the officers of the division, the it may interest your readers to know that a troops would never have been so panic-stricken telegram has been received to-day from the head as to leave Pingyang to its fate. Hence Chang office in Singapore announcing directors of the Commercial Union Assurance defeat and she asked that he should also be that the Taotai was the real cause of her late husband's Co., Limited, have resolved to withdraw from punished. For this reason Chang Taotai is all negotiations having reference to the once more under arrest to answer for the orime
The wages of tea-firers at Yokohama this sea son are from 24 to 35 cents a day as against 18 cents, the former rate, the rise being due to the fact that owing to the numbers of coolies dis- patched to the seat of war there is an insufficiency purchase of the Straits Insurance Company, of having supplied "antiquated weapons made
of sheet iron" to the Sheng division,
of men.
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