THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLI.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c. Leading Articles :---
The Exchange of the Treaty Ratifications ....... The European Middlemao in Japan.....
The Battle of the Standards
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The Sanitary Board
China, Japan, and the Powers
The Position in South Formosa..
The Treaty between China and Japan
The Amended Treaty
Supreme Court :—
Hardy v. Saville Smith
Hongkong Sanitary Board.
The Plague......
Precautions against the Plague.....
Victoria English Schools...
Wreck of the Pekin...............................
Arrival of the New Viceroy of Canton.......
The Proposed Public Library.......
Lawn Tennis--Canton v. Hongkong
Hongkong Cricket Club Lawn Tennis Tournament Hongkong Rifle Association
Tragedy on the Ship Esther Roy
The Beisure of the Tiksang
Piracy near Hongkong
Thibetan Soldiers at Kalgan
Gale at Tientsin
The Woosung Bar
Launch of a Steamer at Haiphong
A. B. Watson & Co., Limited.
Piracy in Tonkin
Gala at Chefoo....
Shipment of Troops from Canton to Formosa
Attempting to Dispose of a Dead Body
HONGKONG: WEDNESDAY, 15TH MAY, 1895.
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No. 20.
The Sikkim-Thibet Delimitation Commission to assemble at Gnatong this month, by which time the Thibetan representative will probably have arrived.
The N.D.L. steamer Karlsruhe has brought | ont a new crew for the German gunboat Iltis.is 367 The transfer is to take place at Shanghai.
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There has only been one case of plague in ...358 Hongkong during the week, that of a man who 359 came from Canton to take passage to America. 359 At Macao the deaths are said to average thirty
per day.
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,360 From information just to band, says the N. C. ....360 | Daily News, there is urgent reason for retiring the Japanese army in Manchuria, as a fearful famine is existent there, so that it is impossible 367 to obtain food for either the natives or the .387 | invaders.
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.968 An Anti-Chinese League has been formed at 888 Hanoi, Its object is the augmentation of the 868 | taxes payable by the Chinese and the interdiction 369 to them of travel in the interior unless provided ...863 with passports to be granted only after strict
..376 examination.
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The Bank of China, Javan, and the Straits, Limited,
and Its Chinese Shareholders.....
The Stranding of the Nam Tong Hongkong News
Commercial
Shipping..
DEATHS.
At Singapore the Chartered Bank and the Hongkong and Shanghai Bauk bave reduced 370 their rates of interest on fixed deposits to 4 per 370 cent. per annum on deposits for twelve months, 370 3 per cent. on six months' deposits, and 24 per .870 cent. on three months' deposits.
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At Yokohama on the 30th alt. twenty-one 371 houses were completely destroyed and fire partially by a fire in China-town. All the 371 houses destroyed, it is said, were insured, but as 372 the risks were distributed over nearly a dozen .378 offices, none will be to any extent affected.
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Troops are being shipped from Canton to Formosa, nominally for the suppression of the present disturbances in the island, but a suspicion is entertained that they are more likely to add to the disorder,
A Japanese Consulate will be shortly estab lished in Queensland. we learn from the Hyogo News, and Mr. Fujita, formerly Chargé d'Affaires in Mexico, is to be appointed Consul There are now 400 Japanese labourers on Thursday Island and they have been petition- ing the Government to this end.
We (Kobe Chronicle) hear that the Tacoma brought three Amorican financiers to the East, connected with well-known houses in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, who intend to offer We understand that they represent an American financial assistance to the Chinese Government.
of certain concessions in China, mostly in con- syndicate which, in consideration of the grant nection with the construction of railways, offers to raise the necessary sum required for the payment of the indemnity to Japan at a very low rate.
to the Japan Mail states that the Rhodora, from A telegram from Hakodate, dated 30th April, Tsuchisaki to Yokohan's with a full cargo of rice, struck a reef and afterwards ran ashore in Omori Bay, where she lies on a sandy bottom with a strong list. No lives were lost. The Rhodora. Captain Williams, is a British steamer of 1,691 tons, and arrived at Yokohama about a month ago with a cargo of coal from Cardiff. Another
describes the accident to the steamer Rhodora as a leak, and it is now supposed that the captain beached the vessel.
The report of the Norddeutscher Lloyd for 1894 states that the development of the pas senger and goods traffic to East Asia has not On the 12th May, 1895, WILHELM AUGUST FREDI-been influenced by the Chino-Japanese war. NAND SCHMIDT, aged 59 years and 8 months. [1045 The subsidised mail line to the Far East has re-telegram of the 1st May says:-A later report
On Saturday, 27th April, at No. 98, Bluff, Yoko-sulted in a profit of m.1,446,791 against m.995,188 hams, PAMELA MARGARET, the beloved wife of JOHN for 1893. CARET.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 13th April arrived. per P. M. steamer Peru, on the 10th May (27 days); the Canadian mail of the 22nd April arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of Japan, on he 13th May (21 days); and the French mail of the 12th April arrived, per M. M. steamer Oceanien, on the 14th May (32 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
An average of over twenty deaths per day is said to be taking place in Bangkok from cholera. The new Viceroy, H.E. Tan Chang-lia. ar- rived at Canton on Sunday and took over the seals of office on Tuesday,
The damage caused by the recent fire on the Melbourne at Saigon is said to amount to $20,000, which was covered by insurance.
H.M.8. Tamar, which is coming out to replace the Victor Emanuel as receiving ship, will be ready to leave Eugland in June.
The smokeless and noiseless powder invented by Mr. Sakurai is still being tested at the Third fort off Shinagawa, says the Hyogo News. It is proved that the two qualities specially claimed for it are real enough, but the explosive power of the mixture is somewhat weak. The inventor is effecting improvements.
A reign of terror prevails in Topkio in con- sequence of the depredations of the pirates, Following the abduction of the Lyaudet Family at Port Wallut three gendarmes who disturbed a band engaged in making a raid on a Chinese shop at Bacninh were shot dead, and at Do-son it was reported that the pirates had resolved to carry off three European women.
The ratifications of the China-Japan treaty were duly exchanged at Chefoo on the 8th inst. Peninsula, in consequence of the opposition of Japan relinquished her claim to the Liaotung Russia, and the tension which prevailed between Russia and Japan has consequently been re- moved. Reports have been in circulation as to the intention of France to oppose the cession of Formosa. but it is improbable that any action will be taken in that direction.
On the 1st of this month, says the Hyogo News, the Japanese Currency Inv stigation In the lawn tennis matches between Canton of doing nothing so far as the public knows, at Committee held a meeting, after a long interval and Hongkong played at Hongkong on Friday the Finance Department. It is solemnly as and Saturday last both the singles and doubles severated that the adoption of a gold standard were won by Canton.
for Japan was very gravely discussed thereat. The steamer Pekin, owned by Messrs. Mel- And the idea was not rudely rejected. But at snompo & Co., of Amoy, was wrecked on the 3rd the next sitting it is hoped the question will be intst., at Santi Point, on the voyage from Amoyonce for all disposed of. Surely we may Foochow. There was no loss of life.
anticipate a decision against change.
The report of A. S. Watson & Co., Limited. for 1894, shows that the net profits of the Com pany for the twelve months, after paying all charges, including general management, and pro- viding for all bad and doubtful debts, and with the addition of $10,180 brought forward from last year, amount to $76,470. From this there
has been written off for depreciation of furniture. fittings, utensils of trade, machinery, steam launch, buildings and properties, $14.857. lear- ing a balance available for dividends $61,613. An interim dividend of 4 per cent, was paid în November last, absorbing $24,000, and it is now proposed to pay a further dividend of 5 per cent. (making 9 per cent. for the year), which will absorb $30.000, leaving a balance of $7,613 to be carried forward.
cle writes:-Schools have begun to spring up The Seoul correspondent of the Kobe Chroni- like, mushrooms in Seoul. No less than seven schools are entirely under control of Japanese started to teach English to about 200 young teachers. The Rev. H. G. Appenzeller has
Koreans, for which the Korean Educational De- partment has appropriated a sum of $1 perscholar per moon. Mr. T E. Hallifax is on his way from Japan to assist Mr. W. da Flon Hatchi- Mr. N. A. dos Remedios, & young Portuguese son as teacher in the Royal Korean College, and (Private Secretary to General Greathouse), is teaching English in a school connected with the Korean Foreignffice. It is rumoured that French teacher will also be employed, so before long all the Treaty Powers will be represented and their subjects engaged in the education and civilization of the rising Korean generation,
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