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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLI.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :-
The Austrian Press on the Chinese Questiqu
The Meeting of the Shanghai Chamber of Com-
merce
The Taipingshan Resumption Question
The Licensing of Private Vehicles.
The Rebellion in Formosa
HONGKONG: WEDNESDAY, 29TH MAY, 1895.
Mr. Howie, who was captured by the Japanese at Weihaiwei, has been released by the Japanese 397 and was in Shanghai the other day.
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The Japanese Rescript on the Retrocession of Liaotung 400 Bobbery by Servants
Hongkong Legislative Council.
Hongkong Sanitary Board...
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Supreme Court:
Dakin, Cruickshank & Co. v. Airley.
Manuk v. W. Shewau...
Review:-
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It was noticed by a steamer passing Weihai wei on the 17th instant that there were only two large Japanese transports in the harbour, one of which was fitted with derricks, so that probably she was engaged in lifting some of the big guns for transport to Japan.
Amongst the list of birthday honours Mr. O'Conor, Minister to China, has been made a K.C.B., Mr. N. J. Hannen, Chief Justice and 403 Consul-Ger eral at Shanghai, has been knighted, ...403 and Mr. F. H. May, Captain-Superintendent of
Police, Hongkong, has been made a C.M.G.
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The Peoples and Politics of the Far East The Medical Committee's Report Supplementary Report of the Retrenchinent Com-
mittee on the Public Works Department The Report of the Director of Public Works for 1891..407 The Hongkong Volunteer Corps
Probates and Administrations in 1801
The Po Leung Kuk
An Escaped Prisoner's Fatal Leap into the Sea. Hongkong Rifle Association
The New Balmoral Gold Mining Co., Limited
The Punjom Mining Co., Limited...
Messrs. Llewellyn & Co., Limited..
Correspondence :—
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Sir Joseph Pease, Member for Tyneside, has moved a resolution in the House of Commons that the revenue derived from opium is morally indefensible and urging the suppression of its cultivation and sale except for medical purposes The resolution was rejected by 176 against 59.
According to a Reuter's telegram, Germany. France, and Russia have requested Japan to 400 specify the precise amount they intend claiming .410 as a special indemnity for the retrocession of the Liaotung Peninsula in order to accelerate 410 the withdrawal of their troops from the main
land of China.
The Taipingelian Resumption Question Foreign Missionary Rights in the Interior of China...410 Hongkong News.
Commercial Shipping..
BIRTH.
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At 2,.,West Terrace, about noon on the 26th May, the wife of T. K. DEALY, of a son.
[1132 DEATHS.
At Ryde, Isle of Wight, on the 13th inst., aged 80, CONSTANCE, widow of Colonel HUGH MITCHELL, R.M., and mother of the Governor of the Straits Settlements. (By telegraph.)
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The Mercury of the 20th inst. says-A sum of 2,000,000 taels, forming part of the provincial loan secured in the Customs revenue, was paid by a foreign firm into the Hongkong Bank early last week. It is perhaps indicative of the pre- sent state of affairs that up to-day it was not takeb possession of,
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The N. C. Daily News of the 23rd inst. says. -Some of the extra guards who were sent up to At Tokyo, on 15th May, 1895, at 2.30 p.m., HER-Tientsin for the protection of the Legations at MANN IWERSEN, Cousul for the Netherlands, Sweden, Peking have left the northern port. The Ger- and Norway in Nagasaki; born at Riepsdorf 1st April, mans were withdrawn some days ago and the Americans were taken to Chefoo by the Chung. king on Sunday. On the same day the Concord and Yorktown left with them on board for Nagasaki.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 26th April arrived, per M. M. steamer Ernest Simons, on the 26th May (30 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Mr. Ilayashi has been appointed Japanese Minister to Peking.
At the meeting of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce held on the 20th inst. it was mentioned that the question as to the importing of machinery for the purposes of cotton spinning had been settled in favour of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., who for some months past bad machinery lying at Shanghai awaiting permis- sion to be landed. A cotton mill under British management will be erected immediately.
No. 22.
A treaty of commerce between Japan and Brazil will shortly be concluded by the Japanese Minister to the United States and the Brazilian Minister of Foreigu Affairs, and at the same time a special emigration convention will be con- cluded by the two countries. It is said the Bra- zilian Government wishes for the immigration croachment of the national rights by Italians, of Japanese into that country, as it fears en- the number of immigrants of that nationality now being above half of the entire population. and thus the Brazilian Government now desires to see an entry into the country of Japanese sub- jects instead.
From last accounts it seems, the N. C. Daily News says, that Wu Ta-cheng, Governor of unan, is still at Wuchang, the capital of Hu- poh, not venturing to enter into Innan terri- tory owing to the united opposition of the people of that province, who refuse to have such a man
over them as Governor. A petition signed by all the notables and gentry of Hunan, containing over 10.000 names, has been forwarded to the Throne by Wang Lien, Provincial Judge and acting Governor of Hunan, praying the Throne to appoint some other person as Governor in- stead of the ous who had been instramental in branding the name of the Hunan army with | such infamy and disgrace in Manchuria.'
The Wochang correspondent of the N. C. Daily News writes: -The new cotton mill, the sheds for some time, is now being begun. machinery for which has been lying in temporary have heard on good authority that the old mill is to be handed over to a Chinese merchant or merchants, who will pay the Government a fixed rent. This will, if true, mean that in future the mill will be run on purely commercial lines, a desirable thing for all concerned. The mint has not yet been formally opened, but a few specimen coins have been minted. In design they only differ from those coined in Canton by the substitution of Hupeh for Kwantung. and by a corresponding change in the Chinese characters. The silver is assayed by students in the government school of mines in Wuchang, so should be more uniform in quality than that coined in the south.
A telegram dated Tientsin. 16th May, was Published in the N. C. Daily News as follows:-
France, Germany, aud Russia object to all fidan- cial schemes of China conferring special rights the reported proposals of an American syndi- on any nationality. This protest will frustrate
cate for financing the indemnity to be paid Japan, security for which was to be the concession for The Brigadier-General of the Manchu garrison the 25th inst. gave judgment in
The Acting Paisne Judge of Hongkong on the construction of railways, etc." In reference a case into this the Mercury says it is "authorised to of Chinkiang, General Pao Yi, has been ap-which the plaintiff sued on a compradore's deny that any such financial scheme as our con- pointed Tartar-General of Cantou.
order. His Honour decided that a compradore's temporary indicated has ever been in contempla- order was a bill of exchange under Ordinance 9tion. There have been no negotiations on behalf of 1885 and was therefore an instrument which of any American syndicate to pay off the indem. could not be stamped after executi, n and which city in exchange for any national conditions. or extinguishing any right or obligation, and could not be received as creating, transferring. which could not be received as evidence.
Hongkong continues free of plague. The disease is still prevalent at Macao, but the num- ber of deaths is reported to be diminishing.
Mr. Lowther, Secretary of Legation, bas been appointed British Charge d'Affaires in Tokyo pending the arrival of Mr. Satow, the new Minister.
China further inland.
The steamer Billiton, 195 tons, has been The Chinese, according to the Mercury, state burnt while on a voyage from Langkat 10 Pe- that the Emperor, advised by the Empress nang, laden with kerosine, and it is feared that Dowager, still desires to change the capital ofished. The vessel left Langkat on the 11th inst. all her crew, which numbered fifty, have per- and a burning mass, which from its position and A rebellion has been launched in Formosa the fact of the Billiton being overdue, left no and the Peking Government has been formally doubt that it was the cargo of that vessel, was notified that the island has declared its inde-seen off Penang on the 14th. Nothing was seen pendence. A general named Kee Hung-kuk of the ship herself, and it is supposed her sides is at the head of the movement.
had been blown out by an explosion.
English financial houses of high rank have pro- It is quite true that certain American and
posed a loan to China, and bare offered to finurice the indemity, but the proposal has not included any special conditions national or otherwise. The fact that the greater part of the capital is English may at once disabuse the mind of any syndicate has offered in the ordinary manner to reasonable man. It is also the fact that the same
find capital for the construction of railways. bút neither in this have any national or exclusive privileges been suggested. The syndicate is in the purest sense a mercantile one, and as we have stated includes financial houses on both sides of the Atlantic of the highest position.”
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