THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLI.
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c. 5 1924 Leading Articles :---
HONGKONG: WEDNESDAY, 12TH JUNE, 1895.
The Japanese are now in complete possession of North Formoss, and it is unlikely that they .437 will meet with any serious opposition in the
south.
The Collapse of Chiness Resistance in Form sa ...438 Lekin
Spain and Japan
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The Taipingshan Reconstruction Scheme...... A Point of Procedure in the Legislative Council...439 Hongkong Legislative Council
Wharf Accommodation
Presentations tọ Mr. C. F. A. Sangster Presentation by the Victoria Becreation Club to Mr.
C. H. Thompson
Dakin, Cruickshank & Co., Limited........
The Hongkong Electric Co., Limited
Djédjiyé and His Inkhora
Hongkong Sanitary Board.....
The Sanitary Superintendent's Report for 1894 The Botanic Gardens in 1894..
Afforestation in 1891
The Caterpillar Plague of 1894
Storm Warnings. '....
The Colonial Veterinary Surgeon's Report for 1894 The Fall of the Old Victoria Hotel Roof.............. The Gymkhana Meeting..
Hongkong Golf Club
Hongkong Rifle Association
The Crisis in Formosa
The Handing Over of Fosmosa
Desperate Anti-Foreign Outrages in Baechuen A Financial Crisis in Peking
Serious Collision at Chinkiang
The Shanghai Cotton Cloth Mill Canton Notes
Mongkong News
Commercial
hipping
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The large sugar refinery proposed by many famous capitalists of Tokyo, Usaka, and Kobe last year is, the Hyogo News says, to be started with a capital of one million yen. The factory will probably be built in Osaks.
The annual report of Dakin, Craioksbank. & Co., Limited, shows that the net profits amounted 444 to $1,186, which, after payment of the auditor's 444 fee, has been deducted from the previous year's 415 | debit, which now stands at $14,774.
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.416 A serious anti-foreign outbreak is reported .417 from Chengtu, the capital of Szechuen, where 447 the various missions, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, have been destroyed by the mob. ...419 The French Bishop was injured in the disturb
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.430 A serious collision occurred at Chinkiang on the 1st inst, when the German steamer Tritos 451 ran into the Indo-China steamer Fooksang, doing 451 considerable damage. Both vessels subsequently 451 proceeded to Shanghai, whence the Tritos con-
tinued her voyage to Hongkong.
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H E. Li Han-chang, the ex-Viceroy of Can- ton, arrived at Hongkong on Wednesday by the 154 gun-boat Chen-to and was escorted by half-a- 456 dozen other vessels of the Canton flotilla. The usual salutes were fired. His Excellency left by the N., D. L. steamer Prinz Heinrich on At the Peak Hotel, Hongkong, on the 7th inst., the Friday for Shanghai and thence proceeds to his
home in Anhui.
BIRTH.
wife of the Rev. G. R. VALLINGS, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
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On the 10th June, 1895, at the Supreme Court, be- fore the Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, Registrar- General, and afterwards at St. John's Cathedral by the Rev. E. F. Cobbold, M.A., C. A. E. PTANKUCHEN, place. of the C. I. M. C., and son of the late Capt. E. B. E. Pfankuchen, of the Hanoverian Guards, Hanover, to CATHARINE AURORA (KATE), eldest daughter of Mrs. M. B. BUCHWALDY, of Hongkong.
[1232 On Wednesday, 22nd May, at St. Stephen's, Hamp- stead, by the Ven. Archdeacon Moule (father of the bride), assisted by the Right Reverend Bishop Monle (ancle of the bride), WILLIAM HENRY BEENAN, to
No. 24.
Our (China Gazette) Tientsin correspondent writing on the 28th ult, tells us briefly of a most serious state of affairs in Manchuria. The Viceroy Kan Su has telegraphed that the Ma- hommedans there have rebelled and that five thousand of them have already come out nader a standard of rebellion; and be, the Viceroy, asks for immediate reinforcements and wir material.
The steamer Ningpo, after lying at Canton for some days, left on Wednesday night, about midnight, for Formosa, with her original cargo of certridges, of which mention was made on the
arrival of the steamer at Canton. She was to` have taken a military official of high rank, de-- signated the Formosa Admiral by the antives. but we have not heard if he went in her. The shipment of munitions to Formosa at the pre- sent juncture appears a curious proceeding on the part of the Chinese. There can be little doubt that the previous shipments, although nominally intended to be used in the preservation of order, were really intended for the rebels, but now that the island has been formally handed over to the Japanese it is unlikely that any Chinese munitions of war will be admitted, whether they be intended for the rebels or for the regular troops, supposing that there are any loyal troops remaining in the island.
Considerable constraint, the Hyogo News saya, must have been felt upon both sides when Mr. Matsuoka, Vice-Minister for Home Affairs, re- ceived a deputation on the subject of newspaper suspensions. I he authorities have unquestion. ably been " 'going it" in this matter, and their conduct has excited great indignation and not altogether unnatural resentment. The delega- tion complained particularly of the long perioda of suspension as an abuse of the powers con- ferred. The Vice-Minister passed through the ordeal very well. He replid that the Govern
The death of the Sultan of Johore, reported by Reuter, will cause sincere regret in Singapore, On the 3rd June, at H.B.M. Consulate, Manila, by where is Highness was exceedingly popular. the Rev. G. H. Davies, of Hongkong, Harry Davies CAMPBELL JONES, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking He left Singapore recently for Europe to Corporation, to VICTORIA, eldest daughter of DANIEL obtain the best medical advice, being then in bad EAENSHAW, Esq., C.E., Lloyd's Surveyor and H.B.M. health. Favourable reports were received while ment did not resent criticism of its conduct or Acting Convul.
[1213 he was on the voyage, but the improvement must arguments upon its responsibility, bat it was have been only temporary. He could not have determined that inflammatory writing upon for. been many days in England when his death took sign relations should not be allowed. The peace of the country, he said, could not be sacrificed to Ats recent meeting of the Haiphong Chamber | the partisanship of its newspapɔrs.
If they of Commerce there was considered an application tended to produce another Koyama or Tanda to the Government, which was referred to the they must be stopped at once peremptorily, or Chamber for its opinion thereon, for permission very serious complications might ensue. to erect kerosine oil tanks, the oil to be imported exclusively by French tank steamers. The ap- plication, which was made by M. Vimont, pointed out that similar tanks had been established at Singapore, Hongkong, Shanghai, and the open ports of Japan, The Chamber recommended that the application be granted, but not under the form of a monopoly, the members being of opinion that it should be open to any firm to enter on this line of business that might desire to do so.
CHARLOTTE AUGusta Moule.
DEATHS.
THOMAS, aged 58 years.
On the 6th June, 1895, at Peak Hospital, WILLIAM [1205 At his residence, Taku Road, Tientsin, on 2nd June at 3 p.m., TaxNG LAISUN, M.A., Hamilton Col- Frivate English Secretary to H E. the Viceroy Li Hung-chang. Deeply lamented.
lege, New York, U.S.A., for over twenty years Chief
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
C. Daily News writes:-The recent war with The Tsingkiangpu correspondent of the N. Japan is already having some effect, even in this out-of-the-way city, in impressing upon the Chinese the importance of foreign methods and idens. Your correspondent has not seen for • long time a more ludicrous sight than the one he witnessed a few days ago in one of the suburbs some coolies lately onrolled as soldiers having a squad drill. The coolies, about a hun- dred in number, dressed in their own dirty gar- We (China Gazette) learn from authentis ments in all stages of dilapidation, were marching sources that the chief reason given for the deci- | and counter-marching, to the tune of “ strawfoot. sentation of the owners of the steamer Kowshing. file were trying to solve the mysteries of “ sion of the British Government, on the repre- hay-foot, strawfoot, hayfoot;" some in single goose for not insisting upon their claim of indemnity step," while others in rauks, tall men and short from the Japanese, was that it was held astate men all together, chatting the while and with of war existed de facto at the time the Kowshing | eyes staring in every direction but straight in was sunk. Acts of war had taken place that front, were going through evolutions which would morning, when the Cantonese cruiser was throw a foreign drill master into a frenzy of de- engaged with the Japanese ships and set on fire, spair. What a picture of military discipline-- The annual report of the Hongkong Electric and also between the Taiyuen and the Japanese chatting in the ranks, looking in every direction. Co., Limited, gives the profit on the working | cruisers. It was unnecessary to find which side and with the inevitable pipe or fan in hand! socount as $8,858, which transferred to profit commenced hostilities or to go back into the Fancy a member of a crack New York regiment and loss mocount leaves the latter with a balance earlier acts of war which happened between the or a Scottish Highlander with a fan in hand in to credit of $16,106. It is proposed to write off Japanese and Chinese troops on shore. Messrs. the ranks! And yet this must be the genuine $10,000 for depreciation and to carry the Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s claim is now to be article, for the Chinese say it is yang ta'ao (for- balance forward
I presented to the Chinese Government.
eign drill).
The American mail of the 14th May arrived, per P. M. steamer Gaelis, on the 10th June (27 days).
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