THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLI..
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :--
The New Chinese Loan
Lekin and the New Chinese Loan...
The Anti-Foreign Disturbances in Szechuan
Mr. Whitehead's Campaign
Mr. John Russell Young on Li Hung-chang
Death Registration
The Crisis in Formosa
HONGKONG: THURSDAY, 20TH JUNE, 1895.,
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It is stated that Li Hung chang is to ro ccoupy the post of Viceroy of Chihli
The Emperor of Japan returned to Tokyo on the 30th May, and was received with great en- thusiam by the populace.
M. Chavassienx, Secretary-General to the 458 Goverument of Tonkin, died on the 7th inst.,
from a severe attack of fever.
The Canton Government and the Formosan Rebellion.462 The Genesis of the Formosan Republic
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A memorial brass was placed in St. Andrew's Church, Tokyo, on the 4th inst., the anniversary Mr. Waters' Account of the Arthur Affair at Tamsui..463 of the death of Mr. Hugh Fraser, and a special Anti-Foreign Riots in Szechuon...
Reviews :--
Her Celestial Husband
A Thousand Years of the Tartars
The Silver Question.-Injury
and Manufactures...
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to British Trade
The Kyoto Industrial Exhibition of 1865 The Federation of Greater Britain
The Law of Wills
The Plague....
Engineering and Shipbuilding in the Far East Free Passages from Canton to Hongkong
Frands on Hongkong Banks
Mr. G. G. Brady at the Kowloon Institute.. A Dissertation ou Soap.
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service was held.
The population of Canton has been estimated hitherto ababout 1,800,000. According to statistics just published, compiled by the Chinese authori- ties, the population is 499,288 only.
Count Inouye, Japanese Minister to Korea, left Seoul for Japan on the 7th inst. All the 467 Ministers and Vice-Ministers accompanied him 467 as far as Ryosan as a mark of respect.
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A great fire occurred at Shibata-cho, in 489 Niigata. on the night of the 2nd inst., which .409 destroyed 2,4 0 houses. Five persons were burnt to death and twenty-five injured in efforts to extinguish the fire.
Supreme Court :----
Fenwick & Co. v. Basa...
The Fatal Fight on the Esther Roy.
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Criticising the Work at the Magistracy
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An Unsatisfactory Case
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Intoxicanta v. Chinese Medicine
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A European Attacked in Bonham Road Dakin, Cruickshank & Co., Limited..
Correspondence :—
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The Interport Rifle Match
The Opening of the West River. Hongkong Tribute to Dr. W. G. Grace The Shanghai Chamber of Commerce Canton Notes
Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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No. 25.
It is stated by the Japanese Press that the French Government has publicly announod to the Japanese Government that France has no hostile intentions whatever cono.rning the transfer of Formosa.
Further particulars received of the anti- foreign disturbances in Szechuon show that the outbreak is even more serious than at first reported. Tho missionary property has been destroyed at no less than five cities and is threatened at three others, including Chung- king
Fortunately, so far as is known at present, there has been no loss of life.
Some persons connected with the Grand Secretariat at Peking, through whose hands all memorials to the Emperor have to pass, have, the N. C Daily News says, recently compiled a book containing the majority of the memorials banded in by the metropolitan and provincial officials denouncing the recent Treaty of Peace with Japan. The edition is published anony. mously, but the introduction and prefaces to the work by the able pens of some of the highest literary lights of the country are said to form a constellation of satires. This work of course is a breach of confidence on the part of the com- pilers; hence the necessity of secrecy as to the names of the authors.
The new steamer Paknam, built on the Clyde for the Messageries Fluviales de Cochinchine,
A letter under date the 1st instant to a native. was wrecked near Penzance on the 13th nit.firm at Shanghai from Tokyo reports, says the 470 while going from Glasgow to Havre to take
the berth for the Far East.
According to the Peking and Tientsin Timca 471 H.E. Li
Hung-chang has been appointed 471 Minister Plenipotentiary. with H.E. Waug 472 Wên-bsao as Assistant Plenipotentiary, to 472 473 negotiate all matters ponding. between China
and Japan.
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On the 24th April, 1895, in London, the wife of Lieutenant PRICE VAUGHAN LEWES, R.N., D.S.O. H.M.S. Spartan, of a son.
[1249 On the 15th May, 1895, at 3, an der Moorweide, Hamburg, the wife of HERMANN HARMS, of a son.
[1265 MARRIAGE.
On the 12th June, 1895, at the British Vice Con- sulate, E. T. C. Werner, Esq., Macao, and afterwards by the Rev. C. W. Swan, Captain WALTER HARVIE
DEATHS.
WOTTON, steamer Phra Nang, to FLORENCE ANNIE THERESA WHITE, eldest daughter of J. R. White, Esq., Macao.
[1266 On the 20th April, 1895 (suddenly), at Somerside, Belmont Avenue, Kow, Victoris, JOHN HADDOW MACDONALD, late of Cathay, Portobello, Scotland, and formerly of Hongkong.
[1370 At 78, Porchester Terrace, London, suddenly, on the 10th inst., CONSTANCE MARY INNES, eldest daughter of ARTHUR (and EDITHS ANDERSON, aged 16 years. By telegram.
[1233 At 6.30 p.m., 4th June, at his residence, No. 5D, Bluff, Yokohama, of Bright's disease of the kidneys, complicated with pneumonia, LEWIS DAVIS, aged 5i|
years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 10th May arrived, per M. M. steamer Saghalien, on the 12th June. (33 days); and the English mail of the 17th May arrived, per P. & O. steamer Khedive, on the 16th June (30 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
A few sporadic cases of plaguo have occurred at Hongkong during the past week. At Macao the epidemic is abating.
On the 9th May the Hon. T. H. Whitehead addressed the Colonial Party in the House of Commons on the subject of Hongkong. On the 11th May he had an interview with Lord Ripon, as a result of which it is understood the Secretary of State has agreed to place one or two unofficial members on the Executive Council and is fav. ourably considering the question of adding two unofficial members to the Legislative Council.
N. C. Daily News, that the Japanese are making their preparations quietly and thoroughly to resist any invasion of their islands by a foreign Power. Torpedoes by the thousand have been placed ready for instant use at all important points and the large guns captured from China have come in very handy for the fortifications of the various ports and naval stations. Largo numbers of troops, also, have come back from Manchuria, but not a single soldier has been allowed to return home. The native newspapers
dare not say anything of all this for fear of suspension or extinction.
From Amoy we learn that on the arrival of General Sung's soldiers at Amoy on the 31st ult, from Kelung, where they had refused to join the rebels, most of them were dispatched to a place called Chuan Chow, where the According to a Reuter's telegram five French Banks have signed an agreement to lend China authorities are apprehensive of a rising taking
place. £15,000,000 under a Russian Government gna-independence of Formosa and the appent Copies of the declaration of the rantee. The rate of interest on the new loan for the sympathy of all Chines werd
distributed all being
over Fobkien, and will be 4 per cent. per annum; the security, the Customs at the treaty ports and an absolute might possibly have stirred op a revolution. Russian guarantee; the issue price about 98.ary spirit had it not been for the ignominious The Chinese, it appears, wanted to borrow on a collapse of the Republic, which is likely to silver basis, but the gold basia was insisted on.
quench any enthusiasm that might have been created by the brave words of the declaration,
Matters were
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Owing to the large influx of disbanded soldiers at Amoy some apprehension seems to have been
Consequent upon the departure of Mr. Troup felt by the foreign community lost rioting and H.B.M's. Consul at Yokohama, on leave, several changes take place in the British Consulates at plundering should be indulged in. considered so serious that the British residents the different open ports of Japan. Mr. Enslie asked the Consul to wire for assistance. The not desiring to have Kobe, Mr. J. C. Hall, Consul, however, did not think such a step Consul at Hakodato, relieves Mr. Troup. Mr. necessary, but the French gunboat Forfait and the Hall's place is to be taken by Mr. Chalmers, ro- German gunboat Iltis were dispatched to the port.cently Acting-Consul at Nagasaki. Mr Forster,
The Japanese have not yet landed in South of the British Consulate at Kobe, proceeds tɔ. Formosa. Lin Yung-fu, the Black Flag leader, Nagasaki. In noticing Mr. Chalaors departure bas assumed an arrogant attitude towards the Rising Sun and Nagasaki Express says that foreigners, and on the 16th inst. demanded the during his sojourn at Nagasaki Mr. Chalmers has withdrawal of the British guard. H.M.S.made himself popular with all by his tact and Rainbow, which had been despatched from willingness to oblige in his official capacity and Hongkong on receipt of news of the position of with his musical talent and good fellowship in affairs, promptly landed eighty-five additional social life. Our contemporary hopes the time is men, making the total force on shore 150. Acnot far distant when it will be able to welcome cording to latest advices the situation was him back as Her Majesty's representative at
Nagasaki, strained; but less critical.
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