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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLII.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.....
Leading Articles :-
The Position in South For.nosa
The Withdrawal of the British Guard from
Anping
The Inland Sea Japaness Territorial Waters The Imperial Federation (Defence) Committee
and Military Contributions....
The Situation in Anping
The China Associa i‚n and the Withdrawal of the
British Guard from Auping Hongkong Sanitary Board. Death of Mr. W. Boss......
Supreme Court :—
HONGKONG: WEDNESDAY, 10TH JULY, 1895.
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It is reported, says the Kobe Chronicle, that a A Convention between France and China has new department will shortly be established, to been signed providing for the delimitation of 21 be known as the Department for Colonial | the boundaries of Tonkin and China. This
Affairs. It will superintend the military, co n. mercial, and general affairs of Formosa, the 22) Pescadores, Looboo islands, and the Hokkaido,
The attention of the Straits Times has been 23 called to the fact that the native community at 24 Singapore are regarding the new British dollars with a good deal of suspicion. The Asiatic money changers refuse to ohinge them at less than 3 or 4 per cent, disconut,
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The Hingking and Shanghai Banking Corpora-
tion, &c., v. John Murray Forbes and Others... 25 Hong Ying Choi and Others v. Leong Chow Shi-
and Othere...
Tooug Lung v. Router, Brockelm inn & Co. Biemssen & Co. v. Him Kee
The Squatters at Bas Poiut......
The Bailiff and the Bill Collector
The Inc-ndinrism at Yaumati Hongking Rifle Associat on
During the plagne epidemio Maois has been even more desired than was Hongkong last year, but the fugitives are now returning, and the steamers both from Honkong and Canton are carrying large numbers of passengers. The colony is now officially declared free of the 31 disease.
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The Boundary Agreement betwe n France and China. 31 The Chishima-Ravenna Case. Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
shipping
DEATH.
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At 61, Queen's Road Central, on the 5th instant, WILLIAM Ross, aged 44.
ARRIVAL OF MAIL.
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The French mail of the 7th June arrived, per M. M. steamer Caledonien; ou the 9th July (32 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK,
Some of the Szechuen refugees have arrived at Shanghai and give a harrowing account of their experiences.
Li Han-chang, ex. Viceroy of the Liangkwang. who has been stopping at Shanghai for the last three weeks, left for his home in Anhui on the
30th June.
From Jaran papers we learn that heavy rains have greatly swollen the rivers, bridges have carried away, and house along the banks bave basa flooded.
Dr. Kitasato, the bacteriolorist, received a communication a few days ago, says the Kobe Chronicle from the Sanitary (Hyzisain) Socie1y of Gond in that he had been elected an honorary `member of the Society.
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A Chinesa loan of £1 001,000 b›aring interest at 6 per cent. par sana a as been isgned in Lon- don at 108 through the aga oz of the Chartered Bank of In·lia, Australia, and Chios This loan does not affect the Rassian-Chinese loan.
According to Maleid telegram to the Comercio, the budget for the Philippines in alndes a vote of $100,0 0 or account of the es tablishment of an arsenal at Subic; «lso a vote of $500,000 for the construction of a dook at Bubio.
puis France in immediate contact with China from Laichon to the Mekong Valley, passing by the Namon Valley. The Convention also makes provision for commerce between China and the French colonies, and for railway and telegraph the projected buffer state in the north of Siam. lines to cross the border, and virtually supersedes
One of the beneficial eff»ots of the Japanese. taking possession of Fornosa will be an improve ment in our storm warnings. Dr. Doborok has frequently complained of the inadequacy of the meteorological information received from For- mesa, but this will now be altered. According to a vernacular contemporary the authorities have under consideration a scheme to establish a number of observatories in Formosa, namely, at Kelung. Tamsni, Takow, and Panghn Island, the most important being at the Pescadores.
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From the Chung Ngoi San Po we learn that the Tartar General of Canton, who went to Peking to o Isbrate the birthday of the Empress
The Choya Shimbun stitės that Cônnt Ito Dowager last year and returned to Cinton lagpok in this strain to a recent visito March, died on the 6th inst, at the age of lone respons ble for the return of th› Liotung seventy. It is said that he was ordered to go back peninsula. he circumstances connected with to Peking by the Emperor last month to take the return ar diplom tie secrets, and I am, another post.
therefore, prepluded from revealing them. I fool on this subject 'as k∙enly as anvb dy else. A Havas telegram reived at Saigon states | I was quite aware of the excitement that would that the finances of French Indo-China era in be caused by the affair. But just imagine the future to be vader the control of the Minister | cous: quences that would have followed. had I of Finance instead of the Colonial Ministr. M. | been provented by considerations of personal Picanon. Inspector of the Colo ties, has been appointed Finanțial Controller for Indo-China. It is proposed to make a grant of five million franes for AuDam and Tonkin repayable before April.
safty and convenience from taking the course dictated to me by my judgment. I need not describe those probable consequences, nor do I desire to make known the anxieties that filled my mind at the time. I leave these things to the discerament of posterity.""
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It is said tha nese Government does not consider itself a oerty to publish the papers connected with the Shimonoseki Treaty negotia. On our front pag will be found the prospectus The N. C Daily News of the 1st inst. says:- tions and with the return of the Liaotung of the first cotton mill in China started by peninsula until they have been laid before foreigners and under foreign control; for thongh Parliament. Hence the delay, about which some the promoters have tuonght it well to pat two are complaining until the next session is con- Chinese on the provisional committee, the con- ned. Meantime the Foreign Minister is pre-trol of the mill will be entirely in foreign hands. paring a voluminous report.
Various reports have been in cironlation as to
It is apropriate that Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., who have fought the machinery question So long, should be first in the field with a foreign
the Russian-Chinese loan. It was said that the mill. The eager dem nt for shares in this en-
whole mitter wis "off" and that Grminy was to get the business for the Deutsch-Asia ischterprise is shown by the fict that only 2.0 0 Bank, and subsequently that the Hoogkong and Shanghai Bank and the Dntsch- Asiatisch Bank were to issue loans of £3000 000 each The latest report however, is that the negotia tions with Russia have resulted successfully.
The new Trailty of Commeron signed by the Plenipotentiari of Japan an! Russia on the 8th June is said to have been ratifi «l by the Czar of Russia on the 18th. Although it is stipulat-d in the Treaty that the ratifioitions shall be ex- changed in Tokyo wi hin six months from the date or siguing, as both Govern:n‹nts desirs the early settlement of the Treaty it is probable, the Nichi Nichi says, the exchange will take place at no distant date.
hires ont of the 7.5 0 to b first issued rom til doubt that in the able hands of ́suc's a leading to be allotted on the ist instant, and we cannot firm in China, the Ewo Cotton Spinning unl Wing Co., Limited, will be a conspicuous
success.
Acording to an official report of the Burd of Wir, there were manufactured up to the 4th moou (May) in the Liangkiang, Lianrknang, Hakuang. Yii Chê. Chihli, Shanting, and Hunan provin es no less than 112,874 tits ang, or the ridiculous “two meu breech-1 ading jingals" invented at Nauking Inring the recent war. or an agerare of a little over 10 000 pieces, for each of thes provinces. Owing to the reputed superior currying `pɔwar off The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council 'aits iang over the morn weapon bought has givu jdgunt in favour of Japan with all from Europe, the Bart of Wir has ordered the costs against the Pninsular and Oriental provinces abiya namad timiufacture another - 3. N Co. in the) Chishimi case. The point at | 201,909 for distribution the nghoa the twentz. H.M 8. Rainbow, P'over, and Redbreast are issas wis whether the P & 1. Company were two provinces of the Empire. returning to Anping, but we believe it is not entitled to bring a cross action against the are
340 weapɔus intended to land any fores agai as a shore Emperor of Japan, and this raised the question guard. The residents will, however, no doubt whether the Lolan 1 S-a was Jipinasa territorial bo much gratifid to have the gaoboats in sight' water. The Japinėse Government's action for
damages still remains to be tried.
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