THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLII]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Weck, &c.
Leading Articles :—
The Governor's Despatch on the Blue-Bo Shipbuilding in Hong kong Public Laundries
How to Encourage Manufactures in Hongkong. Emigration from Japan
More Anti-Foreign Riots....
The Jury System
HOV
ONG: WEDNESDAY, 24TH JULY 1895.
In connection with the general election now being held at home a test, poll has been taken 57 in Hongkong with the result that 211 votes were recorded for the Unionists and 55 for the 58 Liberals.
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The British steamer Irene, which ran the 50 blockade during the war. has been transferred 69 to the Chinese flag and is to take Chinese disbanded troops from Woosung to the Upper Yaugisze.
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The Hon. i. E. Wodehouse and the Fire Brigade 60. Personalities in Journalism
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The Trade of the Port
Supreme Court :---
Another Complaint by the Acting Attorney-
General
Larceny
A Severe Lesson for a Forger.
The Rev. Dr. Sheffield, of Tungchow, has 61been the victim of a savage attack by two men, but it appears to have been a case of private 61 spite and in a way connected with the anti- 62 foreign feeling.
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An Absent Juryman Fined
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The Yaumati Arson Case
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Li Ching and Others . Wong Yuk and Others... The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, and Others
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
Sensational Rumour in Hongkong
Prosecution by the Public Works Department Result of the Hongkong Poll.
Macao Plague Statistics
The Punjom Mining Co., Limited.
Hongkong Rifle Association
The American Community at Shanghai and the Out-
tages in Szechuen.
Japanese Emigration
Soldiers in the East
The French Officer and American Seamen at Tien-
tsin
Terrible Outrage on Dr. Sheffield, noar Peking Hongkong and Port News
Commercial..
Shipping
one year.
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According to a Madrid telegram to the Comer- cio, dated 3rd inst. the export duty on rice in the Philippines is to be increased, also the im port duty on petroleum,· The dock (to by con- structed at Sibie is to be a floating one.
At a meeting of American citizens held at 65 Shanghai Terarding the recent outrages in
Szechuen
a series of resolutions was passed 65 urging, the Government of the United States 66 to immediately appoint a commission to in- vestigate the matter on the spot and fix the responsibility of the riots, insisting upon
the promp! and ad qu'e pnuishment of the guilty parties, and condemning a
more money indemnity.
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No. 4,
The Consulting. Committee of the Ewo Cotton 3pinning and Weaving Co. have decided, in view. of the great excess of applications for shares, to issue the remaining 2,500 shares of the Company,. as this will enable them to ruu a mill of 40,000. spindles, which en bo que more economically.
A despatch from Fuku ka, dated 10th inst. 2.19 p., says a coal pit at Komatsu, Tagawa, county, collapsed the previous day, and the fate of upwards of thirty colliers was not known. Another anti a later report says that owing to a snusidence of land near the Komatsu coal mine, Tagawa county, on the 9th inst., the mining field was inundate! The fate of thirty-seven or thirty colliers who were in the mine is not kuowni Another telegram despatched the following day says that forty-seven colliers were drowned.
A correspondent has courteously sent us (N. C Daily News) news regarding the state of affairs
Sz chuch up to the 2nd inst. At Kiating the missionaries were still in the yamen. There were threats of further trouble and the position At Yachon all was one calling for attention. was quiet. The officials had appealed to the people not to destroy anything now the foreigners bach
and had asked the missionaries gene, not to return yet. A riot was reported from. Hochon on the previous day. The new Viceroy had arrived at Chengtn, but the people were still excited and threatening trouble in the event of From the report of the Banque de l'ind - rioters being punished. Chungking was re- Chine for last your wo learn that quite recently ported quist, but the country around unsettled, 71 the French Minister of Finance has authorise!and some parts unsafe.
that institution to have struck at the Paris Mint sufficieht French trade dollars to satisfy The following p:oclamation, we learn from the its requirements. The Banque do Indo-Chine, N. C. Daily News, has been issued at Nanking like the other Banks in the Far East, has been by the Viboroy Chang-Missionary chapels suffering from the searcity of Mexican dollars, have been established in China for a number of and the messure now decided upon has been years and the schools and hospitals open in their adopted in const quɛnce. It would appear, connection have performed what they profess to however, that it is only of a temporary character.de. In fact, as charity institutions, they are far The report urges that permission should be superior to our own Chiness establishments of freely accorded to coin the dollars at any time the same nature. If therefore, there be any according to the requirements of trade.
ignorant persous who should dare to collect a crowd for the purpose of creating a riot against missionary institutions, they will be instantly arrested and severely punished. This is not a heed to this proclamation." The Viceroy Chang mere threat, but we command all to pay earnest has thus mado an open acknowledgment of the value of missionary work and the good done by
On the 30th June, at Manila, MARGARET HELEN, daughter of EDWIN and HELEN I. SUTCLIFFE, aged 1502 At Bangkok, on the night of the 10th inst., Mr. JAMES BIBBY, late Chief Engineer of the steamer Mongkut, aged 45 years, a member of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders o: Hongkong. Liver- pool papers please copy.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The Americau mail of the 24th June arrived, per P, M. steamer Peru, on the 18th July (24 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The now buildings of the French Consulate. at Shanghai were inaugurated on the 14th inst. The Shanghai Sumatra Tobacco Co. declares a dividend of 50 per cent où the working for the past year.
The steamer Wuotan, on arrival at Singapore from Amoy on the 9th inst, was seized by the authorities ou a charge of having smuggled opium on board. She was released next day on a bond being given for her production when called upon.
The report of the Grand Hotel, Limited, Yokohama, for the half-year ended 30th June last shows that the net profit, including balance brought forward from the 31st December, 1894, and after providing for general expenses, direc. tors' and auditor's fees, bonus to manager, in- terest, and depreciation, and after writing off bad debts, amounts to $40,000, which it is pro posed to apply as follows:-In payment of a dividend of 10 per cent. for the half year $25,000, reduction of debt $5,000, balance to be carried to new account $10,000.
We (Ching Gazette) learn that a project put forward by certain French engineers for the Kajao Creek to the sea, cutting off the whole cutting of a canal in a northerly direction from of Pheasant Point and giving access to the river from deep water at all stages of the tide, bas been put forward in Peking and has received it. very favourable consideration from the Tsungli Yamen.
The project is a very simple and economical one, the distance being only from two to three miles, through soil admirably suited for canalling. As an alternative to dredging the Woosung Bar, the iloa cortainly possesses many advantages, as the canal could very easily be kept deep and clear by occasional dredging.
'The captured ironclad Chenyuen, 7,500 tons Bagship of the late Admiral Ting, arrived at Nagasaki on the 10th just. from Port Arthur en route to Yokosuka, where she will be thoroughly overhauled. The vessel, the Express says, is a magnificent prize, and well repays a visit. She has on board a prizo crew of 190, On the 13th instant, an exhaustive trial took including officers and men, and the thousands of place at the Kiangnan Arsenal of several kinds visitors which daily throng the ship are all of smokeless powder, made at Lungwha under taken in hand and shown round in parties, the superintendenes of Deputy Yang, who is the sailors told off for this duty taking now in charge of the mokeless Powder. Works evident pride in their work. The Chuenyuen there. The trial, which took place in the pre- very
front during sence of Liu Tantsi and under the supervision the naval engagement off the Yalu, and as 8 of Mr. N. E Cornish, of the Arsenal's Ordnance result of that fight she bears no less than 410 Department, was, the N. C. Daily News says, in traces of having been struck by the Japanese every respect satisfactory, the powders compar. fire. her armour proved too good for the guns ing favourably with those imported from Europe against hop, and of a crew of 600 men only 17 Lin Taotai, who is the originator of the scheme, were reported killed in the action. The Mayor is to be congratulated, also the Deputy Yung, to of Nagasaki has rec ived, in the name of the whose energy and intelligence, we are informed, town, a piece of cannon and 28 centimetre ball the success is sol ly due. The plant for making taken from Weihaiwei. This prosent from the the powder was ordered through Messrs, Buch- officers of the Chenyuen will be placed in the heister & Co. from Germany.
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