THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLII
AND
China Overland
Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Weck, &c. .........
Leading Articles :-
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The Kution Massacre
The Military Contribution Question. Tho New Franco-Chinese Convention
The Reduction in the Bank Rate
Boycotting in Japan...
Massacre of Missionaries near Foochow *..
Cotton Mills in China
Reviews:-
The Currency of the Farther East The Life of Motogi Nagahisa.
Supreme Court :-
Sundah Singh v. F. Dannenberg
HONGKONG: WEDNESDAY, 7TH AUGUST, 1895.
Cheung Kam Tin (Defendant), Appellant, ». Won
Tik Wan (Plaintiff), Respondent.
Outrage by Customs Cruisers...
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Analyses of Rum and Gin
Alleged Incendiarism in Queen's Road...
Singular Fatality at the Central Market
The Alice Mem rial Hospital Concert
The Death of Sir Thomas Wade
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Another outrage by Customs cruisers in Hongkong waters is reported, two junks having been seized in Pokfulam Bay.
The Russian press look upon the new French Convention with China as a brilliant success for 03 France and a check for England.
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The Directors of the Shanghai and Hongkew Wharf Company have decided to pay an interim 97 dividend to shareholders of eight per cent.
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The Hougkong military contribution is to be settled on the same basis as in the Straits Settlements, namely, 17 percent, of the revenne, A severe typhoon occurred in Japan on the 9924th July, which worked great havoc. At 100 Kuchinotzu five foreign vessels were driven
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The N. C. Daily News says:-Germany is to 103 have a Concession at Tientsin, below the present .103 British Concession, and the news has given ..103
The Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co., Ld.103 general satisfaction at that port. Correspondence :—
The Kucheng Outrages
Disaster to a French Column in Tonkin
New French Treaty with China..
Canton Notes
The Japanese Minister in Peking
The Curnos-Kimura Case
Hongkong Aerial Flight..
The Typhoon in Japan
According to advices from Tientsin, the 101 N. C. Daily News says, the official deputed 104 by the mandarins to mark out the new Germau Concession at that port is Wu Ting-fang 105 (Ng Choy).
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It is notified by the Singapore Government 100 that the proclamation of 8th May, probibiting Serious Fracas on a French Mail Steamer at Kobo ...107 Chinese immigration into that port by vessels The Newly Opened City at Soochow..
..107 leaving or touching at Macao, Swatow, or Hainan, has now been entirely withdrawn.
The Proposed Woosung Canal
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping..
MARRIAGE.
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The now Tariff Convention between Great
112 Britain and Japan, that was to have been nego
tiated within six months after the signature of the Revised Treaty, received the signatures of the Delegates ou the morning of the 15th July.
On the 27th of July, 1895, at the Cathedral, Shang-
hai, by the Rev. J. Pates, M.A., HAROLD Baxter, of the Bank of China and Japan, Limited, to HILDA MAUD, youngest daughter of J. HENNINGSEN, Esq., Manager of the Great Northern Telegraph Company
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The Canadian mail of the 15th July arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of China, on the 5th August (21 days); the Freuch mail of the 5th July arrived, per M. M. steamer Sydney on the 6th August (32 days); and the American mail of the 13th July arrived, per P. M. steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, on the 6th August (24 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
No.6.
A despatch wired to Shanghai from Peking, the N. C. Daily News says, reports that the Governor of Honan has requested permission to open a number of mines in that province, begin- is declared to be essential to the success of the ning first with a coal mine. Foreign machinery
mines in question, and this is the reason why the Board of Revenue has to be asked for permission to import it. The Emperor has left the decision to the Board.
A Peking telegram of the 8th July, to the N. C. Daily News says:-Lu Ch'an-lin, the new Viceroy of Szechuen, has telegraphed a blame of the recent riots on Lin Ping-chang; memorial to the Emperor laying the whole
be should be the one to rostore the status quo and declaring that as he had count nanced them
ante. The Emperor has consequently ordered Liu Piug-chang to remain in Szechnen and settle the affair.
An official notification has been issued at Macao establishing a medical registration of deaths, the service to be under the control of a duly qualified doctor with a suitable staff. The cause of every death is to be ascertained and certified, no burial being permitted without a certificate. This, the order constituting the service states, will afford the most certain means the outbreak in its earliest stages. of discovering epidemic disease and coping with
Asiatio cholera has broken out among the Russian ships in Chefoo harbour. Thirty men have been attacked on board the Zubiaka that up to last advices only four cases had and twenty on the Bobr, but we are glad to state resulted fatally. Mat shed hospitals have been erected at Lighthouse island, where the men affected are being treated. There is a good deal of diarrhea of a virulent type among the Chinese in the native town and anthrax has broken out among the cattle,
The half-yearly meeting of the Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Co., Limited, was held on Saturday, when the report and accounts were adopted. Reference was made to the West River, and hopes were expressed that
A horrible massacre of Euglish missionaries the stream may shortly be opened to steam traffic. has taken place at Kutien, near Foochow. The victims were ten in number, eight of them being The Hupao hears that Lin, Taotai of Shang-ladios, one a male missionary, and oue a child. hai, will probably go as Minister to England vice Others escaped severely wounded. The houses Kung Chao-yuan, who is to supersede H.E. were barat, some of those who have lost their lives Courts of Berlin and St. Petersburg, the last of a fanatical sect of vegetarians. It has been si Hsing-yuan, Chinese Minister to the being burnt with them. The outrage was the work Dained Minister's term of service expiring next known for some time past that ill will was en- September.
tertained by them towards the native Christiaus A commission has been appointed to investigate and the authorities were appealed to for pro- the causes of the Szechuen riots. Mr. Tratman,fection, but neglected to afford it. Indignation Acting Consul at Chungking is to represent meetings have been held at Foochow and Shang-
hai in connection with the affair.
the British element and the Rev Spencer Lewis the American The commission is not
A French column operating against pirates in regarded as satisfactory, the general opinion Tonkin has met with a repulse.
We hear it has been decided to legislato against the chopping of the new British dollar.
The death is announced of Sir Thomas Francis Wade, formerly British Minister to China.
The banks have reduced their rate of interest on twelve months deposits at Hongkong to four per cent.
The export of rice from Wubu, forbidden last
year on account of the war, has been allowed
again by the Viceroy.
We (China Gazette) have it upon excellent authority that I i Hung-chang will have his seals etc., restored to him early next month and will be in the possession of all his former powers again.
being that it should have been composed of officials of high rank.
According to latest accounts from Tungchow, says the China Gazette, Dr. Sheffield is making only slow progress towards recovery. The stitch- ing in the extensive wound over his kidneys had given way three times, and it is feared that he will permanently lose the use of one arm and an eye. At best he can scarcely ever hope to be more than a helpless wreck.
At the audience of the Japanese Minister to Peking with the Emperor of Chipa on the 7th July there was again an improvement in the ceremonial, the Minister's credentials being borne by Prince Kung to the Emperor by the central flight of three flights of steps leading to the Throne. Hitherto the side steps have been used, the central flight being reserved for the 'Imperial feet alone.
A representative of the Kobe Yushin Nippo recently paid a visit to Captain Uchida, of the Japanese man-of-war Chiyoda-kan, now in Kobe, and received from him an account of how the Japaûese war vessels came to discover the Chinese men-of-war previous to the great naval engage- ment in the Yellew Sea. Captain Uchida said that about this time the Japanese vessels were constantly reconnoitring Weihaiwei and Shan- tung promontory with the object of discovering the Chinese men-of-war, but without success. When the first flying squadroa and the main squadron arrived off the Ta-long on the 14th of September it was learned from the Japanese scouts belonging to the army that Chinese war vessels were assembling in the neighbourhood of the Yala, and the Japanese fleet at once steamed in that direction, with the result that is now so well known, This is additional testimony that the engagement at Yalu was forced upon the Chinese by the Japanese fleet.
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