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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL XLII.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Weck, &c.
Leading Articles :-
The New Franco-Chinese Treaty Trade in Korca in 1894
The Military Contribution
HONGKONG: WEDNESDAY 21ST AUGUST, 1895.
No. 8.
Everything remains quiet in South Formosa According to a Tokyo news agency the Rus and perfect order is preserved by Liu. The sian Government has advised the Chinese Go- 133 Japanese army, however, is reported to be vernment, with the consent of Japan, to pay approaching from the North and early fighting 50,000,000 taels to Japan in compensation for 134 is anticipated,
the return of the Liaotung peninsula, and the Chinese Government has consented. The money will be raised through the intermediary of
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Mr. Wodehouse on the Fire Inquiry Ordinance... 135 Dr. Ayres on the Sanitary Board
The N. C. Daily News says:-It is not known what influences have moved him, but it is known that Colonel Denby, the U.S. Minister to Peking, has withdrawn from the Chengtu Commission 186 as formerly constituted by himself and the 138 British Minister.
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Spain and the Japanese Acquisition of Formosa...135 The Situation in South Formosa
Hongkong Legislative Council
The Colonial Surgeon " On the Rampage
The Military Contribution
The Assessment...
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Supreme Court:-
Discharged by Proclamation
Exemplary Punishment
Fire Inquiry
The Customs Seizure in British Waters
Mr. G. G. Brady's Farewell Concert
Shipbuilding in the Far East...
The Typhoon of 25-30th July.
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited. The National Bank of China, Limited. Raub
The Gymkhana Meeting.
Hongkong Rifle Association
Correspondence :-
Quarantine at Manila
The Kucheng Massacre
The Chinking and Northwestern Railway The French Claims in Szechuen Hongkong and Port News
Commercial Shipping.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
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The Spanish Ambassador to Japan telegraphs 141 to his Government that protocol has been concluded between China and Japan in which 141 the limit of Formosa is recognised as the centre of the Bashee Channel without pretensions to the islands to the south and south-east.
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Russia.
With reference to the telegram via Australia to the effect that Japan is about to expend› £8,000,000 on the construction of ironclads in England to increase the Japanese navy, We believe the Japanese Government propose to ordor four large ironclads and four large ornisers to be built in England. These are in addition to the ships on the model of the Centurion now being built on the Thames and a cruiser at Newcastle-on-Tyne. The vote will first have to be submitted to the National Assembly, but there is little fear of its meeting opposition at the present juncture.
The Kokkai states that a new cholera hospital 143 is in course of construction at Hirowo, Azabu, 144 Tokyo, and that it will be placed under the 145 charge of Dr. Kitazato, who proposes to treat
The half-yearly meeting of the Hongkong
Whampoa Dock Co., ....145 patients according to a new method upon which and
Limited, Was ..145 he has been experimenting since the outbreak of held on the 19th inst., when the report and ac ...148 the present epidemic. No particulars of the counts were unanimously adopted. Mr. E. Georg treatment are given, but it seems to be on the made some remarks with reference to the writ- 146 same principle as that elaborated by Dr. Kita-ing down of the Company's property and ex- 148 zato in concert with his master, Dr. Koch, in the 118 case of phthisis.
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At a meeting of the Hongkong Legislative .152 Council held on the 16th inst. a despatch from the Secretary of State with reference to the the table. military contribution was laid on Lord Ripon suggested that in future, instead of a fixed sum in sterling, 174 per cent. of the revenue should be paid. The Governor, in addressing the Council ou the despatch, said there were certain items of the revenue which ought to be exempted, as they had been in the Straits Settlements, items which might be called municipal revenue, and after the subject had been inquired into locally he would refer it to the Secretary of State.
The American mail of the 23rd July arrived, per P. M. steamer Gaelio, on the 15th August (23 days); and the French mail of the 19th July arrived, per M. M. steamer Natal, on the 20th August (32 days),
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
It is reported that the Chinese officials have refused to allow the Consuls to be present at the trial of the prisoners charged in connection with the Kucheng massacre.
There will shortly be no lack of steamers on the coast of China, as in addition to Messrs. Batterfield and Swire's five new boats we learn that Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. have two steamers on the way out from England and six more in the hands of the builders.
A telegram has been received at the Japan Foreign Office from Mr. Takahira, Minister at Rome, to the effect that the ratifications of the new Treaty of Commerce between the two coun- tries were exchanged between the plenipoten- tiaries of the respective powers on the 4th inst.
at Rome.
Reuter's Agency is informed that the Franco- Chinese Treaty only agrees to certain recti- fications of the frontiers at Chieng-Hung and not to the cession of the whole of that state east of the Mekong. The portion, however, conceded is so considerable that it is expected the Anglo- Chinese Convention of 1894 will be annulled.
The Queen's Speech trusts that the peace between China and Japan will be an enduring one; deeply regrets the atrocious outrages on Misssionaries in the Province of Fuhkein, and hopes that the active measures which are being Laken to bring the murderers and all responsible for them to punishment will prove effective.
pressed the hope that at the next meeting a larger dividend might be declared. He also suggested that the shares of $125 should be divided into five shares of $25 each. Re- ference was also made to the report current as to the intended construction of a new Admiralty Dook. The Chairman in reply held out some slight expectation that an increased dividend might be paid for the present half-year; the question of sub-dividing the shares, he said, would receive consideration, and with regard to the new Admiralty Dock he said that nothing but preliminary negotiations had so far passed and nothing that could in any way be conveyed to the shareholders at present.
Considerable development has of late been An Adelaide telegram of the 22nd ult. to the going on at Cape St. James, where a small town Northern Territory Times reads as follows:-The is springing into existence, for the accommoda- Hon. J. L. Parsous, late Government Resident tion of visitors from Saigon, who go there for One of the in the Northern Territory, has been appointed sea bathing and change of air. a Government Commissioner to visit China and Saigon papers, the Courrier, in a recent issue Japan to inquire into the conditions of trade urges the construction of a jetty and the exson- and manufactures in those countries and the tion of works to form a small harbour where the prospects of establishing commercial relations native craft could find safe anchorage in all with this colony. He leaves here in August weathers. In concluding the article our con- we have spoken . small port the cost of which next with a trial shipment of various products, temporary says:-Hitherto
would be small as compared with its the Government paying freight and all other only of charges. Mr. Parsons is also commissioned by the Pastoralists' Association to report on the usefulness, and, for the moment, we conne But it is permissible to prospects of establishing a wool trade with the ourselves to that.
wider view. look further ahead and take a East.
The day will come when the piercing of the The China Gazette of the 12th inst. says:-isthinus of Malacca will again be taken into We learn from a reliable authority at Hankow consideration. The work is regarded as utopian that the French gunboat Lutin left that port only by the English, terrified at the idea of seeing about ten days ago on a very mysterious mission. Singapore ruined. When that time arrives, vessels proceeding to the Her destination was kept a secret, but she was seeing that all known to have a greatly augmented crow on Far East, whatever their route, will have to board and was in charge of a pilot specially chosen make the Cape St. James light, we will be for his knowledge of the Tungting lake. Our obliged to proceed with the creation of a great informant has since satisfied himself that that deep water harbour. The steamers will come great inland sheet of water is her destination there to fill their bunkers with Tonkin coal, the and that she is on a mission to impress the law-sailing vessels to take in water, and thus we will less Hananese with the unpleasant fact, which be able to turn to our profit an important com- they have always denied, that a foreign gunboat | mercial current, which otherwise, notwithstand- can get right up to Changsha. She has not ing the loss of time, would be diverted to Touron. been seen since she left Hankow by any passing All this is very fine, we fancy we hear some steamer, and our informant has reason to believe one say, but it would cost millions That does that she has by this reached Changsha. If so not disconcert us, hoping us we de that when the the event is of great importance and signi- time arrives Cochin-China will be able to raise
a loan and to profit by it. ficance.
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