THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLII.}
AND
China Oberland Trade Beport.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c. Leading Articles :--
HONGKONG: THURSDAY, 29TH AUGUST, 1895.
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The Anti-Foreign Outrages and British Diplomacy.154 The British Consul and the Kucheng Massacre ...154 Torture at the Kucheng Trial
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France in Yunnan and the Most Favoured Nation
Clause
Increased Taxation of Opium..
The Peak Climate.....
The Military Contribution
The Navy League.....
Armed Cruisers..........
Further Disturbances at Foochow...
The Kucheng Massacre
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The Charges Against the British Consul at Fuochow...168. Kunan to be Opened
The Ling-ch'ibing of China.
An Old Violin
Supreme Court: --
No. 9.
The Chinese authorities have yielded the point | The French gunboat Lutin arrived at Yochow as to foreigners been present at the Kucheng on the Tuugting Lake, on the 19th inst. The trials. Six of the murderers have been convicted | French have undertaken the opening up of and eighty arrests made.
Hunan, and the Lutin's mission is in connection with that project.
The International Cotton Manufacturing Company was successfully floated on the 15th inst. and at a meeting of the Directors Mr. Brand was elected chairman.
The Japanese man-of-war Saiyen Kan arrived at Shanghai on the 22nd inst. in connection with the projected opening of the Japanese Settle- According to a Madrid telegram of the 16thment at Soochow The Suiyen is none other August to the Comercio the Spanish Govern- whose neglect to signal to the Kowshing caused than the late Chinese man-of-war Chiyuan, ment has decided to build another gunboat in the first disaster in the late war. The Chiyuan Hongkong similar to the Quiros.
on that occasion escaped, only subsequently to become a Japanese prize.
The Hangchow correspondent of a Shanghai 159 native paper states that a settlement has been ...159 set aside for the Japanese at that place: This 161 extends from Taikwan to Kungsin, and within that district land may be sold for houses and manufactories, though outside the same prohibi- tions as before are to be observed,
Leung Yau and Ma Fuk r. Police Constable
Leonard
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Li Fu, Appellant, u. I hang Chan, Respondent...163 The Extraordinary Death at Capsuimoon... The Portuguese Community and Dr. Marques The Postmaster-General's Report for 1894
The Report of the Acting Superintendent of the Civil
Hospital.
The Government Analyst's Report
The Punjom Mining Co., Limited.
Hongkong Golf Club
Mr. Brady's Concert
Correspondence :→
The Bank Rate and Dividends
Memorial to the Kucheng Victims
The Ling-ch'ihing of China
The Loss of the Soochow
Manufacturing Enterprise at Shanghai
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The N. C. Daily News of the 24th inst, says:→ 104 Germany is to have a concession at Hankow and Dr. Stuebel, German Cousul-General, with Dr. 161 Forke, Interpreter, is proceeding to Hankow 165 this morning by the Tating to make the neces. 168sary arrangement. The Consul General will 166 have au interview with Chang Chili-tung on his
way down.
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The American Minister and the Chengtu Commission.107 son & Co. to construct a railway from Peking .168 to Chinkiang, and the Imperial edict has been 108 already signed." In quoting this statement we ..168 do not assumo responsibility for its accuracy,
.168 but if true it is good news
The Investigation of the Outrages in Szechhen Lord Salisbury on Anti-Foreign Riots in China. Fighting in Formosa Hongkong News Commercial Shipping...
DEATHS.
authorities have appointed Mr. Chim Ten-yow. The N. C. Daily News says:- -The Peiyang a returned American student, who formerly tific College of Yale University, U.S.A., to be studied civil engineering in the Sheffield Scien-
Surveyor-in-Chief of the proposed railway be- tween Yangtsze ports and Peking, and a follow student, Mr. Cheng Ta-ch'i, together with several foreigners, will be associated with Mr. Chim in this work. The directors of the North China railway are to have the chief direction of the new railway only as far as the province of Chibli is concerned.
Refering to the mysterious wounding of HE .166 A correspondout in China of the Bangkok Wang Chih-chün, the special Ambassador to 160 Times writes: The Chinese Government have Russia last year, who was shot in the left arm 167 granted a concession to Messrs. Jardine, Mathe-by a would-be assss-in while driving in a carriage at Saigon on his way back to China and who asked for and obtained from the Throne one month's leave of absence to beal his wound in Shanghai, the N. C. Daily News says It is now alleged that H.E. was fired at by one of three Japanese passengers who accompanied him to Saigon, and who are presumed to have been seshi disgusted at the retrocession of the Liaotung pnted to the mission of H.E. to Russia. Peninsula to China, an event which they attri.
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The American Minister at Peking has tele graphed to the Shanghai papers stating that he had not assented to M. Tratman, the British At Old Charlton, Kent, on the 21st ult., EMILY, Acting Consul at Clugking, representing the beloved wife of Capt. W. C. WOOLLETT, A.F.D. American interests in the inquiry at Chengtu (late 27th Inniskilling Fusiliers), and eller daughter into the anti-foreign outragos in Szechuan. It In its course of financial reform the Chinese of Mr. and Mrs. P. GRIMBLE, Hongkong. Aged 31 years.
is reported that Liu, the implicated Viceroy Government, the N. C. Daily News says, intend [1781 On the 21st August, at 2, College Gardens, Hong has been appointed a member of the Commission to reduce the staff connected with the Tribute kong, ALICE MARIAN, the beloved wife of Captain F. D. Goddard, S.S. Haitan, Douglas Steamship Co.,
A correspondent at Tientsin writes to the Rice Service in the various provinces. It has aged 30 years.
[1756 N C. Daily News-Ling-chang is about to been calculated that under the present service Mr. OSCAR WIELER, formerly of Hongkong, at start for Peking to assist in arranging the new it costs the Central Goverument no less than Hamburg, on the 26th inst.
1789 commercial treaty with Japan. The Tsungli twenty-three taels odd for each pical of tribute At No. 70, Bluff, Yokohama, on the 14th inst., after Yamêu wished Mr. Hayashi, tho Japanese Imperial granaries at Peking! To curtail rice brought through the Grand Canal to the a lingering illness, HARRIET, the beloved wife of J. Minister, to go down to Tutsin to settle such a therefore the ruinous expenses in this service it H. BROOKE, in her 66th year, deeply regretted.
At Shanghai, on the 17th of August, 1990, CARL trifling affair, but this the Minister flatly refis intended to dispense, in the near future, with EDWARD GUTTZEIT, better known as CHARLIE fasos to do, saying that he is accredited to such high officers as the Grain Taotais, Grand Canal sub- Prefects, and Tribute Rice Transport Superintendents, eto. These posts are cou- sidered some of the "fattest" in the Empire.
BAKER, aged 60 years.
At Chinkiang, on the 18th of August, 1895, GEORGE THOM.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English mail of the 26th July arrived, per P. & O. steamer Bengal, on the 24th Angust (29 days); the Canadiau mail of the 5th August arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of India on the 27th August (22 days); and the German mail of the 29th July arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Oldenburg, on the 28th Au gust (30 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK..
Monseigneur Cordier. Bishop of Cambodia, died at Phnom penh on the 14th inst.
Port Arthur is said to have been completely dismantled and the Japanese garrison withdrawn by the 11th inst.
Poking and not to any provincial official.
The C. N. Co.'s stealer Soochow was lost on the 12th inst. of the North-east Promontory, Shantung, during fog, while ou a voyage from Chinking to Taku. The Court of Inquiry hold at Shanghai found that the vessel's going ashore was to be attributed to the influence of a strong cumstances one would not expect to find. The north-westerly current, which under the oir- certificates of the captain and officers were returned to them
The Tientsin correspondent of the N. C. Daily News writes: The Toyohashi Maru arrived at Taku Bar on the 18th inst. from Japan with about 1,000 Chinese prisoners. They were all clean and well dressed. Many had been wounded in very good health and spirits and remarkably in action and some having lost arms and legs had cork substitutes. Daring the day they were A general meeting of the shareholders of the mustered in lighters and junks and each vessel, Bank of Japan was held at the Bank office on under the charge of a Japanese military officer the 17th inst. In the half year ending the 30th and a number of armed soldiers, was towed up to Jane last the Bank cleared a net profit of Tsiatseau, the new city about twenty miles up 6,916,352.541 yen, of which 5,500,000 was earned the river, where each prisoner was formally handed from the purchases and sales of gold and silver over to the authorities. It was a novel sight bullion. A dividend of 15 per cent. per annum iu the Peiho to see, as they passed up, such a was declared at the meeting. An increase of large number of clean and well dressed Chinese the capital by 10,000,000 yen was also decided sitting down with the dapper little Japanese upon. Messrs. Yasuda Zenjiro, Hirose Saibei, sentries standing guard over them. And the and Uchida Kohei were elected directors. strangest part of the affair was the perfect Japan Gazette.
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