THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLII.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c....... Leading Articles
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 12TH SEPTEMBER, 1895.
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Indian Control for British Diplomacy in China. 190 Secret Societies and t. e Responsibility of the
Chino e Government
.....190 Prospects of the Piece Goods Trade in China. ...191 The New Public Offices and Competitive Designs.191 The Military Contribution and Barrack Services. 192 Another Anti-Foreign Outrage in Szechuan.192 The West River
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Money Lending in the Government Service .198 The Polico Magistrate and the Chinese Customs
Survica
Chinese B nfires in the Streets.
Review:-
Europe in China
The Bank of China, Japan, and th Straits, Ld.,
The Japanese in Formosa
Great Storm in Formosa
The Colunist's Farewell
The Belgic Ashore
Supreme Court:
v. Cheung Kai's Estate
Ajn Singh. Li Hong Mi
Choo Foo Lau v. W. D. Leighton
The Military Contribution...
The Gap Rock Lighthouse
W. G. Humphreys & Co. v. Lee Pang Cho
In re Mi Cheung, Kwan Cheung, and Hung
Cheung Firms
The Illicit Traffic in Letters in Hongkong.
An Excess of Pakaongers: Heavy Fine
The Extraordinary Death at Capsuimoon The Gymkhana Meeting
Hongkong Golf Club..
Hongkong Rifle Associati n....
Correspondence
S. C. Farulam ♣ Co, Limited ........
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M. de France, the new French Minister to Bangkok, arrived at his post on the 24th August.
Mr. A. G. Wise, Registrar of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, has been appointed Puisne Judge, in which position he has been acting for some time.
In recognition of his valuable services to France while he has been Minister at Peking, M. Gerard has, we learn from the N. C. Daily News, been promoted to the rank of Minister Plenipotentiary of the first class.
M. Waeber, the Russian Charge d'Affaires in Korea, has been appointed Minister to Mexico. He is to be succeeded in Korea, as .198 already announced, by M. Speier, lately .198 Secretary of Legation at Teheran.
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We learn with much regret that Mr. E. H. Parker, of H.B.M.'s Consular Service, has been obliged to send in his resignation on account of ill-health. Mr. Parker, who has been at home on leave for some months, is suffering from
cancer,
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His Majesty the King of Siam in the coming 199 spring will make a European tour, says the Singapore Free Press. The precedent of the Shahzadah of Afghanistan, and the illustrated 201 papers, may have encouraged His Siamese 201 Majesty to the trip.
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Telegraphic information has been received at Shanghai from Chining, in Shangtung province, Bays the China Gazette, that the Yellow River has burst its banks and flooded several districts. ..202 A tremendous lot of damage has been done to life and property and the flood waters are rush, 203 ing into the Grand Canal.
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The Indo-China Steam Naviga îon Co., Limited. 201 The Magistracy
The Kuchong Commission.
The British Minister and the Taungli Yamén
Li Hung-chang
The Opening of Hunan
The Chengtu Rist..
Settlemout of the French Claims in Szechuen ......
Serious Anti-Cürietiau Rising at Hok Chiong Attack on a Foreign Railway Official at Shan-bai-
tuan
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Hongkong and Port News.....
Commercial
Shipping
DEATH.
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At the Shanghai General Hospital, on the 6th of September, CR. NISSEN, of Heiligenhafen, Chief Officer of the steamer Taiyick, aged 32 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French Mail of the 2nd August arrived, M. M. steamer Melbourne, on the 4th Septem- per ber (33 days), and the English Mail of the 9th August arrived, per P. & O. steamer Khedive, on the 7th September (29 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
It is said that the Russian Minister of Finance will shortly appoint additional com- mercial agents in China and Japan.
The American ship Henrietta, while on a voyage from Yokohama to Kobe, went ashore at Satours on the 24th August and has become a total wreck.
A proposal by one of the Censors that the Chinese Dockyards and Arsenals, instead of being run by the Government, should be turned into mercantile concerns has been approved by the Throne.
The China Gazette says -An agreement is said to have been arrived at between the direc- tors of the China Coast Navigation Company and those of the Swatow Steamship Company, both of Hamburg, for a fusion of the two con- cerns, and meetings of the shareholders are to be called to ratify the agreement.
In reply to a petition by the Chinese share holders in the Bank of China, Japan, and the Straits, Limited, in respect to the claim for calls, the Taotai of Shanghai has laid it down that the holding by Chinese of shares in foreign joint stock companies will not be officially re- cognised; id est, that the Chinese authorities will not assist the foreign companies to recover calls.
Tientsin to Peking, having been superseded in Li Hung-chang has been transferred from the office of Viceroy of Chili and Superinten- dent of Northern Trade by Wang Wen-shao. Li is Senior Grand Secretary and will have the Presidency of one of the Six Boards. While his translation is nominal promotion it is be- lieved that it really means putting him on the
shelf.
The Peking and Tientsin Times says:We have heard an unconscionable lot lately about the lost prestige of Britain in the East, and the enormous advantages that Russia, France, and Germany have gained at the expense of "per- fidious Albion." But what is laying up the Mem- bers of the Tsungli Yamen now? By all accounts there is not a single member that is not suffer- ing from severe paralysis, and we fency Lord Salisbury infected them. At any rate, he has removed his base of negotiations from Peking to London.
No. 11.
Telegraphic intelligence has been received that the O. & O. steamer Belgic, while making Yokohama on her voyage from San Francisco, went ashore on Cape King, and it is feared she will be a total wreck.
The King of Siam has issued a proclamation requesting that the custom amongst the Princes and Nobles of making presents to His Majesty on the occasion of the Royal Birthday may cease. The proclamation adds that it would be a source of greater pleasure to His Majesty to know that princes, nobles, and officials did their duty faith- fully and well than to receive presents.
A circular has been issued to the creditors of the New Oriental Bank, Limited, in Liquidation, stating that the proceedings taken against the directors and other officers of the Bank, in accordance with the resolution passed at the meeting of creditors held on 20th June, 1894, have resulted in the matter being compromised, with the sanction of the Court, for the sum of £18,216 17s. 9d., being the amount of the last dividend distributed to the shareholders by the directors.
The ruling that a British subject in China or Japan cannot bring a counter-claim when sued in the British Court was referred to in a case at Shanghai on the 3rd inst. Major Brothers, Limited, were sued by a Chinaman and they wished to bring a cross-claim. This was objected to on the other side and the ruling of the Privy Council in the Chishima Ravenna case was re- ferred to in support of the objection. The Judge expressed reluctance to decide such an important point if it could be avoided and offered to go into the matters of account; if he found any sum due from Major Brothers he would make an order but if, on the other hand, he found the balance against the Chinese subject, then he would merely give an opinion that so much was due without any order. The plaintiff's counsel said an expression of opinion from his Lordship would have the weight of a judgment if brought to a Chinese Court, and his instructions did not permit him to accept the suggestion. His Lord- ship accordingly dismissed the case with the note:
"The plaintiff elects not to proceed with his case. The case is therefore dismissed, with costs."
About a fortnight ago we, N. C. Daily News, noted a memorial by a Censor who proposed that in order to encourage inventions and manu- factures the best way was to permit the people of China to build dockyards, ship- ries, etc., and form companies and syndicates to building yards, gun foundries, cartridge facto- work them as any other comercial undertaking. As certain of the Government arsenals and dock- yards were white elephants in the hands of the anthorities who simply fattened on them, it was also suggested to hand these over to com- mercial syndicates who were to build ou contract government orders as in England. The Emperor, we noted also, had ordered the Board of Revenue to report on the memorial. This report is now published in the Peking Gazette, and we are glad to see by the Imperial Edict of the 13th of August last that the Censor's memo- rial has been approved of in toto, with the ad- ditional inducement to the commercial classes of the country, that if ever they need funds to en large their works or to prosecute their contents, they will be allowed to borrow from the Govern- ment whatever is needed. The Consor's name is Ch'n Ch'eng po.
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