THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLII.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c..
Leading Articlės :—
The Kucheng Commission....... Sir Nicholas O'Conor
Sir Robe. t Hart
Progress in Siam
The Kucheng Commission.
Building on the l’raya Reclamation
Assault on Fo. eigners at Kowloon City. Supreme Court:-
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 18TH SEPTEMBER, 1895.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Mahommedan rebellion in the North-west .200 appears to be making serious headway.
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Leung Yau and Another, Appellants, v. Police
Cnstable Leonard, Respondent.- Judgment...212 Tang U, appellant, v. Inspector Stanton Be-
spondeat
Wong Purg Shi v. Kwan Yun Fat.
Tai Sin Foo v. Hopkins, Kum Hing & Co. In re Enn Cheong Shop
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Choo Foo Lau v. W. D. Leighton.-Judgment...215 The Belgic
Honkong Rifle Associati .
The Navy League
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Plans for the New Public Offices
The Verona in a Typhoon...
The Hiroshima Maru in a Typhoon
The Typhop of 3th August
The Hongkong Football Club
The Douglas Sie m hip Co., Limited
The U. S. Chengtu Commission
The Burning of the Yachiyo Maru
Loss of the Satsuma Taxes on Opium.
It is announced that Sir Nicholas O'Conor, the present Minister at Peking, has been appointed to St. Petersburg.
The British barque Satsuma was wrecked on the coast of North Chusan on the 6th inst. during a typhoon No loss of life occurred. The vessel was on a voyage from Nagasaki to Shanghai.
No. 12.
A Madrid telegram to the Comerico states that the project of a railway from Manila Government. A dock is also to be constructed to Subic has been approved by the Spanish
at the latter port.
An American Commission has been appointed to inquire into the anti-foreign disturbances in Szechuen. It is to consist of Consul Read, of Tientsin, an American naval officer, and an American missionary.
Another check has occurred in the work of the Kucheng Commission. The Viceroy declines to have any executions carried out until he is assured that no further claims will be brought. The Consuls are awaiting in-
It was recently stated that the Rev. W. W. Cassells had been appointed successor to Bishop Moule in the missionary diocese of Mid-structions. China. This, it appears, was a mistake. The Archbishop of Canterbury has approved the nomination by the C. M. S. of the Rev. W. W. Cassells for the Missionary Bishopric in Western China (Szechuen), Mr. Cassells was one of the Cambridge Seven "who went out under the .216 auspices of the China Inland Mission.
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A Peking telegram of the 9th inst. to the N. C. Daily News says The anti-Li party has scored another triumph. To prevent the Prime Minister from using his influence with the Emperor and Dowager-Empress, the enemies of Li Hung-chang have succeeded in getting the Emperor to decree that in future he is not to memorialise the Throne alone, but must do so conjointly with some other person of corresponding rank. In this way the anti- Li party will be able to learn all the Prime 224 Minister's projects and intentions.
The Mabommedan Kebellion in North-West China...28 The Impor ation of Coolie Labour in British North
Borneo .....
.210 The Chinese Government and the Secret Society Plea 210 Hongkong and Port News.
Commercial
Shipping
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At Shanghai, on the 14th inst., the wife of GUSTAV MELCHERS, of a daughter.
[1951 MÄRRIAGES.
On Friday the 6th of September, 1895, at Her Britannic Majesty's Consulate General, and after wards on Sunday, the 8th September, at the Syna- gogue "Beth El," Shanghai, JUDAH JOSEPH JUDAH, to LEA HELENE HORWITZ, both of Shanghai.
On Saturday, the 7th September, 1895, at the St. Joseph's Church, Shanghai, by the Rev. A. Colombel, JOHN HALVERSEN, to HENRIETTA, second daughter, of JOHN and MARY JUSTER, of Hongkong.
DEATHS.
At Glasgow, on the 2nd August, ROBERT CRAIG, late of Amoy and Swatów.
[1922 At sea, on board Pilot Cutter Syren, on the 7th of Septeinber, 1895, CHARLES N. VINCENT, Lower Yangtsze Pilot, aged 50 years.
At Shanghai, on the 8th of September, 1895, ALEXANDER MACCALLUM, of Messrs. Boyd & Co., Limited, aged 49 years.
At Yokohama, on the 8th September, at his resi- dence, No. 247, Bluff, CHARLES JUBIN, in his 66th
year.
At Chefoo, on the 10th of September, 1895, ELIZA- BETH, the beloved wife of WALTER SCOTT EMENS, of Shanghai.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French Mail of the 16th August arrived, per M. M. steamer Oceanien, on the 17th Sep- tember (32 days); and the Canadian Mail of the 27th August arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of Japan, on the 17th September (21 days).
On Sunday afternoon last as a party of Europeans, including ladies, who had been on a visit to Kowloon city, were leaving the wharf in their steam launch they were stoned by a gang of gambling rowdies, who were disap- pointed at not being allowed to take passage in the launch. One lady received a severe blow on the head. On Monday morning official complaints were made and one of the ringleaders was arrested. The culprit was tried yesterday and was awarded two hundred blows with the bamboo, after which he was placed in the
cangue.
In the suite of H.E. Yü Keng, Chinese Envoy to the Court of Tokyo, there are, the N. C. Daily News says, two military attaches, Lieutenant Feng Kuochang and Pei Chi heuen, graduates of high standing in the Tien- speak well for the liberal views of the Envoy tsin Military Academy. These appointments who would only appoint qualified officers to this important post and who is reported to have refused several candidates for the military attaches' posts whose only recommendations and title to recognition were, as in former times, their family influence.
The result of the experiments on the newly discovered cure of cholera patients by venesec. tion, made by Dr. Kitazato at his hospital at Hiroo, is published, we learn from the Japan Gazette. The new method as well as the ordinary methods have been pursued for the sake of com- parison. The following figures refer to a period from the 7th to 24th August:-By the venesec tion cure, of 24 patients 5 recovered, 4 died, 15 are improving; by ordinary treatment, of 21 From these it will be seen that the result is in patients. 1 recovered, 15 died, 5 are improving.
favour of the new method.
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Detailed reports have now been received of the loss of the E. & A. steamer Catterthun which occurred on the 8th August, shortly after leaving Sydney for Hongkong. She struck on a rock off the Seals, Sugar Loaf Point. At the inquest held on the bodies recovered the verdict was that the ship was wrongly navigated. A, Marine Court of Inquiry is to be held.
We translate the following from the Courrier d'Haiphong-We yesterday received at our office a visit from Suleman bin Davood, Prefect of Lingau, Yunnan. Suleman bin Davood, or Ma Fok according to his Chinese name, is the ninth son of Marshal Ma, well known in the history of Tonkin, he who ordered from Jean Dupuis the arms which were conveyed by the Red River. A Mahommedan, like most of the inhabitants of his province, Suleman bin Davood has been to Constantinople, where he has made rather a long stay, to study Western manners and civilization, to familiarize himself with our
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science and our progress, and to obtain a com- plete knowledge of the rites of the Koran. has just returned, having visited on the way Egypt and India. One of his nephews who accompanied him to Constantinople returned to Yunnan by way of Burmah. Suleman bin Davood is returning through Tonkin. He was charmed with his visit to Europe, about which he is quite enthusiastic. He is far from posses- sing the spirit of exclusivism so characteristic of his countrymen.
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A Fire Insurance Company is being started noise." The capital is to be a million francs, part, at Haiphong under the name of L'Indo-Chi- of which will be offered for subscription locally and part in France. The Company proposes to commence business about the middle of next of the Coalpany pointed out by the promoter is year, An agst other reasons for the formation the following. It follows that a large amount of capital, represented by the premiums paid by insurers in Indo-China, every year goes into the pockets of our neighbours, to the great detriment of our colony, which might reserve the benefit to itself. If anyone wishes to know the importance of this capital it is sufficient to state that in Tonkin alone the preminms paid every year to English or German companies exceed $60,000. In this calcula- tion no account is taken of Cochin-China, Cambodia, and Annam, for which We have not the figures, but the total contribution of Indo-China to foreign companies ought be at least treble the amount stated. Account must be taken, it is true, of the losses payable exceeded $30,000 during the last ten years, or by the companies, but in Tonkin these have not
an average of $3,000 a year.”
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