THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 26TH SEPTEMBER, 1895.
VOL. XLII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, ke.
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Leading Articles :-
Li Hung-chang
228
Sir Nicholas O'l'onor's Successor
.226
Railways to Yunnan from Burmah and Tonkin,,227 The Taxation of Shanghai made Yarn and Cotton
Goods.......l
227
The Treatme t of the British Officials at the
Kowloon Tr al
227
The Responsibil (♬ of Local Officials for Anti-
Foreign Ou Lages
228
The Revival of rade
The China Poty b..........
The Japanese Advance in Farinosa
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The Kucheng t'ommission.
23
The Japanese in Formi sh
230
The Positi n at Tainan
.231
The Rising near Swat, w
.231
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The Ou rage at Kowloon City
The Plaguo Medals
Supreme Court:-
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
No. 13.
Sir Arthur Nicolson and Mr. Henry Howard have been mentioned as possible successors to Sir Nicholas O'Conor as British Minister to
The French commercial mission has sailed Peking and a Shanghai evening paper makes for China,
Singapore was declared free from cholera on the 13th inst.
The funeral of the late Sultan of Johore took place on the 7th inst...
Several vessels crossing the Formosa Channel on the 18th and 19th inst. encountered a sovere typhoon.
A railway is to be made from Manila to Subic, as a state line, and at Subic dock is to be
constructed.
Seven of the Kucheng murderers were exe- cuted on the 17th inst. The trials have since .232 | been resumed.
the definite statement that the appointment has been offered to Sir Robert Hart. The reports. in circulation, however, rest, we believe, on nothing more substantial than surmise.
The annual report of the China Traders' Insurance Co., Limited, for the year ended 30th April, shows that the net premia amounted to $1,095,865 and the working account shows a balance at credit of $530,727, which sum the directors recommend be appropriated in the following manner-A dividend of 20 per cent. to shareholders, $120,000; a dividend of 15 per cent. on contributions, $120,000; to be carried to new account, $290,727.
The advance of the Japanese army in For mosa has been delayed by bad weather, but it is The annual meeting of the Douglas Steam-expected that news will be received in a few. ship Co., Limited, was held on Saturday, when days of the surrender or defeat of the Black the report and accounts were passed..
The latest news of the Belgic, stranded near Mela Ledge, Tokyo Bay. does not hold out 233 much prospect of the vessel's being got off,
Brutal Assault.....
232
Li Chung Pai v. Li Sing
233
Kew vì Bottlewalla....
.238
The Hong Shing and Kong Sin Sung v
Hopkins
Fletcher & Co. v. A. Jorge
:.233 233
Bhana Singh v..T. M. Lojes
Chan Yun Lung v. i Yik Loong Firm
234
The Stranding of the Belgic
Flogging at Victoria ț aól..
Typhoon Experiences.
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Remarkable Accident
235
China Trades Insurance Co., Limited
236
Douglas Ste. i hip Co., Limite.l
236
The Punj m Miuing Co., Limite.l
Raub
Hongkong Cricket Club
Hongkong Football Club
Hongkong Riff Ass e'ati
Correspondence :-"}
Perjury in the Courts
Raub
Sir Robert Hart
n
The Kucheng and other Outrages
Our Foreign Office and its Chinese Advis. rs
The Shanghai-Nanki g Railway
St ning a British Conkul
Abandonment of the Opium Sy terze Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
BIRTIIS.
The Shanghai Municipal Council's 5 per cent. debenture loan for Tls. 75,000 was allotted on the 17th inst. at an average of 100.048 per cent.
The ratifications of the new Russiau treaty with Japan were formally exchanged between the Plenipotentiaries at Tokyo on the 10th inst. It is reported that the Korean Cabinet has decided to make a certain district in Seoul a place of mixed residence for Japanese and na- 230 tives. It has also been decided that foreigners 239 shall be permitted to own land in the suburbs of Seoul within the limit of ten Koreau miles.
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239. The Basel Mission station at Moilim, near 20Swatow, has been looted by a band of local in- 210 surgents, who are creating disorder in the dis- 2:10 trict. The missionaries had been withdrawn before the looting took place. The affair has created great indignation in Germany, according to a Reuter's telegram.
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At London, on the 22nd August, the wife of CARL JANTZEN, of a son.
[1971 At Kakchieh, Swatow, on the 14th instant, the wife of DAVID MACHAFFIE, of a daughter. [1959 At "Hillside," the Peak, on the 24th inst., the wife of W. CHATHAM, of a son.
[2002
DEATHS. At Pakhoi, on Monday, 9th September, 1895, MARY LOUISE daughter of Rev. E. B. and Mrs. BEAUCHAMP, aged 7 months.
[1982 At Kakchieli, Swatow, on the 16th instant, the infant daughter of DAVID MACHAFFIE. [1960 At Tientsin, on Thursday, the 12th inst., GEORGE TOM BAKER, Gunner, R.N., of H.M.S. Swift, of gastritis.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English Mail of the 23rd August arrived, per P. & O. steamer Rosetta, on the 19th Septem- ber (27 days); and the German Mail of the 30th August arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Karlsruhe, on the 25th September (26 days).
The amalgamation scheme of the Shanghai and Hongkow Wharf Co., Jardine's Wharves and their Pootung Kerosine Oil Wharf and Godowns, has been made public. It is proposed to increase the capital of the company to Tls. 2,000,000, to issue more debentures, to issue three shares of Tis. 100 each for every old share, and to issue a further lot of shares by tender to the present shareholders or otherwise.
A Peking telegram of the 15th inst. to the Japan papers states that the draft Convention concerning the retrocession of the Linotung peninsula was delivered to the Chinese pleni- potentiaries that day by Mr. Hayashi, Japanese Minister to China. A Reuter telegram states that Germany has decided to support the Russian and French endeavours to hasten the evacuation of the Peninsula by the Japanese troops.
According to a Reuter's telegram of the 17th inst. the French have ordered the people of Kiangtang to either accept French authority or to cross to the right bank of the Mekong. The Kiangtang mentioned is apparently King- tong, a district, of Yunnan ceded by China to France by the recent treaty, The ratification of the treaty has not yet been announced, but France is evidently acting upon its provisions.
Flag General, Liu Yung-fu, and that Japanese authority will be completely established. It is reported that at a council of war presided over by the Commander-in-Chief it has been decided to close all the ports at present "open" in South Formosa, including Auping, Takow, and Tainan-fu. The ports named will be declared. closed from the early part of next month. Pre- sumably the closing would be only temporary.
To
Some uneasiness has been caused at Hankow and Wuchaug, It was reported that the garrison at the latter place was to be largely reduced.
this the men objected and threatened in the event of the order being carried out to revolt and ge for the yamêns and ficiently alarming to lead to the removal of all foreign residences. The prospects were suf-
foreign ladies and children from Wuchang to the Concession, and also the girls' boarding school belonging to the American Mission. The Firebrand was at Haukow so there was no particular anxiety on that side, and so far no outbreak at Wuchang has been reported.
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A native paper publishes a rumour which upon enquiry we (N. C. Daily News) are inclined to believe is in the main correct, although the figures are probably excessive. It is averred that the Viceroy Chang is now in spondence with Governor Chao of Soochow for the establishment of a Bureau for the en- couragement of manufactures after moderu methods. It is proposed that the provin cial Government guarantee a foreign loan of ten million taels 118 a sinking fund and that a further sum of Tls. 2,500,000 for working capital be lent from the provincial the capital for the establishment of five cotton Government treasury. This large sum is to be spinning wills and five silk filatures. The official Directors are to be the Provincial Treasurer and Customs Taotais this side of the Yangtze, and of the most influential among the mercantile the commercial Directors are to consist of several
classes in Shanghai and Soochow. Tls. 3,000,000 are to be employed for the establishment of silk filatures and Tls. 7,000,000 for cotton spinning mills, the interest on the loan to be at most six and at least five per cent. per annum. These ten establishments are to be farmed out to as many syndicates the members of which are to pass a satisfactory examination as to resources in private capital, etc., by the commercial Direc- tors of the said Bureau.
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