THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLII.]
AND
China Overland
Overland Trade
Report.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 10TH OCTOBER, 1895.
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CONTENTS.
E itome of the Week, &c...
Leading Articles :---
The Australian Colonies and the Treaty with
Japan...
20
British Shipowners and Foreign Trade
..262
Commercial Attachés
282
The Burmah-Chinese Railway and the
West
River...
.263
China's Ability to Supp ess Revolt
.283
China's Surrender to The Brit:sli Ultimatu».
201
The Japese Attack on Anping
..264
The Jaise Avance in Formosa
...205
Affairs in South Form ea...
260
The Szechuc Riots and the Bri ish Ultimatum
......266
The Chinese Surrender .....
.266.
The British Naval Demonstration
.237.
Supreme Cou t
Reviews......
The Water Supply
Concert at the Mount Austin Hotel
Cllege of Medicine for hinese ...
Serious Truble at the Taiko. Refinery
Canton Insurane Office, Limit d
...269
Hongkong Hotel Co., L'mite I....
270
Hongkong Rifle Associati n
.270 271
Correspondenc
The Degradation of Liu .
271
The Belgic........
271
The Powe of Pe ing
71
Abandonment of P oposed Taxatio of Foreign
Opium
De
The Kucheng Massacre
The Foochow Missionaries and the English and
American on ule
Imp oper Distl sure of Telegrams at Shanghai Execution in Shanghai
The Dei atonalised Settlemen's at Shanghai..
Weng Yung Ilo
Hongkong Golf Club....
More Effects of the Hwasang Sla sacie
Gorma y and the Looting of the Mission nar
Swa:ow
Hongkong and Port News
(Commercial Shipping
MARRIAGES.
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the 6th October (30 days); the American mail of the 12th September arrived, per P. M. steamer Coptic, on the 8th October (26 days); and the "Canadian mail of the 16th September arrived, per C. P: steamer Empress of China, on the 8th October (22 days)|
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
No. 15.
onth of
The Japanese expedition for Formosa left Kelung on the 4th inst. At the Pescadores it was to divide into two sections, one of which was to land to the north of An- ping and the other to the south. News of the destruction of Liu Yung-fu's force is now momentarily expected.
The Foochow Echo of the 28th September says:-Mr. Vice-Consul L. C. Hopkins, under instructions from Peking, assumed charge of H. B. M. Consulate at this port on the 23rd inst until the return of Mr. Consul Mansfield. It is
The Kucheng inquiry is still dragging along, understood that Mr. G.D. Pitzipios proceeds to with very unsatisfactory results.
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Russia continues to send large quantities of guns, munitions and war material to Vladi- vostock,
The Premier of Adelaide has invited the Colonies to a conference to consider the influx of Japanese.
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Mr. H. E. Hobson, Commissioner of Customs, has been ordered to Yatung, the open mart in Thibet, to replace Mr. F. E. Taylor, who goes
home ou leave.
It is stated that the Japanese Government has cancelled the recent agreement with France that Japanese subjects in Siam should be under, French protection.
The report that Sir Robert Hart had been offered the appointment of Minister to Peking 273 originated, we are told, in a hoax played by a would-be humorous official on a news-hunting Shanghai journalist.
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At Christchurch, Yokohama, on the 30th Septem- ber,, by Rev. G. Champneys Irwine, MA., II. MA- THESON BROWN, of Hongkong, to MARY, eldest daughter of the late BUCHANAN KIRKWOOD, of Glasgow.
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On Monday, 7th October, 1895, at the Peak Church, Hongkong, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, WILLIAM WAKEFORD, eldest son of WILLIAM COX, Esq., of Auckland, NZ, late of Southampton, Eng., to ALICE MARY, second daughter of HENRY DRY- DEN, Esq., of Wellington, N.Z.
[2102 On the 25th September, at St. Andrew's Cathedral. Singapore, by the Ven. Archdeacon Perhani, DANIEL EARNSHAW, of Manila, son of DANIEL EARNSHAW, Lloyd's Surveyor, of that city, to HELEX, eldest daughter of EDWARD BOUSTEAD, junior, of London, and granddaughter of the late EDWARD BOUSTEAD, of Singapore
DEATHS
At Macao, on the 3rd instant, TERRY, the infant son of S. E. and F. R. BEETON, aged 10 weeks. [2067
At No. 5, Beaconsfield Arcade, at 1.45 a.m., on the 3rd October, HERMANN HUGO JAMES SCHMIDT, age 14 years and 3 months, the dearly beloved and only son of CAROLINE SCHMIDT, widow of the late WM. SCHMIDT.
[2079 On the 24th September, at his residence in Kobe, GEORG NATERMANN, a native of Bremen, aged 35.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English mail of the 6th September arrived, per P. & O. steamer Kaisar-i-Hind, on
The French talk of extending their Tonkin railway as far as Wuchow in Kwangsi, the river port with which Hongkong desires to get into communication by stemmer. Which will be first in the field, a British steamer or a French railway? The railway will no doubt be talked about a long time before it is made, but the opening of the West River has also been talked about for a long time,
The report of the Oriental Hotel, Limited (Kobe), for the year ended 31st August last gives the total earnings as $81,940, and the net profit for the year as $22,592. It is proposed to write off $5,992, to pay a further dividend of three per cent, on the ordinary shares, making eight per cent. for the year, and to dis- tribute a surplus sum of $5,920 in equal parts to ordinary and founders' shares, making the total return for the year twelve per cent. on ordinary shares and $37 per share on founders' shares; and to carry a balance of $4,759 to reserve account, bringing that account up to $10,000.
The annual report of the Canton Insurance Office, Limited, has been issued. The balance at credit of 1894 account is $542,455, out of which the sum of $263,693 has already been paid, for a dividend of 10 per cent. to share- Holders and a bonus of 20 per cent. to contribu- tors of premia. Subject to the approval of shareholders, it has been decided to dispose of the remaining balance by adding to reserve fund $175,000, thereby increasing it to $1,200,000, paying à final dividend of $6 per share, and carrying forward the sum of $43,761 to 1895 account. The 1895 account shows an estimated balance at credit of $676,352.
Kucheng next week to relieve Mr. Vice-Consul Allen, who will then return to the Pagoda Anchorage.
China has surrendered to the British ultima- tum and degraded Liu Ping-chang, the ex- Viceroy of Szechuen, for his complicity in the anti-foreign outrages in that province. Ac- cording to a Reuter's telegram, however, the Chinese Legation states that the degradation of the Viceroy of Szechuen was decided upon before the presentation of the British ultima tum; while a French official note ascribes the decision to the pacific pressure brought to bear by France. The British Foreign Office on the presented before the degradation of the Viceroy and that it doubtless induced China to submit to the British demands. According to a Hovas telegram, China will pay an indemnity of Tls. 940,000 for the destruction of property.
other hand states tliat the ultimatum
was
The Japan Mail says -Reuter has repeated the telegram published some days ago by a Japanese journal, to the effect that Germany had decided to join France and Russia in de- manding the speedy evacuation of the Liaotung peninsula by Japan. There is not, we believe, the smallest foundation for such a statement. Indeed, it bears on its face the impress of untruth, for it indicates that some divergence of opinion had occurred between the three Powers, or, at any rate, that some new departure had been made by two of them and endorsed by the third after hesitation; whereas the three have worked harmoniously throughout. may go further and say that, according to our information, no friction has been developed in connection with the Liaotung question, the course contemplated by Japan being endorsed as reasonable by the three Powers.
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Canton is now being supplied with a fire ex- tinguishing service that may be described as fairly efficient. Mains are laid from the river to pumping stations distributed over the city, and these are so arranged that all the stations in a given district can be used to drive the water to the particular station nearest the point at which it is required. Hose can be attached to the mains at frequent intervals and a large body of water be thus brought to hear on any fire that may break out within the radius of the service. The recent fire near the steamer wharves was stopped by this means.
A pump- ing station is being put up at that point, but unfortunately the work was not completed at the time the fire occurred, or instead of over a hundred houses being burned probably the loss would have been confined to one or two. As it was the hose had to be led for considerable distances, so that the fire had made large head- way before the service was brought into effective operation,
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