THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 16TH OCTOBER, 1895.-
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VOL. XLII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.........
Leading Articles :-
What England should Demand
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Official Responsibility for the 'Kucheng Outrage.282 Railways in Tonkin and the Opening of the
West River.
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The Military Contribution..
The Medical Officer of Health
The Japanese in Formusa
The Kucheng Comm ssion..
The Anti-Christían. Kioljng at Hok-chiong
Colonial Court of Admiralty.
The Belgic Floated..
Supreme Court
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Mysteriou Death of a Norwegi n Seaman
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No. 16.
It is said that Sir Nicholas O Conor, the At date of latest advices from Formoss Kagee British Minister to Peking, proposes to leave had been captured by the Japanese, who had his present post at the end of this month. advanced almost to Tainanfu. The Japanese Telegraphic intelligence has been received fleet had also appeared and a bombardment was that the Ố. & O. steamer Belgic, which went momentarily expected. The British Consul had been using his good offices to arrange terms of ashore on the east point of Tokyo Bay, has been surrender, but the Japanese demanded that the surrender should be unconditional, and to this Lin refused to assent. The foreigners were all on H.M.§. Pique.
floated and taken to Yokosuka.
The Kucheng inquiry is believed to be ...284 approaching its termination. Consul Mansfield ...28.1 came down to Foochow to interview the Viceroy 284 and as a result of the interview it is believed .285
the obstacles hitherto thrown in the way of the ..285
Commission will be removed. ..285
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The British Ultimatum and the Degradation of Liu...287
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The Gymkhana Meeting
Hongkong Cricket Club...
HongLong Golf Club....
Union Insurance Society of Cantou, Limited
11. G. Brown & Co., Limited
Correspondenes....
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The Mahommedan Rebellion
The Position of Li Hung-Chang
A Foreign Alliance for Japan Hongkong and Port News
Commercial Shipping
MARRIAGE.
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According to a Nanking telegram to the N. C. Daily News, the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung declined on the plea of sickness to receive a visit from Admiral Buller. Our contemporary learns that though the Viceroy was too ill to re- ceive Admiral Buller, he rapidly recovered and was able to receive the Consul-General for Ger- 290 many at Shanghai, Dr. Stübel, who called at 200 Nanking on his way down, after concluding the arrangements for the German concession at Hankow.
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The Tsungli Yamên, the N. C. Daily News. says, has memorialised the Throne on the neces- sity of appointing a special Minister to France, a post hitherto held by the envoy'at the Court of St. James, who, as a measure of economy, acts in the dual capacity of Minister to Great son of the late PETER RAEBURN, of Aberdeen, Scot Britain and France. The Emperor has con land, to Borne, second daughter of THOMAS DEIGH-sented to the Tsungli Yamên's recommendation TON, of Shanghai.
At the Church of the Sacred feart of Jesus, Hongkew, on the 9th of October, 1895, by the Rev. Father J. M. Louail, S.J., PETER LAURENCE, third
DEATHS.
On the 10th instant, at 1, Alveston Terrace, BIPSIMA, infant daughter of PAUL and HELEN JORDAN, aged 8 weeks.
[2107 At Singapore, on the 18th ult., DUNSTAN ALDHEM MCINTYRE youngest brother of Mrs. Woodfort; of Nagasaki, aged 23.
At Chinkiang, on the 6th October, 1895, ARL L. SEITZ, L.M. Customs' Service.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 10th October, 1895, JAMES WRIGHT, late third engineer of the steamer Sarpadon, aged 26 years.
At 13, Peking Road, Shanghai, on the 11th inst., suddenly, CLAUDE A. REES, aged 53 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 13th September M. M. steamer Salazie, on the 15th arrived, October (32 days).
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK
Mr. W. S. Ayrton, H.M.'s Consul at Tamsui, and Mr. R. W. Hurst, H.M.'s Consul at Tainan, have been transferred from the China to the Japan service.
A coup d'etat is reported from Korea. On the 8th inst the Tai-won-kun at the head of two battalions of troops forced an entrance into the palace at Seoul. Further details have not yet been received.
* Japan has agreed to reduce the supplement
war indemnity for the evacuation of the notung Peninsula to Tis. 30,000,000 and evacuate the country within three months after payment. China undertakes to pay the first instalment of the war indemnity very shortly
and, according to a telegram received at Shanghai, Liu. Ch'i-hsiang, the late acting Taotai at that port, will very likely be the person chosen for the new post. It seems also Possible that a special Minister to Russia will also be appointed a post now held by the envoy at Berlin.
Mr.Wharton Barker, whose name was brought into prominence fome years ago by the famous Count Mitkiewitz of concession fame in China, arrived at Shanghai on the 5th inst. by the Empress boat from Vancouver. He is accom- panied by a railway engineer, Mr. Garland, and it is understood, the China Gazette says, that he is in the exciting but sadly disappointing railway quest to lay lines to the uttermost con- fines of the Chinese empire. There are jabout a dozen Richmonds on the railway field in China the Chinese do not seem to have any serious just now, and the joke is that beyond mere talk idea of realizing the hopes of our enterprising friends the railway promoters.
The Japanese Cotton Spinners' League has addressed a circular to the Chambers of Com- merce thoughout the country, we learn from the Japan Mail, requesting their co-operation for abolishing the import duties on cotton. A petition on the subject has been presented to the Diet more than once, but the measure has not yet received the approval of the country's legislators. Its importance has been increased ten-fold by the treaty of Shimonoseli, since Western capitalists are now able to compete with the Japanese mills on easier terms than before, and the result may be highly injurious to Japanese spinners. The co-operation of the Chambers, of Commerce is earnestly solicited by the framers of the circular, and it is believed that they will readily comply, for the majority of their members are known to be in favour of the proposed reform.
Tang Hsiao-yi, ex-Acting Chinese Resident at Seoul before the late war, returned to Shanghai from that city on the 4th inst. Mr. Tang, the N. C. Daily News says, has been in Korea lately arranging all outstanding matters of the Chinese Legation left unsettled at the time of the Japanese attack on the Legation in July last year. A number of Chinese vagrants in Seoul and Chemulpo who have been "loafing" in those two cities ever since the war were also deported back to China by Mr. Tang. Having completed all matters relating to the former Legation at Seoul, Mr. Tang is now back again in China. It is a pity that Mr. Tang has not been re-appointed to Seoul, as the ex-Resident Ynan's successor, for China needs a "strong" man, and one well acquainted with the Korean King and mandarinate to represent her at the present crisis.
Limited, in their report for 1894, express The General Managers of H. G. Brown & Co., regret that the accounts continue to show a disappointing and unfavourable result, the whilst the amount at debit of profit and loss working account showing & loss of $19,429, account, including the sum of $38,232 brought forward from 1893, now stands at $66,204. shareholders resident in Manila that it would Early this year a suggestion (came from the
be advisable to transfer the management to that place, and, it being fully realised here in the light of events during the past few years since Mr Brown gave up the management that adequate control could not be exercised from this end, this suggestion was gladly availed of as far as practicable, and a committee of management has been entrusted with the direc tion of the Company's affairs in the Philippines, the gentlemen nominated by the Manila share- holders as members of same being Messrs. E. H2 Warner,
J. Sloan, and J. C. Donaldson Sim.
of Canton, Limited, shows that the net The report of the Union Insurance Society premium collected in 1894, after deducting
returns and reinsurances, amounts to $1,585,288, After providing for a bonus of 25 per cent. on contributions paid in April last, there remains at credit of working account a balance of $439,177. From this sum the directors recom- mend the payment of a secon.bonus of 6 per cent. on contributions, a dividend of $12 per share equivalent to 48 per cent, on the paid-up capital of $25 per share, and an addition to the reserve fund of $80,000, raising the reserve to $1,050,000. The balance remaining of $161,025 they propose to carry forward to meet liabilitie and claims still outstanding, and thus close the account for the year 1894. The position of the Society for the present year, as far as ascertained, is as follows Balance of account to the 80th June, : $683, estimate of premium $410,000-$1,093,236, estimate $336,000 8757,236,
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