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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland
Overland Trade Report,
VOL. XLII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c........
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 30тH OCTOBER, 1895.
A Madrid telegram to the. Comercio states that 10,000 Mauser rifles have been shipped from .321 Hamburg for the troops in the Philippines.
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Leading Articles :—
Rus ian Designs in the Nor.h
The Coup d'Etat at Secul
The Mahommedan Rebellion
The Franco-Chinese and Japanese-Chinese Wars
-A Contrast
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Germany and Chuan
324
Liu Yung-fu.......
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The Responsibility of Employers for the Acts of
their Servants
324
The Javanese Attack on South Formosa
324
The Kucheng Commission...
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Coup d'Etat at Seoul -- Asenssination of the Queen
of Kora
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The Loss of the Kungpai
The Retrocession of Lia tung
Supreme Court
The Departure of Lieutenant-Colonel Barrow-P.e-
sent tion of an Address
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Departure of Coolies for Caton
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Death of the Governor of Caton
II: G. Brown & Co., Limited Cricket
Football.....
The 3lahommedan Rebellion. Hongkong and Post News Commercial Intelligence Shipping
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On the 15th October, at Manila, the wife of EDWIN SCTCLIFFE, of a son.
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Three steamers for the navigation of the Upper Mekong, arrived at Saigon the other day, being brought out in sections by the steamer Alagonia.
No. 18.
M. Rousseau, Governor-General of French Indo-China, left Haiphong on the 13th inst. for France, to give the Government the benefit of his advice and assistance in connection with the Indo-China budget and the proposed loan. A Havas telegram contradicts the report that he
will not return to Tonkin.
On the 26th inst. an address was presented Sir Nicholas O'Conor, we learn from the N. by H. E. the Governor on behalf of the C. Daily News, proposes to leave Shanghai for community to Lieut.-Colonel Barrow, of the Europe on the 16th of November, and Mr.Hongkong Regiment, on his departure from Beauclerk will probably be Chargé d'affaires at Peking at least until next spring.
According to a Reuter's telegram, Prince Hohenlohe regards the new German settle ments at Tientsin and Hankow as inadequate and strongly urges the acquisition of the Chusan islands regardless of the ill-will of other Powers. At Shanghai it is reported that Germany is seeking to get a concession at that port.
The Peking correspondent of the N. C. Daily News writes :- The Chinese and Japanese have been a good deal exercised over the weight in 332 grains of the tael-the one mentioned in the 338 Treaty of Shimonoseki as that in which the indemnity was to be paid. Williams' Com- mercial Guide gives the weight of this tael as 579.84 grains. The Customs give 575.82 grains of pure silver as the weight, and between these two, and even below the latter, figures are also On the 15th inst., at the United States Legation, quoted. This looks a very small matter, but Tokyo, by the Rev. F. S. Tyng, and before the Hon. when it is remembered that one grain of silver NW. McIvor, US. Consul-General, LILIAN GRAY of difference on the indemnity amounts to no WATERS, of San Francisco, to ROBERT Ross THOM-less a sum than $400,000 the significance of the SON, of Hongkong.
[2224 weight will be understood. The Customs weight On the 25th inst., at St. John's Cathedral, by the has finally been accepted by both parties, Rev. R. F. Cobbold, GEORGE THOMAS RIVERS, to ADELAIDE LUCIA INMAN.
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MARRIAGES.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 24th of October, 1895, I. M. MAHER, aged 51 years.
At Shanghai, on the 25th of October, 1895, ROBERT FERGUSSON, aged 56 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 1st October ar- rived, per P. M. steamer Gaelic, on the 26th October (25 days); and the French mail of the -27th September arrived, per M. M. steamer
Yarra, on the 29th October (32 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Governor of Canton, Ma Pi-in, died on
the 25th inst.
The Kucheng Commission returned to Foo- chow on the 27th inst., and the remainder of the trials will take place there.
A seditious movement has been discovered in Canton. Men and arms have been sent up from Hongkong. The affair is enshrouded in much mystery, but it is not expected that the movement will result in anything serious.
The Szechuen correspondent of a Shanghai native paper states that all the Roman Catholic Churches which were destroyed by the mobs during the riots are now being rebuilt. The local officials have posted up several proclama- tions forbidding people from collecting near
there.
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In an article in the Indépendance Tonkinoise, on the British army, the following passage occurs :-* England is not only the first mari. time power of the world, the sovereign of the seas, in works of peace as well as in homicidal combats; uor is she only the merchant of the world, the unrivalled manufacturer, the most opulent of bankers; she is also a redoubtable continental military power. It would not be paradoxical to say (for it would be easy to .prove it historically) that
more often been fortunate against her on sea than on land, not counting the far dis tant day when our William' took the great island.' The writer then goes on to analyse and compare the expenditure on the British army and navy, and to refer to the efforts being made to increase and improve the army.
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From the Tonkin papers we learn that an agreement has been arrived at between France and China by which French troops pursuing piratical bands in Tonkin are to be allowed to cross the frontier and co-operate with the Chi- nese forces in effecting the destruction of the to be allowed to operate is to be marked out by bands. The zone within which the French are
a mixed commission of French and Chinese officers and the commission was expected to commence its work in a few days after the date of the latest papers received. Our contem- poraries are of opinion that piracy on a large scale will now be suppressed, and the concession made by China, coupled with the deliverance of the Lyaudet family by General Sou, is taken as a proof that China is now sincerely desirous that tranquility should be established in the frontier regions.
the colony. Lient.-Colonel Barrow, who is leaving to take up an appointment on the staff in India, raised the Hongkong Regiment and has brought it to a high state of efficiency.
The
of another cotton mill, the Soy Chee Cotton The prospectus has been issued at Shanghai Spinning Co., Limited, to be registered under the German Limited Liability Law. capital is to be one million taels in shares of five hundred taels each, six hundred shares being now offered for subscription. It is proposed to build a mill of not less than 40,000 spindles in the neighbourhood of Yangtzepoo Road, and it is expected that it will be completed and in full working order within a year. Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg & Co. are to be the General Managers, and there are three German and two Chinese gentlemen on the provisional Board of Direc tors.
A telegram has been received in Bangkok, we learn from the Siam Free Press, stating that Mr. Clarke has been entirely successful in negotiating the sale of the Kabin Mines to the Ottoman Bank for £80,000. This will mean that each shareholder in the Kabin Mines will receive four times the amount of his shares, as the total capital of the Kabin Syndicate was have been spent on work at the mines. The £20,000, of which sum some £14,000 to £15,000 Kabin shareholders are to be congratulated ou their good fortune, and on the successful manner iu which the affair has been negotiated. The new.company will increase the capital of the venture by £60,000, and our contemporary learns that a great deal of the sorip will be taken op by the Siam Exploring Corporation. The com- pany will be French, and the only obstacle to be ncounterede is the question of transfer, which the Siamese may not approve of, though this is considered very doubtful.
There has been some excitement during the past week owing to the complications- arising from the Korean coup d'état. It appears certain now that the Queen was murdered. Russia is said to have notified the Korean Government that she will not assent to the exercise of power by the Tai-won-kun and to have threatened an ultimatum should her views in this matter be disregarded. A Reuter's telegram states that the Russian Squadron in the North Pacific will be reinforced by three waters cruisers and is ordered to oruise in Korean
ready for emergencies. Another Reuter's telegram reads as follows:"A telegram to the Times from Hongkong states that Russia has concluded a treaty with China securing the right of an anchorage for her fleet at Port Arthur and varions other advantages outside of the favoured nation clause." For some time past reports have been current in the North to the effect that Russia had made ar- rangements with China that her fleet should winter at Port Arthur, and this apparently is the foundation for the above telegram,
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