Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Iverland Trade Bri
VOL. XLII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :-
Russian Designs in the
Crisis
ANGKONG THURS÷
North.--International
The Fra co-Bu-sian Alliance and its Effect in
the Far East...
The Frat co-Chinese Cuneration and British
Interests
Measures for the Development of British Trade
in China
The Degradat o of liu ing-chang and its
Effect...
...2
Liu Yung-fu....
Review....
Fire on the Wandering Jew
The Attempted Insurrection at
The Japanese in South Formosa
Supreme Court..........
anton
Curious Mistake at the Gol.The Wrong Prisoner
Flogged.
Scens in the Hongkong
otel
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7TH NOVEMBER, 1895.
General Miura arrived at Ujina on the 26th October and was arrested at once for his conduct in connection with the Korean emențe.
The Shanghai Autumn Race Meeting was held on the 28th, 29th, and 30th October. The weather was not very favourable, but the meet- 838ing was a very successful one.
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Fight Between Ja arse and Chinese at Kowloon ...316 The Murder fa Norwegian Seaman
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Union Insu a co Society of Cant n, Limited
The Punjom Mining Co., Limitė l
The Stranding of the Belgic.—The Inquiry Cricket
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Hongkong Golf Cl b ..
1 ootball
Honkong Rifle Associati n
The Korean Emeute
The Kucheng Comm's ion..
The Anti-Foreign Outrages and the Shang Lai Indigna-
tion Meeting
A Municipal Industry at Shanghai
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial Intelligence
Shipping
& son.
BIRTHS.
MARRIAGE.
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The Imperial Prince Kitashirakawa, Com. mander-in-Chief of the Guards Division, died at Tainanfu on the 28th October from fever complicated with disease of the heart
The Naval Court of Inquiry held at Yoko hama to investigate the circumstances attending the stranding of the Belgic found that the disaster was due to an error of judgment on the part of the captain, who was censured.
The Peking and Tientsin Times says:-Li Hung-chang's most sanguine friends now de- spair of his return to power, and it is regarded as quite certain that he will never come back as Viceroy of Chihli. The fact that his family are now going to Peking would seem to confirm this.
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On the morning of the 30th October fire bruke out on board the American ship Wander- 350 ing Jew in Hongkong harbour. The vessel was on the berth for New York and had most .35 | of her board. She was towed into 350 BUT
nd scuttled and was afterwards 363 taken
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No. 19.
The excitement as to Russia's designs in the North, reported last week, developed into some- thing like a scare, but it was only of a day or two's duration. It is now generally believed that Port Arthur will be connected with the Trans-Siberian Railway and that Russia has obtained a virtual control of Manchuria, but in the East the feeling is that the circumstances do not call for armed interference by England..
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The Peking and Tientsin Times says:— learn that the new Municipal 6 per cent. loan has been subscribed for six and a half times allotments for 15 or 16 per cent. of the amounts over. Applicants will therefore only receive applied for. The loan, which was for Tls. 10,000, was taken up by the land renters, who it is evident know how to appreciate a good thing. The total amount applied for was Taels 65,000, an indication that money is fairly plentiful somewhere.
Despatches received from Peking, the N. C. Daily News says, report that two railway lines have been sanctioned by the Throne, one to connect with Tientsin, the Peking depôt to be at Shakuo gate, and another line to commence from the western suburbs of the capital (Lokou Grand Canal. Hu Yü-fên, Judge of Kwangsi, bridge) to connect with Tsingkiangp'u on the having given up command of the Washing diciplined army corps at Tientsin in favour of Yuan Shih-k'ai, is soon expected in Peking to take the Chief Di rship of the building of
these two lines.
is stated in official circles, the M. C. Daily
We (Peking and Tientsin Times) are glad to 8 says, that cotton ginning mills are to be learn that the U.S. Chengtu Commissioners ere cted at Ningpo and Taichow, and other
continue to make good progress on their At the Hongkong and Shanghai Band House, te
was in Chêkiang, wherever machinery can be journey. On the 23rd inst. they had reached Tientsin, on the 22nd October, the wife of. D.sed for local products. Capitalists will be Machtrosh, of a daughter.
and all were well and in excellent Tai-y
here is no doubt that - the object On the 5th Novenler, ac, at Mountain View,encouraged to buy machinery from abroad "in
spirits. order to compete with foreigners." No. 2, the Peak, the wife of Mr. PAUL BREWITT, of
which th U. S. Government had in view, in in- The Shenpao publishes a report current insisting on the Commissioners proceeding over- Peking that the Viceroy Chang Chih,tung land, is being attained, viz., publicity to the will probably be sent to take Viceroy Yang's
fact that the wrong-doing of Chinese officials is place in Shen-kan, and that Liu Kan-yi will about to be enquired into by foreigners, and in return to the Liangkiang. The latter officia the heart of China the main streets of the had his Imperial audience a fortnight ago, at various cities have been lined with crowds of so far no decree has appeared as to where Liu is people, evidently much impressed by the spectacle of the cavalcade as it traverses the city, with the guard leading in double file, followed by the Commissioners on horseback and then by the fourteen carts. The guard has given every satisfaction, and nothing could exceed their attention and courtesy.
At the Cathedral, Shanghai, on the 28th of Octo- ber, 1895, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., GERALD STOCKWELL WALTON, M.B., of Hiaokan, to KATHE- BINE JANE TUNNA, of Wem, Shropshire.
DEATH. At his residence, on the 4th November, at 6 a.m., LOUIS MENDEL, of Altona, Germany, aged 51 years. [2289
ARRIVALS OF MAIL
to go.
According to private advices from Japan, the China Gazette says, it is not unlikely that Tulienwan will be opened to foreign trade under the terms of the latest treaties, concluded in eference to Liaotung and the regulation of crade between Japan and China. The Russian opposed such a course.
The English mail of the 4th October arrived, Minister at Peking is said, however, to have may be considered as coming from a reliable per P. O. steamer Rohilla, on the 4th, Novem- ber (31 days); the American mail o'f the 12th October arrived, per P. M. steam er City of Peking, on the 5th November (24 days); and the Canadian mail of the 14th October arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of India, on the 6th November (23 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
exchanged.
It is rep
native official circles at Shanghai, th Viceroy Chang hgiver th building of the Daily Newe says, that the railway between Chinka nd Tientsin to a French syndicate whose resentative is the gentleman who was formerly, in charge of and who finished the Port Arthur docks on behalf of the Tientsin French syndicate.
According to a Tokyo press despatch of the 23rd October it is stated that Marquis Saior Ratifications of the w treaty between Japan the temporary Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Denmark have be
and Mr. Satow, the British Minister, have agreed to amend the commercial treaty between Japan and Great Britain by altering the specific. to ad valorem duties. The subject will shor** receive the attention of the Privy Counci
It is stated Emperor of Kort
months
re-coronation of the Mas Leen postponed for three
The following, the N. C. Daily News says,
source-The Viceroy Chang has recently granted permission to a number nat syndicates to establish steaia cotta weaving between Shanghai and Soochow and from and spinning mills, silk filatores, a railway thence to Chinkiang, three steam launch com- panies to run between Shanghai, Soochow, and Hangchow and way stations, and another com- pany with larger steamers to run between Nanking and islands in the Yaingtszo and from Shanghai to islands on the Chêkiang coast, f.e. Chusan Archipelago. The latest permission granted is to build silk weaving mills to make the celebrated Nanking satin and silk velvets: A number of skilled workmen from foreign. co tries, is is presumed, will have to be
gaged to teach the natives. The permission of the Throne has already been obtained by the Viceroy for all the above.
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