THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLII.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Lead 常
Art cle:-
A Railway for Hongkong
Sir Nicholas O'C nor
Hat: an
The Mahommedan R bellion Plague Prevention Work
The Politic 1 situation
The Japanese in Suth Forno a
Supreme our
Ingkong Sanitary Board
Plague Prevention Work
Doulis Steam-hip Co., Limit d
Promenade Co.cert
Royal Hagkong Yacht Cl.b
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Fath 11..
The Kucheng Mas nere
The Japanese War Indemnits
A Russian Caling Station in the East I dies Hongkng and Port News' tommercial latelligenco Shipping
BIRTH.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 13TH NOVEMBER, 1895.
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His Korean Royal Highness Prince Wiwha, Ambassador from Korea to various foreign countries, arrived at Kobe on the 31st ult., with bis suite. He has had his hair cat and wears European dress.
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The Governor of Eastern Siberia, who is on his way to Batavia on what is ostensibly a holiday trip, though it is suspected not to be without political significance, arrived here on Saturday by the N.D.L. steamer Hohenzollern.
The Courrier d'Haiphong expresses some Our anxiety as to the proposed Tonkin loan. contemporary fears that the Madagascar ex- pedition, the fall of the Ribot Ministry, and the accession to power of the Radicals are un- favourable to the success of the project.
It will be learnt with great pleasure by his numerous friends, says the N. C. Daily News, that Mr. E. G. Vouillemont, lately manager 37 at Shanghai of the Comptoir National 37: d'Escompte, will probably return to Shanghai as manager of the new Russo-French Bank, of whose intended establishment we have been lately informed by the home papers.
On the 8th inst., at No. 9, Eelilics Tenisce, the wife of GED. P. LAMMERT, of a son.
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MARRIAGE.
At Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, on the 5th of November, 1895, by the Rev. 11. C. Hodges, M.A., SUSANNA EMILY, younger daughter of 1. WINTER ALLEN, of Shanghai, to FREDERICK, fourth son of CHARLES RAYDEN, of London.
DEATHS.
WILLIAM HORACE GRAHAM, a native of Frank- linvill, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA., late Chief Engineer of the China Merchants' S.N. Co.'s steamer Kungpai, who lost his life at the destruction of the steamer near Kiachowfn (North China), on the 14th of October, 1895, aged 53 years.
On the 23rd Octoler, on laurd the steamer Hohen zollern at sea, Captain J. JESSELSEN, a native of Heilingenhaven, and many years in command of the steamer Ingo. Deeply regrettel.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
M. Gauthier, the French Vice-Consul at Pak- hoi, was, the Courrier d'Haiphong says, installed in the Vice-Consulate of Toughing on the 20th October, the Vice-Consulate being opened after the exchange of the usual official visits. When the French flag was hoisted in front of the Vice-Consulate the French Commandant at Moncay saluted it with twenty-one guns, which ceremony seemed to astonish and impress the Chinese. Tonghing, it may be explained, is separated from Moncay only by a
creek.
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According to Tokyo papers, much anxiety is felt as to the safety of the new U.S. flagship Olympia, which left home for Japan some three months ago to relieve the Ballimore on the China Station. Some fear she must have met with a mishap, probably the breakdown of her engines, while others surmise that she is pro- bably detained in the neighbourhood of Honolulu, unable to coal owing to the prevalence
of cholera there. It is said that several hun-
men are piled up in the Yokoliama post office.
There have been no arrivals of mails during dreds of letters addressed to her officers and the past week.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
A Bill has been introduced in the South Australian Parliament for the regulation of mining in the Northern Territory. One of the clauses provides that no gold mining leases The Crown Prince of Japan has completely shall be granted to Asiatic aliens, and another recovered his health.
Sir Nicholas R. O'Conor was to leave Peking on the 2nd inst. for Shanghai, en route for Europe.
Sir Nicholas O'Conor proceeds home by the English mail steamer leaving Hongkong on the 21st inst.
The first instalment of the Chinese in demnity, £8,225,245, was paid to the Japanese Minister in London on the 31st October.
clause, that in the future no mining leases shall be transferable to Chinese or Asiatic aliens. When the Bill was in committee this was made still more stringent by the carrying of an amendment to the effect that no Chinese or Asiatic aliens be employed in working the
mines.
The following paragraph, which appears in the Avenir du Tonkin, seems to require some Américan missionaries explanation" Two who escaped the Szechuan massacres have arrived at Hanoi, having come by way of Laokay. The Mahommedan rebellion in the North-They wear the Chinese costume and have with west continues to make alarming progress, but them rather a large suite." The idea of mission- the news received is of an uncertain nature. aries travelling with a large suite seems rather It has been reported that Lanchow, the capital singular, and if any of the Szechuan mission. of Kansu, was captured early in October, but aries had had to fly by the Yunnan route we some doubt has been thrown on the accuracy of think the fact would have been made known at the report.
Shanghai long before this.
No. 20.
The N. C. Daily News remarks that the China pony is decidedly not so grey as he used to be. Formerly at least three-fourths of the griffins that came from the North were white or grey, while it will be seen that in the Champions at Tientsin on the 30th ult., of the ten starters not one was white or grey. There were four chestnuts, three duns, two browns, and a bay.
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On the 3rd November, being the birthday of the Emperor of Japan, the Governor-General of Formosa issued invitations to a “reception for that day at Tainanfu. A number of foreigners were invited and amongst those present were Mr. R. W. Hurst, the British Consul, and Mr. A. W. Bain, the Netherlands Consul. The health of the Emperor of Japan having been honoured, the Governor-General proposed the health of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India and afterwards that of Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands. The proceedings were marked by much cordiality.
The following changes in the Consular service are announced Mr. C. F. R. Allen goes to Foochow and is succeeded at Chefoo by Mr. T. L. Bullock; Mr. Octavius Johnson goes to Kiungchow, and is succeeded at Pakhoi by Mr.. E. L. B. Allen; Mr. L. C. Hopkins goes to Hankow, vice Mr. P. L. Warren, who goes on leave, and Mr. P. O'B. Butler takes chargo at Chinkiang; Mr. C. M. Ford goes on leave, and Mr. E. F. Benuett takes charge at Wahn; Mr. A. Hosie succeeds Mr. E. L. B. Allen as Vice- Consul at Pagoda Anchorage. Mr. R.· ·W. Mansfeld, Consul at Foochow, goes on leave. Mr. T. Watters and Mr. E. H. Parker, Consuls on leave, have retired from the service.
Commercial de Saigon:-Might this bea spy?-
The following paragraph appears in the Progrès M. Maddox, Captain in the English army, on the active list, arrived at Saigon by the Tibre and left eight days later for Singapore by the British steamer Benvenue without the harbour, police having caught more than a glimpse of him! The circumstance appears to us sufficiently grave to call for an inquiry to establish the responsibility of everyone in this affair."
On referring to the Army List we fail to find,' any Captain Maddox. There is a Surgeon- Lieutenant of that name in the Bengal Medical, Department, a lieutenant of the name of Maddocks in the Royal Artilery, and another lieutenant of the same name in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
The Japan Mail learns that according to official information received from Berlin, Prince Lobanoff, in his audience with the Emperor of Germany, did not make use of the language attributed to him by Renter's telegram of the 21st October. That telegram read as follows: -"Prince Lobanoff, at an interview with the German Emperor, said that Russia cannot tolerate the Japanese establishing themselves in Korea, where their presence would be a con. tinual menace to both Russia and China." The contradiction is couched in rather vague terms. If Prince Lobanoff did not use the language attributed to him, what language did he use ? The question is whether he expressed any such opinjon as that attributed to him, If the contradiction only rests on a quibble as: to the language in which the opinion was expressed it possesses no valna.
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