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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLII.] .
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c..................
Leading Articles :-
The Political Situation in the Far East
The Decline of British Trade and its Cau es
The Military Contribution Question
Mr. Whitehead and the Government
The Private Vehicles Licensing Ordinance...
The Drainage System and Fever
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 11TH DECEMBER; 1895.
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Inquiry into the Co ditions of British Trade with
China.....
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411
442
The Strathnevis Safe
Railways in China.- Imperial Decree
Reported Openi g of the West River
The Light and ase Regulations
412
A New Appointment for Sir Fielding Clarke.
112
Hongkong Legislative Cuncil
442
The Military Contribution.
.446
The Supreme Court Funds Ordina ce
Mr. Just ce Ackroyd's Pension.
The Amount Paid in Personal Emoluments &c.
415 115 418
The Stamp Ordinance Amendment Bill
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Affairs in South Formosa
Disappearance of a Registered Local Letter
Forged Bank Notes in Hongkong
448 ...417 ...447
The Pearl Robbery.--Alleged Miscarriage of Justic...447 Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Cricket:-
Scotla J. The World
Football:---
H.K.F.C. v. C. Company R.B
Hongkong Rifle Association..
Correspondence:-
The Light and Pass Regulations
Light in the China Mail
The Water Supply
Another "City of Dreadful Night.".
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Sir Fielding Clarke, Chief Justice of Hong- kong, has accepted the appointment of Chief Justice of Jamaica.
The Lillian J. Robbins has been dismasted off Cape St. James and towed in to Saigon. Her repairs will take some months to effect.
It is reported from Korea that a royal decree has been issued annulling the order of 12th August and restoring her title and dignity to the deceased Queen.
The Shaughai native papers state that the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung has given the laying of the Shanghai-Soochow railway to three Belgian engineers, who will have the sole control of the building of the line.
Mr. Byron Brenan, Her Majesty's Consul at Canton, has been appointed by the home Govern- ment & special commissioner to inquire into the conditions of Britisli trade with China and the possibilities of its development.
No. 24.
A Peking telegram of the 30th November to the China Gazette kays:Ratifications of the Commercial Treaty were exchanged here (and in Tokyo) to-day by the Japanese Minister and the Chinese officials appointed to negociate the
Treaty.
At Bangkok there was been trouble between and on the 22nd November a serious riot the Gee Hok and Gee Heng secret societies resulted, which the police were powerless to suppress. A force of 200 marines was despatched to the disturbed district and between seventy and eighty of the rioters were arrested.
The following communicated paragraph ap- pears in the Foochow Echo--Referring to the illegal tax of two cents on a case of kerosine oil, as published in our issue of the 16th November, we are glad to say that the blackmail office was a few days ago abolished through the strong remonstrance of the Consul whose country produces the oil now bought and sold in Foochow, and we venture to say that the Chinese authorities cannot under any plea put Chinese, as they once did, from using such forth proclamations any more stopping the oil under the pretext that it is dangerous. The object of their saying that kerosine oil is dangerous is to try to make a revenue out of this illegal tax, and it remains to be soon if they will resort once more to the same thing, that is, to warn the people against the use of such oil.
An Imperial decree has been issued sanction- ing the construction of a railway from Peking to Tientsin and recommending the formation of a Company by merchants for the construction of a liue from Peking to Hankow. On the anniversary of the coronation of the 418 King of Siam on the 16th November His 148 Majesty conferred the Order of the Phra Chula Chom Klao on Madanie du Plessis de Richelieu, the first European lady recipient of the dis. tinction. The order of Phra Chula Chom Klao With the development of commerce the system was instituted by the king shortly after coming of credit in Japan is rapidly improving. Speak- to the throne, and is the only hereditary honouring on the subject at a recent Bankers' réunion in
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The International Cotton Manufacturing Co., Limited 149 Why Railays have not been built in China
Thirteen Hundred Reformers in Cuina
The Edgar Disaster...
Affairs in Nerl. Hupeh
119 .4611 ..451
Triff Convention Between (rat Britain and Jap n.111 (although but for one generation) in Siam.
Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
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On the 26th Nov., at the Royal Naval Hospital, Yokohama, the wife of Surgeon MATTHEW O'REGAN,. R.N., of a daughter.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 13th November arrived, per P. M. steamer Peru, on the 10th December (27 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Tokyo, Mr. Yamamoto Tatsuo, of the Bank of Japan, expressed surprise at the wonderful in- crease during the past few years in the amount of credit bills and notes used in business trans-
actions in the capital. The total of the bills and notes discounted at the Clearing House in 1891, the first year of the institution's opera- tion, was 106,000,000 yen. It increased gradually until the amount reached 282,000,000 yeu in 1894. There are a large number of banks that have not yet joined the Clearing House, and have their bills exchanged at the Bank of Japan. The average daily amount of bills thus treated at the Bank during the month of October was 110,570 yen, in 1893,
Japan Mail. 180.000 yen in 1894, and 310,000 yen in 1895.-
At a meeting of the Committee of the 48 Shanghai Chamber of Commerce the question of extending the privilege of bonded ware- houses, which now form a monopoly of the China Merchants' S. N Co... was discussed, further action it would be well to get the and it was decided that before taking any general opinion of the mercantile community as to the desirability of claiming this extension
According to the Seoul correspondent of the Jitsugyo Shimbun, Mr. Townsend, a merchant of Chemulpo, and agent for the American Trading Company, has proceeded to Ping-yang mission. It is stated by the same correspondent | do with a mining engineer on a gold prospecting that the Korean Government has made a min- ing concession to the company referred to for a
We translate the following from the Manila term of twenty years. The mining engineer is by the business agent of the Philippines Comercio According to a telegram received said to have favourably reported concerning the Mineral Syndicate, Limited, from Mr. D. H. J. prospects of gold mining in the province.
Carnegie, the engineer at the mines, an im- The China Gazette says:-People in Shangportant discovery has been made of rich mineral, hai must have noticed of late the strange the analysis of which has given a result of preference of shroffs and others of that unpleas; twelve and a half onnees to the ton, of which a sant ilk for Hongkong and Shanghai Bank larger trial will be made by the crushing mill. notes as compared with Mexican dollars, which The thickness of the vein cannot be determined they, profess to have recently discovered are not at present, but there is reason to believe that News has been received that the overdue nearly so desirable a medium of payment as there is abundance of mineral, but it is very steamer Strathnevis, from Tacoma to Yoko-Wayfoong paper. We believe that the reason refractory and for this reason has to be sub- hama, has broken her tail shaft and lost her for this is to create a corner in notes and mitted to the action of fire. In Longos, for its propeller and is making her way back to Victoria, run down the Mexican with a view to future depth, good mineral is met throughout. At B.C., under sail.
profitable operations, and it is said that the com- San Mauricio a good vein has been discovered distinct understanding on that head amongst congratulate the shareholders of the Company. pradores and Chinese banks have come to a giving on analysis ten ounces per ton. We themselves. To such an extent has this plan of campaign been carried that already a scarcity by the above are realised the Shareholders are on such good news." If the expectations raised of paper money is being felt, and a domaud for indeed to be cougratulated. The any considerable number of notes even at the question we understand to be gold, but that is mineral in bank itself often means a delay.
not mentioned by our contemporary.
It is reported in Chinese official circles that the West River is shortly to be opened.
Attempts are to be made to improve the rice of Cochin-Chira by introducing seed from Burmah.
The German steamer Deuteros has had to return to Bangkok owing to a collision with a lighter as she was leaving. She had a hole kuocked in her amidships near the discharge valve, and is now being repaired at the Bang. kok docks.
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