THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIII.J
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Lead ng Articles :—
The Record of the Year
Railways in China
Great Britain and the Ko-ean Question
The Japanese Currency
Commercial Quest ons it Tonkin
Modification of the Light and Pass Regulations
Rising in North Forma
The Opening of the West River
Supreme Court:—
The Thales Affair
Tong à Tim (Appeilaut) v. The Queen by In-
spector Stanton (Respondeul)
Hongkong Sanita y Board
Mr. J. D. Humphrey and his Carriage.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 8TH JANUARY, 1896.
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A Device for Minimising the Effects of Collisions at Sea 25 Murder and Suicide at Shaukiwan
A Eur pean Fired for Giving False Evilence
Disorderly Conduct in the Charge Rom..
Farewell Gathering at the Soldiers and Sailors' In-
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The Ci y Hall
The Punjom Mining Co., Limited
The Shanghai Spinuing Company (Japanese)
Taikoo Athletic Sports
Hongkong Golf Club
Cricket
Amoy Races.
Correspondence...
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Local and District Eren's, 1895
Berious Outbreak at Ichang
The Opening of Hunan..
The Assassination of the Korean Queen.....
The Isis W. H. Macy Collision
New Ships for the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Value of Land in Kobe
The Japanese l'iet
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
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It is stated that a syndicate of native mer- chants has succeeded in getting permission to establish a steam-launch service between Hangehow and Ningpo.
News has been received of the death of Mr. E. G. Lowe, formerly a well-known resident at Shanghai and a former partner in the firm of Messrs. Fearon, Lowe & Co.
The Japanese Diet was opened on the 28th December. The Budget shows an excess in expenditure over income of 14,000,000 yen. The deficit is to be met by new taxation.
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to the hostility of the people of Szechuan to the The Shanghai native papers state that owing entrance of Japanese merchants into that pro- vince, the members of the Japanese trade commission who had got as far as Ichang en route for Chungking have decided to dress as Chinese in order to escape the unpleasant ob- servation of the Szechuen populace.
According to Der Ostasiatische Lloyd the Austro-Hungarian Government has decided to appoint an Ambassador to Peking. Hitherto the Legations in Peking, Tokyo, and Bangkok have News has been received at Shanghai of the been looked after by one representative only, death of Mr. A. Robinson, formerly a well-who resided in Tokyo. The new Minister to known solicitor there and much respected, and for many years legal adviser to the Municipal
Council.
At Akabane on the 29th December a train. while standing at the platform, was run into by one following it. Two passenger cars smashed and a dozen passengers more or less 28 seriously injured.
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It is officially announced that the British Government has accepted as sufficient the 29 reparation offered by Japan for the wrongful stopping of the steamer Thales on the high seas by the Japanese man-of-war Yayeyama.
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The Japanese cruiser Kohei, recently lost off the Pescadores, was formerly the Chinese 31 cruiser Kuangping, built at Foochow in 1890, of 31 1,030 tons and 2,400 indicated horse-power. She was one of Admiral Ting's ships captured
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The native local officials at Shanghai received a telegram from the north on the 29th Decem- ber reporting the arrival three days previously of a fleet of eleven foreign warships-presumed to be Russian-at an island called Tsingtao,
Peking is Ritter von Boleslawski, at present Minister-Resident in Morocco, who during the
seventies was for some time Consul-General in
Shanghai. Herr von Boleslawski is not expected to arrive at his new post before July.
We hear that there have recently been at- tempts, with some success, to lease property on Shameen to Chinese. Where the Chinese are satisfied to allow their foreign agent to occupy other residents need be looked for, but if the the premises nothing very objectionable to Chinese themselves come to reside in the settle- ment Shameen will soon lose what attractions it will be well advised to do their best to prevent has as a residence for foreigners. The community the insertion of the thin end of the wedge.
H.M.S. Narcissus, which was on her way out to the China station, has, we hear, been stopped at Aden. The Caroline and Mercury, which were under orders for home, have been ordered day (8th). It is expected that they also will be to expedite their departure and will leave to- stopped at Aden, and it of-war at Colombo has been ordered to remain reported that a man- there pending orders. The possibility of com-
At Chefoo, Beach Hotel, on the 22nd December, about twenty odd miles to the south-east of the|plications arising out of the South African the wife of Capt. GOSEWISCH, of a son.
DEATHS.
On the 8th inst, at 27, Belilios Terrace, FRANK, aged three years, younger son of Jas. R. MudIE.
[125 At Shanghai, on the 28th of December, 1895, JANE, dearly beloved wife of GoWER PILKINGTON, aged 35 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The Canadian mail of the 9th December arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of China, on the 1st January (23-days); and the Ame- rican mail of the 10th December arrived, per 0. & 0. steamer Gaelic, on the 6th January (27 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK. Confidence in the early opening of the West River continues.
The English are the Chinese of Europe. So says & Tonkin contemporary.
Three men found guilty of the murder of the Queen of Kores on the 8th October last were executed at Seoul on the 28th December.
A Seoul telegram of the 29th December states that an official order has been issued to the officials to cut their hair in European fashion.
A rising against the Japanese occurred in North Formosa on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd January, but was suppressed, and all is now quiet. No foreigners suffered in the affair.
entrance to Kiaochou Bay.
21st December arising out of the accidental A serious riot took place at Ichang on the killing of a native official, by a shot from a Morris tube that was being used in a shoot- ing competition at athletic sports which were being held by the sailors of H.M.S. Esk. The foreign community took refuge on a steamer in the harbour. Marines having been landed from sul the Esk quiet was restored. The British Con- was stoned and the windows of the foreign residences were smashed.
As will be seen by the official correspondence regulations are to be modified in their admin- published in another column, the night and pass istration, and in ordinary times lights and passes will only be required after midnight. The notice board outside the Registraeneral's office was surrounded by a large crowd all Monday afternoon perusing the notification. We congratulate H.E. the Governor on course he has adopted, which has relieved the native community of a genuine grievance.
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We are glad to learn that there are indications of a resumption of the transit pass system in the Kwangtung province. About ten days ago Mr. John Andrew passed & quantity of piece goods out the first transit pass which has been applied through the custom house at Canton, and took for fer about two years On Sunday, 29th December, he left with his cargo for Wuchowfu, on the West River, resolved to see his cargo to its destination himself and secure that it was not seized or interfered with by the native authorities,
the orders received. affair is generally believed to be the reason for
The Progrès Commercial de Saigon, re- ferring to comments made by a Singapore contemporary on the arrest of the captain of the steamer Flintshire at Saigon, asks what would be thought if the captain of a Messageries Maritimes vessel calling at Singapore tried to hire soldiers of the "royal guard" for the army of King Norodom. The answer is simple. If deserters from the Singapore garrison were blame would be held to attach to the captain found on a Messageries Maritimes vessel no
ordinary passengers. It is stated the deserters who had simply received them on board as found on the Flintshire were going to Java to join the Dutch army, but their being on the steamer affords no ground for presuming that the captain attempted to "hire' Saigon paper is very indignant, however. I
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Persuaded that the whole world belongs to says These English are always the same them, they cannot understand that the French masters in their own territory, should wish to prevent foreign navigators hiring soldiers: of the colonial army. The information we possess in connection with this affair enables us to of the captain of the Flintshire comported state that the officers charged with the arrest themselves with true French politeness and exquisite urbanity. The outrage was there fore no more contemptible than that committed every day by the French authorities in arresting in the streets of the town noisy Englishman drunk with whisky and brandy."
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