THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIII:]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
· CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c..
Leading Articles:
The Secret Treaty and Li Hang-chang's Mission
to Russia
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 15TH APRIL, 1896.
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The Opening of the Interior of China
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Hon. T. H. Whitehead's Reply to the Address
Welcome
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The Military Contribution.
The tiap Rock Light Dues.
The E Ashore
The Ocampo Strauded in a Fog
The Stranding of the Activ
Supreme Court.....
Hongkong Sanitary Board..
The Plague
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The Japanese and Trad eRestrictions in Formosa
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A Prison Warder as Amateur Milk Analyst
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Criminal Poisoning in Hongkong.....
Olivers Freehold Mines,. Limited
The Yangtze Insurance Association, Limited Correspondence
Hongkong News..
Commercial Shipping
MARRIAGE.
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Serious famine prevails in the province of Kwangsi and the missionaries are taking steps to raise funds to relieve the distress by supply. ing rice or distributing money to the sufferers. In the Indian budget for the ensuing financial year sixty-two lakhs of rupees are appropriated for the Mandalay-Kunlon railway. Special efforts are to be made to complete the line in the shortest possible time.
The law abolishing the import duty on raw cotton in Japan has been promulgated. This will enable Japanese spinners to reduce the .318 price of their yarns and so place them in a better position to compete with Bombay yarns in China.
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We hear that preparations from albumen will shortly be manufactured at Hoihow, the 322 plant and machinery being in course of pre- ..323 paration to be sent to that port. The new .324 | industry will no doubt interest the natives and
add to the importance of the port.
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At St. John's Cathedral, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, RICHARD J. CURTIS, Master of the S. O. 8. S. Co.'s steamer Taichicar, to ELIZA KILGOR, second daugh- ter of J. K. BLACK, Bangkok, Siam.
[943 DEATHS.
At Bangkok, on the 9th inst., JAMES FREDERICK CHEETHAM, aged 40 years. (By telegram.) [944 At Tientsin, on Tuesday, the 24th March, 1895, DANIEL, O'ROURKE, aged 52 years, of Elphin Co., Rosconfmon, Ireland.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The German mail of the 9th March arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Sachsen, on the 9th April (31 days); and the French mail of the 13th March arrived, per M. M. steamer Sydney, on the 14th April (32 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Baron von Siebold, who for ten months has been in charge of Austro-Hungarian interests in Shanghai, left on the 4th April for Japan. After a short stay in that country Baron Biebold will proceed home, and, it is understood, will take up an appointment in Europe.
The entries for the Shanghai Spring Meeting closed on the 4th April with phenomenal result, the total amounting to Tls. 6.9W. against Tls. 5,385 for the Spring Meeting of last year. The former amount has never been exceeded, the totals of Tls. 6.350 in 1883 and Tls. 6,155 in 1888 being hitherto the records.
A Tokyo press despatch of the 1st April says:-The solemn ceremony of communicating to the ancestors of the Emperor information respecting the late war and the nation's victory took place to-day at the Kashikodokoro, the temple near the Palace for ancestral wor- ship. His Imperial Majesty was not present in person, but was represented.
Several acccidents to steamers have occurred recently owing to the fog. The Exe and the Ocampo both stranded near Hongkong on the 8th April, but were got off again; the Exe with rather serious damage and the Ocampo The Japanese Consulate of Amoy was opened with a twisted stem only. The Activ went ashore
on the 29th March.
A proclamation has been issued by the Viceroy of Foochow sanctioning the running of steam- launches on the river.
The revenue cruiser Chuentiao, which has been refitted for the tour of the " I.G." is expected to leave Shanghai about the 16th inst. for Taku.
Regulations of a restrictive character have been issued by the Japanese authorities with respect to the sugar and camphor trades in
Formosa.
The statutory meeting of Olivers Freehold Mines, Limited, was held on the 11th April, when the Chairman made a favourable statement as to the prospects of the Company.
The Emperor of Japan has signified his in- tention to prevent to each member of the Privy Council a set of gold cups, in recognition of services renuured to the nation during the war.
on Sad Point, Cape Cami, on the 7th April, and it is feared she will become a total loss.
The Hyogo News says: -Work was commenced last November by the Formosan Lighthouse Board
and Bito in Formosa itself will be lit, three apon several new stations. Capes Fuki lights are to be fired on the Okinawa-ken coasts, and four on the Kagoshima-ken. The Iyejima lighthouse (one of the Okinawa station): will be the largest in Japan, being 100 feet high.
An extensive fire occurred at Manila on the 3rd April, half of the district of Santa Cruz and a large part of that of Trozo, in which the houses are of "nips," being burnt down. The total number of houses destroyed was between four and five thousand. Subscriptions have been opened for the relief of the inhabitants in the burnt-out district and measures for their relief were also taken by the Government. It is believed that the fire had its origin in in- cendiarism, the motive being discontent with certain payments exacted in the district.
No. 16.
At Hué on the 26th March twenty-two chiefs of the party of insurrection were executed. Six specially selected executioners performed the decapitation and in only one instance was more than one blow required to sever the head from the body.
Li Hung-chang landed at Saigon on the 4th April and received much attention, royal honours being accorded him. His Excellency also landed at Singapore, where he was received with a guard of honour and the salute of his rank, and was entertained at Government House. In the Recorder for April we read that Li, just before he left Shanghai, was presented with a facsimile, except for the binding and the colour of the border. of the New Testament
His Excellency lately presented: to the Empress-Dowager. "received it very graciously, and promised to read it daily on his voyage."
So many absolutely contradictory and utterly valueless reports are published from time to time in the columns of the Peking Gazette, as well as in the native papers, that one scarcely knows how much reliance to place on any state- ments from Chinese sources upon this subject. The native papers to-day (1st April) record that on the 25th ult. a telegram was received from Kansuh to the effect that on the 10th ult. the Imperial Generals Tung and Tong, with whom the Kansuh Governor Wei was co-operating from the eastward, made a com- bined attack upon the Mahommedan position at secured a glorious victory over the rebels, the Wuchang Luh-poo and Wuchang Wu-poo, and Governor Wei carrying a place called Ta-pa with great gallantry! Considering that the Mabommedans have been reported as entirely subdued
exterminated ten or twelve
or
times they have a wonderful amount of fight still left in them. We, however, rather fancy the sugagements between the Imperialists and the rebels must be very like many of the despe rate but bloodless battles with which the Tai- pings and Imperialists frequently amused themselves for the sake of getting glowing reports and good rewards.-China Gazette.
As a settlement Hankow is growing rapidly. The building trade was never so brisk. Eight new hongs have gone up recently, half of them to replace old ones, but the glory of these latter houses is greater than the former, whilst the building just finished, in which the new Russian bank is about to start business, throws all the others into the shade: Two new concessions have also been marked out:
one for the Russians along the river side immediately below and adjacent to the Eng- lish, with the old French Concession behind it-France is always at the back of Russia now-a-days-and one for the Germans, which begins below the oity wall where the Russian leaves off. A good deal of specu- lating in land has also been done by foreigners outside these limits as well, in the hope of the good times coming, although a fact which came to light in connection with the German Concession might have taught caution. This fact was that much of the land after it had been bought and paid for from the apparent native owners turned out to be registered in H.B.M. Consulate as British property. It had been bought by speculators in the early days for good round sums, and afterwards neglected as never likely to be worth the cost of looking after it.-Peking and Tientsin Times correspondent.
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