THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIII.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c..
Leading Articles :----
The Opening of the West River and the Anti-
Foreign Agitation
French Colonial Policy.
Dr. Clark and the Health of the Colony
The Chinese Import Tariff and Transit Passes The Penalty for Trespassing in the Forts
Supreme Court...
The Onwo-Nerochwang Colligion..
The Conviction of German Officers
The Barrow Textimonial
Hongkong Sanitary Board......
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 13TH MAY, 1896.
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The steamer Ingruban, which was ashore on the Tamsui bar, has been towed off by the Hailuong.
The bodies of Mr. G. Davidson, chief engineer, Mr. J. Allan, third engineer, of the Onivo, and Mr. Scott, the pilot, were picked up by Chinese boats early on the morning of the 7th 399 ! May, near the Red Buoy, Woosung.
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.400 Li Hung-chang, while in Europe will en
deavour to negotiate a new tariff agreement with the Treaty Powers giving China an increase of from five to eight per cent. in the duty on imports{
The Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health...405 investigate the circumstances attending the
Another Incendiary Fire in the City
Anti-Foreign Proclamation at Wuchow
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Chloride of Lime as a Disinfectant
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Imperialism sad the British Empire
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The War of 1896 97 and Events in the Far East in
Connection therewith.
The Punjom Mining Co., Limited...
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Hongkong Gymkhana Meeting
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Lawn Tennis
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Correspondence
Shanghai Spring Race Meetisg
The Seoul-Chemulpo Railroad
Tugs on the Poyang Lake....
British Investors and Japanese Sccaritias
Prince Heuri of Orleans on the pening of the West
River
Hongkong and Port News... !.
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
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On the 8th May, 1896, ai Swatow, the wife of L. HAESLOOP, of a son.
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MARRIAGE.
On the 4th inst., at the British Episcopal Church, Foochow, by the Ven. Archdeacon Wolfe, assister
The Court of Inquiry held at Shanghai' to collision between the (nuo and the Newchwang has found the latter vessel in fault and con- sured the captain; it also finds that the life saving apparatug on the Onwoo was inadequate.
It is reported that Rear-Admiral Oxley has been appointed second in command of the China squadron and will come out in the Grafton, which will be his flagship. The Grafton leaves England early next month. The appointment of a second Admiral to this station is a new departure on the part of the Admiralty.
The Mercury of the 7th May says:-We re- gret to have to record the death of Mons. H. Loumyer, Belgian Minister to China and Siam, which took place at the General Hospital this morning, through blood poisoning, the effect of a scratch during his passage from Peking to Tientsin. He arrived here on the 3rd instant in the insing The funeral will take place from St. Joseph's Church to-morrow at 9 a.m
were half-mast during the day.
by the Rev. W. Banister, and after at If The flags of the Consulates and men-of-war
Consulate, by Mr. C. F. R. Allen, Jons C. OSWALD, of Foochow, to Nina Louisa Day, second daughter of the late Rev. A. B. Day, Kectar af Fishpon:ls, near Bristol.
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DEATHS.
On the 2nd May, on løard the Yakshana Maru, CHARLES CROMIE, aged 54.
On the 6th May, at 56, Quinsan Road, Shanghai,; ANDREA NICHOLAS VILEDAKI, a native of tireece, aged 72 years, and for about 5 years a resident in Nagasaki and Shanghai,
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 10th April arrived, per M. M. steamer Caledonien, ou the 12th May (32 days); and the Canadian mail of the 21st April arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of Japan, on the 12th May (21 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The insurance on the Onwo amounted to about Tls. 50,000, of which Tls. 12.000 was effected with the Canton Insurance Office, Tls. 6,000 with the Yangtsze, Tls. 3,000 with the South British, and a couple of thousand taels in the World Office. It was proposed to blow ; up the wreck at once, but we believe the majority of underwriters pbject to this course as a large quantity of the cargo, such as silk piece goods, : cannot be very much damaged. There were some twenty-five cases of uninsured opinm ou board belonging to Chinese, but there was no treasure, though one of the banks had almost arranged to send up a considerable quantity by the Onwo. At the last moment it altered its arrangement.-
China Gazette.
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The foundation stone of the new electric light station of the French Municipality was laid at Shanghai on the 7th May by M. J. Orion, Chairman of the French Council.
Cases of plague continue to occur at Hong- kong at the rate of about eight or ten a day, but the disease does not appear likely to assume any formidable epidemic form. It is very had at Canton and also at Kiungchow, Hainan.
The sentence of three months' imprisonment with hard labour passed on the captain and doctor of the German mail steamer Hohenzollern for trespassing in the fortifications at Stone- cutters Island has been reduced to a fine of $100 each.
filed a petition in the Supreme Court at Shang- hai against the owners of the steamer Pekin in connection with the collision that occurred between the two vessels in that harbour on Good Friday.
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The owners of the steamer Normandie have
seems to be a Ånancial crisis amongst the native The Mercury of the 2nd May says:- -There silk filatures, and, from what we can gather, affairs with them are in rather a critical condi tion. This, we understand, is caused by the heavy rise in interest charged by the native banks and the fall in the price of silk. The silkmen will shortly be going up into the silk districts to buy cocoons, and they depend very much on the native banks to get their money to procure their annual supplies. It is reported to us that no less than eight native silk filatures have suspended work, not intending to buy. Some of these filatures have only just been
started, whilst the erection of others has been have arrived, owing to the want of capital, the suspended, although the plant and machinery shareholders not being able to pay up their calls. The shareholders in one enterprise have offered to sell out at a very cheap rate, whilst others are trying thein utmost to obtain foreign capital to carry on their business. So far as we can ascertain, uo Europeans have come forward with money. Native interest has been ruling as high as from 15 to 20 per cent. within the past week, but is now down to about 12 per cent.
L'Indo-Chine Francaise mentions that on the
17th February last a M. D. imported from Hongkong through Mr. Marty's firm a hundred cases of kerosine. The duty payable at that time was $99.83, which our contemporary remarks was already pretty high, seeing that the average price of kerosine at Hongkong is about $2.10 per case. On the 13th April the The N. C. Daily News says:--In our account same M. D. imported through the same of the efforts made to rescue the victims of the firm another hundred cases and this time disaster to the Onwo on the morning of the the duty came to $129.12. This surprised the 20th, we omitted to do justice to Mr. J. W. importer, who protested and made a claim Gardelin, the Castoma berthing officer at Woo- on Mr. Marty, who, in his turn, claimed sung. Mr. Gardelin was first on the scene, and on the Customs. The reply received from
the Commissioner, which is published in full,. who were floating on the water, one of whom states that on the 1st March a change was died of exhaustion. Too much cannot be said made in the method of calculating the about the promptitude and kindness of the officers duty payable on kerosine, the contents of a and men of the U.S. flagship Olympia; not only case being taken as $3.6 k. instead of 32 k.. were they most prompt and eager in the work aud, further, duty was now charged on the of rescue, but when they got the survivors on tins themselves as well as on the contents, board their ship they did everything in their the duty on a hundred tins amounting $23.71. power to make them comfortable, provided them Our contemporary remarks that these sudden with clothes, and got up a subscription for them. increases in the duties, made from month to the Wuejackets even making a suit of clothes month without warning, constitute an abuse for a small boy whom they picked up, and whose | sad a grave danger to trade, and that they ¦ father and mother were drowned.
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An anonymous anti-foreign proclamation has with his one boat he rescued fourteen of those been posted at Wuchową
The first Gymkhana meeting of, the season was held at Hongkong on the 9th May.
Great stringency has lately been experienced in the native money market at Shanghai.
Medical inspection has been established at Shanghai for vessels arriving from Hongkong. Singapore has declared Bangkok to be an infected port owing to the prevalence of cholera there.
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