THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIII. j
AND
China Overland Trade
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Weok, de...
Leading Articles:-
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Preventive Medicine. The Jenner Centenary ...418 Mining in China.....
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The Plebiscitum on the Sanitary Board Question...419 Official rersus Unofficial Control in Municipal
Matters......
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The Chamber of Commerce and Political Questions.420 A Conservancy Board for the Whangpoo. The Bank Rate of Interest
The Customs Revenue and the Volume of Trade...421
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An Official or Unofficial Sanitary Board. Poll of the
British Residents..
Supreme Court........
The Unvailing of the Queen's Statue
Hongkong General Chamb: of Commerce
The Late Captain Vesey
The Onco-Newchwang Collision.
The Sugar Industry in Formosa
Victoria Recreation Club
Bell'e Asbestos Eastera Agency, Limited.. Correspondenco
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Trade Report.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 21ST MAY, 1896.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The King of Siam was to leave Bangkok on his visit to Java on the 10th May.
It is reported that Russians have secured a coal mine concession in Ham Kiung-do, Korea, and Germans a gold mine concession in Ping-
an-do.
Luzon was visited by a typhoon on the 17th May and telegraphic communication between Manila and Bolinao was interrupted until the morning of the 20th.
The Japanese authorities are credited with having resolved to exile all healthy Formosans .427 found guilty of a breach of the new opium 427 regulations. The exiles will be sent to the
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Hokkaido.
The Minister of the Japanese Imperial House. 131 hold notified on 2nd May in the Official Gazette 432 thut Princess Yacko, wife of Prince Komatsu Yorihito, has been divorced at her own request in consequence of illness.
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The Stranding of the Menmuir
A. S. Watson & Co., Limited.....
The Lawn Tennis Tournament Championship
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Hongkong Golf Club
Hongkong Rifle Association
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
The Shanghai Goreral Chamber of Commerce.. Hongkong and l'ort News...
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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At Canton, ou the 14th May, the wife of the Rer. W. BRIDIE, of a daughter.
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On Saturday, the 6th instant, at Belvoir Lulue. aboye Fonham Road, the wife of ALFRED HENRY MANCELL. of a sent.
[120%! At the Wind-er Hoel, in the 19th May, the wife of Captain W. H. Wartox (Phrawang), of a son.
MARRIAGES.
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Official telegrams have been received at Tokyo stating that the revised treaty between Japan aud Norway and Sweden was signed on the 2nd May, and that ratificatious of the treaty between Japan and Denmark were exchanged on the 6th May.
Dr. Carrington, the new Chief Justice of Hongkong, arrived on the 13th May and sat in court for the first time on the 18th, when the Attorney-General on behalf of the bar and solicitors inade au address of welcome to his Lordship.
The annual meeting of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce was held on the 11th May. The chief topics discussed were the ne-
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The annual meeting of the Hongkong Gene ral Chamber of Commerce was held on the 13th May. A number of interesting questions were dealt with in the report and were touched upon in the Chairman's speech.
A poll of the British residents of Hongkong was taken on the 15th and 16th May on the question of whether there should be an official or unofficial majority on the Sanitary Board. The result was that 331 voted for an unofficial majority and only 31 for an official majority.
We understand that Colonel Sartorius, of the Royal Artillery, has been appointed Military Attaché to the British Legation in Tokyo. Colonel Sartorius` possesses the Victoria Cross, a fact that speaks sufficiently for the diş- tinguished character of his services. He is said to have intended leaving England for Japan early in April, but as the date of his arrival does not appear to have yet been offi- cially intimated, we presume that some post- ponement has taken place.--Japan Mail.
Half of the second instalment of the indemnity to be received by Japan from China, amounting to 4.112.622 10s. 1ld, was received at Berlin on the 7th May, by Mr. Hayashi Gonsuke, Jap- anese Consul at Berlin, and was deposited in the Imperial German Bank. The equivalent of 25 million taols (half the second instalment of the indemnity), together with 6,250,000, in- terest on the remainder, and 500,000 taels, expense of maintaining the Japanese garrison Wei-hai-wei, was duly received by the Japanese Minister at London from the Chinese repre- sentative, and paid into the Bank of England. The total amount of the second instalment will equal at the present rate of exchange something over 85.406,000 yen.
It is reported in native quarters that the
At St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, on the 19th cessity for a Conservancy Board for the Whaug | wholesale smuggling of arms into China from
May, by the Rev. 1. Lloyd, JAMES ALFRED LOW- BON, M.B., to ISA: JENNIE, younger daughter of Mr. Phillipp Reinhold E gene LAMMERT. (1219 On the 25th April, at the residence of the U. S. Consul-General, by the Rev. J. C. Davis, of Tokyo, W. S. STONE, of Yokohama, to ADELE C. MORRI- SON, of Chicago.
On the 25th Apri. at Christ Church, Yokohama, by the Rev. E. C Irvine, M.A., FRANCES ERNEST WORTH, eldest son of Mr. F. Worth. Bristol, to LILLIAN GERTRUDE ABBEY, third daughter of Richd. Abbey, of Yokohama
DEATHS. At the Government Civil Hospital, on the 14th inst., Dr., C. B. MARTIN, late Surgeon of steamer Menmuir.
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poo and an alteration in the bonded warehouse regulatious.
We learn that a Customs staff for the frontier town of Szemao, iu Yunnan, is to be appointed and will leave Canton probably next month. Mr. Carl, at present Commissioner at Mengtze, will take charge at the now station and will be succeeded at Mengtze by Mr. Spinney.
The E. and A. steamer Menmuir, which arrived here on the 12th May from Kobe, was ashore for several day at Imharu, in the Inland Sea. She left Kobe on the 30th April and went ashore next morning and it was not until the 5th that she got off. She sustained no damage.
On Sunday, the 17th instant, at the Peak Hospital, AKID ROBERT ISAAC, aged 26 years,, the dearly be Of the tenders for rails, etc., for the Peking. (Mel-Tientsin railway that of Messrs. Back and Man- [1204 son, representing the Barrow Hematite Steel At Tokyo, on the 5th May, ALEXANDER STEWART | Rud Iron Works, was the lowest, viz., Tientsin HARPER, aged 38
loved son of WILLIAM and HONORIA KEW, bourne papers please copy.)
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 16th April arrived, per P. M. steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, on the 14th May (28 days); the English mail of the 17th April arrived, per P. & O. steamer Rosetta, on the 16th May (29 days); and the American mail of the 25th April arrived, per O. & O. steamer Gaelic, on the 19th May (24 days).
Taels 409,913, whilst Messrs. H. Mandl & Co.'s, who tendered for Messrs. Krupp & Co. of Essen, was the highest figure asked, namely, Tientsin Taels 487,626.
Au anti-foreign riot took place at Kiangyin on the 12th May and the mission property was destroyed. The body of a child appears to have been surreptitiously buried within the mission compound by some evil disposed person, who then raised a disturbance, and, on the Magistrate arriving and the missionaries demanding a search, brought the body to light. The mis. sionaries escaped.
Macao, which has been going on by junk for the past year or so. continues as briskly as ever. One of the causes is said to be that in the present condition of the country every village of any consequence, if it wishes to feel any security against being raided by the large armed gangs now committing depreda- tions in all directions, requires some thirty or forty rifles for its defence. It is useless
officials in to appeal to the
connection with these raids, as they render no assistance, all their attention being taken up in extorting as many dollars as possible out of the people in the shape of some tax or another. The people have consequently to rely on their own resources for their defence if they do not wish to have the village pawnshop sacked and the well-to-do residents compelled, under threat of being killed, to deliver up any treasure they possess. But the facilities the legitimate purchasers of arms for their own defence find for smuggling them into the country are unfortunately equally availed of by the plundering section, who are probably still more alert in the matter. Both parties are willing to pay a good price for a good weapon. The marauders, who are associated in gangs of two and three hundred each, have in a number of cases that have lately occurred been armed with repeating carbines. These armed gangs of thieves may yet combine under one strong leader to upset the Government. they were to abstain from plunder they would not want for support and a strong following from the mercantile classes.
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