THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIII.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 10TH JUNE, 1896.
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CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.........
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Leading Articles :——
Additional Unofficial Members for the Hongkong
Legislative Council..
The Administration during the Governor's
Absence
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Wharfage Accommodation and Ferry Traffic ......478 Cocklofts and Cubicles.—A Mistake in the Law...479
Shanghai Bunders
Railways and Feng-shui
The Treaty between Germany and Japan
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The Acting Governorship
Supreme Court
Hongkong Sanitary Board..
Sanitary Superintendent's Annual Report
Chinese Petition on the Sanitary Regulations..
The Charge of Embezzlement against F. Walker
The Second Gymkhana Meeting
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
Hongkong Rifle Association
The Stranding of the Cheang Hock Kian
The Amoy Customs Report
The Navigation of the Peiho.
The Extension of the Settlement at Tientsin
Foreign Education in China.....
Agreements in Restraint of Trade..
Jelebu Mining and Trading Co., Limited Special Ports in Japan
The Japanese Merchant..
Correspondence
A Shanghai Bunder
A Stoarmer Ashore...
Hongkong and Port News....
Commercial
Shipping
DEATHS.
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The Shanghai Volunteer Corps has unani- mously elected Captain B. A. Clarke Com- mandant of the Corps.
It has been decided by the promoters of the recent celebration of Jenner's centenary in Tokyo to erect a statue of the great physician.
There were six cases of plague yesterday. Two were from the city, three from Kowloon, and one from Shaukiwan. One of the cases from the city was contracted in Kowloon City.
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Chinese merchants trading between Foochow and Formosa complain that junks running be- .482 tween the two points are frequently plundered by pirates beyond the White Dog islands. Some thirty or more junks have been so pirated ..485 during the past four months or so.-N. C. Daily
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A telegram received from Peking has been ...485 kindly communicated to us, the purport of which is that the Russian and French Ministers there are working to obtain from the Govern ..487 ment for their nationals the exclusive conces- ....487
sion to construct railways in China.-N. C. ..488
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The Vladivostock states that the region of the Amur, at present administered by a Gov- ernor-General, is to be changed to an Imperial .....489 lieutenancy, with either Khabarovka or Niko- ....490 | laievsk as the capital, while the town of Vladi- vostock will itself form a separate maritime prefecture under an admiral of full rank.
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Died of heart disease, at 6 a.m., on the 24th May, 1896, at his residence, No. 142c, Bluff, Yokohama, in his 66th year, L. LICHTENSTEIN, a native of Lask, Russian Poland.
At Shanghai, on the 30th May, 1896, ALGUST CHRISTIAN FRIts (Great Northern Telegraph Co.), aged 23 years.
At Shanghai, on the 3rd June, 1896, BLAIR E. MAYNE (late Manager of the Shanghai Horse Bazaar Company, Limited), aged 41 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 12th May arrived, per O. & O. steamer Doric, on the 7th June (26 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The King of Siam arrived at Batavia on the 25th May.
The Shanghai Spring Regatta was held on the 29th May and appears to have been very successful in every respect.
The Japanese Treasury authorities have stated that foreign subjects can properly be registered holders of Japanese Government bonds.
A petition has been addressed to the Hong. kong Sanitary Board by Chinese merchants with reference to the administration of the sanitary regulations.
A Reuter's telegram states that a despatch has been addressed to the Governor of Hong kong conveying the Secretary of State's decision with reference to the creation of additional unofficial members of Council.
H.E. Liu Kun-yi has obtained Imperial sanction to establish a college at Nanking, to be maintained by the Government, for educating Chinese youths in foreign literature and science. The college, which will be constructed soon, will have accommodation for 120 pupils. to teach whom foreign teachers of English, German, French, and Japanese will be engaged.-Mer cury.
The project of a Waterworks Company in the native city, Shanghai, to supply pure fresh water to the inhabitants, is now, the Mercury says, in a fair way of being an accomplished fact, two native capitalists of the rank of Taotai having raised a capital of Tls. 300,000 for the carrying out of the scheme. The works will be erected at Kaochang-miao, and the water supply drawn frofup stream.
A homeward passenger by the French mail, writing to the Courrier d'Haiphong from the Red Sea, speaking of amusements on the pas. sage, says -Parfois même on s'ennuie bien un pen malgré le spectacle divertissant que nous donne continuellement l'ambassadeur chinois lorsqu'il se fait habiller, laver, coiffer, masser, Tout électriser, poudrer, pomponner cela sur le pont, devant la cabine de luxe qui a été donnée à Li Hung-chang.
It is reported from Hankow that the chief depot and starting point of the Hankow-Peking grand trunk railway will be at Shasi, a few miles distant from the first-named port. It is also said that H.E. Chang Chih-tung is sanguine of being able to supply the new railway with o goodly portion of the materials required from the Hanyang Iron Works, and that this was the main reason of his appointing the wealthy Sheng Taotai, of Tientsin fame, to the Chief Directorship of that institution.-N. G. Daily News.
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No. 24.
A dormant commission has been issued ap- pointing the Senior Military Officer to admin. ister the Government of Hongkong during the absence or incapacity of the Governor and in the event of there being no Lieutenant-Gover.
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ber of Commerce held on the 1st June it was At a meeting of the Shanghai General Cham- decided to again address the Senior Consul on the subject of river conservancy, pointing out that the recent Onwo disaster shows the neces- sity for strict regulations for the -navigation of the Woosung Bar, and, referring to previous correspondence on the subject, to ask if the Consular body can take steps to obtain legisla- tive sanction for the existing Customs rules, and for such other additional rules as may be deemed advisable.
Formosa is playing sad havoc in the ranks of Japanese settlers. The Japan Herald, writ- ing on the 21st May, says that so many of the carpenters and other artisans that were despatched to Formosa some time ago have succumbed to the climate and are now either in their graves or in hospital, that the Army Department in the island has been obliged to The apply for another batch of the same. new squad is to be despatched in a few days, together with fifteen extra nurses from the Tokyo Military Hospital.
The writer of "Notes by the Way" in the Japan Gazette says:-Reports reach me of a regrettable nature as to the harshness of dis- cipline on the Centurion. This is said to be so severe that very few of the young men after this commission will ever go to sea again. Now this ought not to be. England needs all her sailors, and a flagship, of all ships, ought to attract, not repel the men, and the officers ought to take as much pride in having a crew who are proud of their ship as in having everything in the best spick-and-span order. It is the petty in- conveniences that make life unbearable and with a little tact the officers could easily remove the discontent and its memories.
On the occasion of the coronation of His
Imperial Majesty the Czar at Moscow, the Russian representative at Tientsin, Mr. Victor Grosse, gare an elaborate déjeuner at the Russian Consulate, on the 26th ult., at which His Excellency Viceroy Wang, Taotais Li and Hu, the Consular Body of Tientsin, the com- manders of the Monocacy, Linnet, and Maya, the Commissioner of Customs, and others were present. The Viceroy made a speech in which he dwelt on the greatness of Russia and the high qualities of the Czar, and proposed his health and that of the Czarina. Mr. Grosse, in replying to the Viceroy in Chinese, thanked His Excellency in fitting terms for his kind. words, and, proposing the health of their Imperial Majesties the Empress Dowager and Emperor of China, expressed the hope that H.I.M. might be as famous in history as his illustrious ancestor and contemporary of Peter the Great the Emperor K'anghai. termination of the Viceroy's speech a salute of 21 guns was fired from the flotilla of Chinese gun oats anchored abreast of the British settle- ment. The déjeuner was interspersed with toasts and music-operatic and national airs. by the Municipal Band, and was altogether a most enjoyable affair.-Peking and Tientsin Times.
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