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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIII.]
China
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Wook, &c................................. Leading Articles —
The Chefoo Land Case
AND
Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 24TH JUNE, 1896.
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Foreign Shipping and the Opiuin Trade in Formosa.514 Germany and Li Hung-chang Military Reform in China.
The Praya Reclamation..
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The Sanitary Board and the Chinese Petition......15 Delay in the Publication of Departmental Reports..516 A Deserving Case
Supreme Court
Hongkong Sanitary Board....
One Hundred and Twenty Passengers in Excess
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Legal and Illegal Cockloft-
The Obstruction of Backyards
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited
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The Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Limited.
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Hongkong Electric Co., Limited
Raub Gold Mining Co., Limited
The Punjom Mining Co., Limited.
Hongkong Rifle Association
Lord Kelvin's Professorial Jubilee
Correspondence
South Formosa
Hongkong and Port News, Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
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The Central Stores. Limited, share liste closed at Shanghai on the 15th June. The Company has been successfully floated.
The Foochow Echo of the 13th June says:~-~ It is somewhat remarkable in the history of this decaying port that at the time of going to press to-day, in the height of the tea season, there is not a single merchant vessel of any kind in harbour. How is the glory departed!
The China Gazette says:-It was at first decided that the capital for the railway to be built from Pekin to Canton should be furnished exclusively by Chinese, but on the representa- tions of Taotai Hsen, Princes Chin and Kung have agreed that foreigners may also subscribe capital on the same terms as natives.
Mr. Cowen and Mr. Wenyou arrived at 523 Shanghai on the 11th June, having travelled .523 from Canton to Wuchowfu, thence to Kweilin, the capital of Kwangsi, and through the pro- vince of Hunan. They accomplished the 525 journey through that anti-foreign province without meeting with any serious trouble.
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On the 18th instant, at "Fair View," Kowloon, the wife of FRANK SMYTH, of a son.
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MARRIAGE.
On the 18th instant, by Rev. Ll. Lloyd, at St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, GEORGE WHITE to LOUISE HULDA EMILIE BROST, only daughter of Heinrich Brost, of Kowloon Docks.
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DEATHS.
At Miyanoshita, Japan, on the 28th May, 1896, ELLA, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. SCHÜRCHI, Canton, at the age of 6 months and 13 days. [1438
At Kobe, on the night of the 14th June, J. J. ENBLIE, H.B.M.'s Consul for Hyogo and Osaka.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 22nd May arrived, per M. M. steamer Ernest Simons, on the 20th June (29 days); the American mail of the 28th May arrived, per P. M. steamer Belgic, on the 23rd June (26 days); and the Canadian mail of the 1st June arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of India, on the 23rd June (22 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The new Spanish Minister to Japan is a passenger on board the Ernest Simons from Marseilles for Yokohama.
The light on Norway Island (approaches to Haiphong) is to be exhibited from the 1st July.
A. Hakodate telegram of the 13th June to the Japan Mail says:—The British sealing schooner Catherine (Capt. Fulton) has foundered at sea. Fifteen of the crew have arrived here.
Colonel Wogack, military attaché to the Russian Legation in Tokyo, having been trans- ferred to China, Colonel De Yanjoul has been time before the latter will arrive in Japan, appointed in his stead. But as it will be some
Captain M. Sokovuine has been appointed to the position pending Colonel Yanjoul's arrival. -Japan Gazette.
Rear Admiral Tirpitz arrived at Shanghai from Yokohama on the 14th June in the Ger- man cruiser Cormoran, having travelled to Yoko- hama in the C. P. R. steamer, to relieve Rear Admiral Hoffmann, who relinquishes his office as Admiral of the German East Asiatic
Squadron. Admiral Hoffmann is a passenger for home by the German mail steamer Prinz
Heinrich.
At an extraordinary meeting of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha held at Tokyo on the 10th June, a resolution was unanimously adopted to increase the capital by 13,200,000 yeu, making the total 22,000,000 yen. The Company's new rates on ference, are, it is said, to come into force at once, the European line, as accepted by the Con- commencing with the Balmoral, which is to leave Yokohama on June 23rd.
We (China Gazette) are glad to be able to state upon reliable authority that the question of extension of the British Concession at Han- kow has been most satisfactorily arranged by the British Consul and the Taotai. We are not yet, however, able to indicate with any certainty the direction of the extension, but we understand that when marked out it will be as large again as the area at present occupied by the British Concession.
The Nanking correspondent of the N. C Daily News writes on the 13th June that "the Viceroy has concluded that the easiest way he can handle his contingent of Gerinan officers so as to avoid trouble between them and the other soldiers and officers is to transfer them all to Woosung and organise that large fort on entirely new principles. This will allow the Germans to be near a Consul in case of any difficulty and will avoid the possibility of any trouble occuring in this Viceregal city.”
No. 26.,
At Chungking last year the value of the tråde coming under the cognisance of the Foreign Customs amounted to over Tis. 13,000,000, being an increase of nearly 23 per cent. on that of 1894. of more than two and a half million taels, so At Ichang also there was an increase that the increase noted at Chungking apparently does not represent merely a transfer from one Customs-house to the other. At Hankow also there was a considerable increase.
An extraordinary meeting of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited, was held on the 22nd inst, for the purpose of effecting certain alterations in the articles of association. The first alteration provided for changes which have been made in the personnel of the staff, and the second for an increase in the directors' fees, as voted at the last half-yearly meeting. As to the former there was no difference of! opinion; the latter met with some opposition, but was eventually carried with only two dissentient votes.
The Nagasaki Shipping List of the 16th June says:-On Saturday last, just after H.M.S. Centurion had come through the Straits of Shimonoseki in company with the Alacrity, she grounded upon a sand-bank. After remain- ing there for some eight hours she was got off,
undamaged, and went ou her to Port
way Alexander Buller on board, stood by her all Hamilton. The Alacrity, with Admiral Sir
the time, and when the battleship had been successfully floated the Admiral "transferred his flag to her. The Alacrity then came on here.
Mr. James Joseph Enslie, the British Consul at Kobe, died on the 14th June. For many months past Mr. Enslie had been suffering from an abscess on the liver. He had under- gone three or four very painful operations, and triumphed and spared the Consul's life for some it was hoped that surgical skill had at last
years yet. Mr. Enslie maintained his usual cheerfulness and buoyant spirits, and his restor- ation to health was confidently expected by his friends. On the morning of the 14th, however, he broke a blood vessel while coughing, and this hastened the end, which occurred at eleven o'clock the same night.
H.E. Huang, Taotai of Shanghai, has issued the following proclamation in reference to the sinking of the Onwo:-Magistrate Shen of Paoshan has reported to me that the families of those who lost their lives in the wreck of the steamers Onwo, which was sunk by a collision which took place between that vessel and the steamer Newchwang at Pheasant Point, where- by over 200 lives were lost, are petitioning for a Special Grant. Now, according to British law the said families are required to make out statements as to the age, birthplace, and last place of abode of the deceased and send the same to the British Court of Justice. It is also my duty to notify the families of the victims that, in addition to the foregoing parti. culars, the nature of employment and their probable annual incomes will be required to be sent in to the yamen for my perusal. Losses of personal belongings will be required to be furnished separately. All applications must be sent in within two months, after with time no applications will be entertained. Those who attempt forgery will be treated summarily.
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