THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIV.J.
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Overland
China Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.........
Leading Articles:-----
Hindrances to Trade in China ...
The Governor and the Secretary of State's Des
patch
Li Hung-chang and the Relations between Russia.
and China
A Commercial Fraud in Tonkin
Permanency of Consular Appointments
The Japanese and the Rebellion in Formoss The Localisation of Plague
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 8TH JULY, 1896.
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Supreme Court
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Rebellion in Formosa.
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The Constitution of the Legislative Council The Recent Rains and the Reservoirs
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Presentation to Plucky Policemen
Systematic Thefts from European Houses
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Trespassing within the Forts at Kowloon
The Dairy Farm Co., Limited
The Third Gymkhana Meeting..
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The Oxford and Cambridge Cricket Match Correspondence
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The Chinking Chamber of Commerce and Mr.
Brenan's Mission
Russia and the New Chinese Navy .......................................... The Mahommedan Rebellion.
Li Hung-chang
Reported Murder of a Missionary in North Kiangsu..
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An Incident of Travel in China
Murder of a Planter in North Borneo ...................... The Prospects of Ranb
Hongkong and Port News... Commercial
Shipping
DEATHS.
H. E. Count Cassini has been granted leave of absence from his present post as Minister for Russia in Peking, and proposes to leave in September, going overland.-Mercury.
Mr. D. D. Ollia, a Parsee merchant, has been killed by rebels at Hoonim, the centre of the camphor industry in Fórmosa. Great excite ment prevails amongst the foreigners at Anping and Tainanfu, whose losses through the depre- dations of the rebels at Hoonim are likely to be considerable. The rebellion is said to have been provoked by the cruelties practised by the Japanese officials.
The Peking Gazette of the 17th June publishes a memorial from H.E. Sung Fan, the Gover- nor of Yunnan, the substance of which is as follows:-In accordance with a special decree dated 25th February, 1896, authorizing the local authorities at Yünnan to take measures to open mines, Your Memorialist has sent some deputies, experienced in geology, in various directions to survey the mines where the work had been stopped in order to reopen them. In the meantime steps are being taken to collect the capital. It has been decided that no machinery is to be nsed and no foreigners to be engaged in these mining works as a matter of economy. As soon as the survey is completed Your Memorialist will lay before Your Majesty the full particulars and regulations concerning 32 the undertaking.-Approved.
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The acquisition of Messrs. Fergusson & Co.'s foreshore at Chefoo has, we (N. C. Daily News)- believe, been finally frustrated by the firmneng of the Foreign Office and Sir Claude Mac. Donald.
The Hongkong Dairy Farm Co., Limited, has decided upon a scheme of reconstruction under which each shareholder will receive one new share of 35 paid up and $2.50 on call in exchange for one present share of $10 paid up, the capital of the new Company being $75,000 divided into 10,000 shares of $7.50 each instead of 10,000 shares of $10 each as in the present Company.
We (Peking and Tientsin Times) learn from Peking that the reorganized Reform Club is situated at the Hu Fang-chiao, outside the Front Gate, and that the residence formerly.00- cupied is not used. This club is now under the control of H.E. Sun Chia-nie. From what -Government Insti- we hear, the club is now a - tate, the members of it being bound by official rules and unable to reform as liberally as they were before, and which, of course, is contrary to the original-object of its establishment.
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Killed by the rebels at "Hoonim," South For mosa, on the 28th June, 1896, Mr. D. D. OLLIA; formerly of D. D. Ollia & Co., of Hongkong, Amoy, Foochow, Tamsui, Taiwanfoo, and late of Dinshaw &Co., of Hongkong and Taiwanfoo. Deeply regretted by a large circle of friends and relations and the whole of the Parsee Community of Hongkong and China. Bombay and Surat papers please copy.
At the Government Civil Hospital on the 4th inst, NICHOLAS NOLAN, Head Turnkey at Victoria Gaol, altogether, but from a scientific point of view it matter of surprise that the present German
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aged 55. For thirty-five years in the Government T1559 On the 8th instant, at Mountain View, The Peak, WILHELMINE MARGARETE, aged 25 years, the dearly beloved wife of Richard MARTEN. [1585 At Shanghai, on the 27th June, 1896, ALEXAN- DER WINGYETT HUNT, of the Hongkong & Shang- hai Banking Corporation, aged 24 years.
Dr. Yersin, whose discovery of a cure for bubonic plague was reported in our last issue, left by the Empress of India for Amoy. We understand that the medical authorities of Hongkong were anxious to afford Dr. Yersin every facility for testing his remedy, but at the time he arrived from Saigon there did not happen to be a plague case in hospital except convalescents, and before the next case was brought in he had left for Canton. Now he has gone to Amoy, and before he returns we hope plague will have disappeared from the colony will be regrettable if Dr. Yersin has no oppor- tunity of applying his remedy in Hongkong, where the tests could be conducted under con- ditions much better calculated to exclude all "possibility of error than can be the case at
Amoy or Canton.
The N. C. Daily News says:-The personnel of the German Legation at Peking is being almost entirely changed, and there has been much speculation as to the reason for this Baron Schenck su unexpected revolution. Schweinsberg, the Minister, has been recalled; & new Secretary of Legation has gone up to replace, Baron Speck von Sternburg; and Baron von der Goltz has been sent to Canton in charge of the Consulate there. leading Austrian journal, the News Freis Presse, has the following very interesting re marks on this subject in its issue of the 8th May-"It is learnt by wire that the German Envoy to Morocco, Baron Heyking before taking up his post received the appointment as Minister to Peking. Great political importance is at- tached to this change. It had long been a Minister to China kept himself so much in the background in the discussion of the Far Eastern Question, and that in Berlin the advice of the former Envoy to Peking, Herr von Brandt, should have been so constantly sought. The explanation of this is that Herr von Brandt was in Germany when the question A series of articles on the cotton industry reached an acute phase, and that there was no in Tonkin has recently appeared in the Indo- one in Germany, and perhaps in all Europe, Chine, Francaise. One of the promoters of the better acquainted with the state of affairs in mill established at Hanoi recently came out Peking, from both their political and economic from France to investigate for himself the points of view. baron Heyking has never pre- difficulties encountered by the enterprise.viously been in the Far East, but he is said to These difficulties arise. principally from the take with him to his new post-besides The French mail of the 5th June arrived, per small production of the raw material in the thorough acquailace with the economic situa M. M.steamer Salazie, on the 6th July (31 days).country and the irregularity of the supply in tion in China and a certain degree of acute- ness in business matters, which he has al ready displayed at Chicago, Valparaiso, Cal outta, and lastly Cairo-a complete knowledge of the Russian language and relations, as he was a Russian subject before entering the In view of the German diplomatic service. part which has fallen to Russia since the recent occurrences in the Far East, and in view of the importance to German export trade of the opening of the enormous Chinese market, the atmost demands will be made on the German representation in the Far East, and to fulfil those demands Baron Heyking, to judge by his former record, seems to be the right-man in the right place."
At 10, Peking Road, Shanghai, on the 27th June, 1896, FREDERICK HAYLEY BELL, aged 63 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Fung Poong, the Wanchai murderer, was executed in Victoria Gaol on the 7th July.
The China Gazette states that a French geologist at the request of native merchants is inspecting coal deposits in Szechuan Province.
Reports have been received of a disturbance at Chuchoufu, in the north-west of Kiangsu, in which a Roman Catholic priest is said to have been killed.
the local markets. To meet this the capitalist in question made propositions to the Government for the encouragement of the cultivation of cotton by the natives, but being met with a refusal nothing remained for him but to take the mail steamer back to France. The articles go on to show that the soil of Indo-China is eminently suitable for the cotton plant, and it is argued that the Government should take steps to encourage its cultivation. The suitability of the soil is demonstrated by the fact that in some provinces cotton is grown and shipped to Hongkong, Shanghai, or Japan, but the method of cultivation is defective and the crops are consequently coarse and poor.
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