THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIV.]
AND
China Overland Trade
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c....
Leading Articles :—
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Mr. Chamberlain's Decision on Constitutional
Reform
Local Self-Government and the Ignorance, In.
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 16TH JULY, 1896.
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competence, and Dishonesty of the Community. 31 British Trade and the Shipping Comference
The Expansion of Hongkong and the Water
Supply
The Navy and the Defence of Hongkong
Flogging in Victoria Gaol ...
The Sanitary Board Papers .....
The Distress in Japan
The Government Printers and the Gaol Printing
Office
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Owing to the death of Mr. Enslie, British Consul at Kobe and Osaka, Mr. Playfair has been appointed to be Acting Consul in the place of Mr. Enslie, and Mr Chalmers the Vice- Consul at that port.
A Chinese constable was fatally shot on the 12th July by an armed thief who was endeavouring to escape arrest. The outrage took place in broad daylight. The murderer has not been arrested.
H.M.8. Redpole was detained at Amoy for some days last week in consequence of the threatening attitude of a body of coolies, formerly in the employ of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, who had been replaced by others.
The case of Mr. Krause, the German instruc- tor who was wounded by Chinese soldiers at 40 Nanking, has been settled, we learn from the N. C. Daily News, by the payment of 25,000 marks and the cancelling of his agreement by 45, the Chinese anthorities.
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Contempt of Court
Supreme Court
Murder of a Policeman
Serious Coolie Trouble at Amoy
Hongkong Legislative Council
The Constitution of the Legislative Council
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The Displacement of British Goods
The Water Supply
Flogging in Victoria Gaol
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited .
The Wanchai Warehouse and Storage Co., Limited The Japan Tidal Wave Relief Fund
Correspondence
Rebellion in North Kiangsu
Quarantine in Manila..
Hongkong and Port News... Commercial
Shipping
MARRIAGES.
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Another public company enterprise is being 50 promoted at Shanghai, namely, the Shanghai Oil Mill Co., Limited. It is believed that the increased cultivation of cotton will make cotton seed extremely plentiful, and from this the 58 Company proposes to extract the oil.
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At Vienna, on the 24th May, MATHILDE, elder daughter of Mr. H. ROSENZWEIG, of Shanghai, to ADOLF, only son of Jaques SCHWARZ, of Vienna.
On the MA June, at Christ Church, Yokohama by the Rev. E. Champneys Irwine, M.A., Rector, F. FLINT KILBY, (0 ANNIE Barttan, daughter of the late John McMeikan Shaw and sister of Mrs. I. E. Fred Stone, of Yokohama.
A Christ Church, Yokohama, on the 29th June, by the Rey. E. Champneys Irwine, M.A, DONALD FRASER, Invernes, to CHRIStine Marie Drum- MOND, of Yokohama.
On the 3rd instant, at Trinity Cathedral, Shang hai, by the Rev. H.C. Hodges, M.A., ALBERT, seventh son of the late W.. R. NEWCOMB, of Stamford, Lin- colnshire, to MARTHA ELLEN, youngest daughter of Joseph ELLIOTT, of Todber, Dorsetshire.
DEATHS.
SAMUEL ROSENFELD, of New York, aged 29 years, at Kobe, 2nd July, at 2.30 p.m.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 3rd July, 1896, CHARLES STEWART BROWN, late second Engineer of the steamer Haeshin, aged 30 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 10th June arrived, per P. M. steamer Peru, on the 8th July (28 days); the English mail of the 12th June ar- rived, per P. & O. steamer Ravenna, on the 10th July (28 days); and the Canadian mail of the 22nd June arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of Japan, on the 13th July (21 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The papers in connection with the Hongkong petition for constitutional reform have been published. The Secretary of State's decision is that two unofficial members shall be appointed to the Executive Council and that the Officer Commanding the Troops and one unofficial member shall be added to the Legislative Council:
It is stated that the plan for building the railroad from Peking' to Hanchow has for the present fallen through, owing to the impossibi- lity of raising the necessary capital from purely native sources, and the Peking Government being unwilling to accept foreign capita'.
Cochin China is agitating for political separa- tion from Tonkin. The Governor-General has for some years past made Hanoi his principal residence and the headquarters of the Govern ment, and to this the Saigon people object, especially as they have to contribute very largely to the expenses of Tonkin.
It is estimated that the Tientsin-Peking rail way will be ready for traffic along the whole line by the bginning of March. 1897. Shares amounting to something like Tls. 400,000 are still wanting to complete the company, the money now being used to construct the railway having been borrowed from time to time from the Board of Revenue, at a nominal interest, the loan to be repaid in instalments within seven years after the railway shall have com- menced working.-N. C. Daily News.
The Kokumin computes the casualties to life and property in the great tidal wave in Japan as follows, according to researches carried up to the 24th June :-
No. of No. of No. of houses persons persons washed away killed. wounded. or damaged. 25,413
Inate Miyagi Aomori
3.314 346
29,073
6,779 715 243
7,737
6,156 1,184 484
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We (N. G. Daily News) have received news from trustworthy sources to the effect that the Miaotse aborigines of Szechuen have rebelled and that the insurrection-is most serious. Kolao Hui secret society agents are accused by the mandarins of having stirred the Misotse up and, further, that it is their intention to bring about the junction of these south-western rebels with the north-western, namely, the Mahomme. dans of Kansu. When the Imperial troops are thus fully occupied the Kolao Hui will rise in the Yangtsze provinces.
Report.
No. 3.
Mr. R. Chatterton Wilcox, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, writes us as follows: The Colonial Secretary has forwarded to this Chamber copy of a latter received from H.B.M.'s Consul at Ningpo announcing that from the 1st July quarantine has been imposed at that port on vessels arriving from Hongkong.
In consequence of representations made by H.B.M. Consul on the subject of the whole- sale robberies perpetrated by the colony of thieves established at Pai-tang-kao, we (Peking and Tientsin Times) hear that H.E. the Viceroy has given orders for an officer with a posse of soldiers and runners to be placed in charge of matters at the anchorage in question.
The Official Gazette of Japan announces that her Majesty Queen Victoria has ex- pressed, through Sir E. Satow, H.M.'s Minis- ter to Tokyo, her great sympathy with H.M. the Emperor and his people in regard to the re- cent calamity in the north. The Ministers for Belgium and France have also notified the Ja- panese Foreign Office that they have received in- structions from their respective Governments to convey expressions of the deepest sympathy from the King of Belgium and his Government and the President of the French Republic on account of the calamity.
The Shanghai Chamber of Commerce has addressed the Senior Consul begging that the representatives in China of the Treaty Powers when making any new Customs tariff with the will thoroughly protect foreign trade interests
Chinese Government. The Chamber is of opinion that under certain conditions some increase in the duties would not be detrimental to foreign trade, but that if the increase of duties is conceded it ought to be on the distinct agreement that the import duty once paid, the goods would be freed from any further impost of likin or taxes of any nature, no matter to what part of the Empire they are sent.
It is reported from Peking that owing to the recent sudden rise of the Yuugting, Peiho, and other streams in that part of Chihli province, the plains bordering these rivers, with rich har- vests of wheat ready for the sickle, have, in con- sequence, been submerged and large quantities of grain destroyed. A famine, although light in comparison to that of 1894-5, is therefore an- ticipated, unless outlets be found for the surplus water. This, continue our* advices, the Chihli local authorities are already trying to do, and | H.E. Wang, Viceroy of Chihli, has been ad- vised to engage the services of some able Euro- peen engineer to direct the necessary works. N. C. Daily News.
The trouble about the inclusion of British property in the new French concession at Hankow has been solved by the Viceroy, by the advice of Mr. Moorhead, Commissioner of Can- toms, to whom great credit is due for the suggestion, making a great addition to the present British concession. This is nHOW carried right back to the city wall, the other boundaries being the river on the east, the road bounding the Russian concession on the north, and the road bounding the Bund on the south. We understand that the matter settled, and the necessary proclamations, are already published. Chinese will do anyth for which a precedent can be shown the we trust that this precedent will be use in the agitation for the long-desi sion of the Anglo-American Settlem Shanghai.-N. G. Daily News.
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