THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLIV.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Wook, &c....................................................... Leading Articles :—
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 22ND JULY, 1896.
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Japanese Misgovernment in Formosa
Robert Barns
The Trade of the Colony
Local Control of Municipal Affairs
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The Opium Trade
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Contempt of Court
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The Insurrection in Formosa
The Rebellion in Klangeu.
Supreme Court
Hongkong Sanitary Board....
Death to the Plague Bacillus
Review.
The Oanfu, from Hankow with new season's tea, arrived in London on the 13th July, having made the passage from Wooŝung in 371⁄2 days.
It is officially notified by the Netherlands Government that the port of Pulo Way is now open to general trade and that ships can coal
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Lai Mit, who fatally shot a Chinese constable 61 at Hongkong on the 12th July, has been captur- ed in Chinese territory and is now in the hands of the native authorities.
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H. E. Marshal Yamagata was one of the passengers by the Yarra, which arrived here on Saturday morning. When the steamer anchored boarded the vessel and waited on his Excellency, the Japanese Consul and other gentlemen. and they then escorted him to the office of the
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Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, where he remained all day. He did not call upon H.E. the Governor, but sent his card by his Secretary. The Marshal is in indifferent health and has been obliged to decline all official attentions on his way ont.
Subject to audit the forthcoming dividend We read in the Jiji Shimpo that the number of the Hongkong aud Shanghai Bank will be of Japanese subjects residing in Siam having £1 58. per share, $250,000 to be placed to the become very numerous, the advisability of es Reserve Fund, and about $300,000 carried for-tablishing a Japanese Legation and Consulate
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The Murder of a Lukong ............................
The Great Cockloft Question
The Post Office
Probates and Administrations în 1895
Harbour Master's Report for 1895
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The Acting Colonial Surgeon's. Report för 1895
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The Afforestation Department
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Mysterious Shooting Case at Pokfulum”........
Chinese Presentation to Dr. Marqués.
Correspondence ....................
Japanese Tidal Wave Relief Fund
The Tonkin Matting Trade
Hongkong and Port News... Commercial ............ Shipping
BIRTHS.
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The insurrection in Mid-Formosa has as- sumed serious dimensions. The outbreak has been provoked by the oppression and cruelty of 71 the Japanese soldiery and petty officials, who 72 have been guilty of great atrocities.
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Intelligence has been received of the death of the Rev. E. P. Hearnden, of the Foreign Christian Missionary Society, who was 76 oidentally drowned while attempting to cross the Tienho river near his home at Ch'ucheo.
On the 15th inst., at Hongkong, the wife of F. J. HAVER DROEZE, Consul General for the Nether lands, of a son.
[1639 On the 18th inst., at Mount Austin Hotel, the wife of W. PESTALOZZI, of a son.
1660 At 135, Wanchai Road, Hongkong, on the 18th inst., the wife of H. DIXON, of a daughter. [1661 MARRIAGE.
At St. Andrew's Church, Chefoo, on the 9th July; by the Rev. Hours Mathews and in the presence of the United States Consul, LOUIS HENRY, son of the Rev. Thomas SMITH, of St. Joseph, La., USA., to JESSIE, younger daughter of the late Charles CORNE, of Shanghai.
DEATH.
On the 21st July, 1796, at Dumfries, N.B., ROBERT BURNS, peasant, patriot, and poet, in the 37th year
age. Scotsmen, dinna forget. [1666
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American maiï of the 20th June arrived, per O. & O. steamer Coptic, on the 16th July (26 days); and the French mail of the 14th June arrived, per M. M. steamer Yarra, on the 18th July (34 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The death is reported of Mr. W. H. Forbes, for many years the senior partner in the late
firm of Russell & Co.
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The Straits Settlements imports for the first quarter of the present year amounted to $46,290,890 and the exports to $38,203,549, showing increases of $691,683 and $80,875 re- spectively on the corresponding quarter of last year.
The Mercury's Peking advices state that it has been stated that the duty on native opiam is to be increased from Tls. 30 to Tls. 60 per picul, payable at place of production, such increase to exempt the drug from any further imposition whatsoever,
It is now announced that Mr. F. §. A. Bourne, of H.M.'s Consular Service in China, is the official that will accompany the Commercial Mission to China that has been organised by
the Blackburn Chamber of Commerce. Thé. mission will probably leave England in Septem- ber.
Notwithstanding the unsettled state of affairs about the Hankow-Peking Railway, a Chinese Iron Works are busily at work turning out correspondent informs us that the Hangyang materials for the line, which will have Shashi instead of Hankow as its starting point. Mercury.
The damage to the Kobe Maru from skimming a rook near Shimonoseki is, the N. C. Daily News says, much more serious than was least ten days. Had she been a yard farther out imagined, and her repairs will probably take at she would have gone clear; had she been a yard farther in she would probably have torn out her bilge and sunk. She was saved by being built of steel with a double bottom.
The Hongkong Ice Co., Limited, notify an interim dividend for the half-year ended 30th June of eight per cent., payable on the 27th July. A new Municipal Bill is now before the Dr. Tersin's plague cure appears now to be Straits Legislative Council and a number of well established... - A number of cases have been the clauses have been passed in committee. One:1 successfully treated at Amoy, but the supply of the provisions, which has been accepted after of lymph is now unfortunately exhausted.
some opposition, enforces a clear air arace at the rear of all buildings erected in ature. The Shanghai Waterworks Co. has declared Another clause gives the Commissioners power dividend of 158. per share for the half year; to tax bicycles and tricycles. It is considered increase of 25, as compared with the corre unlikely that the Commissioners will avail them sponding period of last year.
selves of the power:
there has been urged upon the Tokyo Govern- ment. Before taking any step of that nature, however, the Foreign Office in Tokyo has inti- mated to Siam that revision of the Treaty be tween the two countries is desirable, and the Siamese Government has given its consent. As to the place for carrying on the negotiations, Tokyo has been chosen, and it is expected that, within a brief period, a plenipotentiary envoy will come from Siam.-Japan Mail.
across.
The Shensi correspondent of the N. C. Daily effect that the famous Tang Fa-hsiang in News says:-The news from Kansu is to the
obedience to the Imperial command has beguns massacre of all the Mahommedans that he comes business men and sold their wives and female At Hsiningfu he slow three thousand
children. Fears are entertained of a general rising, especially in Pinlianfu and Haitien, which have hitherto remained faithful. The confined to a few rebellion hitherto was Mahommedans, the declaration of the "Holy War" being withheld till necessary as a measure of self-preservation: The Mahommedans across the Russian frontier are said to have promised lighted near the Tibetan border may not grow their aid, and who knows if the little spark into a great conflagration embracing Central Asia and India P
Considerable consternation was created in the Imperial Palace at Tokyo on the 1st instant though an official misapprehension. Certain seismological experiments were being prepared perhaps in the same line as those recently made by the Central Meteorological Observatory, by Professor Milne at Oxford. Somehow, one of the Palace officials got it into his head that the Observatory scientists had detected & the So this busybody at once went and definitely approach of a great earthquake of the real kind. notified his superiors that a destructive
panic. All the officials off duty were called i earthquake was coming on at midnight. This threw the people in the Palace into and preparations for removing the Emperor and Empress to a place of E safety were mediately started. The scare among the in waiting was beyond description, all; about in dismay and confusion. The tions for avoiding the danger were completed, but nothing was heard fro Observatory. This aroused suspicion, and an official was despatched to the Obser inquire into the truth then learned, that nothin artificial earthquak was coming on and thi rise to the absurd repo
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