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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLIV.J
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c..........
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 13TH AUGUST, 1896.
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Leading Articles :——
Li Hung-chang in England
Chinese Tarif Revision
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New Government Offices and Colonial Office
Obstruction
The Hongkong College of Medicine
The Shanghai Bund Foreshore ..........
Preferential Treatment of the Chinese Junk Trade
Hongkong Legislative Council
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Cholera is reported to be raging at Peking. The Hwasang massacre memorial at Foochow was unveiled on the 1st August.
It is said that the Yokohama Bicycle Works have received an order from America for 100 bicyles.
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The Hongkong Government has issued clean bills of health since the 7th August, the plague being now at an end.
The report of the British Consul at San .118 Francisco notes that in 1895 26,213,095 lbs. of
sugar came from China.
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The Shanghai Municipal Council held a special .119 meeting on Thursday, 30th July, to consider the
Band Foreshore question.
in Formosa ............
A Chinese Navy,
The Constitution of the Legislative Council..
Supreme Court
Clean Bills of Health
The Recent Typhoon
Severe Gale at Hongkong
The Rebellion in Formosa...........................
Opium Smuggling in South Formosa
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The Wreck of the Iltis
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The Hwasang Massacre Memorial
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The Water Supply
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The New Government Offices
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The College of Medicino...
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The Assessment for 1896-97
The Increase in Telegraphic Rates
Hongkong Volunteer Corpe
Hongkong Golf Club
H. G. Brow & Co., Limited.
Correspondence
Boyd & Co., Limite !
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Another gale visited Hongkong on the 9th August, but fortunately it did not reach typhoon force and little damage was done.
A number of German officers arrived at Shang- 123 hai on the 28th July from Nanking to take over
the garrison duties at Woosung forts.
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The Taotai's Designs on the Shanghai Bund Foreshore123 Newchwang Flooded
The Native Scare at Soochow
The Drowning of Consul-General Hans
Another Tidal Wave
Hongkong and Port Newe...
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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It is reported that the Japanese negotiations with France have been completed and that the new treaty is now waiting to be signed.
A proclamation has begu issued by the Ma- 12gistrate of Soochow to suppress the evil reports that have been circulated coucerning foreigners 127 at that cify.
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On the 7th inst., at Hongkong, the wife of HAROLD BAXTER, of a daughter.
[1845 On the 8th inst, at Hongkong, the wife of Capt. 1. A. C. GORDON, R.A., of a daughter. [1854 At Stolzenfels,th Peak, on Sunday, the 9th August, the wife of P. SACHSE, of a daughter. [1827
MARRIAGE.
On the fith ins, at Union Church, by the Rev. G. J. Williams, WILLIAM MALCOLM WATSON, to Rose, younger daughter of Edward C. CLIFT, Hay bridge House, Shropshire, England.
DEATHS.
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The proposed reconstruction of the harbours of Kelung and Takna has been, decided upon. Professor Burtqu. and Dr. Ishigmu have pro- ceeded to Formosi ju connection with the pro- ject.
The King and Queen of Siam arrived at Singapore on the 31st July on their return trip from Java and were to remain there a few days before continuing their journey to Bangkok.
A Tokyo press despatch of the 31st July says the Nippon Yusen Kaisha has decided to open the Australian line shortly and in a few days
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The Singapore Free Press says:-Mr. Thio China, whose official name is Mr. Chang Chin Tiauw Siat, the Acting Consul-Generals for
Hsun, is leaving for China in a few days. It is reported that he has been recalled to China on business connected with projected railways.
By order of H.E. Chang Chih-tung a pre- liminary survey is going to be made soon of the road for the railway line from Hankow to Peking. An official of the rank of Chihsien together with two foreigners have been deputed to make the survey, beginning from the Hanyang district.-Mercury.
The Tsungli Yamen have promulgated a verbal edict of the Emperor to the various provincial high authorities, commanding that the study of foreign mathematics and the various branches of polytechnical science shall from henceforth be compulsory in all colleges of the country. Candidates at the literary examinations will now have to qualify in at least one of the latter branches, while ma- thematics must be one of the standing subjects at these competitions for literary degrees.- N. C. Daily News.
The Chihli authorities have sent Tls. 29,000, in sycee, to the new Hupeh mint for the pur- pose of being coined into dollars and subsidiary coins, as the new machinery for the Peiyang mint has not yet arrived from Europe. Of the
above amount Tls. 20,000 worth of new coins will be put into circulation at Tientsin, and Tis. 9,000 will be sent to the Amur province of Heilung-chiang to pay the troops there. The Tartar General of Fengtien (Monkden), we learn, has also ordered à considerable amount of the new money from Wuchang for circula- tion in his province.-N. C. Daily News.
The case of the owners of the steamer Onwo against the owners of the steamer Newchwang, arising out of the collision in the Huangpu on the 30th of April last, came before Sir Nicholas J. Hannon, in H.B.M.'s Supreme Court at Shanghai, on the 4th August. His Lordship explained that from various causes it had been impossible to obtain two assessors who might
At Mountain View, No. 2, the Peak, GERALD / representatives will be dispatched to make the not have to leave before the
FRANCIS CARL BREWITT, aged 9 months and 3 days, the dearly beloved son of PAUL and WINIFRED BREWITT. Deeply regretted.
[1828 (By Telegram) 3rd Angust, 1896, JOHN W. POWELL, Shanghai, of heat apoplexy. Aged 82. [1769 Accidentally drowned at Pootoo, on the 26th July: 1896, JOSEPH HAAS, Consul-General of Austria- Hungary Deeply regretted.
At Shanghai, on the 30th July, 1896, THOMAS HUGH COLGAŃ, aged 29 years.
On the 6th August, drowned, while out rowing, ADOLF BAUERFEIND, of Hamburg, aged 23 years.
Deeply regretted.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English mail of the 10th July arrived, per P. & O. steamer Rosetta, on the 6th August (27 days); and the American mail of the 11th July arrived, per P. M. steamer City of Peking, on the 7th August (27 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Hongkong Chamber of Commerce has addressed the Cable Companies protesting against the recent increase in rates.
preliminary arrangements.
The report of H. G. Brown & Co. for the year 1895 again shows an unfavourable result, the working account showing a loss of $14,889 carried to debit of profit and loss account, which latter account now shows a debit balance of
$90,129.
Among the passengers who arrived at Yoko- hama by the Empress of China from Vancouver on the 26th July was Profesor William Henry Mahoney Christie, F.R.S., the Astronomer Royal, who has come to Japan for the purpose of observing the eclipse of the sun of 9th August.
case was fin- ished. It was then agreed to take the evidence of Mr. Cooper, the second officer of the Onwo, and to adjourn the case to a date to be fixed
some time in October. Mr. W. V. Drummond and Mr. J. C. Hanson appeared for the plaintiffs and Mr. J. J. Francis, Q.C., and Mr. W. A. C.
Platt for the defendants.
Mr. John Fowler, formerly U.S. Consul at
Ningpo, has, we learn from the Peking and Tientsin Times, been appointed Consul at Chefoo, to take effect immediately. Ningpo, by
the removal of Mr. Fowler, has now become a Consular agency under the jurisdiction of U.S. Consul-General Jernigan, of Shanghai. Chefoo has, up to the present time, been a The transport Otaru-maru, which arrived at Consular agency under the jurisdiction of the Shimonoseki on the 22nd July from Wei-bai- U.S. Consul at Tientsin. Consul Read, how- wei, had on board portions of the battleship ever, since his incumbency, has frequently called Ting-yuen. The steamer reported that the the attention of the authorities at Washington Ting-yuen, Chih-yuen, and Lai-yuen were being | to the importance of Chefeo, not only as a com-" raised by the contractors. It was found toomercial centre, but also as a naval rendezvous difficult to raise them bodily, and even if that could be done the vessels would be quite beyond possibility of restoration for use, It was there- fore resolved to blow them up with dynamite and raise them in pieces.-Nagasaki Express.
for the Great Powers in North China, with the result that it has now been honoured by a Consul from the Great Republic. France has also appointed a Consul at Chefoo vice Mr. J. P. Wake.
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