THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIV.J
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.......
Leading Articles :—
Revision of the Chinese Tariff
A Rumian Port in Manchuria
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 27тн AUGUST, 1896.
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Mr. John drew and the Transit Pass Trade ...150
The Increase in Cable Rates
Illegal Action of the Sanitary Board
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The Japanese and Formosa Relief Funds
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The Silver Question-
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The Japanese as Colonisers
Sanatoriums for Foreign Residents in China
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Supreme Court
Outrago on a Hongkong Shooting Party
Affairs in Formosa
Her Majesty and the Unveiling of the Statue
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The Po Leung Kuk
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The Stranding of the Gaelic..
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The Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
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Crusade Against Opium Divans
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Hongkong and Whampoa Dook Co., Limited
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Hongkong Hotel Co., Limited
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Punjom Mining Co., Limited...
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Raub....
The Fourth Gymkhana Meeting
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Rifle Brigade Birthday Sports
Correspondence ..
Fire on the Oopack
The Pei-ho River
An Adventurous Voyage ....................... .................................... Hongkong and Port News...
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
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Quarantine at Singapore against Hongkong and Swatow has now been discontinued. Amoy is also reported free of the disease.
The King and Queen of Siam arrived at Bangkok, on their return from Java and Singapore, on the 12th August.
On the 23rd August a party of Hongkong gentlemen who had gone to Deep Bay shoot. ing were attacked by the natives, but succeeded in beating off their assailants.
Lekin is to be levied on rice exported from Wuhu, the reason being that the provincial Government have been called upon to contribute funds for the national debt charges.
Reuter's Agency learns that Li Hung-chang has made no concessions to Russia, but that he favoured a junction of the Amur lines with Manchuria. No Convention had been signed and no port ceded to Russia.
We (N. C. Daily News) learn with great re- 184 gret that news has been received of the death of the Ritter C. von Boleslawski, who was very popular at Shanghai as Austro-Hungarian Con- sul in the seventies, and was recently appointed 166 Minister at Peking for Austria-Hungary.
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On the 23rd inst., at the Bungalow, Mount Kellet, the Peak, the wife of HENRY E. BOXSHALL, of a [1946
son.
MARRIAGES.
On the 18th August, at St. John's Cathedral, by the Rev. Alfred Tiff, STEPHEN JOHN GRAINGER of the Chinese Im; crial Maritime Customs Service, Lappa, to BLANCHE CHARITY SMITH, eldest daugh-
ter of the late Mr. JOHN SMITH, Straits Settlements. [1936
On the 12th inst., at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Shanghai, MARIA PHILIPPA MULLER youngest daughter of A. BOTELHO, of Macao, to J. E. & MACARTHUR, second son of Capt. J. MAC ARTHUR, of Melbourne, Victoria.
DEATH.
At Petersfield, Hampshire, on the 20th Inst., in the 72nd year of her age, MARY ANN, widow of the [1987
late JOSEPH MACKRILL SMITH.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English mail of the 24th July arrived, per P. & O. steamer Kaiser-i-Hind, on the 21st
·Angust (28 days); the German mail of the 27th July arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Bayern, on the 24th August (28 days); the American mail of the 30th July arrived, per P. M. steamer China, on the 24th August (25 days); and the Canadian mail of the 3rd August arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of India, on the 25th August (22 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
A special telegram from Peking to the N. C. Daily News states that there is no truth in the report that Wu Ting-fang (Ng Choy) has been appointed Chinese Mister to the United States, etc.
Correspondence relating to the increased telegraph charges has been published with the minutes of the last monthly meeting of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce. It is intended shortly to call a general meeting of the members to consider the subject.
The following, dated Chefoo, 18th August, appears as a special telegram in the N. C. Daily News:-The Russians occupied the disputed foreshore on Saturday and began digging foundations. Mesars. Fergusson & Co. applied for an injunction restraining them, but were refused.
It is reported in certain native quarters, says the N. C. Daily News, that there has been a hitch in the final negotiations of the Com- mercial Treaty between China and Japan at Peking. Certain clauses, it is said, require to be amended, which the Emperor and his advisers insist upon.
In a case tried in the Hongkong Summary Jurisdiction Court the jury dwarded a Chinese firm the sum of $500 as damages against, the mem- bers of the Sanitary Board for wrongful acts committed by the Board's servants in con- nection with the cleansing operations and the removal of cocklofts.
The outer edge of a typhoon was experienced at Kobe on the 18th August. A steam launch and several cargo boats came to grief and ou shore some fences were blown down, but on the whole the damage was not very serious. All the steamers in port had steam up and several shifted their anchorage.
The Mercury says:--In Peking matters are not improving. The Emperor is apparently in failing health and counts for nothing in the political programme. The Empress-Dowager has succeeded in removing him from the counsels of the only two men, his old tutors, Sun and Weng, who were capable of exciting his languid intellect, and now rules alone. Even Peking is scandalised by the irregularities and extra- vagance of her Court.
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No. 9.
The Chinese Government has paid to the British Consul at Canton the sum of $21,82, being the amount of the claim preferred by Mr. John Andrew for loss incurred through the illegal action of the authorities at Wuchowfu.
The Tientsin correspondent of the Mercury US. Minister and Mrs. Denby, who were pro- states that on Saturday, the 8th August, the ceeding to Peking towed by the Viceroy's launch, were capsized and narrowly escaped what might have been a fatal catastrophe.
According to a Reuter's telegram Russia is favourably inclined to a revision of the Chi-
nese
Customs tariff, Germany awaits Great Britain's action on the question, and France awaits the opinion of her Minister in Peking. The Times states that Lord Salisbury has informed Li Hung-chang he is in favour of the principle of increasing the tariff, but that he must consult the Chambers of Commerce in Shanghai and elsewhere before giving his consent.
The Asahi Shimbun, translated by the Japan Mail, says that the scenes in Gifu Prefecture after the recent floods are more appalling than those experienced in the late seismic disaster.. The number of people rendered homeless for five days was 170,000, and 120,000 are still re- ceiving charity. Since the setting in of very hot weather, typhoid fever, dysentery, and other maladies have raged unchecked, and at present drinking water is supplied from Aichi Prefecture. The relief required amounts to two millions of yen.
From Der Ostasiatische Lloyd we learn that on the 17th August a well-attended meeting was held at the Club Concordia. Shanghai, for the purpose of considering how best to per- petuate the memory of those lost in H.I.G.M's. gunboat Iltis. Consul-General. Dr. Stuebel presided and a committee was formed consisting of the following gentlemen-Mesars. Consul General Dr. Stuebel, Ph. Arnhold, C. Benermann, A. Schomburg, Count Butler, A. Korff, and Dr. Zedelius. It was decided to residing in China, and with the money circulate a subscription-list amongst Germans thus collected to erect a suitable monument. The committee subsequently enquired of the Muni- cipal Council whether they would allow the monument to be erected somewhere on the grass-plot on the Bund, and to this request the Council have most readily consented.
The Hanoi Chamber of Commerce has resigned in consequence of the attitude of the Govern- mant with regard to the Red River transit trade. The Chamber has protested at various times against the excessive charges and veza-
tious regulations to which this trade is subjected, but the Government supported the Commis sioner of Customs, and the outcome of the dispute is the resignation of the Chamber as a body. The Government requested it to recon- sider its decision, but without effect. The chief grievance seems to be the imposition of a charge of 16 cents on each package for “plom- bage." The goods by this route have to be packed in small parcels to allow of their carriage by porters when they leave the river, each ton being divided into thirty-three packages, and, the charge being imposed upon each packa the sum total under this heading comes to $5.28 per ton, not to speak of other charg
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