THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIV.
Leading Articles:
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
The Alleged Conspiracy in Manila
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 2ND SEPTEMBER, 1896.
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From the Custom Returns we notice that forty-seven transit passes were issued at Canton during the quarter ended 30th June. From this it would seem that Mr. John Andrew's initiative is already being followed up to some
extent.
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● Growth of Trade at Shanghai and Hongkong.174
between Japan and Tado-Chins.................. .175 A despatch received from Peking reports that Taxation of Manufactures i
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175 the Tsungli Yamen has decided to consider the Public Lighting and the Walsbach Burners A Conspiracy in Manila.
new ports of Soochow and Hangchow open to ......................................................................................178 trade on or about the 1st or 2nd of October ............................. 178 next when the I.M. Customs will begin their duties there.
Nort Supre
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Sanitary Board
furder at Hongham.......................180 it the Roman Catholic Cathedral.......... .180 Affray in Hongkong Waters .................................................181
King Mumorial Fund
Golf Club
Hongkong Rifle Association
Proposed 1
( on Manufactures in China
Solonel Denby's Narrow, Escape
The ho
Like the Hongkong, Shanghai, and other Chambers of Commerce, the Tientsin Chamber has recorded its protest against the heavy increase of telegraph rates recently sprung upon the commercial communities of the East .181 by the Telegraph Companies.
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Prompt Bettlement of the Soochow Difficulty The Railway Question
Commercial Shipping
BIRTH.
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On the 29th August, at 2, Seymour Road, the wife of T. K. DEALX, of a son.
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DEATHS.
At "Devonia," Hongkong, on the 28th August, EDITH SARA SHELTON, the dearly beloved daugh- ter of A: SHELTON and SARAH HOOPER, aged 5 [1939 At Karuizawa, on the 17th August, Cora AUGUSTA, wife of Professor GARRATT DROPPERS.
years.
At Shanghai, on the 24th August, 1896, LOUISE, the beloved wife of Capt. George-AUSTIN, aged 42.
years.:
At Chefoo, on the 21th August, 1896, JAMES" Paice, late master of the China Navigation Co.'s
steamer Chengking, after a short illness.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 31st July arrived, per M. M. steamer Natal, on the 1st September (32 days):
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Japanese Foreign Office has been notified by the Premier that the new treaty with "Germany has been ratified by the Emperor. The ratifications will be exchanged
early in October next.
The state of the Peiho occasions_serious un- easiness at Tientsin. It is said that if prompt and drastic measures are not taken for the improvement of the river, steamers will have to
We (N.C.Daily News) understand that Messrs. Fergusson & Co. have official knowledge that full compensation will be made them for the loss of their foreshore rights. We mentioned some days ago that Sir Claude MacDonald had made this stipulation with the Tsungli Yamen.
The Siam Free Press says:-It is asserted that Mr. de Bunsen will apply for leave on his return from Java, and that after leaving Bang. kok he is likely to receive a home appointment, probably at Vienna. His probable successor is
Britain at Kobe. spoken of as Mr. Paget, now representing Great
The fugitives in Formosa who fled to the bills during the recent troubles have not yet returned to their homes, notwithstanding the efforts made by the Japanese to induce them to do so, as they distrust the promises made as to their future safety from outrage.
A shocking murder was committed at Hong ham on the 25th August, an old woman being hacked to death and a man who was in her company being also severely injured. They were in partnership as necromancers and the orime was committed by a party of boatmen who were under the impression that the couple were using spells against them.
writes:The China and Foreign Bank, under The Tientsin correspondent of the Mercury the directorship of our old friends Messrs. A. Michie and G. Detring, and their former col- league Ching, instead of being situated close to the North Gate will be just below the Iron Bridge which spans the Grand Canal, and there fore in close proximity to the Viceroy's Yamen. in grand Chinese style, red bunting and the The Bank was opened yesterday (16th August) usual decorative accessories being in great abundance. Mr. A. Michie is expected to arrive
here next month.
M. Dubail, the popular Consul-General for France at Shanghai, being on the eve of his departure for Europe, was waited upon by a
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A Tokyo press despatch of the 13th August says:-The proposed steamship service of the War Department between Japan and Formosa will be made a weekly service, instead of three times a month. The steamers are open to carry · a few passengers and a certain amount of cargo. They will run between Kobe and Kelung: via : Moji and Nagasaki, and the management of the service will be entrusted to the Nippen Insen Kaisha. The Government has had under con- sideration a proposal to subsidise some company to open a steamship service to Formosa and Vladivostock, but the project has been abandoned for the present fiscal year and steamers char- tered by the Naval and Military Departments · will be used.
The destruction to property and lives by the tidal waves and floods at Haioheo last Chinese. month was much greater than was first reported. Latest accounts give the total number of houses washed away or otherwise damaged as 2,000, while 600 salt beds with thousands of piculs of salt in them were destroyed. 300 people belong- ing to the Imperial salt works perished in the waves, and hundreds more amongst the fisher men and other inhabitants on the edge of the shore lost their lives. For six days the place was under water, varying from 7 to 15 feet deep. The salt commission authorities are relieving the sufferers with commendable promptitude and generosity, 10,000 tools in money and 15,000 piouls of grain having been distributed since the catastrophe.-Mercury.
A serious political orisis has arisen in Manila, where the authorities claim to have discovered a plot for the overthrow of the Government.About four hundred arrests have been made and great excitement prevails. It is alleged, however, on the other side, that the so-called plot has been promoted by the priests, who have acted as agents provocateurs, their objects being to consolidate the power of the religious orders by making it appear that the national integrity is in danger, to get rid of enemies by denouncing them as conspirators, and to impress upon the Spanish Government the importance of making an addition to the European troops in the islands to hold the natives in subjection. According to the latest news received some fighting had taken place.
The Foochow Echo, publishes the following extract from a letter of the 21st August- The rates of freight demanded and, unfortu-, nately, obtained here by that leech-like com- bination commonly known as "The London Homeward Conference," are considered mon same clique accepts willingly or unwillingly strous when compared with those which the does not alter the position—from Cevlon demonstrate the point most clearly the follo ing figures, culled from recent, and reliable sources, are given Benledi and Glengarry sailed from Foochow on the 11th and 18th June, 1896,
andon: Tientsin altogether in favour of large number of the French community on the equal respectively, liaying loaded tea
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we (Mercury) hear that Sir Pissue instructions requiring ure to be passed through and by the Customs as the only possible topping shipments of counterfeits countries, -as complained of by the Ministers of Spain and the Netherlands.
here at net per ton of 40 cubic f
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ton of 50 o These two steamers called at Color homeward voyages and sai and 13th July, with tea loa per ton of 50 oubic ft. Th
23rd August, and: presented with: a handsome silver cup as a token of respect and remembrance. The presentation was made the occasion of an eloquent address from M Chapsal, to which M. Dubail replied, thanking his countrymen for their token, which he said he would greatly«Foochow teas appreciate. The proceedings were brought to penny per a close by a hospitable invitation from Monsep how Foochor Dubail to partake of refreshments.
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