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NEWCHWANG.
20th August.
Several days ago a party of Russian military men arrived here from Kores via Haicheng. It appears they have completed a survey from some point on the Yalu to Haicheng, and from thence to Newchwang. Here they expected to engaged about Moukden. From this point the fall in with another party who are similarly combined forces will pursue their work towards Talienwan and Port Arthur. One party, con- sisting of six Russians, is accompanied by Mongol and Korean interpreters.
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The Hon. and Nethersole with thanks funds of the Hospitals
Kwong Mow Tai Leung Yan
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Vallings, Military: Chaplain.
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The Nagasaki Shipping List of th August says Although Hongkong been declared, a clean-port, vessels here are still subjected to a very close tion at the Megami Quarantines Several complaints have been received. length of time they are detained there. When the plague was at its height in Hongkong it was, seldom that a ship arriving then detained for inspection for more than one but now much longer is taken. - Recently the Shanghai was kept waiting there for two hours, the Tantalus for three, and other vessels for similarly lengthy times. This causes much serious inconvenience and should be remedied - as soon as possible. |
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
for it is a benefit to them. The Americans named Wang, we believe, has already petitioned want it, for it is a benefit for them. And so on the Ministry of War in Peking, asking that the with all the builders. The Chinese want to railroad from Peking to Hankow be built by a know where the benefit is coming to them. lottery. He would have central stations at Can- The Chinese merchants are ready for the ton, Shanghai, Tientsin, Hankow, Chungking, plan and would be willing to go shares and other cities. We do not know how he ha with proper shareholders. The Government worked out his plan, but we understand that all is not quite so imbecile as to forget the who draw tickets would be the stock-holders. possible foreign complications. When any However, whether the scheme be carried out, the
Roy. 8. St A. Baylee, Nayal Chaplain concessionaire comes forward and makes Chinese have enough of the gambling spirit in whose term of service on this station has
leaves for home by the Empress his own interests or the interests of his them to rush at anything in the nature of a lot-
relieved by own country first, we cannot well blame the tery. There seems to be some doubt whether the. J. Gace, who arrives from the No
day. He Chinese if they at least halt and hesitate. Government would care to sanction such a pro- Humber next week- The duties They have, we are sure no objection to con- position. The princes and other officials would
next will be undertaken by the 1 cessions in the abstract, for they know that have no hesitation or compunction in buying ‘other countries have tried the same, and some- tickets, but they look upon the Government, times with a decided advantage. They stand like many foreigners, as a sacred institution, so in a trembling condition over the compulsion and that a lottery publicly announced and imperially threats which weigh them down. If they were sanctioned would scarcely seem proper. Per to follow their own inclinations with perfect free-haps Confucins might object. But it does not dom they would, so far as railroads are concerned, much matter. The whole speculation is much go to the Americans, but other governments of a lottery, as is the Government itself.- are looking vengeance, while Col. Denby never China Gazette, thinks of demanding anything for his country- men in matters of trade. This very geniality is agreeable to the Chinese, and might lead them to trust the Americans all the more, but in these days the Chinese are only moved by force. When the force relapses, the action ceases; sleep again falls on the eyelids. Hence it is that concessions are not given. If China had any guarantees that foreign Powers would always be her friends and not her less than & week's time to every reliable enemies, concessions would be granted in company of any nationality that wanted it, but Chins sees very well that several of the Powers have their own selfish ends in view and are ready to squash this ancient empire; hence China does nothing except what she is forced to do. A large number of the foreign advisers of China believe, as more than once this paper has strongly advocated, that the whole country should be thrown open to the trade and traders of the world, and that the right should be given by the Chinese Government to any and all to form companies and take stock, whether they be native-born or subjects of other countries. In Japan, with all her keen insight, foreigners were allowed to hold shares in rail- road undertakings and we have yet to learn that they suffered from the arrangement. We know very well that China is not as strong now as Japan was when she made this experiment, but Chins need hope for no escape from the aggres- sions of any Power, except as she opens her doors equally and justly to all, the mutual inter-actions arising from such a policy preserving the coun. try. On this plan the initiative would proceed from the Chinese Government in giving the right, and also from the Chinese merchants who should be the first to come forward to form a company. The company would be a Chinese company under the Chinese Government, but foreigners could be shareholders, and have a say in the manage- ment. Foreigners as individuals, rather than as a foreign company or a foreign government, would be admitted to the business. We have good authority for believing that in Peking there is a growing tendency to adopt some such plan, but being something new the old men who sit in the seat of power-or rather kneel-are afraid to launch out into the mighty deep.
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Our Bund is once more in good order and the damages caused by the late floods are made good. The work has cost many hundreds of dollars, and as our population is very limited everybody will be expected to make an extra effort to meet all expenses incurred. Most of the freshwater ponds which were flooded by salt water are being drained at enormous expense to the several native guilds.
is usual for this time of year. Many of the Shipping business is very dull at present, as vessels leaving here are departing half-loaded to fill up at Chefoo. The weather at present is very disagreeable-dust and high winds.- Mercury correspondent.
HUNGKONG.
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The Manila Comerico of the 21st August
sented by the principal shipping firms and
We learn that there will shortly says: chants of this city a respectful petition t Government praying that vessels kong with a clean bill of health and no Chinese passengers may be admitted to free pratique; or at least that quarantine (less the time occupied by the voyage) now imposed may be reduced to three days observation. The principal ground on which the petition is based is not only the loss occasioned by the delay; but also the fact that since the 7th August Hongkong has been des clared a clean port and clean bills of hos
have been issued.
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The Courrier d'Haiphong of the 22nd ysThe strict quarantine of seven days which has resulted in depriving the vessels plied to Chinese arriving from "Hongkong,
on the Hongkong-Haiphong line of their usual contingent of Chinesepassengers -who preferred either to forego the passage or to take junk at Pakhoi for Moncay, and land at the point, where no precautions The conspiracy in Manila afforded an in- were taken will soon disappear. Informa teresting topic of conversation during the tion having been received from the Consular week. A shocking murder at Hongham has authorities at Hongkong that the bubonic also attracted considerable attention because of plague has disappeared, the Health Depart- an extraordinary plot connected with the crime.ment has convened a meeting of the Haiphong On Thursday the Sanitary Board had a meet Sanitary Commission to consider the suppres ing, but the business was only of a routine sion of the quarantine or at least a reduction of order. On Thursday evening a new organ at the its rigour. Roman Catholic Cathedral was formally opened by a recital and a grand concert.
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There were 2,154 visitors to the City Hall Museum last week, of whom 215 were Europeans.
It is probable that Lai Mit will be brought to Kowloon City in about a fortnight's time to be decapitated.
The Governor has given his consent, in the name and on behalf of the Queen, to the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance.
It is notified that on and after the 1st October next the postage on letters between Hongkong and Formosa will be ten cents.
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There were only three cases of plague from noon on Saturday, August 22nd, to noon last Saturday. A curious fact is that one of the patients was a child only three months old.
Two 'rickaba coolies in the employ of Mr. W. Osborne, Bay View Hotel, were fined on the 27th August $10, with the alternative of a month's imprisonment. for refusing to obey their master's lawful orders.
and one
A pearl diver from Tasmania was charged at the Police Court on the 28th August with stealing a £5 piece and four sovereigns from another pearl diver from Tasmania. The prosecutor has lately been enjoying & holiday in Hongkong
B form of amusement was a visit on Tuesday to a cookloft in a barber's shop in Pottinger Street, where he met.
has urse me met the prisoner. been in the colony a long time. They chatted and it transpired that the prosecutor had gon gold coins upon him. According to his the prisoner offered to buy one o of the so for a chain pendant. The offer.. and then, perhaps for very good reas soner suggested:
Bout
stairs and get, this thought the sugg took off his coat.
We understand that Mr. Yung Wing has a plan something like this, though decked up with his vivid imagination. His scheme is more a governmental one, but being this, it must inevitably tend either to the concession principle, or to the principle of a Chinese company open to all. Another method which has been broached, and which strikes some of the Chinese favourably. is for the Chinese Government to appoint some one foreigner
and went down to be the inspector-general of railroads,
the prisoner and much as Sir Robert Hart is the head
in the room. During of the Maritime Custonis. In this case, a
tion the prisoner we foreigner would have complete oversight and
talked about the gold foreigners would be employed in the work and The maximum temperature last month was
after the barber, had: management, but the business would be a Go- 94, on the 23rd, and the minimum 75.9, on the back vernment business. We are convinced that if 29th, the mean for the month being 82.9. money
isted a reliable foreigner should be placed at the head, According to the ten years table (1884 governig the Chinese would no longer hesitate to take 1893) published with the Observatory report | who was shares. We may have more to say of this plan for 1899 the maximum temperature for July The later on, but at present it is not much more than was 92.9, the minimum 72.1, and the mean 81.5, was not a fancy. It is only within the last few days that so that last month was sensibly above the no mone we have Heard of still another scheme. A man, I average. The rainfall amounted to 12:42 inches, I was remanded.
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