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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIV.J
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &.................... Lealing Articles:-
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 16TH SEPTEMBER,
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The Cause of Discontent in the Philippines.......210 Russia and British Designs in the Far East The Land Question at Woosung
......210 211
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.216
The Salaries and Squeezes of Chiness Officials
...211
The Result of Misplaced Leniency
212
The Census ............................................................
.212
The New Road to Mount Kellet
.212
The Rebellion in the Philippines.
Why the Expulsion of the Friars from the Philippines
́is demanded
Supreme Court
Affairs in Formoss
The Glenartney on Fire
China Traders Insurance Co., Limited.
Sir William Robinson and the Japan Tidal Wave
Belief Fund...................
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Gaelic in a Prohibited Anchorage
Hongkong Cricket Club......
Hongkong Golf Club
Correspondence
The Viceroy Liu's Despatch re Land at Woosung "Pauvre Albion"
Pity the Poor Mandarins
The Serious Earthquakes in North Japan Hongkong and Port News..... ...............**
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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210
216 216 .217 .217
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No. 12.
Black plague, the Bangkok Times hears, has News has been received that the Glen Line broken out on the Mekong, in the neighbour-steamer Glenartney, outward bound, put back hood of Nongkai, and the people are dying in to Suez on account of fire. She is returning large numbers.
to London with the damaged portion of her cargo, and her undamaged cargo is being brought on by the Glengarry.
Mr. F. A. Carl, Commissioner of the Imperial Maritime Customs, left on Wednesday by the steamer Hanoi for Haiphong, en route to the Customs station of Szumao, of which he is to take charge.
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The Japan Gazette says:-An advice has been received in Japan announcing that the Govern- ment of Manila has decided to increase the ex- port duty of hemp by 50 per cent. The step is considered to be taken with a view to protecting the rope-making industry in that country.
The China Gazette says :- -We are in a position to state that the contract for the con. struction of the Manchurian railway has been 217 formally signed in Peking by the Chinese 218 Government-in favour of a French syndi ate, who are merely figureheads for the astute agents of the Czar.
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On the 12th inst, at the Government. Civil los pital, the wife of G. T. RIVERS, of a sm. [2093 At Glenealy Buildings, on the 13th September, the wife of Capt. W. DAVIS, of the steamer Huilong, [2110 of a daughter.
On the 14th inst., at 13, Praya East, the wife of W. G. WINTERBURx, of a daughter.
[2101 At Pootung, on the 6th September, the wife of HECTOR W. SAMPSON, of a daughter
MARRIAGË.
On the 14th is, at St. John's Cathedral, by the Right Rev. Bishop Burdon, Pittar SPENCER PRIM- ROSE, son of the lite Daniel O'Connel Primrose, C.E., of Sunnybank, Cor's, Co. Cork, Ireland, to ALICE ROSAMOND (DOLLY), youngest daughter of the late Mr. John SMITI, of the Straits Settlements. lish and Indian papers please copy.
DEATHS.
No steamer has arrived direct from Manila
since our last issue, but from news received vid Singapore it appears that the rising is of a serious nature, but the insurgents are very badly supplied with arms, and if the native troops continue loyal the Government will probably have little difficulty in suppressing it. Messrs. Holliday, Wise & Co., the Agents for the China Mutual Steam Navigation Co., Limited, notify that at the general meeting held in London an interim dividend of three per cent. on the preference shares for the six months ended 30th June, being at the rate of six per cent. per annum, was declared.
The Kobe Chronicle of the 4th September says:-At last some definite figures are to hand respecting the damage done by the flood in the Eng-western districts of Kobe. The police returns [2102 show that 9 men and 26 women were drowned, while 7 men and 2 women are still missing; 49 men and 4 women were injured; 118 houses were washed away. 18 others totally collapsed, 540 were partially destroyed, and 320 were more or less damaged.
On the 9th instaut, at Canton, Lionel ClauDE, infant son of Jous and CLARA SUMMERS, aged 6 [2083
months.
On the 11th August, at 173, Cromwell Road, S.W., ANSABELLA, widow of EDWARD BOWRA, of Upper Norwood, in her 93rd year.
On the 11th August, at 7, Queen's Gardens, Brigh- ton, MOZELLE, daughter of REUBEN D. SASSOON, aged 27.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 17th August arrived, per P. M. steamer Peru, on the 12th September (26 days); the French mail of the 14th August arrival, per M. M. steamer Caledonien, on the 12th September (29 days); and the Canadian mail of the 24th August arrived, por C. P. steamer Empress of Japan, on the 14th September (21 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
News from Formosa is to the effect that passports are now obtainable for Hoonim, but communication with Chipchip is forbidden ou the ground that the locality is still unsafe.
The steamer Katsuyama Maru (4,300 tons). which is owned by the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, is reported by Japanese papers to have been chartered by Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, of Hongkong. Despite the fact that her master is a Japanese, there has been no difficulty in insuring her with the foreign marine insurance companies, and this, the Chugai Shogyo declares, is the first case of a ship under command of a Japanese captain being so ins ired.-Japan Advertiser.
An official telegram dated the 31st August has been received from Lanchou, the capital of Kansu, to the effect that General Tung Fu siang had captured oue of the principal chiefs (Ghazi) of the Mahommedan rebels in that province, named Ch'en Sze. As a proof that the Imperial Government had no intention of conducting a war of extermination--which was the principal cause of the rebellion, fanned by discontented spirits--General Tang banished the chief and his following to Kashgaria, where they are to be placed under the surveillance of the local authorities.-N. C. Daily News.
The Viceroy of Nanking has written a des patch to the Shanghai Taqtai, directing that foreigners are not to be allowed to acquire land at Woosung. His Excellency anticipates that the bar will continue to silt up and that in course of time steamers will be unable to get up to Shanghai. Woosung will then become. the commercial emporium, especially as it is to be the starting point for the railways. Precau- tions are therefore to be taken in time to preserve all the land for Chinese. His Excel- lency makes mention of the foreshore difficulty and this appears to have been the motive for his action in the matter.
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The report of the China Traders Insurance Co., Limited, for the year ended 30th April last shows that the net premia amount to $1,014,325 and the working account shows & balance at credit of $607,348, which sum the directors recommend be appropriated in the following manner :-A dividend of 20 per cent. to shareholders, $120,000; a dividend of 20 per cent. on contributions, $160,000; to be carried that the reserve fund be increased to $1,000,000, to new account, 8327,348. It is recommended by the addition of $100,000 from exchange fluctuation account, leaving $164,988 at credit of the latter account, a sum sufficient to protect the Company's sterling holdings against a rise in exchange to 4).
The Hanoi Chamber of Commerce recently resigned in a body as a protest against the manner in which their recommendations were ignored by the Government and commercial grievances left unredressed. Their action has been fully endorsed by their constituency, all the former members having been re-elected. The Governor-General has addressed a letter to the Secretary-General of the Government, which has been published, suggesting that various of the questions agitated by the Cham- ber are capable of a satisfactory solution and calling for separate reports on each of them. Amongst His Excellency's suggestions are diminution of the duty on goods in transit between Haiphong and Laokay and the re- funding of duty paid on packages lost en route by force majeure.
The Foochow Echo says:-By the decision of the Commission which sat at Kucheng scarcely a year ago, two men were banished beyond the frontier, one for ten years and the other for.
life.
The sentence passed on the latter was originally that of death, but as the Court failed to prove that he had actually committed. murder, the sentence was commuted to exile for life. Both these men are now in their homes in the neighbourhood of Kucheng carry- ing on their usual occupations in calm defiance, or, as is far more probable, with the full know- The circumstance is ledge of their officials. one which is scarcely likely to heighten any good effect the sitting of the Commission may The error of the home Government have had. in dealing so leniently with the officials, who throughout the affair acted with the utmost callousness and obstruction, continues thus make itself seen.
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