THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL XIV.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
of the Week, do................................
ading Articles:
Chinese Tarif Revision
A Stamp Tax for China
„HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1896.·
The Bebellion in the Philippines and the Govern-
ment of the Islands
The annual meeting of the China Traders Insurance Co. Limited, was held on the 26th .149 - September, when the report was adopted with-
out discussion.
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Extraterritoriality applied to Asiatics in Siam......251
The Observatory
he Rebellion in the Philippines.
The Granite Dressing Nuisance
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preme Court
in Formoss
Hồngkong General Chamber of Commerce
The Fast of Lai Mit
The Japanese Ministry
aifs and Strays
The Granite Punching Nuisance ................f...
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Observatory Report for 1895.....
Hongkong Football Club
~~Chins Traders Insurance Co., Limited.
Douglas Steamship Co., Limited
The Punjom Gold Mining Co., Limited
8. C. Farnham & Co., Limited ...................................................................... The Strike of Nightmen
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Provisional regulations for trade with the ports of Hangchow and Soochow have been published. The Custom Houses were to be opened on the 26th September.
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No. 14
In the early part of this month a larg Apart of-Ichang was flooded owing to the rise of the river. Along the back of the settlement was quite an encampment of people fleeing from the flood, and the pond in the valley was turned into a large lake on which craft of all sizes were sailing. The roofs of farm houses just · appeared above the water
Sir Claude MacDonald, in reply to an inquiry
The annual meeting of the Douglas Steam- by the Hongkong General Chamber of Com-ship Co., Limited, was held on the 26th Sep- The Chairman announced that in merce, states that negotiations respecting the tomber. 254 opening of the West River are still in progress deference to the wishes of a large number of shareholders a bonus of $2 per share would be paid in addition to the dividend of $6 per share. With this amendment the report was adopted. The amount of bonus asked for was, we believe, $4 per share, while the General Managers and Consulting Committee were opposed to the payment of any bonus, so that the $2 agreed upon represented a compromise.
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The annual report of 8. C. Farnham & Co., Limited (Shanghai), shows a net profit, in- cluding Tla. 7,424 brought forward, of Tls. 266 198,038. It is proposed to pay a dividend of 257 Tls. 14 per share, to place Tis. 70,000 to credit of reserve fund, to write off Tls. 10,000, and to carry forward Tls. 13,038.
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The Chinese Subscriptions to the Japan Relief Fund...259
1 Open Ports in Formosa..................
Barton and Whangpoo Collision
• Vale of Land at Shanghai
Hous Floods at Ichang ................................................................... longkong and Port News................................ Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
At Haiphong on the night of the 17th September, we learn from the Indo-Chine Francaise, an armed attack was made upon the Banque de l'Indo-Chine by a band of about twenty. The probable object was to capture the Manager. The watchman was half killed 260 and was admitted to hospital. The European .260 population was much excited.
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On the 16th September, at Manila, the wife of FRANCIS E. CONEY, of a daughter.
[2192 At Shanghai, on the 23rd fist., the wife of A. KORFF, of a daughter.
[2193 At 20, Belilios Terrace, Hongkong, on Sunday the 27th September, Mrs. ROBERT MOIR, of a son.
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MARRIAGE.
On the 17th September, at the Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Sandakan, by the Rev. W. H. Elton, BERNARD VICTOR KLAMBERG, to JENNIE MEREDITH, daughter of E. L. Woonis, of Banda- kan
[2194 DEATH. At Shanghai, on the 19th September, 1896, ANNIÈ, he beloved wife of W. E. BENTON, aged 46
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
years.
The French mail of the 28th August arrived, per M. M. steamer Oceanian, on the 28th September (31 daya),
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The French Concession at Shanghai is being lighted with electricity.
A Public Company has been formed at Saigon to work the tin mines in the Laos province of
Kammoun
Hall & Holtz, Limited, have declared an interim dividend of two dollars per share, being at the rate of ten per cent.
Lai Mit, who murdered a Chinese policeman in Hongkong some weeks ago and afterwards fled to Chinese territory, was beheaded at Kow- loon City on the 23rd September.
The bodies of the two Japanese who were ded at Nanking by the Chinese authorities the war as spies have been brought Shanghai, to be conveyed to Japan for
H.I.M. the Empress-Dowager left Peking to take up her residence at Eho Park on the 30th August. The princes and ministers of outside the West Gate of Peking in farewell to the Emperor's Court prostrated themselves
the Imperial cortège, and H.I.M. the Emperor did the same at the Yinghsiu gate of the Palace.-N. C. Daily News.
The other day we noted that the native private postal agencies in Shanghai tried to disobey the circular of the Imperial Postal authorities to register at the Customs by petitioning the Viceroy Liu offering to sell their agencies to the Government. Finding their petition was unavailing they are eager to register.-N. O. Daily News.
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The rebellion in the Philippines continues and according to the latest advices the province of Cavite, with the exception of the town of that name, was still in possession of the rebels. Many friars have been murdered under cir- cumstances of shocking barbarity. At Singa- pore a neutrality proclamation has been published and the export of arms to the Philip pines prohibited.
The pirates are still active in Tonkin. On the 14th September, M. Gobert, who has plantation in the province of Bacniah, was in- formed by a man who had been captured by the villagers of Tiendzue, that Lanh Tuo's band was in the neighbouring hills. M. Gobert gave information to the posts at Phulo, Choug and Trinhnhu. At six o'clock on the morning hills and at last the pirates were found. On- of the 15th a search was made amongst the being discovered they at once opened fire. The
pirates broke away from the village which they fight continued all that day and it was not until about one o'clock next morning that the
had occupied, and the force operating against them being insufficient to completely surround the hill they escaped. It is believed their in- tention was to have kidnapped M. Goubert and held him to ransom. They were prevented from carrying out their intention, but at the cost of the lives of two Frenchman, one an officer and the other an employé on M. Gou. bert's estate, both of whom were killed in the action..
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Referring to Mr. Dudgeon's mission to Peking the N. C. Daily News says: Primarily, Mr. Dudgeon goes to Peking as the represen- tative of the new cotton mill industry; to show the Diplomatic Body the impolicy of allowing the products of the four cotton mills that are now rising so rapidly in Shanghai to be taxed- directly or by means of squeeses on the raw oot- more highly than imported goods, whether
ton, or by squeezes on the goods themselves after Mr. E. H. Fraser, Acting Consul at Canton, they leave the mills; and the injustice of show- in his report for last year says:-The uttering any preference to the mills entirely owned collapse of China in the war with Japan came home slowly to the southern Chinese, but the pressure on the people necessitated by war ax- penses and indemnity caused much discontent, which showed itself in numerous local risings and in the prevalence and boldness of gang robberies in Canton and its suburbs. In Öcto- ber a serious plot to seize the city was discovered, but its failure was due more to the ineptitude of its organisers than to the vigour of the locol authorities. The ringleaders escaped abroad, and are still a source of uneasiness to the Viceroy and his advisers. There is little doubt that, as educated Chinese visit foreign countries in in greasing numbers, and translations of works bearing on government become more widely read, dissatisfaction with the administration of their native country is growing among the southern Chinese, and, if no attempt at reform is made, may result in a serious insurrection.
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by Chinese. Mr. Dudgeon has also undertaker to represent the Chamber of Commerce matter of the proposed revision of the his instructions practically being that importers here will agree to the raising of the tariff to ten per cent. ad valorem, if all internal squeeses and restrictions on the trade are removed. He will also explain the condition of the China tes trade, whose threatened extinction is largely due to the high local and imperial taxation to which tea is subject, amounting often at pre- sent prices to fifty and more per cent China tes cannot obviously now hope to compete with the entirely untaxed product of Ceylon and India. The foreign tea-merchants propose entire abolition of duties on tes ; a su which may shock the Board of Revenu whose adoption would be a benefit importance to the native ten-grow
ohants.
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