THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIV.]
AND
China Overland
Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, de...........
Leading Articles :----
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 14TMн OCTOBER, 1896.
England and Bumin in the Far East The Cable Companies and the Proposed Pacific
Cable
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Anti-Chinese and Japanese Movement in Canada..287 The Sanitary Board's New By-Laws
287 The Undermanning of the Colonial Medical
Berrion ........................................................................................................................288 Typhoon Warning...................................................................................... .288 Another Man-of-War's Boat Capsized
Mr. Dudgeon's Mission a Failure. ...........................288
Supreme Court
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The Rebellion in the Philippines Hongkong Sanitäry Bard The Shanghai Chamber of Commerce on Tariff Revision291
The Increase in Cable Eater, Steamers in the Typhoon
Union Insurance Society of Canton, Limited Singapore Insurance Company. The Gymkhana Cricket........................? Correspondenos
From the Chung Ngoi San Po we learn that the Mandarins at Canton have received tele. graphic intelligence that H. E. Li Hung chang arrived at Tientsin by the steamer Kwanglee on the 8th October. He is to leave for Peking in a day or two.”
Colonel Hixson, the U.S. Consul at Foochow, who rendered such splendid service on the occasion of the Kucheng massacre, arrived here yesterday by the P. & O. steamer Rohilla, from Shanghai, and goes on by the same vessel to London, en route to the States.
The negotiations for a survey of the Woosung Bar by Messrs. Coode, Son and Mathews have fallen through, owing to the terms demanded .291 by that firm. The negotiations were being 292 carried on by Mr. W. Keswick on behalf of the .292 | Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce.
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The Trade Routes to Szechuan Report on Labour in the Empire of Japan. Hongkong and Port News.................................................... Shipping
MARRIAGE.
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On the 10th October, 1896, at the Peak Church, Hongkong, by the Reverend G. R. Vallings, Military Chaplain, HERBERT JOHNSON GEDGE, eldest son of the late Reverend Johnson Hall Gedge, of Hon ington Rectory, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, to ELLEN, widow of JAMES PURDEY, Eaq, of 28, Devonshire Place, London.
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DEATH.
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At a meeting of the Japan Economic ciation, Professor Kochibei reawakened fears to the early exhaustion of Japan's coal reso if anything like the present output be tained. The coal strata in this country, he sa is nowhere over 20 feet thick, less than one of the thickness of the seams commonly found nish supplies for thousands of years; in Japan in England and America. The latter will fur it is doubtful if the supply will last even one gical Bureau gave a coal-producing area of 100 hundred years. The report from the Geolo
million taubos, containing approximately 500 million tons of coal. The output in 1894 was 44 million tons and this year will probably be six million. But giving a maintained average of fire million tons per annum the exhaustion of the beds was already in sight. Special atten- tion should therefore be given to the matter and coal-mining should be everywhere addition- ally regulated.--Hyogo News.
There are now six good-sized steam launches .204 | running every second day on the Poyang Lake, 294 Kiangai province, between the provincial capital
In a review of the last report of the Eastern 294 Nanch'angfu and the port of Kiukiang. This Telegraph Co. the Investors' Review says:
innovation is greatly appreciated by the inhabi- "After studying the affairs of the Eastern Com. tants of the province and it is reported that in pany rather closely, we cannot help throwing view of the impetus to trade, another steam out the suggestion that it might be a wise launch company is on the point of being estab-policy to devote a little of its surplus profits to lished to run between the same cities.-N. C. | reduction of rates in certain directions. The Daily News.
heroic reductions from 9s. 2d. to 4s. 9d. per word to Australasia, from 9s. 6d. to 5s. 2d. per word Brazil, have been faced in recent years by the to the Cape, and from 68. to 3s. 6d. per word to companies interested without serious losa, and in each case a few years have been suficient to bring up the revenue to about the point it stood at before the reduction. Less drastic steps might be taken in piecemeal fashion by the heavy reductions--and if for a few years £50,000 Eastern Company-indeed, there is no call for
per annum in profit disappeared in this manner the Company would in the end be far stronger and richer.' What would Mr. Wilson, the editor of the Review, think of the recent increase in rates by the Eastern Extension? The latter, it will be remembered, lays the blame on the parent Company, the Eastern, because it has to pay that Company in gold for forwarding the telegrams over its system.*
On Wednesday, the 7th instant, at 7 pm EDWARD, the dearly and fondly beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. D. HASKELL, aged 11 years, 8 months and 12 days. Deeply regretted.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 11th September arrivel, per M. M. steamer Melbourne, on the 13th October (32 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Hongkong Volunteers went into camp at Stonecutters' for a fortnight on the 12th October
Mr. Troughton, Secretary to Admiral Oxley, has been drowned by the capsising of a boat belonging to H.M.8. Grafton at Sivoutch,
Koren
The following telegram has been received by the-Government from the Consul at Manila :
Free pratique arrivals Hongkong and Chins ports."
In a cricket match played at Amoy on the 6th and 7th October between a Royal Artillery eleven and a local eleven the visitors won by
wickets.
who went to Peking to lay finisters the views of the Shanghai community on the taxation of local and tariff revision, is returning. his mission has had no practical
The Nagasaki Shipping List says State- ments have recently been made to the effect that the Centurion has been an "uncomfortable ship." Why this should be we know not, but some other vessels on this station are reported to be in about the same state. The Daphne, for in- stance, is given a bad name by her present crew, and several of the latter are trying to get ex- changed into other vessels. Whether the men have any just cause for complaint or not we cannot say, but such are the facts.
From the Extreme Órient we learn that on the 15th September the albumen factory of M. Berthoin at Hoihow was attacked and pillaged by Chinese. For some time past animosity has been exhibited towards the estabishment and on the night of the day named a crowd collected and made an attack upon it. To obtain an en- trance the enclosing wall was broken down for a length of five metres. Once inside they set to work to destroy the place and steal what they could. The chief engineer was wounded by stones that were thrown. M. Bernard, the man- ager, lives at some distance and did not arrive on the scene till the affair was over. The damage amounts to over a thousand dollars.
In moving the first reading of the Appro- priation Bill in the Straits Legislative Council the other day the Colonial Secretary said He might mention that, for the next year, the rate of exchange had been calculated at 2s. 24. The reason for that estimate was that they found the world's output of gold increasing every year, while the output of silver had de- creased. Other things being equal, the con- sequence of that would be that the value of silver should rise a little. (Laughter.) It was a very difficult matter to discuss, it was more difficult to foresee the future value of silver, and he really did not think that any person was in a position to prophesy as to the future value of silver, or what the exchange rate would be. He only hoped that, by this time next year, they would find that their estimate was not very far wrong.
News received from Tientsin reports the departure from that port of Sheng Taotai for Peking on the 20th of September... Sheng Taotai will probably stay some weeks in the capital discussing with the Ministry of War and the Board of Revenue relating to the many
spro
irons which he has in the tire. It is estimated that his reputation of being a very wealthy. man will cost him some Tls, 30,000 in presents to the princes, nobles, and ministers of the Imperial Court, and that upon arriving at the Chungwên gate of the capital he will have to buy his entrance into Péking at a sum not under Tls. 10,000. This is the gate where the Peking octroi is collected, and through which all persons entering the capital from the p vinces must pass. Every time His Excellency Li Hung-chang goes to Peking he has had to pay about Tls. 30,000 to the gatemen (at head is usually a “Yellow Girdle," or noble the Imperial clan), in order to be allowed pass his baggage and costly presents Court without examination. Probably Taotai chose this moment for going to Peki in order to meet h tron, H.E. Li Hung chang, who is expected to arrive in Poking about the 6th instant. 70. Daug
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