MITA
THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIV.
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, do..
Leading Articles :——
The Cassini Convention
The Coercion of China
Li Hung-Chang in Disfavour
Crown Colony Government...................
Supreme Court
The Philippine Rebellion .........
The Himeji Maru Ashore ......................................
Accident to the Taisang
Shanghai Autumn Race Meeting
The Rife Brigade's 4 Fra Diavolo”.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 11тя NOVEMBER, 1896.
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A Tokyo press despatch of the 28th October states that a charter had that day been granted to the Formosan Railway Company for the construction of railways in Formosa.
The commercial treaty between China and 359 Japan, which is how published, is in the main a copy of the treaties in force between China and the Western Powers. The only definite conces- sion obtained by the treaty is that drawback certificates are to be immediately redeemable in 365 ready money by the Chinese Customs authorities
at the option of the holders.
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
Death of a Diocesan School Boy
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The Plague in Formosa
Dakin, Cruickshank & Co.; Limited.................................................. Ewo Cotton Spinuing and Weaving Co., Limited Hongkong Golf Club
Treaty of Commerce and Navigation Between China
and Japan......
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The Interport Rifle Match
Cricket.......
Hongkong and Port News... Commercial
Shipping
MARRIAGES.
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No. 20.
News from Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan, re- ports the death, through exposure and hard- ship, of the ex-Censor Chung Tê-hsiang. It will be remembered that this Censor attempted to denounce the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung and his : cousin the Grand Secretary Chang Chih-wan to the Throne in 1893, but failed in his object. Previous to this the Censor had brought him- self into notice by denouncing the ex-Viceroy Li Hung-chang and his partisans, and this encouraged him to try his hand on the Changs. But the Changs are most powerful in Peking,. and the result was that a few months after- wards a charge of extortion was made good against the Censor by some of the partisans of the Changs, and Chung Tê-hsiang was cashiered and banished to work on the post roads in Chinese Turkestan.-N.-C. Daily News.
The Shanghai Mercury says:-The statement made in our leader of the 24th Oct. that the Wharton Barker Syndicate had secured the con- cession to build the Hankow-Peking railroad is incorrect. We have learned on the best an- thority that, though it is an American syndicate that is to furnish the money, the banking-house Strong efforts are being made in Hongkong of Wharton Barker has nothing to do with it. to increase the strength of the Volunteer. At Shanghai on the 2nd November a fire League of the British Empire, a body which was formed in England last August. The ...376 occurred in a match factory on the bank of the objects of this organisation are to bring to
Soochow Creek outside the settlement limits. One large building, in which there seemed together into closer touch the various and widely scattered units of the citizen Army, and to be a considerable quantity of sulphur, was com- pletely gutted, but there being very little wind instil into the minds of the young men of the citizen of a country free from the thraldom of conscription, in return for such a happy im- munity, voluntarily to undergo such military training as the existing Volunteer system affords so as to enable them to take up arms on behalf of their country should the necessity arise. It is purely a civilian body, and membership is restricted to those who are either at present in the Volunteers or Yeomany Cavalry or who have so served. Enrolment papers are now at the Hongkong Volunteer Corps Institute and may be signed on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this week or next from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The entrance fee is one shilling and the annual subscription only sixpence, and a badge, ribbon, &c., are given on enrolment.
On the 23rd October, 1896, at Newchwang, by the Rev. James Carson, B.A., assisted by the Rev. George Douglas, MA, Rev. DANIEL T. ROBERTSON, at the time the flames fortunately did not day that it is a bounden duty of every male M.A., to SARAI CAMPBELL NICHOLSON.
On the 24th October, 1896, at Christ Church, Yokohama, by the Rev. J. C. Irwine, M.A., Dr. ALFRED HOGG, Methodist Free Church Mission, Wenchow, to ANNIE, eldest daughter of Mr. Roberi BARDSLEY, Manchester, England.
DEATHS.
At the Peak Hospital, on the 4th November, Capt. W. G. PRAESE, Master, O. & O. &. S. Co.'s steamer Gaelic.
12513 On the night of the 4th inst. at the Government Civil Hospital, WILLIAM INGRAM STEWART, of Bowrington Sugar Refinery; aged 25; a native of Greenock, Scotland.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS. The French mail of the 9th October arrived,
per M. M. steamer Salazie, on the 8th Novem.
ber (30 days).
3 EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Japanese Consulate at Manila was opened
on the 25th October.
The plague in Formosa is reported to have been got under control.
The Inter-Port Rifle Match has been won by Hongkong with a score of 916, Shanghai's score being 900 and Singapore's 870.
The repairs to H.M.S. Swift have been completed at Nagasaki, and she went out for a trial trip on the 29th nlt., which proved satisfactory.
At Hongkong an inquest is being held on the body of a schoolboy who died from injury to the brain alleged to have been caused by & blow on the head given by one of the masters
the Diocesan Home.
An Association of Insurance Agents has been established at Bangkok to enquire into the causes of fires there. Insurance statistics and information will be collected, and the associated companies will take action jointly in furtherance of their interests. Prosecutions will be rigo rously enforced in cases of fraud or misrepre- sentation.
spread to any of the adjoining premises, and finally burnt themselves out.
A steel cruiser of about 1,800 tons, built by the Foochow Arsenal at the orders of the Peiyang Administration, having been completed, was handed over at Tientsin last week, and will be probably used as a training vessel for the new graduates of the Tientsin Naval Academy. The new cruiser is to be armed entirely with quick-firing guns. She has been ordered to Port Arthur to receive her arma- ment.-N. C. Daily News
Amongst certain Chinese clans a very silly and ornel custom prevails, and on the 4th November Hon. Commander Hastings was called upon to lesson to one man
The following notification appears in the Lon- don Gazette of the 9th October: The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint John Carey Hall, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul for Hyogo and Osaka, to reside at Hiogo; Joseph Henry Longford, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul at Tamsui; Henry Alfred Constant Bonar, Esq., to be her Majesy's Consul at Tai-judicially administer a sharp
who had the audacity to practice it in the nan; William Joseph Kenny, Esq., to be her Queen's realms. The man, or rather boy, for Majesty's Consul for Hakodate and Niigata, he is only seventeen, was charged with com- bart-Hampden, Esq to be her Majesty's Vice-mitting a serious assault on a newly married Consul at Tokyo.
to reside at Hakodate; and Ernest Miles Ho-
The Military Academy recently opened by H.E. Viceroy Chang at the temporary quarters assigned it in the Hanyang Iron Works com. pound is to be open only to candidates having the literary degrees of Master of Arts and Bachelor of Arts, those who are sons of notables. gentry, and wealthy merchants, and expectant military and civil mandarins. Students entering the academy are expected to forget their several degrees and ranks, for they are to be treated all alike and as ordinary students. Insurbordina tion is to be visited at once with expulsion, while those who graduate with distinction from the Academy will be specially commended to the Throne, and substantive rank will be given them. To show the people that becoming a military officer is no disgrace, they are told that prior to the present dynasty every literary graduate had to know something of the army also, and this Academy was simply following the precedents of their ancestors.-N. C. Daily News.
woman. Although so young the prisoner is an employer of labour and one of his workmen is the husband of the woman. She was married a few days ago and on Monday night the couple invited numerous friends to a wow
at their house. The silly custom
mentioned gives the right to any of the to call upon the bride to repest any expr they choose to make; failing her compliance with their requests the challengers have power that is in China, not in Hongkong—to burn her face with the lighted ends of joss sticks cigars, or cigarettes. The prisoner was one of the friends and he exercised his right by repeat a sentence telling the girl to which was very indelicate. She refused poi blank. He then proceeded, notwithsta her vigorous protests, to burn her lighted cigar and before he conclude cions piece of oruelty the poor wor were terribly scarred. At the firs she informed the police and I arrested the criminal. He was four months with hard labour.
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