THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIV.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, do.....! Leading Articles
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 25TH NOVEMBER, 1896.
Taxation of Foreign Manufactures in China ........402 New Sources of Bevenue in China ..............102 Museums as Educational Agencies
..402 The Vagrancy Ordinance and Stowaways ..........403 The Alleged Torture at Manils........................404 The Procedure at Inquests Water Meters at the Peak........................................................................?
.405 The Yokohama Poisoning Case............................................................................... Supreme Court
.404
405
..405
406
Protocol between China and Japan
The Rebellion in the Philippines
....406
Major Carrington and the Volunteers..............................................................406 Hongkong Sanitary Board
406
"Fra Diavolo" by the Rifle Brigade................................. .407 Farewell Banquet to the Rifle Brigade by the Hong-
kong Polo Club...
Cricket...
407 408
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club...
Football.
Correspondence
409
.409 409
Ewo Cotton Spinning and Weaving Co., Limited.....410
Raub Prospects
Hongkong and Port News,.......... Commercial
Shipping
MARRIAGES.
410 .411 ..418 416
On the 21st November, 1896, at the Roman Catholic Cathedral, Hongkong, by the Right Rev. L. M. Piazzoli, assisted by the Very Rev. B. Vigano, HILARION GONZALEZ DEL CASTILLO, Vice-Consul for Spain, to HERMILLA MARIA DO ROZARIO. [2660 On the 14th inst, at HL.B.M.'s Consulate General, by Sir Nicholas J. Hannen, and afterwards at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., FREDERICK CASTLE, youngest son of the late Major Henry A. MCCALLUM, R.M.L.I.. South Sea, to ALICE, youngest daughter of the late Mr. Philip HoWARD, of Hartlepool, Durham.
DEATH
A Tokyo press despatch of the 12th Novem- ber states that Mr. Shimizu Seisaburo, second class Consul, has been assigned to Hongkong.
The Chinese Consulate at Yokohama was opened on the 10th November. The Consulate at Kobe was to be opened on the 14th and that at Nagasaki on the 16th.
The Japanese steafner Himeji Maru, wrecked on the Bombay Reef, is advertised for sale. The German steamer Siegfried returned to Hongkong from the scene of the wreck on Sunday night, bringing up Captain Tipple, the purser, second engineer, and four sailors, who had remained with the stranded vessel.
Mr. Beauclerk, Secretary of the British Legation at Peking, came down with the Centurion from the north and will, we hear, proceed with her to Singapore, afterwards returning to Peking. Mr. Beauclerk has been utilising his time in Hongkong by making inquiries with reference to trade in Southern China.
The Siam Free Press hears that the agents of the Rothschild Railway Syndicate are en- deavouring to secure the Petchaburi railway Prince Nars. The Siamese Government, says concession, recently promised by the King to that journal, has refused the Rothschild Rail- way Syndicate a guarantee for the Chiangmai railway.
From Petriu, says the Siam Free Press, comes excellent news of the rice crop for 1896-7. Rathburi also gives promise of a plentiful harvest, while Supan. prospects are brilliant. Battambong also expects a rich harvest, and the districts in the neighbourhood of Bangkok are equally promising. The rice season of 1896-7
On the 21st October, at Tientsin, EMILIE, the be promises to be exceptionally busy and profit loved wife of H. SCHROETER,
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The German mail of the 19th October arrived per N. D. L. steamer Sachsen, on the 19th November (31 days); and the French mail of the 23rd October arrived, per M. M. steamer Yarra, on the 24th November (52 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The 1st Battalion of the Rifle Brigade left Hongkong for Singapore on the 23rd Novem bar
At Yokohama Mrs. Carew has been com-¡ ̈mitted for trial ou a charge of poisoning her
husband.
No news of importance has been received with reference to the Philippine rebellion during the past week.
derest in her machinery.
able.
The Tsungli Yamen has declined to present to the Empress Dowager and the Emperor a memorial against footbinding forwarded by foreign ladies through the United States Min- ister.
The Yamen in its reply states that those who oppose the binding of their children's feet are not compelled to bind them, while those who wish to carry out the practice cannot be prevented from doing so.
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The four torpedo destroyers ordered the other day through Messrs. Telge and Co. by the Tsangli Yamên are valued at Kuping Tls. 330,000 each, and are guaranteed to go thirty- two knots an hour. The contract was signed on the same day as that for two armoured cruisers ordered through Messrs. Buchheister and Co. Several naval officers from the Foo-
chow arsenal dockyard will watch the building of the new vessels.-N. C. Daily News.
Mat Salleh, a leader in a petty rising against the British North Borneo Government, had long kept out of reach until last month, when news of his lurking place reached the au- According to the Straits Times H.M.Sthorities there. An armed force then sought Pious is to return home in consequence of some him ont, but found that he had fled. A house in the same kampong, which some of his followers occupied, was then attacked and nine of the defenders were killed. Mat Salleh had left the kampong during the night. Several rebels have submitted and Mat Salleh has taken to the mountains, but his power is said to be broken.
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We with great pleasure that His Im- perial Majesty the Emperor of Japan has just Is the order of the Rising Sun, 5th DW Wykeham Myers, for services the Japanese Government in Formosa. N. 0. Daily News, ekstr
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No. 22.
A special telegram from Kobe, dated 16th November, to the N. C. Daily News, states Mr. G. de Wenndrich, Vice Consul for Russis at that port, committed suicide that morning.
A telegram has been received at Bangkok by Mr. de Bunsen, from the Foreign Office, conveying the information that Mr. French has definitely resigned his appointment ✨ aa Consul at Bangkok. It is understood that Mr. French has retired from the service.
A protocol has been concluded between Chins and Japan, dated 19th October last, as a supple- ment to the recently ratified commercial treaty, in which the question of the taxation of manufactures is treated.. In return for the grant to Japan of autonomous concessions at open ports, "the Chinese Government may impose such tax as it may see fit on the articles manufactured by Japanese subjects in China, provided that such tax shall neither be other than that payable by Chinese subjects nor
the
higher."
The Ostasiatisch Lloyd learns that Count von Condenhove, for some time Austro-Hungarian Consul to the newly established Austro- Chargé d'Affairs in Tokyo, has been appointed a
Rosthorn, for over ten years a member of the Hungarian Consulate in Singapore. Mr. von indoor staff of the Imperial Maritime Customs, has left the service and has gone to Peking to take there an appointment in the newly established Austro-Hungarian Legation a Interpreter of Legation, with the title Secretary of Legation.
The Governor of the Straits Settlements, as High Commissioner of North Borneo, has con- ducted an exhaustive inquiry into the griev- success as a Crown Colony, and was transferred ances of Labuan. That island did not prove s
to the British North Borneo Government. The transfer did not give satisfaction to sundry residents of Labuan, and they petitioned for that island to be again put under the Colonial Office. A long string of grievances gave force to the petition. The Governor has inquired into the matter, and heard over twenty of the signatories to the petition before reporting to the Colonial Office. So far as can be gathered,
it seems to be another case of much ado about very little. Grounds for dissatisfaction do exist, but it remains to be seen whether the Colonial Office deems them important enough to call for a retransfer.-Straits Times.
It is reported from Peking that a number of influential gentry of Honan have petitioned the Tsungli Yamên to be allowed to buy up all the iron ore of the province, and smelt it in foreign style in furnaces to be built at a market town called Taing-huachen in the prefecture of Weihuifu, Honan. The pig iron will then be sent by the Grand Canal route to Tientsin, where an iron and steel foundry is to be built at the expense of the syndicate, but the manager of which is to be appointed by the Vice Chihli. The output of the foundry will be sent to the naval shipbuilding yards of the G ment, and also supply rails, etc., for the of the country. The syndicate intend buy four steam-launches to tow the ir junks in the Grand Canal. The so been sanctioned by both the Tsungli Y and the Viceroy Wang of Chibli No C News,
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