THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIV:]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, ...................... Leading Articles:--
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 9TH DECEMBER, 1896.
The British North Borneo Government has, by proclamation, warned people there against assisting or abetting naval or military expedi- .........441tions in aid of the rebels in the Philippines.
Mr. Kido Ryosuke, an employ of the Maruya dispensary, Yokohama, who sold arsenic to Mrs. .442. Carew, has been fined ten yen in the Yokohama .......................443 | Local Court, in accordance with the Regulations Cleanliness amongst the Chinese ..............443
relating to the dispensary business, &c. The Tung Wa Hospital
The Military Contribution........................................
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The Government and the Unofficial Members of
Conucil....
Footbinding..
Hongkong Legislative Council.........................................
The Gap Rock Light Dues.....
Supreme Court
The Tung Wah Hospital
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Charge against McKinley...................
The Philippine Rebellion...
The Taipingshan Improvement Works....
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The Japanese Military Mission in Tonkin ......................................
The Plague in Formosa.........
New Balmoral Gold Mining Co., Limited
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The Laon-kung-mow Cotton Spinning and Weaving
Co., Limited...................
Cricket....
Shooting Competition
Hongkong Golf Club
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club,
England in Siam
Canton Notes
Hongkong and Port News...
Commercial
Shipping .....................................
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The Philippine rebellion still continues. It 453 is considered by foreigners in Manila that the 455 Government is making, some headway in the 455 suppression of the movement, but the progress is very slow. Two more provinces have been placed under martial law.
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A severe famine is reported at present prevail- 459ing in Ch'uan-tung, Szechuen province, owing to the prolonged rainy weather and floods which 459 have spread over vast areas of country. Rice has risen to over $18 per picul, and vegetables are a hundred cash per catty. The side of a 460 hill has suddenly slipped away, and subsidences have taken place over an area of more than forty li in extent. There has been enormous loss of 1.461 | life.-China Gazette.
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The session of the Hongkong Legislative Council was opened on the 3rd December and a second meeting was held on the 7th. There was rather a warm discussion on the subject of private communications between the Govern- ment and the unofficial members; and the Bill There have been no arrivals of mails during to appropriate seventeen-and-a-half per cent.
the week.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
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At the general meeting of the Nippon Yusen. Kaisha held in Tokyo on the 25th November, a dividend of 20 per cent. was declared.
The Kobe Club was closed for disinfection on the 24th November owing to the death of a Japanese servant from smallpox and the illness
of another.
The plague in Formosa is rapidly diminishing, the number of new cases in the Taipeh district for the week ending with the date of last advices being four only.
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Mr. Maurice William Ernest de Bunsen, H.M. Chargé d'Affaires in Siam, has been promoted to the post of Chief Secretary to the British Embassy at Washington.
Although Timor is to be separated from Macao politically, the latter is called upon to make an annual contribution of $60,000 to the cost of the administration of its former dependency.
It was reported in Yokohama that it had been learnt, by wire from Scotland, Yard that Annie Luke, the supposed "lady in black," had not left her home in Devonshire within the last
few months.
The Japanese Military Mission now visiting Tonkin has been received by the French thorities with great distinction. The object mission is to study the organisation of rritoires milit
of the colony's revenues as the military con. tribution, which has passed its second reading, was also the subject of interesting debates.
No. 23.
The Peking and Tientsin Times of the 21st November says:-The steamer Glenfillan, with the bridge-work for the Peking and Tientsin railway, arrived during the week, and is busy lightering at the Bar. The arrival of this steamer, in time to admit of discharging her cargo, improves the chance of trains being run through to Peking in the early spring.
The Echo du Tonkin says:-The appoint- ment is announced of M. Wehrung to the management of the Shanghai branch of the Russo-Chinese Bank. M. Wehrung, who formerly resided in Indo-China as correspon- dent of the Temps, has latterly been on the staff of the Economiste Européen. This ap pointment of a Frenchman is calculated greatly promote French interests in China.
The people of Hangchow are praising the Customs Commissioner of that city for his im- partiality and devotion to duty. The other day a deputy of a Governor brought over from Shanghai a large consignment of copper and spelter for the mint to make into copper cash, which is much needed in the local markets as elsewhere. The deputy had a passport or huchao, to pass all the barriers and customs stations en route, "free of duty and all charges,' and thought he could pass the Maritime Cus toms at Hangehow also. But the cargo was detained by the Customs on the ground that there was no edict authorising copper and spelter to pass free or duty, and the Commis- sioner would not release it until specially autho- rised by the Governor to do so.-N. C. Daily
News.
The N. G. Daily News of the 1st December. The newly organised Tientsin Spinning and says:-The Connoil have decided to abandon Weaving Mills, under the management of the the ratepayers' meeting that it was proposed expectant Taotai Liu Kuanghan, are intended to hold to-morrow to consider the question to contain besides 10,000 spindles and 300 of an issue of dollar notes. The intimation looms, machinery for manufacturing broadcloth, published by us yesterday, that the Chartered Spanish stripes, flannels, Italians, and lustres. Bank was about to make an issue of dollar notes, The total cost is estimated at Tis. 300,000, has caused the Council to come to this decision. The capital of the concern is to be Tls. 600,000, The public convenience was one of the main of which is 400,000 have already been inducements to the Council to undertake the the Chartered Bank will now supply, and the subscribed entirely by Chinese in Tientsin.-issue; there was a very widely felt want which N. O. Daily News.
necessity for a larger paper currency being 'thus met, and it being not impossible that another Bank will follow the Chartered Bank's example, the Council have rightly decided not to enter into competition with one or two more Banks in what is primarily the function of a Bank.
The China. Gazette of the 24th November says:-There is apparently some great upset in the railroad situation in the north, owing to active appearance of the Belgians on the scene, judging by letters received here this afternoon The Belgians are reported to be supported by both France and Russia in order to freeze the Americans and British out. Sheng's departure from Tientsin for this port is now put off till the last boat of the season. It is reported that the head office of the Peking-Hankow Railway will be at Shanghai.
H.E. the Governor met the Directors of the Tung Wa Hospital on the 3rd December and intimated that it was his intention to appoint a Chinese doctor trained in Western Medicine to the institution, in order that patients might have the option of being treated according to Western principles instead of according to the Chinese system if they so wished, but that there would be no compulsion in the matter. It was also hoped that the services of a European doctor might be secured, who would be able to give his whole time to the duties of Visitor of the institution.
It is not every day that we are able to
heartily congratulate the French Minister, Gérard, on his successes with the Tsang-li Yamén, and it is therefore with more pleasure
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than usual that we announce that M. Gérard has prevailed on the Chinese Government to rebuild the French Cathedral in the Tientsin City. This edifice, was burnt down by a mob during the time of the massacre of the French missionaries in 1870, and since that date the ach to: every. ruin has stood there, a civilized man who passed the spot, as not but be regarded as a unavenged barbarism. The Cathedral will be a very handsome structure, with yellow tiled roof. We are sure that all our readers will join us in our congratulations to M. Gérard on this service to all civilized nations --Peking and Tientsin Times.
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