THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLIV.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week,
Leading Articles:--
HONGKONG, WEDNEDAY, 23RD DECEMBER, 1896.
Mr. H. S. Wilkinson, Crown Advocate, left Shanghai for Yokohama in the Tamise on the 485 14th December to lead for the Crown in the
Carew poisoning. case.
.480 486 ..487 .487
Housing of the Working Classes
The Fire Brigade Case
Bicycles and the Public Traffic
The “Opium War" .......
Regulation of Native Dairies................................................................................488
Supreme Court
483
The Amateur Dramatic Club's Performance
488
Hongkong Philharmonijc Society's Concert
488
Hongkong Sanitary Board.
.489
Police Pinnace Sunk in the Harbour
498
Hongkong Benevolent Society`.
.490
The Tung Wa Hospital
.490
The Rebellion in the Philippines
491
Dr. Rizal........kaga.....
.491
The Reconstitution of the Sa¬itary Board
491
Dakin, Cruickshank & Co., Limited.
.493
Hongkong Polo Club ..........
:493
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club....
.499
Hongkong Cricket Clph...
A French View of Japanese Expansion
The Woollen Manufacturing Industry in Japan.
The Price of the Telegraph Convention
The Question of Patent Rights in Japan...........
Proposed Japanese Volunteer Fleet Co.
Kores
Hongkong and Port News..........
Commercial
MARRIAGE.
.494 ,494 .495
Baron von Rosan, formerly Secretary of the Russian Legation at Tokyo and lately at Madrid, has been appointed Minister at Tokyo, in place of the late Mr. Hitrovo.
The N. C. Daily News says:-It is now con- fidently stated that, previously to Germany's objection, Great Britain had objected to receive H.E. Huang as Chinese Minister.
The London correspondent of the Straits Times "has every reason to believe that the scheme for starting a Naval Dock at Singapore will soon be an accomplished fact."
In the Supreme Court at Shanghai on the 14th December, in Chambers, Messrs. Dow dall and Hauson, on behalf of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., obtained leave to appeal to the 495 Privy Council against the recent judgment in
the Onwo-Newchwang collision case.
.495 .495 .....495 .496
.497 .840
It is stated that the foreign papers in Japan are to be made amenable to the new Press Law. But we think no one ever doubted that this would be $0. When extraterritoriality is abolished foreign papers will naturally enjoy no
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No. 26.
Mr. M. de Bunsen, C.B., lately British Chargé d'Affaires at Bangkok, who has been promoted to be Secretary of Legation at Washington, left Bangkok on the 6th December. His departure was marked by expressions of good will and re- gret on the part of the community.
From the Echo du Tonkin we learn that on the night of the 6th December a fire occurred at Pakhoi amongst the huts built on piles on the shore. Thirty houses were destroyed. As it was high water at the time some of the occupants were unable to reach land and twelve women and children përîshed.
From Saigon papers we learn that the bar sixteen. The remainder of the injured deaths from the Saghalien disaster now. num-
were in a fair way towards recovery. It was uncertain what course would be adopted with regard to the repairs. The captain was of opinion that it would be better that the vessel should return to Marseilles-under her remain- ing boilers and sail, as he thought the work of repair would occupy too long at Saigon, where there are few appliances for the work. No decision had, however, been arrived at.
On the 17th December, at St. John's Cathedral, | greater privileges than the vernacular journals. Hsinfung, but for reasons unknown to us the
Hongkong, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, M.A., JAMES TORY, eldest son of the late Mr. T. H. DOUGLAS, Morningside, Edinburgh, to MARY LOUISE, third daughter of the Rev. JOHN MACGOWAN, of Amoy, China. (No cards.)
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DEATHS.
At the Peak Hospital, on the 16th December, DOMINICO MUSS, Italian Consul, Chevalier of the Crown of Italy, Chevalier of San Lazare and Mau- rice, Commander of the Lusiganno, aged 64. [2885 At No. 20, Caine Road, Hongkong, on the morn- ing of the 18th December, MARCIANO ANTONIO BAPTISTA, Artist, nged 70 years.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The Belgian Government have nominated as Military Attaché at Peking Captain Baesens, of the 7th Fortification Artillery Regiment at Antwerp. He is expected here shortly, and brings with him a gun made at Cockerill's. as a present to the Emperor of China.- Ostasiatisch Lloyd.
The Tientsin-Lukouchiao Railway, which is in a fair way towards completion, under the management of Hu Yuen-mei, the Governor of Peking, is going to have an extension of twenty li right up to Yuugting tiate, and the survey of land for the additional length of the line has been finished up to within five li of the gate. Mercury.
The Shanghai Mercury of the 16th December says:--The new Minister for America, Wu Ting-fang, arrived this morning by the steamer
local authorities have not done him the honour of giving him a formal reception, as is usually bestowed on a Minister arriving in Shanghai. We presume that as he is not a literatus, but a Western educated man, he is not much re- spected by the literary class. Mr. Wu is, we believe, the only English-speaking Chinese representing China in foreign countries for
the first time.
Native reports received from Chêngtu an nounce the defeat of the Szechuan General Chou and 2,000 Imperial troops on the 5th of September last by the Tibetan insurgents of the Chantai villages on the Szechuan-Tibet fron- tiers. The insurrection was the outcome of the intrigues of Mahommedan refugees from Kansu,
There have been no arrivals of mails during | formed that Mr. Kinder has been appointed / the greater part of whom, on the Kansu-Tibet
the week.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
It is reported that Admiral McNair, U.S.N., is to make Shanghai his headquarters this
We (Peking and Tientsin Times) are in. Engineer-in-chief of the Lu-kou-chiao-Han- kow railway, and that he has thanked His Excellency Sheng for the appointment, by letter. It is said that Mr. Kinder will also survey the Pao-ting-fu line, together with another railway engineer.
The reply of the Secretary of State with It is notified that a census of the population reference to the reconstitution of the Hongkong of Hongkong is to
taken on Oth Sanitary Board has been received and the papers have now been published. Mr. Chamberlain sys January next. 35
The French Government has established that under existing circumstances he has de- Consulate at Newchwang and appointed M. decided to defer giving any final decision, and that in the course of a year or so it will be more rao in obarge.
evident what, if any, is the real want, and how
may best be met.
panese Yokohama Chamber of Com-
passed à resolution to memorialise the mment for the abolition of export duties.
in the Gasette that the Queen ved of the Hon. T. HeWhitehead's ent as an unofficial member of the
Council.
general mesting of the Cruickshank and Co., Hongkong Hotel on the decided to wind the
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News.reached Singapore on the 8th December to the effect that a terrible explosion occurred on the 1st, at Singkop It seems the Saltan of Lingga had been staying there for some days, having business to transact, and in the morning proceeded on to his yacht Langjut to return to Singkep Just prior to starting, however, the boiler of the yacht, burst, with the result that seven men were immediately killed and several others severely injured. The Sultan himself was badly scalded.—Strates Times,
frontiers, had been already crushed about thei same time. It appears that the insurgente drew the troops into a mountain pass near their village and nearly annihilated them. The Viceroy Lu Chuan-lin is now sending a large force into Chantai to avenge the disaster- -N. C. Daily News.
The Singapore Free Press of the 11th Decem- ber says:-H.M.S. Porpoise, Capt. Polly escort- ing the torpedo destroyers Handy (Lt-Com- mander Gillespie) and Hart (Lt. Commander Shakespear) left Singapore at 7.30 this morn- ing for Saigon en route to China. For the sake of the destroyers, which have a low free- board, carte blanche is given, to Captain Pelly. as to his movements. 7 He can wait where he likes and as long as he likes so as to ensure the destroyers not encountering bad weather, as far as that is possible. Accordingly the arrangement is that the destroyers the East Coast and anchor dunder Island. From there, as weather will cross the Gulf bodian coast, and From this por make for the Hai
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