THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLV.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 28т¤ JANUARY, 1897.
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CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, 4.................................
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Leading Articles :-m
The Anti-Foreign Spirit in Hunan
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The Light Duss
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The Governor's Report and the Trade of the
Colony
·Indian Famine Relief
Queen's College
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The Government of the Philippines.
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Supreme Court
The Transit Pam Question in Kwangtung
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St. George's Ball............................................................................................................................................. The Burns Concert
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His Excellency the Governor on Charles Dickens
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Prize Distribution at Queen's College
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Diocesan School and Orphanage”.
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The Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Co.,
Limited
West Point Building Company, Limited
The Titis Relief Fund
Geo. Fenwick & Company, Limited.
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- Hongkong Land Investment aud Agency Company,
Limited
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Hongkong Golf Club
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Cricket
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The Carew Cass
*****
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The Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce ........................... 58 The Light Dues
The Chinese Postal Service
Hongkong and Port News.................................................... Shipping.
BIRTH.
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According to a Havas telegram the French Cabinet had decided to sak for a vote to defray the expenses of a state funeral for the remains of the late M. Rousseau, Governor-General of Indo-China.
We (Mercury) hear that an official scandal has recently occurred in Yokohama and that a member of the Consular body, detected in cheating at cards, has been summarily dismissed by his Government.
The Emperor of Japan, who had been suffer ing from a feverish cold, was convalescent at the date of our last Japan files, and a special ceremony to celebrate His Majesty's recovery was to be held on the 14th January.
The Courrier d'Haiphong says M. Marty left Haiphong on the 12th January for Pakhol, where he goes with M. Kahn, Consul for France, and M. Devoux, a lawyer, to try to effect a settlement of his difficulties with the Chinese.
Mr. T. L. Bullock, Mr. Geo. Jamieson's relief as British Consul and Assistant Judge in Shanghai, arrived at Shanghai from Chefoo on the 13th January and assumed charge on 72 the 14th. Mr. Geo. Jamieson proceeds home
on leave on the 23rd.
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On the 21st inst., at East Point, the wife of Mr. JOHN RODGER, of a daughter.
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DEATHS.
At Wuchang, on the 8th January, 1897, of apo- plexy, TH. SCHNELL, late General in the Imperial
'hinese Army.
At Shanghai, on the 14th January, 1897, M. GEORGE JULIN, Ingénieur-Architecte.
At Shanghai, on the 15th January, 1897, D. N. SINCLAIR, aged 24 years.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 18th January, of typhoid fever, PETER TRAYNER, aged At Shanghai, on the 19th January, 1897, CHARLES HENRY MORRIS, aged 30 years.
28 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English mail of the 25th December arrived, per P. & O. steamer Ravenna, on the 22nd January (28' days); and the Canadian `mail of the 5th January arrived, per C. P steamer Empress of India, on the 26th January
(21 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
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A report was ourrent in Singapore a week ago that plague had made its appearance there. It appears that several cases occurred which bore some resemblance to the symptoms of bubonic plague, but after careful examination and close bacteriological research the bacillus of plague was not discovered.
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Some excitement has been caused at Tokyo by an incident in which the German Minister was concerned. It would appear that the Minis- ter while driving slightly struck with his whip a Japanese student who with a companion had got in his way. The Japanese press is indig- nant and urges that the incident should be made a subject of diplomatic representation,
H. E. Wu Ting-fong, the newly appointed Chinese Minister to the United States, is at present staying in Hongkong. We understand the Hon. Ho Kai has joined his Excelleney's suite and proceeds with him to the United States as secretary. The Hon. Ho Kai will obtain leave of absence as Hongkong Legislative Council.
No. 4.
A Japanese Commission of Investigation estimates the cost of laying a telegraphic cable from Japan, vid Hawaii, to San Francisco" at $13,689,000, including two steamers. The gross receipts are estimated at $1,674,000, and the expenses at $999,000, per annum.
The N. C. Daily News says:-As the Shanghai-Woosung Railway in the seventies was the first railroad ever laid in China, so the first Government road in this province will be the resuscitation of the old road, work on which, it is reported, will be commenced in the spring. It is also expected that the survey of the line to Soochow will be made before the close of the present Chinese year.
The Bangkok Times says:-His Majesty the King, we learn on good authority, will shortly issue an edict, making it a criminal offence to obtain evidence from accused and other persons by flogging and other means. Of course these methods have been abolished in Bangkok for some time, but His Majesty's personal observa- tions while visiting the Special Commissioner's Court at Ayuthia led him to believe it likely that such abuses may still obtain in the pro- vinces and he was determined to prohibit them altogether. It will be remembered that one of the Ayuthia judges sent to prison by the Com- missioners had flogged a prisoner so severely that the latter died."
Their Excellencies Wang and Chang, Vice.*. roys of Chihli and Hukuang, respectively, and Shêng, Director-General of the Great Western Railway, have appointed Chang Chên-k'ai, an expectant Taotai of Chihli and a fellow-towns. man of the last named official, to be the head of the Railway Company at Hankow. Another Taotai, Sun Chung-hsiang, and an expectant district magistrate named Hsiang Ming-ohien, have further been appointed by their Excellen- cies to superintend the surveys of the railway commencing from Hankow northwards to a point, probably, in Honan province where they will meet another party of officials and surveyors who have made Peking their starting point southwards. There will be a number of foreign engineers connected with both expeditions. N. C. Daily News.
In introducing a review of the work of the Shanghai Municipal Council during
a member of the year the N. C. Daily News says past
We are informed from Soochow that the Settlement, together with the "Maloo," in to be handed over to the Japanese authorities for their management, in accordance with the terms of the Shimonoseki Treaty. The Chinese at first tried to keep the control of the Settlement in their hands, but after much diplomatic mea- A St. George's Ball was given at Hongkong sures, in which the Japanese persisted in having on the 22nd January,
everything to themselves concerning the port, the Chinese gave way.—Mercury.
The Carew case is still proceeding at Yoko hama. The prosecution was closed on the 21st January and the defence opened on the 23rd.
proclamation has been issued by the Kwangtung Lekin Office, similar to that recently isaed in Kwangai, with reference to
the transit pass trade.
petition has been resented to the Govern ment of Hongkong
ipping companies and firma protesting
the proposed permanent imposition of light dues at the rate of 2 cents per ton.
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growth of Shanghai is not perhaps
rapid as that of Chicago in the days when a man went to sleep at night on the open prairie would
find hotel bu wake up in the morning over him; but it is rapid enough to make a man who goes home on a year's leave rub his eyes when he comes back and wonder if it really is the same old mud-flat that he left a year before. He finds building go coming down in the English setdement, and on everywhere; old houses and
being replaced by four and fi A number of Censors and officers of the Six ings for which fabulous rents are Boards in Peking are using strenuous efforts to the foundations are finished garde get the Emperor to repeal the law allowing the Babbling Well Road devoted to purchase of official rank, such as those of dences for Taotais and retired Go distriot and department magistrates, sub-foreshore of the lower reach of the prefect, prefect, and Taotai, or 7th, 6th, 5th, ponies were turned out to and 4th ranks. The average receipts from this great cotton mills and th source by the Imperial Government yearly are kow, where he used to get- about a million taels, and the Censors think skating if he got up early that the stain on the dignity of the empire ing, transformed into str outbalances the advantages accruing from the foreign houses, which are receipt of the money.-N, C. Daily News, for them are settled.
build- before
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