સુખ
THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLV.
Leading Articles Zimm
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 17TH FEBRUARY, 1897.
Epitome of the Week, ké...............................................................................117
Hongkong and the Postal Subsidy
The Quarantine Regulations and Smallpox 118
The Hanoi Chamber of Commerce continues to urge the suppression or reduction of the transit dues charged in Tonkin on goods pass- ing through the country to or from Laokay. doubtedly be an accomplished fact, and that The Shanghai-Woosung Railway will un-
very soon, as railway construction goos. Ten- ders are already called for certain plant, and as soon as the surveying now in progress is com- pleted, the formation of the road bed will be The Philippine Rebellion.............................119 commenced early in April next. Tenders will Hongkong Sauitary Board. ......................................................................................119 call for rails and sleepers, and next for rolling
China and Thibet
Mr. Lowder on Female Virtue in the Foreign *Communities of the Far East The Chinese Postal Service Light Dãos
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Hongkong Volunteer Corps Dance
Barning of the British Bark." Mark Curry Fire at the Government Offices....... Indian Famine Relief Fand .........................................
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Another Russian Fined for Trespassing in the Forts...128 The Observatory Report.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Hongkong and Whampos Dook Co., Limited
Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Limited
The China Fire Insurance Company, Limited Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., Limited..
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126
The West Yorkshire Regimental Sports ..........126 The Japan Tidal Wave Relief Fund
The Closing Soans in the Carew Case Hongkong and Port News.................................................................................
DEATHS.
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At the Government Civil Hospital, on the 11th February, 1897, JACOB ALEXANDER BEDFORD SHUSTER, the youngest son of the late J. F. SHUSTER of Hongkong, aged 21 years.
(420 At Shanghai, on the 5th February, 1897, ERNEST STRONGMAN, late 3rd engineer of the steamer Yuen
wo, aged 24 years.
At the General Hospit.1, Shanghai, on the 11th February, 1897, ALUIZIO FRANCISCO DE SA, aged
55 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The German mail of the 11th January arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Preussen, on the 12th February (32 days); and the American mail of the 17th January arrived, per O. & O. steamer Coptic, on the 13th February (27 days).
**TEPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Foochow Spring Race Meeting is to be held on the 17th and 18th March.
The British barque Mark Curry was des- troyed by fire in Iloilo harbour on the 5th
February
HE. Senhor Horta e Costa has resigned his tment as Governor of Macao and leaves Lisbon by to-day's mail.
stock. The gange is to be 1.435 metre. Mercury.
The French squadron in the Far East is, says the Avenir du Tonkin, to undergo a change. The Descartes and the Pascal, cruisers of the first class, the Eclaireur, a cruiser of the third class, and the new gunboat Surprise will arrive in a few weeks. The Descartes is already on The Descartes and the Pascal will replace the her way, having left Brest on the 11th January. Alger, which is about leaving for France, and the Isly, which will follow her in a month or two.
The following is an extract from the minutes, of a meeting of the Hanoi Chamber of Com- merce held on the 18th January:-The Govern- ment having requested the opinion of the Cham to Tonkin in its integrity the new treaty of ber as to whether it would be advisable to apply
Commerce between France and Japan signed at Paris on the 4th August last the Chamber is of opinion that at present there is no reason for the application of the treaty to Tonkin. Later, when the colony shall have attained its full development and when it need no longer fear foreign competition, the new treaty may be applied.
The annual meeting of the Shanghai Branch of the China Association was held at the Shanghai Club on the 8th February. Mr. R. M. Campbell presided, and, in moving the adoption of the report and accounts, he made a long and able speech, dealing with the matters mentioned in the report. The report and accounts having been approved, the following gentlemen were unanimously elected as the Committee for the ensuing year:-Messrs. Dud geon, Skottowe, Probst, Hewitt, Alford, A. Wright, C. Dowdall, J. L. Scott, and Bland. A special vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. R. M. Campbell (Chairman) and Mr. Talbot (Hon. Secretary) upon their retirement from the positions they had filled so successfully.
Herr Von Hartmann, the German Minister to Siam, was driving at Bangkok on the 30th January, when his horse bolted and ran over a Chinaman. The police arrested the Minister an alteration in the quarantine regulations with in ignorance of his rank.
The Hongkong Sanitary Board has proposed and dragged him from his trap to the station, There the Minister a view of establishing medical inspection of remained in custody for half an hour. An Vessels arriving from ports infected with small Inspector then asked him for his name, upon which the Minister handed over his card and The leading merchants of Canton held a walked out of the station. The Siamese Gov- the 12th January to consider theernment, on hearing of the incident, at once esulting from the new postal law. apologised, and dismissed three of the offending petition the Viceroy and the policemen. Other policemen were reprimanded them to take other steps and fined. Reparation was to be continued on cilities to the people the 81st January by members of the German ction
natters. Some in Legation proceeding to the police station to fluential Sansz also
rson to see their receive military honours from
company of Excellencies to ask for a modification of the Siamese soldiers. The Chinaman who was run
died.
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It will be remembered that about. ago M. Lyaudet and his wife and chi abducted at Kebao by Chinese pirates and in captivity for six months. It is stated by
that the indemnity to be paid to M. Lyaudet the Tonkin papers that the settlement of affair with China is almost completed and
has been fixed in principle at Tls. 50,000,
The China Gazette publishes the followin telegraphic despatch dated Hankow 6th February: The Hankow Peking (Lu-che-keo) Railway Board have taken over the administra: tion of the Tientsin-Peking-Shanhaikwa railway from the 1st inst., under " powers granted in an Imperial Decree. By this means over all Chinese railways at presen Director Sheng obtains complete control existence, and those about to be constructed in the northern half of China, and is placed in such a position that he will be able to raise the
security the northern railway system. Sheng line from Peking to Hankow, by giving in part necessary capital for the construction of the
and it is believed that having got things into was to leave Soochow on the 5th for Shanghai, such a favourable shape he will be able to set to work upon the trunk line without much further loss of time.
A terrible accident, we learn from thế Foo- chow Echo, happened on the 23rd January to Haikao. Sho had 108 passengers on board, and a boat crossing the Haitang Straita from when not far from the Haitang shore san from being overloaded. One hundred and four persons were drowned, among whom were three children, a son and daughters of the chief pastor of the American Methodist churches in Haitang. The son, a young man of great promise, Was 8 student at the Anglo- Chinese College, and was going home for the holidays; the daughters were returning from the Taimain Girls' school, where they had been pupils for some time. Among the lost were twenty-eight young men of Haitang who we returning home from the district examinati at Hokchiang. They were the brightest of the candidates whom the island was to send to the next prefectural examinations at Foochowŝi
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The Avenir du Tonkin has an article on Dr. Yersin, in which the allegation that he was received with marked coldness by the medical staff of Hongkong on his last visit here is ond more repeated. But it is useless, says our contemporary, to return to this subject, for Dr. Yersin must feel amply avenged for the disdain with which he was then treated by his English colleagues by the eagerness – with hich this presence and assistance is now sought by the Government of Bombay. The request for his services was, it seems, made through the Government, which sent a telegram to through the French Consul at Colombos tercept him there, the doctor being at his way back to Tonkin from F could do nothing without a was decided that he should con to obtain a supply at his lab Annam. Before leaving inoculated a large number of calculated his period of abse serum should be read return. Having collecte
India by the earliest that he 18th February
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