THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLV
AND
China Overland
Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Wook, d............................... Leading Articles:
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 31st MARCH, 1897.
Sir G. T. M. O'Brien, late Colonial Secretary,| Hongkong, has been appointed Governor of ...............................................188 | Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western
Pacific.
• Diamond Jubilee and the Permanent
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The Chinese Import Tariff.............................284 The Hon. J. J. Bell-Irving and the Light Dues...385 Mr. Granville Sharp and the Light Dues...........285 Mr. Francis and the Chins Association The Volunteers and the Diamond Jubiles Special Jurors and Capital Crimes andīšan The Quarantine Begalations.....................................................................
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The prohibition of the export of rice from Kwangtung to Macao has been removed, in deference to the representations made by the Portuguese Consul at Canton. 7th prox.
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The annual meeting of the Hongkong .837 Branch of the China Association was held on The Queen's Diamond Jubilee ................................................................................237 the 25th March, when the Light Dues question
was discussed.
Eupreme Court ............................................................................................238 The China Association
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The Military Contribution..................................................................................243 Rear-Admiral F. V. Dabossoff, who Hongkong Football Cinb .............................243 captain of the Fladimir Monomach in 1891, Hongkong Sanitary Board....
............................ 243 has hoisted his flag on the Pamiat Azova at Indian Faininë Relief Fund .............................................................................248 Nagasaki. There are now three Russian The Chinaman as a Boldier .................................................................................. Admirals in these waters. Flogging in the Gaol
A Japanese Opinion on England's Power in the
Far East in.........
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The Wreck of the Glamorganshire Victoria Recreation Club
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CURRO TORNAN (RODIDAERGUNTAD ESOTINC
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China Sugar Refining Co., Limited The Luson Sugar Befining Co., Limited. The Panjom Mining Co., Limited Major Brothers, Limited
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The Fire at the Ewo. Waste Silk Filature Shanghai...247
The Chinese Post Offics and the Inviolability of Cor-
Correspondence
The Alleged Torture in the Philippine.............
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The Philippine Rebellion ............................
The Saigon Rice Trade
A Big Gamble in Straits Insurance Shares
Fire on Board the Tacoma
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Hongkong and Port News..... Commercial.
The Japanese House of Peers has restored the amount of $17,070,740 by which the Budget Committee proposed to reduce the vote for naval construction and the amounts originally proposed by the Government were passed.
According to Australian telegrams, the Ad- miralty has authorised the expenditure of £100.000 at Hongkong with the view of making the port a first-class naval base. This presumably covers the cost of the proposed
new dock.
The Japan Advertiser states that the steamer 248 Carmarthenshire is bringing out from New York as part of her cargo, eighteen locomotives for Japan.
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The locomotives are from the | Baldwin, the Rogers, and the Pittsburg Loco-
Shipping ..............................................................................................................................................................251 motive Works.
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MARRIAGES.
Fleetwood, by the Rev. E. Reeve, M.A., GEORGE On the 11th February, at St. Peter's Church, MACFARLANE GRAY, of the Board of Trade, Liver pool, only son of J. Macfarlane Gray, Esq., retired Chief Examiner of Engineers to the Board of Trade, to SARAH HARRIET, third daughter of the late W. P-RICHARDSON, Esq., J.P., Portrush, County An- trim, Ireland.
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At the Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, on the 22nd March, 1897, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., MARGARET SLATER, to C. J. HOLLAND, of Shanghai.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 26th February ar- rived, per M. M. steamer Yangtse, on the 28th March (30 days).
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The Court of Inquiry held in connection with the wreck of the steamer Glamorganshire found that no blame attaches to the master, the on a voyage from Hongkong to Saigon has rook on which the vessel struck not being marked on the chart.
The engines of the Laou Kung Mow Cotton Mill at Shanghai were started on the 22nd March. The occasion was made an interesting function, the two engines being christened respectively “Isabelle" and "Sophia" by Mrs. Dudgeon and Mrs. Anderson.
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Various schemes for a permanent me of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in Hong! have been proposed, including a ro island, a new clock tower and t completion of Her Majesty's statue, bath-houses for peans and Chinese, a children, a College of Medicine, and a institution in connection with the Governmer Civil Hospital...
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The N. G. Daily News of the 25th March says:-At a meeting held yesterday of the Directors of the Imperial Bank of China, the Power of Attorney to Mr. AW. Maitland as Acting Chief Manager was duly signed.. learn also that the unallotted portion capital, Tls. 500,000, has been over-sub Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master have been appointed solicitors to the new Bank.
the bed.
At the meeting of the Hongkong Sanitary
Board on Thursday a letter from the Secretary of State for the Colonies to the Governor, trans- mitting a copy of the regulations made by the Local Government Board for dealing cholera, yellow fever, and plague at ports in the United Kingdom, was laid on the table. Mr. Chamberlain remarked that the Local Govern- ment Board had drawn his aftention to the fact that these regulations show that a wide diver- gence exists between the practice as regards quarantine followed in certain colonies and the principles which the Board regard as suitable for effective dealing with the diseases referred to, with a view to preventing their spread, both on land and water.
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A subsidised line of Danish steamers to the Far East is to be established. According to a Danish newspaper, there has just been started
about £175,000 sterling with the object of in Copenhagen the East Asiatic Trading Company with a capital of 3,500,000 building up Danish trade between the Free Port and the Far East. It is intended to build three steamers of 2,600 tons register for this trade, and these vessels have already been laid on the stocks. The ports of call will be at leas one British port, besides one in the Medi ranean, Port Said, Snez, Aden, Colombo, Sin apore, Hongkong, Bangkok (whenever ne It is reported that some Chinese merchantssary), Shanghai, and Canton. The new have purchased a piece of land at Canton in the pany will pay the firm of Andersen & Co vicinity of the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Bangkok the sum of one million - Steamboat Company's Wharf for the purpose stock (£50,000) for the incorporat of constructing a wharf for the accommodation firm into the new Company. The subsidy of traffic between Wuchow and Canton
be £10,000 a year for five years. The Hon. Martin Lister, British Resident of ■** The arrival in New York of the sai Negri Sembilan,
bilan died at Suez on February | T. F. Oakes after a 24th, while on his way home. Mr. Martin from Hongkong has Lister was a son of the third Baron Ribblesdale, was being generally and was born in 1857. He was a brother of world as another tragio the present Baron Ribblesdale and was one of Messrs. Carlowitz & Co., the Shanghai a rather considerable family. He came to the yesterday, says the N. G. Darly Far East a good many years ago, sad was en- March, rece ed a telegram stating gaged in planting before he joined the Service. had
Speaking at a meeting of the Japan Eco- details nomic Society the other day, Marquis Ito said with that though there was an outward appe noe--mande of pesos, there was, metap rically spe
the 17 subterranean disturbance and before
from the attempted serious changes would occur. The captain
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THE OPENING OF THE WEST RIVER.
With this issue we present our readers with sketch map of the West River up to Wa- chow fu, showing the ports and way stations to
opened on 4th June next.
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