THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XEV
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS
Epitome of the Week, to...
Leading Articles
Sir Claude MacDonald's Tour
China's Conditions for Concessions of Territory The Shanghai Municipal Council and the * Wheelbarrow Strike
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The Proposed Road-round the Island... Resignation of the Governor-General of the Philippines..304 Address to Sir Claude MacDonald by the China
Association ...............
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Plague and Restriction of Chinese Immigration.... .304 305
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 22ND APRIL, 1897.
The Chinese Postal Service A Committed to Prison For Contempt of Court............305 The Territorial Dispute between Portugal and China ...305/ Ponjom Mining Co., Limited ......... North China Insurance Co., Limited'
The Yangtze Insurance. Association, Limited
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The Bounty on the Direct Export of Japanese Silk ...310 Hongkong Rifle Association .......
The Pold Tournament ..................
Hongkong Golf Club .............................................
Lawn Tennis
Correspondence
? On the Question as to the Best Form of Jubiles
Memorial..
The Wheelbarrow Riot at Shanghai...
French Piece Goods in Cochin-China
Presents to H.M. the Queen
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The Shanghai, Volunteer Corps and the Diamond Jubilee.315 The Shanghai Volunteer Corps... Hongkong and Port News.. Commercial..
MARRIAGES.
H.E. Lin Kan-yi, Viceroy of the Two Kiang, has contributed $2,000 to the Indian Famine Relief Fund,
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The Yokohama Indian Famine Relief Fund closed with a total of $16,518,, more than half of which was from Japanese.
The first sod of the Seoul Chemulpo railway was turned on the 22nd March by HE. Ye Che-yun, Governor of Seoul.
The Spanish Government has prohibited the importation of arms, munitions of war, and alcohol into the Salu Archipelago.
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Mr. James Scott has taken over charge of the British Consulate at Shanghai from Mr. T. L. Bullock, who goes home on leave!
H.M. the King of Siam left Bangkok on the 7th April on board his yacht the Maha Chakkri for Singapore, en route for Colombo and Europe.
Mr. Arthur Norman, proprietor of the Rising Sun and Nagasaki Express, was adjudged insane and certified a lunatic by Consul Longford at Nagasaki on the 6th April.
The meeting of British Residents held at 315 Shanghai on the 14th April to consider the 316 commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee ac-. ..317 cepted Mr. Drummond's proposal for a Nurses',
319 Institute.
On the 10th inst., at the Union Protestant Church, Kobe, by the Rev. H. J. Foss, M.A., FREDERICK JOHN, son of R. C. BARDENS, Esq., of Ipswich, England, to MINNIE ALETHEA, elder daughter of G. J. PENNEY, Esq., of Kobe.
On the 10th April, 1897, at the Cathedral, Shang- hai, by Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., THOMAS LACEY BICKERTON, to WILHELMINA DALGARÑO.
DEATHS
On the 3rd March, at Beau Rivage, St. Clements, Jersey, Captain D'AUVERGNE DE STE, ('ROIX, in his 56th year.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 9th April, 1897, ELIZABETH ELLIOTT, late Stewardes
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of the steamer Glenshiel, aged 51 years.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 10th April, 1597, CHARLES BROOKS, late Master British ship Stronsa, aged 61 years,
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 11th April, 1897, CONRAD HALQUIST, late Chief Officer of the steamer Trene, aged 41 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English mail of the 19th March arrived, per P. & O. steamer Coromandel, on the 16th April (28 days); and the Canadian mail of the 30th March arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of India, on the 20th April (21 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK
Mr. B. C, G. Scott has relieved Mr. Bristow
as British Consul at Tientsin.
Mr. W. Noyes Morehouse, Commissioner of Customs at Pakhoi, is transferred to Amoy.
"The immigration of Chuese into Hongkong from Swatow and Formosa has been prohibited owing to the prevalence of plague at those places.
The Viceroy of Canton has memorialised the Throne praying for the abolition of the character and the insignificance of the revenue new postal service on account of its vexatious raised by -it.
Sir Claude MacDonald, the British Minister to Peking, who is now making a tour of the ports, has had interviews with the Committees of the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce and the China Association during the week.
Tenders for steel rails and fastenings for the Imperial Chinese Railway Administration were opened at Tientsin on the 7th April. The lowest bid was sent in by Mr. C. D. Jameson, C., on behalf of Carnegie & Co., of Pittsburg, Pa., U.S.A
Japan Gazette, has imported from France The Japanese War Office, we learn from the specimens of bicycles for military use. The wheel is said to be made to carry a rifle and haversack, and in case of necessity it may be folded up and easily carried.
On the 1st April the regulations for giving licences to the consumers of opium were put thousand licences were granted in the course into operation at Taipeh, Formosa. Four of the day. Similar regulations will come into force at Tainan on the 1st May.
A cotton ginning mill in Tonkin owned by Frenchman has been leased to Chinese for ten years. The Tonkin papers regard this as a grave misfortune indicative of the com- mercial ascendency of the Chinese and the im. possibility of Europeans competing with them
A letter has been addressed by the Yoko hama Chamber of Commerce to the Doyen of the Diplomatic Corps proposed payment of protesting against the direct Japanese exporters of silk, the object of the proposal being to oust foreigners from the
trade.
No. 16.
Messrs. Birnie, Adams, Smart, Evans, and Conan were attacked and seriously knocked- about by a gang of drunken Japanese coolies at Nagasaki on the 5th April.
We (Japan Gazette) learn on reliable au- thority that Mr. Buck, of Georgia, succeeds Mr. Dun as U.S. Minister to Japan. We believe that Mr. Buck has taken no part in national politics hitherto, and so far as we
can ascertain he is unknown to Americans in Japan.
All the steamers ordinarily plying between Hankow and Ichang, as well as the Fuhwo and the Kiangkwan, are exclusively engaged in carrying rice for the starving districts of Eastern Szechuan.. 'The junks are being pressed into the service too, so that all business on the Upper Yangtze is seriously disorganised.
-N. C. Daily News.
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The Foochow acho understands that the provement Company for patterns and particu- mandarins have asked the Foochow Tea Im. lars of the machinery to be used in the new fashion of making tea. This shows an interest in the movement at any rate, and we trust may be taken as an augury of the approval and fur- thering help of the authorities.
Reports from native sources represent that the rising in Szechuan, provoked by the famine which has also prevailed in some portions of Hupeh, has come to an end with the capture of Tang Kao, the leader, who, with three of his followers, has been executed, the first named brothers, his lieutenant Wa, and some thirty
by the slicing" process.-N. C. Daily News.
The Sinwenpas publishes a report to the effect that the Chinese Government are nego tiating a loan of 100 million taels from an Eng lish syndicate through the agency of Sir Robert Hart, and that the security for the loan will be the entire likin, receipts of the province of Kiangsu, the administration of which service
will be under the direction of the syndicate lending the money.-N. C. Daily News.
The Haiphong Chamber of Commerce has passed a resolution in favour of imposing an ex-
cotton exported from Tonkin goes to Japan. port duty on raw cotton to counterbalance the effect of the Japanese tariff. Most of the The latter country proposes to abolish the duty cotton. The effect of this, it is believed, will be on raw cotton, while retaining that on ginned
to damage the ginning industry in Tonkin and the j proposed export duty on raw cotton is to be imposed for its protection.
Weaving Company's new mill at Yangtsepoo, The large engines of the Ewo Spinning and Shanghai, made a very successful start on Thursday, 8th April. | They have been erected and completed within two months under the supervision of Mr. J. Clarke, one of Messrs. J. & E. Wood's fitters, of Bolton. The engines are capable of working up to 1500 indicated horse-power. They are expansion principle, to work wi pressure of 160 lbs. The formal christ will take place in about one month, when the manager intends having 5,500 ring spindles working. The mill when completed will have
45,000 spindles, and will be the largest of the new mills. Messrs. Platt Bros. & Co., Limited, of Oldham, are the makers of the machinery, which is on the latest principle,
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