THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLV.]
AND
China Oberland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, że
Leading Articles:→→→→
Foreshore Rights in China.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 28TH APRIL, 1897.
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The Light Dues Question
...322 Japan's New Treaties and the Bounty System ...323 Simultaneous Diamond Jubilee Celebrations ....... ..323 Proposed Diamond Jubilee Memorial at Amoy.....323 The Shanghai Mixed Court
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A side containing a number of Koreans won an Association football match by one goal to itil on the 27th ult. at Seoul against the. British Marine guard and officers of H.M.S. Narcissus. The Mainichi's. Seoul correspondent says that under Consul-General Jordan's influence the Koreans are turning away from both Russia and Japan and being drawn towards Great Britain.
No. 17.
Senor de Navarro, Spanish Consul, has re- ceived an official telegram from Manila stating that Marshal Primo de Rivera, the new Gov-" ernor-General of the Philippines, took over charge on the 23rd April.
The Mercury says:-Through the Senior Consul, Dr. O. Stuebel, H.E. the Taotai has been informed by the Captain Superintendent of
Police of the frequent attacks and insolence The decision of the Secretary of State with during the last few days, and insisting that all to which foreigners have been subjected respect to the Hongkong Light Dues ques-offenders in this respect must be sternly dealt tion has been announced. It is to the effect ...328 that the total revenue raised from shipping, 328 including junks, is not to exceed the expen- 326 diture upon the harbour and lighthouse services. The old rate of one cent per ton will more than meet this requirement.
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Dianer
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Hongkong Sanitary Board......
Hon. F. A. Cooper ..............
Jelebu Mining and Trading Co., Limited
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Supreme Court
The Light Dues Question
Murder of a Roman Catholic Missionary
Stranding of the Yiksang
Fire on the Belgic
Fatal Fire in Jervois Street .).
The Anti-Footbinding Society
The Diamond Jubilee Memorial
Civil Service Complimentary
Hongkong Polo Club
Raub
Punjom Mining Co., Limited
Hongkong Golf Club .....
Hongkong Cricket Club
Lawn Tennis Tournament
The Shanghai Ratepayers' Meeting..........
Pirsoy on the Yangtze
The Hangehow Mint ...
The Hangchow Land Trouble
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Japanese Bonds and Foreign Purchasers
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The Chinese Consulate at Singapore
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Hongkong and Port News....
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Shipping.
DEATHS.
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At a meeting of ratepayers held at Shanghai on the 21st April the Chairman of the Mani- 332 cipal Council gave explanations in respect to the action of the Council in connection with the .333 recent wheelbarrow strike. After hearing 334 these explanations the meeting passed a vote of want of confidence and the Council resigned. The election of the new Council has been 335 fixed for the 10th and 11th May, pending which
the old Council retain office.
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At Leipzig, Germany, on the 24th April, at the age of 5, WALTER, eldest child of Mr. and Mrs. P. SACHSE. (By telegram):
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At Ningpo, on 17th April, 1897, KATHERINE JOSEPIINE, the beloved daughter of Major and Mrs. WATSON, age 21 years and 5 months. Deeply re- gretted.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS..
The American mail of the 23rd March arrived, per P. M. steamer Peru, on the 23rd April (31 days); and the French mail of the 26th March arrived, per M. M. steamer Yarra, on the 24th April (29 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
It has been decided at a meeting of French residents at Shanghai to form a company of volunteers, under the French Municipal Council. A committee was elected and over fifty-names were inscribed on the roll. As far as is known at present the organisation will be completely independent of the existing Volunteer Corps, and will have their own adjutant, who will bably be engaged in Saigon.-N. C. Daily News.
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at Hangchow, the engines and machinery all A large cotton mill is how in course of erection being supplied by German manufacturers. The mill buildings are being built by a Chinese contractor, and it is expected will be completed in about two months. There is, however, no foreign superintendent, and it is a matter of common speculation as to how things are going to be managed under entire native control.- Mercury.
local authorities to learn something about the Referring to the desire expressed by the foreign machinery used in curing tea, of which we (Foochow Echo) made mention last week, we are now informed that a deputation from their body headed by the Taotai visited the Company at Peeling last week and appeared premises of the Foochow Tea Improvement greatly interested in all they saw. On their departure they said that they wished the pro- prietors to understand that if at any time their
with.
A resident in Shanghai who has just returned from the Haimêng district, the home of the wheelbarrow-men, reports that news of the riot in Shanghai has spread far and wide. It is and three wheelbarrow coolies were killed in a generally believed that three foreign policemen desperate struggle, and that the coolies, being victorious, are no longer under the control of the Municipal Council. Reports like this, ying like wild-fire up the river, threatening body of foreigners confronted by a mass of evil consequences wherever there is a small ignorant Chinese, were certain to follow the back-down of the Council; and it is because of this that it is important that the false step made by the Council should be retracted as soon as possible.-N. C. Daily News.
A curious but by no means unusual ceremony in this country took place the other day in Soochow This was the marriage of Miss Hsü, a young lady belonging to one of the gentry families of the city, to a red flower vase, this vase being made a substitute for the son of Lu
Optimus of the Hanlin Academy. It appeared Jên-hsiang, Libationer or Vice-Chancellor of the Imperial Academy of Peking and a former that the son of the Libationer died last winter, a few days before his contemplated marriage with the young lady, and the latter vowed that she would never marry, but be an inmate of her betrothed's family where she could observe her widowhood. Hence the marriage ceremony in question. There is a suggestion to memorialise the Throne for a granite arch to be built in Soochow to commemorate the virtues of Miss
H.-N. C. Daily News:
A fund for the relief of the sufferers by the Szechnen famine has been opened at Shanghai, Sir Claude MacDonald went to Macao on the 21st April by the torpedo destroyer Handy and, returned on the 23rd, when he transhipped to assistance was needed they might rely upon continued as opportunities offer. The suits
the storeship Humber, by which is Excellency proceeded North.
Among the passengers by the incoming German mail steamer Prinz Heinrich are Princes Uchtomsky and Wolkonsky with their respective suites. These two noblemen form the special Russian mission to bring the presents of the Czar to the Emperor of China.
Messrs, R. E. Bredon and Woodruff, Com- missioners of Customs, who have retired from the Service, and Mr. Beanclerk, ex-Secretary of Legation at Peking, now appointed Consul- General at Buda-Pest, left Shanghai by the P. M. steamer China on the 17th April.`
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The Hongkong memorial of the Diamond Jubilee is to take the form of a hospital for attached and a road round the island. It is women and children with nursing institute expected that $50,000 will be raised by public subscription and the Government has pro- mised a similar, amount, making a total of between the two projects. $50,000, it is osti- $100,000. This sum is to be equally divided mated, will cover the cost of the hospital. The road is estimated to cost $225,000 and the $50,000 now raised will be expended on the first section, the Government undertaking to carry out the remainder of the work by degrees.
The report of the directors of the Bank of China and Japan, Limited, to 31st December, 1896, states that the realisation of the assets of
report, dated 30th March, 1896, have been so the old bank has continued to progress favourably, and the anticipations expressed in far realised that the assets as valued at 31st December, 1896, show a surplus over liabilities to the public of about £50,000. Sales will be
which have been instituted against American".. and Chinese recalcitrant shareholders are being vigorously pushed, but decisions are not ex- resulted in a number of shareholders coming pected for some time. Other suits have into the scheme, and in considerable recoveries of the 1893-94 gall The past year has not been a good one for exchange banking in China resulting as it has in meeting all expenses and and Japan, and the working of the new bank, the ordinary cost of liquidation, cannot but be considered favourable, and augurs well for the success of the Bank when in a position to carry on loan and discount transactions as well as exchange.
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