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Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLV.J
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &.................
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Leading Articles :——
-The Fleet and the Jubilee Celebration.........................
The Examination of Accused Persons The Amoy Consular Trade Report
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The New Sanitary By-laws
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Publicity for the Proceedings of the Sanitary Board.388 The Unoffical Members of Council and the
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Tonnage Dues at Macao and Hongkong..
Hospital Accommodation
The Care of the Wounded in War...
Hongkong Legislative Council
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 20TH MAY, 1897.
General Martitegui, who was on his way out to take up the appointment of Commander- General in Mindanao, died at Aden.
M. Gerard, the French Minister, had his farewell audience of the Emperor Kuang Hsü on the 21st April in the Wênhna Throne-ball.
Marquis Ito, who is to attend the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations in the suite of Prince Arisugawa, left Yokohama by the Empress of India on the 7th May.
Sir Ernest Satow, the British Minister to .389 Tokyo, left Japan for England by the Empress 391 of India on the 7th May. His Excellency .392 expects to be absent six months.
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The New Sanitary By-laws
Supreme Court
The Opening of the West River
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The Navy and the Jubilos Celebrations
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The Jubilee Celebration
Diamond Jubiles Subscriptions...
The Chinese and the Jubilee Celebrations
Hon. T. H. Whitehead Fined $25
Defence Works at Hongkong
The Report of the Director of Public Works for 1898
Hongkong Volunteer Corps for 1896
The Botanical and Afforestation Department
The Hongkong Volunteer Corps
A. 8. Watson & Co., Limited......................................................................
-The Rebellion in the Philippines
Probates and Administrations in 1896.
The Second Gymkhana Meeting
The Eureka and Queen Mines
Raub Gold
Correspondence
The Shanghai Muncipal Election.....................................
Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce
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Arrival of the Special Russian Embassy at Shanghai ...400 Shanghai and the Diamond Jubilee
The Koushing Affair
Serious Mutiuy near Woosung
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Wreck of the Doris .................. ......................................................401) Reduction of Telegraph Rates to Japan
Hongkong and Port News....
Commercial.
Shipping..
BIRTH.
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On the 12th instant, at Hoihow, the wife of P. E. O'BRIEN-BUTLER, of H.B.M. Consular Service, China, of a daughter.
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MARRIAGE.
At Shanghai, on the 11th May, by his Imperial German Majesty's Consul-General, and at the Union Church by the Rev. Lic. Hackmann, CHRISTION PETOR ADOLPH HANSEN, Imperial Maritime Cus toms, to MARGARETHE DOROTHEA HENRIOTTE BALDAMUS, of Hamburg.
DEATHS.
At Numadzu, on the 30th April, ALEXANDER JOSEPH WATT, eldest son of WILLIAM NOBLE WATT of Yokohama, aged 24 years.
On the 1st May, at Yokohama, M. T. B. MAC PHERSON, aged 47 years.
On the 2nd May, at Kobe, after a long and pain ful illness, CARL KOEPPE, a native of Düsseldorf, Rhenish Prussia, aged 41 years,
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English mail of the 16th April arrived, per P. & O. steamer Kaiser-i-Hind, on the 15th May (29 days); and the American mail of the 21st April arrived, per P. M. steamer Gaelic, on the 17th. May (26 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The election for the new Municipal Council at Shanghai took place on the 10th and 11th May
A telegram from Peking confirms the rumour that Lu Hai-huan, Tuotai of Chinkiang, had been selected by the Emperor to become Minis. ter to Germany.-Nị C. Daily News.
The adjourned inquest on the body of the late Rev. J. S. Collins was held at Foochow on the 5th May, when it was found that death occurred through accidental drowning.
A hitch is reported to have arisen in con- nection with the new treaty between France and Japan, owing to the denial to foreigners of the right of owning landed property in Japan.
It appears, says a Japan contemporary, that the delay and inconvenience arising out of the fact that there is nɔ cable communication with Hawaii has stimulated the Government to give increased attention to the Pacific cable projects recently.
Figures showing in a striking manner the decline of the Amoy tea trade are given in the Consular report for 1896. In the season 1876-77 the production of the Amoy district was 27.200,000 lbs.; last season it was only 3,600,000.
The Yiksang arrived at Nagasaki on the morning of the 6th May and went into dock for repairs. Her bottom, the Nagasaki Ship. ping List says, was smashed and bent in the most remarkable manner; indeed seeing her in dock it seems a miracle that she was ever got off the rocks on which she struck. The enquiry into the affair, we understand, will be held in Nagasaki.
A well-known local firm, says the Shanghai Mercury, has secured a contract for the supply of machinery for a new arsenal, now being established at Tsinanfu, Shantung. The plant is of English manufacture, coming from Leeds, Yorks, and will form part of an equipment costing Tls. 300,000 for the manufacture of b.l. gingals and Mauser rifles. The rifles are to be limm. calibre, and the output is to be limited at the outset.
It is reported from Yochou, Hunan province, that a portion of the new telegraph line between Changsha and Wuchang, the capitals of Hunan and Hupeh respectively, was recently out down by some unruly villagers on the route, in defiance of the Governor's proclamation_pro mising condign punishment. The officials have found out who were the perpetrators of the deed, but nothing, so far, has been done to bring the guilty to punishment.-N. C. Daily Newe.
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It is expected. says the Rising Sun, that the railway will be opened to Nagasaki next month. The branch of the Kinshiu Railroad Co. from Nagasaki to Togitsu is very nearly finished, and on the other side it is complete from Haiki to the main line at Takeo. Connections between Togi- tsu and Haiki will be effected by a steam ferry across the Omura gulf.
His Imperial Highness Prince Arisugawa, who is to represent the Emperor of Japan at the Diamond Jubilee festivities, is a passenger fór Europe by the M. M. steamer Yanutse. The presents for H.M. Queen Victoria from their Majesties the Emperor and Empress, which are being taken by Prince Arisugawa, are said to be embroidered silk screens and a gold lacquered cabinet of most elaborate design and workmanship.
According to the Semaine Coloniale, the Saigon rice crop, which it was believed would be an exceptional one and a third above the average, has turned out quite an ordinary one, and merchants who had entered into contracts · on the basis of the earlier prospects. now find it difficult to fulfil their engagements. Rice which a week previously had been quoted at $2.83 was at the date of the paper from which we quote, 4th May, $3.05. This increase, says our contemporary, if it does not mean ruin, will at least involve many in heavy loss.
The Court at Haiphong has given judgment for the Insurance Companies and against the Government in the case arising out of the at- tempt by the Government to enforce payment of arrears of fees ander the registration law. The
judgment is based on the ground that the law in question is not in force in Tonkin, that coun- try being a protectorate and the necessary steps to make the law applicable not having been taken. Great importance is attached by the Courrier d'Haiphong to this decision, as it affects a great number of commercial transao- tions and transfers of property as well as in- surance policies.
At a meeting of the Leal Senado of Macao
held on the 21st April Mr. A. J. Basto, the President, stated that in his double capacity of Consular Agent for France and President of
the Leal Senado he had received information through the French Consul at Hongkong that Dr. Yersin had promised to send some tubes of his anti-plague seram. Mr. Basto said it gave him great pleasure to make this statement and to mention the promptitude with which this benefactor of humanity had acceded to the re- quest made on behalf of the city, the telegram received by the French Consul at Hongkong stating that the serum was already on the way.
It is reported, says the N. C. Daily News, that Viceroy Liu Kun-yi is to be granted a year's leave. and that his post at Nanking is to be taken by H.E. Chang Chih-tang, the latter's post at Wachang being given to either Chao Shu-jao, Governor of this Province, or. Tan Chi-hsün, Governor of Hupeh. The latter has acted as Viceroy of Hukuang, and is now in Peking and so on the spot; while Chao has had no experience as Viceroy, but is greatly in favour with the Emperor, as his phenomenal promotion in three years from the Taotaiship of Wen-shao shows; he has an excellent record- as a clear-headed, energetic, and popular official, while Tan's only claim is that of long, bat not exceptionally brilliant service,
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