THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLV.]
AND
China Overland Trade
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Wesk, ke.
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The Navy and the Jubilee Celebration. Taipingshan and the Property Market.. Crown Rents
Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 29TH MAY, 1897.
Mr. Byron Brenan, H.B.M. Consul at Canton, who is still continuing his inquiry into the state of trade in the Far East for the home .409 Government, is now in Formosa.
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Sir William Cleaver Robinson, whose death is reported, was Private Secretary to his brother Sir Hercules Robinson in 1859-60, when the latter was Governor of Hongkong. He was afterwards appointed a Governor and admin- istered various colonies, including the Straits His last appoint- Settlements in 1877-79.
The instalment of the promoters' capital in the Imperial Bank of China is to be paid on the 27th instant, on which day the Bank will begin business at Shanghai.-N. C. Daily News.ment was as Governor of Western Australia.
The appointments of Mr. William John 413 Archer to be Her Majesty's Consul for the Consular District of Bangkok, and Mr. Walter ...413
Ralph Durie Beckett to be Her Majesty's Consul' 413
for the Consular District of Chiengmai are 413 .417 notified.
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The China Tea Trade...................
Straits Deportees in Hongkong...............
Changes in the Philippines
The Hongkong Public Library.........................
Abrogation of the Night Pass Law
Limitation of Bettlement Areas in Formosa
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Supreme Court
Important Court-Martial
Hongkong Sanitary Board...............................................................................
The Diamond Jubilee Celebration
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The Jubiles Gymkhana Meeting
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Diamond Jubilee Subscriptions........
The Granite Chipping Question Again..
Two Fires in Hongkong.......
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A. S. Watson & Co., Limited................................................................................. Punjom Mining Co., Limited
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The Eureka and Queen Mines ...............................................................422 Raub Gold
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Japan Brewery Co., Limited)................................... ........................423 J. Llewellyn & Co., Limited
The End of the Philippine Rebellion
The Improvement of Macao Harbour
The Holding of Land by Foreigners in Formosa Hongkong and Port News............................... Commercial...
Shipping
MARRIAGES.
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At Shanghai, on the 12th of May, by H. Danish M. Consul, and at the Union Church by the Rev. Lic. Hackmann, CARL EMIL LINDBERG, R.D.N., to LOUISE AHLMANN, of Kallundborg, Denmark.
At Shanghai, on the 15th of May, 1897, at the Church of St. Joseph, French Concession, by the Rev. Father Rouxel, HILDEBRANDO J. N. LOPEZ, to ALMIRA, daughter of Rufino and Josephina
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 23rd April arrived, per M. M. steamer Caledonien, on the 21st May (28 days); and the English mail of the 30th April arrived, per P. & O. steamer Rosetta, on the 28th May (28 days).
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
In the report of the Oriental Telephone and Electric Co., it is stated that the Hongkong Branch, which for many years showed unsatis- factory results, is now improving.`
sul at Shanghai, has been transferred to Swatow, Mr. Colin M. Ford, who was appointed Con- and Mr. R. W. Mansfield is appointed Consul and Assistant Judge at Shanghai.
It is notified that on the 1st July. next the British Protectorate of Sarawak will enter the Postal Union and from that date rates of post- age from Hongkong will be the same as to other
countries of the Union.
We (N. C. Daily News) hear with pleasure that Baron von Heyking, the German Minister at Peking, has sent by wire his hearty congratu- lations to the German residents at Shanghai who signed the protest against the recent arti- cle in the Ostasiatische Dloyd on the Wheelbar row question.
A severe gale which swept the Ningpo sea- coast and neighbouring archipelago of Chusan on the 6th instant completely destroyed over a hundred deep-sea fishing smacks, and as each boat contained on an average five persons, at least 500 fishermen were drowned in the disaster.
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A San Francisco telegram of the 11th May published in the Kobe Chronicle states that the Hawaiian Government contemplates submitting to the arbitration of a European Power the claims of Japan in regard to the recent refusal of the Hawaiian authorities to permit the land- ing of a large number of Japanese emigrants.
It is reported in certain hative official cirèles in Tientsin that in order to make amends for his rejection by Germany as Minister, the Tsungli Yamên will recommend to the Throne that Taotai Huang Chun-hsien be appointed substantive Taotai of Chinkiang, vice Lü Hai- huan, lately appointed to the post abroad-N. C. Daily News.
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The Straits Government, we learn from the Free Press, has withdrawn the Immigrants Depôt Bill, which proposed to levy a tax of a dollar a head-ôn áll immigrants to build ex- amination and detention depôts. Detention depôts are not deemed absolutely necessary at present, and funds for examination depôts will be got from raising the fee on contracts.
Commerce an exhibition was to be opened on At the offices of the London Chamber of the 26th April of samples of foreign goods which have displaced or are displacing similar British goods in South Australia, Newfound- land, British Honduras, Gambia, and Hong- kong. These samples have been sent home as a result of Mr. Chamberlain's despatch of November, 1895,
We (N. C. Daily News) understand that Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. have aban- doned the idea of appealing to the Privy Court at Shanghai in the Onwo-Newchwang Council against the decision of the Supreme collision case, which found both vessels to blame. We also understand that, with one exception up to the present, the life claims arising out of the castastrophe have been amicably settled.
The Nagasaki Shipping List of the 15th May says: The Yiksang was taken out of dock yesterday morning to have her boiler lifted out, after which she will be taken on the slip for repairs to her hull, etc. The keel of the vessel was driven up about two feet through her bottom, and the boilers and engines were consequently driven entirely out of their proper bearings. She cannot be repaired inside of a month.
Consul Gardner in his Amoy trade report, says "It is a noticeable feature of the trade in entlery at this port that native razors in large quantities are exported from this to the about 78. 8d. per 100. As all children and grown- Straits Settlements, the wholesale price being
up men have their heads shaved, the consumption of razors by Chinese is very great." 78. 8d. per 100 makes the razors less than a penny each, a price at which European makers can hardly hope to compete.
The Tientsin correspondent of the N. C. Daily News, writing under date of the 13th May, says I suppose we ought to chronicle under the heading of court news the fact that H.E. Sir Claude Macdonald arrived here to day; it is understood he will make a stay of three days before returning to Peking. It is interesting to observe the pleasure and com- mendation with which His Excellency's circular tour has been noted by the southern Press; but few of his eulogists have any notion of the fearful arrears of routine work awaiting the Ministor in the capital; they are enough to in- timidate the hardliest cormorant for work, and of Ministers from ever doing such a thing again. would probably doter all but the most resolute
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now be regarded as at an end. Cavite province has been completely reconquered and the rebels still under arms have retired to the mountains. On the 17th May, the birthday of the King of Spain, a proclamation was issued by the Governor-General pardoning all persons in custody (with a few exceptions), against whom prosecutions were pending in connection with the rebellion, and over six hundred were released on that date. The exceptions are the leaders of the rebellion, soldiers who have made attempts on the lives of their officers, officers who have seduced or endeavoured to seduce the troops to rebel, and certain civil officials. In all these cases a reduction of the. penalty is granted.
An interesting case of habeas corpus has 7 oocupied the attention of the Supreme Court of Hongkong. Four Chinamen who had been deported from Selangor were on their arrival in this colony arrested and held for deportation
writ of habeas corpus and Mr. Francis, Q.C., under a warrant issued by the Governor of Hongkong: They thereupon applied for a who appeared for them, argued that they had been guilty of no offence in this colony and therefore could not be deported, and on various technical grounds he urged that the warrant was bad. The Court held that the deportation of the men from Selangor was sufficient ground for their deportation from this colony and overruled the other points raised by Mr. Francis. The release of the men was accord- Under the Ordinance they ingly refused. were entitled to select for themselves the port to which they would go and they left for Canton on the evening of the day on which the case was decided.
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