THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLV.J
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Waak, de, mus
Leading Articles :----
The Reception Accorded to Foreign Ambassadors
in China
.445
..446
The Harbour Master's Report
The Harbour Duss Commission.....
The Conversion of Mouat Austin
.........447 Hotel into
Soldiers on Summits
Anti-Foreign Feeling in Japan The Light and Pass Law
·Supreme Court
448 ..448 ..449
..449
Hongkong Sanitary Board....................................450 Harbour Dues and Expenditure ................................. ..450 The Opening of the West River ...........................450 Hongkong Volunteer Corps
451
The Diamond Jubilee Steam-launch Procession.........151
.452
-Diamond Jubiles Subscriptions...........
Hongkong Golf Club
Green Island Cement Co., Limited
The Raub Australian Gold Mining C., Limited
Correspondence
.452 ...453 .....455
The Great Western Railway and the Belgian Loan ...455
The Shanghai Woosung Railway
Hongkong and Port News...
Commercial..
.455 457 .458 .400
Shipping.
DEATHS.
At the Peak Hospital, Hongkong, on the 3rd inst., J. F. TORNER, of Hemosand, Sweden, I. M. Cus toms, Kowloon, aged 23 years.
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On the 4th June, at East Point Sugar Refinery, DAVID SYMINGTON, aged 27 years; a native of Greenock, Scotland.
[1321 At the Shanghai General Hospital, on the 28th May, ALPHONSE MARTEL, aged 58 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The Canadian mail of the 12th May arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of China, on the 2nd June (21 days); the American mail of the 11th May arrived, per O. & O. steamer Doric, on the 6th June (26 days); and the French mail of the 7th May arrived, per M. M. steamer Oceanien, on the 8th June (32 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 9т¤ JUNE, 1897.
It is understood that the Shanghai Watch Committee have recommended that Major Mac- kenzie should resign his commission as Com- mandant of the Volunteer Corps, on the ground that it interferes with his duties as Captain Superintendent of Police.
A telegram from the Japanese Consul at Vancouver, dated the 25th May, states that the Parliament of British Columbia has adopted a Bill proposing to prohibit the employment of Japanese labourers on all works which require special Government sanotion.
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The West River ports were opened on the 3rd June, on which day the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co.'s steamer Lungehan arrived at Wuchow.
With regard to a telegram from Renter's Agency, headed the "Belgian Loan," we are in a position to state that the loan negotiated was for 100,000,000 francs, say £1,000,000 sterling. Moreover, the conditions of the loan do not include foreign control over the Railway, which is to remain in Chinese hands; and one half of the materials are to be supplied from Chinese sources and the other moiety put up to public tender.—Mercury.
According to a Peking despatch H.I.M. the Empress-Dowager returned to the Forbidden City from the Lake Palaces on the 25th May. In native commercial circles it is said that The reason for this is said to be consideration the funds for the proposed waterworks for the for the convenience of the Emperor, who every native city at Shanghai will be entirely few days deems it necessary to visit the Em-furnished by the local native charitable in- press-Dowager to pay his obeisance, the dis.stitutions, and that there will be no need to sell the shares of the concern in the local market. tance from the Western Gate of Peking to Bho Park being quite ten miles.-N. C. Daily It appears that the funds of the charitable News.
institutions in question placed at fixed deposit in the various large pawnshops amount to quite Tls. 130,000, a sum considered quite sufficient for the object in view. The Shanghai magistrate accompanied by the executive com- mittees of the institutions in question was in the vicinity of Arsenal Reach on Saturday, 29th May, for the purpose of selecting a suit- able spot for the main works.-N. C. Daily
The China Gazette of the 31st May says:- Mr. de Rijke, the expert in river and harbour work, has arrived from Japan and is making active preparations for the scientific survey of He has had to the bar and report on same. obtain permission from the Japanese Govern- ment to undertake this work. He started operations to-day, working in a houseboat, and at present he is the guest at the hospitable P. & O. hong on the Buud.
News.
The Shanghai Daily Press of the 8th May says:-
-The German commercial mission since Owing to the distress in Shantung caused by arrival in China have been working in a quiet, repeated breaking of the Yellow River embank-
unostentatious, yet withal a practical way. ments, the Famine Relief Bureau of Shantung Instead of hurrying off into Szechnen, already established last year in every large city of the explored and reported on by the French and empire for the purpose of collecting subscrip-
British missions, they contented themselves tions, which was to have been closed last May, with visiting the river ports as far as Hankow. will have to be continued for another year. Peo- Yesterday afternoon they were to leave for ple subscribing to the fund have the privilege Soochow and Hangchow, to enquire thoroughly of official rank in proportion to the amount sub-into the silk producing industry, and on their scribed.-N. C. Daily News.
The inconvenience suffered by the passengers on the Empress of China by being quarantined at Victoria, B.C., was much less than the first accounts represented. The first-class
An Imperial post office is being built at passengers were not compelled to take up Tiontain.
The Imperial Chinese Telegraphs' stations at Changsha and Yochou in Hunan were opened for traffic on the 29th May.
A hurricane and dust storm swept over Tientsin on the 25th May, in which a house under construction on the French Concession was blown down and other damage was done,
A Tokyo despatch states that the foreign banks in Yokohama have decided to accept Japanese public bonds and shares in certain Japanese companies as security against ad-
vances.
H.E. Lu Hai-hung, ex-Taotai of Chinkiang and now Minister-designate to Germany and Austria, arrived at Shanghai from Soochow a few days ago and was to leave for Peking for
audience on the 5th June.
A Tokyo press despatch of the 27th May Spain has
their quarters at the quarantine station on shore, but were accommodated on board, being allowed to go on shore at William Head when they pleased. As the Captain said in an in- terview, They had a really good time, that's all. They had picnics, played golf and rounders and they also had concerts. But they were detained for seven days,”
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The statement made by Mr. Laurier in the House of Commons, remarks the Vancouver Daily Advertiser, seems to indicate that the Government will not request that Canada should be included in the scope of the Treaty recently concluded between Great Britain and Japan. It is generally understood that the Japanese Government is prepared to make concessions to Canada owing to the peculiar circumstances of the case, and the fact that the unrestricted immigration to this country of thousands of the lower class of Japanese could not but have a most detrimental effect on our own industrial classes. At the same time,
return they will visit Tientsin and Peking. The German merchants who inaugurated the mission have scored a point over their British and French rivals, inasmuch as the members of the German mission are all gentlemen. of means and have come out at their own expense whilst the other missions were sent out at the cost of those associations who sent them.
The death of Mr. Ney Elias is announced by Renter. Old residents in China will remember Mr. Ney Elias as being connected with the house of George Barnett & Co. in Shanghai in the later sixties and earlier seventies. From his earliest days he took a great interest in exploring un- known regions, which taste he was enabled to indulge in through the possession of independent means. One of his earliest achievements was a lengthy trip in the valley of the Yellow River. He was a man of considerable scientific attainments and while of an extremely modest and retiring disposition was a most genial and attractive companion. He entered the Indian Service March 20th, 1874. Served in the Yun- nan Expedition, 1874-5; was appointed Political Agent at Bhamo, April 20th, 1875; and Com- missioner at Ladakh, October 15th, 1877; served with the Sikkim Expedition from November 7th 1888, to February 12th, 1889. Was appointed
states that the new Treaty Whatification under any circumstances which are likely to | Political Agent of the 1st Class, September 4th,
been ratified by the Emperor. The of this and the Portuguese Treaty will be forwarded to the Japanese Minister in Paris for exchange.
exist for many years, any reciprocal benefit which Canada could receive from the Treaty would be very small.
1889. Was made a C.I.E. January 2nd, 1888. Was Consul-General at Meshed from December 14th, 1891, to September, 1896.
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