THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLV.
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 17тH JUNE, 1897.
Epitome of the Week, ke... .....................................................................................461 Leading Articles :---
482
The Trade of Hongkong in 1898 Medical Inspection of Vessels .........................462
Mountain Batteries
Hongkong's Contribution to the Postal Subsidy...463 The Burmah Convention and the Hongkong
Frontier
.464
Antipathy to Foreigners in Chinese Enterprises...468 The Public Services and the Press ..................464 European Education at Kowloon ........................................................... Eastern Competition with Lancashire ............................. ..464 Daily Press Diamond Jubiles Art Supplement.
The
A Visit to the Punjom Mines Supreme Court
Hongkong Chamber of Commerce
466
466 .466
468
The Greenock Chamber of Commerce on the Hong
kong Light Dues Question...............................408
The Wuchow Consulate. Hongkong to Wuchow Direct by steamship Wing
Tong....
468
No. 24.
It is reported that the Japanese Government It was learnt from a telegram received at has under consideration a proposal to purchase Shanghai on the 6th June from Kobe jthat the the telegraph cable between Tamsui and Amoy, steamer Sultan had gone ashore, while on a voy- A Madrid telegram of the 27th May to the age from Newchwang to Kobe, on one of the Comercio states that the Bill by which Spain the Gulf of Pechili, and would probably be a Miao Tao group of islands at the entrance to guarantees the Philippine loan has been passed. total wreck. The Sultan left Shanghai on 24th H. E. Kung Ta-jen, the retiring Chinese May for Newchwang, where she loaded with Minister to the Court of St. James, arrived beancake for Kobe. She was a steel screw from England by the P. & O. steamer Ravenna steamer of 2,100 tons, built in 1893, and com. health for the last eighteen months. on 11th inst. His Excellency has been in badmanded by Capt. Rafen. She has been very
According to a Reuter's telegram the Duke of Connaught has reviewed 500 of the Colonial Contingents quartered at Chelsea barracks. A dozen different Colones were represented, in- oluding! Hongkong and the Straits.
The Mount Austin Hotel The Diamond Jubilee Celebrations Diamond Jubilee Subscriptions..............................471 Reminiscences of an Old Soldier
The liquidator of the New Oriental Bank The Queen and Eureka Mines....................473 Corporation, Limited, states that he has dis. Hongkong Golf Club ..........................................................................................473 posed of the remaining assets, with the sanction 473 of the Court, on terms which will enable him The Audience of the Special, Russian Ambassadors The Yellow River Again .............................................................................474
to distribute in July or August about 1s. 2d. An Unpurged Scandal
in the pound, making in all 10s. 11d.
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unfortunate. On a former trip she grounded in the Whangpoo, and on the same voyage she got ashore above Kiukiang, where she had to remain all last winter. Having got off with the rise of the river, she received a thorough over- haul in the Old Dock, and has now been lost on her first voyage after her repair.
A Renter's telegram states that the St. Petersburg and Moscow banks were on the 10th
We mentioned a little while ago, says the N. instant to open subscriptions for 4 per cent. C. Daily News of the 2nd June, that a move- bonds to the exent of fifteen million creditment was on foot among the ratepayers of .469
469 roubles for the East Chinese railway loan at an Shanghai to present Mr. J. L. Scott, the late ........................................................470 | issue rate of 97.
Chairman, with a memento of his able and un. selfish services to the community. Yesterday ...........................................................471
afternoon a deputation of the subscribers to the memento, headed by Mr. E. B. Skottowe, waited on Mr. J. L. Scott and presented him with a very handsome silver bowl supported by three dragons, on a blackwood stand, and bearing the following inscription :-" Presented to Mr. J. Mr. H. C. Wilkinson, Crown Advocate, was L. Scott by Members of the Shanghai Com- to leave Shanghai on the 12th June for Yoko-munity on the occasion of his retirement from hams to replace Mr. R. A. Mowat, invalided the Chairmanship of the Municipal Council home, as Judge of the British Court in Yoko 1897," Mr. Skottowe made the presentation in hama, Mr. H. P. Wilkinson acting as Crown a short and felicitous speech, Mr. Scott thank- Advocate at Shanghai during his father's ab- ing the subscribers, and attributing to his fel low-councillors the success of his administration of public affairs; and after the health of Mr. and Mrs. Scott had been duly toasted, the deputation melted away.
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476
The Nippon Yusen Kaisha..............................................................475 Hongkong and Port News.... Commercial... Shipping.
BIRTH.
At Oaklands, Ravenswood Road, Bristol, Eng-sence. land, , on the 5th ult, the wife of W. CHATHAM, of [1339
& son.
MARRIAGES.
On the 3rd June 1807, at the US. Consulate, Yokohama, in the presence of Hon. N. W. Melvor, U.S. Consul-General, by Rev. John L. Dearing, Mr. EDWIN TOGGARD ÓSRORN, of the P. M. and O. & O. 8. S. Co., to Miss GRACE DARLING SHOTWELL, of San Francisco.
On the 5th June, 1897, at the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Hongkew, by the Rev. Father Louail, S.J., WILLIAM ALLANSON, of Shanghai,to ERMYLA, youngest daughter of Jayme and Adelaide BANGEL.
DEATHS.
On the 8th April, at Lakoja, West Africa, RE- GINALD PARKINS PRYANE, Royal Marine Light Infantry, aged 29 years.
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At Kobe, on the 2nd June, GEORGIA CAMPBELL Tarr, the beloved wife of Dr. GEORGE LYON TAIT, aged 80 years.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
Mr. E. L. B. Allen, H.B.M.'s Consul at Pakhoi, is under orders to proceed to New. chwang to take charge from Mr. Hosie. Mr. Hurst will take Mr. Allen's place at Pakhoi. Mr. Hosie goes to Pagoda Anchorage, Mr. H. B. Joly being transferred to Chemulpo to replace as Vice-Consul Mr. W. H. Wilkinson, who it is said goes on furlough.
The Chinese loan with which Dr. Dudgeon's name has been so liberally associated down South, has we believe fallen through, after get- ting through the preliminary stages. Quite another loan scheme with an English syndicate has been on the tapis simultaneously, and so far we believe it is in a healthy and thriving condi- tion.-Peking and Tientsin Times.
The American mail of the 20th May arrived, për P. M. steamer China, on the 15th June, (26 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Echo Macaense states that for more than a week past there has not been a single case of plague at Macao.
The Avenir du Tonkin publishes a formal denial of the report that plague had made its appearance on the Tonkin frontier and in the military territory.
The N. C. Daily News correspondent at Vladivostock writes under date the 29th ult. that the new graving dock at that port, which was begun about seven years ago, will probably be finished this month. The railroad from Vladivostook to Habarofka, 796 versts, is ex- pected to be finished this autumn. Some 700 versts, about 420 miles, have been completed, and some 10,000 men are employed on the work. The following telegram is published in the Gazette:"Peking, 6th June, 1897. Governor, Hongkong. Ratification of Burmah agreement exchanged yesterday.-MACDONALD." Ao- cording to Reuter the agreement cedes to Great Britain the state of Kokang, agrees to the opening of new trade routes, allows British subjects and their protégés to settle in Srumso and Momein or Shunning-fu for the establishment of trade, and grants Great Britain a perpetual lease of a large tract south of Mam wan to be under the administration and control of Great Britain.
Under the heading "For Friendship and graph, of which the Singapore Free Rress gives Courtesy" the Diario de Manila has a para the following translation:-In the month of June next the neighbouring British Col. onies will celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of their gracious and beloved Sovereign Queen Victoria. The event is of so much significance and has such a lustre that it sweeps over the dominions of the English flag and affects all Those who, like the nations of Europe. ourselves, are connected with that nation by sincere friendship, and live here in intimate touch with it, have not only the duty but the obligation of testifying to it, much we share its joy, and how we are by our presence and our concourse, how filled with the sentiment of honour and admiration which enciroles that festival. China have rendezvoused at Shanghai and pro- All the European fleets now in the seas of
Pose to proceed thence to Hongkong for that solemnity. Why should not the Spanish Navy be also represented at it P. And who can better than Admiral Montojo, adorned with the laurels won by him in the late severe campaign, and shining with the prestige of his alde command, carry the Spanish flag to those, British sens Among friendly nations there are moral actions which are laudable, and the above is one of them. The English Colonies in the East have given to Spain, during the difficult circumstances through which she has passed, palpable proofs of sincere and frank friendship, which our Gov. ernment knows how to appreciate. oblige.
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