THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLV.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, de. .................................
Leading Articles :----
The Transit Pass Trade at Canton
The United States and Hawaii,
Light Duca
The Diamond. Jubiles-
Copenhagen's Free Port and the
The Diamond Jubilee Road
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Supreme Court anmänömm.................................................... Hongkong Banitary Board.................................................................................. The Diamond Jubilee Road
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, 22ND JUNE, 1897.
Five hundred and sixty-three inland transit passes were issued at Canton during the first quarter of the present year, which shows that the new privilege is being largely availed of.
The American residents at Bangkok have petitioned President McKinley that the present United States Minister-Resident and Consul General at Bangkok, the Hon. John Barrett, be retained at his post during the new adminis- tration. 485 486
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It is reported that the Japanese Government has decided to ask for an appropriation of some 1,600,000 yen in the Budget for next year to double the cable line between Nagasaki and Ke- lung.
Monkden, the native city of the present dynasty and capital of Western Manchuria, will have a mint to coin silver dollars, subsidiary coins, and copper cash soon, the machinery for coining them having arrived at Newchwang To prepare the Formal notification has been received by Mr: from Europe last month. Barrett and the Siamese Government of the people for the innovation proclamations are be consent of the British Government to Siring now posted by the various local authorities 488 Nicholas J. Hannen, British Chief Justice and in every city and market town of that provinos. The Hongkong Electric Co., Limited .................
-N. O. Daily News. 488 Consul-General in Shanghai, acting as The Eureka and Queen Mines
He will sit in that Ranb...
2.......................................................................489 | bitrator in the Cheek case. The Wreck of the Sultan ............................489 capacity in Siam in December.-Siam Observer. The Diamond Jubilee Memorial at Hankow ............489 Canton Notes
Panic at Tientain ............................................................................. Diamond Jubilee Subscriptions...
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DEATHS.
MADLES TO CON
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On the 9th June, at 10.15 p.m., at his residence, No. 15, Nakayamate-dori Nichome, Kobe, DONALD FRASER, of Ashton Inverness, Scotland, aged 46 years.
At No. 18 Oura, Nagasaki, on the 14th June, JAMES FRANCIS WOODFORD, in his 39th year.
Br.
M. Ranchot, the French Charge d'Affairs at Bangkok, died on Friday, 4th Jane. The de The Straits Settlements Association (Singa- ceased officer had been in Bangkok less than'a pore Branch), acting in concert with the parent month. The Bangkok Times says:-Till this association, are collecting information and pre-week M. Ranchot had been apparently in good paring the case for the Colony in connection health, and last Sunday afternoon the British Minister and he were for the first time received with the repeal of the C.D.O. A local Com-
in audience by Her Majesty the Queen-Regent. mittee consisting of Messrs. St. Clair, Robin- son, and Dr. Galloway has been appointed, and Next morning M. Ranchot was seriously unwell with fever and dysentery. It was thought he will be ready to receive any communications
might have got a touch of sunstroke, but upon the subject.-Free Press.
there can be no doubt that it was the dele terious effect of the climate of Madagascar that most severely handicapped him. His ten years residence in that island during a troublous and trying period which threw upon him a great amount of difficult work, had seriously affected his constitution; and he was only about six months in Europe before coming on to Siam: On Tuesday he rallied a little, but after that he grew gradually worse, and on Thursday it was thought advisable to administer the Last Sacrament. All hope had not then been given up, but there was no change for the better, and he passed away about five o'clock yesterday afternoon. Empire must be paid for in human lives, and in the fullest sense it is true of M. Ranchot that he died in the service of his country.
A special telegram to the Daily Press reports that absolute panic prevails in Tientsin city fomented by anti-foreign rowdies. The causes are said to be the intended dedication of the French Cathedral, Mahomedan discontent, kidnapping by Southern junkmen, and dis- There have been no arrivals of mails during content amongst the boatmen who have been
the week.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Singapore Municipality announce a four per cent. loan at an issue price of $95 (or up- wards) for each $100
A contract has been concluded for the dredging of Macao harbour and the work is to be commenced this week.
A special telegram from Shanghai to the Daily Press states that the French intend to illuminate the French Bund for the Diamond Jubilee.
It is reported amongst the Chinese at Hoihow that the French are only awaiting a favourable opportunity to take possession of the island of
Hainan.
The first direct steamer of the season from Fooohow, the Glengyle, sailed on the 10th inst., taking nearly 3,450 tons of tea for London and the Continent. She was to be followed by the Ulysses on the 17th inst,
Mr. H. M. Hillier, Commissioner of Customs at Kowloon, received, late on Saturday even- ing a telegram from the Inspector-General of Customs informing him that Tuesday, the 22nd instant, has been made a Customs holiday at all the Treaty Ports of China in honour of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
We are requested to ask gentlemen who have obtained promises of lanterns from Mr. H. E. Wodehouse to send to the Prays, front of the City Hall, on Monday morning at ten o'clock, at which hour they will be issued. Gentlemen requiring them at an earlier date' can obtain them upon applying direct to Mr. Wodehouse.
superseded by the railway. The Foreign Con- cessions are prepared and not alarmed.
There arrived in Singapore on the 11th June the Dutch steamer Reyniersz, of Batavia, which brought from an island in the Gaspar Straits the shipwrecked crew of the British barque Ardmore, of Glasgow. The Ardmore, an iron vessel of 1,100 tons, left Bangkok on the 3rd of May last, with a cargo of rice for Rio de Janeiro, and struck a reef in the Gaspar Straits on the 19th of May. The vessel had to be beached on a neighbouring island, and the crew, none of whom were lost, were taken on board the Reynierez on the 7th June, and were brought on to Singapore.
We (Kobe Chronicle) greatly regret to an- nounce the death of Mr. Donald Fraser, which took place last night (9th June) shortly after 10 o'clock. Mr. Fraser, as is well known, had beer in bad health for some years, and it is almost three months since he was confined to his room and all hope practically abandoned. Mr. Fraser has been for some eighteen years in Japan. From his association with banking business in Japan he is very well known in both Yokohama and Kobe, and his many friends will mourn his loss at the comparatively early age of forty-six and sympathise with his widow in her bereavement. Mr. Fraser joined the Commercial Bank of Inverness in 1870, and three years later he joined the old Oriental Banking Cor. poration in London. He came out to Yokohama in 1878, and took charge of the branch of the bank in Kobe in 1885. Subsequently he became manager of the New Oriental Bank, Limited, in Yokohama, which position he resigned in 1892 to take charge of the National Bank of China. In 1894 he went home on leave, return ing again in 1896, when he established himself as a broker in Kobe, but unhappily has not lived long to pursue his new calling.
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The celebration of the Queen's Jubilee com: menced in Hongkong on Sunday, when special thanksgiving services were held in all the churches. H. E. the Governor, H.E. the Gen eral, the principal officials, and the Jubilee com mittee attended St. John's Cathedral in state; there was a crowded congregation and the service was left out of the programme, the understand- was extremely impressive. Yesterday, Monday, ing being that the mercantile community would get their mail work advanced as far as possible, so as leave to-day, Tuesday, free for Jubilee In the morning observances and festivities. there is to be a reception at Government House, followed by the presentation of addresses from the colony, the Chinese, and the Freemasong, In the afternoon there is to be a grand review of the garrison, in which the Marines and seamen of the Royal Navy will also take part. and it is anticipated there will be nearly three thousand men on the ground. In the evening there is to be an illuminated procession in the harbour and illuminations on shore. To-morrow, Wednesday, the foundation stones of the Hospital for Women and Children and the Diamond Jubilee Road are to be laid in the repetition of the shore morning, and in the afternoon there is to
gymkhana, with a illuminations at night. On both days an exhibition of curios will be open at the City Hall and a flower show at West Point,
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