THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVI. '
AND
China Oberland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
· Epitome of the Werk, de.
Landing Articles :-
The Queen and her Diamond Jubilee
The New Franco-Chinese Convention ......
The Light Dues Question ....
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 1ST JULY, 1897.
Distressing reports are received of the famine in Szechuen and Hupeh. In Szechnen hundreds of people are said to be dying from starvation every day.
The Sri Hong Ann, a small steamer engaged 2 in the Straits local trade, was capsized in B gale of wind on the 9th June and over one hundred persons were drowned.
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The Status of Chinese British Subjects...........
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The Hon. C. P. Chater, C.MG..
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Perjury by Asiatic Witnesses
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In Eulogy of the Queen..............
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The Diamond Jubilee Celebrations
The Jubilee Celebration at Canton ................ ...............
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The Jubilee Celebration at Macão
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The Diamond Jubilee at Shangbai .....
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Hongkong Legislative Council ....
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Supreme Court
Wreck of the Aden
The Wrook of the. Sultan...
The Cost of Administration
The Obstruction of Streets...
The Fire Brigade Report
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H. E. Senhor Galhardo, Governor of Macao and Minister, Plenipotentiary to the Courts of China, Japan, and Siam, left for Japan last week to present his credentials as Minister to the Court of the Mikado.
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The Burma Convention was published in the 16 last issue of the Hongkong Government Gazette. 16 It refers chiefly to the Burma frontier, and a 17 special article provides for the opening of the West River to the extent already reported.
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Sir Claude MacDonald, H.B.M.'s Minister, 18 was given a special audience in the Wênhus 18 Throne-hall on the 9th June. the object of the audience being to hand to his Majesty Kuang Hsi personally Her Majesty the Queen's pre- sents in return for those taken to England by H.E. Li Hung-chang. The aged statesman was also present during the audience.-N. Q. Daily News.
-Diamond Jubilee Subscriptions.....
Green Island Cement Co., Limited
Hongkong Electric Co., Limited
Baub Australian Gold Mining Co., Limited
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The Stranding of the Tokio Maru
Small Feet in Disfavour
·Taxation of Native Opium in China............................................................... Hongkong and Port New.............................
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Shipping
BIRTH.
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At the Windsor Hotel, Hongkong, the 22nd June,
Referring to the departure for home of "sick leave," the Japan Mail Judge Mowat on says: In all probability we shall not see him' years of Far Eastern service for the Crown and is entitled to retirement and a pension.
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The Straits Times says it is in a position to announce authoritatively that the Secretary, of State has approved of the construction of two hundred miles of railway in the Federated Malay States. That mileage is to be built during the next five years; and Mr. Chamber- lain has authorised a loan of £500,000 for the purpose.
What might have been a serious, if not fatal, accident happened to Mr. Jernigan, the U. 8. Consul-General at Shanghai and a friend on the 17th June. The two gentlemen were driving along the Bubbling Well Road, when the pony took fright at the approach of a Sikh trooper: and overturned the carriage into the ditch... Both gentlemen by good fortune escaped with.. out injury.
The Queen's Diamond Jubilee was celebrated·· in Hongkong with much enthusiasm on Tues" : day, the 22nd, and Wednesday, the 23rd June. On Tuesday there was a reception at Govern. ment House in the morning and presentation of addresses, in the afternoon a review at Happy Valley, and in the evening public illuminations On Wednesday morning ashore and afloat:
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the memorial stones of the Hospital for Women and Children and the new road round- the island were laid. In the afternoon there
was to have been a gymkhana, but owing to the recent rains this event was postponed. In the unfavourable state of the course caused by
the wife of Captain W. WATTON (steamer Phranang); back in Japan again, as he has put in over 30 evening there were again illuminations. ́A ́
MARRIAGE.
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of a son.
At Holy Trinity Cathedrali Shanghai, on the 21st June, 1897, by the Rev. H. G.Hodges, M.A, JANET WEBSTER, Second daughter of JOHN HENDERSON, Esq., Dalrymple Cottage, George Street, Aberdeen, NB., to Captain ANDREW STOTT, China Navigation do.'s steamer Pakhoi.
DEATH.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 19th June, 1897, JAMES S. BRYAN (of Hall & Holtz, Limited), aged 39 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.,
The French mail of the 21st May arrived, per M. M. steamer Melbourne, on the 22nd June (32 days); the Canadian mail of the 31st May arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of India, on the 22nd June (22 days); the Ameri- can mail of the 29th May arrived, per P. M. steamer Belgic, on the 26th June (28 days); and the English mail of the 28th May arrived, per P. & O. steamer Mirzapore, on the 27th June (30 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
H. E. Sir William Robinson has been made a G..M.G. and the Hon. C. P. Chater a C.M.G.
Plague has now completely disappeared from Macao and the mat-shed erected for the recep- tion of those attacked by the disease has been
burnt.
A Reater's telegram states that the reply of the United States to Japan on the Hawaiian question is guarded and diplomatic and cal-
Alated to protract negotiations.
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In that case Mr. H. S. Wilkinson would receive substantive rank as Judge in H.B.M. Court for Japan.
The French Consul at Tientsin, according to a native despatch, has applied to the Viceroy Wang for an extension of the French Settle- ment in that port, in the direction of the east gate of the native city, to a place called Machiak'on, which borders the Peiho river. The proposed extension is only for half-a-mile, but it is uncertain as yet whether the Viceroy Wang will grant this request.-N. C. Daily
News.
A meeting of the Consuls was convened at Tientsin by Senior Consul Sheridan P. Read, at the US. Consulate on the afternoon of the 11th June, to discuss the situation as to present excitement in the Native City owing to the kidnapping troubles. As in the past. says the Peking and Tientsin Times, we may rely upon the most effective measures being adopted by the peace in Consular body for the preservation of the foreign settlements.
Another missionary disturbance is reported from Kiangsi province, where, according to a native despatch received at Shanghai yesterday, says the Ñ. C. Daily News of the 21st June, there have been five riots within as many weeks. The last riot, in which three chapels were des- troyed by the mob, occurred on the 11th instant. According to the native reports a child of ten happened to be playing with a mud doll designed something like a foreigner when a missionary passed by. The child held the doll up before the missionary and cried out "Yangkueitze!" Whereupon, it is alleged, the missionary slapped the child for his impudence. The child turned home and fell ill. He was then claimed to have been bewitched; hence the riot.
Chinese flower show and an exhibition of
Chinese curios were held on both days and attracted crowds of sightseers.
Statements made by the Formosan insur. gents taken prisoners at the time of the raid at Twatatia on the 8th of May, are to the effect that the raid was undertaken in obedience to s circular sent from Amoy. The document said that Japan would never be able to retain pos- session of Formosa permanently, and that the best device to hasten her departure was to create hostility to her occupation on the side of foreign nations. To that end an attack should be organized on the settlement of Twatutia. If some houses were robbed and burned there, the foreign residents would complain that life and property were not secure under Japanese rule, and a considerable impulse would be given to the restoration of the island to China, in which event the plunderers and burners would be largely rewarded by the Chinese Govern- ment.-Japan Mail.
News has been received of the wreck of the P. & O. steamer Aden off Socotra, with serious loss of life, while on a voyage from China and Japan to Europe. The vessel struck a reef off the east side of the island at 3 a.m. on the 9th June. The intelligence was conveyed in a telegram received on the 29th June by Mr. H. A: Ritchie, the P. & O. Superintendent at Hongkong, from Aden, and caused great sor- row, several of the pasengers being well known in Hongkong. Seven passengers and Captain Hill, the Commander, were swept overboard and drowned.
Eighteen passengers (ladies and children) and part of the crew escaped in ́á boat, but without provisions, and little hope
was entertainel of their safety on account of bad weather. Nine passengers (including two re-amahs), two engineers, one steward, and thirty-
four mixed crew were saved by the Govern..... ment steamer Mayo.
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