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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVI.J
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, do. Loading Articles:-
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Differential Duties and the West Rivor Trade 42
French Designs on Hainan C42
Separation of the Offices of Consul-Gonoral and
Judge at Shanghai........
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 15TH JULY, 1897.
Colonel Buck, the new American Minister to Japan, and Mrs. Buck arrived at Yokohama on 28th June by the Peru,
At an extraordinary meeting of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps held on the 5th July Mr. Cecil Holliday was unanimously elected Commandant of the Corps.
News reaches the N. C. Daily News from Yokohama that a petition is going to be pre- sented to the Privy Council for leave to appeal
The Lighting of Socotra............................... 45 against the decision in the Carew case. The Unebi-kan Reef
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Silver and Coppor Exchange in China ..........................................
Chinase Shortsightedness
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Japan and the Hawaiian Question sousmerconiser. A Scandal in the Police.......
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The Area of Exemption From Lekia
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Supreme Court
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The Police Scandal..
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Bad Death of Mr. D. K. Sliman
Death of Mr. L. Poesnecker
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The Record Trans-Pacific Voyage
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The Charge against a Godown keeper.
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Assault in Queen's Road
The Diamond Jubilee Gymkhann
Hongkong Golf Club
Formosa Reforms
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Diamond Jubilee Subscriptions...
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The Hongkong General Chamber of Commerco
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The Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce
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Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Limited Bell's Asbestos Eastern Agency, Limited
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The Mystery of the Unebi-kan....
Correspondence
The Customs Reports
The Shanghai Taotai and the Jubilee Celebrations
Japan and the Hawaiian Question
H.MS. Immortalité Fired on at Woosung.. Missionary Outrages in China
A Fight With Pirates
The Steamer "Sultan" Floated
Hongkong and Port News.... Commercial..
Shipping..
BIRTH.
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We (N. C. Daily News) learn that. H.E. Sheng has sold his cotton mills on the Point Road to an English syndicate, throngh Messrs. D. Sassovu, Sons & Co., for Tls. 2,600,000.
H.E. Huang Chun-hsien, former Consul- General at Singapore, who was objected to by Germany as Chinese Envoy last year, has been 49 appointed Salt Intendant of the Changsha and
Paoning prefectures of Hunan province.
A Victoria, B.C., telegram of 19th June states that the Japanese Consul there has been instructed to protest against the Governor General of the Dominion of Canada giving his assent to the British Columbia Oriental Labour Bill, so far as it relates to the exclusion of 55 Japanese.
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At 4, Knutsford Terrace, on the 8th inst, the wife of ALEX. MACKENZIE, of a daughter.
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DEATH.
On the 9th inst; at Swatow, drowned while bath- ing, DAVID KIRKLAND SLIMAN. Deeply regretted, [1601
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 8th June ar. rived, per P. M. steamer Peru, on the 9th July (31 days); the English mail of the 11th June arrived, per P. & O. steamer Thames, on the 9th July (28 days); the American mail of the 17th June arrived, per O. & O. steamer Coptic, on the 13th July (26 days); and the Canadian mail of the 26th June arrived, per C. P. steamer: Empress of Japan, on the 14th July (18 days).
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Messrs. Bell and Neville, of the Blackbourn Commercial Mission, left by the Java for Shang- hai, whence they proceed homewards via Canada.
A Tokyo despatch of the 25th June states that Shimiza (Shizuoka prefecture), and Yok- kaichi and Nanao (Noto province), have been added to the list of special ports for export and import. They will be opened on the 1st August.
The following telegram is published in the Gazette:"Governor, Hongkong. Korean Go- vernment has notified officially that ports of Chenanpo and Mokpo are open to foreign trade, 1st October. MACDONALD." The same noti- fication reaches as throngh Mr. R. C. Wilcox, Secretary of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce.
The many friends of Mr. J. N. Jordan, H.M.'s Consul-General in Korea, will be pleased to learn that his name is included in the list of Jubilee honours, Her Majesty having conferred upon him the distinction of a C.M.G. Mr. Jordan's long service in Peking more than deserved this honour, on which we heartily con- gratulate him.-N. C. Daily News.
The N. C. Daily News of the 8th July says: We published on the 22nd of June a Reuter's telegram, dated London, 21st June, stating that M. Gérard had signed a convention with China giving France fresh commercial and political advantages in South-west China, including the right to work mines in Chinese territory. We now learn on good authority from Peking that there is no foundation for the statement, except that the French Minister had been trying un- successfully to put through some such agree- ment.
The Emperor and Dowager Empress in return for the handsome presents brought them by the Special Russian Ambassadors from the Czar and Czarina are now sending a large num. ber of costly and rare bronzes, jadestone utensils, enamels, etc., as well as sable robes lined with
Chinese cloth of gold, to the Czar and Czarina. The presents were packed in 120 cases and were brought down by the Hsinchi on her last trip from Tientsin. When the Hsinchi arrived at Woosung she transhipped the Imperial presents on board a Russian Volunteer steamer to be carried to Odessa. The presents are under the charge of a special Russian military officer belonging to the suite of Prince Uchtomsky.- N. C. Daily News.
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No. 3.
H.E. Lu Hai-huan, Minister-designate for Gerinany and Austria, has been appointed, by special edict, an Expectant Officer of the 4th Metropolitan rank. This will put him on terms of equality with Viceroys and Governors of provinces and gives him the privilege of memorialising direct to the Throne, instead of through the Tsungli Yemen. H.E. will leave Peking some time this month, and, having been granted a month's leave to visit his home in Shautung province, will not start for Germany before September next. H.E.'s suite will consist of thirty secretaries, interpreters, and attaches.-N. C. Daily News.
It is reported that the Viceroy Chang Chih- tung who is most anxious to make a beginning of the Hankow-Peking-to be known hereafter as the Lu-Han-Railway (abbreviated from Lukou Bridge, in the western suburbs of Peking, and Hankow) has lately given orders to break ground at Hankow for the proposed railway on the first day of the ensuing autumu. An expectant prefect, named Chu Chih-tsêh, a deputy assistant Director of the Ln-Han Railway, is now in Hankow and has already selected a large building, connected with the Temple of the Thunder god, in Hankow, to be the future headquarters of the Railway in that port.-N. C. Daily News.
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At the consecration of the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Tientsin M. Gerard, the French Minister, made a speech, of which we translate the following summary from the Messager de Chine-Haring thanked those present for their attendance he said that three things distin guished the celebration. (1) It was made in memory of their unfortunate countrywomen who were massacred in 1870. That church had been built upon their very graves; it was a lasting monument erected to their memory. 2) The massacre was an outrage upon the christian world. As the Chinese Government had allowed the re-building of that sacred monument satisfaction had been given to the Christians, which enabled them to pardon and forget the terrible event of 1870. ^ (3) It was to be hoped that such a massacre would never be repeated. The Chinese Government had ended by recognising that Christianity would be an important factor in the civilisation of China and that the Empire had already bone- fited by it.
It is reported in the native circles that the German Minister at Peking is consulting with the Tsungli Yamen for the use of Tang-chung- kow, close to Foochow, as a naval station in the East. Some of the Chinese suppose the Tsungli Yamen will entertain the proposition, as no reward has, as yet, been given to Ger- many for her participation in the movement for the retrocession to China of the Liaotung peninsula. They think further that it would be better for China to allow the proposition, on the ground that if Germany has a naval sta- tion in Tang-chung-kow it will naturally pro- bibit the more arrogant intrusion of the French into Kwangsi and Yunnan provinces, and at the same time the Japanese approach to the main- land of China by Formosa. They describe the port as a better naval station than Amoy, and to be capable of holding a large number of men-of-war. It will be remembered that the port was accurately surveyed by a German man-of-war in the beginning of this China Gazette,
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