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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVI.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &o.
Leading Articles:
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 29TH JULY, 1897.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The liquidator of the New Oriental Bank The Medical Inspection of Ships ..................... 82 Corporation, Limited, advertises a sixth and The Lekin Farm Question at Wuchow
final dividend of about 1s. 23d, in the pound.
The Non-Progressiveness of China .............................................
The Canton Mint and Counterfeit Coins
The Trade in Chinese Opium
Macao and the West River Trade...
Registration of Partnerships.
The Relations Between England and France
Supreme Court
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H. E. Kang, the late Chinese Minister to London, who has been lying ill at Shanghai 84 since his return, died at that port on the 19th 85 July.
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The Chamber of Commerce on the Medical Inspection
of Ships
The New Hongkong Club
Reviews ****** ******
The Indian Famine Relief Fund
Limited
A telegram was received at Shanghai on the 21st July from New York confirming the 88 report that there will be no duty on tea.-
N. C. Daily News.
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The Police Scandal.....
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Hongkong, Canton
and Macao
Steamboat Co.,
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The Indo-China S.N. Co., Limited
United Asbestos Oriental Agency, Ltd. The Punjom Mining Co., Limited Hongkong Golf Club
Correspondence
The 14th July at the Foochow Arsenal
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The China Navigation Company have ordered six more steamers for their coasting trade, and these vessels should commence to arrive here about the end of the year. The vessels are of the Foochow, Tientsin, and Pakhoi class.- Union.
Navigating Lieutenant Heygate, of H.M.S. 93 Algerine, fatally shot himself, on the 19th July, on board his ship at Shanghai. At the inquest the verdict returned was that there was no evidence to show whether the wound was in- 97 flicted by accident or design.
Tragedy on H.M.S. Algerine ......
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Canton Trade Report for 1896...................................................
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Kowloon Trade Report, 1896.
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Serious Fire at Shanghai
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The Pegu Piracy
Serious Railway Accident in Japan....
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Tigers Near Foochow...
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Notes From Vladivostook
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Tientsin
Hongkong and Port News................................................................................. Commercial....
Shipping
BIRTH.
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At Foochow, on the 20th inst., the wife of E. J. Moss, of a daughter.
[1727 MARRIAGE. On the 19th July, at the British Consulate, Han- kow, and afterwards at St. John the Evangelist's Church by the Rev. S C. Partridge, B.A., HENRY, eldest son of the late H. R. WHISTLER, of Forest House, Knowsley, Lancashire, to EMMA AUGUSTA, eldest daughter of W. C. HOWARD, I. M. Customs
DEATHS.
On the 21st July, at No. 12, St. Francis Street, WALT R WILLIAM, only son of JOHN THOMAS Corros, age 13 months, from brain fever. Deeply regretted.
[1694 At Shanghai, on the 14th July, 1897, H. C. MIL- LER, a citizen of the U.S.A, late with S. Hankin & Co., aged 32 years.
On the 14th July, 1897, at 14, Boone Road, Shanghai, after a long and painful illness, LUCY LEE, the beloved wife of I. W. ALLEN, aged 59 years. On the 14th July, at his residence, Foochow, JOHN ODELL, aged 61 years.
At Bangkok, on the 14th July, of heart disease, Mrs. BAIRD, wife of D. Baird, engineer, Messrs.
Windsor and Co.'s rice mill.
At Rathuri, Siam, on the 15th July, Rev. J. F. LYMAN, of the American Presbyterian Mission, aged 30 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English mail of the 25th June arrived, per P. & O. steamer Kaiser-i-Hind, on the 24th July (29 days); the American mail of the 26th June arrived, per P. M. steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, on the 27th July (31 days); and the German mail of the 28th June arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Bayern, on the 27th July (29 days).
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According to a Tokyo press despatch of the 16th July it is reported that next year's Budget will show a deficit of 25 million yen, even though the fullest economy is observed. The deficit is chiefly due to the extraordinary expenditure sanctioned by the Diet.
The Shanghai Shenpao contains a letter from its Foochow correspondent who reports that the bubonic plague in the native city and suburbs is most serious and that people are dying very rapidly. The centre of the plague is in the vicinity of the Tartar Guild hönse.
The Yungting river, above Tientsin, has, we learn from the N. C. Daily News, again over- flowed its banks and news has been received that sixty-five villages belonging to the districts of Watsing and Tientsin have been iunndated and all prospects of securing the ripening crops destroyed.
There is general regret at Shanghai, the N. C. Daily News says, at the news that Mr H. F. Brady is transferred to Samshui on the West River, to which new port he goes as Consul. Mr. Hosie goes to Wüchow on the same river. Mr. Pitzipios returns from Chinking to Shanghai.
No. 5.
Up to the 14th July the number of bodies that had been recovered at Libog of victims of the Mayon eruption was 209. Of the 58 in- jured persons who were rescued alive fourteen have since died.
A dispatch from Paris is reported to have been received by the Japanese Government on the 17th July to the effect that the session of the French Chambers has been closed without the new Treaty with Japan being brought forward for debate. This means that the con sideration of the Treaty is perforce postponed to next session.
It is reported from Peking, the N. C. Daily · News says, that one of the clauses of the Russo- Chinese Railway Convention is the making of the country through which the line will pass in Manchuria a regular concession to Russia, inas- much as mixed courts will be instituted at every large railway station, and the policing of the country, within certain limits, left entirely to the Russians and from which the Chinese authorities will be excluded.
When
Many foreigners, especially the survivors of the ill-fated P. and steamer Bokhara, who experienced his kind hospitality and care, will be sorry to hear of the sudden death at N. T'ungchow on the 30th of June last through apoplexy, of General Wu Hung-lo, formerly Brigadier General of the Pescadore Islands. About two years after the Bokhara disaster General Wu was transferred to a similar post at Yuanyang in Hupeh province. Peking was threatened with a Japanese invasion the late General was transferred to the Chief Command of the N. Tangchow Military Circuit of Chihli province,-a post of great honour and importance in those days, as one of the guardians of the sacred Imperial capital. The late General leaves three sons, one of whom has attained high literary rank while the eldest son, we believe, holds a Taotai's rankin Chihli province.-N. C. Daily News.
A telegram was received at Shanghai on the 14th July stating that the appeal to the Privy Council of the owners of the Normandie from the decision in the case against the Pekin had been dismissed, and that the judgment of Sir Nicholas Hannen in the Supreme Court had been upheld. It may be recalled that the collision happened on the 3rd of April, 1896, the Nor- mandie being a Norwegian steamer, and the Pekin owned by Messrs. Butterfield & Swire. The collision occurred whilst the former was proceeding down the river on a voyage to Foo- po. The result was that the Pekin sustained serious damage, and had to be beached just off
the Police Gardens. The suit was heard in the
A tax on matches has been imposed in Ton-chow, and the Pekin was coming in from Ning- kiu. Each box is to bear a one-cent stamp. As the price of a packet of ten boxes is only five or six cents, this means a tax of two hundred per cent. The Courrier d'Haiphong is indig. nant at this new impost. which it predicts will lead to such a great economy in the use of matches that several of the local factories will have to close.
It is probable a Commission will be appointed this year to delimitate the Burmo-Chinese frontier in accordance with the terms of the modified Convention. The task will be a very heavy one and will most probably occupy several seasons. Many of our officers have an intimate acquaintance with this extended frontier, but it is unlikely the Chinese officials know very much about it.-Rangoon Gazette.
Supreme Court at Shanghai in May last year, be fore Sir Nicholas Hannen, and Captain Lendon, of the steamer Mirzapore, as nautical assessor, and his Lordship delivered judgment finding the Normandie entirely to blame. Mr. J. C. Hanson (Messrs. Dowdall and Hanson) appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. W. A. C. Platt (Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Master) for the defendants. From the decision the plaintiffs then appealed, with the result already stated. Unless the owners of the Normandie accept the judgment of the Privy Council, the owners of the Pekin will now have to proceed with their suit against the Normandie in Hongkong —N. G. Daily News.
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