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Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLVI. ́
CONTENTS.
Epitoms of the Week, &o....
Leading Articles :—
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 4TH AUGUST, 1897,
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Lekin at the Open Ports......... The Transit Pase System and the West River
Trade
The Governor on the Trade of the Colony The Outlook for Silver
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Perjury,by Indian Witnesses ...........................................107 Supreme Court
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The Governor's Report on the Blue Book Belilios Public School...... The Governor's. Thanks to the Jubilee Committee......115 Collapse of Buildings in Queen's Road............ 116 Hongkong Police at the Diamond Jubilee Celebration..116
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The Polo Tournament......................................................LEDEPEN Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation .. .117 Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Co., Limited.117 .118 The Queen and Eureka Mineà Correspondence.....................................
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Mat Salleh's Attack on Gaya ............................................................ China's Proposal to Revise her Tariff
Another Projected Loan......
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A Chinese Pretension........ The Shanghai-Woosung Railway Seizure of a Chartered Junk at Ichang................. 119 Sinking of the Taikoku Maru.................................
....119 A Now Shipbuilding Yard For Kobe.........................................................119 The Aden Disaster...
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Mr. Neubronner, the Treasurer of Gaya, who was carried off by the rebel chief Mat Salleh, has been rescued. Mat Salleh took to flight and escaped into the jungle.
The Supreme Court of Hongkong has been occupied with the trial of Job Witchell, an Inspector of Police, on a charge of accepting bribes in connection with gambling. The accused was found guilty and sentenced to six months' imprisonment without hard labour.
According to the Peking correspondent of a in Shanghai contemporary, negotiations are active progress between Li Hung-chang and the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank respecting a fresh loan to the Chinese Government, the amount being £16,000,000, to be taken at 851 per cent. with 41 per cent, interest.
A Havas telegram dated Paris, 27th July, states that M. Hanotaux has settled with the Minister for Siam the difficulty relative to the imprisonment of the Cambodians Kadir and Mahbilah, who will be handed over to the French authorities on board the next steamer leaving Bangkok.
The police at Singapore have made a haul of some seventy counterfeit British dollars, made Hongkong and Port Now.................................................................LLEST .120
of tin and such-like base metals. The British ....................................................................................................124 dollar, says the Free Press, is somewhat rough in
Commercial.... Shipping ......
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BIRTH. On the 29th July, at Hillside, the Peak, the wife of R. M. GRAY, of a son.
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DEATH.
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At Beauregard, London Mission, Hongkong, Friday, 30th July, HELEN MORISON, wife of Rev. JOHN CHALMERS, M.A., Ll. D., aged 69 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
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The French mail of the 4th July arrived, per M. M. steamer Saghalien, on the 3rd August (30 days); and the Canadian mail of the 13th July arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of China, on the 3rd August (21 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
According to a Havas telegram the Manila rebellion continues in the province of Cavite. A Spanish column, surprised in the Sarmateo mountains, lost two hundred men.
finish, which rather aids the "smasher." Receivers of the coin should closely scrutinise those they get. A man has been arrested in connection with the counterfeits.
It appears from recent dispatches received from our native correspondent at Peking, that the Censors have been lately turning their attention to the doings of H.E. T'an Chung-lin, Viceroy of the Two Kwang provinces, resulting finally, in a denunciation by a Censor named Chêng Sze-chan on the charge of senility, loss of will-power, and being made the easy victim of intriguing spirits and evil characters, who "demand and extort bribes in the Viceroy's name from the wealthy merchants and gentry of Canton and elsewhere." The Viceroy Tan's second son, an expectant prefect of Kiangsi, now on a visit to his parent in Canton, is also included in the denunciatory memorial of the Censor. The Emperor has deputed the secret investiga- tion into these charges to H.E. Han Chenyi, the Governor of Kwangtun N. O. Daily News.
No. 6.
A telegram has been received at Tokyo from Formosa, stating that bubonic plague having almost disappeared in Formosa, the Medical Inspection Office was closed on the 16th July.
The China Gazette understand that at the last meeting of the Consular Body at Shanghai the letter addressed by the manager of the Bank of China to the Chamber of Commerce came up for discussion in connection with the request that the document should be forwarded to the Corps Diplomatique in Peking. Some of the Consuls opposed the Consular Body inter- fering in the matter or acting as the agents of that unfortunate institution to enforce its re- calcitrant shareholders to pay up their calls, on the ground that there was no diplomatic prin. ciple involved in the question, which was merely one of private contract. In the result the letter was sent on to the Ministers without any recom- mendation or comment.
The Hawaiian steel ship Helen Brewer, while on her voyage through the Pescadores Channel, went ashore at 6 p.m. on the 5th July during a thick fog on the same reef as the ill-fated P. & O. steamer Bokhara, which was lost on the 10th of October, 1892. The Helen Brewer was going at the rate of twelve knots an hour, and the sudden shock was severely felt by the crew. She had on board a cargo of 62,000 cases of kerosene oil from New York and about 900 cases had to be thrown overboard to lighten her up, after which she got off safely the next morning, arriving in Shanghai on the 10th July, after making a record passage of 106 days. Her cargo has been discharged into the Eastern Wharf and Godown, and she went into the Old Dock on the 21st for a survey.- China Gazette.
The writer of "Notes on Local Topics" in the Shanghai Mercury says:I was discussing with some friends the other day the relative claims to beauty on the part of the Chinese and the Japanese. As usual opinion was strongly
divided. Some were
on the side of Sir Edwin Arnold, and praised the Japanese; others favoured the Chinese, and quoted
An Australian in China," who says that some Chinese women he met would be: accounted pretty in any capital in Europe. Finally a bet was made that photographs of prettier Chinese could be got than of Japanese, and there for the present the matter rests. Out of it, however, grew another tion, viz., whether European women keep
Japan's payments to the Great Northernis related, and that this reward is given the good looks as long in the East as th
Telegraph Company are said to amount to be- tween 80,000 and 90,000 yen per month. A direct cable to Hongkong, the Hyogo News says, is proposed in order to save this expen- diture. Our contemporary will find, however, on inquiry, that difficulties in the way of such a cable exist in the shape of agreements with the cable companies.
In the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements on the 22nd July the Currency Note Issue Bill, providing for the issue of Government notes, was read a second time, the motion being carried by one vote only, which was that of the Governor, who usually abstains from voting. The Bill was opposed by the unofficial members. It is not proposed to discontinue, the Bank issues, which will con- tinue to circulate side by side with the Gor-
ernment issue.
Mr. Rounsevelle Wiladan, of San Francisco, is to be the new Consul for the U.S. at Hong kong. It is generally understood in San Fran- cisco that Mr. Wildman was appointed through the influence of Senator Stewart, to whom he Nevada Senator in return for his support of the pending tariff measures. Mr. Rounsevelle Wildman was borne at Batavia, New York, in 1862, and was educated in the Genesee Wesle yan Seminary at Lima and the Syracuse Uni. Fersity. After a wide experience on the news- papers of New York, Chicago, and Kansas | City, he became proprietor of the Idaho States- man, a paper published at Boise. recognized by President Harrison, who ap. pointed him Consul-General at Singapore, and three years later he filled a similar position at Bremen, Germany. He resigned to take the position of United States World's Fair Com- missioner for Borneo and the Straits Settle ments at Chicago. At the conclusion of the Exposition he went to California and assumed the editorship of the Overland Monthly-Japan Mail
home. Somebody quoted one of Kipling's Indian heroines who laments the fact that the English Mem-log are pretty at twenty-five or even at thirty! when Indian women begin to be old hags. The wag of the party declared that it wasn't so much a question of climate as of and milliners. · "Given a local chemists
Worth," Rimmel, a Bond-street, and a Wo He was he said, "and
our women would never grow old till they died." It was acknowledged that men in the Far East-some men-renewed their youth in a most marvellous way, only to go from youth to old age in a stride as it were. I. have known such instances. Men have gone home from China with the bloom of youth upon them to find their contemporaries as old and as fat as Falstaff. I have known them return old, worn, and wizened. Is it t olimate, or what?
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