THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 12TH AUGUST, 1897.
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VOL. XLVI. .
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, do.................................................................................
"Leading Articles :--
Inspector Witchell's Conviction and the Bribery
Scandal
....126
The Press and the Detection of Crime...............126 Railway Prospects in China
The King of Siam's Visit to Europe....
The Shanghai Consular Trade Report
The Currency Question in China
.126 .127 ,127 128
British North Borneo..................................................................................... Roads in the Hill District.
The Causeway Bay Recreation Ground Review.........
Supreme Court
The German Commercial Mission to the Far East has arrived at Yokohama from Korea,
The Russian steamer Vladimir, of the Russian Navigation in the East line, became a to al loss on a voyage from Vladivostock to Shanghai, The crew were saved.-Mercury.
By a recent ediot, in answer to a suggestion of the Tsungli Yamên, the Chinese Minister to Berlin is also to be accredited to The Hague, while the Minister at St. Petersburg will be 129 commanded to look after Chinese affairs in Vienna. Formerly the Minister to Germany was accredited to all four countries.
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.129 ,129 .130 .132
Release of Cheng On and Tung Kum The Charges Against Mr. Osmund and Inspector Horel32 A Thief Beston to Death ....................................................................133
Death of A Pand O. Chief Officer
Charge of Manslaughter
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Polo Tournament
Shanghai Engineering, Shipbuilding, and Dock Co.,
..133
.133 133
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134
..134 ....135
Hongkong Golf Club
Raub
The Queen and Eureka Mines
Limited......
Explosion at Shanghai
The New Chinese Loans
The Charge of Manslaughter at Shanghai
The Shanghai Cotton Mills
Macao
..135
Hongkong and Port News..
.136.
.......137 140
Commercial..................................
Shipping ................................................
BIRTH.
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At Brockhurst, the Peak, on the 8th August, the wife of HENEY ALLAN RITCHIE, of a daughter.
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MARRIAGE.
On the 7th July, at the American Consulate, Can- ton, by the Rev. H J. Stevens, BENJEMAN C. RAN- DALL, C.E, also British and Foreign Bible Society, to ANNIE, ellest daughter of the late SONG NIK HING, American Board Mission, Foochow. [1806
DEATHS.
At Bombay, on the 7th August, BEHERAMJEE, the youngest and beloved son of F. D. SETNA, of Cawasjee Pallanjee & Co., Hongkong, aged 3 months and 16 days. Deeply regretted.
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At the Yokohama General Hospital, on Thurs day, 29th July, EUGENE BONNEAU, recently arrived from Tonkin, formerly employed at the Messageries Maritimes, Yokohama.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 5th Angust, 1897, ROBERT BRUCE CAMPBELL, late 3rd Officer of the steamer Pekin, aged 37 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English mail of the 9th July arrived, per P. & 0. steamer Rosetta, on the 7th August (29 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Tenders are invited for the building of the Shanghai station of the Woosung Railway.
Mr. William Woodville Rockhill, so well known in Peking oircles, has been appointed United States Minister and Consul-General in Greece, Roumania, and Servia.
The Yah-loong Cotton Spinning Co, Limited, of which Messrs. Fearon, Daniel & Co. are the General Managers, has been successfully floated at Shanghai,
The Shanghai Municipal Council has, we learn from the N. C. Daily News, decided to reorganise the Police and a new Captain- Superintendent is to be engaged at home for that purpose. Captain Mackenzie has been informed that he will have to revert to his former rank of Deputy Superintendent.
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H.E. Wu Ting-fng. Chinese Minister to Washington, who has only just got into the working of his duties, is likely, the Shanghai Mercury says, to be transferred to Tokyo, the Chinese Minister there being recalled to Peking to attend an enquiry into charges which have been brought against him in his official capacity. It is reported that owing to the exceptional business during the past twelve months. ie., since the beginning of the 7th moon (August) of last year, the authorities of the Chinese Tele- graph Administration will be able to pay a di- vidend of something approaching 40 per cont. to the shareholders, some of the surplus money being applied to the purchase of shares in the new Imperial Bank, which it is intended to put to the credit of the shareholders of the Tele- graph Administration. It is probable that a certain surplus will be set aside every year for the purchase of these Bank shares, until half-a million taels' worth are bought.-N. U. Daily News.
We are informed by the agency of the Yoko- hama Specie Bank here that their head office at Yokohama distributed a circular dated Yoko- hama, 30th July, 1897, to their customers, of which the following is an extract:--On and after the 1st day of October next all debts accrued or to accrue, due by the bank in Japan, though purporting to have been contracted in silver yens, will be payable in an equal number of yen of gold currency; and that silver yen cannot be specifically demanded though it can be received in payment; and also the Bank is authourized to convert the Nippon Ginko notes into gold coin for any amount on demand on and after the above date."
No. 7.
Captain Ronneaux, who was under arrest at Saigon on a charge of embezzling a large sum of money which passed through his hands as paymaster, has committed suicide by hanging himself in his cell.
Coming events are casting their shadows be- fore them at Tangku, where the China Mer- chants' S. N. Co. have raised a large tract of land immediately below the C. E. and Mining Co.'s property, preparatory, we are informed, to erecting wharves and godowns. The steamer companies will be forced to follow the example of the Mining Co., and make themselves inde. pendent of the river if the present state of things continues much longer. The Railway Administration, however, will have to bestir itself if it desires to make provision for the altered conditions which the movement we refer to betokens.-Peking and Tientsin Times.
A correspondent writes that at Weihaiwei the Japanese troops are being rapidly reduced and that only a comparatively small garrison now holds the place. The forts are all dis mantled and in ruins; expensive Krupp guns of large calibre lying abont, some broken and down and damaged in such a way as to be ren- fractured by charges of dynamite and all thrown
costly cannon were not preserved, as it was the dered utterly useless. One wonders why these Japanese conquerors who destroyed them, not the Chinese, who simply ran away and left- them intact. One would have supposed that they could easily have been transported to Japan and used there in coast defence. These dis- mantled forts which were quite new and had been built at great cost under foreign supervi. sion, give one an impressive sense of the desola- tion that war brings in its train, and a distress. ing sense of the impotence of the Chinese in the use of these modern modes of warfare and their utter helplessness as opposed to any European Power or a Power like Japan. The thrifty husbandman has, in the meanwhile, changed the aspect of affairs by using the ground occupied by the forts as an addition to the adjoining fields of millet or sweet potatoes. China Gazette.
The Shanghai Mercury of the 3rd August says:-Mr. R. W. Hurst, formerly H.B.M.'s Consul at Pakhoi, is due here in a few days by the P. & O. steamer Shanghai, from London. Mr. Hurst will proceed to Chinkiang to succeed Mr. G. D. Pitzipios. Mr. Pitzipios, as has been stated already, comes to Shanghai. Mr. H. R. Brady presently leaves Shanghai for Sam. sbui, on the West River, where he will com- mence his duties with the rank of full Con- Social considerations do not weigh sul. with the Foreign Office in considering Con- sular changes, but we only endorse the feel- We regret to announce that news has beenings of our readers when in welcoming Mr.. received at Shanghai of the death of Mr. Hap- per, Commissioner of Customs at Newchwang, Mr. Happer died on Tuesday night, 27th July, of hydrophobia. As most of our readers will re- member, Mr. Happer was bitten by a dog on the 18th of December last, and, accompanied by his wife, proceeded at once to the Pasteur Institute at Saigon and underwent the usual course of treatment. Mr. Happer, who was a son of the late Dr. Happer, of Canton, and a brother of Mrs. G. B. Glover, entered the Customs service in July, 1879, and became Commissioner in April, 1889. He was decorated with the Civil Rank of the 3rd class on the 2nd of Jnly; 1893.
-N. C. Daily News.
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Pitzipios once more to Shanghai, we regret the departure of Mr. Brady for the South. Sir Claude Macdonald, H.B.M.'s Minister to Peking, has been arging upon the Imperial Government the especial need which exists for the appointment of two full Consuls at the two ports on the West River, and at the two posts on the Yunnan frontier. Provision has been: made in the estimates for only one Consul and an assistant at Samshni, and the same on the Yuunan border; but it is hoped and believed that the counsels of Sir Claud Macdonald will prevail at Downing Street, especially as they have economy among more important reasons to recommend them.
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