THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade
VOL. XLVI.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Gambling: Its Suppression or Control
Leading Articles:-
The Bribery Scandal
The Light Dues Commission
Before and After the Bank Meeting
The Naval Yard Extension
Reviews
Tho Now Chinese Loan
Supreme Court
Report.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 18TH AUGUST, 1897.
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Misrule in. Kwangtung and the Extension of
Hongkong's Boundaries.
The Queen's Acknowledgments of the Hongkong
Telegrams
The Assessment
Dr. Ayres Farewell
Floods are reported from various parts of Japan, attended with considerable damage to property and some loss of life. There has also been a tidal wave in Miyagi, which flooded 142 the fishing villages, and caused great alarm, but from the malgre accounts received it does not appear that any lives have been lost by it.
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Mr. Herbert Smith and the Light Dues Commission...146 The Census Report..
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The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation ...148 Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limité !... The Hongkong Hotel Co., Limited
Li Hung Tsao...................
A Japanese Journal on Japaneso Vanity,
Official Changes at Peking
Salving the Laiyuen.............................
Macao
Hongkong and Port Nows...
Commercial..
Shipping
BIRTH.
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Chinese who desire to take up their residence in Formosa have to present an application sigued by their own local authority and endorsed by the Japanese Consul of the port from which they come. Recently about eight hundred Chinese who had landed secretly without con- forming to this requirement were deported to Foochow
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The Kissa Emigration Company, Tokyo, has received a telegram from Brazil stating that a financial orisis is apprehended there as a result of the fall in the price of silver. In sequence the company has postponed the de- 151 parture of 1,500 emigrants who were to proceed to Brazil, and the Tosa-maru has been with- drawn from the berth.
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Dr. Patrick Manson has been appointed 155 physician and medical adviser to the Colonial Office, in succession to Sir Charles Gage Brown, who has retired. Dr. Manson's friends
On the 7th August, at "Veritas,” Tanglin, the in the Far East will be glad to hear of his
wife of SIDNEY JEFFREY, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
On the 6th August, 1897, at Shanghai, NORMAN E. O. P. CANNING, eldest son of the late DAVID A. CANNING, Lieul, R.N., of Saint Helier's, Jersey, -C.I., to S. LJUNGLOF, widow of the late ADOLPH
LJUNGLOF.
DEATHS.
At the Yokohama General Hospital, on the 4th instant, HAROLD C. REYNOLDS, aged 24 years.
At his residence, No. 13, Bluff, at 6 20 a.m., 5th August, H. M. ROBERTS (Carroll & Co., Yokohama and Kobe), of secondary meningitis.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 17th July arrived, per P. M. steamer City of Peking, on the 13th August (27 days); and the French mail of the 16th July arrived, per M. M. steamer Laos, the 13th August (28 days).
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appointment to this responsible position, and the Colonial Office is to be congratulated on the acquisition of so competent an adviser.
A large number of granite quarries in Hupeh province are being now worked under govern- ment auspices and at the command of H:E. Viceroy Chang Chili-tang, in order to supply materials for the railway bed, embankments, etc., of the proposed La-Han Railway. Already, according to a native correspondent at Hankow, a large quantity of granite en bloc and in chips has arrived at Hankow, that port being made the future forwarding ground for all kinds of material required as the railway progresses into the interior.-N. . Daily News.
Referring to the nomination of Mr. Rounse velle Wildman to be the United States Consul at Hongkong the San Francisco Call says:- Mr. Rounsevelle Wildman, M.A., is the editor of the Overland Monthly of San Francisco. He came here about 1893 from the Straits Settle- ments where he had been consul during Presi- dent Harrison's term. Previons to that he was a delegate to Congress from Idaho, which has since become a State, and was a Commissione It is somewhat significant, says the N. Cat the World's Fair. Mr. Wildman bonght the Daily News, thigt Yin-huau, who went home as
Overland Monthly and himself assumed the editor- special représentative of China at the Queen's Jubilee, has gone to Russia to meet Count ship. He has contributed to it a number of con- tinued stories and short sketches of considerable Cassini.
merit.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
A rich bed of coal has recently been dis- covered in Gifu Prefecture, the existence of which was previously unknown. Permission has been granted by the Government to Mr. Ibnka to work it. The mass of coal is said to be 48 feet in height and 72 feet in width. Nagasaki Shipping List.
A special telegram from Shanghai to the Daily Presa states that the Jameson-Hooley Syndicate have signed a preliminary contract for a loan to the Chinese Government of sixteen millions sterling. The contract carries with it concessions for railway construction. representative of the Syndicate has left Shang- hai for Peking to ratify the contract
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Several United States Senators, including Mr. Pettigrew, are, according to a Tokyo press despatch, expected to arrive in Japan by the next C.P.R. steamer, which left, Vancouver on the 2nd inst. Their mission is to report upon the coinage system and commerce of the country, A Canadian commercial commission is expected by the same steamer. In view of the constant arrival of foreigners in Japan for the inspec- tion of the commerce and industries of the country, the Foreign Minister has issued an instruction to the Chambers of Commerce of Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, and other important towns, suggesting that the utmost assistance should be given to the visitors.
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No. 8.
From the Echo Macaense we learn that on the 13th August an explosion of gunpowder took place at a cracker factory at Sekong. Of the five workpeople engaged in the place two were killed outright, two were so seriously injured that no hope is entertained of their recovery, and only one escaped.
The prospectus of the Hongkong Cotton Spinning, Weaving, and Dyeing Co., Limited, has been published. The capital is $1,200,000, in 12,000 shares of $100 each. It is proposed to issue at present only 9,000 shares, of which 6,000 have been allotted by the promoters, and the remaining 3,000 are offered for public subscription. Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. ure to be the General Agents. It is proposed to build a 50,000 spindle mill and the refusal has been obtained of a suitable site in the Sookuupo Valley.
At the inquest held at Shanghai concerning the death of Wilfred Arthur Chambers, the child who died after the administration of what was supposed to be a santonine powder, the following verdict was returned:-" That the said Wilfred Arthur Chambers met his death by the administration of a powder made up by Voelkel and Schroeder, which contained strych- nine instead of santonine, as prescribed by Dr. Zedelins," Mr. Voelkel, who was in court, was asked before the verdict was given if he wished to make any statement, but he replied that he did hot, and that a case was coming on at the German court in connection with the matter.
In an article on the bribery scándal the Straits Times says:-Anyone who knows the Hongkong Police force knows that the European officers
are men who attain to more affluence than do
the European officers in the Straits. It would be, of course, unfair to suggest that they, ob- honest means; iut it is somewhat striking that, tained that comparative affluence by other than
whereas the Hongkong policeman is a man who does possess means, the policeman of the Straits is a very poor man, and barely lives upon his pay. The Hongkong Police must feel that the present conviction is a deplorable slur on their body, and the confidence of the public in the probity and honesty of its guardians of the peace and enforcers of the law must be severely sha- ken.
Count Goto died at his residence at Takan. awa on the 4th August. In the following paragraph from the Japan Mail we are reminded of an incident in his career that must be ever remembered to his infinite credit :-Count Goto may be justly described as one of the land- marks of new Japan. In the drama of the Restoration he played a part so important that his services received exceptional recognition in the form of a substantial life income. Το foreigners he is best known, perhaps, as one of the two samurai who rendered brave and prompt assistance to Sir Harry Parkes and bis
escort on the occasion of the attack by ronin in Kyoto, twenty-nine years ago. Count Goto's assistant in that memorable act was Mr. Nakai Kozo, who died in 1894 in Kyoto, of which city he was then Governor. The Queen sent to each gentleman a gold-mounted and jewelled sword in acknowledgement of their gallant and timely service. Count Goto held many high offices during the past twenty-five years. He possessed great administrative ability, aud showed uncompromising fearlessness in the assertion of his opinions.
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