THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
Trade Report.
China Overland Trade
VOL. XLVI.J
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c. ................................................
Leading Articles :----
Medical Inspection of Shipping.................................
The Health Officer of the Port
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 26тн AUGUST, 1897.
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The Civil Hospital and Private Paying Patients...159. Exchange and Official Salaries
Silver Prospects
Taotai Sheng
Hong kong Legislative Council
Supreme Court
Hongkong Sanitary Board
A Coalfield in Kwangsi
Reviews
The Police Scandal...
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
A Disgraceful Case of Milk Adulteration
Dr. Clark on Enteric Fever
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Judging by a brief Imperial decree, dated 7th instant, Censor Li Nien's impeachment of the Viceroy of the Kwang provinces and the Governor of Kwangtung for allowing their jurisdiction to be over-run by bandits, has fallen flat owing to the looseness of many of the Censor's statements.-China Gazette.
The Committee of the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce intends, it is reported, to protest against the new schedule enforced on the P. & O. Co. by the General Post Office, London, by which Monday will be the English mail-day at .167 Shanghai, so that the Saturday half-holiday and the Sunday holiday will be grievously inter-
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Mr. Chamberlain on the Colonial Troops at the Jubileo168
Celebration
The New Magazine Gap Road
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The Colony's Sterling Payments and Dollar Equivalents168 Non-Delivery of Registered Letters
The Gymkhana Meeting....................................................
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Correspondence
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited.
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Hoagkong Hotel Co., Limited
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Boyd & Co., Limited
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Shanghai Engineering, Shipbuilding, and Dock Co.,
Limited
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The Bank of China and Japan and its Chinese Share-
holders......
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Explosion near the Kiangnan Arzonal,
Terrible Scene in Tokyo
Hongkong and Port News...
Commercial.
Shipping
toms.
DEATHS.
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At Newchwang, North China, on the 27th ult, ANDREW P. HAPPER, Jr., Commissioner, I. M. Cus [1922 CHARLES ST. GEORGE CLEVERLY, late Surveyor General of Hongkong (by telegram from England.)
[1889 At Shanghai, on the 6th July, 1897, F. M. SAMPAIO, aged 45 years.
At Kiukiang, on the 10th August, 1897, GEORGE R. UNDERWOOD, M.B. :
At Kobe, on the 16th inst., JOHN GREER WALSH, after a short illuess, in the sixty-ninth year of his age.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English' mail of the 23rd July arrived, per P. & O. steamer Rohilla, on the 20th August (28 days); the American mail of the 27th July arrived, per O. & O. steamer Doric, on the 24th August (28 days); the Canadian mail of the 2nd August arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of India, on the 24th August (22 days); and the German mail of the 26th July arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Prinz Heinrich, on the 25th August (30 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK,
The Kostroma, which arrived at Nagasaki on the 14th Aug, from Odessa, brought three large boxes containing gold and silver ware, which are Baid to be presents from the Czar to their 1m- perial Japanese Majesties.-Shipping List. ·
The Queen has approved the appointment of Mr. H. G. O. Bax-Ironside, now Second Secre. tary at Washington, to be Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation at Peking, in the place of Mr. Clarke Thornhill, who will not proceed to that post.
fered with.
No. 9.
A report in the Shanghai native papers states -> that Lia Taolai is in receipt of a despatch from the Tsungli Yamen informing him that the Netherlands Minister at Peking has addressed the Yamen to the effect that Chinese doctors will be admitted to a conference, about to be beld to devise the best means of preventing and curing plague. The, Taotai is instructed to notify all Chinese doc ors of the fact, and to for- ward to Peking the names of any intending to
attend the conference.
In the capital of Visayas, we read in the local papers, Mr. James Macleod's return from the interior of the province was impatiently awaited in order to hear the result of that gentleman's examination respecting the proposed railway to run from Iloilo through the province touch. this with much pleasure, as it affords an assur- anco that the examination will have been in- telligently conducted and that the project is a
Information bas been received at Nagasaki, we learn from the Shipping List, to the effecting at all the more important towns. We see that the Government will at once undertake tho revision of the law for the encouragement of the direct export of raw silk. The law in its present form comes into force in April next. A bill for the above purpose will be submitted to the Diet at its next session.
The new
A Madrid telegram to the Manila Comercio states that the royal decree imposing a new Customs tax in the Philippines has been signed. tax consists of six per cent, ad v alorem on all national merchandise and the sama on foreign merchandise. The new tax will apply to all goods leaving their port of origin after the publication of the decree.
The dimensions of the opium problem in Formosa do not appear to be as formidable as was anticipated. According to the latest returns, the total number of licensed smokers is only 6,796, namely. 2 of the 1st class, 118 of the second, and 6,676 of the third. Six thousand seven hundred and ninety-six is a small fraction of three million inhabitants.—Japan Mail.
The N. C. Daily News of the 16th August has the following in reference to the recently concluded loan: We learn on good authority that the Jameson-Hooley Syndicate have signed a preliminary contract with the Chinese Go- vernment for a loan of sixteen million pounds sterling at 5 per cent. in consideration of which they have been given the construction of im- portant railway lines in the Empire. The sole representative of the Jameson-Hooley Syndi- cate is Mr. K. Frosell, who arrived from Eng- land in the Rosetta on Wednesday, and who proceeds to Peking to-day to ratify the contract. No one but Mr. Frosell has authority to enter into any transactions in the Far East on behalf of the syndicate, no matter of what nature they
may
be.
fact-Manila Comercio.
The prospectus has been issued at Shanghai "The Shanghai of a Company to be called Feather Cleaning Company, Limited," which is to be registered under the provisions of the German law relating to companies, the liability
of members to be limited to the amount of their
shares. The capital is to be Tls 150,000, divided into 300 shares at Tls. 500 each, with power to increase. The Mercury says:-We hare not the least doubt that it will be a money making concern, as feathers can be obtained in China and all over the Far East at very cheap rates, and are sent home in rather large quanti ties in their dirty state. Over 32,000 piculs of feathers, valued at about Tls. 6.60 per picul were shipped away from and through Shanghai We also notice that abont during last year. 37.000 piculs were exported from Kowloon, and 21,780 from Wnhu. So if these figures alone are looked into it can easily be seen that this new concern is likely to prosper.
A monument has recently been erected at Chemulpo, Korea, to the victims of the terrible Edgar disaster. It stands on the shoulder of the English Consulate hill just outside the wall of the compound, and is one of the most pro- minent objects to catch the eye on approaching or landing at the Customs Bund. The monu. ment is of Japanese marble, very dark grey in colour, and is composed of three bases and an obelisk die. The lower base is seven
feet square, the die is six feet high, and the whole monument rises about eleven feet above the ground. It weighs, approximately, fifteen tons, and much difficulty was experienced in conveying it to its present lofty and command- As the period for mixed residence is approach- ing situation. It bears the following inscrip- ing, says the Japan Mail, some foreign mer- tion:-"Erected to the memory of 48 petty chants in Japan are considering the feasibility, officers and men of H.M.S. Edgar, who lost of establishing various factories in the interior. their lives by the foundering of the sailing Messrs. Samuel, Samuel & Co., of Yokohama. pinnace off Rose Island, Nov. 13, 1895. will, it is said, establish a big Cotton Spinning Erected by the officers and crew of HM.S. Mill at no distant date, and the same firm also | Edgar,” The obelisk is inscribed with the intend to purchase a lot of ground at Nagasaki. names of the unfortunate men who lost their Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., of Yokohama, lives in the terrible disaster, of whom the body will likewise establish a large Silk Spinning of only one was ever given ap by the sea. Factory, containing 100,000 spindles, in the At the present time there bangs on the obelisk vicinity of Odawara, by the time revised treaties a wreath of evergreen placed there by the come into operation. The Japan Times also sailors of the U.S.S. Machias last Decoration day gives publicity to a report to the effect that a fresh tribute of the sorrow and lasting Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. are about to sympathy felt by Americans, in common with establish a cotton factory of 10,000 spindles, other nations, for our English brethren in near Kanagawa Fort, Yokohama.
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