THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLVI.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 9TH SEPTEMBER, 1897,
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It is reported that an extensive coal field has been discovered in Shiribeshi province, Japan.
Mr. James Troup, British Consul at Yoko hama. has been promoted to the rank of Consul-General.
During the absence of Sir Nicholas Hannen 199 from Shanghai Mr. R. W. Mansfield will act as
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Leading Articles:-
The Dismissed Police Officers
Railways in Manchuria
Trade and Currency
The Chefoo Foreshire Dispute
Japan's New Currency Law
Protections against Infected Milk
The Control of Opium Divans
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Silver Mining in China .....
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The Attack on President Faure
Hongkong Legislative Connoil
Supreme Court
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
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The Police Scandal ...
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The Taxation of Kerosine in Kwangtung
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The Chamber of Commerce and the Exchange Question202
Coal Mine Concessions in the Philippines
The Infected Milk Ordinance
The Hongkong Fire Brigale Ordinance
Victoria Recreation Club Aquatic Sports.
Hongkong Golf Club.......
Olivers Freehold Mines, Limited
The New Balmoral Gold Mining Co., Limited
5:0. Farnham and Co., Limited
Raub
The Loss of the Chang Hys Ting
The Inter-Colonial Rifle Match....
Hongkong and Port News...... Commercial..
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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At Foochow, on the 20th Angust, the wife of G. SIEMSSEN, of a son.
[1999 On the 17th July, at the British Embassy, t. Petersburg, the wife of N CHOLAS RODERICK O'CONOR, of a daughter.
At the Western Hills, near Peking, on Wednes- day, the 4th August, 189, Lady MACDONALD, of
daughter
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DEATHS.
Consul-General and Chief Justice.
The German Commercial Commissioners- Dr. Knappe, the Cousal at Canton, and nine other gentlemen-are at present in Japan and on the 21st August inspected the commercial bazaar in the Agricultural and Commercial De- partment.
The Nagasaki Shipping List has the follow ing-l'he report that Dr. Abercombie, U.S. Consul at this port, had been appointed Minis- ter to Siam was unfoundel. Dr. Abercrombie's many friends will be glad to learn that he is about to resume his duties at this port.
An adjourned meeting of the Committee of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce to discuss the fall in silver was held on the 25th Angust, Mr. Johu Anderson in the chair. A sub-com- mittee was appointed to consider the whole ques- tion and report to the Committee. Thereafter. a general meeting of the Chamber will be called,
In the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements the Hon J. P. Joaquim has given notice that at next meeting he will move That in view of the depreciation of silver and the fall in the value of the dollar this Council considers it reasonable that the fees to be taken by the advocates and solicitors of the Supreme Court should be increased."
A Tokyo press despatch reads:-Formosa being differently circumstanced to the colonies of the Treaty Powers, the new tresties will
not apply to the island until some special conditions are agreed to. It is expected that trouble may arise in making this special agreement and the Ministers of State concerned are considering the matter.
On the 28th July, 1897, at Liverpool, GEORGE R. BERWICK, late master of the steamer Torrington
[200 At Nagasaki, on the 25th August, SAMUEL BARFF, for many years resident in Hongkong, aged 68 years. [2001 At Yokohama, by drowning, EUGENIO PERPETUO,
The P. M. steamer China arrived on Satur- aged 47 years, on the 22nd August.
At Yokohama, by drowning. VICENTE F. BAR-day flying the Hawaiian flag. having changed BADAS, aged 4 years, on the 22nd August,
At 82, Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, on the 25th August, 1897, WILLIAM PAPP3, aged 62 years. At Shanghai, on the 31st August, 1897, after a long illness, WILLIAM YOUNGSON, of the Imperial Maritime Chistoins, aged 57 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 5th August arrived, per P. M. steamer China, on the 4th September (30 days); and the English mail of the 6th August arrived, per P. & O. steamer Ravenna, on the 5th September (30 days).
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ÉPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The new treaty between Holland and Japan was signed at The Hague on the 25th August.
Count Mutsu, ex-Minister for Foreign Affairs, died at his residence in Tokyo on the 24th August.
her nationality at Honolulu on the present voyage. The object of the change is to secure that the vessel shall pass under the American flag should Hawaii be annexed by America. She has hitherto carried the British flag, having been built in England,
A telegram received at Shanghai from Wuchang states that H.E. the Viceroy Chang Chih-tang completed the sixtieth year of his age on the 30th of August (3rd day of the 8th moon) and that Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress Dowager sent a great many valuable presents to the Viceroy, of an estimated value of many thousand taels, in honour of the occasion.
Our readers will have observed that the de- parture of Japanese emigrants for Hawaii has re-commenced and that very considerable num- bers have left, or are about to leave, for that destination. The explanation is that contract labourers are permitted to enter the islands without difficulty. The immigration of free labour only is at a stand-still.. Steps have been taken, however, to put a complete stop to the ingress of Chinese labourers, in view of an- neration.-Japan Mail.
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It is reported from official sources in Peking that the Emperor will soon appoint Hu, Governor of Peking and Chief Director of the Tientsin-Peking Railway, to be Director- General of all Railways north of the Yellow River. This, according to the enemies of H.E. Sheng Hsuan-huai, is supposed to be the first step of the Emperor towards taking away the title held by H.B. Sbêng in order to give it to Governor Hu.-N. C. Daily News.
A correspondent writes to the Japan Gazette: inventor of the story of the British subjects It might interest your readers to learn that the singing "God Save the Queen," on a wreck, & story not true as the Queen was only toasted, was not original. Such a scene has already been depicted by a Frenchman. Guy de Maupassant, in one of his storyettes," The Wreck," published a few years ago, tells how an Englishman and his three daughters, at midnight on December 3 st, sang "God Save the Queen," though they were on a breaking up wreck. Fiction is some- times stranger than truth.
although H.E. Li Hnng-chang should, by right According to a Peking native despatch,
of seniority in rank, always excepting the director hip of affairs at the Tsungli Yamên, it Princes Kung and Ch'ing, hold, the chief
is not so at all, and the old statesman actually is relegated to a back seat by his enemies. Of course, Prince Kung, as President, assumes the nominal leadership, but after him, and the one who actually has the direction of the policy of the Foreign Office, is the Manchu Assistant Grand Secretary Jung Lu, President of the Board of War and Commandant of the Peking He is. moreover, an immense Gendamerie. favourite of the Emperor, who greatly admires his really brilliant talents. Assistant Grand Secretary Jung La recommends Anything that the
to the Throne is never vetoed by the Emperor, Halit not been for this officer Li Hung-chang's name would have been more potent in the Councils of the Tsungli Yamên. By the death of the late Li Hung-tsuo, the vacancy in the Grand Council will probably be filled by Jang Lu.-N. C. Daily News.
In the Japan Herald of the 25th of Angust we find details of the arrest at Hakodate of serval Chinese belonging to a British man-of- war. It appears that eight Chinese cooks in the British man-of-war, and four service of a Chinese residents in Hakodate, were found gambling in an inn by the police, and were arrested and sent to the Hakodate Chiho Saibansho, after examination by the police. The British Consul demanded their release, on the payment of a fine, to which the Procurators' Bureau would not agree. Correspondence is now being carried on in connection with the matter. The British Minister in Tokyo has addressed the Foreign Office pointing out that of the Chinese now detained in the Hakodate Chiho Saibansho, several are the crew of a British man-of-war and are therefore under British jurisdiction. The Japanese Government has no right to punish them in any way, and the present act of the authorities is regarded as highly improper. To this communication the Foreign Office has replied that the offence in question was com- mitted on land, and that the crew of a British man-of-war may be punished for offences com- mitted outside the man-of-war, when such members of the crew are not registered as British subjects.
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