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THE
Hongkong Weekly
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Press
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLVI.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles:-
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 15TH SEPTEMBER, 1897.
Parmanency of Office and the Dismissed Police.
Inspectors
It is reported that the Japanese Government has decided to apply the gold standard to the in Formosa on and after the 1st currency 213
October, which is the date the change takes effect in Japan proper.
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.214 Retrenchment and the Amalgamation of Offices...215 Criminal Jurisdiction at Shanghai Consuls wanted at Vladivostock and in Tonkin ..216 The Defences of Hongkong
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Hongkong Legislative Council
Supreme Court
The Bennerts Case...
The Defences of Hongkong
.219 .219 .221
A Fow Questions......
222
The New Balmoral Gold Mining Co., Limited
212
Olivera Freehold Mines, Limited
.222
The Gymkhana
222
Correspondence
222
Mr. John Andrew and the Hongkong Chamber of
Commerce
223
Mr. Detring and the Tsungli Yamen
The Accidental Poisoning Case at Shanghai
The Engineers Strike at Singapore..
The Elusive Dollar
Hongkong and Port News.....
Commercial.
Shipping
MARRIAGE.
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The Straits Times says:-It is understood that the passenger lines will shortly raise the dollar rate of the passages homeward, so as to bring these more into conformity with the sterling rates. The rise may be made at any moment, telegraphic instructions being ex- pected.
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The Shanghai Municipal Council has decided the t, so soon as may be possible, a new and duly lified Health Officer he engaged in England; hat the said Health Officer shall be engaged through the Council's agents, under the usual agreement, as a Municipal employé; and that he shall receive his authority, salary, and in- structions from the Council direct, as a public
serraut.
The cotton spinning mills at Hanyang having been handed over to government control, all the female hands hitherto engaged there were im. mediately dismissed and male hands substituted in their places. he Chinese government act on the principle that woman's sphere is in her On the 23th Angust, at II B.M.'s Consulate, Tientsin, HERBERT DIXON SUMMER, of the Im-home, and hence never engage females in the perial. Mariti ne Customs Series, to JENNIE ELIZA BETH, only daughter of W. H. WARMSLEY, Esq., of Tientsin.
DEATHS.
On the 37th August, at No. 217-8, Bluff, CARI, son of LEOPOLD ÅRENHEIM, aged 24 years.
At Ikao, on the 2nd September, C. G. BUCHANAN DUNLOP, of Messrs. Findlay, Richardson & Co.
At Pei-Tai-llo, on the 3rd September, 1897, REBECCA, widow of the late W LLIAM THOMAS WAY, of Taku.
At Rokkosan on the 5th September, HENRY ST. JOHN BROWNE,
At Unzen, September 7th, 1997, JOHN A. KERR, of the Imperial Maritime Custo..s, Shanghai, aged
38 years..
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 14th August arrived, per P. M. steamer Belgic, on the 9th September (26 days); the French mail of the 11th August arrived, per M. M. steamer Sydney, on the 11th September (31 days); and the Canadian mail of the 23rd August arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of Japan, on the 13th September (21 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK,
The Provisional Regulations of Trade on the West River have been published.
public service, but with one solitary exception -the female wardens who look after female prisoners.-N. G. Daily News.
A Swatow despatch reports the arrival at that city recently of 1,000 Hunan braves from Canton en route for the prefectural city of Ch'aochoufu. They were being sent to assist the local authorities in protecting some foreign missionaries who had met with some trouble from a mob of 5,000 natives, who objected to the erection of a chapel. So turbulent and blood thirsty did the mob prove that help had to be telegraphed for to Canton, with the result of the prompt despatch of the troops as above-a course which has so far prevented any acts of violence.-N. C. Daily News.
Mr. Frossell, the agent of the Jameson- Hooley Syndicate, has returned to Shanghai from Peking. Very satisfactory arrangements, the N. C. Daily News says, have been made with the Tsungli Yamèn as regards the settle- ment of the loan for sixteen million pounds sterling, and Mr. Frosell has now to complete some necessary details about the railway, before a final settlement is effected. A telegram from London announces that the money is all ready to be placed at the disposal of the Chinese Minister, immediately the contract is definitely ratified by the Tsungli Yamèn.
A census of the Philippine Islands is to be Hongkong. taken at the end of the present year.
Mr. Anderson, the Canadian Commercial Commissioner, arrived at Kobe on the 1st inst. After visiting the factories in that district he was to proceed to Nagasaki.
Owing to the depreciation of the dollar and the enhanced cost of living the subordinate employés of the different branches of the Singapore Municipality have sent in a memo- rial praying for an increase to their salaries.
Although British North Borneo lies ontside the typhoon zone, the Herald of that Colony suggests that weather telegrams might be exchanged between Labnan and Singapore and Our contemporary says:-With the cable and land line in working order, such news might be flashed from Hongkong to Sandakan within half an hour. Granted even that, on very many occasions, such telegrams would have but little local significance, the possibility of giving a useful warning to a single steamer once in three months would amply make up for the cases in which the tele- Nor need they be sent grams were useless. daily. No news, either by wire or steamer, would be good news.
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No. 12.
Owing to representations made by the Con- sular Body at Tientsin to the City Magistrate with reference to the recent prohibition of the slaughter of cattle, the foreign community at that port is once again in enjoyment of its usual beef supply.
We understand that Mr. S. Shimizu has handed over charge of the Japanese Consulate to Mr. S. Takagi. It is the intention of the Government, owing to the increase of the trade of Japan with the Pacific Coast, to increase the number of Consulates in that part of the world, and Mr. Shimizu, who has been very popular during his stay in Hongkong, will probably be appointed to one of them.
The Foochow Tea Improvement Co. invited tenders for a further small invoice of machine inade teas from their factory, and sold them at quite as satisfactory prices as before. They also sold a small lot from their own garden": and these teas show a most distinct improve. ment, on those made from bought leaf. The desirableness of mounring and cultivation is fully evident. The teus being heavier in the hand, better colour, more sappy, and with a less proportion of dust. We understand that the Company hare some 70,000 thriving young tea plants, which they have raised from Darjeeling and other Indian seeds, shortly to be planted ont; the result of which will be watched with much interest.-Echo.
At Saigon on the 30th August a murder was commited, the murderer afterwards committing suicide. The victim was M. Bianc, the pro- prietor of the Hotel du Grand Balcon, and the murderer a man named Michel, from whom M. Blanc had some time ago purchased the hotel. It appears that Michel, after selling the hotel, went to France, and returned recently to Saigon. His means becoming exhausted he applied to M. Blanc, and, it is said, demanded the restorration of the hotel, but nothing ap- pears to be definitely known as to what passed between the two. Having purchased a revolver
on
the 29th, early on the morning of the 30th Michel made, his way into the Hotel du Grand Balcon, where he found M. Balcon, sleeping on three chairs. He shot hin in the right temple, and then, running back to the Grand Hotel where he was staying,
he shot himself.
In a letter to the Japan Times Mr. F. J. Lowder gives the following interesting incident in the life of Count Mutsu, as showing his earnestness of character:-" In the very early sixties, when he was in his nineteenth or twentieth year he was in Nagasaki, desirous of acquiring a know- ledge of English: A-lady of my acquaintance, taking an interest in him, used to devote an hour or two overy morning to teaching him to read and write; but it was not long before he came to me, despairing of his slow progress, and asking whether I could not get him a berth on board ship, where nothing but English was spoken, Believing him to be physically too weak to stand such an ordeal, I endeavoured to dissuade him, but without success; and So,
with some misgiving, I shipped him as a cabin boy, which was the only position I could obtain for him, on board a small British schooner that used, in those days, to voyage between Nagasaki and Shanghai. How long he remained on board, I cannot say; but my recollection is that it was for a very considerable time-at all events, that is how he began the study of English.”
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