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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland
VOL. XLVI.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, do,
Trade Report.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 29TH SEPTEMBER, 1897.
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Leading Articles :-
The Bennertz Case
The "Pont à Transbordeur.”
Japanese Vanity.........
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The United States and the Cuban War
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Steel Versus Stone Piers
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Government and the Press
Supreme Court
Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's New Premises
Steel Versus Stone Piers
The Typhoon at Hoihow
Dr. "Lowson's Services in India.......
It is reported that Sir Charles Mitchell will leave the Straits Settlements in February next. Mr. Waeber, late Russian Chargé d'Affaires in Seoul, left that city on the 15th September en route for Europe and is a passenger by the M. M. steamer Laos.
At Yokohama on the 17th September a sea- man named Thomas Kennedy received such 252 injuries in an affray with Japanese that he
died a few hours later.
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Address to the Captain and Officers of the P. M.
steamer Peru........
The Hongkong Jockey Club
Fourth Gymkhana Meeting
Union Insurance Society of Canton, Limited
The Douglas Steamship Co., Limited .....
Correspondence
The Jameson-Hooley Loan
The Decadence of the British Merchant in China
The United States Differential Tariff
The Hongkong Police Force.....
The Railway Question in the North.
The Chinese Eastern Railway
The Hardship of Chinese Examinations
Labuan
France and Siam
Electric Lighting in Hunan ......
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It has been decided that the United States discriminating duty of 10 per cent. which it was feared would be imposed under section 22 of the new Customs tariff will not apply to .255 shipments from China and Japan by the
Canadian Pacific Railway Company.
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256 The construction of the Chinese Fastern, 257 Railway was commenced on the 28th August in Chinese territory near Poltavy, to the Westward of Vladivostock. in the presence of the Russian Governor-General of Siberia and Chinese Mandarin Tai and other Russian and Chinese officials.
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The Empress Dowager and Her Birthday Celebration .259
Hongkong and Port Newe...
Commercial:.
Shipping
BIRTH.
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The Seoul correspondent of the N. ('. Daily News writes-Min Yong-ik, who has been resident in Hongkong for ten years, bas been 259 gazetted to succeed Min Yöng-huan as Am
bassador to European Courts," but has been .260 objected to by France on grounds of certain
personal irregularities.
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At Bahar Lodge, the Peak, Hongkong, on the 27th instant, the wife of Hon. W. MEIGH Good- MAN, Attorney-General, of a daughter. [2232
MARRIAGE.
On the 22nd September, 1897, at the U.S. Consulat General, by the Rev. E. T. Williams, HARRY Hous- TON, of San Francisco, U.S.A., to HARRIET ELIZA- BETH, eldest daughter of the late W. R. FULLER, of Chefoo, N.C.
DEATIIS.
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On the 20th September, 1897, Mr. EDMUND SHARP, late Crown Solicitor of Hongkong (by tele- gram from England.)
[2184 At the Peak Hotel, on the 21st September, GEORGE REINHOLD LAMMERT, in his 67th year.
[2188 On the 7th September, at No. 7, Bund, Tsukiji, Tokio, Cho (KITTY), the beloved wife of EDMUND P. PALLISTER.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 24th August arrived, per P. M. steamer Peru, on the 23rd September (30 days); the German mail of the 23rd August arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Preussen, on the 24th September (32 days); and the French mail of the 27th August arrived, per, M. M. steamer Caledonien, on the 28th
September (32 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
We understand that Sir Claude MacDonald's projected visit to Shanghai has had to be put off a little in order that he may personally attend to the Hooley-Jameson business in its final stage in Peking-China Gazette.
The recent typhoou was severely folt at Hoihow, where it raged on the night of the 17th and morning of the 18th September. The steamers in port all sustained more or less deck damage, many native craft were wrecked with a loss of life estimated at from 250 to 350, and ou shore great damage was done to buildings.
The following appears in the last published minutes of the Shanghai Municipal Council :- With reference to Resolution XII, as approved and adopted at the annual meeting of retepayers held 10th March, 1896, the Council is of opinion that it is now expedient that the revision of the Land Regulations as therein provided for should be undertaken without delay. It is therefore resolved, with the above object in view, that a special committee be elected so soon as possible. We learn from our Peking correspondent that at the request of Col. Charles "Denby, Minister of the United States and Dean of the Diplomatic Body, who is now very much impaired in health and unable to take charge of the duties of Doyen, Sir Claude Macdonald has assumed the duties of that position, he being the next senior foreign minister. Colonel Denby is now in the Western Hills and his health is slowly improving. It is reported that he will return to the United States when he is quite recovered.—China Gazette.
H.E. Lü, Minister-elect for Germany, etc., is now in his native province of Shantung, having disembarked at Chefoo. H.E. has ob- tained one month's leave from the Emperor to visit his ancestral home before going abroad, in other words, according to the Confucian tenets H.E. must bid the spirits of his ancestors fare- well before entering upon the long journey be- fore him. Nearly all the members of the new embassy have already arrived at Shanghai, and they are now simply waiting for H.E.'s arrival from Chefoo, as the mission will leave for Europe at an early date.-N. C. Daily News.
No. 14.
A Madrid telegram to the Manila Comercio states that the taxes now collected for the port of Manila are to be discontinued. The taxes referred to are presumably those imposed to cover the cost of the new harbour works.
The Mainichi reports that the Cabinet has approved the proposal to establish Japanese legations in Belgium, Spain, Turkey, and three other countries, and has sanctioned the disburse- ment of the estimated cost of the new buildings. We further learn that the rank of the Ministers to be accredited to the former two Courts will be that of Minister-Resident, and the repre- sentative at Constantinople will be a Minister Plenipotentiary.-Japan Times.
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A decree introducing various reforms in the administration of the Philippines has received the royal signature. A Madrid telegram to the Comercio summarises these reforms as follows:- Municipal Captains and Justices of the Peace are to be nominated by H.E. the Governor- General. Provincial Juntas are to be established which will dispose summarily of cases in which the amount in dispute is under $50. The blood compact is declared a crime covered by the A Rural Guard is to be established; penal code. also schools in Madrid, Barcelona, and Manila for teaching the Philippine dialects. Can- didates acquainted with the dialects will have the preference in official appointments. The number of technical and agricultural schools is to be increased.
We are surprised, says the Foochow Echo, to find what small general interest appears to be taken in an enterprise which is apparently destined to work an entire revolution in the tea trade of this port. The Foochow Tea Improve- ment Co. are now in full work, with their bought from willing sellers, and we are pleased machinery complete, and plenty of leaf to be
with the best practical and profitable results. to know that the factory is turning out teas No more enjoyable trip can be taken than through the lovely hills of the Pehling range to Doon Liang, about four and-a-half hours' journey from Foochow, where through the liberality of the Company and the hospitality of always welcome, and if they take an interest the general manager, Mr. Tait, visitors are
in the manufacture of tea, they will be amply repaid.
The Japanese Government now declines to recognise certificates of competency granted to masters and mates by the British Board of Trade and candidates for appointment to Jap- anese vessels have to pass au examination by the Japanese Board of Nautical Examiners. Several have been rejected, the list including two Captains, one of whom was for many years a commander of an Orient liner, one Chief officer, and two juniors. In reference to this a correspondent writes to the Kobe Herald that the Japanese Government is only pursuing its policy of insisting, rightly or wrongly, that Japan must be recognised the equal in civiliza- tion of Western countries, and has adopted this new and seemingly harsh regulation towards commanders and officers of their morcantile marine who hold foreign certificates only in order to further this policy. Japan, I under- stand, wishes Western countries to reciprocate in the matter of certificates, diplomas, etc., as regards all professions, and this last move has been made with this end in view."
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