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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVI.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Wook, &c.
Leading Articles:-
Increased Taxation................
A Gold Standard for China
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 7TH OCTOBER, 1897.
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The Trade of China and the Standard of Value ...267 The Russianization of Korea.......
Railway Construction in China....
Medical Inspection of Shipping
Sale of the Old Colonial Cemetery
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The Punishment of Juvenile Homicides in China...269 Felo-De-So
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In consequence of the fall in exchange the steamship lines are putting up their passage rates between China and Europe and interme- diate ports.
The extension to Indo-China of the law for the prevention of cruelty to animals is under consideration. The Avenir du Tonkin thinks there is more need of a law for the protection of Europeans than of one for the protection of
animals.
The embargo is off the Peiyang dollar now. ..269 The mint authorities have called in the base .209 coins and are issuing sonnd dollars in their .269 place; consequently all the local banks accept them as current coin. The dollar is also in free circulation in the city.-Peking and Tientsin
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Times.
The Douglas Steamship Co's steamer Namoa was wrecked on the morning of the 1th October by striking a sunken rock close to Cow's Horn, outside the north entrance to Haitan Straits. The vessel was beached in any exposed 274 position and all hands were landed with the
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Supreme Court
Wreck of the Namoaz..
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Medical Inspection at Calcutta.
Questions
Attempted Murder in the Harbour
A Fuss-About Twenty-five Cents
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Boxing Tournament at the City Hall
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A Solicitor-Charged with Assauli,
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Great Fire nt-Manila....
Suspension of Quarantine at Manila..
Hongkong Jockey Club.....
The Hongkong Cricket Club...
The Hongkong Football Club
China Traders' Insurance Co., Limited
Canton Insurance Office, Limited..
The Shanghai Feather Cleaning Co., Limited.
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The Punjom Mining Co., Limited
Mew Balmoral Gold Mining Co., Limited
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Olivers Freehold Mines, Limited
Decimalization of British Coinn
The Steamer Kiangnan Ashore
Correspondenco
Discontent at Singapore...
The Coptic in Collision
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How these Christians love one another
Foreign Education in Hunan
Russia's hold on China
Fooohow Machine-made Teas
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There is a rumour current, says a native pa- per, that H.E. Chang Yin-huan, Special Am. bassador to England for the Diamond Jubilee, .375 has been recently denounced by a Censor and 276 that, in consequence, the Emperor has telegra .276 phed to H.E. to return to Peking at once to
answer the alleged impeachment.
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The present rate of exchange, says the Shun Pao. has greatly affected business transactions 277 in Hankow, where a few days ago a most in- fluential Chinese Bank closed its doors. its manager disappearing: two days after, another followed suit, and yesterday, in consequence of a rumour that the Ting Sing Bank would close its doors, hundreds of people rushed to the bank with cheques in hand demanding imme- diate payment. Fortunately the bank had sufficient reserve to meet the demaud; otherwise it would have suffered the same fate as the other banks.—Mercury,
The Grand Trunk Railway Earthquake on the Bornco Coas Peripatetic Senators on the Silver Question in China .. 277. Russian Progress in Manchuria Hongkong and Port News... Commercial. *Shipping
MARRIAGE.
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On September 29th, at the Registrar General's Office, Hongkong, FREDERICK, eldest son of Samuel Ezra BISHOP, of Radipole, near Weymouth, Eng- land, to CAROLINE LAURA, only daughter of Mary Florence and the late Allison Sott CANTON, of New Hayen, Connectiont, U.S.A.
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DEATHS.
At Canton, on the 30th September, 1897, WILLIAM DE ST. CROIX, of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, aged 49 years.
[2257 On the 20th September, at No. 39, Kerbau Road, Singapore, ANDINIA. VIRGINIA, the beloved wife of A. G. DOUGLAS, of Hongkong.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS. The American mail of the 2nd September arrived, per O. & O. steamer Coptic, on the 30th September (28 days); the English mail of the 3rd September arrived, per P. & 0. steamer Sunda, on the 4th October (31 days); and the Canadian mail of the 13th September arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of China,
the 5th October (22 days).
No. 15.
Mr. Hoshi, the Japanese Minister to Wash- ington, has telegraphed to his Government that tea and other duty-free goods imported into the United States through Canada must be inspected by the U.S. Consul at Vancouver, and after having the Consular seal affixed to them the goods will be admitted into the United States without paying the additional duty of 10 per cent. on crossing the frontier, as originally decreed.
A private telegram has been received in Tientsin, says the Peking and Tientsin Times, announcing the bare fact that Mr. Sheridan P. Read has been superseded in the American Consulate of the Port. The community will receive this news with unfeigned regret. Never since Tientsin has been a consular port have American interests been watched with greater vigilance or administered with more conspicuous zeal and ability than by Mr. Read. During the last few months, Mr. Read has been the Consular Doyen: in this capacity he has shown so happily a combination of intelligence with urbanity, of willingness to act with sound sense in acting, as to gratify foreigners and Chinese alike, and to enhance the feeling of regret at his recall.
A report from reliable native sources states that HE. Jên Tao-yung, at present Director- General of the Yellow River, expects either to take Viceroy Chung Chih-tung's place at Wa- chang very soon, or Viceroy Tan Chung-lin's at Canton, and that in the event of his going to Canton the Wnchang post will be given. to the retiring Viceroy La Ch'uan-lin of Szechuan, and rice versa. In other words Viceroy Tan of Canton had already received the sanction of the Throne to retire, while Viceroy Liu of Nanking expects to be permitted to do so by the end of this year. The vacancy in Nanking will, therefore, naturally be given to Viceroy Chang Chih-tung, thereby leaving the viceroyalties of the Hu-Kwang and the Two Kwang vacant. According to rumour the fil. ling of there vacancies has already been settled at Peking and will be bestowed respectively on Jên Tao-yung and La Ch'nan-lin. Both these high officials are favourites of the Emperor.- N. C. Daily News,
revenne account will have to be made at the
H.M.S. Pigmy arrived at Shanghai from Ningpo on the 29th September. As noted in these columns a few days ago, she was sent from Ningpo to Taichon with H.B.M.'s Consul on board to enquire into the disturbances which
The budget of Indo-China for next year is, have recently taken place near Haimên between
we learn, to be made up in francs, instead of the Protestant and Catholic converts. It ap-dollars, and all payments to the Government on pears that the Chinese authorities did not care to interfere in the matter and that the mis- exchange rate of the day. The expediency of sionaries on either side took no measures to pre-adopting the gold standard for the colony is vent these disturbances breaking out. The under consideration, but no decision has yet missionaries have therefore been informed by been arrived at. Meantime the public finances Mr. Playfair that if disturbances continue, the are in a bad way. The Courrier d'Haiphong native authorities will be requested to step in says:-- Before returning to Tonkin to spend some time with his family the Governor-General and quell them.-N. C. Daily News.
(who is at present at Saigon or on tour in the neighbourhood) is to go to Hongkong. According to good information which has reached the principal object of this to enable M. Donmer to make visit is to the English banks propositions, which we must suppose are judicious," with reference to a financial combination which if it is brought about will deliver us from the deadlock to which the whole of Indo-China has been brought in consequence of the enormous depreciation of the dollar. We hopo we may be false prophets, but we greatly fear that this movement of the to bear the expense solely to be agreeable to Governor-General will resolve itself simply into you; we have no need of these lines; and you a pleasure trip. We hope that M. Doumer may choose those which will only servo the English.” | find nothing disagreeable in it.
The Hanoi Chamber of Commerce is peti- tioning against the construction of the proposed railway from Lungehow to Nanning, on the ground that instead of benefiting Tonkin it would diorvt traffic from that country to the West River route and so benefit Hongkong. Our French neighbours have been a long time in becoming alive to that rather self-evident fact. In the course of the petition the follow- ing is quoted as the view of the Chinese man- darins"How blind your diplomacy is! You obtain for your good offices towards us routes The report that Sir Claude MacDonald was of penetration into our country. We are going shortly to visit Shanghai is contradicted,
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Tsai Taotai took over his seals of office as acting Taotai of Shanghai on the 1st October,
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