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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVI.J
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China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 13TH OCTOBER, 1897.
The Hongkong General Chamber of Com- merce has addressed the British Minister at .286 Peking on the preferential duties accorded to junk carried cargo and on the inland taxation of foreign goods in the Two Kwang.
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CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Weck, &c. .......................
Leading Articles:-
The Silver Question
Russian Designs in Asia
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Exterritoriality and the Crews of British Ships in
Japan
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Consular Reports and the Alleged Apathy of
Chambers of Commerce
Progress in Hunan.............................................................................................
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerco
The Wreck of the Namoa.........
Fire on the Mongkut......
The Charge of Assault Against a Solicitor
The Masonic Address to Her Majesty
The Jubileo Memorial
Court Martial in Hongkong
Supreme Court
Extraordinary Dealings in Forged Bank Notes
Reviews.........
Hongkong Volunteer Corps Hongkong Cricket Club... Hongkong Football Club
Raub.
Correspondence
There are four Banks in Japan that declared a dividend of over 70 per cent. for the first half of the current year, three of over 50 per cent., nine of over 40 per cent., twelve of over 30 per .288 cent., and fifty-one of over 20 per cent.—Jiji. .289 .289 290 290
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The Importation of Impure Tea into the United States294 The Foochow Tea Improvement Company's Establish-
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Soldiers' Graves at Chusan.... Official Appointments at Peking and in the Proviaces.294 The Coming Census of China
Restrictions on Trade in Kwangtung Another Riot in Changte
Hongkong and Port News.......................................... Commercial....
Shipping..
BIRTH.
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The International Cotton Munufacturing Co., Limited, has taken proceedings against the Yu Yuen Cotton Mill for infringement of trade mark, and Tls. 20,000 are claimed as damages. The case will be tried in the Mixed Court.-China Gazette.
Mr. J. R. Twentyman, of Shanghai, has pur- chased the Sudeley Park estate, Warwickshire, and is said to be intending to settle there in about three years. The estate is large and valuable, £100,000 haring been refused for it only a short time ago.-Mercury.
Mr. W. Armour, of the Korean Customs, has gone to Mokpo with a staff to open the Customs there. Both Chinnampo and Mokpo will be administered from Chemulpo for the present and all their trade returns will pass 296 through the Chenmlpo office.-Nagasaki Press. The Singapore Free Press says:-Mr. Hafiz Ghulam Surwar, the first native gentleman from India to qualify himself for a cadetship in the civil service of the Straits Settlements, leaves by the Thames for Hongkong en route to Amoy, where he is to take up the study of the Hokien dialect of Chinese.
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At No. 2, Pedders Street, Hongkong, on the 7th inst., the wife of Mr. A. PIERRE MARTY, of a daughter.
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DEATHS.
At Peak Hospital, on the 11th October, 1897, The British community at Sourabaya intend JOHN HENDERSON, a native of Greenock, Chief to present that city with a clock in commemora- Engineer of the steamer Nongkoi, aged 52 years.
tion of the Queen's Jubilee. The funds re- [2340 quired have been raised and an order for the On Friday, 1st October, 1597, at the General Hoa clock has been cabled, says the Sourabaya pital, Tientsin, WILLIAM H. C. GUY, aged 34 years, Courant. The clock will be set up in the city of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Co., Tong-gardens at a conspicuous spot, and will bear a shan.
suitable inscription.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 10th September arrived, per M. M. steamer Oceanien, on the 10th October (30 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Hongkong Volunteer Corps is in camp
this week.
Chang Chih-tung, Viceroy of the Hukwang, is reported to have engaged an American expert to teach scientific farming.
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Mr. R. A. Mowatt, Judge of II.B.M.'s Court for Japan, has been allowed to retire from the service on a pension.-N. C. Daily News.
The Douglas steamer Namoa, whose loss was reported last week, has become a total wreck The captain and crew have returned to Hong kong,
Fire broke out in the after hold of the Mongkut on her last voyage from Hongkong to Bangkok and was not subdued until considerable damage had been done.
We understand that the Chinese Engineer- ing and Mining Co. have placed-through the medium of Messrs. Carlowitz & Co., Tientsin- a contract for a winding engine (pit bead-gear and coal screening plant of the most modern Gute- design) with the well-known works, hoffnunghuette," Oberhausen, Germany. The material is intended for the new No. 3 Shaft at Tongshan.-Peking and Tientsin Times.
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Probably in view of the approaching period for mixed residence the study of the English language among the Japanese, which had ex- perienced a decline for some time, is receiving
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a lion's share of attention. Schools for the are continual- study of the "world's language ly springing up in the capital, as well as in the country and the publication of magazines de. voted to its study is perennial.-Japan Gazette. Tseng Taotai, bead of the Kiangnan Coast Defence and Pay Department, died at Nanking on the 4th September. He was a comparatively young man, scarcely turned forty. He was a relative of the late Marquis Tseng and was considered to have a brilliant career before him. His death was due to an internal complaint, from which he was suffering acutely while in Shanghai during the progress of the Bennerta case. Chinese reports, however, state that death was due to onium self-administered.
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No. 16.
A telegram received at Shanghai from Pek- ing on the 3rd September announces that the Emperor has determined not to pay attention to the denouncement by a Censor of H.E. Chang Yin-huan.
The British barque Battle Abbey, from New York to Anjer for orders, arrived at Anjer on the 17th September under command of the mate, the captain having died on the voyage. The vessel has been ordered to Batavia.
It is understood that the report on the state of contagious disease in Singapore, which has been prepared by a Committee of the Straits Association, goes home to London by to-day's (24th September) mail. The result of the negotiations of the Association in London with the Colonial Office will be probably a request by the Secretary of State to H.E. the Gov- ernor to prepare suitable legislation at an early date in accordance with the principles now laid down by the Imperial Government.-Free Press.
Colombo Safe from the Plague.—At least, it ought to be, says the Times of Ceylon, when the port authorities go so far as to insist on the thorough disinfecting of the broken eccentric- shaft of the machinery of the P. & O. steamer Thames, which arrived from Bombay and was put in quarantine. It must have been a pretty strong disinfectant to penetrate the steel, and it reads rather like the precautions adopted at some Spanish or Italian port rather than at the Clapham Junction of the East. But, no doubt, it is best to be on the safe side, even if we raise a smile by being so.
While Hongkong's budget for next year shows a deficit which it is feared will have to be made good by increased taxation, the Straits Settlements budget shows a surplus. Sir Charles Mitchell, in laying the estimates before the Council, explained that, in addition to the one dollar a month of temporary rice allowance to be given to peons, messengers, policemen, and others of that class, it is proposed to ameliorate the financial position of the clerical branch of the Civil Service-the class which does not draw exchange compensation-by sanctioning an increase of ten per cent. to the salaries of these officers. Th's increase is to continue while the dollar remains below a cer- tain point-a point which is not yet definitely fixed. The estimated cost upon the estimates for next year is $55,000.
A Wachang telegram received at Shanghai on the 3rd September by the local mandarins announces that Viceroy Chang and H. E. Sheng had fixed upon the beginning of November next for the first breaking of the sod for the Grand Trunk Railway, and that the occasion will be attended with some ceremony and pomp. H. E. Sheng will certainly be present on the occasion and pos cross over to Hankow to preside at the func« sibly H.E. Viceroy Chang may find time to tion. At any rate there will be no more delay in commencing work, for which H. E. Sheng bas 5 million taels placed to his credit by the Board of Revenue, which will suffice for a com- mencement. A railway school under the tutorship of Belgian engineers is also to be established very soon at Wuchang, and the Director of the institution is to be a Kuangtung expectant Taotai named Yen, French is to be taught the students in the proposed school. N. U. Daily News,
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