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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVI.}
Epitome of the Wook, &c.
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
The Lu-han Railway
Supreme Court
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 27тH OCTOBER, 1897.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
No. 18.
Owing to the rise in the price of Japanese coal, says the Nagasaki Press, the Japanese rail- way authorities are about to make a trial pur- chase of 50,000 piculs of Australian coal. Should the Australian coal prove satisfactory, further purchases will be made.
The American mail of the 11th September arrived, per
P. M. steamer Aztec, on the 21st October (40 days); the American mail of the 21st September arrived, per 0. & O. steamer Gaelic, on the 21st October (30 days); and the French ..524 mail of the 24th September arrived, per M. M.pointments for alleged misdemeanours, his
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Leading Articles:-
The Shipping Conference and its effect on British
Trade
Perjury in the Hongkong Courts.................. Foreign Influence in Korea ...
Interests Affected by the Exchange Question
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British North Borneo..
Mr. Chater and Increased Taxation...
Sale of the Taipingshan Property
Hongkong Legislative Council
The Benevolent Society's Concert..
328
The Loss of the Namoa
328
The Public Works. Report..
.329
Royal Hongkong Golf Club
.330
Cricket..
331
Jelebu Mining and Trading Co., Limited
.382
Correspondence
.332
British Consular Changes
Hongkong and Port News..
Commercial.
Shipping
BIRTH.
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on
the 26th October
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Admiral Buller has recently been paying a visit to Peking. The French Admiral has also ..333 | just concluded a visit to the capital.
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At Foochow, on the 17th inst., the wife of WILLIAM GRAHAM, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 9th October, 1897, at H.B.M.'s Consulate, and afterwards at St. Andrey's Church, Chefio, EDWARD JENNER HOGG, of Shanghai, to ELIZA- BETH MARY, widow of the late FREDERICK HAY- LEY BELL, of Shanghai.
Cn the 11th October, 1897, at the Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, V.A., ARTHUR DAVIES PEILL, M.B., C.M. (Edinburgh), of the London Mission, Chichon, North China, to ALICE MURIEL MCFARLANE, daughter of Jhn McFar- lane, Esq., J.P., Glenbourne, Edinburgh.
According to the Peking and Tientsin Times it is reported that Mr. A. E. Hippisley is to go to Tientsin as Commissioner of Customs.
The Foreign community of Bangkok intend to present an address to H.M. the King of Siam on his return from his European tour.
The Shanghai Local Post is to be closed on the 31st October and will be taken over by the Imperial Chinese Post Office next morning.
A native Volunteer Corps is being formed in certain provinces of the Philippines, under a decree issued by the Governor-General dated the 16th October.
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An Imperial edict of the 14th October bands over Shih Nien-tsu, Governor of Kwangsi, to the tender mercies of the Board of Civil Ap-
accuser being a Censor named Tsiang Shih-fên. The same edict also cashiers and dismisses from the service a number of minor officials im- plicated with that Governor.-N. C', Daily News.
H.E. Baron von Heyking, German Minister in Peking, was to leave Shanghai on the 24th October by the steamer Tatung for Hankow. He is accompanied by Mr. Krebs, assistant In- terpreter, and Captain von Teichmann, the new Military Attache of the Legation. Vice- Admiral von Diederichs, Commander-in-Chief of the German squadron, was also to leave on the 24th for Hankow.
The following telegram received by Messrs. Fearon, Daniel & Co., Agents for the P.M.S. Co. at Shanghai, has been published :—" Secre- tary of the Treasury reverses Attorney-General's orders collection 10 per cent. contiguous conn- tries under Section 22." From this it would appear that all cargo shipped to the United States via Canada will be. after all, subject to an ad valorem duty of 10 per cent.
The prospectus of the Foochow Tea Improve- ment Co., Limited, has been published. The A violent storm, accompanied by an extraor-object of the Company is to acquire as a On the 12th October, 197, at H.B.M. Consulate-dinarily high tide, caused considera le damage going concern the business hitherto carried on by the Foochow Tea Improvement As80- General, Shanghai, by Sir Nicholas Hannen, and along the Tonkin coast on the morning of the
ciation in the manufacture of machine made afterwards at St. Joseph's Church, by the Rev. F. A. Colombel, LEONARD KERB, of Shanghai, to
ten. The capital proposed is $250,000 divided into 5,000 shares of $50 each of which it is. MAGDE EINE, eldest daughter of Paul BRUNAT, Esq., of Shanghai.
On the 15th October, 1897, at Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, V.A., JoHN BROCK, China Inland Mission, Canking, youngest son of Mr. Archibald Brock, Greenck, Scotland, to EDITH, third daughter of J. ELLIOTT. Assistant Commissary General, Ordnance Departme::t (retired), now of Toronto, Canada.
On the 15th October, 1897, at II.B. M.'s Consulate General, Shanghai, by Sir Nicholas J. Hannen, and afterwards at Trinity Cathedral, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., FREDERICK WILLIAM SAPLETON, to EMMELINE MAUDE, eldest daughter of John Howell MAY, Imperial Slaritime Customs
On the 16th October, 1897, at the Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, A., JAMES Scorf, son of Findlay Scott, Fenar, Greenock, to JANE MOILWRAITH ISBISTER, danghter of Capt. John ISBISTER, Greenock.
On the 20th October, 1897, at St. Peter's, Hong- kong, by the Rev. A. Ilift, HEATHFIELD CHARLES DALTON; eldest son of the late Major H. J. FRAMP- TON, late 50th Queen's Own, to FLORENCE JANE, youngest daughter of Mrs. Charles H. ACKERS, of Government Civil Hospital, and grand-daughter the late Major T. Pickup Ackers, R.H.A., formally of "Orell," Litherland Park, Litherland, near Liverpool.
DEATHS.
At Hangchow, on the 8th October, 1897, the Rev. E. HUGHENDON, of the Church Missionary Society.
At the Shanghai General Hospital, on the 18th October, 1897, ALFRED JONES, I. M. C., Hangchow, aged 27 years.
On the 20th October, at Elliot Crescent, ADA, the dearly beloved daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. LAMKE, aged 6 years and 3 months.
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16th October.
The Penang Chamber of Commerce has unanimously nominated Dr. Brown as its re- presentative in the Straits Legislative Council, in succession to the late Mr. Daniel Logan.
It may not pay to soud coals to Newcastle. but there seems to be some profit in sending tea to China. During the first six months of 1896 Ceylon sent 86,603 lbs. of tea to the Celestial Empire, and during the corresponding period of 1897 the export rose to 259,705 lbs.- Pioneer.
The Shanghai Municipal Council bas issued a notification to the effect that on and after 1st January, 1898, no milk or other dairy produce shall be permitted to be sold in the Settlements, except such as shall come from dairies which voluntarily submit to inspection by the properly authorised officers of the Council.
proposed to issue at present the sum of $125,000
in 2,500 shares.
were
The German community of Kobe entertained at a picnic at Maiko on the 10th October by the German Commercial Commis. Mr. von sion, which is now on a visit to Kobe. Krencki, the German Consul, proposed the toast of the Kaiser, and this having been duly honoured, Dr. Knappe, the German Consul at Canton, who is " personally conducting" the Mission, made an interesting speech explaining its objects. The Mission, Dr. Knappe said, did not come to the East with any idea of showing people how to do business; its idea was not to teach but to learn, to find out what might be necessary for large, industrial firms at home to know and do, and generally to spread in the interior of Germany a better knowledge Mr. Takahira, the Japanese Minister to Vienna, has telegraphed his Government that
of questions of commerce and export, parti- the committees representing the respective in-cularly as these affected the Far East. He ex- terests of Austria and Hungary, appointed to consider the new Treaty between Japan and Austria-Hungary, have come to an agreement, and it is expected that the new Treaty will be signed shortly.
A Seoul despatch of the 14th October says:-- The King of Korea received in audience last night the foreign representatives in Seoul, when
his Majesty informed them that he would hereafter be called Emperor. The foreign representatives offered their personal congratulations, but officially they have not ex- pressed either their approval or disapproval.
plained that the Mission had no intention what- ever of doing any business or of entering into any sort of competition with merchants here. Its members, who were composed of directors of
companies, engineers, and men of business mainly from the interior of Germany, were fully aware that the middleman was absolutely uecessary to healthy commercial transactions, particularly in the form which business took in the Far East. He concluded by expressing the pleasure of the Mission that so large a number German community of Kobe tal of the accepted the invitation to be present on that occasion.--Kobe Chronicle.
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