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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLVI.]}
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c. Lending Articles :-
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 18TH NOVEMBER. 1897.
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Currency Conversion in the Straits Intrigue against Sir Robert Hart... The Loss on Hongkong's Gold Loang Great Britain and the Korean Question
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The Sale of the Taipingshan Property
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The Contagious Diseases Acts in Hongkong
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A Gold Standard for China
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Supreme Court
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The Gang Robbery and Murder
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Double Murder in Shelley Street
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The Champerty Case
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The Licensing Sessions
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Interport Rifle Match...
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Football
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Correspondenco
Hongkong Cricket Festival The A. D. C. Performance
Death of Mr. J. D. Humphreys
Sale of Property in Taipingshao
The Punjom Mining Company Limited
Olivers Freehold Mines, Limited
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The New Balmoral Gold Mining Co., Limited ..... Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Company
Limited
Murder of Priests in Shantung
A Conspiracy Against Sir Rober! 1 art
A Gold Standard for China
The Hooley-Jameson Railway Concession
The Straits Currency Report...
Burning of a River Steamer in Tonkin
The Attack on German Officers at Wachang
Perak Sugar Cultivation Co., Limited Hongkong and Port Nows.......... Commercial.
Shipping
BIRTHS.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English mail of the 15th October arrived, per P. O. steamer Ganges, on the 14th Nov- einber (30 days); and the Gerinan mail of the 18th October arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Bayern,
on the 16th November (29 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
According to the Siam Free Press the Siamese Government has engaged a Japanese Adviser. Mr. Masao is the gentleman selected.
No. 21.
We learn that the Government of the French Republic, as soon as the news of the late severe typhoon at Hoihow was wired home, telegraphed 2,000 francs to be distributed among
the sufferers.
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The writer of By the Way" in the Japan Gazette says :--- -Mr. Mowat is, I hear, found to be suffering from an affection of the heart, and has been ordered to keep extremely quiet, avoiding all excitement. He will settle down at Bournemouth, I believe, and all bis friends will hope that the rest of that delightful seaside town will have a marked effect on his health.
We believe that a petition signed by every member of the Customs staff is now in course of transmission to the Inspector-General asking for a revision of the present wretchedly inade.
The new Japanese battleship Fuji arrived at Yokosuka on the 31st October and was received!uate scale of pay. It is believed that the I. G, with great nthusiasm by the inhabitants of the town.
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The Vladivostock correspondent of the N. C. ..387 Daily News writes under date of the 19th Octo- ...387ber that the large graving dock in the Naval yard was opened for the first time on that day, when the cruiser Dmitri Donskoi entered it to nudergo painting and overhauling.
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Looker on writes in the Jupan Gazette :--- News has arrived in Yokohama that both the French and the Austro-Hungarian Treaties are 390 signed, and the last hope of the foreigners .390 has fled. We have yet to hear what the con- ...391ditions are, but I doubt if they will vary much .392 from those of other Treaties, and we must make up our minds to accept a new condition of affairs from July 16th, 1899.
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At. Manila, Philippine Islands, on the 3rd inst., the wife of WALTER A. Frrros, of a daughter. Melbourne (Australia) papers please copy.
On the 10th November, the wife of J. SCHLÜTER, I. M. Customs, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 1st November, at the British Consulate, Nagasaki, by J. H. Longford, Esq., II.M.'s Consul, and afterwards at the English Church by the Rev. A. B. Hutchinson, RALPH GEORGE ELLIOTT FR STER, H.M.'s Consular service in Japan, to LOUISE, elder daughter of the late Loris JobBERT, of Man- sourah, Egypt.
At Chelos, on the 5th November, 1897, at H.M.S. Consulate, by L. C. Hopkins, Esq., and afterwards at St. Andrew's Church, by the Rev. H. Mathews, FREDERICK WILLIAM J., eldest sun of the late. Capt. JOHN GODSIL, of the Imperial Chinese Navy, to JANE FANNY, eldest laughter of the late EDWARD FINCH OTTAWAY, of the Imperial Maritime Cus-
toms, China.
On the 7th November, at the Synagogue "Beth- El," Shanghai, by the Rev. J. Sudkah, DAVID HAF MOVITCH, of Shanghai, to BERTHA, second daughter of the late M. GENSBURGER, of Cernay (Alsace),
DEATHS.
On the 31st October, at his residence, No. 8, Naka- Samate-dori, 3-chome, Kobe, ROBERT N, GRAY, of yt. Louis, USA., aged 38 years.
On the 8th inst., in England, JOHN DAVID HUM PHREYS, aged 61 years (by telegram.)
At Foochos, on the Sib November, 1897, RALPH GRACEY, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. HENRY SCHLEE, aged three months.
At Shanghai, on the 9th November, 1897, BAR- BARA JOYCE FRY, infant daughter of FRANCIS and EVELYN CONEY, aged 6 weeks.
At Shanghai, on the 10th November, 1897, Cap tuin C. R NULL, of the C. M.S.N. Co., aged 57 years.
The following changes are to be made in the Consulates of the United States in China and Japan-Mr. Edward Nye, journalist of Dan-
ville, Illinois, succeeds' Mr. J. T. Child as Consul at Haukow. Mr. James I. Dodge, lawyer of Indiana, succeeds Dr. Abercrombie as Consul at Nagasaki, Japan. Mr. Edward Bedloe, journalist of Philadelphia, Pa, formerly Consul at Amoy to succeed Mr. Chas. Seymour as consul at Canton. Mr. J. W. Ragsdale, lawyer of California, succeeds Mr. Sheridan P. Read as Consul at Tientsin
the mission.
In the Courrier d'Haiphony of the 4th No rember we find the following:-Three missions of French engineers, of which one is already on its way, will shortly arrive in Tonkin. The one that has already left France is sent by the home Government to study the routes of pene. tration into China, that is to say, the railway routes of China that could be connected with those of Tonkin. Mr. Feer, chancelier of the Consulate at Szemao, has been appointed to act as interpreter to the engineers who compose
As to the other two missions, one; will be sent by the Government and the other by a syndicate to report on routes for railways in Indo-China. For the first two, for which the mandate is official, the cost has been estimated at 100,000 francs. This sum not being convenient to find, and the Government not wishing to expose itself to a check before the Chambers, it has been thonght advisable to ask it from the Government of Indo-China, which has, how- ever, refused to bear any part of the charge. The Ministries for the Colonies and Foreign Affairs have probably provided the cost of the mission which has already left Marseilles; but what will happen to the other two ?
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has already discussed with the Tsung-li Yamen the urgent necessity of doing something to restore the service to something like its old respectable footing in the way of pay, failing which there are everywhere signs of its going to pieces. It is said iu Peking that the Yamen thought 20 or 25 per cent, increase would meet the care, but that the I. G. insisted upon the urgent necessity of doing much more and calculating the Haikwan taels at 5s., something. like its former value, and at this rate, unless
something unforeseen occurs, it is likely the fature pay of the service will be calculated, which will mean almost doubling the present pay of every man in the I. M. Customs service. We trust that the Chinese Government will raise no foolish obstacles to the adoption of some such a revision. for if they do they will find ere many years that the only solid support upon which they have been wont to lean with con- Hdence for so many years has become loose and disorganized and liable at any moment to fly to pieces.-China Gazette.
The Korean Independent, referring to the su- persession of Mr. McLeavy Brown in the office of Financial Adviser to the Korean Government, says-Mde Speyer immediately announced the arrival of Mr. Kuril Alexeieff to the Korean Foreign Office and requested them to fix a day for him to enter upon his duties. The Korean Government replied by informing Mr. Speyer that it was already supplied with the services of Mr. J. McLeavy Brown, whose contract had To this Mr. several years yet before ceasing. Speyer responded that the contracts of other foreigners with the Government were no con- cern of his. M. Alexeieff had been sent at the request of the Korean ambassador at St. Peters- burg and a day must be fixed upon which he could enter upon his duties. The matter was finally referred to the Korean Foreign Office for settlement, and the Foreign Minister has sent a dispatch to Mr. Jordan, British Consul, that the Korean Government will dispense with the services of Mr. Brown as financial adviser and chief commissioner of customs. This communi- cation, we understand, Mr. Jordan has refused to receive. We have already expressed our appreciation of the valuable services of Mr. Brown to Korea. We are sorry to see him so ungratefully treated by the Korean Government. Mr. McLeavy Brown has been decorated by His Majesty with the full second rank in the state. He is entitled to wear uncarved gold buttons Daigam or and use the honorary title of Great Overseer. We congratulate Mr. Brown, on his new honour,
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