THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVI.J
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles:-
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 24TH NOVEMBER, 1897.
.Mr. A. E. Hippisley has formally taken over charge of the Imperial Customs at Tientsin, in .397 place of Mr. Aglen, late Acting Commissioner. A farewell banquet was given at Shanghai on the 17th November to Mr. T. R. Jernigan. the retiring U. S. Consal-General. Mr. E. F. Alford presided.
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The German Seizure of Kiaochau Bay Russian Designs in China and the Pacific .........398 Russia in Manchuria
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Foreign Newspapers in Japan and the Revised
Treaties
Prince Henry of Orlenus and his Schemes
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Hongkong Legislative Council
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ARDA
Supreme Court
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Official Salaries Question
Germany and China
The Gang Robbery in Burd Street..............................
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Taikoo Club Bicycle Tournament
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The International Cotton Manufacturing Co., Limited...105
Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co., Ld....406
Correspondence
Chinese Progress
An English Tonkin
Cabinet Changes in Japan
Russia and Kores...
Launch of a New Japanese Cruiser
The Korean Railway
The Peking Railway and the Carriago of Grain Hongkong and Port News..
Commercial
Shipping
MARRIAGES.
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The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank is re- ported to have exchanged 3.52,000 silver yeu for gold at the Specie Bank at Yokohama on the 13th November..
The N. C. Daily News says:-We understand that Sir Claude Macdonald is taking up the Bennertz case so energetically that the Tsungli Yamên have telegraphed instructions to the Viceroy at Nanking to take no further steps in the matter, but to leave the case for decision at Peking
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The Agent of the Messageries Maritimes Cie. ..407
at Shanghai has received advices from home to .407 .407
the effect that the French mail will next year 408 be despatched on Tuesday mornings from Shang- hai, to correspond with the change in the day of departure of the mail steamer made by the P. & O. Company.
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On 5th November, 1897, n! .B.M.'s Consulate, Chefoo, by L. C. Hopkins, Esq., an afterwards at St. Andrew's Church, by the Rev. II. Mathews, FREDERICK WILLIAM, eldest son of the late Captain John GoDSIL, of the Chinese Navy, and formerly in H.B.M.'s Navy, to JANE FANNY, eldest daughter of the late Edward Finch OrrAWAY, of the Imperial Maritime Customs Service,
Ou the 6th November, at Christ Church, Yoko hama, by the Rev. E Champneys Irwine, M.A., CYRIL MONTAGUE, son of the late DAVID BIRNIE, Melbourne, Australia, to MARGARET MARY, younger daughter of the Rev. J. H. DANNAIT, Bar- ton-on-Humber, Yorks, and cousin of The Rt. Rev. Henry Evington, Bishop of Kishio, Japan.
On the 11th instant, at the Presbyterian Church, Singapore, by the Rev. S. Stephen Walker, M.A., LAWRENCE WEBSTER, Superintendent, Eastern Extension Telegraph Co., Singapore, to JESSIE H1 N- TER, only daughter of JAMES BENNIE, Glasgow.
On the 20th November, at St. Jolin's Cathedral, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, Mary, youngest daugh- ter of Mr. T. CRISPIN, of Falmouth, Cornwall, Eng- land, to J. HAND, of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Kowloon,
DEATHS.
At Shanghai, on the 15th November, 1897, WIL- LIAM FARQUHAR, late Chief Engineer of the steamer Pakhoi, native of Greenoc':, Scotland, aged 30 years. At Singapore, on the 19h st., ROBERT TRESI- LIAN, Hongkong and Shanghai Bánk.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 21st October ar- rived, por P. M. steamer China, on the 18th November (28 days); and the French mail of the 22nd October arrived, per M. M. steamer
· Salazie, on the 23rd November (32 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
We understand that H.E. Tang Chun Lin Viceroy of the two Kwang, will not wait for his successor to arrive before leaving for his home in To Ling Chow, Huuan, but will leave the office in the charge of H.E. Heu Cheng Wei, Governor of Canton.
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Kiaochau Bay, on the south coast of the Shantung Promontory, was taken possession of Kaisar, Princess Wilhelm, and Arcona, as satis- on the 14th November by the German warships faction for the murder of two German priests at Yengtu, in the south-east of the province, on the 1st November.
On the German Admiral declaring his intention the Chinese garrison retired and no opposition was offered to the occupation.
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L'Avenir du Tonkin, in its issue of the 17th November gives statistics of the number of deaths in the civil service in Toukin and An- nam this year. There are 706 civil servants and of these 21 died since the 1st January, thus giving a rate of less than three per cent. Tonkin this is an exceptionally high figure, but our contemporary points out that the increase was due principally to an unusually high rate of mortality amongst the telegraph overseers in the Upper Mekong.
It has now been decided, says the Rangoon Gazette, that the Anglo-Chinese Frontier Com. mission shall commence its labours during the present open season. Mr. H. Thirkell White, C. I. E., Commissioner of the Mandalay Division, has been appointed to be the British Commis- sioner, and with bim will probably be associated Mr. W. Warry, Adviser on Chinese affairs, and Mr. E. C. S. George, C.I.E., Deputy Commis- sioner of Myitkyina. The Chinese Commis- sioner is to be Brigadier General Lin, who is
now at Momien,
A few days ago a Chinese, who is a British subject, was arrested at Swatow by the native authorities, but for what alleged offence we are not informed. Anyhow the British Consul failed to obtain the release of the man, and so referred the matter to the British Minister. (The result was that Sir Claude Macdonald com- municated with the Admiral, who ordered the
Algerine to be despatched to Swatow from this port, and the Phenix from Hongkong to pro, This decided action had the ceed there also. desired effect, for the arrested man was promptly released by the Chinese anthorities at Swatow. N. C. Daily News.
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No. 22.
One result of the gold currency, says the Japan Gazette, and it is a happy one for those who have deposits, is that the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation are able to announce that in future the interest on fixed deposits will be increased from four to five per cent. for annual deposits; from three and a half to four per cent. for half yearly deposits, and from two and a half to three per cent. for three monthly deposits.
From American papers we learn that Mr. James S. Dodge, of Elkhart, Ind., department Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, has declined the appointment as Consul at Nagasaki, to succeed Dr. Wm H. Abercrombie, the present Consul, who was appointed as a Mr. Dodge Republican on the 11th May, 1890. gives us his reason business engagements and objections by the Grand Army of the Republic. Dr. Abercrombie is well and popularly known on the Asiatic Coast and it is to be hoped that the refusal of Mr. Dodge will enable him to hold his position.
The Rangoon Gazette says:-The wonderful advances made by Japan since the late war with China are brought to notice every day even here in Rangoon. Before very long we shall doubt- less have Japanese firms established here, and possibly a Japanese bank. In the match trade, a large one in Burma, Japanese matches sell re- tail at one anna for ten boxes after paying a
per
Cus- five
cent. import duty at the tom House. English matches one hardly ever shes, whilst Swedish matches of better quality thau Japanese are only obtainable at 14 annas per packet of ten boxes. A Japanese umbrella bought in the bazaar for Rs. 1.4 was recently shown to us and was a fairly well made looking article, not dis- tinguishable from European make, for which a few years ago, when imports were free, Rs. 4 We are told that Ja- and Rs. 5 was asked. panese bicycles of good strong make are sent here from the Straits at about half the cost of
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those imported from Europe and America.
The Vladivostock and Amoor railway is now an accomplished fact, for the first through train from Vladivostock arrived at Khabarovka on that the tiresome river trip up the Amoor is the 5th of September. This of course means
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a thing of the past, as also that the interior of East Siberia will be in constant communication with Vladivostock throughout the year and therefore with the outer world. As a gain to Russia, militarily considered, it means that the troops cantoned in the Amoor districts (no inconsiderable number) can be concentrated at Vladivostock and from thence opposition can be offered by any power. The thrown into Korea at a point where but little
distance between the two points is about 800 miles, and the line runs through a wonderfully rich country that is being fast settled by European Russian emigrants, assisted by their Government. These emigrants are encouraged to raise cattle and such corps as would be useful to an army in the field. All this has been accomplished without that brag or bluster that some nations consider so necessary when under- taking a great enterprise, and by that blustering they too often alarm and therefore put on their guard those whom it would have been advisable to have kept in ignorance of the importance of the enterprise and its ultimate object.-Japan Gazette.
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