J
Page
THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade
VOL. XLVI.J
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Wook, &c.
Report.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 8TH DECEMBER, 1897.
437
Leading Articles:-
The Breaking up of China
438
The German Demands on China and the Policy
of Great Britain '
..438
Russia's Commercial Methods in Asiatic Countries-438
Bimetallism and the Ratio
..439
The Need of Tramways....
.439
Supreme Court
.440
The Protection of Chinese British Subjects.
446
The Partitioning of the Chinese Empire...
The Germans at Kinochau.....
446 446
The Governorship of Hongkong
..447
St. Andrew's Ball
..447
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Navy Leagno
The Philharmonic Society's Concert
.448 .449
Raid on a Triad Society Meeting..
Boxing Tournament at the City Hall Cricket....
.450
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
..451
New Balmoral Gold Mining Co., Limited
.451
The Taku Tug and Lighter Co., Limited.
Correspondence
The Scarcity of Silver at Shanghai
Proposed Loan from Russia to Kores
Singapore and the Gold Dollar............
Hongkong and Port News.. Commercial
Shipping
MARRIAGES.
..447
Major Retallick, in command of the Hong. kong Regiment, is to have the local rauk of Lieut-Colonel. Captain Berger becomes second in command.
Sir William Robinson. G.C.M.G., retires from the Government of Hongkong on the 1st February. His successor is to be Sir Henry Blake, Governor of Jamacia.
Mr. Karl Frossel, agent of the Hooley Jameson Syndicate, returned to Shanghai on the 30th November and, the China Gazette says, is well pleased with the results of his mission.
The Singapore Free Press hears that the West Yorkshire Regiment is only to stay a year at Singapore, owing to dislocation of 449. the relief arrangements to suit a battalion in India. The West Yorks will go to India early in 1899.
450
.451
451
The British Minister at Peking has declined to take up the case of a Straits born Chinaman, 451 travelling under a Straits passport, who has been imprisoned at Amoy. The reason of the Minister's refusal is that the man had neglected to register himself at the Consulate until he 454 got involved in a law suit.
.45] 432 .452
.456
At St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, o. Thursday, the 2nd December, 1897, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, M.A., CHARLES HENRY GRACE to ELLEN (NEĻLIE) BLANCHE PERSON, eldest daughter of William Peirson, of London.
On the 2nd December, 1897, at H.B.M.' Consul- ate-General, Shanghai, by Sir Nicholas J. Hannen, and afterwards at the Cathedral, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., ALFRED ROUGH FULLERTON, of Shanghai, to MARY MAUDE QUELCH, eldest daugh- ter of Charles Berwick QUELCH, of Shanghai. ̧ ̧
DEATHS.
On the 28th November, at the International Hos- pital, Nagasaki, H. F. S MMER, late Captain China Mutual Steamship Navigation Company's steamer Oopack.
At Hongkong, on the 5th December, from the result of an accident, RoBar HOWAT TORRANCE, chief engineer of the steamer Honam, a native of Kilmarnock, aged 32 years. Scotch papers please
copy.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 5th November arrived, par M. M. steamer Saghalien, on the 6th December (31 days).
ÉPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Mr. H. S. Wilkinson has been confirmed in the post of Judge of H.B.M.'s Court for Japan. Mr. Cecil Holliday has been unanimously Selected Commandant of the Shanghai Volnuteer
Corps.
The Shanghai Branch of the China Associa- tion held a Committee meeting on the 2nd De- cember to consider the political situation and its influence upon British interests. It was decided to represent the Committee's views by telegrami to the home authorities, the British Minister in Peking, and the Hongkong Branch.
We hear that instructions have been received that no work is to be undertaken on board the Centurion that would detain her in port for more than forty-eight hours and that her bunkers are full of coal. The other vessels of the fleet are also reported to be under orders to be in readiness to put to sea at short notice.
i
No. 24.
The Haiphong Chamber of Commerce held a special meeting on the 23rd November to con- sider a new tax proposed to be placed on tobacco, cigars, and cigarettes, and it was unanimously resolved to protest against the impost.
Sir Nowell Salmon, R.N., and Lady Salmon are on a visit to Japan. Sir Nowell Salmon was Commander-in-chief of the British squadron in Chinese waters in 1890 and 1891, and was
highly esteemed by all who were honoured with bis acquaintance. He will no doubt be warmly welcomed. Sir Nowell won that coveted order the Victoria Cross, and he is a G.C.B. and A.D.C. Upon him devolved all arrangements in connection with the Naval procession at the Jubilee, a task which he executed in a most efficient manner.-Jupun Gazette.
In view of the contradictory reports that come to hand it is difficult to arrive at the exact position of affairs in Luzon, but that the rebellion is still active is evident from the fact that in a decree issued the other day a line is laid down marking off the districts in revolt. permission, and persons doing so are to be tried This line it is forbidden to cross without special
by summary court martial as traitors or spies. The latest papers received also contain an account of an affair in which the Spaniards in dislodging a party of rebels from a strong position on Mount Arayat lost twenty killed and forty-six wounded. Of the rebels ninety- four were left dead on the field and their total losses are supposed to have been much heavier.
The Siam Free Press states, on the authority of information from a private source in Eng- land, that the Siam Exploring Company has obtained a concession for the construction of a railway to Chiengmai, and that it was also negotiating for the construction of waterworks for Bangkok. The same Company is reported to have other valuable schemes in hand. On inquiry from the local agents of the Company our contemporary was informed that they had no information as to the waterworks or the other important concessions. Our own infor- Sirmation, says the Free Press, comes from a gentleman pecuniarily interested in the Com- pany and on excellent terms with the board of directors, who, we presume, would not make light statements on matters of so grave import-
The China Brauch of the Royal Asiatic Society is going to welcome the three round-the- world evelists on their arrival in Shanghai by entertaining them at a public dinner. Nicholas Hannen, Messrs. C. Holliday, Gum- pert, Charles Dowdall, and Firth were elected to form a reception and entertainment com-
mittee.
The Chung Ngoi San Po contains a para- Yung-fu, the ex-Black Flag Chief has, through graph stating that it is reported that Liu
the petition of H.E. Chan Chih-tung, been promoted to be Generalissimo of the armies of the five provinces of Nam Yeung, namely. Kwangtung, Fokien, Chekiang, Kiangsu, and Hunan.
-
The Kobe Chronicle of the 29th November | says: The many friends of Captain H. F. service of the China Mutual Steamship Company, Sommer, who for many years has been in the will regret to learn that the illness from which he has recently been suffering terminated The new Chinese Minister to Berlin is pro-fatally yesterday. It will be remembered that ceeding to his post by the German mail when the Oopack was here about two months steamer Bayern.
ago Captain Sommer had a paralytic stroke and was taken to the International Hospital, He was found also to be suffering from Bright's disease and other complications, we believe, and death resulted yesterday. Captain Sommer was married, and the sympathy of the deceased's many friends will be extended to his widow in England.
Bishop and Mrs. Burdou are booked to leave London for Hongkong by the P. & O. steamer Borneo on the 11th December.
The scarcity of silver at Shanghai and Hong- kong is seriously hampering business and depressing the value of all securities.
ance.
Sensational reports have been received from the North through a channel believed to be reliable to the effect that an agreement has been arrived at between Russia, France, and
Germany under which Russia is to annex Korea. Manchuria, and Chihli, Germany the Shantung province, and France the province of Fokien and the island of Formosa. Probably an agreement of some kind has been arrived at between the Powers named with reference to their policy in the Far East, but the sweeping terms of the above report bear on their face an appearance of exaggeration. The matter has been deemed of such importauce, however, that meetings of the Committees of the China As- sociation have been held with reference to it both at Hongkong and Shanghai. What is known as a fact is that Germany has demanded a monopoly of railway construction and mining rights in Shantung, and on the 3rd December a force landed from the fleet at Kinochan Bay and took possession of the city of the same namu. The Chinese retired without offering opposition.
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.