THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVI.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles:—
Germany and the Occupation of Kiaochau The Future of Kiaochau
The Protection of Chinese British Subjects The Anti-Opium Society and its Work...
Hongkong Legislative Council
Supreme Court
Scandalous Delay at the Supreme Court
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Hongkong Benevolent Society
Alarming Attack on Haiphong
Plague on the Mail Steamer
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 22ND DECEMBER, 1897.
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The King of Siam, returning from his!
the European tour, arrived at Singapore on 10th December and left the same day for Bangkok.
At Shanghai the other day there was not a 483 single foreign sailing vessel, either fore-and-aft or square-rigged, in the harbour, exclusive, of course, of pilot boats.
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Twenty-six thousand dollars are to be spent ..488 ou the erection of a British Consulate at Chung- 488 king, and $85,000 on a summer residence for the British Minister at Peking.-N. C. Daily News.
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Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co., Ld....490
Extraordinary Adventure with Smugglers
The Straits Chinaman Imprisoned at Amoy
How Hongkong was not Captured
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The New Balmoral Gold Mining Co., Limited
Olivers Freehold Mines, Limited
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The Yah Looug Cotton Spinaing Co, Limited......491
Polo
Cricket
Correspondenco...
Suppression of an Insurrection
The Trans-Siberian Railway
Russian Alarms
A Russian Military Adviser for China Hongkong and Port News....
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Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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In Japan property owners are resenting the rates at present charged by the Fire Insurance (ompanies and at Yokohama the idea of estab- lishing a Co-operative Insurance Company has
been mooted.
According to the China Gazette it was re- ported in Peking that Herr Detring is to come back to China in a new rôle, having been assigned a high post in the administrative .492 department of the new German colony at
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-At the Government Civil Hospital, on the 16th instant, the wife of J. DALTON, of a son.
At No. 19-21, Mosqne Street, on the morning of Sunday, the 19th inst., the wife of Mr. G. J. SEQUEIRA, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
At the German Chapel, on Monday, the 20th December, 1897, by the Rev. H Rieke, THEODOR BUNGE, of Kobe, Japan, to ELIZABETH TRENSDORF, daughter of OTTO TREBSDORF, of Hamburg, Ger-
many.
On Tuesday, the 7th December, 1897, at the Union Chapel Chefoo, by the Rev. E. Tomalin, the Rev. CALVIN WIGHT, of t'e American Presbyterian Church, to Miss LDA JLAN EMERICE, of the China Inland Mission.
DEATHS.
At Tokyo, Hongo, Kaga-yashiki, No. 1, on Thurs day, 9th December, MARGARET THERESA, beloved wife of EDWARD DIVERS, M.D., F.R.S.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 16th December, BENJAMIN B. C. POWELL, of Philadel phía. Deeply regretted.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The German mail of the 15th November arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Prinz Heinrich, on the 15th December (30 days); and the American mail of the 18th November arrived, per O. & O. steamer Coptic, on the 20th December (32 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Japan Gazette says there are some 50,000 bags of German beet sugar at present in stock
at Yokohama.
The financial stringency recently prevailing in Shanghai has been relieved to a considerable extent by the arrival of a large quantity of
silver.
The China Gazette believes that Major Jameson, M.P., and Sir Weetman Pearson, Bart, the famous Eng'ish railway constructor, will arrive about January or February next to cominence operations on the railway from Shanghai to Chinkiang and Nanking.
Sir Claude MacDonald had an audience with the Emperor on the 15th December at which he expressed the thanks of H.M. Queen Victoria for the Emperor's recognition of her Jubilee. The ceremony was very imposing, and every- thing passed off very smoothly.-N. C. Daily News.
The news that the Belgian loan is now an accomplished fact is confirmed; and we learn that the Tsungli Yamên, which had previously only given its consent to the loan being made. has now arranged to guarantee it in the event of any failure of the original plan of security. N. C. Daily News.
A Japanese Imperial Ordinance bas been issued to the effect that the value of chopped silver yen, the circulation of which has been made legal tender in Formosa, will be estimated as 1,037 for 1,000 yen gold until further notice. A further Ordinance announces that the circula- tion of unchopped silver yeu will be stopped after the 1st April next.
Mr. W. F. Tyler, of the Harbour Depart- ment of the Imperial Maritime Customs. together with a diver, leaves Shanghai for Chungking almost immediately, in order to inspect the rapids formed by the landslip which occurred there some time ago, with a view to the partial removal of the fallen rock by dynamite, in order to widen and deepen the channel. Mercury.
Telegraphic information has been received at Shanghai from the Foreign Office stating that the separation of the Chief Judges ip of the Supreme Court from the Consulship-General is to come into effect on the arrival of Mr. G Jamieson, C.M.G., who is appointed Consul. Gen-ral. Mr. Jamieson was a passenger by the N. D. L. steamer Prinz Heinrich, which left Hongkong for Shanghai on Saturday.
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The Japanese Official Gazette announces that on the 16th ult. 11 cases of bobonic plague occurred at Rokko, Taichu prefecture, Formosa, and another case on the 1st inst,
A despatch from Peking states that the Throne has appointed Prince Ching, and thir.excel- lencies Li Hung-chang and Chang Ying-huan as Commissioners to arrange with Baron von Heyking as to the German demands.-N. C. Daily News.
One outcome of the occupation of Kiaochau by Germany is said by the Japanese vernacular press to be a postponement of the payment by China of the balance of the war indemnity to Japan. The Chinese Government hoped to pay the balance off in May next, but Germany's action has upset arrangements completely. In view of this altered state of things, Viscount Takashima, Minister of the War Department, has submitted for the Cabinet's consideration a bill for the cost of repairing the temporary barracks of the Japanese Garrison at Wei-hai- wei.
M. Lorgeau arrived at Bangkok from Ran. goon on the 5th December and succeeds M. Hardouin as French Consul. He will be chief of the Legation until the return of M. Defrance. It is not, says the Bangkok Times, as a stranger that M. Lorgean comes to Bangkok, for he has already been a member of the Consular body there for a consid rable number of years; and noted as M. Hardouin was as a Siamese scholar, M. Lorgeau is at least equally distinguished. He will be very heartily welcomed back by all who knew him in the old days in Bangkok. As a diplomat the new Cousul bears a very high reputation, and he was always able to impress both sides with his perfect fairness in all ques. tious that arose between the Governments.
The Shanghai Mercury says:-The steamer Yungping, of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Co., is at present undergoing alterations to her cabin fittings in order that some ten European passengers may be accommodated. With the same Co.'s steamer Peiping she will maintain a service throughout the winter between Chefoo and Peitaiho, carrying mails and passengers. Thus Tientsin and Peking, it may be said, will be open throughout the winter. At Chefoo the Yungping and Peiping will connect with steamers from Shanghai. The landing-place at Peitaiho is about 14 miles from a railway station on the Shanhaikwan line running to Tientsin and connecting there with Peking.
Native despatches received from Chefoo re- port that the Germans have also occupied the city of Chimô, some distance from the city of Kiaochan on the mainland, which they entered on pretext of calling upon the district magistrate, and that their outposts on the 3rd instant were as far as the hamlet of Nukuk'ou, on the Kiso river. The territory occupied by the Germans is estimated at something approaching three or four hundred square miles so far. At Nukuk'on there is a likin station which has also been taken
possession of by the Germans, who have also be- gun collecting taxes on imported and exported goods. The brigade of General Chang Kao- yuan has been ordered by an edict of the 2nd in- stant to make a retrograde movement to Chefoo in order to prevent any conflict with the Ger-
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