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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVII.
AND
China Oberland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, dc.
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Hongkong and the Opening-up of China The Rectification of Hongkong's Boundaries Russia in Korea
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 12TH JANUARY, 1898.
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Anglo-French Agreement relating to Chusan...... 18 The Reported Anglo-Japanese Allianco
Jingoism and the Designs of Foreign Powers in
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Farewell Banquet to the "Prince of Wales' Own" by
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Legal Appointments in the Colonial Service
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The Partitioning of China
The Situation .....
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The French at Hainan
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Supreme Court
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the Hongkong Polo Club
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Court Martial in Hongkong
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The Road Round the Island
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The Double Murder in Shelley Street
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The Triad Society Case
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The Black Sheep of Hongkong
A Steamer Bunk at Shanghai
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Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co., Ld.
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The New Balmoral Gold Mining Co., Limited
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Olivers Freehold Mines, Limited ........
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Cricket..
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
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The Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
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Correspondence...
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The New Russian Minister to Korea
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Borneo Troubles
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The U. S. Minister to China
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The Share Market in 1897
Hongkong and Port News
Shipping
Commercial
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M. Gerard lately Minister for France at Peking, has been appointed to Brussels.
The latest report as to the Belgian loan is that the negotiations have finally broken down.
-N. C. Daily News,
It is stated that the territory "leased" by China to Germany, including Kiaochau Bay, is twenty miles each way, or four hundred square miles.-N. ('. Daily News.
A farewell reception was given at the Astor Hall, Shanghai, on the 30th December, to the Rev. Dr. Stevens, who is retiring from the pastorate of the Union Chur, h. ·
The Burmo-Chinese Boundary Commission left Bhamo on. the 18th December in two parties, all preliminaries having been unc- cessfully arranged with General Liu.
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The China Branch of the Royal Asiatic So- ciety have sent out a circular asking replies to a large number of questions which are designed to elucidate the statements of Mr. Grosvenor, in his report for 1896 on the Trade of China, that the silver price of copper cash has risen, while their purchasing power in regard to com- modities in general has declined.
The round-the-world cyclists, Messrs. Fraser, Lunn, and Lowe, were entertained to dinner at the Shangbai Club on Monday evening the 3rd inst. Sir Nicholas Hannen presided and about fifty or sixty subscribers, of various nationalities, were present. The health of the three cyclists was proposed by the Chairinan and, after the toast had been enthusiastically honoured, Mr. Fraser responded. He said the cruellest criticism of their journey of 14,000
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The appointment of Mr. Hiram Shaw Wil-miles came from a Chinaman The other kinson to be Judge of Her Majesty's Court for Japan is notified in the London Gazette of the 3rd December, under date of 10th November.
A Madrid telegram to the Comercio says it is reported in well informed circles that the Marquis de Estella, Goveruor and Commander- in-chief of the Philippines, is to be created a Duke.
Mr. H. P. Wilkinson has received by wire the substantive appointment of Crown Advocate and Legal Adviser to the Legations; an ap- pointment the news of which will be received with general satisfaction in Shanghai.-N. C. Daily Nens.
The Japan Mail urges that Japan should not allow the completion of her naval programme to depend on China's indemnity payments, but should at once borrow two hundred million yen sterling) in London, while it can
On the 8th January, 1898, at the Peak Church, Hongkong, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, MA., WILLIAM HERBERT TRENCHARD DAVIS, second son of the late WILLIAM DAVIS, Solicitor, Melbourne,|(£20,000,00 Australia, to MATILDA KATHLEEN, eldest daughter of the late JOSEPH DOUD, of Melbourne, and of Mrs.
DODD, "Oaklands," Wattle Tree Rond, Malvern, Melbourne, Australia, and grand-daughter of the late Major MACPHERSON.
DEATHS.
At Newchwang, on the 29th December, 1897, JAMES FINLAY GALBRAITH, of Glasgow, aged 24 years (Acting Agent of the American Trading Co., Newchwang).
At Chinkiang, on the 5th January, 1898, from in- flammation of the lungs, MINNIE MAUD, youngest child of THOMAS WILLIM and JESSIE BOWERN, aged 11 months and four days De ply regretted.
At Shanghai, on the 6th January, 1898, THEODORE EYSEL, aged 35 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 7th December arrived, per O. & O. steamer Gaelic, on the 5th January (29 days); and the English mail of the 10th December arrived, per P. & O. steamer Rohilla, on the 10th January (31 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
be done with ense.
The notification of Mr. George Jamieson's appointment as Consul-General at Shanghai ap- pears in the London Gazette of 3rd December. under date of 13th November. No mention is made in the notification of Mr. Jamieson's ad ditional appointment as Commercial Attaché.
Commodore Dewey, who has been appointed to succeed Rear-Admiral McNair in the com- mand of the U.S. squadron in the Far East, arrived at Nagasaki by the O. & O. steamer Gaelic on the 31st December. Rear-Admiral the O. & O. steamer Coptic on the 3rd January. McNair and bis staff were expected to leave by
The Provincial Treasurer at Nanking, ia obedience to orders received from Peking, has purchased Tls. 150,000 worth of wooden piles from the timber merchants at Kiangning and Chinkiang, presumably, according to native reports, to be ased in blocking up points in the Yangtze when occasion calls for such a move. Recruiting stations have been opened in various parts of Nanking, the inten- tion being to raise ten battalions of 500 men each, as soon as possible.-N. C. Daily News.
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It has been reported during the week that an agreement has been arrived at between M. Matanine has been appointed Russian England, Russia, and Japan with reference to Minister to Korea.
China and Korea, and although it is impossible to get official confirmation of the report it is generally accepted that the crisis is over. This belief is strengthened by the statement that Great Britain will lend China financial assistance, raising the money by an issue of consols. It is expected that the British fleet will shortly return to Hongkong.
The three Burd Street murderers were executed in Victoria Goal yesterday morning.
"L'Echo de Chine states that M. Dubail, for some time the very popular Consul-General for France in Shanghai, has been nominated Min. ister to Caracas.
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afternoon I was," said Mr. Fraser, troduced to a Celestial by a friend who told him we had come thousands and thousands of miles, that often there had been nothing to eat, and that we were wet through and had dangers, and lived for weeks on nothing but rice and vanity, and a great many more ornate untruths. The Chinaman looked at me curiously for a few seconds and then said gravely: Too much damn-fool!" On the 5th inst. the Taotai of Shanghai entertained the cyclists at dinner, and on Saturday they left for Nagasaki. From there they will cycle up to Yokohama.
Our French contemporary, the Echo de Chine, discusses the claim Englishmen com- placently make, if China is to partitioned, to the Yangtze Valley, Ignoring altogether the fact that it was England that threw China open to the commerce of the world, it points out that English interests in China are princip. ally concerned with imports, commissions, and transport. The two chief Chinese products, tea and silk, go to Russia and France respectively. As to imports, the principal ones in which England is interested are cotton goods, iron manufactures, and opium, and a fatal blow has been struck at this trade by the development of industries in China, the depreciation of silver, and the formidable competion of Ger. many and the United States. The commissions England has hitherto earned as broker between the European seller and the native buyers are
trade into their own hands; and so the English being more and more threatened by German competition, and by the Chinese taking direct
houses in the small ports are one by one disap- pearing. Even a large part of the capital em- ployed in the transport business is native. To take the river ports, for instance; at Chinkiang there are two English houses of no importance: at Wuhu, none; at Kinkiang, one agency veget- ating under the shadow of two great Russian tea firms. At Hankow British trade plays only a suppressed and subordinate
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The Russians have the whole of the tes bus. iness, and the trade in skins is entirely in the hands of six German firms, and two French firms who have in a very short time acquired an excellent position in the market. All this shows, says the Echo, the baselessness of British pretensions to preponderance in the trade of the Yangtze; but we fear our contem porary will be disappointed if it thinks that this extraordinary story will discourage the British Government from warning any other pretender off the valley of the Yangtze.-N. C. Daily News.
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