THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVII.J
Epitome of the Weck, &c.
AND
China Oberland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Leading Articles :—
Hongkong's Defences
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 19TH MARCH, 1898.
At Kobe on the 8th inst., a grog shop kept ...............205 by a European was destroyed by fire and a sea-
man named Eaton was burnt to death.
The Disruption of China and the Policy of Great
Britain....
206
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.207
The Eagles and the Chinese Carcase Private Paying Patients at the
Government.
Civil Hospital
Registration of Servants
The Trade of Wuchow
Supreme Court
M. Bons d'Anty, the French Consul at Szemao, has been appointed to the Consulate at Canton, and is to be succeeded at Szemao by
M. Sainson.
The losses sustained by Insurance Companies 207 through fires which have so far taken place in Kobe during the present winter is reported to be considerably over a million dollars.
Telegraphic intelligence has been received of an attack made by a Chinese mob on the American Mission premises at Chungking.
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An American Mission Station Attacked
Quarantine at Singapore
Arrival of the First Steamer at Chungking
The Philippine Rebellion
Murder of a Chinese American Citizen near Macao ...211
The Death of Mr. H. Cook
.211
An Aggrieved Husband's Revenge
.212
Reviews
212
The Police Report for 1897
213
Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals..
Two Land Investment Companies
National Bank of China, Limited......
..214
The Punjom Mining Co., Limited
214
Luton Sugar Refining Co., Limited...
China Sugar Refining Co., Limited
.215 215
The Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co.,
Limited
.216
Laou-Kung-Mow Cotton Spinning and Weaving Co.,
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
213 213
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One of the native medical assistants was murdered.
The
announcement that the honour of K.C.B. has been conferred upon Sir Claude MacDonald has caused much satisfaction in the Far East. It is felt that the honour has been well deserved.
A Reuter's telegram reads as follows :--- Russia continues to hurry troops to the Far East. Her own cruisers being insufficient it has been arranged to employ French ships, the first of which leaves shortly with 2,000 men.
M. Rocher, formerly a Commissioner in the Chinese Customs Service and afterwards for some time the head of the Customs Service in 218 Toukin, who was the chief of the recent Lyons commercial mission to China, has been appointed Consul for France at Liverpool.
Limited
Cricket.
Hougkong Volunteer Corps
Correspondence
Russia and Korea
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Extension of the Transit Pass Trade
.219
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Destructive Fire at Kobe
.219
Shanghai and Hongkow Wharf Co
Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce
The Taku Tug and Lighter Co., Limited Railway Projects
Canton Notes
Macao
Hongkong
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
MARRIAGES.
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The Japan Herald of the 3rd inst. says:-- "As we hear nothing of an allotment of shares in the lately projected Japan Fire Insurance .219 Company, it is to be surmised that the number .219 of shares applied for was too small to warrant .220 the Provisional Directors taking further action
with regard to the project.
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At Chefoo, on 22nd February, 1893, at Her Britannic Majesty's Consulate, and afterwards at St. Andrews Church by the Rev. H. Mathews, HENRY H. BROWN, of the Taku Tug & Lighter Co., Limited, Tientsin, to ANNIE JANE GARDNER, only daughter of Capt. and Mrs. DAMSTROM, of Chefoo.
On the 6th March, at 3 pm, at the Synagogue Bethel, Shanghai, FANNY SPUNT, to A. R. ROSEN
FELD.
DEATH.
On the 8th March, in Egypt, EDGAR WILLIAM, son of Wm. PUGH, of Hankow, and Kenley, Surrey, aged 26 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 12th February arrived, per P. M. steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, on the 14th March (30 days); and the French mail of the 11th February arrived, per M. M. steamer Ernest Sinions, on the 14th March (31 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK. Mr. Curzon has stated in the House of Com- mons that the steps required for the proper security of Hongkong have been occupying the -Government for some time.
A Chinese American citizen has been mur- dered near Macao and it is expected that an indemnity will be demanded by the Govern- ment of the United States.
Japanese residents have succeeded in establish- ing a branch of the Red Cross Society in Seoul. The present membership is 60, and there are 30 new applicants. The Society in Japan has been distributing portraits of Miss Florence Nightingale, who they regard as the general patroness of the order.--Hiogo News.
The Governor of the Straits Settlements announced in the Legislative Council the other day that he had received permission from the Secretary of State to absent himself from the Colony on leave of absence, probably returning about the end of the year; and he proposed to leave by the mail steamer going to Hongkong
on the 27th of this month.
A correspondent writes from Kiaochau that the number of the German troops now ashore amounts to about 1,000 men who are engaged in erecting forts and surveying for the railways. Provisions and coals are abundantly supplied and the Chinese in the neighbourhood believe that the Germans intend to take the whole of Shantung province.-China Gazette.
No: 11.
The telegraph station at Bolinao, which was in a state of siege for several days, was re- lieved on the 11th, by the arrival of a gunboat, which landed Marines. On the 15th General Monet and a thousand men arrived overland from Manila, and heavy loss is reported to have been inflicted on the rebels.
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Count Muravieff has informed Sir Nicholas O'Conor that Russia is negotiating for a lease of Port Arthur and Talienwan for a certain number of years, also for a railway across Man- churia, that Russia had not demanded Sovereign rights, neither had she threatened to send troops Russia they would be open to foreign trade. to Manchuria. If the ports were leased to
The Chinese authorities have been much per- plexed over the question of Prince Henry's suitable reception by the Emperor, and after considerable hesitation it has been decided that for the first time in Chinese history, His August Majesty will stand to receive his guest. The officials are as yet in much too great trepi dation to discuss the details of the return visit. -Peking and Tientsin Times.
At the Shanghai ratepayers' meeting mention was made of Mr. Archibald Little's safe arrival at Chungking with his pioneer steamer, and it was resolved that the Council, on behalf of the community, and in consideration of the advan- tages that would accrue to commerce from Mr. Little's success, should send him a congratula tory telegram. The following is the text of the telegram sent:-"Little, Chungking. Rate- payers Shanghai public meeting tender hearty congratulations successful voyaga. Burkill, Chairman."
Troubles, says a native paper, still continue to be piled on the shoulders of the unfortunate Chinese Government, which must be in a sadly bewildered state owing to the multiplicity of the demands which are pressed upon it from all quarters. It was only the other day that it agreed to pay France 100,000 francs in com- pensation for the murder of a French citizen on the Tonkin, frontier two years ago, and now the Swedish Government is clamouring for s definite reply to its proposals in connection with the settlement of the missionaries troubles which took took place at Macheng, Hupeh. Province, a considerable time since, and which have never yet been adjusted.--China Gazette.
A. Canton dispatch received at Shanghai from reliable quarters reports that General Liu Yung-fu, the famous Black-flag Chief of Ton kin, has received orders from the Viceroy Tan to go at once to the former's home in Kwangsi province to raise a brigade of his old adherents, who are now peaceable husbandınen with families of grown-up sons in the Reservation granted them during the general disbandment at the close of the war with France in 1885. There are reported on good authority to be over 18,000 old Black-flags and able-bodied young Owing to the occurrence of a few isolated men in this Reservation, which is in the vicinity cases of plague in Hongkong quarantine against of the Tonkin frontiers, so as to be within easy arrivals from this colony has been declared in call if there should arise troubles with France. the Straits Settlements. Upon receipt of this But it must be called to mind that Kwangsi information the Hongkong Chamber of Com- province was the cradle of the great Taiping merce wired to the Singapore Chamber re-rebellion, which owed its long success to the questing that body to use its influence to have splendid fighting qualities and fanaticism of the the quarantine removed. A meeting of the Kwangsi contingent; and it is said that Lin Singapore Chamber was held to consider the Yung-fu and his Black-flags are by no means matter and it was decided that the request of satisfied with the treatment they have received the Hongkong Chamber could not be complied from the Imperial Government since 1895. —
N. O. Daily News.
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