THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVII.J
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 26TH MARCH, 1898.
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Russian and French Designs on China... Railway Prospects in Yunnan
The Navy League and the Chinese Customs
in
Hongkong
Foreign Ports in China and the Protection
of
China's Revenue
Medical Inspection versus Quarantine
Supreme Court ....
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
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The Transit Pass Trade
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The Delivery of the French Mail
Quarantine at Singapore
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Hongkong Centre of the London College of Music ...233 The Scarcity of Rice in Kwangtung Hongkong Odd Volumes Society
Prince Heary of Prussia
Charge of Blackmailing a Chinese Doctor
The Death of Mr. H. Cook
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A St. Patrick's Ball was given at Shanghai on the 17th March.
A Reuter's telegram states that subscriptions to the Chinese loan in Berlin largely exceeded the amount required. Nothing has transpired officially about the subscriptions to the London portion of the loan.
It was noticed that when the Russian Volan- teer steamer Saratow passed through Nagasaki the other day, crammed with troops for Vladi- rostock, her armament was all in position, ready for any eventualities.
The scarcity of rice in Canton is causing much uneasiness. A system of supplying rice to the poor at a rate considerably below the market price has been established by the charit able institutions of the city.
235 Goods proceeding inland under transit pass may, under rules recently promulgated, be 236 sold at any point en route and in portions. Formerly the goods had to be conveyed intact to the point mentioned in the pass. The new modification of the rules is considered of great
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Sudden Death of the Hospital Wardmaster.
China Sugar Refining Co., Limited
Luzon Sugar Refining Co., Limited..
The China Fire Insurance Co, Limited
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The China and Manila Steamship Co., Limited
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Green Island Cement Co., Limited
Olivers Freehold Mines, Limited
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The New Balmoral Gold Mining Co., Limited
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The Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co.,
Limited
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
Cricket..
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The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
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Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Correspondence.
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OTION NOTAR
An English Journalist Expelled from Siam
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Payment of the Indemnity Postponed....
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Hongkong and Port News
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Shipping
Commercial.
BIRTH.
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value!
Referring to the strengthening of the de- fences of Hongkong, the Straits Times saya that "inasmuch is it involves acquiring some little additional Chinese territory, it is perhaps anadvisable that British journalists should shriek vehemently when Russia and Gerinany make some little territorial arrangements with China."
A Reuter's telegram states that negotiations are poceeding in Paris between M. Hanotaux and the Chinese Minister that China shall not cede any portion of the four provinces of Kwang- tung, Kwangsi, Yunnan, and Kweichow; for the prolongation of the railway from Langchow
At 135, Wanchai Road, on the 20th instant, the into Yunnan and for a coaling station at Lui- wife of H. DIXON, of a son.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English mail of the 18th February arrived, per P. & O. steamer Chusan, on the 19th March (28 days); and the Canadian mail of the 2nd March arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of Ching, on the 23rd March (21 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
chow (Kwongchauwan).
The Spanish transport Isla de Luzon arrived at Singapore on the 12th March with about 1,000 troops from the Philippines. Owing to the fresh breakout there it was intended to send her back to Manila, but at the last moment a telegram was received from home directing her to continue her voyage homeward, and she left for Barcelona on the 13th.
Mr. J. F. Lowder, Chairman of the Provi- sional Board of Directors of the proposed Japan Fire Insurance Company, has issued the following circular, dated 7th March, to those Telegraphic communication between Bolinao applying for shares: Sir, I regret to have and Manila is restored.
A new agreement is said to have been con. oluded between China and Japan extending the period for the repayment of the indemnity by five years.
The cable which now lands at Cape Bolinao is to be extended to Manila. This will do away with the risk of stoppage of communication by damage to the land lines.
The Japanese have been for some time past quietly increasing the" garrison at Weihaiwei, and it is now twice as. strong as it was a year ago.-Peking and Tientsin Times.
The British North Borneo Company have, it is reported, decided to try tea, and they are about to plant up some 200 acres. An expert from Ceylon is going to report on the land.
to inform you that by reason of the meagre support extended to the proposed Fire Insur- ance Company by the public, the Provisional Directors have not felt themselves justified in taking any further steps in the matter. It remains, therefore, to return to you the amount of your deposit, for which a cheque is enclosed.” The Nagasaki Daily News says:— -We must give the British government the fullest credit for the ability it displays in throwing dust on the Conservative newspapers were exulting over
eyes
of the electorate in England. While
purchasing all the available stock of Welsh coal shown by the Admiralty in in the East, thus immobilizing the foreign fleets, the Rossia was being supplied with 2,000 tons of coal at Singapore, and she is actually taking in coal at this port from the very godowns whence the British fleet replenish their bunkers.
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the "smartness
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No. 12.
Mr. J. J. Lillie, proprietor and editor of the Siam Free Press, was on the 11th March offl. cially required to laave Siam within a week of that date and warned that in the event of his failing to do so he would be expelled. British protection has been withdrawn from Mr. Lillie whose incendiary writings against the Siamese Government are the cause of the proceedings taken against him.
It is reported from Peking that H.I.M. the Empress Dowager may possibly try this sum mer the new Railway carriage, specially con- structed for her Majesty at the North-China Railway Works at Tongshan last year. In case the Empress Dowager will pass through Tientsin, as her Majesty has recently announced her desire to pay a visit to the sea- coast.-N. C. Daily News.
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Writing to the New York Journal of Com- General for the United States at Shanghai, merce, Mr. T. R. Jernigan, recently Consul- says:"The United States should take a more Great Britain to fight alone the battle in favour decided stand in Asiatic Affairs, and not allow
of open ports and free commerce; the Govern ment, on all proper lines, should emphasise its influence in behalf of liberal trade, of a fair showing for the Saxon, whether he comes from the British Isles or North America, and if necessary draw the sword to provent lucrative and increasing demands for the products of American looms and fields from being diverted or monopolised by discriminating restrictions or coalitions."
In consequence of the continued excess of imports over exports in Japan, the outflow of gold coins amounted to 4,450,000 yen during January, and for February the sum is stated by the Commissioners of Customs to have been 5,000,000 yen, making an aggregate total of 18,000,000 yen from October last. The above calculations are based upon the Customs returns, but the actual outflow must have reached some
20,000,000 yen up to February, as the amount sent abroad by other means is estimated at 2,000,000 yen. The value of the gold coins issued prior to February by the Government the whole issue has already been exported from was 62,900,000 yen, so that nearly one-third of
Japan since the gold standard was adopted in October last.-Nagasaki Press.
Quarantine has been declared against Hong- kong at most of the neighbouring ports, except in China and Japan, and in the latter The cause is the occurrence of a few cases country medical inspection has been established. of plague, though there is no epidemic.. The Straits Times of the 16th March says:- We believe that the port of Hongkong is still issuing, or was issuing a few days ago, clean bills of health. The first action in the way of declaring quarantine against Hongkong seems to have been taken in Netherlands India. The Straits Government, finding that there was a quarantine against Hongkong in Netherlands India, then proceeded to make inquiries, which caused the Straits to impose quarantine, not- clean bills of health. Concurrently with the withstanding that Hongkong was still issuing P. & O., the Messageries Maritimes, the North German Lloyd, and the Japan line have issued instructions to their agents in Hongkong that no Chinese passengers are to be carried by their vessels during the outbreak of bubonig plague at Hongkong.
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