THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVII.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, do.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 2ND APRIL, 1898.
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Leading Articles :-)
Russia's Demands
Russian and French Designs in China..
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The Unwisdon of British Opposition to Russia in
Manchuria
The Inspectorate-General of Customs and
British
Interests in Chins
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Expulsion of A. British Journalist from Siam
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Supreme Court
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The Ruvian Withdrawal from Korea
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Mr De Speyer Recalled
Bussis at Port Arthur
The Fleet Going North
In Honour of Prince Henry
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The steamer St. Mary, from Antwerp for Japan, arrived at Colombo on the 9th March with har cargo on fire.
The Emperor of Japan is reported to have made inquiries recently as to the behaviour of the lower orders towards foreigners.
A highly successful ball was given by the civil community of Hongkong on the 29th March in honour of H.R.H. Prince Henry.
Medical inspection has been established at Hongkong with respect to Chinese passengers 251 from Macao on account of the existence of 151 plague and smallpox in the Portuguese .251❘ colony.
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,252 It is reported that a foreign firm in Yoko- hama, dispatching a vessel to the United States was instructed to take out a war insurance risk, on account of the disturbed relations between the United States and Spain.
The French Demands on China
Wreck of the P & 0 Steamer China
The Outbreak of Bubonic Plague.....
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Hongkong Sanitary Board
Probates auil Administrations in 1897
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The Castoms Report on the Foreign Trade of China
for 1897
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Victoria English Schools
The Wai Sing Lottery
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How the Portuguese became the Pioneers of Discovery257 Italy and Austria's Place on the China Coast... American Butter and Canned Milk in Hongkong.
The Panjom Mining Co., Limited
Raub
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
Hongkong Football Challenge Shield Cricket...
New Bardens on Foreign Trade
Russia, Kobe, and Japan
Foochow Spring Races
Affairs in Peking
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Bhipping
MARRIAGES
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On the 19th March, at Christ Church, Yokohama, by the Rev. E. Champney Irwine, HAROLD HENRY BANNISTER, second son of the late Henry BAINES, of Hull, to ANNIE, fourth daughter of the late Edward A. OLIVER, of London.
On the 19th March, at Christ Church, Yokohama, by the Rev. E. Champneys Irwine, M.A., Rector, THOS. WALLACE, fourth son of the late Rev. John MOLLBAITH, M.A., of Erskine, Renfrewshire, N.B. to EDITH HELEN EMMA, fourth daughter of A. T. WATSON, Esq., Yokohama.
DEATHS.
On the 2nd March, 1898, at Bombay, NERSER- WANJI DORABJI PATELL, shahadhu, brother-in-law of Kavasji Edulji Vaid, of Hongkong.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 23rd March, 1898, CHARLES SAW, Captain of the steamer Energia, aged 38 years.
At the Peak Hospital, on the 29th March, 1898, of typhoid fever, CHARLES TOMLIN, aged 31 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 22nd February arrived, per O. & O. steamer Garlic, on the 26th March (32 days); the French mail of the 25th February arrived, per M. M. steamer Salazie, on the 27th March (30 days); the American mail of the 3rd March arrived, per P. M. steamer City of Peking, on the 30th March (27 days); and the English mail_of the 4th March arrived, per P. & O. steamer Verona, on the 1st April (28 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The ratifications of the new Franco-Japanese Treaty were exchanged at Tokyo on the 19th March
The O. 8. S. Co's. steamer Polyphemus, homeward bound from the Far East, arrived at
Colombo on the 10th March with her tunnel shaft broken, and was expected to be delayed there about fifteen or sixteen days.
The N. C. Daily News says:-An interesting and important case which it is expected will involve almost as important points to the com- munity as the famous Ince foreshore case, between Mr. H. Browett and the Municipal Council, is to be heard before the Court of Consuls, consisting of Dr. Stuebel, Senior Consul, Mr. John Goodnow, and Mr. Geo. Jamieson, on the 1st March, in the German Court.
M. Bons d'Anty, the French Consul at Szumao, who has received the appointment to the Consulate at Canton, will, we learn from the Avenir du Tonkin, go home on leave before taking up his new appointment. He has left Bhamo and thence to Rangoon. At Rangoon Szumao for Talifu, whence he will go on to he will proceed by steamer to Calcutta, cross to Bombay by rail, and complete his journey to France by the mail steamer.
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On 7th March, Mr. J. N. Jordan, the British Consul-General of Seoul, received a telegram from his home Government informing him that he has been promoted to Charge d'Affaires to Korea. We congratulate Mr. Jordan and the British Government for taking this step. The commercial and political interests of Great Britain in this land require the presence of an official with powers even greater than that of a Charge d'Affaires.-Korean Independent.
The contract for the electric tramway between Machiapu, the terminus of the Tientsin-Peking Railway, and the Yangting gate of the capital -a distance of nearly two miles in length-haa been given, according to a native report, to an Englishman by Governor Hu of Peking, and the materials for the new tramway, of course, have been ordered from England. The time six months after the signing of the contract.-- set down for the completion of the tramway is
N. C. Daily News.
king, the Viceroy Liu has received an Imperial According to despatches received from Nan-
instructions to his subordinates in charge of edict by telegraph calling upon him to issue
tea, salt, and other likin stations throughout his jurisdiction bordering on the coast and the River banks, to close all these establishments in order to enable the Inspectorate of Imperial Maritime Customs to take charge of that por. tion of the revenues also by the 1st day of the 4th moon of the present year, i.e., the 20th of May, 1898 As there is an intercalary 3rd moon this year, the disestablished likin officials will have some seven weeks given them to close their establishments-a veritable period of grace to some of them.-N. O Daily News.
The political situation during the past week has caused much excitement. The departure of the British fleet from Hongkong for the North, the activity in the Naval Yard, and the important point is pending settlement, but military preparations all indicate that some
what that point is no one seems to know. A Reuter's telegram states that Mr. Balfour will make a statement of the Government's Chinese policy before Easter, and the statement is In the meantime Russia anxiously awaited. has occupied Port Arthur and the Chinese garrison has retired to Kinchow. The objections of Japan were understood to have been over. come by Russia's complete withdrawal from Korea. Whether Japan has really been satisfied now seems doubtful, but Mr. Alexieff and the other Russian officers in Korea, have been paid
The Manila authorities having received in- formation of the existence of an illegal assembly taken to break it up, and at seven o'clock on in a house in the Calle de Camba, measures were the morning of the 25th March the house was raided. On entering, the guards found a num- ber of men armed with knives and staves. They were called upon to surrender, but this they refused to do and offered resistance. The guards then attacked them, killing nine, wound-off and have left the country. Mr. de Speyer, ing four, and taking the remainder, seventy-two in number, prisoners. Four of the guards were wounded, three slightly and one seriously.
References have recently been made by the Hamburg correspondent of the London and China Express to an alleged rush from Ger- many to Kiaochau. It was stated that "both the last Kingsin boat and first Hamburg- American liver going out to China have been full of passengers to the East, and of course to Kiaochau." The correspondent must have drawn on his imagination for his facts. The Andalusia, the first Hamburg-American boat, carried no passengers at all as her cargo con- sisted in large part of explosives, and the Wally, the Kingsin boat referred to, had three pass engers only, and we believe, they were not for Kiaochau.
recalled, whether as a result of dissatisfaction on the Russian Minister to Korea, has been
the part of his Government or for other reasons is unknown. The position of the French negotiations is also uncertain. France has demanded a coaling station at Kwongchanwan, a guarantee that no part of Kwangtung, Kwangsi, or Yunnan shall be ceded to any other Power, railway and mining concessions, and the placing of the Chinese postal service under French direction. To residents in Hongkong the French demands seem to be of much more importance than those of Russia, but appear. ances indicate that in the view of the home Government the latter stand out more promine ently. Owing to the uncertainty of the political situation only thirty per cent of the Chinese loan was subscribed for in Great Britain.
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