THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLVII.J
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :-----
British Policy in China
The Chinese Concessions to Great Britain
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 9TH APRIL, 1898.
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The Situation and the Rectification of the Kowloon
Frontier
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Mr. G. Litton is taking over the Consular duties at Chungking in room of Mr. J. N. Trotman, who goes home to England on furlough.
Mr. P. H. S. Montgomery, Acting Com- missioner of Customs at Soochow, has been 171 appointed Commissioner at Yatung, Mr. H. E. Hobson, the present Commissioner, going home
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Plague and its Introduction
Medical Inspection of Shipping
271
Supreme Court ................
271
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
273
Hongkong Sanitary Board
277
The Annual Report of the Medical Officer of Health...278
The Water Supply.
280
The Departure of Mr. Wodehouse
280
Special Licensing Sessions
The Plague
The Discovery of the Sea Route to India.
Reviews
The Straits Insurance Co., Limited
Victoria Recreation Club's Athletic Meeting Polo
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286
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
288
Royal Hongkong Golf Club
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Correspondence
The Chinese Concessions to Russia
The sale of Poisons
The Crisis
Hongkong and Fort News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
on leave.
The Hon. H. E. Wodehouse, C.M.G., who has retired from the Hongkong Civil Service, left on the 6th instant. He was the recipient of a number of farewell addresses before his departure.
It is understood that Mr. E. H. Fraser will will take charge of affairs connected with the 284 British Consulate at Foochow this month, when Mr. W. R. Carles starts for England on twelve months' leave.
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One of our inland correspondents tells us that he met five German mining engineers 287 thirty miles north of Hankow. They were bound for the mountains south of Honan 287 prospecting.-Mercury.
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On the 18th of March, 1898, at the Spanish Con- sulate, Kulangsu, Amoy, the wife of S. T. STEPANOV, of the Chinese Maritime Customs, of a DAUGHTER.
MARRIAGES.
On the 19th March, at Yokohama, HAROLD HENRY BANNISTER BAINES, to ANNIE OLIVER.
On the 21st March, 1898, at Hankow, by the Rev. J. A. Ingle, in the presence of the U.S. Consul, ELIZABETH, second daughter of the late Samuel WILLIAMS, of Tientsin, THEODORE SUFFERT, of Cleveland, Olrio, US A.
On the 28th March, at Yokohama, FRANCIS HENRY ABBEY, to FLORENCE AIMEE, eldest dangli- ter of the late Mr. BENJAMIN GUNN, of London,
DEATH.
At the Shanghai General Hospital, on the 29th March, 1898, JAMES EVELEIGH, Superintendent of the Sailors' Home, aged 52 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The German mail of the 7th March arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Prinz Heinrich, on the
5th April (29 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Chinese telegraph line from Shanghai to Tientsin is, it is reported, to be duplicated.
It is reported that Mr. Weber, the former Russian Minister to Korea, is to be sent back to the Peninsula.
Mr. A. Zimmermann. German Vice-Cousnl at Shanghai, has been appointed Civil Com- missioner at Kiaochau Bay.
Mr. Paul H. King is appointed acting Com- missioner of Customs at Hangchow in succession to Mr. S. Leslie, who goes home on leave.
M. Alexieff, late Russian Financial Adviser to the Korean Government, has been appointed commercial attaché to the Russian Legation in Tokyo
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Mr. G. D. Pitzipios, Interpreter in H.M. Consulate-General at Shanghai, is appointed Vice-Consul at Canton, and will leave for his new post this month. He is to be succeeded at Shanghai by Mr. Perkins.
A special correspondent at Chungking tele. graphs that the militia who made the attack on the mission at Kiangpeh have dispersed, but no arrests have been made, nor has the Taotai been trying to make any, as he alleges that he has no instructions to do so from Peking.-N. C. Daily News.
Our friends on the Customs staff whose bitter
cry we have published, while it is still officially the post office work added to their labours pigeon-holed at Peking, and who have had all
without any additional pay, may comfort them- selves with the hope that the Inspector-General intends to make the assumption of the collection of likin the opportunity for a general readjust. ment of their now inadequate salaries.-N. C. Daily News,
An official telegram from the Chinese gold mines at Muho, in the Amoor regions, reports
that large bodies of Russians have crossed into
Chinese territory, that it looks as if these troops 12,000 to 15,000 men each, and that one of these corps would probably be encamped in the vicinity of the mines in question. Each corps is fitted out as if for a long march and com.
were to be divided into three corps of from
prises all three arms of the service.-N. C. Daily News.
At Shanghai on the 1st March Dr. Stuebel (Germany) Mr. J. Goodnow (United States), and Mr. R. W. Mansfield (Great Britain), sat at the German Consulate to hear an action for injunction brought against the Municipal Council by Mr. H. Browett, who alleged that the value of certain property of his, with a frontage to the Soochow Creek, was depreciated by the officers or agents of the Council shooting garbage on the foreshore. The Council, repre- sented by Mr. Dowdall, claimed a prescriptive right. Mr. F. Ellis appeared for the plaintiff. Witnesses were called for Mr. Browett and the case was adjourned.
No. 14.
The death is reported on the 22nd of March of the Prince of Suh, a descendant of one of the eight iron-capped Princes who accompanied Shun Chih, the first Emperor of the Manohu dynasty, into China. The deceased Prince was quite a favourite with the present Emperor lucrative appointments, that of Chief of the Kuang Hsu, who gave him, amongst other Peking Octroi.-N. C. Daily News.
The Kobe Chronicle translates the following Tokyo press despatch, dated 29th March, from the stock of raw cotton, the cotton spinning a vernacular paper :-Owing to the scarcity of companies at Osaka and other places have applied to the Nippon Yusen Kaisha that an extra boat be dispatched to Bombay. Negotia tions are going on as regards freight. The Nippon Yusen Kaisha will charter a foreignf steamer for the extra trip.
It is positively stated, says the N. C. Daily News, that H.E. Shêng has sent to Hangchow for the expectant Taotai Wu Yih-tsing, order- ing him to come to Shanghai, as he is the best French scholar of all the native officials on the coast, to settle the terms of the so-called Belgian loan, the negotiations for which have been resumed. The amount of the loan is £1,000,000 sterling; the money is to be used in building the Peking-Hankow railway; the original terms were 4 per cent interest, and the railway to be completed in five years. The new terms are 5 per cent. interest, and the railway to be finished in three years. Mr. Wu was due at Shanghai on the 2nd April.
The political situation between the Foreign Powers and China has produced important announcements during the past week. China has conceded to the British demand for the lease of Weihaiwei when the Japanese evacuate that port. It is believed that Japan is favour- able to the scheme. China has also agreed to open the ports of Funing, Yochau, and Ching- wan. In his statement in the House of Commons on the 4th April Mr. Balfour said that by acquiring Weihaiwei, which there was no intention of turning into a commercial port, Great Britain prevented the Gulf of Pechili from falling under the undisputed control of any Power, and he hoped China would maintain not only a nominal but a real suzerainty over her vast dominions, British and German interests were identical and he hoped the two
had no reason to complain of Russia's Com countries would work together. Great Britain
thought it necessary to acquire Port Arthur, mercial Policy, but unfortunately Russia
fluence to her Councils in Peking. Great which as a purely naval port gave undue in-
offering, if Russia abstained from Port Arthur, Britain protested against the acquisition,
to take no part of the Gulf of Pechili. This offer not being accepted Great Britain arranged for the occupation of Weihaiwei. Mr. Balfour added that he had no reason to suppose the cession would excite any opposition in Japan, and that China in granting it had asked for facilities for Chinese war-ships and for train- ing Chinese naval officers under the British. According to a later telegram the Times states that China has agreed to the French demand for a railway to Yunnan, the lease of a coaling station at Kwangchauwan, the non alienation of the provinces of Kwangtung, Kwangsi, and Yunnan, and the appointment of a Frenchman as Director of the Imperial posts.
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