THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVII.
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AND
China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 16TH APRIL, 1898.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Wock, &c..
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Leading Articles:--
China's "oncessions to France
.294
The Policy of the Open Door and its Application 294
Great Britain's Diplomatic Success in hina
294
Plague Measures and Medical Inspection
295
On Titles
.296
Supreme Court
.290
.298
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.298
Woosung a Treaty Port..
Plague on the Gleaturret..
Prince Henry of Prussia
Spain and the United States
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
Sir John Carrington on
Volunteering"
Hongkong Odd Volumes Society
The Plague.......
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Veterinary Surgeon's Annual Report
H.R.H. Prince Henry of Prussia left on 13th April in the Gefion for Shanghai.
M. Pichon, the new French Minister to Peking. was a passenger by the M. M. steamer Indus.
Mr. F. Carl, lately Commissioner of Customs at Szemao, is at present in Hongkong on his way home to the United States on two years' leave.
The steamer Glenturret arrived at Shanghai from Hongkong with six cases of plague on board and was sent into quarantine for ter 298 days at the Red Buoy.
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Dr. Gomes da Silva and the Hongkong Sanitary Board302 Fatal Affray at East Point Sugar Refinery The China Mutual Steam Navigation Co, Limiter......304 The New Balmoral Gold Mining Co. Limited .........305 Olivers Freehold Miues, Limited
.305
The Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co.,
Limited
The Yokohama Specie Bauk, Limited
Polo
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
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The Straits Insurance Co.. Limited
..306 306
The Lawn Tennis Handicap
.307
A French Journal on the Policy of the Open Door......307 Serious Fire in Shanghai Hongkong and Port News. Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
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Mr. Lillie, recently bauished from Siam. left Singapore for Saigon on the 3rd April in the M.M. Indus. He proposed to pass through Singapore again a fortnight later on his way to Europe.
The cable from Hongkong to Luzon has been removed from Bolinao and extended direct to Mania. The operations were completed on the 8th April by the Eastern Extension Tele- graph Co. s cable steamer Sherard Osborn.
The manager of the Hongkong Branch of the Straits Insurance Co., Limited, has received a telegram from his head office. Siugapore. ..308 | stating that the annual general meeting of the .309 shareholders held on 12th inst. passed off satis 311factorily and the report and accounts were
passed.
At Shanghai, ou the 3rd April, 1898, the wife of
GEO. MARCAL, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
On the 12th April, 1598, at St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, by the Rev. R. F. Cabbold, HENRY HUMPHREYS, of Hongking, to Eva, second daugh- ter of W. G. HoMPHREYS, Esq., of Hongkong.
DEATHS.
On the 24th February, suddenly, at 6, Ponsonby Street, Liverpool. aged 42 years, JOHN RENNIE, late Sanitary Department, Hongkong, Mark Master Mason Lodge 419, E.C., Hongkong.
On the 31st March, 1898, at No. 101, Bluff, Yoko hama, WOODSIDE HELEN, the beloved wife of EDWARD JAMES Moss.
At Yokohama, on the 31st March, FREDERICK JOSEPH, second son of II COLLINS, aged 28 years.
At Canton, on the 6 April, 1898, JOHN RYRIE, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. GREAVES, aged 2 months.
At No. 9, Belilios Terrace, on the morning of the 13th April, of enteric f-ver, KATE MACDONALD, the beloved wife of GEO. P. LAMMERT, aged 25 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
of Macao, has written a long and vigorous Dr. Gomes da Silva, Chief Colonial Surgeon letter to Dr. Atkinson, Principal Civil Medical Officer of Hongkong and President of the Sanitary Board, protesting against certain references made at a meeting of the Sanitary Board to Macro and to alleged irregularities committed by Macao practitioners with refer infectious diseases. ence to the registration of plague and other
The Manila Comercio of the 1st April con- tains an account of the murder of the Rev. Father Moisés Santos, parish priest of Malolos. It appears that on the 31st March the deceased clergyman bad handed over charge of the parish appointment at Manila, and in the evening he to a coadjutor, as he had been called to another
was driving to the railway station, when, on ar riving at a small bridge, three men who had been lying in wait for him stopped the cou- veyance and while two of them held the driver the third plunged a dagger in the breast of the unfortunate clergyman, who died almost immediately. Vengeance is supposed to have been the motive of the crime.
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No. 15.
The British steamer Saint Ronald, of Liver. pool (Capt. Clements), arrived at Colombo on the 24th March, from Saigon, with two of her pro- peller blades broken. She left Saigon on the 13th March, and the accident occurred five days after, though the exact nature of, it could not be ascertained at the time, beyond the fact that the vessel's speed was greatly reduced. After arrival an inspection was made, when it was found that two out of the four blades had broken. She is bound for Dunkirk with a cargo of rice.
News concerning the dispute between the United States and Spain has been auxiously looked for during the week. The U. S. squa- dron is still lying in Hongkong harbour, ready to put to sea at an hour's notice. The British steamers Zafiro and Nanshan have been pur- chased for the U. S. Government as store- ships and having taken in their cargos, have cleared at the Harbour Office for Guam, one of the southern islauds belonging to Spain. - It is anticipated that after the Spanish fleet in the Philippines has been disposed of Manila will capitulate without resistance on the part of the land forces.
The Singapore Secretary of the Ranb Australian Gold Mining Co., Limited, has received the following telegram from Raub, dated 5th April :-" Rough clean-up of Battery yielded 3,070 oz. amalgam, estimated quantity of stoue crushed being 1.400 tons." This re- presents work for five weeks ending 4th April. to yield 32 per cent. gold only, a low estimate, The Free Press says:-If the amalgam be taken the smelting for the next clean up, to include April as well as March, would give about 1,964 oz. gold for 2,800 tons stone crushed, which would not be much less than three-quarters of an ounce to the ton. It is to be remembered that it is not only actual quartz that is put through, but often quantities of mullock in places where the reef is broken up and diffused through it. It all goes through and counts as tons of stone, but it needs hardly any crushing and is quickly washed through the boxes."
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The Bay of Along with its thousands of rocks, between which lies a labyrinth of channels and natural harbours, is, says the Avenir du Tonkin, one of the most singular places in the world. Apart from its southern sun, it completely resembles the Norwegian fjords. It was long an assured refuge for pi ates, who could easily conceal themselves in its caves or jungle. In case of war it would certainly be one of the objectives of a hostile fleet, who might possibly attempt to force the passes. It was important therefore to place this weak point on our coasts in a complete state of defence. the French demands for a railway to Yunnan, visited Hongay and the Bay in
The Times states that China has agreed to recent stay in Tonkin the Governor-General During his
the lease of a coaling station at Kwangchauwan, with Admiral de la Bedoillère, the Colonel company the non-alienation of the provinces of Kwang commanding the Artillery, and other superior tung, Kwangsi, and Yunnan, and the appoint- officers. It was decided that, besides the ment of a Frenchman as Director of the Im- mobile defence by sea going torpedo boats perial posts. The Havas telegram referring to, already organised, batteries should be con- the same subject reads as follows: The destructed completely covering the passes. Work mands of France that have been accorded do Woosung has been declared a treaty port. not i clad, the alienation of any portion of Sir Henry Blake leaves London for Hong-construction of a railway having its terminus Kwangtung, Kwangsi, and Ya nan, but the kong on the Ist May.
at Yunnanfu, the lease of coaling station, The Customs Bank at Shanghai was des- and the nomination of a Frenchman troyed by fire on the 2nd April.
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The American mail of the 12th March arrived, per P. £ (). steamer Doric, on the 8th April (27 days); and the French mail of the 11th March arrived, per M. M. steamer Indus, on the 10th April (30 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
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is actively proceeding with this object, and fixed torpedoes are being placed by the Navy in each navigable channel. At the present time access to the Bay of Along may be considered absolutely impracticable by it matters not what fleet, and any attempted landing would-prove futile.
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