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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVII.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 23RD APRIL, 1898.
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CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, do.
Leading Articles:-
Russia in Manchuria
Sir William Robinson on the Russian Advance
Kwangohauwan and the Trade of South China ...315
Deleterious Liquora
Why Germans Succeed in Business
The Removal of Plague Cases
Medical Inspection and the Plague
A Chinese Plague Hospital
The Duties of a Chairma i
Spain and the United States and the Future of
the Philippines
Plague on the Rohilla
317 .3.7
The United States and Spain...
Supreme Court
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
317 317 320
The Transit Pass Trade and the Taxntio of Foreign
Goods
The Seizure of Mr. Watts's Coal at Saiwan..
..320 ...321
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Postmaster General and the Chamber of Commerce321 The Plague
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ARGE
Hongkong and its Liquors: are they Deleterious
The Life of Nelson and Its Lessous
..327
Hongkong Old Volumes Socisty
...328
Opening of the Gymkhana
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The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
..328
Straits Insurance Jo, Limitad
North hina Insurance Co, Li nited
The Yangtze Insura e Association, Limite
The Bank of China aud Japan, Limited
...330
The Panjom Mining Co., Limited
The New Balmoral Gold Mining Co, Limited
..331
Olivers Freehold Minos, Limited
Correspondence
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHI
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On the 7th April, at Manila, the wife of H. D. C. JONES, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corpora- tion, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
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On the 8th April, 1393 at St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, MA ARTHUR FRANCIS BELLAMY BROWs, third son of the late Captain THOMAS J. BROW y, of Ipswich, to MARION MAUD EDITH, eldest daughter of Jon x J. PLUMMER, Esq, M.A., F.R A..., of Hongkong.
DEATHS.
At Kennedy Town Hospital, on the 20th April, of plague, WILLIAM FRANCIS, aged 3 years and 7 months, youngest son of EDWARD L. STAINFIELD, Second Engineer of the steamer Hanoi.
At Tientsin, on the 26th March, 189, SARAH widow of the late WILLIAM BELLINGHAM, aged 73 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
Lieut-General Basilio Augustin y Davila, the new Governor-General of the Philippines, arrived at Manila on the 9th April.
The Governor-General of the Philippines has recognised Mr. E. H. Rawson Walkor, British Consul at Mauila as in temporary charge of the United States Consulate at that port and of
the United States Vice-Consulates at Cebu and Iloilo.
The Russian transport Kherson arrived at Singapore on the 8th April from Odessa with a large number of soldiers for Vladivostock. His Excellency M. Alexander Olarovsky, the first Minister of Russia to Bangkok, arrived by her and disembarked at Singapore.
From Shanghai papers we learn that an in- fluential representative committe of all uatiou- alities, with Sir Nicholas Haunea in the chair, had been formed to arrange for the reception of Prince Henry of Prussia by the general foreigu community. It was proposed, with his assent, to entertain him at a tiffiu at Cuang Su- ho's Garden on Tuesday, the 19th iust
With reference to the new Treaty port of Chinwan or Chiawang, about which there was some doubt at first is to its exa-t location, we are informed that it refers to one of the islands near Peitaiho, in the Gulf of Pechibli, called Chin-wang-tao or Islani of the Prince of Chin. The tradition is that in the Han dynasty, bo- tween the first and second centuries of the
present era, one of the Emperor's sons who had been created Chin Wang or Prines of Chin, or Shensi province-Chin being the ancient name of Shensi and still as at the present day-had to seek refuge in this island from his enemies, thus giving it bis title.-N. C. Daily News.
The following movements in the Chinese Customs service are reported: -Mr. Unwin. Commissioner at Chinkiang, is transferred to Soochow, and is to be succeeded at Chinkiang by Mr. Faragó. Mr. J. C. Johnston is pro- moted to the rank of Deputy Commissioner at Shanghai. Itis b lieved that Mr. F. H. Grimani, who arrived at Shanghai on 13th April by the City of Peking, goes to take charge of the Cus- toms at Kiukiang, succeeding Mr. F. A. Mor
who is transferred to Swałow. News has gin, come of the promotion to the rank of Deputy Commissioner of Messrs. Du Luca, Mayers, and Wolf; and the announcement of more similar promotions is expected.
The English mail of the 18th March arrived, per P. & O. steamer Coromandel, on the 16th April (29 days); the Canadian mail of the 29th March arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of India, on the 20th April (2 days); and the American mail of the 23rd March arrived. perployment of French capital in the exploitation P. M steamer Chin, on the 21st April (29 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
H.M. the German Emperor has conferred upon Dr. Staebel, Germia Consul-General at Shanghai, the high distinction of the second class of the Royal Prussian Order of the Crown:
No. 16.
The Russian cruiser Gremiastchy arrived at Shanghai on the 16th April from Chemulpo. M. Speyer, ex-Russian Minister arrived by her, en route to Europe, and also M. Alexieff, late Financial Adviser to the Korean Government, who, after a stay of a few days in Shanghai, will proceed to Nagasaki and thence to Tokyo, to take up his appointment as Financial Agent for the Imperial Russian Government in Japan.
A rising took place in the town of Cebu on the 3rd April. From the reports in the Com- ercio we gather that the Governor sent in- formation by steamer to Iloilo aud Iligan, and from Iloilo it was telegraphed to Manila. On the 5th April fifty Cazadores arrived from Iloilo and three hundred men of the 71st and 72nd Regiments from Iligau, and on the 7th the man-of-war Don Juan de Austria and a merchant vessel with troops on board arrived from Manila. The streets were then soon cleared and the military commander intended to send out columns to scour the island and dis- perse any bands of rebels that might be found.
In an article on Russian designs in Manchuria the N. C. Daily News says:-In some ways Sir Claude MacDonald has been more successful than has appeared to us in Shanghai, for the Russians have now consented to allow the Chi- nese to build their own line in their own terri- tory to Moukden. Russia retains, indeed, in her own hand the more important line, that from Petuué to Port Arthur; but it is some- thing gained that China is allowed to employ English engineers and English capital in Man- churia at all. a course which Russia had pre- viously forbidden her to adopt. It is our dis play of force which has gained this point, for, as we have said all along, Russia is not prepared to fight; and if the Foreign Office at home had been firm, England could have insisted on the line from Petuné south being built by China to the Chinese gauge, with such foreign assistance as the Chinese chose to employ; and there is no doubt that to Mr. Kinder and his associates, who have built the only railway that is being operated in China, the work would have been confided.
We understand that M. Dautremer, French Consul at Haukow, has decided, with the chi- ralry of his nation, not to make the English owners of a part of the so-called French Con- cession at Hankow sue him in the French Con-
sular Court, but to sue them in the British Con- sular Court for the sum of Tls. 200,000 or there abouts, the precise ground of the claim not be- The Echo de Chine announces that the treaty ing yet stated, as far as we understand. M. between France and Chiua by which the demands Dautremer's action is the more chivalrous as of the former Power are all conceded was de- he will not only have to give security for costs finitely signed at 7 p.m. on the 10th April. It but he will have to submit to the jurisdiction of offers to M. Dubail its most sincere congratula the British Court. The auction of land on the tions on the diplomatic victory he has achieved, so-called French Concession duly came off as ad- and undoubtedly these congratulations are de-vertised, on 7th April. Although it was supposed served. We (N. C. Daily News) also learn that to be a public auction, certain prominent mem the Chinese Emperor bas authorised the en. bers of the British community were excluded from it by the French Municipal policeman, of the quicksilver mines in Kasichou, and that M. de Martean has been granted a concession for the construction of metallurgic works in Hunsu. All these concessions, to whatever Power they are granted, are to be heartily ap- plauded, for they mean the extension of com- munications, China's most pressing need, and an assured improvement in the condition of the The more foreign capital that is people. brought into China the better.
under the orders of the French Consul, who himself bid for one of the lots which one of the excluded Britistiers was anxious to buy. Two of the lots alleged to belong to Mr. Sassoon were sold at 'Tis. 9,200 and Tls. 6,000, respec- tively, and the total sales were believed to amount to about Tls. 4oa,000. 'The question of the real ownership of the land will, we under- stand, be tried in the Supreme Court at Shanghai.-N. O. Daily News.
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