THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVII.}
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles:—
Weihaiwei
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 30TH APRIL, 1898.
M. Dautremer, French Consul at Hankow, has, the N. C. Daily News says, withdrawn his .337 proposed suit against the claimants of land on
his concession there.
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The Spanish-American War and the Future of,
the Philippines
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340
Taxation of Foreign Trade in China..
Plague Measures
British Prestige
Exte 18ive Seizure of Forged Bank Notes
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The Spanish-American War
341
Supreme Court
The King's Owa and St. George's Day.
The Plague
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The Branch Hospital for Chinese Plague Patients......344 Tihe Great Eastern and Caledoniau Gold Mining Co.,
Limited
Raub
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Hongkong Schools Sports
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Lawn Tennis Tourname it...
Correspondence.
Prince Heury of Prussia at Shanghai- Yangtze Insurance Association
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The treaty signed between Japan and Siam is said to be on an unequal basis. Japan is ranked as a European Power, and retains extra- territoriality, which privilege Siam does not obtain in Japan.
Mr. von Loeper, German Consul, at Hong- kong and Mrs. von Lo por left by the N. D. L steamer Prinz Heinrich on 27th April. Mr. von Loeper has been transferred to Valparaiso and is on his way to take up his new appointment.
At a committee meeting held on the 15th ..345 April the Yokohama Chamber of Commerce, with the object of examining into the position of foreigners in Japan under the new Treaties, decided to form an International Committee consisting of four members of each nationality represented in the Chamber, with power to add to their number.
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The United States Consular Report on Hongkong ...350 Tientsin Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
MARRIAGES.
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On the 12th April, at Yokohama, MADELEINE, daughter of Joay TCOR RICHARDS, of Gardiner, Maine, US, tɔ H. V. HẸssɔs, of Yokohama.
On the 27th April, at Kediri (Java), P. A. VAN DE STADT, office for Chinese affurs in Rembang (Java), to M. C. E. KETJEN.
DEATHS.
At Tokyo, on the 11th April, EDUARDO CHIOS- ZONE, aged 65 years.
At Chemulpo, Kore, on the 6th April, Dr. E. B. LANDIS, of the English Church Mission.
At the Shanghai General Hospital, on the 24th April, Jose M. SEQUEIRA, fourth son of Norberto and Clotilde NONES SEQUEIRA, aged 22 yeurs.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 25th March arrived; per M. M. steamer Laos, on the 24th April (30 days); and the English mail of the 1st April arrived, per P. & O. steamer Bengal, on the 28th April (27 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Shanghai Volunteer Corps was inspected on the 21st April by Major Close, R.A.
There has been a strong freshet at Wuchow. The river rose 30ft. in twenty-four hours.
Mr. Lillie, recently banished from Bangkok, was a through passenger from Saigon to Europe by a recent French mail boat.
It is reported that a duty of 10 cents gold upon tea will be among the methods to be re- sorted to by the American Cabinet to meet war expenses.
A special telegram to the Daily Press states that Mat Salleh, the Borneo rebel chief, who has of late been giving a good deal of trouble, has submitted.
At the annual meeting of the China As- sociation Sir William Des Voeux was elected President for the ensuing year and Mr. W. Keswick Chairman.
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Mr. George Jamieson, C.M.G., British Consul- General at Shanghai and Commercial Attaché, is a passenger homeward by the Verona on six months' leave, with his two unmarried daughters. Very genuine regret, the N. C. Daily News says, is universally felt that Mr. Jamieson's health should have broken down so soon after
his return from England, and it is hoped that he will come back before the winter thoroughly restored. It is reported that Mr. Brenan will be transferred from Canton to take MT. Jamieson's place at Shanghai.
The different provincial mints apparently issue dollars which are not accepted except at a discount; consequently confusion is confounded. We recently tendered a Peiyang Arseual dollar at the Imperial Chinese Post
worse
and it was refused at its full value. It an Imperial establishment will not accept these dollars, there is no wonder that the people will only take them at a discount. It is time the Peking Government ordered all native coined dollars to be of equal valne so that they can be taken without disconnt all over the country.- Union.
No. 17.
A Peking telegram of the 14th April, published in the Japanese vernacular press, states that the British Government, being anxious to extend its territory at Kowloon, opposite Hong- kong, so as to include the hills in the rear with a view to strengthening the defence of Hong- kong, the Chinese Government has acquiesced. This understanding will be carried into effect as soon as France takes possession of Kwang- chau Bay.
Mr. Horace N. Allen, the United States Consul-General at Seoul, in a report on communication with Korea, dated 28th January last, says :-There is now at Chemulpo a large sailing vessel direct from Washington with 1,250,000 feet of American, timber for the use of the Seoul-Chemulpo Railroad, which is being built by Americans. This vessel, the Honolulu, flying the Hawaiian flag, is a four-masted built in Glasgow, owned in San Francisco; but schooner with steam apparatus for hoisting the second vessel to come from America direct to sails and working the winches. She is the
Korea since the country was opened in 1882. It was with some difficulty, I am told, that such a vessel wus obtained for this voyage, as, the Korean coast not being lighted, the venture was considered too hazardous. The captain of the Honolulu brought his ship to the anchorge- at Chemulpo without a pilot or other assistance, and says that schooners will prove to be much better for navigating Korean waters than vessels of other rig. The voyage consumed eighty-five days, owing to head winds and calms on the Pacific. This information may be of interest to those who contemplate a shipping trade with Korea.
The Straits Times is publishing an account of the insurrection in the district of Bolinao, in the early part of March, compiled from the diary of an eye-witness of the incidents which led to the blockade for seven days of the cable station of Bolinao, belonging to the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company. Only the first portion has yet appeared. The following occurs under date of 8th March, 1 pun. :-"The cable company's superintendent had made known his situation to the Manager in Hongkong, by whom the Commodore and Governor were kept informed; and the former had been ap. pealed to send a gunboat for the relief of the The chief topic of interest during the past station. To-day the depressing information week has been the war between Spain and the reached the besieged party that the Commodoro United States. The Government Gazette of in Hongkong considered, as the rebels were the 23rd April contained the Acting Governor's friendly to them, they were in no immediate proclamation of neutrality, to which, we under danger, could abandon the station and throw stand, exception was takon by the United themselves on the mercy of the rebels, there was States authorities on the ground that war had
no necessity to send a British man-of-war to not at that time been declared. The United their aid! This was most disheartening and States vessels Boston, Concord, Petrel, and the news was not conveyed to the corporal or to Hugh McCulloch, with the store ships Zafiro the Government Telegraph officer then taking and Nanshan, left the harbour for Mirs Bay refuge in the station. The three cable officers on Sunday, and on Monday were joined by agreed then to hold their ground at all the Olympia (flag-ship), Baltimore, and Raleigh risks, and all clung to the hope that On Monday Congress passed a resolution to the help from Manila might come." Under effect that a state of war had existed since the date of 10th March, 4 p.m., the following 21st April inclusive and the President's pro- occurs :-" Hongkong informed the belea. telegram on Wednesday, 27th. clamation, dated the 26th, was received by guered party that after considerable pressure from the representatives of the Telegraph Co., afternoon the squadron left Mirs Bay for the Commodore had obtained the Admiral's Manila, with instructions to capture the approval for H.M.S. Edgar to leave in the Spanish fleet and take Manila. One of the morning for their relief. The situation was insurgent chiefs named Alijandrini accom- getting very critical; the rebels were increas- panied the fleet to take charge of the insuring round the station; and a strong appeal was rectionary forces, with strict instructions that made by the cable to Hongkong to send off the no barbarous or inhuman war is to be made. ship at once."
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