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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVII.]
Leading Articles :---
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Wock, &c.
The Future of the Philippines
The Cause of the Spanish Defeat at Cavite....
The Peking Government and the Anti-Foreign
Riot at Shasi...
Changing the Chinese Capital
The Insanitary Properties Commission Report.. The Golf Club's Lease of Deep Water Bay
The Pacific Cable Scheme
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 14TH MAY, 1898.
The British Minister, Sir Claude Macdonald, arrived at Chefoo on the 6th May. It was .377 reported that His Excellency was going to
Weihaiwei.
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Mr. G. F. Müller, Acting Commissioner of Customs at Pakhoi, has been appointed Com. missioner, and goes to Foochow to replace Mr. H. Edgar, who goes home on leave.-N. C. 380 Daily News.
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An American Journal on British Policy in China 381
Supreme Court
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A private letter just received from Yatung in Tibet says that the Tibetans declare that 382 they have heard nothing of the capture aud maltreatment of Mr. H. Savage Landor, and 386 say he must have fallen into the hands of a 386 wandering tribe.-N. C. Daily News.
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Auti-Foreiga Riot at Shasi
The Naval Battle off Manila...
Shocking Murder of a Portuguese...
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Plague
The Water Supply
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The Death of Sister Gertrude
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Launch of a Siamese Cruiser at Kowloon
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Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Correspondence...
The steamer Peiyung on Fire
Japan and China
The Bennertz Case Settled
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The Career of a Chinese Official
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South Formosa
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
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Sir Charles Mitchell, Governor of the Straits Settlements, and Lady Mitchell were enter- tained at the British Legation at Tokyo on the evening of the 25th April, when Marquis Ito and all the other Ministers were preseut. Sir Charles and Lady Mitchell were invited by the Emperor and Empress to the Cherry Blossom Party at the Hama Palace on the 28th.
The Japanese Statutory and Conventional .392 Tariffs, which were expected. to be put into 393 operation in October next, will, the Chinzei, says, not come into force this year, owing to the delay in the ratification of the treaty be- tween Japan and Austria-Hungary.
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The
At 49, Broadway, Shanghai, on the 3rd May, the authorities are, however, incuned to enforce wife of H. S. Cox, of a son.
the Tariffs on the 1st January, 1899.
MARRIAGES.
At the Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, on the 5th May, by the Rev. A. Elwin, MARY, only daughter of Robert MACDONALD, Newcastle-on-Tyue, Eng- land, to DAVID, eldest son of David ARNOTT, Bar-flooded by the bursting of the river's bank, and row-in-Furness, England.
At the Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, ou the 7th May, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, JAMES REYNOLDS, to LILLIAN FLORENCE, only daughter of the late THOMAS SAUNDERS, Winchester, England.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 8th April arrived, per M. M. steamer Yarra, on the 10th May (32 days); the American mail of the 12th April arrived, per P. M. steamer Peru, on the 11th May (29 days); the Canadian mail of the 20th April arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of Japan, on the 12th May (22 days); and the English mail of the 15th April arrived, per P. & O. steamer Parramatta, on the 13th May (28 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
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A lamentable accident occurred recently at the Fang-shan colliery, by which some forty men lost their lives, the mine being suddenly forty miners being drowned before any rescue could be effected. Three men who had only a few minutes before gone to the surface to re- light their lamps, escaped.-Peking and Tien-
tsin Times.
On board the P. and O. steamer Bengal lying at the Associated Wharves at Shanghai on the 5th April one of the crew, a Goanese, was taken ill with a disease suspected to be plague. The man was at once removed to the temporary floating hospital off the quarantine station, awaiting the development of symptoms. The vessel was mored down below the shipping, other suspicious cases being on board,
Our Wahu correspondent informs us that Mr. Gervase Cook arrived there on the 1st inst. to obtain assistance, the Kulingsan mines hav- ing been attacked on the previous night by a mob of some 200 men. They took possession of some of the shafts and on the following morn.
them for some time but eventually had to eva. caate them and go to Ningkufa for assistance. He was to leave on the 2nd with some officials and a number of men for the mines.-N. C. Daily News.
Viceroy Chang Chih-tung was to start for ing attacked the works. Mr. Cook defended
the metropolis on the 8th April.
The report that the U.S. Government con- templates imposing 10 cents duty on tea is said to be unfounded.
At Shanghai the prospectus has been pub. lished of the Shanghai-Hongkong Building, Loan, and Investment Co., Limited.
The Echo de Chine mentions the receipt of talegraphic advice from Kwaiyun, Kwangsi, of
its.
A triumphal arch has been erected at Ms Chia Pu, Peking, to welcoma Prince Henry. The Emperor will give a banquet to the Prince
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No. 19.
The N. C Daily News of the 10th May says: -Yesterday the German military instructors at Woosung, who. as has been already announced, hare terminated their contracts with the Chi- nese Government, were entertained at tiffin by Shen Tungbo, the civil commander of the forts. General Li, who has now assumed command of the troops at Woosung, was also present, the prceedings being of the most cordial chracter. The instructors leave for home on the 15th in- stant.
Referring to a suggestion that the Chinese Court might be removed from Peking to Hsianfu in Shensi the N. C. Daily News says:
There is a story current that the Empress Dowager has an immense private store of bal- lion at Peking, which is annually increased un- der the will of her late husband Hien Fêng; that it is this treasure which makes her such a power in the Empire; that she is beginning to be afraid that the Rusaus will come down to Peking and carry off her hoard; and that she is accordingly preparing to transfer it to Hsianfa. What we know from independent testimony is that the road from Peking vii Paotingfu to Hsianfu is guarded by detachments of soldiers posted the whole distance at intervals of about twenty miles, the whole being under the com- mand of the couqueror of the Mahommedans in Kansu, General Tung Fa-hsiang.
The American despatch boat Hugh McCulloch arrived from Manila on the 7th May and Spanish fleet in Cavite Bay. The American brought news of the complets destruction of the fleet arrived off Corregidor at 1 a.m. on the 1st inst., and met with bat slight opposition from the forts there, which only fired three rounds. At 5 a.m. the Spanish fleet was discovered lying in Cavite Bay and the Americans steaming past turning repeated the operation several times, in line ahead poured in their broadsides, and until the Spanish fleet, numbering in all fourteen vessels large and small, was completely destroyed. The Americans testify to the bravery of the Spaniards, but their firing was wild and practically no damage was done to the Americans, who had not a single man killed. The Spanish loss in killed and wounded was estimated at about a thousand. The Arsenal
at Cavite was destroyed. With regard to Manila the Americau Commander-in-Chief requested further instractions from his Go-
vernment and in the meantime & trucs was arranged, the Americans undertaking not to fire upon the city if the forts remained silent. The cable was cut by the Americans to prevent its use by the Spaniards. The Hugh McCulloch left Hongkong again on the 8th and is understood to have conveyed des- patches eceived by cablegram from Washing- ton instructing the Commander-in-Chief to use his own discretion with respect to Manila. The latest intelligence received is to the effect that there was a strong Anti-British feeling amongst the Spaniards, who suspected that an Englishman had acted as pilot for the American fleet. Some uneasiness was felt on
that account and it was also thought that the
the murder of Père Bertholet by Chinese band. Hung-chang and Vice-President Chang Yin- soldiers, who have received nuo pay for some
The Chinese merchants of Nagasaki have presented a petition to the Chinese Minister at Tokyo urging him to use his influence for the establishment of the Geneva Red Cross Society in China.
in the Summer Palace. Grand Secretary Li
hsün have been ordered to attend upon the Royal guest at the entertainment. Grand Secretary Chu recommends and suggests to the throne that as Chang Chih-tang had once re- ceived and entertained the Czar of Russia with propriety he might be consulted on this visit of Prince Henry-Mercury.
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time, might become disorderly. Commodore Dewey has been the recipient of numerous congratulatory telegrams and he has been promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral and thanked by Congress. A Renter's telegram states that five thousand troops are being despatched from San Francisco for Manila,
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