THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVII.}
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :-
Mr. Chamberlain's Birmingham Speech The Proposed Pacific Cable
The Intorregnum in the Governorship
Pending Questions
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398 ..398
and
.399
Railway Concessions to a British Syndicate.........399 The Causeway Bay Recreation Ground
'Climatic Conditions and Plague
.399 .400 .400
Mr. Ede's Departure
The Manila Cable and the War
.400
Supreme Court
.400
The Transfer of Weibaíwei
401
Railway Concessions in China
.401
Spanish-American War....
401
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
..402
Hongkong Sanitary Board
..404
The Plague
.405
The Caine Road Murder
An Unlicensed Distillery Unearthed
.405 .407 ..407
Admission of a Solicitor..
A. 8. Watson and Co., Limited
New Balmoral Gold Mining Co
Limited
Olivers Freehold Mines, Limited
The Bank Note Forgery
.408 .408 ..408 .408
The Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co.,
Limited
Jelebu Mining and Trading Co., Limited
.409 .409
Correspondence..
...409
British North Borneo
.409
The Russo-Chinese Co veation
Rasso-Japanese Korea. Convention
A New Mining Concession
The Shasi Riot
How Spain Exploits the Philippines
410 411 411 .411 411 411
..412
Commercial
More Russian Demands
Hongkong and Port News
Shipping
DIRTHS.
..413 .416
On the 13th May, 1898, at Capsnimoon, the wif of A, E. PFANKCCR, of the Chinese Maritim Customs, of a daughter.
At Shameen, Canton, the wife of Mr. BRÖCKEL- MANN, of a son.
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On the 18th May, the wife of Inspector J. T. COTTON, Animal Depots, Kennedytown, Hongkong, of a daughter.
DEATH.
At Yokohama, on the 15th May, MURIEL AGNES, the dearly loved wife of Charles David WILKINSON, of Hongkong. (By telegram.)
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
There have been no arrivals of mails during the week..
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 21ST MAY, 1898.
H.M.S. Esk has been ordered to Shasi in connection with the riots there
The 7th June has been fixed as the date for
the transfer of Weihaiwei to Great Britain.
Grosser and Schultz, the bank note forgers; arrested at Singapore, have been sentenced, the former to ten years' penal servitude and the latter to eight,
The vote of thanks passed by Congress to Admiral Dewey adds ten years to his age limit of retirement, and will make him at the end of the present year the Senior Admiral in the U.S. Navy.
According to the Foochow Echo Mr. P. von Tanner, of the Imperial Maritime Customs, goes to Funing to open the port and Count de Galembert is appointed Deputy Commissiouer at Foochow
Mr. Pritchard Morgan, M.P., who arrived at Shanghai by the last Empress boat, brings with him, the China Gazette says, a staff of mining engineers with whom he will proceed into Shansi to inspect the mining concessions he has ob. tained in that region.
No. 20.
A Shanghai special telegram to the Daily Press states that Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. and the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank have secured a concession for the building and working of a railway from Shanghai to Nan- king with probable extensions and also for the working of the Shanghai and Woosung line.
in which the Tokiwa Hotel and half the Jiyutei There was a big fire at Kobe on the 4th May
Hotel and three houses were burnt down. The Tokiwa Hotel was set on fire by a cook, who then murdered a young woman employed in the hotel and committed suicide. A coolie look.
The Echo states that a good deal of uneasying on at the fire dropped down dead from feeling was rife among the natives at Foochow about the prolonged stay of the French ships
apoplexy. The loss by the fire is partially Descartes and Jean Bart. It has again been
covered by insurance. rumoured that an attempt would be made by the French to laud men at the Arsenal.
According to latest reports the situation at Manila remained unchanged and all was still quiet. It is probable, however, that an active movement may shortly be made by the in- surgents, as Aquinaldo left Hongkong on the 17th May by the Hugh McCulloch to take charge of their forces in the field.
Sir Henry Blake, the new Governor of Hong. kong, who was to have left Eugland on the 1st May. has obtained an exteusion of leave and will not arrive until the autumn. The decision must have been arrived at rather suddenly, as it was evidently supposed when the recent banquet was given to Sir Henry in London that he was on the eve of his departure.
The Batavia Nieuwsblad considers that the war between the United States and Spain by checking the trade in Cuban and Philippine sugars, will raise prices to the benefit of Java planters. The war, also, by increasing the demand for quinine is expected to raise the price of cinchona bark, one of the products of Java, But on the other hand, freights will also rise. A blockade of the Philippines will, besides, check the trade in copra, a leading export staple there. This will turu to the profit of coconut planters in Netherlands India.
Referring to the departure of H E. Chang Chih-tung, Viceroy of the Hukuang provinces, for Peking, the N. (. Daily News says :---- Owing to the various encroachments upon the integrity of the Empire a special secret meeting of the Emperor's Councillors is intended to be held soon, which H.E. Chang has been invited to attend, H.E. being universally considered one of the most reliable props of the Empire, One of the principal questions to be discussed is the desirability of continuing Peking as the residence of the Emperor and his Court.
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A letter from Mr. C. F. Tremlett, H.B.M. with the following enclosure giving the latest Consul at Saigon, is published in the Gazette,
decision of the Council of Health- -Vessels from Hongkong without passengers or ceptible cargo will be visited at Cape St. James, and, if the doctor sees no reason to the contrary, will be permitted to proceed to Saigon. At Saigon the crew must be kept on board. Cargo must be discharged by them. Cargo must be loaded by them. Ship to be disinfected. Pilot to remain on board. Libre partique on the ninth day as previously. Drinking water to be renewed on arrival.
A dispatch received by the native officials from Germany states that the three fast pro- tected cruisers of 4,000 odd tons' displacement ordered from the Vulcan works, and the four
torpedo gunboats ordered from Schichau, may be expected to arrive at Shanghai during the months of June and July next en route for Tientsin, at which port they will be turned
over to the Chinese Government. These vessels are to be navigated by the contracting firms, under the German flag, from Germany to China, so that if any accident occur to them en route "the responsibility may not rest with the Tsungli Yamèn or the crews which have to be sent to bring the ships over."-N. C. Daily News.
A French writer states that a dainty highly esteemed by Celestial gourmands consists of guests, who dip them in a pot of honey and young mice, which are served alive to the
slowly swallow them one by one. At the marriage feast of the present Emperor of China
more than 50,000 of these little creatures were served. Is this a romance or has the statement any foundation in fact? We have never heard of young mice as a dainty before, but we read some time ago of a clergyman in America who was sleeping with his mouth open, when a mouse ran in and woke him. He tried to pull it out by the tail, but the animal wanted to go the other way and held on to his throat with its was finally dislodged, claws, giving him rather a bad time before it
A Renter's telegram of the 15th May statem that Mr. Chamberlain speaking at Birming- ham, said that the foreign situation was serious and critical, and that the time was perhaps not far distant for an appeal to the patriotism of the people. Great Britain stood alone and it was therefore the duty of the whole Empire to draw closer together, and next it was the duty of the Fimpire to draw closer to their American kinsmen. Any war would be cheaply purchased if it ended in an Anglo-Saxon alliance. Continuing, Mr. Chamberlain said the situa Great Britain was unable to declare war against tion in China was extremely unsatisfactory.
Russia without an ally and her interests in China were so enormous that no more vital question had ever been presented to the Govern. ment, and unless the fate of China was to be decided without England the latter must not reject alliances. A subsequent telegram states that Mr. Chamberlain's incidental references, in his speech at Birmingham, to Russia's disregard of promises in the Chinese negotia- tions is strongly commented upon on the Continent and has caused a fall on the Bourses,
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