THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVII.J
Supreme Court
Spanish-American War..
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
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The Chinese Government and the "Young China
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
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Leading Articles:-
The Currency
The Trade of the Colony and its Value
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Spain and the Philippines
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Lord Salisbury on the Chinese Problem
Telegraph Cables in War
Prince Henry at Poking
The Troubles in Borneo
Rice Riot at Wonchow
Withdrawal of Obnoxious Taxes
Party
The Queen's Birthday
Accident in the Harbour
Escape from Victoria Gaol
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The Stranding of the Ching Po
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Lunaay Enquiry
The Plague
The Gymkhana
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
The Punjom Mining Co., Limited
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Raub
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Jelebu Mining and Trading Co., Limited
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Correspondence...
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The Vasco da Gama Celebrations
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The Rectification of the Kowloon Frontier
The British Railway Co 17ssions ........
The Notes Forgery
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The Riot at Shasi
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The Shasi Riot and Chang Chih-tung's Movements ...430 Steamers on the Inland Waters...
The Stranding of the Amarapoora
The Sugar Trade at Kobe
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
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BIRTH.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 28тн MAY, 1898.
Mat Salleh, who recently made his submis- sion to the Government of British North Borneo, is again on the war path and is reported to have secured the alliance of an inland tribe | possessing five thousand fighting men.
The railway between Newchwang and Mouk- den is about to be commenced, and a special official has been appointed to superintend it, while the projected route is dotted all along with flags marked "Peiyang railway line con- struction."-Mercury.
We N. C. Daily News) are informed that there is so much disaffection in Fukien province, and so much uneasiness in the native city of Foochow, that Captain Galloway has asked per- mission to take H.M.S. Daphne, after lighten ing, up to the Settlement.
A rumour has been current amongst natives at Shanghai that. Li Chin-fang, ex-Minister to Japan, has been selected by the Throne to go on a special mission to Europe, the object of which is to get the Great Powers to guarantee hereafter the neutrality of China.
Tsai Taotai of Shanghai issued on 16th May a proclamation declaring the neutrality of China in the present war between Spain and the United States. At the end of the proclamation are quoted special provisions of international law governing the conduct of neutrals.
We learn that Mr. G. F. Müller, Acting Com- missioner of Chinese Imperial Maritime Cus- toms at Pakboi, has been promoted to the rank of Commissioner, and will next month be trans- ..436 ferred to Foochow, where he will assume charge. Mr. H. Edgar, who has recently been in charge, goes ou leave.
At the Peak, Hongkong, on the 22nd May, tha wife of ADD DONALD, Green Island, Macao, of a daughter.
DEATHS.
On the 19th April, at 22, Ryder Street, Colonel CHARLES ROBERT ST. LEGER SHERVINGTON, aged 45, eldest son of Lieut.-Colonel SHERVINGTON.
At Vladivostock, on the 12th May, 1897, CHARLES H. SMITH.
At Nanking, on the 17th May, 1898, the Rev. A F. H. SAW, Foreign Christian Missionary Society, of typhus fever.
At sea, near Swatow, o the 22nd May, GEORGE J. RUSSELL, of L ndo., chief engineer, Scottish Oriental steamer Phraning, of syncope of the heart. Aged 40 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 22nd April arrived, per M. M. steamer Sydney, on the 22nd May (30 days); the American mail of the 15th April arrived, per O. & O. steamer Aztec, on the 23rd May (38 days); and the English mail of the 29th April arrived, per P. & O. steamer Chusan, on the 27th May (28 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
A rice riot has taken place at Wenchow in the course of which all the official Yamiens were wrecked, but foreigners were unmolested.
Prince Henry of Prussia had an audience with the Emperor and Empress Dowager at Peking on Sunday, 15th May. The Emperor
returned the visit.
The Kobe Chronicle says:-Great incon- venience, a vernacular contemporary says, is being experienced on account of the absence of a subsidised steamship service between Formosa, Hongkong and Amoy. The Govern- ment proposes to offer a subsidy to encourage the opening of such a service. A Bill will be brought forward in the Diet during the present session.
Affairs at Manila remain much reported, Admiral Dewey not having made any as last further movement against the city, but now that Aguinaldo has arrived it is expected that there will soon be a movement by the rebels on the landward side. Meanwhile the departure of two transports from San Francisco has been reported by Renter. The same authority also stated that a Spanish squadron was to leave troops for the recapture of the gity, but the Cadiz at the end of the month with 10,000 report is not credited.
The 7th June is the date fixed for the taking Japanese began the evacuation on 17th May, over of Weihaiwei by Great Britain. The
and it was to be finished on the 23rd. The China Gazette of the 21st May says:-- "Colonel The O'Gorman and a number of military officers from Hongkong went to Chefoo to-day en route for Weihaiwei to inspect that place flag." Colonel O'Gorman left Hongkong with and be present at its transfer to the British Madame O'Gorman on the 18th May by the Empress of Japan, booked for Yokohama. They appear to have left Shanghai for Chefoo by the Japanese steamer Sagami Maru on the 20th.
No. 21.
in the Ceylon papers :-***
The following official communication appears state that H.E. the Governor has received a -" You are authorised to telegram from the Secretary of State to the effect that there was only one vacancy allowed on the Currency Commission for the Eastern Colonies, and that Sir Alfred Dent has been selected as their representative. It is added that a despatch follows by mail."
In its summary of news from Netherlands Indian papers the Straits Times has the following: The Spanish-American war has planters, who have been hard hit by low prices, raised the price of sugar in Europe. rejoice at the prospect of steady improvement
in
Java
that the improvement will be but fleeting. Caba, quotations. Pessimists, however, point out
control, will supply the United States market ouce pacified and brought under American
especially as regards customs duties, than with sugar under more favourable_conditions, Java producers can hope for. In the long run, the war will not benefit the Java sugar interest.
Free Press, writing on the 5th May, says:— The Labuan correspondent of the Singapore We have been much disturbed in our minds lately by the appearance in our waters of a mysterious ship of unknown nationality, but probably Russian or French. She is painted white and was first seen on the night of the 29th April at anchor off Karahmin Island, and at the same time two steam launches were seen
oruising about in the outer part of the harbour In the day time our visitor was gone, but on on about the line taken by the submarine cable. Monday night (May 2nd) the launch was again seen in the harbour and the lights of a large vessel were again seen outside.
What was going on your readers can guess as well as I.
There is coal in Labuan and also at Moira at the mouth of the Brunei river. The cable is also landed at Labuau, and our visitors may have been in want of information on these two points.
Our readers will no doubt remember Mr. Melton Prior's account of the position of Tsingtao, which is the port mount when Kiao- chou Bay is spoken of, and the difficulties he foresaw in the way of making a safe harbour there. Tsingtao is on the south-eastern side of the point which juts out in a south-westerly of the entrance to the Bay, and Mr. Prior direction from the mainland on the north side mentioned that with south-east winds blowing, ships had to run for shelter to the north-western been found that there is a good belt of side of the point. We learn that it has now deep water some three miles or more in length and over a mile in width on this north-western side, and it is proposed to move the town of and make a bund and wharves at which steamers Tsingtao over to that side, fill up the foreshore, can lie in safety. The Krupp Company pro- pose to build a breakwater out from the side opposite where the present town of Tsingtao is, and thus a good harbour will be made. The proposed German railway is to start from the side of Kiaochou Bay to the city of Kiaochon,- new town of Tsingtao and run along the north through Chimo, and on by Weihien and Ching- built, Tsingtao will undoubtedly become an chou to Chinanfu; and when this railway is important commercial depôt.-N. C. Daily News.
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