THE
Hongkong Weekly Pres
VOL. XLVII.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitoms of the Week, &c.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 4TH JUNE, 1898.
We are glad to hear that the plague at Macao is decreasing, but in the outlying vil. lages it is reported to be still bad.
Mr. Byron Brenan arrived arrived at Shang- bai on the 25th May from Canton to relieve Mr. P. W. Mansfield, H B. M. Acting Consul- General. Mr. Mansfield succeeds Mr. Brenan
at Canton,
A Kobe telegram of the 27th May to the N. C. Daily News states that a Chinese pas- senger has been found suffering from plague 448 ou the U.S.M S. Peru, and she is to be .448 quarantined at Kobe for seven days.
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Leading Articles:-
The Blue Book on Affairs in China....
.438
The Necessity of Opening Hunan
A Public Works Programme....
The Value of Property in Queen's Road
The Spanish Squadron in the Battle of Cavite...439
Supreme Court
.440
Spanish-American War.................
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The Blockade of Manila,
Death of Prince Kung
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Public Works Report for 1897
The Post Office in 1897
Victoria Recreation Club
The Rifle Association's Annual Meeting..
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
A S Watson and Co., Limited
451
The Raub Australia, Gold Mining Co., Limited
452
Jelebu Mining and Trading Co., Limited
453
Hongkong and China Gas Co,
Limited
...453
Correspondence
The China Customs Revenue
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The Plague
The Caius Road Murder
448 449 449 450
A dispatch received by the Shanghai man- darins from Shasi states that of the rioters in the recent disturbances at that port nine were 451 captured the day after the riots, and twelve
more had been subsequently arrosted.
The British Railway Concessions and German Claims 154
The French in S.echuen
The Shanghai Nanking Railway
Reported German Concession at 'hefoo
Suicide of a German Subject at Shanghai The Riot at Wenchow
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
MARRIAGE.
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At the Cathedral, Hongkong, on the 31st May, 1898, by the R.v. R. F Cobbold, M.A.. RICHARD YOUNG, 4th son of the late William ANDERSON, of Liverpool, England. to Rosa, youngest daughter of Edwin J. LUSKER, of Shanghai.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The Canadian mail of the 10th May arrived, por C. P. steaner Empress of China, on the 31st May (21 days); the German mail of the 2nd May arrived, per N. D. L steamer Sachsen, on the 31st May (29 days); and the American mail of the 30th April arrived, per P. M. steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, on the 31st May (31 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
What purports to be the corrent statement of the killed and wounded on the Spanish side at the Battle of Cavite says that in the ships the killed numbered 78 and the wounded 235. there being 23 killed and 45 wounded in the arsenal, a total of 381.
The N. C. Daily News of the 26th May says: -We have the best authority for stating that there is no truth whatever in the reports of succes-ful opposition to the railway conces- sions acquired by Messrs. Jardina, Matheson & Co. Within the last twenty-four hours the most satisfactory telegrams have been received from Peking.
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At the end of last month, fearful storm swept over the Lesser Sunda islands. At Bima, in Sumbawa. several villages
were wholly destroyed. The bay there was strewn with floating corpses. In Portuguese Timor, many houses were destroyed and great damage was done to the coffee plantations. Over sixty persons perished there.-Straits Times.
We learn that Mr. Consul E. Bourne has been selected for the vacant post of Assistant Judge at Shanghai, Mr. Bourue being one of the few barristers in the Consular Service in China. He is expected to arrive very shortly, when we imagine that in addition to his judicial duties he will assume charge of the Land Office, where the work is daily becoming more onerous. -China Gazette.
Prince Kung died at Peking on the 29th (Shanghai) from Hangchow reports that Go- May.
The Pacido Mail Company's steamer China has been chartered by the Untied States Go-
vernment.
Twenty-one cases of gunpowder for the U.S.S. Petrel, brought to Yokohama by the P. M. S. S. Co.'s steamer Aztec, were taken by the Japanese as contraband of war.
A dispatch to the Daily Chinese Progress
vernor Liao of Chêkiang has arranged, through the assistance of the Japanese Consul of that city, to send a number of students to Japan to study Western sciences and military tactics in the Japanese Government Institutions. Four of each class have already been selected for that purpose under the charge of a special deputy. and the party is expected to be ready to start for Japan by the middle of June next.
The Singapore Free Press of the 23rd May
The Mercury hears that Captain O'Sullivan is leaving Shanghai shortly on a special mis-says-The two plague cases which were landed sion for the British Government up the tze to Hanan.
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It is reported that the memorial embodying the bitter cry of the Customs staff was handed in to the Tsungli Yamén on the 18th May by the Inspector-General.-N. C. Daily News.
Mr. James Swettenham, the Acting Governor of the Straits, has been made a Knight Com mander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. This is one of the birthday honours.
at St. John's Island from the steamer Keong Wai, from Swatow, on Saturday, have proved other on Sunday. The other passengers were fatal, one man dying the same night and the landed at St. John's to-day, and after disinfec tion this afternoon the vessel is to be allowed to proceed to the wharf to-morrow morning. The other two suspected cases er the steamer Catherine Apear, which arrived from Hong. kong, on the 15th inst., are now reported to be progressing favourably.
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No. 22.
A bicycle corps has been formed in connec tion with the Manila Volunteers. The utility of the cycle in war may therefore be put to its first practical test in connection with the approaching attack on Manila. The United States squadron could also muster a consider- able number of bicyclists, and possibly the troops now on their way from San Francisco may include a trained cycle corps.
At Amoy on the Queen's Birthday Mr. C. T. Gardner, C.M.G., entertained at tiffin the Con- suls of all nationalities and the high local offi- cials. In the evening the British community gave a reception at the Clab which passed off very pleasantly. Messrs. Twinning and Morse, aided by local talent, rendered some excellent music, while the general arrangements left nothing to be desired. They were under the auspices of Messrs. D. R. Law and H. F. Bell, whose exertions were indefatigable. The task the gentlemen undertook was not a light one but they did it well.-Amoy Gazette,
According to a Peking dispatch a Censor recently memorialised the Throne denouncing the strictures made on the Government and officials in the vernacular papers all over the Empire and asking that their privileges should be curtailed. The Emperor, however, wrote at the back of the memorial to the effect that "those who could, under the present unsettled state of the Empire, write and show the in- efficiency of Government officials, and were bold enough to advise as to the course to be pursued, were patriots and men to be admired instead of being denounced." The memorial has, in consequence, been laid on the table.- N. C. Daily News.
An official notification was issued at Manila on the 4th May which, after reciting that in view of the state of war existing it was desirable to take steps to prevent a financial crisis arising from the scarcity of money and to prevent the enemy receiving indirect aid, prohibits from the date named until further orders the ex- portation of money of any kind whatsoever. A second article makes an exception in favour to take with them such sum not exceeding $500 of persons leaving the islands, who are allowed
as the Customs authorities may judge rea- sonable for their personal expenses. Persons contravening the provisions of the order are to be tried by military law as dealers in contra- band of war. The order applies, not to Manila only, but to the whole of the Philippines.
News was received at Shanghai by wire ou the 26th May of the death at Nagasaki at 4 a.m, that day of Mr. W. B. Russell, lately Commis- sioner of Customs at Swatow, in his fiftieth year. Mr. Russell was the eldest son of Sir William Howard Russell, LL.D., the Nestor of War Correspondents, and was born in Dublin on the 14th of March, 1849. He joined the Customs service as 4th Assistant at Ningpo in October, 1869, and gradually rose to the rank of Commissioner, which he reached in October, 1889. His wife, who was a sister of the well-known authoress Helen Mathers, died at Shanghai about the end of 1894. Mr. Russell had been in the course of his service at nearly every port in China, and was always well liked by all who made his acquaintance. He had been ailing for some time, and had gone to Japan in the hopé of recovering his strength. He leaves one little daughter, Daphne, who is at present in Eng- land.-N. C. "Daily News:
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