THE
Hongkong Weekly Pres
VOL. XLVII.}
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China Overland
Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitoms of the Wook, do.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 11TH JUNE, 1898.
We hear that the Court of Inquiry held at Aden with respect to the stranding of the P. & O. steamer China has suspended the Captain's certificate for six months.
The Singapore Free Press of the 1st June says-To-day there are in Singapore harbour
and town 75 Russian and German officers, and .464 | 2,500 men, passing eastward. Quite a little
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army.
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British Diplomacy in China
The Kowloon Extension
The Position at Manila
Land Values of Property in Queen's Road The Navy League
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Supreme Court
Spanish-American War.
Ports Still Open in the Philippines
The Water Supply .
The Kowloon Extension
Memorial to Sister Gertrude and Sister Frances
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Polo and Captain Loveband
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Rice Riot at Lienchow
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The Plague
The Type of Steamor for the West River
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
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China Provident Loan and Mortgage Ju., Limited
The Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co.,
Limited
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Hoisting of the British Flag at Weihaiwoi
The Agreement between Germany and China.
H.R.H. Prince Henry in Poking..
The French at KwangchauwBu
Shanghai and the Mail Service...
British North Borneo.....
Prince Henry at Weihaiwoi
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The native papers at Shanghai state that twelve of the ringleaders in the recent riot at Shashi have been beheaded, and that their beads are now exposed in public places as a warning to similarly disposed miscreants.
The Japanese Government has intimated to the United States and the French Governments the fact that the Bill for the Repeal of the Raw Silk Export Eucouragement Law has been upproved by both Houses of the Diet.
The German transport Darmstadt arrived at 473 Singapore on the 1st June with 67 officers and 1,304 marines and troops for the German fleet in the Far East and for Kiaochau.. She was to leave the same evening for Mauila, the Free Press says, it is understood with reliefs for the Irene, thence to Hongkong.
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The Rioting at Wenchow
Fire at Shanghai
Siam Trade
The Quarantining of the "l'oru
The Eternal Gratitude" of the United States
Collapse of the Patriotic League
Hongkong and Port News
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Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
It is reported that the Koreau Government has decided to open the ports of Masan-po in Kyeng-sang-do, Gunsan-po in Chulla-do," and Shimpo in Ham-gyong-do to foreign trado, while Pingyang in the interior will likewise be 477 opened; also that Deer Island is to be the .480 foreigu settlement of Fusan.
At a meeting of the shareholders of the On the 8th June, at 11a, Praya East, longkong, the accounts of the last half year were adopted Nippon Yusen Kaisha held on the 26th May
the wife of J. BARRY, of a son,
MARRIAGE.
and a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per On the 2nd June, 198, at Dalbeattic, Kirend-
annum was declared, while a sum amounting to brightshire, Scotland, the Rav Mr. Paton, Cap-130,000 yen is to be carried forward to the tain ROBERT PHILLUS, China Navigation Co, to
account for the current half-year. MARY AGNES, eldest daughter of HENRY GILLES- PIE, Esq., of Dalbeattie (By Cable.)
DEATHS.
At 133, Wanchai Road, WILLIAM HENRY DIXON, aged 31 years, late second engineer of the steamer Heungshan.
Accidentally drowned at Ichang, on the 22nd May, 1898, ROBERT MACLELLAND, aged 22 years, third engineer of the steamer Kicilee, China Merchants' Steam Navigation Co., fourth son of SAMUEL and JANET TURNER, Greenock, Scotland, and beloved brother of SAM TURNER, Old Dock, Shanghai.
On the 25th May, at St. Barnard's Hospital Nagasaki, W. B. RUSSELL, Commissioner of Im' perial Maritime Customs, at Śwalow. Aged 49 years
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 6th May arrived, per M. M. steamer Caledonien, on the 6th June (31 days); the American mail of the 10th May arrived, per O. & O. steamer Gaelic, on the 7th June (28 days); and the English mail of the 13th May arrived, per P. & O. steamer Verona, on the 10th June (28 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The French steamer Massilia, hired as a Russian transport, arrived at Singapore on the 31st May on its way to Vladivostock with 1,182 Russian soldiers and 8 officers.
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It is reported, apparently on good authority, that there is to be no territorial concession at Kowloon, on account of the reluctauce of the Chinese to surrender the Customs revenue in the district that it was desired to add to the colony, but Great Britain is to be accorded permission to establish forts and control the
passes.
A Peking telegram of the 23rd May to the Japanese Vernacular press states that China has assented to the payment of 30,000 taels to the relative of the murdered Frouch priest and has agreed to erect a church at Peihai, in Kwantung province. The demand to construct a railway from Peihai to Kwangsi-fu will be separately considered.
A report has reached Shanghai from Peking says the N. C. Daily News, that the Tsungli
Yamên has inclined a favourable ear to the bitter cry of the Customs staff, and that the pay of the indoor staff is to be doubled, that of the out-
door staff raised by 66 per cent, and that of the Chinese staff by 50 per cent. We give the re- port with all reserve.
The Record announces that the see of Vic- toria, Hongkong, vacant by the resignation of Bishop Burdon, has been offered to and accepted by the Rev. Joseph Charles Hoare. The bishop-designate, who is a son of the late Canon Hoare, has been a member of the Mid-China Mission of the C.M.S. since 1876. He is at present in England.
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No. 23.
We are pleased to learn that the Royal Humane Society have awarded their bronze medal to Mr. F. Harris, chief officer of the revenue cruiser Chuentiao, in recognition of his plucky act in resoning a sailor who fell overboard in Shanghai on the 29th of August last.-N. C. Daily News.
A dispatch received by the mandarins from Hankow states that the Taotai of that port, authorities at Wuchang, has been lately having under instructions from the high provincial frequent conferences with the Japanese Consul and the Commissioner of Customs regarding the damages suffered by them in the late riots at Shasi, and that an arrangement as to the indemnity about to be come to soon. It is reported that the demands of Japan are very moderate.-N. C. Daily News.
An unfortunate accident happened to Captain Lo spellier of the French mail steamer Yarra while that vessel was lying at anchor at Yokohama. He was going down a ladder leading to the hold, when his foot slipped and he fell to the bottom, breaking one of bis legs. He was at once removed to the hospital and according to a telegram received at Shanghai by the agents from Yokohama he is progres- took temporary command of the vessel.-N. C. sing favourably. Mr. Moraino, the first officer,
Daily News.
The captain of the B. I. steamer Palamcotta, on arrival at Singapore on the 28th May, reported that he passed an outward bound Norwegian cargo laden steamer called the Brand aground on Blenheim Shoal off Klang. The Brand is bound from Antwerp for Vladivostock with a vessel, of 1,519 tons net register, is owned by Mr. full cargo of railway plant and ironwork. The G. Kundsen, of Porsgrund, and Messrs. Pater- son, Simons and Co., are the Singapore agents. The Tanjong Pagar Dock Co. were preparing
to send off to her assistance.
The latest news from Manila is that severe fighting has taken, place between the Insur- gents and the Spanish forces, with. results distinctly favourable to the former. Reports vary as to the number killed, wounded, and taken prisoner on each side, but Cavite is said to be full of Spanish prisoners taken by the Insurgents, amongst them being the Gover- nor of Cavite province and a number of military officers. Aguinaldo, the Insurgent leader, is attacking the outlying towus and villages in detail and driving the Spaniards back upon Manila, Practically the whole of Cavite province is now in his hands and operations have been success fully commenced also in the provinces of La Laguna and Bulacan.
News writes:-The Hongkong Bank is trying The Peking correspondent of the N. C. Daily to negotiate with H.E. Hu a loan of fifteen million taels to be used in extending the Peking line of railroad as far as Kinohou. The agree. ment is still under discussion, One clause therein is a good one; it states that the present European staff shall remain in charge, as long as the syndicate that the Hongkong Bank shall obtain to float the loan holds any claim, either for interest or principal, against the railroad." The guarantee is the roadway, rolling stock, all earnings, a foreign accountant, and fifty thousand taels per annum for ten years, paid by the Board of Revenue from receipts from the four provinces of Anhui; Honan, Hupeh, and Shansi.
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