THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVII.]
AND
China Overland Trade
CONTENTS.
497
Epitome of the Week, &c.
British Trade in China: Suggestions for its Revival498
Coolie Outrages at Kobe
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Beport.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 25TH JUNE, 1898.
The new duty of ten couts a pound on tea in America came into force on the 14th June.
No. 25.
Mr. 7 D. Games, a brilliant young English nd seaclar, arrived at Shanghai by the on the 4th June en route to Tientsin. ile gros Chicher to take up the Chair of Juris-
Mr. K. Frosell, managing director in Chin of the Hooley-Jameson Syndicate, Limited. is a passenger for Shanghai by the P. and opruleaos in the Chinese Üniversity.—Mercury. steamer Ballaurat.
The Mainichi learns that the Japanese statu- .500 tory and couventional tariffs will come into .500 operation from the 1st October next, instead of from the 19th September next, as previously stated,
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Colonel Lewis. R. E., has been selected for the appointment of Commading Royal Engineer at Weihaiwei. Colonel James Frederick Lewis entered the Army in 1867, and was gazetted colonel in May last year. He has lately been 510 employed special service as Inspector-Gen-
eral of Fortifications.
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Leading Articles :-
The Pakhoi-Nanning Railway
The French at Kwangchauwan
The Foreign Policy of the United States.
The Spanish Reserve Squadron
Spanish Opinion on the War.........
The Regeneration of China
Supreme Court .........
The Murder in Caine Road
Spanish-American War.......
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
The Chamber of Commerce and the Rectification of
the Boundaries of Hongkong.....
Sir Alfred Dent's Appointment on
the Currency
Committee
The Plague...
Registrar-General's Annual Report
Afforestation in 1897
The Wife Murder at Praya West..
Arrest of a Public ServRat
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Enquiry at the Harbour Offico...
Hongkong Electric Co., Limited
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The Punjom Mining Co., Limited
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Raub
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Boyd & Co., Limited
...513
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
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Correspondence.
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Chinese Official Movements
Signs of Awakening
Settlement Extension at Shanghai
Wreck of the "Smit"
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Société Francaise dos Charbonnages du Tonkin Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
MARRIAGE.
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The latest news from Manila show that the Insurgents were steadily driving the Spaniards in, and that the city was completely at the mercy of Admiral Dewey. It is expected that the first instalment of the American troops will have arrived by this time and that the next steamer will bring news of the Spanish sur- render.
Old Foochow residents will learn with regret of the death of Mr. John Forster, whom we may term the father of the foreign community of that port. His name for a very long series of .515 years was, like Silverlock and others, identified 517 with the port, which he had known in its pal- miest and busiest days.-London and China Express.
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On the 8th June, at the German Consulate- General, Yokohama, by R. Kallen, Esq., H.I.G.M,'s
Vice Consul-General, and afterwards at Christ Church by Pfarrer Dr. Christlieb, assisted by Rev, E. Champneys Irwine, M.A., Oscar HAYNEMANN, son of the late Emil Hynemann, of Hamburg, to LUISE ANNA, daughter of Fr. Retz, of Yokohama.
DEATHS.
At Beach House, Chefoo, on the 5th June, 1898, HARRIET, widow of the late William R. FULLER, after a long and painful illness. Deeply regretted.
On the 7th June, at Cliff Field, Nagasaki, KEN- NETIL, the dearly loved son of Mr. and Mrs A. P. MACEWEN, aged 2 years and 4 months
At Meirion, Peak, on the miraing of the 20th June, ROBERT GERALD HOLLAND, dearly loved son
of William and Charlotte HASTINGS, aged 9 years
and 5 months.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 6th May arrived *per O. & O. steamer Venus, on the 17th June (42 days); the French mail of the 20th May arrived, per M. M. steamer Oceanien, on the 18th June (29 days); the Canadian mail of the 30th May arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of India, on the 21st Juna (22 days); and the English mail of the 27th May arrived, per P. & O. steamer Ballaarit, on the 23rd June (27 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Wang Tung-ho, tutor to the Emperor and lately President of the Board of Revenue, has been dismissed from all his offices. The dis- graced official was one of the leaders of the ultra-conservative party.
A dispatch has been received by Tsai Taptai Commissioner for arranging the opening of the from the Viceroy Lin appointing him Chief
port of Woosung to international commerce, and also appointing two expectant Taotais named Chih Chêng (Manchu) and Hsiang Wan-yung to act as Assistant Commissioners N. C. Daily News.
It is reported from Nanking that Mr. G. J. Morrison, Chief Engineer of the Shanghai. Nanking Railway Survey, accompanied by his staff of foreign assistants, had an audience of H. E. Liu Kun-yi, Viceroy of the Liangkiang provinces, on the 9th instant, and on the follow ing day began the survey towards Chinkiang, commencing from the Maloo at the Tungchi- gate of Nanking.-N. C. Daily News.
Mr. Acting Consul Wilkinson, in his report on the trade of Pakhoi for last year, says Brief mention may be made here of a successful claim for compensation on the part of the French shipping firm of A. R. Marty. To- wards the close of 1896 the Chinese shippers on this line (Hongkong via Hoihow to Pakboi) being dissatisfied for some reason, agreed among themselves not to send their goods by M. Marty's steamer. This proceeding on their part M. Marty declared to be in contravention of Article XIV. of the French Treaty of Tion- tsin, which states that "no privileged company can henceforward be established in China, nor any coalition organised with the view of exer- cising a monopoly over trale," and he claimed heavy damages. The Chinese authorities replied that the action required of them under the same article of the treaty was merely to "consider means to dissolve such associations.' Finally, however, pressure having been brought to bear at Peking, an indemnity of $310,000 was paid.
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It is reported in local mandarin circles that the Russian and French representatives at Pok- ing are most jealous of the lease of territory near Hongkong to. Great Britain, and in conse- quence Russia demands the “lease" also of Kin- chow to the northwest of Port Arthur in the Liaotung Peninsula, while France wants the "lease" of à port, still unnamed, in Fukien pro- vince.-N. C. Daily News.
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Amongst the older residents (some may remember Bishop Alford, whose death regret to announce, though it was not un- expected as he had passed fourscore years. In his day the Bishopric of Victoria, Hongkong, included supervision of all Treaty port Chaplaincies and Episcopal Missions both in China and Japan, an area over which there are now nive Bishops at work. He was educated- first in Somersetshire, and then at St. Paul's School, London, and Trinity College, Cam- bridge, where he took his D.D. in the sixties.- N. C. Daily News.
The Singapore Free Press says:-The acquisi- tion of two hundred square miles of territory at Kowloon will involve the erection of defen- sive forts on the newly acquired land. That again will involve an addition to the garrison of Hongkong. We heard it said that an enter- prising officer of engineers had already formu lated, in advance, his scheme for the defence of Kowloon, involving an initial outlay of fire millions of pounds sterling. It was suggested on Sunday; in conversation, to an officer in
Singapore that perhaps, with due pressure, the engineers might be able to cut down that five million estimate to about half-a-million, and his answer was :-"Well, you can't expect to get much in the way of defences for half-a-million pounds." At all events, with the new territory at Hongkong, and with the great fort and arsenal that are to be constructed at Weihaiwei, it may be fairly assumed that the military esti. mates of Britain will be considerably swollen during the next year or so.
report for 1897, makes mention of the Diamond Mr. Playfair, the Consul at Ningpo, in his
Jubilee celebration and says:-In connection with this event the Roman Catholic Sisters of Charity of the French Order of St. Vincent de Paul, who have an establishment in the city of Ningpo, forwarded to the Queen an embroidered "couverture de lit" in commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of Her Majesty's accession. This offering the Queen has been graciously pleased to accept, expressing admiration for the beauty of the work. The convent embroi dery. which is executed entirely by Chinese women, is not unknown in London, commissions for trains to be worn at the Buckingham Palace drawing-rooms have been frequently filled. The school of embroidery, from which these articles proceed, is maintained by the sisters as a mesus of providing a livelihood for native women who would otherwise be destitute. When models are provided to be copied the results are ex- cellent, for the workers imitate what is set before them with the accuracy which is a Chinese characteristic. Their own untutored taste in colours is, however, less congenial in the eyes of a European.
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