THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVIII.)
AND
China Oberland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :—
Li Hung-chang and England's Policy in China ... French Designs in South Chios
A Government Note Issue for Hongkong
The Re-enactment of the Contagious Diseases
Ordinance.....
The Management of Railways in China ......
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 2ND JULY, 1898.
Sir William Des Voeux, formerly Governor of Hongkong, is Chairman of the Hooley Jameson Syndicate.
News was received at Shanghai on the 23rd June by wire of the death of Mr. H. Bencroft Joly, H.M. acting Vice-Consul at Chemulpo. No details were given in the telegram.
It is reported that a serious altercation re-
Mr. Demetrius Boulger on the Salvation of China 3 cently took place at the Tsungli Yamen bet-
Supreme Court...
The Caine Road Murder
Spanish-American War...
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Sanitary Board and the Insanitary Properties
Commission
Assault on an Indian Constable
The Charge Against a Nuisance Inspector..
The Opening of China's Waterways.
The Hooley Jameson Syndicate
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The Punjom Mining Co., Limited, in Liquidation... 12 Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co.,
Limited
The South Raub Syndicate
The Plague
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Correspondence..
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No. 1:
In the regulations governing the navigation of the inland waterways it is provided that steamers must clear at the Customs at a tresty It will therefore be impossible for port. vessels to proceed direct from Hongkong or Macao to ports other than treaty ports. In other respects also the regulatious are objec- tionable, but according to a Reuter's telegram Mr. Curzon has stated that the Government
will insist upon the Chinese Government re- ween Li Hung Chang and Sir Claude Mac-vising the regulations in a satisfactory sense. Donald, Li being guilty of great rudeness to the Minister.
At his second audience with the Emperor of China, H.R.H. Prince Heary of Prussia pre- sented the Emperor with the insignia of the Order of the Black Eagle, conferred on the Emperor of China by the German Emperor.— N. C. Daily News.
A Foochow dispatch reports that the Im. perial Government has courteously acceded to the request of the British Admiral and has 13 permitted British meu-of-war to use the Foo- 13 chow Naval dockyard at Pagoda Anchorage for repairs, etc., whenever needed.-N. C. Daily
The New Russian Minister to China
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Russia and China
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The New U. S. Minister to China...
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The Loss of the Fu-Ching
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Railway and Mining Development in China
A German Opinion of Hongkong
The Chinese Land Laws and the Ownership
Accretions
Nowchwang..
Freemasonry at Newchwang
The Japanese in Formosa...
United States Commercial Commission to China...
Handel in China
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News.
The Korean Official Gazette announces that the Government has decided to construct a railway from Seoul to Mokpo. It has also been decided that ten students from the English and French language schools will be sent to Europe to study the European method of postal ad- 16 ministration.
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The Shanghai Cotton Mills and the Labour Question 17 Japanese Manufactures in China......
Poets of the Past on the Problems of the Present Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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M. Madrolle, the French traveller, suggests that as compensation for the recent murder of French missionaries in Kwangsi France should 18 occupy Lungchow or Pakhoi, insist on having 19
concessions in the open towns near Tonkin, 21 and demand a concession for a railway from
Kwangchowwan to Wuchow.
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At Elliot's Crescent, Robinson Road, on the 25th Jane, the wife of C. II. ROGGE, of a daughter.
On the 26th June, at "Craigieburn," the wife of A. H. BOTTENHEIM, of a daughter.
MARRIAGE.
At Nagasaki, on the 22nd June, 1898, by the Rev. A. R. Fuller, JAMES MARKHAM Dow, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, to ISABEL MARION, eldest daughter of J. M. ANTHONY, Esq., of Penang.
DEATHS.
At the Shanghai General Hospital, on the 20th June, 1898, of typhoid fever, AUGUST EDELER, aged 38 years.
At Shanghai, on the 20th June, 1898, the Rev. Y. K. YEN, of the American Church Mission.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 28th May arrived, per O. & O. steamer Doric, on the 26th June (29 days); and the German mail of the 30th May arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Bayern, on the 28th June (29 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Mr. Conger, the new U.S. Minister to Peking, arrived at Shanghai on the 22nd June by the Doric, accompanied by Mrs. Conger, daughter, He was met by and niece, Miss Pierce. Consul-General and Mrs. Goodnow and several Americans, who bade him welcome to China.
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The date of latest advices from Manila is the 24th June. Owing to an impression that German support might be expected and to the news that a Spanish relief squadron was on its way out the Spaniards, instead of being pre- pared to surrender, as was at one time expected, were preparing to make a stubborn defence of Manila, for which purpose they were throwing up earthworks and digging rifie pits. The first of the American troops was expected to arrive on Sunday last, and further news is anxiously awaited.
An Imperial edict of the 20th June, in answer to a Censor named Tseng Ch'ung-yon suggest- ing the importance of establishing western min- ing schools at Tientsin and Nanking, com- mands the Tsungli Yamèn to report on the scheme and if favourable to make the necessary arrangements for establishing first-class mining schools at the ports named, and then to extend the scheme to other provinces where mines of all sorts abound, which, owing to the lack of been exploited.-N. C. Daily News. competent Chinese mining engineers, have never
Wên Ting-shih, an ex-Censor and at one time a great favourite of the Emperor, but who was degraded and dismissed from office about three years ago for being too straightforward in his denunciations of the Empress Dowager's inter-
A Peking telegram of the 18th June pub-meddling with the prerogatives of the Throne, lished by the Nagasaki Press states that the Chinese Government has concluded negotiations with the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation for a loan of £2,000,000 sterling. The money is required for the construction of a railway between Shanhaikwan and Newchwang.
We understand that the Woosung Railway will be open for traffic in about six weeks. Platelaying from the Woosung end of the line has already commenced and is advancing well towards Shanghai. The fitting up of the last of the three American locomotives is almost completed and four first-class carriages are ex- pected at Shanghai in a few days. The first class fare to Woosung will be 80 cents. There will be no single fare. The carriages will be first, second, and third, as in England.-Mercury.
The Shen Pao says it has been arranged between the Tsungli Yamen and the Inspector General of Customs that the officials in Hapeh will apportion an amount of money from the salt revenue and pay it to the Commissioner of Customs at fixed periods for the payment of the Foreign Loan, but the management of the salt business will be retained by the Chinese officials. In the last Chinese moon the Director of the Salt Department of Anhwei received instructions that it has been arranged that Tls. 470,000 be paid to the Commissioner by the Anhwei and Hupeh Salt Departments in year, and that no changes will be made in the staff.-Mercury.
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has recently sent to the Emperor a memorial strongly advising his Majesty to throw himself and the country upou the protection of Great Britain. The memorialist derides the pretended. friendship of Russia, and gives a plain sketch of the whole story of the retrocession of Liao- tung by Japan, bewails the sad fact that every one in China was misled by the pretensions of Russia, and winds up by saying that in the friendship of Great Britain alone lies the salva- tion of China.-N. C. Daily News.
After a water supply of the most distressing and precarious kind, which has obtained for several hundred years, the native city of Shang- hai is now to be provided with an adequate and pure service, which will embrace the latest, im- provements in water engineering. The con- tract, the amount of which has not been made public, has been let to Messrs. Aruhold, Kar- berg & Co., who have secured the services of Messrs. Atkinson and Dallas to do the pre- liminary surveying forthwith. The work, we understand, will be proceeded with without delay. When it is taken into consideration what horrible and indescribable abuses of the commonest laws of sanitation have prevailed in the city for so many years, the task of opening up the soil for the purpose of laying the mains may be better imagined than described, but with the formidable undertaking un fait accompli without doubt the health of the Settlements
will be rendered more secure.-N. C. Daily
News.
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