THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVIII.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles:-
The Opening of Hunan
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 30TH JULY, 1898.
In connection with the recent riots at Shang- hai the Union says some evilly disposed natives ...89 proposed to the bakers to poison the bread.
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Native Jurisdiction at Kowloon and Weihaiwei 90 The U. S. Vice-Consular Appointment at Canton 9 Mr. Parry on the Canton-Kowloon Railway and the Squaring of Officials.......lungemarım or Approaching End of the War
Hongkong Legislative Council..
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Spain and the Cost of Foreign Intervention The Opening of Siberia and its Effects
Hongkong
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on
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Supreme Court
Spanish-American War..
The Kwangsi Rebellion
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Bank Note Issu
The Trade Marks Ordinance
The Secretary of State on the Legislative Council's
Farewell to Sir William Robinso:
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A Shark in the Harbour
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The Northern Pacific Company's steamer Arizona has been sold at Tacoma. It is reported that she has been purchased for the United States Government.
Count D. Ursel, Belgian Minister to China, arrived at Shanghai on the 19th July, from Peking, having successfully concluded the Trea- ty between the Congo Free State and China.- China Gazette.
The Ball authorising the increased issue of Bank notes by the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank passed through all its stages at the meeting of the Hongkong Legislative Council
on the 25th July.
The Laon Kung Mow Cotton Spinning and
Relative Progress in North and in South China..........104 Weaving Company, Limited, are paying an in-
The Battle of Salamanca Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Co., Limited. 105 The Punjom Mining Co., Limited,
.107 .107 ....107 .107 .107
106
Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co.,
Limited
Revolver Match .......
Britain Demands the Entire Opening of Hunan
The Lu-Man Railway
A Sweeping Reform
Fire at Messra. A. S. W... & Co'a. Hankow Branch107
The Collision between the Jean Bart & Helen Brewer107
The Peking Syndicato Agreement
A Last Warning..
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Another Anti Missionary Outrage ....
The Riots in Szechuan
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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terim dividend of four per cent., and it is stated that the profit and loss account shows an amount
of Tls. 30,000 carried forward.
We are glad to hear that the Pritchard- Morgan Syndicate is in a fair way to get a valuable concession in Korea, a country which has been hitherto too much neglected by British merchants and adventurers-to use the word in its old sense of discoverers, exploiters, and colonisers.-N. C. Daily News.
The China Gazette says:-It is regarded as extremely likely that the riots on Frenchtown will be made the occasion for our neighbours on that side procuring a large extension of their 112 present boundaries. The Lunghwa Pagoda is spoken of as the likely limit in one direction and the Observatory at Sicawei as the furthest western point.
At Wirreanda, Amoy, on the 16th July, the wife of G. GRAY DONALD, Imperial Maritime Customs, of a daughter.
On the 21st July, at Shameen, Canton, the wife of J. C. A. HOLZ, T. M. Customs, of a daughter.
At Amoy, ou tlie 24th July, the wife of F. W.
STAPLETON, of a son.
On the 25th July, 1898, at the Daily Press Office, Hougtong, the wife of KAVASJI EDULJI VAI, of a
son.
DEATH.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 20th July, 1898, ANN TWIGG, widow of Paul O'Brien TWIGG, aged 70 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The German mail of the 27th June arrived, 2er N. D. L. steamer Prinz Heinrich, on the p6th July (29 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The China Gazette understands that Sheng T'aotai is negotiating for the sale of the yang Ironworks to a local British firm.
There is, of course, a fierce struggle going on among the diplomatic representatives in Peking to prevent China entrusting the reorganization of her fleet to Great Britain; but we believe negotiations in this direction are progressing more satisfactorily than those in connection with the army organization.-Peking and Tientsin Times.
The Tientsin correspondent of the Mercury writes:-Mr. G. Detring called on the Viceroy and presented his credentials from the German Foreign Office. He is appointed to represent Germany and Austria in financial matters. etc., in connection with China. He is staying in the Liu Hai Mining Director's house, which has been handed over to him by the Viceroy.
The Hankow branch store of Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co., Limited, has been totally de- stroyed by fire. There are no other drug stores between Shanghai and Hankow, and supplies were telegraphed for to Shanghai immediately, but owing to the coolie strike some delay oc-
erred in their despatch. We understand the Han-premises were rented by Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co. and that the stock was insured to the ex- tent of Tis. 22,000.
Director Nottmeyer and a party of eight gentlemen, deputed by the German Govern- ment, are passengers by the N. D. L. steamer Prinz Heinrich, en route for Kiaochau to pro- spect for coal.
The Viceroy and Governor of Kwangtung have forwarded a joint memorial to the Tsungli Yamen reporting the suppression of the Kwangsi Rebellion. The towns occupied by the rebels have been recaptured by the Imperial troops.
At the inquest held at Yokohama on the 13th inst., on the body of Mr. H. Tennant, editor of returned:-" We find that Henry Tennant came the Japan Gazette, the following verdict was
by his death by a bullet from a revolver dis- charged by his own hand whilst in a state of temporary insanity, due to inflammation of the coverings of the brain, from which he had been suffering for some time, on the 11th July, 1898, at No. 133, Bluff, Yokohama.
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No. 5.
We learn that a large woollen goods factory is shortly to be established in Tientsin, and if carried out it will be the first of the kind in China. The object is to utilize the wool of North China for the production of blankets and other coarser grades of wollen cloth, and we see no reason why such a scheme should not
answer.
America, and the motive power, etc., be electri- The plant will be imported from
city.
The necessary permission has been gained, and the papers have been signed and sealed.-Peking and Tientsin Times
The N. C. Daily News of the 23rd July Concession have entirely disappeared and we says:-All signs of disturbance in the French learn that a settlement will speedily be accom- plished, if indeed one has not already been made, The terms of the understanding are not yet made public, but there can be little doubt that both parties will agree to give and take. Consular deliberations have been taking place during the last two days in which the repre- sentatives of the English and American Governments have taken part and this doubtless expedited an arrangement.
H.M.S. Humber left Hongkong on 26th July with stores and ammunition for Weihaiwei. She takes two new sets of moorings for torpedo boat destroyers, two new sets of moorings for lighters, and buoys for marking the channel. Two destroyers are to be stationed permanently at Weihaiwei and two at Hongkong, H.M.S. Powerful is expected at Hongkong in about a fortnight from the North. H.M.S. Blenheim left England on the 9th July with a new crew for the Barfleur and will return at once with the Barfleur's present crew. Captain Frederick Fisher, of the Blenheim, is to be transferred to the Grafton. The Barfleur will be the flag- ship of Rear-Admiral Fitzgerald.
In its account of the recent disturbances at o Shanghai the China Gazette says:-During the riot near the West Gate a shocking instance of the depravity of the rabble was afforded to horrified foreign spectators, A poor old China- woman tried to make her way from the city through he mob, and in full sight of the Euro peans three or four ruffians seized her, two holding her while in the twinkling of an eye the third desperado lopped off her hand with a short sword and pulled off her gold bracelet from the bleeding and maimed stump of her arm. What became of the poor victim of this ghastly piece of barbarity we know not, but her severed hand was afterwards seen lying trampled upon and grimed with dust where it had fallen.
In the Times map of the Kowloon ́exten- sion, a reprint of which is published with this issue of the Hongkong Weekly Press, the northern boundary is indicated by a straight line. According to the London and China Express, however, the line after passing through the centre of Deep Bay follows the Samtsun River to its source in the hills and thence runs due east until it abuts on Mirs Bay. If this description of the boundary is correct there will be a bend in the line, the Samtsun River run- ning into Deep Bay in a south-westerly direc tion. The town of Samtsun, or Shamchun, is on the right, or northern side of the river, and. will therefore remain in Chinese territory, but it will be brought into direct communication with Hongkong.
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