THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVIII.]
AND
China Oberland
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Wook, dc.
Leading Articles:-
Lord Salisbury and the Support of British Enter-
prize in China.........
Trade Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 6тн AUGUST, 1898.
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A Newspaper Interview with Mr. Wenyon......114
China's Assurances...
The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and a Gold
Standard
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The Pokfulam Reservoir
....116
Hongkong Legislative Council..............
Spanish-American War..
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Attempted Russian Domination at Peking...
The Kwangsi Rebellion
The Chinese Wife Murderer
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The Cosmopolit Ashore
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The Assessment
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The U. S. Vice-Consular Appointment at Canton Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Dividends Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamiat Co., Limited. 122
Raub
Polo
Water Polo League
Macao and the West River Trade. Correspondence.....
The Railway From Peking to Hankow The Anti-Missionary Trouble in Szechuan Anti-Foreign Outrage in Hunan (27) Japanese Emigrants at Thursday"Ísland
Inauguration of Raw Silk Business at Kobe
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Japan has waived her claim to separate con- cessions in the new ports opened voluntarily by China.-N. C. Daily News.
It is a significant fact that the Imperial Maritime Customs are about to re-establish the lights at Weihaiwei.-N. C. Daily News.
Mr. H. E. Fulford is transferred to Peking as Chinese Secretary of the British Legation, and will be succeeded at Shanghai by Mr. W, P. Ker from Soochow.
At a meeting of the ratepayers of the French Concession, Shanghai. held on the 29th July, the proposal to establish wharfage dues was carried by fifty-four votes to twenty.
It is reported in Peking despatches to the Japanese papers that an arrangement has been made by means of which Mr. Detring has been granted the sole privilege of working the mines in the province of Chibli.
In a report on the progress of the various railway enterprises with which he is connected 123 Sheng Taota says that a contract for the 126 Hankow-Capton line had almost been concluded with an American Syndicate when negotiations were interrupted by the Hispano-American war, but they are shortly to be resumed.
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The German Consul in Seoul and the Minister for
Foreign Affairs
France and Siam.....
Trouble on the J. V. Troop
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
MARRIAGE.
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The N. C. Daily News of the 25th July says-It is reported from Peking that M, 127 Pavloff, the Russian Chargé d'Affaires, has sent in to the Tsungli Yamên another very strongly worded protest against the Imperial Railways of North China being allowed to carry out their contract with the Hongkong and Shanghai Bink.
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On the 4th August, at St. John's Cathedral, Hong- kong, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, M.A., Jous MITFORD ATKINSON, M.B. (Lond.), sou of Rev. S. ATKINSON, of Portland, to CLARA, eldest daugh ter of JAMES EASTMOND, Puddyngton, Devon.
DEATHS.
At the General Hospital, Yokohama, on the 23rd July, JOHN ELLIS POOLE, Commander Nippon Yusen Kaisha. Aged 42 years.
At 21, Whangpoo Rud. Shanghai, on the 25th July, 1898, Mr SAMUEL DYER, aged 65 years.
At the Shanghai General Hospital, on the 28th July, 1893, after a long and painful illness, ART. DO ROZARIO; aged 43 years.
At Kobe, DON JOSE IIILABIO DE OJINAGA, of the Philippine Islands, aged 48 years,
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 1st July arrived, per M. M: steamer Saluzie, on the 2nd August (32 days); the Canadian mail of the 11th July arrived, per C. P: steamer Empress of China, on the 2nd August (22 days); the American mail of the 7th July arrived, per. O. & O, steamer Ceptic, on the 4th August (28 days); and the English mail of the 8th July arrived, per P. & O. steamer Chusan, on the 5th August (28 days).
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From Tientsin the Shanghai Daily Press learns that Mr. Pritchard Morgan has received the cold shoulder from Li Hang-chang, who is showing himself very anti-British at present. They say that old Li has got himself so much into the power of the Russians that he dares not go contrary to their wishes for fear of being denounced.
Women in China, at least around us in Shanghai, are becoming almost as up-to-date as their sisters in the West. A fair Celestial cyclist is no uncommon spectacle in our streets, and now we have a new weekly publication entitled The Feminine Magazine the first namber of which has just been issued, and the entire staff of which consists of Chinese ladies.
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Carzon (under Secretary for Foreign Affairs) A Reuter's telegram informs as that Mr.
that Great Britain regards the assurances of speaking in
China respecting the Yangtsze valley as & definite and binding undertaking, that the Pek- Belgian Syndicate, but that China had assured ing-Hankow railway had been granted to a
Sir Clande MacDonald that Russia had no in- terost in the line.
the House of Commons said
No. 6.
A recent visitor to the new German atation at Kiaochou Bay is delighted with it as a future watering place, a commercial port, and a naval been tried and found equal to Cardiff, and station. The coal found in the vicinity has
no one, he learns, is more delighted with this German acquisition than Prince Henry of Prussia.-N. C. Daily News.
Marquis Ito is to visit China. His departure was fixed for the 26th July, bat was postponed, and it is now believed he will leave on the 16th August. A Tokyo press despatch of the 26th July says:-Count Okuma proceeded to Oiso this morning to see Marquis Ito. It is reported that questions relating to China were discussed, and that the visit of Marquis Ito to Peking will be availed of in order to lay before the Chinese Government the views of Japan on various questions.
A Peking telegram of the 28th July states that the Chinese comment bitterly on the recent behaviour of M. Pavloff, the Russian Chargé d'Affaires, to the Taungli Yamen. On one occasion he threatened to leave Peking unless his demands were granted, hoping thereby to frighten the Chinese Ministers into acquies. Another time he informed the Yamên that the Czar's wishes must be obeyed. The Chinese complain that M. Pavloff treats Chins as a subject province.
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We learn that Commander Squire, formerly of the Royal Navy, has been appointed foreign ad- viser for administering the new harbour system in Yokohama. Commander Squire was formerly in the service of the Department of State for Communications, and afterwards held a post as naval adviser to the Chinese Government. It is the intention, we believe, of the Japanese Authorities to appoint a captain in the Imperial Navy to the position of harbour-master at each of the treaty ports, and to attach to him a foreign assistant.-Japan Mail.
Lord Salisbury, replying to Lord Kimberley in the House of Lords regarding British inte. rests in the Yangtze Valley, said that the Chinese were well disposed towards British enterprise, but as it had been suggested that they were threatened by other Powers to give them a preference, Sir Claude MacDonald was authorized on the 22nd July to inform the Chinese Government that Great Britain would support them against any Power committing an act of aggression on China for permitting ways or any public works. British subjects to construct or support rail-
panies, says the Japan Mail, seem to be coming The troubles of the cotton-spinning com. thick and fast. The attachment of the Naniwa Company's factory and plant at the suit of the Mitsui-Bussan Kaisha has already been an- nounced by telegram. The Asahi Company of Osaka seems to be in equally bad plight." It has not been able to declare any dívidend for General Merritt arrived at Manila on the the first half of the current year, or to pay the 26th July in the Newport, which had steamed interest on its borrowed capital, which amounts EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
ahead of the other vessels of the third expedito a quarter of a million yen. It has therefore tion. Up to date of last advices the remainder | been obliged to hand over its Hiroshima branch We understand that it has been decided to of the expedition had not arrived, but was factory as security for the interest. The Tokiwa subunit the questions arising out of the collision momentarily expected, and it was anticipated Company, also of Osaka, is said to be threatened between the French cruiser Jean Bart and the that no time would be lost after the landing of with an action by a foreign firm which procured Hawaiian ship Helen Brewer at Woosung some the troops in commencing operations for the machinery to the value of 160,000 yen by order days ago, to Sir Nicholas Hannen, Chief Jus-attack on the city, should attack be necessary, of the firm. It would appear that the cotton- tice of H.B.M's. Supreme Court, for arbitra-
spinning industry in Japan has been developed tion-China Gazette.
too impetuously
but the general impression was that Governor. General Augustin would surrender on demand.
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