THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVIII.J
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, ¿c.................. Leading Articles:-
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 13TH AUGUST, 1898.
The Post Office notifies that correspondence ..........133 | for Cuba cannot be forwarded at present.
Russian Designs upon China and British Protection134 Railways and Anglo-Russian Relations in China.134 British Transports for Chinese Rivers ....134 China and the Gold Standard
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The United States and the Philippines Vacations in the Supreme Court The Pokfulam Reservoir
Spanish-American War........ Supreme Court
Terrific Typhoon in Formosa
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The Daily Chinese Progress publishes a re- port from Peking to the effect that the Emperor had been unwell lately owing to swellings in the limbs, but that his Majesty was expected to resume his direction of State affairs in a few days.
No. 7.
It appears that the Japanese Government has been disposing of the silver yen which has been called in by sending shipments to China and India through the Specie Bank. The large import of foreign rice of late has greatly assisted in the disposal of silver yen, and altogether twenty millions are estimated to have left the country in one way and another. It has also The Weihaiwei correspondent of the N. C. silver to the Formosan Bank, while a further been arranged to advance three million yen in Daily News writes under date of 27th July
amount has been added to the silver reserve of A few days ago the Undaunted returned fron
the Bank of Japan. The total quantity of 139 Japan. The Naval Commissionership of Wei.
silver which was in the Treasury at the begin- haiwei was then handed over by its first holder,ning of this year was 50 million yen, while the Capt. King-Hall, of the Narcissus, to Capt. balance now remaining does not exceed 20 Clarke of the above, aud the Narcissus left for millions. Therefore it would appear that the 140 Japanese waters soon after.
silver called in has been disposed of without any great loss to the Government.-Kobe Chronicle.
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The Stranding of the Amarapuara
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Memorial Service for the late Prince Bismarck
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The Water Supply
Supreme Court Vacation Ordinance
Temperature at Macao and Hongkong
Polo
Hongkong Rifle Association
Aquatics
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Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited
The Hongkong Hotel Co., Limited
Tebrau Planting Co. Limited
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Shanghai Feather Cleaning Co., Limited
Correspondence..
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The Kowloon Customs Report
Canton and the West River and Transit Pass Trade .......143
The Wuchow Customs Report
The Lu-Hau Railway Contract
Russian Bluster in Peking
The Chinkiang-Tientsin Railway..
The Shanghai-Woosur, Railway Fatal Collision at Yokohama...
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Riot in Hunan
Firemen's Strike at Shanghai..
Civil Service Reform in China
The New Japanese Tariff
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The Hungry Bear
Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
DEATHS.
The N. C. Daily News of the 2nd August says:-"An Imperial edict of the 28th of July commands that Jung Lu and Chang Chih-tang, Viceroys of Chilli and the Hukunug provinces, respectively, be given the supreme power to raise funds and construct the Lu-Han and other railways." Does this mean that the Belgian contract has been thrown over?
Amongst the passengers by the P. & O. steamer Chusun for the North was Mr. Arnot Reid, editor of the Straits Times, who intends to travel .147 through Mongolia, on by way of the "Great Desert of Gobi," and across Lake Baikal to Irkutsk, which is the capital of Eastern Siberia. The Trans-Siberian railway from Europe has been open some time to a point only 250 miles short of Irkutsk, and it is even possible that the newest 250 miles of rail may be opened early in 140 September. After Irkutsk, Mr. Reid will pro- ceed by way of Nijni Novgorod. Moscow. St. Petersburg, Berlin, and Paris. His companions will be Dr. Hillier and Mr. Harrison, members of an American scientific expedition.
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On the 11th July, at Sandakan, B. N. Borneo, JOSEPH WILLIAMS, I spector B. S. Borneo Con- stabulary, formerly of Shropshire L. I. Regiment and Hongkong Police, of congestion of the lungs. Deeply regretted by all brother officers.
At the Peak Hospital, on the 11th inst., JEANIE JAMIESON, infant daughter of R. ADAM, Bowrington Refinery.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
There have been during the week.
arrivals of mails
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK. The Italian cruisers Piemonte and Doguli ars now on their way from the Mediterranean for the Philippines.
Mr. Rawson Walker, the British Consul at Ma- uila, died of dysentery on the 2nd August. The flags of all the vessels at Manila were half-masted in respect to the memory of the deceased officer. The German occupation of Kinochow Bay, the Mercury says, has proved very convenient to those German subjects resident in Shanghai who are liable for military service, for they can put in their time there and resume their trade or profession in the East or elsewhere on the expiration of the term.
It is stated that the French gunboat Lion has been trying for the past three days to enter the West River by one of the many channels with the supposed intention of reaching Wu- chow, and has got stuck in the mud. Had she gone in at the “open door," that is by the main mouth near Malowchow, she would have got there right enough.
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It is a singular circumstance, says the Siam Free Press, that when Mr. Curzon was in Siam he attended the marriage of the late editor of this paper, and made a handsome wedding present to the young couple. He also called on Mr. Lillie several times in the Siam Free Press office in order to discuss Siamese affairs. Mr. Curzon always readily acknowledged that Siam was utterly rotten, and bound to smash sooner or later, but he surprised Mr. Lillie by repeat- ing over and over again. “Yes, yes, Siam is all you say but we must preserve our illusions, we must preserve our illusions." At the present moment the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs would probably wish Mr. Lillie in a hotter place than Bangkok.
The latest advices from Mauila record the Örst land battle between the United States forces and the Spaniards. which took place on the night of the 31st July. A portion of the 1st California Regiment and four guns of the Utah batteries had occupied the trenches at Malate, according to arrangement with the insurgents, when at about ten o'clock in the evening of the day uamed the Spaniards moved forward and tried to dislodge them. Reinforcements pushed their way to the front under a perfect rainstorm of bullets, and after about four hours fighting the Spaniards retired, with heavy loss, which report places as high as 300 killed and 1,000 wounded. The United States troops lost 11 killed and 40 wounded and the insurgents about the same. It is said General Merritt does not intend to make an assault apon the city until the remainder of his troops arrive.
appear that the Japanese Government has been According to the vernacular papers it would affected by the annexation fever afflicting al- most all the Powers, and some months ago hoisted the flag of the Rising Sun over a small island south of Japan, naming it Minami Tori-jima. The island has been attached for administrative purposes to the Bonin Islands. It is situated in latitude 24 deg. 14 min. N., long. 154 deg, E., and is said to have been first discovered by an American Captain and marked on the chart as Marcus Island. The Japanese who first came across the island was a fisherman of Kinkazan, but when he made the discovery is not stated. On the 3rd December, 1896, Mr. Mizutani Shinroku of Tokyo explored it, and the island has now been formally annexed to the Japanese territory. Twenty men and women and three children have been sent to the island for its cultivation. Its exact area is, unknown, but it is estimated that 300,000 tsubo can be cultivated.-Kobe Chronicle,
Reuter has favoured us during the past week with a series of rather sensational telegrams with reference to affairs in China and the relations of Great Britain and Russia. First we were informed that in a debate in the House of Commons on the estimates for the Foreign Office Mr. Curzon said that nothing could be more definite or more precise than the assurance China. of support that Great Britain had given to He denied that the open door had ceased to exist or that it had been shut in Great Britain's face. The concessions secured in China in the last few months were far greater than had been obtained by all Britain's rivals put together and this proved that Britain had maintained her ascendancy in the political counsels at Peking. Next we were told that the newspapers regarded the Anglo-Russian relations in China as critical and that the stock market was weak, the same telegram also stat ing that Russia had acquired the Sultanate of Rabeita in the Red Bea as a naval base. Then we were told that the Anglo-Russian relations in China were being followed with keen interest in the United States, and that the New York Times and Sun advocated prompt action by Great Britain and the United States. The latest telegram informs us that China has expressed her gratitude for Great Britain's support, adding that no aggression had been threatened, and that instructions to resist preferential treatment of foreign subjects in trade had been sent to Sir Claude MacDouaid in March and renewed particular instructions in reference to railway concessions had been sent on the 13th July.
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