THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVIII.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Woek, &c. Leading Articles:—
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 27тH AUGUST, 1898.
.173
A Monetary Crisis and the Currency Question ...174 Russian Activity at Nowchwang
174
174 .175
170 176
Great Britain and Russia in China
The Emperor's Visit to Tientsin
Indians in Japan and the New Treaty. The River Yollow
...175
Affairs at Manila
Hongkong Sanitary Board
...179
The Kowloon Survey
181
The Typhoon and Floods in Formosa
Enquiry at the Harbour Office
181 182
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited
183
The Punjom Mining Co., Limited,
183
Shooting
.184
Water Polo
Hongkong Cricket Club..
181 ..184 ...184
..185
Severe Thunderstorm at Shanghai
Revised Inland Steam Navigation R., ilations, 1893...184 The Tientsin-Chinkiang Railway
The Russian Railway Gauge in China...... The Yellow River Again
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
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195
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186 .188
At II.B.M. Legation, Seoul, on the 5th August, 1898. the wife of J. N. JORDAN, C.M.Q., of a son.
DEATHS.
At the General Hospital, Shanghal, on the 11th August, 1898, Rosa, the beloved wife of Captain MERTENS of the steamer Toonan, aged 20 years.
At Shanghai, on the 12th August, VIRGINIA LOPEZ, the dearly beloved wife of UBALDO CARION, aged 23 years.
At the residence of St. Joseph, Yang-king-pang, on Sunday, the 14th August, at 6.15 p.m., His Lord- ship Monseigneur GARNIER, S.J., Bishop of Tito- polis, and Vicar-Apostolic of Kiangnan.
At the Shanghai General Hospital, on the 14th August, 893, W. S. ROBB, late 2nd officer of the steamer Poochi, aged 35 years.
At the Shanghai Ge eral Hospital, on Monday, tlie 15th August, 1898, TnoMAS WILLIAMS RACON CHISHOLM, aged 27 years.
At Bonham Island, on the 16th August, 1898, at 6 a.m., NORMAN A. LAMONT, aged 22 years, youngest son of the late Captain Angus LAMONT and Ann BARRET (of London.)
At Shanghai, on the 20th August, 1898, DOUGLAS BAXTER, eldest child of John and Helen CHRISTIE, aged 22 months.
On the 20th August, at 3 p.m. at No. 8, Pedder's Hill, MADALINE, the dearly beloved wife of Mr. E. J. ELLIS, after a painful illness, aged 35 years. Deeply regretted by her sorrowing husband and family.
On the 20th August, at Westgate-on-sea, KENT, the infant daughter of HERBERT GEORGE and MAUD
MARION DOWLER.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The Canadian mail of the 1st August arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of India, on the 23rd August (22 days); the German mail of the 25th July arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Preussen, on the 22nd August (28 days); and the American mail of the 26th July arrived, per O. & O. steamer Gaelic, on the 25th
August (30 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Dr. Stuebel, the German Consul-General at Shanghai, is going on leave shortly, his place being taken by Dr. Kuappe, who is at present Consul at Canton.-China Gazette.j
No. 9.
The Japan Mail says that it is not surprising that Japan finds it very difficult to get officers for her army as well as her navy, considering that the monthly pay of a Major in the army is only 27 yen (£2 14s.), of which he has to pay nearly half for the keep of his horse, his net pay, ont of which he has to provide himself with a
The N. C. Daily News of the 22nd August says:-Mr. P. T. Somerville Large, a retired Indian Engineer, arrived by the Empress of India to inspect and report ou the proposed Shanghai-Nanking Railway. He leaves for the interior on Wednesday, accompanied by Pan Taotai, a Director of the proposed line.
It will be remembered that a number of Chi-uniform, being exactly the pay now demanded ness troops lately attacked a Catholic church at by an able-bodied coolie for pulling a jiuricksha. Paoting-fu, burning the building to the ground and wounding a French priest. This matter has been settled by the payment of Tls. 480 as compensation and the rebuilding of the destroyed church, services being held in the meantime in a Taotai's Yamen!-China Gazette.
According to a Reuter's telegram the Novoe Vremya and Novosti have adopted a friendly tone towards Great Britain. The latter urges the removal of the discussion of the China question from the heated atmosphere of Paking to London or St. Petersburg with a view of arriving at an agreement inspired by mutual concession. It is understood that M de Staal is returning unexpectedly to London.
Captain Thulmann, who is accused of mur- dering the compradore of the Dosing and was kept in the British Consular Gaol at Canton, has been sent to Shanghai in the Fushun for safety, as the Cantonese threatened to take him out of prison and kill him. He will be sent back to Canton in October to be tried. The Fushun arrived at Shanghai on the 11th August, ten days out from Hongkong.
Union.
It is reported from Newchwang that the Russians have bought a considerable tract of land near the river's edge at a place called Ninchiatun, a short distance from the foreign settlement, for the purpose of building wharves and godowns. Orders are said to have been sent to the Russian agent at Newchwang to push on the work at all costs so that it may be finished by the next opening of the river.— N. C. Daily News.
Yu Lu, the Dew member of the Grand Council, recently presented a memorial to the Throne, suggesting that the Viceroys of Pro- vinces should be ordered to advance money for the purchase of war vessels. The Emperor having sanctioned the suggestion. Imperial orders have been issued to the North and South Superintendents of Trade to advance £50,000 annually for a term of ten years. The other Viceroys have also been ordered to subscribe, and Liu Kung-yib has in consequence notified the Imperial Maritime Customs to forward the requisite amount.—China Gazette.
An Imperial Edict of the 9th instant ap- proves of the recommendation of the Grand Secretary Sun Chia-nai, Imperial High Com- missioner of the new Peking University, to appoint Dr. W. A. P. Martin chief of the Foreign staff of Professors of the University and, as a further recognition of the Doctor's educational efforts as President of the Tangwon college at Peking, to present him with the bre- ret button of the 2nd rank. This entitles Dr. Martin to be addressed as Ta-jen by the Chinese. Apropos of the above title of Imperial High Commissioner of the Peking University, the powers couferred upon the holder of it are equal to those of a Minister of Education in Western countries.-N. C. Daily News.
At Yokohama on the 12th August E. Leopold was brought up at the British Court ˆand- charged on the prosecution of Mr. Emil Wis- mer (head of the firm of Messrs. H. Ahrens & Co., Nach.) with obtaining by fraud a sum of 141,157 yen 83 sen from the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, it being alleged that he had 1897, to April 7th, 1898, various packages of shipped at varions dates from December 31st, furs for London per N.D.L. steamer Hohenzol- lern, knowing that the statement was false, he having unlawfully obtained the signature of Messrs. H. Ahrens & Co. to bills of lading and policies of insurance. The prisoner was for- merly in the employ of Messrs. H. Ahrens &
Co. The case was at date of last advices under remand.
The statement that has gained some currency that the question of the liability for the collision between the Jean Bart and the Helen Brewer was to be arbitrated on by Sir Nicholas Hannen is quite incorrect. It was proposed at one time by Mr. Goodnow, the U.S. Consul-General, Brewer, that the question should be arbitrated who is looking after the interests of the Helen
on by the Count de Bezaure, himself, and a third arbitrator to be selected by them, prefer- ably Sir Nicholas Hannen or Mr. Byron Brenan, the British Consul-General. But this was not agreed to, and all the available evidence was taken by the Commission at Shanghai, to be adjudicated on by the French Admiralty or, if necessary, the Court of Claims at Paris. Mean- while the captain of the Jean Bart has been instructed by the French Admiralty to sue the Helen Brewer in the U.S. Consular Court, and is only awaiting the formal authorisation of his Admiral before commencing proceedings.—N. C. Daily News.
Reports from Manila show that all is quiet in the city and that business has been actively resumed. There is some friction between the American authorities and Aguinaldo, the insurgent chief, the latter advancing claims which the Americans do not appear disposed to concede. Meantime all insurgents entering the city are disarmed. The chief point of interest at the moment, however, turns on the decision likely to be arrived at by the United States Government as to the future disposition of the islands. A Reuter's telegram of the 18th August stat s that the semi-official journal St. Petersburgh dwells on the difficulties the Americans will experience in introducing autonomy in the Philippines and advocates its gradual introduction under the strict but benevolent control of Europe. The opinion in the United States in favour of retaining the Philippines is gaining strength. telegram of the 23rd reads as follows:-Therə are indications that President McKinley is in favour of the retention of the island of Luzon only; but nothing definite is as yet settled. Twelve hundred more troops left San Francisco on Monday for Manila, but a fast steamer was afterwards dispatched to recall them.
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