THE
Hongkong Weekly Pres
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 3RD SEPTEMBER, 1898.
VOL. XLVIII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Weok, &c.
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Loading Articles:-
The Kowloon Extension and the Customis
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Inland Navigation Rules
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Control of the Philippines
...191
The "Open Door" and "Spheres of Influence"
Policies...
...192
Pacific Cable Schemes
Compradores
Hongkong Legislative ('ouncil..
Supreme Court
The Americans at Manila
Generals Grecue and Merritt in Hongkong.
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American Regulars in Hongkong...
Rising in Hainan
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The Kwangsi Rebellion
The Kowloon Extension
Reviews
Hongkong Cricket Club.
The Excessive Heat
The Recent Typhoon
Chinese "Traders" and the United States
Sad End of an Indian Constable
Reported Resignation of the Canton Viceroy Gambling at Tai Won Ho
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
News has been received from Canton that the Tartar General. Po-Lin, died in his yameu on the 27th inst. at 4 p.m.
The French cruiser Bruiz, concerning which alarmist reports seem to have been in circulation in Paris, is safe at Saigon.
Sheng Taotai, Director General of Chinese Railways, arrived at Tientsin on the 16th Au. ...193
193 gust, and was met at Tongku by several local 194 officials.
The prospectus has been published at Shang- hai of a new local Company, the Shanghai Ice, 197 Cold Storage, and Refrigeration Co., Limited,
with a capital of Tls. 100,000.
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197 A Government Gazette extraordinary was issue on the 31st August containing a pro- .:99 | clamation by H.E. the Acting Governor revok- 189 ing the proclamation declaring Amoy an in- 200 fected port.
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A serious rising is reported from Hainau and the property of the American Presbyteriau Mission at Nodoa has been endangered, the missiouaries and their families having had to ...201 fly for their lives.
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Raab
Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co.,
Limited
The Royal Ho gkong Golf Club .........
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Correspondence.
Great Britain and the Yangtze Valley
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Fire at Shanghai
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The New Elucation in China ........
China and Korea
...201
Russo-Chinese ourtesies at Kirin
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The Ningpo Joss House Dispute at Shanghai
Railway Loan,
Foreiga Capital in Japan
A Captive French Priest
Progress at Kisochau
Hongkong Club-House
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Big Robbery on Board A Cruiser.....
The Prinz Heinrich in a Typhoon
Possession of the Philippines
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and the Northern
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
MARRIAGE.
A recru lesence of the Kwangsi Rebellion is reported, and a violent anti-foreigu proclams- tion has been issued by the leader. The Viceroy of Canton has instituted a press censorship and the journals published in that city have been forbidden to publish any news concerning the operations unless it, is favourable to the .202 Imperial forces.
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A Seoul telegram reproduced by the Kobe Chronicle states that the Korean Government has appointed Mr. McLeavy Brown, the British Financial Adviser, to superintend railway .203 affairs. Mr. Wakefield, of the Chinese Cus. 204 toms, we learn from the N. C. Daily News, has been transferred to Seoul as Mr. McLeavy Brown's Secretary.
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On Tuesday, 30th August, at St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, ROBERT THOMAS WRIGHT, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, to LUCY, younger daughter of W. DANBY Esq., Hongkong.
DEATHS.
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On the 27th July, at 47, Co tesmore Gardens Kensington, after a few days illness, MARY HEW SON, wife of EDWARD WILLIAM BATE, formerly of Shanghai, and eldest daughter of MILES PRENDER FAST JUKES, formerly of Hongkong, in her forty- seventh year.
At Kobe, on the 19th August, Mark VOISEY, resident in Kobe since the opening of the port, aged G2 years.
At Shanghai, on the 24th August, 1898, after a short illness, QUERINA MARIA, the beloved daughter of Achilles and Apollonia Carolina Dos SANTOS OLIVEIRA, aged 10 months
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 29th July arrived, per M. M. steamer Laos, on the 30th August (32 days); and the English mail of the 5th August arrived, per P. & O. steamer Ballaarat, on the 1st September (27 days).
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C. F. Leopold, charged at Yokohama with obtaining advances on goods which did not exist, was committed for trial on the 19th August, bail being allowed as before. further charges were added to the indiorment, one that of obtaining credit nader false pre- tences, and the other that of fraudulently in ducing Mr. Hofmann (partner in the firm of Messrs. Ahrens & Co., Nachf.) to sigu two valu- able secruities—namely, bills of lading.
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No. 10.
The Agricultural and Commercial Depart ment of Japan has, it is stated, decided to send a Commission to investigate and report on the present state of the industries in China and 1 Korea, with a view to developing trade with Japan.
The suits instituted at Shanghai by the Bank of China against certain large native share- holders with respect to unpaid calls on their scrip, which were set down for hearing on Monday last, have been postponed, owing to the Taotai's indisposition.
The Japanese Consulate at Foochow was opened on the 10th August, Mr. Acting Con- sul Satematsu Teshima assuming charge. Some land has been purchased by the Japanesa below the Ice-house for the erection of merchants' offices and godowns. There is some talk of their having a railway from this point on Nantai to Pagoda, but it is thought improb- able that the matter will go any further than
talk.--Echo.
Says the Singapore Free Press :-It has been decide to bring the Government Currency Note Ordinance into effect from the 31st Au gust, but the notes will not actually be ready, to afford time for the necessary preliminary arrangements, until the end of this year or pos- sibly the beginning of next. No question need now be raised as to whether a Government note issue was requisite or not, but now that it has been settled that we are to have one, the sooner the better. The Banks can raise no possible objection to the new note issue, and it may be a relief to the present situation in many ways. Although it may perhaps be doubted whether there is now any real note stringency in this colony, especially in view of the passing of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Ordinance, yet thore is believed to be such a stringency in China, and it may happen that the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank will withdraw a portion of the note issue from this colony in order to meet their needs in China, so that the operation of the Currency Note Ordinance may prove a neighbourly act on the part of this colony to- wards Hongkong.
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Generals Merritt and Greene, of the United States army, arrived in Hongkong on the 1st September from Manila. General Merritt has been appointed a member of the Commission that is to meet in Paris next month to arrange the terms of peace between Spain and America,
and he proceeds to Europe by to-day's mail steamer. General Greene has gone to San Fran. Nagasaki-ites were somewhat excited on Mon- cisco! The position is unchanged at Manila, day morning, 22nd August, when five British but an exciting incident occurred at Cavite on men-of-war, the Centurion, Narcissus, Victori- the 24th August, when the Americans and ous, Handy, and Whiting-the last two torpedo insurgents came into collision. The affair boats-suddenly appeared in Nagasaki harbour. originated from a row in a shop. An American As soon as possible they all commenced to coal, soldier, having a dispute with the shop-people the band of one of the ships being stationed on about his change, fired his revolver. He did the bridge to enliven the sailors who, with not hit any one, but the report of the firearm Japanese coolies, were employed passing in the brought out the insurgents, who opened fire on coal, both sailors and Japs being almost un- the man who had discharged the revolver and distinguishable for coal dust. The work was his companions, with the result that one was finished and all the ships, except one, left at 6 p.m. killed and one fatally wounded. Word was as suddenly as they had come. The vessel left sent to the American lines and a detachment bebind, which had steam up, had for company a was ordered up. Precise details of what Russian man-of-war, also with steam up. No-occurred then are difficult to obtain, but it body on shore knew where the ships went to appears that several were wounded on both We take the above from our Shanghai contem- sides. Explanations were subsequently ex- porary, the Union. In the Nagasaki Press we changed, and Aguinaldo was requested to move ând the destination of the vessels given as his men a few miles back from the town tof Weihaiwei.
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