THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVIII.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c. ....................... Leading Articles!-
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 1ST OCTOBER, 1898.
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Lord tharles Beresford's Mission............. The British and French Concessions at Shanghai 212 Mr. Mayors' Overland Journey from Peking to
Shanghai...
Progress in Indo-China
The Crisis at Peking
Lori Charles deresford at Singapura
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Threatened attack on Chungking
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Interport Cricket Match at Shanghai.
The Position at Manila
The American Troops at Manila
Unusual Scene at Murray Battery
The Gambling Scandal
Exciting chase after a Prisoner..
A Ruloa Hongkong Compradores
The Kwangsi Rebellion...
Hongkong St Andrew's Society
The Wreck of the Come'
Natural Philosophy applied to Railway Construction
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
We understand that the Right Rev. Bishop Bardon has decided to make Shanghai bis permanent place of residence.
Mr. G. W. Lake, an Amric in stokesper, was found murflared in his blat Chemilpo ou the 3 th ult. There was no clas to the mur derer.
The interport cricket match between Shang- hai and Hongkong wis played at Shanghai on .266 the 27th, 28th, and 29th September, and resulted in a victory for Hongkong by twenty- .247eight runs.
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ia Yunnan Province
Charge Against a School-Master
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The Mutiny on Board H.M S. Hermione in
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The Tang Wa Hospital ..
The Congested ondition of the Yarn Market
Douglas Steamship Co., Limited
China Trelers' Insurance Co.,
Limited
Union Insurance Society of Canton, Limitsi
Olivers Freehold Mines, Limited
Shanghai Engineering. Shipbuilding, and Dock Co
Limited
Polo
Hongkong Football Club
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From the Weihaiwai correspondance of the N. C. Daly Now: we learn that Cɔmnmlər : Gaunt has been appointed. for six months, Naval Commissioner of Whawi. has
made an euergetic al cipible Warlen of L`a. kuugtao and will doubtless in this higlier office give satisfaction.
The following announcement, important if trus, appears as an ordinary loud paragraph in the Pking and Tie itsia" Tim:3:-Wa Tara that a coucs on for a railway from Singăti to Canton along the coast his bsa obtinel by Mr. Melona, M., to be constructal and worked by British capital.
Lord Charles Beresford arrived at Hongkong
Burling of the China Merchants' Godown at Shanghai 273 by the P. & O. steamer Parramatta yesterday
Unrest in Fukien
Strike of Cotton Operatives at Shanghai.
Suicide of an American Naval Chaplain Newchwang
Coolie Violence at Nagasaki
Hongkong and Port News Commercial....
Shipping
BIRTH.
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On the 23th September, at 13, Praya East, Hong kong, the wife of W. G. WINTERBURN, of a soil,
MARRIAGE.
aud goes on to Shanghai by the sim vessel to-day. It was hoped that he would have been able to ad Iress a mesting during his short stay in the colony, but he intimited that he was unable to accept the invitation.
The Avenir da Tmkin says that Admiral de Baumont, during his recent visit to Hanoi, did not hesitate to say that for six months of the vear the entrance to the bay of Kwang- bir chanwan is impossible. being closel by a which, notwithstanding its dypth of 22 feet, is Tuesday, 27th September, at St. John's Cathe-impracticable during the monsoon. dral, Hongkong, by the R. R. F. Co'bold, MA., JOHN THOMAS “MARTIN WHEELMY, of Hongkong, to EMMA BEATRICE, eldest daughter of the late Capt. H. KENNETT, of Hongkong.
DEATHS
At the Shakespeare. Negishi, at 7.45 o'clock on the morning of 12th September, GEORGE PAENCE FOTE, aged 78 years.
At the Gener Hospital, Shanghai, on the 19th September, 1398, Paul FrûnAUF, Imperial Mari- time Customs, age1 30 years
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 22nd September, 194, VINCENT THOMAS MICE, Upper Yangtze Pilot, aged 42 years.
At sea, on board the steamer Silesia, on the voyage home, on the 23th September, in the evening, Mrs. ANNA LAMKE, deeply regretted. (By telegram from Sajgon.)
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 25th August ar rived, per P. M. steamer Glenfarg, on the 24th September (30 days); the French mail of the 26th August arrived, per M. M. steamer Sydney, on the 27th September (32 days) and the English mail of the 2a1 September arrived, per P. & O. steamer Parramatta, on the 30th September (28 days).
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It is reported in Tokyo that the amended Penal Code, which will be submitted to the
Diet at its next session, oʻ‘uits all mention of a death penalty. This of course ins that if the Penal Code becomes law in its present shape, capital punish:out will cease to form one of the penalties under Japanese law.-Kobe Chronicle.
T-legraphic intelligence has been received that Chungking is threatened by the brigands under Ya Man-tze and troops hire bean seut from Cougta for the city's protection. It is reported that som- time ago a Committes of the gentry of Tangliang district, Szechu«n, sout by Jen Taotai of Chungking to exhort the Yu Man-tze to lay down his arms, wara pre- routed by him from returning to report the result of their mission to the Taotai and were held as bostages.
We translate the following from the Avenir da Tonkia+M. J. Lillis, our Irish confrere, to whom the French Government has granted a few subsidies to reco apens, him for baring con- rageously sustained the Anti-English-Siamese cause at Bangkok, will shortly obtain his natura- lisation as a Frenchmia. M. Lillie will then be able to return to Bangkok and resu as the eli- torship of the Siam Free Press. It is M. Rollin Jaoquemyns who will have a sore head.
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No. 14.
The Mercury of the 24th September says:- Sir Robert Hart, Inspector General of Customs, has returned to Peking after a long stay at Pertaiho. Sir Robert's health his greatly im
Ha is onca inore back proved by the change,
at his post, as bazy as ever when the mail left. In the light of recent events at the capital he may requira all the pran strength at his comuni to deal with problems apparently about to confront him in common with all in high places in China.
A deputation of the villagers of Kim'inhu, the plic, where the Kowloon Commission was insulted and obs ractel on the 21th August, attended at the Colonial Seoratiry's Oba on 29th Sep ember to present a petition in which they expressed contrition for their conduct and craved pirlon. The depa1ation was taken to Murray Battery, where, after they had been severely alm nished by the Acting Colonial Secretary, Hon. T. Sercomb, Smith, they kowtowed three times to the British flg.
We understand it has been decided that the Toulmin case is to go to Shanghai for trial. This is the case in which the accused, formerly captain of the Am wriçan sto imar Dɔting ranuằng on the Wast River, is charged with having shot the compradora. The case originally came before the American Cousular Court at Canton. The accused applied for a change of venue, and Consul-General Goolnow, of Saɩnghai, his re- cently been at Cauton in connection with the matter, the result being that the trial will take place at Shanghai.
The Imperial Bank of China commenced its note issue at Shanghai on the 21st September. The N. C. Daily News describes the notes as original, appropriate, and attractive. It is stated in local mandarin oirales that the authorised issue will for the present be of the total value of Tls. 1,250,000, namely, one million dollars in dollar notes of varions denominations, and Tls. 590,010 in tuel notes. Of these bank notes to the value of $650,00 and Uls. 315,000 have alrealy arrived for circulation, divided as follows:-150,00) ons dollar notes, 3.10 10 five
dollar notes, and 35,00 ten dollar notes; also 65.00) one til notes, 30,000 five tael notes, and 14,000 t n taal notes.
The crisis at Peking has been the sensation of the week, but from the North it is reported that foreigers in Peking do not attach the same importance to it as those in Shanghai and Hongkong, regarding it as one of the place in trigues that are bound to take place in every Oriental country from time to time. It WIS at first reported that the E operor had ben murdered, but this has sin a bean contradictel and he is said to have sat by the Empress Dowager's side at the recep tion of memorials since the date on which he was reported to have been poisoned. The Empress Dowager is now in full power and a steady e mpiga is being conducted agai ist the members of the 'Reform · party. Kang Ya-wei, one of the leaders of the latter party, was to have been arrested at Shanghai on his arrival from Peking, but he came down on a British steamer, and British protection was accorded to him He was transferred to the P. & 0). mail steamer Balluarut, which brought him down to Hongkong under convoy of H M. S. Bonaventure. He has been given quarters in the Gaol, as the place where he will be least exposed to attack by his enemies.
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