THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVIII.]
AND
China Overland
Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 15TH OCTOBER, 1898.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Wook, &c..
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Leading Articles:-
The Crisis and British Relations with China ......306 The Alcoholic Liquors Commission
The Management of Peak Affairs.............
The Administration of the New Territory
The Victoria Jubileo Road
The Crown Agency System
Points of Company Law..............
The Crisis in China
Hongkong Legislative Council....
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Admiral Montojo and family left for Europe by the M. M. steamer Laos on Saturday.
M. Doumer, the Governor-General of French ..307 Indo-China, was a passenger homeward by the
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M. M. steamer Indus,
The recent cases of hydrophobia at Slianghai ....308 have given rise to an agitation at that port for
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the muzzling of dogs. ...309 .310 371 .312
Prince Henry of Prussia, with the Deutschland and Irene. was at Taku at date of our latest mail advices from the North.
It is reported that the Taotai Yung Wing's 313 contract for the Tientsin-Chinkiang Railway 313 has been cancelled. Yang Wing being one of
the earliest and most enthusiastic Reformers.— China Gazette.
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The Alcoholic Liquora Commission
The Victoria Jubilee Road
The Charges against Tetter-Carriers
Burning of the Berlin Missionary Society's School at
Canton...
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Submission of Visayas Rebels
Polo
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Shooting
The Hongkong Rifle Association
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Hongkong Football Club
China Traders' Insurance Co., Limited
Yokohama Specie Bank, Limited...
Shanghai Engineering, Shipbuilding and Dock Co..
Limited
British and Chinese Corporation
Raub
Correspondence
Foreigners Mobbed in Peking
The Coup D'Etat at
g
The Wholesale Repeal of Reformas
Imperial Decrees
The Trial of the Reformers at Peking
WongKung-Du
Great Fire in Hankow
Jung Lu...
Another Death From Hydrophobia at Shanghai
Hongkong and Port News Commercial.
Shipping
PI THS.
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Lord Charles Beresford was the guest of Mr. Smith. Acting Manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, during his stay in Shanghai. | He was to leave on Saturday last for Peking, calling at Weihaiwoi en route.
No. 16.
Amongst the passengers by the M. M. steamer Caledonien from Marseilles to Shanghai were six- has secured the concession of the Peking and teen gentlemen sent out by the syndicate which
Hankow Railway. The party is composed of ten Belgians, five Frenchinen, and one Italian. They are to spend a year in surveying the country and preparing plans, and then the work of construction is to commence. They call themselves the Mission d'études du chemin de fer."
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Tau Seu-t'ung, the eldest son of the Governor of Hupeh, Tan Chi-heun, who was seized and beheaded together with the five other prominent members of the Reform Party, may be well regarded as as near a hero as China is likely to produce. He had ample time to escape, but refused to fly from the wrath to come, remark- ing that he wished to meet his death as a "Hao Hautzu (a good Son of Hau) What does it matter," he said, "if a few of us die? In all western countries blood has flown like water in the cause of reform. Let my blood be the first shed in the great cause."-China Gazette.
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The fate of the Emperor of China still remains in doubt, statements that he is dead and that he is still alive sneceeding each other at brief intervals. In the meantime the
The principal Japanese inerchants and re- sidents at Shanghai gave a strand banquet to Marquis Ito on the 6th October in Chang Su-situation at Peking has been growing uncom, h's garden, to which sixteen Chinese officials were also invited, amongst them being H H. Kuei, Viceroy-desiguate of Szechuan, Railway Director Sheng, tie Shanghai Taotai, and other 319 distinguished mandarius.
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The Foochow Echo of the 1st October says:- The typhoon telegraphed as passing up the .324 | Bashee Channel early in the week made itself felt here yesterday and last night, The blow was intermittent, but severe at each outburst. and the roofs of many of the foreign houses suffered a good deal. The barometer did not go lower than 29.40 on the hill.
At Bay View Cottage, Chefco, on the 28th Sep- tember, 1898, the wife of Fred. W. GODSIT, of a daughter.
At Quarry Bay, on the 10th October, the wife of JAS. WADDELL, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
In the Roman Catholic Church, in Tokyo, by the Rev. Father Evrard, ALFRED ARNOLD, to MABEL MARY, youngest daughter of the late JASPER BLUETT, of Batavia, Java,
On Saturday, 1st October, at the British Legation, Tokyo, and afterwards at Christ Church, Yokohama, JOHN B. RENTIERS, II.B.M's Consular Service, Japan son of the late J. B. Rentiers, of Calentta and London, to HARRIET LILIAN, third daughter of the late Dr. Robert MACK, of Canonbury.
DEATH.
At 56A, Broadway, on the 5th October, 1898, 80EZ ELIZABETH, the dearly beloved wife of Cap- tain J. A. Scorr, of the steamer Saal, aged 30 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 9th September ar- rived, per M. M. steamer Caledonien, ou the 9th October (30 days); the English mail of the 16th September arrived, per P., & O. steamer Chusan, on the 13th October (27 days); the American mail of the 13th September arrived, per P. M. steamer Glengyle, on the 14th Octo. ber (31 days); and the American mail of the 17th September arrived, per O. & O. steamer Coptic, on the 13th October (26 days).
The Tientsin correspondent of the N. C. Daily News writes:-The British and Japanese Ministers, or, as some have it, the British and German Ministers, have made formal requests for an audience with H.I.M. Kuang Hsu on the ground that they are accredited to him-this, it is said, with the intention of ascertaining if he be still alive, aud if so, if he abdicated his Imperial functions willingly. I regard some such action as in itself exceedingly probable; if it has been taken, the development will be watched with absorbing interest. It is believed here in all quarters that the Emperor is alive.
It is now acknowledged by the mandarins that the four-funnelled torpedo-catcher Feiying was sent to Shanghai from Weihaiwei by Viceroy Jung Lu to chase the Chungking and if possible get the person of Kang Yu-wei from that steamer. It is farther statea that the Chefoo Taotai was also secretly notified by tele- graph to capture Kang, but the Taotai was urgently wanted at Aiaochan at the time, and he carried the telegram with him not daring to let it be known lest warning be given to Kang of his danger. Hence when Kang came to Chefoo and actually landed to call upon some of his friends there, buying, en passant, a small basket of variegated coloured pebbles for keep ing hyacinth bulbs and some fruit, not a single yamen runner knew what a big prize had been in his very clutches, until the Taotai returned a day or two afterwards.-N. G. Daily News.
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for table for forei±n resûleats, several of whom have been mobbed, and in cons-quence several of the Powers have reat guards for the legations. The Tsungli Yamen strongly objected to foreign troops being introduced into the capital and the departure of the guards from Tientsin was in consequence delayed
for some
time, but the foreign Ministers stood firm on the point and the Chinese had to yield. The presence of the guards is said to have produced an excellent effect. It is reported that Chang Yin-huang has been mur dered by secret order of the Empress-Dowager while on his way to his place of banishment in Kashgaria. Chang Chib-tang is said to be in danger of being cashiered, and Wong Kung-du Huang Chun-hsien), formerly Chinese Consul at Singapore, who had been appointed Minister to Japan and was at Shangaại on his way take up his appointment, has been superseded.
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The Amoy correspondent of the Echo de Chine writes:-Latterly our little island of Kulaugsn has begun to be literally inundated by Chinese. While all the Europeans live on Kulangsu the English concession is situated at the other side of the harbour, on the island of. Amoy itself, but only the business offices, Customs-house, and Banks are located there. Last year the Road Committee presented to the Consular Corps a proposition tending to convert the island of Kulangsu into an international con- cession, thus putting an end to the inconveniences produced by the Chinese immigration. This proposition was approved by the Consular Corps and sent to Peking. The reply was that the time was not opportune, the stereotyped answer when concessions are in question. We are therefore surrounded by Chinese and obliged to pass our nights without sleep owing to their noisy theatre. A tendency may be noted, how. ever, to sell all the land to Chinese, perhaps with a view to demanding a concession else- where. In the whole of Kulangsu there romsin
now only two or three lots still owned by Europeans. Even the Amoy Club has been on the point of being sold to a Chinaman.
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