THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVIII]
Epitome of the Wook,
Leading Articles!--
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
The Foreign Ministers and the Crisis The Inland Navigation Rules: Penny Postagem
Seventy-five Years Leases...... One-Dollar Notes
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 22ND OCTOBER, 1898.
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In the Interport Cricket Match between Yokohama and Kobe, played at the latter port on the 10th and 11th October, Yokohama scored 113 runs and Kobe 246,
Professor A. Graliam Bell, the inventor of ......... unen (327 the telephone, who is on a tour round the world with his wife and two daughters, arrived at Yokohama by the Coptic, as did the Count of Turin, nephew of the King of Italy.
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Opposition to the Occupation of the New Territory328 Setting back the Clock of Progress A Chinese Battalion for Weihaiwei
The Chinese Crisis......
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The Belgian Government and the Luhan Railway...829 Supreme Court .....................
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce.
The Situation at Manila.................................................
Hongkong Sanitary Boardi
Rescue from & Disabled Junky.....
Canton Insurance Office, Limited..
Union Insurance Society of Canton, Liwited
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M.P. Dmitrevsky, the popular Consul-General for Russia at Shanghai, is, we learn from the N. C. Daily News, leaving by the Natal for Egypt, and M. N. Laptew becomes Acting Consul General for Russia at Shanghai.
No. 17.
France, Germany, Belgium, and Holland have agreed on a reciprocal protection of trade- marks in China. The Consul of each Power will have jurisdiction in case of prejudicial action by his countrymen against the three other nationalities.
Aguinaldo, the President of the Philippine Republic, has at last been supplied with his official gold collar, which is described in La sent wreaths of laurel and oak with a "K" in Republic Filipina as follows: The links repre the centre, joined by five-pointed stars. From the point of the collar hangs an eagle with out- spread wings and holding in its talons & triungle. The triangle has brilliants at the points, and in Dr. Ovidio Alpoim, the Chief Justice of the centre is a sun, formed of one large brilli Macao, has received a telegraphic communica- ant, with eight rays, also of brilliants. At th tion offering him the appointment of Secretary back of the eagle is the following inscription ----. Independence, 29.9.98." The collar is enclosed in a beautiful case of ebony inlajd with sandal- wood.
: Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co., to his brother, Senhor José Alpoim, the Minis
............................388 ter of Justice, and he leaves for Portugal by
336the next French mail.
Limited
Cricket.......
hooting ..............................
Correspondence
The New Emperor........
The Mobbing of Foreigners in Peking..............337 British Marines Turned out of the Train at Tientsin...337 Imperial Decrees
The Murder of Chang Yin-huan ... Anti-Foreign Feeling at Wuhu..
The Suppression of Newspapers in China.
The Lu Han Railway ...........................................
...........337 A. Peking telegram of the 10th October to 337 the N. C. Daily News states, than an edict. is to be issued closing all Chinese newspaper offices and punishing the editors, and another restor ing the Wenchang essays as the only means of advancement to literary honours and official 335 preferment.
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The Ministers Demand Audience with the Emperor...338
The Rebellious Movements in Chins...... Disappearance of a Foreign Merchant from Kobe Huang Chun-Hsien's Rolease
Hongkong and Port News......................................................... Commercial
Thipping
BIRTHS.
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bubonic plague is still prevalent at Nha Trang, According to the Independance Tonkinoise
and Dr. Yersin is severely blamed by our con- temporary, the introduction of the disease being 339 ascribed to the careless management of the bacteriological institute there, rats and mice inoculated with the disease having been allowed
escape.
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At Bahar Lodge, the Peak, on the 17th October, the wife of the Hon. F. H. MAY, C.M.G., of a daughter.
At the Government Civil Hospital, on the 19th October, the wife of Captain L. A. C. GORDON, R.A.,
MARRIAGES.
of a son.
At St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, on the 18th October, by the Rey. Rowland F. Cobbold, M.A., ARTHUR HYDELAY, assistant Japanese Secretary H.B.M.'s Legation, Tokio, son of the late William Hyde Lay, H.B.M.'s Consul, Chefoo, to MARION, daughter of JoHN CROALL, Esquire, St. Leonards, Kelso, Scotland.
At the Peak Church, Hongkong, on the 18th October, 1898, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, MA HENRY SMITH, of Tientsin, to EDITH JERMAINE
LULHAM
DEATHS.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 8th October 1898, JAMES MACARTHUR, aged 43 years.
At Chefoo, on the 11th October, 1898, HERMANN ADOLF ROHDy, aged 36 years.
At No. 8, Canton Villas, Kowloon, on the 13th October, ELIZABETH THREAPLAND, wife of Edward WAKEFORD, C.E.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The German mail of the 19th September arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Sachsen, on the 18th October (29 days).
Some disquieting news has been received as to the health of the American troops at Manila. In addition to the great amount of malarial and typhoid fever prevailing, malignant smallpox has appeared. On the 10th instant there were 27 cases and ten deaths. The deaths in the Hospital willaverage about 100 soldiers a month. On October 4th the corpses of six soldiers lay in the marque, on October 5th four, and on October 10th three.
It appears that the continued existence of the Emperor, presuming him to be still alive, is due to two causes. The first is the fear of the Em- Jung Luis res- Press-Dowager, for which H.E. pongible, that the Foreign Representatives may insist at any moment on seeing the Sovereign to whom they are accredited and the second of a successor to poor Kuang Hsu, în view of is the danger to herself involved in the selection
the jealousies that the selection will inevitably arouse in the Imperial clansmen.-N. C. Daily News.
At Shanghai on the 10th October a fire broke out at about twenty minutes past seven in the evening in a godown at the rear of the National Bank of China on Szechnen Road. The fire department answered to the call with their usual promptness, and succeeded in getting the fire under control in a short time: The con- tents were nevertheless entirely destroyed, The firemen, however, succeeded in preventing the spread of the flames to Messrs. Max Wolff's premises adjoining, which it it satisfactory to learn were little injured. The property in des has been ap question, which was owned Messrs. Dent &
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ops in Go, and occupied by Mr. Aug Ehlers, was we hear, fully insured NC Daily News.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
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*The Kebao coal mine has been shut down, the company working it having apparently come to the end of its resources. The coolies employed, to whom three or four months' wages were due, have been paid by the Government, which now holds the property under hypothecation. The Avenir du Tonkin has a long article on the sub- ject in which it ascribes the failure in the first exclusively from Paris instead of in association place to the management having been conducted
with a local committee or board, and in the second place to the expense to which a coal company in Tonkin is put in having to construct its own railways and wharves, while in France facilities of this description are provided inde- pendently of the mining companies and cater for their traffic.
By the end of the year, so it is reported, some 50,000 coolies will have been shipped from Siam and the Straits, under special arrangements with the authorities of the Congo Free State, for public works in that country and for necessary purpose there. The coolie population in Far Eastern lands is practically inexhaus tible; but this step of the Congo Government may have very wide-reaching consequences, it starts the coolies on a triumphant over-runn- ing of the dark continent settlements. Congd natives are r
8 most unwilling and inefficient work- ers. Rhodesia natives only just yielded in time to discipline as miners to prevent a like importation. With a railway to the Congo and plentiful labour, th the Free State are greatly improving –– Straits Times.
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The N. C. Daily News of the 12th October says An attempt was made early ye morning by a party of foreigners, eight ber, to resone Huang Chun-haien fro Taotai's Bureau of Foreign Bubbling Well Road. It appes
these men went to the Bureau at about two o'clock in the morning forced their way past the guards. who seemed too frightened to in demanded to see Huang Chun Drummond was sent for, and on asked what they wanted, when that they desired to see Huang, they had the Emprese-Do their action. After a good they were induced to further trouble and y ject. The affair is not taken Be looked upon as a mere freak,
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