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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVIII.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS. -
Epitome of the Week, 4o. ...................................................... Reading Articles:--
China's Foreign Advisers The Fashoda Question
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 12ти NOVEMBER, 1898.
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Britian's Warlike Preparations and their Meaning386 The United States and the Philippines Political Crisis in Korea..... Compounding with Rebels.....................................................- 837 Political Crisis in Kores
Supreme Court ..................................
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce.................... A Chinaman Charged with Wife Murder An Extradition Case
.398
588
*CANÄÄN SE1903 946 ........890
Alleged Forgery of a Telegram
and its Chinese Shareholders
......391
The Bank of China, Japan, and the Straits, Limited,
The Canton Volunteers
.397
Melbourne, on the 10th November (34 days); the American mail of the 11th October arrived, per O. & O. steamer Gaelic, on the 9th Novem ber (29 days); and the English mail of the 14th October arrived, per P. & O. steamer Ballaarat, on the 11th November (28 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
A political crisis has arisen at Seoul and a number of the Reform leaders have been
arrested.
Placards intended to incite Chinamen against The Re-establishment of the Abolished Provincial their rulers at Peking are being circulated at
Governorships................................................................................................897 | Singapore.
Defence of Canton .......................................................................mante
The Ministerial Crisis in Japan
397
.397
New Balmoral Gold Mining Co., Limited ...............397 Interport Rifle Match
.897
The Hongkong Rifle Association
...........................................................898
Golf
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club Football
..898.
Mr. F. E. Taylor, Commissioner of Customs, Statistical Secretary, has taken over charge of the Customs at Shanghai during the absence on leave of Mr. Ls. Rocher.
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has a long article on Kwangchauwan, severely The Courrier de Saigon of the 29th October
condemnatory of that new possession, which is ...........................98 represented as being worse than useless.
...........................898 Royal Hongkong Yacht Club ........................................................................... Correspondence
The Hankow-Canton Railway
..898
Another Attack on Native Christians .......................................................400 The Mobbing of Foreigners in Peking More Executions at Peking
911 DAYOQU
Collision in the Inland Sea
Yu Man-Tze Bought off
..401 ..401 401
The Japanese Press on the Crisis in China......... Manufacture of Chemicals in Japan
.....402
402
402
A French Consul on Renter's Telegrams and the Re-
oont Crisis
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Hongkong and Port News Commercial
MARRIAGES.
.407
The Viceroy of Chihli has, we learn from the Peking and Tientsin Times, despatched an official with a detachment of cavalry to Lukao- chiao to put a stop to all further trouble on the railway line.
We learn than in consequence of the con- tinual persecution of Christians in different parts of the Kwang provinces the Consular body at Canton is actively urging the Viceroy to take steps to afford adequate protection to the missionaries and converts.
At Christ Church, Yokohama, November 1st, Dodwell, Carlill & Co., the agents, that the The Kobe papers are informed by Messrs. 1899, BEATRIX STUART, elder daughter of Stuart ELDRIDGE, M.D., of Yokohama, Japan, to FREN.P. steamer Tacoma left Tacoma on the 25th DERIC MAY, eldest son of Chevalier Henry TEGNER, of Copenhagen, Denmark.
wood Court, Gloucester, England.
October under the "Stars and Stripes" and the rest of the fleet will leave the United States in due course under the same flag.
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Oriental Steamship Co., and the Hongkong agents Messrs. Butterfield and Swire.
No. 20.
A Newchwang telegram of the 5th November to the N. C. Daily News says:-The Esang arrived here last night from Tientsin with Lord of Mr. Bush, agent for Messrs. Jardine, Mathe- Charles Beresford and suite, who are the guests son & Co. Dr. Morrison, the Times corres- pondent, accompanies his Lordship.
The petition of Captain Richard Toulmin for a change of venue for his trial on the charge of. murdering Cheng Lei-san, the compradore of the steamer Dosing, has been denied and the case is set down for hearing in the United December. Mr, Bratton is the attorney for the States Consular Court at Canton on the 8th-
ant's application for a change of venue. prosecution and filed objections to the defend-
The China Concessions Syndicate, Limited, has been registered, by Francis and Johnson, 26, Austinfriars, with a capital of £20,200 in 20,000 El ordinary shares and 4,000 18. founders' shares, with the object of carrying on in the Empire of China or elsewhere the businesses of
the signatories. Qualification, 200 shares. Re- merchants, traders, engineers, miners, ship- owners, &o. The directors are to be elected by muneration to be fixed by the company.
The Rangoon Gazette says:-"Amongst the surveyors to accompany Captain Eldred Pot- tinger on the railway survey from the Yangtsze to Burma is Natha Singh, perhaps the best sub- surveyor of the Survey of India we have had in Burma. He expects to arrive in Shanghai on October 27, by which date Captain Pottinger and other members of the party are also due, A Simla telegram of the 20th October to the same paper says: Lieutenant Hunter, R.E., recently employed on the Khyber Railway Survey and Hyderabad-Godavari Railway, leaves India shortly for Shanghai preliminary to joining the Yunnan Company's survey ex- pedition to recounoitre between the Yangtsze river and Burma.”
The Osaka Shosen Kaisha has at present a On the 3rd November, 1898, at the Holy Trinity
scheme of placing several ships on the Yang- Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., CHARLES HENRY GODFREY, Assistant Muni- the trans-Pacific trade, having San Diego as the Kawasaki Shipbuilding yard of Kobe is con- Another line of steamers has been placed in tsze-Hankow route. In this connection the cipal Engineer, to MARY ELIZABETII, daughter of James Reynolds HEWLETT, Esq, Chicago, U.S.A., terminal point on the other side. The Com-structing a steamer of 1,500 tons. Besides this and adopted niece of Daniel Hewlett, Esq., of Barn-pany running the line is the California and building of three more steamers to be all placed the Shosen Kaisha has under consideration the
on the above route. Of these three, two will be of 2,500 tons each, at the cost of over. 2,500 tons will receive a yearly subsidy o 300,000 yen. It is stated that the vessels
of 50,000 yen each under the Navigation Encour- agement regulations, and with this State assist. auce, the Company's expenditure on this ronte Japan Mail.
At the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, on the #th November, 1898, by the Rev. 8. C. Partridge, American Church Mission, assisted by the Rev. H. 0. Hodges, Chaplain, Miss LOULOU FAYETTE HACKER, of Cairo, Illinois, USA., to ALBERT WHITNEY DANFORTH, of Lowell, Mass., U.S.A.
DEATHS.
Ayres, which called at Singapore the other It is understood that the steamer Buenos week having on board a large amount of ammunition and machine guns for Iloilo, has been soized by Admiral Dewey. Shippers are At Tientsin, on Wednesday, October 26th, 1898, Yery much agitated as to the ultimate destina-will be not more than 200,000 yen a year.~ EDITH NELLIE, the dearly beloved wife of W. K. tion of cargo other than arms. BRADGATE, aged 29 years and 7 months.
At Hankow, on the 1st November, 1898, H. H. HALL, in his thirtieth year.
At 19, Szechuen Road, Shanghai, on the 6th November, 1898, ALFRED WYNDHAM BOWMAN, aged 82 years.
November, 1898, GEORG FELIX MÜLLER, Commis At the Peak Hospital, Hongkong, on the 9th sioner 1. M. Customs, Foochow, aged 50 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 4th October ar rived, per P. M. steamer City of Peking, on the 6th November (33 days); the French mail of 7th October arrived, per M, M. steamer
The China Gazette of the 2nd November saysThe increased pay of the happy mem. bers of I. M. Customs was handed to them on
Saturday last. In future all members of the indoor staff and the outdoor men above the money quarterly, all inferior grades drawing it rank of examiner will be paid their extra monthly.
The Foochow Echo says:- We learn on good authority that a match factory is being built on the other side of the river opposite to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s hong. The large importations of matches from Japan show how and we have no doubt that success will attend extensive the consumption is in this province this new enterprise.
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The monument to the memory of the brave officers and sailors who went down with the into position at Shanghai on the grass plot on ill-fated German gunboat Iltis is now being put the Bund next to the Public Garden. It is, the priate device, a shattered mast cast in bronze, China Gazette says, a very simple but appro- about twelve feet high, which will be set on the top of a flight of four steps, and marked with a suitable inscription. It is thoroughly typical of the circumstances under which the heroes it commemorates died and the awful storm over which the unquenchable spirit of German made all white men in Chins proud of how patriotism rose superior in a manner that well gallant sailors can die.
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