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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVIII.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, £o.
Leading Articles:—
The New Governor
Lord Charles Beresford's Shanghai Speech, Russian and British Interests in China
Li Hung-chang's Reinstatement
China's Present Government......
HÓNGKONG, SATURDAY, 3RD DECEMBER, 1898.
Isai Chun, Tuotai of Shanghai, has been ordered by Imperial decree to resign his post, ,449 and his successor has been appointed.
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The American Annexation of the Philippines ...452 Hydrophobia and the Pasteur Treatment...
Arrival of the New Governor
Supreme Court
St. Andrew's Ball
Great Fires at Shanghai
News from the Philippines
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Macao
Lawyers and Their Wives
Oxford Local Examinations
The Bribery Care
Tragic Occurrence at Macao...ry questi The Punjom Mining Co., Limited
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A rate of $10,000 has been passed by the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements for the relief of sufferers by the recent disastrous West Indies hurricane.
We(N.C. Daily News) learn with great regret that the enforcement of the new Land Regula tions has been postponed for the present, owing, 454 it is understood, to the Tsungli Yamen not 458 | having yet given them its approval.
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The N.Y.K. liner Inaba Maru, now on tier way out from Europe, has on board, from 460 Havre, a complate torpedo-boat destroyer, in sections, to be landed at the Naval Dockyard at Kune (Japau.) The T.B.D. is to steam 34 .....461 knots, and will be put together by the Japs
themselves.
At Singapore on the 20th November, on the invitation of Messrs
Syme & Co., the Agents of the Shell Transport and Trading Co., Limited (Messrs. M. Samuel & Co. a party of gentlemen went out in the newest steamer of the Company, the Haliotis, to witness the trial ...464 of liquid fuel.
Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co.,
Limited
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The International Cotton Manufacturing Co, Limited 463 Oricket........
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The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Hongkong Rifle Associatioa
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club .................
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Correspondence
Lord harles Beresford at Shanghai
The Unveiling of the Ntis Memorial
A Frustrated Revolutionary Plot at Foochow Weihaiwei
Anti-Christian Riot at Kiukjang Hongkong and Port News
Shipping
MARRIAGE.
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Hall and Holtz' store at Shanghai was burnt out on the night of the 16th November. The 468 damage is estimated at $50,0 0, which is In another fire which covered by in urance. ocenrred simultaneously ten Chinese honses in Hankow Road and three European houses in 471 | Albany Gardens were destroyed.
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On the 25th October, at St Philip's Stepney, ALFRED EDWARD WHEELEY, of Shanghai, eldest son of Irs. WHEELEY, of Clive-avenue, Hastings, and the late A. A. WHEELEY, of Lough on, Essex, to KATHERINE LOCKHART, Second daughter of Wm. CROCKFORD, of Atile-end.
DEATH.
On the 18th October, at 8, Foremount Terrace, Glasgow, Jons, elder son of John Dudgeon, M.D., Peking, aged 22 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS:
The American mail of the 29th October ar. rived, per O. & O. steamer Doric, on the 27th November (29 days); and the Canadian mail of the 10th November arrived, per C. P. R, steamer Empress of Japan, on the 2nd Dec. ember (22 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
- Beri-beri has broken out amongst the pri- soners in the Singapore gaol, and it has been decided to make the experiment of removing a number of the cases temporarily to St. John's Island.
A report was in circulation at Shanghai recently that Great Britain had occupied the Chusans. The report appears to have originated from the fact of the surveying vessel Waterwitch being engaged in the vicinity.
A special telegram to the N. C. Daily News dated Chungking, 21st March, states that Mr. Fleming was deliberately killed by the natires and soliders at Tsingping ninety
is clear.
Kang Yn-wei has issued an address to his countrymen, from Japan, in which he calls on all loyal subjects of the Emperor, and other nations who sympathise with the misfortunes of the Emperor and the country, to assist Kang and the other reformers in their efforts to save the Emperor from his imminent peril.
A Peking dispatch states that H.E. Li Hung-chang was expected to leave that city for Tientsin on the 28th November, en route to examine the Yellow River. It is also alleged that Li's Private Secretary, Mr. N. J. Pethiok, formerly U.S. Vice-Consul at Tientsin, will engage two foreign engineers for the Commis- sion to advise Li as to what ought to be done for the conservation of the erratic river, but, so far, the names of the foreign engineers have not been made public.-N. C. Daily News.
It is stated in the Universal Gazette that the
Consuls-General for Great Britain and the United States at Shanghai have sent a joint telegram to the Viceroy Liu Kan-yib suggest- ing the desirability of retaining Tsai Tuotai at Shanghai until the question of the Settlement Extension is satisfactorily settled. The Viceroy at once transmitted the communication to the Tsungli Yamen. The same paper further states that it is expected that the suggestion will ob- tain the assent of the Central Government.— China Gazette,
No. 23.
The Hon. John Barrett, late United States Minister to Siam, was in Shanghai a few days ago on his way to Peking, where he goes to study the situation.
The Spanish oruiser Isla de Cuba, which was raised near Cavite Arsenal, was towed into Cana- coa bay on Thursday evening, 17th November, preparatory to going on the marine ways at Sang- ley Point. She is, the American says, practically a new ship of 1,048 tons, having been built in Spain and sout to this place shortly before the battle oconrred. The injuries are comparatively small and when completed she will make a ore- ditable addition to the American fleet in these
waters.
The Univeral Gazette states that "it is re- ported in Imperial Household Department circles at Peking that the Empress Dowager intends to celebrate the thirtieth birthday anniversary of His Majesty Kwang. Hsu next year by a Special Act of Grace, to hold extraor. dinary examinations for literary degrees through- out the Empire." The object of the above, says the N C. Daily News, is obviously to bring the whole body of the literati on the Empress Dowager's side, and if nothing indeed happens to his Majesty such a step is very likely.
The Tientsin correspondent of the Echo de Chine, writing on the 18th Nov., says that it is announced that the Empress Dowager was to receive on her birthday the wives of Foreign Ministers. He says: "What costume will their feminine Excellencies wear? Who will have the happiness of acting as interpreter be. tween them and Her Majesty? Here are two grave questions for consideration. After this no one will be able to say that the Empress Dowa- ger is a reactionary sovereign. True, she shuts up the schools, but she is very strong on eti- quette. And when are we to expect the first ball at the palace?"
A Hangchow dispatch to the Universal Gazette states that Governor Liao of Chekiang. has received a notification from Director-Gener al Sheng to the effect that the contracts for the railways between Soochow and Hangehow and Ningpo and Shaohsing have been given to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., and requesting that proper protection and assistance be granted the Company's Engineers, etc., in the prosecu tion of their work. The Chinese manager of the railways in Chekiang province has also been appointed by the Director-General in the person of Taotai Pan, a son of the late Governor of Kweichou.-N. C. Daily News.
It has been notified at Singapore that on and after Christmas Day, 1898, the rate of postage to be charged upon letters to the United King- dom, Canada, the Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, Cyprus, the Falkland Islands, Fiji, Gibraltar, Gold Coast Colony, the Gambia, Hongkong, Lagos, the Leeward Islands (viz., Antigua, St. Christopher, Nevis, Dominica, Montserrat and A Swatow letter dated the 18th November the Virgin Islands), Natal, Newfoundland, the states that forty miles from that port, in the Seychelles, Sierra Leone, St. Helens, Tabago, hill district of Haiyang, a gathering of malcon. Trinidad, Turks Islands, the Windward Islands tents is reported, the leaders of whom are a re.(viz., Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent), and tired General and three returned Straits Chinese. such other parts of the British Empire or else- Considerable quantities of arms and ammunition where as may hereafter be notified, in the Go have also recently been landed on the coast, and vernment Gazette, by the Postmaster-General, it locks as if a determined rising were projected shall be 5 cents for any weight not exceeding in the near future in that part of Kwangtung half an ounce, and 5 cents for each additional
Kueiyang. Official connivano miles east of province. Details as to number of insurgents, half-ounce. Five cents is presumably taken at
murder organisation, etc., are. however, not obtainable
at present."-N. O. Daily News,
the equivalent of a penny. What about Hong. kong P
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