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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVIII.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Wesk, &............................................. Leading Articles:--
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 10TH DECEMBER, 1898.
No. 24.
The annual dinner of the China Association M. Jean Dupuis, the originator of French was held at the Whitehill Rooms, on 1st Nov-enterprise in Tonkin, is reported to be in dis- .............478 ember, Sir William Des Voeux, G.C.M.G., pre- tressed circumstances and living in Paris on the
siding.
obarity of bis friends. An attempt is being made to obtain for him a Government allowance.
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The China Association Dinner ............ Father Fleury's Case and British Responsibility
in the Yangtze Valley Hon. T. H. Whitehead on the China Crisis.........474 French Colonisation and Trade in Indo-China ...475 A Pacific Telegraph Cable. Kowloon City and Chinese Jurisdiction A British Gunboat Christened at Shanghai, The Szechuan Rebellion .................................476 Father Fleury's Captivity .............................................................476
Supreme Court
French Demands at Shanghai
Affairs in the Philippines
Trade and Revenue of Hongkong The Extension of Hongkong
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The inaugural dinner of the Kobe, branch of the China Association was held there on the 24th, November, Mr. A. H. Groom in the chair. The Hon. T. H. Whitehead was among the guests.
Lord Charles Beresford has wired from Han- kow, in answer to the telegram from the Kobe committee of the China Association, accepting the invitation to dine with the members during his visit to Japan, but stating that it is impos. 478sible at present to fix a date.
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Prince Henry in Hongkong ...........................479
Destructive Fire at Wuchow
The Emperor of Japan paid a visit to Kobe on the 19th November for the purpose of reviewing the standing squadron. Advantage was taken of the opportunity by the foreign community to present an address, which His Majesty was graciously pleased to receive.
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New Steamer for Formos..................................119
Serious Disturbance in Queen's Road
A Rowdy Marine
Hon. T. H. Whitehead on the Position in China Lord Charles Beresford at Kiukiang
The Muse of Stonecutters
Tebrau Planting Co., Limited
The Nippon Yusen Kaisha
The Punjom Mines......
Pola
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club ......................................................
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Cricket..
Shooting
The Melngoon Prince Again
The Empress Dowager's Warlike Measures
Russia and the Recent Peking Crisis Distastrous Fires in Shanghai
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The opening cremony in connection with the extension of the Kyushiu Railway Company's 482 line to Nagasaki, or to be accurate, the comple- 482 tion of the Omura-Nagayo section that brings 483 Nagasaki into communication with the main line, was performed on the 26th November at Isahaya. An Imperial edict published on the 29th 484 November states that Prince Ching is to take 485 the place of the Emperor in worshipping at 485 the Imperial graves on the 10th day of the 11th moon, which is his custom every year. This year the Emperor does not feel strong enough to walk and so assigns this duty to another.-China Gazette.
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Berious Calamity at Hankow ..................................................................486
Admiral Seymour and Viceroy Liu Kang Yu-Wei and the Legations
COURSES FINESS
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Heavy Failures at Shanghai and Hankow
Squeezers in Conflict
Illegal Export of Rice from Shanghai ...................................................ma? Piracy in the North
Establishment of a Pasteur Institute at Shanghai Wladivostock
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Hongkong and Port News .................................488
Commercial Shipping
MARRIAGE.
On the 26th November, 1893, at Trinity Catle dral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A FREDERICK, eldest son of Frederick DUMFRIES, of Brighton, to EDITH, eldest daughter of John F. MACRAK, M.D., of Brighton.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 4th November arrived, per M. M. steamer Salazie, on the 5th Dec. ember (31 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
An epidemic of ophthalmia prevails at Hanoi, affecting the French population as well as the
natives.
Senor E. J. Plaza, Consul-General at Yoko- hama for Mexico, died at Yokohama on the 24th November from Bright's disease.
In compliance with the request of the British and American anthorities Mr. Tsai, Taotai of Shanghai, who was recently ordered by Imperial ediot to resign his post, is to remain in office antil the question of Settlement extension is disposed of.
Consul-General Wildman is in receipt of a telegram from the Military Governor of Manila stating that the Insurgents attacked floilo on the 7th December in strong force and that in an attack made four days previously the Spaniards repulsed the Insurgents with a loss of 300 men. It is believed the Spaniards still hold possession of the town but cannot for long.
According to a Tientsin telegram of the 2nd December to the N. C. Daily News Li Hung ohang left for the inspection of the Yellow River on the 2nd December by way of Techou. H.E. was accompanied by a large staff of de- puties, etc., who are to assist him in his work. Techou is a city of Chihli province bordering on the Shantung frontiers. It is on the Grand Canal.
We are reliably informed that M. Olarovsky, Russian Chargé d'Affaires at Bangkok, has wired his Government that the British papers in the East håve referred to him as a mere commercial Consul, and that this will have a bad effect on the Siamese. The Russian Government at once instructed him to assume the style and title of Minister-Resident and Consul-General of Russia at Bangkok. This will be made public in the course of a few days.-Straits Times,
Cantonese syndicate is negotiating with the According to a Wachang dispatch a Viceroy Chang Chih-tung about the purchase of the valuable silk-weaving machinery, H.E. recently bought from Europe in connection with his modern College of Sericulture at Hanyang. If the syndicate succeeds in getting the above machinery on favourable terms it is intended to remove it to Hankow where the manufacture of silk fabrics will be vigorously prosecuted.
In reply to a letter from Dr. Macleod the Shanghai Municipal Council decided to say that the Council will not oppose the introduction of motor carriages, under certain restrictions as to speed: An estimate to supply the necessary et 10 candareens per unit is authorised as an power from the Council's Electric Light Works xperimental measure.
Dr. Calmette, formerly in charge of the Pasteur Institute at Saigon, has, we learn from the Saigon papers, presented the sum of 250,000 francs to the Pasteur Institute at Paris,” being part of the profits realised on his inven tions in connection with distillation. While at Saigon he discovered a process for rapid fer- mentation in the production of alcohol, and this discovery, with others by which it was followed, have proved of great value in connection with the distilling industry.
materials ordered by the Japanese Military and Hitherto all arms, ammunition, and other war Naval Departments from England and other European countries have been brought to Japan in foreign steamers and insured by foreign com- panies. Recently, the Nippon Yusen Kaisha applied to the two departments to secure the carrying of the cargo in the Company's vessels. It is said that the Military Department has already granted the application and that a favourable reply is also expected from the Naval Department. The cargo, it is added, will also be insured in future by Japanese underwriters. -Nagasaki Press. -
The Foochow Echo of the 3rd December saysThe Chinese gun-boat Fu-An cleared the Losing Dry Dock on last Monday and the cruiser Hai-Chao took her place on Thursday. She is to remain in the dock about a fortnight. The Hai-Chao is not less than 3,000 tons displacement and 328 feet long. That so large a ship entered the dock of Pagoda is a matter of importance for our Arsenal as it proves that the new dock which was reputed unfit for use and had been nearly given away by the Chinese before the arrival of the French experts has been put in good order and made able to admit safely big ships.
The vote passed by the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements for the West Indian Relief Fund does not meet with the approval of a writer in the Malay Mail, who says:Why should the Government of the Straits Settle ments give away $10,000 to the West Indies? I can only suppose that owing to the lamentable fizzle of the Mansion House fund the Colonial Office has felt called upon to invite some of the- other colonies to bear a hand. The West In- dies are nothing to us, whilst there are many more deserving cases nearer home. Its a bad When the people of India were in need we put precedent, Mr. Editor, and I don't like it. our hands in our pockets without being asked to do so by Government. We had many into- rests in common with the people of India and we acted by them in a neighbourly and friendly way. But the West Indies are nothing to us and if they are in need of help it should come from the pockets of Britishers and not Chinese in the Straits Settlements,
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