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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVIII.}
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitoms of the Week, do.
Leading Articles:-
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 17TH DECEMBER, 1898.
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The United States and the China Question......494 Spheres of Influence
The Race of Armaments in the Far East
Great Britain's Export Trade
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Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce....................
Loss of a Japanese Steamer
News from the Philippines
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Piracy near Pinghoi
Proposed Building on Glenealy
The Dosing Shooting Case
A Bow on Board Ship
Presentation to Mr. Norton Kyshe
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The Hongkong High-Level Tramways Co., Limited...508
Water Return...
Polo
Hon F. H. May's Cup
Cricket...
Football
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The Hongkong Rifle Association
Major Bower, who has been entrusted with the raising of a Chinese regiment for the Wei- haiwei garrison, was a passenger by the P. & 0. steamer Parramatta.
The China Fazette says:-It will be learned with great regret by foreign residents of all nationalities that Senor de Uriarte, Consul- General for Spain at Shanghai, has been transferred to New York. The departure of Senor and Mde. Uriarte from Shanghai, where they were both so well-known and respected, will create a hiatus iu social life that will not be easily filled up.
The Tientsin correspondent of the N. C. Daily News, writing on the 30th November, 508 says:-Mr. Archibald Colquhoun arrived un- ....508 expectedly in Tientsin this week via Siberia, the Gobi, and Peking. Mr. Colquhoun is un- derstood to be making a more intimate study of the Far Eastern Question, probably with a view to the further enlightenment of the British and American publics.
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Correspondence
The French Demands at Shanghai
Reported French Reprisals in Szechuan
The Emperor and the Empress Dowager's Birthday
Celebration...
The Shanghai Naval Volunteers
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The Murder of Mr. Fleming
Reported Death of Father Fleury
Collisiou at Anjer
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Hongkong and Port News
Commercial............ Shipping
DEATHS.
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At Shinglmi, on the 1th December, 1898, GEORGE RICHARD CORNER, aged 62 years.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 8th December, CHARLES WANDERLEACH, of IM. Customs service, ag d 6 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 10th November arrived, per P. M. steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, on the 9th December (29 days); and the English mail of the 13th November arrived, pr P. & O steamer Parramatta, on the 10th De- cember (28 days),
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Spanish friars from the Philippines continue to arrive at Macao, says the Echo Macaense, and there are now some two hundred members
of the various orders there.
It is understood, says the Tientsin correspon- dent of the N. C. Daily News, that the Hon. Hugh Grosvenor, Second Secretary of Legation at Peking, who has gone home on furlough, will not return to the East.
October entitled.
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An Order of the Queen in Council dated 20th The China and Japan Order in Conncil, 1 98," is published in the Gazette. It makes provision with respect to the qualifica- tious and duties of the Registrar of the Supreme Court for China and Japan.
R. Toulmin, late captain of the steamer Dosing, trading on the West River, has been convicted in the U.8. Consular Court at Canton of the murder of the compradore of the steamer by shooting him, and was sentenced to hard labour for the term of his natural life.
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Tsai Taotai, it is stated. will give a din- ner in honour of Lord Charles Beresford at the Bureau of Foreign Affairs, Shanghai, when his lordship returns from his visit to the Yangtsze ports. Dr. Morrison, the Times correspondent, left Shanghai on the 7th November for Nan- king to interview H E. Viceroy Lin, and will probably return to Shanghai at the same time As Lord Charles Beresford.-N. C. Daily News.
The Courrier de Saigon, in reply to the state. ments made in France to the effect that the Saigon river cannot accommodate vessels of large draft, mentions that during the past two yeurs some of the finest afloat have visited Saigon and that at the time of writing (3rd December) the Nerite was be ng loaded by the firm of Denis Frères with a cargo of not less than seven thousand tons of rice (72,000 bags of 100 kolos,) and that the Folute had been chartered by Messrs. Weil Wormser and Co. to load six thousand tons.
The Peking and Tientsin Times announces that Mr. Pritchard Morgan, M.P, has succeeded in obtaining a concession of all the mineral rights in the province of Szechuan, the largest and probably the richest province of China, We trust shortly to be able to give more details of this really magnificent conces- sion, the working of which should be fully as advantageous to the Chinese as to Mr. Pritchard Morgan and his associates. Mr. Pritchard Morgan, who arrived in Shanghai from the North on the 7th November, was to leave that port for England per Doric on the 13th.
It is stated from Nanking that when Admiral Seymour arrived there the other day he was met at the landing place at Hsiakuan by H.E. Viceroy Lin, accompanied by a large staff of civil and military officials, who gave the gallant Admiral a cordial welcome, the Viceroy shaking the latter warmly by the hand. It is specially to meet a visitor, however high his not often that the Viceroy leaves his yamen rank, unless he be an Imperial envoy bringing certain instructions from Peking. Viceroys or Governors of other provinces arriving at Nan- king generally have to call first on the Viceroy. H.E. Viceroy Lin appears now to be very friendly and cordial to British officers and has sent the oruiser Nanshui to Kiukiang to bring Lord Clarles Beresford to Nanking.-N. C. Daily News.
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No. 25.
The N. C. Daily News of the 7th December says:-According to latest reports, the new Gò, vernor Tê of this province has had a confiden- tial officer, su Taotai by name, here for the last three or four days making secret investiga tions into the alleged rice and land speculations last ten months. Unknown to the local man- of Tsai Taotai and other mandarins during the darins be has collected together a voluminous report thereon and started yesterday for Soo- show before any one, with the exception of a few intimate friends, knew of his presence here or the reason of it.. There is, accordingly, con- siderable consternation in local minderindom, as the well-known integrity of the investigating officer precludes the idea of any attempt of
squaring" him.
The Shanghai General Chamber of Com.. merce has forwarded to Lord Charles Beresford the following resolution, which is in general confirmation of the views verbally expressed at their recent interview with his Lordship —
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That in the opinion of this Committee the interests of both China and of the Foreign Powers having commercial relations with her, require that the equality of rights as secured by the existing Treaties be strictly safeguarded against any changes of an exclusive or prefer. ential nature in favour of different nations in any part of the Empire. and further that it is desirable that in order to effect this end a general agreement be entered into between the Powers interested, guaranteeing the equality nations alike." of commercial rights and privileges to all
The Avenir du Tonkin suggests that the British need not crow so much about the French withdrawal from the Upper Nile, as scarcely two years ago the British themselves had to retire before the French on the Upper Mekong. That is one way of putting it, cor tainly, only not quite a correct way, because the British had not invaded French territory and did not retire. What Great Britain did Was to cede certain territory to China, with the design of creating a sort of buffer state. This territory the French succeeded in obtaining from China, which parted with it in defiance of her under- taking to Great Britain not to do so. China's action on that occasion shows the value to be attached to any guarantee given by her for the non-alienation of territory, either in the Yang. tsze Valley, the special sphere of interest at the present time, or elsewhere.
brought against a Mr. Allison by Messrs. Do- naldson and Burkinshaw, acting on behalf of the Rajah of Sarawak, again occupied the at- tention of Mr. Elcum in the Senior Magistrate's Court at Singapore on the 3rd December, hav. ing been adjourned from 5th November. The alleged defamatory statements were contained in a book entitled "The Real Pirates of Bor- neo." The Magistrate said there was no doubt libellous on the Rajah of Sarawak as well as on that the whole tone of the book was distinctly other people. The only thing that could be said in defendant's favour was that no one who read the book could fail to come to the conclu siou that the writer was scarcely responsible for his actions and writings. He had not been offi. cially certified to be irresponsible, and he must therefore be held to be liable. A fine of £100 or one month's imprisonment was inflicted. Notice of appeal was given.
The action for defamation of character
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