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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLVIII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitomo of the Week, to....
Leading Articles:--
The Commercial Attaché
Japanese Rule in Formosa
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 318r DECEMBER, 1898.
..587
.538 .538
Trade with Civilised and Uucivilised Countrios...539 General Black's Departure and Military Gover
norships
....539
540
The Victoria Rocreation lub and the Regatta...540 Supreme Court The Empress-Dowager's Rocoption of Foreign Ladies 541 Affairs in the Philippinos
Outbreak in North Formoza
Major-General Black's Departure
His Excellency the Governor at the V RC. The Navy League
....541 .542 ...543
The Hongkong High-Level Tramways Co., Limited...547 Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
............543
..344
Nautical Burlesque at the Theatre Royal
...545
Hongkong Odd Volumes Society
...648
Christmas Day on board H.M.S. Victorious
Polo
Cricket..
.546 .....546 ..546
,547
Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co.,
Limited
.547
Ewo Cotton Spinning and Weaving Co., Limited
548
Loss of the steamer Glenavon
...549
Delivering an Imperial Message.........
..549
Commercial
Shipping
Hongkong and Port News
MARRIAGES.
530 .552
O the 23rd December, 1893, at Trinity Church, Boston, by the Right R. William Lawrence, D.D), Bishop of Massachusetts, assisted by the Rev. E Winchester Donald, D., FRANCIS AYSCOUGH, of Shanghai, China, to MARY FLORENCE WHEELOCK, of Boston, UA
On the 23rd December, 198, at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., the Rev. W. NELSON Birros, of the London Mission, Shanghai, to EVELYN Luore, 7th daughter of J. WARE, Esq. late of Weed u, Northampton shire, England.
At St. John's Cathedral, on the 29th December, by the Rev. R. F Cobbold, Dr. JH SWAN, third son of Wm. SWAN, tonaghan, Ireland, to ANNIE GRACE PATTE308. third daughter of the lite HENRY PATTESON, of Manchester.
[2819 DEATHS. At the General Hospital, Shanghi, on the 18th December, 1893, Arthur OlifF, aged 17
years. At 5, Richmond Terrace, Hongkong, on the 28th December, MARY CONSTANCE, the beloved wife of Captain C. W. ReLY, B.A.M.C, and daughter of GEORGE ALLEN BUTLIN, Esq. Westfield House, Braunston, Northamptonshire, England
At 7, Caïne Road, on the 28th December, MIMA, beloved wife of sir, Win. Powɛ.L, aged 46 ye ɩrs.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
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The English mail of the 25th November arrived, per P. & O. steamer Chusan, on the 25th December (30 days); the American mail of the 29th November arrived, per O. & O. steamer Coptic, on the 28th December (29 days); and the Canadian mail of the 5 h December arrived, per C. P. R. steamer Empress of China, on the 28th December (23 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
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Mr. De Burgh Persse, Chairman of the Raub Gold Mining Cɔ,, is now visiting the mines at Raub,
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According to telegrams in the Manila papers Lieut. Hobson, the hero of Santiago, has been ordered to Manila and is now en route.
the Brindisi at Moji the other day and sauk, was The Japanese steamer Yayeyama, which fouled formerly the British steamer Flintshire.
The following official telegram has been received from H.B.M. Minister. Japan:-
Medical inspecti u enforced in Japan against arrivals from Formosa."
H.F. Senhor Galhardo, Governor of Macao and Portuguese Minister to the various Courts of the Far East, returned from a visit to jang. kok by the steamar Wong Koi.
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No. 27.
Messrs. Lamke and Rogge inform us that they have received a telegram from Messrs. Pasedag & Co., Amoy, stating that the Ameri to have sustained little damage. The Berlin, can ship Berlin has arrived at Amoy and appears bound from New York to Amoy, grounded on Dodd Island, and it was at one time feared that she would prove a total loss.
The Japanese Government has submitted to the House of Peers a Bill for the amendment of the Press Law. The law as it stands at
pra. Boot limits publication to Japanese subjects only, and the amendment is evidently designed to bring the law into accordance with the Treaties, which give foreigners the right to pursue their professions in Japan.
On the 16th December two gunpowder mag- azines exploded at Hangchow, and the conous. sion was felt at Sicawei, some 15 miles distant, ut 6.43 p.m. The Director at Sicawei, not
The Echo de Chine says that the news is con. firmed that Père Victorín and a large number of Juristi uns have bein inassaoret by the omal-baring heard of the explosion at the time, at- ators of Yu Man-tze. The situation in Hapsh is very serious.
The steamer Glenavon, which left Hongkong at five o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th December on her homeward soyage, struck about a quarter past seven ou a submerged rook off Shamau Island and sank. Three of the crew are missing.
It is with much regret that we (Fco how Echo learn of the possibility of the Foocho lea Improve neat Co apany being wound up The past year's working has been so unsatis- factory that there appears to be no alternativa to putting the concern into liquidation.
A fire occurred on the 14th December on board the British ship Troop, lying in Yoko- bama harbour. At the time of the fire the vessel had nearly 6.000 cases of kerosine oil on board, but fortunately the flames were got ander control before much damage was oco- sioned.
A notification has been issued by the Chinese Consulate at Manila with reference to the regis
tration of Chinese in which it is stated that the
Consulate will be open every day "except for eign barbarians' holidays and Sundays." The term used is "I-Yang," "Yang" meaning foreign and "i" barbarian.
tributed the trembling of the ground to an earthquake. There were two shocks at Sicawei, The damage done at Hanguhow was immense. one lasting five and the other fifteen secouds. The American Presbyterian. Mission (South) premises were shattered, as were those of the Roman Catholico Mission, while houses fre miles distant had the ceilings fall and the floors forced ap.-Union.
The P. & O. steamer. Brindisi arrived at Na- gisaki on the 20th December from Moji, This ressel, it will be remembered, is one of the two steamers with which the unfortunate Yayeyama- maru collided in Moji harbour. The Brindisi, we learn, is considerably damaged, having been out down from the hawse-pipe on the starboard bow olose to the stem of the vessel below the known. In addition to this, the vessel has lost water. The damage below the water-line is not two anchors with 7 fathoms of ohsin, and algo two boats on the starboard side. At Moji, to enable the Brindisi to reach this port, she was filled up forward of the collision bulk-head with layers of sleepers and concrete. The vessel will go into the local dook for repairs, which, it is thought, will take several weeks to execute. Nagasaki Press.
We translate the following from the Courrier de Saigon :-" We draw the attention of the Government to the presence in Cochin-Chins of a certain Calvinistic preacher who, under pretence of selling bibles to the natives, is simply spying out the land. It is a matter of no concern to us whether the Annamites have any
Manila papers received on Thursday state that General Rios was making preparations for the evacuation of Iloilo. It was intended to trans- for the troops to Zamboanga, in the island of Mindanao, 280 miles to the south of Iloilo. Most of the sick and wonaded hal already been inclination towards the reformed. religion, embarked for Spain. It was reported that the troops formerly stationed in Cebu, Mindanao, centrated at Zamboanga, whence they were to Sulu, and the Carolines had already been con- ba conveyed to Spain.
by the local mandarins from N. Kinchou, ont- A telegraphic dispatch received at Shanghai side the Great Wall, reports that General Sung Ch'ing, Commandant of the Wuyi Army Corps
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though we should think its cult too harsh and arid for a people so light and careless. A religion without authority and without promises, Protestantism has по chance of success in Anuam. Neverthe less it is inexpedient that under cover of evan- sions with secret agents, especially at a time gelisation England should inun late our posses- when our relations are becoming more and more strained. The Government
keep its
of 3-1,000 men, left that city on the 19th instant | eyes too wide open. We are oturn to this
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for Shanhaikuan with the bulk of his forces, subject when our correspondents in the interior, l'his last named post has been chosen by the with whom we have communicated, shall have Empress Dowager to be General Sang Ch'ing's | furnished us with the necessary information. The N. C. Daily News publishes a special headquarters in her grand scheme to surround What would our French friends say if an Eng- telegram from its London correspondent, dated Peking with a quarter of a million of foreign-lish journal wrote in this strain with reference 21st Necember, stating that Russia has agreed | equipped troops to oppose invasion from Man- to the presence, say, of the Missions Etrangeres to make Port Arthur and Talienwan open ports.ohuria or the Gulf.-N. C. Daily News,
in an English colony P
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