THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIX.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Weak, &o.
Leading Articles:-
The Record of the Year...
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Lord Charles Beresford and His Mission
Hongkong Legislative Council...................... ...................................
Supreme Court
The Rebellion in Szechuen
Lord Charles Beresford at the City Hall......
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 7TH JANUARY, 1899,
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Lord Charles Beresford at the Navy League Banquet Should Reform of the Chinese Army precede Reform
of the Finances
The Chinaman as a Soldier
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I Came, I Saw, I?; or My Eastern Tour
Loss of the steamer Glenavon
Affairs in the Philippines
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American Expedition at Iloilo.....................................
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The China Gazette has had an interview with Mr. Pavloff, ex Russian Chargè des Affaires 1 in Peking, by whom it has been authorised to contradict the reported demand by Russia for the Mitao group of islands in the Gulf of Peobili. Mr. Pavloff states there is no truth whatever in the report, Mr. Pavloff also stated that the report that the Russian Government intended to open Port Arthur and Talienwan as free ports is untrue.
It is stated, says the N. C. Daily News of 930th December, that it has been arranged at Peking between the French Minister and the 10 Tsungli Yamen, that Pabsienjao district, which includes the New Cemetery, shall be added to the present French Settlement. How land belonging to the citizens and subjects of 12 other Powers within the new Settlement limits will be affected by this extension, appears to be not yet determined, but strong objection will be made to its passing under the control of the Fre ch Consular authorities.
Filipino Protest to the United States ......... ........... 11 Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Punjom Mining Co., Limited
Taikoo Sports
Cricket.....
An Amusing Cricket Matoh
Football
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Hongkong Rifle Association
Correspondence
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Local and District Events, 1898
The Bonin Mission
German School at Kisoehau
- Hongkong and Port News
Shipping
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The reception of the Legation ladies by the Empress Dowager, which took place on the 13th December, should have taken place at an earlier date but was postponed, we learn from the Echo de Chine, at the request of M. Pavlov in order that Madame de Giers might be pre- sent.
A naval court of inquiry into the circumstan- ces attending the fire on the British ship Troop on the 14th December was held at Yokohams on the 20th and 21st before Mr. A. C. Bonar, HB.M. Consul. Considerable evidence was heard, at the close of which the Court retired and returned the following finding:- The Court finds that the fire which occared on the vessel Troop on the morning of the 14th Decem- ber clearly resulted from the wilful act of some person or persons unknown, who caused the sails lying for repair in the between decks to be saturated with some inflammable substance, and who set fire to them in two distinot places, The person or persons who so wilfully caused the fire formed part of the ship's company of A Calcutta despatch of the 12th December the Troop, but that there is not sufficient evid to the Rangoon Gazette says:-Americans hav.
ence to show the guilt of any particular person 17 ing acquired a taste for green tea, which is now 17 chiefly supplied by China, and the crusade to it is the duty of the master or any other mem- or persons, and that in the opinion of the Court push Indian and Ceylon black teas in the
ber of the ship's company to take every possible United States not having met with the success step to bring the offender or offenders to just- anticipated, a few Indian planters have turned their attention to the manufacture of green tea
On the 23rd December Emil Gorig, the for the American market. The first consign-court with causing the tire and was committed boatswain of the ship, was charged in the British ment of this tea has now arrived in Caloutta for trial. and has been valued by one firm at five aunas per pound, and by another at six aunas per pound nominal.
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On the 3rd January, 1899, at 2.30 p.m., at No. 3, Mosque Janction, the wife of Mr. ROMUALDO MARIA DE SOUZA, of a sou.
DEATH.
At 63A. Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, on the 26th December, 1898, EMILY A. JUKES, the beloved daughter of the er: A. JUKES, Rector of West Hackney, London.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 23rd November arrived, per P. M. steamer Shantung, on the 1st January (39 days); and the French mail of the 39th November arrived per M. M. steamer Laos on the 1st January (32 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The N. C. Daily News of the 31st December Bays-An expedition fitted out by Mr. Prit chard Morgan, M.P., leaves to-night for Szechuan under command of Mr. Burn-Murdoch and consists of four English and American engineers and a Chinese secretary, suite, and servants. Mr. Pitchard-Morgan, daughter, and secretary leave for England per steamer Prinz Heinrich on Sunday, the former in order to take up bis parliamentary duties on the open. ing of the House.
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The two steamers for the German line on the Yangtze, of which Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg & Co. are to be the agents, are not being built ut home, as stated by the London and China Express, but in Shanghai by S. C. Farnham & Co., Limited, and they will be about the size Fehlsing, but with all the latest im- S. C. Farnham & Co., Limited, are also building two large hulks, of steel for the use of these steamers, and a steamer for the West River for Messra. Butterfield & Swice, N. C. Daily News.
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from Canton on the 31st December in a Chinese Lord Charles Beresford arrived in Hongkong
gunboat kindly placed at his disposal by the The Ostasiatische Lloyd, in reporting the Viceroy. On his way down he, at the Viceroy's arrival of Princess Henry at Hongkong, gives request, inspected the Bogue Forts with a view the following programme of the intended move- to reporting on them to the Viceroy. While at ments of the royal pair :- -"Shortly after Canton Lord Charles, who was the guest of Christmas Prince Henry will proceed in his Mr. Mansfield (the Acting Consul) visited the flagship the Deutschland to Bangkok to return Arsenal and other places of interest in the city. in the name of the Kaiser the visit that the King On the 3rd Jan. his lordship addressed a public of Siam paid to His Majesty two years ago at meeting, promoted by the Hongkong Chamber of Berlin and Potsdam. Originally it was arranged Commerce, in St. Andrew's Hall. In the course that the Princess should meanwhile remain at of his speech he urged the importance of Hongkong, but the latest orders are that prepara reorganising China's Army and advocated an tions are to be made on the Deutschland for her alliance between Great Britain, the United to accompany her husband. In February Their States, Germany, and Japan with the view of Royal Highnesses will visit the German posses-preserving the integrity of China and the open sion in the North. For March a long stay in door. The following day his lordship visited Shanghai is planned and from that port various the docks at Kowloon in the morning and
A visit to Japan was excursions will be made.
afterwards attended a semi-private tifla given also intended, but in reply to an enquiry the in his honour by the China Association. On Japanese Government gave it to be understood this occasion he explained why he placed army that they were not in a position to guarantee reform in the first place. He admitted, he the personal safety of the Prince, so the official said, the importance of financial reform, which visit to the Mikado's realm has been postponed. in fact included most other reforms, but the H.R.H. the Princess will therefore proceed on first step to its realisation, he contended, must her return journey direct from Shanghai, again be the formation of a trained and disciplined travelling by the Prinz Heinrich." We pre- army by which the policy of the government sume our contemporary is well informed, but could be enforced, as to attempt to introduce the statement-made in the above as to the in- financial reforms under the existing ability of the Japanese Government to beditions would lead to disturbances all over responsible for the personal safety of the Prince country. His lordship left Hongkong on is remarkable, The recollection of the unfor- 5th January in the Coptic, the members of the tunate attack made on the present. Czar of committee of the Chamber of Commerce an Russia during his visit to Japan can hardly be a number of other gentlemen seeing him off. considered a sufficient explanation of the posi- On his arrival at Shanghai he will be entertain- tion assumed by the Government of that countryed to tiffin. From Shanghai he will on the present occasion. Attacks on sovereigns | Japan, where he will remain for about a fort and princes have been made in almost all night, after which he will proceed on his home- countries, but it is not assumed that no country ward journey in the America Maru to San in which such an attack has occurred is never Francisco. He expects to reach London to- again to be visited by royalty. If that were wards the end of February or the beginning of the case royalties would have to stay at home. March.
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