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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIX.J
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, do.
Leading Articles:---
European residence in the Tropics
The Cobden Club and the Open Door
The Chinese Race and the approaching Collapse
of the Government
The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank
Supreme Court
The War in the Philippines
Iloilo Open
Hongkong Race Meeting
Chia, Anglo-America, and ('orn..
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited
Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., Limited
Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Limited
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 25ти FEBRUARY, 1899.
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London.
No. 8.
Mr. Henry R. Williams, Jr., bas resigned the The N. C. Daily News publishes the follow- post of American Vice-Consul at Cantou to ac-ing special telegram dated Chungking, 11th ..146cept service in the China Corporation Company, February-Mr. Litton, H.M. Consul, has returned from Kueiyang. It is rumoured that be has reported to Peking strongly condemning the conduct of the Governor of Kueichow, to whose hostility the murder of Mr. Fleming was dne. He took no steps to do justice except under compulsion. It is hoped that Sir Clande MacDonald will take aotion in the matter of the Governor's conduct.
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The N. C. Daily News says:-H.M.S. Wood lark, sistership to the Woodcock, whose con- stituent parts came originally to Shanghai and were then sent back to Hongkong, is to come to Shanghai once more and to be put together 158 here, probably at the Tongkadoo Dock, for up
river service.
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162
Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co.,
Limited
The China Fire Insurance Co., Limited
... 182 103
..164
185
China Provident Loan and Mortgage Co., Limited...166
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Queen Mines, Limited
...106
The Eureka and Queen Mines
...166
The Secretary of State on General Black's Admini-
stration.....
....166
Tactical Military Exercises at the Peak
...168
Pahang Mining
Football
Settlement Extension at Shanghai
The Fire on the "Yamaguchi Maru "
The Railway War at Peking.
"Inciting Against Germany
Szechuan Rebellion and Attacks on Foreigners
Opium-Smoking and Japanese Courts
Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
MARRIAGE.
Chi-tung and Liu Kung-yi have both been A correspondent writes:-Viceroys Chang ordered to Peking to be consulted on affairs of state. It is unlikely that either will obey the summons, as it is fairly well recognized that their presence in Peking would be only a pre-
A new plot to dispose of Kang Yu-wei is reported to be ander way. One of his former Canton friends, a mau of wealth and influence. is, it is said, to be sent to Yokohama, where he is to invite Kang and the other members of the reform party now resident at that port to a banquet, where they are to be poisoned. Asiminary to their impeachment on some trumped ap charge and they would be. lucky if it was it is
ouly a case of removal from office and not. making of them a head shorter. Manchus 'will' be appointed in their stead if they can be safely removed. It is not unlikely that these changes are prompted by some foreign powers.
"blowu upou
the plot has already been not likely to prove successful.
The Shanghai Daily Press of the 9th Febru. ary says:-A portion of the members of the Pekin Syndicate Expedition has already left. ..166 for Hankow, consisting of Major Brazier Creagh, Capt. McSwiney, Mr. C. D. Jamieson, and Signor Poratesi and the rest will leave noxt week. The party will go overland from Hankow to Siang-yang, and from thence up 168 along the line of the new proposed railway
through upper Honan and Shausi.
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On the 11th February, 1899, before H.B.M.'s Consul, and at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, ANDREW W. MAITLAND,
o EMMA T. GOODFELLOW.
DEATHS.
At Kobe, on the 10th February, FREDERICK WILLIAM PULLEY, second engineer P. & O. steamer Bombay, aged 34 years.
At No. 4, Miller Road, Shanghai, on the 12th February, 1899, JOHN G. HAMLYS, aged 62 years.
At Kobe, on the 13th February, ANNIE, the wife of Capt. H. J. CARREW, aged 46 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The Canadian mail of the 31st January arrived, per C. P. R. steamer Empress of Japan, on the
The Consul for France informs us that he has received a Havas wire conveying the sad news that President Faure died of apoplexy on the 16th February. He was in his study at 6 p.m. when, feeling ill, he called his A.D.C., M. Le Gall, who attended to him and immediately called in medical assistance. Al- though everything which medical skill could devise was done for him President Faure be- came unconscious at 8 p.m. and died at 10 p.m.
Lately there has been reason to suspect that France meditates the seizure of St. John's Island on the West Coast. On this account the Cus- toms' cruiser Lung Tsing was a short while ago sent down to Kwanchauwan and adjoining coast, from Lappa, to make enquiries as to what was being done there by the French. The Lung Tsing has returned from this expedition and is now getting an overhaul at the Kowloon
Gazette writes under date of the 26th January :
The CLangking correspondent of the China
Mr. Archibald Colquhoun, who is here at pres eut, delivered a lecture last evening on his journey from Moscow across Siberia to China and gave an interesting picture of the situation in China to a large gathering of the Chung- king foreign community. The lecturer, who was introduced by Mr. James Murray, requested that his lecture be not reported in full. At the close the American Consul moved a vote if thanks to the lecturer, which was heartily responded to. Mr. Colquhoun hopes to leave on a few days for Kueiyangfu, Yunnanfu, Kun- long ferry, and Mandalay,”
Sensational news has been received from Manila during the past week. On the 23rd February fires, the work of incendiaries, broke out in various parts of the town, and much damage was done. An attempted native rising was put down by the Americans and it is stated
n the telegram of our correspondent that the --- natives retreated towards Caloocan. This place was recently captured by the Americans, but its mention in this connection would seem to show that it has since been abandoned by them and re-occupied by the Insurgents. Written
in their lines. It is becoming increasingly evident that a very large army will be neces ary for the conquest of the country. A British subject named curtis has been killed and another named Simpson wounded.
22nd February (22 days); and the American Docks before returning to her duties at Lappa. | advices state that the Americans were drawing
mail of the 25th January arriged, per T. K. K. steamer Nippon Maru, on the 24th February (30 days).
We (N.. Daily News) learn the Russian troops numbering about 14,000 at Port Arthur are enjoying excellent health. There were some ninety deaths from typhoid owing to the un- sanitary condition of the Chinese town, but the officials took the matter in hand and bare thoroughly cleaned the affected distriots. The one drawback now is the lack of suitable accom.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Bank of China and Japan, Limited, has taken over the agency at Shanghai of the Na-modation, the Chinese dwellings being most in- tional Bank of China, Limited.
A Cotton Company about to be established at Haiphong is negotiating with the munici- pality for the acquisition of land for its
factories.
Over ninety persons were fined at Bangkok, the other day, for not clothing themselves decently, in compliance with the new Dress Law. Great dissatisfaction is said to prevail among the people there.
The Japanese Government has decided to send
adequate owing to the inclemency of the weather,
In a note in the Journal of the China Branch
of the Royal Asiatic Society referring to the bilingual Jubilee proclamation issued in honour of the Empress Regent of China Mr. M. F. A. Fraser speaks of the Chinese as ་་་ baby nation which never grows older or wiser." The policy proclaimed is, he says, "to follow the example set in the arts of Government by the King of Chow, a chief
the Japanese Minister to St. Petersburg, a flourished in 1122 B.C., o is said to hare
Colonel from the Army, and a Captain from the Navy, to represent it at the Peace Confer- ence proposed by the Czar.
worse still, of him of Poh, B.C. 1766, not to go still further back, to which the advisers of the son of Heaven have no objection.
broke out at the residence of Mr. Andraif, second At 4.10 p.m. on the 11th February a fre
Secretary of the Russian Legation in Tokyo, at No. 3 Aoyecho, Akasaka, Tokyo. An enter- tainment was going on within at the time, about fifty guests being assembled. Danoing was in progress, when suddenly smoke was seen to burst from the adjoining room. The out- break is attributed to a stove. The Portuguese Legation next door was at one time in consider. able danger, the wind carrying the flames in that direction. The firemen, however, succeeded in confining the fire to the two buildings on the lot where it originated. As the U.S. Legation as well as Prince Komatsu's mansion are in the immediate neighbourhood, there was great ex- citement when the fire was at its height. A detachment of troops of the Imperial Body gourd was sent to assist at the Prince's mansion.
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