THE
Hongkong Weekly
VOL. XLIX.J
AND
Press
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, do...................................................
..173
Leading Articles:-
The Filipinos and their Charges against the Ame-
ricans
The Kowloon Concession.........
.174 ...174
Jingoes, LittleEnglanders, andImperialExpansion..174 The Sugar Bounties
175
The Hongkong Laud Investment Company
176
The Police Report and Chinese Amenability to
Discipline
.176
Hongkong Legislative Council,
Supreme Court
The War in the Philippines
..176 ...177 178
The Collision Between the Americans and
the
Filipinos
Hongkong Sanitary Board
"The Yellow Dwarf".
St. David's Day in Hongkong
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Hongkong the Capital of the South...
Hongkong Race Meeting.
Sale of Race Ponies
Theft of Jewellery by House Coolies Polo in Singapore
110
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.179 180 .180 .181 ...181 191
......182 182 .182
183 ...183
...184 ...184
Flushing Drains and Watering Roads with Sea Water 182 Two Land Investment Companies... Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Limited China Flour Mill Co., Limited ....... The National Bank of China, Limited The Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co., Limited...185 The Punjom Mining Co., Limited Football
Acclimatisation of Europeans in Tropical Lands
..185
.....185
...186
Correspondence
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
......187
Great Britain and France in Persian Gulf ·
......187
Collision at Shanghai......
Another Death from Hydrophobia at Shangbai.
...188 88
Hongkong and Port News
...188
Commercial
Shipping
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BIRTHS.
..188
191
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 4TH MARCH, 1899.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 27th January ar rived. per M. M. steamer Oceanien, on the 26th February (30 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Mr. A. H. White, U.S. Deputy Cousul-General at Shanghai, took charge of the U.S. Consulate at Canton ou the 27th F. bruary as Acting in | Charge.
Renter informs us of the death of Sir George Bowen, a former Governor of Hongkong, from whom Bowen Road takes its name. On receipt of the news the flag at Government House was half-masted. Sir George Bowen was created a G.C.M.G. in 1860 and a Privy Councillor in 1886. He was Governor of Hongkong from 1883 to 1887.
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The Universal Gazette reports from Peking that M. de Giers, the new Russia Minister to the Chinese capital, recently took occasion of the impress-Dowager's absence to have audience with the Emperor, and it is added that the Emperor wore a very angry counten ance during the function and was auything but pleasant to the Russian representative.—China Gazette.
The Chungking correspondent of the N. C. Daily News writes:-Capt. Pottinger and party surveying left here on Monday, the 23rd of January, after a two weeks' visit, for Yu- manfu, escorted by fifty Chinese troops, who will accompany them all the way. Mr. A. R. ..189 Colquhoun arrived here on the 23rd of January and leaves us on the 10th of February; he travels by the same ronte as Capt. Pottinger.
The Committee of the Tientsin General Chamber of Commerce has adopted the follow. ing resolution:-That the Secretary write to the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Great Britain, thanking them for initiating the Missiou of Lord Charles Beresford, and at the same time take the opportunity of recording this Cham ber's confidence in his Lordship's ability to deal with the inquiry into matters affecting mer- cantile questions in China.
On the 12th February, at Kobe, the wife of Mr. F. X. DA SILVA E SOUZA, of a son.
At Derrington, on the 24th February, the wife of HENRY HUMPHREYS, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
On the 23rd February, 1899, at HB.M.'s Cou- sulate, and afterwards at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, WILLIAM EASINGTON KENT, second son of Charle KENT, Dorset, England, to JOSEPHINE MARIE SKINNER, eldest daughter of G. L. SKINNER, of Shanghai.
On the 28th February, at St. John's Cathedral, by the Rev. F. Cobbold, M.A., Ur. J. BELL, Govern- ment Medical Depar ment, to A, E. PENRUDDOCKE, eldest daughter of J H. PENRUDDOCKE, Winkton,
Hants.
At Hongkong, on the 28th February, before the Registrar General, E. . Moss, of Cirencester, Eng- land, and of Yokohama, Japan, to ELLEN, widow of the late J. S. ROBINS N, of Yokohama, and of Shrewsbury, England. No cards.
DEATHS.
At No. 1, Chaou-foong Road, Shanghai, on the 19th February, ,899, CHARLES HENRY BURGHARD, aged 33 years.
At the Shanghĩi (eneral Hospital, on the 20th February, 1899, VIGGO EMIL ALBRECHT, aged 29years. At the Shanghai General Hospital, on the 20th February, 1899, ALEXANDER GEORGE PALMER, aged 28 years.
At Shanghai, on the 22nd February, 1899, at 8.30 am, Madanie VICTORINE CHABANE BRUINE aged 50 years
At Shanghai, on the 23rd February, 1899, Luz,
the beloved son of Francisco XAVIER, and Aurea SEQUEIRA, aged 7 months.
At Nagasaki, on the 23rd February, Mrs. HANNAH STURDIVANT SMITH, widow of the late Captain J. U. SMITH, aged 78 years, and 4 months. A native of Cumberland, Cumberland County, Maine, U.S.A.
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The Shanghai Mercury of the 27th February says:-The new British gunboat Woodcock will leave ou Friday next to proceed up river. She will try and get up to Chungking if possible and though a passage through the rapids in perilous and diffenit she should be able to do this considering that she only draws two feet of water and Mr. Little's launch drew much more. The presence of such a vessel will be unique in the annals of Chungking and for many reasons her presence there is necessary.
Among those who arrived in Hongkong on 24th Feb. by the Nippon Maru were President J. J. Schurmann, of the Cornell University, New York, and Professor C. Worcester, Dean of the University of Michigan, two members of the American Commission to act as an Advisory Board to President McKinley in the Philippines. The other Commissioner is Colonel Denby, who is coming over in the four years resided in the Philippines, has just City of Bio. Professor Worcester, who for
published a book on “The Philippine Islands." Admiral Dewey and General Otis are also members of the Commission. Messrs. Schur. mann and Worcester left for Manila by the Baltimore on the 2nd March.
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Early on Saturday morning the surveying Syndicate, consisting of Mr. Denby, Jr., and party of the Hankow and Canton Railway others, together with Chinese officials and inter- preters, the party numbering in all over two hundred persons, arrived at Canton.
The American Consul at Chinkiang has notified the Viceroy of Nanking of his inten- tion to take up his residence and establish the U.S. Consulate at Nanking at an early date. The Consular districts of Chiakiang and Wahu will then be managed from Nanking,China Gazette.
A Peking telegram of the 17th of February says that H.E. Hu Yu-fen has beeu exonerated from the charges of malversation of Railway funds made against him by Chang Yen-mao, and released from surveillance. H.E. may be reappointed Director-General of Northern Rail- ways, the post which was taken away from him and given to Hsu Ching-cheng, former Minister to Germany, but this has not yet been settled. It is stated not without authority that this change of front is due entirely to the remon- strances of the British Minister, who protested to the Tsungli Yamen strongly on Hu's behalf, that the charges made against him were un- founded.-N. C. Daily News.
The total volume of China's-trade in 1898 is said to have been the largest on record, but the full figures have not yet been published. The Customs revenue for the last quarter of 1898, however, shows a marked improvement on 1897, the comparative figures being, in Haiknan
taels:-
Chinese Treaty Ports Kowloon & Lappa Lungchow, Mangtze, and
Szemao
Total
1898 1897. 6,231.339 5,526,386 237,493 228,661
39,749
39,270
6,508,102 4,794,196
kuan Tls, 2,117,594against Haikuan Tls. 1,831,678 The collection at Shanghai amonnted to Hai in the corresponding quarter of 1897.
A committee appointed by the Hanoi Cham- ber of Commerce to prepare recommendations for submission to the Paris Chamber of Com- merce with a view to the promotion of the trade and industry of Indo-China has submitted the manufacturers, protected by the general tariff, following points:—(1) To obtain from French
importers to compete advantageously with reductions in their export prices, so as to allow foreign goods, which are sold at lower rates than French goods, notwithstanding the duties they have to pay. (2) That the interests of French merchants in Indo-China should not be saorificed to those of the manufacturers, who compel them to deal exclusively in French goods. (3) To avail of the immense opening in the direction of China, which ́ local merchants are willing to develop, by calling for the suppression of the present Customs duties, which neutralise all efforts. (4) To ask for a return to the 5 per cent ad valorem tariff, the only measure capable of rendering the colony prosperous and enabling it to com kong. (5) If this measure seems too radical, to pete with any prospect of success with Hong.
ask for a special regime and that the tarif - general shall be modified at least, which case we would be prepared articles for which favourable treatment is res quired.
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