THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIX.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, do.
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Leading Articles:-
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 11TH MARCH, 1899.
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Foreign Merchants at the Outports and in the
Interior.........................
196 196 107
2nd February arrived, per P. M. steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, on the 7th March (33 days); and the German mail of the 6th February arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Bayern, on the 7th March (29 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The entertainment allowance of the Governor of the Straits Settlements is to be increased by $3,000 a year.
Commodore Powell, with Mrs. Powell and 197 family, arrived by the English mail steamer Chusan on Saturday, to relieve Rear-Admiral Holland. Rear-Admiral Holland, with Mrs. Holland and family leares for home by the next English mail steamer.
198 .199 .199
Italy's Concession in China
The Policy of “ Drift ”
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The Newchwang Trade Returns
...108
The Chinaman as a Boldier
.196
The Sanitary Board and the Control of the Slaugh-
ter Houses
Supreme Court
The War in the Philippines
St. David's Ball
"Our National Weak Points "
Hongkong Police Recreation Club
The Desert of Gobi : Is it a Desert?.
Germany and the Persian Gulf
...200
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders of
Hongkong
...200
Church Notes
The Hongkong Hotel Co., Limited
Chins and Manila Steamship Co., Limited..
Geo. Fenwick & Co., Limited
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The Punjom Mining Co., Limited
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Laou-Kung-Mow Cotton Spinning and Weaving Co.,
Limited
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Imperial Bank of China..
203
Football
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Cricket.......
Correspondence
The Hankow-Canton Railway and its Extensions
The Saigon Rice Duty
Accident to the M. M. steamer "Sydney"
French Anglophobia
Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
200
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.204
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A terrible occurrence took place at the power station of the Bangkok Tramways. A firewood boat was moored below the waste steam pipe, and the steam and boiling water were poured over the unfortunate men sleeping in her in the early morning as they were asleep. Both men were fearfully injured and have since died.
According to a Peking dispatch the electric 204 railway between the Machiapu terminus and the Yangting-gate of Peking will be ready for traffic by the 10th of Maroh next. With refer- ence to the Lu-Han railway, at the end of the Chinese year about four miles of that new road had already been laid outside of the Paotingfu terminus.-N. C. Daily News.
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At Foochow, on the 24th Februar, the wife of G. SIEMSSEN, H.G.M.'s Consul, of a sn.
On the 3rd March, at No. 1, Queen's Gardens, the wife of ARNOLD FUCHS, of a son.
At 3, Kinberley Villas, Kowloon, on the 9th March, the wife of A. MACKENZIE, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
On the 1st March, 189, at the British Episcopal Church, Fouchow, and afterwards at H.B.M.'s Con- milate, Everard DUNCAN HOME FRASER, H.B.M.'s Vice-Consul, Pagoda Island, to CONSTANCE, second danght r of A. W. WALKINSHAW, Esquire, Foo chow. No cards
DEATHS.
At Manila, on the 17th February, ALFRED
ARNOLD, late of Japan and Straits Settlements, aged
32 years
At West Volcano Light Station, on the 24th February, FERDINAND RUDOLF SCHULZ, Light- keeper-in-charge, aged 4 years.
At No. 70, Bluff, Yokohama, on the 25th Febru- ary, EDWARD DARE NICHOLSON, second son of J. C. NICHOLSON, of the Hongkong Bank, aged 11 months.
At 55, Szechuen Road, Shanghai, on the 26th February, 1899, CABL L. G. Z-DELIUS, M.D., aged
47 years.
At her residence, No. 23, Quinsan Road, Shang hai, on the 28th February, 1899, at 9.30 p.m.,, JUDITH MARIA GUTTERRES E ROZA, the dearly be loved wife of Leocidio Maria de Roza, aged 29
years
At the Peak Hospital, Hongkong, on the 9th March, Captain JOSEPH HOGG, of Manila, aged 50
years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English mail of the 3rd February ar- rived, per P. &. O. steamer Chusan, on the 4th March (29 days); the American mail of the
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At a fire which occurred at Shanghai on the 3rd March, in Tsepoo Road, West Hongkew, three houses were gutted and two damaged. Unfortunately, the conflagration was attended with serious loss of life. three bodies, namely, that of a man of 32, a boy of 8, and a girl of 5 years of age horribly burnt and mutilated, being found huddled together amongst the débris.
The Straits Times of the 27th February says:-The Archer left somewhat suddenly early yesterday morning. On Saturday after. noon there was a rumour current that either the Immortalité or the Archer was to leave for some destination unknown, and later in the evening the Archer's engineers were ordered to have steam up by 5 a.m. next day, when the ship proceeded to Tanjong Pagar and coaled.
Her destination, when she left later on in the morning, was not. made known, but there was a general belief that she had sailed, under sealed orders, for Palawan, where there may possibly be some trouble with the natives.
No. 10.
A suit is pending in the Supreme Court, instituted by representatives of Aguinaldo, to determine the ownership of a sum of $200,000 placed on deposit with the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.
A Russian School was opened on the 25th February at Tientsin, specially built in its own grounds, owing to the fact that "it was the least, so it is reported amongst the Chinese in Russian Minister's desire to have it so "-at
that port. It seems that a class for the study of Russian was added to the English school at the Eastern Arsenal, but Viceroy Yü La was asked by the Russian officials to provide separate funds for the building and maintenance of an independent Russian School or College.-N. C. Daily News.
The liability of the Insurance Companies in connection with the recent fires at Manila is being discussed. The Manila Times says:— Most, if not all, of the ordinary fire insurance policies state explicitly that there is to be no claim in case of fires due to " war or civil com- motion of any kind." This, as far as we can see, leaves no room for discussion at all. It seems to us to completely exempt the insurance com- panies from all liability under ordinary fire policies on property destroyed in the recent As to whether the conflagrations in Manila. United States Government can be called on to pay for the loss, that is a question less easy to In fact, a decision will probably not be arrived at until after long and careful in- vestigation by able jurists. There are innumer. able arguments and precedents both for and against. Our own opinion is that the Govern- ment, having assumed responsibility for the maintenance of order in Manila, is liable for loss. cansed by these fires, but the Government may argue that, if this principle were accepted un- reservedly, everybody in the country and many outside of it have lost by the disturbances and might claim on the same ground.
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The Avenir du Tonkin, in an article on the prospective occupation of Hainan by France. suggests as one means of securing a right of be asked to cut it off from the Bishopric of intervention in the island that the Pope should
missionaries and transfer the field to French Macao and the operations of the Portuguese
missionaries. This, says our contemporary, "would not only be to the advantage of the Church itself, but also, which is of more im- portance to us, it would give France a means of creating French interests throughout the whole island, which would serve on occasion as a basis for our political or military designs." | (Prêts a seconder à l'occasion nos desseins politiques ou militaires.) No wonder the Chin ese are suspicious of the Roman Catholic mis. sionaries when the ulterior designs of the French protectorate are thus proclaimed from the house tops.
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It is now known definitely by wire, says the N. C. Daily News of the 2nd March, that Mr. Shanghai, having retired from the Consular George Jamieson, C.M.G., will not return to Service, which loses in him one of the best men it has ever numbered in its ranks, and a man most popular both privately and as an official. Mr. Jamieson entered the Service as a stu‹lent 1864, and became a 3rd-class assistant in 1867, interpreter, after a competitive examination, in
a 2nd-class in 1869, and a 1st-class in 1872. In his service of nearly thirty-five years he has been at Taiwan, Chefoo, Pagoda Island, and Yokohama, where he was Acting Judge for a year and a-half, having been called to at various times Acting Law Secretary, Acting the Bar in 1880. · At Shanghai he has been
Judge of the Supreme Court, Assistant Judge, Assessor, Acting Interpreter, Acting Assistant Acting Judge, and Consul-General, the post which he was occupying with that of Commer- cial Attaché when his health broke down and he had to go home on leave. He lost his wife, who was most highly respected and valued in Shaj ghai, some three years ago, and of his thres daughters two are now married. Although it has been feared that Mr. Jamieson's health would not allow him to come back to work, the knowledge that he has definitely resigned comes as a distinct blow, and the best wishes of every. one who knows him will go with him in his re-
tirement.
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