THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL, XLIX]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, do.. Leading Articles:--
.331
The China Blue Book and the Kowloon Extension322 The Taking Over` of the New Territory and the
Native Opposition
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322
328
324 .824
Chinese Treachery
The Kowloon Rebellion
....828
Sir Henry Blake's Visit to Canton
323
Road and Water Communication in the New
Territory
The United States and the Philippines
The Ferment in the Hinterland
Hongkong Legislative Council..
Supreme Court
The Islands of the New Territory...........
Garden Fete and Fancy Fair..
Major Bower and the First Chinese Regiment
The Loss of the Clwyd
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 22ND APRIL, 1899.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS,
The American mail of the 17th March arrived, per T. K. K. steamer Hongkong Maru, on the 18th April (32 days); and the Canadian mail of the 29th March arrived, per C. P. R. steamer Empress of India, on the 18th April (20 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK
Mr. E. B. Drew, Commissioner of Customs, 324 has been appointed to Tientsin, and Mr. H. B.
Morse, Commissioner, to Hankow.
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A Yunnan telegram of the 10th April to the 381 N. C. Daily News states that Mr. A. R. Col- ....841 quhoun has crossed Yunnan and proceeded to
831 | Tongtaing in Burma.
Abandonment of the German barque Atlantic !.........832
The Hat-Knocking Incident at Macao
Special Meeting of the Sanitary Board
Dr. Doberck and the Manila Observatory.
.332
Peking telegrams to the Japanese papers 832 state that Germany has demanded that the 332 collection of likin duties in Shantung be placed
under the control of Germans.
...330
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The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Volunteer Annual Carbine Meeting.
Correspondence.....
813
The Yangtze Insurance Association, Limited
34
Raub
335
Bank of China and Japan, Limited
386
The Illness of the British Minister
935
The Japanese in Fuhkien..
Presentation to Mr. E. F. Alford
French and British Interests at Foochow Hongkong and Port News
Shipping
MARRIAGES.
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According to a telegram in the Japanese papers, the ratifications of the Treaty of Peace between America and Spain were exchanged at Washington on the 11th April.
The French paddle gunboat Bengali has just
No. 16.
Baron von Heyking is to be succeeded German Minister at Peking by Freiherr vo Ketteler, who was many years Secretary of Legation at Peking, ander Mr. von Brandt, and left China some ten years ago. Ho bas since been Secretary of Legation at Wiching. ton and Minister to Mexico. Treiherr von Kettler was at one time stationed at Conton lo the Consular service.
The N. C. Daily News of the 15th l says: Sir Claude MacDonald is detained co Hankow by illness. He and the British Conval, Mr. Warren, are suffering severely Ho varnish poisoning, complicated in the the Minister with weakness of the board; Sir Claude and Lady MacDonald hoping to get away in time to catch the Fris Heinrich, but the proposed meeting Minister and Consul-General Brezen king has had to be abandoned.
The taking over of the New Territory, obica was intended to have been made the oeccsiers off a brilliant function and for which a gener holiday was declared, has proved a very dice sant business. Monday, 17th April, ven tha fixed for the ceremony, but on the prez Friday, on Captain Superintendent Hey and party of police going over to Telpoko,
returned to Macao from a trip up the West the ceremony of hoisting the agg 12
River to Wuchow. She now lies moored across the narrow entrance to the Macao Inner Har- 8.47bour, causing some inconvenience to navigation. The Peking and Tientsin Times of 8th April says:-The German guard arrived at Tientsin from Peking on the 5th, and left yesterday The Italian, French, and Russian guarde largely augmented since it went up, Cossaolo are still in the Capital. The latter has been arriving in twos and threes continually.
At the Cathedral, Shanghai, on Saturday, 8th April, 1899, by Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A. PERRIN WILLIAM IRVINE, of Montana, U.S.A., to FLORENCE EVELYN, the eldest daughter of the late J. M. ROGERSON, of Shanghai, formerly of Bury, Lanca- shire, England.
On the 12th April, at the Cathedral, Hongkong, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, M.A., by Special License, LILY, daughter of James BUSH, of Nottingham, to CECIL SIMPSON, of H.B.M. Office of Works, London and Shanghai. No cards. Shanghai papers please copy
"On Wednesday, the 12th April, 1899, at H.B.M. Consulate General, Shanghai, and afterwards at the Cathedral, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A.) WALTER JAMES CLENNELL, H.B.M. Consular Service, China, to EDITH SARAH, eldest daughter of John SHAR PLES, Soochow, China, formerly of Birkenhead, England.
On the 12th April, 1899, at the Cathedral, Shang- hai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., CATHERINE JANE, elder daughter of D. S. BLACK, to GEORGE, second son of the late 8. BAKER, of Aberdeen, Scot
land.
At Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, on the 18th April, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A. MARY CLARK, second daughter of the late J. C. SCOTT, to GEORGE BROWN, second son of James L. LENNOX,
both of Greenock.
DEATHS.
At Hakodate, on the 7th April, CHARLOTTE, relict of the late Rev. GIDEON DRAPER, D.D., in the sixty-sixth year of her age.
At Kobe, on the 9th April, from_pneumonia, ANNIE, the widow of the late MAURICE FITZGERALD, aged 53 years.
At Peking, on the 13th April, R. A. ANDERSON, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.
At Macao, on the 14th April, 1899, MAEY AGNES, the beloved wife of JOHN CHALMERS HENDRY, Superintendent Eastern Extension Telegraph Com pany, aged 30 years. Australian papers please copy. |
Amongst the death notices in this issue ap- pears the name of a very old China hand, Mr. Edward Ford Duncanson, of Messrs. T. A. Gibb and Co., London, who was formerly the resident partner of Messrs. Gibb, Livingston and Co. at Shanghai. Mr. Duncanson left Shanghai to join the London firm in 1868.
Replying to an article that recently appeared in our columns on the Shanghai postal question, the N. C. Daily News professes to be quite unable to see why Hongkong should object to paying for the carriage of Shanghai letters, and asks "If the four-cent rate is not a pay ing rate why did Hongkong adopt it?" The answer is simple. Hongkong adopted the four. cent rate because it could not help itself; it acted under orders from Downing Street. It is bad enough to be compelled to make a loss on our own postal service; to be compelled to carry the correspondence of other places at a loss would be intolerable. Incidentally our contemporary also refers to the question of Imperial burdens and makes a parade of virtus because Shanghai pays the whole cost of its Volunteer Corps, a statement that is not in accordance with fact, because Shanghai gets a free grant of ammunition from Hongkong, to wards the cost of which the Hongkong rate Payers have to contribate, and it also gets its inspecting officers from Hongkong without any charge being made for their cervices. We might also remind our contemporary that Hongkong, in addition to paying a military contribution to the Imperial Government, also has to bear the cost of its own Volunteer Corps.
take place, they found that tho metcheda bɔ course of erection for police barracks left aga been burned down, and that à Chinees force, estimated to be o osziné dress neighbourhood. Mr. May returned to Hedg was occupying one of the olovatíona in d kong and the next day, Saturday, week on? Berger with a hundred men of the Hongton 3 again, taking tento to for & excy Cop.SI Regiment at the same time woreking over 230 hills. On their arrival the poliso traze des upon and the fire was returned, tas expage ment being still in progrem when the Exo đi the Hongkong Regiment crrived, and latter at once joined in it. Bomo chelie tota the t.p.d. Fame were also thrown inte rebel position, and when the Hongong giment men made a charge the rebala zehre, It was found they had thrown up o completo series of shelter trenches and a small better? commanding the site of the flagstaff on wälsa Lady Blake was to have hoiated the icy en Monday. On the situation being sporte to the Governor, His Excellency ordoned the flag to be hoisted at once, which was done on Sunday by the Hon. J. H. Blayoutü Lockhart, Colonial Secretary, Binot them military have bees and still so cage hunting the rebels out. A number of have been killed, some have been taken soners, and five guns have been captured, casualties on our side have been insignificant, the most serious being a wound sustained by Major Brown, A.H.8., in the wrlik, from ɔ spent bullet. Many of the rebels wear 5 unle form said to be that of the Chinese militia, and it is certain that such a force could not have been collected together without the cogm of the native authorities. Public feel Hongkong runs high against the Vic Canton, and disgust is also expre mismanagement of the Colonial ant inasmuch as the latter, though they warning that opposition was being deferred the occupation unnecessaril allowed the opposition every opportu mature
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