Hongkong
VOL. XLIX.
THE
Weekly Press
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China Overland
Overland Trade
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Epitome of the Week, do. Leading Articles:---
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 29TH A PRIL, 1899.
Transfer of British Ships to Foreign Flaga.........342 French Railway Schemes in Southern China. Reparation for the Kowloon Treachery
Hongkong Sanitary Board
A Row at the Sailors' Home.....
The Manila Observatory..
Auditing
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We understand that information has come to H. E. the Governor of British North Borneo, Mr. L. P. Beaufort (who is now at Singapore) that Mat Salleh, the Borneo rebel, is dead. It is stated that he was killed by men of the Tam boonan tribe, probably while on some raid or other.-Singapore Free Press.
It is singular to find Mr. William Keswick, M.P., referring so emphatically to the Yang- tsze Valley as England's sphere of influence, to the apparent exclusion of any sphere of influence in Hongkong's binterland. By the latter term we do not mean the little concession of territory just obtained, but the southern provinces of China.
We learn that Mr. Hubbard T. Smith, the U.S. Vice-Consul for Kobe, has been ordered to 348 proceed to Cauton to take temporary charge of the Consulate there. During the few months that Mr. Smith has been in Kobe, he bas taken such an active part in the social life and move- ment of the port that his departure will excite considerable regret.—Kobe Chronicle.
The Navy League and the Disturbances in the
New Territory
China's Hopeless Case
The Volunteer Movement
Lights on Private Chairs
Affairs in the hinterland
A Shanghai Opinion of the Kowloon Trouble..
The Kowloon Disturbance.
Supreme Court
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The Chamber of Commerce on the Kowloon hinter.
land and the Chinese Customa
The War in the Philippines
News from Cebu
The Glenogle in Collision
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Hydrophobia at Shanghai
Anti-Footbinding in China
Defence not Defiance....
The Gymkhana
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Volunteer Aanual Carbine Competition
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The Punjom Mining Co., Limited
Hall and Holtz, Limited
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Joleby
An Important Shipping Movement
The Germans in Shantung
Survey of the Upper Yangtze
Sir Robert Hart's Proposals re the Kowloon Customs 349 The Viceroy's Proposed Regulations for the New
Territory
Correspondence
Great Britain and Russia
Attack on the Yunoan Railway Surveyors..
The Shanghai "Shooting Committee Incident' Prince and Princess Henry's Picnic
Ship on Fire..
Formosa
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial ་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་ Shipping
BIRTH.
Recent advices from Nanning and Posê point to the country being in a disturbed condition in the neighbourhood of the latter place, where a large robbery of opium, valued at from $50,000 to $60,000, has recently taken place. It is also 52 reported in native circles that a fresh outbreak in the disaffected districts of last year may 353 be looked for in the course of the coming 353 354
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As surmised in these columns the other day with reference to the audience of Captains Yeh and Sa, of the Chinese Peiyang squadron, with the Empress-Dowager, an edict of the 18th 856 inst. raises Captain Yeh to the rank of an Ad- 366 miral, while Captain Sa receives promotion 355 also to Commodore. Both of these officers are ..836 well known to foreigners in the North.-N. C.
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Daily News,
At Morrison Hill Road, on the 26th April, the wife of J. DALTON, I. M. Customs, of a daughter.
MARRIAGE.
On the 15th April, at Christ Church, Yokohama, by the Rev. E. Champneys Irwine, M.A., EDWARD BRAMWELL CLARKE, to JESSIE, eldest daughter of J. L. O. EYTON, of Yokohaına.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 19th March arrived, per M. M. steamer Indus, on the 22nd April (34 days); the American mail of the 23rd March arrived, per P. M. steamer China, on the 23rd April (31 days); and the English mail of the 31st March arrived, per P. & O. str. Parramatta, on the 28th April (28 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
H. R. H. Princess Henry of Prussia has concluded her visit to the Far East and is proceeding home by the N. D. L. steamer Prinz Heinrich, which left Hongkong on the 26th April.
Telegraphic intelligence has been received from Tacoma that the Northern Pacific steamer Glenogle, which left that port on the 23rd April, collided with the steamer City of Kingston, the latter foundering. The Glenogle put back to Tacoma damaged.
Colonel Uyehara, Captain Sakemoto, and Mr. Ariga, who are to represent the Japanese Government at the Disarmament Conference, left Tokyo on the 13th April for Yokohama, and embarked on board the C.P.R. steamer Empress of China, for Vancouver. They are expected to arrive at The Hague two or three days before the opening of the Conference,— Hiogo Evening News.
Sir Claude and Lady MacDonald are pass- engers homeward bound by the N.D.L. steamer Prinz Heinrich. Sir Claude, we regret to learn, is still suffering from illness and was unable to receive visitors during his stay in Hong- kong. We wish His Excellency a speedy restoration to health and hope to see him after his furlough. He has served. his country again representing Great Britain at Peking -well under unusually difficult and trying condi-
tions,
All is now quiet in the New Territory. A small military force remains to ensure the maintenance of order, and police stations are being established. Some of the villagers went to Canton a few days ago to present a petition to the Chinese authorities praying them, to use their influence with the Hongkong Govern- ment not to impose heavy taxation apon them, of which they seem to be in great dread. The Governor and Viceroy each declined to receive the petition, telling the petitioners they must appeal to the Hongkong Government direct.
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The Peking correspondent of the N. C. Daily News writes:-The Emperor is said to be very ill again, and the Empress Dowager has post- poned her annual rest at Eho Park. The son of one of the highest officials in Peking told me that he did not believe there was any chance whatever that His Majesty Kuang Hen would favourite of the Empress Dowager, and probably again be on the throne. The official is a great knows the plans of the "Old Lady" as well as Kuang Hen will never leave the Palace and any one in the capital, and his opinion is that
never reign again.
The Singapore Free Press says:-There is, it is understood, some doubt yet whether the King's Own Regiment will be with us the two of relief in India is not yet so completely years arranged for. It appears that the system settled as to leave it a definite thing that the battalion will stay out the originally suggested time. ln that event it would be relieved about that would probably bring the Welsh Fusiliers the beginning of the next year, an arrangement here from Hongkong. Nothing, however, is certain as yet as to all this, except that for a year or two to come Singapore may, perhaps, still be a one-year's infantry station.
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Since the occupation of Manila by the United States forces, 13th August, 1898, one hundred and forty-one vessels have been transferred Spanish citizens, principally Spanish, to those from the hands of English, German, and of Americans, duly registered, and are now flÿ. ing the American flag. This at least shows an increase of confidence by the business people of Manila towards the American Government. As many as twenty of these, having names of once famous Spanish generals, admirals, and governors, have thought it to their advantage to renounce the old name and take an American or English name before registering.-Manila Times.
The Lusitano has another article on the case of Colonel Browne, in which, contradicting the statement of the Echo Macaense that the Colonel was arrested, it says there could have been no arrest because had there been the British Consulate is not the place to which the person arrested would have been taken. We gather from the Lusitano's article, however, that Colonel Browne was "conducted" to the Consulate and that had he wished to go else. where he would not have been allowed to do so. There may be room for discussion as to what constitutes arrest in the eye of the law, but s layman will usualy consider a person under arrest when he is deprived of his freedom.
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that in spite of these arrivals work rival of engineers for the Yunnan railway, says L'Opinion, a Saigon journal, in noting the ar-
mence, nor does it appear likely to not com Everyone is waiting for M. Doumer to drive the first spike. All the details of the ceremony have been arranged, and a considerable number of sedan chairs have been ordered from Hong- kong, for in Yunnan one travels neither on horseback nor by boat. What is M. Doumer waiting for before giving the order to depart?. It is said that relations between the Governor and the Minister for Foreign Affairs are strained, and especially with reference to this question of penetration into Yunnan. M. Det- cassé does not share M. Doumer's ideas on the subject of railways.
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