THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
VOL. XLIX.]
Epitome of the Week, &c..
Leading Articles:--
The Chinese Customs and the New Territory..
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362
Great Britain and Russia in China
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The Chinese Navy.....
The Chinese Currency
Shanghai and Penny Postage
863 263 .36+
The Foreign Control of the Chinese Administration 364
Settlement Extension at Shanghai
Supreme Court
Affairs in the New Territory..
The Kowloon Rebels before the Magistrate....
Affairs in the Philippines
The Colony's Finances
Special Choral Service
Attack on a Young Lady on Kennnedy Road
The Hon J. J. Bell-Irving's Departure
Disappearance of a Hongkong Merchant
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
Cable Rates
864 ..364 ..265
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 6TH MAY, 1899.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK
No. 18.
Calumpit was captured by the American lighterage and towage alone, to say nothing of forces on the 26th April,
The Chinese Club has acquired premises at No. 71, Wyndham Street, and is was opened on the 1st May.
Telegraphic intelligence has been received that the extension of the general Settlement at 865 Shanghai has been finally agreed upon.
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.269 .370
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Shanghai Generai Chamber of Commerce
A E Watson & Co., Limited
371
Yangtsze Insurance Association Limited...
371
Straits Insurance Co, Limited
372
Bank of China and Japan, Limited
572
The Punjom Mining Co., Limited
Jelebu
73 ..373
Hall and Holtz, Limited
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Hongkong Rifle Association
Shooting
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Correspondence
The Docking of the "Victorious '
Anglo French Quicksilver and Mining Concession Ld.374 .374
Tientsin...
The Mutual Store Embezzement Case
Alleged Attempt to Cut and Wound....
The Exploitation of Széchuen.
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..376 378 ....377
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Chang Chih-tung on Germán Action in Shuntung... 377 Iohoufu
...377 The Filipinos and the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank 378 Fighting Between Cossacks and Chinese...
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The Rulers of China
Weihaiwei
Attempted Murder and Suicide at Manila
The Press Censorship at Mauila.
Shanghai Sprieg Races
The Steameship Deal at Singapore ........ H. G. M. 8. "Iltis" Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
MARRIAGES.
...878
..378
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.378
The Echo de Chine states that the incoming French mail will bring a large number of French and Belgian engineers for the Lu-Han Railway.
Mr. B. C. George Scott, H.M's. Consul at Tientsin, goes to Canton as Consul-General, and is succeeded at Tientsin by Mr. W. R. Carles.-N. C. Daily News.
The Echo Macaense, referring to the Lusitano's denial that Colonel Browne was arrested at Ma- cos, repeats that there was an arrest and says everybody who was present saw it.
The Shanghai mandarins are said to have re- ceived news from Germany that the German Government are sending four torpedo-boats to China to strengthen their squadron in the Far Fast,
The N. G. Daily News of the 29th April says: The German flagship Deutschland leaves Woosung to-day for Kiaochou, and the Prinzess Wilhelm and Kaiser are leaving for Germany immediately.
It is reported that Spain intends making a demand upon China for a territorial concession as compensation for China's alleged wrongful conduct in allowing the shipment of arms from 79 Canton to the Philippine rebels.
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The Japanese cruiser Chitose, which has been ...380 built at the Union Iron Works in San Fran- cisco, arrived at Yokosuka on the morning of the 20th April. She is to be fitted with Arm- strong guns at the Yokosuka Dockyard.
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On the 12th Apri', at Yokohama, GEORGE COMYN MURRAY, eldest son of the late Colonel Murray of the Ordnance Store Dept, to MARY (MAY), daughter
of EDWARD WHEELER, M., of Yokohama.
On the 23th April, 1899, t the Imperial Russian Consulate, Shanghai, and afterwards at No. 5. Sas- soon's Buildings, by the Rev. J. A. Sudka, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Linezer, J. HANDELMAN, of Naga ski, Japan, to OLGA HAIMOVITCH, of Shanghai.
On the 4th May, at St. John's Cathedral, Hong- kong, by the Rev. F. T. Johnstone, THOMAS YULE, to ELIZABETH PRESCOTT, both of Liverpool, Eng land.
DEATHS.
At 184 Yuhang Road, Shanghai, on the 28th April, 1899, MATTHEW JORDAN, aged 58, a native of Ireland (late of the Municipal Sanitary Depart ment)
On the 3rd May, at New York, HENRY B. HYDE, President of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. (By wire.)
ARRIVALS OF MAILS. The German mail of the 3rd April arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Preussen, on the 1st May (28 days); and the American mail of the 4th April arrived, per O. & 0. steamer Doric, on the 3rd May (29 days).
Affairs in the New Territory are now quiet and the construction of roads is being rapidly pushed forward. During the past week the rebels who were captured have been before the Magistrate, and the case stands adjourned.
A memorial signed by the practising lawyers before the British Consular Court at Bangkok is being forwarded to Her Majesty's Secretary of state praying that an official unconnected with the consular service be appointed as Judge of the Court.
Persistent rumours are in the air that gold has been found within the boundaries of the British concession at Weihaiwai, A syndicate of Shanghai residents has been formed to spect the locality. Several other people are anxious to chip in.-Shanghai Daily Press,
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In the Supreme Court at Shanghai on the 28th April, Sir Nicholas Hannen confirmed the report of the Registrar as to the damage in- flioted by the Courie on the Indo-China Com. pany's steamer Esang and Suiwo. The Regis trar (Mr. E. H. Burrows), sitting with Mr. C. Murray Adamson, of Messrs. Shewan, Tomes & Co., as Assessor, fixed the damages payable by the Cowrie at Tla. 29,098 with costs.
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It is reported that the cost of the Shengking's trip down the Peiho amounts to Tls. 3,000 for
detention, conl consumption, and wear and tear, and was simply unde taken to show the Chinese and foreign shippers how impracticable the scheme was of again establishing Tientsin as a shipping port. The steamer in question was chosen as being the lightest and handiest of the China Navigation Company's fleet.-N. C. Daily News.
The Tamsui-Foochow cable, which was lately relaid by Japan after its purchase from the Chinese Government, cannot still be opened to the public on account of the neglect on the part of the Chinese Government to give due notice to the Great Northern and Great Eastern · Telegraphic Companies. As the Communica- tion Department in Tokyo is now negotiating on the matter with the Chinese Government and the two Telegraphic Companies, the tele- graphic communication on the line is expected to be opened to the public at no remote date. The Formosa.
From the Ningpo correspondence of the N. (". Daily News we learn that a very fine memo- rial stone is being prepared by workmen in Ningpo, which will, when finished, be erected in the British Cemetery, Chusan. The insoription is as follows :——
"To the Memory of the Officers and Men of
Her Britannic Majesty's Navy and Army
who Lost their Lives in the Occupation of Chusan, A. D. 1841 to 1844. Cemetery restored by British Nation, 1898.”
A handsome pair of aluminum marine glasses . has been presented by Messrs Macleod & Co., of Manila, to Captain Cowper, of the British gunboat Plover, in recognition of the valuable services rendered by the captain in connection with the diffionit task of rescuing Mr. Cogan, Messrs. Macleod & Co.'s agent in the island of Leyte, after the natives had carried him off for the purpose of holding him to ransom. The binoculars are of Voigtlander's make, supplied by Gaupp & Co., Hongkong, and they bear the following insoription:"Presented by Macleod & Co., of Manila. to Captain C. V. de M. Cow per, of H.M.S. Plover, in remembrance of his gallant rescue of Mr. Bernard Cogan from the hands of Philippine natives who held him pri- soner at Barugo, Leyte Island, in March, 1899.'
-Manila Times.
A private correspondent writing from Manila on the 13th April, whose letter is quoted by the Straits Times, says:-Business is flourishing. Every ship from America brings a number of civilians. New business houses are being opened everywhere Professional men, law- yers, doctors, and dentists are establishing themselves, and they will all require clerks and assistante. At present there is a scheme afoot to start electric railways, and an enterprising syndicate is bidding for the Escolta with a view. to the demolition of the present buildings and and the erection of new ones. Now that it is known that gold and other minerals are to be found in the islands a rush of prospectors and miners is expected. It is alleged that a dentist, who went there from Singapore a few months ago, makes $2,000 a month.
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