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Hongkong
THE
Weekly Press
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China Overland
Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLIX.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c................................................ Leading Articles:-
Italy's Chinese Policy..........
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395
896
The Post Office Written Massages
The Opening of the Inland Waters
༽ ••,་86 ............386
China and the Disarmament Conference..... The China Association and Spheres of Influence 888 Registration of Servants...
.887
Supreme Court
Affairs in the Philippines
...889 ..894
Kowloon Rebels-Sentenced
Rebellion in Walchow and Chiucbow
.896
Reviews
396
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Fire in Hollywood Road..
Fatal Accident in the Harbour.......
The Plague
Water Return
A Marine in Trouble
Rifle Match
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
A B. Watson & Co., Limited
Olivers Freehold Mines, Limited
Straits Insurance Co, Limited
Jelebu Mining and Trading Co., Limited
The Extension of the Shanghai Settlement...
..397
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.398 .598 ...398
399
...399
Hongkong Cricket Club Lawn Tennis Tournment......898
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China to be Represented at the Disarmament
Conference
The Opening of Nanking
Railway in Ching
France Henry at Hankow
Chungking
France Henry at Wuchang
The French in Yunnan
The Shanghai Races
Affairs in Shautang..........
Serious Fire at Bangkok Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
MARRIAGES.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 13TH MAY, 1899.
T. K. K. steamer Nippon Maru, on the 10th May (27 days); and the English mail of the 14th April arrived, per P. & O. steamer Chusan, on the 11th May (27 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK
The port of Nanking was declared open to foreign trade on the 1st May.
A rebellion has broken out in Waichow and Chinchow, districts contiguous to the Kowloon New Territory.
Mr. Dotring, formerly Commissioner of Tientsin Customs, has been appointed to the same post in Chinwangtao.-Mercury.
The question of the extension of the genera Settlement at Shanghai has at last been settled The demand for an extension of the French Concession is still pending.
The case of the Bank of China against its Chinese shareholders at Shanghai will shortly be reheard before the new Tautai, who has asked the parties interested to fix a day for the re- hearing.-China Gazette.
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....402 The N. C. Daily News says:H.M. 1st-class 402 battleship Renown is coming to China to relieve ....402 the Centurion, and the new Rear-Admiral will ...402 bring out one
the Conopus class of 1st-class battleships as his flagship.
The black Flag chief, Liu Yung-fu, who is ..44 considered by the Chinese as a very able general, has been ordered to Peking by telegram. He will be given the command of the central divison of the Wu Wei Army.-Mercury.
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On the 29th April, at All Saints' Church, Kobe, by the Rev. G. H. Davies, WALTER GODFREY, eldeetan of WALTER FEAST, of "Stanleybury,” South Norwood, to EDITH MARY, youngest daugh- ter of the late SYDNEY JAMES SMITHERS, of
*Brooklyn," South Norwood, Surrey.
By the Rev. F. J. Griffith, at St. Peter's, Chefoo, on the 1st May, 1899, WILLIAM MAY HOWELL, of Tientsin, to ISABEL LEGGATT, younger daughter of the late Rev. J. WILLIAMSON, of Ningpo.
On the 5th May, 1899, at the Austro-Hungarian Consulate-General, and afterwards at the Synagogue, by the Rev. Dr. Sinzer, assisted by the Rev. I. A. Sudka, IGNATZ POLLAK, of Shanghai, to JULIETTE SCHANZER, of Vienna.
-- DEATHS.
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At Charlottenburg (Germany), on the 11th April, Mrs. ANNA D. MANNICH, dearly beloved wife of Jul. Mannich, Esq., late of Taiwanfoo and Hong [1327 At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 30th April, 890, of typhoid fever, CARL SCHULTZE, aged 24 years, a native of Germany, and late of the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank.
On Saturday, the 6th May, 1899, at No. 1, Albany, Gardens, Shanghai, MARION HELEN, daughter of F. E. WILKINSON, H.B.M, Consular Fervice, aged 61 months.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 7th April arrived,
steamer Laos,
the 7th May Per A (80 days); the Canadian mail of the 17th April arrived, per C. P. R. steamer Empress of Japan, ou the Sth May (21 days); the American mail of the 13th April arrived, per
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No. 19.
The War in Luzon is still being waged, the Filipinos continuing to offer a stubborn but ineffective opposition to the American advance. They have applied to General Otis for an armistice while a meeting of the Filipino Congress is held to consider the position, but the request has been refused, General Otis declining to recognise a Filipino Government or to enter into any negotiations except for an tinconditional surrender.
The British North Borneo Herald reporta that, in Palawan and elsewhere in the Southern Philippines, anarchy prevails now that Spanish authority has disappeared. The Americans have hardly taken any steps to occupy these distant islands. The Herald urges that, in these circumstances, some arrangement should be come to in order to establish a British proteo- torate over them. In its opinion, were some such arrangment to come about, the pro- tectorate would most naturally be administered by the Government of British North Borneo.
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The British battleship Victoricus was safely docked at Yokohama at 4 p.m. on the 25th April The Japanese authorities at Yokosuka are entitled to great deal of credit for the manner
in which the difficult task of docking the Victorious has been at length successfully, accomplished. At the time of her arrival at Yokosuka, the Victorious drew 28 feet 6 inches, and the authorities would not receive her till ́she was lightened up to 25 feet. This of course necessitated removing guns, water tight doors, coal, water, ammunition, and even the crew and their outfits. Finally her draught was brought to 24 feet 11 inches and she was then docked. After she is cleaned and painted, the whole of the fittings, weighing about 700 tons will have to be replaced:-Japan Mail.
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H.M.S. Woodlark was christened at Shang- hai on 1st May by Mrs. Montgomerie and most The coolie traffic from China just now is very successfully launched, gliding into the water brisk, and during last month co less than like a bird. The function was arranged so hur thirteen thousand coolies arrived in Singapore., riedly that there was no time to send out in Some twenty years ago the carrying of coolies vitations, and there were only present H. M. was almost entirely in the bands of Straits Consul-General Mr. Byron Brenan, Capt. Mont-owned vessels, but, since the decline of the China gomerie, R.N., and one or two others.-N. C. tea trade, even mail steamers, are not above Daily News.
carrying them, whereas in former days a coolie From many paragraphs appearing in the would not be allowed on board one of them.* It Japanese press, it is learned that the Home used to pay in former years, said a veteran Minister has concluded to build new prisons in commander of a vessel running un to China, couple the open ports for the special use of foreign the other day, to risk bringing down a convicts, after the operation of the revised of hundred passengers more than the ship was treaties. Upon the completion of the prisons, allowed to carry, when the passage money no foreign convict will be confined in prisons ranged from $20 to $25 per head, but in these other than those proposed. The Minister is days when the rates get so low as $3, the game
is not worth a candle-Singapore Free Press. also reported to have drafted new prison.re.
The Japan Times reports that
that a Buddhist gulations to replace the existing ones.-Naga- saki Press.
monastery, more than 1,200 years old, has been destroyed. · The temple referred to is Choryo-j1 in Kami Kori, Mino Prefecture. Of many costly treasures in its possession the most valu- able was the Issaikyo, or the collection of all the sacred writings of Buddhism, presented to the monastery by Emperor Shomu, which is said to have been brought direct from India, It was the only set in the country. Only 154 of the 265 cases of these books were savel. The seven sacred images which had eyes set in diamonds were also burned. It is said 40,000 yen were offered once by an American for them. The lost treasures being mostly of precious metals, their ashes are being sifted under the supervision of the police. The entire damage is estimated at two million yen.
'It is stated that a regulation will shortly be issued by the Agricultural and Commercial Department in regard to the control of foreign insurance offices in Japan after the new Treaties come into force. By this regulation any foreign insurance company carrying on business in the empire of Japan must appoint an in- dividual or a committee to represent it in this country, having full authority to decide all matters relating to the company exactly as if the head office were established in Japan. Any company having more than one branch or agency in Japan shall appoint one as its repre- sentative, which shall take rank as the bead office, and all the others will be regarded as branches or agencies-Kobe Chronicle.
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