THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIX.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.. Leading Articles:
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 3RD JUNE, 1899.
Mr. Byron Brenan, C.M.G., has been con- firmed in his acting appointment as British .450 Consul-General at Shanghai.
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Illegal Exactions on Trade in Kwangtung Trade and Piracy on the West River.... Railway Interests and Spheres of Influence Captain Wingate on the Trade of Hunan.........451 | The Goverment and the Kowloon Ferry Service...451 The Water-carriage System and the Water Supply452 Tragic Affair at West Point.......
Illegal Tax on Kerosine in Kwangtung
The Mutual Store Case............................
Affairs on the Mainland
The Plague in Hongkong
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The King of Siam has taken to cycling. The other evening, accompanied by fifty other cyclists, His Majesty took a ride round the city.
The Inspector General of Customs has ap- pointed a Japanese-recommended by the Jap anese Minister at Peking-to the Customs .463 Staff of Foochow. Some seven or eight other ..453 Japanese have also been recommended for
Customs employment--Mercury,
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Piracy on the West River.
A Steam Launch in Difficulties
The Troops and the Recent Operations
Strange Disappearance of Captain Moncur...
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Collapse of Verandahs in Queen's Road Central..
Opium Seizures on Board Steamers at Saigon...
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Victoria Recreation Club
The "Star" Ferry Co., Limited
Reviewi........................
Correspondence
Affairs in the Philippines
The Filipino Leaders..
Raub
H.M.S."Woodcock" and the Yangtze Raprids Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
MARRIAGES.
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Hongkong does not stand alone in the matter of attacks on ladies on the public roads. At Singapore on the 24th May a young lady named Miss Beattie was out cycling when she was attacked by a Chinaman and robbed of part of the jewellery she was wearing.
A Peking dispatch states that the Tsungli Yamen has recently signed an agreement with Reuter's Telegraph Co. for the supply of daily 460 telegrams of international interest. The sum ......460
to be paid by the Chinese Government to Reuter ..461
is not mentioned.-N. C. Daily News. 461 .403
At St. John's Cathedral, on the 22nd May, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, A. MARKS, 10 MARIE, youngest daughter of CYRILLE and MARIE JOLI- CACHON TERRADE, of Bön, Algeria.
At St. Peter's Church, on the 27th May, by the Rev. J. H. France, ALFRED STANLEY TUXFORD, of Norwich, to CLARISSA LONG, of Hardingham,
Norfol
DEATH.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 20th May, JOHN WATSON, i« his 61st year.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The Canadian mail of the 9th May arrived per C. P. R. steamer Empress of China, on the 30th May (21 days); and the German mail of the 1st May arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Sachsen, on the 30th May (29 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Shanghai spring regatta was held on the 19th May in favourable weather.
La Oceania, pue of the Spanish newspapers published at Manila, has been suppressed.
Several officers and N: C. O.s for the Weihai- wei Regiment were passengers by the P. & 0. steamer Nubia.
By a telegram received at Shanghai from the Ichang correspondent of the N. C. Daily News information was given that H.M.S. Woodcock had arrived at the Yatan rapid.
It is reported that the
the Kaiping mines, which were flooded some time previously and from which no coal has been taken for fully a month, have been pumped out and are again being worked. —N. C. Daily News.
While at Ceylon on her homeward voyage Princess Henry of Prussia plauted a tree at the Royal Botanical Gardens at New Peradeniya. From the Times of Ceylon we learn that Sir Claude MacDonald was still in a feeble state of health when the Prinz Heinrich, by which he is travelling home, arrived at Colombo.
We learn that the export of rice from Wuhu has been suddenly interdicted by the Viceroy of Nanking, acting upon instructions from Peking,
on the ground that China is on the eve of 'war. The reason given is that the requirements of the people within the Yangtze region do not permit any export of grain.-China Gazette.
Some uneasiness has been felt this week, says the Foochow Echo of the 27th May, by the news of trouble at Kieu Ying. It appears that the murder of a native had taken place which was laid to the charge of the foreigners there, and the missions were threatened. A telegram, however, was received last night advising a settlement of the trouble and that peace was restored.
The Foochow Echo says:-We regret to have to record the death by drowning of Monsieur Paul Féer, who was during a few months last year Acting Vice-Consal for France at this Port. During that time, he had been fully appreciated by all who had an opportunity to meet him and we are sure that his numerous friends here will be very sorry to hear the sad Monsieur Paul Féer was drowned while bathing in the river one hour before reaching Hokéou, the new port to which he had just been appointed by the French Government.
news.
No. 22.
The Ichoufu correspondent of the N. C. Daily News writes under date of 9th May —At last accounts the company of German soldiers under Capt. Frankenheyn were still at Jichao city, and the twelve hundred braves who went forth so merrily a fortnight ago to exterminate intruders are still encamped quietly a safe li distant from their intended victims...
that the Leechuen, the small steamer in which From Chungking we (N. C. Daily News) hear Mr. Archibald Little made his way through the Gorges to Chungking, went for a trip fifty miles beyond Chungking, her appearance oreat- ing considerable excitement amongst the natives. Several Chungking residents were on board the steam-launch, including the British Consul.
At Singapore on the 20th May Captain C. Androvich, of the Austrian Lloyd's steamer Marquis Bacquehem, was charged with bring-- ing an unreported cases of plague into the port on the 16th. The evidence showed that a Chi- nese passenger was suffering from plague on the arrival of the steamer and that the case was not reported. There was practically no defence except that the doctor of the steamer trusted to the head; Chinese cook to report cases of sickness to him and he had not been informed of the case in question. A fine of $50 and costs was iniposed.
A company is in course of formation at Can- ton, we hear, to be called "The Chinese Labour and Commercial Company of Canton." The capital is to be $1,000,000 divided into 10,000 shares of $100 each. The objects of the Com pany appear to be partly philanthropic and partly commercial. It is intended to buy lanp and open commercial depots, to establish schools for the teaching of English, to carry on cultiva- tion and to promote husbandry, to improve farming implements and tools, to establish waterworks, wharves, and godowns, and to en- gage in mining, manufacturing, and engineering enterprises. The scheme, which appears suf- ficiently comprehensive, is now under the con- sideration of the Viceroy, to whom it has been submitted for approval.
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We translate the following from the Courrier. d'Haiphong of the 27th May-Captain Ryder, of the English army, returning to Europe by way of Tonkin after a journey of exploration in Yunnan, left for Hongkong at the beginning of the week. During his sojourn on our terri tory he was the object of an absurd and badly executed surveillance, At Hunghoa a public officer rode up on a bicycle and in loud voice demanded information, close to Captain Ryder, who could not help hearing all that passed. At Hanoi agents followed him to the hotel, that he could not fail to perceive that he was being watched. The hypocrisy and rudeness of the English towards us in all parts of the world certainly justify us in exercising a little can- tion, with regard to them; but still, an in- dividual who arcives by way of Laokay with five Indians and one Chinaman cannot have the intention, I think, of throwing a shadow over Tonkin. The foolish enterprise of a certain Burmese Prince at Dienbienphu and the ex- carsions of officers of the Japanese staff towards Langson ought to keep us in mind that certain necessary inquiries, if they are to have any result, ought to be contented with tact and
subjected was often in-
Many of the friars who left the Philippines on account of the disturbances there have since been residing at Macao, and their presence there has given rise to a discussion amongst the Portuguese papers of that colony and Hong- kong as to the expediency of legalising the re-establishment of the religions orders under Portuguese law. The Echo, replying to the H.M.S. Woodlark successfully completed her Porvir, warmly champions the cause of the steam trials on the 16th of May and was com- orders and says that their disestablishment was missioned on Saturday, the 20th, exactly 28 not dus to the belief that they were enemies; discretion. The I days from the time the sections were landed at
of liberty but to a desire to despoil them of Captain Ryder ▼s of surveillance to which - Tangkadoo Dook,—N. C. Daily News.
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their property.
convenient and always maladroit,
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