THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLIX.J
CONTENTS.
489
The New Commander-in-Chief of the American Fleet 493
Epitome of the Week, da....................................
.485
Leading Articles:-
The Inland Navigation Rules
486
The Victoria Jubilee Road
..486
Obstructive Tactics of the Chinese Government...487
The Post Office Staff
..488
Surface Crowding
..488
The Water-Carriage System
....488
Road Construction and the Colonial Finances
...488
Supreme Court
Centenary of the Church Missionary Society.
....491
Honouring a Welch Fusilier
Charge against a Bank Shroff
Fatal Fall From a Verandah
.492 ..492 ..493
The "Powerful" Dramatic Company at the Theatro
Royal
.493
The Collapse of Verandahs in Queen's Road Central 493 Hongkong Volunteer Corpa
.493
Disturbances in Kwangtung
A Ship on Fire in the Harbour
Launch of a West River Steamer..
.494
The Post Office Report
..404
The Drainage and Sewerage of Hongkong.
New Roads at the Peak and at Kowloon
495 495
Maintenance of Roads
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Correspondence
Affairs in the Philippines.
..498
Railways Development in Shangtung..
.499
The British Fleet
.499
Chinese Resistance to Foreign Aggression.................
Disastrous Fire at Shanghai.
The Yunnan Railway Survey Commission.
Can China Pay for Ironclads
A Japanese Search for the North Pole
Text for the Anglo Russian Agreement
Alliance between Japan and China....
.493 .493
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 17TH JUNE, 1899.
The success of the Straits Insurance Com.
assured.
No. 24
It is reported that the British steamer Car
pany's reconstruction scheme is said to be diganshire has been purchased by the Mitsui Busgan Kaisha and that the vessel has been renamed the Tsurugisan-maru. The Japanese Telegraphic intelligence has been received in firm was to take delivery of the steamer npou Japan that the Chinese reformer Kang Yu-weiber arrival at Yokohama. arrived in London on the 2rd June,
Mr. J. F. Schoenicke, lately Commissioner of Customs at Hoihow, has been appointed to Canton, in succession to Mr. E. B. Drew.
The Benlawers is in the bands of the Mits Bishi Dock Company for the required repairs after her recent stranding. The Nagasaki Press says the repairs may take a couple of months.
The following is the team that has been cho- sen to represent Shanghai at Weihaiwei in the various games that are to be competed for -- Messrs. R. C. Farbridge, W. J. Tyack, G. F. Lanning, V. H. Lanning, A. E. Stewart, J. Mann, W. P. Lamb, J. C. Johnstone, E. Lynch, J. H. Teesdale, N Ramsay, W. M. Wood, P. E. Beeston, Captain C. G. Close, and Dr. 496 R. J, Marshall. They left for Weibaiwei on
the 3rd June.
.496 .496
.499 .499
During the past few weeks quite a number of Chinese tailors have left Hongkong for Manila, the big tailoring firms at the latter place pre- ferring Chinese to natives on account of their 199 superior workmanship. In consequence some 500 Hongkong firms have been somewhat incon- .500 venienced, having been prevented frora execut- ..500ing the orders of their customers with as much despatch as heretofore. Chinese servants from Hongkong and Amoy are also displacing Filipino servants. This is what has happened
Foreigners and the Ownership of Moveable Property
in Japan
The Sugar Trade at Kobe...
Pirates Worsted at Ningpo Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
500
500
500
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at the Hotel Oriente.
A man convicted of arson was summarily be beaded at Tientsin on the 1st instant. The local authorities of that fort seemed to have been too lenient in dealing with incendiarists, At 15, Knutsford Terrace, Kowloon, on the 11th simply sentencing them to terms of imprison. June, the wife of F. G. Figu, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
BIRTH.
On 1st June, at H.B.M.'s Cnsulate, Kobe, by J. C. Hall, Is H.B.M.'s onsı', and afterwards at All Saints' Church, by the Rt. Rev. H. J. Foss, D.D., Bishop of Osaka, assisted by the Rev. G. H. Davies, EDWARD HENRY SUMMERS, son of the late James Summers, of the Tukio University, to LOUISA Avous A, daughter of the Bev. G. C. MOLA, of
Blackheath.
DEATHS.
On the 10t June, at Mount Parker, Quarry Bay, DORETHEA JANE, the infaut daugliter of J. WAD- DELL
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 11th June, 1899, Hugo KNIFFLER, aged 51 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 16th May arrived, per P. M. steamer City of Peking, on the 15th June (30 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The small outbreak of plague that occurred at Macao has not developed, we are glad to learn, and there are now no cases in the Porta- guese colony. Chinese passengers arriving from Hongkong are subjected to medical inspec-
tion.
arson.
meut for a year or two, with a short period of the cangue, although the strict letter of the law of China demands the life of men convicted of The man who was executed on the 1st instant confessed to having been implicated in twenty-three cases of arson. This was really too much even for the lazy, ease-loving Tientsin mandarins, so the matter was reported to the Viceroy-Yu Lu-who at once ordered the man's execution. The Shanghai local authori- ties ought to take example from this, in the next case of incendiarism brought before them. ---N. C. Daily News.
In his annual report the Hou, R. D. Ormsby, Director of Public Works, says:-The sales of Crown land were considerably short of the estimate for the year, owing to the few applications for land in the Taipingshan resumed area.
In November, 1897, six lots sold in this locality at prices ranging from $5.38 to $4.14 per square foot, and there seemed reason to anticipate a rapid sale of the rest of the area. In 1898, only five lots sold, the price paid varying from $4.13 to 82.00 a foot. where there was considerable demand for land and prices went up considerably. The price of building lots between Kennedy Road and Bowen Road went up from 6 to 12 cents a foot, and in one case even 25 cents a foot was paid. In Kowloon there was also considerable demand, and as much as 80 cents a foot was realized 'for lots in Yanmati.
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Though no definite orders have been promul gated to the officers of the Italian squadron here. there is a strong impression amongst them that their mission to China is a wild-goose chase and that no active steps of any kind will be sanctioned by the new Italian Minister.—China Gazette.
Kobe was visited with a typhoonish gale on the afternoon of the 3rd June. All the large steamers in the barbour had their steam up and paid out cables, some vessels steaming ahead slowly in order to relieve the pressure. The Bund soon became impassable, and a good deal of damage was done amongst the lighters and small craft. Amongst the incidents of the storm the Hiogo News gives the following :-"When the steamer Airlie came in a Chinese seaman got washed overboard. A boat was immediately lowered, manned chiefly by Europeans, to rescue the unfortunate sailor. They could not find Lim, however, and the sea was so rough that the boat could not return to the ship. Finally, after pulling about for nearly two hours, a landing was effected at Ono. The steamer was observed steaming about the harbour apparently watching the progress of the boat.". The storm was also experienced at Yokohama,
Liang Chi-chao, a leader of the Chinese Pro- gressive Party, who is now a refugee in Japan, came down to Kobe on the 24th ult., and, says the Kobe Chronicle, has since been travelling between Kobe and Osaka. He proposes to establish a sobool ut Kobe for the education of the young Chinese in the district. He has arranged. as a preparatory measure, in concert with leading Chinese residents at Kobe, to give a reception to "Count Okuma in the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, when the Count will be requested to speak on the question of the education of the Chinese. Kan Bunkyo, an- other well known Chinese refugee, is also at Kobe. On the 24th ult., Liang Chi-chao called a meeting of Cantonese residents at Kobe in the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, and cou- sulted with them on the proposal to establish a school, and it was at this meeting that the reception to Count Okuma was arranged.
A special telegram from Tientsin sent to us yesterday evening, says the N. C. Daily News
of the 3rd June, announces that Baron von Heyking, the German Minister, was banquetted at Tientsin by the German community on- Friday evening, the Consul presiding, and ninety guests being present, including fourteen ladies. Baron von Heyking and the Baroness left Tientsin on the 2nd for Shanghai in H.I.G.M.S. Kaiserin Augusta, On Wednesday last (31st May) the Ostasiatische Lloyd issued on extra stating that Baron von Heyking had a farewell audience with the Emperor on the 30th ultimo, and it is significant that no mention was made of the Empress Dowager. It will also be remembered that at Hauhow Prince Henry toasted the Emperor of China and ignored the Dowager. This is just as it should be, and is a leason to the Representatives of other foreign nations in Peking who hastened to do honour to the usurper, and have thus consented to the virtual deposition of the right- ful Sovereign of China.
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