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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLX
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, 4o........................................
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Leading Articles:-
Lord Charles Beresford on Hongkong and the
Chinese Customs
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The Shipping Conference and its Baleful Effect
on British Trade..
The Area of Exemption from Lekin..
The Opening of Canton
Lord Charles Beresford on the Becognition of
Chinese as British subjects
Supreme Court
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 15TH JULY, 1899.
The Japanese Government has, it is stated definitely decided to abolish the export duties on and after the 7th, July.
It is stated in American papers that General Miles has asked for the Philippine command. but that the chances are against his obtaining
it.
We are informed that, subject to audit, the directors of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank propose to pay at the forthcoming meet- 49 ing a dividend of £1 10/- per share, add 49 $1,000,000 to the reserve fund, write off $250,000 from property account, and carry for- ward about $950,000:
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The new electric tramway from Ma-chi-pu to the Yang-ting Gate was formally opened for traffic on the 30th June. We believe the trams are to run in connection with the trains, and the fare will be ten cents. No luggage can, however, be taken on the cars, but must follow 52 in charge of a servent.-Peking and Tientsin 52 Times.
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The Openton of Canton
Independence Day in Manila
A Trip to Wuchow...
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Wireless Telegraphy in Hongkong
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Extraordinary Case at the Magistracy
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Abbitrary Prohibition of the Shipment of Grain at
Chinese Ports.............
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Russo-Siamese Treaty
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Water Retorn
The Hongkong Electric Co., Limited,
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Hongkong Rifle Association
Correspondence
Reviews
The Mengten Disturbance
A Railway from Malaya to Burmah and Siam
Fatal Boating Accident at Shanghai
Plague on Pacific Liners ....................... .......
The Chinese Currency
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Fire at the Chinese Engineering and Mining Co.,
Tientsin
Opening of the Custom House at Tsingtao Japanese Employes in the Chinese Customs Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
DEATHS.
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Accidentally downed at Shanghai, on the 3rd July, 1899, ADA WALLACE, în her 19th year.
At Nagasaki, on the 7th July, 1899, W. H. DEVINE, formerly of Shanghai.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The Canadian mail of the 19th June, arrived per C. P. R. steamer Empress of Japan on the 11th July (22 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK!
Dr. Schurman, the President of the American Philippine Commission, arrived from Manila by the gunboat Bennington on 7th July and left on the 8th by the P. & O. steamer Rohilla for Japan.
Messrs. J. G. Pardon and Thos. R. Wheelock have been asked to act as delegates of the Shang- hai General Chamber of Commerce to the forth- coming International Commercial Congress at Philadelphia.
From the Peking and Tientsin Times we learn that Sir Robert Hart entertained the British, American, French, German, Russian. Japanese, Belgian, and Italian Ministers at a banquet on the 26th June.
A Hankow dispatch states that there has been fighting between Protestant and R. C. converts at Shanchou, Hupeh province, and of such a serious nature that troops will have to be sent by the Hankow Tantai 3o the scene of disturbance.-N. C. Daily News..
Japanese papers state that at a Cabinet meeting recently held it was decided to allow Chinese subjects free residence on the opera- tion of the new treaties. The decision, however, will not be officially published, as the status of Chinese is not affected by the new tresties.
The Echo de Chine, under the heading of Eastern Szechuen, says :-Father Giranx has been captured by a band of brigands in the dis- trict of Nganhio. Will this prove a second Yu Man-tse affair? The Chinese Government has shown such indifference about punishing the guilty parties in the last brigand revolt that another rising is to be feared.
The Shanghai magistrate, under instructions from Viceroy Liu at Nanking and Provincial Treasurer Nieh at Soochow, issued a proclama- tion on the 6th July prohibiting the export of grain or rice from Shanghai, the reason given being the great scarcity of food-stuffs in that part of Kiangsu and the distress to the people arising from the high prices demanded for them. It is reported in local mandarin circles, syas the N. C. Daily News, that Ya Kêng ex-Min- ister to Japan and Minister designate to the French Republic, is persona non grata to the Republic, which upon receipt of news of the appointment at once telegraphed to Peking its refusal to accept Ya Kêng as Chinese Minister. This led to his memorial asking to be excused from going abroad again on the ground of physical disabilities.
The Echo de Chine announces with extreme regret the death of Père Lemonnier, formerly Procureur Général of the Missions Etrangères at Shanghai, and afterwards at Hongkong. He left Europe for the Far East in 1855, and before coming to Shanghai was Professor in the College at Penang. He was a man of high attainments, and deep devotion to his work, affable to all and very self-denying, and his death is a great loss to the Missions.
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No. 3.
The Hupao states that both the brothers La Han-chang and Li Hung-chang have been re- cently buying up, through their agents, con- siderable landed property in Wuhu, near the foreign Settlement. The reason for this seems to be that it is intended by the Chinese Govern. ment to open a "commercial" port there, on- similar lines to Woosung, and, knowing this, able property within the proposed new port- the shrewd brothers have bought up all avail- N. C. Daily News.
A Peking despatch to a local Chinese official at Shanghai reports, says the N. C. Daily News, that Viceroy Liu K'un-yi has sent to the Throne his resignation of the Viceroyalty of the Liangkiang provinces, and that it is rumoured that Wang Wên-shao, now President of the Board of Revenne, may possibly be ap pointed to succeed Viceroy Lin. Kang Yi, it is well-known, is also anxious for the post, but it is said that the Empress Dowager prefers to have him at Peking as a counter-balance to the increasing power of her nephew Jung Lu's party.
The Hyogo Evening News states that a severe rain and thunderstorm was experienced on Fri- day afternoon, 20th June, between Kobe and Hamamatsu. The gale is described as having been so strong as to impede the progress of a train on the Government line. In Mikawa pre- fecture five passenger cars were carried by a sud- den gust of wind over an embankment twenty feet high. The terrible fright of the passengers as the cars rolled down the embankment can be better imagined than described. Agonising screams made themselves heard above the roar of the thunder and the wind. Though twenty- three persons were injured, fortunately none were killed. Assistance was forthcoming from the nearest railway station and villages, and the af- frighted and injured passengers were rescued from among the debris. They were taken to a hospital close by, where they received every at- tention. It is feared that some of the patients will not recover.
The Russo-Chinese Bank evidently intends to become a prominent institution in China, It was only the other day that it purchased one of the most eligible lots in Shanghai, on which it intends to erect a particularly handsome and imposing building, and it is following the same course at Tientsin. The correspondent at that port of the N. C. Daily News writes The continued prosperity of the port is strik ingly illustrated on the rare occasions when the leasehold of H.M.'s Government lots changes hands. A small portion (3.675 mow) of the estate of the late Mr. R. B. Mostyn was recently disposed of by public auction. The site is excel- lent both for business and residentiary purposes, It is stated in the vernacular papers that no being at the corner where Consular and Victo- less than 23 carts carrying various kinds of ria Roads meet. The Russo-Chinese Bank was books, translated into Chinese from English the purchaser at T. Tls. 23,500: this is equiva standard works on political economy, science of lent to T. Tls. 6,394 per mow (say £6,000 per government, etc., etc., were brought to the Em-acre). It may be remarked, as an aside, that press Dowager's Palace on the 29th ultimo, though the Bank thus becomes a land-renter at having been purchased by Her Majesty's com
the highest cost on record, it does not become a mand from the book depots of Tientsin and voter. The Land Regulations for the senior Shanghai The cost of these books was a little British Concession stipulate that four mow over Tls. 8,000 and it would appear that in her shall be the minimum area entitling the renter many trials and troubles of government the to a vote. It is not impossible that the glaring Empress Dowager is determined to make a unfairness of this new case may induce the study of Western civilisation and sciences in land renters to move in the matter of revision of order to be able to direct the reforms which their antiquated regulations. The high prios public rumour now credits her with being de- paid is all the more remarkable when it is borné · sirous of inaugurating, knowing by experience in mind that the lease now extends only for a now that reactionism spells ruin for China. period of sixty odd years.
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