THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL XLX.
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles:----
The Gold Standard for China
Lord Charles Beresford and the Open Door Peking and the British Demands....
The Domestic Labour Market in Hongkong Plague and the call for Volunteers Supreme Court
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce Affairs in the Philippines
The New Engineers' Institute
Sequel to the Peak Dog Raid
Hongkong Volunteer (orps
A Burean of Foreign Affairs at Canton
A Disturbance Near Un Loong.
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Sau-tu the Newly Opened Port....
Hongkong Rifle Association
Waterworks for Canton
Aquatip Sports at the V.B.C.
Boyd & Co., Limited
Correspondence
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited
The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank
Opening of the New Premises of the Hongkong and
Shanghai Bank at Peking
The Mengtzu Affair
The Custom-House at Tsingtao..
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 22ND JULY, 1899.
Messrs Gibb, Livingston & Co., inform us The Universal Gazette states that Portugal that they have received a telegram from Aus- has been for some time past negotiating with tralia that the 8.8. Airlie has been floated and the Chinese Government with a view to est arrived in Port Darwin on the 14th instant.ablishing a Legation at Peking. It is now said The message adds. The steamer is not ap- that on the 26th June a Minister was appointed 62 parently damaged."
and he will shortly proceed to Peking to pre sent an autograph letter to the Emperor, Mercury.
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Mr. Ferguson, President of the Nanking 63 College, has been appointed by HE. Shêng, Director-General of Southern Railways, to be Foreign Adviser, or as his commission calls him, Foreign Affairs Weiyuan" or deputy, in the head office at Shangbai.-N. C. Daily News.
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The new treaties came into force in Japan on the 1st July, with the exception of the French and Austrian, which take effect from the 4th of next month. Foreigners are now subject to Japanese jurisdiction, except those of the two nationalities named, and they will follow in a 70 fortnight.
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The U. S. Minister and the New Conditions in Japan 73 The Danish Representative at Bangkok............................. 73 The French Claims in Szechuen
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The Emperor Kwang-su and his Treatment Tampered Telegrams
Shipbuilding at Shanghai
The Lighterage Question at Tientsin
Accident on the Glenturret
Disturbances in Chekiang.
Prince Henry's Visit to Kobe
More Paper Reforms in Peking
Chang Chib-tung on Horseback
Triumphant Entry into Manila of a Gallant Band News of the Pelican
The Fokion Missionary Riots
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial.....................................................
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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The port of Hankow, which has hitherto held the status of a chén or market town, under the jurisdiction of the district magistrate of Han yang, has, according to a Hankow dispatch, been now raised by Viceroy Chang Chih-tung to the dignity of a sub-prefecture in deference to the importance of the place.-N. C. Daily News.
A Peking telegram of the 7th July published 74 in the Japanese papers says:-The French Government has asked the Chinese Government to send troops into Yunnan for the protection of French subjects in view of the recent dis- turbances at Mengtzu. The Chinese Govern- ment has instructed the Viceroy of Yunnan to 75 send the troops, but at the same time is im- 76ploring the French Government to withdraw
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On the 18th July, at Hillside, t' e Peak, the wife of R. GRAY, of a 2011.
On Wedi esday, the Ith July, 1899, at his resid- ence, MacDonnell Road, Hongkong, the wife of A. DENISON, of a daughter.
MARRIAGE.
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On the 6th July, at the Roma Catholic Cathe dral, Nagasaki, JEAN JULIEN SIROT, to ANNA Louis, the eldest daughter of E. BALMES.
DEATH.
At Nagasaki, on the 8th July, FRANCOIS JEAN BAPTISTE EDOUARD BALMES, aged 51 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 16th June arrived, per MM. steamer Oceanien, on the 15th July (9 days); the American mail of the 17th June arrived, per O & O. steamer Doric, on the 17th July (30 days); and the English mail of the 3rd June arrived, per P. & O. steamer Parra- mutta on the 21st July (28 days).
EPITOMS OF THE WEEK.
According to a telegram of 14th July from Peking the Emperor, Kwang Su, received in audience that morning the new German Minis- ter in the Tauen-ching Palace.-China Gasette.
Among Prince Henry's purchases in Tokyo, says the Japan Mail, there are to be some very handsome combs and hair-pins for ladies' use, and some rich Japanese costumes. The Prince will also have the pleasure of carrying away some magnificent specimens of lacquer. The Tokyo Municipality have given him a pair of writing boxes of that material, valued at two thousand yen, and the Emperor's present has taken the same form. Lacquer coming from the Imperial collection is always of the very highest type. The suzuribako in this case were made by Uyemura Homin, one of the most celebrated among modern lacquer-makers.
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The narrow gutterway in the Peiho to Tien- tsin now boasts of a depth of 9ft. 6in., and the bed of the river at Tientsin is lower than it has been for a number of years, which augurs well for the shipping companies. September will see the two large creeks which are being converted into canals under control; conse. quently it is expected that steamers may possibly reach Tientsin before the close of the season.-N. C. Daily News.
Referring to the statement that the mandarin in command of the fort at Bocca Tigris who fired a blank charge at H.M.S. Plover, excused himself on the plea that he mistook the vessel for an Italian man-of-war, the N. C. Daily News publishes the following curious and un- convincing correction-We now learn that, while it is true that a blank charge was fired at the Plover, enquiries in the most authoritative quarters prove that the mandarin did not put` forward the excuse attributed to him. Indeed, the relations between Italy and China are of the most friendly character and entirely exclude the possibility of such a justification having been advanced by the mandarin.
At a meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association at Tientsin on the 28th June paper was read by Mr. C. D. Tennyon Currency Reform in China. Mr. D. H. Mackintosh, the agent of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at Tientsin was in the chair in opening the proceedings "expressed in a few forceful words his convictions concerning the state of China's finances and his solution of the problem, which was, that China should follow other nations in the adoption of the gold standard. After the Japan-Chinese war Japan adopted the gold standard without financial disturbances or loss of credit, and much of Japan's rapid advance was due to this fact." we may ditto to Mr. Mackintosh. But what would Sir Thomas Jackson say P
In a recent issue of the Times we find the following: "The Government have intimated to the secretary of the Association of Chambers The new premises of the Hongkong and of Commerce of the United Kingdom that it is Shanghai Bank at Peking were opened on the 1st their intention to appoint, as an experiment, July. The writer of "Notes on Local Topics two or three commercial agents at foreign in in the Shanghai Mercury says:—So Peking has a land commercial centres of importance. The bank at last-and a macadamized road! Wonders sole duty of these agents will be to watch and will never cease! And the Empress Dowager report upon the extent and progress of trade in has turned reformer! Perhaps that's since she specified districts and the opportunities of has been able to see the upper storey of the new developing British interests. Suggestions are building, for I hear Messrs. Morrison' & Grat- invited from the chambers of commerce as to ton have succeeded in overcoming native pre- the localities in which the proposed agencies judies sufficiently to enable the bank manager can be established to the best advantage. Great to take a wide view-literally as well as meta- Britain at present has commercial attaches at phorically-of his surroundings. Doubtless to Paris, for France, Belgium, and Switzerland; the vigorous old lady, who, more than anybody Berlin, for Germany, Denmark, Holland, else, sways the destiny of China, the new erec- Sweden, and Norway; Madrid, for Spainand tion is a selià, concrete presentment of the cor- Portugal; Constantinople, for Turkey in poration which supplies the money, a home of Europe and Asia and Bulgaria; Vienna, for wealth, a storehouse of taels, a convenient foun- Austria-Hungary, Italy, and Greece," tain from which to draw. I am glad that the haps China might be selected as one of the leeal bank has had the honour as well as the spheres for a commercial attaché, though the enterprise to be first ́in the race to the Capital.officer need not necessarily reside in the interior.
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