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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLX.
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China Overland Trade Report.
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Epitome of the Week, &c. Leading Articles:-
Piracy of the Portuguese Steamer Taiping Brigandage and Piracy in the Two Kwang
The Idian Currency Question...........
The Situation in the Philippines
An Unsavoury Case at Shanghai
The Race for Naval Supremacy
Supreme Court
Accident to the Bonaventure Foundering of a Japanese Steamer Another Piracy on the West River Accidents on the Peak Tramway
The First Cotton Mill in Hongkong
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 29TH JULY, 1899.
The American press correspondents at Mani- la have protested against the system the press censorate and allege that the official des- 82 patches are misleading.
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The natives at Canton say that the present is the hottest summer that has been experienced for six or seven years. That is also the opinion entertained in Hongkong by natives and foreig. ners alike.
A remarkable case of suicide occurred at
85 Shanghai on 16th July. The deceased, Mr. J. D. Patob, of the Shanghai Brewery. fixed a rabber tube to a gass burner and, lying on his bed, placed the other end in his mouth, and so asphyxiated himself.
Another Daring Attack on a Lady
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Robbery in the Botanical Gardens
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Manila Correspondents Telegraph the True Situation
to America ...
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Aguinaldo on the Rostrum
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Salvage by the Kintuck
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The British Mercantile Marine
The Charge Against a Post Office Official
The Disturbance Near Un Loong......
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Prohibition of the Import of Flour into Cochin-China 89 United asbestos Oriental Agency Limited Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Co., Limited 91 The Punjom Mining Co., Limited
The Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co.,
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Correspondence
The Custom-House at Taintau
Typhoon at Shanghai..........
French Action in Kwangchowan
Twatutia Chamber of Commerce
A Native Volunteer Corps at Shanghai
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Shocking Suicide at Shanghai
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Horrible Crime at Yokohama
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Hongkong and Port News Commercial Shipping
BIRTH.
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On the 26th July, at the Government Civil Hos pital, the wife of J. M. Atkinson, M.B., Land, of a
son.
MARRIAGE.
On the 12th July, at Tokyo, Miss EMILY VER- BECK daughter of the late Rev. GUIDO F. VERBECK, to HENRY T. TERRY, Esq., of the Imperial Univer Bity.
DEATHS.
At Shanghai, on the 16th July, 1899, HANS ANDREAS THORKE1SEN (Norwegian subject), former Light ship mate at Taku.
At No. 17, Kiukiang Road, Shanghai, on the 18th July, KATE, widow of the late Isaac EZRA, aged 89 years.
On Thursday, the 2 th July, 1899, at No. 19, Yuen-Ming-Yuen Road, Shanghai, of acute dysen fery, CHARLES ELVILLE, the dearly beloved son of Henry and Be sie CROMBIE, aged one year and eight shonths.
At Kowloon Dock, on the 23rd July, 1899, "WEE ALICK," the eloved Son of ALEX. and AGNES EWING, aged year and 10 months.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The German mail of the 26th June arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Prinz Heinrich, on the 24th July (28 days)..
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
A severe typhoon was experienced at Shang
hai on the 20th and 21st July.
A foreign Chamber of Commerce has been established at Twatutia, Formosa.
At Yokohama on the 17th July, a young American named Nelson Ward and two Japau- ese women were found murdered in a low saloon kept by one of the women, their throats having been cut. Jealousy is supposed to have been the motive of the crime and a man named Miller has been arrested on suspicion.
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H.M.S. Woodlark, Lieut. Commr. Barton. has made a very successful trip on the Tung ting Lake and up the Siang River, being the first foreign man-of-war to show her colours in the interior of Hunan. At Yochon and Changsha, and wherever she has been; she was received by officials and people with open airs. and any opposition that the timorons might have anticipated was entirely absent.-N. C. Daily News.
The following special telegram, dated Chung- king, 14th July, appears in the N. C. Daily News-This city and district are in a state of excitement, foreigners being charged with kidnapping children. The proclamations have not yet taken effect. The rebel Yu Man-tze recently made efforts to rejoin his supporters, but was officially prevented. It is said now that he has been sentenced to death. At and more trouble is feared. Tacha some
Catholics have been murdered,
Viceroy Chang Chih-tung has recently made a farther change from the old lines of conserva- tism by now sending his important dispatches to Peking by steamer, under the care of special messengers, instead of mounting these men and sending them overland as has been the custom for twenty centuries in China and is still among the other high officials of the Empire. H.E. Chang is thus able to gain a fortnight or so by this new departure. Doubtless H.E.'s example will be followed by other Viceroys and Governors-in time, when they can do so safely without being stigmatised as Reformers by Peking bigots.-N. C. Daily News.
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The Japanese Government has decided to open the following ports to foreign trade, in addition to those already existing Shimizu, Sarugh Province; Taketoyo, Owari Province; Yokkai- chi, Ise Province; Moji, Bazen Province; Hakata, Chikuzen Province, Karatsu and Kuchinotsu, Hizen Province; Misumi, igo. Province; Izugalare, Sasuns, and Shishimi Tsushima Island; Shimonoseki. Nagato Pro- vince; Nawa, Lucha Islands; Hamada, Iwami Tango Province; Tsuruga and Fashiki, Lohi-
·Province;¦ Sakai, Hoki Province; Miyazn,
zen Province; Nanao, Noto Province; Otaru, Muroran, and Kushiro, in the Hokkaido.- Nagasaki Press. ·
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Mr. J. R. Harding, Engineer-in-Chief of the Customs, went out from Shanghai on the 19th July to the North Saddle to increase the power of the light there by 13,000 candles. This will considerably increase the light's power of penetration in thick weather,
The China Gazette of the 20th July says According to a telegram from Peking Count Raggi, the new Italian Minister, bad audience with the Emperor yesterday, in the course of which he is reported to have offered the spolo gies of the Italian Government for the mistake. made by its former représentative at Peking over the Sanmen business."
We regret, says the Japan Cazette, to have to record the death at Zurich, Switzerland, on July 10th, of Mr. C. Brennwald, of the firm of Siber, Brennwald & Co. Mr. Brennwald first arrived in Yokohama on April 19th, 1863, ** Secretary of the Swiss Embassy to Japan, returning to Europe in 1864 after the signing of the treaty. He joined the firm of Messrs.“ Siber and Brennwald in 1866, returning to Japan in 1867, and was Consul and afterwards Consul-General for Switzerland, being Doyen of the Consular Corps for several years. Mr. Brennwald returned to Europe in 1878 and up to the time of his death was an active partner in the firm which he assisted to form.
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Eastern or Chinese Tibet at a place called Pao Word to hand tells of a serious riot_in
An. some 130 miles over the border from Kan- The Christian and Missionary Alliance have had a station there for about two years or 50, and this has been attacked and looted by the Tibetans, the missionaries, Rev. Geo. 1. Shields and wife, with Mrs. McBeth barely escaping with their lives to Lancheo, where the China Inland Mission have workers. This party of missionaries only left Central China in the fall of last year and had 1 conse quently not been at Pao An for more than
a fow months. The natives had shown themsel ves rather troublesome, and to make matters worse, the Chinese official on being appealed to, 10- fused to help or protect at all, and no doubt the riot was largely due to this action of his Mercury.
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The Peking and Tientsin Times says ----On the thirteenth day of the fifth moon, the Pre sident of the Board of Punishments presided at a meeting in Peking composed of Peking officials belonging to the provinces of Shansi and Kansuh. The object of the meeting was to record the opinion that the sole object of foreigners in obtaining railway and min. ing concessions in China is territorial acquisi- tion. With regard to concessions applied for and granted to foreigners in other parts of the country they had, of course, no power interfere, but so far as such concessions affected their two provinces, Shansi and Kansuh, they were determined to oppose foreign enterprise to the utmost. The meeting drew up and endor- sed a memorial to the Mining and Railway Bureau embodying their views, and it is stated - that the memorial has been cordially received by that department, From various rumours which have been circulating of late, we have been expect- fear that it may prove the first simmering siga ing some movement like this to be made, and we
of a deep-laid scheme of quiet and steady, oppo- sition, which may or may not be of purely Chi- nese origin.
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