Hongkong
VOL. XLX.]
Leading Articles:—
THE
Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 2nd SEPTEMBER, 1899.
Epitome of the Week, de..
..............................185 The New Territory Blue Book ........................196 Mr. Byron Brenan on Lekin and Inland Naviga-
tion
......................................................................... 186
The Chino-Japanese Alliance The Impending War in the Transvaal ............ 187 A Steam Laundry Wanted.................................................................... The "Beaconsfield” Muddle.............
The Tang heung-tsai Murder and Governmental
Responsibilty
187
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.188
188
Anglo-Russian Conflict at Hankow ..............................188 Anti-Foreign Riot in Szechuen........................................................ Supreme Court Interesting Function at Government Houre 189 The New Territory Blue Book...
.190
The Military Report on the Operation in the New
Territory
.192
How the Natives of the New Territory Regarded the
British Occupation..........
....193
The Chinese Customs and their Position in the New
Territory
93
Hongkong Sanitary Board
College of Medecine for (hinese
103 194
Affairs in the Philippines
.194
"As You Like It" at the Theatre Royal Reported Reinstatement of Li Hung-chang
The Late Mr. Granville Sharp on the Atlantic.195
Execut.on of the Taiping Pirates
Suppression of Piracy on the West River
In Time of Sickness
Water Polo...................
The Hongkong Rifle Association
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The Hongkong Electric Co., Limited ..........196 The Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co.,
Limited
................................................................ ......................196 Tanjong Pagar Dock Co. ............................................................................................................ Chang Chih-tung ..............................197 Another Peking Conspiracy,
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.197
The Chinese Court advised to come South
..197 Port Arthur From A Pro-Russiau Point of View ......197❘ The Property Market at Shanghai
....197 Russia Japan and China
The United States and the Sulu Archipelago......197
Rebels try to Raid Iloilo
Hooker Wreck being Investigated Hongkong and Port News
Commercial..
198
.201 **ANADA CÂND PEENDU KADALOUDGE MÅNE
The trial of Robert Miller in the four Yokohama Chiho Saibansho before Judges, for the murder of Nelson Ward and two Japanse women at Yokohama on the 17th July, has ended in a verdict of guilty. Sentence of death was passed on the prisoner. Notice of appeal was given.
Important political changes appear to be taking place in the North. It is reported that Li Hnng-chang has been reinstated as Viceroy of Chihli and that the rivalry for power between Prince Ching, commanding the Peking Field Force, and Jung Lu, commanding the Wawei Army, bas reached such a head that both sides have begun to secretly prepare for actual conflict.
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From the Avenir da Tonkin we : liern on the 13th July there was a little anti disturbance at Yuunan. A crowd attacked. temple in which two Frenchmen resided, pillaged it. and pursued the Frenchmen but did not catch them. Passing by the Catholic mis. sion without touching it the crowd attacked another house occupied by Messrs. Guillemoto and Co., but before they had succeeded in break- ing in soldiers. came upon the scene and dis- persed them.
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News has been received of an attempt made by Russian Cossacks at Hankow to interfere with the-fencing round Messrs. Jardine, Mathe- son and Co.'s property, which is included in the area of the so called Russian concession. An armed party was landed from H.M.S. Woodlark and the Cossacks withdrow. The Fak was despatched from Shanghai to Hankow on receipt of the new. Ist is anticipated that the Russian Government will declare th the Russian Consul exceeded his instruc- tions.
The Legation that the Siamese Government has resolved to establish in Japan, we read in a contemporary, will be opened shorly. Luang. Banprakitch Precha (Nia Chown), barrister-at- law, of the Middle Temple, London, has received the appointment of Secretary of Legation. Phya Rithirong will be the Minister to Japan. These two gentlemen expect to leave Siam dissentient votes, has passed a motion authoris The Straits Legislative Council, with two early in September to take up their appointing the Straits Government to spend nearly a million of dollars in constructing a fifteen-mile The Singapore Free Press says:-It is being railway from Singapore Town to the navig- surmised, with what foundation does not appear.able strait that separates the island of Singa that H. E. the Governor is to get an extension pore from Johore. For the present the railway of one year in office. What leads some degree will have to rely chiefly on the passenger trame of probability to this is the prospect of Sir for its revenue, but it is to be built as a solid Alexander Swettenham's transfer to Ceylon, line, suitable for carrying, heavy goods traile, which, if Sir Charles Mitchell went also, might and of the same gange as the lines that now run leave the Colony provided with both a Governor through the Malay Peninsula. Ultimately and & Colonial Secretary strange to the Colony it will no doubt connect with Burmah and
India, and unfamiliar with its affairs.
The Commissionership of the "Commercial" port of Woosung left racant by the banishment of the cashiered Taotai, Shen Tun-ho, was last week filled by another Tsotai who, curiously, also possesses the surname of Sbên. This 204 official is a native of Foochow, over fifty years of age, and the eldest son of the late Shen Pao- cheu, Viceroy of the Liangkiang, who made his name notorious by his conservatism in buying On the 27th August, at "Blue Lungalow," the the first Woosung Railway and then pulling up
Shipping
BIRTH.
wife of R. T. WRIGHT, of a son.
DEATHS.
On Friday, the 28th July, at Chemulpo, after a lingering illness, Mr. T. HOLLINGSWORTH, of the Imperia Korean Custon.B.
the rails and transporting them and the plant, to Formosa in the latter part of the seventies. -N. C. Daily News,
On the 27th August, at 28, Morrison Hill Road, | Mr. Lew Yuk Lin, who has been acting Consul- | Government of any measures which might Hongkong, Low N HERBERT (Wee Bertie), dearly- beloved son of Captain E. II. and ele-tina Sum mers; aged 5 years and 1 month. (English papers please copy.)
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 28th July arrived per M. M. steamer Indus, on the 27th August (30 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Referring to the demonetisation of the Jap- anese yen in the Straits the Chairman of Singapore Chamber of Commerce, the E Stringer, at the half-yearly meetings of (5) body said :-The Government, on 300 D her, 1898, proclaimed demonetisation, from and after 15th April, 1899. Your Committes, maintaining the principle that “community through Government should bear the cost of any change in currency decided upon,” pointed ont to the Government the loss that would fall on the poorer and more ignorant section of the community through the abrupt refusäl äfter 15th April to receive or give any consideration The Straits Times of the 22nd August says:- for the coin, and suggested the option by General for China in Singapore since February, alleviate the situation. The Government, 1898, and has been regarded by his countrymen however, disclaimed all responsibility, and here as an extremely able official, leaves for their seisure and forfeiture of such importa China by the Arvatoon Apcar, due here from of yen as were discovered aggravated@the Calcutta to-morrow. Mr. Low Yak Lin's hardships foreseen by your Committee the mother died some two months ago. After at-permission soon after granted to import tending to her burial in Chins and seeing his licenses from the Colonial Secretary was family comfortably settled down, Mr. Lew Yuk ably of little effect On 25th May days Lin will proceed to London to join the Chinese after demonetisation came into force – the Legation, The departing acting Consul-Gen-mittee requested fovernment «conside eral was educated as a Government student and advisability, now that the coin is no long has held varions consular und diplomatic posts tender, of repealing the probibition to import in America. He arrived in Singapore in the and permitting the coin to be dealt in ka a com spring of 1895, as Secretary of the Consulate, modity. The suggestion has, however, not been was acting Consul-General in 1897, and in the adopted and the Committee have not bee same year was Secretary to the Chinese Ambas-to follow the reasoning of Governmen
matter. A considerable quantity of being present at three audiences given by Her was known to have accumulated in ne Majesty. He travelled with the Embassy on territories, and the prohibition the Continent and in America, and was decorted probably prevented traders from by the Czar of Russia with the Stanislaus gapore for the purchass of goods and Order of the Third Class,
the trade elsewhere,
The members of the French medical staff sent to Kwangchowwan when plague was pre-sador at Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee; valent there have returned to Haiphong, the disease having disappeared and the sanitar condition of Kwangchowwan being, according Courrier d'Haiphong, perfectly satisfao-
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