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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 9TH SEPTEMBER, 1899.
- VOL. XLX.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, ................................................................................
Loading Articles:-
The Situation at Peking.
.308
The Anglo-Russian Land Dispute at Hankow... Leprosy in Hongkong
.207
205
Plague and Disinfection ...............................308 The Opening of Talienwan ...................................................................
.:08 208 ................................................................: 08
Supreme Court ....... Wreck of an American Transport...
Sad Shooting NEO .............................................11 American Volunteers in Hongkong. .........................................................219 The Political Situation in Chỉná
The Piracy in Kwangtung .............................................................................213 Alleged Forgery of a Trade Mark Water Return
......218
Corporal Almond to Receive an Italian Medal ....................214 The Dry Earth System ............................................................................
..214 The Hongkong Cotton Spinning Weaving, and Dyeing
Co., Limited
The Shanghai Engineering, Shipbuilding and Dook
...............216
Straits Insurance Co., Limited
The Rumo-Chinese Bank
The Hongkong Cricket Club
Correspondence
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Important Political Movements at Peking The Unrest at Peking
Kang Yi and the Peking Crisis
...216
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216
September (28 days); the American mail of the 5th August arrived, per P. M. steamer City of Peking, on the 2nd September (28 days); and the American mail of the 9th August arrived, per O. & O. steamer Gaelic, on the 6th September (28 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Great Britain has agreed to refer the dispute with Russia regarding Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s property at Hankow to arbitration.
The Russian Consul at Chefoo, we learn from the Peking and Tientsin Times, has gone to Newohwang for the purpose of settling the land dispute with the Germans at that port.
Mr. J. MoLeary Brown, at great personal sacrifice to himself, has consented, at the earn- est request of the Emperor of Korea, to renew .216 for five years his engagement, as Chief Com. missioner of Customs, which expires next year. —N. C. Daily News.
216
.216 The Empress Dowager on Financial Reform ................................216 The Empress-Dowager's Health
.217 Death of the Russian Chares D'Affaires in Korea
......217 Talianwan
The Russian Concession at. Hankow and Mesure
218
Jardine Matheson & o, Property .....................217 Unseemly Religious ontroversy......................................................................217 Outrage on a French Priest ................................... Marshal Su to Settle the Difficulties at Kwang-
chówwan
........................Righ............................................218
Affairs in the Philippines Japanese Railway in China .........218 The Anti-Japanese Rict at Amoy ..............................................................................
.218 Accident to the Steamer Ichang
.....219 The Rafloating of the Argyall.............................................................................. .219
Commercial Shipping
221
Telegraphic intelligence has been received of the loss of the American transport Morgan City, which was on a voyage from the Pacific Coast to: Manila with 780 troops or board. She struck on the Onomicbi reef and foundered.
There was no loss of life.
A private telegram received at Shanghai from Peking on the 3rd September states, says the N. C. Daily News, that it is intended soon to supersede the Viceroy Tan Chung-lin of the Two Kwang provinces, but that his successor has not yet been named.
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Hongkong and Port News.......................................................................... 219 Mr. Laptew, Acting Russian Consul General at Shanghai, received a telegram from Port Arthur on the 30th August, that from the 24th to the 27th instant there were 71 cases of plague at Newchwang, and in all about 600 cases from the first appearance of the disease.
LIRTHS.
On the 5th September, 1899, at 132, Praya East, the wife of Mr. J. RODGER, of a son.
At Wellburn, the P ak, on the 7th September, the Wife of C. W. DICKSON, of son.m
DEATHS.
3.
A Chefoon the 1st August, 1899, W. S MAI KOLI, sun of air, A MALCOLM, China Navigation Co, aged 25 years.
At te General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 23rd August, 199, MARGARET TAYLOR, aged 34 years.
At 13 pm on Friday, the 20th August, at the International Hospital, Kobe, H. PAUL, a native of Germany.
At the General Hospital, Yokohama, on the 26th August, ELLA Sargent Reerner, the wife of Mr. W. H. BRENNER, of Mes rs. Frazar & Co
Criminal proceedings have been instituted by the Macao Government against the Echo Maca ense in connection with certain statements made by the journal as to alleged irregularities com- mitted with regard to the granting of emigration certificates to Chiness proceeding to the United States.
- No. 11.
The British North Borneo Co. re
take over and occupy the Tambunan country is rich, are the most numerous in North Borneo, --- The Tambunana ||like tribe in the country. The omo
to be stationed there are Mr. Frase MoNeish. The inauguration ceremony of taking over the country is to be made as impressive possible-Straits Times.
Complaints are made about the conduct! of the Chefoo Taotai. He is said to have doubled the lekin on cotton yarns. Only yarns arriving by steamer are subject to this increased impost, those coming by Chinese junks being exempt. The matter is considered important, as Jap- the districts of China for which Cheloo is the anese yarns have begun to find a large sale in
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Two little facts mentioned by the Peking and Tientsin Times indicate how the foross of con servatism are breaking down at Peking. The first is that jinrickshas have been introduced into Peking on the portion of the road between the Yung Ting Gate and the Taungli Yamen, which road has been already macadamised. The second announcement is that D'Arc's Marion- sites are going to Peking, and will be the first foreign show to visit the Celestial Capital. The Company will perform in the Tartar City.
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· The „Singapore · Free Press of the 28th August says The Breussen brought last. week from home the Vice-Governor and a staff of officials for the Caroline and the other islands recently purchased by Germany from Spain. They left this morning in the Kudat for Herbertshoh, where the Governor of German New Guines will await their a
arrival in the gunboat Jaguar, and the two ships will proceed together to the Caroline, Pellow,, and the Marianne Islands, where the German fag will be formally hoisted.
It has already been reported that in the re- prisals upon the Lokokwai village in the Sai- chin district, for having fired upon Chinese troops sent to stop a clap fight, great cruelties were perpetrated by the soldiers, who killed old and young, without any enquiry as to their guilt or innocence, and burned most o
of the houses. The elders and gentry who escaped, a Canton cerrespondent informs us, intend to bring the case to the notice of the Peking Go- vernment and to use all their influence to secure the impeachment of the mandarins concerned.
The Chinese Customs returns for the second quarter of this year show a gain over the corre sponding quarter of last year of no lom a ARM than Hk, Tls. 1,688.508. The comparative figures are
1899
1898
Chinese treaty ports. $7,001;547-5,8330,880 Kowloon and Lappa ... 206,301 – 198,160 Langohow, Mongtze, and
Ssemao
46,587 36,837
Total...7,254,385 5,565,877
We hear that the mat-sheds for the dation of Chinese Customs on
At Shanghai on the 26th August, FRANCISCA PAULA, the leloved wife of 8. P. CASTILHO, aged 49 years.
At Chefon, on the 26th August, the wife of W. B. port of entry, and complaints have accordingly Lintin on the west and Tooniang, an
BUY ES
On the 3 ik August, at the residence, No. 17 Nunobiki, Kobe, Mra, ANNIE BALLARD,
On the 3rd September, at Morrison Hill, Hong kog, ARTHUR VERE HAVERS, of the Imperial Chines Customs, youngest son of the late THOMAS HAVERS of Th lion Hall, Norfolk,
On third September, at orrison Hill, Hong kong AY. H 3,1. M. (ustoms Service.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English
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The Sin Wan Poo says that it has leaked out that Wen Tingshih, the Hanlin Reader who advised the Emperor to assume Govern ment himself and suggested the retiremment the Empresa-Dowager, and Censor Sung Palu, friend of Kang Yuwel, having been living in Shanghai incognito, the Governor at Soochow atthe request of the Governor of Hunan issued intructions, to the Shanghai Taotsi and Magik- trate to take strict steps for their arrest if they be dicovered in the settlements
on the east are now ready for occupa that the removal from the present sta British territory will be made in three weeks or so. The comm staff will presumably remain in Ho heretofore, without omais only mat-sheda, i acted for
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