THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLX.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Wook, &c................... Leading Articles:--
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 16TH SEPTEMBER, 1899.
The China Association on the Protection of
Eugla d's Sphere in the Yangtze Valley ......226 Quarrels between Roman 、atholic and Protes
tant Missions
Li Hung-chang and the Canton Viceroyalty The Dryfus Case...
Chins and Arbitration
Supreme Court
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The China Association and England's Sphere of
Influe ce in the Yangtze Valley..
General Gascoigne on the Military Operations in
Now Territory
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Rival Launch-Owners
Las of the White Cloud
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Kang Yi at Work at Canton..........................................................2:]] Murder on the Ia tao Island
Attacked by Pirates off Pingboi
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mail of the 18th August arrived. per P. & 0. steamer Coromandel, on the 15th September (28 days),
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Dr. Morrison, the Times correspondent at Peking, was a passenger by the M M. steamer Ernest Simons. He will visit India on his way
Commander St. John, formerly of H.M S. Peacock, has denied that he ever said that Gen. eral Otis was an old woman, as reported in an alle ed interview published in an American paper.
We note that in the report of the Shanghai Health Officer malaria is included under the heading of Infections diseases notified in the Foreign community." We believe the theory has recently been advanced amongst Hongkong doctors that the disease is infectious. Dr. 232 Stanley seems to regard the theory as already
established.
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Piracy in Heungshan Distric;
The Pirates of the Lower West River
Darig Escape of a Prisoner
The Sad Accident to a Midshipman.
The Acting thief Justice Robbed
Unfortunate Accident to Mr T. F. Hough
Affairs in the Philippines
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The Missing “Sanitary Ordinace”
The Transport of U. 8. Soldiers by Sex
Ovazerowding of the Tartar
Farious Assault on Mr. J. J. Spooner........
The llongkong Cotton Spinning Weaving, and Dyeing
Co., Limited
The Shanghai Engineering, Shipbuilding and Dock
Co., Limited...
The Gymkhana
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Farnham & Co, Limited...
Straite Insura.ce Co, Limited
Hongkong Football Club
Shooting
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The Universal Gazette is authority for the statement that Germany has demanded from China a recognition that the whole region south of the Yellow River, as far as and includ. ing Kaifêngfu, the provincial o_pital of Honan, shall from henceforth be conceded as lying within the limits of Germany's sphere of influence, and that no reply has, as yet been given to this demand.-N. C. Daily News.
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Kang Yi, the High Financial Commission arrived from Shanghai on 8th Sept. by the duping and immediately transhipped to the gunboat Kwong Hing, in which he proceeded to Canton. He is attended by a numerous retinue.
The Chinese officials Lin and Ching, who have been several weeks in Japan on behalf of the Chinese dovernment, returned to Shang hai on the 6th September. Their time is said to have been mainly occupied in inspecting Japan's dockyards, factories, and industriai enterprises generally..
It is stated in reliable quarters at Peking that the fact that several powerful Vioaroys, Governors, and Ministers of the Court have presented secret memorials to the Empress Dowager strongly deprecating any stops leading to the deposition of the Emperor have made her hesitate in placing a new occupant upon, the throne. It is significant also that of the memorialists not a single on was of Manchu descent-N. G. Daily News.
A delegate of the Ceylon taş industry who some time ago visited Russia reported to the British authorities various violations of commer- cial treaties with Great Britain in the different Customs charges on tea; which gave preferenew: to the overland trade throngh Siberia ~ The result of the negotiations with the Russian Government is that China teas poing overland will in futurs have to pay the same as Ceylon and China teas entering Russia via Odesen.
The pirates operating on and about the West When one reads of excursion trains being River urë said to number sixty thousand. They.. run to the Great Wall of China the fact that are well armed and the movement sayours almost after all there is some movement in the country as much of rebellion an of piracy, the pirateg is brought home to one In the Peking and edging the local authorities out and proceeding. | Tientsin Times we read that weekly excursion to collect the duties and taxes themselves. It trains from Peitaiho to Shanhaikwan and is not an unprecedented state of affairs. In beyond the Wall are now being organized, and the sixteenth century pirates went so far as will be run every Saturday throughout Sep- blockade Canto», and it was only with .23
tember. Cheap trippers at the Great Wall!
Hongkong Water Polo Association Challenge Shield 287 The Royal Hongkong Golf Club Correspondence
The Berman and French Missionary Difficulty in
Foreign Shops in Canton
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The She ghai General Chamber of Commerce The Wreck of the Morgan City Reported Approaching Dethro.eme t of the Emperor 239 General Su's Mission to Kwangchauwan ...............239
The U. S. Minister's Tour Foochow
Hongkong ❤nd Port News
Commercial
Shipping
DEATH.
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assistance of the Portuguese that the brac 20
was raised. Are they on the present occasio A private telegram from Peking received at to be allowed to gather sufficient st ength Shanghai on the 9th September states that Em-again blockade the provincial capital, or will peror had managed to write a letter to the the British Government sweep away the evil 240 Emperor of Japan which a confidential eunuch | before it further ripens ?... A contributor, in an ..240 succeeded in taking to the Japanese Legation article entitled "The Pirates of the Lower
for transmission to Tokio. The letter contained
West River throws out some hints as to the and appeal to the Emperor to rescue the writer
measures that should be taken. from his imminent danger of deposition and death at the hands of assassins.-N. C. Daily News.
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At the General Hospit 1, bhanghai, on the 6th Septemle, 1899, Alexander THURBURN, nged (13
DEATH.
At Ashinoyu (Japan), on the 5th September, CHARLES CARSIA, 11e beloved only son of Mrs. R. Wortnison and late of the Imperial Chinese Portal Service, aged 22 year.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
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The typhoon which passed over Japan at the end of last month wrought great havoc. The Kobe Chronicle of the 2nd September says:-- The British ship Jane Burrell, from New As reported in yesterday's issue the destruction castle, Australia, with a cargo of coal aboard of property and the Ings of life caused by the consigned to Smith, Bell & Co., was totally wrecked on August 18th last off the N. Wyphoon of the 28th ult, turns out to be muo coast of the Island of Libago, in the Basilan ater than was at frat supposed. OL Straits. The captain, two mates and sevent en
island of Shikoku, mors especially of the crew were picked up at sea by the been very serious. In the Uma so
eastern Iyo province, the damage U. 8. 8. Castine, which transported them to the
be U.S. Transport Butuan, bringing them to districts as far as could
up to the 29th ult., 143 washed away. At Besshi yama-murs Some trouble recently occurred at Talienwan district, 1, 00 lives were lost, while The French mail of the 11th August arrived, over the purchase of Chinese lands by Russians, mura in Mii district 307 people i per M. M. steamer Laos, on the 9th September who offered Tls. 8. Tls. 6, and Tls. 4 per mow At Nii-hama-mura in the same
according to quality. Some malcontents there. Vitalities are reported. · A large (29 days); the Canadian mail of the 22nd upon stirred up the people, and assured them houses were also flooded in conseq August arrived, per C. P. R. steamer Empress the Russians would heavily tax them, and at breach in the river banks. Ou of Japan, ou the 12th September (21 days); last succeeded in creating a riot in which some news of the disaster at the
American mail of the 17th August arrived, injury was done. The Russians at last succeed-ernor and some of the officia rT K. K. steamer Hongkong Maru, on the
ed in making the people understand, and offered to the scene to render to
round for the land.- pay Tls. 8 mow 14th September (28 days); and the English | China Gasette,
tressed people.
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