THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLX.
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, do.........................
Leading Articles;--
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 23RD SEPTEMBER, 1899.
....255
The Delay in Commencing the British Railway
Enterprises in China
....246
Mr. Barrett on the United States Policy in China 246 The Gold Standard in Siam and the East...... ..247 Amalgamation of the Foreign and Native Customs247 Chinese Exclusion in the Philippines The Tartar Over-Crowding ....à................................. Trade Mark Frauds
The New Kowloon Customs
Supreme Court ·
.247 347
.148 ,248
.250
September (31 days); and the American mail of the 25th August arrived, per P. M. steamer China, on the 21st September (27 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Prince Henry of Prussia left Hakodate for Kiaochau on the 9th September.
Owing to the plague at Newchwang the export 248 of coffins from that port is to be prohibited.
Telegrams have been received at Shanghai, we learn from the N. C. Daily News, announ. cing an outbreak of plague at Chefoo.
.251
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce .......... The "New Kowloon" Customs............................................................................251 Aother Piracy Care near Pinghoi Daring Piratical Attack on a European in Hamehow 252 The Hongkong Cricket Club,
.252
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Unique Experience of the Fuensang The Rival Launches at Sha U Chung Opposition to the Acqusition of Land by Foreigners
at Wuchów .inis.
The Hunghom Murder Case.............. Serious charges against a Police Sergeant
.263
The conditions of the Philippine press cen- sorship are, we learn, very little improved as yet, but there are prospects of a change for the 254 better.
.254
255
A Pleasant Incident ........................................................................................265 Holidays and Holidays
.265
Hongkong Electrió Co., Limited
Correspondence
Alleged Dessoration of a Chinese Temple by Protestant
Misjonaries......
The Gold Standard in the Far East...................................................................256 Emigration Irregularities at Macao..................................
.267
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A French View of the Opening of Nanning The Chinese ustoms at Teintao and Lekin Squeezer 257 Mining Enterprise
.257.
It is reported from Peking that the French are opposing the introduction of Japanese postal experts into the Imperial Chinese Postal ser vice.-China Gazette.
The Tsungli Yamen in response to the re- presentations made to it through the Diplomatic Body has consented to prohibit the export of wild bird skins from China.
No. 13.
A London telegram of the 7th September, published by the Kobe Chronicle, reads : “A ukase has been issued by the Empress Dowager of China regulating the government of Kwang- We have not much faith in the tung”. "ukase." Perhaps the report has arisen from s misunderstanding of the object of Kang Yi's mission.
A Seoul telegram of the 12th September states that during the visit of Mr. McLeny, Brown, the Commissioner of Customs, to Kalil, the centre of the gingseng trade, a distu accompanying Mr. Brown. It is reported that arose between Japanese and the Korean soldiers the soldiers fired on the Japanese, killing four of them--Nagasaki Press.
It is stated that the Japanese Government authorizing the contribution of a certain sum will present to the Diet next session a bill to the project of a United States Pacific Cable from San Francisco via Japan and Hongkong to the Philippines. This is the enterprise: account of which Mr. Berimser paid a visit Japan in the early part of the year. It is stat will be reduced by one-half when the line that telegraphic rates to Europe and Americ completed.--Japan Mail.
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The Hongkong General Chamber of Com Mr. Joseph Walton, M.P., arrived at ́is again necessary to allude to the state of the
marce in its circular for last mail say A Disgraced Official to be Reinstated · ...........................................................257
Shanghai from the North on the 15th Septem. country, which continues in a most disturbed A Cremation Society for Hongkong........................258 ber and shortly proceeds up the Yangtase en condition, the provincial authorities - being
..................253. his private mission of investigation.
-apparently unequal to the task of even attempt- We learn that Mr. Bristow, who retired re-ing to put down the bands of brigands who cently from the British Consular service in extort and rob with impunity.
Syndicate at Shanghai.—N. C. Daily News. Chine, is coming out to represent the Paking gunboats and one torpedo-boat
The Shanghal Native City Waterworks 8. C. Farnham & Co., Limited Kang Yi's Pickings ............................................................................358 The Peking Political Exiles, .............................................................259 India and the Anglo-Japanese Treaty Death in a Sulphur Bath in Japan........................269 ..................259 Attack by Japanese Police on Christians ..................................... 259 Japan's Foreign Loan
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Japan's Progress in Military Weapo...................259 Fatal Accident to a Volunteer Fireman at Shanghai...260 A Japanese Railway in Fokien Japanese Mission to China Consuler Authority in Manila Hongkong and Port News Commercial. Shipping
.269 .260
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BIRTHS.
On the 14th September, 1899, at No. 27, Nanzing Road, Shanghai, the wife of Mr. T. A. MEIRA DĂ COSTA, of a daughter.
On the 15th September, 1899, at 11a, Woosung Road, Shangbai, the wife of ALFRED WALKER, I.M. Customs, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
At the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, on the 11th September, 1899, at 3 p.m., by the Rev. A. Newcomb, FREDERICK CYRIL ARMISTEAD, Tun bridge Wells, Kent, to JENNIE STEWART, eldest daughter of William HARDIE, Shanghai.
On the 16th September, 1899, at St. John's Church, Jessfield, Shanghai, by the Rev. A. Elwin, isted by the Rev. F. L. Hawks Pott, CHARLES T. FISHE, China Inland Mission, Haukow, to C.
The Imperial Commissioner Kang Yi is re- ported to have evolved a scheme for farming out the collection of lekin in Kwangtung to a syndi cate of Chinese merchants for Tls. 3,500,000 per
annum.
The condition of the Peiho is more unsatis- factory than ever. Lighters can only load to seven feet, and in the Tientsin Reach the ohan- nel is so narrow that they can only swing at cer- tain points.-N. C. Daily News.
F
An addition to this force is badly needed, seeing numbers to have more than a very partial that the Chinese Government are unable to grapple with the situation.
the West River, but are quite TUME
The prosperity of the cotton-spinning from which it suffered last year, *prise in Japan, as compared with the i
attract much attention. Various cau assigned for the fortunate change, amount among them is the demand of the North-China market. China used to take Japan only counts from 10 to 18, but al now begun to ask for sixteens, which Bombay cannot supply, and Manchester is too busy to supply, being fully occupied with America's wants. All the yarns that can be produced Japan up to the end of November are bespok and contracts are offered even beyond period-Japan Mail.
At a provisional general council of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce on the 5th inst., it was decided that the United States Government should be asked not to extend the Coast Trade Prohibition Law to Hawaii and the Philippines.
According to a London telegram of the 10th September published by the Kobe Chronicle, the Dowager Empress of China has requested Mr. W. Pritchard Morgan, M.P., to commence mining operations, for which he obtained a concession, in Szechuen.
From Canton we learn that the prepared OSEPHINE SMITH of the same Mission, only daugh- opium shops and divans at Canton closed on the 13th inst., as a strike against the regulations of the new monopolists. Smokers were put to great inconvenience and had to abstain from their pipes for the time being.
ter of the late Jo eph Smith, Uxbridge, Middlesex.
DEATH:. No. 38, Chapoo Road, Shanghai, n the 11th ember, 1899, DOLORES ALARCOUM, aged 65
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At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 19th
mber, 1899, Joxx SMITH, aged 29 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The German mail of the 19th August
PN. D. L. stea
rived. Sachse on the 1 19th
HF. Shêng, Director-General of the Hau- yang Ironworks, sto., eto. is about to Peking for a special audience with the Empram Dowager, from whom, it is understood, says N. C. Daily News, permission is to be naked sanction a loan of Tls. 5,000,000 from nese syndicate for the extension of the Han. yang Ironworks.
Kobe was visited by another typhoon an the 8th September. The damage done was not very great, and in one respect was not unwelcome, since the storm removed for some time past disfigured tisement in huge Japanese the town and greatly foreign residents. Chronicle," ahor
Whe of indignant night and sawed dev Mears. Mural Brothers expected impolite
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