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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLX.J
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, do.
Leading Articles:-
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 14TH OCTOBER, 1899.
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The Governor's Speech on the Condition of the
Colony
314
..314
The Return of Sir Claude Macdonald
The New Territory and the Custome Question......314 Britain's Responsibility for
the Maintenance
of Order in her Sphere of Influence......
315 315
Famine and Revolution...
.316 ..316
No. 16.
The funeral of the late Rev. Dr. Faber took We (Japan Times) understand that the Japa- place at Taintan on the 27th September and was neso Government has practically decided to give attended by H. R. H. Prince Henry, the Go-a guarantee to the Fusan-Seon! Railway under- vernor of the colony, the officers of the garrison, taking and that an item on this account will and a large number of friends,
probably be inserted in the Budget for the com. ing year. The limit of guarantee will be 6 per cent.
Biam is taking steps to improve her postal system. The department is already controlled by a Director-General, a German gentleman named Collmann, and three other Germans have just been engaged to assist him. "Beaconsfield" and Representative Government 816 similar to that of Hongkong in the early days. Kwangohanwan is undergoing an experience
An Intellige..ce Department Wanted
Clothing in the Tropics
Hongkong Legislative Council
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
.317 .319 .320 .821
Since the French took possession they have buried there one officer, one sergeant, three sailors, five soldiers of the marine infantry, and .322 four riflemen. The turning over of the soil for .322 public improvements causes a severe type of
Affairs in the Philippines.
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Spanish Prizes at Kowloon
Raid on 'Triad Societies
Hongkong no longer an Infected Port
.322
The Appropriation Bill
.322
Outrage near Kowloon City
.323
China Traders' Insurance Co., Limited
The Yorkhams Specie Bank Limited
The Jelebu Mining and Trading Co., Limited
Football
Cricket...
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Correspondence
The Manila Sharo Market...
.323 .329 .328
malarial fever.
We learn that the tides at Taku have been very poor and there has been so little water in the reaches that most of the Taku Tug and Lighter 34 Company's lighters were ashore and the Com. pany was consequently unable to supply the steamers Detention has been considerable there, and the China Merchants' steamer Haean had to come away without her freight. —N. C. Daily News. .326
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An Outside View of the Hongkong Volunteer
Transvaal Offer
A German View of Great Britain's Claim in the
Yangtase Valley.
Telegraphic information has been rewaived in Shanghai of a riot at E okou in Kiangse. The C.I.M. Station at that place was destroyed, but all the missionaries are safe. The adjoining stations of Kweichi and Iyang were reported as undisturbed. The wire was forwarded from 327 Lanchi, which is distant some five days from Hokou No further particulars are yet to hand.-N. C. Daily News.
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The Anti-Missionary Disturbances in Fokien The Mining Regulations
Affairs in Peki g
.328 .327 .327
The Recent Rumour of a Russo-Japanese War
.327
The Chinese ale dar
.327
Marshal Su's Movements
A Big Squeeze
A Japanese Diplomatist on the Situation in China
...328
Fire on Board a River Steamer
.328
American Troops Without Pocket Money
Shanghai Autumn Race Meeting......
The Hakone-kozu Electric Tramway
Miller's onfession......
Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
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528 .828 .328 .923
Liu Hsio-hsun, one of the Empress Dowar- er's secret emissaries to Japan, left Shanghai for Peking to report personally to his mistress 328 by the China Merchants' steamer Chiyuen. The 329 promptitude with which the Imperial commands were obeyed is attributed to the presence of au aide de camp of Viceroy Lin who had been sent to superintend Liu's departure to the North. His partner, Ching Kuan, left some time before Liu and is doubtless already in Peking.-N. C. Daily News.
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On the 9th October, at Craigieburn, North Finch- ley, the wife of SYDNEY A. BALLANCE, of a son.
DEATHS.
On the 28th September, at his residence, No. 1, Nakayamate dori, Nichome, Kobe, Captain JoHN WYNN.
At the C. I. M. Sanitarium, Chefoo, on the 5th October, Rev. A. W. DOUTHWAITH, M.D., of the China Inland Mission, aged 52 years.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 5th October, of typhoid fever, Dr. WALDEMAR PETER SEN, of the Deutsch Asiatische Bank, aged 25 years. At Hamburg, on the 11th October, in his 69th year, Mr. F. SANDER, late of Hongkong.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 12th September arrived, per T. K. K. steamer Nippon Maru, on the 11th October (29 days); and the French mail of the 8th September arrived, per M. M. steamer Sydney, on the 14th October (35 days)
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
It is stated in Japanese papers that the Japan. ese Government is ready to give all possible assistance to the Siamese Government in its Lounversion from a silver to a gold currency,
introduced at a meeting of the Legislative The Hongkong Estimates for 1,900 were Council on the 11th October. The position felt himself able to congratulate the colony on disclosed was such that H. E. the Governor its abounding prosperity. It is estimated that the present year will close with a surplus of $400,000.
Lient Commander Ion Barton, of H.B.M.': We deeply regret to announce the death of river gunboat Woodcock. The gallant young officer had only quite recently returned from 8 most successful survey trip into the Tungting lake and up the Siangtang river as far Chang- ha, his vessel being the first foreign craft to reach that place. Commander Barton came of a fighting family-the Irish Bartons,-most of his relatives being either soldiers or sailors, and he was rightly regarded as one of the most promising officers on the China station. He died at Hankow, from abscess on the liver.— China Gazette.
says:-Among the passengers by the steamer The Shanghai Daily Press of the 3rd October Hsinchi, which arrived from Tientsin shortly before noon yesterday, were Mr. G. H, Kings- well, of the Yangtsze Corporation, and Mr. W. H. Shockley, of the Peking Syndicate. The former has been through Mongolia, and the country lying to the north of the Great Wall, while the latter, who is shortly proceeding to England, has for the past seven months been engaged on a mineral survey in the provinces of Shenai and Shansi. Upon the reports of these gentlemen will mainly depend how much British capital is to be invested in the north, and we trust that they have seen something which will justify the high reputation which China is assuming among the mineral countries of the world.
Much anxiety was felt in Hongkong during
A Roman Catholic church was opened at the past week regarding the fate of the French Kiukiang the other day, and after the ceremony mail steamer Sydney, which left Saigon at a luncheon was held at the mission house. 1 p.m. on Thursday, the 5th October, and had Amongst the guests were M. Dautremer, French not arrived up to the night of Thursday, the Consul at Hankow, Mr. Brady, British Consul, 12th. Corresponding relief was experienced and Mr. Hughes, Commissioner of Customs. when the vessel was seen steaming into the One of the toasts was proposed by Mr. Brady, harbour at half-past six on Friday morning. who spoke in French, which appears to have She had met with an accident to her machinery, afforded much satisfaction, at least to the one of her shaft bearings breaking, and she correspondent of our Shanghai contemporary anchored off Hoihow to effect temporary repairs. the Echo de Chine, who refers to it as an "acte de haute courtoisie qui a été ap- The Kokumin tells the story of a naturalised précié de tous." In concluding his account the Englishman, who since 1898 has been a constable correspondent writes: I will, however, allow in the Bonin Islands. He is named Henry Webb, myself one last reflection. To us Frenchmen, and was born in the islands in March 1870. His exiled on the Yangisse, it has been a genuine father, whose name is Thomas H. Webb, arrived pleasure to see foreigners participating with so there a long time ago, with his wife, and engaged much cordiality and affability in the fête given which he had several children. Henry Webb if all the friction to which this famous question in extensive explorations for many years, during by our missionaries. It makes us ask ourselves was a third son, and soon after his birth his of the Yangtase Valley gives rise will not some father became a Japanese subject. The young day be overcome. For my part I am persuaded man came up to Tokyo on business a few days that it will not be long before an understanding ago and was interviewed by Mr, Ours, Superin- is arrived at. What is necessary for this? tandent of the Metropolitan Police Board. He Simply that each shall recognise that there is is known to Japanese na “Uyebu" Henry,—in the Yangtze Valley room for all, even for Kobe Herald.
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