THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLX.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.........
Mr. Whitehead and the Insanitary Properties
Leading Articles:
Russian Activity in Korea
Bill
The Transvaal War
Hongkong Legislative Council
Supreme Court
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Aguinaldo's Latest
Plots in the New Territory
Hongkong Volunteer Corps........................................................................
The Loss of the White Cloud
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 28TH OCTOBER, 1899.
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Hon T. H. Whitehead on the Insanitay Properties
Ordinance
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The asualty to the Esmeralda .............. Important Moblisation Scheme in Central China ......361 The Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co.,
Limited
Differential Duties on Asiatic Goods in Tonkin'.
KANNAD
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On the 16th October, at Chefoo, ARTHUR ANDER- SON, aged 51 years.
On the 16th October, 199, at No, 1 Pooting Terrace, Pootung, Shanghai, CHRISTINA GUY STRANG, the beloved wife of James D. Strang, aged 30 years.
At No. 8, Soochow Road, Shanghai, on the 19th
October, 1 99, PAUL ALEXANDER WALDEMAR OTTOMEIER, aged 51 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 22nd September arrived, per M. M. steamer Annam, on the 23rd October (31 days); and the American mail of the 29th September arrived, per O. & O. steamer Coptic, on the 27th October (28 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Sir Alexander Swettenham. Colonial Se- ...368cretary of the Straits Settlements, has been ap-
361 pointed Governor of Fiji.
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The North China Insurance Co., Limited
The Hongkong Jockey Club....................
Football Notes...
Hongkong Football Shield Competition
The Hongkong Cricket Club.
Russia, Japan, and China ..
A Question of Religious Toleration at Shanghai
Tramways at Shanghai
Marshal Su
Prince Henry
Sheng and his Railway,
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The Imperial Chinese Railway of North-China
Funds for the Lungchow Railway
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Marriage of Miss Charlotte Myers and Mr. P. R.
Walsham
The Bocca Tigris Forts to be Strengthened.......
Chinas Army to be Moxielled on the Japanese
Notes From Weihaiwei
Accident to the Hansa
The Shipping Ring or the Conference Trick
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Typhoon in Japau....
The "Presidente Sarmiento"
The Recent Tidal Wave in Japan
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English Versus German Flannel
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The Japanese Press ou the Transvaal Question
Drought and Polities
Japan and Ludia
The C. D. O in Hongkong
Sad Suicide of a former Yokohama Resident
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial.
:.Shipping
MARRIAGES.
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Rear-Admiral Fitzgerald's time expires this month. His relief is Rear-Admiral J. A. T. T. Bruce, who is bringing Mrs. Bruce with him to China.-N. C. Daily News.
Twenty Chinese students from the various schools of Foochow, Hangchow, and Nanking left Shanghai on the 21st Cctober to prosecute their military and other studies in Japan.
Japanese vernacular papers state it is rum oured that the Foreign Department has now under consideration the opening of Nagasaki as a free port, for the purpose of making it a commercial centre in the East.
Colonel Evatt. R.A.M.C., has received his promotion to the rank of Major-General, and 367 has been appointed Irincipal Medical Officer 367 in charge of Devonport. He will leave for ..367 | England by next French mail steamer. ...367 ....367
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Mr. Henry Walker, Commissioner of Lands, 368 has been appointed Commissioner, for the Government of British Nerth Borneo in the absence of a Governor, vice E. P. Gueritz, Government Secretary, who has gone home on special leave.
On the 5th October, at the British Consulate, Kobe, b J. Carey Hail, Esq., H.B.M.'s Consul, and afterwards at All Saints' Church by the Right Rev. Bishop Foss, MALCOLM, son of the Rev. T. HENRY, Rector of Samplurdd, South Devon, England, to REGINA GRACE, daughter of the late WILLIAM C. LAMB, of St. Thonias, West Indies.
On the 7th October, at the British Consulate, by J. Carey Hall, Esq., H.B.M.'s Consul, and afterwards at the Union Church, Kobe, by the Right Rev. Bishop Fos, PERCY HAMILTON MCKAY, to WINI- FRED, eldest daughter of the Rev. J.-L. ATKINSON,
D.D.
It is reported in the Japan papers that Mr. Yano, who has been superseded by Baron Niohi as Japanese Minister to Peking, is to be ap- pointed diplomatic adviser to the Chinese Gor- ernment. If there be any truth in this report it looks like laying the foundation for a Chino- Japanese alliance,
Miller, the Yokohama triple murderer, who appealed to the Tokyo Appeal Court, has had the below confirmed. With regard to the murder sentence of death passed upon him by the court
On the 9th October, at the British Consulate and of the two Japanese women the Court found afterwards at 3, Bluff, 1. R G. CLARK. Yoko extenuating circumstances and would have hama, to HETTIE, youngest daughter of the late Cap-commuted the sentence to penal servitude for tain Swain, Dragoon Guards, Canterbury. England. At Shanghai, the 17th October, R. H. HAZEL
TON to ANITA WILLIAMS.
At the Cathedral, Shanghai, o the 21st October,
1-99, by tlie Right Rev C. P. Foot Dodge, MA, of North China, and the Rev. H. C. PERCY ROMILY. Second son of Sir John WAISHAM, Bart, K.C.M.G., to CHARLOTTE CUNINGHAM SCOTT youngest daughter of W. WYKELIAM MYERS, M.,
of Takow, Formo a. No cards.
DEATHS
life in so far as that part of the crime was con- cerned, but the murderer of Nelson Ward was held to have been premeditated.
At Kiaochan on the 12th October the Gov.
ernor's residence narrowly escaped destruction Aby fire. A dinner had been given to Admiral Seymour, After the departure of the guests a load crash was heard which proved to be the collapse of a kerosine lamp in the billiard room through the drawing of the hook in the ceiling, But for the prompt action of the servants and soldiery the building, which is entirely of wood, would in a few minutes have been in ashes,
Al-Ayr on the 10 h Ort ber, JOHN R. ALLAK, Iata senior partner of the firm of Riley, Hargreaves * Co., Bingapore, aged 53
No. 18.
The Ichang correspondent of the N, C. Daily News writes under date of 7th October :---
---Mr. Walton, M.P., arrived here per steamer Tayuan and proceeds on to Chungking at an early date. With him will travel Captain Plant, who is practicability of steamer navigation. here on a survey of the upper river as to the
The Nagasaki Press of the 16th October ays: The U.S. transport Indiana arrived, here yesterday morning from Manila and will probably remain here for five or six days, as she has gone into dry dock to be cleaned. She has on board some 600 Tennessee Regiment Volunteers. These are the last of the volun- teers from Manila. The regiment left America over 1,200 strong and now does not muster more than 600. The mortality has been exceedingly heavy. Disease and sickness have played ter- rible havoc among the men, very few having been lost in actual warfare.
H. I. M. the German Emperor has conferred on Mr. Joseph Weich, who, as Acting Chair- man of the Shanghai Municipal Council, received the Iltis memorial on the 21st of November last from the hands of Dr. Staebel, the order of the Red Eagle. The order was presented to Mr. Welch on the 20th October at the German Consulate-General by H.R.H. Prince Henry of Prussia, and Mr. Welch had the honour subsequently of dining with His Royal High-
ness.
The same order has also been conferred on Messrs. Arnhold, Korff, and Galles, while Mr. Seitz has been decorated with the order of the Crown.
An event which speaks for itself of the lawless state of the country bordering on and beyond the New Territory, on the mainland, took place A gang of scoundrels kid. quite recently. napped a lad of seven or eight years of age with a view to holding him for ransom. A message was sent to the father demanding of him a ransom somewhat beyond his means and consequently the father could not pay it. The friends, believing that he was able to raise the money if he wished, again sent to him threaten ing that if the money was not sent within specified time the boy would be returned to him in pickle, and, the money not being sent, act- ually put their threat into effect, the dead body of the lad being returned to the father in a jar of brine. The perpetrators of this horrible outrage are still at large and apparently the Chinese Authorities are making no effort to arrest them.
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from a private letter from Weihaiwei,
The Singapore Free Press publishes extracts which we take the following The lat Batta- numbering now some 350 men, and further lion of the Chinese Regiment progresses apace, rapid increase in only delayed by want of ac- commodation. By the end of 1900, however, the permanent barracks should be built, and the 1st Battalion a going concern, The men. drill wonderfully, and promise very well at ketry, of which a certain amount has been done. There is no crime amongst them, and, given
good lending, there is very reason to go they fident they will
as any troops can be called upon to meet out here, not except- ing Japanese or Russians. I say "can be called upon to meet," for it seems in the highest degree improbable they should ever meet either. If Russia chooses to come on, mark m
my words, no military or naval power tos san exert out here can stop har now.
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