THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLX.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 2nd DECEMBER, 1899.
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No. 23.
We hear with great pleasure that the contract From the Lusitano we learn that Senor Gali with the American Syndicate for the Hankow-hardo, the Governor of Macao, has derived Canton Railway has been signed at last, after great benefit from his visit to Colowan, where long and wearisome delays.-N. C. Daily he went some time ago on account of ill-health, and it is expected he will return to Macao this week.
Epitome of the Week, 40...........................................................................................................449 Leading Articles:--
Ought the Colony to Build up a Reserve Fund ...450 | News. --Relief Fund for the Sufferers from the War
...451 .451
452 .452 452
The British Plan of Campaign............................................... The War: Its Progress and Its Justification
The New Post Office ..................................
The Shanghai Cotton Mill Ldustry................. A Case for a Jury Hongkong Legislative Council.......................452 Supreme Court
The Transvaal War Relief Fund
The Tung Wa Hospital Extension Hongkong Sanitary Board.
Anti-Foreign Bioting in Shantung
...454
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...459
.459
Reconstitution of the Sanitary Board ...................................................459 Shooking Suicide of an Artillery Sergeant............ Another Presentation to Corporal Almond .........................................459 Startling Rumour! ..............................
A Junk Pirated Near Far Tau-mun Pass..................................................480 Special Licensing Sessions
The Hon. T. H. Whitehead's Protest The Mining Welch Fusiliers
.461
463
Oxford Local Examinations July 1899..................464 The Punjom Mining Co., Limited
..464
The Jelebu Mining and Trading Co., Limited .....465 The International Cotton Manufacturing Co., Limited 465 Cricket......................................................................................................................
Football
The Disturbances at Kwangchauwan
.466
466
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The Foreign Trade of China in July-September 1899 487 Fire at Port Arthur Hongkang and Port News Commercial. Shipping
Vice-Admiral Sir E. Seymour left on Monday in HI M.8. Centurion for Siam and Singapore. The flagship will return to Hongkong before being relieved on this station. It is ex- pected that her relief will be out about April. but it is as yet uncertain whether the new flag- ship is to be the Glory or the Goliath. Both are now ships of the same class preparing for their first commission. The Glory was men- tioned first, but as the Goliath is the more advanced it is thought possible the final selection may fall on her.
The Viperoy of Canton, we hear, has notified the Consals that it is nusafe for foreigners to visit Fatshan at present. A great festival is going on there. and will continue a week or two, in connection with the opening of a new temple, and as great numbers of thieves and bad characters usually congregate on such occasions the Viceroy has deemed it proper to issue the notice in question. The festivities include a great theatrical performance, and in order to diminish the danger from fire the sheds are covered with white cloth instead of matting.
Senor Ortiz, Consul for Spain at Twatutia ...............................................................................................................................................................472 and who was twice in charge of the Consulate at Hongkong, has been transferred to Capetown, where a first-class Consulate is being established On the 28th November, at the "Chalet," the wife by his Government. The Formosan, in giving of H. W ROBERTSON; of a daughter.
BIRTH.
MARRIAGE.
On the 20th November, at Auckland, N.Z., in the Private Chapel, Bishopscourt Parnell, by the Right Rev. W. G. Cowie, D.D., Primate of New Zealand, FREDERICK GEORGE, third son of GEORGE SALY, of Yokohama, to IDA, second daughter of Captain H. Won&P, Burrwood, Remuers, Auckland. (By telegram:)
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 1st November arrived, per T. K. K. steamer Hongkong Maru, 29th November (28 days); and the Ger man of the 30th October arrived, per N.
a sketch of his official career, says-He is a most popular man whereever he goes and is distin. guished for his good, practical, common sense On Senor and unusual goodness of heart. Ortiz's departure the Consulate here is to be abolished, and Spanish interests thereafter at both Tamsai and Tainan cared for by the British Consuls at those places.
On the arrival of the Hongkong Maru in the harbour on Wednesday morning it was reported that Judge Putnam, who was attached to the Court of Appeal at Harrogate, in the State of New York, had died on board the previous evening. The deceased gentleman had not been well for some time, having been troubled with "La Grippe," and he was taking a sea trip for the benefit of his health. He was on his way to visit his son in Manila. He was a gentleman
nmmer Prins Heinrich, on the 30th very well known and highly respected in New
D. L. November (31 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Mr. Hugh Clifford, the British Resident in Pahang, has been appointed Governor and Com- mander-in-Chief of British Norneo and Labuan.
Telegraphic communication with St. Helena has been established by a cable from Capetown.
York. Though it has not yet been definitely arranged, it is probable that the body will be taken back to New York.
It is reported by wire from Hamburg that the Den Danish Landmands Bank, of Copenhagen, has obtained a concession for the National Bank of Siam. French and Russian Bankers are largely interested in this very im portant undertaking, and it is understood that German Bankers have also a share in it. The capital is to be £1,000,000 sterling. The Bang- kok Times discredits the reported arrangement on the ground that it is contrary to Siam's set- tled policy of keeping national undertakings. in her own hands,
Some enterprising natives have, we hear, formed a Company at Canton to be called the Anti-Piratical Company. The object of the Company, as indicated by its title, is to afford protection to trading vessels against pirates, It is proposed to fit out a fleet of strongly armed vessels and to supply convoys for trading vessels plying between Canton, the West River, Chanchum, Sheklung, and Fatshan. The charge to be made for this service is two per cent, on the value of the cargo, and in case the · merchandise should, notwithstanding the convey, be stolen, the Company undertakes to refund - its value. The traders, it is said, look askance at the promoters and would require good guar- antess before trusting the proposed Company.
In the Straits the military contribution has been increased from 17 to 20 per cent., the colony being relieved, as an equivalent, of the uncertain obarges for barrack services and de- fence works. One of the despatches on the subject from the Colonial Office to the Treasury contains the following passage: -Mr. Secretary Chamberlain admits that the Colonial Govern. ment will be still liable to provide free of charge any available unoccupied Crown Land which may be shown to be required for military pur- poses; the War Department on the other hand being bound to freely surrender to the Colony any sites no longer required for such purposes: but such provision of sites does not concern the Legislature aud cannot therefore be properly secured by Ordinance. The matter will con- tinue to be dealt with by executive sotion.
We (Straits Times) understand that the Governments of the Federated Malay States have agreed upon a scheme for importing a quantity of Chinese labour. The scheme has been partly devised by Mr. Hare, who is the A correspondent writes to the N. G. Daily head of the Chinese department of the Malay News under date of 18th November as follows: States. The substance” of the soheme is to I arrived in Shanghai on Monday morning recruit direct from the Canton Provinos, and last after a considerable absence and left to ship from Canton on vessels that shall go again that night. As I wanted some small direct to the Malay Peninsula ports. It is not money orders for England, I called just after intended that these vessels shall pass through tiffin at the British Post Office; I only saw Singapore without stopping, and they may, no a native and be told me in a pretty off-hand doubt, bring some coolies for Singapore. But manner that the money order office was shut at the substantive point of the scheme is that noon. A couple of hours later I looked in at | coolies shall be recruited in the Canton Pro- It is reported that two of the principal foreign the German Post Office; there were three Gervince, for the Malay Peninsula, and shall be saks doing business in China have recently nan gentlemen and several very civil Chinese taken direct from Canton to the Malay Penin- de strong representations to the Chinese Go- assistants and I at once got what I wanted. nla without any change of steamer, are bent on the advisability of establishing & For one £2 order I paid $20.85. A list outside Government of the Federated Malay States the form coluage system instead of allowing the British Post Office gave the price of a £1 prepared to contribute $5 per head towardsThe very proviuos to run its own mint as at pre-order as $10.80. Fer our credit generally it is working of this scheme, up to a limit not
-China Gasette.
a pity the place is not shut altogether.
seeding 50,000 coolies.
This is thủ Hrat link in the all British cable Wtween England and the Cape.
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