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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLX.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 23RD DECEMBER, 1899.
Epitome of the Week, do...........................................................................................................505 Leading Articles:--
The Banitary Hoard Election
The Command in South Africa............. Rifle Ranges Wanted
Hongkong Legislative Council........................................................................
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News was received on Sunday of the death of Commander E. P. Wood, U.S.N., of typhoid fever, in New York. He was captain of the Petrel at the battle of Manila Bay.
The South African fund being raised in Hong- kong now amounts, with contributions from the Southern Treaty Ports, to about 87,000, At Singapore a vote of $50,000 for the same 511 object has been made by the Legislative Coun-
cil. In Hongkong there has as yet been no of ficial vote, the $70.00 mentioned having been contributed entirely by the public.
Supreme Court ..............
Sanitary Board Election
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Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
Affairs in the Philippines
The Alleged Shell Fishing Mo..opoly
Loss of the steamer St. Helens...
The Lekin Question at Canton
...512 ...512 ...512 .512 .512 ...518
Piracy in Canton Waters...........k............
Hongkong Benevolent Society
Concert at the City Hall
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It has been reported in mandarin ciroles at Shanghai, we learn from the NC Daily News, that the British and foreign Ministers at Pe- The Volunteers and the Kowloon Disturbance........51% king bad signified to H. E. Sleng their wil The Loss of the Hupeh.....
Serious Disturbance on Lamma Island
The Dairy Farm Co, Limited
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The Hongkong High-level Tramways Co., Lmited ...514 Ewo Cotton Spinning and Weaving (o, Iimited......51 å British and Chiness Corporation Limited ...... 15
Victoria Regatta...........
Hongkong Football Shield Competition
Football
Football Notes
Cricket.....
Correspondence
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
The Trade of Nowohwang
Serious Charge of Attempted Arson in Shanghai
The Japanere it · hi_a.............
The Straits Governorship
Hongkong and Port News.........
Shipping
Commercial
BIRTH.
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lingues to grant Tarif Revision provided a Financial Board, with joint foreign and Chi. nese representation, is established to control the expenditure of the extra revenue collected.
The loss is reported of the British tank .518 steamer St. Helens. While on a royage from 619 Hongkong to Singapore she struck the Bombay Rock in the Paracels on the 14th November. The crew remained by the ship until the 27th, when, seeing that she was going to pieces. they left, and, with the exception of five Chinese who were lost, reached Cape St. James after 60 fifteen days of terrible suffering in the boats.
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It was freely reported among Chinese officials at Shanghai, we learn from the N. C. Daily News, that Li Ping-heug, the newly-appointed High Commissioner of the Yangtze, has de.
At East Point, on the 19th December, the wife of nounced Marshal Su for giving up Naotos island
A. C. MOBE of a 8011,
MARRIAGES.
At Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, on the 8th December, 1899, by the Kev. H. C. Hodges, REGINALD II. D. SANDERSON, R.N.R., son of the Rev. Canon BANDERSON, late of Burgh, Lincoln, ETHEL CONSTANCE EDWARDS, daughter of the late Rev. Citon EDWARDS, Liandevand, Monmouthshire.
On the 8th December, 1899, at the Danish Con sulate and afterwards at the Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev H. C. Hodges, M.A., Knud HERLUF VON LINDHOLM, youngest son of the late William YON LINDHOLM, of Copenhagen, Co onel of Dragons, Chamberlain to H.M. the King of Denmark, to MARY ANNETTE, eldest daughter of the Inte George Penkenil SLADE, of Sydney, New South Wales, and of Mr. SLADE, of 38, Holland Park, London, W.
DEATHS.
At the Shanghai General Hospital, on the 10th December, 1899, JOSEPH BRUINE, aged 54 years.
At the Cosmopolitan Docks, on the 13th instant, GEO. MANUEL UNWIN, aged 22, eldest son of Mr. F. UNWIN, Commissioner I. M. Customs.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 17th November arrived, per O. & O steamer Doric, on the 16th December (29 days); and the French mail of the 17th November arrived, per M. M. steamer Caledonien, on the 19th December (82 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Tan Chung-lin, Viceroy of the Two Kwang' has been recalled and Li Hung-chang has been appointed to succeed him.
Capt. Stront and a guard of twenty-five
marines arrived at Tientsin from Weihaiwei on
the 4th Decemb.rand will remath there through the winter.
and its dependencies in Kwangchauwan to the French, and that the Empress Dowager has been persuaded by Li Ping-hong to remove Marshal Sn from his post of Commissioner of Delimitation and order him to await investi. gation iuto bis conduct.
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The arrival of the U.S.8. Brooklyn at Binga- pore was closely foll: wed by that of the cruiser New Orleans, which resohed' that port on the 10th inst from New York, touching at Colombo on her way. She is commanded by Captain Edwin Longneck, and her crew numbers 342 men all told. She is a vessel of 3,437 tons; and her engines. which indioste 7,500 h.p, give her a speed of 20 knots an hour. Her principal armament consists of six 6-inch quickfirers, four 4.7-inch guns, and ten 6-pounders. A Ceylon contemporary remarks:-A considerable number of US A. warships, principally cruisers and gun- lippines and we learn that arrangements are boats, are to pass through on the way to the Phi- being made to despatch these vessels at once. This being done in consequence of a decision to strengthen the Naval squadron in the quar- ter indicated, and also to completely and effeo- tively patrol the islands so as to prevent any outside supplies reaching the insurgents. At present there is a fairly effective patrol carried on by the mosquito fleet in those waters, the captured Spanish vessels Isla de Cuba, Isla de Luson, Don Juan de Austria, and the Callas, which have been repaired, being used to great advantage with the smaller American vessels, but the service will be much better maintained
with the additions about to be made.
Mr. Kent, the third officer of the N.Y.K. steamer Tamba Maru, has been sentenced at Yokohama to six months' rigorous imprisonment for assaulting a quartermaster. Mr. Kent has appealed. In an article on the case the Kobe Chronicle says:-The sentence seems to us simply atrocious in its severity, and will cor- tainly be quoted as proof that the foreigner is likely to get a good deal more law than justice in Japan. It will be remembered that the quartermaster who brought the charge which has been thus dealt with by a Japanese Court entered Mr. Kent's room on board the ship, in consequence of some trouble that had previously A Havas telegram states that the French occurred, and used threatening language to- Government will shortly introduce a scheme forwards the accused. Mr. Kent ordered the man, the laying of cables connecting France and her oolonies. The subject as affecting Indo-Chins has for some time past been engaging the atten- tion of the local papers and representative bodies in that colony and a recommendation has been made for the laying of a cable to connect Indo- China with the Great Northern cable at Amoy, avoiding Hongkong, and thus giving through communication by the Russian and Great North- ern systems without touching British territory.
who was apparently drunk, to leave the room, and on his refusing to do so, kuooked bim down, whereupon the quartermaster, as the l'ublic Procurator admitted. bit Mr. Kent in several places on the leg. This appears to have been all that occurred. The incident took place at Moji, and on the vessel reaching Yokohama the quartermaster laid a complaint before the Public Procurator, whereupon the police proceeded to arrest no less than five ofloeru of the Tamba Muru and subjected them to the A telegram from Manila to the Daily Press | indignity of incarceration for some hours in a reports that Major General Lawton, command-police cell. Eventually Mr. Kent was the only ing the First Division Corps of the American one against whom the charge was pressed, army operating in Luzon, Was killed on the and after many delays-Mr. Kent was arrested 19th December in an attack on San Mateo, | on October 10th-the accused has been tried and eighteen miles from Manila, by sharpshooters sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard who opened fire from across the river. This labour! It seems to us that under the circum- regrettable incident shows that the Insurgents stances of this case such a sentences nothing are still active in parts, but on the whole their else than a miscarriage of justice, which, it is to cause is in a bad way. The Americans have be hoped, will have the prompt attention of the occupied A parri without bloodshed The British Minister. It is impossible not to com- U.8.8. Newurk landed marines and accepted pare it with the sentences passed on Japanese the surrender of the Insurgent Commander, charged with unprovoked assaults upon for. Tirona, who thus surrendered the entire north-signers from time to time, and the massult in ern district of Luzon, embracing the tobacco this case, whether or not justified in wolf defence, lands and plantations. The U.8.8. Wheeling has was certainly not unprovoked,-while, even if it gone down the eastern Pacific coast of Luson should be reversed on appeal, the sentence cannot to demand the surrender of the port there. but have a most evil effect on the discipline en General G. Pilar, brother of P. O. Pilar, has board Japanese vessels, regarding which so been killed by his own people.
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