THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LI.
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &o.......... Lending Articles :-).
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The European Reservation in the City of Victoria 234 A Japanese View
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A Public Danger
Hongkong Legislative Council...............................
Supreme Court
The Governor's Tour
Another Attack by Pirates on the West River
The Belilios Reformatory
Belilios Trust Prize Distribution
A Year's Work in the New Territory
Mr. Marsh's Concert
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 7TH APRIL, 1900,
The North China Daily News announces the receipt on the 30th ult. in Shanghai of a tele gram from Seoul from Mr. W. Pritchard-Mor gan, M.P announcing that he was received in special audience by the Emperor of Corea on 235 the 29th instant, and has been appointed by 235 Imperial edict Consul-General in London for 238the Empire of Corea. ....239 :
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239 The new railway bridge over the Perak River 239 at Karai, Malaya, was opened by the Resident 240 General, Sir Frank Swettenham, on the 21st 241 alt. Begun in the Diamond Jubilee year and named after Her Majesty, the Victoria 242 Bridge is a very handsome structure with an 242 appearance of strength and lightness which is 243 very striking. It has been erected at a cost of over $300,000, is of iron lattice girders over a thousand feet long, resting on six brick piers, and the roadway is 40 feet above the ordinary level of the water.
Presentation to Mr. Lawrence Gibba
The Oxford and Cambridge Dinner .....................
The Green Island Cement Co., Limited
Luzon Sugar Refining Co., Limited
The Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co., Limited..
The China Mutual Bream Navigation Co., Limited The War Relief Fund
Canton
Macao
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Correspondence
Victoria Recreation Cinb
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
The Hongkong Rifle Association............
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The Malarial Mosquito in Hongkong Hongkong and Port News....., Commercial..
Shipping
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No 14
A Japanese paper says the Japanese demand for a mining concession in Cores lodged with the Government of that country is not yet making definite progress as in the case of the British demand in connection with the Ingan gold mine. The applicants propose to take, more decisive measures to ac
achieve their object in the near future.
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The Japan Mail gives the conditions upon which the Corean Government has agreed to grant a concession of the Unsan Gold Mine to Mr. Pritchard Morgan as follows: First, that min- ing operations shall be carried on for one conjointly by the English concessionaire-and- the Coreans; secondly, that after that period the privilege shall be limited to the Erglish- man; and thirdly, that even after the conclu- sion of a year, Coreans shall be employed to work the mine "If the agreement secured on Mr. Morgan's behalf be of the nature here set According to news received on the 28th ult. forth," says the Mail, we do not see why there 246 from Peking, two Censors, evidently inspired, should have been so much hesitation in granting have presented a joint memorial, denouncing it. The English concessionaire would donbt- the Tsungli Yamen as incapable, and recom-less have been willing to accept such conditions 247 mending its abolition, all foreign relations to be from the outset." 247 dealt with in future by the Li Fan Yuan, 249 commonly termed the Mongolian Superinten
dency, but really meaning the Colonial and Tributary Department. In other words, this is a thinly-veiled attempt to relegate once more the Ministers of Foreign Treaty Powers to the grade of Tribute-bearers.
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On the 31st March, 8.15 a m., at the Government Civil Hospital, Hongkong, ALEXANDER LAWSON WALKER, aged 3 years.
At the Hongkong Club, Hongkong, on the 2nd April, HENRY LISTON DALRYMPLE, aged 55 years..
ARRIVALS OF MAILS. The American mail of the 7th March arrived per T. K. K. steamer America Maru, on the 4th April (28 days); and the German mail of the 21st February arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Prinz Heinrich, on the 5th April (44 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
In consequence of the recent piracy on the West River the Tweed and a torpedo-boat have been ordered to leave for the scene of the occurrence.
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From Wuchang comes the news that a prison or who has at
attracted a great deal of attention lately. account of the fact that many believed him actually to be the Emperor, even to the very end, was executed on Sunday, the 25th ult. His head has been stuck up outside the city gate
It appears that Kwong Yu Pin, the Chinese reformer who was inveigled to Canton, is now Kafe in Macao, his native place. He reached Canton at night, having at a feast received a warning from some of his Hongkong friends that he had better get away as soon as possible. He took the hint and went to Macao.
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The North China Daily News of the 28th ult. states that, in reply to a telegraphic enquiry, the news was received by wire on the previous day from Peking that no violent attempt bas been made recently on the life of the Emperor Kwang Hsu, but it is universally believed that he is being made away with by slow poisoning,
Mr. G. D. Scott, Reuter's agent in Shanghai, learus by a message, dated the 27th nit, from Renter's correspondent at Peking, that the oxers are giving much trouble round Tientsin and that
has been an indecisive battle in Chihli between 1500 Chinese troops and as many Boxers, with many casualties on both sides.
Owing to the increased importance of the Manila station and the recent additions to the United States Squadron in Asiatic waters, the United States Navy Department has decided to keep two admirals in commission with the Eastern fleet. Bear-Admiral Louis Kempff, who has been doing shore duty as commandant of the Navy Yard at Mare Island, California, is ordered to proceed to Manila as second-in command to Rear Admiral George C. Remey, recently appointed to succeed Admiral J., C. Watson as commander-in-chief of the Asiatic fleet..
The Return of Cases of Communicable
31st March shows four cases of Plague (two in Disease in Hongkong during the week ending Victoria, two in ther districts) and four deaths therefrom; one case and one death from diph. theria; three cases and one death from enteric fever; four cases (three in the Harbour, one ont- side) and one death from small-pox. The three Harbour cages of the latter disease were im ported. During the twenty-four hours which ter- minated at noon on the 1st instant one fresh case of Plague was reported in the colony, bringing the number of cases from 1st January to twenty-one. The number of deaths remain at nineteen.
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Mr. Werner, acting British Consulat Hang- chow, in his report on that port is very guarded. From only two years' statistics it would bə of Hangchow as a unwise, he says, to attempt to predict the future especially, as it is a place of transit rather than a port open to foreign trade,
a producing centre. He thinks that the open- ing of the railroad would to some extent stimu late trade, but only in the case of perishable articles, or if the railway tariff were almost as low as the very cheap charges now, made for carriage by boat. On the other hand, if the railway charges for carriage of goods were so low as to undercut the canal traffic, it could scarcely, unless the number of passengers car- ried were very great, be expected to pay a large dividend, if any at all, for some years to come. The tea and silk of the province of Chokiang being of superior quality, a great increase of trade might be expected from a less biassed sys- tem of native taxation, Agriculture, too, offers a promising field. * ́
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The Tokyo Correspondent of the Nagasuki Press announces that the Japanese naval man- œuvres commenced on the 25th ult, under the supervision of Admiral Ito. With the excep tion of two or three men-of-war, such as are stationed in Korea and China or are in foreign waters, all the vessels and the reserve ships are partic manoeuvres. The vessels will be every phase of tactics connected with ockade. bombardment, torpedo practice, combats between battleships and cruisers, etc., eto. The purpose of the manœuvres is to test the efficiency of the The indiscriminate embargo laid upon im- new naval organizator, and to afford opport- ports from Japan by the Hawaiian Authorities unities to the various commanders to put into has, after a very strong remonstrance from practice many new ideas acquired by them dur Japan to Washington, been removed in favouring the Spanish-American) war of a more rational system, which divides imports this light, the into three classes, first, those that do not present political signin any danger on medical grounds; secondly, those observed by the that are dangerous in respect of their wrap- pings, and thirdly, those that are dangerous in themselves. If that classfication be intelli- gently applied, the Japanese papers say, there will be no further grounds of protest, but they are of option that the Hawaiian Authorities, in their treatment of the matter, have shown more panic than discretion.
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