THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LII.]
AND
China Overland Trade
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :--
The Advance on Peking
Trade Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 11TH AUGUST, 1900.
Three more cotton mills in Bombay have been obliged to stop working, as in consequence of the trouble in China there is no demand for 101 their produce.
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The Status of Hongkong and Chinese Taxation103
The Kowloon Reservation Question
Water Storage and the Sanitary Board
The China Relief Fund
Hongkong Legislative Council
The Crisis: Telegrams
Supreme Court
The Death of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha The Crisis in China
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The Cheong Yuan" Piracy Case
Foreigners in Chinese Treaty Ports
The Health of the Colony
Canton
Swatow
Manila
Correspondence
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hired transport Sunda left Calcutta on Sunday afternoon, the 5th inst., and may be expected to arrive in Hongkong about 17th August.
The P. &. O. S. N. Co. inform us that their
A Government notification received yester- day states that information has been received from the Government of the Straits Settlements 106 that the prohibition against Chinese immigra. tion has been removed, while quarantine is maintained.
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The Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Co., Ld.110 Tebrau Planting Company, Ld. Consular Reports
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
The Hongkong Rifle Association
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
Kowloon Bowling Club
Hongkong and Port News Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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On the 30th of July, 1900, at Shanghai, the wife of H. W. CAVE, of a son,
At Jesmond Dene, Singapore, on the 31st July, the wife of F. W. WEBB, of a son.
On the 1st of August, 1900, at Shanghai, the wife of PIERRE B. PATTISSON, of twins (son ad daughter).
MARRIAGE,
On the 30th July, at St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, by the Ven Archdeacon Perham, FREDERICK THOMAS KINDER, eldest son of Joseph KINDER, Allesley, Warwickshire, to EDITH, only daughter of Henry Octavius STEELE, Gomersal, Yorks, England.
DEATH.
At the Government Civil Hospital, on Tuesday, August 7th, FRANK D. MACLEAN, son of Peter MACLEAN, Esq., formerly of Shanghai.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The German mail of the 9th July arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Prinz Heinrich, on the 7th August (29 days); and the American mail of the 10th July arrived, per N. Y. K. steamer Nippon Maru, on the 7th August (28 days);
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The news of the week from the North will be found in the telegrams from our correspon dents on p. 104.
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A letter from a correspondent at Wuchow, dated the 6th inst., reports that everything was quiet then up to date,
It is reported from Shanghai that the Comte de Bezaure, the French Consul-General, had another long interview with Li Hung-chang on
the 3rd inst.
The Japanese Nichi Nichi says that Russia intends to send to Manchuria 5 brigades of in- fantry, 15 batteries of artillery, 1 railway batta lion; and that a part of this force has already been forwarded by the Siberian railway.
It is estimated that the cost of the hospital ships for Chiua will be £7,006, with a monthly recurring charge of £6,000. Up the 21st ult. tents to the value of nearly £22,000 had already been sent to China, also 200 mule carts and 400 sets of mule draught gear.
The German Mail steamer König Albert, which arrived from Shanghai on the 7th inst., brought down a large number of Foochow mis- sionaries, with their wives and families. They left their post on orders received from the cen- tral authorities.
General Guldakoff,- Governor-General of Eastern Siberia, is said to be superintending military preparations at Vladivostock, where it is expected that he will be presently joined by Admiral Alexieff, for the purpose of holding a conference. It is stated that orders have been given to lay torpedoes at Nicolaiefsk, but this report requires confirmation.
A notification is published in the Gazette containing a Notice forwarded by H. B. M. Charge d'affaires at Bangkok, announcing that the island of Koh Phai is the Quarantine and Inspection Station for vessels arriving at Bang- kok from Hongkong, Hainan, and Manila, or must be observed by all such vessels. any Chinese port, and stating the rules which
The Zamania arrived on Thursday night from Bombay with the following British officers on board for service in China:-Lient.-Col. C. W. Harris, Major Melville, Capt. Hamil- ton, Capt. Dunsford, Lient Smith, Lieut. Ross, Hudson, Major G. McKee, I. M. S., Lieut. Lieut. Campbell, Lieut. Cumming, Lieut.
Headlam, Lieut. Harrold, and 2nd Lieuts. Tucker, I. M. S.. Capt. Lockhart, Lieut. Springer, McCleverty, and Combe.
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A Japanese vernacular paper says it is re- ported that Russia has made a certain sugges- tion regarding Corea to the Japanese Govern ment and the Japanese cabinet has held a series
the 28th ult. and is reported to have laid a re of meetings related thereto. Marquis Yamaga- ta was received in audience by the Emperor on solution of the cabinet regarding the Russian proposal before the Emperor.
The latest intelligence from Peking received
to yesterday was conveyed by a London telegram, dated Wednesday night, which was to the following effect :-' A cypher reply has been received from Sir Claud MacDonald, dated from Peking on the 3rd instant, which states that the Legation fortifications have been strengthened. Over 200 women and children fire has continued intermittently since the 16th are among the refugees in the Legation. Rifle- ult. Another message has been received from Mr. Conger."
has communicated to the N.-C. Daily News the H.M. Consul-General, Mr. Pelham Warren, purport of a despatch received by him on the 3rd inst. from Mr. R. W. Mansfield, H.M. Consul at Amoy. Mr. Mansfield protests against an- founded rumours that have been circulated in the North of disturbances at Amoy. Every- thing is perfectly quiet there, and to make as- surance doubly sure, there were then two Japanese men-of-war there, and the U. S. 8. Princeton. No trouble of any kind is anticipated at Amoy, where the export of Formosa fea is going on as usual.
Railway works are now actively proceeding in British North Borneo. The actual length of line under construction is about 110 miles. Starting from two points on the west coast, viv., Weston and Jesselton, the line runs for some 20 miles in a north-easterly direction, and 58 miles in a south-westerly direction respect- ively, meeting at Beaufort on the Padas River. From Beaufort it runs, almost due south-east, Gorge till it reaches Tenom. The distance skirting the Padas River and the Penotel from Beaufort to Tenom is 33 miles, giving in all about 110 miles of railway.
The turret steamer Oak Branch arrived at which she left on the previous Friday. Two or Nagasaki on the 30th ult. from Port Arthur,
Chinese, about 20 in number, were found poison- three day before her departure, a party of
ing the wells a few miles outside Port Arthur. Friday last a force of 2,000 Russian troops was The Chinese were summarily executed. Of preparing to leave Port Arthur, to engage a body of Chinese soldiers entrenched a few miles from the town. Much excitement prevails and martial law has been proclaimed throughout the Russian possession on the peninsula.
The Board of Trade have received information, through the Foreign Office to the effect that orders will shortly be issued by the United States Military Governor in the Philippine Islands, amending article 13 of the New Customs Regulations for the Islands, by which it is provided that goods not duly entered for pay- ment of duty within ninety days afterimportation shall be sold by auction at the expiration of a included the transports Nankin and Jelunga The arrivals in Hongkong during the week notice of five days, and that ten days only are (6th inst.), both from the South; the Hinsang allowed within which the proceeds of the sale on the 5th, the Itinda on the 8th, from the may be claimed by the importer. Under the North; the Zamania from Bombay, the Nawab posted for ninety instead of for five days, and Shanghai on the 9th. The departures for the amended regulation notice of the sals will be from Taku, the storeship Humber from ninety days instead of ten will be granted as the North were Nankin (7th), the Itinda, Canning, period within which the proceeds may be claimed. and Duke of Portland (10th), General Creng Farther, in addition to the posted notice, provision will be made for advertisement in news papers, in cases where the value of the property to be sold exceeds 500 pesos. These amendments will not apply to perishable goods.
V.C., proceeding to Shanghai by the Itindo. H.M. cruiser Mohawk arrived from Hoihow on the 5th and sailed for Shanghai on the 8th, H.M.S. Goliath sailed for Shanghai on the 7th, H.M. gunboat Lizard arrived on the 8th,
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