The Archive

Friday, 11 December 1896

  1. The North-China HeraldA Gold Currency"You will bear in mind how entirely unsuited to the modern conditions of an agricultural community, such as we are, a gold currency must be. Russia has large amounts of debt contracted abroad. She is what you call a grea…
  2. The North-China HeraldProspect of the MissionReports from the various churches showed again during the year of 81 members, Chinanfu leading in numbers, there having been 88 added to the rolls during the past year in this field. The total membership in the presbyter…
  3. The North-China HeraldThe Sudden Death of a SchoolboyThe inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of the little boy Tong Wing, a pupil at the Diocesan Home and Orphanage, was brought to a conclusion on the 26th inst. A number of witnesses were examined, who prove…
  4. The North-China HeraldA Remarkable CharacterThe most astonishing incident of the year in Chinanfu has been the withdrawal one of the paid evangelistic helpers from mission employ, or rather his voluntary relinquishment of his salary, for he still does evangelistic…
  5. The North-China HeraldThe Recreation Groundis getting towards completion. The mud wall having proved a failure at one end of the ground owing to sinking of the soil, a fine wooden fence has been put up which after a coat of paint or tar will look splendid. The su…
  6. The North-China HeraldThe Kidnapped ChinamanNaturally the excitement caused by the story that a Chinaman had been kidnapped and imprisoned in the Chinese Legation subsided pretty quickly when it became known that the man had been released in obedience to the deman…
  7. The North-China HeraldRussia and the Trade of ChinaRemember, with the Trans-Caspian Railway, we are' reaching out for the trade of Manchuria and North Eastern China; and the trade of all that country to the Pacific has to be transacted in and with silver." And when do yo…
  8. The North-China HeraldThe Armenian Question'There has been a decided lull this week in the Armenian agitation, though the news from Turkey' has been by no means reassuring. The raising of a war tax there is ominous even after all the explanations of the Porte hav…
  9. The North-China HeraldAmount of Silver Bullion to Be Bought"Five hundred million roubles," said the visitor. "Thats indeed a stupendoussum pray translate it into its equivalent in silver bullion. "It represents," said the Russian financier, about nine million kilogrammes of silv…
  10. The North-China HeraldBiter British DetectiveDetective: There is a prisoner of State concealed here. (Disguises himself as the Nelson steeple-jack and climbs up water spout ostensibly to look for birds? nests for the Ambassador's soup, but really to reconnoitre. Su…
  11. The North-China HeraldThe Alleged Concession 't0 Germany0th Dec. We are authorised by Dr. Stuebel, the Consul-General for Germany at Shanghai, to say that he has no information whatever as to the concession to Germany by the Chinese Government of a large piece of land to the …
  12. The North-China HeraldThe New Chinese Minister to Great BritainWe congratulate Mr. Lo Feng-lo on his recent appointment to St. James's, a position in some degree commensurate with his high ability and desert. The post is less valuable for its emoluments and influence, than for the a…
  13. The North-China HeraldYue Governor of Hongkong, SirWilliam Robinson, invigorated by his recent visit to Shanghai and the races, made a very lucid and exhaustive speech to his Legislative Council at its reassembling on the 3rd instant, and of this speech His Excellency ha…
  14. From Our own Correspondent · North-China HeraldNotes from Me Southhas continued erratic and has afforded us new surprises during the past week. On 'Thursday, it became very warm and muggy, the wind having chopped round to the rain fell, totalling 1.12 inches. Towards 8.\V., and a good …
  15. The North-China HeraldThe West Shantung MissionThe first, meeting of the West Shantung Mission of the American Presbyterian Board was held late in October in Ichoufu in Southern Shantung, there being representatives present from all the four stations comprised in the…
  16. The North-China HeraldThe New Dollarhas arrived-here, but alas for the faithfulness of thesonsof China. Three of the banks will have nothing to do with the new currency, and the two who do use them do so only at the usual exchange, and not at the rate as s…
  17. The North-China HeraldThe Insurrection in the PhilippinesEvents have been hurrying up a little in the Philippines lately according to report, and it is admitted that there has been some severe fighting. Several engagements have taken place in the provinces of Bataun and Bulaca…
  18. The North-China HeraldRebellion in thePHILIPPINES, letter, dated Manila, the 25th of Nove The following extract from a private made after his trip of inspection in the north, Speaking of Taipeh city and surroundings he says:—"Sewerage, with the exception of …
  19. The North-China HeraldLooking from the Lonely RockTure island of St. Paul is merely a great rock in the Southern Ocean, It is the top of a volcanic mountain. There are no means of sustaining life to be found on it. The nearest inhabited land is Australia or Africa. To t…
  20. The North-China HeraldCount Okuma, Minister for ForeignAffairs, delivered a speech at a meeting of the Oriental Society held at the Imperial Hotel last night. He eaid that he did not think it necessary to resort to strategy in conducting diplomatic affairs; he was prepared t…
  21. The North-China HeraldThe Question of EgyptMeanwhile, however, Lord Charles Beresford has been strongly urging that the time has come for England to announce to the Powers that altered circumstance have necessitated a change of policy in regard to Egypt, and that…
  22. The North-China HeraldSome Former Governors of HongkongNot a few of Hongkong's former Governors have lived toa green old age. Sir John Davis, its second Governor, lived to attain enough to. ace'the jubilee of the Colony. the age of 96, and nearly survived long Sir Hercules R…
  23. The North-China HeraldThe Proposed Reform of the RussiancunrExcy. "ME. Raffalovich," said his visitor, "please currency reform is to emerge? We have tell us how your Russian proposal of been assured during the past eight months that Russia is getting ready to use her enormous…
  24. The North-China HeraldCurrency Reform in RussiaMr. Moreton Frewen has sent us the following notes of an interesting conversation at Budapest with MIN. Leon Raflulovich At the Budapest Agricultural Congress, the Russian Government was represented by its Minister of Ag…
  25. The North-China HeraldThe Spanish LoanMadrid, 18th November. While arrangements were being made to raise the loan of $50,000,000 the insurgents in Cuba invented the news of an imminent conflict between America and Spain, Official news was received from Washi…

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