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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland
Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLIII.]
CONTENTS,
Commercial Missions and the Trade of the Far
East
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 18TH JUNE, 1896.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
H.M.S. Centurion grounded on a sand bank in Shimonoseki Straits on the 13th June, but was floated off without damage.
Admiral Count Kabayama has been released from the office of Governor-General of Formosa 495 and Major-General Katsura has been appointed
to succeed him.
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Epitome of the Wook,
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Leading Articles :----
China's New Navy
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The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Rail.
way Construction în China...
Japan and Russia
The Mahommedan Rebellion..
The Flogging Fatality
The Japanese as Colonisers
The Parochialism of the Colonial Office
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The Queen's Statue..........
Supreme Court
Extraordinary Scene in the Harbour
..497 laden with kerosine oil caught fire and presented At Hongkong on the 15th June a cargo-boat
a remarkable spectacle as the flames and dense volumes of smoke shot up.
Three lives were
Presentation to Dr. Marques...
Death of Inspector Moffatt from Plague
The Maria Rickmers
The Hongkong Electric Co., Limited.
The Sheridan Consolidated Mining and Milling Co.,
Limited
The Kowloon Customs Report for 1895
Hongkong Golf Club
Canton Customs Report for 1895
Hongkong Rifle Association
Rifle Brigade Regatta
Correspondence
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Shipping Casualties near Shanghai
A New Mahommedan Rebellion
The Disturbance at Nanking.
The Anding Sunk Again
The Shanghai Convent Case ....
Keramics and Metal Work in Japan..
Hongkong and Port News...
Commercial
Shipping
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On the 6th June fire broke out in the premises of the. Nippon Cotton Spinning Company at Dojima, Osaka, which were completely destroyed. Several lives were lost and many severe injuries sustained..
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The half-yearly general meeting of the share- .504 bolders of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha was held on the 29th May, when a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum was declared; besides an extraordinary dividend of 2 yen per share.” .505 A Seoul telegram of the 1st June in the Japan papers reads:From to-day the Korean troops are to be trained by Russian instructors. The Bodyguards appear to-day in their now 508 uniforms. Soldiers only are required to have
their hair cut close.
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On the 9th instant, at No. 12, St. Francis Street, the wife of J. T. Corros, Inspector of Nuisance, of [1882
a soa.
MARRIAGES.
On the 3rd June, 1898, at H.B.M.'s Consulate, Kobe, Japan, and afterwards at the Union Church, Kobe, GEORGE AUGUSTUS MATTHEWS, of Shanghai, to BLANCHE MADE, widow of the late Edward Bors, and youngest daughter of F. Julian MARSHALL, Esq., of H.B.M.'s Board of Works, Shanghai.
At Shanghai, on the 4th June, 1896, at H.B.M. Consulate General, by Sir Nicholas J. Hannen, Consul General, and afterwards at Trinity Cathedral, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., JEAN MINNIE only daughter of W. P. HAMLIN, of Shanghai, to GUY DENISON BARRY, eldest son of the late Henry Smith BroWELL, of Shanghai.
On the 10th June, 1896, at the German Consulate, by Dr. O. Stuebel, Consul-General, and afterwards at Trinity Cathedral, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., FERDINAND SEITZ, of Shanghai, to EDITH FRANCES AMALIE, eldest daughter of Mrs. Srock- WELL and the late Chas. E. KOFOD, of Shanghai.
DEATH.
On the 14th June, at Kennedy Town Hospital, GALBRAITH MOFFATT, Inspector of Nuisances, Hongkong, a native of Fermanagh, Ireland, aged [1423
35.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 8th May arrived, per M. M. steamer Melbourne, on the 10th June (33 days); the English mail of the 15th May arrived, per P. & Q. steamer Peshawur, on the 12th June (28 days); and the American mail of the 20th May arrived, per P. M. steamer China, on the 15th June (26 days).
The case of Mr. Krause, the German officer who was wounded by Hunan soldiers at Nan- king, has been settled, the Colonel in charge of the camp having been removed from office and the soldiers who were engaged in the affair having been punished.
A Tokyo press despatch of the 30th May says: Count Mutsu obtained permission from His Majesty the Emperor to-day to resign the office of Foreign Minister. Marquis Saionji, the Minister for Education, has been appointed Acting Foreign Minister.
A Reuter's telegram_states that Li Hung- chang has arrived at Berlin and met with an imposing reception. He has had an audience with the Emperor and received the highest honours. The German manufacturers are arranging fetes for his visits to the chief factories.
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A big railway scheme is projected for For- mosa by some Tokyo capitalists, who have applied for permission to float a company. The railway will start from Kelung and via Kozan, Taipeh, and Takow to Nanyo and Koshan and thence back to Kelung along the eastern coast. It is proposed to commence the undertaking with a capital of ten million yen.
The owners of the Norwegian steamer Nor- mandie, who in the action in the Admiralty Court at Shanghai arising out of the collision with the British steamer Pekin in the Whangpoo River were found entirely to blame, have, we learn from the N. C. Daily News, obtained leave to appeal to the Privy Council. On the 10th June an application made by Mr. W. A. C. Platt was heard in Chambers by Sir N. J. Hannen that they should give security for the costs of the appeal and also the amount of the damages. His Lordship, whilst making an order
requiring security for costs, declined to make an order as to the damages.
No. 25.
The report of the Hongkong Electric Co.;. Limited, for the year ended 30th April last, shows that after deducting directors' fees $2,000, there is left an amount of $30,119 available for appropriation, and the directors recommend that this be disposed of as follows:-To pay a dividend of 5 per cent. $12,000, to write off plant account for depreciation $10,000, to be carried forward to next account $8,119.
The preliminary examination at Tokyo of
the iron pipes scandal has been concluded. It Judge Mori on a charge of having received bribes from persons under arrest in connection with
is stated that the judge received the sum of 2,000 yen, and entered into an agreement whereby he would receive 5,000 yen on discharg ing the men upon the preliminary examination, and 50,000 yen when they were discharged at the public trial.
A Reuter's telegram of the 14th June states that a deputation of the Associated Chambers Government in making trade routes in China, of Commerce has asked the support of the either by building or guaranteeing railways. Lord Salisbury replied that the Government was unable to assist any railway enterprise outside British territory, but if a powerful and solvent Company was formed the Government would do its utmost to assist in carrying railways to the edge of British territory; and that done, there was no doubt that the lines would be able to penetrate into foreign territory whenever desirable.
On the 4th inst. fire broke out in a match factory situated in the suburbs of Osaka. Four mechanics were burned to death and eighteen were more or less seriously injured. One work- shop was destroyed and another had to be pulled down in order to prevent the fire from spread- ing to the neighbouring buildings. The cause of the disaster is not precisely known, but from the nature of the business carried on in the factory, where quantities of explosives and com. bustibles were stored, slight carelessness would have sufficed to produce serious results. So quick was the spread of the fire that twenty girls at work in the upper storey of the build- ing had no time to effect a safe retreat. They received such injuries that seven of them are not expected to survive. The factory was a large establishment. It employed 120 male and 300 female hands.-Japan Mail.
We mentioned some time ago that General Su, Commander-in-Chief of the Kwangsi forces of Lungehow, contemplates building a railway to connect his headquarters with the provincial capital. Kweilin. This is now confirmed by advices from our native correspondent to the effect that the Governor of that province is going to petition the Throne for permission to do so and that deputies will be sent to Canton and Hongkong and probably to Shanghai with a view to purchasing railway material.—Mercury.
Telegrams received at Shanghai on the 10th June from Kansu report that the Mahommedan rebellion is spreading to alarming proportions and that the present forces under General Tung Fu-hsiang are insufficient to cope with the rebels. Orders have therefore been transmitted to Governor Wei of Shensi to march into Kausu at once with his army, some 10,000 strong, to reinforce General Tang, who will
still remain chief in command of the Imperial forces in Kansu.-N. C. Daily News.