THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLV.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Wook, 4.............................
Leading Articles :-->
Local and District Events, 1896 .....................................
The Navy League and the Naval Estimates
The Chinese Passengers Act and British Shipping
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 6TH JANUARY, 1897.
The Spanish troops in the Philippines have defeated the rebels in several engagements, but 1 notwithstanding these defeats the rebellion
appears to be spreading.
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The annual meeting of the Punjom Mining Co., Limited, was held on the 31st December, when the report and accounts were adopted. The Chairman gave an interesting statement as to the operations at the mines, and satis- 7 faction was expressed that the Company had
at last reached a dividend paying basis.
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The Record of the Year
The Russo-Chinese Treaty.
The Need for more Battleshipa
Supreme Court .............................
Hongkong Sanitary Board ....
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The Rebellion in the Philippimes....
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Punjom Mining Company, Limited..
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The New Balmoral Gold Mining Company, Limited... The Shanghai Engineering, Shipbuilding, and Dock
Co., Limited.................................
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Baub Australian Gold Mining Company, Limited 11 Hongkong and Fort News........................................................................................**
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14 Shipping
BIRTH.
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At No. 12, Minghong Road, on the 27th Decem- ber, 1896, the wife of S. A. DE SOUZA, of a son.
DEATHS.
At the Government Civil Hospital, on Monday morning, the 4th inst, WILLIAM DORAN, Sugar Boiler, aged 25 years; a native of Greenock, Scot- land.
[101 At Swatow, on the 25th December, at his residence, LOUIS GRUNAUER, aged about 39 years. [2990
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
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The American mail of the 1st December arrived, per P. M. steamer City of Peking, on the 1st January (31 days); and the French mail of the 4th December arrived, per M. M. steamer Natal; on the 3rd January (30 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
In the New Year's honours a knighthood has been conferred on Dr. J. W. Carrington, Chief Justice of Hongkong.
Mr. W. 8. Gilbert proposes visiting Burma this cold weather to try and find material for a comic opera.
Rinderpest has broken out at Shanghai. The disease has also made its appearance in Japan and Siam,
It is reported at Saigon that the Saghalien, hich is to proceed to Marseilles in ballast for repair, is not likely to be put on the mail line again, but will be relegated to a local service, probably the Mediterranean line.
According to the Franch papers, Dr. Yersin will probably return to China before long, as the Chinese Government is anxious for the creation of a Pasteur Institute at Canton, with the young French doctor at its head.
The C. N. stesmər Kansu, which arrived at Shap
cember from Hongkong, junk in a sinking con- Point, and with great diffi
grow mix in number, and
dition onlty
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The annual meeting of the Perak Sugar Cultivation Co., Limited, was held at Shanghai on the 30th December, but as the accounts were not ready the meeting was postponed until the 15th March. It was stated that a profit of 870,000 had been anticipated, but this had been more than swept away by the trouble in the working of the factory.
A Cantonese rice-exporting, hong at Wuhu having failed for Tls. 8,000 the other day, the Canton guild and several of the largest firms in the same line of business in that port, appre- hensive that this would spoil the good name and credit of Cantonese generally, at came to the rescue and paid up next day the whole of the bankrupt firm's liabilities.—Ñ. C. Daily News.
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It is reported in native commercial circ Wuhu that a Japanese syndicate has ordere be built in Germany three river steamers of the China Merchants steamer Kiangkwan type to run between Shanghai and Yangtze river ports. The agency of the new steamers, it is further reported, will be given to an English firm, and the new vessels will begin to run by April or May next.-N. C. Daily News.
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The following communication from the French Consul has been communicated by the Colonial Secretary to the Chamber of Com merce:-Consulat de France, Hongkong, 23rd December, 1896. Monsieur le Secretaire- Colonial.-In continuation of my letter of the 9th September last I have the honour t inform you that Monsieur le Gouverneur. Général of Indo-China has made an order dated 14th November admitting to free pratique in the ports of our colony arrivals from Hongkong. Veuillez agréer, etc., LEON DE LE ROUX..
At the meeting of the Raub Australian Gold Mining Co., Limited, held at Brisbane on the 4th December, it was decided to leave the once question of the inorease of plant in the hand of the directors and no binding resolution wa passed. The Chairman said “the Brisbane Board willingly conceded the forty-head bat- tery recommended by the Singapore Board, but still hesitated as to electricity, owing to the unknown risks attending it. The Singapore Board, he said, was somewhat inclined to press electricity, but he had every reason to believe the difference of opinion would soon be adjusted; it was simply a matter of compromise.
The N. C. Daily News of the 24th December says:-There have been several deaths from ex- posure amongst the beggars at the gates of the native city during the cold snap, and one yester. day at Sinza. The custom amongst the beggars of Shanghai in cold weather is to eat a certain quantity of Hung Fei or red arsenic, once or twice a day, in proportion to the severity of the weather, as this arsenio is said to give either artificial heat to the body or render it less liable to the effects of cold.
The central executive committee at Lisbon notify that the postponement of the celebration of the fourth centenary of the discovery of the maritime route to India, by Vasco da Gama, from July, 1897, the anniversary of his sailing from Lisbon, until May, 1898, te anniversary of his arrival at Calicut, having been rendered necessary, in consequence of the shortness of time and for other reasons, it has been decided to await further decisions of Parliament, which meets early in January.
The vernacular papers announce the failure of Messrs. C. P. Low & Co., No. 265, Yoko- bama. After consultation with the creditors, Mr. Otani Konosuke and others have agreed to organize a company with a capital of 100,000 yen and carry on the business of tea and silk piece goods exporters. Application has been made to the Agricultural and Commercial Department for a charter. The Juji states that the Company intend to engage Mr. Low's services.—Kobe Ühronicle..
is inviting the British residents to sign a The Hongkong branch of the Navy League declaration to the effect, that, having regard to the recent Admiralty Return of Com- parative Naval Strength, they view with apprehension the alleged intention of the Admiralty to omit provision for the con in the Saigon papers tion of new battleships from the forthe
General of Navy estimates, and therefore urge new post on the 20th Majesty's Government the necessity
family. He has such stops as will restore the predo
and will devote the British fleet as regards battleships irely to the interests of Indo-China, officers and men.
landed them at Namos Jaland.
According to
Duty
H.E. Sheng Hsuan-huai, Director-General of the Great Western Railway, went to Woo- sung on Christmas Day, accompanied by a staff of experts, to examine the ground between there. and Shanghai, on account of which a report in undertaken will be between these two points now circulating that the first railway to be H.E. will subsequently embark in a large-sized steam-launch for a tour between Woosung and his suggestion to the Throne, for Soochow.. Apropos of the above-named official, Imperial Bank to be permitted to coin one-tuel pieces to a total of one million has been sanctioned by the Emperor at the recommendation. Board of Revenue. If these coins amongst the people the said Board int establish a mint at Peking for the purp coining these "tael-dollars. N. C-Da
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From the Times of Ceylon we learn that as the P. & O, steamer Ravenna in it from China via Singapore and Penan Galle on the morning of the 15th Decem she signalled that she required a doctor The Master Attendant; at Galle on board immediately on her arrival in
wired to the Master Attenda
Several surmises were the Port Surgeon was sity for a doctor to be
the P&O
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vered that the
then disinfecter
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