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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. L.J
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Weck, &c................................................................................................. Leading Articles :-
The Dethronement of Kuan Hsu..............
The Consular Service in Chias
The State of Shantang
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 3RD FEBRUARY, 1900.
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British Railway Undertakings in Asia, II
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Occasional Notes
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Supreme Court
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The Sheil Collecting Monopoly.............................................................................
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Accident on the U.S. gunboat Wheeling
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Kang Yu-Wei Goes to Singapore
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The Engineers' Institute
The South African Fund
The Church in the Philippines'..
Sandakan Notes
Hongkong and Shanghal Banking Corporation......
Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Co., Limited
The Hongkong Ice Co., Limited
The War Relief Fund
Hongkong Football Challenge Shield
Football Notes....
Football
Cricket....
"Criminal Law and its Historical Development" Hongkong and Port News...
Commercial.............. .............................................、、 Shipping
BIRTH.
A special train recently did the journey from Newchwang to Port Arthur in eight hours.
General Wheeler, the veteran American caval- ry leader, visited the colony on his way home from the Philippines. He visited Canton on the 28th ult.
Fifty-three Chinese officials from Wachang, headed by the Provincial Judge, are going to Peking to protest in person against the deposi. tion of Kuang Hsu.
A party of about fifty American mining pro- 74 spectors have arrived at Dagupan, in Luzon, and are making prepartions for an expedition to the mountains in search of gold.
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Li Cheng-yung, Director-General of Mining 77 and Commerce in Szechnen, has been ordered to take up his post as soon as possible, so that no undue advantages may be secured by French concessioners.
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Bir Nicholas Haunen, H.B.M. Chief Justice at Shanghai, goes home on leave on the 13th of May next, and Mr. H. 8. Wilkinson is to be transferred to Shanghai from Japan as Acting 84 Chief Justice.
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At Hsin-chén, on 20th December, 1899, the wife of Dr. MALCOLM, of a daughter (CLAIRE DAVIDSON).
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 19th December ar- rived, per M. M. steamer Laos, on the 28th January (30 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
A Choral Society has been started at Tientsin. Prince Waldemar of Denmark has paid a brief visit to Canton.
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The newly-formed Manila A.D.C. will pro
A. Pair of Spectacles" on the 9th inst. The death of the mother of the Empress of Japan is reported to have taken place on the 15th ult.
There was one case of plague reported and
January 26th.
In connection with the recent attack on Mat Salleh in Borneo by the British North Borneo Police, we learn that 60 rebels were killed and 500 rifles were captured, but unfortunately the Police were not in sufficient force to surround the stockade to capture all the rebels.
The secretaries of the Yokohama St. An drew's and St. George's Societies write to the press that the sum of 1,513 yen has been placed to the credit of the Soldiers' Widows and Or- phans Fund there, being the total receipts of the recent entertainment given by the two
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The Nippon Yusen Kaisha's two sister stea- mers of 6,000 tons each, being built at the Mitsu Bishi Shipbuilding Yard at Nagasaki, will cost the Company about 1,200,000 yen altogether. The laying of the koel of one vessel will take place some time after the 20th inst., while work on the other steamer is expected to be com- menced in June next. The vessels will be entitling them to State aid. constructed so as to come under the rules
In December last-close upon Christmas Day -Messrs. Carmichael's store in Queen's Build
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Mr. Inagaki, the Japanese Minister Resident, was received in audience by Her Majesty, the Queen of Siam, on the 16th inst., to whom he presented an autograph letter from the Empress of Japan. The principal purport of that letter is said to be the thankful acknowledgement of the receipt, by the Empress, of the Order of the Maha Chakri, which has been sent to her · recently.
A "bicycle trolley" service has been establis- hed on the Shanghai-Woosung railway for the conveyance of individuals during the day and after the trains have finished running. The fare for the single journey is two dollars and the time taken by two coolies is about forty minuites. This novel introduction is expected to prove a great boon to the shipping community and will no doubt be largely patronised.
Hongkong harbour presents an imposing and war-like appearance with the large number of men- of-war here at present. There are British, the Victorious, Centurion and Barfleur, battleships; Undaunted, Orlando, Iphigenia and Brisk, orui. sloops, Fame. Whiting, Hart and Handy, sers; Alacrity. Phænix, Algerine, Waterwitch.
destroyers and several gunboats and torpedo- boats in reserve. The foreign men-of-war here are American, Brooklyn, Baltimore, Wheeling, Monadnock and gunboats in dock; German, Herth Iltis; French Pascal, Austrian Zen. tha. Danish, Valkyrien. There crews combined amount to several thousands of men.
The correspondent of the N.C. Daily News at Vladivostock writes that an Institute of Eastern Languages was opened in Vladivostook on the 3rd of November. Professor Posdneeff from St. Petersburg University has been appointed Director. The instruction began on the 12th of November, and there are already more than thirty students. The languages taught are Chinese, Corean, Japanese, Manchurian, and Mongolian. Vladivostock has now two gymna schools for boys and girls; a Russian-Chinese siums for males and females; three elementary School; navigation classes; and a school for twenty-fire papils from the military port. In all these institutions there are about one thousand pupils altogether.
The march out on Wednesday in connection with the Hongkong Volunteer Corps was a The weather was beautifully great success.
one death in the colony for the week endingings. Hongkong, was broken into and watches / fine. About 220 officers and men assembled at
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The American battleship Brooklyn, Admiral Watson on board, arrived at Hong kong on the 1st inst.
Thirty-one girls were burned to death in the
and goods valued at $700 were stolen. On with that occasion an entrance was effected by break- ing a window and shooting the fastener. On Sunday morning it was discovered that the store had been broken into in a similar manner, and $500 worth of goods stolen, the goods com-
cigarette holders, umbrellas, binoculars, eto,, besides money.
band set out for North Point soon after ten Head-quarters, and headed by the fife and drum
took place, and the men were inspected by His o'clock. Here volley firing and gun practice Excellency the Governor (Sir Henry Blake, G.C.M.G.), the Honorary Colonel of the Corps.
destruction of a weaving factory by fire at Na- \ prising meerchaum and briar pipes, cigar and | Subsequently tiffin was served in the large mat-
goya on the 24th ult.
It is understood that Russia undertakes to back-up the Empress Dowager in her action, and to do so forcibly if necessary.
The Imperial Chinese Telegraph Admin. istration prohibits all Chinese messages referring to the Emperor being sent from Peking.
The plague for the present has disappeared from Newchwing. Precautions are being taken against its possible reappearance in Spring.
Newchwang has commenced a subscription list in aid of the War Relief Fund. It has been generously taken up by the British com- munity.
shed at Bay View, and after this the corps were marched down to the Polo Ground, where, under the command of Major Morris, of the The prevalence of the pest at Kobe and Osaka | B. W. F. (the Acting Commandant), they parad- has greatly affected the traffic on the railways, | ed before His Excellency. At the conclusion of with the result that there has been a diminution the parade the Governor delivered a little of about 300,000 passengera per month on the speech. He expressed his pleasure at seeing so Tokaido line only, followed by a loss of upwards good a muster, and complimented the men on ed that the loss suffered by the commercial and selves. The men then proceeded to Head-quar of 100,000 yen in receipts. It is therefore fear- the manner in which they had acquitted them- industrial circles has been even greater. Nofresh ters. Before being dismissed Major Morris case of plague has been reported from Osaka spoke to them, and in the course of his observa. since the 12th. The total number of cases there tions particularly mentioned the shooting dis from the first outbreak on 18th November last play made by the Field Battery. A good in 42, of which 39 have proved fatal. Three are number of spectators were at North Point and under treatment at the Momoyama Hospital.. at the Polo Ground.
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