Hongkong Weekly Press
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 15th October arrived, per O. & O. steamer Coptic, on the 396 12th November (27 days); and the German 396
mail of the 14th October arrived, per N. D. L. 397 397 steamer Stuttgart; on the 14th November (31)
days).
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Mosquitoes and Malaria in Hongkong
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The British Association at Glasgow
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The Crisis: Telegrams
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King's Birthday Levee at Government House
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Tarix Revision
Hongkong Sanitary Board.
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
The Fête on the Cricket Ground
Lady Gascoigne's "At Home'
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The A.D.. Entertainment
Institute of Engineers and Shipbuilder:
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Opening of the Queen's Hotel
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Prince Chun in Shanghai..
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Canton ....
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Vladivostock
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Foochow
Correspondence
Review
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China Traders' Insurance Co., Limited
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The Dairy Farm Co., Limited
The Interport Cricket Week
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Lawn-Tennis
Hongkong Boat Club
Interport Rifle Match
Yokohama Races
-Manila
Football
Royal Hong ong Golf Club
The Late Li Hung-chang..........
The Chinese Customs
New Russian Submarine Tropado-Boat Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The French China Loan Budget Committee 400 has decided to give no portion to native missions
or to Orders prohibited by French law.
Prince Ching's orders last week were that he was to travel "night and day" to Kaifengfu, 407 to satisfy the Court's anxiety for full details of 407
recent occurrences at Peking. 4-7
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Yuan Shikai has been appointed to the acting office in Chihli, and Wang Wen-shao 408 Vice-president of the Foreign Office, as Peace 408 Plenipotentiary, in place of the late Li Hung-
409 chang.
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On the 25th October, at Ichang, the wife of ROBERT WILLIS, H.B.M. Acting consul, of a
· daughter.
The anniversary of the birthday of His 413 Majesty the King was celebrated on the 9th inst., when the warships and other vessels in Harbour flew bunting, the former also firing a The 11th inst. was observed as salute at noon, a public holiday in Hongkong.
At a meeting of the Chiun Asscoiation in London, the Chairman warmly congratulated Japan on the gallant part she had taken in the relief of the Legations and subsequent opera tions in the north. He considered that there was still great danger from reactionaries.
On the 29th October, at "Doves' Nest." Kuching, the wife of Jos. P. REUTENA, Govern- ment Accountant, of a daughter.
On the 4th November, at 90, Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, the wife of ROBERT SUTHERLAND, of a son.
On the Sth November, at 52, Broadway, Shanghai, the wife of WILLIAM COHEN, of the C.I,P.O., of a daughter.
On the 9th November, at No. 1, Ladder Street Terrace, the wife of C. E. WARREN, of a daughter, On the 9th November, at Shanghai, the wife of J.-M. E. PEREIRA, of a son.
On the 10th November, at 18, Peking Road, Shanghai, the wife of LESLIE J. CUBITT, of a Caughter.
On the 12th November, at Kowloon Dork, the wife of D. BALDWIN, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
by the Rev. F. T. Johnston, FRANK BROWNE, On the 8th November, at St. John's Cathedral, Government Analyst, to JESSIE, youngest daughter of HENEY HUNT, Nowton Lodge, Bury St. Edmunds, England.
On the 11th November, at the Union Church, by the Rev. G. J. Williams, Grorge Kat Haxton, son of the late WILLIAM FYFFE and Mrs. HAXTON, of the Schoolhouse, Markinch, Scotland, to EUPHEMIA, youngest daughter of the late TwoAS and Mrs. WILSON, of Langholm, Scotland.
DEATHS.
The Japanese Government disbursements entailed by the North Chins affairs during the past fiscal year amounted to 22,815,910 yen, of which 20,000,000 yen are stated to have been defrayed from the naval construction fund, which has been transferred to the accounts of the extraordinary revenue. Therefore, the pay- ment actually made from the ordinary annual income amounts to 2,815,910 yen.
The negotiations that have been going on between the Japanese Vice-Consul in Chung- with king and the Viceroy of Szechuan Chungking, were brought to a satisfactory reference to land for Japanese settlement in conclusion on the 30th of October, an area of over 126,000 tsubo being granted for the pur
The text of the convention, according to a Tokyo despatch, will be officially published in a few days.
рове.
Mr. Greville left Bangkok in December, 1899 so that by the time Mr. Tower is in residence there the interregnum will have lasted practi- cally two years. The Bangkok Times expresses its satisfaction that the Foreign Office has at last been awakened to the fact that there are
On the 1st November, at 4, Love Lane, Shang-atill British interests in Sism, and as Mr. hai, HEEMANN SILLEM, aged 61 years.
Tower has been appointed Minister Plenipoten On the 4th November, at 'Hangchow, after a short illness, ADELAIDE MARY MOULE, eldest tiary, it may perhaps be inferred that the daughter of Bishop and Mrs. MoULK, aged 42 years.intention is to be firm in protecting them.
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No. 21.
The Australian Federal Senate is debating the Alien Bill excluding all without knowledge of any European language. Ministers are urging acceptance of this Bill as being least offensive to the Japanese, whose friendship is important to England. A close division is anticipated.
Dr. Morrison's authentic text of the Man- churian Convention, as telegraphed by him to the Times, confirms his despatch of the 22nd October. The Convention specifies the restora tion of the railway to its original owners, and forbids the extension of the line in Southern Manchuria without Russia's consent. There is no mention of other privileges granted to Russiar which induces the belief that the Grand Council has not disclosed all the terms of the Conventiɔn.
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A Peking dispatch to Shanghai states that the Chinese Foreign Ministry recently receive a despatch from the Portuguese Governor of Macso tentatively asking for the cession of the district of Hsiangshan, bordering on Macao, in order to round up a scientific frontier for the Portuguese concession. The excuse for th above demand of the Portuguese Government is the cession of Kowloon and immediate vicinity by the Chinese Government to Great Britain-which is now rather old history.
We learn on reliable authority from Mario that in connection with the cancelled sale of the Boa Vista Hotel to the French Government,
the consideration money which is be paid by the
Macao authorities is 370,000. The price at which the original owner parted with the pro- perty and all its appurtenances, our informant continues, was approximately $39,00). It is rumoured that ultimately the Santa Casa da Misericordia may take the property over at the price which the Portuguese Government has agreed to pay.
The reorganisation of the Taiwan (Formosa)
Government has been approved by the Japanese Emperor, and an official notice to this effect will be promulgated shortly. The existing three perfectual government offices are to bu abolished and the whole of Formosa will be governed by the Governor-General's Office. The police administration is to be conducted by the Inspector-General of Police, who is to be appointed by the Governor-General reform is based upon the policy of Central
administration.
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A new customs tariff came into force in British North Borneo on the 15th October. Under it, imported rifles and guns are charged at the rate of $5 a barrel, and pistols and revol- vers 83 each. Cloth, flour, rope, building
provisions are charged 5 per cent. on the valne, 10 per cent. is the rate on chemicals, entlery. materials, leather, rice, stationery, and tinned
haberdashery, machines, medicines, paints, silkstuffs, timber, and pipes. Imported fire. works pay 25 per cent, on the value. Liquors are rated high, gin being $7.50 a case. exports, barks and roots are charged 25 per cent. on the value, camphor four dollars per catty, copra 5 per cent. ad valorem, gutta percha 10 per cent. ad valo em~or $20 on every picul of the red kind-oattle $5 per head, ambier and catch to be charged under agreement, rał. tans and rice 10 per cent.`od valorem, raw sago 16 cants per pioni, timber $2, $1.75, and $0,75 per ton; tobacco (estate) one cent per English pound, and (native) one dollar per thousand
rolls.
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