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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLI).
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China Overland
Overland Trade
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :--
Report.
HONGKONG: WEDNESDAY, 9TH JANUARY, 1895.
The Emperor and the Threatened. Occupation of
Peking-Flight or Suicide
Will the Japanese Attack Canton ?
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The Mikado has couforred the order of the The Jiji says that the experience gained in Chrysanthemum on the Emperor Williaur of this war indicates that the best plan to pursue
21 Germany in recognition of the services rendered | with the Chinese is to fight them.at close quar- by German officers in teaching the Japanese | ters! At 800 metres they stand their ground military science.
and shoot resolutely. At 400 metres they begin their arms and cry for mercy. to run away. At 30 metres they throw down
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The Military Contribution and the Policy of the
Unofficial Members of Council
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The War.....
Compensation for the losing of Houses during
the Plague
The Sanitary Board and the Administration of
the Insanitary Dwellings Act
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Death of the Crown Prince of Siam
Taipingstan Resumption Arbitration Board
Supreme Court. : ----
Mou'rie e. McCa' o
The Winglok Street-Murder
Hongkong Sanitary Board....
The Supplying of M rphia by Chemists
Installation Meeting of the Lodge Star of Southern
China, Cantón
Seamen's Missión.
New Year's Day at the Taiko Sugar Refinery Mr. P. E4‹lj e's Annual Bōmba. Report
Marine Court :---
Refusal of Duťv.
Hongkong Jockey Club Race Meeting, 1885
Cricket
Amoy Races
Hongkong Rifle Association
Football
The Chinese Loan and China's Solvency Proposed Extension of Shanghai
The Conduct of the Japanese at Port Arthur Hongkong and Port News.
Commercial
Shipping..
BIRTH.
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Ambassador at the Hague to ask the Nether· ||lands Goveinm-nt to put Japanese in Nether- Mr. Jno. A. Sullivan, stock and share broker' lands ludia on the same legal footing as Euro-of Shanghai, has issued a table showing the peaus there.
differences between valnes of local stocks on the 29th
December. 1893, and 2-th. Decem- At Shanghai, on the 29th ult," eight houses ber, 1894. The appreciation amounts to Tls. in Truuming Road, the property of Messrs. E. 3741,353 and the depreciation to Tis. 981,657. D. Sassoon & Sons, were burut, down, and on The net gain by appreciation of values is there- the 1st inst ten houses in Tiendong Read, the fore Tls 2.759,696. In 1992 the loss by shrinkage property of Messrs. Reiss & ., w ro destroyed. was Tls. 11,144,274, and in 1893 Tl. 2.836.628. A Routs telgram states that operations. Of the appreciation in 1891 Tls. 1.24 is 27 to the south of Monkden are suspended. Un due to the rise in the shares of the Hongkong certainty still prevails as to the destination of and Shangbai Bank. Mr. Sullivan's list incindes 27 the Japanese Third Army Corps; it is con- several Shanghai stooks not usually dealt in on 27 sidered most probable that it is intended to co- the Hongkong market and omits several of our 28 operate with the First and Secoud Armies in the local stocks, so that a similar calculation based North, but the possibility of a descent on For-on the list of the Hongkong Stockbrokers. As- mosa or Canton has also been, mentioned Liu | sociation would show some variation, the net gain Kwan-yi has been appointed". Commander-in- iu the case of Hongkong probably being smaller 30 Chief of the Chinese army. Nowchwang still than at Shanghai.
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34 Japin be lost a distinguished lacquer vorker, 31 says The Advertiser Mr. Saito Musskichi, the noted Licque worker of Tokyo, who had been ill
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A horrible murder was lately committed, we learn from the North Borneo Herald, near the Segama River, in which the victims were seven Chinese fishermen, who had
32|for some time, died on Dec. 23rd. l'ho deceased trade in fishing and dry en doing a good
33 bad exceptional skill in designing lacquer ware. 35 His works have never failed to obtain gold or silver medals at international exhibitions held in Europe and America. He was appointed a judge at all domestic exuibitions that have been held. He contributed, works valued at several thousand yen to the recent Chicago World's Fair, and Visited Chicago as a member of the Committee for Exhibits from Tokyo.
On the 2nd January, at Shameen, Canton, the wife of WILLIAM PESTALOZZI, of a son,
[99] MARRIAGE. At Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, on the 29th December, 1894, by the Rov. H. C. Hodges, STEWARD MUNN MÊLEICH, to NELLIE MACTAVISH.
DEATH.
At No. 8, Kwangse Terrace, Shanghai, on the 3rd January, CHARLOTTE, the beloved wife of Peter
William MACKINTOSH!
The Peking and Tientsin Times says:-The Renter's telegram, priuted to-day with the other telegrams, referring to the failure of a loan called the Sir William Armstrong's loan." is simply a libel on the well-known firm of Lord There have been no arrivals of mails during Armstrong. They have not been concerned in the past week.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Cape Cami light was exhibited for the first time on the 1st instant.
The Crown Prince of Siam died on the 4th inst. after a being illness.
the fish for export to China. It appears that some time about the beginning of September a fishing junk coutain, ing nine Chinamen arrived off the Segama from Sandakan and were visited by six outrigged boats, in each of which were three or four natives who asked for some tobacco. Half a pound was given to them, but they demanded more, and on being told that they would get no more, they jumped on board and murdered seven of the Chinese, two others escaping, although wounded by getting below among the dried fish. The pirates set fire to the junk and left her, after taking away any little valuables they could find. and after destroying the sails. masis, and cordage. The junk drifted for four days, when they sighted another junk, the crew of which helped them and brought them to Sandakan
raising any loan and therefore could not have "failed" in raising one. An attempt has been made in London by an unknown "Armstrong,"
The Chefoo correspondent of the N. C. Daily in connection with Chinese and others there News, writing on the 27th ult., says :-During and here, to raise a loan, which bas ignominiously the last fortnight events have moved ap ce, and failed as it deserved to do, proposed as it was our little commanity is now well organised for by irresponsible and unknown parties We defence. A largely attended meeting was held cannot understand how Reuter's London people at the Club, with the British Consul in the chair orld have allowed such a telegram to leave their and its resolutions resulted in a force of some 32 office.
men and boys assembling next day in Messrs. Fergusson's coal shed to be drilled, one section A Peking telegram, dated 30th December, by Lient. Bourchier, R.N., the other, wainly to the N. C. Daily News, states that An Weitermans, by Dr. Lentz. It was a somenh..t chun. a well-know Cens and the terror of the bighest mandarius of the Empire ou account of his scathing memorials on their alleged misconduct, has at last fallen a victim to bis boldness. Au Imperial Edict has been issued cashiering and banishing him to penal servitude a martial appearance. on the military post roads beyond the Great Wall, for denouncing in a secret memorial H.I.M. the Empress-Dowager for her obstructiveness in interfering with the Emperor's intentions in Reports have for some time been in circulation the affairs of the Empire. The Decree says to the effect that the business of the Straits that "Such utter disrespect and slanderous Insurance Co., Limited, was to be purchased by language against her Imperial Majesty cannot a home Company, and there has been a large be lightly forgiven, hence the punishment of the rise in the value of shares in consequence. It audacious Censor, Au Wei-chun, must be signal appears, however, that the directorate are op.and condigu. in order that others may be pre posed to the winding up of the Company and intend to resist any a tempt that may be made in that direction.
Hanoi has been holding an agricultural show There were 34 entries by Europeans and 216
by natives.
Mr. Hart, Router's agent who was taken prisoner at Port Arthur, arrived at Shanghai
few days ago.
motley crowd, armed in the most heterogeneous fashion with Martini-Henry's, Sniders, Tower rifles, Winchester repeaters, shot guns, revol vers, etc., but our instructors have been inde, fatigable, and we begin already to bave quite The Commissioner and one of his staff shouldered their rifles in out ranks on the first occasion, to demonstrate the solidarity of the Customs with the rest of the community in the matter of self-defence; and should occasion arise, the Commissioner with his assiduously drilled staff of some fifteen men will doubtless constitute the steel head of our spear On the 18th of December the marines and bluer jackets of A.M.S. Porpoise were landed and drilled on the beach, a proceeding as salutary for vented from following his unwarranted example." the men themselves, long cramped up in a small This is the Censor who denounced the brothers' ship, as comforting to us and our native neigh Li and Lin Kun-yi for favouritian and nepotism, bon
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