THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL XLL]
AND
China Overland
Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :-
The Japanese Plan of Campaign
The Bomba dment of Eungchow-fu
The Tung Wah Hoapitl
Fines and Imprisonment.
An Landequate Bentence
Supreme Court :—
Tang Kit Shang v. Ng Pak To
Taipingelan, Resumption Arbitration Board
Hongkong Sanitary Board..
HONGKONG: WEDNESDAY, 23RD JANUARY, 1895.
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Telephonio.communication has been establish- ed between Gap Rock and Hongkong, replacing the transmission of messages by telegram.
The appeal by the Manila Railway to the Madrid Courts as to the rate of exchange at which its guarantee is to be paid has been heard, but judgment is reserved.
Major-General W. Black, CB, now com. manding at Belfast, has been selected to succeed Major-General G. D. Barker, C.B.. in the 61 command of the troops here.
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The Winglok Street Case
„The Police and the Military
Mr. Justice Ackroyd on Fines and Imprisonment
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Telephone to Gap Rock
John's Cathedral
Queen's C llege
Diopeaan School and Orphanage
ki-zistallisen ...........
Banjom Mining Co., Limited.
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On the 26th ult. 280 soldiers arrived in Tien- tai¦ overland from Port Arthur and were placed in the different hospitals. Only a few of them were wounded, but many were frost-bitten. the wounds inflicted by the rifle bullet of the Japa- nese, the Peking and Tientsin Times says, seem to disable rather than to inflict fatal wounds, one man baving, it is said, walked off the fi-ld with no less than five bullets in different parts of his body, and some of the men had bullet wounds going completely through the body.
From the Mercury we learn that a telegram
Subject to audit, the Directors of the Hong. dated Fusan, 12th instant, states that Captain
Tsubakan kong and Shanghai Bank propose to pay a
reports that the Tonghak insurrection dívidend of £1 58. per share, place $500,000 to been arrested who declares that the insurgents at Juntsendo has been suppressed. A spy has 43 credit of reserve fund, to write $100,000 off pro-have proved themselves sincere in their surrender 63perty account, and carry forward about $131,000 169 to next half year.
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The Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co., Ld. 7
The West Fant Building Co., Limited
The British Dollar
Hongkong Golf Club
Football
uth of hár. John. Holliday
The Low of the Sea Swallow Hongkong News Commercial
Skippang..
MARRIAGES.
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The Indo- bina steamer Taiwo, which left Shanghai for bankow on the 13th inst, went ashore on the Langshan Cross ng owing to the 71 removal by the Chinese of the buoys which for 71 merly marked the chaupel. She is said to have 71broken her back aud to be likely to become a 72 total wrecki All the cargo and treasure was
got ont of her.
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On the 17th January, at St. Joseph's Church, by the Taher B. Vigano, ERNEST C. CLITH ROW, to Nantis, daughter of the late Mons. Lambert D'Arc,
Cardin, England.
[218 On the 16th of January, 1995, at the Cathedral Shanghai, by the Rav. H. C. Hodges, M‚‹, FRIDA- Jozx, eldest son of the late John ABBOTT, of Faversham, Kent, to ELINOR, only daughter of James KENWORTHY, of Shanghai.
DEATH..
On the 14th inst, at the Bungalow, Shameen, Can- ton, E. A. LINCE, în his 34th year.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS. The German mail of the 17th December arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Darmstadt, on the 18th January (3) days); the American mail the 24th December arrived, per O, ₺ 0. steamer Gaelic, on the 19th January (26 days); and the French mail of the 21st December arrived, per M. M. stosmor Ernest Simons, op the 21st January (31 days).
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
by beheading, thoir principal chiefs and forty others. Captain Tsubakad and the Korean authorities examined a number of prisoners, who declared that divisions had occurred amonget the insurgents themselves. It is also reported that the combined attack of the Japanese sailors and Korean soldiers upon the Tonghaks com- pletely terrified them.
The Japanese have lately again bec me active in the prosecution of the campaign against Wo (Peking and Tientsin Times) understand China, On the 10th inst. Kaeping, near that the coast defences under General von Newohwang, was captured, and on the 19th Hanneken will, for administrative purposes Tangabow-fu, on the North of the Shangtung form part of the Customs service under Sir Promontory, about thirty miles from Chefoo, The latter operation was ap- Robert last Sub a combination would be a was bombarded. guarantee of efficient military service and effecparently intended as a fint preliminary to an Weihaiwei. A Reuter's telegram tive administration greatly needed in all branobes attaca en of the Chinese government, and the absence of dated the 22nd states that twenty-five thousand which has been emphasised disastrously in every Japanese troops have lauded at Yung-cheng, thirty-five miles S.E. of Woiharwei, the Ja phase of this war.
p nese war ships having previously silened the shore batteries.
The Foochow Echo says the last payment of £149 000 of the war loan coptracted in 1885, after the Franco-Chinese war, by the Fuhkien
The annual meeting of the Hongkong Land Provincial Authorities, from the ongko g and Investment and Agency Co., Limited, was hold Shanghai Bank, was repaid on the 10th instant. Yesterday, at which the report aud accounts The original amount was £1000,000, and with were adopted. The report showed that the the interes, 7 per cent, has been paid in yearly net profits for the year, including $27,855 instalments. On account of this large payment balance brought forward from last account our contemporary, understands that there is amounted to $244,947. From this amount an scarcity of dollars in the market.
interim dividend of $2 per share has already been paid, and it was now proposed to pay a fual The annual meeting of the West Point Build-dividend of $2 per share, making a total dividend ing Co, Limited, was held yesterday, and the of 8 per cent. per annum on the paid-up capital, report and accounts were adopted. The net ud after writing off directors and auditors profits for the year, after writing off directors' fees, there remained a balance of $34 447 10 and auditors' fees and all other charges, inolu. be carried forward to the oredit of a new profit ding the debit: balance brought forward from and losa account. last year, amounted to $9,612, from which dividen 1 of 50 cents per share was declared, the balance of $2,812 being married forward to credit of new profit and loss account.
Owing to the drought last summer and autumn in the Chinking prefecture, the N. C. Daily News says, certain districts, notably lantu, are suffering severely from its effects. The dis- A patriotic appeal and prayer for the reoon-triots most severely affected have had their struction of the present rotten regime of the annual taxes remitted, which has caused the government as well as a protest against the in-other less fortunate districts to feel envy at what tention to make overtures for peace, embodying they term "the partiality of the officials." Ià a paper containing several thousand characters, consequence of this, on the 8th instant, according the N. C. Daily News says, has been telegraphed to Chinkiang despatches, a mob of over 1,000 to the Viceroy Li Hung-chang by Li Total of men, women, and children belonging to the lantu Chungking, Szechuan, with the request that district entered the sou h gate of the city beg- his petition may be forwarded to the Throne. ging from the shops en route for muey Li Taotai is known as a man of advanced ideas to pay their land taxes.” This caused a regnlar The and has been for many years in the Imperial closing of shop doors and cessation of trad». Diplomatic service abroad, having been Minister local mandarios went out in strong force and to Japan, the United States, etc., and since be- succeeded in dispersing the riotons mob and ar- ing appointed Chungking Tantai has endeav. | resting over thirty men. The next step was lo Official advices from Hankow state that Changoured in many ways to put his foreign experi ask the shop people to open their doors to trade Chih,tung will return to Wuchang after, China once into practical use, the first schaal for teach- again, which was done only upon the chehsien New Iear and there resume his Viceroyalty of ling foreigu languages, arts, and agiences in the persqually promising to prevent a re-assembling Hupoi and Hugen,
province having been inaugurated by him. of the mob, More riots, however, are feared,
The Thames Ironworks is reported to be mak ing good progress with its 12,250-ton battleship for Japan.
MRousseau, the new Governor-General of French Indo-China, is to leave France on the 3rd proximo.
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