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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLI.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c. Leading Articles :-
HONGKONG: THURSDAY, 31ST JANUARY, 1895.
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The Manila Exhibition was tormally opened on the 23rd inst.
The English_community of Hongkong gave a St. George's Ball on the 23rd instant.
The annual meeting of the Medical Missionary 78 Society in China was held at Canton on the 78 24th instant
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Herr Von Brandt and the Audience Question........ 79 The Sitnation in the Straits Settlements The Hongkong Military Contribution Transit Dues in Tonkin
Landlords and the New Sanitary Requirements... 79
The War..
St. George's Pall
Ragged Robbin" at Government House Supreme Court.....
Taipingsian Resumption Arbitration Board Launch of a Gunb at at Kowloon Docks...
The City of Rio de Janeiro.
The Accident to the N. P. Steamer Victoria
The Execution of Au Chun and Li Pong,
The House of Nazareth
Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co. West Point Building Co., Limited......
Hongkong, Canton, and Macae Steamboat Co.,
Limited
The Kowloon Land and Building Co., Limited
The New Balmoral Gold Mining Co., Limited
Bell's Asbestos Eastern Agency, Limited.... Raub
Hongkong Rifle Association
Cricket
Hongkong Volunteers:
Football
Death of Prince-Arisugawa of Japan The Repair of the Chenyuen...
A Legislative Assembly for Siam
The Situation in Peking .
Eartqu ke in Tokyo and Yokohama. Hongkong News
Commercial
Shipping..
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A rather severe earthquake was experienced at Tokyo and Yokohama on the 18th inst., which did some damage to buildings.
A gunboat built for the Spanish Government 81 for service in the Philippines was launched 82 from the Kowloon Docks on the 24th instart. 82
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On the 29th instant the two murderers Au £3 Chun and i Pong, who were concerned in the Winglok Street raid, were executed in Viotoria 83 Gaol.
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H.II. the Crown Prince of Japan who was a lieutenant in the Army, was promoted to the rank of Captain on the 4th inst., at the age of 85 fifteen.
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The property of the Shanghai Dock Company has been disposed of. Messrs. Farnham & Co.. sum of Tis. 150,000, and the China Merchants Limited, purchased the Dock property for the S. N. Co. bought the Lower Wharf property for Tls. 180,500. Messrs. Farnham's offer was the only one made for the Dock property, but there were two offers for the Lower Wharf.
From the half-yearly report to be submitted to a general meeting of the Grand Hotel (Yoko- bama) shareholders on the 30th inst., we take the following:-The net profit for the half year, including balance brought forward from the 30th June, 1894, and after providing for general expenses, directors' and auditor's fees. interest and depreciation. and after writing off bad debts, amounts to $9.718.14, which it is pro- posed to apply as follows:-In payment of a dividend of 3 per cent. for the half year $7,500, balance to new account $2,318.14
There would appear to be little doubt, says the Japan Gazette, that the new Japanese war. ship Izumi-kan, which arrived nobody knew whence, is the Chilian warship Esmeralda. We the Yokohama Post Office addressed to the understand that a letter was recently received at
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delivered to the second officer of the schooner Second Commander. Esmeralda,” which was Esmeralda, Capt. Harrison, now in port. As Langfeldt & Co., Limited, of Yokohama, im-for him he returned it to the Postal authorities. the recipient found the letter was not intended porters, shipchandlers, etc, working with a capi-The letter, it seems, was posted in Chili, and we 91 tal of $100 000, present a report for the half-year ended 31st December which shows the bet profits for that period to have been $28,372. It is pro- posed to pay a dividend of 5 per cent., give a bonus of $2000 to the Company's employés, and
arry forward $1,372.
On the 25th instant, at the Government Civil Hos: pital, the wife of the Bov. E. B. BEAUCHAMP,: of Pakhoi. of a daughter.
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At Chefoo, on 21st January, the wife of W. N. BEAUCLERK, Esq., First Secretary H.B.M. Legution, Peking, of a daughter.
MARRIAGE.
On the 22nd of January, at H.B.M. Consulate- General, Shanghai, before Geo. Jamieson, Esq., Act- ing Consni-General, and afterwards at the Cathedral Government, requesting the separation of the by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., DWARD PROVIS, offices of Chief Justice and Consul General in younger son of the late Major E. T. WICKHAM, 60th Shanghai. The correspondence on this subject Rifles, to MARY BEATRICE, third daughter of the is included in the report. late Hon. J. CECIL PHILLIPPO, M.D., of Kingston, Jamaica, W. Indies.
believe before being delivered to the schooner Esmeralda was sent to the Foreign Office and returned to Yokohama.
The Bangkok Times makes the announcement that the choice of a successor to the late Crown Prince has been made and that the ceremony of
The anual report of the Shanghai Branch of proclamation was to take place on the 17th the China As ociation has been published. The instant. The King has determined to appoint Committee on Mr. Hannen's departure from as Crown Prince and Heir Apparent his son Shanghai on leave, again addressed Her Majes-Chow Fa Mabá Vajiravadh, eldest son of the Second Queen, born on 1st January, 1881, and who is now studying under special tutorship at Ascot, near London. It may be presumed that His Royal Highness will return to Siam at the end of the year, on the commencement of the ho- The N. P. steamer Victoria, which left Houg.lidays, so as to be present at the cremation cére- kong on the 23rd instant for Tacoma, arrived at monies of his late brother and afterwards to go Moji on the 28th and whilst mooring was car-through the religious ceremony of his own in- ried by the strong current against the bows of vestiture as Crown Prince. The American mail of the Sed January arin her side. It was intended to place a tempo- another steamer, sustaining a serious fracture rived, per P. M. steamer City of Peking, on the 29th January (26 days); the Canadian mail of the 7th January arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of India, on the 29th January (22 days); and the English mail of the 28th December arrived, per P. & O. steamer Kaiser-i-Hind, on the 30th January (32 days).
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
rary patch over the hole and then proceed to Kobe, where the vessel will bo surveyed,
The annual report of the Kowloon Laud and Building Co., Limited, shows that the balance of profit and loss account for the year, after writing off all charges and expenses, amounted to 84,419. The directors recommend that a dividend of 7 per cent. be paid, which, after writing off the directors' and auditors' fees, will leave a balance of $47 to be carried forward to the credit of a new profit and loss account.
The Japanese have now completely invested Wai-bai-wei. The Chinese are said to be de- termined to make a vigorous defence, but after their performance at Port Arthur and, through- out the campaign the probability is that the invaders will soon be masters of the fortress. In Manchuria the operations of the Japanese of late have been directed to cutting off the retreat of the Chinese army deferding Moukden. The peace negotiations are about to be entered upon, but it is not generally expected that they will prove successful. The Chinese Envoys, Chang Ying- hoan and Shao Yü-lin. with their suite, were to leave Shanghai for Japan in the Empress of The half yearly report of the Hongkong, Can. China on the 26th instant, and the steamer was ton, and Macao Steamboat Co., Limited, shows to receive orders to stop at Shimonoseki, whence that after paying running expenses, salaries, the Japanese will convey the Embassy to Hiro- premia of jusurance, repairs, and all other out-shima. Mr. Foster, the foreign adviser to the goings, there remains, including $24.752 brought Chinese peace mission, arrived at Yokohama by EPITOME OF THE WEEK..
forward from last account, the sum of $113,751 the Empress of India on the 21st inst. Mr. at credit of profit and loss account. From this Dun, the American Minister, left Tokyo for Kung Taotai, Civil Commander of Port sum the directors recommend that a dividend for Yokohama to meet him. Arthur, has at last arrived at Peking, and was the half year of 6 per cent. on capital, or $96,000, Foster went to Tokyo and had an interview with immediately turned over the Board of Punish-be paid to shareholders, and that the balance of Mr. Hayashi, the Vice-Minstter for Foreign meuts.
$17,751 be carried forward to new account. Affairs.
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