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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 ;—
The Capture of Weihaiwei
The War and its Position
Trade between Japan and Australia
Heavy Fines under the Building Ordinance.
Russia and England.
HONGKONG: THURSDAY, 14TH FEBRUARY, 1895.
The Election of a Member of Council by the Cham.
ber of Commerce
A Legislative Council for Siam
The Production of Gold
The War......
Contravening the Building Ordinancǝ
Distribution of Ambulance Certificates.......
Impudent Frauds in the Colony
The Murder in Winglok Street
The N. D. L. Steamer Prinz Heinrich.
The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Gó-down Co.,
Limited
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited.
The China Fire Insurance Co., Limited
The Wanchai Warehouse and Storage Co., Limited Hongkong Ice Oo., Limited
Green Island Cement Co., Limited
The Puujom Mining Co., Limited..
The Dairy Farm Co., Limited...
Hongkong Golf Club
Cricket
Hongkong Rifle Assoctation
Correspondence :-
Contravention of the Building Ordinance
The Water Squeeze.
Projected Railways
The Pantomime.
Hongkong News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
The Hupeh Arsenal, which was burnt down some time ago, has now, we larn from the Mer cury, been rebuilt. Two ex-prefects, Wang and 109 Hung, have been placed in charge of these works, and ordered to take pains to prevent an- other fire.
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By the mail of the 7th inst. we learn that Major-General G. D. Barker, C.B., obtains pro- motion to the rank of Lieutenant-General, in 112 consequence of the approaching retirement of 113 Sir D. C. Drury-Lowe, K.C.B.
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A Legislative Council has been established in 118 Siam, the functions of which are somewhat 11s similar to those of Legislative Councils in 118 British Crown Colonies. All the members are 119
appointed by the King, nothing in the nature of .119
the elective principle being introduced.
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No. 7.
An extraordinary general meeting of the Green Island Cement Co., Limited, was held on the 8th inst., when it was intimated that the scheme of reconstruction bad failed and that the present General Managers. Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg & Co., wished to retire, being unwilling to advance further capital. A resolution was General Managers. passed appointing Messrs.
Shewan & Co.
The annual report of the China Fire Insurance Co., Limited, shows a balance of profit on the dividend of $3 per share, of $125,233, which it 1893 account, after payment of the interim is proposed to apportion as follows:-$60,000 to shareholders as a fiual dividend of $3 per bonus to contributors of premia, and the balance, share, making $6 for the year; $27,925 as a
$37.308, to the credit of working account 1894. The premium income for 1894 shows a good increase, but unfortunately the losses have been greater than in any similar period of the Com- pany's history. The bulk of these occurred in Manila, where two fires, on 21st September and 9th December, involved the Company in several distinct losses, amounting to $151,023, inclusive these occurrences the directors, after mature of $20,347 loss in exchange. Whilst deploring consideration, recommend the payment of the same interim dividend as before, viz., 83 por:
The annual meeting of the Wanchai Ware. house and Storage Co, Limitel, was held on the 120 12th inst., when the report and accounts were 121 passed. The net profits, including $762 brought 121 forward, amounted to $7,2:8 A dividend at 121 the rate of 6 per cent, absorbing $$,850, was
declared, and the balance carried forward. .123 A Renter's telegram states that the new 123 Chinese loan has not proved successful.
loan referred to is not precisely stated, but 123 sumably it is not the loan of £3.000,000 issued 124 through the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, as share. 124 this, we hear, was fully subscribed. Possibly 125 there has been an attempt to float another loan
through other agency,
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On the 10th February, at 13, Praya East, the wife of W. G. WINTERBURN, of a son (stillborn). [379 At 3, West Terrace, on the 11th February, the wife of BUCHER BRABEZON BROOKE PIGOT, of a daugh- [391
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The report of the Hougkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited, for the last half-year, shows the sum of $172,236 available for appropriation. The directors recommend that a dividend for the half-year of per cent., or $:09.375, be paid to the shareholders, a bonus of $100 to contributing shareholders, that $35,000 be written from the On the 2nd February, 1895, at H.I.G.M.'s Consul-value of Kowloon Docks, $5,000 from the steam ate General, Shanghai, and afterwards at the Syna- launches, and the balance $22,761 carried to new gogue, Beth El," HENRY GENSBURGER. to SARAH, account. fourth daughter of M. Haimovitch, Shanghai.
tor.
MARRIAGE.
DEATH.
At the Government Civil Hospital, on Saturday, 9th February, 1895, WILLIAM LEES, aged. 34 years, late Chief Engineer of the steamor Pallas..
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 4th January arrived per M. M. steamer Saghalien, on the 7th
The annual report of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Limited, shows that the gross revenue for the year was $275,942, as compared with $31,473 in the pre- vious year. The not profit at credit of working account, after writing off $22,792 for repairs to the property and including $9,225 brought for ward, is $75,924, from which have to be deducted interim dividend $25,000, directors' fees $6,000, auditors' $500, leaving available for appropriation $44,424. From this it is proposed to pay a final paid in July, makes 33 or 6 per cent. for the year, and to carry forward the balance of $9,424 to next account.
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The island of Linkung tao, which protects the | harbour of Weihaiwei, was reported to have been captured by the Japanese on the 7th înst.. gram states that it was still unsubdued. The after a siege of thirteen days, but a later tele- exact position at the moment appears doubtful, but, if not already in the hands of the Japanese, Chinese vessels Tingyuen (flagship, ironclad), fortress cannot hold out long. Laiyuen (armoured cruiser). wooden corvettes were sunk by torpedoes, and and three several torpedo boats were destroyed, but a por tion of the Chinese fleet appears to have escaped. The port of Ninghai has also been captured and according to latest reports the Japanese troops were marching on Chefoo to attack that port în the rear. The embassy sent by China to Japan to discuss terms of peace has proved abortive, the credentials of the Ministers not giving them such powers as in the opinion of the Japanese would entitle them to recognition.
February (34 days); the American mail of the dividend of $1.75 per share, which, with the $1.25 / pronounced attitude. When it was learned that
15th January arrived, per P. M. steamer China, on the 11th February (26 days); and the English mail of the 11th January arrived, per P. & O. steamer Rohilla, on the 11th February (31 days)
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Pakuam Railway Company. Siam. pays dividend of 34 per cent. for the last balf year. It is reported that as a result of a recent memorial to the Throne a railway between the capital and the Yangtsze Provinces is to be constructed.
In a matter in which China has been erring recently we (N. C. Daily News) are glad to see the foreign Ministers in Peking had assumed a the former servants of the Japanese Legation in jected to the dreadful tortures which take their Peking had been thrown into prison and sub-
place in the Chinese system of jurisprudence, On the 6th inst., at the Police Court, Mr. there was a unanimous opinion that the case Mackintosh, of the firm of Messrs. Butterfield concerned all foreigners. We are glad to learn in which he was charged with committing in- and demanded a cessation of the foolish and and Swire, was fined $50 in each of four cases that the foreign Ministers adopted this view, fractions of the Building Ordinance in conneo. wicked torturing of boys," coolies, and tion with building operations at the Quarry such like, who were obviously ignorant of Bay Sugar Refinery, with the alternative, in the designs of the Japanese Legation in- default of payment, of two months' hard labour. habitants. The Ministers pointed out that The offences were technical in their character, according to the Treaties foreigners had the consisting of omissions to give certain formal right of employing natives without hindrance, potices to the Public Works Department or to and that the present proceedings were little apply for permission for certain encroachments. less than the wreaking of vengeance upon presiding Magistrate, reviewed his decision, with by certain significant remarks as to what might On the 11th inst. Commander Hastings, the innocent persons. The protest was supported the result that the alternative of two months' be expected in the event of it being disregarded, hard labour was removed, but the fines remained and happily it had good results. The Minis. unaltered. The case bas excited a good deal of ters are to be congratulated upon an action attention and Messrs. Butterfield and Swire which does credit, not only to their humanity, have addressed the Government on the subject, but to their political sagacity.
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