THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLI.]
AND
China Overland
Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :→→
The Peace Negotiations
Li Hung-chang as a Peace Ambassador
HONGKONG: WEDNESDAY, 20TH FEBRUARY, 1895.
The half yearly meeting of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited, was held on .129 the 18th inst., when the report and accounts
were adopted.
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The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Meeting.....130
France and Siam
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The Unofficial Element in the Legislative Council.13)
Western Inventions in China..
The Sale of Spurious Spirits
The War....
Trouble in Formosa
Murder in Kowloon.
Affray between the Military and Police Hongkong Sanitary Board
After the War
Reviews:-
Warlike Exploits of the Merchant Navy Supreme Court :--
The Fatal Affray near Happy Valley
The Taipingshan Arbitration Board...
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The annual meeting of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited, was held on the 15th inst., when the report and accounts were adopted.
.132 The Foochow Echo understands that it is in 132 the contemplation of the local authorities to levy another lekin tax of Tls, 2.50 upon tea 135 during the season 1895-1896 as a war contribu- 1.135 tion.
The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co.,
Limited
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited.
Shanghai Land Investment Co., Limited........
Cricket
Hongkong Golf Club
Hongkong Volunteers.......
Hengkong Rifle Association
The Bank Meeting
Correspondence :--
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No. 8.
Mr. Claude White, British Agent in Sikkim, will, the Rangoon Gazette says, shortly under- take the delimitation of the Sikkim-Tibet frontier in accordance with the terms of the
Anglo-Chinese Treaty. The Tibetans will send take only a small escort with him. representatives to meet Mr. White, who will
On the night of the 14th inst., a havildar in the Hongkong Regiment named Uramz Khan was fatally shot. Before he died he accused a private named Nawab Shah of being his assailant and this man has been charged with the murder. The affair occurred in an unfrequented road and the circumstances are wrapped in mystery.
The Chefoo correspondent of the Mercury writing on the 7th inst. says:-The Japanese, I bear, are coming here to try a sort of" test case, to see how the Foreign Powers will take it. If this is really the case no doubt it explains the reason of Admiral Fremantle's short and con tinual visits here in the Centurion.
The annual report of the Shanghai Land 136 Investment Co., Limited, shows a profit on the working account of Tls. 43,561 as against Tls. .137 | 39:348 last year. A final dividend of 4 per cent., 137 making 7 per cent. for the year, is recommended. A Havas telegram dated Paris, 7th inst., reads as follows:-It is stated that France, Russia, England, and the United States have agreed to 140 prevent Japan annexing any part of the con- Peking on the 17th January, for gross coward- 140 tinent and also to demand from China the open-ice, is reported, says the Peking and Tientsin .141 ing of all her ports to commerce.
Times, to have amassed Taels 200,000, presumably
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The Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders of
Hongkong
Hongkong News
Commercial
Shipping..
BIRTH.
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General Wei Ya-kwei, who was executed at
Mr J. A. Swettenham. Auditor-General of embezzled from the pay of his troops, and to ..141 | Ceylon, has been appointed to be Colonial Secre- have disbursed Taels 40,000 to various officials tary of the Straits Settlements. Mr. Swetten- to buy his safety. He failed to save his life, ham, who is a Cambridge man, entered the Cey-owing, it is said, to the determination of the lou service in 1868, and has served there for Emperor and Prince Kang to make an example .144 | twenty-seven years, except during eight years of him.
when he was in Cyprus.
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At Hoihow, on the 11th inst., the wife of GEORGE D. SHARNHOEST, I. M. Customs, of a son.
MARRIAGE.
[434 On the 11th of February, 1895, at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev, H. C. Hodges, M.A., ROBERT DOWNIE, Master Mariner, Shanghai, to MARY LAIDLAW, daughter of Thomas PRINGLE, Esq., Leslie, Fifeshire.
DEATH.
At Wenchow, on the 5th instant, EMMA, the dearly beloved wife of Alfred Albert GODMIN, I. M. Cus-
toms, aged 35 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The German mail of the 14th January arrived, per N. D. L. ateamer Prins Heinrich, on the 14th February (31 days).
The rates of subscription to the Hongkong Weekly Press are $12 yearly, $7 half-yearly and $4 quarterly, payable in advance; the credit rates are $13.50, 38, and $4.50 respectively, Postage $2 per annum additional.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Mr. Maxwell, late Colonial Secretary of the Straits, takes up his new appointment as Go- vernor of the Gold Coast Colony about the end of March.
Renter's telegram of the 15th instant states that a conflict has occurred between French troops and Siamese at Kammaun on the left bank of
the Mekong, in which it is reported a French officer was severely wounded,
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The Straits Times says:- -Mr. Joaquim, one Vice-Admiral Sir Edmund Fremantle's term of the liquidators of the Singapore Insurance of command of the British Squadron in China Company, has arrived in the colony, and the expires in April next, when he will have held it Board of Liquidators is now, with Mr. Craig years. A service journal says that under and Mr. Fraser, complete. Shareholders have the circumstances. the disturbed condition of been waiting with due patience, and affairs in China, the term will probably, follow-expectancy, for a statement of affairs showing ing a precedent, be extended for an additional how the liquidation now stands. There appears year.
to be no solid reason for further delay in giving the information. The Board have had in their hands for some time past a considerable sum of forthcoming. The claim in London for $25.000 money, and there must be another small dividend is still, as far as people know, unsettled. It may, however, have been established or disposed of, the shareholders wish information about, and, or be on the point of either. These are things
with the three liquidators bere, there ought to be no difficulty in at once présenting a statement.
A telegram has been received by the Naval Authorities at Hongkong from the British Consul at Takow reading " Protection urgently required." The Mercury was at once despatched
and other vessels are to follow. The nature
of the trouble is not known, the Chinese cable not being available for private messages at present.!
The following movements in the Consu ́ar service are reported by the N C Daily News :-
Mr. W. Holland will leave for chang very at that port. From the 11th February the shortly, in order to take up his post of Consul Shipping Office at H.B.M.'s Consulate, Shanghai, will be in the charge of Mr. J. W. Jamieson, and Mr. Bullock will act as Police Magistrate, eto.
d'Haiphong asks what the Japanese will demand
The Shanghai correspondent of the Courrier
as the price of the campaign and proceeds to would object to that. They might take Formosa, answer it as follows:-Not Korea, for Russia
but England is on the watch there and some say that already she has promised to pay Japan the war indemnity that the latter At the half-yearly meeting of the Hongkong will demand from China and will take For and Shanghai Bank, held on the 16th inst.,mosa in payment of the fifty million sterling the report and accounts were adopted. The that this will cost her. Do you think that John announcement that the directors had voted a Bull would be satisfied with that? Not at all. bonus to the staff of ten per cent. on their Formosa would belong to him by right of salaries was received with approval and a re-purchase. To assure his trade at Shanghai, solution increasing the remuneration of the Hankow, and Iohang he will occupy Chusan, and directors from $20,000 to $30,000 was carried in order that his goods may more readily reach unanimously.
strong bimetallic movement in Germany. The A Reuter's telegram states that there is a
Reichstag has passed a resolution calling on the The war appears to be approaching its Government to convene au interstate Monetary termination. The surrender of Weihaiwei is Conference. Prince Hohenlohe is disposed to now complete and the Viceroy Li Hung-chang consider the matter favourably. Graf von has been appointed to proceed to Japan to re- Posadowsky (Secretary of State for Finance) new peace negotiations. Admiral Ting is stated in a powerful bimetallic speech said that this to have committed suicide.
I decision had caused a rise in all silver securities.
Kwangsi, Yunnan, and Kweichow he will de- mand and obtain the opening of the Canton dynasty does not fall in the struggle and if humi- River, That is what will happen if the present
liated China preserves her eighteen provinces, But if the country has to be cut up the Eng- lish will demand Formosa, Chekiang, and the valley of the Yangtsze. The English work for themselves, and we would be wrong to blame them. What ought France to do to safeguard her interests P
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