THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLI.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :➡
HONGKONG: THURSDAY, 14TH MARCH, 1895.
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The Credentials of the Second Peace Embassy Lord Wolseley on China's Military Potentiality,.186 The War and China's Financial Credit
Is there Sedition in China ?.
An Outrage by Lekin Officials at Canton Rejection of the Petition for Representatire
Government
The Indian Merchant Shipping Act and Lascar
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Seamen
189
Reviews:-
Not to Black as They Painted Her, and Other
Stories.......
..... ..... 190 Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic
Society Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan .180 The Tourist's Guide to Cant n, the West River,
and Macao......
Beuter's War Telegrams..
The War in Manchuria
The Attack on Newchwang
Li Hung-chang Exonerated
The Peace Mission
Hongkong Legislative Council
.191
An Unfounded Charge Against the Harbour De-
partment
192
The Colony's Finances
Supreme Court:
The Affairs of Mr. 8. I Danby
essrs. Butterfield & Swire and the Public Works Department
Presentation to Deputy Superintendent Horspool...
The Photographic Exhibition..
Illegal Seizure of Opium at Canton
Church of England Temperance Society
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No. 11.
The annual meeting of the Hongkong Fire Tele raphic intelligence has been received at Insuranc Co., Limited, was held on the 10th Bangkok to the effect that the two Bills regulat=" inst.. when the report and accounts were adopteding the jurisdiction of Danish Consuls and the without discussion
registration of Danish companies in countries passed the Danish Parliament, had received the under extra-territorial jurisdiction, having King's sanction. will now have a legal status,
The Bangkok Tramways Co.
From Yokohama telegrams in the Shang hai Mercury we learn that Marshal Yamagata has been appointed Minister of War and that - dmiral Count Saigo remains. Minister of Marine.
The half-yearly meeting of the National Bank of China, Limited, was held on the 10th inst. .199 The Chairman spoke with satisfaction of the 191 progress made by the bank, and the report and accounts were adopted and a dividend of $1.25 per share was declared.
About fifty Japanese are now engaged in rice cultivation at Sapatoom. in Siam, in connection The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society with the Siam Emigration Company. The com is said to have received an intimation that the pany is experimenting with these Japanese contract for supplying Chinese coolies for servile|labourers, and in case of success intends to ar- | labour in Brazil, against which the Society lately range for bringing out two or three thousand entered a strong protest, has now been withdrawn. more of them next year, comprising jewellern.
clerks, bricklayers, farmers, tailors, ship carpenters, and
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It is reported at Tientsin that Mr. Detring is now no longer officially connected with the Chi- nese i. M. Customs service, and official despatches from that port are said to have beer received at Shanghai confirming the news that he has been appointed Director-General of the Kaiping Mines and North China Railways.
The report of the lumphreys Estate and Finance Co., Limited, for 1894 has been issued. 196 The net profit, including $513 brought forward, 197 amounts to $10,295, out of which it is proposed The Humphreys Estate and Finance Co. Limited ...197 to pay a dividend of 7 per cent. on the ordinary
Hong kong Fire Insurance Co., Limited
National Bank of China, Limited.
The China and Manila Steamship Co., Limited. ...197
The agents of the China Mutual Steam Navigation Co... Limited (Messrs. Holliday, Wise & Co.), have just received a telegram stating that a highly satisfactory general meet. at which it was decided to declare a final dividend ing of the Company was held in London lately, of 3 per cent., making 6 per cent. in all for last year on the preference shares, and also a dividend of 5 per cent, on the ordinary shares, each dividend to be payable on the 12th inst The Company has also been able to set aside £30,000 to the depreciation and reserve fund, which is a considerable improvement on last year,
Japanese on the 4th inst, and afterwards Yin- The city of Newchwang was captured by the kow was taken, the first and woond army corps effecting a junction at this place, which forms
The Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co., Limited ...197, Shares, which will absorb $9,380, and carry the ports of Newohwang. The foreign settle-
The Hongkong Hotel Co., Limited
The New Balmoral Gold Mining Co., Limited
The Shanghai Cargo Boat Company, Limited
Hongkong Cricket Club....
Football
Hockey
Hongkong Rifle Association
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Treaty Revision in Japan
Attack by Pirates in Tonkin Hongkong Newa Commercial Shipping...
BIRTH.
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forward $ 15 to new profit and loss account,
At the meeting of shareholders of the Shang. bai Waterworks Co., Limited, to be held on the 199 21st inst the Directors intend to recommend the 200 payment of a fiual dividend of 18s. per share, 200 which with the interim dividend of 128. paid last July will make £1.10 paid for the year 1894, or 7 per cent, on the share issue of the Company.
The report of the Hongkong Hotel Co., Limited, for the last half-year shows a balance at credit of profit and loss account of $576, in cluding $2,765 brought forward from last account, as compared with a debit balance of $10,379 on the 31st December, 1893. Payment debentures is included in the account. of interest amounting to $16.657 on loans and
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At Shanghai, on the luth March, the wife of A. (ORFF, of a son.
[621 DEATHS From heart disease, on the 29th January, 1895, on board the steamer Palinurus, between Colombo and Saez, ARTHUR HUNT, formerly of A. S. Watson & Co., Limited. Aged 57 years. Buried at sea. [597 At No. 8, Sagarimatsu-yamate, Nag saki, on Sun- day, 3rd inst., EMILY MAY, second daughter of Francis Sutton, Esq., F.I.C.. of Norwich, and beloved wife of Dr. Herbert Blackburn. Aged 33 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 1st February arrived, per M. M. steamer Caledonien, on the 4th March (32 days); and the English mail of the 8th Fo. bruary arrived, per P. & O. steamer Ganges, on the 8th March (28 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Favourable advices have been received from the New Balmoral Gold Mining Company's mines.
Important new works are to be constructed at British naval and military stations, including Hongkong.
ments there are protected by Japanese guards. It is reported that Japan has requested that Li Hung-chang's departure on the peace mission may be deferred for a week. In the meantime negotiations have been proceeding through the medium of the United States Ministers at Poking and Tokyo, and it is said China baş agreed to the autonomy of Kores, payment of an indemnity, and the cession of territory.
The report of the Hongkong Rope Manu facturing Co., Limited, for 1894 has been issued. į The gross profit, including the balance brought forward from last year, amounts to $46,152, and after writing off $10,000 for depreciation of plant and machinery there remains $36,152, which it is proposed to apropriate as follows :- To place to ressive faud, $5,000, to pay a dividend The N. C. Daily News says:-" The Russian of 18 per cent., $27,0:0, to carry forward to next naval authorities have applied to the principal year's account, $4,152 Owing to the heavy shipping firms for particulars of their vessels demand for the Company's rope created by the trading in these waters, their number, tonnage. war in the north factory was for the first time speed capacity, etc. The object of this enquiry in its existence kept steadily going throughout is not apparent at present." Similar information the year, with the exception of a few days in the was telegraphed to Japan, but the telegrams summer when work was stopped by the plague. from Shanghai to Japan during the war have been very unreliable. As the statement appears in our Shanghai morning contemporary, how-ship Co., Limited, for 1894 has been issued. The ever, presumably it is not without foundation.
The Local Manager of the Straits Insurance Co., Limited, has received a telegram from his head office, Singapore, that at the annual general meeting to be held on 21st inst, the Directors will recommend the payment of a dividend of 10 per cent. on account of profit and loss account $20,000 to general reserve fund. $10.000 to re- 1894 (underwriting account 1893), the placing of serve for outstanding losses (1-93 and previous years account), and $120,000 to exchange and in vestment fluctuation reserve. The net premiums for 1894 are $950,000 and the balance of working account 1894, $150,000, is carried forward.
The report of the China and Manila Steam-
gross proft, including the balance from last year, amounts to $31,814, and after writing off $13,000 for depreciation of steamers there re- mains $18,814, which it is proposed to deal with as follows, viz.—to pay a dividend of 7 per cent., $17.500; to carry forward to next year's account $1.314. The result, the report states, is disap- pointing compared with last years, but has been to the Zafiro, which struck on a rock while leav brought about by two causes, viz., the accident ing the barbour on 14th November last and the⠀⠀ prevalence of the plague in Hongkong, which necessitated a further loss of 15 days' quarantine at Manila to each steamer during the greater part of the year.
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