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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 Colony's Surplus Assots
The Police Force and Crime
Registration of Servants
Sanitary By-laws
The Regulation of Common Lodging-houses
The War
Supreme Court :--
The Privileges of Solicitors.........
The Murderous Affray between Gunners
The Secretary of State and the Plague Workers
Exchange Compensation
Hongkong Sanitary Board.
Suicide of a Hongkong Police Recruit
Annual Report of the Sanitary Surveyor
The Police Report
The Hongkong Hotel Co., Limited
Green Island Cement Co., Limited
China Sugar Refining Co., Limited
The Straits Insurance Co., Limited Football
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club Hongkong Rifle Association
Cricket
The Audience
Lickingtao
Hongkong and Port News... Commercial
Shipping..
MARRIAGE.
HONGKONG: WEDNESDAY, 20TH MARCH, 1895.
The ceremony of putting the captured Chinese ships Ping-yuen and Kwang ping upon the 205 strength of the Japanese Navy was performed at Hiroshima on the 5th inst. A salute of 21 .206 guns was fired.
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The Secretary of State for the Colonies has approved of exchange compensation being granted to Hongkong officials, who are now to be allowed to draw half their sulary at the rate of 3s. to the dollar, their leave pay being given at the rate of 43. to the dollar. A former offer. which involved the drawing of leave pay at 3a, him Lord Ripon has reconsidered his decision, with the result above stated.
A Japanese gunboat named the Suma, which 208 has been constructed at the Yokosuka shipbuild-was declined, and on the representations made to 209 ing yard, was to be launched on the 9th inst, in presence of her Majesty the Empress. The 209 construction of the sister ship Akashi is also 200 said to be nearly completed.
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The report of the China Sugar Refining Co. Limited, for 1895 has been issued. The net The annual meeting of the Green Island Ce-profits, incluing $16,373 brought forward, [210 ment Co., Limited, was held on the 14th inst., amounts to $250,838. 210 when the report and accounts were adopted.
An interim dividend of The profit on working was $1o,084 and the ba- lance at debit of profit and loss account has 214 been reduced from $82,425 to $78,030. .214
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According to a Reuter's telegram of the 14th 216 inst., Mr. Edmund Robertson, Civil Lord of the 216 Admiralty, stated in the House of Commons 210 that this year's Loan Bill made no provision 216 for the extension of the Naval Dockyard at Hongkong, but he hoped that a preliminary 217 survey would be made. The Times urges the 217 importance of avoiding delay in this matter.
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On the 7th March, at the Imperial German Consulate General and afterwards at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., CARL WOLTER, of Chemulpo, Korea, to JEANNIE, eldest daughter of James JOHNSTON, Esq., of Messrs. Boyd & Co., Limited, of Pootung.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The German mail of the 11th February ar rived, per N. D. L, steamer Bayern, on the 14th March (31 days); and the American mail of the 12th February arrived, per O. & O. steamer Oceanic, on the 14th March (30 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
We (Mercury) understand that Mr. Knobel, formerly of H.N.M. Consular Service in Russia, and lately Chargé d'Affaires at Teheran, has been appointed Netherlands Minister Resident at Peking. Mr, Ferguson, who held this office for many years, returned to Europe a few months ago on account of ill health, and it appears from the above that he will not roturu to his post.
A Peking telegram to the Mercury says:
All Li Hung-chang's rivals have been dispersed, and if he is successful in concluding peace negotia. pire, the carrying out of which is to be left in tions great reforms are to take place in the Em the hands of those who are now endeavouring to effect the change. Wung Tung-ho, the Em peror's Tutor, former foe to progress, is now discountenanced, and there is a complete change of sentiment amongst most of the high officials.
A collision took place on the Sanyo Railway on the 1st inst., by which many passengers re-
Li Hung-chang left Tientsin for Japan onceived slight injuries, but only fifteen were found his peace mission on the 14th inst.
The man Howie, who was arrested by the Japanese at Weihaiwei, has been taken to Ujins. Hanoi is providing itself with new water works. The work was officially inaugurated on the 2nd inst.
to be so seriously injured that it was necessary to | secure medical treatment for them, As soon as the report of the accident reached Kurashiki Station it was wired to Okayams, and two doc tors belonging to the Okayama Hospital hastened to the scene with nurses and police officers. The engine-driver of the dowu train, who is said to be responsible for the accident, received such se- The King of Siam was said to be again suffer.rious injuries that he had to be taken to the Kobe ing from an attack of fever, by last accounts,
Hospital. 28th February.
Payment of a fourth dividend of five per cent, in the liquidation of the New Oriental Bank Corporation, Limited, is advertised.
We hear that a severe snow storm was ex prienced at Shanghai on Saturday, Suow lay so thick that the coolies stopped work.
The annual meeting of the Hongkong Hotel Co., Limited, was held on the 16th inst, when the report and accounts were adopted nem.
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The Dutch steamer Continental on arrival at Manila on the 12th inst. was sent into quarantine for five days' observation, having called at Amoy, which has been declared a suspected port.
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$8 per share was paid in August, and it is now proposed to pay a fibal dividend of $4, making $12 for the year, and to carry forward $11,540. The usual course of business was interfered with by the drought and plague, on which followed the China-Japan war, which restricted sales in the latter country.
held this summer at Kyoto, the ancient capital The fourth great National Exhibition will be of Japan and birthplace of Japanese art, and will be open from April to August. This exhibition will commemorate the eleven bnudredth anni- versary of the foundation of Kyoto, and will therefore be an interesting historical occasion. The Taibin Kyokwai, an association formed for the purpose of promoting the convenience and comfort of foreign visitors, is making arrange- ments to this end, including the starting of a club at Kyoto and securing special travelling facilities. Their agents, the Merdiya, at Kob and Yokohama, will furnish particulars to fr eigu visitors to Japan.
Viscount Enomoto, the Japanese Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, on behalf of the of Representatives that, owing to the financial Cabinet, announced on the 5th inst. in the House pressure upon the Government in consequence of the war, the representations for establishing an iron foundry, for extending the railway from Hiroshima to Bakan, for encouraging ship- owning by subsidies, for extending steam naviga- tion to foreign ports, and for repairing the em. establishing a silk-thread bankments of large rivers, also the bills for examination office
at Yokohama, for enlarging the Commercial Navigation School, and increased expenditures on the extension of telegraphic and telephonio wires, all approved by the Diet, cannot be accepted for acomplishment during the next financial year. The Government regrets that these things must necessarily be left over until the present difficulties are at an end.
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There seems little room for doubt, says the Japan Advertiser, that Howie has been brought to Japan for trial. The expectation was that his trial would take place by court-martial im- The Nanking correspondent of the Mercurymediately after the fall of Weihaiwei, but we writes:-The ancient and modern conservatism learn on good anthority that a prisoner whose of this proud historic city seems to be undergoing name was kept strictly secret came over in one some process of evolution. Some dynamic force of the transports and is now at Hiroshima is moving us. We are to have a tramway car What sentence will be passed upon Howie line running between Hsia-kwan and the it is of course impossible to foretell, but in Viceroy's yamen. The road is already marked all probability he will be condemned ont and measures about thirty feet wide, The death, and afterwards. that sentence will car service is to be run by horse-power. The be modified to some form and degree of imprison- scheme is a good one, and if our enterprising ment. To the Chinese he does not seem to have Viceroy is able to carry out his plans "the golden been of any special service. Contrary to city of the Mings" promises to become a great port from Chinese sources, which we published, centre of commercial interest. This may be the beginning of a series murderous invention, to set which he and his as well as of political he has not been able to ap. ly to practical use the of reforms which the Japanese may utilise and companion crossed the Pacific. He appears to follow up when they have secured Nanking as have been employed mostly in helping to fire the their treaty port in the Yangtsze valley. the big guns on the ships and Liuko Island,
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