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THE
Hongking Weekly Press
VOL. XLI.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c. Loading Articles :-
HONGKONG: THURSDAY, 28тя MARCH, 1895.
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The Attempted Assassination of Li Hung-chang..222 The Silver Question and Industrial Development
in the Far East..
Amalgamation of the Offices of Colonial Secretary
and Registrar-General...
Registration of Servants
Attempted Assassination of Li Hung-chang
Cremation..................
The Japanese in the South.....
Hongkong Legislative Council
The Registration of Co lie Houses
Coolie Strike
The By-laws under the Insanitary Dwellings Or-
dinance
The Taipingshan Resumption
Supreme Court :-
A Disputed Share Transaction
Belilios . Ng Lee Shing....
Tang Kit Shang », Ng Pak To
St. Patrick's Dance
Berious Fire in Bonham Strand
Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., Limited
China and Manila Steamship Co, Limited
Cricket
The Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co., Limited
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Football
Hongkong Volunteers..
Rifle Association
Foochow Races
Correspondence :-
Registration of Domestic Servants
The Case of Hill v. Gomes
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M. Rousseau, the new Governor-General off Indo-Chins, arrived at Saigon by the M. M. steamer Ozur on the 17th inst., and was to leave in a few days for Tonkin,
Vessels sailing under the French flag are from the 1st prox. to be allowed a bounty of sixty cents per ton on all cargo exported abroad from ports in Tonkin or Annam
At the annual meeting of ratepayers hold at Shanghai on the 12th inst. a motion for the 225 establishment of a crematorium was carried by 227 forty-seven votes to thirty-two.
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Mr. Detring resumed oliarge of the Customs at Tientsiu on the 12th inst. For several months he had been detached on special service with the Viceroy in connection with the war.
Der Ostasiatische Lloyd states that H.E. Chang 231 Chih-tung has been authorised by the Taungli 231 Yamên to raise a loan of £1.000.000. through 232 Mr. Finch, C.E., which has been placed with i 232 Belgian bank.
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It is stated, according to a Reuter's telegram, that arrangements are already in progress in London for the issue of another Chinese loan 233 (in gold) to meet the anticipated demand for the .234 war idemnity.
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The general meeting of the Shanghai Tog. 236 boat Company, Limited, was held on the 16th .235 inst. The reports and accounts
A final dividend of Tls. 7 was declared, making were passed 16 per cent. for the year.
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Cremation
Typhoon at Tap
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A Broker's Love Letter
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The Position in the Gulf of Pechibll Hongkong and Port Newa..
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Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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According to a Reuter's telegram of the 19th 236 inst, the correspondent of the Times at St. Petersburg states that the whole of the Russian Mediterranean squadron proceeds to the Pacific in readin sɛ for eventualifies.
At the Mount Austin Hotel, on 18th March, the wife of F. A. WAYLEN, of a son.
[675 On 22nd March, 1895, at Coombe Royal, Magazine Gap, Hongkong, the wife of E. V. BREXAN, I. M. [700
Customs of China, of a son.
MARRIAGE:
On the 9th inst., at St. Michael and All Angels', Stoke Newington, by the Rev. D. Davenport, M.A., FREDERICK WILSON, of Manila, Philippines, second son of Frederick Wilson, 7, Kyverdale Road, N., to ETHEL MARY (Sissie), eldest daughter of T. O. | Escott, 33, Kyverdale Road, N.
DEATHS.
At Tientsin, on the 23rd February, ISABELLA QUIGLEY, the beloved wife of John Watt Jameson.
At Edinburgh, N.B., on the 8th of March, 1895, [701 JAMES ALEXANDER TAYLOR, aged 52 years.
At his residence, No. 10, Peking Road, Shanghai, on the 12th of March, 1895, ROBERT FRANCIS, in the 69th year of his age.
At No. 3, Hongkong Road, Shanghai, on the 20th of March, 1895, WALCOTT GROEGA MOORE,
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 15th February arrived, per M. M. steamer, Osus, on the 21st March (34 days); the English mail of the 22nd Fe. bruary arrived, per P. & O. steamer Peking, on the 23rd March (29 days); and the Canadian mail of the 4th March arrived. per C. P. steamer Empress of Ching, on the 27th March (23 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The general meeting of shareholders in the Shangbai Waterworks Company, Limited, was held on the 21st inst. at the Shanghai Club. The report and accounts were adopted and the usual routine business was transacted.
The London Gazette has the following noti- fication:-Major-General G. D. Barker, C.B., commanding the Troops in Chipa and Hongkong, to be Lieutenant-General, vice Sir D. C. Dru y Lowe, K.C.B, Colonel 17th Laucers, retired.
The new Japanese cruiser Tatsuta, which lay for several months at Aden, has, we learn, ar reckoned on the strength of the Japanese Navy. rived at Yokosuka, Japan, and may now be She steamed straight through from Colombo to
Japan.
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Shanghai Sumatra. Tobacco Company, hold: At the annual meeting of shareholders in the on the 18th iost. at the offions of the Generat Agent, Mr. Geo. McBain, a donl dividend of 30 per cent., making 50 per cent. for the year 1893, was approved and passed.
The Hon. J. H Stewart Lockhart, Registrar- General of Hongkong, who has for some time past filled the appointment of Acting Colonial Secretary, has now been offered and has ne- cepted the duál appointment of ColomíčÏ® Secretary and Registrar General.
A special telegram to the. Daily Press an- bounces the death of General Fielding of cholera at Bangkok. General the Hon. William Allels bert Fielding, Inspector General of Reorṁiting, East. They arrived at Singapore from Javig with Mrs. Fielding, was on à tour in the Fürs and after spending some time as the guests of the Sultan of Johore, left on the 12th instani for Bangkok.
A strike of ovrgo coolies has occurred Þjá Hongkong owing to the enforcement of by-laws requiring the registration of common ledging houses. The object of the by-laws is to prevent overcrowding and to secure the observance of persuaded the men that a poll tax is intended, sanitary conditions. The keepers, however haya and that the measure will certainly lead to an The rent the coolies pay is at present from increase in the amount of rent now charged. twenty to twenty-five cents a month. strike is necessarily cansing some inconvenience de in connection with shipping, bat it is reduced to a minimum by the employment of volunteers from the garrison and convicts from the gaol, and it is exproted that the affair will not be of long on Saturday last and probably next Saturday duration. The first cessation of work occurred will see the men anxions to resume, as their resources will not enable them to hold out for long.
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Startling news has been received from Japan during the past week. H.E. Li Hang-chaug was retaining to his On the 24th inst., while- temporary residence from the pence confirence at Shimonoseki, an attempt was made to ass face, but although the bullet, according to the sassinate him. He received a pistol shot in the the latest report, had not been extracted, the the patient was doing well. The Mikado and wound was said not to be a dangerous one, and his Ministers have expressed the most profonna regrets. Meantime the war is being actively prosecuted and operations have been opened in Yo the south; the Pescadores having been occn pied, after a bombardment of Makang, as a bartis of operations against Formosa. The port of Tam- sni has been closed by torpedoes. Ats Amoy also the authorities have taken alarm and de- It is reported, according to the Hyogo News fensive measures are being ta en there which that Admiral Fremantle, having no other im-ill probably include the closing of the home after handing over charge of the British mediate command in prospect, will not return port. In the North Japinose "war vessels squadron to Vice-Admiral Baller, but will re- main for a time to watch the course of events
The annual meeting of the shareholders in the Shanghai and Hongkew Wharf Company was held at the Shanghai Club on the 11th inst. and a final dividend of Tls. 11, making Tls. 17 in all, per share and a bonus of Tls. 3 per share were declared.
The Peking correspondent of the Mercury writes:-The audience of the Foreign Ministers, with the Secretaries, Interpreters, and all men in brass-button array, passe l'off satisfactorily on The Russian press, a Reuter's telegrain states, the 14th February. Col. Denby, U.S. Minister, demand the occupation of Manchuria.
as doyen, delivered the speech. This was the day was cloudy and windy and the streets very Chinese New Year call on the Emperor. The muddy. The host felt far from hilarions in his present unfortunate troublé,
Mr. A. J. Leach, Q.C., at present Acting Attorney-General of Hongkong, has been appointed to a Puisne Judgeship in the Straits.
band of war. The actual headquarters of the are actively sexrobing vessels for contra- Japanese army are also to bed removed from mander-in-Chief, has rece licorders to proceed Japan to China. Prince Kowaiatsu, the Com- to China and take suprerimand of the forces there, being given pro promotion without re Emperor, who will re
of appointment ör to His Majesty the nominally be regarded
at Hiroshims, wbieb,« this move should be
it is understood, will still taken at the present ty.me seems to prove as headquarters, That there is no expectations among Ministers negotiations for penë proving successful.
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