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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLII.
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :--
Russia and England in the Far East
The Suppression of Piracy and the New Franco-
Chinese Treaty
French Colonial Expansion and Restrictions on
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Civil Servants and Tenure of Office
The Production of Silver and Gold
Sir Thomas Sutherland on Japanese Industrial
Competition
Trade in Formosa...
The Situation in Anping
Supreme Court :-
The Hongkong Land Investment and Ageney,
Co., Limited, v. Brodie and Others
The Census of Shanghai
Launch at Haiphong
Re the Kwong Wing On Firm
Chung Hung v. E. Mark
The Chishima-Ravenna Case
The New Franco-Chinese Treaty
The Birkhall Sunk by Collision
Li Hung-chang......
Mr. Wetmore on Bimetallism
The First Tea Steamer of the Season..........
Presentation to Hon. H. E. Wodehouse by Members
of the Hongkong Fire Brigade
The New British Dollar
HONGKONG THURSDAY, 18TH JULY 1895.
The Crown Prince of Japan is reported to have completely recovered from his late in 37 disposition.
38 The first consignment of the new British dollar was received at Hongkong by the last 38 English mail.
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The other day, the N. C. Daily News says, some Foochow Chinese approached a foreign hong at Shanghai with the request that they would transmit $200,000 to Formosa. Where the money actually came from is not known, but it was intended for Lia, and the foreign firm refused to have anything to do with it.
The Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Li- mited, has paid a dividend of eight per cent.lish & Fire Insurance Association for the main- Steps have been taken at Singapore to estab 40 for the year 1894
tenance or fixation of the rates at which risks should be accepted, for the decision of questions relating to the settlement of losses, the wording of policies and other matters, and for mutual protection in the interests of fire insurance business.
Au anti-Christian outbreak has occurred at 40 Pingyang, a China Inland Mission station 100 li south of Wenobow. The native converts have had their houses and property destroyed.
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The Union Cotton Spinning Company, of Osaka, has. it is stated. decided to establish a 12 spinning factory in China, and a delegate is to 43 be dispatched to that country to investigate 43 matters connected with the project.
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According to a Router's telegram an import 4ant French commercial mission under official 44 auspices will start for Shanghai. in August to thoroughly study the trade of China and to travel through the country to Yunnan, where it will meet a mission from Tonkin,
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Mr. Brady's Entertainment at the Kowloon Institute. 45 The Arab Boys at Aden
The Vehicles Ordinance
The Control of the Chair Traffic..
The Typhoon of the 10-12th June...
The Second Gymkhana Meeting
The Outrages in Szechuon
Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Limited
Green Island Cement Co., Limited
The Prohibition of Immigration at Singapore..... The Plague at Macao
Hongkong Golf Club
Hongkong Rifle Association
The Eastern Bimetallic League and its Meeting
The Sugar Supply of Japan
Li and Ito on Opium in Formosa
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Subject to andit, the directors of the Hong- 46 kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation pro- 48 pose at the forthcoming meeting to declare a 46 dividend for the half-year of £15/- per share, 47 place 5 lakhs to credit of reserve fund, and carry
|forward to next half year about 3 lakhs.
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The London correspondent of the Straits 49 Times states that the Straits will be asked to 49 pay, for military purposes, from 17 to 20 per 50 cent. of their revenue. The estimated revenue 50 for the present year is $3,955,000. At 20 per 50 cent, that would mean a payment of nearly
| $800,000-say fully £80,000.
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Mysterious Shooting of the Chinese Envoy to Russia. 61 The Growth of Electric Lightning at Shanghai. Troubles in Seoul
The Formosa Cable
Hongkong and Port News
ť Shipping.
MARRIAGE.
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The latest information concerning the Russian- Chinese loau that it is not redeemable for thirty-six years and is secured by the Customs, Russia undertaking payments should China fall to meet her engagements. According to Renter the Russian Press in discussing the loan disavows that Russia seeks any political ad- vantage, but ascribes it to her desire to be in friendly relations with her great neighbour. A Havas telegram, on the other hand, states that the Russian journals are enthusiastic over the loan, holding that it opens up a new era for Russian politics in China.
the Legations at Tokyo were received in andience The Foreign Representatives and the Staffs of by His Majesty the Emperor of Japan on the 29th ultimo, for the purpose of congratulating His Majesty on the return of the Imperial Court to the capital. It seems to have been originally contemplated, the Japan Mail says, that the whole of the Foreign Corps Diploma- tiqne should be received t gether, in which case the duty of congratulating the Emperor on be- half of the various States represented would
But His Majesty having signified a desire to receive the Legations separately, the programmè was modified in that sense.
The steamer Birkhall was sunk at Woosung have fallen on the Doyen, Baron von Gutschmid. on the 10th inst. by the Chinese man-of-war 51 Wantai running into her. The man-of-war was getting under way at the time on an ebb tide and the accident was caused by her taking an unexpected sheer. There was no loss of life. The Birkhall will be raised.
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On the 4th inst., at Sandakan, J. E, BERKHUYSEN (of the firm of Mansfield, Bogaardt & Co.), to Katн- LEEN, daughter of the late Captain BERSTON. [1475
DEATHS.
At Amoy, on the 4th July, MAGGIE, infant daughter of ROBERT and ELIZA HUNTER, aged 6 days.
At the General Hospital, Yokohama, on the 2nd [1435 inst., FRANCOIS BEYER, aged 34 years, late clerk at the Messageries Maritimes Co.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 15th June arrived per P. M. steamer Belgic, on the 10th July (25 day); the English mail of the 14th June arrived, per P. & O. steamer Kaisar-i-Hind, on the 12th July (28 days); and the Canadian mail of the 25th June arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of Japan, on the 15th July (20 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The first annual general meeting of the Eastern Bimetallio League was held at Shang hai on the 8th inst.
1.E. La Ch'uan-lin, the new Viceroy of Srechnen, arrived at Chengta on the 28th altimo and took over his seals of office from the retiring and degraded Liu Ping-chang on the 1st inst.
The Shinpao states that the Viceroy Chang memorialised recently on behalf of Tang Chin- sung, ex-President of the Formosa Republic, requesting permission for him to go up to Pekin? not want to see the ex-President and orders for an audience. The Emperor, however, does Tang to retire from the public service.
Everything remains quiet in South Formosa. Lia Yang-fu, the Black Flag leader, has had the Custom loase re-opened and business is again proceeding, but most of the residents have left Anping. The Consul and one or two others, however, remain. Lin is said to have his men in complete control. According to a cor- respondent of the N. C. Daily News, the literati seem much aggieved by the non-compliance on the part of the British with the petition for
annexation.
We (N. C. Daily News) understand that in a few days the prospectus will be issued of an im- portant spinning and weaving mill to be founded in Shanghai, of which the American Trading Company will be the General Managers. The capital of the new undertaking will be Tls. 1,000,000, divided into 10,000 shares of Tls. 100 siderable proportion has already been privately each. Of the first issue of 7,000 shares, a con
subscribed, but it is believed that about 3,000 shares will be offered for public subscription. An infuential directorate has been secured, land has been acquired, and the machinery will com- bine all the very latest improvements. The looms will come from Americs, but the other machinery from England. The mill will start with 40,000 spindles.
The Rangoon Gasetle says :--Reuter says the new arrangement between France and China virtually supersedes the projected buffer state. That is hardly an acourate way of stating it. The convention will probably be found to deal The Emperor of Japan received in audience with the boundaries between Kwangsi and Ton- on the 2nd iust the Commander-in-Chief of kin and between Yunnan and Tonkin. The the British Squadron in the East, the Captains former have been settled for some time, and with Leander, accompanied by the British Chargé Burmah will be the arrangement as regards the of the Centurion. Edgar, Undaunted, and regard to the latter the only part of interest to d'Affaires; the Commander-in-Chief of the Kenghang frontier. In the fulness of our hearts French Squadron in the Far East, the Captain we gave that state to China by the Barmo. of the Bayard, and their staffs, accompanied by Chinese Convention, and our only interest in it the French Minister; and the Commander-in- now is that it adjoins the state of Kengoheng, Chief of the U.S. Squadron on the Asiatic which was to have formed the main part of the Station and his staff, accompanied by the U.S. buffer state, but which has now been definitely
incorporated in the British Empire.
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