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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLII.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Lead ng Article:-
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 218T NOVEMBER, 1895.
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Lori Salisbury on the Situation in the Far East:.374 Reported verinan Occupation of Quem x 374
Sir Nicholas O'C nor
The West River
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Chinesa Med cl Practitioner. and their Legal
Status
The Tung Wah Ho pital
Fire Tan
The Home Press on China Affairs
Reported German Occupa ion - iQ my
An English Mau. f-wr Boat Capsized Forty-eight * Men Drowned
The Heavy Monsoon
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.678 478
The Nanking in a Rock - Totul Losz Probable 378
Itumnured
The Attempted Rebellio at Cautón
Foreign Assistae --- A Dynamite Bomb Fue org...378 Illegal Removal of pion - Liability of the Opium
Farmers Heavy Fine-
379
379
Felau a Tin Mining Co., Limited, in Liquidatio
A Local Patent
38
Signing of the Liautung Retrocess on Treaty
Cricket
Sir Nich as O'Cunor
..380 380 381
Sr N. R. O、onor ad the Sha ghai Chamber of
Cu.merce.
Supreme Cou t
382
Shanghai and
ongkew Wharf tom sny..
Jela u M n ng and T... ting Co., Limited
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Rub
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Green Land Cem ut Co, Limit, d
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Colo alourt of Alu ralty
Cor e p nder ce: --
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The Tung Wah Ho pital
Formosa Stara
Th Kucheng Mas aere.....
Hongkong and Port News ('ommercial
Shipping
PIRTHS.
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At 10, Knutsford Terrace, Kowloon, on the 13th inst., the wife of W; ALLANTINE, chief engineer of the steamer Phra Chay Klan, of a son.
At Shameen, Canton, on the 15th instant, the wife of F. SCHÜRCH, of a daughter.
[2889 -At No. 1, Ripon Terrace, on the 18th instant, the wife of GEORGE M. MCDONALD, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
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At the Peak Church, on the 18th November, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, MA., FRANK COURTENAY HEFFER, of Shanghai, to FLORENCE, eldest daugh- ¡ter of JOSEPH LEECH, "Rocklands," North Park,
West Croydon.
[2402 At Tientsin, on the 3rd of November, 1895, at H.I.M.'s Russian Consulate, by the Rev. Innocent, S. J. TOKMAKOFF, of Hankow, to LISA, eldest daughter of A. D. STARTSEFF, Esq., of Tientsin.
DEATHIS.
At Shanghai, on the 11th of November, 1895, ANNA CATHIERINA, the beloved wife of Jose XAVIER, aged 25 years.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
No. 21...
The coronation of the new Sultan of Johore, His Highness Ibrahim, took place on the 2nd inst. The Governor of the Straits and the The Treaty between Japan and Brazil was heads of departments attended the ceremony, signed in Paris on the 5th inst.
and H.M.S. Mercury lay in the Strait.
The Liaotung treaty between China and Japan was signed on the 8th inst
The five ringleaders of the Kucheng massacre were executed at Foochow on the 7th inst.
An exceptionally heavy monsoon has lately been experienced and vessels arriving at Hong. kong from the South have all made unusually | long passages in consequence.
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At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 12th of November, 1895, JAMES MCDONALD, aged 33 years:
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 11th October arrived, per M. M. steamer Saghalien, on the 16th No- vember (36 days); the English mail of the 18th October arrived, per P. & O. steamer Khedive, on the 16th November (29 days); the Ame- rican mail of the 22nd October arrived, per P. M. steamer China, on the 19th November (28 days); and the German mail of the 21st October arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Preussen, on the 20th November (30 days).
The Norwegian steamer Nanking has been lost by striking a rock near Newchwang. She was under charter to Chinese and was engaged in the Hongkong and Newchwang trade.
Lord Salisbury, speaking at the Lord Mayor's banquet, in referring to the Far East, said that Great Britain was prepared for any combina tion whether on a question of war or
commerce.
It is rumoured, says a native paper, that some Chinese merchants in Shanghai have in prospect the construction of a tin-foil factory, It is said that the people have taken an interest in this enterprise, and will give it every support.
The British ship Barcraig, which left New York for Shanghai on the 25th of April, loaded with kerosine oil for the Standard Oil Com- pany, is missing. She has never been spoken with. Ninety guineas per cent. have been paid on her at Lloyds. It is feared she is lost.
According to the Shanghal papers, the reports of the successes of the Mahommedan rebels in Kangu have been greatly exaggerated Lanchow is said to be as quiet as ever and Sining to have been recaptured, and the dis turbance generally to have been suppressed.
The
The Japan Advertiser says that the new dock has been begun at Kure, and it is expected that the work will be completed next year. dock will be 464.3 feet long, 961 feet wide at the top, 814 feet on the floor, 44.22 feet deep, and it will accommodate ships 427.25 feet long, 75 feet wide, 35.3 feet draft, and of 15,000 tons displace- ment. The battleship Fujima, now being built, can easily be docked there.
A distressing accident by which forty-eight men lost their lives occurred to a boat of H.M.S. Edgar at Chemulpo on the 14th inst. A party which had been landed for drill under the Gunnery Lieutenant was returning to the ship in a launch under sail when the boat ran under and filled. Assistance was at once sent rescued, but forty-eight were drowned. from the Edgar and, twenty-three men were
At an extraordinary meeting of the Shang- hai and Hongkew Wharf Company held on the 11th inst., the purchase of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.'s interest in the Asso- ciated Wharves and their Pootung kerosine oil wharf and godowns was authorized, the capital being increased to Tls, 2,000,000.
Sir Nicholas O'Conor is a passenger for England by the P. & O. steamer Mirzapore, leaving Hongkong to-day. At Tientsin the retiring Minister Was entertained by the British residents at a banquet. At Shanghai His Excellency received a deputation of the Chamber of Commerce and replied to a num- ber of questions addressed to him. Amongst other things he spoke favourably of the prospects of the West River being opened.
The N. C. Daily News says:-The great firm expected distribution of contracts by China. It of Krupp is not going to be left behind in the
special agent here of Mr. von Brandt, formerly is reported that it has secured the services as
German Minister to China, and latterly, accord- ing to Blackwood, confidential correspondent and adviser in Germany to the Chinese Govern. ment. Mr. von Brandt is coming out to China in the Preussent which is the next German mail boat due here.
The movements of a German squadron in the neighbourhood of Amoy have lately attracted some attention, and various reports have been in circulation in connection therewith. It was said at first that the port of Amoy was to be occupied, afterwards that the island of Quemoy had been selected as a coaling station, and, again, that the jobject was simply to mark out a concession. We believe, however, that what the Germans really want is a coaling station
ing of the term would hardly suffice. and for that a concession in the ordinary mean-
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A Saigon correspondent writes:---The Mes- sageries Fluviales Company received lately five flat bottomed steamers of about one metre draft to
ruul on the upper Mekong above the rapids. but notwithstanding that great haste has been exercised in putting them toge-' ther the water is already too low to get them on the small railway by which they are to be hauled past the Khone rapids. They will be ready for next year, however, when we hope to see a regular service started between Saigon and the further interior of the Peninsula.
The Japan Mail says: "The sudden rise of Shanghai as a cotton spinning centre attracts widespread attention in Japan. The Jiji calls attention to the fact, and observes that, while it The half-yearly report of the Jelebu Mining has taken some years for Japan to bring up the lished. It shows a loss of nearly sixteen thou- 800,000, Shanghai is shortly to have 300,000 and Trading Company, Limited, has been pub-number of her spindles to its present point, sand dollars. Thirty-eight thousand dollars spindles in full operation. As to Japanese spent in Mergui appears as a good asset on the schemes for establishing spinning factories in theory that the concession is worth the sum Shanghai, there are two, one in Tokyo and one spent in opening the trade. Hopeful, but can- in Osaka. The Tokyo project was originally on tiously worded, views are entertained about lode-mining at Jelebu and alluvial mining at increased to 30,000, while the Osaka company the basis of 20,000 spindles, but has since been
Mergui.
purposes to set up 50,000 spindles.
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