THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLII.J
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Lead ng Article ; : --
Thomas Carlyle
Centres
Railways in China
HONGKONG. THURSDAY, 5та DECEMBE 2, 1875.
Hongking and Shanghai ai Manufacturing
The Night Pass Regulations
The Grant in Aid Scheme and English Educa-
tion
The Public Health and the Drains
The Commercial Mission
The Liaotung Convention
417
118
418 410
419
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 25th October arrived, per M. M. steamer Opus, on the 29th November (35 days); the English all of the 1st November arrived, per P. & O. ste.mir Roseliu, oa tùs 50th November (29 days); and the Canadian mail of 120 the 12th November arrived, par C. P. steamer 421 Empress of Japan, on the 3rd December (21 422 days).
420
499
The Fire Inqui ie. Ordin .ee
The Military Cont ibution
422
St. Andrew's Ball
4.3
Supreme Cout:-
Lau Kau Yu r. Hopkins & Co.
.423
Kwan Tai r. Dinenberg & Co.
123
Sui Heung Chuen and Young Pow Sir. Ho
Iling
I ngkong Sanitary Board
424 42.6
The Enforcement if the Light and l'ass Regalitions.
-Discontent Amn st the Chine e..
121
Hongkong Libra y
125
Lu Yung-fu
Nan-Arrival of th: Strathnevis
The Conveyanc of Opium in Steamers.-Importat
Cas.
The Hector-Rohilla Collision
425
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Liaotung Convention has been published. It is reported in Japan that the retirement of Marquis Ito, the Premier, is imminent.
The Interport shooting match has been won 423 by Singapore, whose score was 911. Shanghai
i made 993 and Hongkong 897.
425 .42A
Obstructing the Harbour. Difficulties of
te
Arratoon Apcar.
Maine Court of Laquirr
The Punjm Mining Co. Limited
Green Island Cement Co, Limit, d
.428 420 421 427
The Jelebu M ning and Trading Co., Limited
427
The Ewo Colton Spinning and Weaving Co...
Limited
427
The Interport Shooting Match
428
Hongkong Cric.et Club
128
Fotball...
428
Hongkong Golf ‹ lub
4:0
Ho gk ng R flo As cition.
429
The Edgar Accident
429
Evacuation of in-tung and Liukungtao
The Wreck of the Nanking
The Second W sung Railway
No Bilway Concessios to be giren
43:1
Diabolical Attempt to Scuttle a Steamer
.430
The Campl.or "ar et
430
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
The statutory meeting of the Ewo Cotton Spinning and Weaving Co., Limited, was held at Shanghai on the 25th November.
The thirty million tasks, compensation for the retrocession of the Liabtung Peninsult, was paid by China to Japan on the 18th inst.
The Mahommedan rebellion appears to be in a state of collapse. The importines of the movement has been greatly exigerated.
It is stated that the Japan339 Government has decided to remove the capital of Formos from the former Chinese seat of government at .430 Taipehfu to Tainanfu.
429 .429
131 433 435
On the 26th of October, at Geanies, Fearn, Ross- shire, the wife of F. H. MAY, Esq., of a daughter.
[2488 On the 28th November, at Mountain View, the Peak, the wife of EDWARD OSBORNE, of a daughter. [2464
MARRIAGES.
On the 21st November, at the Union Church, Kobe, by the Rev. S. Swaun, CHARLES BARTON, second son of Rev. P. M. STEDMAN, to GRACE, daughter of THOMAS ARCHER, C.M.G.
At the Cathedral, Shanghai, on the 27th of No- vember, by the Rey James Bates, assisted by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, the Rev. W. GILBERT WALSHE C.M.S., Shaohing, to ELEANOR, eldest daughter of the late Admiral YOUNG, R.N.
DEAT IS.
Accidentally drowned, et Shanghai, on the 6th of November, 1895, CHARLES WATT, late second engineer of the steamer Clinton, aged 32 years.
At Kobe, on the 17th November, W. C. BONGER, a native of Amsterdam, Holland, in his 57th year.
At Shanghai, on the 20th November, JOHN WILLIAM BENNETT, aged 39 years.
At 39, North Soochow Road, Shanghai, on the 24th of November, 1895, ALBERT OTT, aged 54 years. On the 24th November, at Beaconsfield, Singapore, LILY JULIA BLANCHE, only daughtor of the late Vice-Admiral C. R. JOHNSON, R.N., and wife of Major H. E. MCCALLUM, R.E., C.M.G., Colonial Engineer and Surveyor-General, S.S., aged 42.
At Westminster Abbay, on the 18th October. the Rev. W. W. Cassels was consecrated as Bishop of Church of the England in Western China by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Mr. Chinda, the Japanese Consul-General at Shanghai, has been appointed to act in a similar capacity for the newly opened ports of Hang- chow, Soochow, Shashi, and Chungking.
The Hongkong and China Gas Company announce the payment of an interim dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, or 68. per share, for the half year ended 30th June last.
A Paris telegram in the Saigon papers states that M. Bousseau, the Governor-General of Indo-China, hopes to return to his post about the middle of January, after the voting of the Tonkin loan.
No. 23.
Reports of Captain Lang's return to China to reorganise the Navy harga in circulation. As will be seen from letter, the decision Lang will not decision may be rev
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nisin correspondent's sent is that Captain t it is possible the
A correspondeut V. C. Daily News writes:-On the ot November the now noted Liu Ping-phong. ex- Viceroy of Szechnen, with his large train, passed through Ichang on his way to his native home. No display was ma le upon his rival and only a few guns fired on his departare The glory of the great man has departed. He must feel relieved to get away from Chintu before the arrival of the Anrican Commission.
Mr. R. M. Campbell writes to the Shanghai papers soliciting subscriptions for a “ Vigilance Faad" for the protection of the interests of foreigners generally in China. We think the multiplication of Fauds and Societies is to be leprecated. As far as British interests are con- corned we alreally have the China Association, while the various Chambers of Commerce attend to cosmopolitan interests, and what new ground the Vigilance Fund" is going to cover we do
not know.
A number of Cantonese merchants of Shang. hai, the N. C. Daily New: says, have seized time by the forelock and have already begun to build a hong inside the boundary of the new foreign settlements of Haugchow. The com- pany in question is called, "A Commission Agency for the Purchase of Foreign and Kwang- tung Goods," the idea being to fill orders for local dealers in Hangchor for foreign and southern commodities, passing them through the customs at Shanghai, etc., and handing them in good order and condition to the Chèkiang buyers.
A despatch from the Secretary of State on the Hongkong military contribution has been When the decision to levy the. published. contribution on the basis of 17 par cant. of the revenue was announced it was claimed that a rebate should be allowed in respect of revenue that may be terinsd maaicipal in order to place this colony on the same basis as the Straits, where the revenues of the various municipalities are excluded from the calculation. To this the-
Secretary of State does not assent; he points out various differences in the circumstances of the two colonies aul holds that Hongkong has not been dafairly dealt with in the matter.
The construction of a metra-gauge railway from Mandalay to a point on the river Salween near the Chinese frontier has been sanctioned, and the work will begin almost immediately. The length of the line will be 221 miles, and the probable cost will be nearly a million ster- A Tokyo press despatch states that with the object of aiding the development of Japaneseling. The Ringoon Gazette of the 13th Nov. navigation the Government has decided to pay an additional subsidy to the Nippon Yusen Kaisha of 3,500/100 yen in aid of the Com- pany's Australian and Bombay lines and the proposed line to Europe.
-Tsuri.
The Japanese Government has, it is said, decided to construct lighthouses at the following points between Satsuma and Formosa - kakesaki. Yakushima, Satsutakasaki, Iejima, Tsukatajima, Useharazaki, Petao Promontory (Formosa), and Fookee (Formosa). It is believed. that these works will be carried out by the Formosan department.
this morning with Mr. J. R. Ball, Consulting says:-Mr. F. R. Bigley leaves for Calcutta Engineer to the Government of India, to disuss the details of the Mandalay-Salween Railway with the Director-General of Railways and the Public Works Sacratary to the Government of India. So far, little is known here of the pro- posals of the Home Government, beyond the fact that it is unlikely work will be started for more than the first hundred miles. If this is so; the work, for the first year at any rate, may be aidel to the Burm. State Railway and not- formed into a separate charge under an expensive spécial staff.
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