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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLII.j
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Weck, &c.
Leading Articles :-
Reform in China
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 19TH DECEMBER, 1895.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
No. 25.
At Shanghai on the 11th inst. Captain Wins- lowe, of H.M.S. Spartan, Lieut. Baker-Baker, and several sailors wore decorated with medals
The Hongkong Regatta was hold on the 12th by Miss Jamieson, daughter of the British
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The Opening of Chins and the Prospects of Trade-158 The Military Contribution and Municipal Govern.
ment
The Government and the Sanit ry Board Interpellations in the Legislative Council Hongkong's Water Supply
Hongkong Legislative Cancil
Hongkong Regatta.
Seizure of Opium --n a Steamer at Saigon
Supreme Cout
The Chinese Customs Rr.urns
Los of the Bonnington Feared
The Edgar Relief Fund .
A Ship's Captain in Trouble at Sa gon
Oxford Local and Preliminary Examinations
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The New Rad from Victoria Gap to Mount K Het ...489 A. S. Walsin & Co., Limited
The Liou Kung M w Cot on Spinning and Weaving
Co., Limited.
Cricket
Football
Hongkong Rifle A-sociation
Murd, rous Outrage on Board a River Steamier
The Inter-Colonial Shooting Match
Correspondence.
The Anglo-Japanese Tariff Convention
The Russians to Winter in Kyno-chou Bay
The Chinese Reoccupy Port Arthur
Discourtesy
ALother Attack on the Palace at Semul
the Gun Trick Exposed
The Wreck of the Nanking and the Alleged Japan
Hongkoug and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
of a son.
BIRTHS,
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It is reported that the Russian fleet intends making Kyao-chan Bay its headquarters this
winter.
Acting Consul-General, for services in H.M.S. Brisk at Witu in 1890 on the West Coast of Africa.
A Havas telegram of the 10th inst. states that the Council has fixed the Tonkin loan at Fears are catertained for the steamer Bon-eighty millions, with a maximum interest of nington, which left Yokohama for Moji on the 3rd inst. and has not since heen heard of.
Mr. Clement F. R. Allen assumed charge of H.B.M. Consulate at Poochow on the 6th instant. Mr. Mansfield having gone home.
Count Ofirni. Italian Chargé d'Affaires in Tokyo, has been promoted to the rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary,
According to the Shanghai natiye papers, further victories have been achieved by the Imperial forces over the Mabommedan rebels.
The first general meeting of the Laon Kung Mow Cotton Spinning and Weaving Co., Limited, was held at Shanghai on the 19th inst.
Another emente took place at Soul on the 176–28th November, but the premature discovery of the plans of the conspirators resulted in the defeat of the plot.
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At Seymour Terrace, on the 10th inst., the wife of Captain BATHURST, of the Douglas steainer Thales, [2576 On the 13th of December, at :, West Terrace, the wife of HARRY WIsox, Parque "Stanfield," of a [2628
daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 12th instant, at St. John's Cathedral, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, Jons BYROX Scurt, to MARY ELIZABETH MILLAR.
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On the 12th of November, 1895, at Milan, Chev. ERNESTO GIISI, Acting Consul for Italy, Shanghai, on rave, to LANA RIVA, eldest daughter of CARLO and VALENTINA Riva, MazzA.
On the 7th instant, at Christ Church, Yokohama, by the Rev. C. Champneys Irwine, MA, WILLIAM COPE, to EMILY MARY, youngest daughter of the late J. COLGAN, of Shanghai.
DEATH.
At 2, Ningpo Road, Shanghai, on the 11th of De- cember, 1895, PAUL SAINTE MARIE MIGNARD, aged 544 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 8th November arrived.
per M. M. steamer Sydney, on the 11th Decem ber (33 days); the English mail of the 15th November arrived, per P. & O. steamer Kaisar-i- Hind, on the 16th December (31 days); and the American mail of 21st November arrived. per P. M. steamer Coptic, on the 18th December 27 days).
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Two Portuguese men-of-war have arrived at Sourabaya for repair from Timor. They bring news of the suppression of the rebellion in the Portuguese section of that island.
three and a half per cent., repayable in sixty years, and with a guarantee by France. Rail- ways will be built from Hanoi to Phulangthuong and from Langson to Dongdang and the Phn- langthuong-Langson line will be reconstructed. A later telegram states that the loan has been submitted to the Chamber. Forty-one millions will be used for the discharge of existing debts and the remainder for public works.
We (China Gazette) are informed that as the result of the efforts of M. Gerard, the French Minister at Peking, to enforce the protection of French and other missionaries under his care,
the following has been achieved. In Szechuen, twenty-ong mandarins. great and small, have been degraded or cashiored; nine of the leaders in the riots of May and June have been executed. In Thibet difficulties have been settled at Mosgruien. Bathang, Litang, Bonga Valley, and Yerkalo. In Koungtheou the difficulties have been settled which arose at Suyang and Tsen-yi.
The N. C. Daily News of the 10th inst. says: There was a large attendance of Imuris shareholders at the meeting at the Shanghai Club yesterday, and a practical resolution was passed to raise a subscription defence fund of According to Fouchow advices, says the N. C.
10 Mexican cents per share, or under as means Daily News, the Viceroy Pion has selected the allow, for the purpose of defeuding at law any expectant Tantai Yen K'ai (a Manchu) to go shareholder attacked by the attorney of the to Singapore and other southern parts where
liquidator. Any shareholder who was prevented wealthy Chiness abound, in order to induce
by any cause from attending the meeting is re- them to take up the management, ou a com- mercial basis, of the Foochow arsenal andquested to send his name and the number of shares he holds to the Committee of the Imuris dockyards.
Defence Fund, care of the Club, and his name will be added to the list of subscribers.
A general meeting of shareholders in the Nippon Yusen Kaisha was held at Tokyo on the 1st inst., when the proposed extension of the company's service to Europe, America, and Aus- tralia was again discussed and unanimously agreed upon. The preliminary arrangements are now being made, and it is proposed when these are completed to commence the service to Europe with six steamers.
On her recent visit to Saigon H.M.S. Mercury made a mistake in one of her salutes, giving the officer in command of the port nine guns only instead of eleven. The mistake was re- medied as soon as it was pointed out, the correct salute being fired. The Progrès Commercial remarks that the mistake Was evidently accidental and not an unnatural one. The From authoritative information that has senior naval officer used to be a Captain reached us, we learn that it is practically decided under the orders of the Admiral_command- that the contracts for building the ten men-of-ing the squadron in the Far East. war by which the Japanese navy is to be in- creased will all go to English firms, remarks the Kobe Chronicle. Our contemporary also hears that English firms will supply the whole of the machinery and gear for the enlargement of the docks at Sasebo and Kure that is con- templated.
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several years, however, this officer has had the local rank of an Admiral, being in command of the Cochin-China division, but the English, our contemporary remarks, did not appear to be aware of the change. In 1888 a similar mis- take was made by a Siamese man-of-war with the Crown Prince on board. Her commander was a Dane and he did not appear willing to fire A meeting of the Hongkong Legislative the salute over again. He was politely asked Council was held on the Ifth inst.. when the to comply with the international regulations on military contribution question was further the subject and he was made to understand, by discussed. The unofficials opposed the vote on steam being got up on a couple of torpedo boats, the ground that the municipal revenue should that it was intended to exact this reparation. be exempted from the charge of 17 per cent..The salute was then repeated with a bad grace but they were defeated by the official majority, Other interesting questions were also discussed at the meeting. including the action of the Government with regard to the Sanitary Board. I
and with unfortunate results to the Siamese, for during the firing a shell on board exploded, causing a serious accident. The Siamese quickly got up their anchor and steamed away.
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