THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIII.J
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c. ................................................ Leading Articles :-----
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 16TH JANUARY, 1896.
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The Shanghai Cotton. Industry and Lekin Question 42 Mr. Denietrius Boulger on the Partition of China. 42
A Danger to British Shipping
The Transvaal....
A Hunanese Reformner
The Defence of Shanghai
Supreme Court.....
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Safety of the Bonnington.—A Memorable Voyage 46❘ A Foreigner's Steam Launch seized on the West River 47 Sentence by the Saigon Court on Captain Ballentyne..... 47 The New Minister to Peking....
Another Case of Piracy.-Two Men Shot. Admiral Makaroff's Collision Buffer Formoes ****
A Hongkong Handicap on British Shipping Mr. J. D. Humphreys and his Carriages.~Full Penalty
Imposed
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
the 8th
The French mail of the 6th December arrived. per M. M. steamer Caledonien, on January (33 days); and the English mail of the 13th December arrived, per P. & O, steamer Pekin, on the 13th January (31 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
47 Major Sir Claude Maxwell Macdonald, 47 K.C.M.G., has been appointed Minister to
Peking.
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Riding at the Happy Valley-A Police Court Summour 53 The Marder and Suicide at Shankiwan.-Inquest The Hongkong High-Level Tramways Co., Limited Hongkong Brick and Cement Co., Limited.
The New Imuris Mines, Limited (In Liquidation).. Cricket...
Rugby Football
Hongkong Golf Club
Amoy Races...
Correspondence
The Public Library.
The Bonnington and Her Crew
The Light and Pass Regulations Hotel Accommodation at Kobe
Collision at Woosung
The Appreciation of Stocks Hongkong and Port Now... Commercial
Shipping
BIRTH.
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The Peking and Tientsin Times says the arrangements for the construction of the rail- way to Peking are being pushed forward rapidly, and that the contract will be offered on tender.
The annual report of the Hongkong High- Level Tramways Co., Limited, has beenjissued. 55 The amount available for appropriation is 55 $10,871, and it is proposed to pay a dividend of 56 $6 per share.
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The Chief Justice Sir Fielding Clarke, 56 leaves for home by today's mail steamer. In 56 the Supreme Court yesterday the members of 57 the bar and solicitors assembled to wish his 57 lordship farewell.
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Subject to audit the Directors of the Hong- 60 kong and Shanghai Bank have decided to pay a dividend for the half year of 25; to jadd to the reserve fund 24 lakhs, and to carry forward
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At Dunnottar, the Peak, on the 13th instant, the wife of ROBERT BECKER, of a son.
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MARRIAGES.
At All Sainte Church, Tientsin, on Thursday, 19th December, 1895, by the Rev. Frank L. Norris, MARGARET, eldest daughter of EDWARD YEATS, Of London, to JOHN WHARTON, second son of THOMAS FENTON, of Patchley Bridge, Yorkshire.
At "Stevenside," Shanghai, on the 2nd of January, by the Rt. Rev. F. R. Graves, Archdeacon THOм- SON, of Fredericksburg, Va., U.S. of America, to Miss ELIBABETH M. McKECHNIE, of Springfield, Mass., US. of America.
On the 3rd January, at the British Consulate, and afterwards at the British Episcopal Church, Foo chow, by the Venerable Archdeacon Wolfe, assisted by the Reverend L. Lloyd, JoHN RYRIE youngest son of the late WILLIAM RODIE GREAVES, of Liver-
pool, to IDA CORALIE, youngest daughter of THOMAS GITTINS, of Foochow, China.
On the 3rd January, at H.B.M. Consulate, by J. J. Enslie, Esq., and afterwards at the Union Church by the Bev. S. Swann, ELLA BEATRICE MARY BOBERTSON, of Woolston, Southampton, England, to JOHN ROBERT PALLANT, of Kobe.
DEATHIS.
At Boston, Mass., EDWARD GILCHRIST LOW, for- merly of Shanghai (by telegram).
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 1st of January, 1896, Charles J. McCARTHY, aged 24 years.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 4th instant, THOMAS DEANS MOLLINSON, a native of Scotland, late Chief Officer of the Indo-China Co's steamer Canton, aged 33 years.
At Shanghai, on 10th January, 1896, KATE GER- TRUDE, widow of the late Dr. R. A. JAMIESON, aged 75 yards.
about 3 lakhs of dollars.
A steam-launch which Mr. John Androw, of Hongkong, had engaged at Canton to take a cargo of piece goods to Wuchowfu under transit pass has been seized by the lekin au- thorities at the last named port.
In the annual report of the Shanghai Branch of the China Association it is recognised that "British residents in China now find their best interests bound up with a continuation of the lowest gold price that silver has attained."
necessary to send reinforcements to Formosa. The Japanese are apparently finding it
A Yokohama telegram of the 8th January to the N. C. Daily News states:-One brigade of troops has left Ujina; the port of Hiroshima, for Formosa this week.
The steamer Bonnington, which left Yoko. hama for Moji on the 3rd December and had been given up as lost, arrived at Hongkong on In a gale shortly after leaving Yokohama the the 11th January in tow of the steamer Boynton. V9ssel's boiler broke loose and she had a memor. able experience, her escape from destruction being almost marvellous.
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The Hongkong Brick and Cement Co., Limited, has resolved to voluntarily liquidate. The business is to be taken over by the Green Island Cement Co., Limited.
Captain Ballentyne, of the steamer Flintshire, has been sentenced to three months' imprison- ment by the Saigon Court on a charge of assist- ing two French soldiers to desert.
The China Inland Mission at Shanghai re- ceived a telegram on the 9th January from Lanchou, Kansa, dated the 8th inst., from which it is learned that Hsining is now open, all the missionaries there are well, and there is no cause for apprehension.
A Tokyo press'telegram of the 6th January says:-- -The Government has decided to ask the Diet for a vote of one million yen as a subsidy for running steamers to Europe. The Nippon Yusen Kaislia, it is reported, have resolved to increase their capital to 15,000,000 yen before commencing the service.
We hear that German merchants are making their preparations in view of the prospective opening of the West River and are receiving all possible assistance from their Consul at Canton. When Wuchow-fu is declared an open port it will probably be found that Germany is well to the fore as regards the acquisition of good sites for wharves and godowns.
The Tonkin Customs authorities have officially contradicted the statements recently made by the Hanoi Chamber of Commerce as to the repeated examinations of goods proceeding to Yunnan by the Red River route. It is stated that the goods are examined at Haiphong and are not interfered with again until they arrive at Laokay, when they are checked for payment of duty.
It is said, according to the Straits Times, that the recent visit of Admiral Buller in H.M.S. Alacrity to Sandakan and Manila was in connection with the killing of Manila men who had deserted from the Spanish garrison of Sulu. The men were alleged to have been shot by armed men from the Spanish man-of-war Marquis del Duero, aided by men of the British North Borneo police.
Thus the recent edict of the King of Korea the lead in getting a hair-cut, and thus give an as given in the Nagasaki, Express" I take example to all my subjects; and you, all my subjects, are hereby commanded to comply with my desire and get hair cuts too, and thus accomplish the exalted work of placing my country on the same plane as all the other civilised powers in the world.”
A fire occurred at Bangkok on the 81st December in which about forty wooden houses, two blocks of brick buildings, and the chief temple of Wat Cheng were consumed. The The Shanghai Branch of the China Associa- temple, as we learn from the Bangkok Times, is tion has addressed the Secretary of State for the oldest and most historic wat in Bangkok. the Colonies deprecating the application to According to Siamese history it is built upon vessels engaged in the passenger trade on the the spot where the fugitives from the sack of China coast of regulations proposed to be made Ayuthia found themselves at dawn of day and by the Hongkong Government under the when Bangkok was first built upon that side, of Chinese Passengers Act, on the ground that the river it was decided to commemorate the such regulations are unnecessary and would incident by erecting the present building, along- operate as a handicap on British shipping inside of which was built the King's palace now. competition with the shipping of other nations. the residence of H.R.H. Prince Chaokrapati- The matter was brought to the notice of the pongse (Ong Yai). Two fatal accidents oc- Association by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire. curred at the fire.
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