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Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIII.{
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
HONGKONG. WEDNESDAY, 22ND JANUARY, 1896.
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Epitome of the Week, &c.
The Chinese Chamber of Commerce and the Pu
Leung Kuk
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Sir Nicholas O'Conor and His Lack of Information 66 Australia and Japan
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Riding on the Wongneichong Recreation Ground. 67 A Whitewashing By-Law
The Mekong Settlement.
The Departure of Sir Fielding Clarke
Reviews :-
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1: total amount of gold won at Raub last year was 5,775 oz., valued at $201,880.
The Japan se Government intends to establish a state monopoly for the sale of leaf tobacco.]
The N. C. Daily News says there is a great likelihood of H.E. Chang Chih-tung's iron. works at Hanyang being transferred to an English syndicate.
The German fourth-class cruiser Geier, which has just gon through her spei trial satisfac- torily, will come out to the China station in the spring to replace the Iltis.
A telegram, dated the 8th instant, from Lon- don, seat by the Chinese legation some friends! of H.E. Kung Chao-yuan in Shenghai, states that his Excellency has recovered from his i!!-
The Rights of Aliens in Hongkong
Sketches of Tokyo Life
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My Holidays in China
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Reported Cession of Lapa to Germany
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The Mekong Settlement..
The Departure of the Chief Justice
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The Po Leung Kuk Sariety's New Home Formosa
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Supreme Court :- -
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Forgery
Hongkong Sanitary Board...
The Charge against Mr. Manners
Insulting Language in the Police Court
Bongkong High-Level Tramways Co., Limited
Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co., Limited 72 Cricket.
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Accident at the Mosque.....
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Football
Raub Gold
Correspondence ———
The New Balmoral Mining Co., Limited.
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Proposed New Rowl from Victonia Gap to Mount
Kellett Ridge
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The Chinese Chamber of Commerce
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The Shanghai-Soochow Railway
The Japanese Budget for 1596.
The Shanghai Chamber of Cominerre Hongkong and Port News... Commercial
Shipping
The Tonkin rice crop, like that of Colin China, threatens to be a failure, owing to the want of rain. The Courrier d'Haiphong urges the necessity of irrigation works in order to protect the country against such disasters.
It is reported that the island of. Lappa has been ceded by China to Germany. Lappa is opposite to Macao and being at the entrance to the stream formed by the junction of the West and North Rivers would he favourably situated for trade with the West River in the event of the latter being opened to steam navigation.
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Telegrams received from Peking by the Shanghai He. Pao announce the appointment of Hsi Chen-yi, Director-General of the Yel- low liver, to the Governorship of Kwangtang rice Ma Pei o deceased. The new Governor bears a high character for probity.
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In the Japanese House of Representatives on the 9th January the opposition address to the Throne impeaching the Cabinet Ministers in connection with the retrocession of the Liaotung Peninsula and the Seoul episode of October 8th was thrown out by 170 votes to 103.
We learn that a party of foreigners including Captain Clarke, of the Hoagkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co., Limited, Mr. Dowler, of Messrs. Butterfield and Swireland Mr. Hewitt, - of the Green Island Cement Works, left Canton on the afternoon of Tuesday the 14th Jan.. iu a native house boat for Wuchowin. They could not get a launch, it is reported owing to official obstruction. The visit of these gentlemen to Wuchowfn is presumably in connection with the prospective opening of the port.
The annual report of the Hongkong Laup Investment aud Agency Co.. Limited, har boeti published. The net profits, including 834,447. balance brought forward from last accoun‘, after paying all charges, amount to 8257867. From this amount an interim dividend of $2000 per share has already been paid. and it is now Owing to the reported successes of General proposed to pay a final dividend of $20) për Tung Fu-hsiang in Kausu against the Malom-share, making a total dividend of 8 per cent. medan rebels, the corps of General Cheng, per anuum on the paid up capital, and after 20,000 strong, which was on its way to reinforce writing off directors" and anlitors' fees, there the former las, the N. C. Daily News says, been retains a balance of $46,867 tỷ he carried fo 77 turned back while going through Honan and ward to the credit of a n So ordered to return to the south for disbandment.
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MARRIAGES. On the 16th instant, at St. Joseph's Church, and afterwards at the Union Church, ISABEL MATILDA KLINCK. eldest daughter of CHAS, KLINCK, to JOHN FORDYCE Messer, Captain of Messrs. Erdier & 22 On the 11th inst, at Christ Church, Yokohama, by the Rev. E. Champneys Irwing, Keith FENTON CRAWFORD to NINA EVELYN TOWNLEY.
DEATHS.
Cal's stemmer Siam.
On the 3rd January, at No. 1, Nishi Suga-cho, Nezu, Hongo-ku, Tokyo, Mrs. A. V. R. EASTLAKE, in her sixty-third year.
On the 10th January, at No. 261, Bluff, Yoko baina, DOROTHEA LENA, infant daughter of ALFRED and LESA DARE.
On the 11:h inst., at No. 37, Water Street, Yoko bama, JAMES Bopit, a native of Plymouth, Eng- lund.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 21st December arrived, per P. M. steainer City of Peking, on the; 18th January (28 days); and the French mail of the 20th December arrived, per M. M. steamer Oceanien, on the 21st January (32 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The rebellion in Formosa has been subdued. No raport of the trial of Captain Ballentyne of trustesuir Flintch're has yet a paired in the Saigon paper.
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H.E. Wang Chil-chin. Provincial Treasurer of Hupeh, who returned last summer from a special einbassy to Russia, has, the N. C. Doily News says, been telegraphed for from Wuchang by the Emperor to go up to Peking at once. It is reported that his Excellency is about to be again appointed to Russia, this time as Plenipo- tentiary for three years,
The Shanghai Municipal Council for 1996 has been elected without a ballot, only nine names having been sent in. Mr. Scott has in- timated his willingness to take the chairmanship for another year. The nine gentlemen elected are Messrs. C. Beurmann. D Brand, J. Cooper, J. S. Fearon, W. D. Little. J. H. McMichael, A. P. MacEwen, D. M. Moxes, and J. L. Senft.
According to the Jupan Mail, the new en- of-war on account of which appropriations are asked for in the Budget for next fiscal year number only six, namely, two line-of-battle ships and four first class cruisers, the total gost being 47,154.57 ven. But it is understood that these constitute only the first instalment of the naval increase, and that further sums will be asked for next year.
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Der Ostasiatische Lloyd states:-- -We learn that the negotiations on account of the pillag. ing of the German Mission Station at Moilin (near Swator) have been brought to a satis- factory conclusion. The ringleader, Sang A-ling, was decapitated on the 28th ult. at Shoashaofn in the presence of the German Vice-Cousul at Swalow, Mr. Streich, and the head of the criminal has since been exhibited in a cage on the market-place at Moilin.
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A change is about to take ph... in thể còm- mand of the Russian Pacific squadron. Vicd Admiral Tyrtoff is, w learn, going hona by the French mail lawving here on the 5th February, au Rear-A Imiral Makarof is going home via America by the C. P. steamer City of Peking, leaving on the 25th January. Their Excellencies are appointed to command re- spectively the first and second Baltic squadrous at Cronstadt. Rear-Admiral Alexeioff will . succeed Vice Admiral Tyrtoft as Commander. in-chief of the Pacific squadron, and Captain Tschoukmine. Captain of the Pamiat Azova, has been promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral and is to be second in command of the Pacifie squadrou.
In a contributed article on " Doctor Kitasité and his work" in the Japan Mail it is stated capable of arresting the plague within a few that the doctor is how able to produce a serúmi. ones after having been injected into the viens of the sufferer; also an injection which is a specific for cholera, another which is valuable in consumption, another which is an absolute cure for diphtheria, and still another which will cure leprosy. To the writer of the article Dr. Kitasato said:" You may make the announce ment that I have at last succeeded in obtaining a serum that will eure leprosy, I have tried it with positive and entire success. How about Dr. Goto's treatment was asked. "Oh, that is superficial, and does not strike at the root of the disease. My injection completely neutralizes the virus of the lepra-bacill. I have not yet published this discovery, but you are at liberty to announce it.”
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