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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLIII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :---
Progress in China
The Governor on Queen's College.
Queen's College and European Education
Dr. Cantlie and his "Fads "
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 13TH FEBRUARY, 1896.
Viscount Miurs and the Murder of the Queen of
Korea
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Edgar Relief Fund amounts at present to nearly £1,300.
Mrs. Bishop (Miss Isabella Bird) was at 123 Ichang at the end of last month and was about
to set out for Chengtu by chair.
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The U. $. Chéngtu Commission has returned, having arrived safely at Shanghai on the 31st 126 January after four months of arduous travel.
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Marine Courts of Inquiry
The Shanghai Chamber of Commerce
Settlement of the Kirin Land Case
The Tung Wab Hospital Commission
The Kirin Outrage-Satisfactory Settlement
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Hongkong Legislative Council
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Bepreme Court....
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The Amateur Dramatic Club at the Theatre Royal.
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Prize Distribution at Quera's College.-Important
Speech by the Governor
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The Departure of Dr. Cantlie.-Farewell Speeches and
Presentations...
The Stranding of the On Sang.
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The Tung Wah Hospital
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Fires in Hongkong..
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Formosa
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Hongkong Ice Co., Limited
Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Limited
Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce
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Shanghai Land Investment Co., Limited.. Cricket
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Hongkong and Port News..
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Commercial
Shipping
Wanchai Warehouse and Storage Co., Limited
BIRTH.
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According to the Hupao, Li Hung-chang has strongly advised that the Chinese railways should be run by a mercantile company and not by the Government.
Sir N. Hannen. Consul-General at Shanghai and Judge of the Supreme Court for China and Japan. is a passenger to Shanghai by the P. & 0. steamer Mirzapore.
The report of the Acting Superintendent of the Hongkong Fire Brigade for 186 gives the 138 damage caused by fires during the year as .138 $622,000, exclusive of damage, to a ship in
harbour by fire.
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On the 5th unst, at 3, West End Terrace, the wife of J. E. RusCIE, chief engineer of the steamer Tsinan, of a som
[400 MARRIAGES.
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On the Art December, E5, Emmanel Parish Church, Essex. e the Rev. A.-H. Chapunan, M... W. ST. Jons He Hancock, 16 Bun ELIZABETH HEIN. No canis.
[430 At Union Church, on the 5th inst., by the Rev. G, J. Williams, Jony Ronger, to MARY KINNAIKD, daughter of GEORGE SENCLAH, Manila. 1899
DEATHS.
At Christiania, on the 23rd Decenter, 1825, WILHELM MATHISES, late of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company. [4:1
At 3, West End Terrace, on the 7th st., the infant son of J. E. Rrxcie, chief engineer of the Menmer Tsinan,
142.1 At his residence. Yokohama, on the 22nd January,
Mr. HENRI FREDERIC SCHOENE, of Nonchatel. Switzerland, in his 58th year.
At the Clah Hotel, 82, Division Street. Kobe, com the 28th January, MONTAGE ROSENTHAL aged 39
years.
At his residence, Shanghai, on the 29th January, 1896, JAMES BROWN, late chief engineer of the steamer Fukuro, aged 75 years,
At Cairo, on Sunday evening, the 2nd February, 1896, MARIE, the beloved wife of P. LIEDER. late of Shanghai.
LORENCO MAMEDE
At Shanghai, on the 3rd inst.. BAPTISTA, aged 55 yours.
On the 5th instant, at Alleny Place, Dumfries, DAVID W. JONES, late of Shanghai, aged 44 years, (By telegram).
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
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: The English mail of the 10th: January arrived, the th per P. & O. steainer. Mirzapore, on February (30 days); and the German mail of the 13tli January arrived, por N. D. L. steamier Prinz Heinrich, on the 11th February (29 days) į
From the Peking and Tientsin Time learn that M. and Mine, de Sercey, while walking in the Chinese city at Peking, with a Secretary of the French Legation, were attacked by Chinese throwing broken bricks. They suffered no in- jury.
The renewal of the mail contract is under con- sideration. It has been suggested by the London postal authorities that Hongkong might ob made the terminal point instead of Shanghai. The Shanghai Chamber of Commerce protests against the proposed change.
No. 7.
At Shanghai on the 30th January thirteen houses collapsed in Seward Road, Hongkew, resulting in three deaths and severe injuries being inflicted on four natives. The houses were in course of building and wore nearly completed, but the construction was so defective that they were unable to support the weight of a heavy fall of snow.
The judgment of the Hiroshima Chiho Saibansho in the case of Viscount Miura, late Japanese Minister to Korea, and others accused with him of assassination and instigation to rebellion in connection with the Seoul emcute of the 8th October last, finds that the affair was planned by the Minister in conjunction with others, and that the murder of the Queen formed part of the plan, but that the accused nevertheless committed no criminal act.
The great rise in the price of all commodities, says the Eastern World, has had the natural consequence that the price of labour has risen in proportion, but, so far as Yokohama is con- cerned, fairly competent labour seems to have vanished from the earth. It is not to be had at any price and the few men in the various trades that have any inkling at all of their business are so overwhelmed with work that
nothing can be done in anything like reason-
-able time.
Work of all kinds therefore goes begging, and the annual spell of unconditional laziness has not yet come to an end, so that employers of labour are at their wits' and.
A Tokyo press despatch of the 30th January says: There is some friction between Japan and China with respect to the Commercial Treaty now being negotiated. It is stated that Li Hung-chang, the Chinese plenipotentiary, refuses to agree to the proposal to coufer rights of extraterritoriality ou Japanese residing in The report of the Hongkong Fire Jus trauce
the new Settlements, and also declines to apply Co. Limiit has been issued. Th Is the most-favoured-uation clause to Japan as account shows a profit of $92, 78, an it is pro-regards Customs duties, holding that Japanese posed to pay a diell al of smá pr slate,
should be distinguished from Europeans and which will be P. 82,PW, and to pay the re
Americans Baron Hayashi, the Japanese maining $20,100 as a beans to donating plonipotentiary. has replied, and declines to re- shareholders. The 1895 acerut shows a balance tire from the position taken up, asserting that at credit of $260,712.
the Chinese are attempting to evade the provi- sions of Bakan Treaty.
tion with the war with China amomuted, up to The direct expenditure of Japan in conuse- the 31st March last, to 225 million yn. This sun does not include indirect expenditure and Josses. The total suin to be paid by China to Japan by way of war indemnity and in con. sideration of the retrocession of Liaotong is 230 million taels, or, say, 350 million yen in round numbers. By the time that Japan has cleared p all her accounts, it seems likely that she will be actually out of pocket in the matter of direct expenditure, not to speak of indirect losses.
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It is confidently asserted, writes a pative cor- respondent from Canton, that a rebellion on large scale will break out in Kwangtung pro- vince in about three months from now. and that the military authorities at Canton are preparing for a desperate struggle against the malcontents, who have sworn to spare no one, especially those of Tartar origiu There is a good deal of un- easiness in consequence anongst the wealthy classes of Canton and other large cities of wapgtung, and the universal prayer is that some strong Governor may be sent out to hold tie reins in Canton. Hsu Chen-yi ought to be the right man.-N. 6. Daily News.
The Chinese calendar appears an uncertain quantity. A few days ago we received from a Chinese correspondent a letter pointing out the variations in various editions published in Hong- kong and at the Coast Ports. A list of thirteen calendars was given. Eight of them give 30 days for the first month and five 29 days. For the second month all are agreed. For the third month one gives 29 days, all the others 30 days. For the fourth month one gives 29 days, all the others 30 days. For the fifth and sixth months there is entire agreement.
For the seventh month one gives 30 days and the others 29. For the eighth month one gives 29 days, the others 30. The remaining months are the same in all except that one does not give the twelfth month aud another omits the eleventh and twelfth. this edition, issued by the Custom House, apparently giving only so much of the Chinese year as is included in the English year. Among the Chinese at Sourabaya. we read, differences ran so high as to the precise date of their New Year that some of them telegraphed to Peking for more exact information. The reply gave the 13th February as the date of the Chinese New Year's Day.
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