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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland
Overland Trade
VOL. XLIII.J]
CONTENTS.
Report.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 27TH FEBRUARY, 1896.
itome of the Week, &c.
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ing Articles :-
English Demands on China
Mr. Andrew and the Transit Pass Trade..
Russis, Japan, and Korea.
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England, France, and Siam
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The Official Vocabulary of Telegraph Cole
Words
A Becreation Ground in Danger
Education in Hongkong....
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Captain Carmichael and the On Sang Inquiry ...166
Hongkong Race Meeting.
Sale of Racing Ponies.........
Supreme Court......
The Jubilee of Freemasonry in Hongkong.
Mr. Andrew's Case at Wuchowfu
Wreck of the Barque Lynnwood on the Pratas.
The Water Supply ....
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Mr. S. Leslie, of the Customs Staff at Ningpo, left Shanghai on the 19th February for Hangchow to make arrangements with the authorities there for the early opening of that port.
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The death is reported of Mr. S. J. Morris, an old Shanghai resident and well-known civil and mining engineer, who died in Yokohama. whither he had gone in the hope being restored to health.
The N. C. Daily News says:-There is no 166 doubt now that H.E. Chang Chib-tung will shortly leave Nanking for his former Viceroy. 173alty, and he has already sent away his family in .174 the Haern.
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Reports from Tientsin agree that the river 175 will be open very soon, and it is arranged, we 175 learn from the China Gazette, that the first batch of steamers will leave Shanghai about
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The "Unwarrantable Cheek of the Police
"Oil Tanks on the Shaukiwan Road
China Fire Insurance Co., Limited
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited.
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The National Bank of China, Limited
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Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., Limited..
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Groen Island Cement Co., Limited
The Punjom Mining Co., Limited..
Raub
Li Hung-chang Ordered to St. Petersburg
News from Koren
The Stranding of the On Sang.....
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Native Reports of the Last of the Mahomedan
Rebellion...
News from the Capital
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Royal Hongkong Yacht Club.
Hongkong News
Commercial
Shipping
DEATHS.
the 3rd March:
Mr. J. I. Miller, a well-known resident of 179 Shanghai and District Grand Master of the District Grand Lodge of Northern China, died at Shanghai on the 19th February. His funeral was attended by the Masonic fraternity
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On the 23rd January, at her residence, Cavendish Crescent, N, The Park, Nottingham, ROSE HANNAH, widow of the late W. H. BELL, of Hongkong [539 On Monday, 24th February, at the Government Civil Hospital Hongkong, PERCY REDGRAVE WILSON, aged 23 years. Deeply regretted.
£546 On the 27th of December, 1895, at Laohok'ou vid Hankow, China, ANNIE M. PARROTT, wife of ALBERT GEORGE PARROTT, M.R.C.S. (England), L.R.C.P. (London), aged 40 years.
At 26, Newchwang Road, Shanghai, on the 14th February, 1896, ELIZABETH, the beloved wife of HENRY BURTON, Assistant Overseer of Municipal Council Roads, aged 50 years.
At Shanghai General Hospital, on the 14th February, 1896, VALDEMAR JULIUS NIELSEN, of the Great Northern Telegraph Co., aged 28 years.
At Shanghai General Hospital, on the 15th February, 1896, 8J, WILLIAMS, late second engineer, revenue cruiser Pingching, aged 52 years.
At Shanghai, on the 19th February, 1896, JOHN IRWIN MILLER, aged 58 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English mail of the 24th January arrived, per P. & O. steamer Rosetta, on the 23rd Febru- ary (30 days); the American mail of the 28th January arrived, per 0. & O. steamer Coptic, on the 26th February (29 days); and the Canadian mail of the 4th February arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of Japan, on the 26th February (22 days).
Li Hung-chang is to go to Russia to be present at the coronation of the Czar. Passages have been engaged for His Excellency and suite by the M.M. line. Japan will be represented at the ceremony by the Marquis Ito, the
Premier.
At Shanghai on the 13th February fourteen native houses in the French Concession were destroyed by fire and on the same day three houses occupied by members of the British Consular staff in Pekin Road were also seriously damaged by fire.
The China Gazette repeats that the Queen of In view of the circum- Korea is still alive. stantial reports of the murder of Her Majesty that have appeared, the statement of our con- temporary requires to be supported by evidence before it can be accepted.
At Kobe on the 14th February a fire broke ont in Sakaimachi, at about 2 a.m., and burucd through to the Native Band, making a clean sweep of several blocks. Several offices in the occupation of foreigners, as well as a part of the old Hyogo Hotel, were destroyed. Hyogo News office barely escaped. The area covered with the rains is probably two cho.
The
The Peking and Tientsin Times of the 1st inst. saysAn important memorial relating to the treatment of Christian Missions by the Chinese Government; especially urging the sup- pression of slanderous anti-missionary literaturo, has been presented to the Emperor through the Tsungli Yamên by Rev. T. Richard. So far as we are informed, no response has yet been given. but a favourable one is hoped for.
A very destructive five occurred in Yokohama on the morning of the 8th February. It broke out in a building that was being erected for the Methodist Episcopal Mission at the estrema end of the Western Bluff, and the hopsos of the EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Rev. H. Loomis, Mr. Alexander Clark, Rev. W. S. Worden, Rev. J. G. Cleveland, and The Nova Scotian barque Lynnwood was Messrs. G. F. Gordo, L. Ph. von .Heuert, F. wrecked on the Pratas on the 16th February,da Roza, V. F. Barradas, and R. Schuffner while on a voyage from Shanghai to Manila.
were destroyed.
No. 9.
Russia has disclaimed any idea of annexing Korea, but declares her intention to secure the autonomy of the country. Mr. Curzon has stated in the House of Commons that the British Government considers the Russian pledge not to occupy any port in Korea as still binding.
The report of the National Bank of China, Limited. shows that the profit earned during the last half-year amounts to $31,077, which with 840.501 brought forward from 30th June makes the total undivided profits $71,578, from which the directors propose to transfer $20,000 to the reserve fund and to pay the same dividend as before, i.e. 2/6 per share, which absorbs $47,359, leaving the sum of $4,218 to be carried forward to next account.
The report of the Humphreys Estate and Finance Co.. Limited, which was adopted at the meeting held on the 25th February, shows that brought forward. amounts to $10,098, but as the net profit for the year, including $915 the year under review has received little or no benefit from the present and prospective increase in the rent roll a sum of $10,400 has been added from the equalisation of dividend fund, which permits of the payment of a dividend of 7 per cent., and the carrying forward to credit of profit and loss account of $2,718.
The British North Borneo Herald says:-" It is satisfactory to note that in addition to cotton and hemp plantations now being opened on be half of residents elsewhere, a powerful Hong- kong syndicate is looking out for sugar-cane land in this neighbourhood. That the cane will flourish here, even when cultivated solely by na- tives, whose ideas of planting are so crude that they result in little more than letting the canes take care of themselves, has already been proved. Under foreigu auspices such an enter- prize is sure of success, so far as the production of good cane is concerned. The opening of a pioneer estate on a fairly large scale will pro- bably mark an ora in our industrial history." Elsewhere the same paper says:-"Mr. Macgre gor Smith is here on a sugar-planting enter- prise. He has visited several localities to select suitable land, and, we understand, represents capitalists in Hongkong and China."
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In an article on the opening of the Chinese New Year the N. C. Daily News says The past year has been one of the best ever known to the native traders, and the one on which we entered on Thursday promises to be a satisfac- tory one. the fact that all the thirty-one native banks in the Settlement are resuming business when the holidays are over, and thirteen new ones, well backed by native capitalists, are to be opened. There is no indication as yet that the boom in land has culminated: The four note plot of ground, with some very old buildings on it, in Canton Road, opposite the Concordia Club, has been sold to Mr. R. S. Raphael for £10,500, and it is reported that the house and grounds known of Mr. Peter Maclean's on the Markham Road have been sold for something like Tls. 30,000, and Jurdino's Paddock, also on the Markham Road, for Tis. 75,000. There is also a report that the Taotai has been instructed to consent to the extension of the Settlement westward to to Jessfield and Sicawei, and we hope to be able to confirm this shortly.
An undeniable indication of this is
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