THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIII.}
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c........................................................... Leading Articles ---
.185
The Duty of the White to the Coloured Races ...186 The Japanese in Formosa and Opium Smoking ...186 England and France and Commercial Advantages
in Yunnan
.187 187
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 4TH MARCH, 1896.
.188 .189 .189 .190
Plague and Quarantine
The Sale of Building Materials from the Taiping-
shan Plague District
.188
Directors and their Fees
188
Quarantine Imposed at Singapore...........
Supreme Court..
Hongkong Sanitary Board..
Formous
"Occupy till I come.".
.191
Hongkong Hotel Co., Limited
.194
Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Limited
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Correspondence
The Latest Coup d'Etat in Korea
Terrific Explosion at Kiangyin......
The Robbery of Sovereigns on the Whampoa
Hongkong News.........
Commercial
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BIRTHS.
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At Capsuimoon Customs Station, on the 28th February, the wife of C. P. C. LYNBORG, of a daughter.
[590 On Sunday, the 1st March, the wife of GEORG BACUSE, of a son.
[004 At Shanghai, on the 21st February, the wife of CHARLES GRANT, of twins; son and daughter.
MARRIAGE.
On the 20th February, at the British Consulate, Yokohama, by Mr. J. Carey Hall, and afterwards at Christ Church, by the Rev. E. C. Irwine, ETTIE eldest daughter of Captain C. YOUNG, of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, to Mr. EDWARD B. STUART EDWARDS, third son of the late Mr. EDWARD EDWARDS, Boreum, Salop, England.
It is now stated that Marquis Ito has decided not to go to Russia. The Tokyo News Agency states that Marquis Yamagata has been com. manded to go instead.
The Japanese survey of Formosa, we learn, is now nearly completed. The emigration aus immigration of Chinese has almost ceased, passports being required on leaving or landing
on the island.
On the 23rd February the powder magazine at Kiangyin exploded, causing a loss, according to report, of two hundred lives, besides which many were wounded. There has recently been some trouble in the camp, owing to the soldiers not receiving their pay, and there is a suspiciou that the explosion was designed.
A Chinese official at Shanghai, who has a relative appointed as an attache to the Embassy going to Russia to attend the coronation of the Czar, has received a telegraphic despatch from Peking stating that the indications are that H.E. Li Hung-chang will not.go to Russia, but that a Manchu of high rank will go instead as Chief and Shao Yu-lion as Vice-Ambassador.- N. C. Daily News.
The report of the Hongkong Hotel Co., Limited, for the past half-year shows a balance at credit of profit and loss account (after Writing off $4,288 for bad debts and $4.698 for improvements to buildings and additions to furniture) of 88,175, as compared with $576 on
31st December, 1894, and a debit balance of
$10,379 on 31st December, 1893. It is proposed to write $5,000 off furniture and to carry the romainder of the balance to next account.
During the year 1895 no less than 1ardiffer- ent men-of-war of all nationalities visited Nuga saki. Of course the number of man-of-war en- tries is much greater, some of them coming here as many as five or six times during the twelve months. And large as these numbers are, those of this year give every On the 27th February, at his residence, Barnstaple, the large increase in the Far Eastern fleets of indication of being larger.
the powers
and disturbed state of the political atmosphere being the prime factors in bringing this about.-Rising Sun.
DEATHS.
N. Devon, RICHARD BUDD, M.D., FR.C P., in his 87th year. (By telegram.)
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
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The French mail of the 31st January arrived, per M. M. steamer Salazie, on the 29th Feb. ruary (29 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
A ball was given at the Chinese Legation at Tokyo on the 17th February. Madame Yu and the Misses Yu were dressed in foreign
costume.
The revised treaty between Doumark and Japan has been ratified by the King of Den- mark and the ratifications will shortly be exchanged.
Singapore has declared Hongkong infected with plague and quarantine of ten days, includ. ing the time occupied by the passage, is imposed on all vessels which have Chinese on
board.
The Tientsin correspondent of the N. C. Daily News writes:-Silver is at last at a heavy dis- count among the natives. The dollar has been down to 915 large cash; the approach of the China New Year always appreciates cash, but never before has the appreciation grown to any thing like the present. The normal quotation varies between 1,050 and 1,100; at previous New Years it has fallen to 1,000 or 1,020, but this year's fall is quite phenomenal and involves no little hardship to all the classes whose pay rises to the dignity of silver.
It is stated that the total loss to the Insurance Companies by the recent big fire at Kobe will not fall far short of $75,000. The London and Lanca shire and New Zealand Firo are most involved, from $35,000 to $50,000 being the expected liability. The Commercial Union's loss is expected to be $10,000. The Alliance Fire Insurance Co. had $2,000 on Captain Kreidner's property, much of which was safely removed. The Guardian or South British lose $2,000, the Hongkong Fire about $2,000, the Norwich Union or Loudon Assurance Company about $4,000, The Liverpool, London, and Globe is also interested, though only to a slight extent.
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No. 10.
The Manager of the Hongkong Branch of the Straits Insurance Co., Limited, has received a telogram from his head office, Singapore, stating that the net premium for 1895 was $1,100,000, the balance of working account is $550,000, balance of profit and loss account $100,000, dividend to be declared 10 per cent., amount to be added to reserve fund $20,000.
A Tokyo telegram of the 20th February.to the China Gazette reads:-The King of Korea will remove in a few days from the Russian Legation, where he has been staying with the other members of the Royal Family, to the Tindong Palace, close to the Legation, and It is evident his stay there is not to be of short which is now being prepared for his reception..
duration.
special decree commuting the death penalty The Emperor issued on the 17th February a pronounced last year against Kung Chao-yü, ex-Civil Commandant of Port Arthur, Huang Shih-lin, one of the ex-Military Commandants of the same place. ex-General Yeh Chih-chao, of Yashan notoriety, and Chiang Hsi-yi, ex- Commandant at Yingkow (Newchwang), to that of imprisonment for life in the prisons of the Board of Punishments at Peking. The next step will naturally be a complete reprieve sooner or later, in consideration of a large sum of money subscribed by these malefactors towards railways or the military exchequer.-N. C. Daily News.
A native paper states that the Emperor re- quested the Tsungli Yamen and the Ministry of War to decide whether the Hanlin Reform Association should continue or not, and that the reply of these two Boarda was decidedly It had also favourable to the organisation. been decided to permit Peking officials from the 9th to the 5th runks to take a regular course of study in foreign languages in a school to be controlled by the Reform Association. reliable authority that As to the above, we have been assured
the Emperor Was induced to take this step on account of a officials of high standing in Peking and the number of secret memorials from numerous
provinces; in regard to the school of "languages we have no reliable information.-C. N. Daily News.
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On the afternoon of the 9th February a serious fire occurred at Bangkok. It is said firecracker which got upon an attap roof. that
the cause of the ontbreak was a Chinese
Starting in the compound of the newly erected wood houses on the lower side of Bush Lane, says the Bangkok Times, the flames quickly and several bamboo houses close to, and part of consumed the whole of these wooden structures
the row of brick houses between the German Club and the roadway. In fact, it was only by the strenuous exertions of a number of Euro- peans, led by Mr. French (H.B.M. Consul), that the German Club was saved. simultaneously with the original outbreak flames appeared in a large Chinese saw-yard on the bank of Klong Kutmai, and soon raged fiercely in close proximity to the United Club, the bowling alley of which was only a few feet therefrom. The fire was eventually checked at the premises of the Singapore Aerated Water Company, after three or four houses had disappeared. The United Club and the Tramway Station had a narrow escape.
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