THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLIII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles:-
Russiau Policy in the Far East...
The Opening of the West River
The Legation Report on Trade with Japan.. Trade between Japan and Australia....... Li Hung-chang's Visit to Hongkong
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 26тH MARCH, 1896.
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The New Minister and Pending Questions
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The Reconstitution of the Sanitary Board Should the College of Medicine be Endowed?,
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Supreme Court................
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The Reconstitution of the Sanitary Board
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The Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
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The Jubilee of Zetland Lodge
The College of Medicine for Chinese-Proposed Endow-
ment
The Cattle Plague at Pokfulam
St. Patrick's Dance....
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The Stranding of the Humber
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The Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co., Limited,
Goo. Fenwick & Co., Limited
Luzon Sugar Refining Co., Limited
Correspondence
Hongkong News.
American mails of the 2nd March and 25th
February arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of China, on the 24th March (22 and 28 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK!
No. 13.
The annual meeting of the Straits Insurance Co., Limited, was held at Singapore on the 12th March, when the report and accounts were adopted. The remuneration of the directors was increased from $10 a meeting and $20 for the chairman to $20 and 540 respectively.
The Kobe Chronicle says;--Mr. J. McLeavy Brown, formerly Commissioner of Customs at
The Foochow Spring Race Meeting was held Seoul, is stated to have been given full control on the 17th, 18th, and 19th March.
over the Treasury, and no money can be drawn without his signature. The Japanese officials in Mr. John Audrew's case at Wuchow has the Financial Department are said to have re- been settled in his favour and he is shortly ex-signed, and will return to Japan. They are the ..257pected back at Canton.
authorities apparently for the statement that 20,000 yen was withdrawn from the Treasury before the recent coup, the excuse being that the money was wanted to defray the funeral cere- monies of the late Queen.
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Herr von Brandt has been ill at Peking, but according to latest reports was making fair progress towards recovery.
The official papers in connection with the proposed reconstitution of the Hongkong Victoria Recreation Club.--Annual Athletic Meeting...262 Sanitary Board have been published.
Commercial
Shipping
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MARRIAGES. At Union Church, Hongkong, on the 19th March, 1896, by the Rev. G. Williams, JAMES BRENNAN JACKSON, master of the Scottish Oriental Steamship Co.'s steamer Loo-sok, to EMILY, daughter of JouN CAMP, of Bratton Fleming, N. Devon, England.
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On the 7th March, 1896, at II.B.M.'s Consulate, Kobe, by F. W. Playfair, Esq., Acting Consul, and afterwards at the Union Church by the Rev. H. J. Foss, CHARLES HERBERT, second son of the late FREDERIC JAMES LIGHTFOOT, of Esher, Surrey, to GEORGINA FLORA, second daughter of the late GEORGE NANKIVELL,
At All Saints' Church, Tientsin, ou the 11th inst., by the Rev. Frak. L. Norris, AUGUSTUS HENRY, eldest son of Augustus Victor Jaques, of London, to ANNIE GULE, only daughter of the late Cassini Fox, of Morebattle, Kelso, and stepdaughter of John MOFFAT, Imperial China Railways, Tientsin.
At the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, on the 14th instant, by the Rev. II. C. Hodges, M.A., EDWARD HAMILTUS, of Shanghai, to JULIA STAR- MER, of Nuneaton, England.
DEATHS.
At No. 14, Rue Poncelet, Paris, NELLIE, third daughter of the late ROBERT and ELIZABETH MC- BIRNEY, of DUBLIN. 19th December, 1895. [774 At 5, Reidhaven Street, Bant, on the 7th Febru- ary, JOHN MATHESON, late Chief Inspector of Police, Hongkong, aged 47 years.
On the 7th March, 1896, at 8 p.m., at his residence in Osaka, Monseigneur HENRI VASSELON, Vicaire Apostolique du Japon Centrale, aged 42 years.
At Shanghai General Hospital, on the 13th March, 1890, AUGUSTUS H. H. BRATT, aged 33 years.
At Chefoo, on the 14th of Marchi, 1896, CONSTANCE HARRIET, wife of A. W. DOUTHWAITE, M.D.
At Shanghai, on the 16th of March, 1896, ANDREAS H. A. WINDHORST, aged 36 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 14th February arrived, per M. M. steamer Yarra, on the 21st March (36 days); the English mail of the 21st February arrived, per P. & O. steamer Peshawyr, on the 20th March (28 days); and the Canadian and
The report of the Manager of the Raub Gold Mine for the year ended 29th February last has been published. Mr. Bibby states that he has advised the directors to pay.a dividend of 6d. per share.
A Reuter's telegram states an edict has been signed in Peking sanctioning the opening of the West River, but the actual opening thereof awaits the conclusion of an agreement with regard to the Yunnau frontier.
The report of the Luzon Sugar Refining Co., in working, including $10,202 brought forward, Limited, for last year shows that the net gain amounts to $69,727. It is proposed to pay a dividend of $5 per share, to write off $25,000, and to carry 89,727 forward.
A Tokyo press dospatch of the 16th March says-The points in the new' treaty between Japan and Germany upon which there has existed some difference of opinion are now settled, and it is expected that the treaty will soon be signed. Good progress is also being made with the French treaty.
A Tokyo press despatch of the 12th March states that it has been decided to withdraw the sum of £1,500,000 from the indemnity money now deposited in the Bank of England, to be expended in Japan. The necessary steps have already been taken and the money will be brought out at the earliest opportunity.
It is stated that the Reform Society has been re-established at Peking by an Imperial Edict appointing the Emperor's present tutor, Sun Chia-nai, who is described by foreigners who have met him as "the most amiable of men." at the head of it. A Reform Society under official auspices and with an "amiable man
at the head of it is not likely to accomplish much.
The accounts of the Shanghai Tugboat Co., Limited, for the year 1895, show net earnings Tis. 27,749. The amount at the credit of the profit and loss account, including the balance brought forward, is Tls. 30,818; against this interim dividends have been paid amounting to Tls. 15,000, to the reserve account Tls. 10,000, and out of the balance-Tls. 5,818.50-it is proposed to pay a final dividend of Tls. 5 per share, making a total of 20 per cent. for the year.
The movement for increasing directors' fees appears to be "catching on in Shanghai. At the meeting of the Shanghai Cargo Boat Co., Limited, held on the 10th March, a resolution to increase the directors' fees from Tls. 1,500 to Tls. 3,000 was carried unanimously. At the annual meeting of the Shanghai and Hongkew Wharf Co., held on the 18th March, the re- muneration of the directors was increased from Tls. 1,500 to Tls. 2,500, and the directors' fees of the Shanghai Waterworks Co. have also been increased from Tls. 1,500 to Tls. 2,500,
H.E. Li Hung-chang arrived at Shanghai on the 14th March and goes to Europe by the next he was entertained, on the 9th, at a banquet given French mail. While passing through Tientsin
speeches were made. Mr. von Grot is to accom- by the foreign community, at which laudatory
while Mr. Detring will be attached to his suite pany the ex-Viceroy throughout his travels,
in Germany, Mr. de Bernières in France, Mr. James Hart in England, and Mr. Drew in the United States, all these gentlemen being given the rank of Secretary of Embassy for the oc- casion.
The
News translations from the Peking Gazette, The following appears in the N. C. Daily
under date of 1st January last:-- Wan Kuo- pen is appointed to the Brigadier-Generalship of the Nanao Circuit, Kwangtung." translator appends the following note:-This post was held by Lin Yung-fu, the celebrated Black Flag chief of Tonkin, immediately after the Franco-Chinese war up to the present moment. Although ordered to go to Formosa previously to its cession to Japan, Liu did not resign his former post. The above appoint- ment is therefore significant, meaning that Liu has been dismissed from the service.
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The foreign Ministers at Poking paid their Chinese New Year congratulations to H.I.M. Kwang Hsii at the Wenhua Throne-hall on the 3rd March. The following were present at the audience:-Colonel Denby, U.S. Minister; Mr. Beauclerk, British Chargé d'Affaires; Count Cassini, Baron Schenck, M. Gérard, Ministers for Russia, Germany, and France, respectively, and the Ministers for Japan, Spain, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands, with their re- spective Secretaries of Legation. On the 5th instant the Ministers were entertained at a banquet held at the Tsungli Yamen, on which occasion gifts from His Majesty were pre- sented to the guests by H.H. Prince Kung- N. C. Daily News.
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