THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLIII.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles :-
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 18T APRIL, 1896.
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A dividend of sixpence per share has been declared by the Raub Australian Gold Mining Co., Limited.
The Korean Government is reported to bare decided to dispatch Min Yong-kwan as special
ambassador to Russia to attend the coronation of the Czar.
It is reported at Canton that Wuchow is to be opened as a treaty port at the end of April, but we are not in a position to say whether the report is well founded or not.
The Hon. C. P. Chater's letters to the Governor on the extension of the frontiers of ..274 Hongkong have been published in the annual
report of the China Association.
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The Lekin Question and Import Duties
The Extension of the Colony's Boundaries
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The Defences of the Colony and Rond Making
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The Exodus of Chinese and Overcrowding
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The Peking-Hankow Railway
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The Import Trade in China and the Silver
Question
Supreme Court....
Mr. John Andrew's Case Bettled '
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The Frejr Ashore at Cape Cami
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Hon. C. P. Chater on the Extension of the Colony's
Boundaries
New Harbour Regulations at Canton
Hongkong Sanitary Board........
Plague Patients permitted to leave for Canton
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The Philharmonic Society's Concert..
Concert at the Club Germanis ............
Cattle Disease at Pokfulam
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Mr. J. D. Humphreys Fined for Riding at Happy
Valley
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Report on the Foreign Trade of China for the Year
1895
China Sugar Refining Co., Limited
Luzon Sugar Refining Co., Limited
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China and Manila Steamship Co., Limited Razb
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The Punjum Mining Co., Limited..
The Shanghai Waterworks Co., Limited
Hongkong Football Club
Correspondence
Railways in Kwangsi..
Sir Robert Hart
Canton Notes
The Abandonment of the Japanese Cotton Industry at
Shanghai
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Hongkong News...
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Hall & Holtz, Limited
Japanese Companies and Foreign Investors
Commercial
Shipping
MARRIAGE.
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It is stated that the Japanese authorities have decided to construct a railway line between Kelung and Anping, a distance of 260 milos, at an estimated outlay of 10,000,000 yen.
Notices have been posted at Canton inciting to an anti-foreign riot in consequence of the introduction of a scheme of harbour regulation
and control of the boat traffic on the river.
An order has been issued to the Governor of .284 Kwangsi to take prompt steps for the con- struction of a railway to connect with the .285 French railway from Phulangthuong to Langson.
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On the 12th of February, 1896, at the French Consulate, San Francisco, and afterwards at the residence of the bride, 1,216, Geary Street, by Justice Cook, JULES REMUSAT, of the I. M. Customs, China, second son of the late Jean Remusat, of Shanghai, to EDNA, only daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. SANGER, of Shanghai, China.
DEATHS.
At Yokohama, on the 26th March, 1896, PHILIPP BERNHARD SCHMACKER, aged 44 years.
[804 At Nagasaki, on the 17th of March, 1896, Mrs. SARAH ELIZABETH HASKELL, of Boston, Mass., relict of the late Geo. L. Haskell.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 28th February arrived, per M. M. steamer Saghalien, on the 28th March (29 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
From the Mercury we learn that work began on the Tientsin-Peking railway on the 15th
March.
Plague cases continue to occur at Hongkong at the rate of about half-a-dozen per day. Patients are now permitted to leave for Cauton under official regulations,
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The Secretary of the Punjom Mining Co., Limited, advises us that he has received the following cable from the manager at the mine:-
The output for March will probably be
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600 038.
The N. Y. K. steamer Tosa Muru, which has been put on the line to Europe, is to receive a subsidy from the Japanese Government of about $90,000 per voyage, which will pay for the coal she consumes.
It is reported that Sir Robert Hart is about to make a tour of the treaty ports and light. houses. His health has lately been rather indifferent and a voyage has been recommended by his medical advisers.
We are informed that the new Chinese 5 per cent. sterling loan will probably be issued in London on the 31st March, closing on the 1st April. 1ssue price 98. The loan will be inscribed at the Bank of England.
Li Hung-chang is a passenger for Europe by the present mail. He declined to land at Hong- kong, giving as his reason fear of the plague, but it is believed that the consciousness of his anpopularity amongst the Southern Chinese and fear of, a hostile demonstration may have influenced him in his decision. The Governor had made preparations to entertain His Ex- cellency at Government House.
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We are informed by the Manager of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China that the following telegram has been received from the London office" At the approaching meeting of shareholders of this Bank the direc- tors will recommend a dividend for the past half year at the rate of nine (9) per cent. per annum free of income tax, which makes 8 per cant. per annum for 1895, and carry to reserve fund £25,000." The latter will then stand at £350,000.
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No. 14.
The proposed establishment of a cotton mill at Shanghai by a Japanese Company has been abandoned, the reason given being the un- certainty as to the taxation to which the raw cotton coming from the interior for the Shang- hai mills may be subjected.
A. Tokyo press despatch of the 18th March says:-The negotiations at Peking concerning the Japan-China Commercial Treaty proceed very slowly. One-fourth of the Treaty has not yet been completed. It is rumoured here that the Japanese plenipotentiary has given way on many points with the hope of coming to a settle-
ment.
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The China Gazette says:-We learn on good authority that the China Merchants S. N. Company will pay 20 per cent. to shareholders for the year 1895. The dividend will be paid in hard cash in a few days. This is encouraging to local shipping enterprises working in the same field and no doubt the recent rise of the
Indo-China Co.'s sorip is due to similar great expectations as to the result of the past year's working, which, judging by the C. M. Co.'s performance, ought to be the best on record.
Hongkong have led to a great number of women The sanitary measures being carried out in and children leaving the colony and the diminu- officially brought to the notice of the Govery- ment by the school managers. The exodus is caused partly by dislike to the cleansing operations and house to house visitation them- selves and partly by the fact that the requirements as to air space in dwellings now insisted upon has raised the price of lodging accommodation to such an extent that the poorer classes of workmen cannot afford to keep their families in the colony.
tion in the attendance at the schools has been
An Osaka journal observes that the need for more docks in Japan is being increasingly felt. There are only two private dockyards in the country, namely at Kobe and Nagasaki. The Yokosuka docks are only open to privately owned vessels by special permission of the Government.
With the release of the tran- ! sports, both the private dockyards are full; and shipowners have to possess their souls in patience or send their vessels to Hongkong for repair.
In connection with this subject it may here be remarked that docks are projected for Yokohama, Uraga, Hakodate, Awaji, Osaka, Kobe (extension of Kawasaki), Nagasaki (extension of Mitsu Bishi), and Toba.-Kube Chronicle.
An Imperial decree has been received at Shanghai, we learn from the Mercury ordering- adequate honours to be bestowed upon the late Lin Ming-chuan, for many years Governor of Formosa. He is to be made a Grand Guardian of the Hair-Apparent and is to have a post- humous name, his achievements during his campaign are to be kept on record in the Academy of National History, where his ser- vices have been most notable; temples are to be erected for his worship, his elder son is to be made a Ku-jen, with permission to compet. for higher honours at the cosmopolitan ex- his amination at Peking every three years; second son is to be made a Secretary to one of the Boards, an official of the fifth rank, and his grandson is to have official rank of the same order.
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