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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIII.]
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &o.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 9TH APRIL, 1896.
M. E. Frandon, Consul for France at Foo chow, who has been in ill health for some time .293 past, left on the 25th March on six months' leave of absence. Until his return M. Paul Clandel has charge of the Consulate,
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A Reuter's telegram of the 8th April reads --Commercial and Consular treaties hetween .296 Germany and Japan have been signed at Ber
lin. It is understood that extraterritoriality is not wholly abolished and that German in ports obtain numerous tariff reductions.
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Leading Articles:-
The Now Minister
Li Hung-chang in Hongkong
The Colonies and Imperial Defence
The Sanitary Board Papers
295 296
The New British Minister to Peking
Arrest of Foreign Compradores in Formoss.
Medical Inspection in Japan......
Hongkong Legislative Council
The Military Contribution.....
Hon. T. H. Whitehead and the Sanitary Board Papers..300 The Cost of Administration
The Plagne
.300 .300
Hon. T. H. Whitehead on the Affairs of the Colony ...301
Li Hung-chang's Journey
Alleged Adulteration of Milk
Presentation to Captain Hugh Craig
....305
The Doric
.305
The Yangtze Insurance Association, Limited
..305
Hongkong Rifle Association
.305
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club..
.306
Hongkong Golf Club
Cricket
The Lawn Tennis Handicap.
Rifle Shooting...
Correspondence
Hongkong News.,
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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The telegram received in Tonkin with re ference to the proposed railway in Kwangsi reads as follows:-" China has authorised the construction of a railway from Lungchow, near Langson, penetrating China." The Courrier suggests that it should read" from Lungchow to the Tonkin frontier." This is probably
correct.
No. 15.
A Peking telegram to the Japan papers states that the Plenipotentiaries had their tenth conference in reference to the Commercial Treaty on the 23rd March, and it is believed the negotiations are now well on the way to a conclusion.
At Bangkok on the 20th March the Borneo Company's rice-mill and four godowns were completely destroyed by fire. Fortunately the saw-inill and the immense stores of timber were Raved. The Company are said to be almost fully insured.
The Peking correspondent of the Sinwenpao says that General Tang Fuhsiang has had an encounter with the Mohammedans in Kansu, which resulted unfavourably to the General and the Imperial troops. According to this information it is assumed that the Moham- medan rebellion has not subsided, as was recently
The report of the Yangtsze Insurance Asso-reported, but is in its full strength at the two .306 ciation, Limited, has been issued. On the places, namely, Kansu and Shensi.-Mercury. 307 working account for 1894 and previous years a A Tokyo press despatch of the 29th March special dividend of 10 per cent. is recommended. says:-The Diet was closed to-day. The Im- The working account for 1895 shows a balance perial Messige was read to the members of of $294,832 and it is proposed to pay a dividend both Houses, assembled together, by Count of 10 per cent., to place $50,000 to reserve fund, Kuroda, acting Prime Minister. The address and to carry forward $203,144.
expressed appreciation of the diligence with which the members had laboured during the past three months on business of great import- ance to the State; and his Majesty added that it gave him great pleasure to observe how har- moniously and with what sincerity of patriotism and devotion they had laboured to increase the prosperity of the Empire.
On the 1st instant, at 41, Elgin Terrace, Hong- kong, the wife of C. E. OSMUND, of a son. [868 At Kheda Bungalow, Hongkong, on the fith April, 1896, the wife of W. A. MATTHEWS, R.A, of a son.
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MARRIAGE.
At Shanghai, on the 28th March, 1896, at H.I. German Majesty's Consulate-General, FREIHERRN FERDINAND KARL WILELLM LOUIS EMIL MIL- CHILING to MAY MABEL MCCARTHY.
DEATH.
At Shangha, on the 30th of March, 1896, FLORENCE MARY, the beloved wife of J. DRAPER BENTLEY, aged 27 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English mail of the 6th March arrived, per P. & O. steamer Pekin, on the 3rd April (28 days); and the American mail of the 14th March arrived, per P. M. steamer China, on the 5th April (22 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Telegrains from Korea to the Japanese papers report continued murders of Japanese.
It is stated that the new Japanese ironclad Fuji-yama is to leave the Thames on the 15th instant.
The Japanese flag was hoisted over the new Settlement at Soochow for the first time on the 30th March.
The Shanghai Cas Company has decided to increase its capital by the issue of 1,000 new shares of Tls, 100 each.
Baron von Greenau, who has been appointed Military Attaché to the German Legation at Peking, arrived at Shanghai by the Preussen.
A telegram has been received stating that the directors of the Mercantile Bank of India, Limited, recommend a dividend of 5 per cent. per annum on the A shares and of 2 per cent. per annum on the B shares for the half year ended 31st December last, carrying forward £8,000.
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H.E. Li Hung-chang arrived at Hongkong on the 31st March on his way to Europe, but he declined the Governor's invitation luncheon and did not land at all. The reason alleged was that he was afraid of the plague, or of being quarantined at Singapore, though he was assured that his landing would not entail quarantine in the absence of actual sickness on board.
A Tokyo press despatch of the 23rd March says:-The time for applications for the new bonds closed yesterday. Applications for only 1,300,000 yen have been received out of the 10,000,000 yen required, and these applications were mostly from the rural districts. The Nippon Bank is expected to take up 3.000.000 yen, but this still leaves a deficit of more than 3,000,000 yen.
We (China Gazette) learn that the armed Customs cruiser (hentino, Captain Wyles, will leave Shanghai on April 20th for Taku or Tients in, where Sir Robert Hart will embark on his tour around the various treaty ports and lighthouses of China. It is at present expected that the I.G." will go south at once and begin his tour from the furthest point, working back gradually to the north.
Mr. John Andrew returned to Hongkong on the morning of the 2nd April by the night boat from Canton. He was finally allowed to sell his cargo at Wuchow, as already reported, but as yet nothing has been settled with respect to his claim for compensation for his enforced delay. The boat he hired to take his cargo up to Wachow did not return to Canton with him, and Mr. Andrew came down as a passenger on a trading junk, but bronght no cargo of his own. A memorandum on the military contribution question has been submitted for the considera. tion of the Secretary of State for the Colonies by the unofficial members of the Hongkong Legislative Council, the object of the memoran- dum being to show that the colony is entitled to a rebate on the 17 per cent. levy in respect of various items of revenue which are purely municipal or which are merely nominal and do not represent bona fide receipts.
The North Burnco Herald
says:-Mr. McGregor Smith's report on the land he has examined and selected on the Kinabatangan and Labuk rivers is that it is all that can be In fact desired for the cultivation of sugar. he considers it second to none out here for that purpose and the table land he says is simply perfection. Mr. Smith is taking home some excellent samples of cane to show what can be produced in British North Borneo. It will not be long before the industry will be established here on a sound commercial basis. The names of the gentlemen interested in the venture are a guarantee that it will be carried out in such a way as to ensure permanent success.
Sir Claude MacDonald, the new British Minister to China, arrived at Hongkong on the 3rd April. On the 4th he had a private inter- view with the Committee of the Chamber of Commerco and was afterwards entertained to luncheon by the members of the China Associa- tion. toast of his health, said it would not become His Excellency, in responding to the him to speak in a political sense, but he referred to the legacy, commercial, industrial, and polit- ical, handed down to us in the Far East by our forefathers, which it was our bounden duty to maintain at all hazards. China, he said, so far as the possibilities of trade and commerce were concerned, was still in its infancy, and it was our duty to make the most of those possibilities, and see that we got our fair share of them. We should not do so, owing to competition,, without a severe struggle, and it behoved every one to stand and fight if necessary shoulder to shoulder to maintain and extend that noble legacy which our forefathers had banded down to us. His Excellency produced a most excellent impression on his audience. At Shanghai he is to be entertained to dinner by the local branch of the China Association.
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