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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIII.]
AND
China Overland Trade
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, że..
Leading Articles:---
.............373
The Effacement of the Emperor and the Fate
of Chins
....374 French Designs and Foreign Trade in China......374 Foreign Competition and Governmental Inquiries.375
Bimetallism and Silver Inflation The British Official and the Public Diplomatists and their Influence
The Responsibility of the Minister
Russia, Japan, and Kores
.375 .376 .376 .377 .377 ,377. ...377
The Light and Pass Ordinance and Crime Armed Robbery and Murder at Wanchai Disastrous Collision at Shanghai-Great Loss of Life...378 Supreme Court....
On Stonecutters' Islay with a Camera
The Incendiary Fire at Praya West......
Launch at Kowloon Docks
.378 384 .385
.386
The Reduction of Telegraphic Rates
.386
Hongkong Polo Club
.386
Hongkong Golf Club
.387
Hongkong Rifle Association
.387
Hongkong Volunteer Corps-Field Battery
.387
The North-China Insurance Co., Limited
Bank Reports
The History of the Loan
Serious Bicycle Accident in Japan
Chungking
Hongkong and Port News... Commercial
Shipping
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 7т¤ MAY, 1896.
A gunboat to the order of the Philippines Government was launched at Kowloon Docks on the 2nd May and was named the Villalobos.
The Nippon Fire Insurance Company held its annual meeting at Osaka on the 24th April, when a dividend of 10 per cent. was declared on the working for the past year.
On the 17th April the Austrian Minister had an audience of the Emperor. The audience took place at the Wen Hua Palatial Hall. H.E: Chang Yin Wun, Vice President of the Board of Revenue, interpreted for the Emperor.
A Tokyo telegram of the 27th April says:- The Marquis Ito, Premier. and Marquis Saigo, Minister for the Navy, have decided to visit Formosa to see personally to many important matters, and it is expected they will start within the first ten days of May.
A petition has been presented to the Governor of Saigon by tho French proprietors of rice mills praying for protection from the imminent ruin with which they are threatened by the 390 competition of the Chinese mills. They suggest
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Report.
No. 19.
The Toyo Kisen Kaisha, it is stated, intend opening their proposed line to New York and Philadelphia, and the line to Batoum, Ham- burg, and London, as soon as the necessary arrangements are completed. about 6,000 tons gross are to be used.
Steamers of
The Standard Oil Company at Shanghai has been informed by wire that the Charles R. Flint, which left New York on the 12th March with 100,500 cases of kerosine oil for Shanghai, has been burnt at sea. Tip Charles R. Flint was a Nicaraguan barque of 2,415 tons, formerly the Cairniehill of Liverpool.
rice mill of Messrs. Speidel & Co. at Cholon From Saigon we learn that the new "Orient"
was almost completely destroyed by fire on the night of the 21st April, only the engine and boiler room being saved. This fine mill had only started running two days previously and not being quite finished it was only partly covered by insurance. The disaster will be a heavy loss for the proprietors.
At Hongkong on the 2nd May an armed
an increase of five cents per hundred kilo-gang robbery took place in the Wanchai .390 grammes in the export duty, with a rebate of ten cents on rice treated in French muis.
392 395
MARRIAGES. On the 23rd April, at Trinity Cathedral, Tokyo, by the Rev. J. M. Francis, B.D., assisted by the Rev. E. R. Woodman, LENA, youngest daughter of Capt. JOSEPH THOMAS, to the Rev. CHARLES HOSKINS EVANS, of Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
At Shanghai. on the 25th April, at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, by the Rev. I. C. Hodges, M.A., ROLLA GERTRUDE daughter of the late Captain W. T. WAY, to JOIN WATT JAMESON, of Taku.
On the 25th April, 1896, at the Trinity Cathedral, by the Rev. H. C. lodges, M.A., W. IL. JACKSON, Manager, Vacuum Oil Co., Shanghai, late of Bom- bay, to ANNIE, second daughter of William and Annie HODGSON, of Sunderland, Durham, England.
On the 28th April, at the Danish Consulate and afterwards at the Cathedral, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., LILY, second daughter of Willoughby POIGNAND, to FREDERIK GORDIUS NIELSEN.
On the 30th April, 1896, at the Imperial German Consulate, Shanghai, by Consul General Dr. Stuebel, and afterwards at the Union Church, by Pastor Hackmann, Lic. RICHARD WILHELM HEIDORN, to IDA MAY, elder daughter of Capt. WM. SMITH, Shanghai.
DEATHS.
On the 5th May, at Windsor Hotel, Montreal, GEORGE FENWICK, of Victoria Foundry, Hongkong. 1115
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 26th April, 1896, CHRISTIAN KARBERG, aged 22 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 8th April arrived, per P. M. steamer Coptic, on the 29th April (21 days); the English mail of the 3rd April arrived, per P. & O. steamer Mirzapore, on the 1st May (28 days); and the German mail of the 6th April arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Karlsruhe, on the 6th May (30 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK. Distressing accounts are given in the Tonkin papers of the famine prevailing in that country. Government aid is being afforded.
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It is stated that Japan intends to appoint a military attaché to accompany the Italian forces in Abyssinia. The Spanish Government has declined to permit a Japanese Military Attaché to accompany the forces in Cuba. The Turkish Government has not yet sent an answer to the application sent by the Ja panese anthorities for permission to despatch a Military Attaché to Armenia.
Captain Harrasowitz, of the Ñ. D. L. steamer Hohenzollern, and Dr. Rudolph. of the same vessel, were convicted at the Hongkong Police Court on the 5th May of trespassing ou the fortifications of Stonecutters Island, and were sentenced to three months' hard labour. Notice of appeal was given. The doctor had a camera in his possession at the time of the arrest, but on the plates being developed they were found to be ordinary photographs of scenery in no way connected with fortifications.
A Tokyo press despatch of the 23rd April saysIt is reported that arrangements have been completed by which Japan and Russia will co-operate in placing the internal admi- nistration of Korea upon a sound basis. A memorandum to this effect has been drawn up by Mr. Komura for the Japanese and Mr. Waeber for the Russians, and forwarded to Tokyo, where it met with the approval of Count Mutsu, Foreign Minister, and Mr. Speyer, the Russian Chargé d'Affaires. The memorandum has been returned to Seoul, with instructions that it should be acted upon.
The working account of the Japan Brewery Co., Limited, for the year ended 31st March last, after allowing liberally for depreciation and adding considerably to the reserve fund, shows a profit of $36,264.86, which, added to 83,114.14 brought forward from last year, makes a total of $39,379. Deducting from this the interim dividend of 5 per cent., absorbing $7,500, which was paid on 23rd October, 1895, a balance is left of $31,879 which the directors propose to dispose of as follows:-To payment Tof a final dividend for the year of 15 per cent. $22,500, to carry forward to next year $9,379.
district. The alarm was given when the robbers left the house, and P.C. Hoggarth, who saw them running, arrested one of them and handed him over to a district watchman while he pursued the others. The prisoner then drew a revolver and shot the watchman dead. Hoggarth upon hearing the shot turned back and saw the prisoner running away, whereupon he fired his revolver and hit him in the foot, and, this not being sufficient to stop him, fired again and hit him in the other foot. The runaway was then re-arrested and he sub sequently gave information which led to the arrest of four other men,on a charge of taking part in the robbery.
A serious collision took place early on the morning of the 30th April on the Woosung Bar, by which the steamer Onwo was sunk, the steamer Newchwang seriously damaged, and five Europeans and some three hundred Chinese drowned. Opposite Pheasant Point, where the collision occurred, the river makes a right-angled turn, and a steamer coming in cannot see a steamer coming out at night-though she may see her masts over the land in the daytime collision. This seems to have been the case in until they are near enough to involve risk of the present case. The Newchwang was coming in from Amoy with a strong flood tide under her, and the Onwo was going out, bound to Hankow with a very large number of Chinese other, the Onwo had the Newchwang's red light✨ passengers on board. When they sighted each on her starboard bow, and Captain Blessar blow one blast with his whistle and ported his helm, so that the two steamers should pass port side to port side. The captain of the Newchwang blew two blasts, intimating that he was star- boarding his helm. It seems to have been too late then to do anything, and the Newchwang struck the Onwo on the port side before the beam, cutting into her about ten feet. The latter, which was an old vessel, originally the Peiho and then the Taku, built at Dumbarton in 1870, filled at once and sank in a few minutes, causing a terrible loss of life, notwithstanding the exertions of the U.S. men-of-war, whose boats were on the spot with wonderful promp- titude. The Newchwang was at once beached on Pheasant Point.-N. C. Daily News.
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