THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIV.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
hpitome of the Week, &..................................... Leading Articles :-----
The Military Contribution
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Foreign Competition with British Trade in China. 78 The Opening of New Ports and the Transit Pasa
Trade
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Peking's Financial Demands on the Provinces
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Another Veterinary Surgeon Wanted
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The Pension List...
English Teaching in Hongkong Schools
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The Missing Despatches.............
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The Government Gazette and Official Appoint-
monta
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The Military Contribution ....
Hongkong Legislative Conneil
The Governor's Despatch on the Plague
The Public Lighting
Chinese Junks and the Forinoes Opium Trade.. Drowning Accident near Shanghai
The Shanghai Convent Case................. ........................... The Late Sir John Pender
Supreme Court
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 80TH JULY, 1896.
News has been received by wire from Calcutta that the Government has reduced the pass duty on Malwa opium from 650 to 600 rupees.-N. C. Daily News.
From the Manila Comercio we learn that a syndicate has been formed in Paris for the construction and working of railways in the Philippines.
The Secretary of State has declined to ex- empt any portion of the Hongkong revenue, municipal or otherwise, from the payment of 17 per cent. as military contribution.
The Glen" line steamer Glengyle, with the first of the new season's tea from Foochow, ar- 83 rived in London on the 13th inst., having made
the run home in 34 days and 22 hours.
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The N. C. Daily News says:-A fair amount 87 of teas by the Oanfa have been sold already in 87 London, the finer kinds showing small profits; 87 the commoner kinds are not doing so well.
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Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Co., Limited 88 Japan Tidal Wave Relief Fund
The Dairy Farm Co., Limited
The Punjom Mining Co., Limited.,
Raub.....
Quarantine at Mamis.....................................................................................................
Boyd & Co., Limited
The Iltis Lost la « Typhoon
Hongkong and Port News..... ..............................................
Commercial...
Shipping
DEATHS.
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hai), for the year ended 30th April last, shows The report of Boyd & Co., Limited (Shang- that the net earnings, including amount brought forward from last account (Tls. 9,758) and interest on investments (Tis. 7,348), stand at Tls. 259,867, less Tls. 2,300 for directors' fe s. It is proposed to add Tls.. 60,000 to re- serve fund, to place Tls. 20,000 to maintenance and depreciation. account, to'pay a dividend of 15 per cent. on the ordinary shares, a dividend on founders shares of Tla. 117 per Tls. 100 share, and to carrry Tls. 37,167 to new account.
According to a Tokyo press despatch, the new treaty with Germany was approved by the Japanese Privy Council on the 11th inst. and immediately ratified by the Emperor. The ratifications will be exchanged at Berlin. The provisions relating to patents and trade marks in the new treaty will be put into operation immediately after the exchange of ratifications.
Admiral Sir Leopold Heath has been elected The statement that the Japanese authorities and China Telegraph Company in place of the Chairman of the Eastern Extension Australasia have accorded a preferential treatment to Chi- late Sir John Pender. As regards the Eastern nese junks over foreign steamers in connection Telegraph Company, the Marquis of Tweeddale with the importation of opium into Formosa isis elected Chairman in the same succession and 91 officially denied.
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At the Peak Hospital, on Saturday afternoon, R. H. M. KERR, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, age 33.
1706 At Kobe, on the 11th July, after a long illness, EDWARD HUNT, in his sixtieth year.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English mail of the 26th June arrived, per P.&O. steamer Mirsapore, on the 25th July (29 days); the American mail of the 27th June arrived, per P. M. steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, on the 27th July (30 days); and German mail of the 29th June, arrived, N. D. L. steamer Sachsen, on the 28th (29 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
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Mr. George F. Smithers, Deputy Consul at Kobe, has been appointed United States Consul at Chungking.
M Haas, the Austrian Consul General at Shanghai, was drowned on the 27th July while
athing at Pootoo.
German gunboat Iltis was lost in a on on the Shantung. Promontory on the 23rd July with a loss of 77 lives, only 10 being
telegram has been received by the Japanese announcing that M. Hitrovo, Minister to Tokyo, who went home holiday few months ago, has died
It is reported that Liu Kun-yi has been ap- pointed to the viceroyality of Shen Kan for the purpose of waging war against the Moham- medan rebels, and that he will be again succeeded as Viceroy at Nanking by Chang
Chih-tung.
Messrs. Alex. Bielfield & Co., in their report dated Shanghai, 24th July, say-New ventures are being discussed and progress is in the air. A Wheat Flour Mill Co. is being formed with a strong directorate to mill native wheat in modern fashion, and a new Dock and Engine Works is also to be started with a directorate partly foreign and partly native,
It is reported that the solution of the difficulty at Chefoo which has been evolved by the Inspector-General of Customs has been accepted by the foreign Ministers at Peking. The disputed foreshore is to be dredged and made available for boats, and a bund is to be built which will be for everyone's convenience, but what further disposition is contemplated is not yet known.-N. C. Daily News.
Mr. Denison Pender, the Managing Director, becomes Vice-Chairman.
An reference to the insurrection in the pre- fecture of Hsüchou, near the Yellow River, it is reported that the Imperial troops now on the scene of disturbance, including those sent by. the Viceroy Liù in the beginning of this month, have been, so far. unable to cope with the insurgents. This can be gathered from the telegram received on Saturday from Soochow by the local mandarins to the effect that Yuan Chaoof Soochow for reinforcements and declaring Taotai of Heichou has appealed to Governor that the "situation is serious." The Hupeh in- surrection at T’ungch ́enghsien, in the prefecture of Wuchang, has, in spite of the reinforcements sent by the Viceroy Chang, gained ground, and the Imperial Government appears, at the pre-
sent moment, to be face to face with the problem how to crush a series of insurrections in various portions of the Empire, not including the Mahommedan rebellion in Kansu and the one lately begun in Szechuen amongst the Minotse
aborigines.-N. C. Daily News.
The report of the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co., Limited, for the last eighty million francs. The money has all been Some time ago Tonkin contracted a loan of half year shows that including $5,064 brought appropriated and now the Avenir du Tonkin forward from last account, the sum of $143.302 | wants to know what there is to show for it. stands at credit of profit and loss account. From this amount the directors recommend that a dividend for the half year of 8 per cent. on capital, or $96,000, be paid to shareholders, and that the balance of $47,302 be carried for ward to new account.
A correspondent at Soochow mentions, under date the 23rd inst., that malicious and dan- gerous rumours are being circulated there. It is said that someone dressed in foreign clothes has been telling the country people that child- ren are required to be sacrificed before the chimneys of the factories there can be built, and that foreigners in Soochow are stealing children. It is even stated that villagers from outside some of the gates of Soochow have fled from their homes in consequence of these rumours, and that there has been a notable falling-off in the attendance at the missionary schools.-N. C. Daily News.
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frittered away on useless official buildings and According to our contemporary it has all been
so forth, the only useful work the colony will have to show for the loan being the proposed railway from Hanoi to the Chinese frontier. Works are required for the prevention of floods and for establishing a system of irrigation, which, if carried out, would, our contemporary says, in a very short time. make Tonkin as fruitful as Cochin-China in the best years. There would then be avail- able for export every year twenty million piouls of rice. Plans have been prepared, but their execution will cost forty millions, a and M Rousseau, the Governor-General, the proposal as urgent, is of opini the Chambers should be asked to the raising of another loan. M. Rou poses to go to Paris again in a couple months to urge the project in person→→
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