THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 19TH AUGUST, 1896.
1.
VOL. XLIV.]
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Wook, &............................................................
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Leading Articles:----
The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Meeting......13 The Increase in Cable Rates...... ........
134
The Differential Tariff in Indo-China and French
Trade
Crime and Punishment ...........
134 134
Industrial Development and the Water Supply ...135 Shade Trees on the Prays Reclamation
The Loss of the Illis
The Formosan Rebellion ........
Supreme Court
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Gaelic Ashore....
A British Sailing Ship Burnt at Sea
Hongkong Hotel Company, Limited.....
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation ́H. G. Brown and Co., Limited
Polo
Hongkong Golf Club
The Vicinage of the Peak
Correspondence
The Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce,
The Law and the Major....
The Saigon Piece Goods Trade
Quarantine at Manila...........
The Mahommedan Rebellion
The Hanyang Ironworka",
Attack on a Foreigner at Yokohama
Hongkong and Port News...
Commercial
Shipping
MARRIAGE.
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The O. & O. steamer Gaelic, while on the voyage from Nagasaki to Kobe, on the morning of the 13th August struck a rock off Zedsibi beacon. Shimonoseki, and had to be beached. Assistance was sent to her and the leak having been stopped she returned to Nagasaki, where she arrived on the 16th.
No. 8.
There a prospect of Mr. Ng Choy-80 rumour says-being nominated as Minister to the United States, Spain, Peru, and the Brazils. We heard some time ago that there was some difficulty at Peking in choosing a suitable man for the post on the retiring of Yang Tu, whose term of office is about to expire. The present A notice has been issued in the native papers
choice is a very good one, we think.~Mercury. to the effect that the Chinese Telegraph Ad- A Mongtzu correspondent of the Courrier ministration will pay, beginning the 18th in-d'Haiphong says that the bubonic plague is worse there this year than it has ever been. before. The Chinese writer of the French consulate died after four days' illness. The number of deaths per day is estimated at thirty, although the population of the town is only 10,000. Every evening the Taotai has his troops drawn up in the court-yard of the yamen to fire their rifles in all directions to frighten the plague demons.
136 stant, a dividend of ten per cent. per share ($19), another ten per cent. as extra dividend ($10), ..136 and another four per cent. (84) bank interest on ...136 deposit of reserve fund, or $24 for each $100
share for the half year.
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From the report of a meeting of the Manila .....138 Sanitary Board published in another column it will be seen that the efforts to secure a reduc- tion of the quarantine imposed at that port have resulted (up to the 10th inst.) ouly in a deduction of the time occupied by the voyage from the 140 fifteen days enforced, and this only in the case ...141 of vessels having no Chinese on board.
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A detailed report of the sinking of the Ger- man gunboat Iltis has been received. The conduct of the doomed crew adds one more to the tales of heroism of the sea. Upon the
143 captain informing them that there was no hope ..145 three cheers were raised for the Emperor, the song, The flag black, white, red" was started by the chief gunner's mate, every one joining in the chorus, and thus the devoted men met their fate..
At Chinkiang, on the 8th Angust, by the Rev. J. Chevalier, 8.J., PIERCE ESSEX O'BRIEN-BUTLER, of H.B.M. Consular Service, China, to MARY MILLI-
CENT, eldest daughter of Mr. T. J. O. WEATHER
STON,
BIRTH.
At 5, Mosque Terrace, on the 13th inst., the wife of J. STOPANI, of a daughter..
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 21st July arrived, per O. & O. steamer Doric, on the 13th August (23 days); and the French mail of the 12th July arrived, per. M. M. steamer Sydney, on the 15th August (34'days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
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The King and Queen of Siam left Singapore for Bangkok on the 4th August.
The new treaty between France and Japan was signed at Paris on the 4th August.
Mr. E. F. Alford has been elected Chairman of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce. The signed text of the new treaty between China and Japan arrived in Tokyo on the 5th August...............
The Shanghai Genɔal Chamber of Commerce has strongly protested against the increase in the rates charged by the Cable Companies.
The half-yearly meeting of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank was held on the 15th inst., when a very favourable statement of the position of the Bank was made by the Chair-
man
At an extraordinary meeting of the share. holders of H. G. Brown & Co., Limited, held after the ordinary annual meeting on the 17th Angust, it was resolved that the Company be
ound up voluntarily.
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The British ship Flora P. Stafford was totally burnt at sea while on a voyage from Newcastle, N.S.W., to Manila. The fire was discovered on the 6th June, when the vessel was about 224 miles off land to the east of the Philippines, and on the 8th she was abandoned. The crew left her in three boats, two of which safely reached land, but the third, containing the mate and three seamen, has not since been heard of.
The half-yearly report of the Hongkong Hotel Co., Limited, has been issued. The pro- fit and loss account. including a credit balance of 88,175 brought forward from 31st December, 1895, shows a credit balance of $22,024 (after writing off $5,000 from furniture account-as recommended in last report and paying $4,574 for much-needed repairs to buildings, &c.) as compared with $5,668 at credit on the 30th
June, 1895, and $2,765 at credit on 30th June, 1894. The directors propose to deal with the profit of $22,024 by writing $22,000 off the furniture account and carrying $24 forward.
The report of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited, for the half-year ended 30th June, shows a net profit of $569,073, to which has to be added $54,474 brought forward from the last account, and the amount available for appropriation, after payment of directors' and auditors' fees, amounts to $616,047. The directors recommend that a'dividend for the half year of 8 per cent., or $125,000, and a bonus of per cent, or $62,500, equalling together $187,500, be paid to the shareholders, a bonus of $20,000 to contributing shareholders, that $24,602 be written from the value of Kowloon Docks, $25,489 from Cosmopolitan Docks, and $1,486 from the value of steamlaunches. and lighter, that $200,000 be passed to reserve fund, and that the balance of $156,969 be carried to new account.
Sir Auckland Colvin will become Chairman of the Rothschild Syndicate for leasing the Burma State Railways. The probable capital of the Company is eight millions sterling. We understand the Company will concentrate their energies in the first place on the construction of the Mandalay-Kunion line, which is already well in hand. It remains to be seen - whether Upper Burma with Assam, will come to the the project for the Hukong Valley line, linking front or be held over for a few years.-Rangoon
Gazette.
The N. C. Daily News of the 14th August says:-Quite a flutter of excitement was created on Monday amongst the innumerable native postal agency men who occupy nearly the whole portion of Kiukiang Road between the Shan- tung and Fukien Roads, by the arrival of a circular from the Commissioner of Customs, as- Imperial Government Postmaster of this port, him the names of the agencies, and to give him calling upon each postal company to send in to the average number of letters received by each company for transmission or delivery, and to give a list of various towns in the interior, with which they are connected. Although the Im- perial decree sanctioning the Imperial Post is well known to the private agencies in this port, they still appeared to be taken by surprise and a meeting was held yesterday in the Postal Guild to discuss, the situation.
The N. C. Daily News says:-It has been already mentioned in these columns that the
French idea is that British influence in the valley of the Yangtaze should terminate west- ward at Ichang, and that Szechuen, the richest province in China, should be considered as with- in the French sphere of influence. It was with this view that the French have sent a man of the calibre of M, Haas to Chungking as Consul, while Great Britain is represented by a junior, who carries no weight with the officials; and is unable, if he were anxious, to do anything to push British enterprise. We now hear that Frenchmen, energetically backed by Mr. Haas, will probably force the weary officials o Szechuen to give them concessions for work ing the petroleum and salt springs, besides probably the gold and other mines with the western provinces of China abound they will probably get any machinery which the Viceroy It is ominous that, as we are now officials at Chungking have wi the contracts they had previ settled with British and Americ
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