THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
VOL. XLIV
CONTENTS.
Epitoms of the Wock, &.......................
Leading Articles:—
The West River
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 8TMн OCTOBER, 1896.'
A typhoon passed to the south of Hongkong on the 5th and 6th October and made its 205 proximity felt by rather bad weather in the colony, business afloat being almost entirely .266 suspended for the two days. The wind, how- ever, was not strong and no damage was done..
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Rival Trade Routes of South China..
The Rebellion in the Philippines
Japan and the Philippines.A.
The Sanitary Officials on the Recent Law Suits ...267
Shall the Sanitary Board be made a Law unto
Itself?
The Chinese Question in the United States Russian Designs in the Far East......
The Chairmanship of the Dock Company
The Japan-Shanghai Cricket Match..........
The Granite Dressing Nuisance
Captain Lang, H.N., and Three Seamen Drowned
The Rebellion in the Philippines...........
A Manila Paper on the Rebellion
Supreme Court
Hongkong Jockey Club
Hongkong Sanitary Board
The Recent Actions Against the Sanitary Board
The Cleansing and Disinfection of Premises
The Granite Punching Nuisance.
Hongkong Football Club
Hongkong Golf Club ....................................................
Wallace Cap Competition
Singapore Insurance Company
Hangchow was not declared open to foreign trade on the 26th September as originally in tended, owing to the new Customs regulations not being ready, but was to be opened on the 1st of October Soochow was to be opened on the same day. The Customs regulationa for Soochow will be similar to those of Chin- .270 kiang.
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The Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China has received telegraphic advice from the London office that at the approaching meeting .272 of shareholders the directors will recommend an interim dividend for the past half year at per cent. per annum free of income tax, or the same as that paid for the like period in recent years.
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The Displacement of Foreign Goods in Cochin China...277 Canton Insurance Ofice, Limited
Homeward Freights
The Reorganisation of the Foochow Arsenal
Sad Fatality at Yokohami
The Chefoo Foreshore Question.....
Tornado at Tientsin.........................
Hongkong and Port News....... Commercial
Shipping
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BIRTHS.
The liquidators report of the Singapore Insurance Company shows available assets amounting to $52,000. There are 30,000 .277 shares; therefore each share should get a .877 | dividend of upwards of $1.61. But the liquida- tors say that they do not feel justified in .278
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they will do so in a few months.
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The Osaka Asahi learns that the Russian 284 Government has sigued a secret.tonvention with the Korean Government, in which the latter pledges that it will not open Mokpo for foreign trade, nor allow any other country to construct telegraph lines in the interior, nor grant a charter for construction of a railway between Seoul and Chemulpo, without first obtaining the approbation of Russia.
At Manila, on the 27th September, the wife of H. D. C. JONES, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, of a son.
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On the 2nd October, at the Gas Works, West Point, the wife of F. G. COLLINS, of a son. [2268 At No. 62, Chapeo Road, Shanghai, on the 29th September, 1896, the wife of E. M. HYNDMAN, of a
son.
DEATHS.
At Government Civil Hospital, on October 1st, 1896, PETER MCGREGOR, aged 36, late first En gineer of Chinese Revenue Cruiser Kaipan. [2261 On the 2nd inst., nt 2.35 a.m., Captain ROGER MARTIN, Master of the Briti h barque Velocity, aged 70 years.
[2262 On the 21st September, at Wuchang, ALEXANDER MACLEAN MACKAY, M.B., €.M., aged 34 years.
At Nanking, on the 25th September, KATE ROBINA, widow of the Rev. E. P. HEARNDEN.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 3rd September arrived, per P. M. steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, on the 80th September (27 days); the English mail of the 4th September arrived, per P. & O. steamer Mirzapore, on the 2nd October (28 days); and the Canadian mail of the 15th September arrived, per C. P steamer Empress of China, on the 6th October (21 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
It is notified at Shanghai that after the end of October the steamers of the P.M.S.S. and O. & O. Companies will call at that port both going
and coming, the well-known firm of Fearon, Daniel & Co. being the agents.
A Seattle despatch of the 4th September says:-Commander John Stark Newell, com-. mander of the United States armoured cruiser Detroit, is dead from enemic condition of the blood. Capt. Newell's illness was contracted while undergoing privations in connection with his labours as representative of the United States in the investigation of the massacre of missionaries at Kucheng, Central China.
The annual meeting of the shareholders Messrs. 8. C. Farnham & Co., Limited, was held at Shanghai on the 29th September. Mr. Galles (Chairman) presided and the report and accounts were adopted, the dividend as recommended de- clared, and the usual formal business transacted. Some discussion took place regarding the re- serve fund, two shareholders suggesting that more details should be given regarding invest ments.
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The first instalment of the reinforcemen from Spain has arrived at Manila and it is expected that the rebellion will soon be pressed.
A comprehensive summary of the report of the Committee appointed by the Governor of Hongkong in response to Mr. Chamberlain's circular respecting the displacement of British goods is published in the Times of 26th August, One of the paragraphs referring to the Ship- ping Conference is given in full.
Captain Lang R.N., and three seamen of H.M.S. Narcissus were drowned in Gros. sevitchka Bay. on the 11th September by the capsizing of a boat in which they were return- ing from the shore to the ship. The accident. was seen from the Narcissus and a cutter was despatched to the rescue. Captain Mercer, R.M.L.I., midshipman, and three seamen were picked up, but Captain Lang and three other seamen had sunk by the time the cutter arrived. The bodies of two of the men were afterwards washed ashore, but those of the Captain and the other seamen had not been recovered when the Narcissus eft.
The 3rd day of the 8th moon (9th Sept.) was` the sixtieth anniversary of the birthday of H.E. Viceroy Chang of the Hukuang provinces. H.E. refused to receive the costly presents which had been sent him as tribute by the subordinates in Hunan and Hupeh, or to sanction the elaborate. fete which had been intended in the viceregal yamên by his more intimate subordinates in Wuchang and Han- yang. All that H.E. would accept were scrolls of gilded paper on which had been beautifully written panegyrics of H.E. by fine caligraphiste of high rank in these two provinces, with the names of the donors at the end of the sorolla Nearly 2,000 were presented in this way. N. C. Daily News.
In concluding an article on Li Hung-chang's tour the N. C. Daily News says It is interest- ing to add to this a sketch of what a very high Chinese official now in Shanghai thinks as to the future of H.E. Li. He does not think that Li will be reinstated at present at Tientsin; he will probably be given a responsible position in the newly created Ministry of War, whose in- influence now extends over the whole Empire. Here H.E. Li, backed by his staunch friend Prince Kung will be given full power to inaugurate the reforms and innovations which his voyage round the world may have suggested to him. This post will suit Li better than the Chibli Viceroyalty, because this Ministry of War has annexed to itself a large share of the privileges and opportunities which formerly belonged to the Viceroy Chihli, and to other Viceroys. Under those circumstances, our informant says, only pure patriotism would impel H.E. Li to return to Tientsin, for the time of big contracts in that port has gone, and such things will, in the future, be dealt with only in Peking Hence, remembering also the vacillations to which the Emperor is subject, the future of Li in the native politics of his country is very uncertain; and, indeed, at Peking now no one knows what the next day will bring forth; the only thing certain is that all the powerful influence of the Empress-Dowager will be used in Li's favous
a grand thing for China if Li word it would be twenty years younger.
The report of the Canton Insurance Office, Limited, shows that the balance at credit of the 1895 account is $473,740, out of which the sum of $268,724 has already been paid for a dividend of per cent: to shareholders and a bonus of 20 per cent. to contributors of premia. Subject to the approval of shareholders, it has been decided to dispose of the remaining balance of $205,015 by adding to reserve fund $100,000, thereby in- creasing it to $1,300,000, paying a final dividend of $6 per share, and carrying forward the sum of $45,015 to 1896 account. The 1896 account shows an estimated balance at credit of $507,700.
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