THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIV.
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitoms of the Week, do.... Leading Articles :------
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 19TH NOVEMBER, 1896.
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The Rise in the Rupee and the China Trade......378 The Treaty Between China and Japan...... Buperannuation in the Chinese Customs Service...379 The Lungohow Railway and the West River
Route
Goloured Labour in Australia
Married Women and the Licensing Law
The Rebellion in the Philippines
Supreme Court
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Opening of the Po Leung Kuk Society's New Home...382 Arrival of the West Yorkshire Regiment
The Stranding of the Himaji Maru
The Shanghal Arson Case.
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Japanese Imprisoned on the Chingtu. Death of a Diocesan School Pupil... Anchoring in the Telegraph Cable Area .........................................386 Annual Licensing Meeting
The Extraordinary Charge of Forgery........................................... Trouble on the Ningchow...
Hongkong Golf Club
Yacht Race....
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
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It is reported that a French Vice-Consulate is to be established at Hoihow.
The Hongkong and China Gas Company recommend an interim dividend at the rate of 6 ceut. per annum for the half-year ended
per 30th June.
No. 21.
The late Mr. Carew, in reference to whose sensational death by poisoning an inquest - has been hold at Yokoliama, was formerly in the Government Service in the Straits Settle- ments, his appointment being that of Collector and Treasurer in Sungei Ujong, and in 1889 and 1890 he was Acting Resident of that Captain Riddelbjerke, who started from Yo-
State. In the latter year he retired from the kohama to cross the Pacific in a 17-feet boat.
Service owing to ill-health and received à only got as far as Hakodate, and has returned gratuity in lien of pension. He then went to to Yokohama. He will start again from Hako-Yokohama, aud the office of Secretary of the date next spring.
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Mr. Alfred Alf, having been appointed Vice and Deputy Consul for the United States at Canton, took over charge of the Consulate on the 10th November, as the Hon. Charles Sey- mour, late U.S.-Consul, is unable on account of sickness to attend to his official duties.
A telegram received by the Yokohama Specie .387 Bank says, we learn from a Yokohama con- .388 temporary, that Japanese Consols are transacted in the London market to the amount of about 10,000 yen every day. Consols of 1,000 yen face value are generally quoted at £105 to £106.
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The Yokohams Poisoning aase ........................................................................ Fighting in North Borneo......................................................................... Hongkong and Port New................................................................... Commercial ......................................................................................................................................396 Skipping
BIRTHS.
On the 10th November, at 6, Mountain View, the wife of EDWARD ROBINSON, of a daughter. [2556 At No. 2, Gough Hill, the Peak, on Saturday morning, the 15th instant, Mrs. (). A. TOMES, of a daughter.
[2693 On the 15th instant, at "The Bank," Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, the wife of NEWMAN MUMFORD, Surveyor to Lloyd's Register, Hongkong, of a son. (By telegram)
[205 At Hongkong, on the 16th inst, the wife of J. BABBY, "Army Ordnance Department,” of a daugh- [2023
ter
At No. 9, Staunton Street, on the morning of the 17th instant, the wife of M. E. 8. PEREIRA, of a son.
[2621 MARRIAGE.
At Shanghai, on the 10th November, 1895, at the Imperial German Consulate General, by Dr O. Stuebel, Consul-General, and afterwards by Pastor H. Hackmann, Theo. Lic., at the Union Church, EMILIE, eldest daughter of J. J. BUCHHEISTER, of Shanghai, to H. VON RÜCKER, of Shanghai.
DEATH.
At Sedan, on the 6th November, JEAN ADOLPHE CHAPSAL, Chef de Bataillon en retraite, in his 58th year. (By telegraph.)
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English mail of the 16th October arrived per P. & O. steamer Kaisar-i-Hind, on the 15th November (30 days); and the American mail of the 17th October arrived, per O. & O. steamer Belgic, on the 16th November (30 days).
* EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The new home of the Po Leung Kuk Society was opened by H. E, the Governor on the 13th November, A
The 1st Battalion of the Prince of Wales' (West Yorkshire). Regiment arrived at Hongkong on the 16th November to relieve 1st Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, which
for Singapore on the 23rd.
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The U.S.S. Boston while making Chemulpo on the 5th November grounded to the south of the Flyingfish Channel on a sand shoal making to the northward from the Marelles Island towards Richie Island. The accident happened at about half flood and the vessel got off on the morning tide.
Club there being vacant at the time; and being offered to him, he accepted it. At the inquest an open verdict was returned. Mrs. Carew has since been arrested on a charge of poisoning her husband.
The Peking Government has lately issued in- structions to the various Viceroys and Governors of the Empire to establish schools for the teach- ing of the English language and Western sciences in all the principal cities of the country, According to the wording of one clause in the General Instructions, the reason for this is that China, in order to keep herself on terms of equality and in touch with the Great Powers of Europe, "must educate the masses and en- courage inventive genius and foreign learning amongst her people, together with that love for country and home and that. devoted patriotism so conspicuously ingrained in the hearts of those who have studied such languages and sciences," etc.-N. C. Daily News.
We (China Gazette) are informed that Count The accounts of the Oriental Hotel, Limited de Noailles, at present Minister of the French (Kobe) for the year ended 31st August last Republic at St. Petersburg, has been nominated shows a balance of $24,800. An interim to succeed M. Gerard at Peking. Count de dividend of 5 per cent. on ordinary shares for Noailles is supposed to be a very "strong" the half-year ended 28th February, 1896, was diplomat, and a very fitting successor to the pre-paid on the 26th March last, absorbing $3,700, sent active Minister of France at the Chinese leaving now available for distribution the sum of $21.100. From this the directors recom- capital.
mend the payment of a further dividend of 3
It is reported that the Peking authorities have assented to the proposition lately put for- ward in a memorial from Canton in favour of a
stamp tax on all kinds of documents, and it is collection of the tax and sale of the necessary further believed that at the Treaty Ports the stamps will be placed in the hands of the I. M.
Customs. China Gazette
The Spanish forces commenced operations in earnest on Sunday, 8th November, against the Philippine rebels in Cavite. Reports vary as to the result, but it would seem that the troops carried one or two outposts at a heavy cost in killed and wounded. It is anticipated that there will be long continued and severe fighting before the rebels are subdued.
We (China Gazette) understand that the Peking Government has consented to the exten- sion of the British, French, and Americau Settlements at Shanghai, and that a decree has either been issued or is about to be issued on the subject, leaving the adjustment of the boundaries and other details to be settled between the local officials and the foreign authorities.
per cent, on ordinary shares, making 8 per cent. for the year. They also recommend the dis- tribution of a surplus sum of $8,880 in equal
$14 per share on ordinary shares, and $55.50 parts to ordinary and founders' shares making the total return to shareholders for the year
per share on founders' shares, and that the balance of $10,000 be carried to the credit of reserve account, bringing this account up to $20,000.
The Spanish steamer Luzon, 489 tons, was sunk on the 29th October by collision with the steamer Santander, near Manila. The Iruzon left Tacloban on the 27th with a full cargo of hemp and copra for Manila, and at five o'clock doubled Cape Santiago, she was run into by the the morning of the 29th, after she had Santander. She at once commenced to fill and
on
as there was not tiine to beach her, the shore
being three miles distant, the crew left her in the boats and were taken on board the Santander, the Luzon sinking a few minutes later. On the muster roll being called it was found that one Chinese passenger was missing, of whom nothing had been seen at the time of the large
The British, North Borneo Herald dwells upon the steady progress of the coal mining in-accident. The Santander, which had dustry at Labuan during the present year. An increasing number of ocean-going steamers have been calling at Labuan of late, and a large demand for Labuan coal has sprung up at Singapore. Up to the 7th October twenty six ocean-going steamers had called at Labuan this year against five in the corresponding period of
1895.
hole in her bows and was making – v turned to Manila, where she arrived at o'clock in the evening. The Luzon was at Newcastle in 1874 and came out to Philippines in 1882. She formerly belong to Messrs. Birchal, Robinson & Co. Senor José Reyes, and latterly to the Maritima; mul selguses
later to
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