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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
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Epitome of the Week, do.....
Leading Articles :---
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 3RD DECEMBER, 1896.
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The Military Contribution .......................................................... The Foreign Customs versus Lekin .............418
The Tonkin Transit Trade..... The Reform Movement in China Corporal Punishment in Schools Competitive Designs for Public Buildings ....
St Andrew's Ball...............................................................ak............... The Military Contribution
The Rebellion in the Philippines ......................................................... The Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce Hongkong and the Trafalgar Day Celebration A Burglar Trapped in a Ravine
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During the year ended 30th June last the United States exported to Japan $27,056 (gold) worth of bicycles and $8,645 worth to other Asiatic countries
The question of the damages to be paid to M. Berthoin for the attack on his factory at Hoihow has, the Avenir du Tonkin says, been settled in principle between Dejour and the Chinese Government.
It is reported that a Censor has memorialised the Throne, advocating the, abolition of likin, and that the Emperor has referred the memorial to the joint consideration of the Board of 424 Revenue and the Tsungli Yamon.-N. C. Daily .424 | News ........424
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The Yokohams Poisoning Case........................... The Death of a Diocesan School Pupil..................427 New Balmoral Gold Mining Co., Limited The Dairy Farm Co., Limited ... The Punjom Mining Co., Limited Cricket?
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The Mount Richmond Lawn Tennis Handicap .........433 Correspondence: ............................... The Taxation of Silk Filatures and Cotton Manufactures..434 Haugehow and Soochow ....................................................................... Foreign Patents in Japan -Lakin and the Increase in the Customs Tariff
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Hongkong and Port News.
Commercia
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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H.E. Li Hung-chang has had to make a very large contribution, it is said, to the fund for the restoration of the Yuenmingyuen Palace, and further heavy · contributions will be exacted from him before he is allowed to leave the capital.-N. C. Daily News.
labourers who have been employed on the con- Seven hundred and seventy-one Japanese 434struction of the Siberian Railway returned to 434 Nagasaki from VladivostockTM on the 18th 455 November. Another batch of four hundred and
fifty-eight returned on the 19th.
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At the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank House, Tientsin, on the 11th November, the wife of DUNCAN H. MACKINTOSH, of a son.
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On the 26th November, at the Peak Hospital, the wife of Captain W. E. CLARKE, of a daughter. [2710 DEATH.
At Kobe, on the 20th November, HENRY WALTER VINCE, aged 24.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 26th October arrived, per P. M. steamer Peru, on the 26th November (31 days); the English mail of the 30th October" arrived, per P. & O, steamer Rohilla, on the 30th November (31 days); the
American mail of the 3rd November arrived,
per O. & O. steamer Coptic, on the 30th November (27 days); and the Canadian mail of the 9th November arrived, per C. P. steamer Empress of Japan, on the 1st December (22 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Mr. G. de ennidrich, the Russian Vice- Consul at Kobe, committed suicide on the 16th November by shooting himself.
We learn that the Secretary of the Perak Sugar Cultivation Co., Limited, telegraphs that the situation of the company is serious, but not hopeless; and that the sum of $40,000 is required, half at once, to put the machinery in working order again.-N. C. Daily News.
An application for bail, made by Mr. Lowder on behalf of Mrs. Carew, who has been com- mitted for trial on the charge of murdering her husband, has been refused by the Judge of H.B.M. Court, Yokohama. The application was made to his Honour in chambers.
The site acquired at Shanghai by company, on which it was proposed cotton spinning factory, is shortly to and in view of the land boom at Shanghai it is expected that a profit of 50,000 yen w realised. Progress is being made with company's factory at Hyogo and it is hoped to start business in April Kobe Chroniclere
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The Hongkong Government proposes to redeem the promise made by Sir William Des Voeux that the Gap Rock Light dues should be abolished when the cost of erecting the light had been covered. The manner in which the redemption is to be effected is peculiar. The Gap Rock dues are to be abolished, but to cover the deficit in the revenue thereby occasioned s general tax of the same amount is to be im- posed on vessels entering the harbour. To
The Varadero de Manila (Slipway Company) for the half year ended 30th September last made a gross profit of $61,736, or $21,923 more ber of vessels that made use of the slip was than in the preceding six months. The num twenty-three. Deducting interest and other le was $46,784, out charges the amount available of which it was proposed to pay a dividend of 34 per cent., absorbing $15,750, and to carry forward the balance. The report recognised that the earnings would justify a larger divi- dend, but it was considered more prudent to utilise the funds in the liquidation of the Com- pany's indebtedness. The meeting of the shareholders was held on the 16th November, when the report and accounts were adopted,
Native reports from Peking represent a state of very strained relations between the Emperor and Li Hung-chang. His Excellenoy is said to have lost no time in speaking his mind to his august master on the subject of the Cassini Con vention, which he declared had placed China' A native paper states that the Tsungli under the foot of Russia. The interview is Yamen has recommended the raising of export represented as having been decidedly stormy, duties to ten per cent. ad valorem, a stop the venerable statesman being markedly abrupt - credited to the initiative of Sir Robert Hart. in his manner, Immediately afterwards Li by went off to pour his laments into the ear of the The idea, so say the Chinese, is that " making native exporters pay ten per cent. duty, Empress Dowager, who, whilst appreciating foreign importers cannot object to being treated the cause of her old friend's anger, could offer in the same way.”—N. C. Daily News.
him little but sympathy It was after this's that Li's ramble within the sacred precincts gave the Emperor a chance of showing his resentment. H.E.'s enemies are said to be highly pleased with the state of affairs and some of his weaker friends are going over to Weng Tung-ho-N. C. Daily News.
At a general meeting of the shareholders of the Banco Espanol-Filipino, held at Manila on the 16th November, it was resolved to increase the capital of the Bank from. $900,000 to $1,500,000, half of the additional capital to be
issued on the 20th December and the other half
With regard to the first shipment of machine on the 20th March next. The new shares will
made teas from Foochow, Mesars. be allotted to the existing shareholders in proportion to their present holdings and any Ramsay & Co. write from Melbourne not accepted will be offered to the public. The following effect under date of 16th Octob new shares are to be issued at $200 and theThe auction of machine teas was a great amount realised by the premium will be placed to the reserve fund.
A special meeting of the Shanghai ratepayers will be held on Wednesday, the 2nd of December, A Tokyo press despatch of the 19th Novem- to consider the question of an issue of dollarber, translated by the Kobe Chronicle, reads: notes by the Municipal Council
Baron R. Rosen, formerly Secretary of the Russian Legation in Tokyo, has been appointed Russian Minister to Japan vies the late M.
Hitrovo who died some time since.
The Right Rev. Bishop Burdon, who is retir ing from the Bee of Victoria (Hongkong), left| for home on the 28th November. It is under
after spending some time in Europe up will return to Hongkong to con-
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success yesterday,, with the result that we got 41d. for the dust, 5d. for the Souchongd. for the Pekoe, and 1ld. for the Orange, Pekoe. We need not say that you must no expect these prices again unless A telegram has been received to-day at the succeed in giving the teas more gri and Foreign Office announcing that the ratifications in the liquor, as it was of the German treaty were exchanged yester-being something new and day in Berlin. On the arrival of this news, talk of to the grocers, as Mr. Masjima, a barrister-at-law, filed to the prices. All the the Patent Bureau, on behalf of foreign you make Saryunes clients, some 200 applications for patents
and we think The Japanese Government failed to settle the and here, question legal jurisdiction in any case of Saryunes, dispute concerning patent rights, &c., before the exchange of the ratifications, and it is pro posed to negotiate for a special convention. •***
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