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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIV.]
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 17тH DECEMBER, 1896.
The Hongkong Military Contribution Bill was finally passed by the Legislative Council on
Epitome of the Werk, B...........................................................................................485 - the 14th December.
Leading Articles:
Changes in the Business and Residential Quarters
of Hongkong....................................................
.466 Interesting Topics in the Legislative Council ......166 The Military Contribution............................................................. .467 The Russo-Chinese Treaty...
.487 Germany's Refusal of the Chinese Ambassador ........468 The Navigation of the Upper Makong............................... .468 English and American Bicycles............................................................
.468 Hongkong Legislative Council
469
Supreme Court........................................................................................................470 Dreadful Accident on the Sagħalien..............................................................471 - Fatal Fire.......
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The Rebellion in the Philippines Narrow Escape of Mr. May's Yacht The Tang Wa Hospital
..471 ...471 .471
Death of the Governor-General of Indo-China..... ......472
472
The New Government Offices Exports under the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance...473 The New Balmoral Gold Mining Company, Limited...473 Mr. F. H. May and the Fire Brigade Victoria Regatta...................................... Hongkong Golf Club
475
...............................................................................................478 Royal Hongkong Yacht Club...........................................................................479 Correspondence
480
The Newchwang-Onwo Collision Case Hongkong and Port Now.....................................180 Commercial Shipping
BIRTHS.
MARRIAGES.
.................481
Af East Point, on the 10th December, the wife of KOBKET ADAM, of a daughter.
*[2814 On the 11th inst., at No. 1, Stewart Terrace, Peak, the wife of G. A. CALDWELL, of a daughter. [2829 On the 14th December, 1896, at. Meirion, the Peak, the wife of E. JONES HUGHES, of a son. [2860 At Bombay, on the 14th instant, ARDESHER CAWARJEE CAMA, of Bombay, to BAIMAL, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. BYBAMJEE, of Hongkong. [2856 At H.B.M.'s Consulate General, Shanghai, on the 10th December, 1896, by Sir Nicholas J. Hannen, and afterwards at Holy Trinity Cathedral, by the
· Bev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., HARRY GEARY, eldest son of H. J. Gardner, of Wrotham, Kent, to OLIVE, youngest daughter of the late Hugh F. RAMSAY, of Hankow, China.
DEATH.
At Swatow, on the 12th December, 1896, HENRY DOUGLAS CRICHTON, the dearly loved eldest son of ADA. LOUISE and HENRY LAYNG, aged 6 years.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 6th November ar- rived, per M. M. steamer Tamise, on the 10th December (34 days); the English mail of the 13th November arrived, per P. & O. steamer Ganges, on the 12th December (29 days); the American mail of the 12th November arrived, per P. M. steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, on the 13th December (31 days); and the German mail of the 16th November arrived per N. D. L. stermer Bayern, on the 15th December (29 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
H.M.8. Porpoise with the torpedo destroyers Hart and Handy arrived" at Singapore on the 30th November. It is understood that "the Handy and Hart will stay at Singapore during the north east monsoon and that the Porpoise will come on to Hongkong.
M. Armand Rousseau, the Governor-General of Indo-China, died at Hanoi on the 10th December from an affection of the liver.
A Currency Note Bill, which provides for the issue of a Government paper currency, is being introduced in the Straits Legislative Council.
The Viceroy Wang Wen-shao has been con- firmed in his present position, and will there- fore rule Chihli province for at least three years.
According to a Reuter's telegram of the 13th December, "the Russo-Chinese treaty published in Shanghai is denied at St. Petersburg, and the railway scheme is confined to the building of a short Chinese railway in Manchuria, con- necting with West Siberia and the Vladivo- stock lines,"
General Camilo Polavieja y del Castillo, who arrived at Manila a week or two ago as Secundo Cabo, or Lieutenant-Governor, has been ap- pointed Governor-General, superseding Gene- ral Blanco, who retires. General Enrique Zappino y Moreno is to be appointed Lieu- tenant-Governor.
The Dongtrien coal mine, in which a Hong kong syndicate was interested some years ago but which had to be abandoned because the Gov ernment would not afford the necessary pro- tection against pirates, is again notified as for sale, the adjudication to take place at the Secreta- riat General, Hanoi, on the 1st April next.
With the promotion of Wu Ting-fang (Ng Choy) to be Minister abroad, his post of Direc- tor of the Tientsin Technical College, opened two years ago, it is reported, will be given to an expectant Taotai named Wang, a chinshih in rank and a man of progressive tendencies, and hitherto Vice-Director of the Tientsin Naval Academy.-N. C. Daily News.
The Avenir du Tonkin says:-Before leaving Tonkin Dr. Yersin telegraphed to the French Consul at Calcutta, who is acting in the matter at the request of the Indian Board of Health, to the effect that he was sending him a small quantity of the anti-plague serum. As is known, Dr. Yersin's arrangements are not sufficiently advanced to enable him to supply the quantities of the serum for which demands come to him from all parts.
In the Supreme Court at Shanghai on the 8th December, judgment was delivered in the Onwo and Newchwag collision case. found that the Newchwang was on the wrong The Court
side of the channel, and that the Onwo neglected to reverse, both vessels being therefore culpable. The case arose out of a collision between the steamer Onwo and the steamer Newchwang early on the morning of the 30th of April, in the Huangpoo River, near Woosung, in which the Onwo was sunk and a large number of lives lost. The trial took place in H.B.M.'s. Supreme Court, in Admiralty Jurisdiction, before Sir N. J. Hannen, Chief Justice, and Commander Grafton, H.M.S. Redpole, and Captain James Moar, master of the steamer Strathleven, Nauti cal Assessors. It is reported that the judgment is to be appealed against.
No. 25.
Hwang, the new Chinese Minister to Berlin, has, a Renter's telegram informs us, been declined by Germany, because his rank is inadequate to the position.
A serious accident occurred on board the outward bound M. M. steamer Saghalien on the 1st December, between Singapore and Saigon. One of the boilers exploded and killed eleven men, one of them a European engineer and the remainder Arab firemen. A number of others were injured. The vessel proceeded, under re- and was detained there for repairs." duced speed, to Saigon, arriving two days late,
News from native sources states that the
Imperial Bank of China, the prospectus o which was formulated by H.E. Sheng Hsuan. huai, Director-General of the proposed Great Western Railway, the Hanyang Iron Works, Imperial Chinese Telegraph Administration, and of the China Merchants' S.N. Co., and a Court Officer of the 4th grade, having been referred by the Throne to the joint consider- ation of the Board of Revenue and Tsungli Yamên, has been favourably reported upon by them and will be established at about the same time as the Great Western Railway. Ameri- can capitalists are said to be at the back of both bank and railway. An Imperial edict is expected soon on the subject of the bank.-- N. C. Daily News.
mules; but death and
December says:-On Wednesday evening there The Peking and Tientsin Times of the 5th arrived here from Peking the long expected English officers from India, Captain Welby of the 11th Hussars and Lieut. Malcolm of the 93rd Highlanders. These hardy explorers left Leh in Ladakh in April last and have thus been eight months en route, undergoing the usual privations that such travellers experience. They started with a retinue of twelve Argauns desertion gradually thinned their numbers, and and thirty-nine they arrived with three attendants and three mules. As each male died it became necessary to sacrifice clothes, instruments, ammunition, food, &c., so that Northern Tibet is dotted with their belongings. On arriving at the frontier between Tibet and China they found themselves penniless, as London letters of credit are not of much use there. They were fortunate enough to meet Mr. Reinhart, a Dutch mission- ary, who, although personally unable to assist them financially, was able to recommend them to apply to Messrs. William Forbes & Co.'s agent, who at once relieved them of any further anxiety and financed them right through to Peking. They were able to induce Mr. Reinhart to accompany them to Poking and his invaluable and enabled them to get along experience of travelling in North China proved
without undue extortion. The travellers looked well and declared that they had enjoyed their expedition immensely. Their route was through Western and Northern Tibet. They spoke very highly of the kindness and hospitality of the Mongol tribes. - Captain Welby and Lieut. Malcolm left yesterday to join the Nanchang at Tangku, in order to pro- ceed to Hongkong on their way back to India. It is to be hoped that their journal will published, as they seem to have a great deal interesting facts to make known. They dis covered one of the sources of the Yangtaze, an followed the river down for seven days, e
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