THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLV.]
Epitome of the Week,
AND
China Overland
Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
ading Articles:
The Transit Pass Question.
The Light Dues Question
Sir Thomas Sutherland's Speech at the P. & 0.
Company's Meeting
The Lekin Question in Kwangai
Supreme Court 1.
Severe Earthquake at Foochow
ongkong Sanitary Board....
ire on the Fausang...
Hongkong Volunteer Corps
Suicide of a Soldier...........
The Carew Case ...............
The Rebellion in the Philippines.......
Cricket
Limited
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 20TH JANUARY, 1897..
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The Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co.,
The West Point Building Co., Limited
The Shanghai Ice Company
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Correspondence............................. Hongkong and Fort News.
Shipping
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A destructive fire occurred at Tientsin on the 13th January in which Messrs. Arnhold, Kar- berg & Co.'s offices and godown and some other business premises were destroyed.
The report of the conversion of the notorious anti-foreign agitator Chon Han is said to be antrue. He is declared to be as opposed to foreigners and their religion as ever.
The Imperial Bank of China, with a capital of about seven million taels, is shortly to begin businees at Shanghai in the premises formerly 43 occupied by Messrs. Russell & Co. on the Bund
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News reached Shanghai on the 18th of a disturbance, directed against for having occurred at the new port of details, so far, are meagre, but it appears Mr. Neumann, acting Commissioner so toms, and a member of the Lyons Commission were attacked by a mob of some 200 na ves and rather badly knocked about NC. Darly
News.
The Courrier d'Haiphong reports a' disastor to the French troops, on which, it says, it authorities have been trying to maintain silence. In the neighbourhood, of Pho-lu, on the Red Subject to audit, the Directors of the Hong-River, a French detachment fell into an am- kong and Shanghai Bank intend to declare a dividend of £15s. for the last half year, placing 5 lacs to the reserve fund and carrying forward about 3 lacs.
The Government have received the following 48 telegram from H.B.M.'s Minister at Tokyo :-
"Governor, Hongkong. Medical Inspection discontinued against vessels from Formosan 50 ports to Japan.
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On the 10th January, at No. 19 and 21, Mosque Street, the wife of Mr. G. J. SEQUEIRA, of a danghter.
[185 On the 17th inst, at No. 1, Woodlands Terrace, the wife of ERNEST FREDERICK STOVELL, of a son. [225
DEATH:
On the 17th inst., at No. 1, Woodlands Terrace, the infant son of ERNEST FREDERICK and CLARA HELEN VINCENT STOVELL, aged 2 hours.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
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The American mail of the 19th December arrived, per P. M. steamer China, on the 18th ́January (30 days); and the French mail of the 18th December arrived, per M. M. steamer Caledonien, on the 19th January (32 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Carew trial is still proceeding at Yoko-
The rebellion in the Philippines seems to be losing its force.
The Chinese postal service is to be com-
menced with the Chinese New Year.
H.E. Wu Ting-fang, the new Minister to the United States, was expected to leave Shang- hai for Canton on Monday last.
A ricksha strike was in pregress at Singapore the date of our latest files and had been
attended with some disturbances.
M. Doumer, the new Governor-General of Indo-China, was to leave France on the 17th January to take up his appointment.
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A dense fog prevailed at Shanghai ou the 12th January, which caused several accidents of a minor nature. No less than seven steam launches were reported ashore in different parts of the river during the day.
A strike of jinricksha and carriage men at Soochow has been compromised by the authori- ties there engaging to levy a tax of only $1.50 on each 'ricksha and $4 on each carriage per month. These vehicles are once more plying in the streets of the new settlement at Soochow -N. C. Daily News.
Our Saigon correspondent writes:-The rice crop has turned out an abundant one and we are likely to see large numbers of steamers coming here to load this season. Let us hope there may be no more mishaps in the way of opium seizures. Captains had better search their vessels well.
An important proclamation in reference to the transit pass trade in Kwangsi has been published. The proclamation, which is issued by the Central Lekin Office, declares that goods which have been taken into the province under transit pass are to be treated on exactly the same basis as goods that have paid lekin and are not to be discriminated against.
At the end of December the steamer Siam was found helpless near Cape Padaran, having lost her propeller while on a voyage from Singapore to Hongkong. She was towed into Saigon by the steamer Nord and the cargo in the after hold has been discharged, so as to raise her stern out of water. She is now waiting to
receive a new screw.
The Viceroys at Nanking and Wuchang and the Governor of Chêkiang have begun another crusade against Manila and other lottery tickets within their jurisdiction. This has been done by the orders of the Emperor, whose attention has been again called by a Censor to the harm these lotteries have been doing to the people of the five provinces of Kiangsu, Kiangsi, Anhui, Hupeh, and Chekiang The first movement against them was fourteen years ago, when the Board of Punishments recommended banish. ment to the post roads to anyone selling Manila lottery tickets. The same law is to be set in force again this year.-N. O. Daily News.
buscade. An adjutant was killed, and fourteen tirailleurs seriously wounded. Two of them died almost immediately and the others are under treatment in the ambulance hospital, at Yen-bay. Several of the wounded are fright- fully injured.
The Shanghai Mercury of the 14th January says:-The Indo-China stern-wheel steamer. Changuo has broken down on the Upper River. It is stated that arrangements have been made for the China Merchants steamer Kweilee to take her in tow to Tchang, where it is thought repairs may be effected; but definite information is not yet available. It is also reported that the China Navigation steamer Shasi has broken down between Ichang and Hankow and is in need of assistance.
The N. C. Daily News records, the death of Mr. R. I. Fearon in the following terms ----- His old friends in Shanghai, and those who had made his acquaintance subsequently in the States, must have heard with very deep regret on Saturday, 9th January, of the death on Friday, 8th, of Mr. Robert. Inglish Fearon, head partner in the firm of Fearon, Daniel & Co., of Shanghai and New York. He died suddenly of apoplexy at New York on Friday last. A thorough, cultured English gentleman, a first-rate business man, and a warm and genial friend, Mr. Robert Fearon was most heartily liked and respected by all who knew him, and in the many years he spent in Shang- hai he was one of its leading citizens. He came out to China some forty years ago to join the American firm of Angustine Heard & Co., in which he had been for some years a parme atthe time of its dissolution, subsequently settling at New York in charge of the interests firm of Fearon, Low & Co., the predeces the present firm. He took a great in public affairs of all kinds at Shanghai, & shining light in amateur both he himself and his clever and ami who was one of the leading ornamenta society in the old days, contributing to the success of the amateur performanc here in the days when the amateur an even more important factor in than it is now. He was onl old at the time of his death, sympathy is felt with his and with those whom his ↑
There are toy intimately affects. here who do not feel that in they have lost a friend wh be entirely filled, and who green with them till their follow him. Clever, loya unselfish Robert Fear who, if Shanghai h worthily fill a niche in its wall.
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