THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLV J.
Leading Articles *---
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 3RD FEBRUARY, 1897.
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CONTENTS,
Epita"
of the Week,
The Pacific Cable. .................................................................................................................. 78 Foreign Entertainments and the Mourning for
the Empress Dowager of Japan Administration of Formoss
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Supreme Court
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Hongkong Sanitary Board............................................................................................... Bt. George's Cathedral
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The Navy League and the Navy Estimates
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders of Hong-
The suspicions cases of illness at Singapore which gave rise to rumours that, plague had broken out there are declared to have been typhoid fever.
The French Government has several bronze medals to meml police in recognition of the protec to the French legation and its members during the period of the negotiations with referenc to the retrocession of Liaotung.
On the 25th January at 10.30 a.m. H.E. Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese Minister to the United States, Spain, and Pern, accompanied by his We understand that Hon. Ho Kai will private secretaries, paid an official call on the ceed to America some time in March. Governor at Government House, where Sir the position of Secretary to H.E. Wo William, with his Private Secretary and Mr. fang, the Chinese Minister to America: Stewart Lockhart, received his Suxcellency. Ho Kai will be on leave from his legi The Governor, accompanied by his Private duties in Hongkong for six m 80
Secretary and the Colonial Secretary, returned He may remain in America twelve month the call on Tuesday morning at 10.45 a.m. at even two or three years; the length of his Idlewild, where His Imperial Majesty's repre- depends upon his liking for the new posti sentative is at present staying.
It is probable that should he remain there more than six months he will resign his member ship of the Hongkong Legislative Council.
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Military Concert at the Theatre Royal............................. Transmission of Chinese Correspondence
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The Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Co.,
Limited
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Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
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The Boy Chee Cotton Spinning Co., Limited ............. 82 China Fire Insurance Co., Limited
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Hongkong Ice Co., Limited
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Ranb
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The Grand Hotel, Limited, Yokohams
Cricket
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
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A committee has been appointed by H.E. the Governor for the purpose of raising a fund for the relief of the sufferers from the Indian famine. A meeting of the committee has been 83 held and it was decided to at once open a 84 subscription. A motion was made that the 84 committee should place itself in communication with the committee appointed to arrange for the celebration of the completion of the sixtieth year of Her Majesty's reign, but this was negatived, the opinion of the majority being that the two matters should be kept separate and distinct.
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The Gambling Scandal at Yokohama ........................................................
Great Fire at Tientsin
88 MILANGDUREZOVODILO (QUUTISCONS........................ The Philippine Rebellion ............................................................................... A Diplomatic Sensation at Tokyo................................................................ ....
88 Hongkong and Port Now..................................... 90 Commercial. Shipping
DEATH.
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In the Courrier de Saigon of the 20th inst. we read that the project of building a special On the 28th instant, at his residence Valkashwar, refrigerating sanatorium in Saigon was to be Bombay, after a long illness, at the ripe age of considered by the Saigon Council on the follow over 80 years, EBRAHIM NOORDIN, senior partner of the firm of Messrs. Abdoolally Ébrahim & Coing day. The journal again points out the Hongkong and China.
[312 inestimable advantages to be gained by this method of defying the changeableness of the climate. The interior of the sanatorium will contain dry air kept at one temperature, and our contemporary predicts that this example will be promptly followed by the surrounding countries, as it must result in the saving of hundreds of human lives. From a later issue of the same paper we learn that the council passed the vote asked for.
ARRIVALS. OF MAILS.
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The American mail of the 29th December arrived, por O. & Ö. steamer Belgic, on the January (30 days); and the French nail of the 1st January arrived, per M.M. steamer - Oceanien, on the 31st January (30 days)
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The Carew case at Yokohama was concluded on the 1st February, when the prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to death.
Mr. O'Shea the special correspondent of the New York Herald and China Gazette, returned from Manila on Friday last..
The rebellion in Formosa has been suppressed, but sed bands of robbers are still giving
Japanese authorities.
reference to the suppression in the Philippines has been the past weekoller 02 13
arn that it was the was implicated in the a. The
loss to Nolence.
on
The Singapore Free Press of the 21st Janu- ary says:The price of Raub shares continues to improve. There was, it is understood, a meeting yesterday afternoon of the local direo- tors, Messrs. T. Scott, J. Anderson, and G. S. Murray, the mine manager, Mr. W. Bibby, being present also. A further dividend, it is Board for sanction, and in the course of corre believed, will be recommended to the Brisbane spondence may become payable in March. From a consideration of the present working expenses and the fairly steady returns from the work now going on the prospect of a succession of fair dividends may be said to be assured.
On Thursday afternoon à Chinaman was found on the shore at Laichikok in an almost insensible condition. Both his arms had been blown off above the elbow and ingeots were eating the lacerated parts. The Customs officials reported the matter to Dr. Rennie, who saw the man and ordered his removal to the Alice Memorial Hospital, but he died before reaching
that institution. He suffered his
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Two Americans, Dr. and Mrs. Macllrath, have arrived in Bhamo on bicycles. They left Chicago on the 10th April, 1895, rode to the Pacific Coast; went by steamer to Yokoham rode through Japan; thence by steamer to China. They intended entering Burms thro the south of China from Canton, but they were dissuaded from this and went to Sha
throug rode thence to Ichang, going Burma, partly by ponies and afte cycles. Dr. and Mrs. MacIlrath propose cross ing India and Persia to Constantinople, wand will then travel through several European coun- tries. They say the Chinese were very within reach of the gunboats, but the interior they had much trouble from subordinate officials.
Sir
The Straits Times says: A fresh ramon
retire reaches us that Sir Charles Mitchell is to from his post as Governor of the Straits Settle ments, and that he is to be succeeded Henry Arthur Blake, who since 1888 has held the governorship of Jamaica Rumour, howe ever, has been busy for a long time past as to Sir Charles's possible removal, and it would be unsafe to place too much reliance on the present reports. Mr. Swettenham is to go home on leave in March, and it does not seem likely that the Government should then be handed to stranger who, of course, has no local knowled and who would take time to acquire a useful amount of local knowledge. But, on the hand, there are reasons in support of the theory that the rumour has some foundation fact.
The Nippon has some indig about the foreign resid Whereas (says our contemporar dancing, and instrumental music throughout the Empire on acco of the Empress Dowager, the of Yokohama advertise a concor Hall for the 20th inst. this is not the foreigners extra-ter
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