THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
Supreme
Th Onici
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China Overland Trade Report._______
CONTENTS.
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 25TH FEBRUARY, 1897.
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of the West River....................184 osed New Admiralty Dock....
.134 Consuls and Irregular Taxation ....................184 Construction in China ..................................................................184 der and Mise Jacob...........135 Colonial Administration .....................186
Reballion
Relief Fund E
..136
....188
Corneville" by thế A.D.0........137 Yard, R.M.L.I. ....................................139 in Hongkong ... ĐƯỢC 139 beting
140 .....
..144 Whampoa Dock Co., Limited................................145 Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ld. ..148 The National Bank of China, Limited..................... ..147 The Hongkong Hotel Co., Limiteʻl Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., Limited. Correspondencs
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The Acquittal of Miss Jacob
The Formoran Opium Regulations
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The Hongkong Race Meeting was held on the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th February.
A number of matting-makers at Ningpo are reported to be seeking permission to import mat-making machinery.
Lessrs. Fau
H.E. M. Doumer, the new Governo of French Indo-China, accompanied Doumer and their three children, by a staff composed of Sargues, Eymery, and About, Com Nicolas, Captain Lacotte, and Lieute dirvid-Dubosc, arrived at Saigon from Marseilles by
the M.M. steamer Melbourne.
The liquidators of the Singapore Insurance Company have decided to declare a thid end of $1.50 payable on March 15th.
The operations against the Philippine rebels in Cavite province have at last been commenced, A. fierce resistance is being encountered.
The Japanese Foreign Office has been notified by the U.S. Minister to Japan that Mr. James W. Davidson has heen appointed U.S. Acting Consul at Tamsui, Formosa.
We are glad to hear from Peking that social | harmony is completely restored in diplomatic circles there, the members of the French and Russian legations who resigned some time since 148, having rejoined the Peking Club.-N. C. Daily
..150 News
Mr. Davidson and Mr. O'Shea on the Philippine
lision at Shanghai
...150
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It is stated that the Chinese authorities have
suggested to the Customs Service that it would Huang Chun-hsien ............ .........................150 be advisable to exercise similar supervision at Woosung over the junks that leave for southern ports as is done in Hongkong to prevent the illegal export of arms to the South.-China
The Russian Squadron in the Far East ..................151 Hongkong and Port News.....
BIRTH.
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On the 15th inst, at No. 2, Belilios Terrace, the wife of Capt. J. F. MESSER, of a son. [467 MARRIAGE. MORPHEW-LAWRENCE-On the 23rd inst., at St. Joseph's Church, Hongkong, GEORGE MORPHEW, of Canton, to JOSEPHINE EMILY, third daughter of JOSEPH LAWRENCE, of Hongkong.
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DEATHS.
WERNER KROHN, of Messrs. Siemssen & Krohn, Foochon, accidentally drowned on the 4th inst. [512 On the 15th February, 1897, at Wallingford, Berks, BUTH ALICE, daughter of Sir JOHN W. and Lady CARRINGTON, aged 12 years and 10 months.
[468 At No. 50, Tsukiji, Tokyo, on the 10th instant, HENRY HARTSHORNE, M.D., LL.D., of Philadel- phia, U.S.A...
On the 10th February, Rev. James M. MCCAU LEY, D.D., at Tokyo.
At 5, Minghong Road, Shanghai, on the 13th February, 1897, CHARLES P. M. DONALDSON, aged
years
Minghong Road, Shanghai, on the 18th Feburary, 1897, CHARLES DONALDSON (late of Hall
and Holtz, Limited), aged 49 years.
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Gazette.
It is said that Colonel Waters, the military attaché to the Embassy in St. Petersburg, who is on his way to Vladivostock, will meet one of the officials of the British Legation in Peking, and the two will frame a joint report on the
Russo-Chinese Railways Siberian and Mercury.
Miss Jacob, who was accused by Mr. Lowder of the murder of the late Mr. Carew, was dis- charged on the 5th February. Mr. Lowder made a formal withdrawal of the charge, but did not accompany the withdrawal with any expression of regret. Some days later he sent to Miss Jacob a written apology.
Hankow despatches state that Governor Liao of that city has reported favourably to the Throne on the proposed local railway of ten miles which a syndicate of Hangchow gentry and wealthy merchants has offered to build this. year at an expense of $500,000, and that the Emperor's Rescript is expected to arrive from Peking this week. It is said that, as Director. General of Railways, H.E. Sheng memorialised conjointly with Governor Liao in the matter from which it appears that all such under- takings, no matter in what part of the country will have to receive the stamp of H.E. Shêng' approval before they can have any chance of success.-N. C. Daily News.
MA.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS. The American mail of the 23rd January red, per P. Msteamer City of Rio de Janeiro, the 18th February (26-days); the French The China Gazette says: We understand the 17th January arrived, per M. M. that negotiations between Governor-General Melbourne, on the 19th February (33 Polavieja, acting under special authority from English mail of the 22nd January the Queen Regent of Spain, and the Hongkong P&U steamer Kaiser-i-Hind, on and Shanghai Banking Corporation for a loan February (30 days); and the Canadian of ten million dollars to the Philippine Govern the 1st February arrived, per. C. Prment upon the security of the revenue of the ess of India, on the 23rd February three Custom houses at Manila, Iloilo, and Cebu, are now in a very forward state, and only. await certain formalities to be entirely complete. We believe the interest is to be 53 per cent. nd that Mexican dollars bearing dates subse quent to 1876 the latter dollars are the Mexicans now admitted into the country be allowed to be imported into Manila arrangement the bank will make profit, if the loan is successfully,
ME OF THE WEEK
Dramatic Club an 1088 of Lisa Cloches 1 is a conspicuous
the acting,
A Tokyo press despatch of the 14th February says: It is expected that a Bill will be a mitted by the Government to the House o Representatives on the 1st March no which it is proposed to stop the coin silver after a certain date. Preparations for carrying the change into effect will pleted in six months. The amount of gold to be kept as a reserve is estimated at a hundred and fifty million yen.
Mr. G. D. Pitzipios, of the British Consular Service, is to be transferred from Shanghai to Chinking to take over charge of the Consulate there from Mr. W. R. Carles, who is under orders to relieve Mr. Clement F. R. Allen at
Foochow. The latter gentleman, is proceeding to England on leave of absence. It is rumoured that Mr. Mansfield is to succeed Mr. Bulloo's in the post of Acting Congul at Shanghai, pending Mr. George Jamieson's return to Shanghai.
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The Macao census commission has published its report. From a summary given by the Echo Macaense we les that on the 19th February last the population of Macao, Taipa, and Colowan consisted of 3,898 Portuguese, 161 foreigners, and 74,568 Chinese, giving a grand total of 78,627. Comparing these figures with those of the congnt of 1878, which showed population of 68,086, composed of 4,476 Po tuguese, 63,532 Chinese, and 78 foreigner will be seen that the total population increased by 10,541 during the eightee but that the Portuguese population has nished by 578, while the Chinese have ing by 11,036 and foreigners by 83. The tuguese population is divided as follo Natives of Portugal 619, of Macso other Portuguese possessions 178.** these figures with those of 1878 there nation of 116 in the natives of il decrease of 496 in the natives increase of 34 in the nati guese colonies.
The prospectus has been issued saki Hotel, Limited, a Public Com registered in Hongkong with $130,000 in shares $100 each. are Messrs. F ger BG. burg, D. Robertson, - Messrs. Holme Secretaries pro. already been gua the sum ava ports will not sets, cont
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