THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
AND
China Oberland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Wook, ko......
ritesh Minister at Peking .....
Be a Leader of Public Opinion
Wilm's Report on the Plague.............
and the Conservation of the River
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, 17TH MARCH, 1897
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Range of Treaty Rights in Chins
between the United States and Siam. 199 lion in the Philippines .........................................................
Murder in Hongkong
to Hon. Dr. Ho
Kai
HE Wu Ting-fang.................................*
cong Sanitary Board....
antine at Manila...
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Indian Famine Relief Fund
Dr. Wilm's Report on-the Plague
Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Co., Limited.
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The Green Island Cement Co., Limited
enwick & Co., Limited
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The Punjom Mining Co, Limited.
Moore and Co., Limited
Bugar Cultivation Co., Limited ..........
A number of cases of enteric fever have occurred amongst the British and Foreign community at Hongkong.
Baron Hayashi's successor as Japanese Minister to Peking will be. Mr. Yano, the Director of the Imperial Tombs Bureau.
There is a general feeling abroad that matters are progressing in Sandakan. The Chinese are showing more interest in land and planting matters, and trade is pretty brisk.-Borneo Herald.
Mr. J. W. Davidson, the well known news- paper correspondent, now United States Consul at Tamsui, is, we understand, accompanying a Japanese exploring party to the islands to the S.W. of Formosa.
It is notified in the Gazette that Mr. Kyotaro Amano has been recognised as in charge of the 204 Japanese Consulate in Hongkong during the temporary absence from the colony of Mr. S. 4.205 | Shimizu, Consul for Japan.
Shanghai Cargo Bost Co., Limited .................)
Operative Cargo Boat Co., of Shanghai,
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Firing Competition
Hongkong Golf Club
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
America and Siam
China's Annual Revenuê
The Chinese Customs Revenue for October-December,
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The Meingoon Prince
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A-Kobe Paper on the Hongkong Sanitary Board.....207 The Wong Shik'ang Mines
Houses and Roads in Shanghai ...q.................
Hongkong and Port News..................................................................... Commercial
Shipping
·MARRIAGES.
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According to native advices the Japanese settlement in Soochow was formally handed over by the Chinese on the 2nd March, the Go- vernor, the Treasurer, and the Customs Taotai being present on the occasion.—Mercury,
Manila was thrown into a great state of alarm on the 28th February by an attempted rebel rising in the city. The attempt was unsuccessful. In Cavite province the Loyalist troops are making steady progress against the rebels.
Work on the ten-mile local railway at Hang chow will commence in the first week of April. Work on the railway to Woosung began on the 26th ultimo. The Hangehow railway officials anticipate having their road ready for traffic in six months from the time of starting
On the 25th February, at the residence of Dr. and Mrs. G. Tait, No. 20, Nakayamate-dori, Kobe, ANNA H EVANS, of Eureka, Cal., to LOUIS C. PUTN. C. Daily News. NAM, of Kobe.
On the 27th February, at Christ Church, Yoko hama, by the Rev E. Champneys Irwine, M. A.
Est, second son of Mr. W. PINCKNEY, Milford Hill, Salisbury, to MARY, eldest daughter of Major HUNTER late of Auchterarder, Perthshire, NB.
DEATH.
At Chefoo, on the 4th March, FRANCES JOAN, aged fi months, youngest daughter of JOHN REGINALD
nd ELIZABETH MARGARET HARDING.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
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The American mail of the 13th February arrived per P. M. steamer City of Peking, on the 16th March (81 days); and the French mail of the 14th February arrived, per M. M. steamer Salarie, on the 16th March (30 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Wilm of the German Navy, lagne work at Hongkong lished as a blue book by
Mr. W. Pritchard Morgan, M.P., with his daughter and his staff, left Shanghai for Peking on the 6th March by the Eldorado, to discuss with H.E. Li Hung-chang the projects which were originally opened between them at home, and which, we understand, brought Mr. Morgan to China.-N. C. Daily News.
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M. Defr is going hom months. M chille Raucho d'Affaires during M. Defrance's
Among the pas Arratoon Ap
ngers who Friday fro
Sir A. S. Lethbridge, K.. Croft, KCIE. The former à Bri Lient. Col, and a member of at India, has been for the last various offices in India. The been in the Legislative Connoil
The electric company of Hangohow to be a profitable undertaking, orders 4,000 incandescent lamps having been, in the city before the building of
was commenced. The char
night is 25 copper cash and tends extending its operatio settlement. An exhibition small scale has given grea Chinese.Mercury.
On Monday part of the crew and the sengers of the wrecked steamer Glam arrived in Hongkong by the Decim report the vessel strucka was not marked on the British about five o'clock on the afternoo safely off. The captain, the chi the steamer. It is anticipated chief engineer, and three men are
also arrive here shortly.
inst. and that it is not expec
gal
The Nippon Yusen Kaisha, taking ad of the pronta accruing from the late opened lines to America, Australia, and but the expenditures during the past year amounted to yen 3,400,000. There be prospect of the business paying, the Co recently petitioned the Government
subsidies. The authorities have grant yen 3,400,000 as supple and the project will be laid bef a Supplementary Budget at an early dat Japan Mail
The Manager of the Hongkong The Straits Insurance Co., Limited a telegram from his head offic following summary of the Co
to be submitted at the next meetingNet premium
計 for th $1,270,000; amount carr ing 8ccount 1896. the sum of $180,000 reserve fund: loss, $31,000, of 5 per cent.
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A sensational murder was committed at Hongkong on the night of Sunday last. A Chinaman who had recently returned from California out his wife's throat, because she refused to go with him to his home in the country, and then packed the body in a box, where it was discovered by the police.
H.E. Wu Ting-fang, the Chinese Minister to the United States, left on Saturday for San Francisco by the O. & O. steamer Gaelic, which had the Chinese flag flying at the main in honour of her distinguished passenger: The AV is reported that Hon. Ho Kai also left by the Gaelic for Shang hai to enter on his appointment in connection with the Imperial Bank and railway schemes.
HE. Loh Fong lo, the new Chinese Minis- ter to Great Britain. proceeds to England I the present mail. It would appear that Toh has no vozy high opinion of Great Brita if the views attributed to him in been issued by the United with
tative of Galianan to Biam and the
at visit to Europe
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