THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVII.
AND
China Overland Trade Report.
CONTÈNTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c...
Leading Articles:-
Great Britain's Policy in China
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 27тH JANUARY, 1898. ›
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The Kinochau Question & International Rivalries 50 The Opening of Hunan
Hongkong Legislative Council
Supreme Court .....
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EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
According to a Reuter's telegram, Kiaochan is to be made an open port like Hongkong.
The British squadron has been formed into two divisions. The Southern division, with Admiral Buller in command, was by latest advices át Chusan, and the Northern division, with Rear Admiral Fitzgerald in command, was at 56 Chemulpo.
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Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce ............... 53 The Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce The Sale of Injurious Liquora in Hongkong
The British Fleet
Maritime Disaster at Shanghai
The Situation
The Powan Asbors
The Powan and Kwang Lee in Collision
The New Public Offices
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The China Gazette is informed that a con- tract for the construction of a railway between 56 Ningpo and Shaohsing has been signed by the 56 Chekiang authorities with the representative of a British syndicate. The estimated cost is said to be Tis. 4,000,000.
Price Distribution at St. Joseph's College
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The Indian Yarn Trade
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The Hongkong Canton and Macao Steam-boat Co., : Limited
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The Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co,
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The Kowloon Land and Building Co., Limited
West Point Building Co, Limited
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Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co., Ld. Presentation to Mr. E. A. Ram. by the Cricket Club... 81
Cricket...
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The N. C. Daily News, is informed that no money has been paid and none is likely to be paid on account of the Belgian loan, and that the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung is against any loan being made with Belgium now, and wishes to effect one with American capitalists.
A Madrid telegram of the 7th January to the Comercio states that the Minister for the 62 Colonies has commissioned Senor Perez, civil 63 engineer, to prepare plans for a system of rail- ways in the Philippines. The first line to be constructed is that from Manila to Taal.
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The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Correspondence
The History of the Kowloon Concession.
British Girls in Peril at Shanghai
- Another European Attacked in Shantung
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The Opening of Hunan
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Death of General Jones
Minerals in Hupeh
The Belgian Loan
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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Since the Japanese Government took up the 63 the work of developing the resources of the Hokkaido systematically (about thirteen years 65. ago), the population has increased from 60,000 to 700,000. The officials are still busily en- couraging emigration thither, as they claim that there is room for six million. Hiogo
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No. 4.
M. Grille, an engineer of the great French works, of the Société Fives Lille, is at present in Shanghai, and according to L'Echo de Chine, his firm has secured a concession for a railway between Seoul and a place on the Chinese border,
Senor José de Navarro, the Spanish Consal, informs us that His Excellency the Governor- General of the Philippines wired to him on Sun- day as follows:--" Just finished the celebration. with unusual pomp of a solemn Te Deum of thanksgiving for the restoration of peace."
So little hope is entertained in Peking, about the reported British Government guaranteed loan to China at 110 and 3 per cent.. says the China Gazette, that Li Hung-chang telegraphed on the 18th January to Shanghai, asking if the loan at 94 and 5 per cent., partly signed with the Hooley Jameson Syndicate, could still be had.
Of the ten steamers ordered from England by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha for the service of its European line, seven have already been brought to Japan. The remaining three vessels are expected to arrive in Japan by the end of the present month, their names being the Inaba-maru Sado-maru, and Bingo-maru." The Hitachi-mary, now in course of construction at the local Mitsu Bishi Dockyard to the order of the same Company, is nearing completion.- Nagasaki Presi.
The Singapore papers record the death of Mr. W. Paterson, news of which was received by wire. Mr. Paterson was the senior partner of the firm of Messrs. Paterson Simons & Co., of Singapore and London. His age was seven- ty-five. The deceased gentleman come out to 1864, when he assumed the management of the Singapore about 1840 and remained there till
London firm. He was for many years Chair- The constitution of the new Japanese Ca man of Directors of the Chartered Bank, and At 49, Wyndham Street, on the 18th January,
on his retirement in 1895 was presented with a 1898, the wife of CHARLES MOONEY, of a daughter.binet is as follows:-Marquis Ito, Premier;
Baron Nishi, Foreign Affairs; Viscount Yoshi-service of plate, He was also a director of the kawa, Home Affairs; Viscount Katsura, War; Thames and Mersey Insurance Co., of the Marquis Saigo, the Navy; Count Inouye, London, Paris and Hamburg Bank; and was
on the directorate of other companies. Finance; Baron Suyematsu, Communications; Marquis Saionji, Education; and Mr. Sone, Justice.
At Santa Ana, Marila, on the 14th inst., the wife News, of H. A. MACLEOD, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
At Shanghai, on the 15th January, 1898, at HB.M.'s Consulate General, by George Jamieson, Esq., C.M.G., Consul General, and afterwards at the Union Church, by the Rev. Dr. Hykes, ALBERT SMITH, eldest son of H. VINCENT SM.TH, South Yarra, Melbourne, to MARY SUTHERLAND MERRI- LEES, second daughter of ALEXANDER GRANT MERRILEES, of the Inspector.te General of Customs, Shanghai.
DEATHS.
Interviewed at Tacoma on his arrival there from Vladivostock on the 12th December Cap- tain McGregor of the steamship Glenlochy, said All who are concerned in docking and repair-Russia intends to open that port next year ing business, says the Singapore Free Press, will as the great North Asiatic seaport. Great be interested to know that our latest Java preparations are in progress in the way of At Shanghai, on the 15th January, 1898; at advices state that the three thousand ton float-improvements expected to attract and aid com- H.B.M.'s Consulate-General, by George Jamieson,ing dock belonging to the N. I. Marine departmerce. These include terminals of the Siberian Esq., C.M.G., Consul-General, and afterwards at the
ment now lying at Sourabaya will in April next Railway and magnificent terminal wharves sup- Union Church by the Rev. Dr. Ilykes, WILLIAM be towed round to Sabang Bay, Pulo Way, to ported by concrete piers standing in thirty-six ARTHUR BRADLEY, son of the late JOHN WALDE be used there for docking and repairing. feet of water. Everything is done on a gigantio GRAVE BRADLEY, C.E., of Clifton, England, to AN- NIE LECKIE MERRILEES, third daughter of ALEX-
scale at Vladivostock. A new dock 560 feet> ANDER GRANT MERRILEES, of the Inspectorate
long, 90 feet wide, and 30 feet deep has General of Customs, Shanghai.
just been finished, the Glenlochy being the first merchantman docked in it. This bluff, and has been several years in building. dock Was
rook sát . out of a solid
Vladivostock's new ice-breaker, built in Den- mark, broke ice twenty-eight inches thick at the rate of three knots per hour, and-is expected to keep the harbour open this winter. Cap- tain McGregor could not obtain a bill of health until the Russian Admiral manded his physician to furnish one. Why'
"this is a fortress, not said the Admiral,
Vladivostook has about commercial port." 40,000 inhabitants, including the great garrison stationed there. So numerous are the soldiers and sailors that one may walk blocks and scarcely meet any civilians.
At the General Hospital, Yokohama, on the 2nd January, H. E. HARRIES, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, son of BENJAMIN HARRIES, Esq. Tenby, Wales, aged 26 years.
At the General Hospital, Yokohama, on the 7th January, THOMAS RYDING GREEN, aged 63 years.
At Streatham, Surrey, England, on the 7th January, 1898, THEO. SAMPSON, fate of Canton. (By telegram).
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The departure of the Japanese Standing Squadron for Wei-hai-wei has been postponed to the 28th inst. The squadron is now at Yokosuka, and consists of ten or twelve war- vessels, including the Fuji, Yashima, Chinyen, Matsushima, Itsukushima, and Hashidate. When ready, the squadron will be the most powerful one that has ever been seen in Far Eastern waters-Nagasaki Press.
Dr. Abercrombie, for the last eight years U.S. Consul at Nagasaki, was relieved on the 12th January by Mr. Charles B. Harris, who, with his wife and daughter, arrived i: the morning by the City of Peking. Dr. Aber The English mail of the 21th Decembercrombie left for home the same afternoon by the City of Bio de Janeiro, a large number of arrived, per P. & O. steamer Ganges, on the friends assembling on board to bid him farewell, 24th January (31 days).
and to wish him a prosperous voyage:
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