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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLVII.}
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China Overland Trade Report.
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 19TH FEBRUARY, 1898.
Epitome of the Week, &c. ........................................................................113 Leading Articles :---
The Responsibility of the Chinese Government
for Piracy in Tonkin
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The Mercantile Marine as a Recruiting Ground
for the Navy
The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank
Supreme Court
Hongkong Race Meeting
Bicycling on Bowen Road....
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
February (29 days); and the French mail of the 14th January arrived, per M. M. steamer Oceanien, on the 16th February (33 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
A Vladivostock letter states that the railway between that port and Khabarovsk has just been .115 completed.-N. C. Daily News.
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French Designs on Hainan and What is to become of
the Valley of the West River Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.........126 Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Limited.........127 The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown
Co., Limited
Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Limited
The Hongkong Hotel Co., Limited
The China Fire Insurance Co, Limited Cricket
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Correspondence
The Stranding of the Algerine
The Great Fire at Manila.
The Woosung Railway
The British Government and Talienwan...
A Chinese National Loan
The N Y. K and Chinese Merchants..
The Murder of a Sentry at Kisschau Bay
Anarchy in Hainan
Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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At a meeting held at Tientsin on the 20th January it was decided to form a Volunteer Corps, and thirty men signed the roll.
Mr. Charles Dowdall has, with the approval of H.M. Minister at Peking, been appointed Acting Crown Advocate at Shanghai.
Mr. Melton Prior, the well-known war artist of the Illustrated London News, left Shanghai .128 for Kiaochau Bay on the 8th February.
The Nanyang [Army Administration has issued very stringent notice prohibiting 131 foreigners visiting the Woosung Forts.
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China, complying with a peremtory demand by France, has consented to pay an indemnity for the kidnapping of a Frenchman in Tonkin. It is reported that the Russians have large .132 stores of Welsh coal at Vladivostock. Que es- timate is that the total quantity is 350,000 tons.
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Mr. Pattison, who is to take up the duties of 136 Captain-Superintendent of Police at Shanghai, arrived at that port on the 11th February, in the Japan.
On the 11th February, at Quarry Bay, the wife of W. HARDWICK, of a daughter.
On the 15th February, a.m., at No. 9, Belilios Terrace, the wife of GEO. P. LAMMERT, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
On the 7th February, 198, first at H.B.M.'s Consulat -General, Shanghai, by Geo. Jamieson, Esq, C.M.G., and afterwards at St. Joseph's Church, by the Rev. Père Frin, GLADYS MARY BEATRICE eldest daughter of John SMEDLEY, Esq. Architect and Civil Engineer, Shanghai, to ARTHUR VERE HAVERS, youngest son of the late Thomas HAVERS, Esq., of Thelton Hall, Norfolk, England.
On the 7th February, at St. Andrew's Church, Chefoo, by the Rey. Henry Mathews, LEWES HENRY, second surviving son of the Rev. George F. TAM, PLIN, Vicar of Newport, Essex, to MARGARET CON- STERDINE ROBSON, sister of Mrs. A. R. DONNELLY- of Chefoo.
On the 8th February, 1898, at the American Con- sulate, Hongkong, by Rev. Dr. C. R. Hager, Mr. C. A. CONRY, to Mrs. MARY JEX.
DEATHS.
At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the 7th February,1898, F. C. GOGDALL, aged 23 years.
At Kobe, on the 9th February, JoHN MORRISON,
Mr. Justice Leach is to be transferred from Singapore to Penang, taking the place of Mr. Justice Law during the absence of the latter on leave in England.
The first-class bittle-ship Victorious and first- class cruiser Gibraltar are to reinforce the British fleet on the China station. The Victorious on her way out has got ashore at Suez.
The Shanghai Municipal Council has resolved that arrangements be made, in consultation with the German Consul-General, for an official wel- come to be extended to Prince Henry of Prussia upon his arrival at Shanghai.
The N. C. Daily News learns that to facilitate communication with Chusan, it is in contem- plation to lay a telegraphic cable from Chinhai, at the mouth of the Ningpo river, to Tinghai, the chief port in the Chusan Islands.
Telegraphic news. has reached Yokobama of the death of Mr. Adamson, well-known to many residents in Shanghai and Yokohama as the principal partner in the late firm of Adam-
Herald, owned considerable property in Yoko- hama.
No. 7.
The N. C. Daily News learns from Peking that Mr. R. E. Bredon, Commissioner, bas been appointed, as expected, Deputy Inspector. General of the Imperial Maritime Customs,
A Router's telegram states that Great Britain is negotiating at Peking for the navigation of Chow in the province of Hanan. China has the inland waters, and the opening of Yaen agreed to the extension of the Burmah railway
into Yunnan.
An alarm of fire was given at Yokohama on Monday, 7th February, between noon and one o'clock, says the Japan Advertiser, and on a couple of Fire Brigade men going to the German Club they found that some woodwork They were able to subdue the outbreak with near the fireplace of the library was aflame. little trouble, but Superintendent Morgio ex- presses the belief that had the affair occurred at night, when its progress would not have been so readily arrested, the consequences might
have been serious.
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The Taungli Yamen has ordered from the foreign machinery mints in the provinces & supply of dollars and subsidiary coins to pay the the salaries of the officers of the Central and Metropolitan administrations at Peking. The amount required is Tls. 300,000 worth of dollars and this will be the first time within the history of China, that foreign-styled money has been paid to officials in the Capital; many piculs of rice, so many shoes of sycee, and ingots and the cumbrous copper cash being the only medium of pecuniary remuneration since China had a history, 4,000 years ago. About two-thirds of the new coins will be supplied by the Hupeh mint and the balance by the one at Canton.-N. C. Daily News.
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The Board of Works, according to a Peking despatch, has lately been turning out hundreds of steel shields for the Peking Field force. These shields are about the ordinary size of the native war shield, and not much heavier. They are claimed to be bullet-proof, and within each shield is concealed a sword-bayonet which can be made to protrude in front of the shield by shields a body of soldiers, it is alleged, could simply touching a spring. Armed with these
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charge with impunity an opposing enemy and put the latter to the sword without any harm to the former." This shield is said to be the invention of an officer of the Imperial guards who has declared that "the new weapon will be more efficacious in the field - than the usual bayonet charge."-N. C. Daily News,
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formerly of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking son, Bell & Co. The deceased, says the Japan February says:-There is a curious rumour
Corporation, aged 60 years.
A the Government Civil Hospital, on the 14th February, ISABELLA, the beloved wife of Inspector MANN, Hongkong Police Force.
At the Government Civil Hospital, on the 14th Feb., MAUD MARY POWELL, aged 38 years, the dearly beloved and deeply lamented wife of Job WITCHELL, ex Police Inspector, Hongkong.
At the Government Civil Hospital, at 8.45 a.mi. on Thursday, the 17th February, ELIZABETH PLINSTON, the wife of J. B. PLINSTON. Deeply regretted.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 15th January arrived, per P. M. steamer Belgio, on the 18th
At Kobe on the 31st ult, a fire broke out amongst the cotton on board the N. Y. K. steamer Hiroshima-maru and soon assumed serious dimensions. About thirty brigades were working all night in subduing the fire, A large quantity of cargo was damaged, but fortunately the ship is uninjured.
It is stated that the U.S. Government intends to establish a Consulate at Vladivostock. The completion of the Trans-Siberian Rail- road, of which Vladivostock will probably be the Pacific terminus, will make that port a place of great importance, and from a commer. cial point of view the trade of the town is also making rapid progress.
The Singapore Free Press of the 8th
afloat here and in Colombo (whence it reached happened to Prince Henry of Germany on this place) that an 'accident of some kind has board the Deutschland, and that mysterious is due to a desire to protract the voyage until delay of the vessels in arriving at Colombo the injury shall have been healed. To the natural objection that it must have been im- possible to communicate any incident of the kind from ships at sea, it is pointed out that the return of the Gefion to Perim supplied the necessary opportunity. It would be a pity if the rumour, which even specifies the nature of the injury, painful but not dangerous, proved to be true. It is to be hoped, for various rea- sons, that there will prove to be no foundation for the rumour.
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