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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. XLIX.
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitoma of the Wook, de.
Leading Articles:-
The American Association of China........
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 11TH FEBRUARY, 1899.
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The Collision between United States and Philip-
pine Forces
The Rebellions in Central Chin................................................... Chineses: «Can do"
Hongkong Legislative Council.................... .......................................... Eupreme Court gig........................Ð-2--------425947 Fighting of Manila..... ..............
Mr Flaming's Murderers Executed................................
The Volunteer-Ball
Pirsoy on the Canton and West Rivers
At a meeting of the subscribers to the Victoria Nursing Instilate, Shanghai, it was resolved to authorise the committee to accept contribu- tions from donors of all nationalities instead of, as was originally intended, confining it entirely to Britishers. The proposed Institute is the .110 | memorial decided upon to commemorate Her
Majesty's Diamond Jubilee.
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No. 6.
From Yokobama papers we learn that Mr. Kiel, whose death by suicide on the 31st Jan. uary was reported by telegram, was in the bar of the German Club at nine o'clock that morning, apparently in his usual health and spirits, and an hour later he was found near one of the sawpit of the Phoenix Saw Mills, breathing, but in an insensible condition, having shot himself in the mouth with a revolver. He had during the past two mouths been afflicted with nervous prostration, which was said to have driven him to the use of anesthetics. Beyond his dis- ordered nervous condition there appears to have been.no motive whatever, for self-destruction.
From a Tonkin contemporary we learn that 113 from the 1st March next the organisation of the French fleet in these waters is to undergo au ... [14
alteration. The present Naval Division of the 14
Far East is to be called the Naval Division of 11s the Far East and of the Western Pacific, and .117 its sphere will comprise, besides the China and 1.7 Japan Seas, the Philippiue Archipelago, the Hung-chang who has recently been busily oo- A Peking dispatch states that H.E. Li .t 7
Sunda Islands. Australia, Tasmania, New cupied in determining and preparing for the Zealand, New Caledonia, and the New Hebrides. conservation of the Yellow River works in The Navel Division of the Pacific Ocean is at Shantung province, has been lately ordered by the same time to become the Division of the Imperial edict of the Empress Dowager to re-. Eastern Pacific. the western limit of its sphere turu post haste to Peking and was expected to being the eastern limit of that of the Naval reach the capital on the 1st February. It is Division of the Far East and Western Pacific.stated that this has been due to the uncertainty
Priss Day at Queen's College
The Pantomime'
The Charge Against The P. and O. Shroff
Broaching Cargo is ..............................
Royal Hongkong Yacht Club
Football
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Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
Bhanghai Land Investment Co., Limited
The Hongkong Ice Co., Limited
Reconstruction of the Tanjong Pagar Dock Co., Ld
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The Soy Chee Cotton Manufacturing Co., Ld.
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The Burgoyne Case
The Punjom Mining Co., Limited
Correspondence".
Nanking Likely to Become an Open Port
The Rebellions in Central China
Hongkong and Port News Commercial..........................
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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On the 6th February, 1899, at "Burnbrae," the wife of ROUNSEvelle Wildman, M A., Únited States Consul General, of a daughter.
On the 7th February, at Shaineen (Canton), the wife of F. X. M. P. TAVARES, of a son.
DEATHS.
At Tientsih, on Wednesday, 25th January, 1899, WILLIAM HAWKES, Gymnastic Instructor, Imperial Arsenal, aged 27 years.
At Tientsin, on Wednesday, 25th January, 1499, THERESA, the wife of J. J. MATCH, ngai (2 yea
On the 8th February, at Hongkong, Mr. C. F. GROSSMANN, aged 58 years.
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ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The English Mail of the 6th January arrived, par P. & 0. steamer Coromandel, on the 4th February (29 days); the American mail of the 7th January arrived, per P. M. steamer China, on the 5th February (29 days); and the German mail of the 9th January arrived, per N° D. G. steamer Sachsen, on the 9th February (31 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
The following appointment has been made at the Admiralty :—Unptain F. Powell to be Com modoro, 2nd class, at Hongkong, to date Jan. 5
Work is now actively proceeding at Hongay for the construction at that port of's strongly fortified naval station. With the construction of the railway it is believed that Hongay will also become the chief commerical port of Tonkin. According to a telegram received by the Ostasiatische Lloyd the German Emperor has wired to his brother Prince Henry of Prussia, ordering him, pending the settlement of the recent dispute between France and Siam, not to proceed to Bangkok.
The Bangkok Timer of the 23rd January says Dr. Morrison, the Times correspond ant at Peking, arrived in Bangkok by the steamer Chowfa this afternoon. The Doutor will be here for about five days and will return to Peking. Afterwards he contemplates a journey up the West River in China. Dr. Morrison last visited Bangkok just over two years ago on his return from his plucky journey to Yuanan city, which occupied him some eleven months, and proved about the most difficult piece of travelling he ever accom- plished. Since then Dr. Morrison has add greatly to his.reputation as a brilliant journa. list, and the Peking correspondent of the Times has come to be regarded as one of the Powers
in the Far East.
The writer of Notes on Local Topics" in the Shanghai Mercury says:-I am very glad to see that the General himself intends to come up from Hongkong to inspect the S. V. C. this year. We have been very lucky in having a succession of very pleasant-spoken and doubt- less able men ever since professional inspections were inaugurated. But there are some old members of the Corps who remember the visit of Major-General Cameron,-Sergeant-Major- General Cameron, as they sometimes called him in Hongkong. He was as bluff as old Blucher himself might have been, and took little head whose corns he trampled on in his eagerness to stories extant amongst the rank aud file of the follow up a fault. There are several interesting rough-and-ready old soldier.
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of Foreign and Palace politics at present, and the Empress Dowager appears to wish to have her old adviser by her side when occasion arises. The post vacated by H.E. Li will probably be given to H.E. Hsu Ching-yi, Ex-Governor of Kwangtung, who was formerly Director-Gen- enal of the Yellow River, and is supposed to know something of river, conservance, N. C. Daily News.
The Avenir du Tonkin says:-A merchant has told us that French goods, of French
origin, but not arriving directly from France, lately received via Hongkong a consignment pay duty as foreign goods. Our countryman of goods made in France and shipped from France, but instead of sending them directly to Haiphong the shipper took advantage of a foreign vessel leaving at once for Hongkong. The goods were, moreover, for- warded onto Haiphong by a French steamer. The duty imposed was that imposed ou foreign goods. Would it not be possible to modify this too rigorous tariff ? Let the French mercantile marine be protected by all means--we would be the first to ask it-but does it not seem rather severe to subject goods really and truly French to the same duty as
foreign goods simply because these French goods have, for one cause or another, been shipped by a foreign steamer ?
Among the coloured gentlemen who were sent to Manila as soldiers was one who unfortunately broke his leg and lost an eye on the voyage during bad weather. He obtained his discharge We learn from the Jupan Gazette that No. 1 and started a restaurant at Cavite, and hobbled Dock of the Yokobama Dock Co., Limited, has about on crutches. One day lately, while talk- been practically completed, and when the coffering to an American civilian who is now in dam has been removed will be ready for use. It measures in length 483 feet 7 inches on the blocks; 550 feet 6 inches from outside the en caission to the head; the entrance is 93 ft. 6 in. trance to the head; 530 feet from outside the wide at the top and 70 feet 5 inches at the bottom; in depth it is 36 feet 4 inches inside and 34 feet on the sill; at springs there is a depth of 28 feet 10 inches on the blocks, at ordinary springs of a foot less and at low water of springs of 21 feet 3 inches; the blocks are 3 feet 3 in ches apart and 3 feet 11 inches in height and the slope of the bottom is .06 inch per foot The time required to pump out this dock is five hours.
Shanghai, he saw two gentlemen and enquired who they were. Said the civilian " Oue is Ad- miral Dewey and the other the Captain of the said the darky and hobbling along almost at a dockyard." "Just the man I want to see IF
run he accosted one of the gentlemen with 'Is you Admiral Dewey ?" He wasn't; it was the other, so the coloured man addressed the right person, who shook hands with him, and enquired how he was getting on. Darky was so affected that he sang out" Admiral Dewey, if ever you run for President, never mind what ticket you run ou, you will always have one vote and that is mine, Bill Smith of Texas.” The Admiral smiled and the interview terminated.--Union,
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