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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL XLX.]
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China Overland
Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &c.
Leading Articles:-
A Chino-Japanese Alliance
Russia and the Chino-Japanese Alliance...... The Risnoured Abdication of the Cear
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 12TH AUGUST, 1899.
The Osaka policeman who objected to a little European girl wearing a short sleeved .121 frock, on the ground that it was contrary to the clothing regulations,has been dismissed the 122 foroa.
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The Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance...129 Landlords and their Responsibility for Disorderly The Arms Trade at Mwosc and Hongkong 13 Hongkong Legislative Council .......................................................................1:4 Supreme Court
The Typhoon at Fooohow
The Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co.,
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The Singapore Free Press understands that
it is almost certain that the Barfleur and Cen- turion will be relieved on this station by the Canopus and the Glory, the former pair being of 10,560 tons and the latter of 12,950 tons, with a heavier armament, though a fractionally smaller speed.
We learn from reliable quarters that Chang Yen-mao, assistant Director-General of the 129 Imperial Northern Railways, some two months ago appointed Sir John Wolfe Barry, K.C.B., as consulting engineer, and that a civil engineer, the latter's representative, is now on his way ant.-N. C. Daily News.
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The gold mines in the neighbourhood of Ke- lung are, we are told, yielding splendid returns, and the proprietors, Japanese, are contemplat- ing putting in additional stamps. But they are anxious to do the thing as secretly as possible so as not to invite too much attention to their 134 enterprise.-The Formosan.
...L.9 The Farewell Address to Sir Wm. Robinson, K.Q.M.G.129 A Model Meeting of our Insanitary Board..
.129 Coal Discovery in British North Borneo.............
....129 The Brigandage in Kwangtung
Piracy in Canton enters
he Piracy of the wiping
LawHernen in Kwangtung
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The Recent Highway Robberies
Presentation to Mr. C. W. Duggan
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Neglecting to Exhibit Lights on a Launch
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Water Return
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Reviews
The Kowloon Customs Report
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The Plague
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The Shanghai Feather Cleaning Co., Limited
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
The Charbonnanges Co.
An Alliance Between China and Japan
The Empress Dowager's Letter to the Mikado ...
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The Secret Commissioners to Japan in Disgrace
The Woodcock
Coeland Gold Mining at Welháiwei
The Bank of China Gase and the ( hinese Judge Catching and Tinning Ricebirds
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Hongkong and Port News
Commercial
Shipping
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The Kobe Chronicle says:- According to our vernacular contemporaries, the Board of Directors of the Yokohama Specie Bank has decided to increase the capital of the Bank from 12 to 24 million yen. The proposal will be submitted at a general meeting of the share- holders to be held in September next
The first-class British cruiser Endymion, the Grafton's relief on the China station, arrived at Singapore on the 28th July. She is a sister- ship of the Grafton and is under the command At Manila, on the 2nd August, the wife of H. H. of Captain R. S. D. Cumming. She has a dis- TODD, uf a kin.
BIRTH.
DEATH.
On the 1st July, in London, HARRY IZZARD PRICE, late of Shanghai and Singapore, second sn of the late WILLIAM LILLWALL, PRICE, of Warley, Brentwood, Essex, aged 41 years.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American mail of the 6th Juy arrived per P. M. steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, on, the 8th August (33 days); and the American mails of the 14th July arrived. per O. & O. steamer Coptic, on the 10th Augunst (27 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
A Society for the Protection of Game and sther Wild Birds in China is being formed at
hanghai.
The cotton industry in Japan is still in an unsatisfactory position. We note that at the half yearly meeting of the Fuji Cotton Spinning Company it was announced that the Company had lost some 21,000 yen on the half-year's working.
The Norwegian steamer Ragnar, Captain Liudeman, which arrived at Shanghai on the 30th July from Japan reports finding the miss. ug life-bost, No. 1, belonging to the foundered steamer Nunobiki Maru of Kobe. The boat bottom up in N. Lat. 31°20′, E Long.
placement of 7,350 tons, 10,000 h.p., a crew of $44 men, and an armament of 12 guns,
Definite intimation has been received in Singapore, the Straits Times understands, that the proposed Admiralty Dock at Tanjong Pagar has been shelved, at any rate for the present. When it is constructed, as it must ultimately be constructed, it is to be not less than six hundred feet in length, one hundred and twenty feet in width at the top, and seventy-
five feet at the bottom.
No. 7.
The smuggling of unstamped letters from China proceeds gaily, says the Bangkok Times, and with satisfactory results, to judge by the persistency with which it is carried on. Two arrests were made during last month and yester. day (25th July) again 163 letters which had not been stamped were seized on board the Loosok,
The China Navigation Company's steamer Shantung, while on a voyage from Java to Hongkong went on the rooks, as already report- ed, off the coast of Sciria, about 800 miles from
Singapore, on the 9th ultimo, The following day she was sighted by her sister ship the Hupeh, bound from Hongkong to Samarang, obtain assistance and returned with a tow boat which changed her course for Singapore to and four lighters. The bulk of the cargo was transferred to the Hupeh, after which the Shan- tung was successfully floated and taken to Singapore. The damage sustained is consider able. The Hupel brought on the carge! to Hongkong.
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The following appears in the N. C. Daily News in reference to a paragraph which had previously appeared in our contemporary which was reproduced in the Daily Press:- We are very glad to learn on the best possible authority that we were entirely misinformed as to the attitude of the Officiating British Consul at Hankow in reference to the visit of H.M.S. Woodlark to Huuan waters, which that gentle- man did everything in his power to facilitate, to the extent of detaching Mr. Giles of the Hankow Consulate to act as inter- preter for Commander Barton; and we regret very much the annoyance which our erroneons information has caused the Officiating British- Consul.
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The American says-Farther advices con- cerning the establishment of an American bank in Manila were received in the mail that came on the transport Pennsylvania. While for business reasons the names of the parties con- nected with the enterprise are not given out it is known that the subject is being hatched in New York by a powerful combination. It is said that reports of the financial situation in Manila have been sent to the Secretary of the Treasury, and it is related that when approached on the subject Mr. Gage agreed that a national Extraordinary vibrations and ramblings on bank, one that could be used as a United States Rokkosan and at Arima have of late cansed much depository, was eminently necessary in Manila. concern to the inhabitants in the neighbourhood. So it is thought that a bill incorporating ■ They are attributed to the falling in of a sub-national bank to be located in the Philippine terranean cavity and some fear-is entertained Islands, can be easily passed through congres of a subsidence of the earth. There are mineral at the next session. springs in the neigbourhood, and it is sup- posed that a large cavity has been formed by the extraction of rock salt by the solvent agency of the springs operating throughout a period of some thousands of years.
The Spanish Consul at Manila has received of the order of Military Merit, with the ribbon from Madrid three diplomas of the first class of the same. These diplomas are to be conferred upon Mr. John Alexander Pattie, the former chief of the Cable station at Bolinao, upon Mr. Theophilus Toledano, second chief of the same. station, and Mr. Robert Grant, operator. The diplomas are conferred in recognition of their defence of the Cable station during the month of March, 1898, against a party of insurgents. Our congratulations to the recipients!-Manila Times,
German acquisition of the Carolines rebute the The Courrier d'Haiphong in a note on the idea that France should have endeavoured to obtain the islands, and concludes as follows:-- In our opinion it is not in this direction that the efforts of France should be exerted. Sjam China, and Yunnan demand and onght on the one side, on the other Hainan, ceive the full attention of French sta It is a task more than sufficient. Let as Germany to expand and develop in the has selected. She will soon became a vodoubt- able competitor with England and if our foreign and colonial policy wisely, find in her the circumstances and the Empe William's ideas siding—a ready The near future we believe, han
in store in this respect.
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