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Hongkong Weekly Press
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, &o.......
Leading Articles:—
The Record of the Year......
The Completion of the Trans-Siberian Railway British Policy and Chinese Corruption Hongkong Currency and its Defects
Murder of a British Missionary in Shantung. Hongkong Sanitary Board.......................................................... Affairs ju the Philippines
The Recent Disturbs..ce at Ngau Tau Kok Concert at Kowloon
Football
Football Notes.......................
Taikoo Sports
Reviews
The Royal Hongkong Golf Club
The Extension o; the Shanghai Settlements
Prince Heary at Bangkok
HONGKONG, SA'IURDAY, 6TH JANUARY, 1900.
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It is stated by the Sin Wan Pao that Sir Robert Hart has decided to distribute Europeau members of the Customs staff among various likin stations and barriers in Kiangsu from the beginuin of the year, to study the system of the likin officials.-Mercury,
According to a telegram received by the Daily Press, an official United States communiqué 6 states that assurances have been received from England, Germany, France, Russia and Japan respecting the maintenance of the open door in China.
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Tokyo newspapers state that the French Representative, M. Harmand, immediately on the appearance of the pest in Japan, sent to France for a quantity of Yersin's Lymph, which has now arrived and been handed over by His Excellency to the Japanese authorities. Minister is evidently highly appreciated by the This thoughtful act on the part f the French Japanese.-Japan Mail,
The Danish oruiser Valkyrien arrived at Singapore on the 22nd December from Colombo. The Captain of the Valkyrien is H.R.H. Prince The business of the Scottish Oriental Company Waldemar. The Valkyrien was to leave Sin- has been sold as a going concern to the Nord-gapore for Siam, China, and Japan on the deutscher Lloyd and the vessels are to be trans-
26th December. She has a orew of abont ferred to the German flag. The employes have 250, and is the largest of the Danish cruisers, 11 been given the option of continuing in the having a d'éplacement of 2.900) tens. Her in 12 service for four years, after which they will be dicated horse power is 5,300, and she has a
replaced by Germans.
speed of 17 knots. She was built at Copenhagen in 1887, and carries two 8-2 in. Krupp pans, six 5.9 ia. guns, maxims.
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Local and District Events 1899
The Japanese Press and the South African War
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Hongkong and Port News
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BIRTH.
It is reported amongst the Chinese that Marshal Su is not after all to take up his head. ló quarters at Tsingkiangpoo just yet, but that. he has been ordered back to look after the Kwangse frontier, where he is in such strong
On the 31st December, 1899, at Shameen, Canton, request by his French neighbours.-China the wife of ALBERT NIELSEN, of a daughter.
MARRIAGE.
At the residence of the Ladies of the M. E. Mis sion, Tientsin, by the Rev. R. R. Gaily, on the pre ence of Mr. J. W. Ragada e, U. 8. Consul, on The 21st December, 1899, GEORGE BUTLAND to BEGINA M-BONTRES.
DEATH.
At Shanghai, on the 27th December, 1899, LINO NTONIO TAVARES, aged 66 years. Deeply regretted.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The French mail of the 1st December arrived per M. M.steamer Salazie on the 31st Decem. ber: (30 days),
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Gazette.
According to a local paper, the Nippou Yusen Kaisha has decided to build three more, ocean steamers of the Awa Maru type for the Com. pany's American line, and the local Mitsu Bishi Shipbuilding Yard has been favoured with an order for the construction of two of the three new vessels. The pap r further learns that the Mitsu Bishi Dockyard will commence work as ROOD as the necessary materials arrive from England-Nagasaki Press,
The N. O. Daily News says:-
-We learn that H.E. Viceroy Li Hung-chang leaves Peking on the 5th January and has chartered the China Merchants' steamer Heinyü to convey him from Chinwangtao on the 8th idem to this port. It is expected he will pay a brief visit to his home at Anhui and will then leave by the first mail steamer for Hongkong en route to Canton, The Heinyu is being fitted out for his reception and leaves here for the North on Sunday morn.
HE. Tan, the retiring Viceroy, was to have Jeft Canton for the North on the 26th Dece:n- ber, but owing to private and family affairs he|ing, 31st December deferral his departure until the 4th January.
A telegram to the Daily Press reports the completion of the Trans-Baikal section of the Siberian Railway, thus establishing communica tion rail by with Vladivostock,
According to a London telegram to the Press, the Novos Vremya says the position that Russia is desirous of absorbing or establishing a protectorate in that Country is groundless.
HOW (Foochoro Echo) regret to learn that the Mision House, oooupied by the Zevana Ladies it Ku Cheng, was burnt down on the 7th just Fortunately the fire took place in the daytime aud; the buildings in the same compound, schools, &o,, were saved. The disaster was caused by faulty construction of the kitchen
Chimney.
The question of the extension of the Shangha Settlements bus at list been settled. The N. C Daily News says the French are to have their sxtension on the terms quoted in Sir Claude MacDonald's telegraphio despatch of the 5th December, 1891, No. 410 in the Blue Book. China, No. 1 (1899), and the opposition that: pale been made to the extension of the cosmo piotrian settlement is withdrawn.
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The Straits Times in its Netherlands India Lews says: The Second Chamber of the States General has sanctioned the doing away with the free port standing of Macassar. The Go- vernment urged it for revenue reasons. Macas- sar was declared a free port many years ago as a rival to Singapore. It failed to harm Bioga there so increased that the Government decided, pore, but flourished as a trade centre. Trade
on casting about for additional revenue to meet outl y on schemes of administrative reform, to levy "customs duties there. The mercantile. community of Macassar protested against the measure, and stirred up opposition in the Second Chamber. The opposition fell through on the Government showing that more revenue was urgently needed. It is admitted that Macassar has failed to answer the high expectations our- rent on its starting as a free port. But it was urged that a longer trial would assuredly raise its commercial standing considerably. instance, with freedom from customs duties, there was every prospect of Macassar becoming, within the next ten years, an emporium for the increasing trade between Australia, China and Japan
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the harbour project. The mole is under con Work is proceeding at Chingwangtao on
A sudden storm of extraordinary severity passed over Kobe and Osaka on Saturday even- straction and it is anticipated that by Angusting, 23rd December, being appparently part of a next vessels will be able to discharge and load under a completed section of it, and a substan. tial jetty has already been constructed at which cargo boats can lie alongside, whereas formerly passengers, mails, and merchandise had to be carried through shallow water and mad on the backs of coolies. Chingwangtao is expected to become the principal port of Northern China.
There is a grand scheme on foot to enlarge Yokohama harbour, extending its limits to Honmoku and Kanakawa, and rendering it ca- pable of admitting a hundred ships of ten thousand tons burden. The projectors are in fluenced by the prospect, now at length said to be imminent, that Tokyo is to be provided with a harbour suitable to its needs. They foresee that such a consummation would probably deprive the premier port of its position, and even of a great part of its business, so they intend to take time by the forelook. There is the usual talk of getting assistance from the Treasury, which in Japan seems to be regarded as a kind of Fortunatus purse, as accommodat ing as it is inexhaustible.--Japanese Mail.
storm affecting all the West Coast and Central Japan. About midday the barometer com- menced to fall rapidly, and in Osaka, about four o'clock, there was a heavy rainstorm, while about six o'clock a tropical owupour buret over Kobe, the wind at the same time rising and blowing with great force, while the lightning was almost incessant. The rain lasted only a short time, but the wind did not subside until about mid- night. From our Japanese contemporaries we learn that considerable damage has been done, accompanied with much loss of life. The most serious accident is reported from Osaks, where three tugs belonging to the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, with forty lighters in tow, which laft Kobe at 2.50 p.m. on caturday for Osaka, encountered the gale at about 7 o'clock off Dembomura. The towing ropes broke, and all the boats were set adrift, some foundering, and others being stranded and smashed. Of the 104 men who were on board of these lighters, 25 were rescued by the police boats, and a num- bør succeded in getting ashore safely, but four bodies have been picked up and thirteen men are missing ----Kobé Chronicle,
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