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Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. L.J
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Wook, &c................................
Leading Articles :-
The Removal of Viceroy Tan
The United States and the Open Door...
The Pacific Cable
The Recall of Viceroy Tan
Kwanohauwan
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Euphrates Valley Railway and China..
The Province of Shantung
Supreme Court
The Recent Fire at West Point
Hongkong Sanitary Board.
West River Notes
The Simple-Minded Pirate
H.E. Li Hong Chang in Hongkong
Mr. W. V. Drummond on “National Trouble"
China Provident Loan and Mortgage Co., Limited The Wanchai Warehouse and Storage Co., Limited The Hongkong Land Investment and Ageney Co., The West Point Building Co., Limited Racing Notes
Amoy Races ......
Cricket........
Shooting
Hongkong and Port News.....
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 20TH JANUARY, 1900.
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H.M.S. Victorious arrived at Nagasaki on the 5th inst. from-Weihaiwei. The German orui- | ser Irene left Nagasaki on the 5th for Foochow The St Andrew's and St George's Societies of Yokohama bave opened a subscription list in connection with the Daily Telegraph Shil. 35 ling Fund.
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It is reported that the plague has broken ont 35 in Honolulu and that several deaths have occur. red. The authorities are taking energetic stops to suppress the diseasc.
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Mr. N. Post, until recently Austro-Hungarian 40 Vice-Consul at Shanghai, has been promoted to take charge of the Austro-Hungarian Consulate at Hongkong.
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At Tientsi, on Sunday, the 31st December, 1899, the wife of H. ST. CLAIR KNOX, of a daughter.
At Woodbury, Kowloon, on the 14th January, the wife of Staff Surgeon W. G. K. BARNES, R.N., H.M.S. Undaunted, of a daughter.
MARRIAGES.
On the 2nd January, 19 0, at St. John's Church, Hankow. by the Rev. L. H. Roots, B.A., WALTER CARTER, of Highgate, London, to MARIE HELENE, youngest daughter of W. C. HOWARD, I.M. Customs,
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On the 8th January, at the Presbyterian Church, Singapore, by the Rev. S. Stephen Walker, M.A,, assisted b the Rev. F. H. Morgan, Pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, F. J. BENJAFIELD to CHARLOTTE ELLEN (NELLIE), second daughter of Mrs. G. H. BROWN, Grassdale, Singapore.
ARRIVALS OF MAILS.
The American Mail of the 5th December arrived, per O. & O. steamer Onsang, on the 14th January (40 days); the French Mail of the 15th December arrived, por M.M. steamer Indus, on the 16th January (31 days); and the American Mail of the 21st December arrived, per T. K. K. steamer American Maru, on the 18th January (28 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK. Mr. Parloff, Russian Minister to Korea, has arrived at Shanghai.
The English residents of Seon! have contri- buted $950 to the Patriotic Fund.
The Yokohama Specie Bauk have opened a branch of their establishment at Newchwang.
The Hongkong contribution Manila, Nagasaki and outport eontributions) (including amounts to $93,810.77.
Vice Admiral Alexieff, the new Russian Governor-General of Kuantung, has arrived and taken over office at Port Arthur.
At Li Hung-chang's farewell audience a few days ago the Empress is said to have carnestly impressed upon him the neo ssity to secure Kang Yu-wei and any members of his party Peking and Tientsin Times.
Prince Valdemar, of Denmark, arrived at Bangkok on the 29th December On New Year's Eve the Danish residents gave a ball in His Royal Highness's honour.
A doctor attached to the Osaka quarantine office bas been attacked by plague. A quaran tine official belonging to the same office, who was stricken by plague a short time ago, has died from the disease.
Captain Carl Reichmann, captain and quar- termaster of the 17th United States Infantry, was to sail on the 1th inst, from Manila for South Africa, where he will act as United States Military Attache to the Boer army.
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Patriotic Fund has been opened in Nagasaki. A contribution list to the Mansion House Up to the 11th inst. yen 2139 had been sub. scribed. The amount collected is remitted to the Trea mrer of the Fund in Hongkong.
in honour of Admiral Keppel, the proceeds being A children's play has been given at Singapore
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visit Johore on the 9th inst, accompanied by devoted to the War Relief Fuud. He was to Lieut. Goodenough, of H.M.S. Hermione.
A Madras order, dated December 21st., states that Lieutenant A. B. Johnson, ist Lancashire Regiment, having been selected for appoint- ment as subaltern in the Chinese Regiment, is directed to proceed at once to Wei-Hai-Wei.
The Russian cruiser Pamiat Azova left Nagasaki on the 9th inst. for Odessa via ports, having completed her commission on this station. also left Nagasaki the same day for Port Arthur. The Vladimir Monomak, Zabiak and Gaidamak
The Italian flagship Carlo Alberto, with Rear- Admiral Grenet on board, arrived at Nagasaki on the 8th instaut from Shanghai. The flag- ship was to undergo repairs at the local Mitsui Bishi Dockyard, and was thence to proceed to Yokohama by way of Kobe.
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Osaka Shosen Kaisha is to be held on the 23rd A general meeting of shareholders of the inst. The net profit of the last half year was yen 361,524.392, which is an increase of yen 114.381.040 crmpared with the earnings (yen 246,873.353) for the first year. A dividend of 9 per cent. per annum will be declared.
The contributions to the fund for Widows Africa, acknowledged by the Hongkong and and Orphans of British soldiers killed in South Shanghai Bank in Manila, on the 9th inst amounted to $7.852. Of this sum $3,234 was contributed by Chinese, who spontaneously con tributed as a park of gratitude for the valuable protection accorded to Chinese subjects in Manila by the British Consulate during the Spanish-American war,
H.E. Li Hung-chang, who is on his way to Canton to take up the appointment of Viceroy the North on the 14th inst. by the of the Two Kwang, arrived at Hongkong from .M. steamer. Governor on the 15th, after which re-embarked Ernest Simons. His Excellency called on the on the China Morchacts' steamer Hsin Yu for from Canton to meet him. Canton. A large number of officials came down has been fixed as the dated for his taking over The 18th instant the seals. His Excellency is attended by Lord Li and a numerous retinue.
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The Moukden correspondent of the N, C. in this remote corner the war in Africa has Daily News writes-Even among the Chinese stirred up a great amount of interest Said an intelligent and scholarly man the other day- "This African business must be completed in a will follow." From Peking end Tientsin news business-like fashion or more serious results
the war when the Hussars and the Gloucesters came here at an early date of the serions raverses to th: English troops at the outset of foll into into the hands of the Boers. Other wars in other places have been notified with all the The last curious one was to the effect that the assurance begotten of telegraphic dispatches Russian railway is not completed to this city Russia, intercepted the rails at sea! because the Japanese, who are at war with
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and a professional prospector, who was taken at Mr. J. O'Brien, an Englishman from London,
permit from Aguinaldo to go through the lines Malolos on January 27, 1899, whilst seeking a
turned with the rescued Gilmore party, makes to prospect the interior, and who recently re- interesting statements, says the Manila Times, about the mountainous regions of Cagayan Pro- vince, the mineral resources of interior Luzon. Mr. O'Brien says that he thinks Northern Luzon, It is stated that the American transport Mor. from what he has seen of it, is a good gold-bear- gan City, which went ashore last summer at On. ing country, and that he has also observed good onichi, in Bango, can be raised at a cost of copper indications and signs of coal. The gold 65.000 yen, and that her repairs subsequently is not to be found in quartz formation to any will cost 80,000 yen. The question of undertak-extent, although there may be plenty of it, but ing the work is now under consideration.
there seem to be rich alluvial deposits. He thinks that it will be mainly placor mining if ever the country is opened up for mineral deve- lopment, as the streams abound in free gold, es- the U. S. army scouts returned to Manila from pecially in the north. Not long ago some of the northern country bringing some excellent samples of free gold, mostly in small nuggets, which they claimed they found a native picking from the sand in the side of a bluff, and others who have come from the interior brought samples of the yellow metal. Mr. O'Brien says that the Igorrote tribe is very friendly toward the Americans and bitterly antagonistic to the Tagalos.
We are informed that, subject to audit, the Directors of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bauk coming meeting a dívidend of £1 10s. per share, ing Corporation propose to pay at the forth a bonus of 10s. per share, add $500,000 to the Reserve Fund, and carry forward about $965,000 Mr. William F. Sands, Secretary of the United States Legation at Sooul, has been appointed Military Adviser to the Emperor of Korea, succeeding Mr. Greathouse, who died a❘ few months ago. Mr. Sands has a good service record and was formerly Second Secretary of the U. 8. Legation at Tokyo.
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