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THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VŎL. LI.j
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China Overland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome of the Week, do..........
Leading Articles :~~
Russia as Financial Factor
The Opening of Yochow
Shanghai Municipal Governnient...
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 21ST APRIL, 1900.
Information has been received that Hong- kong, Canton and ports in Manila and Formosa ...............267 | have been declared infected by the authorities
at Shanghai.
Cable Sehomes and Canada's Grievance
The New Soldiers' Institute
Supreme Court
Hongkong Sanitary Board.
The Opening of the New Soldiers' Club
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It is reported from Seoul that the Corean Government has granted the application of the British Minister to connect by telegraph Wiju and Unsan, where Mr. Pritchard Morgan re- cently obtained a gold mining concession.
Temporary offices for the Seoul-Fnsan Rail. The Entertainment in Aid of the Indian Famine Fund 274 Consulate, Fusan, and the surveying of the line, way Co. have been opened in the Japanese commenced on the 16th ult., is progressing rapidly. It is expected that the whole work will be finished by September next.
The Tragic Affair at Connaught House Hotel
The Public Works Report for 1899......... Colonial Veterinary Surgeon's Report.......... The Harbour of Masampo.....UHKAYCAN
Manila.........
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MBOBO......
Peking
Indian Famine Relief Fund......
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Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals
Green Island Cement Co., Limited
China and Manila Steamship Co., Limited
The Punjom Mining Co., Limited
Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown
Limited
Olivers Freehold Mines, Limited
The Yokohama Specis Bank, Limited..
Correspondence
Prize Shooting at Kowloon
The Hongkong Football Challenge Shield 'The I. O. G. T. Tea and Entertainment
Warien's Circus Opening
Reviews
Hongkong and Port News................. Commercial..
Shipping
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A letter from Foochow says that the French are having all their work to keep their hold on the Arsenal, the Chinese being very anxious to close it. on the ground that the expenses are more than the province can stand. The Tartar General is Commissioner of the Arsenal, and its maintenance does not suit his pocket at all.
It has been officially announced at St. Peters- 279 burg that the first section of the Transbaikal di vision of the Siberian Railway has been com. 279 pleted and by the middle of the coming summer 280 there will be through communication by rail 280 and steamer between St. Petersburg and Vladi. vostock, a distance of 6,372 miles. It is esti- .280 mated that the run can be made in twenty-four .281 days.
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At 9 p.m. on the 16th inst., at her residence at the Peak, _EMME: INE FLORENCE, the beloved wife of N. K. DAVIDSON, "ged 34 years.
Ou Easter Sunday, at the Peak Hospital, Hong kong, JOSEPHINE, the dearly beloved wife of HARRY HALTON FOX, of H.M. Consular Service i China, aged 23 years.
MARRIAGE.
At St. John's Cathedral, on the 12th inst., by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, J. F. ARTHUR HASTINGS, R.N., to HILDA Beatrice Mast.
JARRIVALS OF MAILS,
The American mail of the 15th March arrived per P. M. steamer City of Peking, on the 13th April (29 days); the English mail of the 16th March arrived, per P. & O. steamer Chusan, on the 13th April (28 days); the German mail of the 7th March arrived, per N. D. L. steamer Preussen, on the 17th April (41 days); and the English mail of the 26th March arrived, per C. P. R. steamer Empress of India, on the 17th April (22 days).
EPITOME OF THE WEEK,
H.M.S. Sandpiper has returned to her station on the West River.
The Singapore. Legislative Council on the 10th inst., voted $20,000 for help to the famine-
stricken in India.
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According to the Japan Mail, the Japanese Government has decided to station a second-class Consul at Masampo.
H.M.S. Edgar, with time-expired crews from the fleet, is expected to leave Hongkong for home to-day or Monday next,
It appears, says The Straits Times, that the Eastern Extension Telegraph Co. has submit ted to the American Government a claim for exclusive landing rights in the Philippine Spain. The Telegraph Company has also pre Islands based on certain concessions granted by sented a claim for compensation on account of expenses in repairing the cables between Manila and Iloilo, ont by Admiral Dewey.
Confirmatory despatches have been received from Peking by the Shanghai mandarins of the return of Viceroy Lin to the Liangkiang Vi- ceroyalty. Lin is said to have had his farewell audience of the Empress Dowager on the 7th instant. It is also stated, says The North China Daily News, that in one of the first audiences the Viceroy had, the Empress Dowager com- manded him to use every means at his command jurisdiction. To this H.E. is said to have re- to "wipe out" the Reform Party within his plied that it would be almost an impossible task, "for if one can prohibit open speech for a short time only it is impossible to prohibit the people the audience seems to have been that Viceroy from thinking what they wish." The result of Lin was allowed to do what he thought best in dealing with the situation.
It is reported from Nanking that the Vi eeroy's Yamen there has received telegraphic advice, dated the 5th inst., from Peking, to the affect that Lin Kun-yih has been ordered to resume his former position as Viceroy of Kiang- despatch was received to the effect that Liu Kun- nan Provinces and on the 6th inst. another yih would receive "various instructions" from would leave Peking for Nanking. It is also the Government on the 7th inst. and on the 9th
dent of the Kiangnan Military College, who is reported that Chen To Pei, the former Presi. now in Peking in attendance on Liu Kan-yih, of Jung Lu's army called the Wu Wei which has been appointed commander of that branch is to be stationed in the Southern provinces to guard various important porta.
No. 16
The exodus of Chinese coolies engaged by tung and Manchuria, says The Peking and Russians for railway and other works in Liao- Tientsin Times, is tremendous just now. "Russia would confer a boon on North China generally if she would buy up the unemployed Boxers around here, but we fear they expect to make more than $6 a month.”.....
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The Newchwang correspondent of L'Echo de Chine announces that the Liao river was open first boat, the Koyo Maru, consigned to Messrs. on the evening of the 23rd ult and that the Bandinel, entered the port about noon, but compelled to retire on account of the
huge masses of floating ice which were coming down. Thick fogs are also stopping the steamers. The- the 2nd inst. of Mrs. Hosie to join her husband, - same correspondent announces the departure on! Consul Hosie, at Vladivostock, ou his overland journey.
The Foochow correspondent of The North China Daily News writes on the 9th inst.:-- "If France is busy in her endeavours to establish her influence in South China, Japan is scarcely less so, in this province at any rate. We have read lately of some Japanese getting into trou ble with the natives on the western border of Fukien, while surveying the country for a pro- jected line of railway between Fouchow and Kinkiang, and then we find in the Japan Mail reference made to some notes, published in the Jij by Mr. Shiga Juko on his recent tour in interesting. Now we hear that the Japanese Fukien, which by the way were particularly have surveyed the country between Amoy and Hinghua with a view to establishing. but whether this is correct or not I cannot railway communication between the two places, That the Japanese are
Bo say. busy or at any rate greatly interested in this quarter is evidenced by the number of them to be seen daily about, all of the better class and bearing the stamp of educated men. Civil Affairs Bureau in Formosa, is here, Dr. S. Goto, the chief of the though for what special purpose is not.. known. It may be that Japan merely wishes to yet advertise that the Min-Che provinces are her sphere of influence in China."
The Straits Times gives an analysis of the Straits Trade Returns for 1899. From this it lion and specie, amounts to £53,000,000,⠀⠀ With appears that this trade roughly, including bul- this our contemporary compares that of the Dominion of Canada amounting to £61,000,000; New South Wales, £52,000,000; Victoria, India seaborne trade, £210,000,000; and Ceylon, £32,000,000; and, to come dearer home, British £12,000,000. Under the heading of Gross Trade, the imports of merchandise and specie furnished 293 million dollars, an increase of 34 millions; and the exports 249 millions, an increase of 27 millions; or, when the specie and bullion a taken away, imports come up to 255 millions and exports to 225 millions, an increase, of of merchandise 255 million dollars, is made up nearly 32 millions on each. The import value of 195 millions for Singapore, 59′ millions for Singapore increase being nearly 24 millions, Penang, and nearly 2 millions for Malacos, the
export value of merchandise, 225 million dollars, and the Penang inorease over 8 millions. The
is made up of 165 millions for Singapore, Malacca, the Singapore increase being nearly 58 millions for Penang, and over 2 millions for 24 million dollars, and the Penang increase nearly 8 millions.
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