THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. I.XII.]
Epitome
Leading Articles :-
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China Overland
Overland Trade
CONTENTS.
Chinose Bank Order
China and Russia in Fransition Japanes Commercial Honesty Boycott Conference at Canton Lepin Again
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Government House Ball
St. George's Bell
The Chinose Army
Supreme Court
Gascoigne Cup Competition
Trade Report.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 18TH NOVEMBER, 1905.
The Russian cruiser Askold left Shanghai 14th November. It is understood that her PAGE destination is Vladivostock. ..345
About the end of October a serious earth .346 quake was reported at Urga. Many fissures were made, but no loss of life is reported.
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Messrs. Erich Georg & Co, inform us that th Langkat Company has declared a quarterly dividoud of Tls. 7 per share, payable on Dec. ...348 15 (making in all Tis. 22 for the year.)
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Mr. C. R. Lenzmann, of the firm of Messrs. Carlowitz & Co., has joined the Directorate of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corpora- 352 tion, taking the place of Mr. Hans Schubart.
The name of D. H. Ainslie, B. M. aud B. S. of the Aberdeen University. has been added to the registor of medical and surgical practitioners qualified to practise in Colony.
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Baron Komurs has been appointed, on the 4th instant, Ambassador Extraordinary and commanded to proceed to China (Peking). Couut Katsura again takes up temporarily the 356 portfolio of Foreign Affairs.
Boycott Conference at Canton
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Macao
Death of Vr E. R. Belilios, C.M.d
Sir Havilland W. de Sausmarez
Murder of French Missionaries...
Companies.--
The International Cotton Manufaturing Co.. Ld. 355 The Dairy Firm Co. Ld.........
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Accident to a German Officer at the Peking
Manœuvres
The Queue
Linchow Massacre
English Capital for Janauese Bank.
Lu-han Railway Opened
The China Squadron
Correspondence.
The Linchow Massaore
Japan an Foreign Railway Loans
The Manchurian Negotiation
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Indian Merchants Knighted
Miscellaneous.
Commercial
Shipping
BIRTHS.
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The Pekin Times sugges's that China's wish for the withdrawal of foreign troops should not be granted until the promises of the .357 Mackay Treaty are fulfilled. Most people
will consider this a sensible suggestion.
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On 8th Novembr, at Brighton, England, the
wife of CHARLES STUART BARFF, of a son.
On 10th November, at Shanghai, the wife of CHAS A. HOWARD, of a son.
On 12th November, at Yokohama, the wife of T. C. DOWNING, Hongkong, of a daughter.
DEATHS.
On 9th November, at Shanghai, MARIETTA MELVIN
On 14th November, JAMES MITCHELL, engineer, aged 48 years, at the Government Civil Hospital,
at 5 a.m.
The money-market in Japan remains very in- active. The money realised by the sale of bonds to foreign capitalists is almost all on deposit, advances on sericulturo are rapidly returning, and the bank rate 's generally ruling at between lowest in Osaka, being about 8 per cent. 8 and 10 per cent. per anua The rate is
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We are authorised to state that, subject to audit, the directors of the Chin Traders Insurance Company, Limited, will recommend at the forthcoming meeting of shareholders to be held on 16th proximo, the payment of a general dividend of 18 per cent. ($4.50 per share), and a bonus to contributors of 15 per
cent.
The wedding took place at the Peak Church on the 15th November of Lieut. W. B. Duncan, R.G.A., and Miss Lilian Griffith; Mr. C.D. Wil
Hongkong eeleekly Press. kinson gave the brids away and Lieut. Macdonald
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VŒUX ROAD CL. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET. E.C.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The French Mail of October 13th arrived, per the ss. Tonkin, on Monday the 13th iust; and the English Mail of October 20th is due to arrive, per the ss. Simla, some time to-day.
FAR EASTER. NEWS,
The Dalai Lama, it is now reported, expects to reach Tibet in the spring. He is to winter in Mongolia.
The Hongkong Steam Waterboat Company directors propose to pay a final dividend of five per cent, making teu per cent for the year ending Sept. 30th.
H. E. Chang Chin-hsun, who is studying commercial affairs in foreign ports on behalf of the Shangpu. has been touring the Malay States in a motor car.
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acted as best mau. The bridesmaids were Misses Wilkinson, Wakefield and Blair, and the core mony was conducted by the Rev. Searle, assisted by the Rev. G. Vaudin. Sir Paul Chater placed his launch at the disposal of the couple for the honeymoon trip to Macao.
A 5th of November telegram frem Peking to the N.-C. Daily New says:-There is at present a movement amongst the Chinese officials and pe ple to buy back the mining and railway concessions already owned by foreiguers, or to reject all the proposed concessions asked by foreigners without any distinction, ander the pretext of restoring China's interests and rights. Therefore there is a tendency on the part of the Powers to take international steps.
A Huuanese named Li. with three others, has contracted to construet 60 li of the
terms: The work is to be carried out in Kinkiang-Nauchang railway on the following accordance with the cost and time stipulated by the railway office; all expenses will first be paid by the contractors and afterwards regarded as a loan to the r ilway, bearing interest at the rate of foar per cent, beginning three months from the commencement of the work.
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The Cablenews says:-Before the attack on the missionaries at Lien-chau there had been an effort male to burn the mission at Yintok, which is 60 miles from Lien-chau, on October 26. The fact is that there is an undoubted Boxer movement well under way in this part of China. Britishers and Americans are con- vinced that
unless the government takes immediate steps to halt the sentiment there will be the same conditions as existed about Pekin when the legations were assaulted.
The Foochow Echo of Nov. 4th says:-H.M.S. Hecla and five torpedo destroyers arrived at Pagoda Anchorage on Monday morning from Thursday and the Hecia left for the same port Japan. The destroyers left for Amoy on
o Friday morning. Foochow did its very best to give the visitors a good time and we sincerely hope the China squadron will send in its men-of- war a little more frequently than has been the case of late years. Though exiles in the Far East we like to know and see that we have got
a navy.
H.E. Chao Erh-hsün contemplates the in- troduction of the salt monopoly into Manoburia in order to obtain funds for the administration of the Three Eastern provinces. A Peking wire to the NC, Daily News says:--
:-Hig Excellency is selecting competent officials to be dispatched to Japan and Formosa to study Peking Government to negotiate with the the system in use there. He has asked the Japanese authorities to prohibit the import- ation of salt into Manchuria, except for the use of the Japanese forces there.
The new Institute for Sailors on Prays East, Wanchai, is going ahead. The latest develop- mut consists in the provision of a billiard room. The local branch of the Navy League has most generously presented to the Institute 1 new table made by one of the best English firms and this has been duly installed a promims to become a great attraction. His Excellency the Gover- interest in the Institute, has also given a number nor, who has from the beginning taken a warm of choice pictures to brighten up the walls.
The 20th of October last was a red letter day in the annals of the newly-organised Tientsin gendarmerie. In obedience to instructions from H. E. Chao, Vice-President of the newly created Board of Public Safety (Chingpu), all the Tientsin gendarmes cut off their queues, and now, attired in neat uniforms, with "sword at side, long malacoa cane in hand, and cape similar to those worn by Japanese soldiers on the head, the Tientsin gendarmes really look "fit." On the cap of each, above the peak, is a gilt Chinese character "Ching," denoting
Alarm," or ready to deal with alarms.
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The Waiwupu, the Nanfangpao says, is in roceipt of a telegram from the Chinese Treaty Commissioners in which they state that the German Commissioner says that the whole of the draft Treaty is unsatisfactory to his Government; that the articles relating to the tion, and the opening of mines are particularly establishment of municipalities, inland naviga. objectionable; and that, moreover, the Chinese Government repeatedly demaudel amen-imente to the articles in questions. For this reason, he is instru ted by his Government to nullify all the results of the past negotiations, and begin them afresh. The Chinese Government is planning hard how to settle the matter,
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