THE
Hongkong Weekly Press
VOL. LXIII.]
AND
China Oberland Trade Report.
CONTENTS.
Epitome
Leading Articles:-
China for the Chinese
More Russian Demands of China
Longevity
Very Little Change
The Cotton Revival
Supreme Court
Hongkong Sanitary Board
Companies
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, 10TH FEBRUARY, 1906.
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Export duties, which have hampered trade while only bringing in an average annual revenue of Y370,000, are to be abolished in Corea.
Messrs Benjami Kelly & Potts are advised by telegraph that the Raub Australian Mine crushing for January produced 414 ounces smelted gold from 3,950 tons of stone.
96 Hongkong was lavishly decoratel on Feb. 979th, and its seaward thoroughfares packed with
people mat to welcome Prince Arthur of Con naught. Full details will a pear in our next issue.
The Kowloon Land and Building Co., Ltd. 1 2 H'knog, Canton & Macan Steamboat Co., Ld. 102 Humphreys Estate and Finance Co., Ld.
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Murder of a Hongkong Ex-Gaoler.............. The Canton Hankow Railway
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The Equitable Life Insurance Society... Death of Mr. E. A. Bonner
Missionaries Attackéd.
Shooting Fathlity at Macao
Hongkong and the Housing Question
The 28 41. Dollar
Daring Robbery at Canton
The Shanghai Municipal Election.
Romance in Real Life
Correspondence
Commercial
Shipping ..
BIRTHS.
On January 8th, at Manila, P. I., the wife FRED HURST, of a daughter.
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Chang Chih-tung's suggestion that a national exhibition should be held to show the products of each province, has been approved by the Board of Commerce, and instructions have been trade so that arrangements may be made. sent to each province to send in returns of the
The N.-C. Daily News learns that a large order for machinery for a new cotton mill, to be erected in the Settlement, has been placed with Messrs. Fam. H. Shorrock & Co., and that it is expected to be completed and ready for work before the end of the year. The ospital is Chinese, showing (that journal remarks) native confidence in the cotton trade not shared
The Acting Governor of Huuan has notifled by many foreigners. 103
the Waiwop that the two asessius of the 15 late Superintendent Kelly at Changsha have 104 been arrested; they represent themselves to be 101 Tars.
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Mukdeu, Tsi(sihar, and Harbin are to be 105 opened firs', and the necessary regulations are 105 now under discussion. The other designated places will be gradually opened within the next 105 three years,
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On January 28th, at Shanghai, the wife of B. J. BARLOW, of a son.
On February 6th, at Amoy, the wife of FREDERICK HAWKES, of a son.
MARRIAGES.
On January 21st, at Hankow, C. M. BENZEMAN, of Messrs. Litvinoff & Co., Hankow, to ELIZABETH TAMA SIEMSEN, the second daughter of Mr. F. H. SIEMBEN, I. M. Customs, Chinkiang.
On January 24th, at Shanghai, GEORGE R. ARTHUR to LILLIE WARE.
DEATHS
On January 21st, MEO, the beloved wife of C. H. PALMER, I, M. Customs, Pagoda An 'horage.
On January 23rd, at Upper Norwood, Major- General WILLIAM Cooke O'Shaughnessy, aged 74 years. (By teleg am).
On January 27th, at Shanghai, D. Davis, I. M. Customs, aged 59 years.
On January 29th, at Shanghai, Miss DORA HAIKOFF, aged 22 years.
On the 7th February, on the Hygeia, EDGAR ARTHUE BOYNE, Solicitor.
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Tue first steamer to be constructed for the Japanese Volunteer Fleet will be of 3,000 tons displacement and 21 knots' spel. She will be ran in peace time by the O.S.K., and will cost X1,400,00 +
The deposits in Japanese postal savings banks were Y33,3 10,000 at the end of 904 and Y52,200,000 at the end of 1905, showing the remarkable increase in one year of nearly Y19,000,000.
A German is sa'd to have requested permission to work the petroleum at Yü-men hsien in Kansuh in conjunction with Chinese, as there
is abundance of oil but the natives do not know how to work it and fit it for the market.
It appears to be true that the T. K. K. has been negotiating to acquire the P. M. steamers Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, and Siberia; but 'so far, there has been no result. Local officials have not been notified of the negotiations.
The Kobe representative of Messrs Bunting ard Co. has obtained from the Japanese Government the superficies for a thousand years of a lot of ground in Nagoy. This is the first instance in which a foreigner has acquired a superficies in the interior, says the Boycki.
It is reported from Tokyo that represent atives from most of the match factories in Japan held a meeting on Jan. 16th, at which a resolution was passed in favour of amalgamat-
organised, with a capital of seven million yen.
The Chinese Government has demanded of LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREKT, E.C. the Russo-Chinese Bank the repayment of the sum of Tls. 5,000,000, which was the Chinese share of the capital of the Chinese Fastern Railway, and has communicated to the Russian Minister a demand that an indisputable written agreement for the repayment of this sum shall
Hongkong Weekly Press ng all the factories. The trust is now being
HONGKONG OFFICE: 10A, DES VEUX ROAD CL.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS.
The English Mail of January 12th arrived, per the ss. Dongola, on Friday the 9th instant.
FAR EASTERN NEWS.
Steamers as big as the Minnesota are being
built for the Blue Funnel line.
The editor of a missionary organ estimates that at least $200,000,000 is uselessly squandered in the few days of illness of every China New
Year
be made.
The Chinese Throne has sanctioned the recommendation of Viceroy Yuan Shih-k'ai greatly to increase the strength of the cavalry arm in the Chinese Army. This increas will first begin in the Peiyang Administration, gradually extending to the Liangkiang and Hukaang Viceroyalties and the Governorships of Honan, Shantung, and Shansi, and the
southern provinces.
The report of Nickel & Co., Ltd., Kobe, for the year ended October 31st last shows & divisible balance, after the payment of an interim dividend of 4 per cent., of $40,606. Out of this, a sum of 10,000 yen is paid in a final divi end of 8 per cent., making 12 per cent, for the year. 20,500 yen is written off depreciation, 5.000 yen is transferred to marine insurance fund, and the balance, 5,106 yen, carried forward.
A fairly well attended and apparently fully enjoyed tabac chantant" took place on the 3rd February at the Hongkong Bowling Club The Chairman, Mr. A. B. Moulder, assisted by the vice-chairman, Mr. W. M. Humphreys, presided, and the former, during an interval, presented to Mr. R. Henderson the "Captain Chenoweth Challenge Cup," which Mr. Houderson had won for the first time in a billiard competition.
American newspapers, which are in the habit of publishing cargo manifests, are still im- pressed by the figures that plainly show big consignments to China. The value of such evidence was partly revealed yesterday, when the marks on goods manifested for Hongkong (of axes, in this instance) which had been pablished as destined for Hongkong, but all of which are to be transhipped immediately to Harbin.
were noticed. There were cases and cases
Telegraphic news has reached Hongkong of the death at home on January 23rd of Major General W. C. O'Shaughnessy, who was asso- ciated with Hongkong in the 'seventies. Com ing out here as assistant Military Secretary to General Whitfield, the General Officer Com. mynding, he became very popular, and his subsequent promotion was watched with great interest. He leaves two daughters, in Shanghai, Ms. Crawford Kerr and Lady Dudgeon.
The fourth of the regulations made by the Governor in Council under Section 3 of the Sugar Convention Ordinance, 1904, on the 30th day of June, 1905, for the Import and Export, etc., of Sugar (other than sugar in transit) is or in the last paragraph thereof and by sub- hereby amended by deleting the words unloads stituting, comma for the full-stop at the end of such gulation, and by adding the following clause :-" but on the application of the master or agent of a vessel arriving in the Colony having any sugar on board the Superinte of Exports and Imports may ing any security) issue a permit temporary deposit of such sug loon Godowns of the Hongkor Wharf and Godown Company the said Company shall hold such sugar as the Superintendent of Pasporto and Exports shall direct.”
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