No. 7657, MARCH 7, 1888.]
CRICKET
GÖTU REGE, "THE GARRISON, The above match was began at 2 o'clock today. The Garrisau won the toes and Look the first innings, but thanks to the good bowling of Major Churchill were die missed for the maturate total of 05. What play ceased for the day the Regiment had scored 83 runs for the loss of 3 wickets. The match will be continued at 11 a.m. to marrow and the laud of the Regiment will be present in the afternoon. Appended is
the
orE QALL SUN,
Major Jatiratang, Južnteno, b Chur-
chilli
17027, Churi
Carpl. arestark, Churchill
A. Le 6. Boanlun, M., Hunters
Prith
Major Miles, n., Churchill,
Capt, Stanley, ant. Lloyd, Emith...
Corp. Douglas, Churchill
Jr. tiro, a b Jolinitome
Capt. Sunkey, a Churra
Quaner Butler, a run out
Thil...
Bern YY..
Major Chambili;.3 Douala■
List (nakon, by Jone
Tigginbelim, aob out.....
Llord, Jonas
Tallur, not out
Extras,
Total $3
SUPREME COURT.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION. (Before Mr A. J. Leach, Acting Paine Tudge) Woduceday, March-7.
WORKING ACCOUNT.
surance Account Commission Account Profit and Loss
was taken on that suspicion. The retorn, Log; to the warrant was wrong. The warrant Expenses Account directed the defendant's guoda to be disFuel Account trained the return in that the goods of Salarios Account the said house (meaning No. 314 Queen's Taxes Account Rond Centru) were distrained, whereas in Stock Account point of fact only the goods on the ground floor were distrained and these the goods of the plaintiff, and the tailor, the actant offender's, guards being practically pil. is to be hoped that by drawing attention to These facts greater enre wil in futuro be exercieed both in the perante entrusted with warrants of distress and in the man her they are executed, and the defondant
fucky in to escape with the refund only of the tacnop wrongfully obtained under colour of legal process, The judgment in for the plaintiff, $202 and coste.
Mr Caldwell appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Johnson, Crown Solicitor, for the defendant.
HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY. The half-yearly meeting of the Hongkong Hotel Company Limited was held in the Hotel this afterngon." Me D. McCulloch, Chairman of the Company, presided; nid there were also prosent: Mesars W. Partit, A. dos Remedios, and F. Dodwell, direo- tors; and Messrs J. F, Q. ́da Roza, C. A. Ozoriu, J. H. Cox, A., E. Vaucher, J. Hughes, and R. Lyall, Secretary.
Sales Interest Account Outstanding Account, 1887
THE CHINA MAIL.
of Settlement, but are eligible for re-elec. 427.84tion 1,057.45
Mr. 8. Walker offers himsel for re-elec, 3,085,94 tion as Auditor. VAKANT
387.44
J. M. RINGEF, Chairman. 11,771.83 Shanghai, 29th February, 1888.
118.95 138,87 2,038,68
$29,520.85
$ 16,064.90
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT. » Dividend, 1886 Outstanding Accounts, 1886 Balance
Balance from Inst year, Working Account
E. & O. E.
Jour D. HereHISON, FL. WOODIN
HENRY CRAWFORD,
50,153,11
Consulting Com
mittee.
Audited and found correct.
THE SUPPLY OF SUBSIDIARY JOINS:
CORRESTONDURCE ON TAR SUBJECT
your despatch No 902 of the 15th of No-risk is very small, and that, even if it vember Inst, and drawing attention to the exists, which ie doubtfel, it would be easily dunger of the issue of these onins in large | averted. It should be borne in mind that, quantition for uso outside the Colongin} these china are not a
Howen'e attention to this question in a des-
Tientsin
Feb. 18th, 1889. The wook has been cold, and the ice of
I so that my predecessor drow Sir Geo. of more that legal tender forums the Paiho is now thicker than at any previous time this winter. The falling 13. The subsidiary cainego of Hongkong owkes it seem that the spring will I been in circulation nearly a quarter of I have the honour to 1o, Sir, Your motor mutilated coin has ever been seen in the Literary and Dobating Socioty was held at
a centney, During all that time na work come inter than usual this
The first regalat meeting of the Tientain Treasury Inn inclined to think alvor
patch dated the 17th of August, 1885, August, 1885,
obedient humble Servant,
H. T. HOLLANIN Ş The Officer Administering the Government
of Hongkong.
动
器
(12)
Treasury,
year.
in would never become worn in China as the Municipal Library on Tuesday the 14th it does in England, for the peuple do not instant, when the rules were ditensed bad passed, and an introductory addrea delivar- carry it loose in their pockets, but always ed by the President, which the meeting
noat carefully in a pouch or pare, or
be printed for the benefit of from being
wrapped in paper'; } bor sit passed about to decided should be anything like the extent that silver coin is in Europe. Be this as it may, the fact romaine that our silver coins are pa yet practically unworn.
be, on
on the
16 It appears to me
up
mambors
present.
008
That
mana
agnin is exemplified
for
may bayanother's
by fach: that the
the
LATE TELEGRAMS.
TO KAI. MOK LI C-LEGAT EXECUTION rond. Some of you may look upon the net. LANE, CRAWFORD & Ch., General Manayers, Bowen expressing a doubt whether the place, that the profit on the coins, which is always forood upon it that the only couras submit a Bill to the House for the estab
OR A DISTRESH WARRANT.
Mr Justice Leach gave judgment in this caso to-day.
* M
anco
of
in
.
A. E. VAUCHER, Audito
Hongkong, 2nd March, 1868,
SHERIDAN MINING COMPANY.
altogether
entrntrates,
these coins and pointing out how greatly the demand excraded the sapply. On the
1
that even if the new half-dollar verd
LIVS
mara
4. I would further say that this Govern
of
the
ubstituted for it à alesa (f Hemato
18.
Government was receiving at por of the
How
value.
the
to the
THE NEW PEER.
in-raising
ho da-
of
Sir Henry Holland, on being raised to snyd
coinage,
End, at the same time, shie conal Knutsford. resonable application for coin din circumstances
of the applicant. A shop. of China was flooded with it. The Banks thera ceased to receive Japanese here beeper in latge way of business, for in
the Treasury did the sama.. coin, the small is allowed more thar a potty trader, The
roment departments of course- and within a few weeks tradcamen Japanes
R11
Qnotations
And he was fined $200. On the save day | At the end of last year wo had, the roof of worked aloost entirely ander lonso, so that Mr T. Jackson, the Chief Manager of the **** of lakatir more still, and so on.
the originał mnikding exated by our at the Ore roturns, now shown fire to all Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, being calon system works snoothly, but of course began to print on their accounts, OPIUM-Now Patna, caab,., 490 aula of Ko Yau Ma gods and glattelschitecte, and they found wiite ants in sumie pro, having but small Mining and Miling upon to give an opinion on this cube tha export of the coin goes ou na it always
a warran
whilst
Ore
small on not taken. The coin sank to
cent.
FONOKONO, March 7.
In
H
Chati,
New Bonates, cash, 4824 to 485 Old
The correspondence on the subject of subsidiary colna which was laid en tlio 213.62 table of the Legislative Council on Monday 4,258.34 certainly shows that the blame for the
Hongkong, 6th April, 1887. $20,523.85 short supply, from which the Colony has
Bir,I have the honour to acknowledge frequently, suffered, cannot be imputed to
the receipt of your letter No. 367 of the the Colonial, Treasurer. During the last 16th fustit, transsitting far my consider The popularity of our five cent pieces very have had their grounds cleared of water 14. Chinese are great hon lers of coin. Shanting agriculturiste, since the break of the Yellow River bauk near Kaifeng-fu, $3,000.00 five youre Mr Liter has been dunning the stion and rep run despatch from the Su
and an aonio, faens that had boon under 14.08 officials in Londen, each requout being more cratary of State, No. of February 4th, rently arises from their common use as lictio presents to children and servants. the supply of subsidiary coin to this.
Thousands of thom.are ande into buttons, water and unfit for any sort of cultivation 8,139.03
argent than the other; while the Colonial Colony, and its use in Chim.
It would probably
four or five years past the farmers ac he difficult for napecu- 2: In an unclosure to that Despatch the
the fator on the mainland to buy any quantity expect good crop in the spring.
tity Mally sowed aead in the late autumn, and $3,163:11 Office has throughout maintained that
Lords of the Treasury express, through of these coins at profitable rutus. stolid indifference to the wants of a pro-choix Secretary, a hope that the large pro
The stocks of Kaiping coal in placo that in 15. Let it he supposed, however, $2.014.58 gresive Colony which characterises so many at nede by the Colonial Government upon the earse of anather 20 years there will have run short, and fears are expressed
the issue of these silver Tokons for circula- 2,638,53 of its actions. The correspondetico com-
the mainland of China, thousands of tint if the river cpens inte the community thin the hinila of the Colony, and ten cent preces in the same condi. will be put to serious straits for want of not within tion, mences with a tier from Mr Lister dated but on the mainland of China, is not lead-tion as old sixpones and shilings in Eng-fuel.-Chinez. Times. May 1883, suggesting that the Crowning them to lose aight of the serious risk,
land, namely, more
more discs of silver, with Agenta send $50,000, subsidiary coln overy that is continually aguunting, of finture perhaps alight vestiges of the original de
the Colonial
sigh of the coins. Lot it be farther sup. half year without special instructions for through the return of coins for exchange ated that a speculator has bought Wo take the following telegrata from anch abipment, and stating that there was their full nominal vates, in possibly very $10,000 worth of these, and proposes to Indian oxchanges --- Dot the slightest risk of any ve stock, Talarge quantities at once.
AN AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT, The Chairman said:-Gentlemen-The
3. I have given this subject my host con- food this Colony with them, fording them this letter is appended a note by Governor auferation. I would remark, in the first
Treasury as coin at a discount is London, 20th Feb, —Lord John Manners roport having been in your handa, for some
announced the intention of Government to days, with your permission we will take it as
little more than what this Colony, would past half year as poor, but it is result of the
Scoretary of State would sanction a general obtain, without any expenditure of labour to to, overment would be to delishment of a Department of Agriculture:
Icling to instruction of this nature, and saying or trouble, by skoply placing, money in the shown to have been issued from the to recognise any coin which could not
AMEKUMENT-ÖF, INDIA FINANCE Mt Samuel Smith, Mumber for Flint- entirely owing to the few transient goests that came here during the first 4 months,
is was easy to make requisitions from Bauls here on fixed deposit, has ng Treasury hero. This would practically shire, moved an amohdment
zanted the obtaining of a single coin
expressing time to time. Other letters follow, on than would have been asked for under any
amount to refusing to bedcow all worn coins regret at the ever-recurring dnfio is Lordship said-The faces in this probably caused by travellers being at-
dnficits and The following is the Report which was loud July, 29th October and 3rd No. circumstances short of
except in very rare case. prohibitive loss. are short and simple By Sec-tracted to the London Jubileo. Since
1. If it once were known that the Hong bisedomised Royal Commission to e- urging that more rigid economy ba prace tion 2 of the Public Cambling Amend Novenant business, and thy Mannger be presented to the shareholders at the all-vember, praying for further supplice of should have recommended very requisition alus cels which purported to be takena
Novembur last the Hotel, has been doing
If the coins were obtainable only at par I
demanded the appointment 190nt Ordinance, 1870, the wordan gambling includes amongst others tha rasures rue that if the new wing had been
have recommended. If they were ob
worn out on the mainland, we should be quiro into the Government of India or
Richard Tetaple deprecated the lottery known as pak-kop-piu. By Sotion ready hy Christmas the whole of the Hotel al general meeting, to be held at the
the pessimist up t
p to date would have beu fall-as ho has Office of the Secretaries yesterday-
slight loss, I should have tainable at
with coins by the thousand criticisma of the fluances of Indin once inundated 3 any person who keeps agency for dent
aior rooms than
In subocitting the Report and Accounta
Governinent in ing in each lotteries to forfeit a sun act had many more applications exceeding $200 en conviction. By Section the number he has bad at his disposal. for the Season of 1887, the Directors have 4th September 1884 Mr Listor ventures to ked for as many as we could afford. I which had never been in or near Hongkong i fended the action of t
Cannot see that the Government is loss
at all. There has already been some the Salt tax and oxpressed his approval 9 of the Banic Ordinance, Suction 17 of The work of the now-wing has boun again to congratulats the Shareholders upon suggest that subsidiary coins of the denami bound to provide coin than it is bound to Ordinance No. 7 of 1886 jɛ to apply to tho practically at a standstill since October the satisfactory nature of the results at nations 5c, 10c, 25c. and 30e, would be more way water, police; and truble with spurious ton cent piecca," the appointment of the Royal Commission)
previda
well made as alaust to defy detection by demanded by the previous speaker. Sir consider it much my duty to see that the
John Gorst Fublic Gambling Amendment Ordinance 3rd, owing to the non-arrival of icon-tained."
Ordinance work from England. This has now The Accounts show that for Ore Mined useful than those at present circulating. He of in den yta ut as to to ordinary observation. What then raight
supply 1876 and in lica of the worda Nogld of 01
be satis- and sold by the Company, 87,662.73 (gold) proposed that the quarter and half dollar take the satis precaution with regard to the bo uxpected if forgers could imitate piusus causes of the deficis fhd. defended the of 1870 boek received and found to be
financial policy of worn out beyond recognition 7 17 No. 9
licy of the Iudi 1844 in the asid Section
Indian Government. Isetury. The contractor is now enga-and for Royalties on work done ter should contain 20 per cent. of alloy, which stock of Postage Stamps." is to be substituted. Section 17 of Grind sing the columns and girders for the Longes, $80,003.58 (gold)
ap- easily the remedy would be
Regarding the Roya Commission ho was No. 7 of 1865 enacts that whenever a first Boer, and when completed he will be 887,666.26 (gold) at ox 09 Tl. 81,529.60 he thought would prevent them from being ment does not ennunge the exportation pind inay be soot from what happened unable to promise it should be appointed fine is impened on my resident in any
10, and 5 cent peces. These coiris had Public Service Commission had been ro house, and not beinga householder within the able to proceed with the remainder of the have been received, besides which there abember in China, while they might circu-goin to China, but it is povorices to prevent entre years ago in the case of Japanese 20, until after the forthcoming report of the
Passengers Inggage lifts (hy- meaning of the Ordinance, for any vination brickwork
of6, in de-draulic have been ordered from the am yet to be received returns upon about late freely here; and he expresses the belief it. We need to istu suthsidiary coins.valy; for years circulated gute by side with our ived and considered. The amendment
80 tons lat
Would olaan Ore and
en a written undertaking that they
and were received her, as Singapore was accordingly withdrawn, down, not be exported. The promise was not teus cent pieces now are, at their pas falat Ordinances)
from the actual tien con Elevator Co., at a cast of about 900, estimated at about 36,000 (zald). of reevery
worth It will be noticed that returns given for little unpopular at first, the eagerness of the
it was writsen on, and its The Japanese Government suddenly lower- non-through Mesars. Tulloch & Co., and we have
paper it was der, it may be recovered as therein arkeodrantage of Mr Palmer's presence the present Scagon are $87,666. 26 agnioshineso to get live and ton ci piaces 6*action was such a transparent farte that the intrineic value of its antsidiary | the Peerage, has assumed the title of Baron tioned from the householder. On the th September last one Ke Yae Man, Fraig in Kayed to request him to inepcot the $127,169 46 iu 1886, the diarche being at. No. 314. Quasra
of these lifts, and he reports most dne, not to any depreciation in the profit would at off any moderate quantity, Road Central, Way na keeping an agency for dalibly on them, as being far and awayable character of the working of the Mine,us st present) ilio rulo were enforced of the creen
but in the fuct that it has been during 1887, issuing all denominations of coins tegather. Hony, betier than any other patent he has Bren Pak-kop-plu eatery
the colony. tickets in
diatres and to lowy the dine by
Live, ngainst them,
ton and was ismert, and the executum thereof, as it of the beans, the majority of which have expenses to be charged
at would in many ways be more con- something like 16 pes-on scolio in in idones, untreated in the been renewed at a cost of $750. The bafrom the Net Proceeds of Sules of stated that he thought the transpires defondant in this suit, who is usher at the lace will be renewed in the sinek season sent to amelters, (viz, after dedusting suelt. twenty cent pieces met the requirements of has dono.
respect
amsters) the Culany and that the proposed method it is when the rms are crmpty. With Palico Cnart. The plaintiff in the suit
ing charges and freight to
'a' circulation was suust arbitrary and unworthy bere, but wens of doing so could be
piece as his faro if he can help it. Lorley da
the Company last year, a little of the Government of the Colony. The devised.
whether 19. It only remains to Queen's Road Central, and Ko Yau Mesere W. R.
IBMilled must be destucted for Maing matter was aftorward considered by the
6. It must not be forgotton that Hang auch a course as is suggested CRahoĖ alg
to enquire. anything to what I
over 60
wonld give. Man is proved to my satisfaction to pending,
With regard and Milling charges. the report mest
rise to any hardship. ventur back-rom an appears in
I venture to say that have rented from him B
Of the Tls. 81,629,60 proceeds of Ore Executive Council, who advised that no rong is very badly provided with curraney, in moistion that the west side on the same lose, to to the accounts I
Banks have repeatedly begged une not to una chiefly as a sleeping room at a reat of the $14,441.80 reprosented in the sold and Royalties, Tis. 47,600 have been lage should be made in the coinago.of and for this reason: the Managers of the it would not. bina in mind that this
the Colony,
20. It must bo by
inbtors $10,153 has paid in Bundry
dividends, as stated in the Accounts
Then follow & letter,
dated 22nd May allow the Colony to he left, as it used to be, $2 a mouth. It is admitted by the do
anob. fenes, and indeed, it could hardly be com been collected up to to-day. I don't tested, that the plaintiff was not a hete there is anything more I can gay with represented, making dividends for the 1886, from Mr Lister, in reply to a comfur, months at to, with small coin a Government never sanctioned tho expert | Season 17 per cent busides the vidend of marieation by Lord Derby with reference
um of subsidiary cu and never undertook to as 10 per cent, Calgable except
premium.
redcom
it on its roturn from the mainland of 850,000 worth would arrive A shipment to 31 rotes, Lord Derby wrote "IF A holder within the moaning of Section 2 of gard either to the business or the ntents.& per cont, paid in March gst out of thei
abad condition, there are any questions any balance at credit of Working Account pre inconvenience is still felt in the Colony perhaps unce in two years, and, however 21. Quite apart from that, however, Ordinance No. 7 of 1866, and therefore, in but caes of default in payment of the fino imposed of the shareholders would like to nak, sented at the last Annual Meeting awing to the detoney M Sf noton, the chartly distributed, it was absorbed in a
The Directors cannot gr the
China, take those coins, does so because on Ko Tau Mau, not within Section 7 of I shall be very happy to answer there,
No questions being put, the Chairman
already been pat t before you with the sane favour, a request for it was often regarded they are worth to him tho vaing for which the Ezine OrdinaungThe remaining por.
be paid from roturnis yet to be tion of the Treasury, whereby the Colonial a positively unreasonable...
Ho receives Eliom. Nobody ever accepts a thm of the ground floor of No. 314, Queen's moved the adoptimi of the report and holders any seurance that another dividends tree to dept will be that which has fortnight. Change was given only as very person who, on the mainland of When I took pharge of the Postcoin in Chins on any other conditions; Road Central, a
accounts, -the west aida of the front room by the plaintiff, he and acts were unanim usly adapted
secoupled thus:
the Work upon the circulation of these not a attending OXponso New Cross-Cut Tunnel and Shaft, from the
'It now against a
ns the aormal and almost legitimate state my duty to
independent of any idea of a and the shoemaker,
absolutely carries on business as Ед
The Chairman Mosera W. E. Hughes beginning of the year, until returns coni-point at that, in the present state of the of affairs for the Shroffs employed to soll central authority which will eventually re- cant side of the front room together with
pon it be starts never to have any change. mence to be received for the output of the Colonial Rouen, the demands upon 15 coures the real reason was that, with all doem the coin at its par valno if nobody of Fest the east side of the ground floor and A. de Remedios, tar of the directors,
is active by
at this time, but are present Season, by rotation at
ing bo
bo numeros8 by a tailor nmned Tang Yu Kai, who is
30 conflicting high premium, they put aside all lollows Besides
dividende kmounting
I may almost 8ay grea providing
in, the heavy also a sub-tenant of the plaintifs. On the eligible for re-election,
Mr J. F. C. da Roga proposed that those to 17 per cent. the profits of the year have day the warrant was issued. Ho defendant
and defrayed considerable expenses connected expense of isning and maintaining notes they got from the public for sale to money changers I others, and no consideration by Ko Yau Man and a native gentlemen be re-olected.
Mr J. H.
aro will remain, but it is the quan- or watchman proceeds to No. 814,
the construction of which was resolved upon of
the public or on their snpleyors deterred we cartial unanimously. Queen's Road Central, and there (to take
be much diminished by a they may aary to insure a steady output of re during liberal
and constant
supply of
of subsidiary years that I have been able to insist the next ten or fefsion years. These ex, silver coin. To this there came a Foply ohangs being kept both in the Post Office speculator would lose nothing, for he penses amount to abent $15,00 (gold),
On small silver cáo, ander ordinary curront valuo evins boing forced at a covering construction of Kaging Boom and from Downing Street again harping on the aud in the Stamp Office. As the premium would have bought up the coin at its
of the coins
Money, móny, his no existence Builer foundations, fixing head of shaft, and
and saying that the supply should
should circustances, is now only about 5 per in China "At home » kakor sella a six- o
work in connection therewith, cost of he kept short rather then full. Mir Lister mille, the temptation to make away with it preparing ground and blasting rock at
showing that the poina havo al surreptitiously does not exist to any great panny leaf for sixpence, and only asks that Gold Loss, 100 fine... auswers by
the coin, however old, shall be gerning. | Sovereigné, NOW entrance of New Cross, Cut Tunnel and
thereal, work done upon the ways been at a prenin and very forcibly extent Bail
itself, say, 200 fɛet of drifting, cost1 remarks (although the metaphor is some- New Year, at which portes it is the custo Tunnel
what mixed; that we are only pouring water of Machinery
d expenses atleading the into a sieve and that ou the other side of amongst Chinese to pay nil debts and ologe (i) the price of the price of the goods,
all accounta Only two years ago, dering told the HONGKONG AND CHINA BAKERY 10% which the Tannel will be run, and antigo of oua."
pulling it into position, alev cost of
g and surveying three Miving focalions with no e
the si ve is China, an enormous country the three or four days before the Chineza money of China, They all appear to date! BAROMETER ADvie
but quite alive to the ad- with no a image
old pear's eve, small cat was at 200 per from the reigns at the earlier Emperors of Pethe
Da they are naturally. three locations valuable for the timber andupporting touridence of the plaintiffsho
The nest letter brings us down to 1837, tent prominn. The Treasury had none the present dynasty, and thercou.
knacked about. Nominally 1,000 go to the and the correspondence from this point to issue, the Bauke had nore, and Bank mach worn and braken, as they get much THERMOMETE9.4.M... "To this must be added cost of House and
money. The inconvenience to those whethe San not present) was et paid the sixteenth ordinary General Meeting of about three Acres of ground, (about $3,000, gives acel a fail usposition of the matter Notes were not to be had for love arel, but nobody over thinks of secepting
had many
to make, to the there at aarthing but the market
arket price, small payments t aught to provides suitable residence for that we give it in full as under :--- would be sold on the Company, to be held on Friday, the ith the Manager, $1,600 legal fees bosidue of her
The Treasury to the Colonial Office
Comissariat, the Dockyard, to employers which varies from day to day, and accord The plaintiff therenpen,
condition of the coin. That ing the day following and in order to get Lin March, 1888, at 3 o'clock p.m.;-
Trea-ury Chamber, Jan. 14, 1887. expenses attending the prosecution of 3.
of labour, and public companies, was BO there ahould a government department urged by the tailur, and the tailor's chop re-opened, procurea
Sir,In reply to Dr Mando'a letter of great that 1 resulvod on no account to The General Managers have the pleasure receiver of Ore stolen from the Sheridan,"
ould give a that of pure ine and
and one half of the cost of about 2 miles the 31st ultimo, I am directed by the Fords allow such a state of things to recur if any anywhere which wor amount to cover tho
any thoueated. expenses of oxecution, and the sumner after
underground telephone cablu, the other half Cuisines of Her Majesty's Treasury vigilance of this Department could prevent over for a Chico en fun ru cont defrayed by the Owners of the to acquaint you, for the information of the it. посп рауз it into the Magistracy to the de-
that are additional to Secretary for the Curies, that the neces-
9. On the approach of the last Chinese gether amazing stato of things fendant hands, and he now seeks to re-
Government would certainly not the Deputy Master of the Mint to suply $189,000 worth of sin cone in the Trea-Tal
hi dines, (should b Regarding the Belance Tls. 15,970.95 at
he see no objection) the undermen-sury, and this supply, amounting to na inas
million Moncé subsidiary
5. It will be seen therefore that Chinese of coins, I Tongkon
to the total con
cheidered to be ample,
pount upon the redemption of absidiary nominal value of $150,000, as requested in months before the new year, such a steady coins at their par value. They take them,
letter
under seply, viz
demand set in that, though the
raquisitions the.
20 cent pieces....19 per cent. were out down as
own as much as they ressonsbly as they do other coins, for what they will futch fu the open market. Japanese coins, in fear
wecks the whole was ex-inferior in intrinsie value to our u
rown, air and the issue had to be suspended,
date freely in the north of China, where Tokio if only keep a fow grims for the use of
t
D.
tonant of the ground-uur of No 314, to 1 inics, as en action against $62,865.00, received for Oru Minted of forcing the half dollar token coins iuta "enient to this Colony to keep the cou❘ the street will not take a Japanese ten ge
the
bis own evidence) tells that the You the tailors and shoemakers-that Ko Man had bocu Bued: $200
ing lottery tickets, and if he could
22
100
not
koep
distress would be levied, and believing the goods to Ko Yan Man's bo orders Le shot. Ho rankes no arquir the shop ies beyond going to Ke Yau Man's room, and notwithstanding the gridence of his own oyes that there were two different trades being followed in the front shop and that
if he might tr one of the shepuren naked if he permitted to remove his own goods, pro ceeds to take sion,
tailors and shoomakers collectively that if the fine paid the shop would be released,
however, the defondrat
the
on the next day the
the
necusBary
accounts
think
new
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izi
V. I. Unghes eocorided and the report received, as they will be required to defray remont, itult abraid undertake the tice, twelve years ago, it was regarded and these conditions are, as I shall show,
reserve.
of cours
upon
mrad
ballion
cash,
New Malwa, cash, 500 Allowance, Fads 32/40. Old Malws, cash,,1.550
*32/40 Allowance, Tacis Parajan, Cily, cash 600 Allowance, Taela... 32/40 Persian, Paper tied 640. Allowance, Thelg... 32/40
Exchange
HONGKONG, March 7,
On London-
Bank, Wire,
J3
On demand,
30 days' sight,
4 months sight.
Credits, 4
it.
On New York 22. It follows that, buforo subsidiary On donand,..... evin can become vorn, it must have paisod from hand to hand at a constantly decreas. On Bombay---
The last holder would lose.
(J. E. Voz accunded and the motion, with the Now Cross-Chi Tunnel and Shaft. I is out of the question. The inconveure of the inconvenience they were indieting ning value, The Chairman-The next business is the early in the pest, being absolutely neceslinton of those best. able to judge them from doing this. It is only of late nong by the refusal of the Government
we election of auditors. Messra J. H. Cox and
A. E. Vaucher offer themselves for re- election
Me J. Hughes proposed the re-election of the auditors.
Mr C. A. Ozurio seconded and the viption WAS Hnanimously passed.
The Clairman-That finishes the business before the meeting. The dividend warrants will be posted to you on Monday next.
COMPANY, LIMITED.
The following is the report of the states, General Managers to the Shareholders, al
to sabunit to the Shartliders the sual Stateront f Accounts, for the year cuding December Just
The Not Profit on the Working Account
through
to redeem a doubtful evin at par; even a
زی
23.
KLA
Documentary, 4 months" night
On Paris-
On demand,
3.85
Credita, 4 months' Light,
3.93
Uredita, 60 days' sight,
Wice,
751
On den
demoud,
Wire, ****** On
demand,
2202
On Calcutta
On Shangha
On demand, Sidaye-sight
Da
3.20.
8. The trying time is of course Chinesa
I
Chins, however, there are two elements
Tomparature. bo every bargain, ( () the
Currercy.
{Taken at Messrs Falconer & Co.'s Premises, Queen's Road, 24. Bronzo cash are the only coined i
1.P
30.18 90.10.
4 Pin
30.06 -58
Do.
Do..
P. More. 4.P.Mi... (Wot hulb) A.M.
Do
Do. 1 P.M.
50
Do.
·Da..
t. the
silver any
Do
Maximum
Do. Misumbra loser, mela
Cash tendered to it
The
CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
cover the money that was wrongly ex- for this year is $2,638.53, and the balance thuse attending the ordinary management sare directions have this day buen given to New Year (January 24th, 1997) there was these coins, nor accept them in
fis>ress.
of the Vine. The
tracted from him by illegal iss defence set up is that the payment was voluntary, mad some suggestion was made tast the plaintiff was implicated with Ko
at Proft and Loss Account is 20,150.08.
The Gasenal Managers recommend that
Teileen
payraont
You Man, or minst have known that the abouthing and that the balance of this is not an available Balance, since it has Gevement fons for the use of the than two and a garterertheless, two the mainland of China do not expect ur
there
a dividend of 35 per shate be declared, the credit of Profit and Loss Account,
$139.03 be
J. D.
Now Accout. business he carried on was a lottery agency, Consulting Committee. Since the last but the only foundation for such a soggy report we have to regret the death of Mr tion I can look at is the fact that for ourly T. T.
T. Bensing. The other members of the a year Ko Ya Man slept at No. 34 Committe, Mesars E. L Woodin, H. "Ogvon's Rom-Central, stid-no etion was rawford.
Hutchison and D. taken or
Commenced against or praecution Cou
McCallout-rotire in accordanes with the the plaintiff. For the defence, the Crows Articles of Association, and aru eligible for Solicitor (who appeared in his official caselection.
Manley 1. 0. Auditor The Accouts have bean audit- capacity) cited Valpy v. B.. p. 694, and drew attention to theed by Mr A: L Vauchez, in Mr E. S. judgment of Chief Justics Tindal at pago Wheallor's absence, 602. The question
whe- Wha ther a payraent made by the plaintifle was voluntary or under a species of duress and Chief Justice Tindal says at p. * 601, 'it seems to me that all the circumstances show that when the assignees made the payment just and reasonable ground for h-d they
that the sheriff would pro- apprehending ceed to a sale that might have uporated
Capital Account injuriously to their interests unibyo Lau, Orawford & Co., Octmis.
The
payment therefero
sin money were paid. was not voluntary, but was made for the Dividend Account, unpaid purpose of averting a threatened eril. In
this case the shop was actually dosed-a prosent and pressing, evil--and the money salo paid to avert the threatened evil if
of the goods, Bow can it be said it was
voluntarily
Nor is there any guidanca
in paying, intended to give up his Fights
411
The
F
95
77
ani,
.GO
7༣.
·Cat
jiraytect,'
could be, in
O worth of
REGISTER
MARCH AT 4.1, 3.
barometerred.
·W] 'ostook. 39.19
Amoy....
Temperature
fumidity.
Hongkong 30.20 60 Haiphong. 80.23 64 Bobinas 29.9 BE Masila... 29.00 87
teen used in carrying out the works referred to herein, the Directors recommend its transfer to Capital Account No. 2 (to be in order to show the employment esringe upon perimanent works) as:
however, to add I
30.04 My Lords has been employal to ensure the eficient
hope that the large profit made by the Go- the Podio, &. It was at this jungtare the people who take them cannot be sup-Nagasaki.. working of the Mine in the future.
Report of Mr J. H. Ernest Waters, lonial Government upon the issue of these that an urgent request was received from used to rely on any means of getting them Shangha.. 80.37 29.
redoomed in Japan. Engineer and Manager for the Company in silver Tokens for circulatina nat within the the Army Paymaster of 10,0
I have the honour to be, Sit, your most Anierica, presented herowi b, gives such limits of the Colony, but on the mainland coin I was enabled to make thy issue, bo full particulars of the future prospects of of China, is not leading them to lose sight cause I know that after the New Year I obedient servant,
ALFRED LISTEN, Treasurer the Mine, that
is unnecessary to treat of the soriots risk, that is continually aug- could, if necesury, purchase small coin for The Hon. F. Stewart,
## *J!G
of future embarrassment to the Government at
nominal urther thereon at the Mealing on the 6th Criotsin Lemary Baugh, the return of Dowiem. It has not bacon, necesary to diu
thereon.r prez. will ask for the opinion of the waru tokens for exchange, at their fall non, but until the next shipment arrived we
in Shareholders us to the advisability of carry. minul ing out Mir Waters' proposal for the ties at once
the publiq was The Culot
Colonial Government onstruction of Inclines, to facilitate the semoral of Ore from the New Cross-Cut under no obligation to furufat w Turinel upon its completion, and and
LANK, CRAWFORD & Co.,
General Manager, Hongkong, 5th March, 1888....
ABSTRACT OP ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR BYDING PECEMBER 3187, 1887. - BLANCE SHEET. Liabilities.
$80,000.00
recommend the construction therrof. #
in
Profit and Loss
paid which erst gather that the plaintiff, Real Estate within the role laid down by Cinet Justice Stuck on hand Tudal at 605, where he states the rals
Furniture
Auseta.
to be that no sotion will lie where the pay Hongkong and Shanghai, Bank,
mant is voluntary with full knowledge of
Britis
the
The party intending to circulastatices,
Current Asonant'
give up his right unless he gives noting at Hongkong and Shanghai Bank,
Deposit
my
Account
do
value, in possibly very large quanti-wora en famine Vence appeared to
and the issue to I should say,
is of course never, that no
and if ein at.
coin at that time, as the Chinese com
Acting Colonial Secretary,
B
(13.) Treasury, May 17, 1887. Sir-I have the honour to request that
MARCH 7, 10 ..
272
Wlostock. 30,31 Tokio Nagaaskip Shanghai.30.27 45 84 8E
will exchange to the Chinese Emp of aria from the exhaustion of the supply ** the Crown Agents may be directed to ab Amoy .........
09.19
$33,350. 10 and Shafton avellable when output of holders resident in Chins, at the price of
following
.10
10 per cent,
30
17
coins are needed in addition to
Haiphong. 30.22 180
Bolinao........30.03 807
Weather:
UUUU Rain daring
The barometer hue fallen and gradients: for N.E. winds have dooressed. Cloudy. and mather and damn westher prevails:
V. DOFIECE, Goronment Auronomer..
tokens for their own co niebay, thougkung munity, in exhausting the Treasury, stock, tuin and 30,25 60 71
r own convenience, they could nad sufficiently supplied itself. The now worth of Subsidiary Silver Coin in the
proportivos :-* have additional means of transport, in not complain if the
the Hongkong Government 108.8710
30 cent pieces, or nearly one-third, was $18,000 of 78 20 order that full advantage may be taken of were to refuss to repurchase them, from shipment arrived on March 22nd, and
- 15, in a week, to the Banks, the Com- 4.139.03 the increased facilities for the
will seed in Tanuel issue. But the question whether it will missariat, and the publis Ore that will
la be possible, when the coins circulating
1 must not be forgottes that wo No notice has been taken in the Assets China are defaced (by unfair means per have the wants of the Army and Navy to of the Company of the funt Mining and haps) to prevent Hongkang dealers from provida for Every ship, before going the supply of $150,000 worth indonted for thres Timber Locations referred to, as the collecting them at a discount, and then pre- North, obtains a supply of coin, because on February 17th, and, as they will be dur € 17,500 co former are not of valide excepting for the enting them to the Treasury for redemp these colus pass suyshere in China er here about the time of the Chinese New
of our Genes-Out Tunnel,
and the
the tin at perhaps.
broken silver or Ja Year, I trust nothing will be allowed to Japan, and exping led in to l 1 Lords hope that this subject rasy be pauone makay, ha of subsidiary on 1,220.30 Purposer
stand in the ba
way of their being sont ont. 5084.99 latter are not yet conveyed to the Company
I have the honour to bes 11. The total amenal 1300 by US Patent, which has been applied carefully considered before the next demand
which when received will make for Hongkong Token colus is made, for, and chio as an Asset of some value,
Your most obedicat Servant, I am,
JA, Lösten, TreasurET. (Signed), RE WELRY. It may be s
The Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office:
800.34 them
Propert
4,000.01
84.07
Doaning Street;.
supplied to Hongkong to date has been
82, 188 881 inpluding some copper, which
haa
probably zipt ten par cest. is in the Colony.
not been-exported Of the iver The Hon Y. STEWART, LLD.
19. I trust I have shown the necessity
for keeping this Colany supplied with small
Apting Dolonial Secretary,
Hongkong Observatory, March 7,
1. Barometer,rednosú la 82 degrees Fahren- halt, and to the level of the yes in inches, tentha and hundredthe
TEMPERATURE,
in the abada in degrees,
Fahrenholt, AAA AAAAA
8. HUMIDITY, Un percentage of saturation, the
| humidity of "aiz entented with moisture being
4. Dinsation on Ward, to two points. -.
6. Posts on Wing kccording to Beaufors
10) STATE" DE
and the imppability of the Governets It is right t5 sfate that the Colan resendILTEEN, & ASS sky, o deo
of interest tu state that the of the Company maints of the Mine
JW. Junior claim, Lot and the
time
of resistance to the claim. I ca
call Insurance ruaxpired;
172 Ofion in Zellarido, Houses for Manager and stonishment that any defence aboutube per Ditstanding Accounts, 1888 not leave the case without entstanding Aocowate, 1884.
84.37 about thres Acres of ground, and the
month exercising sny check on its expitta ferred to above arrived in November last, sisted in in anch a case. A gross mistake,
129 47 locations mentioned above Outstanding As-ounts, 1880
Mr Myburgh astrod from the Bosni ssy the least, if not absolute reckliness In
hion except by declining to issue it at all, and the Impany having been entirely $258.24 ur to his departure for England, and Sis, I have the honour in transmit to I now pass on to consider the risk of these depleted by the Jubileo demand; they were Outstanding Accounts, 1887 had DoBi the execution of the process of law,
Petty CashTM
$100.00
Me A. McLeod was appointed to fill the you a boy of a letter from the Treasury coins being hereafter throws upin the Col very quickly shorbal. The Invoice of comitted, for which it was only an aggro-
stating that the mint has been directed to any for redemption in a worn or mutilated 150,000 expected was entered on vation to say that the same course and been
838,356.10 Vacancy
The Directum retiro za provided by Deed sviply the subeldiary soins asked for in condition, venture to think that this August 17th, 1887, persued in a former case Suspicion was to ground for refusing to refund unlaw nation
dth February, 1887.
tacheslongeed drizzling, eziz, f fog, a gloomy, hat lightning, o overcast, y passing Lowers, reequally, r rain, e snow, i thander, o viability.
dew fail
1. Kam, in ipahar, jeniks and bauit Parthike