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SHAMEEN MUNICIPAL
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engineers should tread. This we are cocksure about, all the same, that. that old, old dream of a bridge- builder is not the solution, of our problem. Laugh all you want to, you experts. Call us all the names you think best fit our presumption Still we shall hold that the same end, and, much more besides, could be achieved by surer means. We also have our dream. We have admired the splendid stone work of our har. bour. We have watched the Govern- ment do great things" in the line of
Anna d'Almeida, a Portuguese reclamation. We think they can do woman was before Mr. R. E. Lindsell greater, We dream of a broad this morning on a charge of return causeway, reclaimed from our noting from banishment: She was deplications which have proved so very deep-harbour, as broad," say,, as ported on June 28, 1917, for a the space between Pedder's Wharf term of 10 years. She came from and the Victoria Recreation Club. Macau last evening, and was arrested We imagine it jutting out slowly and by the Police.
in boarding house. surely towards Kowloos, while at She now told Magistrate that her. the same time a similar causeway reason for returning was that she grows yard by yard out of the shore was the bearer of a letter, from the of Kowloon to meet it. Or nearly to Governer of Macay to the A. D. C.
The Defence Corps drilled regular meet it. For at the right moment here. The letter was produced in we see them inserting an ordinary court, and in order that it may reach ly until the ent of July, when parades were suspended on account of the swing bridge, such as many docks the addresses and reveal what bear-
hot weather. Owing to the Aimis- have, a thing easy to work and quick. ing it bha to the case, Mr. Lindselle, no drills have besa beld in the a thing that offers none of the engin adjourned further hearing until to, tattor part of the year. There would eering dificulties which the so often morrow.
appear to be no present necessity for maintaining the Corps on ar active mooted bridge scheme presents:
footing. It is accord ngly proposed Sometimes we see two of these. It.
to call in all equipment, which can
At a meeting of the board of directors of the Shanghai Tug &
Here are extract from the annual Lighter Co., held on January 27, it report of the Shameen Municipal was decided to recommend a final Council for the year 1918, to be sub- dividend, subject to audit, of 34 permitted to the annual meeting of rate cent. on the preference shares and 10 Payers called for February 17.
The population of the Concession per cent, on the ordinary shares of a Non-Chinese 990, Chinese 060.
The year his on the whole, been the Company,
There have very healthy one. been two separate outbreaks of in- fluenza, which disease has been epidemic over the whole world: we have been fortunate, up to the pre- sent, in exuping the pulmonary com-
deadly in neurly all the other de- scribed outbreaks and have not had a fatal foreign case reportent in yet. Two cases of typhoid secured on the soncession,
a
Truth"
say's about
Major
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY
· 1919,
MORE POLICE RESERVISTS IN TROUBLE.
COMPANY REPORT,
HUMPHREYS ESTATE AND
FINANCE CO. ED.
The report to be presented on Feb. 15 says: GENTLEMEN,-
The Directors now beg to submit to you their Report and Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1918.
ALLEGED **SQUEEZE"
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Another charge of " squeeze WIS heard before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Magistracy yesterday afternoon when Jose Thomas and Ricardo Antonio Remedios, members of the Police Reserve, were indicted for demanding the sum of $20 with threats and menace: from a Chinese woman living in 30 Gage Street.
Mr. J. H. Gardiner was for the first accused while Remedios was defended by Mr. R. C. Faithful. The prosecution was conducted by Sergeant George Willis.
The Net Profit for that period,afterdeducting Directors and Gener- al Managera" muneration 'and' including $10,413 broughtforward from last account, amounts to .......
$167.749.97
The case as related by the pro- Which the Directors recommend secution showed a remarkable simil→ should be appropriated as follows-arity to the case in which two other The total consumption of water Pay a dividend of 60
Police Reservists, Henrique d'Aquino for the gene ending Blet December
cents per share
90,000.00 and Jose Portaria wate convicted 1918, at 29,255,800 gallons, an inTransfer to Typhoon erenge of 491,300 gallons.
and Floods Insurance Fund.........* Transfer to Fund for Equalization of Divi- dends
Write off Furnitute ac
count *****
50,000.00
and sentenced. In the present case the evidence of the prosecution was 10,000.00 that Thomas and Remedios, with a Chinese not in custody, went to 30, Gage Street at 8 o'clock on the even- ing of January 3, and demanded from the principal tenant of the 450.00 house the sum of $20. They said they came under the orders of the Government to get the money $17,299,97
which was wanted by a Police Inspector who was staying at the $ 167,749.97
Stag Hotel. To lend an air of Directors-Dr. J. W. Noble, having truthfulness to their statement, they the Police Reserve
Carry forward to new Profit and Loss Ac- count
Ltd depends how many we have had. Ganera. F. H. Kelly, the predebe re-ssued from store should occa
When we have had just enough, we ressor of General Veatris here:sion arise. see our dream causeway take the Major General F. H. Kelly, who About fifty-seven thousand square resigned, Mr. A. Forbes was invited produced shape that makes it dear to us; we has retired on an Indian pension feet of lime, cinder, and cement-con- to join the Board. The Directors armlets which they led the woman crete paths Tave been laid during the now are Messrs. J. Scott Harston, to believe were warrants on the see it assume the extra features and Fraduated in the Royal Engineers, past year, all with comment curbings. A. O. Lang, W. L. Fattenden, and A. Government. Then hinded advantages that knock your big joining, the corps. from Woolwich in Wherever possible the paths inve Forbes who, in accordance with Rule them $5 which they ret sed to take bridge into a cocked hat, and make 1879. Early in his career he elected been brought to the same level line. No. 76 of the Company's Articles of and left her. Later in the evening. it relevant to the purpose of this to serve in India, and saw a good The work has all been done hy day Association, retire," but being eligible they returned and informed her that
Auditors. The accounts have been article. For we see along its sides" deal of active service in Burma and our under the supervision of the offer themselves for re-election.
Council The total cost amounts to great wharves and dredge water, on the North-West Frontier. In 19005430 or less than ten cents per audited by Messrs. H. Fercy Smith, We see on either side of it, no matter he went to Quetta as A. A. G., and square foot. In the opinion of the FC.A., and C. Bernard Brown, ACA, theairt of wind or tide, a safe while there qualified as an interpreter Council, the whole front Bund from who offer themselves for re-election.
DE. CLARK, anchorage.. We see no need almost in. Baluchi. He commanded the the French Concession to the Bont Horse fupproximately 15,000 square for a junk shelter, to which our Karachi Brigade from 1995 to 1997. feet) requires relaying, and the cost BALANCE SHEET 31ST DECEMBER, lighters scurry sometime: on a false when he went to Ahmedagar as of the, roughly $1,500, is provided alarm, thereby retarding business. brigadier general. His last appoint If only Sir Mathew Nathan had ment was G.0.C. troops happened to dream this dream! Hongkong."
COSTUMES, COATS and SWEATERS at $10 each.
GREATLY REDUCED.
BIRTES.
GABB-On January 20, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. L, Hansard
Gabb, a son.
JOVINO-On January 29, at Shang hai, to Mr. and Mrs. L. F, Jovino,
а вод.
.
SEE WINDOWS.
lose, if
Where are we wrong? Reclamation can be done, has been done, is going to be done, elsewhere. Why not two broad, solid strips in the right direc- tion, which would add two long lengths of wharfing space, and at the same time give a level, solid, cause. war, joining the two halves of what would then be one great-city- perhaps then the finest port in the world.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
LETTER FROM QUEEN'S
COLLEGE, MASTER-
at
HONGKONG MEN IN ENGLAND.
It
for in the estimates. The Council
would have preferred to have had the
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1918.
LIABILITIES.
150,000 Shares at $10,
each
Bund aid with asphaltum, but as Capital Account: the tender was $22,000, it is out of
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the Police Inspector was at the Stag Hotel, and offered to take her there so that she could speak to hitz She accordingly went with them, accompanied by her amah. She did not find the Inspector at the Hotel
she expected, he was out but would be returning but was told by the accused that
soon for supper. She again offered them $5, and was told that this amount would not "be accepted by the Inspector... She was induced to return to her house and get the rest of the money. This she handed to the accused at the Stag Hotel; and was told not to 30,000:00 wait as the money would be handed
...$1,500,000,00 245,483.40
905,000.00 37,406.25 4,324.90
107,740:02.
$2,889,964.52
Government has no time it means to take any steps at all to keep Hongkong in the front rank of ports. The authorities having care of other ports are now busily engag eáin preparing for the big business WEIPPERT.-On January 25, and the big competition that is com- Peking, the wife of W. H. C.ing along. So far, as ports and Weippert, of a daughter.
shipping are concerned, the old MARRIAGES.
happy-go-lucky policies, along with STEENSBY - FILIPECKI. — At St. the conditions that permitted them, Joseph's Church, Hongkong, have passed away. We can no longer February 5, 1919, Maric Louise afford to gamble on the accident of a tons deadweight, from the Hashimoto/The work of the school has been re-inid, hit there are signs of further Fire Insurance Premia...
at
Filipecki, daughter of J. Filipec- ki, Chef de Brigade, Tonkin, to Valdemar Steersby (Andersen, Meyer & Co.) ROACH-SCOTT-On January 30, at Shanghai, Robert Bain Reach of Aberdeen, to Ellen Mortimer
Scott, of Galashields.
ROBINSON-WARE-On Jan. 30, at Shanghai, Frederick Alan Robinson, Manchester, to Emily Doris Ware, of Shanghai. STABER-HERZBERG-On Jan. 29, at Shanghai, Ernest Henry Sta. ber, of Cherokee, U.S.A, to Mary Herzberg, of Shanghai" BADHAM-JANSEN. On January 28. at Singapore John Badham, of the South British Insurance Co., to Mabel Jansen (nee Limby), widow of the late John Jansen, C. M. Customs, Shanghai.
DEATHS.
Steamship Company for the Marseil les line, starting early in February.
"
Amount invested in Property,...........................
to the Inspector on his return.
The complainant was asked by his Worship what reason the accused gave for demanding money from her. She said she didn't know. She was entirely in ignorance of the law and so to be on the safe side she gave the accused the money, as they had.
asked. DRAMA
Sergeant Willis: Did anybody come to see you a few days afterwards?
Complainant: Yes; the second accused Remedios) came to my 2,556,449.28 house on the evening of Jan. 19 with his wife and requested me not to 950.00 report the matter to the Police. He 2,593.74 asked me to be merciful as he had a 296,308.11 small child and to keep silent about 24,919,39 the matter. I told him I had no
intention of telling the Police. 2,387.68 In reply to a question as to why she did not ask for the money back, 6,351.32 she said she was told that the money having been given to the Inspector, she could not get it from the accused.
the question. It is therefore recom- mended that clinker concrete, as Insurance Reserve Fund used in the approaches, to the British Typhoon and Floods In- bridge, be laid down and the work
surance Fund... commenced at once. This style of Mortgages pavement should prove very satis Sundry Creditors factory and dumble. Ratepayers Unclaimed Dividends... have received their full money's Profit and Loss Account worth, for the amourt expended on Broughtforwardfrom The following are extracts from a
1917, $10,413.00..... new roads, etc., during the year, as outerday, from Mr.Jthe aths the selves testify Mr. Ralston
"Add profit for the W. Farmer deserves Ta On Thursday, the 7th of November thanks for the time and care he has
ear $157,336.97 we got an unofficial American wire into barracks about tea-time saying given to this Muncipal Work, that an armistice had been declared The bund wali on the West end of [and the whole school went mad, the Concession was found to have stark, raving mad. The officers and sunk about ten inches and was gener. Cadets headed by the permanent ally in a bad condition. This have To-day's dollar is worth 38 brass band of the School marched in been rectified and the roadway filled 2/11-16d.
procession round the town. Monday up, in some places by as much as House and Office Furni when the real thing took place, saw twenty inches, to bring it to the level ture, ............................. us knock off work at 11 in the morn of the rest of the Concession. The Stores, coman The Nippon Yusen Kaishaing and an impromptu dance in the band wall here has also been pointed Mortgages and Loans, chartered the s. Kazan Maru, 4,800. Cadete Club was held in the evening with cement and the pathways re- Accounts Receivable.....
organised since then and we work subsidence.
Unexpired, only from 9 til 12 each day. Break-
The cocouple for the year were as Cash in hand and at fast is at 8.15, lunch at 1 p.m. tea at follows:---Estimated Cash Expendi
Bank,mak 4 and dinner at 7.15 p.m. We have made $35,757.25; Nett Coal Ex riding lessons, "pip-tock" (phy: penditure: $87,712,02, the excess
* $2,889,964.52 Last week's communicable dis-sical training), and marching
over estimates, being chiefly due to PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT FOR all the world. There was an evident ease was: bubonic, 2, diphtheria, 2; drill with rifles to keep us ft; be increased Waterworke running Ex *THE YEAR ENDING 31st sense of surprise behind the rejoicing, enteric, 1; smallpox, 2; and cerebrosides quite complicated lectures on
penses owing to advance in price of ↑ DECEMBER, 1918, and we cannot be surprised by that spinal fever, 3 cases. The "remarks gunnery and material in conjunction coal, etc. Estimated Income, To Fire Insurance Fre
with 6 Howitzer Gan Drill. The $42,800; Actual Income. $15.828. surprise, for after all, wasn't it what say that one of the diphtheria cases common
miammid 1. belief is that those The surplus here is due to the 6 To Interest on Mortg the sporting vocabulary would call a was British, and one of the smallpox who wish will be allowed per cent., House Tax realising ages and Deposita,. bit of a fluke? What had we done to cases was Scotch. Why this distinc course and get commissions. Flet $20,000. The overdraft with the To Less Interest on to go on and finish the 8 months $23.870.80 as against an estate $66,517.64 valmi....... deserve such pre-eminence? What [tion?
cher (formerly of Queen's College) Hongkong and Shanghai Bank has Mortgages and Loans who is at the No 2. R.G.A. School
been reduced from $48,765:41 to $12,805.15 uuen the H.K. men he means] in a week reckons we shall all be discharged
$40,866.96. So in at akan berTo Repairs or two. The informant, I believe, is
Among the resolutions to be subTo Crown Rent Hutchison of the Imports and Ex-mitted to the weeting are the follow To Legal Expenses...... To General Charges ... ports-now working at the Colonial :- (formerly, Second Master of Queen's cent for the year, payable beford Office. Fletcher has seen Grant The House Tax shall be 6 per To Allowances to Gen eral Managers to College) in London (he is now work March 31...
cover Office Rent and Salaries of Secretary' ing in the Ministry of Pensions), "and
The Land Tax shall be $25 per and Clerks,eum says he is now big and strong as an iot, excepting where its area exceeds To Auditors Fees,****** There is little to do here now 12,81 foot, when it shall pay $2 To Donation to War cally useless. Forencons and afternoons are practi-extm for every 1,000 square feet over Charities,.....................
and above this area. Payable, before To Remuneration to March 31.
- Directors,n
favourable position. Some years ago our newspapers chortled over the fact that in terms of tonnage Hongkong was the leading port of
are we doing now to deserve our fair
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share of the enlarged ocean traffic Owing to the Engineers' practice that is surely on the way? What dance taking place on February should be done?
7, the annual general meeting of the Our local experts, as we may we'l St. George's Society will take place call men who spend nearly all their at 5.30 pm on Tuesday next, Feb days studying the conditions, put 11 in the City Hall, instead of as emphasis on the need of more ade-carlier announced, quate wharfage "and of a deeper harbour. The Government has the
MCALLUM-Nov. 29, suddenly, at Ilkley, Yorkshire, Campbell A McAllum, Deputy Commissioner of Customs, Canton. MOORE -On December 8, at Bexhill. on-Sea, Lucy Harriet, widow of
to be later on tentatively discussed;them turned out to be a policeman. Major George Kenrick Moore,
and if we sit up patiently and are He said he was there only to give A.P.D. (Hongkong)... NANTES.-On Nov. 29, at Bridport, very very good, perhaps some day, New Year greetings to his clansmen.
William John Nantes, late Com-when our taipans have gone hence, He was fined just the same. mander P. & O. Co., aged-73. and our younger generation is spread over their seats, somebody will see "something attempted, something
Eight "fantan" "gamblers were money, and it has its advisers. fined $3 each by Mr. Lindsell to-day Doubtless in due course" a report Inspector Grant and his men had got with recommendations will be tabled,
hem in Upper Lascar Row. One of
The Hongkong Tramway Com The China Mail. done. Meanwhile the pany's trafic receipts for last wee'r Parama were $17,349 or $4,443 more than in Canal will be working full time the same week of 1918. The aggre HONIONG, WADSERDAY, FEB 5, 1019.Trade will be making desperate
efforts to make us forget that there sate so far is $70,894, or $9,785 more
"OUR HARBOUR
than it was at this time last year.
BILLIARDS.
THE GARRISON TOURNAMENT.
STAFF AND DEPTS. V. R.G.A.
SGTS. MESS.
Soldiers Club last night, only one This match commenced at the game being played owing to the bad lighting Sergt. Talfourd (RGA) played Sgt. Stons. (5. and D.) and won by 43 points. The best break was 15, not 50 as stated elsewhere, this number being twice collected by Talfourd, Scores
RGA SGTS MESSANT
STAFF AND DEFTS.
was ever another sort of war on, The seas will be lined with strings of steamers, bigger and bigger, steamers Mr. W. J. Manchip writes from This cannot be a very instruc that will bunt for wharves capable Sungei Burong Estate Johore tive article at present, because we of carrying their enormous cargoes, Yesterday morning January 24) one have so little data to go upon. It is and of harbours deep enough to float written chiefly to call attention to the them safely. opiniors of several of our shipping Meanwhile, the people talk foolish by a large tiger. The tiger carried Sgt. Stone taipans, printed in another column of ly of a wonderful bridge that is to his victim away into the jungle.. I
of my Tamil tappers, while tapping, Sgt. Talfourd his trees was suddenly pounced upon.
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The Business Tax shall be $50.To Remuneration to.. Fire exporting Raw Silk from the General Managers,... Concession shall noy ten cente for To Balance, being Profit each bale of Raw Silk over and above for the year, 300 exported.
Licenses:-Hotel $300, Theatre $25, Dog $10, Bicycles ($5) Hawker $2 Building $23.
The charge for water supplied by the Coningil shall be at the rate of 60 cents per 1,000 gallons.
The Council be authorised to spend approximately $11,000 for the pur poss of providing increased accom- ncdation for the Folice Force..
BEWARE OF COLDS.
HILDREN Ata much more likely to contres the contagious disorses
when they have colds. Whosuing oough,
By Rent, HITAM By Commission, !!!. By Transfer Fees, ***** By Profit on Sales of
Properties,
J. Scott Hatston, A O. Lang
6,846.88
53,712.49 17,070.30 5278.73 ....393.20 3,415.62
8,000.00 400.00
2,000.00
Cross-examined by Mr. Gardiner, complainant said she did not receive visits from young men. The other portions of her flat were let to other women, who received visitors.· She maintained that on Jan. 3 the accused 'did not come with the intention of visiting these women. They came and spoke to her only, many
Mr. Gardiner: You were anxious that the money should reach the Inspector so that no trouble should be created about these girls? No it was not so. The accused said the orders for the handing over of the money came from "the Governuient and believing that to be so, I com- plied
In further cross-examination, she said that she distrusted the accused from the very beginning. She did not call a constable, to have the accused arrested, as she was ignorant. 5,000.00 of what the duties of policemen were. She denied that she kept a girl by the name of Ah Ng, whom Remedios was in the habit of visiting.
8,544.05
157,336.97
Mr. Faithfull: I put it to you that you keep girls for a sly brothel? 267,998.24 Complainant: The lawyer can say. 180,702.55 what he likes..
100.00 £97.00
In reply to another question she said it was all a lie about her giving the money to the accused as a bribe
87,098.69 to prevent the Police from visiting
the place. $267,998.24
Directors
John D. Humphreys & Son, General Managers.
Gv Rapp,
Secretary.
DON'T COUGH:
tion are diseases that are often contracted on and tap your vitality when Cham
At the close of the complainant's evidence Sergeant Willis said that the Police first got wind of the affair through the receipt of several anonymous letters.
The evidence of the am was then taken, after which the case was adjourned.
The famous temple of the Five Genii at Canton was more than half
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diphtboris, scarlet fever and camp is absurd to allow a cough to 13 destroyed yesterday by fire due too. this issue. It is a pity we could not link Victoria and Kowloon. "Let organised a search party and re THEY MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD. the child has a cold. That is why orlain's Cough Remedy will cure you the carelessness of the soldiers using gct permission to attach their names the ships get out the way they came covered the body over mile in therrie pleasant purgative effect orper fall medical authorities any beware of You don't know where persistent cough
in," we heard one say. won't jungle. The tiger had snapped off it as a barracks. They built a fre
carry a weight of influence. It will mind. This is where we fall to be be noticed that they were unanimous instructive, or constructive, because the opinion that the Hongkongwe fear to rush in where only trained
one leg and carried it away, with the Tablets and the healthy condition of will And nothing better than Chamber body and mind to which they contribute, lair'e Cough Remedy. It can always be intention, I suppose, of return'ng mures one feel the living is worth while depouded upon and a pleasant and uate For sale by all Chemists and Store take For sale by All Chemists and
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your throws and lunga to become diseased to warm themselves, and didn't when it is such simple thing to step into a chemist's shop and get bottle of control it. It is from this temple Chamberlain's Cough Remedy For sale that Canton gets the name "City
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