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blue tentacles, of a spécies rare in Southern waters, are also in the collection. The sea urchia is a vicions little fellow who, on account of his spikes, is called the "een por cupine. His spikes are as sharp as as a needle, and when they come in Many interesting fossils and contact with any object a very specimens of marine life of great objectionable inky fluid is ejected. scientific value have been brought A canful of fish and a jar of mixed 1.M.A.S.specimens of marine life are intend- 10. Brisbane by "Geraniom," the naval survey shiped for the Brisbane Museum. Some of the Australian Navy. "Chief of the specimens are comparatively among them, however, and apart common, whilst others are extreme from its scientific value, the mostly rare. Surgeon Paradice added interesting of all is a fossilize! speci-that it would take months of work men of what appears to have been to classify the collection, -a-giant-fish-lizard.
INCIDENTS OF THE CRUISE.
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The
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CEMENT. COMPANY
SENSATION.
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THE CHINA 'MAIL.
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HOLIDAY ACCIDENTS.
CHINESE BOY FALLS OFF
TRAMCAR, AND SUCCUMBS.
The Chinese New Year holiday brought its usual toll of accidents, children being in the majority of
instances, the victims.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7.-1984
MILITARY LANDS.
KINGS OF ARABIA.
MR. FLETCHER EXPLAINS, QUALITIES DEMANDED OF
A RULER. A resolution approving the acceptance of Sir John Oakley's award in respect of the military Arabia, Colonel Harold F. Jacob, Under the title of Kings of
lands was moved by the Acting who has been for many years em A peculiar story of the death of Colonial Secretary (Mr. A. G. M.ployed in Aden, gives a compre. commentary on the a fifteen-year-old boy was reported Fletcher) at today's meeting of bensive
political conditions there. to the Police on Tuesday. So Chuec- the Legislative Council. chew of Fuk Luk Lane fell off Mr. Fletcher Intimated that fi Colonel Jacob, remarks the tramcar while it was proceeding was not proposed to ask honourable Times, likes the Yement Arabs along Des Voeux Road West, members to vote on the resolution and gives good reason for so doing;: The boy to-day but that he intended to he thinks poorly of the Inactivities near Whitty Street. get up and walked home with his make an explanatory." This he of the British and Indian Govern.. companion. Shortly after reaching was proceeding to do, at consideraments in Aden, and recounts home he complained of pains in ble length, when this edition went missed opportunities, mistakes and the head and five hours after the to press. fall died. The decident happened at 3 p.n.
They were among the first to take advantage of the new type in renew- ng old machinery and he did not. think they they had lost time in taking advantage of the new inven tion to make cement. On the other hand they were in the happy situs bs. time enough to consider whe- tion of being offered money by the ther or not it would be necessary shareholders. The usual way, when to ask for more capital or whether a Company wanted money, was to other and better means 'could be rely on the Directors to ask for it. found of providing any money He reminded shareholders that the that might be required, and that is Company did not pay any dividend ten years ago. In 1913 they paid the position to-day,
nothing, in 1011 they paid 50 cents, a No-Confidence Vate?
from then until 1919 they paid 80 New gentlemen, the day after ente, in 1920 they paid $1, in 1921 the meeting of the Directors, ao, in 1993 they put $2,60 and this letter was prepared and signed by your he did ret know what they a number of shareholders requist would pay, but very likely it would tlooing this meeting, but not givs not be more than last year. Taking ing any reason whatever why, the- the average for the last ten years resolutions were being put for they had ch average dividend of ward. In connection with the 1.13 and the reinigeration had not proposed move from Hok Un, no been to such an extent as to justify proposition has yet been consideran increase of capital. He did not ed by the Directors nor even put think they required the extra capital before them. In spite of that you asked for.-(Applause). ask
not only to increase the authorized capital but to: call up $400,000 of
Us
right.. away-money
it
A Chinese girl aged 14 of 267
cases of neglect. Still, in Aden the British. have not had to face any very severe political com petition on the part of European
Canton Road was knocked down MORE ARMED ROBBERIES. rivals; and now that the Turks are by motor-car No. 21 in Morrison street on Tuesday and sustained severe injuries.
An earth coolie, living in a Not Vote of Censure.
builder's matshed on the Praya Mr. C. A. da Roza said that with East complained to the Police
had been shot by which all respect to the last two speakers that he
they inl left him unconvinced.P.C. 427 sustaining a
as things are at present, is not There was one explanation due to in his left forearm.
NEW YEAR RAIDS.
a
Armed robbers did not declare wound holiday for the festivals of Chinese It appears New Year. On the eve of the
gone he thinks that a good deal of the ralson d'etre for the remark- ably ineffective British Protector- ate has gone, too. While giving the Arabs credit for their every
virtue, Colonel Jacob does not think that they are likely to achieve that political unity about which so
wanted and would have to join the Mr. Bernard and that was with that the policeman fired five rounds celebrations they were very active much is said by Arabs in European other million or two on fixed deresgard to the second resolution in defending himself from the carefully keeping an eye on the capitals, and so little is done in
posit in the bank-money, mind you, on which a dividend would increasing the number on the Board. Of course, they entirely disassociated have to be paid although at themselves from the view that this required nor employed by the Company in its business! This, that he had nothing to add.
was a vote of censure. Apart from Gentlemen, is a proposition that I
Mr. J. P. Braga, cannot assent to as a shareholder, and it involves a responsibility that, as a Director, I decline to
accept.
crowd of street little store of cash which the shop. Arabia. The average Arab tribes. attacks of a
personal freedom and too much gumblers. The policeman had keeper kept to carry him over the man is too conscious of his own
several men and holidays. arrested the rest of the gamblers Two robberies were reported, taken up with his own importance to yield political authority easily began to attack him. He fired four one at Yaumati, fully in keeping to any but a religious superior; rounds in the air, and the fifth in with the district's notoriety, and and, as the author points out, there the direction of the gamblers. the other at Mongkok, the robbers
is no local religious unity, as Islami The bullet struck the coolie and in both cases making their escapes much vexed by tribal and embedded itself in a packet of
sectarlan exclusiveness. visiting cards in the inan's pocket.
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SYRIA" ARRIVES.
MOYEMENT OF STEAMER,
Mr. J. 1. Braga: have been asked by a number of shareholders. personal · friends of mine, to come - Turning now 10 the third here to address the "Directors in Resolution, which increases the their interests and the interests of a number of Directors from five to number of other shareholders absent seven this perhaps arose owing to from the Colony in Maces. In the the wish of certain: shareholders first place I think, on behalf of these! to put two further Directors on shareholders, 1 should dispet from the Board, mentioned in your minds the idea that in any ome letters from shareholders dated of these resointions before you any January 8 and 10. I am unable to thought occurred, whether in the disassociate this resolution from minds of the requisitioners or in the the first two, and I regard it as a winds of the shareholders us a vote of non-confidence in your whole, to cast any aspersions on the 1. for one, present Directors, following on Board of Directors. their decision in connection with should be the last to associate nay- for the submarine Depot ship which is due at this port on er about Zeidi sectaries unless his nose be
NAVAL RELIEFS HERE. -
The D.L. L. 39. Proa. Haper" which le due at this port on bar, &iled from Ban Francisco on Feb. on sobedalo.
The AU.L... "Pres. Jefferson bich is due at this port on Feb 11 cailed from Kobe on Feb 8 on schedule Rhe has on board 561 sacks of U.B. Mail for Bengkong.
1
The author is careful to weigh the relative importance of these competitors in the popular estima tion: how the Idrisi is looked upon as an upstart newcomer with a certain amount of scorn tempered by the awe induced by the magical exhibitions with which he im pressed the credulous Faithful: or how no man,
of even the Blood, can aspire to Imam Yehia as succeed the spiritual and temporal ruler of the straight and his person free from blemish. This is very right and proper, for Colonel Jacob will have. it that no finer country than the Yemen was ever created, and the ruler should not be unworthy of his realm.
The Transport "Syria" arrived in Harbour this morning bringing drafts for nearly all the ships in the station including new crews
The 4.0.L...8.West Henshaw Titania" and "Ambrose" and the verbal request made to our self with any such ider. If that had
sloops "Magnolia,"
Feb. 14ailed from Yokohama for Kobe and Oraka un Fob. . Chairman to increase the Capital, been present in their minds, when for the
The A.0.1... "Bakenfield" which It is difficult to accourt for it approached by then to address yon" Foxglove" and "Marazion."
Among the officers is Lieut. is due at this port on or abort Foh, otherwise, as the Directors have would at once have said "No." numbered five for many years. We have confidence, we had con- Commander Alleyne appointed to will evil from Shanghai for Foochow
Cicala."
This officer Amoy and Swatow on Feb 8. Perhaps I am mistaken in this fidence, and I hope we shall retain H.M.S.
The D.RL. "Virginia Doar view, and if so I can only say it is that confidence in the Board of was recently on the West River
Directors. (Applause).
patrol in command of H.M.S.hich is dne at this part on or about Fab. sailed from San Francisco for unfortunate that the present occa
He touches lightly on the. Moorhen."
Tokobama, Kobe and Shanghai on Jun-political aspect of a renewed en- sion should have been selected to bring forward the resolution, and. without even having submitted it or made the suggestion to the Directors beforehand.
In the Air.
The Syria sails for Shanghai |11. on Saturday with relief for the Yangise patrol...
secondary geological period, which Marella" and the "Geranium, realise that there is no object in Yon have been the guides and and may it be accepted with every
The AO.L... Prea. Jackson" which tente between Great Britain and is due at this port at 7am. Feb. 8 left Islam, and tells a pleasing tale Manila at 6 pm on Feb. 6. he will of Sokobia, in which the estimable sail for. Victoris and Seattle via Shangbai phoenix, magic, and cannibalistic and Japan at 10 am. on Feb. 10. witches all play their parts.
A Doubtful Dogma. But, gentlemen, the time has arrived when slaveholders as a body in Hongkong and generally in the Far East have refused to accept. the doubtful dogun the infallibility When I came to this meeting, of any Board of Directors. (AP Noway Sweden and closer places Surgeon Lieut. W. E. J. Pan The "Geranium," during her
expected to hear some substantial plause). On this present occasion.. dice, who showed the Brisbury:
performed varied useful reasons why these resolutions were number, and a not inconsidemble like Haiphong and Shanghai. "Why Courier representative the spec cruise,
On the way to Thursday being put forward, but I regret to number, of shareholders happen to is it that we have these competitive mens he had, collected during the work.
The be at variance with their own Board brande in the Colony? It is simply cruise, inclities to the view that the land she noted in the role of escort say that I have heard none. specimen is a fish lizard, closely to the Biloch & collier, which was whole schenie of Gin Drinkershut that i mi to say that because because our factory at Hok Un can- allied to the prehistoric plesosuris towing the "Hankoy," an old coal Bay, as I have said, is in the air at we hold divergent views we have not produce more than the 0 (0) (fish lizani), which flourished shortly bulk from Sydney to Thursday the moment and until a definite no confidence in von gentlenen as barrels which Mr. da Roza men-
The next 'stunt.' we proposal is put forward it is Boy). But we are glad of this tioned while ago.
Hongkong's Future. after the roal age. When i lived stand millions of yours age the reptile," said Surgeon Lieut. Paradice, impossible to consider or to dis opportunity to express our views, if would have been about 20, long when narrating the incidents of the cuss what our financial position i only to let the Board of Directors When Hongkong has a produc- understand that the time has ing capacity large enough to defy The plesiosaurus, is the type or lead-trip, was to rush from Thursday going to be.
arrived when shareholders desire to all competition I say we shall be Well, gentlemen, with these have a large voice in the, destinies safe and to do that we must have
·ing genus of a family (plesiosauri Leland to the rescue of
Montoro," which had *TUR
facts before you, I hope you will of their properties. (Applause), money and money is offered you dae) of fossil sea-reptiles which abounded in the Mesozoic age, the round on Young Reef.
capital at the friends in the past and we hope to grace. I can picture in my mind's includes the Triassic, Jurassic, and lontores af, apil back into her present juncture and that such a retain in this Ecard, if the rerolu-eye, within the present genera
pulling together, eventually got the increasing the
procedure would not be in the tions the salient point he made was tion, Hongkong not only as a Cretaceous ages.
This specimen," said Surgeon natural element.
this question of a prospective kun commercial port but Hongkong Coming up from the Cull, the best interests shareholders. Pamdice, "was given to us by Mr.Gemnim stayed at Cape Wes-
As one of the Directors in from the Government. I ask you like Shanghai, all the way from Allen, the officer in charge of the ell, and took observations to deler whom you have invested the to consider, that very sound advice Woosung along the banks of
Whampoa, Botanic Gardens, at Darwin, and it
a flourishing is intended for the Sydney Musento.ne the exact position of the cape. management of the Company, of our intal dramatist when he the The fossil was found inland in the Along this part of the Australian will, ask the proposer of the said: "Seither a borrower nor a industrial centre with the border; is one of rugged resolutions to withdraw them. If lender. be." Gentlemen, Father line of our territorial waters on the Darwin district, proving that the coast the oppe towering rocks, ars he does not wish to do so, I will, Robert has said that this is probably mainland flanked by such build-
beauty. he previous existence in which-it-lived- quust, have been many millions of crowned with great fuggets of frou-usa-sharebelder, ask him, if they-on-unul casion and-to-my-windings and chimney-stacks that will The natives of this part, are passed, to-do-the-sporting it is a imique occasion in the history" make Hongkong a big industrial years ago." On the deck of the stone,
Geranium" lay curious object Surgeon-Lieut. Paradice" explained, thing of demanding a poll, as the of public companies in Hongkong as well as a commercial port of covered with a wooden framework. were very low in the scale of requisitionists, though they, may that you have nearly half the num; which we may all be proud. (Ap-]
humanity, and, indeed, were of ape carry the meeting by a show of ber of shareholders coming to you plause). like appearance. while they dis hands, niay not control over half instead of you going to them hat in
Resolutions Carried. played all the treachery of the uren- the shares in the Company. Those hand asking them for money for the
who signed the letter requisition-development of the Company. The Chairman then put the first tures of the jungle.
ing this meeting, I believe, re, They are coming to offer you resolution which, on a show of presented only some 125,000 round $400,000 for the enlargement bands, he declared carried. All On North Island, one of the shares out of a total of 400,000 and improvement of the plant and the Directors with the exception of islands of the Fellow Group, is a shares. (Applause.)
here we have you in the same breath the Chairman together with three In peculiar geological formation.
telling us that that offer must be or four shareholders voted against one place there is a circular area of
A Question.
turned down. To me it is a muique it limestone, half a mile across, which Mr. W.. T. Shewan Might experience and I should be sorry if The second and third resolutions
this very large and representative were carried by a similar ma was christened Bald Hill. En an ask a question? other part of the island is a lodge The Chairman: Certainty.
meeting should turn down that jority, the proposers and seconders the Sydney Museum is a giant sea of dead coral formation, on top of Mr. W. T. Shewan I under offer.(Applause)."
being Mr. J. M. Alves and ME worm, which was, caught on a line, which are mushroom shaped struc- stood the gentleman who proposed
Cement Era Coming.
Figueiredo and Mr. A. A. Alves, | ● The worin easily swallowed a large tures, consisting of Bat rock, sup-the resolution to say that any new hook. A tube of quite inre crusta-ported on pillars of oysters. An machinery required for the Gin I think that in making that ofer and Mr. Raymond respectively. ccans also forms part of a po other very interesting sight was met Drinkers bay scheme would be these gentlemen who represent now Directors Resign, att collection. Among the collection
At this stage. Mr. D. G. M. are several tusks of the male and with 10 miles outside of Darwin, necessarily of the expensive rotary at least 125,000 shares out of where great white anthills, 11ft, ton type. Is he not wrong in that 400,000 were only taking time by female dugong.
The dugang sa 12ft. in height, excited considerable supposition?.
the forelock. They probably think Berard rose and said: have of herbivorous imrine species
The Chairman: Not necessarily, as I do that we are, in quote the listened with the greatest of Inter- mammals, and doubtless it is the curiosity. Stretches of land a couple animal that has been mistaken for of miles across are covered with I think he said modern plant but words of a leading member of a firmest to the speeches made by the spoken myself on the subject there the fabled mermaid. The husks of these ant nests, which ran practi- tint, is of course, a matter for the of stockbrokers in London, at the shareholders to-day and having
management entirely,
very beginning of the cement ers. the female, which are used for feedcally north and south.
You will remember that, the firm of is nothing further for me to state, Father Robert.
Messrs. Horne recently acquired the But I feel that as a Director my Father Robert said he only rose control of the interest of the whole policy and my views with regard
17C The Gaciens battery of four to support the speech made by Mr of the Associated Portland Cement to the conduct of the business ing. Some of the fish and other naval guns placed by Germans on Bento. Raza torde Compenice in London and that Mr. Of the Conanth specimens of marine life secured the embankment at Ostend, after clear and able speech but it might Horrie told us that we were, at the in accordance with the wishes of shareholders and I now Be very rare, and have not yet been the Vindictive a", attack, is abortly leave a wrong impression if it made beginning of the cement er wish to give notice to our Chair- classified.
While they are comte disappear. The guns are being them thinks that the Directors did think that here in Hongkong paratively unknown in Australian waters, it may be that their proto: reduced to scrap, and the battery not realise the necessity to change have evidence of that begining. We man that I wish to resign my will soon be no more than the plant. They had had may have in the public and the private position as a Director. According types abound in Indian waters Raro crub of comic aspect were
conversations on the subject and for work, in the reclamations, contom to the Articles of Association, I more than three years they had been plated by the Government at Kaw have to give one month's notice, garnered from the Barrier Reef.;
To the casual observer alt that was to be seen was a huge misshapen piece of chalky stone, but running in a straight line in the centre of the store appeared cireular holes which are, or were, the joints in the vertebrie or blackbone of the reptile. Branching out at even xices are grooves which represent the ribs..
A GIANT SEA WORM.
Another specimen intended for
ang only, are in. long. The malo a tusks are formidable weapons 8in.
in length, and are used when fight.
TRCULIAR OROLOGICAL FORMATIONS.
memory...
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We
not
A conviet named Brown, said to contemplating the change. As to loom City and Kennedy Town, but I hope that he will Be able to | Among them is a fine specimen off have been employed in the black the cost of the, removal. they had the reclamation contemplated at the vacancy at an earlier date the mantis shrimp, which has a smith's shop in Parkhurst Prison, never had an estimate of the cost ini-ki-kok and now in the prospec than that. Ka dark grey bands. Hon. Mr A O Lang There are a number of varieties of which he intended to escape. The He thought that. Bir de Houd did the programme of werke for the desire to associate myself with mantis shrimp, but most of them discovery has caused considerable not know huuch more than the Shing Mat River Valley water the remarks of Mr. Bernard and to are pure white in colour. Huge interest to the prison authorities Directore fixitselves. It might cost scheme, and in the big dock at give one month's one of my sponges, which are of no commercial made a depa qaz qal
five million, three million or two Kowloon 1.200 feet Jon pro resignation from the Board.
Father Robert I do exactly use, being too gritty and hard were
million dollars, when Mr. in Rota rumme of works which will employ sus epching at the obsolete all the cement car present factories the same machinery, they had the Directors can prodige (Hear hoor) I would Sir Paul Chater say the same. The Chairman I extremely the day when the legend a fellow directors. might reply that they had at present Like themiehmercy which had ^: been
stamped on regret femployed in camiont-factories-for
every of have taken this attitude, but I pause for trust that in a month's time they the last 20 years and it was only
ll think better of its over since firee years ago that the new. ype of kilns bad been introduced.
also gathered along the Rest."
LE RIVA GREAT STARFISH,
Another interesting fossil opeci,
anen is that of a ginnt started, which
in futuro will adorn the collection'nt
the Sydney Museum. Jars of crabų,
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Pellow Group. Jelly Asli, having
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