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$472, or whatever be the balance in hand after paying over $722 into the bank, be paid over to Mr. Potts in consideration of his services as liquidator of the Company.
Mr. ORANGE-I have much pleasure in se- conding Mr. Pollock's proposition that the balance be handed to Mr. Potts. I know how much work there has been; it has been a task of exceeding difficulty to get at the numerous shareholders, and especially to bring to their minds what was really required, namely, their consent to the proportion which the fully-paid shareholders would receive, and I think Mr.. Potts has very successfully carried out an extremely difficult liquidation. I have therefore much pleasure in seconding the motion.
Carried
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
stopper occupies the ordinary position on the in, and is below the surrounding edges of the top, which protect it from injury and allow the tins to be stacked as formerly. The cap can be fitted as readily to old and repaired tins as and a lengthy experience has demonstrated that it is capable of re- maining tight under the fery rough treatment which cans without wooden oases receive on Chinese coasting junks.
to new
ones,
SIGNING, OF THE LIAOTUNG RETROCESSION TREATY."
The Asahi's express gives the following telegram from Peking, dated 8th November, 6 p.m. :----
There was another meeting of the respective plenipotentiaries to-day, and the signing of the Treaty has been concluded without a hitch. The compensation is 30.000.000 kuping taels, as has been reported, and the Japanese troops in Liaotung are to be withdrawn within three months after the payment of the sum. The payment is to be made within ten days from to- day.
The LIQUIDATOR-Gentlemen, I am very much obliged to you for the vote. I assure you that when I took over the liquidation I had no idea it would last so long or that there would be half so much work attached to it. Even now I have been unable to hear from a good many shareholders to whom I want to pay money. There are two other resolutions to put before you: (1.) "That the account submitted to this meet- ing and showing the manner in which the winding up has been conducted and the property of the Company disposed of be received and
The Emperor ratified the Liaotung Retroces- adopted." (2.) That the books, accounts, and
sion Treaty yesterday, and the fact was im- documents of the Company and of the liquida-mediately notified to Minister Hayashi in Peking.. tor thereof be retained by the liquidator, he undertaking to destroy the same upon the dissolution of the Company."
Mr. COUGHTRIE seconded. Carried.
The LIQUIDATOR-That is all the business, gentlemen. I thank you for your attendance,
A LOCAL PATENT
Tokyo. 10th November.
CRICKET
THE CRICKET CLUB T. THE LADIES' RE- CREATION CLUB.
A rather special interest usually attaches to the meetings of the L.R.. with the Cricket Club from the fact that it represents in a sort of way the ever increasing struggle between the forces of civilization and refinement, and those of low cunning and brute force it is a sort of
Miranda-Caliban contest; in fact, a tussle be-
Of course much curiosity is excited (and many bitter rebuffs experienced) in the selec tion of the ladies representatives. It is well understood that they have no use for any but really nice men, and if this is true of the rank and file of the team, hos mitch more true is it of him who selects and captains the team. Oh, you bet, he must be a mul nice man.
It may readily be imagined that the Ladies of Hongkong do not leave their champions to battle unassisted by every encouragement and sympathy that may be legitimately extended to them, and in the afternoon the ladies' tent was well filled with all the rank, the fashion, and the beauty of lfongkong.
We would that we were in a position to do justier to the cene presented to the bewildered of eve
the delighted and
[November 21, 1895..
But we fandy we hear the indulgent reader→ you notice that in these little exchanges of confidence between the editorial staff and the reader it is always the gentle reader, or the intelligent reader, or the indulgent reader. our part, This is not mere sycophancy on believe us, for if we had reason to believe that you were otherwise than gentle and intelligent, be assured that we would unhesitatingly say 80; but in the absence of proof positive to the contrary we persist in thinking well of you; and between burselves you would not be any better pleased if we referred to you as the addled-brainell reader, or the chuckle-headed reader, or even the puzzle-pated reader. But to return to our muttons once we fancy we hear the indulgent reader say, Well, but what about the cricket and the scores, &c." My dear sir, or my good madam, or fair miss, as the case may be, to blazes with the scores and the devil take the cricket. Do
more
you suppose that on an occasion like this any body bothers his or her head about the cricket, or that any member of the Cricket Club would not prefer to be beaten into dust at the fair hands of their opponents to achieving the most heroic victories over our enemies. At these meetings, believe us, the play is not the thing. What does it matter that Mr. Anderson made. 44, or that Mr. Anton and Mr. Vallings put nearly
on
two hundred
for the eighth wicket. Who cares to learn
rung
that Mr. Elliott took 5 wickets for 49 runs, or that Captain Hadly was missed at point. Suppose the wicket at the City Hall and was a trifle bumpy. Granted that Mr. Firth was getting a bit of work on. We ask you what does it matter, so long as the broad fact remains that the Cricket Club have been once more. honoured with the presence of the L.R.C. upon their ground, that the sun has shone, and that the band by the great kindness of Major Faithfull and the officers of the Hongkong Regiment) has played.
One very curious optical delusion was to be seen during part of the second innings of the Club; wreaths of smoke appeared to be issuing from the lips of one or two of the outfields. Of course it could not have been smoke, really, because, as we understand it, people don't smoke on a cricket field, but the delusion was complete- possibly it was due to refraction of the atmo- sphere. We hope the Club will get Dr. Doberok to t the refraction altered before the next match.
L.R.C.
C. W. Knoz, a Anderson, b Elliott... G. D. Campbell, c Erekiel, b Firth Surg-Majur eade, b Elliott
Capi. Eccles, K B., Elliott
C. V. Percival, R.B., c Anderson, ↳ Elliott Rev. Vallings, ↳ Gillingham
A. W. Mounecy, e Elliott, b Davies.
1 15
10
1
0
67
*
Dr. Atkinson, e Gillingham, b Elliott...... A. B. Anton, not dut
0
111
P. B Sheldon, pot out
Surg. Major Wescott, did not bat........
Extras
18
Total...
=72
BOWLING ANALYSIS.
Overs. Maid. Runs Wide. N.B. Wicket
22 5 59
C. M. Firth. Gillingham H. M. C. Elliott 14
A recent application for Letters Patent in Hongkong which appeared in our columns brought under our notice a very novel device for tween the well born and highly gifted in the closing the filling aperture in kerosine tis.colony and the riffraff of the town. Probably few of our readers do more than casually glance at these applications, and still fewer realize the magnitude of the interests involved in this particular case. The inventer Mr. C. F. Mendham, au engineer, formerly in the employ of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, bas hit upon the happy idea of clos ng the filling holes in the top of these tius by a means which at once commends itself to the general publié- as well as to those specially interested in the industry. The novelty of the invention lies chieffy u, the fact that the cap is secured to its seat by direct pressure. no solder being required, and the use of tinmyn's fires and soldering appliances in proximity to the recent- ly filled tius being entirely avoided. a possible source of langer from fire is at once removed. We understand that the firm of Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg & Co., to whose enterprise is due the inspectator in the north-west corner of the troduction of the bulk oil business into China. ground upon the day in question. Oh, that have adopted this system for closing all the tius our words might be of feathers and of fans; of issued from the extensive petroleuni storage and puffs and patch of pleats, polonaises, and canning installation at Tai-kok-tsui. The special pelisses(correct us, Mr Printer, if these words are machinery and appliancies for manufacturing improperly spelt); or more difficult still, that and closing the cap Were ruade by the
we might speak of the perils that lio screened Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, behind the fringed curtains of a hundred eyes; like who, it will he remembered. erected the tanks that we might hint of spices that are
or that we and set up the tin-making factory. Some softest music to attending ears; hundreds of thousands of tius closed by the new might adequately describe the fact that their method have already been in circulation during golden hair was hanging down-but stay, we the past few months, and the change has no fancy this phrase has been used before. Our doubt attracted the attention of some of the old friend Solomon, mind you, he could have more observant. Technically described, the new run you off a little word-painting upon an oc cap consists of a disc of tiu plate, formed with casion like this. He did not stick at a trifle an annular groove around its circumference, when he wanted a metaphor or a figure of which fits over a corresponding projection on speech. What a fortune that man would have the top of the can, the metallic surfaces of the made as a special reporter; though we must cap and projection being bought into intimate. say that we think he laid it on a bit too thick contact by a process of rolling and expanding, occasionally. Some of the terms he applied to and it may be mentioned that herein lies the his beloved make one inclined to think that he distinctive feature of the invention, which places was trying to pull her, we mean that they it outside the category of stoppers depending were uttered in the way of badinage and are not for their efficiency upon the accuracy of their to be taken quite seriously. Any how, we fitting. As an instance illustrative of the don't know any ladies in Hongkong who would astonishing rigidity of form which Mr. take it as a particular compliment to be told Mendham has introduced into his cap, we may that their hair is like a flock of goats, or that state that actual experiment has shown that an their noses are like high towers that look to- internal pressure of 250 pounds is necessary towards Damascus. Of course times change and force it outwards from its seat, and as applied tastes change with them, and we are inclined to to the ordinary kerosine tin it-is absolutely tight think that noses are worn smaller now, and the Reade and secure. We need hardly say that the new taste in hair is different from what it used to be.
P. G. Davies T. S. Smith
.0 ∙1-
20
4 57 0 0
1
5
49
33
9 6
26 R. F. Lammert. 4 0 21 Anderson
2 0
HX.C.C. G. R. Gillingham, o Atkinsʊn, b"
Vallings
C. M. Firth, b Campbell
P. O. Davies, c Eccles, b Valling T. S. Sith, Eccles, b Vallings
13
Tab Resde..
A. Anderson st. Sheldon, b Vallings 41 Lapi Hadley, o Westcott, b Vallings H. M. C.Elliott, è Bheldon, b
Westcott
W. 8. Frod, l.b.w., b Westcott... E. Ezekiel, Sheldon, b Vallings R. F. Lammert, not out J. Hooper, Heade, ↳ Vallings..
Extrus
Vallings Campbell. Westcott
Eccles
• Mounkey Eccles...
6 b Reade
10 Elliott, not out...
not cut
9
gb Reade .3 ....
·4-b Reade..........
..127
8 u Reade
Extras..
Total.
BOWLING ANALYSIS. First Innings.
Total..
b
*13
Overs. Maid. Kuns, Wide, N.B. Wicket
16 2 73 0 0
8 2 27 7 2 18 Second Innings. 5.3 0 19 5 0 38
:
0.