December 31, 1898.]
ASSETS.
Property
Buildings
Buildings extension
Plant
Water supply
Mill stores.
Coal
Furniture
Cotton stock
Cotton and yarn in process
Yarn stock
Unexpired fire insurance premia
268,031.44 92,135.81
Rates and taxes (applicable to next year) Repairs and renowals
Sundry debtora
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank
ash with compradore
Profit and loss account
Tis.
113,141.81
15,857.31
17,649.89
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
the table in front of the urn and facing the 138,873.86 courtyard of the hall. While all this went on Viceroy Chang and his staff kept perfectly still standing with bowed heads until the Im- 360,167.25 837,417.05 perial messenger cried out with a loud, resonant 19,930.45 voice: Listen to the sacred edict of the Em- 6,755.86 press Dowager!" Immediately the Viceroy and 1,800.00 those behind fell on their knees and began 3,843.61 making the Imperial obeisance of nine kotows and three genuflections. This over but still in 304,932.63 a kneeling position and with bowed and hum- 6,280.38 bled heads they received the Imperial message 344.15 which was given by the messenger, standing 1,833.58 perfectly erect, in the first person singu- 42,141.02 Iar:
I, the Empress Dowager, am exceedingly 612.83 pleased with you, Chang Chih-tung, for you have ever been loyal, faithful, and just to the Imperial dynasty while you have also performed | your duties in a sincere and diligent manner. Respect this!" The message was received in decorous silence and again the ceremony of three genuflections and nine kotows was per- 31,123.05 formed. As the Viceroy rose up from his re- 12,879.64
cumbent position the Imperial messenger, who 2,083.91 521.83
had now become a Literary Chancellor again 2,500.00 and a junior officer to the former, went down - 250.00 on his two knees in his turn to the Viceroy who 3,750.00 returned the salute, but with only one knee touching the ground. And so ended a ceremony which seemed all the more impressive through being mostly performed in deep silence. When the visitor left the viceregal yamén he received the usual official salute of three guns being, according to Chinese etiquette, an Imperial messenger no longer, having once delivered his
Tis. 1,870,762.61
PROFIT AND Loss Account,
To interest
To fire insurance
To rates and taxes
To printing and advertising
Dr.
...........
To offices expensas (one half only charged)
To auditor's fees
To directors fees
To General Managers' commission Tls. 13,742.15
(not charged)
Cr.
Tis.
Tle. 53,088.43
Tis.
By balance from last year Tis. 41,261.84 By less dividend paid....85,000.00
preliminary expenses 3,957.78
By less written off for
By transfer fees
By balance of working account By balance
-88,957.78
LOSS OF THE STEAMER
“GLENAVON."
2,303.88
134.00
mission.
At a regular meeting of the Victoria tory held on the 23rd instant Sir Knight 1. D. Goddard was elected Eminent Preceptor for the ensuing year and Sir Knight J. J. Bryan Treasurer.
The annual Christmas concert for the patients of the Government Civil Hospital was given on Tuesday afternoon, and was attended by H.E. the Governor and Lady Blake.. A Christmas tree was held after the concert.
December. Mr. F. W. Stokes, bookkeeper in A painfully sudden death occurred on the 23rd the employ of the Robinson Piano Co., had just closed the store and was in the not of locking the door when he was seized with a fit of giddiness, to which he was subject, and fell
down.
Rennie was sent for, but before the doctor's He was at once carried inside and Dr.
gentleman leaves a widow, with whom much arrival Mr. Stokes had expired. The deceased sympathy will be felt. The doctor gave it as his opinion that death had resulted from failure of the heart's action: The deceased had been in the colony for about twelve months, having come from Ceylon.
The annual distribution of prizes at the Belilios Public School was made on 23rd December. The school year ends in July, and the prize giving had been so long delayed owing to the continued indisposition of the head mistress, Mrs. Bateman, that it was decided to hold it in private, and no invitations were sent out. The prizes were distributed by Mr. Brewin, the Inspector of Schools. Thanks are due to the following gentlemen who subscribed to the prize fund: The Hon C.P. Chater, C.M.G, Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, Hon. F. R. Belilios, C.M.G., Hon. J. J. Bell-Irving, Captain Anderson, Captain Burnie, Messrs. R. Cooke, Chan Pat, Chan Tong, D. R. Crawford, Victor Deacon, D. Gillies, Fnug Wa Chan, Ho Amei, Ho Fook, Ho Tung, H. Humphreys, T. Jackson, Li Shing, Lau Wsi Chuen, H. N. Mody,
The meaning to be drawn from this distinc- tion from the Empress Dowager seems to be that she acknowledges that the Viceroy Chang 83,000.68 is too powerful to be dismissed summarily like 17,649.89 the others who have suffered from her relent
less hatred, although the Viceroy was just as Tls. 63,088.43 much "in it" as ex-Governor Chên of Hunan and others, and she hates him with a deep and | profound hatred because of his telegrams to her Shewan. Harry Wicking, A. G. Wise, A. that he considered his allegiance was due more Rodger, H. L. Dennys, Wai Lun Shik, Wy to the Emperor than to her, and hinted that he Seng, and J. M. Forbes. would not sit quietly to see his Majesty deposed in favour of some other creature of hers Her olever Majesty has therefore made the best of her position by sending him a message as a special distinction, an honour she has denied to his more powerful colleague of the Yangtsze Valley, Viceroy Liu of Nanking. Perhaps she trusts in this way to create jealousy and distrust between these two great officers of the Crown, and we may rest assured that she will use all her statecraft to accomplish this, if such indeed is her aim. But she also knows that she has incurred the deep hatred of a large section of her Hunan subjects by her ruthless measures after the coup d'etat, through which fell the head of the martyred Tan Sze-tung, the son of the ex-Governor of Hupeh; the imprisonment for life of Hsn Chih-ching; the banishment of Li Tuan-fen, etc., etc., all of these being influential members of the innan aristocracy.-N. C. Daily News.
The steamer Glenavon, which left Hongkong on Thursday afternoon at five o'clock on her homeward voyage, struck about a quarter past seven on a submerged rock off Shamun Island. As it was found the water was making rapidly an attempt was made to heach the vessel. but she sank before the shore was reached. Most of the crew and all passengers escaped in the boats, two of which arrived here yesterday morning. The other two have not yet been heard of. H.M.S. Rattler and several steam- launches have gone out in search of them. It is feared that they have been swamped, and their occupants (who include Chief Officer Dizon, Third Engineer Ainsley, and Second Steward Wilson) drowned. Quarter-master Smith, who swan ashore, died from exhaustion.
DELIVERING A、 IMPERIAL MESSAGE.
According to a Wuchang dispatch H.E. Viceroy Chang recently received a surprise visit from Peking. It appears that Wu, the new Literary Chancellor of Hunan, when en route from Peking to his post the other day, called at Wachang and sent on an officer ahead of him to inform Viceroy Chang that he (the Literary Chancellor) had a verbal message for him from the Empress Dowager. On receipt of this in- telligence the great hall of the viceregal yamên was draped at once with red silk while on the long Table of Justice" at the top of the hall were placed a big urn filled with burning incense and two large lighted candles placed one on each side of the urn. In this hall Viceroy Chang and his personal staff, including the local authorities, stood, keeping on the right- hand side of the room, Viceroy Chang a few steps in front of his staff, and there awaited the arrival of the Imperial messengers. Amidst an Imperial salute of nine gans followed by the profound silence of the assembled multitude, the bearer of the Empress Dowager's verbal edict was carried in his sedan-chair through double lines of armed soldiers right up to the threshold of the hall, when alighting, he walked pompously up to the side of the Table of Justice and then turnet! square round keeping in the middle do
HONGKONG,
from the 1st January.
Magazine Gap is to be supplied with gas
suitable as quarters for married soldiers.
The War Department is advertising for houses
reported as occurring in the colony last week.
There were no cases of communicable disease Lord Charles Beresford left Hongkong for Canton on Wednesday night for a day or two. arrived by the P. & Ŏ. steamer Chusan on Major-General Gascoigne and Mrs. Gascoigne Sunday.
Mr. Granville Sharp returned to the colony yesterday by the C.P.R. steamer Empress of China.
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At the regular meeting of the Zetland Lodge, No. 525, held on Tuesday evening, Bro. G. Piercy, who had been elected Worshipful Master for the ensuing year, was duly installed in the chair by Right Wor. Bro. the Hon. C. P. Chater, the District Grand Master, Assisted by the District Grand Lodge Officers, Wor. Bro. Pieroy invested his officers as fol- lows-I.P.M., Wor, Bro. G. J. B. Sayer, S.W., Bro. J. Dyer Ball; J.W., Bro. J. W. L. Oliver; Treasurer, Wor. Bro. G. A. Caldwell; Secretary: Bro. E. Ralphs; S.D., Bro. O Ordish; J.D., Bro. J. J. Bryan; Organist, Bro. G. Grimble; Director of Ceremonies, Bro. B. B. Harker; I.G., Bro. G. F. K. Sachse; Steward, Bro. J. Shelton; Tyler, Bro. B. Jorus. A Past Master's jewel was voted to Wor. Bro. Sayer in recognition of his services as Worshipful Master during the past year. After the closing of the Lodge the brethren dined together in the banqueting hall, and the usual loyal and Masonic toasts were duly hon- oured.
The 23rd annual meeting of the District Grand Lodge of Hongkong and South China was held on 29th Deo., at which Wor, Bro. E, C, Ray presided. The following appointments were made and officers invested :-District Senior Grand Warden, Wor. Bro. W. C. H. Hastings; District Junior Grand Warden Wor. Bro. J. Bryant; D.G. Chaplain, Wor. Bro, F. Salinger; D.G. Treasurer, Wor. Bro. L. Ford; D.G. President Board of G. P., Wor. T. F. Hough; D.G. Registrar, Wor. Bro. W. Bro. G. A. Caldwell; D.G. Secretary, Wor Bro. A. ()'D. Gourdin; District Senior Grand Deacon, Wor. Bro. R. Mitchell; District Junior Grand Deacon, Wor. Bro. E. P. Boud; D.G. Superintendent of Works, Wor. Bro. G. J. B.
Museum last week, 189, of whom were Euro-Sayer; D.G. Dir. of Ceremonies, Wor. Bro, H.
There were 2,365 visitors to the City Hall
peans..
The death rate last month was, for the British and for the Chinese community, 17.6. and Foreign community, civil population, 17.8.
Lord Charles Beresford has accepted an invit- ation to dine with the Hongkong Branch of the Navy League on the 3rd January.
Section A of Marine Lot No. 7 together with the reclamation in front thereof was offered for sale by auction on 29th Dec. by Mr. H. N. Mody, but was bought in.
E. A. Hoile; D.G. Assistant Dir. of Ceremoniel, Wor. Bro. Geo. Piercy, Jr.; D.G. Sword Bearer, Wor. Bro, J. Hutchison; D.G. Standard Bearers, Wor. Brus. J. H. Pearson and T. H. Siemsen; D.G. Organist," A. G. Ward; D.G. Pursuivant, Wor. Bro Bro. C. W. Spriggs; D.G. Stewards, Bros. J. J. Bremner; D.G. Assistant Pursuivant, Wor D. Ball, F. D. Goddard, F. W. Clark, WT Kesy, E. Q. Cooper, and J. Naismith, D.G Tyler, J. H. Grimble,
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