370
ABJETS.
By 4 ferry boats as per last account $78,455.00 By payments on account of two
new double-enders.
.... 16,750.00
By goodwill as per last account
By accounts receivable
By Hongkong and Shanghai Bank
By Hongkong and Shanghai Bank' No. 2
account
By cost of 8 turnstiles
By less written off
By cash in hand
..$1,224.55 224.55
PROFF AND LOR ACCOUNT. To repairs and alterations to boats To loss on forged share certificates To balance appropriated as follows-
Directors' and auditor's fees Dividend of 12 per cent. on
'$75,000 for 12 months.
90,205.00 10,000.00 512.47
19,361.18
3.75
1,000.00 100.00
$121,182.40
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
Battery-20 tons of stone from Woods Flat Mine has been treated at the Company's battery for a yield of 12 ounces retorted gold.
33 tons of a trial crushing from the Caledonian Underlie Shaft has been treated for a yield of 7 oz. 10 dwts. retorted gold, inclusive of a little Amalgam from a trial crushing of 34 tons taken from the North level, and Stopes at the Caledo- nian Shaft (Main).
[May 26, 1900
Mr. J. R. Crook lins been appointed Acting Sanitary Surveyor during the absence on leave of Mr. R. F. Drury.
Messrs. H. F. Carmichael and E. O. Murphy have been appointed surveyors of boilers of unlicensed steamships under 60 tons burden.
At the Magistracy on the 19th inst. Black, the steward on board the S. S. Royalist, was charg ed before Mr. Gompertz at the Magistracy with General Remarks. After conferring with the wilful murder of Mr. Reid, the second off- W. Best we decided to discontinue work at the
cer. Evidence of arrest was given by Inspector. Great Eastern tunnel, Caledonian Main and Gauld, who produced a Winchester rifle, which Underlie Shafts, and start operations near the he said he found in the Captain's room with Southern end of the Company's boundary, where nine cartridges in the magazine and an exploded $
J. Long is getting good stone 23 feet from boun-cartridge in the breech. The case was adjourn-
ed until to-day. 7,422.03 dary line, which appears to trend North. We are 4,652,50 down 30 feet with a small prospecting shaft and should cut the good stone after another 30 feet of sinking, which will take us about four weeks to complete.
c.
$1,000,00
9,000.00
Dividend of 6 per cent. on $25,000
for 6 months
1,500,00
Written off turnstiles...
224.55
Transferred to reserve fund. 2,000.00
Carried forward to new account
894.95
14,619.50
$26,694.08
By balance from last account
$ c. 551.81
By nett earnings of boats
By interest
By scrip fees
BESERVE FOND.
To balance
By balance from last account By transfer from profft and loss account
GREAT
25,845,55
a
A couple of fishing junks moored in Kowloon Bay had an unpleasant experience on Friday even- ing, the 18th inst. They were visited by between 12 and 14 men armed with revolvers who fired J. Long is putting through another crushing number of shots, wounding one of the fishermen. of 20 tons at the Company's Battery, and judg-They then ransacked the junks, and having col- ing from the copper plates the stone will yield over 1 oz. to the ton.
I feel very sanguine that we will get a patch of Gold in our in new prospecting shaft.
I remain, gentlemen,
Yours faithfully,
T. WATERS.
lected a quantity of clothing and jewelry to the value of $40 rowed off in a small boat towards Kowloon City. Eight men were subsequently arrested in a houso at Tokowan with some f the stolen property in their possession.
When the jury was being selected at the Criminal Sessions on the 18th inst. Mr. B., C. M. Johnson's name was the first called out.
120.72 HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS. He did not respond and his Lordship directed
176.00
$26,694.08
$ C.
$4,000.00
$
c.
"C" MACHINE GUN COMPANY. The May picnic of the "C" Machine Gun Company was the best attended of any yet, there 4,000.00 being present about 30 members and prospective members. A maxim gun was taken, originally for the purpose of a gun lecture on board the launch, as it was expected to be too hot to land 2,000.00 early, but through the kindness of the Com- 2,000.00 mandant the gun was furnished with two boxes of ammunition and two long targets. On land- ing tiffin was first disposed of, and then each mem. ber took his turn at the maxim, firing about 30 rounds, which practice was made the most of under the able guidance of Sergeant-Instructor Milligan, who also contrived that jams and other stoppages should occur so that the member might gain practical mastery of the gun.
$4,000.00
Edward OSBORNE,
Secretary.
EASTERN AND CALE- DONIAN GOLD MINING CO., LD.
The following is the Report for the month ending 14th April, 1900:-
To the Directors of the Great Eastern and Caledonian Gold Mining Co., Ltd.
Gentlemen,-During the past four weeks the following work has been done in your mine.
Caledonian Main Shaft.-The Contractors have advanced the bottom level North a fur- ther distance of 54 feet making a total of 90 feet from the Crosscut. After driving about 6 feet, the reef mentioned in my last report cut out, and we have since been driving the blank ground, but now we have a small leader in the face, from which I have taken samples, but found that it contains no gold. I started to stope over this level, but the reef pinched very small, and only showed a few colors of very fine gold when prospected. Stoping has since been discon- tinued, and a trial crushing from the North level and stope cleaned up, the result being very unsatisfactory, only getting a little Amalgam from 34 tons crushed, which has been put in *with the trial Crushing from the Caledonian Underlie Shaft. The Contractors have ad- vanced the South level a further distance of 52 feet, making a total of 81 feet from the Cross- cut; this level has been chiefly in blank ground, with the exception of a few small bunches of poor stone in the formation.
Caledonian Underlie Shaft.-I regret to state that after 33 tons were taken out of the Stopes at this Shaft, the Chute of stone mentioned in my previous report almost cut out and lost its gold. I am of the opinion that the trial crushing of 33 tons for a yield of 7 oz. 19 dwts. retorted gold, came from the first 12 or 15 tons broken. Stoping has been stopped. I am surprised at the result, as I felt confident, when we started to prush, the stone would yield from 5 dwt. to 7 dwts to the ton. Although some of the samples show up fairly well in the prospecting dish, the gold must be very fine and has no body.
Tunnel on Great Eastern Lease.The tunnel has been advanced a further 62 feet, making a total of 85 feet from starting point. Nothing payable has been discovered.
A Spoon competition was also held at 500 yards,there being no time for two ranges; the following being the best scores, military mark- ing--
* Sergeant Smillie.. * Corporal Sherwin.. Gunner J. Lee... Gunner Logan....
Gunner Michael
Gunner Berkley
Score. H'cap. Total. 24 4 28 5 20
25 17 7 24 16 7 23
16
7
23
14 7
21
that he should be summoned for two o'clock. Mr. Johnson appeared in the afternoon, and his Lordship, addressing him, said: You did not answer your name this morning when it was called-Mr. Johnson: I had forgotten all about it. I mislaid my jury summons and it escaped my memory.-His Lordship: Do you think people ought to forget these important engage- ments ?--Mr. Johnson: No; I do not think so. -His Lordship: Well, I am afraid I must make your memory a little more ready than it is by asking you to pay a fine of $5.
At the Supreme Court on the 21st instant Sergeant Lacock was called forward and the Chief Justice addressed him as follows:-I omitted to do on Saturday what I intended to do, and that was to express the sense of the Court with regard to the diligence and promp- titude displayed by you in the detection of the robbery committed at Shaukiwan. I think, in the circumstance of the case, a good many people having captured a few of the robbers would have been content and gone quietly back to the station, but you were not weary in well doing and went out and captured a third. I think your conduct is very much to be commended as show. ing great zeal and energy and discretion. Mr. Mackie, will you kindly bring the conduct of Sergeant Lacock specially to the notice of the
The outing concluded with a bathe from the Superintendent. launch.
* Winners of Spoons.
HONGKONG.
During the week ending 20th May, the City Hall Library was visited by 392 non-Chinese and 213 Chinese; the Museum by 182 non-Chinese and 1,999 Chinese.
On the 18th inst. Mr. S. A. Bux, fourth Clerk and Assistant Hindustani Interpreter, was presented with a souvenir, a handsome gold ring, by the Magistracy Staff upon his promotion to The presentation was made by Mr. William Ng Kwai Shang.
the Police Office.
It is notified in the Gazette that at a special meeting of the Sanitary Board on the 17th instant it was resolved to declare the whole city fo Victoria infected with plague. Previously on the 10th instant the villages of Yaumati and Hunghom, Kowloon, had been declared infected. At the Supreme Court on the 19th inst. the Chief Justice interrupted the proceedings by stating that the jury would be pleased to hear that telegram had been received to the effect that the seige of Mafeking had been abandoned and that the British relief force had entered the town.
At the Magistracy on the 23rd inst, several persons were charged with keeping brothels in certain prohibited streets at West Point. Mr. Francis, Q.C., appeared for the defendants and raised various objections, which were, however, overruled. Ultimately Mr. Gompertz made an order giving the defendants until August 1st in which to vocate their premises. -
The explanation of the delay of the Whiting and Fame, which we reported in our issue of the court martial on 18th, was furnished by a H.M.S. Terrible the same morning, when Lieute- nant-Commander Edward Kelly, of the Whiting, was charged with refusing duty. Captain Percy Scott, C.B., was the President, and the other officers forming the Court were :-Captain J. H. T. Burke, H.M.S. Orlando; Commander C. W. Winnington-Ingram, H.M.S. Daphne; Commander Blackburne, of the Naval Yard; and Commander Charlton, H.M.S. Orlando. The Court found Commander Kelly guilty of refusing duty and ordered him to be dismissed from his ship and lose five years' seniority. It appears that Commander Kelly had applied for leave to go home and had obtained permission. which was afterwards withdrawn.
At about eight a.m., on the 19th inst. the directed to a attention of the police was large orowd assembled in front of a shop in Queen's road East. On going to the front they found that a Chinaman had taken refuge in the shop from another Chinaman, who was brandishing a formidable-looking weapon some. thing like a chopper and threatening what he would do for the man of whom he was in pur- suit. This man was taken into custody and brought up at the Magistracy for disorderly behaviour, and fined $10. His story was that he was engaged in his occupation as a car- penter when another carpenter came up to him and asked him to join a sceret society and to pay him a fee. This the defendant refused to do, saying that he had no money. High words ensued, and getting tired of his import- unity he chased him away with a chopper.