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CORRESPONDENCE.
THE STRONG MAN,
TO THE EDITOR OF THE
DAILY PRESS."
Hongkong, 28th October. SIR-Referring to the concluding portion of your leading article of this morning, I am sure that to the soberer section of your reader and
not least to Sir Matthew Nathan himself,” this fulsome, eulogising, and familiarly "patting on the back" which His Excellency has to put up with from public men and the Press must be eminently distasteful, especially when odious and unnecessary comparisons are insinuated between our present Governor and his pre- decessor.
Man
If Sir Matthew Nathan is the Strong he is reputed and we all believe him to be, Hongkong's citizens may well say, with
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
Company would be held in London during December next, to receive the report of the liquidators, Messrs. D. Maclean and W. H. Dalgleish, and he felt sure the sbareho'ders would desire to record their thanks to these gentlemen for service rendered. Before putting any resolution he would be glad to answer any questions.
There being no questious, the following resolutions were put to the meeting and carr ed
unanimously:
Proposed by the Chairman.'seconded by Mr. W. D. Little-That the report and accounts as now pre-ented be accepted and passed.
Proposed by the Chairman, secinted by Mr. A. McLeod :—That a final share dividend of 4 ent. on the 1803 paid up capital and a per bonus of 10 per cen upon contribute ry premiums he distribufel, both payable at the exchange of 2,6 -16 per Toel; tha Tls. 95,309.17 be carried to the credit of the Reserve Fund, raising
[November 5, 1904.
CROWN LAND SALE.
A piece of Crown land was sold by public auction on the 31st October It is situated at Lot No. 85. The contents in square feet are Tokwawan, and registered as Kowloon Marine
140,000; aranal rent, 804; upset price, $21,000.
the purchaser of the lot shall expend thereon a In the conditions of sale it is provided that
um of not less than $20, 00in rateable improve- ments within two years.
of renewal for a further term of 75 gears at a The lease was for 75 years, with the option
Crown rent to be fixed by His Majesty's Sur-
veyor.
In the special conditions it is provided that the lot and the adjoiing roads to such levels as purchaser shall reclaim the whole area of the
may be approved by the Director of Public with substantial sea wall or slopes to the satis- Works, and shall protect the reclaimed area
all respect, that much is expected of him-much that fund to Tls 800,000, and that the balance faction of the Director of Public W、rks. The
more. indeed, than from those who have been before him. He comes at the opportune moment in the history of the Colony's developments. The agitations of the community-yes, and the
government-have reached their culminating point, and he has the means with a splendid revenue, albeit opium-swelled, to realise the best aspirations of the Colony- revenue which
some of his predecessors wished for in vain. Further, the community-on whose forebears some share of your criticisms must-justly fall -are, happily, less lethargic. Others have sowed, and, in due time, we will not accord Sir Matthew the less praise because he has the
be transferred to i iability Account, closing the
account for 1963,
3. Proposed by Mr. J. M. Young, seconded by Mr. H A. J. Macr1y ; -That Messrs. W. H. Poate. J. N. Jamesou, W. D. Little, G. A.
Matthew. A. McLand, and W. Meyeritk be re-elected directors and that their remuneration
be Tix. 4,00 per annum.
4. Proposed by Mr. J. Stenhouse, seconded
by Mr. C. S. Moore-That Messrs. G. R. Wingrove and B. W. G. Iluyter be re-elected
auditors and that their remuneration be at the
ate of Tis. 200 per annum sach.
This concluded the bus Less, and the meeting
purchaser will, subject to the written approval
of the Director of Public Works, be permitted- to remove earth from Crown land in the vicinity for the purpose of reclamation of the lot. The
purchaser shall form a road 60 feet wide along the north-west boundary of the lot, and also fill the north-eastern and oue 50 feet wide along
in the strip coloured green on the sale plan
to such level as may be approved by, and generally to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works. Any rights as regards marine frentage shall extend only to the south-east frontage of the lot, which measures 400 feet in length. The purchaser shall make arrangements
good fortune to preside over our destinies at closed with a vote of thanks to the directors. with the owners to alter the line of the existing
the harvesting.
"STAR" FERRY CO.
T. B. X.
As soon as the first new Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's godown is completed, in about two months
time, the godown opposite the site fo the new Kowloon ferry landing will be demolished, to make room for an extension of the new 10J-foot- road to the water's edge. Work on the new Kowloon ferry landing will also probably be commenced before the end of the year. The ferry landing at Hongkong, which was recently pamaged by fire, is being repaired. New wings. roofing, etc., will be added to it as soon as the new landing on the Kowloon side is completed. The Star" ferry have now five one-design double-ended steamers. The two most recent
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proposed by Mr. Macray.--N.-C. Daily News.
OUR VOLUNTEERS DISPERSE.
The Volunteer camp at Stonecutter's Island
was struck at six o'clock on October 31st.
H.E. Sir Matthew Nathan, Major-General Villiers Hatton, the Commandant Royal Artillery. Major Chichester. Captain M. K Hodgson, and Captan Smith were present ar the firing on Saturday.
On the 30th October H.E. Major-General
quarrymen's pi-r to the north-east boundary and to rebuild same approximately as shown on the sale plan and to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Works. The north-east boundary of the lot to be 50 feet from the ad- jacent side of the pier when altered.
Messrs. J. J. Lysaught and S. Farrell
purchased the lot for $50 above the upset price there he ng uo opposition.
It is understood that the sale was the out- rome of requisition made by Messrs. Lysaught and Farrell, whose intention is to erect extensive engineering works and build slipways for boats.
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Villiers Hatton told the men he was very pleased with them. The shooting, he confessed, was not so good as he expected. He had seeu the Volunteers do better work on previous. occasions. In that respect, however, the Com- mandant of the Royal Artillery differed with AH TUNG DIPS INTO HISTORY. him, and he was an expert. He read the report made by the Commandant of the Royal Artillery, who thought that the shooting was very fair Conditions were against good shooting; the light and the indistinctness of the targets militating against very successful results. Under the circumstances the Commandant of the Royal | Artillery was well satisfied with the Corps With reference to the Maxims, Major-General Hatton had very little to say. Some of the do so. ompany as held at
operators, one in particular, was at a loss to understand why his Maxim would not work He thought some of the men hardly knew their properly, when very little was wrong with it.
additions to the fleet, the Morning Star and Evening Star, have triple expansion engines.
NORTH-CHINA INSURANCE CO., LD
The following
The first ordinary general meeting of the shareholders of this Shanghai on October 15th. gentlemen were present:--Messrs.. W. H. Poate (Chairman), J. N. Jameson, A McLeod,
W. D. Little, W. Meyerink (Directors). B. C. T. Gray (Secretary), W. H. Anderson, W. Nation, J. Stenhouse, H. A. J. Macray, J. M. Young, Qua Sang, C. S. Moore, and M. Wolff. The Secretary, Mr. B. C. T. Gray, read the notice convening the meeting
The Chairman, Mr. W. H. Poate, said that the report, and accounts having been in the shareholders' hands for some time w uld, with their P
rmission, b. taken as read. The business before the meeting was to pass the report and accounts, to approve of the declaration of the dividend and of the placing of a bum to the reserve fund. The accourts for 1903 had also
to be clrsed and the directors and auditors had to be elected and their xeminneration fixed. The favourable outturn of underwriting
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for 1903 enabled them to propose a considerable addition 10 the reserve fund, and this appeared to th directors to be of th utmo.t importarce It would be seen that while according to their last report the paid-up capital was £1:500 and the 198 rva fund £42,000, the position, if the directors proposals were carried out, would be-Paid-up capital £50,00 and reserve fund, about £10,00, a (much more satisfactory state of affairs from the shareholders' point of view. Advice had been received that the final meeting of the old
work properly in that respect.
On Sunday night Major C. G. Pritchard expressed his appreciation of the conduct and work of the Corps while in
camp.
The camp
be
very
was now concluding, but he was sorry. He would have liked to have continued it for a month or more, although possibly he would not care about getting out of bed at five o'clock every morning. The result of the shooting with the gans he considered to good, and he was glad to see that the Com mandant of the Royal Artillery was of the same opinion, even although His Excellency Major General Hatton thought it was hardly as good as he had seen. Still he was glad to hear Major- General Hatton speak in the strain he did he was not a man to butter
any Corps, and that was a good thing.
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A very anti-Japanese war correspondent named MacHugh said to a Tientsin interviewer: "What sickened me more than even our bad treatment was a conversation I had with a high Japanese staff officer, who said that, when they had finished this war, and got back Manchuria and Saghalien. they then would turn their attention to the German encroachments in China, and the American occupation of the Philippines."
Ah Tung is a treasure. After numerous unsuccessful experiments. I have at last got a boy who knows his duties and has the minimum of faults. His name is Ah Tung. He has not always been a bachelor's boy," but if an open hand and a shut eye (to squeeze pidgin) will keep him one. I am determined to His chief weakness, apart from his faulty calculation of small change, and bis mania for buying Blanco every forty-eight sional barber, and talks like a dozen. Some of hours, is loquacity. He shaves like a profes
his yarns seem worth printing. I'm afraid I haven't quite caught his own peculiar diction; but I have repeated it as nearly as I could remember.
Masta. he opened fire the other morning, studding my shirt while I sipped my morning tea.
Cook he talkee my you pidgin blong litey book. Sposee my tellee you one piecee tlue stoly, all same book can do, you pay my
cumshawn
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Depends on the story. Ah Tung. More better you telles my. Sposee he pukka, number one. my pay you twenty cents."
"My Fata he talkee my dis stoly, b'long nampa one. aw li. My t'inkee mo' betta yon pay fi'ty cents, no?"
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Maskee. My no wanchee.”
Ah Tung (very hastily): Aw li. Twen cents can do. Las night, you go play Blidge. My savvy you no come back dis side two tlee mo'nin time. Aw li. My go Kowloon side chin-chin my Fata, He b'long plenty olo mau, plenty savvy. Befo'-time he no blong bashlar boy, all same my. He cluk, litey pidgin fank wei hong. He laru-pidgin Hongkong side, one tim, masta selum hakcha, plenty go-down have got. By'mby my Fata no b'long chilo, catchee
twen' fi" dollah a mont', all same Potogues cluk. He catchee pampa wan job Amoy side, Dent's.
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