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to trade and commerce. On receipt of the despatok I instrvoted you to investigate and report on the matter. Since then I discovered that besides the provincial subsidiary coin the market is also flooded with Hongkong ten- Hent and five-cent pieces, and that the latter monies were coined by the mints in London and Bombay. These coins should be prohibited in Cantor. I have already discuss'd this subject with H. B. M. Conni-General personally and he told me that instructions have already been given to the authorities in Bombay to cease coining those subsidiary coins, He further stated that the Fongkong Govern ment have collected in several millions of their subsidiary coins and have ordered them to be melted and that in future they will not import || any more subsidiary coins., Last month I deputed Taotsi Ho to ongkong to bold a conference with the British authorities there, and they seem to agree with our opinion on the subject. I enclose herewith
copy of regulations governing the nensos of subsidiary coins which were drawn up by Yan.
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TURT-HAN BAILWAY COMPANY'S MEETING AT WONG SHA: PROCEEDINGS UNWORTⱭY
OF CIVILIZED PEOPLE."
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
CHINESE PLACE-NAMES.
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resolution. i.e. that the directors of the Com-tion. The Library has been enriched by abouit. pany be empowered to use the funds of the a deson volumes presented by their modern {~ Company to purchase shares and bonds of the sathors. To them I reiters'a the Bociety's
Kowloon-Canton Railway Company, which thanks and hop, that their example may was opposed by the majority of the share-emulated by writers, especially Members of holders. The opposition pvty were in favour | the Society. of the resolution.] The result was a hot arga. ment. All of sudden a chok. pau (large er cker bomb) was let off by somebody in the middle of the audience. This set the crowd in confusion as they thought it was the report of a gun and the majority of the crowd imme diately started to disperse, but Lan Chu Shek and others of the opposition party rushed to the platform. They auatched the accounts and tore down all the resolutions that wara posted
beak of the platform. The Nam Hoi and Poon Vn Magistrates rushed to the telephone and rang up the nearest station for police and gave orders to the police that were there to come and appress the disturbance. The Chair. | ruan, the directors and the railway staff on see- ing the dangerous attitude taken by the opposi tion party, and to avoid free fight and bloodshed,
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In the afternoon the Chief Superintendent of Police, receiving information that the opposition party intended to make a raid on the Head | Office that evening, sent 100 policemen to guard
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Petitions were sent to the Vineroy by the Chairmau and the Chief Superintendent of Police reporting what had happened at fle meeting, and His Excellency the Viceroy issued the followin~ proclamation : -
Over 4,000 shareholders attended the meeting which took place at Wong Sha on the 2nd instant. No shareholder without a ticket was permitted admittanos into the shed which was erected for the occasion, and tickets were obtainable on production of share scrip at the Head Office. This precantion
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With reference to the two petitions re the because the directors anticipated tronble. disturbance in the meeting hall, the proceed. Before the meeting commenced the Chan Yeeings were unworthy of civilisal people and Sho (Mesars. Yeong and (han's cliqne) distri. are salonlated to lower the chimeter of the buted the following express (translation, from | merobants whoļare managing railway affair". which we have omitted some passages that, I have issued instructions that the matter be appear for strong-Ed.)
properly investigated by the authorities and police and that the ringleaders be arrested and severely punished. It is alleged that the Chap Yee Sho oliqns fired the cracker-bomb to cause confusion and spis› the opportunity to cause a general mélée. The Nam Hoi and Poon Yn Magistrates and the Superintendent of l'olice were present and I await their report to issue orders for the necessary investigation and to decide whatever measure should be taken for the arrest and punishment of the offenders."
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OFFICIAL APPOINTMENT.
Vie rov Chou Fa has received a despatch from Peking appointing H. E. Wa Ting Fang President of the Chinese section of the Kowloon- Canton Railway.
ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY.
CHINA BRANCH.
The annual meeting of this Branch was held at Shanghai on April 4th. Bishop Monle, Mr. Morno and Mr. Kingsmill have promised papers. Mr. J. Mencarini, action Hon. Librarian, read the following report:- WAS fish |
In autumn last rear on sccount of the Hon.
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A USEFUL COMPILATION. In the spring of 1916 a joint Commission of the Chinese Imperial Post and the Imperial Tele- graphs was formed at Shanghai for the purpose of systematising the romanisation of naaien of places in Chins. One essential condition was that the names so settled should be suitable for telegraphing, and this precluded the use of hyphens, aspirates, and discritio marka. Bub- ject to this restriction, the system followed, han been, in the main, the Nanking syllabary as given in Giles' Dictionary, except for Kwang Inng and a portion of Kwangsi, and partly for Fakien. Where in the north the southern 4, or has been substituted for the local ck (as in Peking, Tientsin, Tsioso, etc.), it was considered that a special rule for pronouncing
the letters would allow the romanisation of non-
English-speaking people to be met as far an possible. The settled forms of names of places loog
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conneolad with Foreigh trade have been left geuerally unchanged; ̈
respect has not been shown to the oventris spelling of the writers on the Taiping Rebellion or of the railway engineers who have surveyed, so much of the country in the past few years.
The romanisation as now settled will not
satisfy sinologues; but it is designed to provide a settled form for the use of corres- pondents writing or telegraphing to places in the interior, with the certainty that, in copying faithfully a postmark or letter-bead,
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indicated, sat will not be sent elsewhere.
Where other means of distinguishing placem have failed, an abbreviation of the name of the Province has been fired. A list of thees shbrevia'ions, as well as of the post ofloss in the Empire, has jast ben published by the Inspectorate General of Customs (Sististion! Department) at the remarkably cheap prion of twenty-five cents. It is a book that should be found useful in many ways in miny offices, particularly as a gazetteer of China.
KULANGSU (AMOY) MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.
Minutes of a meeting of the Municipal Council ot Kulangen, A moy, hold at the Board Room, on the 28th March 1977:-Present: Monera. . B. Marshall (Chairman), C. A. V ̧B›wral, W. Kruse, 8. Okuyams, W. H. Wallace, the Health Oficer and the Secretary.
The minutes of the last meeting are read and confirmed.
Tenders for the new Municipal Buildings
“We bèg respectfully to inform you that the presant managers of the Company have frequently seted in contravention of the regulations of the Company, and havo turned back on the commercial laws,
For instance, they have expunged and altered Imperial Edicts in order to deceive the share. holders. The President and Vice President were both informally elected. They have changed and ourtailed the rights of shareholders, Thus they have abolished the regulation of public votes.
They have used private Individuals' names to invest the public funds of the Company. They have invested the monies at too low rates of interest and They have conspired together to inveigle the shareholders into serious trouble, and even want so far as to falsly scouse them of being haudits, They have need innumerable means to boycott the shareholders. They have disobeyed orders issued by the Boards at Peking and have slighted the officials. In fact they did n they pleased
How can shareholders stand by and permit them to feed on our capital if it
** and meat ? Although the Company was Librarian. Me, W. Sheldon Ridge's resignation, | are considered. established over a year ago it has not been | took пр the noting Librarianship of the registered.* It really amonots to this that a Society. During these few months. I could limited company has now become an unlimited not but confirm the fact that our Library is company. We shareholders have resolved to ons of the richest in the Esst in old and valu. abide strictly by the commercial law No. 19 able books pertaining to our soientide branches. i.e, we refuse to recognize them as directors and I am sure if this were more generally known, also refuse to recognise the President and
our Library would he still more consulted than Vice-President elected. We further refuse to it is at present. With the view of making recognise the annnal statement of accounts this more públic, the Council have decided to furnished to us,
We have specially girenlated re-catalogue the whole of the contents of the this express to inform all the shareholders. Library, on modern principles, and stops are This express is purposely issued by the being taken to have the work done as soon as shareholders of the Yuet Han Failway Compossible. The preparation for re-cataloguing pany for the occasion.”
has been completed, a general overhaul has [*It was officially announced some time ago been made, but it is with regret I have to report that registration had taken place st Peking.] that some works are found missing, fortunately Some of the shareholders objected to the not many and not overvaluable. Some nineteen circulation of the express and a row immediately recent works relating to Chins and its most started. Mr. Li Hing Wai, one of the directors, adjacent countries have been added to the who was elected to take the obair at Library last month. Additions will be made, as the meeting, gave instructions to the railway the Society's financial means will allow, so as guards to permit the
expresses to be to modernise this valuable collection. The distributed and not to interfere, but to arrest Library has been very fairly attended by persons who used violenon. Through his consulting students, and this is certainly very presence of mind the opposition party cooled | encouraging for the Rocisty. In exchanges down and the meeting commenced." The stata. we have gained considerably having now on mant of accounts of the Company up to the our hand most valuable publications from and of the last Chinese your was first read. the best known Societies all over the world. the Chairman proposed the first For the student they form a mine of informa.
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A proclamation, received from the Mized Court Magistrate for the Council's mano- tion, referring to opiam skopy is read. It is decided to inform the Mixed Court Magistrate that while the Council fully approve of the subject matter contained in the proclamation, they consider it undesirable to take any notion un'il the Amoy authorities move in the mattør. As soon as that is done the Council will authoris the issue of the pro- clamation and give the Magistrato every supp ært in carrying it out.
Applications for tou fully paid up, and three twenty five dollars paid up Debentures are onn- sidered and receive an allotment in full. The whole of the two hundred Deb satures authorised to by issued have now been taken up. #
The Superintendent of Police reporte following essen have been dealt with at Mixel Const since the last menting i moaren :- Debt, 2 ; non-payment of inn taxes. 6; proferriar a filmo Summary Arrests:—Kiirapping | Court, 1; Burglary, 1; altemplín munionts with a prisoner undergoin 1: committing à suimao“, 1: escape, 2. (Signed) Frod. B. Ma By order, C. BERKELEY MITCHELE
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