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(8.) In relation to stamp duties the following provision shall bave effect:-
(a.) an instrument of transfer of a share registered in an extra colonial register under this Ordinance shall be deemed to be a transfer of property situated out of the Colony.
(b.) The share or other interes of a deceased member registered in an extra colonial register kept under this Ordinance shall so far as relates to colonial probate duty not be deemed to be a part of his estate and effects situated in the Colony for or in respect of which probate or letters of administration is or are to be granted or whereof an inventory is to be exhibited and recorded.
(9.) Subject to the provision of this Ordio- ance, and of any rules made thereunder, any company may, by its regulations as originally framed, or as altered by special resolution, make such provision as it may think fit respecting the keeping of registers or extra colonial registers.
5. In any case where the Governor-in-Council may be satisfied that it is inconvenient and un- necessary for a company to keep its register of members at its registered office he may in writing under the hand of the Colonial Secretary authorize such company to keep at euch office enly a duplicate registers and from the date of such authorization the rogisters of members kept at the head office of such company shall be deemed to be the register of members under the Principal Ordinance and the company shall be deemed to have complied with the provisions of the Principal Ordinance with regard to registers of members if such register is duly kept under the provisious of the Principal Ordinance.
6.-(1.) When the Registrar of Companies has reasonable cause to believe that a company is keeping in any place where it transacts business outside the Colony a register of members without having a valid licenca under this Ordinance he shall publish in the Gazette and send to the company a notice that at the expira tion of two months from the date of such notice the name of the company montioned therein will unless cause to the contrary be shown be struck of the register and the company will be dis- solved.
(2.) At the expiration of the time mentioned in the notice the Registrar may, unless canse to the contrary is previously shown by the com- pany, strike the name of the company off the register and shall publish notice thereof in the Gazette and on such publication the company whose name is so struck off shall be dissolved: Provided that the liability, if any, of every director, managing officer, and member of the company shall continue and may be enforced as if the company had not been dissolved
(3.) If any company or member thereof feels aggrieved by the name of such company baring been struck off the register in pursuance of this section, the company or member may apply to abe Court, and the Court, if it be satisfie that it is just to do so, may order the name of the company to be restored to the register and there- upon the
shall be deemed to have con- company tinued in existence as if the name had never been struck off; and the Court may, by the order, giva such directions and make such provisions as seem just for placing the company and all other persons in the same position, as nearly as may be, as if the name of the company had never been struck off,
7. If a company makes default in complying with any of the provision of this Ordinance or of any rule or regulation made thereunder, such company shall be liable to a penalty not ex. ceeding $50 for every day during which it is in default.
8. The Governor-in-Connoil shall have power to make rules and regulations for the better and more effectual carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance,
Objects and Reasons. The object of this Bill is set forth in the preamb'e. The Bill flows generally the lines of the Companies (Colonial Registers) Act 1-83. The Governor-in- ouncil is empowere to relieve a company from the necessity of keeping its register at the registered office in Hongkong, In such case the register ept at the head office of the company is to be d omad the re- gister kept under urdinance 1 of 865.
H. Н, J. GoиPRETZ, Attorney General. · ́
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
EVOLUTION OF HONGKONG.
[Written for the Ho gkong Daily Press.)
In due
(Continued from last week)
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Taku, where in accordance with the conveyed course Lord Macartney arrived off intention of the Emperor he was received with every mark of respect, only one slip having been made: the chief of the reception party, a Manchew of high rank, having failed to board Lord Macartney's ship on its first arrival,- act of discourtesy for which be afterwards of the Emperor. So far everything had to all incurred censure and degradation at the hands appearance gone off successfully, and Lord Macartney in view of the exposed nature of the anchorage off the bar decided to send away his fleet. This Manchew, who to all appearance had received heavy bribes from the Canton officials, from the beginning showed his hostility, and Lord Macartney, having sent away Emperor, had no means of openly resenting his his ships, and being now the guest of the studied insalls, and owing to the want of an efficient interpreter was unable to reply. The first of these insults was the hoisting of a flag claiming that the mission was bearing tribute over the vessels attending the Ambassador pro- from a subject state; and finding, probably through the connivance of his interpreters, that the minister made no protest, at Tientsin he was made to perform a mock homage to the supposed presence of the Emperor in a tem porary shrice,
The ingenuity of the Minchew was not yet exhausted, some report having come that the Nepaules, with whom the Emperor was at the time at war, had been assisted by foreigners who wore cap, bis Canton friends most probably concocted a story of their being propagated by the chief. Of all those plots Indian troops, and this tale was assiduously Lord Macartney was ignorant; only be found as he went on that, in spit: of the honourable reception that the Emperor bad orderel, the Embassy was meeting with distrust, and at time ill-will.
Finding that the victim was still unconscious of the game being played on him, & new torture Wag invented this time orders from the Emperor, Lord Macartney was nominally, under informed that under no circumstances could the ceremony of the Kotso be dispensed with, and an elaborale ceremonial was got up, and in practise it beforehand in the presence of the order to ren er him perfect he was required to chief. Although the minis er protested, still on his being told the affair was urgent he was got to declare that he would submit, if a high Chiness officer did the same before a picture of His Britannic Majesty. The Chief was backed up in these absurdities by the Grand Recretary, who had evidently baon got at in the same manner and the ceremony of baiting went on till the arrival of the Mission at Jehol, There it was announced that the Emperor would waive the ceremony and receive the Ambassador in Euro- peau style. Looking back at the affair with our been brought about by the Grand Secretary and present knowledge, we can see that the whole had
the Manchew Prince of their own motion and that the actuating influence had been a huge bribe from the Canton officials, who felt that their monopoly was slipping away, and feared to lise the acorning profits.
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The Emperor Kisulung was at the time an old man of eighty-three, ho in accordance with the practice of an active youth got up at 3 a.m. each day, but was so exhausted by 6 in the after- noon that he regularly retired at that hour. Still personally be was a boru ruler of men, and as a monarch had too much regard to the dignity of office to willingly place any indignity on a indignantly
fellow ruler, and seemingly refused to hear of the proposed ceremony. The personal interview accorded was coincident with the monarch's birth-day celebration, and was merely formal; His Majesty evidently feeling un-qail to further exertion. It was so far as it weat perfectly satisfactory, but the business portin was left in the bands of the Grand Secretaries, and the Manchew Prince, whose ill disposition had never been concealed. To them too was plainly delegated the wri ing of the Imperial reply to
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the King's letter,, which under the outer sem- blance of respect was studiously insulting.
you,
"As the requests", it went on to state, “made by your Ambassador militate against the laws and usages of this our Empire, and are at the same time wholly useless to the end proposed. I cannot acquiesce in them. I again ad- monish O King, to act conforma bly to my amity on both sides, and thereby contribute to intentions, that w may preserve peace aud
our reciprocal happiness. Aftar this my solema warning, should your Majsly, in pursuance of your Ambassador's demands fit out ships. in order to attempt to trade either at Ningpo, Chuan, Tientsin, or other places, as our laws are extremely severe in such a case, I shall be nader the necessity of directing my mandarins therefore live in peace and friendship, and do to force your ships to quit these porte. Let us not make light of my words "
Thus ended an Embassy which well conceived on the part of the British Government, and under an able chief, was yet rendered worse and stupidity of the Court of Directors of the than useless by the wroug-headed blandering East India Company. The Canton mandarins had gained a complete vistory, and from that the brow-bealing of Commissioner Lin, a meet time till the death of Lord Nipier, a victim ot emisssary of the feeble yet truculent Taokwang, the story of British intercourse with China, With Kienlung the energy of the Ta Tsing one of unvarying disgrace and humiliation. dynasty had come to a close, indeed the last years of his reign were marked by a decay which had already commenced to eat into the vitals of the land. He had ceased to take with declining years that interest in affairs of state that had marked his youth, and had permitted his ministers to gradually assume
more and
of Lord Macar ney's mission meant not only the more of the imperial prerogative. The repulse humiliation of England, but marked the extent politic. to which decay had already entere l into the body
Seuile arrogance was in fact in the ascendant at Peking, and statesmanship had been consigned to oblivion, never to return,
(To be continued.)
BAXTER GIRLS' SCHOOL.
The annual sale of work in aid of the C.M.S. Baxter Girls School" Fairlea," was held on Oct. 15 in the City Hall. Thanks to many kind friends there was a fairly extensive collection of fancy goods from home and played on elsewhere, and as these were tastefully dis-
the stalls
and 89 te ladies in charge were very persuas ve new owners were found for ost of the articles. Needless to say the work made by the girls in the school was
mach admired and it did not need the initiative set by Lady Lugard to stimulate a keen interest in the business of the afternoon. Miss Fletcher, who undertook the necessary arrangements for the bazaar had a busy time owing to the absence of the bead of the school, Miss Johnstone, and it is pleasing to know that the results of her labours Wero very satisfactory. There was no ceremonial opening but Lady speech making. During the afternoon there Lugard devoted herself to baying rather than to
was a good attendance.
The stallholders ware: Lady Berkeley, Misses Berkeley, Mrs. Ram, Mrs. Peter, Mre Slade, Mrs. Bell, Mrs. Dauby, Mrs. G. M. Harsion, Mrs. Ormiston, Miss McDonald, Mrs. Bateson Wright, Miss Bateman, Mr. Grimble, Mrs. Keswick, Mrs. Looker, Mrs. Browia, Mrs. Atkinson, Mrs. Carter, Miss Carr, Mrs, Tooker, Mrs. Butterworth, Mrs. Scott Harston, Mrs. Beck, Mrs. Bruce Shepherd, Miss Wallace, Miss. Bi, Mrs. Harding, Mrs. and Miss hatham, Mrs. Gibbs, Miss. D. Shelton Hooper, Mrs Master, Miss Master Miss Hazeland; refreshment still, Mrs. Saunders, Mrs. Turner; toy stall Misses May, Misses Hastings, Vere David, Jessie Marchant.
Lieut.-Colonel Saito has completed the surv«y of Chientao, the disputed district on the Korena- Chinese frontier. The Japanese, wishing to avoid a collision, have suggested to China that she should not send any troops to, the district, Therɑapon China haa- redused; the mufiber - of her proposed reinforesmen in to 500;