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OCCASIONAL NOTES,
H.E. Li Hung-chong ina not received at Shanghai the honours accorded him on his
recent visit to Hongkong. The telegrams from the North annonce that his arrival at the Model Settlement was absolutely ignorel by the repre sentatives of the foreign powers, the British Consul-General being one among these who were absent. Publie opinion in Hongkong in very emphatically in accordance with that of
"Shanghai in this matter, and the foding locally against honours being accorded to the repre- sentative of the Chiness Government war just us strong, perhaps indood stronger. No one who has knowledge of the Chinese official character is likely to support the slumonstration made kera, and it is really impossible to conceive a resson for it. On his own statement Li Hung chang admitted being summoned to Peking by superior orders-presumably those of the Em- press Dowager, for she is the only unthority he recognises. That being so, und only a superior authority could summon Lite Peking, we have been receiving and honouring the reprosentative of the wretched woman who initiated the trouble and whose Government is responsible for the murders perpotrated in her own capital.
The guard of honour and subsequent recop. tion were scarcely accorded to Li as an indivi-
duni, for at least two reasons; unmoly, that ho acknowlodged that he was obeying the instrue. tians. of his Government (sic), and that he, as an individual, neeled no reception because it conld serve no dwful purpose to us. Barely
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HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE
•COUNCIL.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 24rs, 1900.
Yestorday afternoon a meeting of the Hong-
kong Legislative Council was held in the Coun- eil Choubor at the Government Offices, there being present:-
His EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR (Six HENRY BLAKE, G.C.M.G.)
The Hon. F. H. MAY, C.M.G. (Acting. Colonial Secretary)..
ral).
Hon. W. MEIGH GOODMAN (Attorney-Gene
Hon. It. D. Önsur (Directos of Public 1. Hon. A. M. Thomson (Colonial Treasurer).
Works).
Hon. BASIL TAYLOR (Acting Harbour Mas ter).
HG. A. W. BREWIN
•
Hon. €, P. CRATER, C.M.G.
Hollingsworth were merely allowing them to commit their previous service towards their first increason,
The Hen C. P. CHATEL.-Will their
CUSES
some before the special committee in regard to the pay of junior officers?
The CHAIRMAN-No; all theas cases are dealt with in the Secretary of States despate,
The vote was agreed to.
No, 280 of last year.
THE SCENE OF OPERATIONS.
Scie ides of the difficulties likely to be.
encountered in a campaign in the Peile valley.
INTIMATIONS.
WING CHEONG. Dealers in PEARLS,
CLOTHS.
AND
THE
HONGKONG LAND
3
INVESTMENT AND AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED.
DIAMONDS, N
TOTICE is hereby given that at a Meeting of the Board of Directors of the above GRASS Company, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong, on TUESDAY, the Twenty-seventh day of March, 1000, the following Resolutions were passou
* GENERAL EXPORTERS.
Wo bog to inform the Ladies and Gentlemen
patronage, of this Colony that we commencel Business on the 11th April, 1900, and wo solicit their kind
Nos. 1 & 3, D'AQUILAR STREET,
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can be gathered from Sir Hope Grant's account JEWELRY, of tho expedition of 1860. The joint expedition CURIOS, JADESTONEWARE, CARVED Company, held at the Registered Office of the and the troops proceeded along the best bank of reached the Peitung River on the 1st August, IVORYWARE, SILKS, and the rive accompanied Sir Robert Napier's EXPENSES AT THE GAOL.
Division," Sir Hops Grist writes, "order The CHAIRMAN mail the Governor recum that I might assure myself that he had manded the Conncil to vote a sum of $4,100 to suoceeded in crossing the marsh, and hore we in the other food for the fist bars guns sank up to their axle trees, and the wag most certain expenses of the Victoria Gaol der entered grent difficulty in dragging the The principal excess artillery along. The horses got bogged, the year. in the cost of $3,000. The estimate was made in May or June gous stuck fast. At last we were compelled to last year, and the contract was entered ints to leave the waggons behind us, and to content wards the end of the year. In the interval to ourselves with the gun and vagon limbers. money had been already voted. The amount vot The cavalry likewise were much embarrassed in ed was $0.000, and the contract was for $12,000, struggling, through the mad, and even the in- The increase in the contract was caused by the fantry found it hard work, and lost many large increase in the price of food and anim Food pair of boots. At one time I really▼THE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LIMITE O provement in the diet scale. The remainder of thought we should be obliged to give up the is now prepared to receivo perishable pro- Mr. R. F. JOHNSTON (Acting Clerk of Coun the increase was duo to the supplying of hat attempt; but Sir Robert Napier was full of envisions for Cold Storage at EAST FONT at
water for the prisoners and an increase in theegy: the struggle was contlined, and hy maans Moderate Rates, drying apparatus All this meant mere goal hanled over the two miles of mad and sound of drag-rapes and perseverance the artillery was
WM. PARLANE, and would account for another $1,000,
Manager. The vote was agreed to
'ground reached. This is fairly descriptive of Hongkong, 17th February, 1899. 189
R. J. REMEDIOS.
AND COLONTAL STAMP
DEALER, No. 37. ELGIN STEBET, HONGKONG. Will be glad to send STAMPS on approval. to any address of receipt of satisfactory refer-
Hon. Dr. Ho Kar
Hon. R..M: Grav.
Hou. Jos THURBURN.
Hon. WEI A You..
oils),
FINANCIAL..
The ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY laid on the table Financial Minntes Nos. 37, 38, and 39 and moved that they bo referred to the Finance Committee.
The COLONIAL TREASURER seconded and the motion was carried
The ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY laid on the table the report of the Finance Committee (No. 13) and moved its adoption.
The COLONIAL SECRETARY 80conded and the motion was carried,
PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE.
DAMAGE BY THE LATE STORM. The CHAIRMAN said the Governor recommen. do the Council to vote a sum of $5,000, to cover the cost of repairs to rouds, etc, caused by the rainstorm of the 14th to 15th June.
The vote was agreed to. This was all the business.
THE HEALTH OF HONGKONG.
The suspicion that Bombay awes the intro The DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS laid on daction of plague within its limits to communi. the table the report of the Public Works Com-cation with Hongkong, says the Times of Indict, mittoo No. 2) and moved its adoption.
The ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the motion was corried.
THE KOWLOON GODOWNS,
onderable part of the country adjacent to the Felho, which has numerous afinents, con- nected with each other by innumerable canals. and a cast area is inundated; and the country is These overtlow their banks during the rains,
often impassable during July and August. Rozda can scarcely be said to exist at this time of the year. In dry weather they are tracks: When the rain comes the tracks are broken up into picky muddy soil, and the traveller rakes his
as best he can across open country.
JAPANESE TRANSPORTS.
COLD STORAGE.
MOREIG
BIGN
ences.
Is also prepared to purchase used POSTAGE STAMPS in Large or Small Quantities for Cash. AGENTS WANTED
15 to 25 per cent Discount Allowed (1036 UAN WAH & Co.,
DEALERS IN ITALIAN MARBLE AND GRANITE MONUMENTS..
H.E. the Governor did not expect to pump Li amend the Kowloon Godowns Tramways Ordin-encourages the hope of an early disappearance one from the Shoson Kaisha, muaking a total of DESIGNS & PRICES on APPLICATION ›
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THE HONGKONG AND BHANGRAJ BANK
ORDINANCE.
gives us a certain interest in the sanitary for- tanes of that town. Its plague history has a special chim upon our attention. If analogy A Bill entitled an Ordinanes to further counts for much there is little in this that of plague from Bombay. Hongkong was firet Hung-chaug, who is one of the most skilful of the ATTORNEY GENERAL seconded by the before it wax cotected in Bombay, and in 1899 ance, 1807, was read a first-time, on the motion visited with the epidemic in 1994-two years pampers the world has produced. Surely H.E- | ACTING COLONIAL, SECRETARY,
plagne was still prevalent on the island, the did not wish to reprove Li, as the represen”
Firth visitation lasting from March titl tative of the Chinese Government, because his
The ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the second of the earlier outbreaks. In March there were September. I never reached the proportions rank as a Viceroy placed him above any local reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinace or cases, in April 101, in May 421, in Jana 514. reproof. Nor was it likely that on any mild to again continue in force for a further diplomatic solicitations the Viceroy would re. period the provisions of section 3 of the Hong-Then, when the maximum mean monthly tem main in Canton, having once left it. The rea-kong and Shanghai Bank Ordinance, 1899, with perature was reached, the endemic gradually Here again Hon for inducing him to come here and then regard to the excess issue of hills and notes decreased. There were 263 cassa in July, 86 in
payable to bearer on demand. He said August, and 37 in September,
we have an illustration of the balling honouring him when he did arrive is difficult It will be remembered that the Hongkong and for the ordinary lay mind to grasp. It was Shashai Banking Corporation was originally caprice of plagas incidence in relation to tem incorporated, in this Colony, by Ordinance No. perature. In Mesopotamia, the plague disap generally believed that the authorities here of 1895. - The 13th Section of that Ordination pears with the cold weather; in Karachi it has acted under Homs instructions. If this be was amended by Ordinance No. 21 of 1882 bean at its worst in the hot season; in Bombay, so, then it is conforting to notice that those which substituted a new section 13, which as in Hongkong, the approach of high tem Instinctions have been since repealed, as far as provided that "the total amount of the bills and perature has been a signal for decline. In Hongkong as in Bombay the plages has shown the senior consular representative in China is notes of the Company payable to bearer on
a tendency to cling persistently to chosen seata demanal, actually in circulation, shall not at any concorded; or aise he and the foreign consul-me exceed the amount of the capital of the of infection. In spite of all measures of disin- generals there in ́s bexly hava disobeyed them, compary-actually paid up." It was found, asfection eleven per cent. of the cases occurred ia time went on, at this restriction was judicial houses infected in the previous visitation. The and, by Ordinance No 1 of 1899, an excess that he plays in plague. How is it, if the rat is to the requirements of commerce in this Colony rat. we learn from Hongkong experience, seems determined to puzzle enquiries into the part issue es authorized for the period of one year the 11th inst., from Mr. Conger, doas not carry tion, viz-If there shall have been specially West Point, the district of Hongkong where from the 31st day of July. 1898, on this condithe most potent disseminator of plagas, that the deposited and shall be kept in the custody of the Colonial Secretary and the Colonial Trea- surer for the time sing, an amount of coin or bullion or coin and bullion equal to the whole value
The report that Minister Huy, has received a eypher reply to his message sent to Peking on
much weight locally. It is quite possible that the Chinese officials could have provided even, cypher reply. and failing that the American
plague was most severe last your, waR HOFOT RO free of misas just before the outbreak? Plague notwithstanding; and despite the insanitary con dition of the Chinese quaters, Hengkong is able
yellow journalist would regard such as quite of such excess isyua for the time being actually in to show, statistically at all events, a sanitary
a cominonplace feat. If the unfortunate Minis ters really be alive, and most people are wendeavouring to cling to even this lust straw, and trusting they are, then it is evident that they are being assisted, surreptitiously it may or may not be, by some Chinese in authority. Otherwise it is impossible for theni to have hold out. If that ease it would show that there are still some Chinese at Peking not entirely heraft of reason, or else in a houlthy funk as to the possibility of their own rewards, The Acting Viceroy at Canton has brought down the date to the 18th and while all are thankful for this last asurance which nine out of ten cannot acceptit suggests an other matter.
circulation, to be held by the said Colonial Secretary and Colonial Treasurer exclusively for the redemption of such lal and notes wherever the same may have beca-immed." It is obvious that such an arrangement afforded pls security for the redemption of any such excess issue. Accordingly, the arrangement was pontinued in force for a period of another year from 1st July, 1899, by Ordinance No. 17 of 1899 The present Ordinance continues the arrangement, which has been found to meet the convenience of the mercantile community, for a farther period, viz, till 13th day of August, 1908. That date has been fixed by the Secre tury of State na being the date on which the Bank's continued term of incorporation confined upon it by Ordinance No, 21 of 1867 will expire.
The ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded and the motion was carried. ---
The Council resolved itself into committee to consider the Bill clanse by clause..
On the Council regaming the Bill was read a third time and passed.
condition which we may well envy. With population of over a quarter of a million there was last your a death-rate of only 238 per mille; this included plague mortality; had this been
The Japanese Government has requisitioned eight more skips from the Yusen Kaisha and
30 vessels with an aggregata tonnage of 70,682 Ujina by the 9th instant. The following are the tous. These vessels were all to assemble in nanes and respective tonnages:
YOSEN KAISHA. Sakura Maru... Thai Moru ... Tuiran Maru
at No. 1, Queen's Road East, Hongkong Hongkong, 17th October, 1200. [1989 DATI CORSAR & SON'S
MERCHANT NAVY NAVY BOILED
LONG FLAX
RELIANCE CROWN
TARPAULING
CANVAS
ARNHOLD, KARBERG & CO..
Sole Agante. CARTRIDGES.
NOBEL'S SPORTING BALLISTITE. Absolutely Smokeless and Water-resisting THE BEST NITRO-POWDER IN THE WORLD. PRICE OF RORE CARTRIDGES :-
Losled with
With Powder Powder only, and 1 oz of Shot.
Tons.
2.970
3,091
2.897
Asagan Maru
2,461
Tosa Maru.
5.809
Yamaguchi Maru
3,287
144
Higo Mara
1.405
Mikaira Mars
1.968
Sakata Maru
1.980
Wakayama Mara
2,510
Kumamoto Maru
1.963
Tenshin Marut Saikyo Maru Sabuma Mara Kinshiu Maru....
2.943
2,1104
1,939
9.854
Matsuyama Mara
3,195
JNCR Maru
2,332
Primrose Cases 85.65 Pegamaid Cases. 6.25
Otaru Maru Yeijo Maru
2,347 2.506
Ejector Brass Casen. 6.90
52.553
Tone.
421
417
3,819
3,310
1,045.
1.162
Tatastagawa Maru
108
1:669
8,319
558
2,291
SHOBEN KAISKA. Kiangawa Maru Unkogawu Mura Tužkoku Maru Toilo Maru Sato Maru... Bungo Maru
Tainan Maru
Taichu Maru... Kumayria Moru 4. Susan Mari: .....
18,150
All the above vessels have hitherto been exp ployed on the Chinese and Formosan routes. with the exception of the Krushiu Mart, which than is taken from the American line. No vessul
has been removed from the European service:
ended, the fate would have box abt 18 pos mille. This seems excellent, but in reality Hongkong is not quite the city of health that the bare death statistics reveal. The fact that the birth-rate was only a little more than four per mille shows that, the population is less dependent upon that gource- average towns for its increase, and that the factor of infant mortality therefore bus s subordinate place in its vital statistics. Hong: Kong, in fact, maintains its population chiefly by immigration instead of by birth, and keeps umbers down by emigrations instead of by deaths. The fact that last year there were 110,000 Chinese immigrants, and 60,000 ami- grants, explains the relative insignificance of births and deaths amongst the vital data of the town The young and the old are alike largely eliminated from the tables in this way; and once agrein, we are warned that things are not what they seem, and that it is well sometimes not to to let even firures meak entirely for themselves.
THE BRITISH INDIA TRANSPORTS.
May
DIARY OF THE CRISIS.
98-Retele baru stations between Peking and Pootingtu. Bolgian engineers and other refugers start from Pastingfa to cut their way to Tientsin.
May 20-Communication with. Paking after temporary interruption restored. Troops start for protection of Legations. May 30.-330 guards arrive at Peking, June 1-Supposed incendierisin at Tientsin. June 2-Murder of Revs. Norman and Rebin.
son. Puotingfwr÷fugosa rauch. Tientsin. June 5-Railway intercourse between Peking
and Tientsin finally destroyed. Jane Large allied force lands at Taku. June 2-Last detailed message from Sir S. MacDonald to Consul Warren at Shanghai.
This was raised recently in a letter to the China Mail, but a week previously to that it was brought to the noting of the Authorities here. That is, while the foreign officials and newspapers combined find it impossible to get reliable late details from Peking, and even Tiantsin, the Chinese officials in all parts of the Empire got news regularly. Apparently the Chipose Tele- graph Administration is sending daily over its wires nowa which the foreign authorities would regard as invaluable, but nothing appears to have been done in the way of tapping those wires with or without the leave of the Chinese officials. If their attitude was really so passive and friendly, then they should have no objection to a few of the Hong that the law was what it was, can certainly have or the Commander-in-Chief issue orders for the June 13.-Baron vou Ketteler, German Am
kong cadets, or Chinese-reading officials devot. ing their abilities to Chinese cypher messages, It would have ons effect: it would prevent any military mobilisations or movements in the south being ordered by telegraph.
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THE LIQUOR LICENSES ORDINANCE. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL Moved the third reading of the Bill entitled an Ordinance to amend the Liquor Licenses Ordinance, 1998, Ordinance, 1899. He said-The only reason and to repeal the Liquor Licenses Amendment
why this Bill was held over and not read a third time ut last meeting of the Connoil was that we might have farther time to consider the ques tion of udjanut licenses. I would like to point at that the fees for adjunct licenses were fixed in 1880-at least 14 years age-by the original Bill at precisely the same amount that they stand at today. This Bill does not alter in y way the fee for an adjunct license. There fore all
persons who have licenses, knowing
The Council went into committee to consider the Bill clause by clause.
On the Council resuming the Bill was read a third time and passed.
Now that another expeditionary force is being sent from India, we again hear and read mach of the activity proceeding in the Government Dockyards at Calentta and Bombay, and the strain thrown on the different Military Depart ments, preparing ships for ses and moving troops to poris of embarkation. The most im portant point, however, where the ships come from or who supply them, is not considered, People seem to have an idea that Government
June 10-Admiral Seymour starts with 800
allied troops for Peking. Telegraphic com- munication with Capital peases. June 11-Murder of Japanese Chancellor at
Peking.
bassador at Peking, murdered. Rioting at Yunnanfa.
June 15-Hinsung lervos Hongkong with 600 men from Hongkong Regiment und Asiatie Artillery, Chapels in Tientsin native city burnt.
June 16-Admiral Seymour ent off from Tien- tain. Terrible takes 300 Welsh Fusiliers and Engineers from Hongkong June 17-Taku Ferts attacked and captured"
by allied warships. Chinese bombardment of Tiontsin begins.
June 19-Admiral Seymour resches a point 25 miles from Peking, but is compelled to
no ration. now to have the fes reduced at a time despatch of so many thousand men and animals, when other licenses are being increased. If and ships are always available and randy to the Bill had included in the schedule a in- receive the serps as they turn up at the port crease in the fee for an adjunet livonce then of embarkation. As a matter of fast the pre- those who hold such licenses might have said sent Indian Contingent will be practically they would rather have them reduced. Their transported to their destination by the British case has been carefully tonsidered, and the Indio Stamm Navigation Company. Without this firm no force could be expeditiously tran. Government has come to the conclusion that
sported over the seas. Reference to the list of transports taken up will prove this, Nineteen steamers have up to date been chartered at British Indian Steam Navigation Company. Calcutta; of these seventeen belong to the A dozen or so will be required at Bombay: the same company supply eight or nine, It is of course a good commercial business to The Council went into committee on the Bill have steamers under Government charter entitled An Ordinance to authorise the that a company exists that can at a few days but it is cererthless deserving public attention propriation of a supplementary sum of four notice undertake with little assistance to June 23-Successful third attempt to reach hundred and eighty-one thousand three hundred and thirty-five dollars and thirty. transport a force of 10,000 men and animals five cents, to defray the charges of the year
4,000 or 5,900 miles. The fact that this can be
On the Council resuming the Bill was read a third the and passed,
The Council then adjourned until Monday woek.
SUPPLEMENTARY APPROPRIATION, I
It would appear that many of the British they really have no case for a reduction. officers are by no means impressed by the way The ACTING COLONIAL SECRETARY second- things have been managed at Tientsin. Every-ed and the motion was carried. thing is said to be in sach a mudillo that the loss kaid about it the better. There is absolutely ro organisation there." This is by letter from Tien- tein, so it is to be hoped that things have improved since then. Another correspondent writes: ". The only guns that can reply to the Chinese are four which have been mounted by Captain Scott of the Terrible, and their shooting by the Terrible's men has been the salvation of the place." Thus the Houdy Man is again on the scene in the nick of time. Hospital arrange.
ments are also said to be progressing at Wei-
haiwei, whore there are five officers and one hundred wounded men being treated. --
A Shanghai correspondent writes: "Hillier
1890.
MEETING OE THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.
retreat.
June 21-Terrible reaches Tongku. June 22-Two attempts to relieve Tientsin
fail.
Tientsin Chiness remain in force in the neighbourhood.
dote speaks highly for the extraordinary vitality June 24-All Legations at Peking destroyed of the company, and the administrative ability of
except British, French, and German. the staff which orders the movements of this fleet, without dislocating, the coasting trade
and mail contracts, the monopply of which huriness the
June 25-First Indian transport starts for
Chins,
$7.40
8.00
8.05
5 per cent. discount on orders of 1,000 and over.
Apply to
WM. SCHMIDT & CO., Chammakers,
Hongkong.
1877
That in pursuance of the provisions of the Special Resolution passed at an Ex- traordinary General Meeting of the Company held on the 7th and confirmat ON the 27th March and since duly registered, the sum of $1,250,000 1 withdrawn from the Reserve Fund and be carried as of the 2nd July rest to tha Credit of Capital Account, each Share being credited with a sum of $25 as paid up thereon in addition to the sum of 850 now standing to the credit of each Share. 2-That the balance of $25 por Share of the
Unpaid Capital of the Company
be called up, and that a Call be and is hereby made of $25 per Share upon all the Shares of the Company, and that the Shareholders be requested to pay the saine to the Company's Bankers, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Cor poration, at their promises, Queen's Road Central, on or before the 2nd day of Jdy, A.D. 1900.
Shareholders are hereby requested to pay accordingly
And Notice is also given that, in accordance with Article 3 of the Company's Articles of Association, interest will be charged as from the said 2nd day of July, 1900, at the rate of $13 per centum per annum, upon all Calls remaining. aapaid after the 9th dry of July, 1900, up to the actual dates of payment of the same.
By Order of the Board.
+
A. SHELTON HOOPER,
Secretory. Hongkong, 28th March, 1900.
JON THE GREAT EASTERN AND CALE DONIAN GOLD MINING COMPANY, LIMITED.
.NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. HAREHOLDERS in the above Company are hereby requested to attend a PRI- VATEMEETING to be held in the Company's Office. No. 9, Praya Contral, on THURSDAY, With of July, at II AM.
LÜTGENS, EINSTMANN & CO.,
General Agents. Hongkong, 20th July, 1000.
[2099 HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE.
N accordance with the provisions of No. 104 In vido the General Manager hare This Day declared an INTERIM DIVIDEND for the Half Year ended 30th June, 1900, of Eight per Cent, on the paid up Capital. DIVIDEND WARRANTS payable at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation will be issued to Shareholders on SATUR- DAY. the 28th July.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED vm the 20th to the 28th JAPANnst, both days inclusive.
Hongkong, 27th July, 1897. THE
CHINA AND TELEPHONE CO., LD.
HONGKONG EXCHANGE.
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
SUBSCRIPTIONS:~~
EXCHANGE Lises,
$80 Per Annum.
PRIVATE LINES.
$100 Per Annum.
NO CHARGE FOR INSTALLATION.
N.B.-A special charge is made for lines of more than average length.
ELECTRIC SUPPLIES OF EVERY
DESCRIPTION IN STOCK,
Including ---
CHEMICALS.
ELECTRIC BELLA,
INSULATORS.
BATTERIES,
*LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS,
SWITCHES,
TELEPHONEA,
WIE, &c., o
PRICE LISTS
ON APPLICATION.
ELECTRIC BELL INSTALLATIONS
ERECTED AND KEPT IN
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JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 19th July, 1900, THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED.
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of Three Dollars per Share for the Six months ended the 30th June, 1900, being at the rate of Twelve per Cont. per Annum, will be Payablo on the st inst., on which dute Diridend War- rants may be obtained on application at the Company's Office, No. 5. QUEEN'S ROAD CEN- TRAL..
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 28th to the 31st instant, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
A. SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary. Hongkong, 13th July, 1000.
1970 THE WEST POINT BUILDING COM..
PANY, LIMITED,
ANNTERIM DIVIDEND of One Dollar and Fifty Centsper Slura for Six months enling 30th June, 1900, will be Payable on the 31st inst., on which dote Dividend Warrants may be obtained on application at the Com. pany's Office.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 28th to the 31st instant, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
A. SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary to the Hongkong Land Investment & Agoney Co., Ld. General Agents West Point Build-
ing Company, Ld.
Hongkong, 18th July, 1900.
[1869
THE PUNJOM MINING COMPANY,
LIMITED.
Iepazes to the Mill, and the temporary N consequence of the necessity for heavy absence of Water power caused by the carrying away of the embankment of the Reservoir, very ittle crashing of ore has been done this year; and na the winnings of gold have not been suffi cient
to pay current expenses, salaries, cost of repairs, ecst of new
new Reservoir, and pio peeting Estimates given for all kinds of Electrical the Directors find it necessary to make
call of One Doller per share; and accordingly-- work.
Notice is hereby given that at a MEETING
ORDER.
it up Installations if required,
Trained Mechanicians sent to Out-Ports to of the Board of Directors of the Company, held
•
For full partculars, &p., &c., Apply to
W. STUART HARRISON,
Manager. Note Address:-B, PRAYA CENTRAL, Hongkong, 18th Jantiary, 1808.
PUBLIC COMPANIES
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THE HONGKONG, CANTON" AND MAÇAO STEAMBOAT COM. PANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
at the Company's Office, No. 9, Praya Central, Victoria, Hongkong, on TUESDAY, the 26th June, 1900, the following Resolution was passeil:---
That the final CALL of ONE DOLLAR per
SHARE upon all the Holders of Ordin ary Shares in the shove Company in respect of all the Bhares held by them In the above Company be and the same is hereby made. Such Calls to be paid to. the Company at their Bunkers, the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, at their Premises, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong, on or before, the 8th day of August, 1900. And Notice is also given that in accordance with Article 24 of the Company's Articles of
June 26.-Admiral Seymour relieved and back company enjoy from Karachi. in Tientsin to Singapore. Not only do the company. A meeting of the Finance Committee was held find the ships, but they render most valu ting Colonial secretary presiding. immediately after the Council meeting, the Acable assistance in fitting them out. For from experience of many expeditions to Egypt. Burmal, South Africa, and other places the The CHAIRMAN said the Governor re employés know exactly what is required to commended the Coquell to vote a sm of $2,700 transform prasonger or cargo steamer into a to cover, during the current year, the cost of topship for any brauch of the service to be
TUESDAY, the 7th August, et 12 O'CLOCK sazze, increases of salaries of His Honour Sir John carried. It is also deserving of credit that mili
INCREASES OF SALARIES.
weak and amiable, and a friend of Wads and Carles is the very worst appointment that could have been made. Prevent Li Hung-chang by force if necessary-coming North. He will take matters tenfold worm, and probably bring about W. Carringtos, Knight, C.M.G., Chief Justice, tary officers who have been carried. West, East,
porste.
June 29.Message from Sir R. Hart,reaches
Tientsin. July 1-Condition of Peking reported des. July 9-Nerbudda reaches Hongkong. July 11-Heavy Eghting at Tientsin. July 14.120 men Welsh Fusiliers leave long- kong for North. Allies capture Tientsin nativa city with a loss of 775 men.
HALF-TEARLY MEETING THE SIXTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY Association, Interest will be charged as from of the said 6th day of August, 1960, at the rate of SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be $10 per contum per annum, upon all Calls re- held at the Office of the Company, No. 18, BANK Bining unpaid after the said 6th day of August. BUILDINGE, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, en 100, up to the actual dates of payment of the Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Report of Shareholders are particularly requested to the Dirpotors, together with a statement of note that upon presentation at the Office of the Company of the Bankers' receipt for payment of Chibli. State of war ob Amur River. Directors and Auditors. A
Bhares in respect of which the Call has been and leaves for Shanghai.
paid, an endorsement to that effect will be made upon the certificate."
a collision between England and Russia. Verb. Mr. E, C. Lewis, Assistant Postmaster General and South in British India Transports report July 17-Li Hang-Chang appointed Viceroy Accounts, declaring a Dividend, and elect of the Call together with the Certificate of the sap." This, like the telegram from the Sheng- and Messrs. C. H. Gale and A. H. Hollings, highly of the ability that is displayed by com July 18-Li Hung-Chang arrives at Hong- hai branch of the China Association, is too late increase of the salary of the Chief Justice was duties, and we hope that when commendation worth, Assistant Executive Engineers. The anders and officers in carrying out their
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company to be of any possible effect. But it is consoling not included in the general increase of salaries and rewards are thistributed to those endation July 20- Report Shell Chinese Exper-will be CLOSED from 25th July to 7tli August
to think that Li has yet to deal with the cordon and the Secretary of State had now authorised with the Indian Contingent, the services ren- of Admirals at Takit.
OBSERVER.
an increases in his salary of $1.500 a year. The increases to Mr. Lewis, Mr. Gale, and Me,
dered to Government by all classes of the Brit- ish India Steam Navigation will not be over. looked-Times of Indio,
or to Japan. Alleged receipt of message from Conger at Washington, July 22-La Hung Chang reaches Shanghai.
Madras Light Infantry reach Hongkong.
inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
T. ARNOLD,
Hongkong, 17th July, 1900,
Secretary,
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"By Order of the Board of Directors.
W.H. GASKELL
Secretary Hongkong, 6th July, 1900.
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