THE
ROBINSON PIANO P
COMPANY, LIMITED
NOTE.
ENTIRELY
NEW STOCK
ARRIVING,
INSURANCES
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19TH 1903
HENIX FIRE OFFICE.
The Undersigned are now prepared to GRANT POLICIES of INSURANCE. against FIRE at Current Rates.
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.,
Agents for the Phoenix Firs Ofoe. Hongkong, 17th August, 1887.
128
THE STATE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, OF LIVERPOOL.
THE
THE Undersigned AGENTS of the above RISKS suit FIRE at Carront Rates,
Company are prepared to ACCEPT
W. G.. HUMPHREYS & CO. Hongkong, 3rd August, 1903.
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THE ADMINISTRATION OF HONG KONG.
SIR HENRY BLAKE'S ANSWER TO MD, IRELAND. Sir Henry Blake, our late Governor, writes an follows to the Editor of the Times:--
Į preliminary work has been bagan. This large work will take some years to complete, daring which period I fear that the population will continue to suffer great inconvenience in dry Aummers,
Mr. Ireland speaks of the inadequate size of Sir, In the Times of September 14. appears the Government ofless. The Colonial offices the third of a series of articles on Studies of
were built and the Supreme Court building Administration in the Tropics, by Mr. Alleyne was noquírok in 1848, when the population WAS Ireland, who was commissioned by the Univer-21,000. The Post Office was built in 1885, |sity of Chicago to visit all the Eastern Colonies when the population was 125,000. The popu- and raport upon the systems of administration Intion is nog 412,003. Now Law Courts and under which the various Indo-Malayan people Post Ofoegare being erected at sa ultimate | live work of very great importance sud cost of over $1,300,000,-
utility if carried out with unbiased intelligence. The article in question is a report upon the administration of Hongkong, in which Colony
SPECIALLY. AND; MOST CAREFULLY NORTHERN ASSURANCE 0), he arrived sapported by each recommendations
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FIRE and LIFE.
ESTABLISHED 1836...
THE Undersigned are prepared to accept First Class Foreign nad Chiaose RISKS against FIRE at Curroat Rates.
Also to accept proposals for LIFE ASSUR- ANCE. Prospectuses on application.
TURNER & CO.,
Agents. Hongkong, 3rd September, 2903. 9679 NORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN.
TILE INSURANCE COMPANY,
TOTAL FUNDS AT 31st DECEMBER, 1002, £16,378,771.
N
I. AUTHORISED CAPITAL... £3,000,000 0 SUNSCRIBED CAPITAL.... 2,750,000 0 PAID-UP CAPITAL
*087,500 0 0 II. FIRE FUNDS
2,887,215 14 10.
The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Compasy, Bra Frop ared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
Agents. Hongkong, 19th June, 1903.
(1889 THE BOMBAY FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.,
HE undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the above Company, as prepared to accept RISKS at Current Rates. HOLLAND-CHINA TRADING CO, Hongkong, 26th Noverober, 1903. 12100 AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN- SURANCE CO.
OF AIX-LA-CHAPELL
HE Undersigned, having been appointon AGENTS for the shove Company, se propared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE al Current Rates.
REUTER, BRÖCKELMANN & 00.
Agents. Hongkong, 21st April, 1897
|113 THE WESTERN ASSURANCE
PANY OF TORONTO, CANADA. INCORPORATED 1851. Cash Security
....£625,719 Total Losace Paid ...£6,769,240,
***
ng enaurod bis dccommodation in a room in the already much congested Colonial affoes and his access to official sources of information. He remained in the Colony for four months, and the result is a paper so inaccurate, and giving so distorted a pistare of the Civil servants of the Colony, that I mustak permission to correct some of his misappröhensions.
Haring in the second paragraph acknow ledged that the officials are not corrupt, that justice is honestly administered, and that life and property, are de septre no. they are in Loadpo Mr. Ireland adds that
* A sumber of rh in possessed of high qualifies, tions fail to be useful servants only because in Bangkong, as in some other places in the British Empire, itis considered the worst of bad form to be interested in one's work."
As one who has administered the Governments of rarions Colenies for 19 years I may claim to speak with some authority on this subject. A more groundless statement has never been made by one argued to write with a sense of responsi bility. In my experience at home and abroad I have never known's body of mouton the whole more faithfully devoted to their duties than are the European publie officers engaged in the administrative work of the Colony, I was in England at the time of Mr. Ireland's visit, but I learned on my return that unfortunately between Mr. Ireland and some of the public offloars with whom he came in contact there was a mutual Isck of appreciation which may account for his toonditions,
But after all this is bat a matter of opinion. Now for Afr. Ireland's facts, arrived at after four months juvestigation. He often two Instances in which the interests of the Colony
have been sacrificed to official dilatorinem :-
* In 1894 a serious outbreak of habonio plague COM-occurred in Hongkong, and from that time anward the Colony has scarcely boen free from it. Notwithstanding the serious nature of such a visitation, it was not until 1981 that the Government took the matter thoroughly in hand by calling for a r port on the subject from Professor W. J. Simpson, and a Public Health and Building, Ordinance was drafted as the outcome of Professor Simpson'a report and of the advice of Mr. Osbert Chadwick, C.M.G.. and of Dr. Francis Clark, medical offer of health, some eight years after the first outbreak of plague."
Dime. Patti says that "the Apollo never hasHE Undersigned baving been appointed given her the slightest tronbla and that the new concert grand is one of the most wonderful and perfest piano-players that she has over seen.
Hongkong, 15th · etober, 1903.
HONGKONG
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
BOOKBINDING
***DAILY FRESS" OFFICE,
[9335
AGENTS for the above Company, prepared to ACCEPT RISKS agst FIRE At Current Bator.
WM, MEYERINK & CO. Hongkong, 18th May. 1905.
1494
CLARKE'S B 41 PILLS are warranted to cure, in either sex, all acquired or constitional Discharges from the Urinary Organs, Gravel, and Pains in the Back. Free from Morenry. Established upwards of 30 years. In Boxes 4s. 6d. each, of all Chemets, and Patent Medicine Vendors throughout the LANE COUNTIES DRUG COMPANY, Lincoln. England,
Immediately after the cessation of the out- break in 1894 the Government resumed 61 acres
The publication of Mr. Ireland's most mistend- ing statements in the Times masne the publica. tion in every Colony in the Empire, in some of which the future lot may be cast of public officers with whose work he bos failed to make himself acquainted. It is in justico to them that I write. In such an investigation as Mr. Ireland has undertaken literary capacity with- out accuracy is an ignis fatus. If the report to be submitted to the University of Chicago be no moro accurate as ragards othor Colonies of the British Empire than that with which he has favoured you on Hongkong, it will be but a sorry vade menané for the study of British Colonial administration.
I am, Sir, your obodiest servant,
HENRY A. BLAKE. Govorimont House, Hongkong, October 18.
HONGKONG HIGH-LEVEL TRAMWAYS CO., LD.
The following in the report for presentation to thi shareholdoss at the niusteenth ordinary general moating, to be held at the company's registered offices, 38 & 10, Queen's Road. Central, on the 23rd Decoraber, at noon.
Gentlemen,Wo bag to lay before you the report and statement of accounts for the year ending 30th November, 1903. The net profits for the twelve months,
after paying charges and all ran Bing expenses, and making provision for auditors' foes, amount to..... ...$41,315.63 To whica has to be added the balanse
brought forward from last sooount 3,890.13
$15,205.79
4.380.39
FROM PIER TO PEAK-
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AGENCY MR, 8. NAKAYAMA, MOTOMACHI YOKOHAMA,
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS; MIDZUSHIMA, Kobe, Moji, Osaka, Wakamatsu, and Hongkong
And from this has to be deducted remuneration to general managers (5 per cent. on gross earnings) Leaving available for appropriation...840,825.40 Your general managers and consulting committee recommend that a dividend of $200. per share be paid to shareholders, absorbing $25,000; that $5,000 be writen off rolling stook, and $1,54162 off stations and shelters; that $5,000 be transferred to permanent reserve, and the balunce, viz, $1,289.58, be carried to new profit and loes uvcount,
CONSULTING COMMITTEE.
Mr. J. Orange having resigned, Mr. R. K Leigh we invited to fill the vacancy, and accepted a seat on the Board. In accordance with Rale 15 of the company's articles of association, the present members, Mr. C. Evans, the Hon. C. W. Dickson, and Mr. R. K. Leigh retire, but, being eligible, offer themselves for
re-election.
AUDITORS,
In the absence of Mr. Fullerton Henderson
of insanitary private property at a cost of from the Colony, the accounts hve been audited
The only offes in Ckina bating European World. Proprietors, THE LINCOLN AND MID-S818,000, removing the houses and laying out by Mr. W. H. Potts.and Mr. W. H. Gaskell.
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JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. Hongkong, 12th December, 1903,
The accounts are as follows:==
BALANCE-8HEET, For the year ending 30th November, 1903. LIABILITIES. Capital account: 1,250 shares of $100 each,
fully paid up... Permanent resorve fand... Unclaimed dividande
3
125.000,00 25,000,00
4,060.30
340.00
[54 the area at a further expenditure of 8108,000, Mr. Potts and Mr. Gaskell offer themselves for
In that year an ordinance was passed dealing with insanitary dwellings, and in 1899 a farther, ordinance, the Insanitary Proportios Ordinance, was passed. The Public Health and Buildings Ordinance alluded to by Mr. Ireland was in the CHEONG LEE & CO., Forniture Store
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Contral.
machinery, photography, telegraphy, and in Professor Simpson visited the Colony at my science generally, which the rapid advance of foreign relations has imposed upon them, are hers given in extenso. Each and every word is fully illustrated and explained, forming exercises for students of a most instructive nature. Both the Court and Punti pronunciations are given, the accents being carefully marked on the best principle hitherto attained. The typography displays the success of an attempt to make the Chinese and English type correspond in the size of body, thereby effecting a mat economy of space, achieving a clearness not previously attained, and dispensing with those vast margina and vacant spaces which have heretofors charae terized Chinese publications.
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To illustrate the vast scope of the work the following facts aresubmitted for consideration
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Again :-
The other instance to which I refer is the
water supply of the Colony. About 20 years ago Mr. Osbert Chadwick was called ngon to make a report apon the water supply of Hong- Vocabulary contains about 16,000 kong. He supplied the Government with a Chalmers Chinese characters, and Medhurst's English and number of auggestions which were only carried Chinese Dictionary about 100.000 whilst this
After an interval of 20
work contains more than 50,000 English words at in part.....
and upwards of 600,000, Chinese characters years Mr. Chadwick bad to be again called in Again, despite all the grammare and other to report once more inpon the water supply of elementary works as yet published, the student the Colony." of this diffient language absolutely requires ex. aaples to display the various applications and equivalents of different words which have one general meaning. Of these examples this work contains more than five times as many as any other Dictionary hitherto published.
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In 1882 Mr. Chadwick reported. In 1883 the great reservoir at Tybam was began. and completed in 1899 at a cost of $1,257,000. Another reservoir at Wongnoisboug was also added, and a general distribution carried out not only on the lower levels but throughou? the
Park district to an elevation of 1,800ft, while
ia Kowloon waterworks were also establishe:i. Between 1883 and 1990 the sum of 82,131,000 was expended in waterworks alone, and in 1901 scheme was entered upon for increasing tho water supply of Kowloon estimated to cost 3835,000, of which 8200,000 has already been expendod. I have Mr. Chadwick's report of April 10, 1902, before me. He resapitulates his recommendations made in 1882, which were. adopted by Mr. Cooper, the thea Dirastor of Publio Works, and in paragraph 55 he writes with reference to those recommendations ;-
The conclusions which I have arrived at may be summarised as follows: (a) The works recommended by Mr. Cooper s urgently required have been carried out with good results. In pursuance of further recommendations made by Mr. Chadwick in his report of 1902 the construction of a very largo · additionel reservoir has been letermined upon" and
Local and general liabilities................... Profit and loss: brought forward $4,8 18,13 Profit and loss: for current year 41,315.66
AHLETO.
45,203.79
$201,606.00
Permanent way, concession and dood of
graut as per last account. 125,000.00 Statione, Crown leasebolds and buildinge oland lats 1,317, 1,3 2, 1,333, 1,334, 1,325, 1,353 and R. B. Int B0) Rolling stoak... Furniture sccount Coals and stores in
Acosuna zeco Table
Cash in R. and 3. Bark Cash nad compradoro's orders
in kontack
Dr.
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT.
To atarioz.and wazu
To maintasoned ropsies......
To charges ... more demolareki To coals and stores...
15,418,25
27,952.99
125.00
1,499.59
750.47
$38,995.29
1,873,50
37,666.70
$201,606.00
8 0.
22.519.20
5261.18
3,174,95
9,704.45
9,100.00
1,978.03
5性
3,495.13 3,000.00 452:5.79
$91,497.04
3,600.13
$ C
4.0
88,093.18 269.78 1,260.85
$01,497.94
To rates. crown rant and fire insurance To godown sap station rest. Les sundry rents received
To effico rest and clerks' entaries .....
To balunce.....
Cc.
work
By amount brought forward from last year By transfer foca By true receipts for the year to Jato........ By interest By stoel rails... mažiems
argument
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