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well-organised uniform scheme for socom.
plishing the back, nach is being done, and the Korean Emperor presented to Primos The TELEGRAMS. ANGLO-JAPANESE EXHIBI-
in some cases perhaps too much is being attempted in too short a time with the machinery available for the purpose.
The pair of gold lower vase, whicà HM-y recently weigh nearly 25 pounds sad sre valued at 45,000 yen.
Mr. Celldanio d'Eça, who for over twenty years had been a parser in the service of the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company, and had always been employed on the steamers running between Hongkong and MaORO, died at his residence in Macao on Tuesday night.
The Report covers twenty-one foolscap folio pages of closely printed information dealing with the measures adopted in the various parts of the empire for the suppres sion of the habit of opium smoking and for
of the At the Assizer at Penang, on the 23rd inst. diminishing the cultivation
some observa-the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank car was poppy, and thera tions on what is being done to replace the called on, and Lee Chee Saing, who was extra, dited from Hongkong, pleaded gulity to exien-
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THE TEST MATCH.
RAIN NECESSITATES ADJOURNMENT.
27th.
LONDON, July 27
The fourth Test Match was con
TION IN LONDON.
OPENED BY PRINCE ARTHUR OF
CONNAUGHT,
LONDON, July 28th. H. R. II. Prince Arthur of Con
an inaugural naught presided at banquet held in connection with the Anglo-Japanese Exhibition.
His Royal Highness read a message from the King in which His Majesty
COMPANY REPORT.
THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAD STEAMBOAT CO., LTD.
The Report of the board of tireotors to the ordinary half-yearly meeting of shareholders to be held on Tuesday, the 10th August, is sa
follow:-
The directors beg to submit to the share. holders the report and statement of accounts for the half-year ending 30th
30th June last
- Kha Khulng – running expenses, salaries, promis of insurance, repairs and all other charges there remains, including $20,279.30 brought forward from last account, the sum of $171,170.01 at credit of Profit and Loss coroant.
revenue which the suppression of opium sive frauds. This caused general surprise in tinued yesterday, when the Australian expressed the hope that the Japanese From this amount the directors recommend that
CHEMISTS (antive and foreign) will messsarily ent off. Although China considers the abandonment of that revenue of no
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Court Ho was sentenced to seven years'
rigorous Imprisonment. Mr. A. R. Adams team commenced their second innings. sloquently appealed for a mitigation of the The rain, however, compelled them to stop after twe wickets had fallen for 77. Scores :
Funishment.
means of a stoom Ferry running from the water's edge at Hainkuan (Neaking) soross to Pakou is being discussed, but, sa far ne the Fritish Consul is aware, nothing definite ha yet been decided. The great variations in the water level of the Tangteze at different seasona of the year would appear to constitute a very
account in comparison with the eradication of the opium evil, the orifice, as
The practicability of conveying train from Bir
+ Host says, is ALEXANDER
the Shanghai-Nanking Hailway over the heavy one. Certain steps have, however, already been taken to make good the longtime to the Tiantain-Pakon Railway by Increased taxation of land under poppy is only a temporary relief, and will cease with the suppression of cultivation; but in Szechuan the Provincial Government, under instructions from the Board of Finance, has imposed a tax of three cash a catty on the salt production of that province, and an additional tax of five cash per catty on sult exported from Szechuan to Kapeu, Šir ALEXANDER HOSIE says the annual revenue derivable from this new tax should fall
to short of two million dollars. Similar steps have been taken in other provinces so it is not alone the farmer but the people as a whole who bear the burden of the escrifice of revenue which the suppression
in three strengths, containing 5%; 10% and 20% of opium involves, Wheat, beans and other
of pure sarbolic acid.
winter crops are taking the place of the poppy. The change cannot be a profitable one for the farmer. As the Report points out, the advantage of opium production, in addition to the higher value of the harvest per nere, is the portability of the drug in a country where lack of means of com- munication bara access to a market." One man may carry a load of opium for hundreds of miles over atrocious roade to a market CARBOLIC ACID without unduly ralelng its cost, whereas grain or other produce of the same value could not be moved many miles and yiold a
Containing:
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serious difficulty:
Yesterday the story of a district watchman he fell into temptation was told before Mr. Haseland at the Magistracy. It appears that the defendant on returning from duty entered
room at the station in Square Street and
wrenched open the lock of & dryer and took out several articles of clothing. The noise, however, swoke s aloeping watchman, whe promptly arrested his erring colleague. Worship sentenced him to two months' im- prisonment.
Hia
It removes the report of a drowning accident from the ordinary when the informant gravely tells the police that the man supposed to be drowned from a sampan was “pushed overboard by the devil." Sach was the case at Yaamat the other day, but the police recorded the event as a supposed case of drowning. It was believed that the man, who could not swim, must have fallon overboard from the sampan during the night, as he was not missed until the morning. The body was recovered flosting in the harboar on Tuesday.
White ants and their destructive inroads upon all manner of construction timber, a Manis
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RUSSIAN AND TURKISH
RAPPROCHMENT.
LONDON, July 27th. It is announced from St. Peters- burg that the Sultan of Turkey will visit the Tsar at the Imperial Palace in the Crimea in Septem- at Livadia in the ber, and that the Tsar will return the visit in October en route for Naples, where he is to meet the King and Queen of Italy,
THE CRETAN PROBLEM.
LONDON
A Router's message
Canea
and British peoples would promote the undertaking which aimed at closer commercial and friendly bonds; also a telegram from the Emperor of Japan in which His Majesty wished the exhibition every success.
H. R. H. Prince Arthur proposed
a
twenty-five cents per share, or $100,000, be paid
dividend for the half-year of one dollar and to shareholders, $20,000 he written off book value of steamers, $10,000 be written off wharves and properties, $10,000 be transferred to de prociation and insurance fund, §10,000 to special. repairs fund, leaving a balance of $21,170.01 to
be carried forward to new nacount.
The amal overhaul and repsire have been
effected during the half-year and the steamers
a toast to the enhancement of Anglo-are all in good running order. Japanese friendship.
Mr. T. Kato, Japanese Ambassador in London, replying in a most cordial apeach, said he was confident the exhibition would strengthen the good work of the Alliance.
Mr. Mackinnon Wood, on behalf of the Government, heartily welcomed the exhibition.
Mos. G. FRIESLAND and C. E. Ross rg.
signed their seats on leaving the Colony, and nominated by the Directors to fill the vacancies subject to confirmation by the shareholders at this meeting. --
Messrs. J. W. BANDOW and C. E. ANTON were
In accordance with the Articles of Association Mossrs. C LENZMANN and H. E. TOMKING
retire from the Peard by rotation, but being eligible, offer themselves for re-election.
The retiring Auditors, Messrs. A. O'D. GOURDIN and W. HUTTON POTTs, offer them-
R. SHEWAN,
Chairman.
The Lord Mayor of London propos-elves for re-election. ed success to the Japanese section, and Court Matsu replied to the toast.
CANTON.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).
Tuesday, July 27th. ANOTHER BROTHEL RAID. A seriousristoccurred yesterday in Tung Nam Kwan, an important brothel, centre, in which many persons were injured. The brothels were raided, and many of the unfortunate girls wore kidnapped. These riots are of frequent occur. rence, and the brothel keepers have petitioned the Viceroy for the botter policing of that "Wei- orter. The Viceroy has ordered a
Hongkong, 20th July, 1909.
LIABILITIES.. Amount of capital, 80,000 shares
of $15 each fully paid up $1,200,000.00 Amount at credit of depreciation.
and insuranes fund
607,500.00
Amount at credit of equalization
of dividend fund... Amonat at credit of inreatment
factuation account
fundida Amount at credit of special repairs Unclaimed dividends Sundry creditors Bills payable.....
loss n/a.... Amount at credit of profit and
/ASSETS.
250,000.00
119,267.35
-
12,645.65
3,717.25 36,893.69 41,981.60
171,170.01
92,443,175.75
A. S. WATSON & CO. | Profit; and it is to the development of rat Paper says, are becoming a grave problem to the reports that the Greek flag has been yuan" to investigate the case and to report on Value of steamers Honay, Heung-
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DAMBLING MONOPOLY, Certain persons have petitioned the Viceroy to grant them a monopoly to open gambling houses in Canton, where card games, especially NEW FRENCH MINISTRY, will be played. Lui Tso Wong, as in
hoisted over the fortress by the Cre- insular government, contractors, business con- corns, and in fact, every property holder intan militia in barracks. Manila and other parts of the Islands. Ever since the honeycombed condition of the old Oriente building became known the inspectam of the baresa of public works have been making careful investigations of other pablio buildlags. Every public building they have been to thes far is more or less eaten by the suta.
The Hon. A. Murray, colonial engineer and
surveyor-general of the Straits Settlements, retires from the colonial service, on pension, on September 1, and will, it is understood, lero the Colony at the end of next month, when he will have completed 38 years service. The greater portion of this time-from 1871 to 1897
ways that the cultivator must look to enable him to grow and dispose of the crops best suited to climate and soil. Where com munication is easy and cheap the farmer will lose little by abandoning the poppy." Where It is not-and that covers practically all the principal opium growing districts we take it that the outlook for the farmer is not pleasant for him to contemplate. The Central Government continues to be sincere and zealous in its crusade, but now that the International Commission is over we do not seem to hear so much of the setivity of the Provincial Authorities no we did before the Commission met. The best test of China's was spent in Ceylon. Mr. Murray came to the Btraite in 1898. It is believed that Mr. sincerity is to be found not in the odiots Murray's successor as head of the F. W. D. will and proclamations insisting on the suppres-be Mr. F. J Pigott, at present deputy colonial sion of the traffic, but in the way she meets engineer and surveyor general at Pensag, and the economic and financial difficulties which that Mr. Pigott will be succeeded by Mr. C. G the enforcement of the fat entails. That May. Mr. Pigott commenced his colonial service. story has yet to be told in the Reports, for in Ceylon 22 years ago, and came to the Straits the test grows the more severe with each year's development of the plans of the BRITISH Government, and, like tho MINISTER, one may therefore still be diffident about expreming a very decided opinion on the subject.
delivered in London on the 27th instant.
in 1905.
ANOTHER PIRACY.
LONDON, July 27th.
Anential gentleman, whose name has been connected with the anti-gambling prepoganda, has patitioned the Viveroy to discountenance
The French Chamber has passed a vote of confidence in the new Cabinet monopoly. Recentlymerican card games, sepecially "stud-poker," have taken a great hold on the people, rich and poor alike, and there is a great demand for Fuglish by 300 votes to 46.
cards. The Viceroy has issued s proclama tion prohibiting the playing of card games, and has ordered the police and other public officials to keep s sharp look-out, and to take stringent measures to suppress this additional vica.
THE TURF
**LONDON, July: 27th.---- The race for the Stewards Cup took place yesterday at Goodwood with the following result:
Mediant The Tower... Romney
3
SOUTH AFRICAN UNION.
LONDON, July 28th.
THE DELIMITATION OF MACAO. HE. the Viceroy has telegraphed to Peking his approval of the oflcient way in which H. E- Keo Erh Hin is conducting the negotiations in connection with the Macao Boundary Delimit. ation Question, and has expressed his opinion that with the aid of an official of H. E. Kao's experience and tact, the negotiations will terzainate with results satisfactory to all parties concerned:
THE VICEROY ÉNTEKTÁINED. Admiral Li Taun entertained H. E. Viceroy The House of Lords has un-Chang to a forewell dinner list night. After the feast, which was a very grand and costly affair, there was a show of cinematograph
A daring piracy in the vicinity of Cheung Chau Island has been reported to the Hongkong police. It appears that the Hongkong junk Sam Fuk Hop left Hongkong on the 18th inst. animously passed the second reading for Sui Tong on the West River, but she had The English Mail of the 26th June was scarcely left, the archipelago outside when she of the Bill for the Union of the South
encountered two piratical junks. They bore African Colonies. down upon her and the traders were not left board the approaching craft. They compelled the long in doubt as to the intentions of the men en junk to lower her sail and they boarded her and took possession of the boat and her cargo, compris ing flour, beans, sugar, pesa, etc., the total value of which was $15,000. What happened nextis not clear, as neither the junk nor any of her orow THE have since been heard of. Prosumably the rob- bery took place in British waters, and the police have been rory active in their inquiries. Some
The typhoon warning from the Manila Obser- vatory received at noon yesterday zout Cyclone or typhoon W. of Northern Luzon
more than 100 miles distant, moving 8. W."
HONOXONG, JULY 29TH 1909. Asour ten days ago we reproduced from a London contemporary a brief summary of Sir ALEXANDER HOSIE's third general report on the Opium Question in China. A Beoul paper gives a somewhat detailed We are pow in receipt of the full report, account of the martiage of Mr. G. Eussell which we observe was forwarded to the Frampton, the popular headmaster of the Foreign Office as long ago as the 14th Imperial Language School, but omits to November last year, two months and a balf before the International Commission commenced its sittings at Shanghai, but the
montion the name of the bride!
The Rev. Mother of the Italian Convent
The South African delegates have requested the Imperial Government to send H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to open the Union Parliament.
BRITISH GOVERNMENT
AND OPIUM.
pictures. H.E. the Viceroy was very much impressed by the exhibition, and congratulated the European operators on the good perform"
Enco.
AGREEMENT ACTIONS AT
SHANGHAI.
ahan, Sui-An, Sui-Tai and Hoi Bang, ths of Kinshan and fri of Sainam, Nensing, Lintan, and Sanni. 3. Value of lighters Suntee and
Wols
Value of wharves, hulk and moor-
ings
Value of properties at Canton,
Kongman and Wuchow Value of spars gear and stores Value of furniture.
Value of shares of public com-
panies... Value of Chinese bonds Loans on mortgage Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, current account... Interest accrued Sundry debtors Bills receivable. Marine and fire insurance premis
unexpired
...
$1,063,000.00
7,636.60
143,308.17
127,146.77
16,854.93
$1,000.00
654,578.25
359.29
322,000.00
47,973.48
794,60
18,791.57
30,968.67
8,763.50
$2,443,175.73
PROFIT ASD Loss ACCOUNT, Dr.
To amount paid repair to steamers..8 29.288.99 4,750.00 To directors and auditors' fees
Balance to be appropriated, viz. :- To dividend of 81.25 per
share on 80,000 shares.$100,000.00 To be written off book
value of steamers
To be written off book value of properties and wharves
To be carried to depreci
20,000.00
10,000.00
ation & insurance fund. 10,000.00
To be carried to special
·repairs fund
To be carried forward to
new account...
Cr.
10,000,00
21,170.01
171,170,01
$205,209,0)
By amount brought forward from
last Bocount By net earnings of steamers. By interest on investments
An action of interest to many in the FarBy transfer fees... eting Judge Bourne in H. M. Supreme Court at Shanghai on July East came before 23rd. Mosara. Atkinson and Dallas, architects, surveyors, etc., sought an interim injunction against H. G. Harmer, formerly in the employ
informs us of the receipt of a donation of $25 to ware found with portions of the plundered MB. LAIDLAW RECOMMENDS PRESSURE of plaintifs, restraining him from practising To balance.. the Convent School Prize Fund from Mr. Wargo in their possession, and we believe that a
· leisurely methods of the Foreign Office Dickson, Manager of the Chartered Bank of Zumber of arrests have been offcoted; and that a
India, Australia and China,
Yesterday was the anniversary of the declara. tion of independence of Peru, and the Consal held an "at home" in honor of the occasion. Although the declaration was issued on July 28th, 1821, it was not until after a three years war with the Spanish forces that the country gained its notual freedom.
Hongkong officer las proceeded to Macao to. make farther inquiries.
ON HONGKONG,
LONDON, July 28th.
по
architect, engineer, surveyor, either
his own account, or in the amployment
of others in Shanghai, or any other place where the plaintiffs may for the time being have a By amount at credit permanent office to carry on business,
Defendant arrived in Shanghai in August, 1907, under agreement with plaintiffs, but having certain grievances left their servise on June agreement 30th, 1908. The defence was that the agree
Was void.
His Lordship thought there was defence to interim injunction. If the plaintiffs suffered the action and refused the application for an through the defendant being allowed to practiso his profession for the short time prior to the trial of the action the injury could be made
damages. good by
Cr..
By amount brought forward from Profit and Loss account for half year ending 31st December, 1908.
$ 20,279.30
149,793,81
35,025.39 110.50
$205 209.00
DEPRECIATION AND INSURANCE FUND. Dr.
$607,500.00
8507,500,00
8587,500.00
20,000.00
$607,500.00
EQUALIZATION OF DIVIDEND FUND, Dr.
$250,000,00
$250,000.00
$250,000.00
$250,000.00
SPECIAL REPAIRS RUND.
$12,698.98
$12,645.83
925.344.81
85,344.81
To balance...
By amount at credit
apparently did not admit of this Report be ing presented to Parliament until the month
The man who was stabbed in the back at a
In the House of Commons, when of June-six months after it was received. ssman's boarding house at Yaumasti on Monday
- DEATH OF MR. H. W. FR 18ER..
the Colonial Office vote was under Sir JOEN JORDAN, in transmitting the Rehecame worse in the hospital yesterday, and his
The news of the death of Mr. H. W. Fraser, consideration, Mr. Laidlaw urged a port, informed the Secretary of State that the condition was so critical that Mr. Hazeland
more uniform policy for dealing with periodical reports which reach the Legation attended and took the dying deposition of the of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bauk, will be received with genuino regret by his many on the subject, and on which this series of man.
friends in this Colony. Mr. Fraser joined the the opium trade in the Colonies, and general reports is largely based, are oftoa
Head Ofice staff in 1892, and for the following recommended that pressure should be of a conflicting nature, and the oral testi-
14 years was well known, both here and in mony of travellers and missionaries, many
Japan, where he spent soran portion of his time brought upon the Hongkong adminis-
tration to suppress the opium dens, of them men of wide experience and honestly
in the Faz East,
Howasan enthusiastic Beet and a prominent
Colonel Seely, Under Secretary of anxious to arrive at the truth, differs so
member of the Hongkong St Andrew's Bociety, widely as to make one diffident about
in which he was an office-bearer for many State for the Colonies, replied that all expressing any decided opinion. But the
years, making himself deservedly popular by the divans in Hongkong were to be general impression which E18 EXCELLENCE An important case was mentioned at the his unfailing courtesy and geniality. In 1905 closed at the end of February next says he derives from a study of all the Magistracy yesterday afternoon when the hear he left the Colony, and since then he has been available evidence is that, considering the ing of the sumtions against Mrs. Sophin Meyer, attached to the offte of the Bank in New The Government had no intention of magnitude of the taak, the success which has of the Crown Hotel, for adulterating brandy, York. There he died after a gallant: struggle | departing from the policy they had claiming $4,918.05. This notion was dismissed
was adjourned until Saturday, on which day two sgainst sickness lasting for nearly two months. attended the movement is as great as could similar summenses against Tai Sing, com- We feel sure that his many friends, mönst | laid down, being anxious, to assist 1908, when plaintiff interposed the appeal to Proft and Loss account for half reasonably be expected. Bir ALEXANDEE pradore, Queen's Road Central, and Cheong of whom had the pleasure of knowing Mrs. China and diminish the consumption Hoste bimself says that there can be no hang, compradore, Areenal Street, will be Fraser, will deeply sympathize with her in her of the drug in the Colonies, doubt that, in spite of the absence of any dealt with.
sad bereavement.
In the case of Heck v. Arnhold, Karberg and Co. judgment, the Shanghat Mercury says, was delivered on the 6th inst, in the German Supreme Court at Leipsic, The plaintiff had entered a position with defendante Shanghai was dismissed by them on the 15th October, branch in 1906 on a three years' agreement, but 1907, He, therefore, brought au action for wrongful dismissal sgainst his former employers
sundry disburse othalaude
in the Gorman Consular Court at Shanghai By amount at credit
in the Shanghai Court on the 18th January, By monut brought forward from
year onding 31st December, 1908. $20,000.00 the German Supreme Court st Leipsic. The delivered in Shanghai and ordered the ease to Supreme Court now has cancelled the judgment be re-heard in the German Consular Court,
$25.344.81