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AN OLD CHINESE DESCRIPTION OF A FOREIGN DINNER,
A new edition of “Elta of Old China,” by William Ú. Hunter, has just been published by Mesra. Kelly & Walsh, Ltd. The book, we
THE
COMPANY REPORT.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 271H, 1911.
HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD.
The Report of the Board of Directors to the
| MISSIONARY, ON THE FASTING | THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI
CURE.
"OH, I FELT SO GOOD!"
The Rev. T. F. McCrea, of the South Baptist
believe, has long been out of print, and well ordinary half-yearly meeting of shareholders Mission, Chofoo, writes to the N. Q. Daily Newt |
to be held at the office of the Company, on Tuesday, the 8th August, states:---
The Directors beg to submit to the Share
as follows on the fasting saro —
BANK SUED.
ALLEGED
TAMPERING CHEQUE.
WITH
S
| believe it was done in London. On June 30,
1910, there was a balance to the credit of Jimali |Estate of $116,589,80, but the samount of tw cheque sued upon, $7,500, was not included in that kalanos. It was included in Gann's
In a aredit item of $10,805.44, on May 31. That was a lump sum paid in in accordance with the paying-in-slip, produced, which showed the
to the neare
of
Carver,
reproduce from its pages the following part of a premis of insurance, repairs and all other for the sake of others who are suffering from damages for its conversions defendants for use with the cheque. He admitted that on Novem
and for tho amusement of those who are not we
letter written by a Chiasmam-to his brother:-
Mr. G. S. Carver for defendante.
Yet another action in connection with the cheque for $7,500 and represented that the worth repablishing. It is full of interesting
Jimah Rubber Estate, Ltd., has been com- amount was to be paid to the credit of Gannand information and quaiat anecdotes of the life
I have been urged by Dr. Hunter Corbelt, meuoed, the Company this time appearing Co. The Bokowledgment note respecting
Jimal
sont account was before Mr. Justice Fisher in the Supreme
tarios, Gunn And Co. In Cases lived by the pioneers of trade in Canton. Many holders the Report and Statement of Account 1 Mr. Edward Evans and others who know of my Court, in a case they are bringing against the accounts of limited companies it was usual! readers are doubtless acquainted with the book, for the Half-Year, ending 30th June last.
remarkablo recovery from the sprus by maand Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
to Band the notes
to the secretaries. G. 8. J. H. Willa was called by Mr. After paying running expenses, salaries of the fasting oure, to write up my experience to recover $7,500, the value of a cheque, as alternatively 7,500
for the defendants, and exsinined in connection as money received by the charges there remains, including $20,000,00 / the same or similar diseases. So far as I know of the plaintiffs, and costs. Mr. Upcoit for 17, 1910, he called at the Chartered Bank | To describe some of the customs of these brought forward from last account, the sum of ƒ I am the only person who has tried the absolute set for the plainties, explained that, and asked to be allowed to have the two cheques,
$164,428.30 at credit of Profit and Loss Acconut fast for the sprue and the results have been so From this amount the Directors recommend beneficial that I feel it almost a duty to let that a Dividend for the Hall-Year of one dellar others know of my cure.. and twenty-five cents per share, or 3100,000, be paid to shareholders, $20,000 be written off book value of steamers, 85,000 be written off wharves and properties, $10,000 be transferred to De preciation and Insurance Fund, $5,000 bo transferred to Special Repairs Fund, leaving balance of $24,438.30 to be carried forward to now accounti
rudo barbarians would lead you to imagine that I had been calling the Taze put pat (1) for your edication, yet I can vouch for their scourey, and you may judge if they deserve a place in that collection of monstrosities. Having been present at o fesat in the Hong of some of these Fankwaen, I must tell you something of what I saw. I could not but be struck with the little progress they have mails in the art gastronomie, which with them is yet in its infancy. Shade of Low-Man-Ke (2), well art thon deterring of the red candies daily barnt on altars dedicated to thy memory! How thankful should we be to that distinguishod `Fire-Head" (3), who, in addi- tion to the practice of his profession through a long life, bequeathed to posterity his Hints ́on Cookery,' in 320 volumes! In our younger dayn, O Choo, how we pored over its pages, and with what avidity we devoured some favourite dish made from its directions.
in connection with the working of the steaners. The anal overhauls and repairs have been effected during the half-year and the steamers are all in good running order,
Mr. B. Showan resigned his sent on leaving the Colony.
In accordance with the Articles of Association Masara. F. A. Gomes und R. Fuhrmann rotire
mer on a milk
one for $10,000 and the other for $7,500, for bis loro letir, dated November 17, 121
Saber quently, he received the fol lowing
Dear Sir-Referring to your call this morning, we now enclose for inspection and return in due course the two chequer asked for No. 245,691, favour Gunn & Co., £10,000, No. 272,051, favour Jimah Rubber Estate, Ltd., $7,500. Kindly, acknowledge receipt. Yours faithfully" (stumped with the shop of the bank). I put it
to you, you did not return them for leven days. Oh, yee, I did
Well then, on November 28, the following
chaque payable to Jikmah
it and hotly. J. A. Willa gaze
WEB in dispute whether that cheque was a bearer or order cheque. It was drawn on the Chartered Bank and was money belonging to the company for shares which Wills had applied for. The cbeque was paid into the Hongkong Bank, for colleo- Bank collected it, but instead of the proooode tion, by Gann and Company. The Hongkong being credited to the company they were s credited to Gunn's own plained of. Jimabe account. That was shortly what was maintained the Hongkong Bank collected
to some one else. It was common ground that Gans and Co. were socretaries, but it was in dispate that we general agents they had authority
cheques in to deal with
the way they had done. Another point in dispute was that the cheque had in some way been tampered with after it
the Hongkong through
Book. The passed Ford
was not written, and it contained "order" the word "bearor"
crossed out. The bank enb- you remember that P-I do not. The only mitted that Guna had aigast the half-yearly thing I remember is that I returned the cheques the afternoon of the same day as "re. slip to the effect that the company acceived them or the next day. count was correct without the credit of the Gunn had no authority to negotiate the choque.
"Dear Sir,-Referring to our letter of the 17th inst., having handed you two ebeques for $10,000 and $7,500, repostively, we shali be obliged if you will kindly return the eheques to me by boarer, an wo lave been asked Yours faithfully" (signed to produce them. by the manager).
.Do
Judge now wist tastes people possess who sit † from the Board by rotation, but, being eligible old trouble. I came on within two months $7,500; on the other hand the plaintiff said that believo I did,
at table and swallow howls of â Huid, in their outlandish tongue called Soo-pe, and next devour the flesh of fish, served in a manner as near as may be to resemble the living is itself. Diahos of half-raw meat are then placed at Farious angles of the table; thase float in gray, while from thoni pieses are ent with swordlike instruments and placed before the Really, it was not until I behold this sight that that I became convinced of what I had often beard that the ferocious diepoellion of these domena ariso from their indulgence is such
gross food. How lamentable their condition, and yet our dishes they pretend to deepiso! Think how aarened the taste for which sharks' fins have no charm, how piteons the state of those who disdain the virtues of deor's sinova, who hold in contempt a well-prepared pup, and even encer at a rat pie! who in the delights of an elephant's hoof sarved in the style of Low-Man-Ke-whose memory may be ever green, can find no grat. Bontion, while for the melting richness of the adorable rhinoceros horn they have no taste! Τα continue with, those wonderful beings Thick pieces of meat being devoured, and the thrown to a multitude of mappish dogs SCIBOK that are allowed to twist about amongst one's ings or lie under the table, while looping up an incessant growling and fighting, there followed dish that set fire to our throats, cailed in the barbarope language of one by my side En Le, accompanied with rice which of itself was alous grateful to my laste. Then a geren and white anbatance, the smell of which was overpowering. This I was informed was a compound of sour buffalo milk, baked in the sun, under whose influence it allowed to remain until it becomes filled with insects, yet, the groozer and more lively it in, wit
with the more relish is it eaten. Thi in called Che-Sze, and is accompanied by the drinking of a muddy red daid which foams up over the tops of the drinking cups, soils que clothes, and is named Pe-Urh-think of that! But no mora. When will these uncivilised men become versed in the precopts of the gastrous- mist whom I have named, and make offerings of red cadles and gilt paper on alters raised to his memory P When capable of enjoying that incomparable dish on which you and I have so often
gorged, at the mention of whose
and name I see tears stream from your eyes-listen! -stowed kitten? Hold! I have gone too far:
of this delicacy are overpowering,
in
and
offer themselves for re-election.
But didn't you then write this letter?--I
This is your letter, isn't it f-Yes. the manager of the Chartered Hank of India, Australia and China. It says:-
It is dated November 28 and is addressed to
Dear Sir, I beg to thank you for the two cheques Nos, 245,691 and 272,051 for $10,000 and 87,500, respectively, which I now enclose herewith I am, dear sir, Yours faith- fully, J. H. Wile."
During the famine of 1906-07 in Kiangpeh I was the Secretary and Treasurer of the missionary relief committee at Chinking. As a result of overwork in handling the accounts disbursed nearly half a million Mexican dollars and correspondence of the committee, which to the famine aufarers, my health broke down and a serious case of aprue developed. From weight of 190 odd pounds I fell in two months to 135. I went to Kuling and spent the sum There is nothing of special interest to report in the fall diet. I returned to my station. money belonging to plaintifa and handed it letter was written: To . H. Wills, Esq.,
and did fairly well during thei winter. but the trouble recurred in the spring and the physicians ordered mo to Americs.
ere I stayed two years and my health was much improved. As I was unwilling to give up my missionary work without another trial, but was afraid to return to the Yangine valley, I requested my Board to transfer me to their North Chins Mission. I returned to China a yearagolast April, vis Bhaoghal, I had not been in Shanghai twenty-four hours before I was in bed with my to Chofoo, but my health grew works all the time. aftor reaching China it seemed that I would have to hurry back to America to enve my life.- As the pleadings stood he submitted that But I had been reading of the remarkable re the onus was on the plaintiffs on one point sults obtained by means of fasting in various only, and that was to show, what was do- kinds of diseases, especially those of the diges-pied on those pleadings, that the chequo was tive track, and as, a lost desperate resort I the property of the Jimah Company. To resolved to try the fast. Everybody here very great extent the cheque spoke for thought I was crazy, as I was not much more itself, because it was payable to plaintiffs. He $1,200,000.00 than a skeleton already. But from what I had proposed to call Mr. Wills to identify it. Its
read abo
about fasting I felt confident of the result condition was that the word "bearer" waS 630,000.00 and went shoed. For nine full days I took crossed out, and counsel mbmitted that the absolutely nothing hat water and weak moment he pat that cheque in evidence 250,000,00 Chinese tea. It was a remarkable experience, he had done all he need do, for it was for the At the end of two days all desire for food left defendants to show it had been tam. 31.610.70 me though I had been ravenous, as all-pered with. If that was proved it was of
sufferers from sprus are: My tongue became course a question of fraud. 4,213.85 badly oosted and my month very foul, very
Mr. Carver submitted that the facts were not 4,539.00 much like that of a person with typhoid. This so complicated perhaps as the law. His conten 24,431.44 is Nature's way of
of the fast is that it the first place. be pointed out that the bank
Mr. Carver-Having refreshed your memory 164,428.30 to eliminate all poison from the system. The were totally dependent on one another. The about the letter, do not you recollect you must coating of the tongue seems to be part of the first line of defence would be to the effect have had these cheques in your possession for
ten days P--I have no recollection. $ 2,368,573.99 eliminative process or an indication of it. At that the bank, had neither
been guilty of zats, when her work is finished the tongue of conversion
the cheque
of Supposing you did have them, what was hap
returns.
I hoped on the eliminative process with conversion independently, first as to the I put theta into an envelope and handed them with an enema every other day.
cheque itself and then with the proceeds. The to the tamby the same day.
But did you enclose a letter?—I do not After the first two days the fight was defones upon that question turned largely upon comparatively easy. I was vary weak, but, the question of whether the cheque was a bearer recollect.
"I oh, felt so good. For the first time cheque at the time it went into the bank's hands $1,062,000.00 in three long years I had no digestive or whether it was a cheque with bearer crossed troubles. My stomach went dead asleep, my out. That involved a question of fact, and if it 7,000.00
mind was as clear as a bell, and there was a was found that it was a hearer cheque he would feeling of exhilaration that was delightful. I submit there was no conversion either of the 127,748.00 am writting to tell of the physical effects of sheque or of the proceeds. His second line of this fast, but there were remarkable spiritual defence was apon the accounts and that was 117,806.77 results also that I cannot include in this story. applicable whether or not the choque was con.
21,997.76 At the end of nine days my tongue cleared, verted in the first instance.
1,000.00 my appetite returned as indicated by a watering 715,978.00 of the mouth and a desire for food which was 193,000.00 not very mvenous, although I had eaten noth
The retiring Auditors. Mesas A. O'D. Gourdin and W. Hatton Potts offer themselves for re-election.
R. FUHRMANN. Chairman, Hongkong, 25th July, 191-1.
Liabilities. Amount of Capital, 10,000 Shares
of $15 each fully paid up Amount at Credit of Depreciation
and Insurance Fund.. Amount at Credit of Equalization
of Dividend Fund.... Amount at Credit of Investment
Fluctuation Account.. Amount at Credit of Special.
Repairs, Fund.... Unclaimed Dividende Bundry Creditors... Accounts Payablo
mount at Credit of Profit and -- Loss Ajo.
Assets. Value of Steamers Honam,
"Heungshan," "Sui An," "Sni Tai,"
and "Hoi Sung," ths of "Kinshan," and fed of "Sai- nem," "Nanning," : "Lautan," and "Banni" Do. of Lightera "Susleo" and
Wolee
... Do. of Wharves, Hulks and Moer-
ings
**
Do. of Propertiesst Canton, Kong.
kun and Wuchow
Do. of Spare Gear and Stores Do. of Furniture...
Do, of Shares in Public Companies Loans on Mortgage Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Current Account Interest Accrued.... Sundry Debtors Accounts Receivable Marine and Fire Insurance Premia
unezjired
I put in the three letters.
RETURNING TRE CHEQUES.
His Lordship-How do you account for that? put the cheques in an envelope and sent them to the bank. Whether I wroth or not could not say.
How did the bank come to write that on
59,350.70 should be. The priting how long the fast tions were in connection with the latter, and in November 287-I could not say. But I cor.
gives nature a complete rest and the opportunity | forward two lines of defence to the claim wtainly must have written that other letter.
9,015.01
8 2,368,573,99 Dr. PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT.
steamers and wharves
To Directors and Auditors' Fees
reminding me that my own table is now being To Asaount paid for repairs to prepared, that the wine will soon be poured out, I remall that short but important sentence in the 68th rolume of Low-Man-Ke, which says, Stewed kitten, with a garland of mice, should be eaten hot, '
¡ ̧À ̈ntory.book full of grotesque and amusing stories, called "Not the Sayings of Confueinn.
2 A renowned cook, who wrote on Cookery, sail to. have boon a Pekina.
3 Fre-head, a famiiar name for a cook,
RUBBER COMPANIES.
The directors of the Vallambrosa "Rubber Company Ltd.) have resolved to carry £15,000 to a reserve fund available for development ex- penditure, and to recommend a final dividend of 2x per share, less.income tax, making, with the interim dividend of 1s. 6d. per share paid in December last, a total of 175 per cent. for the year ended March 31st last
A dividend at the rate of 6 per cent, per annam for the half-year ended June 30th is an- nounced by the Kwaloe Eubber Estates.
Tillyfour Rubber.—The directors announce that the final dividend (guaranteed) at the rate
of 5 per cent. per annam is being paid.
Balance to be appropriated, viz. — To Dividend of $1.25 per
Buy
nor
INTIMATIONS
BABY'S FACE LIKE PIECE OF RAW BEEF
Smothered with Bad Pimples. Aw-
ful to Look At. Scratched and Cried Terribly. Feared He Would Always be Disfigured. Cuticura Remedies Quite Cured Him.
"My baby boy, twelve months say, had e- large plimple come on fals forehand, “Es bujii
sand spread all over lis face which agon logkel Uko a piece of raw biel. all gathered with th pimples. It was awful 20 book at. The poor Inte thing used to scratch and cry terribly. I took jhim to a decler but bg Yonly got worse D-I was quite frightened toss be would always be di fgsired, Then 3gent Dar some Curicura Pintment and after using 1 found the baby, no longer scratched his face. So I got in all two large kina- of Cullenza. Oinimeni, together with Cuticura Soup, and in two months the Optiques. Berondles had quite cured him. How Ways keep a tin of Gutleurs t- map: by me in case of anything else coping. mug of louise ↑ use Cuticura Sõnp for all my sajdren.
Abost fourteen years ago I had something Mica boss spots all over my arton and shou Lato, nirgiched and rubbed them ➡ much Dah thay bird and then I was cayerad with A friend gave me a tin...of fanj- our Ointment, and before I had used it ya my jich, was, pompletely, riapr, and 1 whe miradusi hai hat the trouble for vīna month sad had tried everything to get rid of it, 21 41 felends beut my torte hitle faded, they "ank what i used
i fage, for they all saw how bad & way
the "Cuticira Remedies cured it,
ay. E. Perry, 9, Waterloo Rd...
alcanhot, Kanta, England. May 21, 1010. Custera Remedies are sold throughout he world. Depota London, 27,Charterhou
Calcutta, B. R. Paul, Ho. Africa, Lanson
• Cape Town, etc.; U. 2. Am Potter Drug Chem Carp, Rols Props, Boston. Bund for tree Cuticurs book on skf disease.
Chas. J. Gaupp
& Co.
Have Just Received
• Tow
Selection of Goods from
alears, saliva is secreted and the appetite the proceeds, because they were charged peaing to them To the best of my knowledge MAPPIN & WEBB,
ACKNOWLEDGMENT NOTES,
Yo Peng Hong, shroff in the Hongkong Benk, where he has been for three years, said the Chartered Bank clearing book was kept by him. He proceeded to describe the procedure when be received a cheque. If he had not con sidored the $7,500 in order he would not have entered it in the book as he had done. He had examined cheques for more than two years.
Hy
Mr. Upcott-He made mistakes occasion. ally, and in the present instance he entered the cheque as from Willle, not Wills. This was dus to much work.
#-
LONDON,
Comprising
SILVER CUPS.
PRESENTATION PLATE,
TEA SERVICES.
TABLE WARE,
&c.
FISH KNIVES
CUTLERY,
and
FORKS,
His Lordship-Your case is that you under-
Mr. B. W. Morris, sub-accountant to the ing for nine days and very little for several days stood, the same as everybody else understood, Chartered Bank, said that all cheques drawn 44,555.39 previous to that. I broke the fast with a light that Gaon was acting for Jimah ?
324.68 meal, but I found after a day or two that I did. Mr. Carver-We understood he was the on the bank, however presented, were 20.585.18 better on the Salisbury, or fall meat," as ordi- secretary, but what the transactions as between amined by two persons, for irregularities. PRINCES PLATE, 47,563.06 BRTY food
too strong after the long Gunn and Co. might be we did not know, and I Witness described the practice prevailing and abstinence.
submit it was not negligence of the bank not to said the first scrutiny of cheques was made by words, Along through the summer and early inquire as to what the transactions between the ledger olerks, who examined the fall I took four three-day fasts and used them might be. The whole of that would be to dates, whether order or bearer, and endorse
ments. If an irregularity was found the matter the milk dist to break these. From my make the bank's business very difficult.
was reported to the sab-accountant, who pinned experience with fasting I would always
According to the bank, continued Mr. Carver, advise the milk diet, a 78ginze very similer to
Following posting, feaing payment. 823,377.07 that ordinarily used with the sprite. For the cheque sued upon was dated May 27 and slip to the cheque gising the reason for re- 31, and pisintiffs alleged that cheques went to the sub-accountant for further was paid on May 4,750.00 ample, after a thres-day fast I would begin with the bank held that money on their behalf and scrutiny. If they were in order the signatures DRESSING CASES with
a glass of milk every hour or hour and a half it should not have been credited to Gunn and were cauolled and the cheques were initialled.
the daring the day, gradually increasing Co. Nearly three months after the amount had The 87.500 in
7,500 in question bora the Initiale Of Mr. quantity and trusting largely to the appetite se
guson, who had since left the bank, but who an indication of the amount to be taken. Where yearly acknowledgment to the offices of the had had considerable
experience in examin milk cannot be obtained or is not liked, fruit company, and Guna and Co., as secretaries, juices, most juice, or other light liquid d diet will certified that the balance to the credit of Jimah ing cheques. In the Chartered Bank cheques alonban not writing from my experience Rubbor Eatate, on June 30th, 1910, of $116,599,80, were not returned to istomore, but were kept
under lock and key Witnese spoke alone, but from that of hundreds of others who not including the $7,500, was correct. Strangely sent the cheques to Wills, but did not know
to having bave cured themselves from all forms of disease enough, six months later, the bank saat in by fasting and have used these various forms of another statement and that was also acknow. why he wanted them. Before sending them ho
breaking off."
scrutinized them, but noticed no irregularity. Where your physician is ledged as correot, but the company was more So far as he remembered they first knew of the for the statement returned was erasing of "bearer" from the Hong kong Bank under a physician's cars.
signed, not only Above all things else one should not but also by Mr. St. Vincent B. Down, a director. fast until the mind is quite at ease on
As aralast that point it was said that Gunn sent to that bank by request, 164,428.30 the matter. The mental condition is more and Co. had no authority to sign the acknowledg
than half the battle. It has bocu proved beyond ment
iment note
the bank had not acted that $192,555,37 a doubt that one will not starve to death as long
the faith of the note and As the
share on 80,000 shares $100,000.00 To be written off book valu■
ot Steamore
20,000.00
To be written off book valuO of Propertien -and Wharves To be carried to Deprecia and tion
Insurance Fund be carried to Specisi Repairs Fund' To be carried forward to
New Account
To
13
5,000,00
10,000.00
5,000.00
24,428.30
By Amount brought forward from
last Account
By Net Earnings of Steamers "By Income from Investments..... By Transfer Feas
Cr.
DEPRECIATION AND INSURANCE FUND.
Dr.
United Serdang (Sumatra) Plantations. To Balance
(Nine months ended May 313, approximately
157,683 10. Sold to date at a gross average of
5. 430, per lb.. 115,089b. Of the current erop.
43,685lbs. of first latex rubber remain to be By Amount at Credit delivered nuder forward contracts at a gross
average of 63, 2-16d., London terma,
Dr.
Cr.
beon collected, the bank sent out their nam
usual half. Ferguson, whe
SILVER FITTINGS,
LEATHER HAND-BAGS,
and WALLETS,
RAZORS.
1256
Bympathetic I would advise that fasting be done itious thashe Mr. T. M. Welch, secretary after they were returned by Wills. They were THE BRITISH NAVY ON THE CHINA
And
as there is a shred of fat, ment or muscle for alleged altered their position to their detrimont the vital organs to food on. A fast of two or three It was not denied that the plaintiffs had held weeks is an experience that numbers of
large
fine
2
TRUST IN BINGAPORE,
MISTAKES ADMITTED,
assume that customers would
STATION.
In the House of Commons on the 4th inst., Mr. Protyan (Esser, Chelmsford, Opp.) asked the First Lord of the Admiralty if he would state the dates at which the seven torpedo
8630,000.00 had never hoped to have again in this world.garding certifying the half-yearly acknow. ledger. If it had not been in erder he would relieved shortly by three of the River
$630,000.00
By Mr. Upcott He admitted that mistakes occurred, insinnces of which were brought to his notice. He was not prepared to swear that $ 20,000.00 people have been through, forty to afty days have Sunu out as their secretory, and that holding on the $7,500 cheque the word "bearer" was boat destroyers now on the China Station were
The ak would 137,176.22 been frequently done, and I believe the record authority to excoute such acts as were usually not
and whether any required of them in war; 35,309.15 now is held by an American, who started with performed and considered legal within the hot tamper with cheques. Possibly there would capable of doing the work which would be
70.00 over three hundred pounds and finished in
be less scrutiny in the case of a cheque requisi-parent ship was provided for this fictilla. authority of a secretáry,
tioned by a customer than with one posted Mr. MoKanna (Monmouth, N.)-The soren form at the end of ninety days. But such fasts 8 192.555.37 as this are extreme. I found a nine days' fast
from the collecting bank.
Tau Kim Bee, lodger hemper the Chartered destroyers on the China Station were completed with the shorter fasts at intervals, two menia a Mr. W. L. Kemp, shartered accountant, and
in 1895 Hart In 1896, Fame, Virago, day, thorough mastication and plenty of exercise partner in the firm of Mesers. F. W. Barker Bank, testified to the method of procedure in the following years Handy and Janua and fresh air have delivered me entirely from the and Co., who, he said, were secretaries for about respecting the examination of beques and Whiting in 1897, Otter in 1900. The Janus are ordered to be $630,000.00 thraldom of sprie, and I am objoying such 35 rubber companies, spoke to their praction examined the 87,500 cheque and posted it in the Handy, and
health as I have not had since I was a child and
ledgment notes received from banks. His firm have returned it.
In cross-examination, he semitted that in one class, and consequently on further sums will be expended on their repairs. All except the I sat two hearty meals a day, at noon and even compared the figures with the passbooks and
eat anything I want. walk all over the coun-signed the notes as secretaries to the various particular cheque a mistake had been made by Handy and Hart are fit for sea and capable of and am enjoying life in the amperlative companies. That was the usual practice, and be the bank, but exonerated himself by saying doing the work required of them in war. They A year age I weighed 118 lb. To-day had never heard it suggested that a company's another clerk was on "ring" duty that day. He do not require a parent ship, as they are based EQUALIZATION OF DIVIDEND FUND.
I weigh 138, and am all muscle, not a scrap of Gr.
It was dealt with about an average of 30 oboques after on the dockyard. no authority mecretary bad
closing hours and when that was finished he $250,000.00 flabby flesh on
on me and can't find anybody in different at home.
In reply to farther questions, Chefoo will walk as far as I want to go. I By Mr. Upcott
He could ses no grounds was at liberty to leave work.
The case had not concluded when the last mail $250,000.00
mountains about here, taking tea which should differentiate the position in climb these and twelve mile tramps, with tireless energy. Singapore from that in London as to the left. I feel that I have found the Fountain of Per-general power of a secretary to a limited $250,000.00
petual Youth. I have a message of hope and company. He had never known the acknow $250,000.00 good cheer for every person in China who is ledgment being disputed after being signed suffering with sprus or any form of bowel by the company's secretary, Segretaries of trouble.
limited companies had power to endorse cheques to the company, sad, he believed, also to chaque for $7,500 ought to have been paid to the Jimah Estate, though the "bearar" having been struck out it might be paid to anyone. He would not commit himself to the statement that in Singapore b
business was conducted on a higher system of trust than in England because people
each other better.
Sungei Buaya (Sumatra) Kubbar,-Dry rub. To Balance ber harrested during June, 2,7501b,; total to dato ('2 months), 14,5431b,
Malaces Rubber Plantations. The outturn of dry rubber for June was 90,000lb., as compared with 21,5001b, for the rame month last year.
SHAKESPEARE IN JAPAN.
By Amount at Credit
Dr.
SPECIAL REPAIRS FUND.
To Sundry Disbursements...
Soma strange liberties are taken with Shake-To Balonco ... speare on the Japanese stage. The Kobe
Herald recently described a performance in
that town of "Hamlet." with the scene laid in
modern Japan. "The Prince," says the
Herald, "appears first in a silk hat and a By Amount at Credit...
wallowtail cont, then On ■ bicycle, clad in a bright blue cycling salt and siri stockings, dress again, with a flower
evening
striped
and then in his button-hole. This up-to-date collegian has little more resemblance to the Hamlet whom Shakespeare conceived than a
a Jew of more modern Johannesbury type would bear to the Shylock of ancient Venice." Ophelia, for the purpose of the play, ts transformed into a fellow. student of Hamlet at the Imperial University of Tokyo.
$4,019.50 4,213,85
88,233.35
Cr. 88,233.35
88,233.35
W. E. CLARKE, Secretary. Hongkong, 25th July, 1911. We have compared the above Statement with the Books, Vouchers and Securities of the Com pany, and cortify the same to be corrset.
A. O'D. GOTEDIN, W. HUTTON POTTS,
Auditors.
who
to do so.
Mr. McKenna said that a parent ship ww not necessary for the service that destroyers were called upon to perform on the China Stations
s. The destroyers were not of an old or condecaned
toned class, and it was not the fact that the Germans replaced their destroyers every 12. years, although statements to that effect had frequently been made in debate. It might be Sir Joseph Ward, MA.P says, relates the case in individual ships, and he had already
to be repland.
EVADING CHINESE COMPETITION.
MME. EMMA EAMES.
RUMOURED ENGAGEMENT OF THE PRINA DONNA.
shall be glad to write further details of my payable them to strangers. In his opinion the that a few years ago the Chinese in New Zealand stated that three of our destroyers were abo experience to any one who will write me here. If endorse any one wants to read up on the fasting care
were found to be doing a very great deal of the there is a great deal of literaturo. My attention
laundry work available, and had thrown out of was first called to the matter by reading a little
employment the women-workers in some of the book called "Perfect Health written and
laundries. In New Zealand laundry is a published by C. C. Haskell, Forwich, Cons
factory within the meaning of the Factories Upton Sinclair and Bernard McFadden have
Act, and numerous restrictions for the purposes books on fasting, published by The Physical hers knew a con, necountant to the Hong- the hours during which young girls under sigh. of health and for other reasons are placed upon Coltare Co, Flatiron Bldg., New York. The Cosmopolitan Magazine for May, 1909, and
Hinclair.
ong and
It is rumoured that Mme. Emma Eames, the
February, 1911, had articles on fasting by Upton had beaghai Bank, gave evidente. He teen years of age may be employed. It occurred celebrated prima donus of the Metropolitan
Vladivostok papers state that Russia is plan. ning the construction of a naval port and a fortress at Petropavlovak, the harbour of which in more vast than that of Vladivostok.
House, has become engaged to another
Mme. Eames, who was born in Shanghai
in 1867, of American parents, made her debut
bore since February, 1910 The bank to a law. maker that he could settle the dificulty had had an secount with the Jimah Estate since of this Chinese competition by a neat amendinger in New York, Signor Gorgorza
of the Act. May 25 of that year. They also had us with ment in the interpretation clause Gunn and Co. Copies of these he produced. An amendment was drafted and printed, and At the end of June and December in each sent with the utmost seriousness and good faith year a letter was sent out giving a statement of to the Crown Iar Office for consideration. It account for the customers to certify as to its contained a provision in these words: "Forthe being correct or not. That was a practice of his purposes of this Act a Chinaman shall be deemed bank throughout the East, though he did not to be a girl under eighteen years of age.”
at the Paris Opéra in 1889. She first appeared at Covent Garden in 1891, when she sang the part of Marguerite in "Faust," and has since constantly bean appearing in either New York or the British capital,