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S. WATSON & CO., LTD.,
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
WINE & SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
THE HUNGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15ru. 1911.
made after the ship struck to secure the safe TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS. TELEGRAMS.
THROUGH DEUTER'S AGENCY,]
THE WRECK OF THE
"DELHI."
{THROUGH RRUTEE'S AGENCY.]
THE
DURBAR.
GRAVE PREIL
landing of the Royal party, which was effected by boats from the French cruiser Friend. That the rescue was attended by considerable danger is shown by the state- ment that one of the boats capsized and that one of the young Princesses had à narrow escape from drowning. The further statement that rocket apparatus is being❘ PRINCESS ROYAL AND FAMILY IN taken overland to the scene of the wrack, owing to "communication by sea, being difficult," helps us to picture still more clearly the perils of the situation. It is a matter for sincere congratulation throughout the British dominions that Her Royal High- ness the PRINCES ROYAL, her husband, the DUKE OF. Firs, and their two daughters have been safely brought to shore from the wrecked steamer, and it will be sincerely
LONDON, December 14th..
Reuter's correspondent at Gibraltar wires that the P. and O. steamer Delhi, conveying the Duke and Duchess of Fife and their daughters to Egypt, has gone ashore to the south of Cope Spartel. The weather was stormy but the boats of the French cruiser Friant rescued the passengers, including the Princess Royal, and landed them at Cape
BRANDY hoped that the news any specility come that Spartel.
Our Brandies are
the whole of the passengers have been detachment of Tangier police is rescisod, and that not a life has been lost proceeding with mulos towards Spartel in So far as human effort cap avail to secure order to fetch the shipwrecked passengers tlhi: Rafe laudding of the passengers and crew. the public know that they can ly
ou the ships of the P. & O. Company, and we may go further and say that the reputa. tion which the P. and O. steamers bare PURE GRAPE long enjoyed by reason of their careful navi.
A POPULAR DAY.
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DEATH OF AN AMERICAN
NAVAL ATTACHE.
Toxro, Dec. 14th.7
COMPANY MEET NO.
H* PRICE & CO., LTD.
An extraordinary general meeting of shareholders was held at the company's offices, 12, Queen's Road, yesterday, at noon, at which the special resolutions for changing-the-name of the company to Gande, Price & Co., Ltd., for increasing the capital to $500,000, for increasing the num
Captain Shipley, the Americanber of directors from three to six, and for Naval Attaché in Tokyo, has died
LONDON, December 14th. ...Delhi telegrams report that yesterday was devoted to public celebrations. The King received the native officers. Their Majesties attended the people's fete, the suddenly, the cause of death being procession of Hindus, Molismedaus, and apoplexy, Sikhs being most impressive, culminating as they did in combined prayers for the happiness of the Emperor and Empress and in the singing of anthems.
THE TRANSFER OF THE CAPITAL
LATER.
The Times' Delhi correspondent states that though the announcement of the transfer of the capital has not aroused universal enthusiasm it has had the remarkable offeri
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THE NORTH BORNEO COMPANY'S DINNER.
London, December i 1. The Rt. Hon. Harcourt was the chief guest at the North Borneo Company's au nou dinner.
The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph West Ridge.
GUARANTEED with confidence on the officers employed procedet the telegrams which, was published yes of haring impressed the Indians with the way, whie presided, said the company ind
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gation justifies the expectation that the cir cumstances causing the wreck, when they are fully known, will not be found to include negligence on the part of the officers. It is a curious concidence, which doubtless any have already noticed, that this unfortunate mislap to a steamer bearing the name of Delhi should have occurred on the very day that His Majesty the KING-EMPEROR was holding his historie Durbar in the ancient 31.40 2.70 Mogul capital and proclaiming to the people
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travelling to Egypt on the ship. and Taxi MAJESTIES will scarcely need the assurancð 49.40 4.20 tht the relief and satisfaction they feel is shared throughout the wide dominions of the Crown and probably by noue more sincerely thu the millions of their subjects in India who are at this moment giving proof of their A. S. WATSON & CO., attachment to the throne by rejoicings on an
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unprecedented scale to mark the historic occasion of the first visit to ludia paid by its ruler since Great Britain became responsi ble for the government of the country.
[This message arrivad late. It should have teniay morning reporting that she Delhi was in a dangerons position. As our readers are aware, the Delhi is one of the ships on the Bombay-Chica run. She had gone home for this
one voyage, and was on her way back in Chins.
LATEL.
The members of the Royal party have reached Tangier. After spending a night at the Legation, they will probably proceed to Gibraltar to-morrow.
power and attributes of the Crown. The spectacle of the Emperor announcing his intention of transferring the capital struck
everybody dumb with awe.
The Emperor lays the foundation stone of the city on the site of the Durbar camp. Long despatches are published to show that the decision to transfer the capital was taken on the initiative of the Indian Gor
From confused accounts of the wrack, it ernment.
is gathered that the Friant's boat which actually took off the members of the party capsized, one of the young Princesses being early drowned. She was held up, however,
by a sailor.
A despatch from the Government of India to Lord Crave of the 25th August gives reason at exhaustive length for the changes and urges that the removal of the supreme government from provincial environments
bed acting the part of empire makers, and were now reaping the results. The charter involved great responsibilities, but the
now
on
of
Chairman
reduting the directors' fee from $750 a year, for each director, to $500 a year were dis- russed.
There were present Mr. Chân Kai Ming (Chairman), Mr. A. Kumjuhn (Managing Director), Mr. Lau. Po Wing, Mr. J. I
Lo Tuz Chun, Mr. D. Runijahu,.....
Blake Mooney, representing 10,081
and Ar
shares, and Mr. C. Bond (Secretary).
The Secretary having read the notice | calling the meeting.
The "CUSERMAN said:--Gentlemen.---The notice embodying the special resolutions,. which the secretary has just read, has been in your hands for more than seven days (the time limit for service of notice according to our articles to be at least seven days) and I will explain to you, as fully as I can, the reasons for calling this meeting. Mr. J. W. Gande and Mr. H. Price were originally partners who start business in this pleze and in Shanghai under the name of Gande, Price & Co. After doing business for
a few dissolved partnership Gande keeping the Shanghai firm and Mr. years, they Price the Hongkong firm, but one of the
Mr.
company had.dous its best, and thanks to terms of the dissolution of partnership was that neither of them should be at liberty rubber and the railway, was
within the period of twenty-five years to velvet. The policy was one
trade in the other's territories. This proviso vigorous development. The
is still binding on, Messrs.J. W. Gande and ourselves, we being successors to Mr. Price, announced that he was leaving for Borneo As you are aware, we had to establish an agency in Weihaiwei last year for carrying in a for days.
British Fleet in that place, for which we had out our contract for supplying beer to the to obtain the sanction of and to pay a cer tain reyally to Messrs. J. W. Gande & Co., and as enquiries from the north for our wines are frequently received by us, your directors think it advisable for your interests and those of Messrs. J. W. Gande & Co. to amalgamate from the 1st January next year. As the name of Messrs. J. W. Gande North China, we think it desirable that the &Co. is very popular in Shanghai and
Mr. Harcourt dwelt on the prosperity of Borneo, which asked for no grants in aid of the country. The administration had been most officient and the progresive company was really the responsible government. He referred in glowing terms to the policy She landed bare-footed, was placed on a will facilitate the growth of local self-gov.pursued by the company and the results spectator's horse, and taken to Cape Spartel,ernment on safe and sound lines. The achieved. and emphasised the national together with others.
Dry clothing was selection of Delhi would strike the imagina aportance of the scientific conservation of obtained from the lighthouse people. tion of the Indians and would send a wave forests..
There are altogether 95 first-class passen of enthusiasm through the country, I
The Hon. Alfred Lyttleton also gora on the Delhi, almost half of them points out that the partition of Bongal was replied logistically, and spoke of the past being women and children. Seventy of the responsible for the growing estratigement and future of the company. passengers and the crew are still aboard. THE ROYAL PARTY'S UNHAPPY PLIGHT.
LATER.
The Times correspondent at Tangier states that the passengers of the Delhi, including the Royal party, had no time to dress. With the greatest difficulty, they boarded a boat from the warship Duke of Edinburgh, accom- panied by Admiral Craddock. Though the Duke and the others bailed their hardest, the boat filled and sank. The party, however, were all wearing lifebelts and consequently were able to float, though Princess Alexandra upening by the Chinese Telegraph Admin-disappeared for a moment. The party were istration of telegraphic communication with landed after great efforts, the princesses, clad Hankow, for plain language telegrams only only in nightdresses and coats, struggling
The German Mail of the 15th November was delivered in Landon on the 13th inst.
Information has been received of the re-
It was reported that Sun Yat Sen was on board the German mail steamer Prins Ludwig yesterday. This, however is an anticipation, as he is not due here for soine days.yet.
The rowdy element has not been com- On pletely subdued in Hongkong yet. Wednesday a crowd at the City Hall res ched a hawker from an Indian sergeant who had arrested him.
While out riding in the draghunt a week ago near Siccawel, Dr. E. Birt of Shanghai was thrown from his pony, which rolled over him. He sustained three broken ribs and also broke has left collar bone. He was removed to his home.
Among the honours conferred by His Majesty the King-Emperor at the Durbar at Delhi is a barometer on the Hon. Sir
Sassoon David, Kt. The new baronet, who is a member of the Viceroy's Council, is senior partner of the firm of Messrs. S. 1. David & Co., and the brother of Mr. A. J.
David.
been made for
on to the rocas amid torrents of rain. The lighthouse was four miles distant. The British Minister arrived with horses, and the Duke of Fife; still in his nightshirt and wearing a pair of the lighthouse keeper's trousers, informed the princesses that it was possible for them to start for Taugier. The princesses were most plucky and sheerfully sayed the three hours" ride on mules in very heavy rain. They had no clothes
the lighthouse keeper's garments. except
The Delhi is stranded broadsido ou to the beach, opposite the Pillars of Hercules.
One of the Friant's men was drowned.
LATER.
An English naval officer at Tangier says the Frenchmen worked splendidly,
A TERBIBLE STOKM.
LATER
of Hindus and Mohamedans. A simple. recession of the partition was impossible, but the scheme proposed should negative the presumption that it was exacted by agitation. It considers the presence of the King Emperor at Delhi a unique oppor-
of the most weighty decisions in the history tunity for the pronouncement. It was one
of British India.
SIR HORMUSJEE MODY'S WILL
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We are authorised to state that Probate of the Will and Codicil of the late Sir H. N. Mody, deceased, has now been granted to Sir Paul Chater, Knight, C.M.G., one of the
executors.
The net value of the estate in Hongkong has been sworn under $1,846.000. This Lord Crowe in his despatch to Lord does not include the value of the estate else Hardinge on the 1st November concludes where than in Hongkong. It is impossible a lengthy review of the proposal, agreeing value of such outside estate, and especially to gauge with accuracy the exact present that it was imperative to avoid delay:
of that considerable portion of if which con-
that the new Governor of Bengal will be is dependent on development and on the Della telograms state it is understoodsists of mining interests, the value of which appointed on the 1st April.
future. The pecuniary legacies of the de- ceased are being paid, but the full realisa tim of the estate must necessarily be gradual, and will take some considerable Time:
The change of the capital was made with the fall knowledge of the Indian chiefs, who strongly supported the idea.
The Army is also delighted with the pro posed change.
THE SUGAR - CONVENTION,
LONDON, December 14th. Reuter's correspondent at Brussels states that the Sugar Convention has been adjour- ed until the 20th January in order to enable! the uninstructed delegates to consult their Governments. The Convention is practically agreed upon a compromise by which Russia, when the barvest is abundant and prices rule high, may export above 200,000 tons. The difficulty is in fixing the new quota. It is understood that Russia will be authorised to
FIRES..
A small fire occurred in t tea shop t West Point on Wednesday, but it was ex- tinguished by the fokis before any appreci able damage was done.
Yesterday morning fire was discovered to have broken out in a house in Morrison Hill Road Gap. The flames were soon quelled by the police, but not before one man had been so severely burned that he had to be sent to the hospital.
A message to the Faris Matin from 'Pan-export during the present season practically utt., Colonel Yate (Melton, Opp.) asked the
the whole of her surplus.
SERIOUS RUSSO-TURKISH
SITUATION.
LONDON, December 14th. The Times correspondent at Teheran states
gier states that four of the crew of the Friant were drowned through the capsizing of a launchi. The Friant was voyaging from Rochefort when she intercepted a distress wireless message from the Delhi. The cruiser mal full speed towards Cape Spartel, but it was ten o'clock in the morn- that the Russians will occupy Khoi, which ing before a full in the storm enabled her turns the Turkish western flank and may commander to send a steam launch, and to a serious Russo. Turkish situation. even then the waves were breaking over the It is believed that the Turkish army in Asia Delhi mast high. The launch transferred Minor is mobilising.. a score of women and children to the cruiser
ADMINISTRATION OF HONGKONG.
In the House of Commons on the 20th Secretary of State for the Colonies whether in view of the situation in China and the strategical importance of Hongkong, he would consider the question of advisability of placing that color under the control of a military Governor, under arrangements similar to those which now existed in the case of Malta, Bermuda, and such like important oversea naval bases.
Colonel Seely, who replied, said that his Majesty's Government Saw no reason for
the
altering the present system of administra
tion.
naïve "Gande "should be incorporated with our name. We therefore propose to alter __our_name to Gande, Pric & Co Ltd."
from the date of amalgamation. As we require additional capital for acquiring
Messrs. J. W. Gande & Co.'s business, for extending our operations in North China and also in Formosa and Japan, in which latter two places our branches are at present · doing very well, we propose to increase, pur present capital. $150,000, to a nominal capi- tal of $500,000. We require only for the pre- sent an additional capital of $100,000, by
Of the new issue of 10,000 shares, 4,000 shares, each $10 paid up, will be issued to Messrs. I. W. || Gande & Co. for the value of their stock, which is estimated at $40,000 Their stock will be taken over by us at laid down cost, and the stock-taking and valuation will be made by Messrs. Lowe, Bingham and balance, 6,000 shares, will be offered to the Matthews, the company's auditors. The
present shareholders, pro rata, at Sz premium shares to Messrs. J. W. Gande & Co. at par per share. The reason why we issue 4,000
is that we only pay them a very small sum, $10,000, for their goodwill, and in lieu of cash of $40,000, estimated value of their stock, we will hand them 4.000 shares Sto paid up. Their books have been gone over by Mr. Rumjahn, our managing director, who has satisfied himself that they have been making on the average for the last three years a nett profit of $12,000 a year. The price for the goodwill representing less than one year's nett profit is, we consider, very cheap. You will remember that we issued
3,000 shares at $2 premium per share in June last, and I am glad to inform you that all these three thousand shares have been taken up and prúd for, and I hope the 6,000 shares we now propose to issue at the same premium (Si per share), will be all taken up. Stock Exchange at $12 per share. The next
the issue of 10,000 shares, increasing the paid up capital to $250,000.
Our shares are quoted in the
resolution to be dealt with is the increase of the number of directors. This we think is necessary on account of the expansiori of our business. We therefore propose to increase the present number of directors from three to six, and you will see from the last resolution that the present fee, which is $750 a year, for each director, will be reduced to $500 a year, so instead of paying
$2,250 a year for three directors, it will only cost the company $750 more a year for twice the number of directors. I think the explanation: I have given covers all
the ground; but if any of you require further information. I shall endeavour to supply him to the best of my ability.
Mr. MOONEY-Does the $40,000 paid to; Messrs. 1. W. Gande cover the actuat cost of the stock and goodwill?
The CBAIRMAN-No, only the stock-in- trade.
Mr. MOONEY-What did we pay for the goodwill?
HONGKONG, DECEMBER 15TH, 1911.
ACCIDENTS happeu to ships of the best managed lines as they happen in the best regulated households, but in the case of ships of the P. & 0. Company they are so infrequent considering the size of the Arrangements have Flest is to be more than usually startling, Kovarick, the boy violinist, to give a concert when they do occur. In all ports of the in the theatre on Thursday next. Assistance East where the Delhi has been accustomed has been best kindly promised by the best local talent and the 'Orchestra of the 1st to call, the news of the misfortune to this fine ship will occasion deep regret, and assist. The proceeds are to go in aid of the Bn. King's Own Light Infantry will also eympathy with the P. & D. Company and Diocesan Girls' School, and the concert has the Commander of the steamer is deepened the patronage of H. E. The Governor. by the fact that the rock should have Kovarick's performances are highly eulogised occurred while members of the Royal Family in all the press notices we have seen and were on board. The Delhi was built about the concert he has arranged to give here
and China, and had just made a roya concert he has given elsewhere in the East, passengers were aroused at one o'clock in Leipzig, has been sentenced to seven years' absolutely, and he left to her the use for life the firm is doing well in getting the na six years ago for the run between Bombay will doubtless prove as successful
home. She was returning to her Eastern
-
as the
Duke of Edinburgh, which had just arrived.
Reuter's correspondent at Gibraltar wirea that the Duke of Edinburgh has just arrived. there with 39 women and children from the Delhi To an interviewer they stated the
THE ESPIONAGE CASE:
LONDON, December 14th. Max Schulz, a British agent, who, with others, was tried on a charge of espionage a the morning and were assembled on deck. penal servitude. The sentences of the The American Committee appointed by the There was no pauic, though they had to others ranged from twelve months to two run when she met with misfortune, in stormy. International Bible Students' Association to wait until ton in the morning, when the weather, to the southward of Cape Spartel, investigate the work of foreign missions in cruiser. The members of the Boral party
Briant's boats conveyed them to the British and three years. which juts out from the extreme north China, Japan, India, Africa and Arabia.and the male passengers will remain a night west of Morocco. According to the brief their methods and teachings left
San in Taugier telegraphic accounts of the wreck so far Francisco on the Shinye Maru and is due
The position of the vessel is critical, and innocuous the association of spies in the to arrive here on January 9th. The chair salvage vessels are sailing to attempt to service of the “English Espionage Bureau received, the stonder las goue ashore," but as to whether this occurred in the the London and Brooklyn Tabernacles, one of
man of the committee is Pastor Russell, of save the specie, mails and luggage.
THE ACCIDENT ON THE ORION LATEST NEWS. darkness or in daylight, information is at the bset known ministers in America. He The row is quieteaing, and this afternoon
came into prominence through his teaching of the error of "hell fire" and other dis- binctive teachings. Last spring he accepted the pastorate of the London Tabernacle, and agreed to sperid two months in the spring and two months in the fall of each year in The other members of the com-
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Britial cruiser established communication between the Delhi and the chore. It is believed that all the passengers are safe.
present lacking. There is a lighthouse on the Capo visible at a distance of 20 miles, but at this time of the year fogs prevail along this coast, and storm and fog may have
ATTEMPTS AT SALVAGE, combined to bring about the unfortu.
Attempts are being made to silve the nate disaster.
The steamer So far as we can judge London.
Delhi's mails and specie. from what BEUTER calls the confused mittee are General Wm. Hall, Dr. L. W. carried one hundred thousand sterling in Jones, Prof. Robison, Messrs. Robert B. gold and two hundred thousand in silver accounts of the wreck yet to hand, Maxwell, J. T. D. Pyles, and E. W. V. Ballion. The women and children have boon it appears evident that first efforts were
vourfortably accommodated at Gibraltar.
Kuchn
LATER.
Max Schultz, says that his urrsat rendered
LONDON, December 14th. The victims of theoil explosion on HMS Orion are progressing satisfactorily.
THE FINANCE BILL.
SIG ROBERT HART'S WILL,
Sir Robert Hart, Brat baronet, for many | years Inspector-General of the Chinese Im perial Maritimo Castons and Posts, left estate of the gross value of £140,260, of which the uat personalty has been sworn at £139,919, loft all his consumable stores to his wife
of his household and personal effects, and an annuity of £2,000, free of duty and income tax. All other property he left to his son, Sir Edgar
Bruce Hart.
He
He stated that Chiness Loan bonds costing 68,774, and leasehold premises, 24 Old Queen strnet, Westminister, and all houses and hand in Chins standing in his name were not his Property, but that of the Chiness Imperial Maritime Customs Administration, and as such should be handed over to his successor in the Inspectorate-General.
AS GENTLE AS NATURE the ac ion of PINKLETS, the little Pink axatives. Tiny but thorough, they dispel Constipation, ensure regularity, care Billos LONDON, December 14th. ness, nic digestion. Try them to-day. third reading of the Finance Bill.
The House of Commons bas passed the Chemists price cuts the phial or post free, from The Dr. Walisus Medicine Co., 84, Book Road, Shanghai.
The CHAIRMAN-$10,000, which Messrs. Gande took in shares. In all we paid $50,000 for the whole business.
Mr. BLAKE-I think the shareholders should he highly gratified at the manner in which the directors worked to bring about this amalgamation. Mr. Gande, when he was previously associated with the firm of Price and Co., was a thorough worker, who brought the company up to such an exten and having been in China 33 years, I thi of Gande in front of Price and Co. I wol call attention to paragraph 4, where it Saga a year. That shows they have ar shown that the shareholders are forfeit
terest the company. I think the firm Gande, Price and Co., will go ahead leaps and bounds, and I have such pleas the notice calling this extraordinary gen In seconding all the resolutions embodied meeting. In doing so, I think I am voicing the sentiments, of the sharehold of H. Price and Co.
meeting and adopted, and the Char
The resolutions were then put to then announced that a confirmatory meet would be held, notices of which would served on the shareholders in due coursea the company is to be congratualated
Mr.. BLAKE-I think, Mr. Chairman, ti having secured the services of two effic gentlemen in the persons of Mr. Bond Mr. Oxberry for the working of the oute business of the company.
The CHAIRMAN quite agree with