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COMPANY MEETING.
KOWLOON LAND AND BUILDING CO., LTD.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6TH, 1912.
· ELLIS KADOORIE CHINESE SCHOOLS SOCIETY..
SHIPPING NOTES,
The White Star Company has entered an DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES AT THE SPER) against the decision in the cross actions
HONGKONG COLLEGE.
The twenty-third annual meeting of the Kowloon Land and -Building Co., Ltd., was The annak distribution of prizes took place held in the slices of the Company yester-vry quietly at 2 p.ro, on Saturday. Owing to the building operations at present in progress no guests were invited as in former years, the dinge being quite private. The Posidont Mr. Ellis Kadcore) and the Honorary Borete (Mr. Lan Chu Pak were present and were
"Me, T. F. Hough presided and there were also present: Messrs, A. Rodger. J. M. E. Machado (Directors), R. A. Carvalho, R. C. Edwards, M. S. Northcote, A. Fyfe, Bruce Sheppard, J. M. Alves, and the Secretary, Mr. A. Shelton Hooper,
The Secretory read the notice convening the meeting.
supported by several of the Directors.
After a few preliminary remarks, the Head Mastor, Mr. W. Drow Braidwood, rose to read the Eleventh Annus? Report of the College, The outstanding features of this Report wore as follows:--
|· arising out of the colliatɔn between the steam-
ship Olympic and the erniser Hawks.
MACAO NOTES,
[FROM A CORRESPONDENT]
On Sunday several noteworthy events took place in the Holy City.
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THE REVOLUTION.
THE ARMISTICE NOT EXTENDED,
telegram from Yuan Shih-kai asking for an On Monday last Dr. Wa Ting Fang received extens on of the armistice. The message was Straits papers smaouzes the death of Captain At the Cathedral there was high mass and sent direct to Dr. Wo, said Mr. Wen Tsang- John S. Smith of the ss. Jin Ho, belonging to sermon by the Rev. Dr. Jones, it being the yoo, and it also contained a demand from Yuan the Eastern Shipping Co., Ltd. Captain Wright occasion of the new "Bulls "sned by the Pope. that the Republican troops who recently on- was formerly employed in Hongkong and after- At 11 o'clock, a quiet wedding took plase in gaged with General Chang Hann be withdmwe wards became a wharfinger ander the Tanjong the Bishop's Palace, the Rev. Archdeacon armistice. Dr. Wn replied efusing say or
as they had committed an infringement of the Pagar Dook Board in Singapore. He was for Soares officiating in the presence of His Lord- tension and stating that the hostilitics were some time in the service of the Straits Steamship Bishop D. João Paulino. The lattor said zosumed by General Chang, and in defence the 'ship Company.
the auptial mass. The happy pair were the Republican tops had driven them back and daughter of General Garsis and the Director of captured several positions. Thus the Republi Public Works Department. After the ceremonies and therefore they refused to comply with the cab qoldiers had in no way broken the armistice reception took place at the General's residenco. demand, Anether rasion for the refusal At 130 pm. thoro was a Civilian Sporta the non-fallllment of Taan's promines despite meeting in the Long-Ting Chis Ground. A repeated extensions of the armisties. Yusa and great number of military also participated.been falas all through and as they could not The most interesting features were the races of agree to another extension. --
Shanghai wercury. the Landins (the new African soldiers). The CHINESE ESTIMATION OF MR. military band was in attendance,
BERNARD SHAW,
It is understood that negotiatione ac pro coeding between the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board and Mecers Harland, Wolf, of Belfast, for the acquisition of North Dockyard, a large plot in land in Bootle, for the establishment of a big ship-repairing works. Lord Pirtis and other members of the firm, it is alated, have inspected the Rita. The dockyard has not been used by the Dock Board for several years. It
ship. The works, it is believed, aro futended as joint repairing depot for vessels belonging to the shipping concerns with which Lord Pirrie is identified.
The CHAIRMAN said :-Gentlemen,-With "your permission' I will take the report anul
The average attendance for the whole your accounts as read. The auditor's certificate was 595, which is a highly satisfactory figure, is as follows-1 report that I have being equal to 92,86 por cont. of the number ou audited the above balance sheet with the the register. This high percentage bears witness bordes and vouchers of the company in Hong-to the general good health enjoyed by thee situsted close to the berths of the biggest kong and that in my opinion, such sheet is properly drawn up so as to exhibit a true and correct view of the state of the com pany's affairs at the gast December, 1911, aerording to the best of my information and the explanations given.ne, and as shown by the books of the company. I have obtained all the information and explanations I have required:~(Sd.) R. Enwards, Auditor, 1.
is satisfactory to note that our net profit on the year's working is $16,636.79 as against $13.15898 for that of 1910, thereby - enabling us in declare a dividend of 1.75 per shore, id in the absenen of any unforeseen circumstances we hope to be able to main tain it in the future. The whole of your property is solisfactorily let and is in good repair. If any shareholders wish for any further information I shall be pleased to give it to the best of my ability,
There being no questions, the CMRSIAN proposed the adoption of the report and
accounts.
students. The stall now consists of 6 English Masters, 9 Loon! Masters, and 9 Varnacular Teachers. During the past year, sufficient funds having boon subscribed, it was decided to proceed with the erection of the contral portion of the College Buildings. The demo. ition of the old structure commenced after the Bumper vacation, and the building operations have made such good progress that the new structure is now up to the first floor. When complete, the Collage will possess a fine Central Hall, 30 fass rooms sud 4 retiring rooms for the staff. If all the rooms are used for days purposes, there will be accommodation for 1,200 students. If, however, as is proposed, three of] the rooms be utilised for a Reading Room, a Chemical Laboratory, and a Physical Labora- tory, thero will still be accommodation for overall nations on terms of entire equality," shall bo 1,000 pupils. The Society has also purchased carried out in their integrity and spirit. a piece of land on the south side of Hospital Boad facing the College, on which is to be
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ploco at St. Joseph's College. His Lordship At 4.30 p.m. a distribution of prizes took Bleher D. Jeño Paulino d'Azevedo e Castro pre sided. The spacious hall of the College nocom modated over a couple of hundred people. The tengthy and attractive programme, combining dramatics and musical entertainment, was greatly appreciated. The professors are to be congratul branch of study taught in the institution. The stod upon the access of their pupils in overy fanction concluded with the college band piny. ing the Bishop's Hymn.
The Council of the Lordon Chamber of Com Chamber should make representations to the morce at a meeting last month decided that the Foreign Offae regarding the reported intention of the Government of the United States of America to differentiate against British ship- ping passing through the Pansma Canal, and a
His Lordship' Dom João Faulino d'Azevedo a Cestro was entertained at dinner by the staff rosolation was unanimously adoptert expressing of St. Joseph's College, the occasion being his the opinion that it is desirable in the interests birthday. Nedless to say, the majority of the of British tiado that the provisions of the Kay,
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wont to offer their Panno foto Treaty, affirming that the Panacongratulations. Canal shall be "free and open to the vessels of
FORTUNES IN THE SEA
The first of the white divers who are to re- fisheries hava sailed from England on the place the Japanese in the Australian pearl steamship Waimano.
WILS
cent and modern Chinese drama before the Playgoera' Club at the Hotel Carsil Inat month, Mr. Arthur Corbott-Smith, speaking on an
said that when he was in Peking recently be attended a performance by a Chinese amateur drumstig club. The pices they chose for rapro. play "The Bondoan." The translation was a duction was a Chinese translation of Hall Caine's very close one and the ser afterwards, and the lattor told him that well pat on and actad. His spoke to the mana- play was exceedingly
the society was 'putting on several more Chinese translatioun of plays by Eiropean authors. He suggested to the manager a per- Superman." formance of Bernard Shaw's "Men and bat declared that it would not suit & Chinese. The Chinaman has real this, audience as there was in it "too much bobbery; too much tolkes."
SIR JOHN JORDAN THREATENED.
Mr. EDWARDS seconded and the motion be erected later a gymnasium, and a tornis Ltd... E.S. Dollar Steamship. Co, und Hize advanture and no littlo peril. All three are origiu in the attitude taken by the British
was carried.
On the motion of Mr. NosTICOTE, second-
·Rodger were re-elected directors..
per annum.
present for examination, and the results were
The New York Maritime Register" of 27th it, says the Dollar Steamship Lines, Lid, at new steamship company, is being incorporated to take over the Stanley Dollar Steamship Co.,
Dollar Steamship Co., which are being wound The weoting for this purpose was held at cember 21. The Dellar Steamship Lines, Ltd., the company's offre at San Francisco, on De-
will take over the Haarl Dellar, M.S. Fellar and Stanley Dellar, which steamers are now regis
up.
These men are going out to a life of great ex-Navy men, two of them divers, and the third a tender, shaso duty it is to look after the man who is garnering oysters 60 feet the pamping apparatus and the signalling lises and who really carries in his hands the life of beneath the aarface of the sea.
The divors are being sout to Broome, the headquarters of the West Australian Fishery, by Messrs. C. E. Heinke and Co, the famous London firm of submarine engineers, who manu- facture most of the apparatus which in und in the pearling industry. They form the first of the coloured divere, and their trial is in the nature of an experiment.
crepted a Tea House for the benefit of those toys whe cannot, by reason of distance, go home to luncheon. On this site there will
court is also to be planned.
Satisfactory progress has beon made in studie” ed by Mr. FAFE, Messrs. F. F. Hough and A. during the past your. In November, the College had its annual luspection by the Director On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, secondedef Education, but that gentleman's report has by Me, Arvas, Mr. R. C. Edwards was re-not yet been received. At the Terminal Ex-taxed at the port of Victoris, and will also include elected auditor at a renumeration of Sgo amination, held by the Head Master, 519 were the now steamier Robert Dollar, recently built saliafactory. At the lost. Orford Local At Glasgow for the trans-Pacifio freight service The CHAKMAN-That completes the bus-Examination pupils from this College for the of the Dollar line, The Robert Dollar, which batch of ex-Navy men who will take the places first time entered as candidate. Eight took te now registered at Glasgow, will protubly have the Junior Paperand six the Preliminary. The her register transferred to Victorio. resnits were creditable, as seven passed in tho Junior Division, and six in the Preliminary, one of the latter obtaining Honours and Distinction in Chinese. This year roven students are pre- paring for the Oxford Senior Local, thirteen for the Junior, and 23 for the reliminary, During the year five students of Ferm IIIA passed the entrance examination of the Tong than Mining and Engineering College,
ness the dividend warrants will be ready on application.toporrow morning.
LAW COURT DIFFICULTIES.
Yesterday morning when Mr. Shruton began the examination of a witness in a case which was being heard before Mr. Justice fiompertz, his Lordship interposed with the hint, in this Court If you speak loudly and clearly the echo destroys everything, but if you murmur softly everylady can hear."
MILLIONAIKÈS' COUP,
TRAY MR. CARNEGIE GOT THE BETTER OF, MR. ROCKEFELLER,
New York, January 11,' Mr. Andrew Carnegie, who was a witness to-day before the Congressional Committer which is investigating the Steel Trust, ex- plained with great glee how he got the bet ier of Mr. John D. Rockefeller in a deal about some ore lands in the Lake Superior district.
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induced Mr. Rockefeller to sell on royalty basis of råd., to soch a ton," said Mr. Carnegie. The same property has since bren capitalised by the United States Ster Corporation on the basis of 45, a son.
Mrs. Carnegie and I visited Mr. and Mrs. Rockdeller this New Year's-day, and found thêm scated on the porch, Mrs. Rockefeller is a fine woman and a fine wife, but she is doing poorly-now.
The old gentleman was in good fottle. There he was, tall, lean, spare, and smiling and happy as could be. He told us the cold weather did not affect him much, as he wore a paper jacket. He gave each of us one, and it really is a fine thing to keep the body
warm.
NOT MENTIONED:
"We chatted over old times, but I did not mention that are transaction in which I got: the better of him. That was the one time when i took in a fellow millionaire,"
Mr. Carnegie laughed long, but quickly
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The students were then addressed by the Eon. Bec.. Mr. Len Chi Pak, who compliment- ed the staff or the year's work and gave some good advice to the students,
During the afternoon, the students of the Oxford Benior and Junior locals acted a scena from Scott's Quentin Durward.”
Following were the principal Prize winnors
CLASS I,
گلاب
Blake Scholarship ($50) Kwok Shin Chung Thatton
(*50) Lani Kwan Shan Lugard.
.. ($30 for 2years) Li In Chang
Ho Kam Tong, (Senior) (235) Leung San Bo Kam Tong (Junior) (825, Puur Yan Hang College Scholarship (150) Wong, Wai Hang (Gold Medal),
Special Prize: Dux Boy, Wong Wai Hung
Candidates :-
Oxford Local Fxamination: Successful
LAMA WITH PORTRAIT OF THE TSAR
COUNTRY WERE EVERT THIED MAN 18 A
PRIEST..
doomed to continue as it is at present, a waste "I am inclined to believe that the country is spot on the face of the earth, inhabited only by wandering herdsmen, and a blank space on the
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In these words Mr. George J. Fidaton, British traveller who a few years age mude a journey in Mongolia, areompanied by Mr. A. J. Flaherty, of H. M. Consular Service, China, describes the country.
the pot
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 ago, had a Inga pimple come on his forehead, Es burzi:
and spread all over bu face which soon looked Ifko a piece of raw 'beef, all smothered with bad pimples. 11 was switḥ lo look at, THE BOTH SLO. thing used to
and ary serribly. I took Julm to a doctor bue he only got vorne til 1 wall quite frightened that he would always be dis figured. Then sent for some Citieurs Ointment and after wing is I found that baby no longer. scratched his fact. 85. İ gọt in all two fargo tina öf. CuticurA Ointment,
her with Cuticur
and in two months The Cutkurs Remodles had quite cured him. Row 1 always keep a tin of Cuteura Oini- ment by, ma la case of anything else coming. and of course I usa Cuticure Song for all my ehidren.
About fourteen years ago I had thing ke heat spots all over my arm and shoul derm. I aprtebed and rubbed them so much that they bled and then I was sovered with fitte sores. A Friend gave me a tin of Cuti- qura. Ojatment and bufare I had used it up my skin was completely clear, and I was cured, I had had this.srouble for dine months and had tried everything to get rid of it. I self all my friends about my baby'a rire. jadeed they tak what I used for the littla boy's face. for they all saw how bad i Defore the Cuticurs Remedies cured Blgard) Max. K. Perrz, 99, Waterion RA, Aldershot, Hants, England, May 21, 1910, Outicura Remedies are sold throughout the world. Depots: Landoŋ, 67, Charterhou 83.: Catculta, B, K. Paul: fo. Attica, Lennon, Lid., Cape Town ric.; U. £, A., Potter Drugs" 4 Chen, Corp., Bela Proja,, Boston. Bend for free Cutiçárs book on skin disease.
A. Peking telegram to the Ostriatischer Lloyd states that Bir John Jordan, the British Minister to Paking, has received vevoral serious menacing letter, probably from the side of the. Imperialists. Farther, neveral Englishmon in far fear of bombs being thrown at them. Peking have been wurned to leave their houses
British feeling in Peking probably has its Our German contemporary saysThis anti.
anthorities towards the revolation, After Yusu Shih-kai had been appointed to be Premier in the British Minister to Peking, who, on orders November last when the Revolution was only a slight rebellion, it was Sir John Jordan, received from London, prevented a foreign loan being given to the Peking Government by the Four Powers Banking Syndicate. Only the RELIABLE frustration of this lean made it possible for the revelationto spread to so large dimensions.
The N-C. Daily News in reproducing the abors
RACE SEASON
1912.
CHRONOGRAPHS
SINGLE AND.
SPLIT SECONDS
pruotioally decreed that from the end of next affairs in Peking with reference to the mea ZEISS PRISH BINOCULARS
In pursuance of their "White Australia" policy, the Commonwealth Government have year overs diver and every tender in the Broome and Thursday Island huggers shall be a white ma. Notico has been given to the boat owners that no luggar orrying Japaness divers will be Hicensed for the 1913 season.
will be able to sustain the arduous and porilout The pearl-fishers question whether white mon work of diving. The Japanese diver has pets- liar qualifications. He has tremendons endur ance and a fatalistic temperament. Experiences which shatt or the nerves of the ordinary man have no effect upon him. In the past Juvanero, Kanaka, an Malay divers were largely engaged in pearling, but the Japanese Las ousted them
all.
THE WHITE MAN'S QUEST.
Mongolis is a vast region of Asia, comprised in the Chinese Empire, mostly between latitude 47deg. and 50deg. N. and longitude 82lag, and Mr. Sprang, the managing partner of Messrs. 120deg,
E., having Manchuria-from which it Heinke and Co., who has visited both the in Mountains-on the east, Chins and Chinese times, is of opinion that the Navy mon will part separated. by the great Khingan Thursday Island and Brooms theries soveral
Tarkosan on the south and south-west, and prove quite equal to the strain. "At the same Bassinn Asia on the north. The conatry is in time," he remarked to an Evening Standa d fact mostly a vast desert, lying at an elevation represoritative “with white labour it will be from 2.500 to 53,000ft, its central necessary to make some changes in the conditiona part forming the eastern half of the under which the pearl shell is obtained; but Gobi Desert, though here and there given white men of intelligence and indomitable productive tracts are found, where herds pluck and andurance there is every reason to of cattle belonging to nomadic tribes are believe that the industry will be maintained on maintained, and wheat, barley and willst area for firmer and more satisfactory basis than it raised.
enjoys at the present time."
of
Junier-Wong Wai Hung, Lam Kwan
In the north, however, the country is richly Bhan Kwok Shin Chung; Tsang Choi T; wooded. The temperature on the high tableland Lam Teo Tak; Lai Hing On Ho Chi is extraordinarily variable, and when the wind Preliminary-Wai Kwong: Wan Cheuk Lows from the north-west the cold is paraly Ming; Teang Cheun Kung Tsung Sam Horing, although the sun may be abining Li I Cheng (3rd Class Honours and Listino-brilliantly. Mr. Kidston records that on one tion in Chinese), Chan Man Kwong,
occasion in spite of a cloudless sky and dazzling sabine the moustaches of the party wero -covered with frozen lamps and long icicles hang from the water-koge,
the
THE HONGKONG BANK.
"
"BUN ON THE BANK AT SHANGBAT.
The N.C. Daily News of Monday last anya:--
In Mongolia one out of every three of the population is a priest, tut this does not necessarily imply wai ene at a temple. By far the greater number of the Lass lead the.
the coming year farther batches of divers would Mr. Sprong added that each month during be sent out from London. Already many applications have been received, but the greatest care is exercised in selection, and ouly the fittest and most experienced men will be taken. Lieutenant G. C. C. Damant, lato of H.M. Excellent, acts as expert adviser to MessTS. C. K. Heinko and Co.
says:- to Sir John Jordan does not seem to have been While the report of the threatening Istiarn generally known among the thiness in Shang- hai, they appor, for some little time post, to have held decided views upon the state of
that everything lad been agreed upon in concerned. The rumour has been current
the capital, that this was known to all Jordan, and that Yuan was to be put in the Ministers, bat particularly to Sir John power trust, being the only great man in Chino. as he was the only man the foreigners would
£0.5.0
our contemporary quoted abore would seem to In one important respect the comments of be based on a misapprehension. In November £7.10.0. the loan in process of negotiation was that for which Baron Cotta wood sponsor. The Four Nations Syndicate did not come into the field until December, when the revolution had swelled. to gigantic proportions and it was plain beyond all dispute that any loan to the Imperia-ists. must have fatal consequences in Southern China
PAPER COATS FOR WARMTH,
MILLIONAIRES SHOW THE WAY IN OL THES REFORM.
Mr. J. D. Rockefeller'a method of defying the cold weather by wearing paper clothing. which was mentioned by Mr. Andrew Carnegie in his evidence before the Congressional Com- mittes has roused fresh enthusiasm among English paper clothing enthusiasts.
The cold-resisting qualities of paper garmente ing is practised almost exclusively by million- are well knows, but the wearing of paper cloth-
sires and beggars,
worn by Mr. Carnegie as well as by bis great Among The millionaires the paper coat is
Embankment are strong adherents of the news- rival, Mr. Rockefeller, while the beggars of the paray padded waist-cont, which robe the bitterest
east wind of half its terrora
"We have been advocating the use of peper for motoring and other coata for years,” said the editor of. the Tailor and Cutter to an Express |
To the early days the pearl fisheries rivalled the Spanish Main of Elizabethan times. It was a byword that there was a bigger collection of cut-throat scoundrels and more vice to the representative,
other
"It js
An incident which appears as it were intended ordinary nomadic Hfe of the rest of the people.quare yard on Thursday Island then in any be the clothing material of the future," he con- }
"I should not be surprised if paper proves to
to infuse a touch of hamnar into the otherwise | Cwping larve forks and herds and living to have changed; the fisheries are stringently manner to prevent its tearing esil
portion of the globe of equal area. Timex tinued, paper which has been treated in some doll and dreary days of the closing worth, is "orts," and only differing slightly from their regulated; but if there is little poaching and no
Bank by the Chinese. It started with th
and in being vowed to celibacy,
still well-nigh the most adventurous life in the Carnegie Steef Company when it absorbed concerted action of the exchange shops refusing people in probably due to the survival of the
apparent strength and robustnem of the world.. to take the notes of the lank except at a physically fitted only, rather than to any ex-
270FT. DOWN. discount. These are times when a scare is
daptional healthiness of the race. Talent Mother of pearl fetches about £260 per ton
became serious when he was asked how
splendid staff for resisting the sold, it may become a lavoured material
much the Steel Corporation paid for the hai pcelled run on the Hongkong and Shane. neighbours in drees, in having the head share, more bloodthirsty fights for shell, pearling 19 and per frooks, for it would lend itself to
the latter concern.
"We received £86,0)," said he,
price learned later that Mr. Morgan would have given £4,000,000 more.
The
NEW MODELS.
To be obtained from the
AGENTS:
£6.10.0
£6.0.0
Chas. J. Gaupp & Co.,
451
Alexandra Buildings,"
Chater Road..
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for women's
beautiful colour schemes, and have a delicate PINCE NEZ and lightnees of
of appearance. Bu to-day very few people wear paper coats
and what a fool I was to sell out at that easily worked up, and there are not a few mortality is very great, and Mr. Kidston states in the London markat. This is the objret of in England. It is perhaps used fur haing
Chinese who are only too willing to profit by that on the whole journey he nзver saw a single the pearler's search: the pearls are the lucky waistena a to a limited extent, but there is much SPECTACLES
ccidents. Each Ingger osrries a divor, bis
the oredulity of the ignorent. It is unfortunate
The whole process sale was only mat-keng Bank, for their efforts have been pro- vowed to calibary makes him believe that this
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for the scaremongers that they chose the Hong- Mongol baby. This and the fact that an eper. wone proportion of the male population is ter of one or two sentences between Mr.
ductive of the minimum of result. At the same Charles Schwab and myself. I did not see
time it is reported that the hotheads of the
rece must be dying out rather than increasing Mr. Morgan at all in connection with the revolutionary party are smarting under some They are a happy-go-lucky, most unpractical thal. My personal share of the proceeds was fancied injury inflicted upon thera by the people, intelligent, but incorrigibly lazy, and £42.600.000, ali in Steel Corporation foreign banks, and expecially the Hongkong with no forethought in the anaits of life. bonds, "
Bank. Absurd
such as that of reports, Mr. Carnegie was questioned about the yndicate of Chinese having cornered the notes £800,000 surplus which it was said he re- of the Bank, to present 1 ceived as a result of the sale,
thema for payment at ons and the same time, were in the air. Even "I do not remember any £800,000 sur granting for argument's sake, that such a plus, said he, "
have a financial sec- corner were possible, it is obvions that it would retary who attends to all small matters of in no way affect the stability of the Bank, As that kind:" In answer to further questions a matter of fact there was no "run" worth Mr. Carnegie said that he started the steel speaking of, and the native banks are as anxious business in 1861 with a borrowed capital of
to obtain the notes of the Bank as ever,
I learned early in life," he said, "that
a large part of success in business.depends
on having the right sort of men to help, and
stead of selling out, I would have astonished the world and defied competition.”
Several times Mr. Carnegie interrupted his testirany to chuckie over his Reckefeller
NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS,
SHANGHAI TRADE.
Market Report says
Mesars, Ilbert and Co.'s latest Plese Goods
transpired in the interval though dearances Hardly any basiness worth recording has are still rather better than might be expected considering that Shantung has practically ceed all
operations since that province was brought into the area of possible hostilities by the landing of Revolutionary troops in Chefoo. The pro- vinces south of the Yangtze are still doing
Lord Northhosine speaking at a mesting at next to nothing, and this we can only attribute to
boys, and a whito "sholl opener. Five tone of tender, a crew of half a dozen Malays or Timor
shell per season which lasts from March to November-is a good haul for one lugger. The oysters lie on the bottom, sometimes hare, some- times almost buried in the raud or hidden in coral formations, and the depth varies from teu to twenty fathoms in the Braone fisheries to forty-five fathoms (270lt.) in the Darnley Island fishery,
The excitement is always intoose. The diver
to be done in this direction before any result will be noticeable,
MARINE INSURANCE.
AVERAGE DEPOSITS AND THE BULLION
**BALYED FROM TUM“DELHI,”
Accurately
Fitted to Each
Individual's Face..
The market was a little surprised yesterday, says the Times of the 17th ult, to learn that a general average deposit of 30 per cent. was Our Stock is Complete, Assortment required on the gold and silver from the Delhi to say.
精织
may bring up ten oystera or not one. One shell and now on their way to India. That
tain nothing. Asa matter of fact, pearls are may contain a fortune in the shape of a pearl the average adjusters forasse a possibility of the or a "pearl blister, or the whole lot may contribution
the value of those metals was nearly £200,000,
by:
these faterosta towards the to rare that on the Thursday Island bowls, 20 high, an estimate of the coole had hardly been
expenses which do not carry a shell opener," they are
unes amounting to mostly £60,000. the diver a perquisite. Only the other day Delhi 25 per on was quoted to pay as original, Japanese diver brought up a pearl which was and after it bad been calvert 15 per cent, was anticipated, ince while the silver was in the
sold for £1,100
The shell-pener" sails in the lugger as required from owners of the cargo saved amounts
quoted.. It is understood that the deposit to
comparatico.
I drew to me ambitious young men of great Haddersfield last month to protest against went of confidence amongst commercial circls a check on the honesty of the diver and the even to 50 per cent, the discrepancy in the ability. If I had continued in business In-Welsh Disestablishment, gave the folowing in the present provisional governrent. That crew. He receives the shell and the pearls. percentegas, presumably being due to the foot i
description of the characteristics of the people there is good ground for this want of confidence on sosonnt of the owner of the boat, and it that the gold and silver were salved o of the British Isles: The Englishman loves bis heer and his Bible the Scotsman koops-the-is amply born's out is the portefortal fortune is sched up in same lucicy stell he mast charged with their proportion of the cuts of be condily imagined that if by chance al early in the proceedings and would only be Sabbath and everything he can lay his hands raise loans from different Chinese commercial "I have a laugh every time I think of and will not be happy until he gets it, and the in this manner it is not surprising that a aned the pay is only £6 per month, there is 20 lack ship's being Hated, and so apparently no great upon, the Irishman does not know what he wants nudertakings under veiled threat of compa- sleep with was eye on his native crew until he expenses down to the time of their salvage. it," said he. "It is quite a job, you know, Walshman prays on his knees on Sunday and
sion. If commercial concerns are to be treatele gols to port, perhaps a month hones. Although Unfortunately there seems little chance of the to get the best of a man with a head like upon everyone else for the rest of the week." of insecurity prevails in native business virales. of young Englishmen for this hazardous contribution to average can he expected from Mr. Rockefeller's."
deal.
ecoupation,
'the owners of the huil.
Varied, in all Metals.
Lenses Ground on the Premises.
CLARK
OPTICIANS
LARK & Co. YORK BLOGS, CHATER RO
SCIENTIFIC
HONGKONG
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