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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER Era, 1915.
SHANGHAI COTTON MANU FACTURING CO., LTD. The seventh annual meeting of share holders in the Shanghai Cotton Manu aturing Co., Led., was held at the offices of the
company, No. 41, Szechers Houdy on September 27th. There was a large attendance, which was presided over by Beroa Y. Fujimura The other directors present were Messna. H. Robertson, D. Hatabu, Yih Bib chang, and Chun Non-ching.
The secretary having read the notice convening the meeting, the Chairman Raid :-
the structural macbinery to arrive about the time of the completion of the founda- tiona. In awer to a further ques said the directors were not prepared to tion by Mr. Barham, Mr. Robertson
give any fused date as to the arrival of the machinery. The directors are the building very anxious to get completed.
There were no further questions, and the report and accounts were adopted.
SOUTH CHINA TIN SHIPMENTS,
OVER-TAXATION IN CHINA,
SIX DIFFERENT TAXES ON A SINGLE PIG.
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.
ORDERA BY:LJÉUT,-COLA, CHAPMAN, V.D.
LEAVE
Pte. H. J. Nairn is granted leave of absence from 5.10.15.to 20.10.15.
ENGINEER COMPANY, The launch for the first relief at Stone- cutters leaves Blake Pier at 5.30 pm. from
TAXING BAMBOO LEAVER AND SHOOTS, PRIESTS AND PROSTITUTES. The fllowing is the translation by the Peking Gozelle of an article in the Kute-day onwards. Min Kung Pao on over taxation in the province of Hupeh:-
Complaints have been numerous respect- ing the heavy taxation prevalent in the province of Hupeh, for the capacity f the people to bear further taxation is at breaking-point." Taking the "pig The U.8. Consul-General, Mr. George E. as a typical case, we realise how thorough Anderson, of Hoogkong, reports that the taxation is imposed. The only party con- course of the exports of tin from South is the swineherd. The pig shops aro nected with the pig who escapes taxation China in the inmediato future is some taxed, the commission agent is taxed, what uncertain. The effects of the war transportation of pigs is taxed, pigs mach- in general are unfavourable, and the furing their destination are taxed, butchers ther fact that the tin coming ont of Indore faxed monthly both for slaughtering China must pass through French terri-the public administration; he is also pigs and in the interests of maintaining tory, where it is regarded as contraband and subject to restrictions of various sorte where it is allowed to pam at all, has rendered trade even more difficult. Never
In
PARADES.
Parades for Tuesday, 6th instant-
0.15 pm. The following recruits-Con. ners J. V. Braga (No. 1 Sec. Art. Batty.) and H. McE. McTavish (No. 2 Sec. Art. Batty, Privates F. E. Ranger, W, P. C. Trafford, E. A. Beaumont (Scouts Co.) and N. S. Jacobs (Signalling Section) Hvaketry Instruction on Kennedy Road Honge. Uniform (Drill Order) to be worn. Service rifles to be carried. Corpl. Grimes, K.E, will attend.
6.30 p.m.--Recruits of Right Section H. G.
Co-Squad drill on Cricket Ground. Recruits of all units (except Right Sep- tion M. G Co. and Signalling Section and those detailed for Musketry Instruc tion at Kennedy Road Range)-Squad Drill and Rifle exercises at Headquarters under Sergt. Major Higby and Sergt. Sorby, Stretcher Baarer Section-In- struction at Headquarters. Remainder-- Lecture at Headquarters by the Inspect- ing Officer
DETAIL
Gun Club Hill, Kowloon
On duty until morning of th instant-H.
K. V. R.
Gentlemen, The report and accounte for the year ended June 30, 1815, having been in your hands for some days, with your permission I will take them As real.
Bulance sheet: Land, buildings, machinery and plant. In these items, you will notice that an increase of Tls. 60,025.21 is shown, when compared with
required to pay stamp duty and before the figures in the previous dccount. This
very long he will be required to pay a chiefly consists of additions to prepara tory machinery in spinning department
special business tax. Some of these taxes of No 2 mill, and final payment for
rest go to the local official treasury. go to the Central Government while the waving plant in No. 1 mill
New mill account. This item repre-theless, the exports so far this year have short, six or seven kinds of taxation are sants cost of adjacent ground acquired, been larger than usual
levied on a single pig, and for every neasuring about 18 mow, and that of
hundred catties of pork the taxes total machinery actually landed in Shanghai, hand in Hongkong a stock of about necessary for the maintenance of the At the opening of the year there was about $2 and over. If all these funds were and also charges for preliminary shengko 1,000 tons of tin. Since then the sock administration, there would be some arrangement for river frontage.
Stock of cloth, yarn, cotton, waste, hab increase to about 1,700 tons in etc.-As to this itdmt I may state that spe of the fact that the amount of tin excuse; but the real fact is that the officiais entrusted with the task of collecting these it is chiefly the cost of the value of zawoming out of Yunnan since the opening taxes speedily fatten their own pockets" H.K.V.R. maeriols
of the war is in materially smaller The stock of yarn and cloth volume than usual. Explanation seems to thereby. Indeed some officials have been is not hoavy. Liabilities. There is no lie in the disposition of the trade carlier severely punished by their superiors for Oct. special item that calls for comment.
Profit and Loss Account.-Turning to
in the year to move their stocks when practising corruption, but so long as tho 9th-Scouts Co.
Lieut. Murphy.. Capt. Stewart. account see that fair prices could be had. The blight desire to get-rich-quick is paramount no 10th do
Capt. Hutchison. Yoonan, however, is illustrated in the to abandon their evil practicos, Two 12th-No. sec. Arty. Batty Capt. W. M. Scott.
13tli-Civil Service Cn. Lieut. Lindsell. exports of tin from Mengtze during typical instances have recently occurred. the past two years which in general 1914. The exports from that district for
14th-No. 1Sec. Arty, Batty Capt. Wolfe, Jath-Left Sec. M. G. Co. Licut. Rees, illustrate the exporte from the Yunnan fields (from Mengtze), have been as fol lows, in slabs of 112 lba. ----
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Next for duty-Contre Section M. G. Co. Oficer on duty-Lieut. Wright. Detention Cang, Kowlook:
On duty until morning of 9th instant→
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CHINA, JAPAN AND COREA.
On Sale at the
ASAHI
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SAHI
24 Pamati
COMPAS
your's
account,
12,499.00 brought forward from previous aggregates Tla, 653,717.05, which gum your directors pro pose to appropriate as follows Write off as depreciation upon:-
Buildings ......
.16,501.42 Spinning machinery
and plant
Weaving machinery
and plant
Furniture
Pay to shareholders :-
A dividend of T. 6
per share us Abonus of talona and tive maco per share which distribution
pon 40,000 shares will absorb
..32,925, 03
1913.
Slabs.
2014. Slabs.
.17,608.09 486,33
March quarter June quarter
41,638
49,800
22,086
17,238
67.520.81
September quarter... 8,207 December quarter 56,347
9,596. 36,539
240,000
60,000
Set aside to reserve for renewals.
and repairs And carry to new account
Total Tis.
to
300,000.00
170,000.00 16,198.27
658,717,09
129,288 112,253
In the opening months of the current
TITLE-DEED CORRUPTION. One is the extensive corruption in con- nection with the collection of tees for the inspection of title deeds. Quite a large number of Magistrates have been punish- ed for collecting extras and other i'legal duca when engaged in collecting the said fees, but others are continuing to extort money. The latest case is that of the Magistrate of Huangmeihsien, who has been accused by the people of fraudulent ly profiting from the collection of title deed fees:
Oficer on duly,
· G. E. STEWART, Úspe
Adjutant, H.K.VC.
HONGKONG POLICE RESERVE.
MUSKETRY.
His Excellency the Governor has invited. the Police Reserve to take part in an Inter Platoon Tile-Shooting Competition which His Excellency is arranging shall take place towards the end of the present month. Full instructions will be issued to Platoon Com
neders,
PROMOTIONS, ETC,
following promotions, etc.-Crown Sergeants. The Hon. C. S. P. has sanctioned the A. E. Alves, F. C. Mow Fung and Sirdar Khan to be Inspectors Sergeant A. B... Sufllad to be Crown Sergeant.
The inclusion of Inspectors Hynes, Taylor, Watt and Wilden, as ox-regular-Palice, in the staff of the Polica Reserve.
OVERHAUL OF RIFLES,
Another case is the compulsory commis year there was the same degree of desion agency licence It is true that every crease as compared with the opening commission ageng must pay his fees for months of last year as that shown in the the privilege of doing this particular kind closing months of the bast year. At the of business, but we have yet to find close of the first quarter the Hongkong precedent for the practice of the police Government assumed control of the braide as that in contraband by prohibiting the of Tayohsien in forcing the merchants to export of tin to all destinations other become commission agents. In the village than the United Kingdom and British of Paoanchen of this district there used Possessions and Protectorates. After to be only one commission agent who Your approval being accorded to the several weeks agitation permits were attended to the sale and purchase of goods The 2nd Platoons of Nos. 2 and 3 Companies proposed ́ ́ addition
reserve for renewals and repairs, this fund will be States by making all consignments to the chants owning shops,
issued for the export of tin to the United in hie village-others being reguler mer will draw their rifles on Wednesday, October brought up to Tls, 350,000, which, taken British, consular officers in the American ever, decided that as a fow of the other will return their rifles to the Armoury on.
The police, howeth, at 6.30 p.m.
The 3rd Platoons of the same Companies. BEER.ation of dividends account, total acsoive
with Tis. 300,000 at credit of equali-ports concerned so that the actual con- shops also bought and sold goods, the will then amount to Tls. 850,000, which signees might be known, and the exports owners must be considered commission Friday, October 8th, at 5.30 p.m. figures, gnetleme, should be considered forward in fair volume. The result of as such. The merchants, of course, refused Pcs from No. 2 Company for each shift.
to the United States have been going agents and compelled to take out licences Tuesday October 6th:-One Sergeant and 8. By an excellent showing, when it is the proclamation, however, is illustrated and tried to explain matters through Wednesday, October 6th recollected that your conteny bae only by the fact that the exports to the United certain Chang. The latter was promptly closd its seventh financial year,
Kingdom so far this year are placed at Machinery and plant in both spinning 10 slabs of 112 lbs. cach, as compared arrested, as the leader of a riotous and weaving mills received our best with only 1,200 slabs in the same period blows without trial when taken to the opposition and given five hundred care regarding their upkeep, and having spent Tis. 79,540,54, as per footnote in
yamen of the Magistrate. This so intens the report for renewal and repairs, the
fied the already strained situation that entire installations
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the shops closed down and many of the working order
owners went to the provincial capital to loy the matter before the higher authori- tien. It is not known how these peti
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tioners will fare in the capital, but the demonstration is suficient to show how oppressed the people are in these regions, TAXING PRIESTS AND PROSTITUTES,
In this connection it may be mentioned that, according to the impeachment of the Censors, conditions in Fukien are very much the same. There matches are taxed,
In connection with the movement for quenos of hostilities commenced Earope, just at the time when
the promotion of native industry and the directors were concluding the final development of natural resourds, some negotiations for the purchase of plant, time ago the Government gave orders en bamboo leaves are taxed, bamboo shoots machinery and her details, I pleased to say that the work of installing joining the different provinces to make are taxed, silk is taxed, cows are taxed, the extension is proceeding steadily reports after thorough investigation along sheep are taxed, priosts are taxed, Taoiels and satisfactorily, though tot with the these lines in their respective territories are taxed and of course" prostitutes dderity wa should like to see. Found According to the latest reports received are taxed. Commenting on this condition tions are in hand and should be by the Ministry of Agriculture and Com of things a Shanghai paper remarks that nished within their contract time, by merce, the coal producing districts are to it is no wonder that a certain wealthy which date instalments of structural be divided into three classes according merchan has said, "Whether President materials should have arrived in. Shang to the quantity produced in esch district or Emperor I do not care. But, Lord, hai. As to the plant and machinery, at the present time. The provinces of deliver me from the cruel taxes ()" according to the information recently Chibli and Shansi are richest in coal received from their Various Trent-
production and will be graded in the first facturers, we believe the whole are about class, as the former produces 2,104,000 tons edplete and ready for dispatch, and
and the latter 2,500,000 tons every year, for which tonnage transport was made available. Accordingly instructions have been sent, for their shipment, so that the instalments, should arrive in Shanghai upon the anticipated comple tiun of the building, etc.
The annual productions of coal in Shan- tung and Honan are 933,000 and 900,000 tons respectively. These two provinces are to be classified in the second class.
EGGS-ANCIENT AND OTHERWISE.
MEANING OF NEW LAID" AND "FRESH."
PATROLS (CENTEAL),
5.10 p.m.-Inspector Wilden, P.-cs. Potter, Martin, Gibson (3), Wright (3), Reynolda (6), Butterfield (6), Ormiston (8), and Bryan (8).
8.50 p.m. Crown Sergeant McEwen,.
P.cz. Grimble (3), Hooper (3), White (5), Williams (5), Arnold (8) and Eustace (8), Thursday October 7th-One Sergeant and 6 P.-c. from No 3 Company for each shift. Tuesday October 5th
PATROLS (EASTEIN),
5:50 p.m.-P.-cs. Samy and Bux.. 8.50 p.m.-P.-cs, M. Razak and Omer Arculli Crown Sergeant Suffind will. Visit Wednesday, October Gth
6.50 p.m.-P.cs. E. Arculli and A. S. Has-
Bao.
8.60 p.m.-P.cs. A. M. Noor and Ismail,
Inspector Birdar Khan will visit. Thursday, October 7tla
6.60 p.m.-P-es. E. Moosdeen and Rahu-
mat.
6.30 p.m.-P.-ca. R. Nazarin and K. Hang- san. Sergeant Khawas Khan will visit.. October 5th
FATROLS (WATER POLICE).
6.60 p.m.-P.-cs. Vieira (9), Alves (8),
Hyndman (P).
8.50 p.m.-P-es. D'Aquino (8), Doughty
(P). October 6th :--
5.50 pro-Ireson (S), Arnott (8), Goodwin
(P)
8.50 p.m.-Bergeant Silva (S), Noves (8), J..
R. Pereira (P).
October 7th -
6.50 p.m.-Sergeant Figueiredo (S), Rozario
(6) P. Boza (P).
8.50 p.m-Bunjé (8) W. Hobbs (3), E.
Hobbs (P).
ago or condition, should not be described men rray
COMBINED PARADE.
MEDICAL EXEMPTION, be accepted as medically exempt
Hunan produces annually 40,000 to ze The oubraak of the deplorable war in of cost, Hupeh more than 400,000 benz,
The President of the Board of Agricul Europe in the opening months of our Sechu 300,000 tons, Anhui mora than financial year and the sabesquent siege 60,000 tons, Shenei, Kansu and Kwangture and Fisheries has under consideration af Tsingtao, brought about a sharp and tung each produce 50 tons. In view of the stops which can be taken, in the Thursday, October 7th, at Central Police continued decline in price of yarn and these quantities of coal production, the interests of the home producers and of ael Station at 8.15 p.m. sharp, for route march Only alath, eventually causing the embarrass above provirces are to be graded in the lers of genuine new laid and fresh eggs, to through Eastern Police District. uncent of several lending Chinese third class. The reports as to the coal deal more effectively with the application patrol men medically, exempt may absent customers, to whom we had to extend production of other provinces have not yet fresh" to eggs which, in view of their To save the expense of medical certificates,
of the descriptions "new laid and themselves, leniency. For their commitment of been received by the Ministry-Peking yarn and cloth you will be gratified to Daily News. learn that ready buyers were found at reasonable prices. Last year's Ching cotton crop was a very bad one both In quality and in quantity, but fortunately the crops in America as well sa in Judia being abnormally good, we made up the shrinkage of native cotton by the importation of foreign staples and consequently we were enabled, I am pleasd to say, to work our mills at a fait margin of profit, ..
As to the future prospect, I may say the immediate outlook is very bright, but as for the distant future, the reports poming to hand about new ton crops being very conflicting, I am unable to predict anything with certainty.
These are all the remarks I have to make, but if you have any questions to ask. I shall be glad to drawer them to
the best of my ability.
M BARHAM said that shareholder's would be satisfied with the year's work- ing, but he would like to ask if any information could be given regarding the new building, and when it would He completed. He also asked when the machines would be in Shanghai.
Mr. ROBERTSON, in reply, said the state of affairs in England bad rather em barrassed them in the matter of the machinery, of the difficulties being freight space. The directors expected
A GOLF STORY,
Two business men famous for their acumen and keenness in the marts of trade were wont to meet on the golf links every Saturday afternoon in friendly rivalry It was known that they did not disused professional ethics in playing the game and they watched one closely for infractions of the rules. ball was driven out of hounds, and the driver after searching for it esraratly finally
and slipping a new ball in his trousers be cautiously let it drop out by his foot and picked it up quickly with a cry of delight.
gave
up
Oh, here it is! he said.
A
You're a said his companion, morosely, I've been standing on it for ten minutes. '**
by these terms, and he has directed an in for a period of one week on their own written quiry to be made into the meaning of the statements sent to their Pintoon Sergeants, terms "new laid" and "fresh as ap- same to be forwarded to the D. S. P. for plied to eggs. The principal question approval. This arrangement will remain in involved is the number of days, from the force until such time as it appears to be date of laying, up to which an egg may abused, if at all. properly be described by these terms.
F. C. JENKIN Forms have been sent to the secretaries
D. 8. P. (Reserve). of societies and others concerned in the production and distribution of eggs, con- taining the following questions
BRAVE FRENCH GIRL
MENTIONED IN BUITISH ARMY ORDER.
Up to what number of days from the date of laying may an egg be properly de scribed a "new laid?"
A televram to the Journal from Haze- Up to what number of days from the date of laying may an egg be properly brouck says than the Cri de Flanders has announced that a brave young girl, described as "fresh?"
Assuming that an egg has not been laid named Renco Robin, aged sixteen years, for more than the periods indicated in the daughter of a French Territorial, has replies to Questions 1 and 2, but is in bafbeen mentioned in an Order of the Day condition or has been taken from an incu of the British Army for having placed bazor or nest, is there a false description in the hands of the British & plan of the it is described as "new laid" or "fresh," positions at La Bassde, and for having helped in an effectual bombardment of even if it is sterile!
the German positions.
if
In a covering letter it is stated that in Lord Selborne's opinion the descriptions According to La Semaine Littéraire, “ cew laid" and "fresh" are not proper artificial limbs are now being made from ly applicable to eggs produced in the the cancelled bank-notes of the Bank of United Kingdom, or imported from foreign France." The notes are pulped and then countries, which have been pres:rved or
cold stored. solidified under hydraulic pressure.
Ghent University it to be reopened this north, and should there not be a suficient number of Belgian professors German professors will be appointed.