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AMAHS AS FINANCIERS. MONEY LOAN ASSOCIATION CASE AT SUMMARY COURT.
THE CHIEF JUSTICE PUZZLED,
Aminhs are very versatile beings, and the
COMPANY REPORTS.
CHARTERED BANK.-
The Directors of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, at the ap proaching meeting of shareholders, will re commend a dividend for the half-year ended
most denso-looking of their number 31st December, 1815, a to rate of in:
be the head of a flourishing mouce loat association. Two of their number figured in an action at the Summary Court yesterday.
per
EN HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. ERIDAY KARCH 17m,–1916.
FROM SALONIKA TO STAVROS.
BRITISH LINES VISITED,
TRIALS OF WINTER CAMPAIGNING. Never do the difficulties of the question of transport for our Army in this road- less, almost trackles country come home o you with such force as when you are confronted with the far simple problem cent, (making 14 per cent for the year), of transport for yourself (say Mr. G. free of income tax; that $25.000 be writ Ward Price, writing from Salonika). It Orfano, on which rests tho extime right ten off premises account; EICO OCO be ap was a question of going to the Gulf of One, Ng Yin, "an amah "propriated to meet any further deprecia of the British line. The np haws the at 43, The Peak, sued another amah named ton on sceuritics; and £130,000 be carried distance ag 40 miles from salonika, but map of the Bakang are only approximate in their reckonings, and the way works Cheng Choy, the claim being for 833, being forward as undivided profits,
out at about 50. The road, too, that seems money alleged to be due a money loan asso.
on the map to lead by a rather wandering ention of which plaintiff is tho hend. There
The report for the year 1915 to be pre-te from Salonika to Stavros, on the Gulf, turns out to be, except in the pinces was a counter-claim amounting to $150, being üftern contributions of $10 eachouted to the shareholders at the thirty-where we have improved it, as more than Afth annual meeting of this Company on the 28th insk states
month on two shares,
Mr J. H. Gardiner was for plaintiff and Mr. E. J. Gring represented defendant.
The Chief Justice inquired how inng the action would take.
Mr. GristThey are all women, my lord. (Laughter.) -
The Chief Justice-Then they will prob- able have a lot to say.. (Laughter.)
Mr. Grist-1 hope it won't be irrelevant, my lord,
HONGKONG ICE CO., LTD,
Including $6,810.83 brought forward from 1914, nad after deducting $13,000 paid as an interim dividend at the rate of $2 per share on 24th August; 1915, the balance at credit of profit and loss account 1830.573.87, which it is proposed should be appropriated as follows: Pay tinal dividend of 80 per
kliare
Place to Provision for Contin.
gencies Acenunt
To write off Lausch and Lighter
Account
Mr Gardiner was proceeding to explain To carry forward to new resunt the claim when the Chief Justice inquired
What are these money loan associations; what is the procedure? These cases are entirely new to me.
Mr. Grist-They are always very com- plicated.
The Chief Justice-I have never had a case of this kind in Original Jurisdiction, I shall have to get through it as best I can. At another period the Chief Justice was again puzzled and asked what was the
.meaning of the tenth draw, interest, He added-1. highest bidder, and so on. really do not know what it all means; do not you think it would be better to ad- journ the eave for my learned brother to deal with it
Mr. Grist, then endeavoured to simplify the weird workings of a mancy loan asso cinsion. He explained: The money loan astopintion under notice had a membership of twenty-six. These mcribers undertook to pay into a pool $5 per month each. They met together once a month to bid for the amount of the pool. In this case, for in- stance, the highet bid was $1.20 per share for the drawing for the month; which would amount to $130. This amount would be loaned to the highest bidder, which, in this case, was 81:20, representing interest due to the end of the association. At the end of the period the money was repaid by the person who had borrowed it and the money thus returned was then divided up
'.
a track in the wilderness to prevent you from going astray.
The only way to get to 50-mile-distant Stavros was found to be to walk there. Ii was two days walk and it take, you along the most interesting part of the long lines that enclose Salasiks on the och most interesting because for 22 miles of the way the road follows the shores of the two lakes that are an important part of our defences, and also because, if the Germans #65,600-00 and Bulagars do attack us here, it seems as likely as not that this castern end of 10,000.00 the line will be the one that they will
choose for their main effort
The broad valley in which the lakes of 050.00 0,423.87 Landgaza and Beshik lie end to end and stretch east and west ncross the top of the $80,573.87, Chaleidice Peninsula is at the foot of the
range of hills that is the principal bal
It is wark of Salonika t the north, swampy, marshy, kw-ying ground, with only an occasional little village here and there, poorer-even than the average of the squalid bamiets of Greek country districts
CONSULTING COMMITTEE. Dr. J. W. Noble resumed his seat on the board on his return to the Colony.
S: Paul Chater and Dr. J. W. Noble offer themselves for re-election.
AUDITORS.
The accounts have been audited by Messrs, AR. Lowe, F.C.A., and E. A M. Williams, A.S.A.A. who offer them- selves for re-election.
SPRINGING A MINE.
THE FREIGHT PROBLEM.
SMALL COMMITTEE FORMED TO CONTROL MERCANTILE
TONNAGE
ENTIMATIONS
LANE
mell it at the hand in city and CRAWFORD & Co.
With reference to the control of mer- antile tonnage, Mr. Bunciman announced in the House of Commons recently the formation of a small committee, consisting
of
Lord Curzon, Chairman, Lord Faringdon,
Mr. Thoina Royden, and Mr. F. W. Lewis,
Lord Curzon is Lord Privy Seal in the Ministry.
Lord Faringdon is better known to the Gan since 1800 of the Great Central Rail- public ng Bir Alexander Henderson, chair- way. A barony was conferred on him at the New Year. He recently proceeded to Scandinavia to investigate us to the leak- age of goods into Germany, and has pre- parel a report to which Sir Edward Grey referred in the House of Conusons on Wed-
day night. His railway experience hould be of great value in dealing with the important problems of dock congestion and infand transport which closely affect the efficient use of ships.
Mr. Thomas Royden, a well-known gbip- her, already serves on the Advisory Com mittee to the Trasport. Department of the
JUST RECEIVED :
ANGLO-ORIENT
SEAMLESS REVERSIBLE
CARPETS AND
RUGS.
TWO WEALING STEFACES INSTEAD OF ONE IN CHARMING COLOURINGS AND DESIGNS. THEY ARE OF
BRITISH
MANUFACTURE
BOTH
Admiralty and an the Committee which DURABLE AND INEXPENSIVE.
wus appointed in November to deal with the requisitioning of ships for the carriage of foodstuffs. He is a son of Six Tholugs Royden, shipowner, is deputy chairman of the Cunard Company, and is on the board of a number of other shipping lines, in- eluding the Indra, Anchor, and Brockie- bank companies.
FAIR TERMS FOR OWNERS.
A PRACTICAL EXAMPLE. Members of the Government and others who still see difficulties in the way of coping with the present freight situation may be asked to examine carefully the following figures (says a Shipping Cor- respondent to The Times). These have been checked by practical shipping men and include no allowance for specially favourable circumstances which might in- crease the earning power of any particular ship.
"A-certain steamer of 8,600 tong dead weight is taken which is now engaged in the North Atlantic grain trade, And in the midst of this desolate and original cost may be assumed to have been you come suddenly upon the incongruous about £50,000 Under the scheme which signs of British occupation. Sometimes it has been described in these columns, her ed over with long rushes from the fake of hire as having increased owing to the is a cluster of bell-tents, so thickly thatch-valne would be regarded for the purpose that they look like Red Indian wigwams, was (instead of having depreciated) by 50 or a party digging trenches, or a R.E, lineman on a umtor-bicycle, bumping over the rough to sea this the telegraph wire is als right.
SIGNS OF BRITISH OCCUPATION, Ag far as the rampart of hills there is a road out from Salonika,, considerably m proved and prolonged by labour that we have paid for, along which a motor car, driven without too great regard for tires and springs, can go. The amount of new roads with which we are endowing this part of Greece is remarkable: Three weeks An officer writing from France sage-ago we had already built 60 miles of them We came out of the trenches last night in the immediate neighbourhood of Salo we had rather a bad time, so instead of aika. But beyond where our lengthening going into some support trenches we were highways end, below the bills on the lower sent back to billets. We go up again to level of the lakes, there is no road except some beautifully safe trenches in support the light-brown track which the scanty We are not getting traffic of the district has worn across the to-morrow morning. much rest this time, because we did an waste, extra day in the front give. The reason of this wag that early yesterday morning we blew up a mine under the German trenches and they couldn't relieve us till night.
It was very interesting blowing up the We waited in the eary down mine. during those few minutes before it went up. Here and there a sniper's rifle spoke but ekewhere all was still. A whispered ercer and the men filed silently away from. the part that was opposite the mine. At ng everybody was at his post and nothing remained to be done except to wait and watch Far under the ground an officer Above him the was attaching the fuse Germans were moving it their trenchea. There was no time to lose,
In the trenches the sien still stood to. their posts. Every few minutes we consult Two minutes more on ed our watches.
e-thirty seconds-ten, five. four, A mass of threo two-crum-boom-boom 1 earth and flame shot Gift, up. Immed- The bombers iately all was movement, hurried to their saps; working parties Mr. Grist-That is so, my jord.
started digging away earth which the The Chief Justice-And the lowest bid shock had caused to fall in our own
trenches. der succeeds in getting the money,
Mr. Grist-No, the highest bidder, my lord. The money goes to the person who offers the highest interest. Mr, Grist add- ed that supposing a person has paid for six months and ecased to pay any more,. and assuming that this person had never been successful in taking the pool, the money paid in was forfeited, but the mên- ber could not be sued. But assuming the member had received one of the loans, and dropped out, he could be sued for the mouthly contributions,
among the other members.
The Chief Justico-Then there auction every month?
is an
per cent., giving a piesent value of
75.000. On this valuation te Govern- ment, acting through a suprone shipping control board, would pay the owner for the use of the ship 20 per cent, per annum, or
15.000
From the east of Beshik Lako to the Joh
With this sun, apart from the commis at the Gulf of Oriano rang a very picture esque gorge, full of trees, with a lively stream of good water flowing through it.sion allowed on the protits earned, the Here between lake and sea is the ex- shipowner would be able to allow for de- tremity of the right flank of our defence preciation at the rate of 5 per cent. earn The position has the ad-5 per cent per annum on the original of Salonika. vantage that it can be supplied so easily capital, and still have a surplus of 20 from the sea at the Gulf of Orfano, so per cent, so that he would be able to The term on which the Government that the long overland journey from Sale pay a dividend of 23 per cent, per annum aika is avoided. The country to the front of it is rough and broken and covered with se scrub, conditions that are favour to the movements of an enemy who knows the district well and marches lightly, with his supplies carried on mule- back, having further the considerable benefit of being amply supplied with mountain artillery,
THE EVER-PRESENT SPY.
We expected to get a shelling for it, but the extraordinary thing was that nothing.
These positions of ours are, like every happened at all for about an hour, and thing we undertake in Greece, exposed to then they went to fortify the crater (the observation of spies. Who is to tell weren't meant to occupy the thing, as it was right in their lines). Our machine gun got a good many of them as they ran to it. and from one of our saps, which went to within 10 yards of it, a sniper go several of them.
when a man in peasant's clothes is found wandering about our positions whether he is & German agent or the innocent villager he claims to be "And whay can be done to him on suspicion, however acute, in a neutral country? Three men were ever found sketching a section of our front the other day.
The
hed the ship would enable it, if it chose, to bring wheat from North America to this evuntry, and cover all its expenses, for 5s, a quarter, which compares with a present rate of 16-30, a quarter. vessel could make rather more than six 7.000 tons of wheat on each voyage. Ii, voyage, per annum and could carry about on the other hand, the Government were content that she should load at the pre- sent enormous rates she would carn for the State a net profit of over £100,000 per annu
The Government, acting through bo Shipping Control Board, would have full power to direct the movements of the ships in the best interests of the nation, knowing that whatever decision were taken would Our sappers were awfully pleased about
have little, if any, financial effect on the owners. The latter would be secure with it, because they had started mising after
the hire money, enabling them to slow for the Germans, so they bored this gallery
The sudden spells of bitter weather are -out and blew it up, thus neutralizing
a great part of the trials of troops can depreciation and pay very handsome all the German mines in the vicinity. It was a very close thing-the sapper officer prigning in winter in the Balkans. Yet dividends. The vessels would remain in the told me. The Germans worried up quite the little columns of half-frozen English hands of their owners or nagers, and in a a lot with rifle, grenades and trenchen one met, heavily laden but slagging great any cases there would be no occasion of services by the super control board of The Chief Justice was further puzzled,mortars, but when the Staff sent us things steadily on against the biting damp wind. whatever for any alteration or regulation in suficient quantities we gave them more had no expression but one of endurance on
But with the freight situation completely and inquired where the profit came in.
than they bargained for. We had an officer their faces. The encampment for which shipping authorities. Mr. Grist explained that it was made by killed. Lovell. He was a splendid man- they were making for the night consistel interest. When a member had a draw, the fett, sin, in height and an absolute Hercules of two or three rows of little shelter-tents in hand, the Government would only re- head of the association took half of each it makes one furious to think that the of brown canvas, hudding down on to the quire to take a rather closer interest in aan who fired the inferno grenade that snow, hardly enough to keep the damp out, wheat than at present, and declare milling to by maximum prices for bread in this None of the witnesses called by the plain-killed him was very likely a puny, little, to say nothing of the bitter, aching cold a controlled industry, before being able tiff gave any coherent accounts of the asso-weakchested wa
whom he could have of the small hours.
One needs to see these uncomplaining country. An early reduetion might then ciation's dealings, and of one amah who was crushed with one hand. In the old days particularly obtuse the Chief Justice re- Lovell would have been worth 10 ordinary men under such wretched conditions to be expected in consonance with the enor marked-She does particularly men. After the next two days, which we realize a little of the hardships that Engious size of the present wheat crops, which nurse the case, does she? You can tell spend in very comfy reserve trenches, we lish soldiers have to bear is part of the are far in excess of the world's require the lady she can go back to her unemploy-have six days rest. ment" (Laughter.)
share, $250.
Defendant's story was that on one occa-
day's work in this war. Yet they accept them almost with indifference, going as doggedly and uncomplaining about their
sion she was the highest bidder with 1.20, HIGH-SOUNDING GERMAN ARMY daily duty as if they were still living in
but the plaintiff gave the loan to someone who bid only $1, and as a consequence she did not pay any further contributions." Plaintiff acted in this way because she (de fendant) refused to lend her 880 to pay her house rent. They had a row," and then plaintif promised to pay her at the end of the association. Ia place of that, how
writ for 8301 ever, she had issued
Mr. Gardiner-That is rather brave of her, is it not?
Defendant-Yes, she is very daring. (Laughter.)
Ap?
Asked by the Chief Justice what she would have done regarding the $150 if the case had not first been brought to Court by plaintiff, defendant caused amusement by replying" I would have had a row with Bertran
The Chief Justice Do you seriously ask me to believe that because you would not lend this woman 830 she put into her own pocket $150 which was really due to you? Yes,
Eventually the solicitors and the parties concerned conferred as a result of which judgment was given for the defendant on the claim, and judgment for the defendant on the counter-claim, both parties to pay their own costA.--
ORDER.
the comfortable houses of the old days. when the idea of war es a personal pesti- bility was immeasurably far from the mid of the average Englishman,
A telegram has been received froin Dvinsk which transmits the alleged text of a recent army order issued by Genera) Voa Buelow, the German Commiander on
THE FRUSSIAN FRANCHISE. the Riga Dvinsk front. In this order Gen- eral Von Buelow describes the present situa
The empty phrases inserted in the Prus tion on the northern front in Russia and
sian Speech from the Throne about pili forecasts the operations which the Germans intend to make in the near future. Thetical concessions after the war", cannot order contains the following words:
We do not know what our Emperor will command us to do for the Fatherland, but judging from certain indications it is permissible to suppose that we will be called on to complete our operations on the shores of the Gulf of Riga and of the Dvina River, Heretofore we have been able to accomplish all the tasks imposed upon us and the talk of a pusillanimous few is only rubbish Throughout the win- ter our power on this front has never been
shaken,"
This is the first time that General von Buelow has issued an order of similar cher- acter to the foregoing, According to captured German officer is object is solely to raise the depressed spirits of the Ger-
man-troops.
really have surprised anybody. It is too obvious, that the Conservatives and Agra ruins rule the situation. Even the Radical papers write with resignation. Thus the Hamburger Fremdenblatt says:-
We do not expect any final solution of the franchise problem, but we must express the demand that there shall be no sebeme which would merely embitter the masses. If it is thought that something must be done now, let the Government come with open hand, The next franchise reforms must give the Prussian people a decent franchise which it has not got at present. The present franchise merely deceives the people. It give them the right to take part in the election, but only in small degree gives them the possibility of elesting the man of their choice-The Times,
ments.
GERMAN NEWSPAPERS,
VERY SERIOUS POSITION.".
According to the Berliner Tageblatt, some 300 newspaper proprietors held a meeting recently in Berlin to discuss the extremely serious position of German newt- resolation was adopted requesting the papers caused by the scarcity of paper. A Government, after consultation with the proprictors, to regulate the consumption f paper and fix its sale price. The meeting:
WE HAVE THEM IN
SQUARES 3 by 2 3 by 3 and 3 by 4 Yards.
AND
CORRIDOR, HEARTH, SOFA,
AND BEDSIDE RUGS. COLOURED LITHOS ON APPLICATION.
LANE, CRAWFORD & CO.
HONGKONG, CANTON,
MACAO
WEST RIVER STEAMERS.
JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD., AND CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
HONGKONG-CANTON LINE,
Blog Fars by Night Steamer Return
(Available also for return
by day simkant)
1
**
+
FIS
命
Bingle Fare by Day Somer
HONGKONG TO CANTON, [
$6.06
10.00
8.00
CANTON TO HONGKONG
FRIDAY, 17TH MARCH, 1916.
8,00 m. KINSHAN. 10.03 p.m. FATSHAN.
8.00. a.m. FAISHAN, 4.30 p.m. HONAM.
SATURDAY, 18TH MARCH, 1916.
8.00 sm. HONAM. 10:00 pm. KINSHAN,
0.00. KINSHAN, 4.30 p.m. FATSHAN.
HONGKONG-MACAO LINE.
S.B. BUI TAI, Tona 1,651Į
8.8. TAIBHAN, Tong 2,006. HONGKONG TO MAÇÃO. ⠀ Week day at 8.a.m. and 2 pm, from the Company's Wing Ink Street Th Bandayu si 9 m2, and 1 p.m. from the Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf,
MACAO TO HONGKONG
Weak days at 7.80 .m. and 2 pm. Sundays at 7,5€ a.m, and 3 pm
EXCURSION TO
MACAO
SUNDAY, 19ra MARCH, 1916,
"TAISHAN"
The Company's New. Beamship
Will depart from the Company's WING Ióx STERNT. WHARI BUG a.m., and rednem trom Maono št 3 p.m.
N.B.-The Company will also run a Steamer from Maeno on Sunday at 7,30 am, and from Hongkong at 1 p.m., from the Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf:
FARES AS USUAL
MACAO-CANTON LINE.
28.8. 807 AN.
Departures from Maono to Canton on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 119 pm, Departure from Canton to Maoso on Tuesday, Thursday and Esturday, në 4.30 pam.
JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND HACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD., THE CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.. AND THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD, CANTON-WUCHOW LINE,
B.B. BAINAM, 588 kons, and 8.8. NANNING, 569 tons.
Ons of the above: Stormers leaves Canton for Wuchow every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, as about 8 am, and the other leaves Wachew for Canton on the same days at 8.30 a.. Round trips take about 5 days. Passengers can return to Hongkong or vice vores by Sam Company's direct Steamers LINTAN and SANUL. These romels have superion Cabin socommodation and are lighted throughout by electricity, Electrio Fan in ssol Cabin.
Bocking Oos open daily (Bunday excepted) 9am, to 5 p.m. Furiher partienlare may be obtained at iba Office of thew
HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT Co., Lan,
Hotel Mansions (First Floor); opposite the Blake Pier,
ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
COMPETITION will be held over
Ahe FAN LING Course commencing on 1st April for a prize kindly presented by H.E, the Governor. Cosmo-Match play under handicap
Limited to handicaps of 12
and ever Entrance fee 50 cents per round, the proceeds to go to the War Charities Com mittee
UN
G.
NOTICE.
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TNTIL further Notice the Government Dredger ST. ENOCH" will ba dredging an area extending to 300 yards South of the Star Ferry Pier at Tsim Sha Teul, Kowloon.
sued the following statement The public and eren many of the official departments; erroneously believe that newspaper proprictors, by reason of the increased sale of newspapers are mak- ing more or less high profits, They com pletely forget that the income from adver tisements, which form the financial back- bone of all German papers, has, without
Intending competitors are requested to exception, greatly diminished-in many cases by more than one-half. At the same time, the expenses of producing a paper sign their names on the boards at Happy have increased to an extraordinary degree, Valley or Fan Ling or to send same in writ-night 2 Red Lights one at each mal-head- especially in connection with the editorial ing to the undersigned, o/o Messrs Beadley
TV FULL departmants, so that the newspaper busi&Co., Ltd., not later than the 26th inat,
Acting Hon. Secretary, ness Ands itself in a serious position. A large number of newspapers have ceased
Hongkong, March 14th, 1918. publication since the outbreak of war,
All craft are warned to pass outside 100 yards from this vessel and all Steamers const Pase their engines to slow when passing within 300 yards of her
s When the Dredger is working she will fly
by day a Red Burgee from after mast and by.
C. W. BECKWAL
Commander,
Harbour Master, ke
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Harbour Department Hongkong, 10th March, 1716,