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CORRESPONDENCE.
HONGKONG AND THE WAR LOAN.
(TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONOKONG
DAILY PRESA.").
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 20г¤, 1916,
AT THE CRIMINAL SESSIONS. ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF
ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO BRIBE A DETECTIVE.
Before the Acting Chief Justice (Afr.
Although I do not disagree with the principle of Income-tax, in my opinion it would be inequitable to tax investors
CLUB. in shares, loud and mortgages only. If
SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS PASSED. we are to have Income-tax why exempt partnerships or sole traders? Why, in-H. H. J. Gompertz) at the Criminal Ses-ciation providing for the payment of a In order to amend the Articles of Asso- dved, sxempt any business or person at signs yesterday a Chinese was charged special subscription by non-playing mem fear the difficulties in the way to its all? 1 am for a general Income-tax, but with bribing a Chinese Revenue Offcor.bers and in certain other respects, ap Prisoner pleaded not guilty, and the extraordinary general meeting of the driving Chinese capital away from the Sinclair (foreman), J. D. Ferrira, J. Happy Valley, yesterday. The following imposition, and the possibility of the tax following jury was swors:--Messrs. W. Golf Club was held at the Club House. Colony will prevent it being made use N. R Alinn, M. Mahomed, E. G. resolutions were carried:- of to guarantee loss to the Government Remedies, H. W. Lep-Jones, and V. R in respect of the War Lons.
Daniel.
Sin-I think the consensus of opinion in the Colony favours the adoption of the suggestion for raising War funds outlined by Mr. Wilkinson in your correspondence columns, rather than the view, expressed in your leader of the 37th instant, that Exchequer ' Bonds
There is, however, plenty of room for should be popularised by granting facilitaxation in other forms, Taxation ties for sale at the local Post Office, should be on luxuries-tobacco, for although it must be admitted that the stance. The consumer should not object latter courm will be better than not to a 10 per cent. or 15 per cent. ad taking any action at all
valorem duty, which should produce $200,000 per annum. The collection of such a tax could be taken over by the Import and Export Department, whose officers now attend to the collection of liquor duties, without any extra incour
I advocate that 锰 War Loan of $10,000,000 carrying interest at 6 pr cent. per annum be issued by the Hong kong Government, The Loan should be made repayable 10 years after the term nation of the War, the Bonds to be invenience, the convenient desomiriations. of 30, $100, $500, $1,000,
The War Loan scheme is practicable, and the Government should proceed with it. A tobacco tax can be made to pro duce 200,000 per annum; $100,000 of this will be reserved to cover 1 per cent. loas interest; a portion of the other
Although it has been said that the local Banks are dorthanded, I feel confident that the Hongkong Bank will assist the Colony, all in its power in receiving on
The.Attorney-General (Hyn. Mr. J. IĻ Kemp) prosecuted for the Crown. He said that a Chinese revenue officer was on searching duty on a steamboat wharf when the prisoner came up. He was searched, and the officer found concealed in his trousers a bundle of 145 lottery tickets. Prisoner said "Keep quiet. will give you $20 to drink tea." The mar was taken to the Police Station and charged.
which prisoiter denied that be offered the The revenue officer gave evidence, after bribe, saying that the officer book - the money from his pocket
His lordship, in summing up, said it was one man's word against another's
Propused by the CHAIRMAN, and second. fed by Mr. A. H. G., JACKSON:-
1.That Article 18 of the Articles of the Association of the Club be altered by adding after the word "Resident” în the first line the ward. Playing" and after the word "and" in the same line! the words Non-playing and
by Mr. S. H. DUTTON-
Proposed by the CHAIRMAN, SCCconded
2 That Article 10 of the. Articles of Association be struck out and the follow- ing Article substituted:
The subscription for a Resident Playing Member shall be $5 per month. and for a Non-playing Member $3 per month payable on the 1st day of each month in advance or such other sum as may from tíme be determined at a General Meeting of the Club."
Propused by the CHAIRMAN, seconded
applications and in issuing the Bouts 1 SICC 000 may have to be utilised to ma There had occurred a great many cases in by Mr. K. D. KRAFT:-- Facilities should be granted to the up Home Government interest to 2 to public to pay for the Bouds by instat. the dollar in the event of exchange being ad temptation placed in front of them Association be struck out and the follow
ments, and, with that end in view, a Committee of Trustees, as suggested by Mr. Wilkinson, should be formed. The Trustees' duties will consist in issuing receipts for instalments, from Chalk in vestors, paying such instalments into the Bank, applying to the Bank for a Bond and issuing the same to investors against surrender of the instalment receipts, The work will be merely clerical, and there are surely many persons willing to lend their assistance if a call be made for volunteers for this patriotic work.
The loan bring in dollars the question of exchange need not worry the investor. The local Government should in a short. time be able to place at the disposal of the Horse Government the whole amount of the Loan, or, at any rate, a substan sial portion thereof; but, in the latter event, remittances may be made from time to time until the whole of the $10,000,000 is subscribed, or until the subscription lists be closed...
As in the case of the F.M.B. Lonn, the Hongkong Government should arrange with the Home Government for a loan to the latter of £1,000,000 repayable in 10 years and carrying 3 per cent. interest.
The question now naturally arises as to low the Hongkong Government can secure itself against loss from the difference of 4 per cent, interest, an possible loss on exchange,
this Colony whers Government officials
over this rate when the interest falls due half-yearly, and the balance may be in the nature of bribes. accumulated as a -reserve to meet the The jury found there was insufficient possibility of exchange boing over 2-evidence, and prisoner was accordingly when the time for repayment is reached, discharged.
The principal causes for the rise in the value of silver are stated to be the great increase in the coinage of the
A TIMELY CAPTURE.
tice Hazeland or two counts of kidnap Lo Hing was charged before Mr. Jus
ping two girls and of conspiring with one of the girls to steal certain articles belonging to the latter's mistress.
white metal, and shortage of supply; both causes are likely to be removed long before the due date of the loan, 10 years after termination of the War. Besides the handsome reserve which will have
Prisoner pleaded not guilty, and, the been accumulated by that time, every-jury was as follows:-Mesir. William thing points to an exchange under 2/ Macfarlane (foreman), A. L. Silva, J. M. which will give a profit on the capital P. Tavares, V. A. de P. Collaco, A. W sum of £1,000,000. A memorial worthy, Gibbs, C. Ireland, and P. R. Glen of the victory of the Allies may be erected, without any call on the Colony's finances out of the profit-Yours faith- fully,
WAR LOAN. Hongkong, 19th June, 1915.
MACAO'S TREASURY,
TO THE EDITOR OF THE EONGKONG DAILY PRESH.'']
dinning
3.That Article: 24 of the Articles of
ng Article substituted :--
"No member shall participate in any of the advantages of the Club or vote upon any question if he is liable to be posted under the Articles or Byelaws of the Club for the time being in force." Proposed by the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Mr. E T. D. PARR:
Association be altered, by substituting That Article 33 of the Articles of
the word April" for June ” and 1910" for 1913" and "85" for "84" in the second line.. by adding efter the word advance" in the third line or auch sum as may from time to time be determined at a General Meeting of the
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Proposed by the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Mr. JACKSON :→→
6.That Article 3 be altered by adding after the word Visitors" in the second line the words "not being residents fa in the seventh line to the figure **5." the Colony" and altering the figure"
These resolutions will be submitted for confrication ntcond extraordinary qurting, to be held in about three weeks.
TO PRACTICE.
Before the Criminal Sessions opened yesterday the acting-Chief Justice, fr. H. H. Gompertz, admitted Mr..
as a solicitor in Hongkong. Richard Frederick Mattingley to practice
The Crown Solicitor (Mr. G. H. Wake- man) told the jury that prisoner was re- cently in the employ of one Choi Wo Shi, this mistress of the two kidnapped girls. He seemed to have taken advantage of us former position to induce the girls to go away with him. Ho would talk evidence to show that on the ith May the prisoner SR,In your Macno correspondent's was seen at Choi Wo Shi's hons, Kinber Treasury is overflowing with money. he again called at the house and was met notes recently I read:--“ Our' (Macao't) | ley Road, Kowloon, Late in the evening NEW SOLICITOR ADMITTED Over a million is stored at the Banco by the girls, whom he had seen in the Ultramarino. One hundred Contos afternoon. He took them in a riesha to (over two hundred thousand dollars) the Kowloon Ferry, and took them over have found their way out of the Treasury
to Honglong, and thence to the Paul and are
now on their way to Lisbon Bray wharf Here the party was met I may be wrong, but 1 believe there are
under the same of loan
police, who were somewhat suspicious. good grounds for assuming that exchange that the Treasury of Macno has over a will not fall below 2- during the War, million dollars, but neglects to say that They stopped the man and asked him The possibility of loss to the Govern-over half that monry consists of deposits what he was doing. A bundle which one of 10ght arising out of T.T. remittances to of different Monopolies, and,
the girls was carrying was examined, London from Loan subscriptions may be ernment. He is final in his statement belonging to Choi We Shi. The party was quently, is not the property of the Gov-and found to contain numerous articles neglected if the forecast as to the rate
that one hundred "Gontos" have been be carreet.
taken and sent to Lisbon, but does not conducted to the Station; and when in inform us that though there has been a the cells prisoner repeatedly called out to demand from Lisbon for that amount that Maero could not spare the money, the present Governor, Mr. Main, seeing; wired over refusing to remit, and also he preferred to resign his post. said that should the demand be pressed authoritatively informed that no money I am went forward, and no money will!
Granting that this operation is success- fully carried out, the Govermanens need ouly take measures to prevent a loss on sterling payments from Home in respect of interest. This possible low may arise by an appreciation in the sterling value of the dollar, a fall in exchange to under 2/- will result in a profit to the Govern- ment, since more dollars would be received than the sum required for pay. ment of interest to bond-holders.
Protection must be sought, therefore, against a rise in exchange, and for the
which will be £10,000 annually.
contie
The Hon. Mr. L. H. Sharp, R.O., made the appuieation, and, and r Mattingley was Qwing LIKE tr OY Mag
Deacon, Looker, .... Dengean Harston. Mr. Mattingley's career had far been very speciasus and no doubt his success would continue in Hongkong. In 1507 he untraned a studentship of the Law Society and in 1911 galed his ass honours, which was a very credit- LLI at London University with first- the eller of the girls that she was to sayable thing to do. In 1012 he passed his she was his concubine.
solicitor's final examination, wil first-class honours, being the only can didate to obtain the distinction. He was then admitted as a solicitor and joined the staff of Messrs. Gibson & Wills. Recently he had been in practice on his. nwn. account. T
Evidence was then called and the jury found prisoner guilty on all three counts. Sentence of five yeare hard labour was
as the best Governor that ever came to
Mr. Maia is unanimously put down passed. Macno, for since his arrival he has DEMANDING MONEY BY MENACES. hoen indefatigable in working for the benefit of this unfortunate Colony
Eren at this juncture we find him fighting for Macao, against superior orders.Yours, etc.,
J. BELLUM.
was charged with demanding money by In the Chief Justice's Court, a Chinese
menaces from ce Wong Sin, a pradore and khupkeeper.
com
Mr. Justice Gompertz said he admitted Mr. Mattingley practice in the Colony and expressed the hope that his stay in Hongkong would bo-snccessful.
A PLUCKY FITTER It appeared that complainant receivert Lau Wan pleaded guilty to a charge of Sve elters, ach of which demanded assault with intent to rob a woman named HONGKONG MAN WOUNDED money, dire threats being made at Lau Kun at Hung Hom on May 15th,
what would befall complainant if he did AT THE FRONT.
not comply. The letters asked for $300 The Attorney-General said six men Mr. P. W. A. Wilkie has received a letat first, but a fuki who was sent by comwent to the woman's house and asked for plainant to negotiate persuaded prisoner work. The woman was alone in the House, to reduce his demand by half. On the and when the men had got inside the occasion of the last interview a detective house the accused caught hold of her and sation hetween prisoner and the foki he struggle with her. She caught hold of accompanied the foki, and after a conver with a knife in one hand commenced to arrested the former and took him to the the knife and was badly cut as a result, Police Station.
Che shouted for assistance and then the mado, and that he was not the man. Heping to the house and subsequently, after Prisoner stated that a mistake had been other men ran away. People came run knew nothing whatever about the case.
a chase, the accused was caught. guilty, and prisoner was discharged.
The jury returned a verdict of nat
Mr. Wilkinson has suggested that the loes be niet by imposing an Income Tax on Dividends, "Mortgages, and Renta. I have not been able to ascertain theter from his brother Cyril, of the. 2nd Batt. Middlesex Regiment, which conveys Colony's income from Mortgages and
the information that the latter has been Rents, but the Dividends paid by Companies registered and operating in wounded in action. He was shot through Hongkong for 1915 amounted
the right foot, just behind the ankle, dur- $11,000,000. The annual income from the ing an unsuccessful attempt to raid the three sources named is not overestimated German trenches. He was inside the enemy's barbed wire when hit. After be
to over
at $30,000,000. The actund amount caning taken to the 1st Canadian General he ascertained from Land Office records, Hospital, France, he was conveyed to and the records of the Assessor's Office, England. He writes that he is progress- but the phove som may be taken for the ing all right and that he is quite merry
and bright. purpose of proving the feasibility of the. scheme.
The tax has an advantage in being -comparatively simple to collect by fixing the responsibility for its payment on the
paver of the dividend, interest or rent, who would, consequently, be authorised to deduct the tax from his payments.
A tax of 2/3rds per cent. based on the above income will bring in $200,000 annually, or double the Government's loss of 1 per cent. for interest.
FAR EASTERN MEN AND
THE WAR.
The woman corroborated the details. given by the Attorney-General,
A fitter who arrested accused spoke to hearing the woman shouting and subse MiWitness gave chase and after following quently the man was seen running away. the man up several streets arrested him, after a struggle, and took him to the Police Station
A HAWKER ROBBED. Two Chinese were charged before Justice Hazeland and a Jury with com mitting an armed robbery in the Ny Territory
The facts of the case, as adduced by the prosecution, were that amplainant, Chinese hawker, was returning to how selling cakes, when the robbers attack luon City from Shatin whore he had heen
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The accused was found guilty and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment with hard labour and fifteen strokes wata Black Watch, who was killed in action on
Subsequently his lordship commended MMelden, draws our attention to the LEGISLATIVE Lieut. Alex Bryant Cumming, The
the cat
AES SENSE April 21-22, was the eldest son of the him. They robbet him of everything the fitter for his plucky act. Many mor
TRE ́S LEEDS, of Newchwang and HONGKONG HANSAWD REPORTS late Alex Cumming,
of Singapore, and worth carrying away, and then left hire in the Colony in such circumstantes, he fact that the entry appearing under the Firm Sasion, 1915. was in his fust year.base
Lt. Colonel Michael Bradley Koberts, unfortunate position soon afterwards by notice of the happening. If there were the DIRECTORY, AND CHRONICLE FOR CHINA, fied to a tree. He was rescued from his said, would try to get away and tabo nohich bears his name in the current issue of Royal Garrison Artillery, wounded, tocka Chinese farmer, outbreak in China in 1900, receiving the they were accordingly discharged part in the suppression of the Boxer
*}*more men like the aster in the Colony bad JAPAN, Er, in entirely incorrect. We The men were found not guilty, and characters would be less dangerous He sincerely regret the mistake and any medal
also commended the woman for holding tungrance it my have caused A Continued on near Column.)
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