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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1889.
roguery exists everywhere is no reason' A DANO of garotters scheda Jervoise Street why it should not be crusaded against, walking along the Praya near the Canton Wharf, merchant about 7.30 on Monday night, when or why measures should not be taken and actually stripped him of most of his clothes. for its ultimate extinction.
Only one was caught, and he was this morning The rogue,
committed for trial. If the inspectors on patrol' the knave, the Impostor, those whom would carry a red-hot poker they might occa the French so appropriately term chevalier | sionally poke one of those atar-gazing monu. d'industrie, are the sworn enemies of ments of stolidi idiocy, the lukongs, into temporary
activity. all social order and morality; they The following are the orders of the day for the are too lazy to
earn a livelihood meeting of the Legislative Council to be held to by honest labour and so they take to morrow, the ÿth inst., at 4. p.m. J
1. Financial Minutes. swindling, running full tiltagainst all social
laws
As all work is în communication with Nature, so he who alms at living on fraud and deception is ipse faite Nature'a enemy--a pariah and outcast unworthy of a place among men who are striving to make the world better than what they found it. It is the duty of the Govern. ment to provide the most effective measures possible for the detection and punishment of these poisonous parasites of society.
2. Report of the Finance Committee. 3. First reading of a Bill for the Incorporation of the Director, in Hongkong, of the Berlin Ladies' Mission for Chins. 4. First reading of a Bill entitled The Prison
Amendment Ordinance, 1889. 5. Second reading of the Bill entitled The
Stone Cutters Island Ordinance, 1889. 6. Sanitary Bye-Laws, dated 13th February,
1834.
feeling of dissatisfaction existing among all the ments of the various godowns, and, if they were shipping class as to the internal working arrange aware what steps they had taken to remedy the failings? The Company's business seemed to be divided into two great acctions-landing and storing business, and it was to the latter that he referred. He knew that they desired to extend the business in vadous directions, but before. they undertook to destroy other concerns in the Colony they should be prepared to supersede them efficiently. If they were to believe the rumours or conversation frequently heard in the Colony, the internal arrangements, in the Godown must be if he might say so-beneath criticism It was said that when a vessel went alongside contempt. the wharves the Company was unable to grant a receipt for the cargo until week or a fortnight after she had gone, which showed a defective system of tallying; if a merchant wanted fifty bales of cotton he had to go three or four times, which showed a defective system of sorting; if the Company furnished a list of over-carrying or over-loading THE following curious story comes from Osaka: incorrect, which showed a defective grasp of pincteca out of every twenty marks would be -A physician named Yakurt, wholires al Sumi detail He saw present a number of influential roshi-mura, Osaka, was visiting the temple at
merchants and if they consulted their shipping something shining on the ground. On stooping had said to be conect. He had ventured to bring to ascertain what it was, he discovered it to be a
that forward in no hostile spirit to the Company, earth, and on his examining the bar closing properties in the Far East, but as it was bis gold bar 3 inches in length half embedded in the
as he believed it would become one of the Bacat inscriptions were found graven on it. These opinion so he gave it to them (Hear heat). commenced with an ancient genealogical table, and ended with particulars of a medicine de- for bringing the matter before us, but at the The Chairman I'am much obliged to you scribed as effectual in caring the different all-
same time I cannot agree with all you haveszid ments of women. Mr. Yakura has lately pre--you have considerably overdrawn the matter, pared the medicine in accordance with this and if you had any complaint of this kind to make atrangely recovered recipe, and in every itatance I think it might have been made through the experience has proved that its virtues were not
representative of the P. and O. Company, who is on the Board The directors have been invited to mention any complaints, and this was not among them.
necessary in the shape of passing an Ordinance and signing your agreements (Applause),
Mr. Bell-Irving proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Chater for the trouble he had taken in the work. But for him they would never have heard of the scheme, let alone have had it carried out.
Mr. Chater I thank you very much ;-I trust- when the work is finished a few years beaca, when we have a new Fraya--such a one as we are going to have, 75 feet wide, you will see that the scheme is a good one-good for the Colony in general, and not alone for us in particular.
The meeting then dispersed.
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resulted in His Excellency's requesting me to attend the next meeting of the Fxecutive Council and explain my views and wishes to the members. This I hid the honour of doing. and I am gratified to be able to inform you that the result appears to have been in every way satisfactory, as the letter. from the Government, of the 19th ultimo, which I have already published, was the cutcome of that meeting. I mention these facts now, that I may account to you for the delay that has occurred since my arrival. Immediately upon receipt of the Colonial Secretary's letter, I ment it to the newspapers for publication In order that you might have ample opportunity of consider- trust, therefore, you have carefully weighed the fag its contents before you came here to-day, I Colonial Secretary's propositions and that you will be prepared now to come to a decision about An extraordinary meeting of the above Com- them one way or the other, and thus put an end pany was held this afternoon at the Offices In to further delay. The special object of this Queen's Road, there being present: the Hoa, meeting, therefore, I take it will be to consider. Byrle, (Chairman), W. H. Forbes, H. L and to passa Resolution accepting them, or not.. B. Layton, and N. A. Siebs (Directors), Mesars, very carefully Lord Knutsford's new conditions, | Dalrymple, L.-Peesnecker, St, C. Michaelson, Their rejection may not imposally lead to the R. George, G. Murray Bain, C. Ozorio,), H. Cox Colonial Government would not be particularly The Secretary having read the notice con abandonment of the whole scheme was the A. Ron Pereira, and J. B. Coughirle, (Secretary), sorry to have some reason for taking over thevening the meeting, the Chairman said this was reclamations on its own account merely paying a formal assemblage convened for the purpose of our Marine righis. I simply mention this dinary meeting of the Company held on the 19th because it is necessary you should know that ultimo On his motion, seconded by Mr. Murray and that the decision at which you will arrive Association be altered by eliminating therefrom we are now treading on very, delicate grounds Bain, the said resolution. That Art. 9 of the to-day may eventute in the abandonment of the words “one hundred thousand,” and subati- course before you can make up your minds thousand, was unanimously confirmed. our project, or else secure its realisation. Of tuting therefor one hundred and fifty
Secretary of State It is necessary you should as to the new conditions now imposed by the comprehend them thoroughly, and an learn, there has been some doubt as to what I really meant, I will endeavour to explain them to you." The urat condition is a very simple one undel venture to predict you will have no difficulty accepting it. The Secretary of Stato tells us will sanction the Reclamation Project provided we agree to defray the cost of a foot Praya roadway instead of the 65 feet previously arranged.
This is particularly useful where the hair is Trade, labour, capital, honesty and social that place a few days ago when he observed clerks he assured them they would find what he no what they consider.compensation for the loss | pf confirming a Resolution passed at the extraor
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A tonic and direct stimulant to the growth of the As this Colony appears to be fast becoming a convenient refuge forimpudent vagabonds and unscrupulous adventurers of almost every description, whose rogueries are 30 materially assisted by the "chit system generally prevailing, we would again recommend the store-keepers, hotel proprietors and others to combine for over-estimated. A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD., their own protection and establish a fixed rule as to giving credit that will render innocuous all future, attempts at swindling AMILY, DISPENSING, & GENERAL by so-distant Russian counts and Yankee
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, WEDnesday, March 6, 1889.
CARLYLE wrote the following scathing remarks as introductory to his Essay on that consummate knave who flourished during the latter end of the last century— Count CAGLIOSTRO:~
"Wretched mortal, who with a single eye to be 'respectable' förever siltest cobbling together
Millionaires.
TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter)
UNITED STATES.
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WITH the advent of Spring the season for our athletic sports has fairly commenced. Three popular exhibitions are already adverted to take place during the current month, the Polo Club Races on the 9th, the Annual Highland Games ofthe 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on the 13th, and the Hongkong Amateur Athletic Sports on the 16th; the Rifle Association re-commenced its weekly Spoon competitions at the Kowloon ranges on Saturday Inst. During the latter portion of this month as well as throughout April à dosen more athletic meetings will probably be held, the season closing at the beginning of May. We have always been staunch supporters of manly exercises and of sports of all kinds, but we fall to see the appropriateness-of-their-being held-in-the- the Treasury, the rest of the Cabinet are unknown excessively damp and comparatively warm weather which prevails here during Spring. Running in a fog, or over wet ground, or with the east wind blowing straight in your teeth, cannot be conducive to health, whilst violent Mr. Marley's amendment to the Address has | exercises performed in a warm aimsphere-
are certainly productive of chills, been rejected.
To this may be added the undesirable circumstance that the Race Course meadow where the sports are to be held in future is a locality noted for its miasmata in the warm months of the year; many a case of fever has already been traced to that apot, a fact which detracts, considerably from its
LONDON, March, 4th.
Mr. Windom has been appointed Secretary to
men.
THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
THE PARNELL COMMISSION. Pigott has committed suicide..
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
reputed healthiness. Under these circumstances we think that both the time and the place chosen for our yearly Olympic games are THE American mail was delivered as we were inappropffate. No better season could be going to press.
́MESSRS, JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. informs us that the steamship Taisang, from Calcutta and Straits, left Singapore for this port to-day.
A REGULAR meeting of Zetland Lodge, No. 525, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.
Mr. Woolley begged respectfully to state that he made those remarks in his capacity as a small shareholder, and not as the representative of the P. and O. Company.
A
doubt connected with the Company, as you are The Chairman-Yes, but what you state is no hardly likely to be cognisant of what takes place in regard to other Companies.
discussion, but assured him that he could sub- Mr. Woolley did not desire to enter into a stantiate all he had said.
The Chairman:-Doubtless there are abort- comings at the wharves, for we are as yet but a young company. These will be remedied in time, however, and I can assure you that both pleased to listen to complaints from constituents directors and wharf managers will be only too and do what they can' to satisfy them.
Mr. Woolley Thank you,
HONGKONG CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE.
ANNUAL MEETING.
Chamber of Commerce was held this afternoon The annual meeting of the members of the in the Chamber. The Hon. P. Ryrie presided, there being a fair attendance
The minutes of the last general mesting and
of the special meeting last April for the election of a successor to Mr. McEwen, the representa tive of the Chamber in the Council, were con- armed The appointment of Mr. F. Henderson as secretary, vice. Mr. Jeffries resigned, the ction of Messrs. Stelterfoht and Hirst as pro- were also confirmed. visional members, and the statement of accounts
THE REPORT. The Chairman moved the adoption of the port, which was as follows — The Committee beg to submit to the Chamber the following Report of their proceedings during the peried under notice.
It seems this extra width will represent an additional cost of only $40,000 in filling, in which cost spread over cur respective Reclamations adds such an insignificant trifle to the cost of the square foot that I think, Gentlemen, it is scarcely warth our while to demur to the proposition, more especially as an increased with of road way will always tend to improve our frontage values. The second condition relates to com pensation for piers This condition looks at first a little complicated bat I think you will find it clear enough when you come to examine it. To begin with, the Government thinks we ought to refund the Colonial Treasury the cash in full, of the five public piers which will be absorbed in the Reclamation," The Chairman then proposed the adoption of These are Murray Pier, Peddar's Wharf, the report.
Pottinger Street Wharf, the Nam-Pak-Hong Pier, Mr. Stokes seconded. Carried,
and the Harbour Master's pier. It is contended Mr. Mody proposed' the re-election of the | that these five structures were built at the cost of the ratepayers generally, and that there- retiring directors, Messrs. Layton and Moses.
Mr. Danby seconded. Agreed.
fore the ratepayers should not be put to any Mr. Stakes proposed the re-election of Messrs. expense in the re-erection of them, by reason of G. S. Coxon and T. J. Rose as auditors.
our private works ofreclamation. Then passing on from public plert to private oties, we are told Mr. Mody seconded. Agreed. dividend warrants would be ready to-morrow, Mr.
The Chairman having announced that the that as the Reclamating will confer very consider Stokes proposed a vote of thanks to him and
able pecuniary benefits on us, we must consent to pay compensation to some extent, (that is to the proceedingş'terminated,
say, partial compensation) to such owners of private wharves as are compelled to give way to us and remove their structures out of what will be our future new lots. In connection with this payment of compensation to private wharf proprietors it is explained to us, and I presume ibrough us, to the whaif owners themselves, that the Secretary of State admits no claim on their Improved culture, and more careful manipula part to any indemnity for removal by reason of tion would no doubt do much towards restoring Government reclamations which are for the China Tea to the old fashioned Standard formerly Chamber of Commerce. There was a moderate benefit of the public generally, but that he does so much appreciated; but heavily handicapped attendance including The Hon. C. P. Chater admit they have some claim for removal on (chairman), Hon. J. Bell-Irving, Messrs. G. Account of the Marine Lot owners' reclamations Tea, funrelieved, may ultimately give place to an it now with excessive export duties, Chinn Foster, E. A. Solomon, J. S. Moses, T. E proposed to indemnify these wha: proprietors not Whatever reinedies may be adopted towards Dodwell, A. Denison, (representing a large bears to the public reclamation. Or, in other be effective, will have to be applied speedily. It Davies, A. Levy, J. Lapraik, D. Musso, F. W. in full but only in thaiproportion which the private arresting the decline of the China Tea Trade, to Cross, F. number of Chinese), C. Ewens, V.H.words, say, by way of illustration, thaithe amount Deacon (solicitor) and a number of Chloese of Government reclamation is only one quarter,portant mercantile interests involved, the Chinese is sincerely to be hoped that in view of the im- were present,
while the amount of Marine Lot Owners' Re-Government will adopt measures to eradicate the The Chairman said:-Gentlemen, it is now clamation is three quarters, then the pier-over evils complained of (primarily excessive taxation)
THE NEW RECLAMATION
SCHEME.
SPEECH BY MR. CHATER,
A meeting of the lot-holders in the Praya Reclamation was held this afternoon in the
DECLINE OF THE CHINA TRÀ TRADE. The Tea Trade is a factor of such vital importance to the Commerce of China that any circumstances calculated to adversely affect either the quality or the quantity produced, is well worth the serious consideration of all those trading with the Country, even if not directly Interested in the Tea Trade itself. Any marke decadence of the trade, or still, worse its entire extinction (to adopt an 'extreme view) would probably tend to so cripple the purchasing power of the Country, an very materially to interfero with the fature expansion of the Import trade, i all its branches. This important question the decline of the Tea Trade-has received much attention at the hands of your Committee, and as will be seen from annexed tere, has been the subject of corresponder between this and the other Chambers crested, and also with Sir Robert Hart.
A COOLIE stole an umbrella from the "all in thi the Cricket seld? Kowloon appears to us Sharp, H. N. Mody, H. L. Dalrympic,. F...P, which are for private profit. Therefore i ju its rivals, the untaxed Teas of Indis and Ceylon,
Holtz' premises yesterday, but by the prompt box sixpence" lot in front of Messmu. Hall and
¦ action of Miss Hardwick he was arrested.” This
morning it was two months."
THERE will be a regular meeting of St. John
Zetland Street, on Wednesday, the 13th instant,
are cordially invited.
chosen for athletic sports than the dry, cool month of November. Of the four seasons of the year, our Autumn and early Wister ars facile principes as seasons for out-door muse. ments and exercises of the athletic-sort, We“ do not exactly know what has led the promoters of these sports to hold them in the Race-course meadow, in the immediate vicinity of the Cemeteries, and in a place possessing ao unsanitary ́ ́ reputation, is there no other ground available for such purposes outside to be the place where all the sports to be found there for all athletic or gymnastic can be conveniently held. Ample ground is purposes. A chariot race on a grand scale might also be introduced to the programme of amuse ments, and spits ould not be wanting in the neighbolde pericula to give full scope to such
and fid junwi in Kowloon ;, why not transfer
that besides the annual spötte, mom should be found in Kowloon for a permanent Gymnasium of the colony. Our school-boys have scarcely any properly organised institution where they can get exercise, fresh air and recreation. The Cricket Ground is closed to them; the only amusement they really have is a plunge bath in which they had been presented to us by the the.Reclamation Scheme. These, then, argento the Oates, praying that. Her Majesty, might the summer months in the enclosure of the Victoria Recreation Why should Vider is ovation Club Weir cuck football and other sports there? The menta
carried out when ample facilities are giren för Its application.
two Inconsistencies, which stick not for an hour. Lodge, No. 618, S.C., in Freemasons Hall, † a healthbagine. We already have rife ranges eight months since we last met in the Hall to would receive only three quarters of whatever which are, slowly but surely undermining” thé..
at 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren thither El athletic sports?. We also think consider the terms offered to us by the Colonial general scale of compensation has been decided China Ten Trade. (Appendix DA PRIYA MA
not at all n
Government in connection with the Praya
STATUS | ANDPRIVILEGES OF MIN-OF-WAR
Reclamation Scheme in which we, Marine Lot gather from the Colonial Secretary's letter that GRANTED TO SUESIDISED- PORTION, MAIL
Tire Nichi Nichi Shimbun rays that the num.especially adapted to the scholastic populationer, are so greatly interested. You will recol.
ber of persons of both sexes in Kyots over the age of 30 years is 1,651, of whom Mre. Hisano (foster-mother of Mr. Sasaki Ryukai, chief priest of the Kotokuji Temple at Teraimacho, Kyoto) has attained the age of 105 years.
in corpora cane doctrine can only be profitably
in
by Government for the pier-owners all round. I the total of these pier indemnities, plus the $40,000 for extra width of the proposed new BTEAMERS AT BRITISH COLONIAL Praya roadway will amount to about $220,000 This anomaly, still maintaing and has not been and that this, or some sam like it, is what we are called upen to pay, if we desire to proceed with lost sight of by your Committee, who have thought it advisable to address a petition direct Secretary of State's new conditions, I find he pleased to annul an arrangement which stated in the Coloslal Secretary's letter, that these $220,000 only increase the cost of accords to the Steamers of other nations status reclamations by about zo coots a square foot privilege denied to British Steamers in and it will therefore be for you, gentlemen, to British Water. Other Eastern Chambers follow say whether you accept these conditions or not Majcaty, and this unanimity of action, backed bearing in mind that if we reject them, it will up by the approval of Home Chambers, it in ¡ing the same course have also, petitioned Her be extremely difficult for us to re-open négocia tions with the Government. With this orthoped, will prove effective in bringing about explanation of what has transpired since we lost the desired change. Both the inexpediency and met here, I leave the matter in your hands; it incongruity of such, an Ordinance was recently. will be for you to consider what you do and forcibly llustrated on board the Compagnie dem what answer we are to return to be ColonliMessagerles Maritimes Steamer Calédonien, Secretary. I have, of course, views of my own when Captain Mauberge obstructed as Officer with regard to these conditions, and although the Supreme Court in the discharge of his notice, I see no kam in expressing to you my Person of a British subject. This incident was I have no wish to obtrude these views on your but when about to serve a Warrant on the frank opinion, arrived at after very careful conferred to in the Legislative Council, and sideration, that it will be to our interest to accept question par by the Senior Un-official Member, the conditions unreservedly, and consequently cellens the Governor to the effect, that the Your Chairman, elicited a reply from His Ex-
but require ever new gluten and labour,—will it, by no length of experience, no bounty of time or chance, be revealed to thee that Truth is of Heaven, and Falsehood in of Hell; that if thous chet not from thee the one, or the other, thy existence is wholly an illusion and optical and tactual Phantasm; that properly thou existest We think it hardly necessary to add that of individuals of that ilk, Hongkong has lately had a considerable experience. The present year seems to have opened with a succession of out-going and in-coming chevaliers d'industris of peculiarly original types, all hailing from that land of actual
*** Phantasm" to which Carlyle traced the birth of CAGLIOSTRO. Whlie the honest and the industrious majority are tolling at their desks, or are otherwise acting in unison with the ever-working mother Nature, for the due fulfilment of their moral, social and A MEETING in connection with the Public Schools domestic duties, a foxy minority are often Athletic Sports was held at the Central School yesterday evening. There were present-Messrs, engaged in the work of undermining A 1. May (chairman), G. H. Bateson Wright, nature's and man's laws by palming | R. M. Jameson, Government Central School's Solomon, F. Dodwell, N. I. Sieba, 8..J. Danby, claims on the attention of the Imperial Govern, for one shall have no hesitation in castiCoccurrence bad been officially reported to him, themselves off on a credulous community W. Machell, L. Lupinell, Diocesan School; C. H. N. Mody, A. G. Stokes, P. Jordan, A. Woolley, ment. This, as you are aware, I-accordingly did, my vots in favour of at once closing with to which he added the following en DE
as so many superior men 'possessing means and resources beyond the popular imagination. The Colony has had a vast and a sad experience of these Impostors, They make their appearance comet-like, - unexpected and unlooked-for; they shine and coruscate for a while, just as long as the supply of shekels from a gullible
let that on the occasion of our meeting, we resolved unanimously, on the motion of Mr. Bell-Irving, seconded by Mr. Choy. Chiu, to cept the Government conditions in the shape Colonial Secretary in his letter of the 23rd of Jade, and it will no doubt be also within your recollection that subsequent to our meeting, when we all thought that matters had been definitively closed with the Government there arose somewhat unexpectedly further correspon dence between the Colonial Secretary and my self the main gist of which correspondence was a declaration on the part of the Governor to the mutually entered was not to be taken as binding until the views of the Secretary of State for the Colonies had been obtained and his decision taken. This being the position of affairs last Autumn, I came to the conclusion that the tions with the Government and of obtaining most effective way, of completing the negotia. an early settlement of your claims would be for me to proceed personally to London and there, to the best of my ability, press those
THz first application under the new English Libel Law Amendment Act was decided on the 25th January by Mr. Justice Mathew. Messa Lion Brothers, boot manufacturer, moved for leave to criminally prosecute Mr. J. T. Day, the editor of the Shoi and Leather Record, for alleged libel. Under the old law, criminal pro- ceedings could be sanctioned by the Public HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF effect that the Agreement into which we had Prosecutor on an ex parte statement made by the plaintif In the present case the Judge, after hearing the arguments, refuzed leave to commence a prosecution.
J. Bateman, G. E. Wheeler, Public School; and W. D. Braidwood, Victoria School. Messm elected as Secretary, and Treasurer respectively. Jameson and Braidwood, were unanimously It was agreed to hold the Sports for all the schools on the same day and to leave all details to a general committee convened by the Secret tary. Hearty thanks to Mr. May for his exertions in placing the Sports once more ga a sound footing, closed the meeting.
AND GODOWN COMPANY,
The annual meeting of the shareholders of this Company was held at noon to-day at the Hon. J. Bell-Irving presided, and among those offices of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. The present were the Hon. C. P. Chater and B. Layton, Messrs. S. Moses, St. C. Michaelson, W. H. Forbes, L. Poesbecker, H. L, Woodin, E. A.
Remedios, Ho Tung, and I. Hughes (Secretary). My exertions during the short period I wse in The Chairman said:--With your permission, England were not altogether useless or barren. what is stated in it, I have not much to bring to and to give much information on many points, I propose to take the report as read. Beyond I was able to urge early attention to our matter,
that some explanation is due to the shareholders Office, but to the Consulting Engineer of the your notice at this meeting. I think, however, not only to the Permanent Staff of the Colmia is to, the reason that we have been abis to in: Government to whom the case had been referred crease the dividend paid on the first year's for report, and I think that the light I was able wording of the Company by only at per share. to throw on many points had the effect of We commenced the year with a large quantity dispelling doubts and fears, and of obvialog of coal stored in our godowas; but, in con- correspondence with the Colony which no doubt sequence of what I may term the coal famine, would have led to very long and serious delays.
UPPER Wyndham Street is at best one of the most public, aided by the dangerous elasticity of awkward stretts in the Colony in the matter of we lost during the greater part of the time over On my arrival in Londen i was informed that
Goverment on Lord Knutsford's tume and so
Mr. Sharp asked if the general acceptance of leg prenfences which are being suffered in this at an early day. cuable the Government to begin the work for an ABY BY 3 shall not allow this matter to
think it throw very strong light on the
details of the plan? the scheme by the meeting pledged them to the Colony by the operations of these Acts, and I dengan Oo hope thấy with the assistance" given by this
the Acts will be allowed to lapse in the future, hcident to the Colony's view of the cus; either or of all events that such a change in the regnis» the laws of the Colony from falling in our own Harbour. (Appendix By
ions will be ärkiyed at us will at least prevent
was anything the lo-holders would like to base Mr. Chater replied that it did not if there altered it would be booked into by the Governor and altered at once indeed, since his return in England he had had a regulation from one marine lot holder which he sent in to the Gover ment and granted it once. He would be gita
Mr. Bell-Irving
rasolution
ACTION OF THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENTS IN
“S/PROHIBITINGⱭTHE LANDING OF CHINESE --
the "chit" system will allow; they shed a sidewalks, and as it is one of the most traversed) which the accounts now presented extend, almost | with the great Departments of Governmentthere, to do so with any niher suggestions they entry 120TTERAUSTRALIAN PORTS transient lustre on the hotel bars; "up the the question of obstruction has often been raised. | the whole of this Important item for storage and ↑ the enormous prétenta of public business did not forward to hidhen moved the follow log! The Resolutions passed at m-Special Meeting street" becomes alive with their revelry; chairs under the verandahs was visited by a fine, under our care. This great falling off in our that rupidity which we here in mercantile life arohat the holders of Marine, Lou. the gates of the credit system are openetmet by little short of boiling in oil, Bot. Mr. | state, now been checked, and our revenus from 1. long and wearisoma task to bring affairs to a head, from Murray Pier on the East to the West of Hongkong tand also win?s comerpondan De ·
One while, we recollect, even the suspension of we have at times had absolutely no stock of cool always admit of matters being disposed of with store-keeper bow to them subserviently; and to leave a ricksha across the footpath was storage account has, am happy to be able to accustomed to, and that therefore it would be a
Pollock is changing all that, Professor Cattaneo this source is daily Improving and will shortly and it was therefore with all the greater edge of Marine Lot No. 188 on the West agre was cited before him this morning, for leaving hope, equal, if not exceed, what was formerly satisfaction, that I found myself able wiikin z
to the construction at their expanse of a new his ricksha at a point where the causeway realized. If, however, our earnings for the past shorter time than I had anticipated to obtain Wall and to the reclamation, of the land inno was something under four feet wide, He rear have not been all that we could wish, the Grom the Secretary of State whom I interviwed that sex Wall according to the plans and spot met the charge pretty high-handedly-produced position of our Company has at any rate beon personally, the transmission of a telegram to the the terms and conditions referred to and contained
plan to show that he had a perfect right to materially strengthened by the sales of property Governor here announcing to He Excellency in the Colonial Sebetary's letters of the obstruct the footpath to more than the fullest which we mentioned in the report, and the Lord Knutsford's final approval of our scheme August and 18th November, 188 the can extent, and actually got off, Mr. Pollock, who Shareholders will reap a substantial benefit from on the terms previously agreed, but subie 1888 and the 19th February 18 had signed the summons with unaccountable this when we reduce the capital of the Company, two new conditions hich the Secretary of Statement contributing to the expense of the Marine that he didn't see why people should want to accomplish. During the past year, we have My fission being thus ended I returned proportion thereto, and that reluctance, observing as he dismissed the rate which reduction we hope shortly to be able to imposed and to which I shall refer presently, Frontage beld by within the walk on the footpath never did. Well, we added a new whart to our Kowloon establish once to the Colony in the hope that I would be be authorised to proceed with will take the liberty of pointing out to Mr.ment, which, with the two other wharves, has in a position very soon after landed, to inform deny the Marine Lot holders Follock that he is not paid to wonder why been effectively padded, for the greater gen you that "il difficulties of a serious nature having forthwith find the necessary fand people prefer the footpaths, but to administer renience of shipmasters in bringing their vessels been overcome we might now proceed to the Mr. Lee Chit, who secosido the law. If he had taken the treble to pro, alongside, and we anticipate that we shall soon consideration of Lord Knutsford's fresh condischemo as a whole; isavingĭthe detall perly investigate the case he would have found 'be obliged to construct another wharf to meet tions and endeavour to come to some under considered later. Plea that no house in Upper Wyndham Street has the increasing requirements of our gosiness, standing by which we might look to the citly. The resolution was carried with private frontage for rickshas, that the vehicle in Before moving the adoption of the report, and beginning of 180. Reclamation Worker On. The Chalmani. I shall not lose any this cice was a glaring obstruction, and that count, Ishall be glad to reply to any questions walking on the Goremor, however, the first thing communicating the result of the nelther-Professor Cattaneo or anyong clan has a' the Ghareholders may address to tone. right to blockade his front to the annoyance of Mr. Woolley asked, as a small shareholder, if with His Excellency I found that cestala difith the resolution you bars fast
afer my arrival and on going into the matter Government, and airing, themes pedestrians.
(hs Board were aware that there was a genera), adhies bad cropped up, and our donversion .. the work at once by proseeding with
to these noblemen under a cloud; when of a sudden the comet either vanishes as suddenly as be first shed his radiance on the laland, or, worse still, he becomes a fallen star, and gets cooled down amongst the great unwashed in the solitude of Victoria Gaol, very common aerolite Indeed, composed of the basest metal. The hotels, the ever-ready stores and the few accommodating, friends, the boon com panions of the reckless and the cheating adventurers—then open their eyes wide, and find that they have been swindled, duped, "sold"
Is there no possibility of remedying this deporable state of things? That
of your Committee hold on 7th May, embodied in the Chamber's reply to a letter from Dr. Ho Kai on behalf of the leading Chinese Merchants addressed to the Amoy Foochow Shanghai, Singapore, and London Chamber of Commerce, Committee alike very arbitrary manner in which plainly express the marked disapproval of your
the Governments of the Australian: Coloniem without previousi warningy abruptly prohibited Porta proceeding totally opposed to all tradi the subjects of a friendly power from entering, tions of British legislation, either Imperial or Colonial, and in the highest degree calculated to ring about strained relations between England and Chinne(Appendix C.) Produ
UGOLSTED: COINAGE OF TOKEN HALI DOLLÁRE
FOR USE IN HONGKONG. question was by His Excellency:
brought to the notice of your Com mittee, who expressed an opinion, that sucha an Idition to the currency of the Colony seemed to mengunary, but, a liberal supply Wauch
pieces: " was much required;">It was suggested that an increland Irons of Ohi