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bëhest-and usually excites grim laughter amongst businessmen; but the proceedings at the latest exhibition were in some respects of so singular a character as to specially invite public comment and criticism.
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Tat aborigines in North Formosa are again on the war-path, and a large Chinese force, under the command of General Li, is operating against them.
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Tientsin that the course of the Yellow River at
Shimbun
porary, because Mr. Nakahama, who has just
who authorised the payment in full to the tides. Last Saturday the Kiukiang, with a builders of the Hingshan before that fair amount of cargo and about as many steamer had been properly tested? Are passengers as she is ever likely to carry the Directors not responsible to the on this line, was unable to reach the WE are informed by the agents (Messes. Russell shareholders for such stupid business wharf until seven o'clock, and her draught Co) that the "Union" Line steamer Tatarias lapsus as these? If they are not, then who was exactly eight fee. The flat-bottomed left Singapore for this post yesterday, and may in? WALKER, of course! A scapegoat Heungshan, drawing eight and a half feet, be expected to arrive on or about the rich inst.
has the same effect on the Macao mud News has been received in Shanghai from must be found somewhere.
that the circular piece of wetted leather its mouth has shifted, and that junks which were "sucker" has | sent with materials for mending the embank known to school-boys as
recent channel of the river. on a paving stone; the Kiukiang can forcements are now high and dry, two miles from the her way through a foot and a half of mud, where the Heungshan would get helplessly A JAPANESE native paper, the Osaka Mainichi saya that when the cholera epidemic The Secretary broke out in Nagasaki, carbonic acid rese in and hopelessly stuck.
It has now was perfectly correct in attributing the price to $75 per 100 pounds. excessive draught of the Heungshan resumed is ordinary orice, adds our contem to her heavy top hamper, and there can returned from abroad, states that common lime, be no doubt that such a vessel would which is very cheap, is as efficient a disinfectant
sea-way unless she turn over in a had a grip on the water; but he did not tell us for what purpose such a heavy and unsightly structure was considered necessary on a boat running between here and Macao, It appears to us to be utterly useless. All the same, we
she has proved for the purpose for which she was specially designed (?) and constructed, well adapted in most respects either for the Pearl river or the Yangtze, and no doubt the Directors will soon find t advisable to place her on the Canton day service, sending the Honam to Macao.
mon-
It has been painfully apparent for some time past that the Hon. PHINEAS RYKIE has
When Mr. Ryan asserted that the for which he was so justly noted Hangshan was "to look at and go over, lost that firm grip of business management few short years ago. On Friday last, splendid vessel," and in other respects, in his capacity of Chairman of the according to experts, most suitable for the Steamboat Company, his remarks to Hongkong-Macao trade, he was talking the shareholders, although in some of what he evidently knew nothing about. respects sensible and to the point, evidenced In outward appearance the Heungthan the most superficial knowledge of the resembles a huge, floating tank, and she Important matters he was endeavoring to is about the most roughly finished vessel explain, and suggested that the information all over that ever came into Hongkong on which his statements were based had waters. As to her alleged suitability for been supplied with but little regard for the Macao line, Mr. RYRIE's "experts" jubstantial accuracy. The falling off in notwithstanding, she is simply a the Company's earnings, in face of anstrosity that will give no end of trouble, opposition that for months past has daily causing daily annoyance and inconvenience been increasing in strength and popularity, to passengers and shippers by her fearful was only what might reasonably have been rolling in the slightest swell and her tides. The designer of the Heungshan must have taken Noah's Ark for his model ofthis latest thing in modern river steamers.
One prominent feature of the proceeding under review was, what we are bound to regard as the gratuitous and altogether unjustified interference of Mr. THOS, ARNOLD, the Company's paid Secretary. Any information required by the meeting it was the duty of the Directors to afford, as they and they alone are responsible, It will be remembered to the shareholders. that in the cause, clèbre, Fraser-Smith v.
as carbonic acid,
Tax Chinese Government would appear to have at last decided to complete the new dock at Foochow for the accommodation of the vessels of the Southern Fleet. This dock was commenced
lack of funds—a not uncommon occurrence years ago but the work came to a standstill for in Chinese official enterprises. However, the Admiralty Board has suddenly recognised the importance of this dock and has instructed the to raise the necessary funds and proceed with the work without delay. His Excellency, in a memorial to the Theone on the subject, reports that Tls, 60,000 will be forthcoming in two mouths, so that the completion of the dock may be at last be regarded as within measurable distance.
Plaintiff stated that he made the contract with Ma T. Orange, to build a chimney and two dins and to remove a bungalow. He began the work the following menth, and $90 was were also allowed for putting in a concrete allowed for excavating the foundations. $237 foundation, and $11 for getting red earth from Hongkong, to make mortar. The work was finished early the following year, and $1,500 were paid on account. When he applied to Mr. Cougarle for the balance that gentleman told
him that the Company bad no money, and asked him to "take it out in bricks,"
Cross-examined-Mr. Walker wrote at the same time complaining that the work was not satisfactory,There was no clause to the contract that witness should pay $5 a day if the kilns were not finished within a month. The kilas fell down afterwards, through having been built according to the orders of the defendant's Plaintiffs foreman gavėcirroborative evidence. representative.
Mr. Hastings, for the defence, said that the Company never took over the kilns, on account of their defective, construction, but claimed damages for non-fulfilment of contract, and the penalty of $5 a day.
The evidence of Mr. A. Johnston, tiken on commission, was read. It strongly condemned the workmanship of the kilns, and assessed the Mr. Orange (of the firm of Danby, Leigh, and loss to the Company at $400 or $5co. Orange) confirmed this opinion.
Mr. Walker, secretary to the defendant Com pany, described the workmanship as very bad, completed. Notice was given to the plaintiff to re-build them, and as he did not comply the Company did the work at a cost of about $500,
Mr. Hastings and Mr. Wilkinson having expounded the law according to their lights,
His lordship said that he did not see how the defendants could set up · counter-claim, but he did not think plaintiff bad fulfilled his contract,
A. S. WATSON & CO., LD./expected; but it is pertinent to remark here inability to enter Macao harbour at low consider the Heungshan, ghastly failure as Viceroy of Fohkien and his provincial colleagues and said that the kilns fell in abortly after being
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that the Directors' report gives no definite information whatever as to the extent or character, of the decrease in the returns. We search the summary of accounts in vain for any entry of the gross earnings of the Company's steamers during the half- year, although these are the only figures that could enlighten the shareholders as to how much the actual earnings bad fallen off and the running expenses increased, the only figures on which anything like a reliable estimate of the work done, the efficiency of the management, and the
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prospects of the Company could be fairly The Steamboat Co., the defence raised by calculated. It would seem to the Directors the Company was that the Secretary was and the Auditors that it is quite enough forthea mere scribe" who had no authority 1.to shareholders if the Profit and Loss account whatever, and the then Chairman, Mr. merely shows the net earnings and the E. R. BELILIOS, actually went into the interest on Investments, leaving all witness-box and swore to the same effect. detalls as to the actual working of the And yet MP-BELIZIOS and his co-directors Company as much out of sight as sat quietly last Friday and allowed If no accounts were published at all. the
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Several other matters transpired at the
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
MESSES. Adamson, Bell & Co., agents for the Canadian-Pacific Line, inform us that the steam ship Straits of Belle Isle arrived at Vancouver on the 3rd Inst. from Yokohama.. Tux foreign engineers recently commis ioned by Chang Chib-tung, Viceroy of the Hu-kuang provinces, to examine the iron mines in the Ta-yeo district, have sent his Excellency a most favorable report.
The new English Companies Act, which was
'passed last month, provides that no person shall act as a director of a public company until he
companies a certificate by two registered medi shall have filed with the registrar of joint-stock cal practitioners that he is of sound mind and competent understanding, a certificate by two menbers of the Incorporated Law Society that be has a complete practical knowledge of the law relating to public companiei, and a certifi cate by two chartered accountants that he is bookkeeping, and the method of preparing and well acquainted with the various systems of auditing the accounts of joint-stock undertaking Any person acting as a director without come plying with the requirements of the Act, is made fiable to imprisonment.-A lot of" guinea-pigu” on Hongkong boards will bare to climb down the law is extended to the Crown Colonies- and it ought to be,
if
ar had doss the work in a proper way, as he
ought to and could have done. He had no claim-indeed he had had about $600 too much." Judgment for the defendants.
THE FATAL EXPLOSION AT --STONE-CUTTER'S ISLAND.
Mr. Wodehouse continued the inquiry at the Magistracy this morning into the circumstances was suddenly killed at Stose-cutter's Island on attending the death of the Sikh constable who the 24th alto, by the explosion of a shell which he was driving into a piece of wood as a wedge, for the purpose of splitting it into firewood.
Charles Arbuthnot, Major of the Royal Artillery commanding, said it was his duty to be acquainted with the storage and ure of ammunition, The fragments of the shell produced appeared to be the remains of an exploded 6lb. Hotchkiss. On Stonecutter's Island his men had a large
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of the Chairman of the Board. It is certainly surprising that no shareholder thought fit to put Mr. AxHOLD in his proper place and insist on all explanations and other information being given by the Directors, And surely the extreme pitch of irregularity was reached when the Secretary, in reply to a question put to the Chairman as to the repairs to the Heungihan, actually called upon Mr. GILLIS, Secretary of the Dock Company,
that a case of Asiatic cholera occurred on board
the W. Cores de Vries on her way up to Hankow. The vessel left Shanghai on Saturday, the 26th July, and before she reached Kluklarg the second engineer, Mr. G. Holmes, was attacked by the disease and died on the Monday night. A TATTERED Coolie who was "nailed" entering godown in Zetland Street on the 2nd Instant without the permission of the watchman, being unable to explain his unwelcome presence, was rua in" and brought before Mr. Wode house at the Police Court this morning. Hi Worshipjailed him for six calendar months with hard labour.
THE Merritt Wrecking Company's steamer Rescue, with Capt. Demarest and crew of number of such shella which were kept in boxes, on its way to Cape Henlopen to search for a Large amount of treasure which is supposed to be houses, and kept under lock and key. The buried in the hold of the sunken British loop-of whole of the shells were under the immediate wat De Braak The De Brock was sent to the Hotchkiss, abells were sent over to the island, charge of a District Gunner. Last October the bottoms by squall on May 25, 179%, when pro- not the number, was recorded in a register. ceeding to join the British West India squadron to take part in the war against Spain, and she A number of them had been used from time had picked up a Spanish vessel and the gold on
to time and a record of them kept on each occasion. When taken out of the stora her way. The English Government has wanted for practice an entry was made in the register of to search for the fortune on several occasions, the number fired. The number issued was in but the United States has always claimed it,accordance with the number of rounds ordered because it is supposed to be reclining upon American sand. In 1880 the National Govern to be fired off by the officer commanding the ment contracted with the International Sub practice, however, would see that the number battery. The officer in charge of the target marine Company of New Haven, giving it the fired off was in strict accordance with the exclusive right to carry on the search, and that instructions of his superior officer. It would Wrecking Company of Philadelphia and the Merritt Wrecking Company of New York to do the work.
consider that coals were much cheaper last who was present in his capacity of THE Hyogo News of July 28th has the concern secured the services of the Ocean be impossible for less shots, to be fired off
half-year than during the preceding one, $450 that the increase of officers' wages amounts to a mere trifle, and that the light dues are an unknown quantity, the honourable PB gentleman's reasons must be regarded as insufficient and unsatisfactory. And it is just as well to point out with regard to the light dues, that the Chairman was very 1.25 wide of the mark when he stated that the Company's night steamers made no use whatever of any of the Hongkong lights; as a matter of fact Green Island light is constantly, made use of by the Powan, Fatshan, and Kiung-chou; and we quite fail to see why, if other steamers have to pay light' dues, the vessels of the Steamboat 0.75 Company should be exempted.
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following: There have been several rumours during the past week of a shark from Ir to 12 feet in length having been seen in harbour, and its presence has been vouched for by several witnesses, one of whom stated he had seen it off Wada Foint. On the night of the 24th a fish torpedo 13 feet in length was drawn up in a fahermen's net three off the Point. The weapon is said to be of foreign manufacture.
practice, so that it would not be possible than were officially noted at the time, of
for any shells to be left on the beach A CORRESPONDENT willes from Szechuan to our after target practice had ceased: The District Shanghai morning contemporary The normal Gunners might at any time deliberately steal a quiet of our life in this out-of-the-way corner of shell if they desired to do so, either at the time of practice or any other time. The register books the Far West is just now a little disturbed by. the news from Luipoting, a place some 520 had not been specially examined with a view still farther west. It appears that the “ Mau-is "
to ascertaining any discrepancy which might Peking correspondent of the Shanghai from the surrounding hill country have assembled lead to elucidation in the present case. The Jehol Sliver Mices, which are under the super-villages and isolated places, owing to a scarcity to, and on the 7th ultimo, when all was found Mercury wiltes under date the 7th ulto.:The at the city named and begun ravaging the Master Gunner had checked over the entries up present in Japan, of food in their own villages, The local correct; but the witness thought it would be latendence of Mr. Church, have been transferred from Taotsi Chiu to Mr. authorities at Leipoting were unable to cope with better to have a special check of the registers in Tong King Sing, which amounts to turning over the difficulties of the situation and are in a state connection with this case. The paint on the the concern to the Kaiping Mising Company. of siege, while the roads to more distant points Portions of the shell exbibited appeared almost The latter will repay the Viceroy Li Hung-chang are in the hands of the aborigines. Some three worn off by age. The Royal Artillery shells had the Tis. 150,000 which he advanced in connec hundred soldiers from the provincial capital hays black glossy paint on them, but the pieces of one tion with the Jehel mines. A Iste manager of passed through Sulfe as routs to the seat of produced had no signs of such paint. From the China Merchants' S. N, Ca, it is sald, will war," and as many more are to come up from the nature of the fare used in such shells it was Yunnan. The officials are very strict in regard almost impossible that it could have exploded take charge of the mins.
to these "Mau-ts" districts and have prohibited without having been previously fired, because foreigners from entering them, as far as they can there was a roughened needle imbedded in do so. In all other respects we move freely and lead which acted as a pellet inside the missile quietly with little to vary the monotony of our The end of the needle was not entirely encased isolated life. Mr. Pratt and his colleague passed in lead, the end of it rested against the base of through Suffu a few days since on their way to the plug. During the flight of the shell the lead Tachicals, having made a pleasant run from was forced back against the base of the needle,
then thrown forward, and the needle's point. followed soon after, also bound westward.. Ichang. A rival boat, in charge of a native, leaving the peint exposed. The whole was would pierce a thin dise of brass, and enter the CAPTAIN Jorgensen, with his companion Neilson, detonating composition, The roughened cedie arrived at Albany, Northern Territory, on the was about half an inch in length and incased 3rd ult. after a marvellous voyage in the lifeboat in small quantity of lead, the object of the Storm King They left London on Septemberräth lead being to protect the needle and to act 1889. The dimensions of the bost are-length as a pellet. There were nearly a lbs of 30ft depth, 4ft 6in ; width, 8ft. 6in.; capacity, powder in cartridge. It was his opinion that tons. A heavy gale was encountered off the Bay no blow would be sufficiently powerful to explode of Biscay, They landed at Madeira on October the shell unless the detonator was first set in for Pernambuco, where they arrived on the arst suficient. Possibly the Janting caused by a 2 and remained there a few days; left Madeira motion-mere single concussion would not be November. There they stayed two days, and succession of heavy blows might shake the needle left again for Cape Town, arriving thereon March loose and cause it to go off. Witness, however, zat. Here they stayed six weeks, recruiting after would not say, it could be so, as he thought it. six months at sea. After leaving the Cape, when very doubtful. He had been Informed by officers competent to form an opinion, that it south of Madagascar, in lat; 40; the Storm was practically impossible for shell to encountered a cyclone, on to which the frail craft came safe and sound, strengthening the explode owing to mero concussion. For these slipper's belief in the soundness of his vessel. reasons he believed that the shell in question A second cyclone was met with just after. The must have been previously fired off. He did only vessel sighted between the Cape and Lewis not think it could have ricocheted, on to the was spoken in 39 S., 68 E, ris, the American ialaud, for had that been so it would have barque Adam Space bound for Melbourne. A exploded as soon as it struck the shores but it heavy gale was encountered off Cape Leuwin might have fluttered along the top of the Land assighted at midnighton the 1st July: To the water and fallen lightly on the sand. The add to the difficulties of the cruise, the chronometer 6th: Hotchkiss shells carried up to 4 or 5,400 stopped on June 1 th, and the watches on board yards. His men had been firing at Belcher's had also stopped previously, so that Captain fort lately. From Belcher's Bay his men aimed Jorgenson was unable to work the longitude, and about 1,300 yards to the south of Stone-cutter's from there to Albany the course was worked by island. Witness thought it quite impossible for dead reckoning, The boat is constructed in three the shell to have ticocheted such a distance as 1,200 to 1,300 yards. The Royal Artillery had only sections and could be lengthened if required.
been in possession of 6lb, shella since October, 1889. Prior to witness's arrival, in February, officers had been conducting practice » from Belcher's in all probability D
A SUMMARY of vessels built during the year 189 gives a total of 1,286,679 tons for British porta and 46,210 reported from Continental yards. North-eastern ports head the British list with 717,699 tons, the Clyde standing second with 335,201 tons, and Belfast next with 79.55 tons. largest ever recorded in the history of British the exports of engines and machinery were the namely, £15,251,658, against commerce, £12,933625 in 1889, an increase of $2,323,033 sing simply steam engines and parts thereof, the Argentine Republic was the largest customer last year, talding £610,296 worth. REFERRING to the cholera epidemic in Nagasaki, the Rising Sun of the 30th ulto, remarks With regard to the prevailing sickness in the to report that it is still gradually decreasing, not tire town, we are exceedingly glad to be able only in the number of cases, but in the pupper tionate number of deaths. In the small villages on the sea shore, munning from Cape Noma to Fukuda Bluff however, there have been an increased number of cases, over eighty of which have been traced to the eating of bad shark flesh brought from Amakosa and retailed in that vicinity. Of that number more than half the cases proved fatal,
shareholder, to give Information which it was the duty of the Directors to have obtained beforehand, However, it is a pity that Mr. ARNOLD, when he constituted himself the mouth-piece of the Chairman, did not stick a trifle closer to the truth and be somewhat less Jesuitical in his replies to questions asked. A shareholder, Mr. Ho TUNG, wanted to know the cost of the new steamer, laid down in Hongkong harbour. The reply he got was that at a meeting held in 1889 it was stated the vessel would cost £33,950, and that there would be certain expenses connected with the voyage to Hongkong, about £1,000. And then the Secretary added that the original cost was £34,000, and there were It was, of course, anticipated that the expenses of the voyage and the dock bill 0.75 something would be said about the when she arrived-and such cost would not Heungshan, the specially designed new exceed what was originally stated. After 1.00 steamer for the Hongkong-Canton route, this statement, Mr. AxxolD admitted that and in view of the generally recognised $240,497 had been paid on account of the fact that the vessel is a hideous fallure so Heungshan, and that amount appears in the far as Macao is concerned and has already summary of accounts; he further stated broken down owing to defective, boilers, that the money had been remitted at excuses were looked for. But nobody"what We thought at the time was a good | could have expected such a deplorable rate, 3/24" Now, when the Secretary admission of gross incapacity, or utter was so communicative as to what "we" 1.00 carelessness on the part of the Board of thought and what "we" did, why did he Directors, "The defective bollers," said not give some explanation regarding the the Chairman, "are not the fault of your difference between the original cost of the Directors, because they paid a gentle- Hrungshan, including expenses of voyage man, Mr. WALKER, who was strongly out and her dock bill, say £35,000, which recommended by a leading person in this sum he said would not be exceeded, and the colony in shipping matters, a very hand. 8340,497 already paid on account of the some sum to supervise the fitting of the purchase? In round numbers" £35,000 we have at 3/2d, are equal to 8221,057, and engines and boilers; but discovered since that he did not supervise this amount deducted from 8240.497 them very much; in fact the supervision leaves a balance of 819,444, about which was of a most perfunctory character, and not a single word of explanation was therefore we find that the vessel has to be vouchsafed. It would be interesting to put into dock because the boilers are bad." know who was Mr. Axxord's authority If the Directors are not in fault for the bad for the ridiculous assertion that a deep boilers, would It not have been just as well | draught is a necessity for steering few days ago. He entirely, attributes the mishep to have stated who was the leading vessel! We were always under the Tax half-yearly meetings of shareholders person In this colony in shipping matters" Impression that it was the rudder and In the Hongkong, Canton and Macao who recommended Mr. WALKER, the not the draught of water that controlled Steamboat Company, Limited, have rarely gentleman who received the handsome the steering, and that where any difficulty failed to providesome kind of entertainment" cumshaw" of two hundred and fifty in that respect existed it was met for the outside public, and the periodical | guineas for doing nothing, and doing by increasing the size of the rudder and gathering of the clans on Friday last that very badly? If the Directors not by putting the ship down an extra fool The last New York Maritime Register contains proved no exception, to the general rule. are not responsible for Mr. WALKER's in the water. And who told Mr. Arxon a lengthy correspondence from which we gather that Commisaloner Reed, the Shipping Commia- A wild descent from high tragedy to scandalous breach of trust, then that only once a fortnight would there loner at New York, is in hot water, in respect humorous farce has long been recognised surely "the leading person" who so be any difficulty in the Heungshan getting to his action with regard to the American hark as quite an easy accomplishment for the strongly recommended that expert must Into Macao? And who told him that H. G. Johnson, Captain Colby. The vessel sailed from New York to Sydney in 1887. At ante-diluvian Directors of this popular have incurred some amount of responsi the Krukiang's draught of water was Sydney ten men deserted, and be got substitutes local enterprise-especially as the share-bility And who was the business genius about nine feet? For four or five to work the ship to Hongkong. On arriving holders who think it worth while to who paid this man WALKIn two hundred nights running, the week prior to from the latter post at New York he was ordered by Reed to deposit $21 to cover and claims attend these meetings are mainly the and fifty guineas of the shareholders her going to dock, the Hangthan could gains the vessel which might be made by the abject followers of a certain all-powerful money before the work was completed, not enter Macao harbour until from 6.30 deserters. He did so, and petitioned for Reed
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SIAM is a funny place. Bangkok boasts of a Lord Mayor nobleman of a rich warm tint, about five feet high. And now we read that Capt. Bash, the King's chief marine adviser, le Sir John." The Bangkok Times says that the barrow-koight, who was in command of the Persfri at the time of her unfortunate accident, arrived in Bangkok from Singapore a to the salive pilot who wai on board at the ilme, The lead, it is said, was constantly kept going and even up till a few seconds before the vessel soks was called, but struck, a depth of 5 wab
few minutes before that the pilot bad altered the course and, as a result, the Verari ran high and dry on the rock which gitimately broke her to pieces.
SUPREME COURT.
IN' SUMMARY JURISDICTION. (Before Mr. A. G. Wiss, Acting Puline Fudgy).
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Ling Akow, contractor, and the Hongkong Brick and Cement Company for 8900.35, for labor and materials-Mr. Wilkinson appeared for the plaintiff, and Mir, Hastings defended,
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