To Losses'
$ 957,676.53
WORKING ACCOUNT.
Charges, Survey Fees, &c..... 243,130.49 Directors' and Auditor Feed
and Branches...
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THY OCTOBER 24, 1901.
HONGKONG ASSOCIATION
FOOTBALL OLUB.
RESULT OF SIX-A-SIDE COMPETITION TO 23RD OCTOBER, 1954,
Profit and Loss Account ....
21,392.92 514,805.07
$ 1,737.005 01
$ 1,380,796.37
100,211.00
135.00
Mr. Russell......
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255,862.64
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Goldring.....7 2 Lowe7 Beattie.........6
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Kew ...........6
McMurtrie....
By Premia, less Re-insurances, Return Premi and Com- mission...u 20 Interest................................. Transfer Feespin Amount brought forward from
last year....
RESERVE FUND. To Balance on 31st August, 1901...$ 900,000,00
$ 900,000.00
By Balance or 3131 August, 1901...$ 90,000.00
W. H. RAY,
Secretary
*
We have compared the above Statements with the Books, Vouchers, and Securities of the Company, and found the same correct.
T. ARNOLD,Auditors. HU. JEFERIES,
Hongkong, 31st August, 1901,
A GLIMPSE OF UTOPIA.
I slept, and sleeping I dreamed a dream Of smiling and fruitful lands,
Where police were an unknown quantity, And they wot not German Bands. T'was a picturesque, glorified London Unfolded before my eyes,
1:
The underground railway had ceased to run, And the fogs had cleared from the skies.
I came to the Strand at the fall of evo,
The hour of twilight sweet,
And saw no maids of the golden hair' Parading the peaceful street;
heard in shrieking news-fiends cry, No organ assailed any car:
And the busses pulled up to let me cross, And their drivers forbore to swear!
'I bied to the suburbs ' sylvaingiades,
Where the rent free villas stoad,
Where the tax collector 'never come, And the drains were always good ;-
I dreamed as, I sat on the close-cropped lawn,
That a long procession came
And had come to return the same!
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Stevens, R.E. 6 Mr. Russell's team wins the Competition and takes possession of the Cup which was pre sented by Messrs. N. W. Slade, and H. W. Looker in 1897.
To-night Kew plays McMunrie. To-marrow StevensfiR,E, playa Beattie.
VLADIVOSTOCK.
7
PORT ARTHUR HARBOUR. According to reports from Port Arthur a num berofdredging machines belonging to the Naval Department have commenced work there with the purpose of deepening and widening the western part of Port Arthur harbour, which is to be altered to allow anchorage for battleships and big warships. It has also been decided to construct a channel through the 1sthmus of the Tigre Peninsula; so that in the near future, Port Arthur will have direct communication with the sen, which will be of great importance for both military and commercial purposes.
MURDER.
A few days ago a band of Chinese,marauders appeared near the railroad station Muren of the Chinese Eastern Railway, and attacked the house of a constractor of the railway, named Elijah Sokoloff, wounding him so severely that he died. The murdere's succeeded in escaping The family of the deceased, consisting of his wife and five children, will receive an insurance of Rs. 10,000 from the St. Petersburg Insurance Co.
AND-PILLAGE.
Offriends wholiad borrowed my books and cash,Lia-Okche, near the station "Pogranitching," On 27th September, at the railroad junction
of the Chinese Eastern Railway,"an attack was made unexpectedly by a band of 200 Chinese, The reisdents were brutally treated and their
And books which I'd long given up as lost, Were returned to me quite intact;
And friends who had borrowed umbrellas of me, belongings devastated Six persons were killed
In penitence brought them back.
And coins and notes they poured in my lap, Old debts they'd forgotten to pay ɛ And each one hoped I was not annoyed. At their shameful, wicked delay;
My tailor advanced like a birth of springs And hoped I'd forget his bill;
"Quite grieved to have pained my by sending it," And I inurmured with joy. "I will"
It seemed iny birthday had come again,
For my wife brought up the rear..
With a box of choice Havanna cigars,
(Which I paid for myself each year).
"I've bought you a birthday present George"
My loving help-mate spoke,
She flaunted the bill; Receipted! A gasped, And with that last shock I woke.
Then memories came of the butcher's bill, Presented by him that day,
And I knew with a sigh, he never would wait, But where was the money to pay...
Ah me the terrible ironies
That comes to us in a dream,
That make the contrasts look more seyere, And life more painful seem; Why do you come to taunt us thus, With gleams of a peaceful life, Then wake us to list to the baby's squalls, Or the tongue of a scolding wife?
CANTON NOTES.
VERA.
CANTON, October 23rd. THE FISH GUILD STRIKE, The strike of the fish guilds came to an end yesterday. A proclamation by the Viceroy tated that the contract for the reclamation of
the river front did not take in the river in front of the fish shops and that the contractors must not go beyond the boundary stated in the con- tract. The Nam Hoi also issued a proclamation that the fish dealers must make the best they can cut of the situation. They would be allowed to rent the land when reclaimed and if this did not satisfy them other markets for fish would be opened. So the fish dealers re- opened their shops, having practically gained nothing by the strike.
EXAMINATIONS.
and a number wounded. One milroad con- tractor was brought to the local hospital with wound in his head and two in one of his legs His two little daughters were fatally wounded; one receiving a bullet in her head and the other in the lower part of the abdomen. The nurse of these children was also killed.
TURKEY.
NOTES ON NATIVE AFFAILS.
[FROM THE "N. C. D. NEWS"] The Nanking Contingent to Japan
A Nanking dispatch states, in reference in the officers selected by Viceroy Liu Kyn-yi to po to Japan to witness the array manœuvres there in response to an invitation from the. Fapanese Covernment, that Viceroy Liu has appointed the following officials, namely, the | Thotals Tan and Tu. General Yang and Colonel Lung, and that these four officials left Nanking for Shanghai on the ith inst, to catch the Tapanese mail for that country. Governor Nieh of Soochow has also selected two officials, a Tastal and a General, to go to Japan for the same purpose...
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Reform Measures in Lower Kiangsu.
Dispatches received from Soochow report. that Governor Nich of that city has received from the Grand Council through the Board of War couriers the authenticated official copy of the recent Imperial decree commanding the abolishment of Wenchang and the turning of all public colleges of the old régime into schools and colleges of Western leaming throughthout the Empire. In obedience to the instructions contained in the authenticated copy in the above degree, without which, in spite of the telegmph, the provincial high officials dare not feel authorised' to move in any matter, Governor Nieh at once ordered dis- matches to be written to all the civil authorities under bis jurisdiction of Kiangnan, or Lower Kiangsu, commanding all to obey the decree in question and inaugurate the necessary reforms without delay.
Executioną in28oochew. Another Soochow dispatch reports the de capitation in that city on the 14th instant, of four men who had been the ringleaders, while confined in the Wahsien (Soochow)"district magistrate's yamdoffor various minor offences, in a recent serious attempt to break gaol amongst the prisoners The severity of the punishment given was due to the fact that it was confessed by most of the prisoners con- cerned that it was intended, after killing the prison guard on duty at the time, a dash should be made to murder the magistrate and pillage with the autumn land taxes. the treasury which had recently been filled
Still Uncertain.
Auctions.
|_ PUBLIC AUCTION.
**HE Undersigned have received instructions from the Official Administrator to sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
on
For Account of the Estate of the late Captain A. W. R. and Mrs. COBRAN, (deceased) SATURDAY, the 26th October, at 3.jo F.M.,
No. 1, KNUTSFORD TERRACE, . KOWLOON. SUNDRY VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. Comprising DOUBLE and SINGLE IRON BEDSTEADS, with Wire Mattresses, TEAKWOOD HAT STAND with Bevelled. Glass, MARBLE TOP WASHSTANDS, TOILET SETS, TEAKWOOD WARD. ROBES, with Bevelled Glass, CHEST of DRAWERS, TEAKWOOD SIDEBOARD, with Bevelled Glass, BLACKWOOD DESK, ELECTRO PLATED WARE, DINNER SERVICE, BRUSSEL'S CARPET, BOOK CASE, TEAKWOOD EXTENSION DIN- ING TABLE, CARVED DINING ROOM CHAIRS, VASES, PICTURES, KITCHEN REQUISITES, &C., &c.
ALSO:
Two COTTAGE PIANOS. (One by Wittan and Wittan and one by Chappell & Co.; London), One Pair BINOCULARS, One SEXTANT and One TRICYCLE.
AND
A Fine Lot of PALMS, POIS and PLANTS.
TERMS-As Usual. Catalogues will be issued.
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Government Auctioneers, Hongkong, 23rd October, 1901. [11500
SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION
ONE LOT OF
IN
ALUABLE LEASEHOLD VALPROPERTIES,
at the Peak, Victoria, Hongkong, registered in the Land Office as Rural Building Lots Nos. 15 and 104.
on
MONDAY, 28th OCTOBER, 1901, at 3 o'clock, P.M.,
By Mr. H. N. MODY, at his OFFICE. Known as STOKES BUNGALOWS, EAST and "WEST.
Plans, Particulars and Conditions of Sale may be seen at the Office of
Messrs. DEACON & HASTINGS,
ro, Queen's Road Central, or of the AUCTIONEER. Hongkong, 17th October, 1901..
E. MAR R.
E11300
PUBLIC AUCTION. "HE Undersigned have received instructions
to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,
TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, the 20th and 30th October, 1oor, al 10A.M., at H.M. NAVAL YARD, SUNDRY NAVAL AND VICTUALLING OBSOLUTE AND CONDEMNED
· STORES,
༑-་ Comprising OLD IRON, PAPER STUFF, RAGS, CANVAS, CLOTHING, IMPLEMENTS,
Although, looking at the preparations going on for the reception of the Court at Peking and Und the putting to rights of the route by which the Court will have to travel if ever it should return' to the old capital, it would strike the casual observer that the Court, after all, must be in- tending to reach Peking before mid-winter, making but a short slay at K'aifeng, the fact is the country has been so often disappointed at the frequent failures of the Empress Dowager in keeping her word as to the return to Peking that no one can be blamed for still remaining sceptical and refusing to believe the story that the Emperor and Empress Dowager intend to reach Peking before the middle of December next. A Northern dispatch further states, that the Chinese Plenipotnetiaries have telegraphed from Peking to Tungkuan praying their Majesties to "keep tryst "and celebrate the festival of the Winter Solstice (aist December) which is the beginning of the: Manchu New Year-in Peking, the ancestral capital of the Manchu dynasty, instead of, as hitherto report- The Nugasaki-Press-has-the following.deed at K'aileng, the old capital of the Chinese tails of the sufferings of the German steamer Babelsberg in the recent typhoon :-
Bad news is again being received from Turkish Armenia: Numerous bands of mur. derous Kurds have anew commenced their bloody work of killing unprotected Armenian. Certain prominent Armenians have applied by wire to the Sultan for protection.
9th October-N.C.D. News Cor:
THE LATE TYPHOON.
THE "DABELSBERG" DISABLED.
The condition in which several vessels have arrived at this port within the last few days testifies to the severity of the recent typhoon in these waters. The German steamer Baber- berg, from Karatsu, entered this harbour on "Wednesday morning in a storm-battered cos- dition, and the wonder is how the captain and crew managed to navigate the vessel here. The Babelsberg left Karatsu on Saturday last with a cargo of coal for Manila. When about 36 hours out, she was caught by the typhoon and had a terrible experience. She had on board 3,400 tons of coal, a portion of which shifted during the storm, causing the vessel to list, Had the coal not been properly stowed- on board at Kamatsu, it is very probable that the vessel would not have weathered the typhoon. Heavy seas swept the ship from stem to stem and the cabin windows on the listed side were smashed by the waves, the contents of the rooms being irretrievably ruined. The engine room was flooded, and at one time matters were very critical, as the firemen were on the point of leaving the stoke hold, their position being almost untenable. To make matters worse, the vessel began to the hold. All available hands were sent to the pumps, but the work of pumping was very difficult, w the soal dust had penetrated into the water and clogged the pumps. The sound ing-pipe, astern of the after bold, was forced up during the storm, and smashed up a portion of the deck, wrenching screws and woodwork away as if they had been matchwood. All the
Sung dynasty, "in order that the whole Empire may rejoice at the inauguration of a new and prosperous era for the sacred dynasty."
A Look of Permanency.
A K'aifeng dispatch states that from the work in progress in that city preparatory to the arrival of the Count from Hsian, it is evident that there is an attempt at producing a replica, of the yamens of Peking in Kaifeng. Besides the offices destined for the regular Six Boards and the more important Ministries and. Courts, many of which are intended to beļamalgamated or incorported with each other on economical grounds soon after the arrival of the Court, there is also a yamth destined for the occupa tion of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Attached to this Ministry there has been ap pointed a permanent staff of tolegraph opera ors, who expect to remain in Kaifeng two years at least. The Chinese army corpa öf 25,000 men of all arms-an altogether distinct body from the Manchu force comprising the Peking Field Force and the personal com- mand of Yung Lu, bearing the name of the Husbêng Army or "Glorified Tigers"—are to be housed in apparently permanent quarters specially built for them outside the city walls?
&C &c., &c.
The VICTUALLING STORES will be sold on TUESDAY, 29th, and the NAVAL STORES on WEDNESDAY, Both instant.
TERMS OF SALE —As customary,
HUGHES & HOUGH,
Government Auctioneers. Hongkong, and October, 1901.
Insurances,
"Strongest in the World.
THE EQUITABLE SURPLUS.
is a mighty anchor
that guarantees the security
of every Equitable contract- £13,778,577-
the largest surplus fund ever accumulated for the benefit of policy holders-- Could you have a better guar- anten back of the policies that are going to mature 10, 15, 20 years hence?
The
Equitable Life Assuranco Buciety,
*
F. KIENE, Manuger,
Hongkong.
[11440
(9950
Hongkong, 8th October, 1901,
"L'UNION FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LD. (Established 1828).
The result of the late examinations for M.Aleak and four feet of water were recorded in | so also the Manchys above-mentioned, who are HE Undersigned, having been appointed
Ku Yan, will be made known to-morrow. The Governor has gone into the Examination Hall to superintend the preparation of the list of successful candidates and will remain until the lists are ready for posting, The number of men who wrote was 14,000 and of these only 175 will be allowed to pass.
TAX ON ANCESTRAL TEMPLES.
Templea are to be taxed. Six districts are
They are Tung Kun, Shun Tak, Heung Shan, Sun Ui, Nam Hoi, and Pun U. This seems to.be'a new way in which to raise a revenue. However, the officials are constantly on the alert to find something upon which they can lay their bands which has not been already taxed.
to be quartered round about the Palaces and present moment. The expression at the present number another.25,000 to 30,000 men at the moment is here used with an object, for at the flight of the Court in Auguit, 1900, from Peking these brave and loyal defendere". of the Throne made themselves, exceedingly scarce. Not quite a thousand were found at the side of the Empress Dowager when she arrived at Taiyuan, Shansi, the numbers being only trebled by the time she started for Hslan,
GENERAL AGENT for the above Company, is prepared to ACCEPT RISKS at current rated.
Claims settled direct without reference to the Head Office.
AR. MARTY,
Agent p
17130 Hongkong, 5th July, 1901. NORTH`GERMAN FIRK INSURANCE
COMPANY OF HAMBURG. AN
SIEMSSEN & CH
Hongkong, a8th May, 1804.
Notice of Firm.
Notice has been sent out that all Ancestral rooms on the main deck are in a terribly bat three months after the flight from Paking.HE Undersigned AGEN to accop: First
tered condition, and it was only their stoutness The remaining small balance of some Company prepared mentioned in which the tax is to be first levied. Phat prevented them from being swept away. 25,000 as pay-drawers, as their recreant Com-Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS 2
Two large ships' boats were washed away and manders and officers tried to explain to the CURRENT RATES, AR one of them was smashed to pieces by boing Hsian, who joined the Court between October wrathful Empress Dowager afterwards' at dashed against the boom, Some idea of the of last year and August of this, had been force of the waves may be gathered when it is prevented from doing so in the meantime stated that one of the steam derricks was
owing to the lack of the wherewithal to pay fractured by a wave and other portions of iron so many thousand li of country Travelling for the heavy travelling expenses required for work were twisted and bent. The vessel pre was therefore "unavoidably slow, the men and sents a truly deplorable spectacle as she now. officers being compelled to subsist on the lies in harbour, and many weeks must elapse the local authorities en route. One can under. country people and what they could get from before she will be ready for sed again. Her stand how these cowardly Manchus subsisted cargo-of-coal is being removed, so that the on the country en route, from the fréquent tenke may be located, and the vessel will then complaints of officials and people to the go into djok fox survey and repairs, ....
Governor of Shaus), who had at last to give a larga sum for their transport to Halan.
OTTAM & COJENEW SCARVES and
HOUSE TAX.
Contrary to expectations the house tax is being collected. There is no hurry or fuss about the collection of the tax. Those who are willing to pay are taken first and those who are not ready or show no inclination to pay are gaused by for the present. When a house has paid a noilce is posted is a comipicuous, place stating that the tax has been paid, no megalA OTTAM & CON CRICKETING HATS
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