Intimations.
A. S. WATSON & Co., LIMITED.
WINE
MERCHANTS..
ESTABLISHED 11.
CLARETS.
9.00
11,00
14.50
Per Case Per Case doz. Qte dni. Pls.
ST. ESTEPHE
$ 8.00
ST. JULIEN.
10.00
LA ROSE
13-50
CHATEAU HAUT.
BRION LARRIVET
20.00
22.00
CHATEAU MOUTON
D'ARMAILHACQ
24.00
26.00
CHATEAU PONTET
CANET CHATEAU LA TOUR
CARNET ......
33.00 CHATEAU RAUZAN...... 48.00 CHATEAU LAFITE ...... $4.00
28.00
These CLARETS are specially selected and obtained from the LEADING FRENCH GROWERS; they are of exceptional value and in fine condition.
THE CHATEAU BRANDS are recommended to the notice of Con- hoisseurs as high-class after-dinner Wines.
We guarantee our Wines and Spirits to be genuine when bought direct from us in the Colony or from your authorised Agents
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES (IN ADVANCE), BALLY-$50 per annum. WEEKLY 313 per annum. The rate per quaitor and per měusum, proportiodui. The daily and in deliveral free when the addrem in accouible to inessenger. Un copies sent by post an additional $1.80 por quarter in charged for postage. The postage on the weekly imue to any part of the
world is 80 cents per quarter,
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Single Coples Daily, ten cents: Weekly, twenty
Gre Cunts.
BIRTH.
On the 26th June, at Rosslyn, Hooding Estate, Singapore, the wife of H. L. HAUX- WELL of a son:
The Hongkong Celegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1904,
COOLIE EMIGRATION.
outh has
THE Luban Bailway line from, the now been carried to within thirty miles of the Yellow River, and it is now possible to travel from Kaifong to Hankow in two days.
MESSES. Dick Kerr and Co., Ltd., of London, have got the contract for the Siamese Tramway Co.'s lines and equipment. They are hist constructing the new tramways in Singapore and Hongkong.
His Majesty's cruiser Blenheim after discharg. ing ammunition at Sheerness, on her return from the Far East, was de patched to Chatham to pay off preparatory to undergoing a reft costing £42,301.
TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1904.
"RESUMPTION OF LAND.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. T. STRAITS GOVERNMENT.
At Singapore on the 28th uit, before the Chief Justice, Sir Lionel Cox, and the Rev. Father Couvreur and Mr. G. A. Derrick as Assessors, an action was heard on behalf of Messrs, Jardine, Matheson and Company re garding the price of the land at Keppel-road required by Government for the purpose of the Singapore, railway extension. The land is of 37,225 ft. area, and forms part of the property known as Jardine'. Wharf. The Company claimed $103,924.75 and the Collector of Land Revenue offered $13,612,50 being at a rate of THE Manila coast guard culter Scout was 50 cents per sq. ft. for the land. With regard to special damages, severance, and injurious wrecked in a typhooni off Padan, Antique pro- vince, l'anty, and is a total loss. The crew, effects to property the collector offered in were all saved. She was purchased in Hong-accommodation works two level crossing at kong and arrived in Philippine waters in the indicated points, another road, and a nominal
sum of $joo and 15% compensation. fall of 1902.
IT is reported, that the Oceanic Steamship Company made overtures for the Pacific Mail steamer China, with the object of placing her on the Sydney route during the overhauling of the liner Sonoma, but was unable to secure the vessel one trip.
IN honour of the "Glorious Fourth" a number. of guests were invited to spend the evening at the Kowloon Wotel, and those whose good fortune it was to be present can testify to the admirable manner in which Host Osborne served up one of his tasty dinners and after-
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The paucity of emigrants at the Laichikokwards entertained them to a pleasant evening. camp has wow been overcome by the more friendly attitude of the Viceregal authorities at Canton in giving effect to the second article of the Convention between Great Britain and China. This stipulates that the authorities "shall make known by Proclama. |tion and by means of the native press the text of the Indenture which the emigrant will have to sign, and any particulars of which the Chinese officer considers it
essential that the emigrantshall be informed, respecting the country to which the emigrant is to proceed, and respecting its laws. We are now advised from the neighbouring capital that this proclamation has been issued, with the result that one may look to an early departure of the steamer Courtfield for Durban. She was to have left on the 18th ultimo, and preparations aboard, under the superintendence of the Transvaal A. S. WATSON & CO., Emigration Agent, were hastened with a view
At the Coast Ports
LIMITED.
Hongkong, 20th June, 1904.
TELEPHONE NO. 155.
CABLE ADDRESS: "ACHEE," HONGKONG. A. B. C. CODE, 478 EDITION.
ESTABLISHED 1859.
A CHEE &
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BONDS to the amount of $100,000 have been deposited by the agent of the Boston Towboat Company, on behalf of a probable claim which nccording to the Daily News is to be made by the owners of the German steamer Nicomedis, which towed the steamer Pleiades of the American Lise, a distance of Boo miles, having picked up the Pleiades disabled and helpless in mid-Pacific, and took her to Vanconver. The Pleiades was to be towed to Tacoma, there to discharge her passengers and freight, and undergo repairs,
Ir is time that steps were taken by the High Level Tramways Company regarding the plat form at Plantation Road. Accidents occur there frequently on account of the gradient of the line being so steep. The track in the neighbourhood bas already been surveyed with
a view to make improvements, but beyond this
nothing has been done. Last evening a lady visitor to the Colony slipped while entering the car at this station. She sustained a nasty wound on the head, which Dr. Jordan, who was travelling by the same car, attended to,
As already reported in these columns the United States battle-ship Kentucky made the world's Madeira to New York. record run for a war ship from Hongkong and
The total distance
Mr. Carver appeared for the Company and the Attorney General for the Collector of Land Revenue,
THE HUNGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LIMITED..
Fallowing is the report of the board of direc tors to the fifteenth ordinary yearly meeting of shareholders, to be held at the Company's offices, No. 4, Queen's Buildings, at 12.30 p.m. on Saturday, the 16th inst
Gentlemen, Your directors have the plea sure to submit the accompanying statement of i the company's accounts for the year ending 30th April, 1904.
TELEGRAM
"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
SERVICE
Bengal Opium. (From Our Correspondent.j
CALCUTTA, 5th July. The seventh auction sale of Bengal The balance at credit of profit and loss ac opium realised: 2,000 chests of count is $93,969.77; after deducting directors'
of Patna at Rs. 1,700 per cheat, and fees (13,000), there remains the sum $9,969.77 available for appropriation, and 2,000 chests of Benares at Rs. 1,680 your directors recommend that this be dis-
per
chest. posed of as follows:-
To pay a dividend of 10 per cent:--
Say $1.07 per share on
30,000 fully paid shares $30,000.00 Say 50 cents per share on 30,000 part paid shares
15,000,00
-$45,600,00
To write off plant account for depre-
ciation.....
44,222.11
To carry forward to next account...... 1,747,66
$90,963.77
Mr. Carver having pointed out what he claimed was a discrepancy in the plan, pro- ceeded to say that the land had been acquired by the company in 1859, and bad niways been leased as a wharf. The original intention of
The manager reports that the number of the company had undoubtedly been to use the land at the backto provide for the necessary lamps, fans and motors connected to the com- development of the property consequent on in-pany's supply service on the 1st June was crease in trade. The real questions were what equivalent to upwards of 27,500 lamps of 8 was the value of the land and what damages candle power. 85 arc lamps are maintained were to be given for the taking away of the by the company and 12 electric lifts are being Itonlage and severance in the property and operated by the power service. During the effect which would be caused on other pro year a additional boilers have been laid down perty belonging to the company. He claimed at the company's works, where provision has they were entitled to claim the value of the also been made for the erection during the land as is would be laid out in the most summer of an additional 250 K. W. steam lucrative and advantageous way in which an alternator. It has been found necessary to lay owner could dispose of it. Unfortunately they a duplicate cable, as fat as the junction of had little data to go on, is the owners of land Castle and Robinson Roads, for the lighting round the Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, and service in the upper parts of the City, and this the Sulian of Johore, had refused to part with work will shortly be completed. their land. Counsel held, however, that a statement in Coode, Son, and Matthews' repon of 1901, in which the reporting engineer ex- pressed the opinion that the value of reclaimed land at Telok Ayer under the scheme would be $2.50 per st. ft., could be taken as a guide
as to value in lack of anything better.
His Lordship asked whether this was to be considered a decision as to land values.
Counsel contended that though he admitted this was rather a high estimate his witness would claim the value was at least $1.50 pet
sq. ft. As to the question of severance and in- jurious effect, there was no doubt the frontage was gone. He had to go over two proposed crossings to get his cart on his property but it could be cut away as was being done on the Dock Company lands. To develope the pro-
perty it would be necessary for them to make a new road on his property since his frontage on the public road was gone. He submitted that the question that they must take into consider- ation was the development of the property. He claimed $10,000 for the two level crossing ap- proaches and a foot bridge over the line to enable the manager to come down from his house-the Monastery-to proceed to his work. His Lordship proceeded to direct the asses- sor as to the law in their consideration and wit.
to ensure her sailing on that date The vessel was thoroughly fumigated, and every- [35 thing in readiness for the embarkation of the coolies. Emigrants, however, were not forthcoming; at least they failed to put in an appearance at Yaumati where they are housed prior to admittance to the Lalchi- kok compound. There is no doubt, however, that many are awaiting their opportunity to parade before the doctor; and now that the Viceroy has made known the conditions of the contract and other particulars of labour the population of the camp will. quickly be increased. It appears that some A FRENCH naval officer has inade it possible, ion that the cost of levelling the Monastery Hill
CO.,
廣
17, QUEEN'S ROAD,
DRAWING-ROOM,
DINING-ROOM,,
and BED-ROOM
FURNITURE.
ELECTRO-PLATED,
GLASS, and
CHINA WARES. PASTEUR'S MICROBE-PROOF
FILTERS,
ROCHESTER LAMPS,
WHITE TURKISH TOWELS.
COUNTERPANES.
COOKING RANGES,
FURNITURE delay was also experienced in getting the |s.s. Ichbal away from Taku on the 28th DEALERS.
ult with the first lot of coolies from the North. The Chinese Inspector went so far as to demand a written consent from the family of each man agreeing to his departure. We agree with the and T. Times in characterising this as mere foolish obstructiveness and as annoying to the men as to the agents, it being quite out side the requirements. It cannot be expected that at the start the work of recruiting and embarking men will be carried out without some slight delays consequent upon the misconception and conservatism of Chinese officials, but when affairs have settled into a smooth groove and letters begin to arrive frons Chinese already working in the mines the petty prejudices of local authorities should give way to ready co-operation. A Reuter telegram dated the 20th ult says that-the Chinese coolies at the Rand have started to work underground and the white miners have expressed satisfaction with their performance. Some people may be inter- ested to learn that steps are being taken to carry on missionary work among the China: men. The Church people in South Africa have been asking for the advice of the societies at home, and this has been freely | given, it being now' arranged that a portion of the £7,000 given from the Bicentenary Fund of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel for the mission work on the
KITCHEN UTENSILS, and
HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES. PHOTOGRAPHIC DEPARTMENT. DEVELOPIN and PRINTING
UNDER. KEN for AMATEURS.
GOOD WORK.
PROMPT RETURN. Hongkong, 8th January, 1904
E. C. WILKS & Co.,
PINE SURVEYORS,
ENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS,
TONS and Damages Surveyed. Salvage Work undertaken.
Ship Designs and Specifications prepared. Agents for the Construction and Sale of Steam
and Motor Launches.
Contract for New Tonnage on reasonable terms
with First-class Builders.
| Rand shall be devoted to this object.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A large stock of Canadian Asbestos and We have to acknowledge, with thanks, the receipt of the June number of The Yellow Asbestocel goods kept.
•
Agents for Messrs. Allen & Sons Electrical Dragon.
Plant and Centrifugal Pumps.
THERE were three cases of plague in the Telephone-No. 358. Colony during the last twenty-four hours, two of them terminating fatally. All the sufferers
Telegram Address: MARINEWORK.".
steamed was 12,699 miles from Hongkong, at an average speed of 12.07 koots. The last run of 2,900 miles, from Madeira to New York, was made at an average speed of 13.8 knots. The whole distance was made under natural draft The Kentucky has been in commission a little more than four years, and her first run was out to the China station. She has been the flag-ness for the claimants were called, ship of the squadron for three years and has flown the flag of Rear-Admiral Evans for more than two years. She left Manila on March 13th, docked at Hongkong on March 15th and sailed for home on March 29th.
with certain changes in the fire boxes, to
burn a fuel in the form of peiroleum briquettes, which gives off no smoke. The officer claims his invention will give fuel of which one pound is equivalent to four pounds of coal. The briquettes are made by adding to petroleum oil, for each litre, 150 grammes of ground foap, 150 grammes of resin and 300 grammes of caustic soda lye. This mixture is first heated and stirred until near solidification, when it is poured into moulds, which in turn are then placed in an oven for ten or filteen minutes, and he briquettes are ready for use after coofing a few hours. Greater solidity inay be obtained by the addition of a small quantity of sawdust and a little clay or sand.
SECOND DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. The Attorney-General opened the defence and called evidence to disprove the plaintiffs' contention as to the value and possible im provement of the land., In the course of ex mination Mr. Tomlinson expressed the opin-
on Jardine's land would be at 50 cents a cubic yard, about $100,000 to $125,000 roughly.
Mr. Lloyd in giving evidence said that he considered this land of exceptional value owing to its wide front and proximity to the wharves. He thought it would readily fetch 51.50 to $2 per foot and he believed that peo ple would willingly cart the hill away free. Under cross-examination he thought the canh would be pretty quickly removed.
Directors. Mr. T. H. Medhurst and Hon: C. W. Dickson having resigned their seats on their departure from the Colony, Messrs. E. S. Whealler and W. J. Gresson were invited to fill the vacancies on the Board, and these appoint- ments require confirmation. In accordance
with the articles of association, Hon. Sir C. P. Chater, Kt., C.M.S., and Hon, W. J. Gresson relire, but, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election.
Auditors. The accounts have been audited
by the Hon. Gershom Stewart and Mr. C. W. May, who offer themselves for re-election,
A. G. WOOD,
Chairman,
Hongkong, 30th June, 1914.
STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS TO APRIL 30TH, 1974. Liabilities.
Capital:~,
30,000 shares each $10
paid up...........$300,000.00 30,000 abares each 55
paid up... 150,000.00 Sundry creditors .... Dividends unclaimed Balance of profit and loss account... Suspense account......
Assets. Plant, cost of, as per last
account Less amount provided for
depreciation
Cost of plant, since added Property, cost of land and
buildings as per last" account
Cast of buildings since
added...
Stock of Stores and coal, stock of Tools, &c., stock of Furniture, cost of as per last account__....... Less amount provided for
depreciation
Installation material,
QUORUNDA
The Attorney-General briefly addressed the Court calling attention to the difficulty his
·added ................... client, the Land Collector, was in in case of Cost of furniture since this sert, where no information was given him and a large claim made. He thought there
insurance, value of un- was little need for him to refer to the estimate
expired portions of of Mathews regarding the Teluk Blangah
policies AN interesting plan of Lhassa and its environs reclamation, because in any case it would be Sundry debtors.......... Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, cash with...... bas been compiled from Tibetan sources by vastly different to the present land. Regard Cash with agents....... Col. Waddell, I. M. S. It shows that the city ing the severance he thought a good deal of is of considerable size, being some three miles severance had already been caused by the con.. long by two miles broad, and situated on the struction of the road. This road caused a very river Kyi, with marshes on two sides. It con- serious severance if the land was considered as as a great cathedral, the palaces of the wharfage godown land, and the railway would Lamas, the Chinese residency, a taco. course, not cause such a great severance, therefore as parade grounds, a bazaar and numerous plea. if the roadway did not exist. He contended sure grounds. There is also a great walled that in all these cases the value of land, away square known as the Eastern Willow Grove, from the possibility of being wharves, was which is referred to as the Royal Pasturage nothing like the value of the land close to the and Dancing Ground. There is a medical water. college, and a cemetery, which, a note states,
There are a number of other cases to be
A REMARKABLE WRECKER,
The Odessa Listok tells the story of the criminal career and tragic end of a signalman on the South-Eastern Railway of Russia. Peter Krinitsky, a trusted signalman on a lonely section of the line between Falavo atid Kozhansk, had several times saved expresses from disaster by stopping them from running upon obstructions, at the risk of his own life. On several occasions, however, in spite of Krinitsky's warnings trains were wrecked and A few weeks ago yet human lives lost. another train was stopped by the signaluian in the nick of time, chairs having been fixed across the rails by some miscreant. The grateful passengers subscribed forty roubles for their deliverer. The officials, however, this time suspected Krinitsky, an, under examina- tion, he admitted having made a practice of obstructing the line in order,to gain credit and rewards for saving trains from accident. Im- prisoned for the night in a but, Krinitsky escaped and threw himself upon the line, where he was decapitated by the Odessa-Kieff express. A gold watch, inscribed "To my
brave saviour, K.P.," was found upon his per- son.
"HONOURABLE” EDWARD VII, AND THE PREFIX
"King Edward has decided that every mem ber of the First Parliament of Australia shall hold and enjoy the title of Honourable' for life. His Majesty bas overruled the strenuous opposition of the Colonial Department in the maller. Commenting on the last sentence of this announcement, made by the Hon. Alfred Deakin, Premier of the Commonwealth of Australia, ou his retirement from office the other day, a writer in the N, Y. Tribune
says:-
Doubts have often been expressed as to whether the present English monarch really took so active and, above all, so dominating a role in the administration of the government as has been alleged in these letters, and it has been. urged that Edward VII, as a constitu- tional monarch, was restricted merely to giving his royal sancti.n to the decisions of his Ministers and of the Cabinet in London.
-$150,000.00 4.484.co 6,225.31
Now, however, we have the word, publicly 1757.29 given, of the Prime Minister of the great Com. 93,969-77 monwealth of Australia that in one matter, at any rate, the King has declined to be guided $556,430 37
by the advice of the Colonial Secretary of State in London, that is to say, of the Cabinet, and has, io defiance of the wishes and "strenuous opposition" of both one and the other, conferred an honour upon a number of his Australian subjects.
$334,741
34.741.11
$300,000,00 49,222.11
82,211.97
275.00
In America legislative office confers: ipso -$349,122,1'1 | facto the prefix of "honourable" and is accord- ed as a matter of courtesy to the person in question for the remainder of his life. In the British Empire, however, it, is an official title which belongs as a matter of inherited right to the younger sons of earls, and to all the children of peers of the rank of viscount and baron, as well as to all the children of life peers, with 13,733-77 this proviso, that the wife of the son of a peer
573.00
473.00
100.10
203 85
WORKING ACCOUNT.
Dr..
$ 82,486.97
72,074.71
1,039.00
does not share his right to the prefix of "hoa- ourable." Thus the wife of the Hon. George Keppel, youngest son of the Earl of Albemarle, is not the Hon. Mrs. George Keppel, although she is frequently described as such in the English newspapers, but plain "Mrs. Keppel" The prefix of honourable also pertains to 302.85 members of Parliament not in England, but in the Colonies, as well as to members of the 1,300.00 Colonial Executive and Legislative Councils, 17,613 83 so long as they are in office as such, lapsing, 9,607.97 however, from the moment that they leave office, unless it is accorded to them for life by 10045.16
virtue of a special decree or patent by the $556,436.37 monarch, as in the case of all the members of the First Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia.
To Agency and office expenses.$ 6,co0.00
Rent and taxes, .............
11
92
Insurance...+ATURATZA
12
Interestin
##
Auditors' fees „...............
3
Bad debis......
Amount carried to profit and
less account
is infected by dogs, pig styes and slaughter dealt with the land concerned being some of houses, Numerous irrigation' canals intersect the P. & O. Company's, Tas Kung Seah's, the city, and there are a great many bridges; land the Upper Telok Blangah and Pasir Pan.
Scrip and transfer, fees, but no jong or other fortification is shown and jang, at the junction of Arab Street and Victoria By net profit on working... the place appears to be without walls for Street, and another piece at Pasir Panjang.~~ defence
S. F. Press
AFTER SEVEray of continuous experiment. ing the Admiralty have hit uppaa method, which they are confident will en satisfactorily, of fitting small craft for the con sumption of liquid fuel only. But one ship, the destroyer Spiteful, has so far had her fur naces reconstructed for oil consumption, but other vessels are to undergo a like metamor phosis. Had it not been for the outbreak of the war in the Far East, two battleships would by this time have-been fitted for. oil fuel. Probably this work will be done within the next few months. One great advantage of liquid fuel is that it economises men to a remarkable degree. Its adoption in a des troyer means decreasing by ten or more the number of stokers required for the vessel, and in larger abips the value of this economy needs little demonstrating. It enables a larger reserva to be carried for guns' crews.
PROPOSED CANTON-MACAO
RAILWAY,
11.
$345.76
·3,043.06
202.94
THE WEATHER..
The following report is from Mr. J. 1. Plum mer, Chief Assistant of the Hongkong Obser 853.52 vatory:
20000
On the 5th at 11.45 am. The barometer 90516.77 has fallen at nearly all stations but more
$106,162 05 particularly in the neighbourhood of the Misco
Sima Group. $106,130.05
The depression mentioned as eastward of 432,95 Formosa yesterday is a typhoon moving. $106,162.0
FROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT. Dr. UV
last account ...balance of work
down,
$93,969.77
Acking iniic states that a Portuguese To amount available for appropriation$93,969,77 gentleman is now that trying to get the permission of the Shangpu anaalipu to construct a railway between Macao and Can ton. It seems that this gentleman first weat to Shanghai and approached UI,E. Sheng Kung- pao with the object of making the proposed rail- way a private one, and a modus vivendi had been settled upon when, it is reported, H.E. Viceroy Tiên Ch'ua.hsten of Canton wrote lo .E. Sheng Kang-pao asking the latter to
We have compared the accounts. delay signing any agreement concerning the railway. The Portuguese gentleman, there-books and vouchers at the office of the company, and find the above statement to be in accord fore, wearied with the delay, in getting things ance therewith our
G.. STEWART, CW MAY seed in Shanghai, went to Peking to work his
«Hongkong, 28th June, 190452, to me officially through the Boards of Com
e and Foreign Affairs."!-
G1BD, LIVINGST
Agents,
apparently to the NNE. Moderate SW. winds will prevail in the Formosa Chaunel and light" SE. winds in the northern part of the China Sea.
Forecast-Light E. winds, fine.
SHIPPING AND MAILS.
MAILS DUE.
Ger an (Stydiitr) 6th inst. "Indian (Lightning) 6th inst. American (Sidería) 7th just, Indian (Kumiang) 12th just, Frach (Oceanien) inb inst.. Autralian (Tsinan) 13th inst. Cadian (Tartar) 19th Inst.
O. S. Ni Co.:15. Borneo left or this port on 4th inst, at 10 am. "Co's ss. Oceanite with the next apore at noon to-day, for