Entimations.
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK,
COMPANY, LIMITED...
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE ORDINARY
HALF-YEARLY
MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held in the Offices of the Company, Queen's Buildings, Connaught Road, on MONDAY, the 22nd August, at 12 o'clock, Noon, for the purpose of receiving the report of the Directors and the Statement of Accounts to the 30th June, 1004.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1904.
Intimations.
· REMOVAL" OF THE ARTIFICIAL- OBSTRUCTIONS IN THE
CANTON RIVER.
ON BEHALF OF THE KWINGTU*
PROVINCIAL AUTHORITIES.
FFERS in connexion with the REMOVAL
of the BARRIERS in the CANTON RIVER, as specified hereinunder, are hereby invited by the Undersigned
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company-To remove sunken stones to the following will he CLOSED from the 8th to the 22nd August, both days mclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors
THOS. I. ROSE,
Secretary,
Hongkong, 29th July, 1902.
HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE
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ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Company's Hotel, on SATUR- DAY, the 27th August, 1994, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts of the Company to the 30th June, 1904, with the Report of the Directors, and to discuss any matter that may be competently brought before the meeting.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company. will be CLOSED from the 21st to the 27th August, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
C. MOONEY,
Secretary.
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Hongkong, 17th August. Font THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF
AND GODOWN CO., LD. TOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA- MEETING of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, will be held at Messrs. Jardine. Matheson & Co.'s Offices, Pedder Street, Victoria, Hongkong, on WED- NESDAY, the 31st day of August, 1904, at 12.15 o'clock in the afternoon, when the sub. joined Resolutions will be proposed.
Should the said Resolutions be passed by the required majority they will be submitted for confirmation as special Resolutions to a second Extraordinary meeting, which will be subse quently convened,
1. That the Capital of the Company be in
creased from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 by the creation of 10,000 new shares of $50 each.
2. That such new shares be issued at a pre- mium of $30 per share and be offered to those persons who are registered as Share- holders of the Company on 1st October, 1904, in the proportion of one new share for every complete three shares held by them on 1st October, 1904.
3. That the amount due for the new shares be called up on 31st December, 1904,
Dated the 15th August, 1904.
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By Order of the Board,
EDWARD OSBORNE,
Secretary.
A. S. WATSON &-CO., LIMITED. ISSUE OF 30,000 NEW SHAREY OF STO EACH.
PURSUANT to Resolution the General of A. 8. WATSON & Company, Limited, hereby invite applications from the Shareholders of the Company for the issue of 30,000 new shares of $10 each at a Premium of to per ceal, or $1 a share.
Each Kegistered Shareholder on the 18th day of September, 104, applying for the New Issue will be entitled to one share for every two shares registered in his game. Shares not applied for by those entitled to apply will be dealt with by the General Managers in accordance with Article 40 of the Company's Articles of Association.
Applications for Shares in the New Issue will
estimated amounts:
2,500 cubic yards to a maximum depth of 16 feet at Low Water Spring Tides (Customs' Datum), 3,000 cubic yards to a maximum depth
of iz feet. 1,000 cubic yards to a maximum depth
of 8 feet.
The removed stone to be the property
of the Contractor.
It is believed that the stones consist chiefly of granite and that they vary in size up to 5 cubic feet. The offer should be made in respect to granite and to "other stone", and at so much a cubic yard. The stone recovere will be measured in the boats, and the propor tion of granite to other stone ascertained by a method to be mutually agreed
upon.
The offer should state the minimum number of divers to be employed and the months during which the work will proceed. 2-To remove piles from the Cambridge (YU CHU) and Whampoa (LI TAK) Barriers, the piles to be the property of the Contractor,
CANTON-HANKOW RAILWAY.
hat they knew the 'modern and occidental method of treating the difficulty.
diag of the strikers demanded a rise of 25
among its employees. About a month after the settlement of this Celestial strike an order came from the Imperial Government at Peking to the railway company to discharge the foreman in command of Quapo camp because of his maltreatment of natives. As the railway will eventually be turned over to the Government, the Government has some control over its af fairs, and the company was forced to dismiss the foreman. Besides this an order was issued was supposed to irritate the Chinese. The forbidding foreigners to carry revolvers, as this Chinese Government did not stop to consider that it would be considerably more irritating in the long run to have a lot of foreigners quietly made away with a thing which would most certainly have happened had they not carried arms. Each white man was also forced to sign. an agreement not to strike or in any way offend a Chinese. But this was too much: The for eigners took their turn at a strike and lost.
The road is said to be making but slow pro- and the difficulties with the coolies and with a Government semi-interested and semi-hostila are perennial. The fight is not only against nature. Ex.
Intimations.
THE BRIGHT SIDE of life. It is a fealing common to the majority of us that we do not get quite the amount of happiness we are entitled to. Among the count- less things which tend to make us more or less miserable ill health takes first place. Hannah Mors said that so was generally to be attri- buted to biliousness. No doubt a crippled liver with the resulting impure blood, is the cause of more mental gloom than any other single thing. And who can reckon up the fearful aggregate of pain, loss and fear arising from the many ailments and diseases which are familiar to mankind; like a vast cloud it hangs over a multitude no one can number. You can see these people every.
Americans opening the great West with the On the morning of September 12th all went railroad had an easy time of it compared with to work as usual. Everything went well until to o'clock. Then as one man the coolies the difficulties encountered by an American walked, dropping their tools, which consisted company in the construction of a mers 1000 of bamboo baskets swung on stout bamboo miles of railway in Southern China. The poles. The poles they retained, however. climate of a country in which cholera and the poles, like the single stick, become, on bubonic plague are perennial, the stupidity of occasion, very dangerous weapons. On being the reolies who fa all the manual labour on the asked the cause of this disturbance, the spokes- road under the supervision of white foremen, cents a day "Mex," to go into effect imme: and the general attitude of hostility on the part diately. The foreman in charge informed him of the natives, pile up against the undertaking that he himself could not grant their request, but that he would notify headquarters. This with all the force of the countless miles and reply they received with cries of Mopin kai the tremendous mountains and canyons of the tail etc. (kill the bald-headed foreign devils), West. In addition to these inevitable evils were and, to suit the action to the word, made a some unforeseen labour agitations not without sudden attack on the foreman. All the Ameri- cans tried to retreat to the toolhouse, as a their aspect of humour when viewed in the guard of ten saldiers was stationed there.
These soldiers, seeing what was happening, did gress now. More riots have occurred since where. For them life can scarcely be said to not venture outside of the toolbouse, but started to barricade the doors. Luckily all the foremen but one carried revolvers. With the exception of one man all the Americans got safely inside the toolhouse. The man who failed was so far away when the riot started that he was easily cut off. He had no revolver, but disarmed a Chinese soldier who stood close by guarding some tools, and jumped on a pile of lumber, where he stood, surrounded by yel- ling coolies and vainly trying to di charge his riffe. It was found later that all the powder had been taken out of the cartridges.
Abstract.
The ease with which the natives could be intimidated and the drastic discipline which could be enforced in accordance with Chinese ethics offset some of these difficulties, but at its best railronding China, with the natural obstructions and the political undercurrents involved, is a tremendous undertaking. Emil Bauer, who was employed on the railroad and who is now in San Francisco, gives some interesting particulars,
The foreman in charge, teeing the danger of this fellow, tried to persuade the officer in command of the native company to make a sortin, but this he absolutely refused to
his sympathies being more with his rymen than with the foreigners. So, bestowing a few uncomplimentary remarks upon the officer, the foreman asked for vol- unteers to go with him, and all the white men
The American Development Company, un- der the management of Captain Meade, started work on the Canton-Hankow Railway in January, 1903. This line is to connect Canton with Hankow, on the Yang-xe-Kiang, a dis- tance of about 1000 miles In Hankow the road joins the Hankow-Peking Railway, which is being built by the Belgians, but which, Offers for the removal of stones and according to rumour, is under the influence of sallied out. The first man they met after open- piles, as above, are required at once. 3-To remove entirely the wooden Bridge Russia. Probably the rumour is well found, foring the door was the agitator, who was prompt
ly dispatched into eternity. The rioters, after (SHA LO MUK) Barrier, including all should Russian ever gain possession of Peking, seeing their leader fall, ran back and began to outlying piles which are visible above low
at which she is aiming, this line would allow stone their quondam basses from a distance. water. The whole of the material con sisting of piles, timber, bolts, etc. to be the her to menace England in the Yang-ize valley. The object of the sortie was attained, however, In July, 1903, the main line had not yet been and the American rescued, but not before he property of the Contractor. The offer
had been severely handled. At the same time should state a period for the completion started, but work was in progress on a branch of the work,
connecting Canton with Fatshan, a city of the rest of the company of Chinese soldiers came up to the support of the detachment at about 250,000 inhabitants, on the West river, the toolhouse and quiet was restored. twenty-five miles north of Canton and closed to foreigners. The West river is considered so unsafe on account of pirates that Chinese gun- boats are afraid to ascend during the night.
4.-To remove a portion of the central section of the Iron (SHA LO TIH) Barrier as follows:-
The 24 single screw pilas and con- necting girders of its northern end, and the adjoining 41 groups of triple screw piles-hese piles to be entirely removed and (with all chains, bolts, girders, plates and other gear belonging to the struc- ture) landed and stowed on the adjacent shore at the Sha Lo Fort Jetty.
The speedy performance of this work is specially desirable, and the period within which the work is undertaken to be completed will be an important factor in accepting an offer.
Offers for the removal of the Iron and Bridge Barriers as above will be received until the roth September. Prospective tenderers of offers are free to examine the barriers by divers, etc.
The headquarters of the company was at Wong-Sha, on the outskirts of Canton. The track had been laid for a distance of four miles. to a place called Chit-Wai-Tong, where the construction department had its headquarters. Grading was in progress nearly to Fatshan, The company's experiences in the construction of this branch line were typical of conditions of railroading in Southern China.
WORKERS LIVE IN BOATS.
At the camp at Quapo, two miles from Fat. shan, seven Americans and about 1600 coolies
ENTER VICEROY AND GUNBOATS
Work was stopped for the day, however, and, leaving the grade heavily guarded, the foremen went to houseboats to attend to their bruises, Id the afternoon word was received from head. quarters to resume work the next morning under the same pay. The Viceroy in Canton had promised to send a hundred men of his bodyguard to their support, and the American Consul, when notified of the trouble, held a gunboat ready for emergencies. A German gunboat also visited the camp during the after- Roon, but left after learning that there were no German subjects involved,
During the night following the strikers made an attempt to burn the houseboats, but, as sentries were on guard and everybody on the alert, their plans were frustrated.
The next morning all the white men went
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Do. demand............ Shanghai Bank T.T. Japan-Bank C.T. Singapore-Bank T.T... Java-Bank T.T.
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have any "hright side at all. Hence the eagerness with which they search for relief and cure. Remedies like
WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION have not attained their high position in the confidence of the people by bald assertions and boasting advertisements. They are obliged to win it by doing actually what is claimed for them. That this remedy deserves its reputation is conceded. It is palatable as honey and contains the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil, combined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry. Nothing has such a record of success in Scrofula, ...89 Anemia, Throat and Lung Troubles, and Nominal emaciating complaints and disorders, that tend 109 to undermine the foundations of strength and
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vigour. Its use helps to show life's brighter side. Dr. H. L. Reddy, B. A., M. D., L. R. C.
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Auctions.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,
CONDITIONS of
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WANTED.
I
SITUATION as GENERAL ASSIST. AANT in a Mercantile Firm Advertiser has knowledge of BOOK-KEEPING and TYPE
First-class testimonials. Apply to-
WRITING.
"X"
Clo Hongkong Telegraph.
(914 Hongkong, 6th August, 1904.
WANTED.
live satisfactory band for the due performance were at work. All the workers were living in up to the works as usual, except that they PARTICULARS ANC Cuction Sale, to be
house boats, anchored close to the shore, carried more ammunition. On the way up held on MONDAY, the 2nd day of August, A CLUB Applicants should send in, as
of undertaken work will be required.
Offers in reply to this advertisement, and correspondence on the subject should b addressed to the Barrier Office, Custom House, Canton,
L
made hereunder is hereby expressly reserved.
R. DE LUCA. Acting Commissioner of Customs. Custom House, Canton, 17th August, 1904.
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an occasional shower of stones greeted the so that nfl there was to do when camp was
men, but this did not count as the assailants to be moved was to tow them up the stream. remained at a safe distance while discharging Grading was the work at this camp, and the them. At the toolhouse they found about five The right of accepting or rejecting any offer difficulties of the work began with the material hundred coolies of a mountain tribe despised
furnished for the grade.
It was mud-plain by the Cantonese ready to work under the old conditions. Trying to intimidate and if neces mud-from the rice paddies. These rice pad-sary to stop thein by force, there were assembled dies were considerably below water level, so some twenty-five hundred Cantonese coolies pumps had to be kept going day and night to and inhabitants of Fatshan. These took their keep the diggings dry. The grade, which was stand about 800 fest from the toolhouse and twenty-five feet high in some places, built of threatened to kill every coolle going to work for the company. As they had some rifles and nothing but mud, naturally lacked stability. It other arms, matters looked serious. A runner kept spreading out and caving in till the was sent immediately to the next camp, about company was forced to the conclusion that a six miles away, to ask for re-inforcemanis. railroad bed could not satisfactorily consist of mud alone.
IMPORTANT
NOTICE.
FRESH ARRIVALS.
BY GIVING A VERY LARGE ORDER,
WE HAVE SECURED THE
be received by the Hongkong and Shanghai CO-OPERATION stock of which is imported from the United
Banking Corporation in Hongkong from the 28th September, 1904, to the 30th September, 1004, both days inclusive, and the whole amount of Sit per share will be payable on application,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 28th September, 1904, to the 8th October, 1904, both days inclusive.
The present paid-up Capital of the Company is $600,000, divided into 60,000 shares of $to each, and the New Issue is required to increase the Capital of the Company to $900,000 divided into 90,000 shares of io each.
The whole of the premium received from the New Issue will be placed to the Credit of the Permanent Reserve Fund.
OF THE MAKERS OF THE
"APOLLO
Then there was the difficulty of transmitting orders to the workmen. Each foreman had under hissupervision from eight to ten gangsofcoolies, at work on the double track line, the rolling
States and the rails from Belgium. Each gang consisted to twenty-four coolies and one head coolie, who usually knew something of the work. One interpreter was assigned to each foreman, but unless the interpreter knew several dialects he was practically useless. China has several hundred dialects and very often the people on one side of a river cannel understand the people
of communication is that a stout bamboo and a few easily learned swear words do more good than any number of interpreters. The Chinese coolie, unless he is paid by the piece, is lazy and needs constant driving.
NATIVES WERE HOSTILE.
MASTER on the other side. The result of this difficulty PLAYERS"
The New issue will rank for Dividend for the IN LOWERING THEIR PRICES, AND
three months ending 31st December, 1904, pay- able in May, 1905.
Forms of application for the New Issue can be obtained at the Company's Offices in Alex- andra Buildings or at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hongkong, Shanghai, and London.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. Hongkong, 22nd June, 1904.
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THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE
"HE DIVIDEND at the rate of 10 per Cent or $1.50 per Share, declared at the Ordi. nary Half-yearly Meeting of Shareholders, heid this day, will be Payable at the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, on and after WEDNESDAY, the 17th August, 1904
SHAREHOLDERS are requested to apply to the Office of the Company for WARRANTS,
By Order of the Board of Directors,
T. ARNOLD,
Secretary, Hongkong, 16th August, 1964. CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY,
LIMITED.
NOTICE.
1934
WE NOW OFFER THEM FROM
$365 to $850.
NEW
CONSIGNMENT
JUST ARRIVED
PER 5.S. "EMPRESS OF CHINA."
1994, at 3P.M., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of One lot of CROWN LAND at Lai Chi Kok in the New Territory of Hong- kong, for a term of 75 years, from sih April, 1904, with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for the rest of the term of lease from China or for one further term of 75 years if competent "for the Government so to make it.
No. of Sale.
Registry No.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Boundary Measurements,
LOCALITV
Lai Chi Kok
K. 1.
W
fc. ft. Sh
13.
=† Aamal Rast.
→ Upset Price.
51453
Meanwhile the foreman in charge requested the officer of the Chinese guard to disperse the mob. This he declared impossible. The situa tion was growing worse and worse. Something had to be done and done at once. The rioters were gaining constant re-enforcements from the town, and if they should come to the con- clusion that the foreigners were afraid of them they would certainly rush the toolhouse and exterminate them by the force of numbers. So the foreman again asked for volunteers. All the Americans, four interpreters, two soldiers, and five mountaineers, responded to the call. Arming the interpreters and mountaineers with weapons taken from the cowardly soldiers, the foreman. led his forlors hope against the how. THE Undersigned has received instructions ling mob. As roon as they left the shelter of the toolhouse they were met with a wild yell and a few stray shots. Without firing a shot in return the little squad advanced steadily against the rioters. Suddenly the bowling ceased
Hongkong, 13th August, 1904.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION;
ON WEDNESDAY,
at his SALES ROOMS, DUDDELL STREET,
A COLLECTION of
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Comprising: JAPANESE CURIOS and SILVERWARE,
SECRETARY FOR THE SINGAPORE
soon as possible, particulars of their previous employment with copies of Testimonials to the Chairman of the Committee, Mr. E. C. ELLIS, 10, Collyer Quay, Singapore, from whom all particulars can be obtained.
A. G. HILLS,
17th August, 1904.
Secretary,
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THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.
MAR
BARRETTO & Co., General Agents, Hongkong.
HOCKS AND MOSELLES.
Per Case. Per Case.
1 doz. qts, a doz. pts. Rudesheimer 1900... $17.00 $19.00
18.00 Uerziger 1900........ Rudesheimer Engerweg 18.00
1897 .................... » 2 SWORD
Johannisberger 1897 Zellingerburg 1900.........
and the mob etared in open-mouthed wonder as the 24th August, 1934, commencing at 230 P.M., the little band came closer and closer. They probably thought that the foreigners were endowed with some supernatural power that made them bullet-proof. At any rate, as soon as they came within speaking distance the The coolie camp has to be pretty thoroughly strikers and their sympathizers started back to policed for a variety of reasons. The Chinese town on a run. Those who remained showed
no more hostility and were at once informed FINE OLD SATSUMA JAR, very fine IMARI PLATES, IMARI PORCELAIN, Government furnished the company with through the interpreters that if the riots did no soldiers for the protection of the foreigners. cease work would be dropped altogether. This OLD NETSUKIS, INLAID
was a serious matter to the Chinese, most of GUARDS. These soldiers were paid by the company at
FINELY CARVED whom lead a hand-to-mouth existence at best. the rate of $8 a month "Mex," or $4. At Quapo They asked for time to think it over. This a company of fifty men was stationed, as the
was at once granted, and they were also in- population in the neighbourhood was very hostile formed that work would be resumed next to foreigners and opposed to the railroad, which morning under the old conditions. Gradually they believed a source of disturbance to their the Chinese dispersed and the situation assumed air and water deities, and so the cause of bad a brighter outlook, luck,
Besides this the country is dotted with little grave mounds, and many of these lay in the line of the railroad and had to be levelled. This invariably precipitated a riot, and then some body got hurt. The soldiers were armed with antiquated rifles, some of which bad not been cleaned for yours, and cheap pistols. More important than firearms in the equipment of A PIANO the Chinese soldier are umbrella and fan. Armed with rifle and umbrella, they do sentry CASH OR duty, and if it comes to a headlong fight and they are experts at sprinting-they discard the rifle, but elfag to the umbrella.
WE WILL SUPPLY AN UPRIGHT
IRON GRAND AND FLAYER;FOR $825.
CREDIT TERMS,
These Players have been tested in Hongkong for 6 years (at Peak included) without a
IN accordance with the Provisions of No, 121 Cingle Failure, which can be said of no other
of the Articles Association, the General
Agents have this day declared an INTERIM Player. DIVIDEND of FIVE PER CENT, for the balf
year ending 30th June, 1904, on the Paid-up Capital.
-
DIVIDEND WARRANTS payable on MONDAY, the 29th August, will be issued to
Shareholders on application.
THE
Work progressed quite nicely under these conditions till the middle of September. Then a new factor appeared on the scene in the per- son of a genuine labour agitator.
In the afternoon 125 men of the Viceroy's bodyguard arrived. These soldiers, who are called the "Redcoats," were armed with mo dorn rifles and were of a better type than the company's regular guard. They brought with them a magistrate and an executioner.
During the afternoon word was received that riots bad occurred all along the line, in some places even more serious than that! at Quapo. In Chit-a-hoi all the company's storehouses and houseboats were destroyed sad the men lost all their belongings. In Chit-Wai-Toug the track was torn up and the locomotives derailed. Several men were wounded and others were badly bruised. But with the help of the Viceroy's soldiers quiet was restored all along the fine by evening
LEADERS ARE beheaded.
CABINETS (Red lacquer and Gold inlaid), LACQUERED PANELS, RED LACQUERED STANDS EMBROIDERED and BOXES, SILK SCREENS, BROCADED PURSES, & &c. &c.
AND
A Few Specimens of JAPANESE SILVERWARE.
On view from TURIDAY, the 23rd August. Catalogues will be issued. TERMS-Cash on delivery.
St. George
Cru Wynbren............................... CSteB
70.00
20,00
22.00 24.00
24.00 26.00
CLARETS.
Per Case.
I doz qt.
$4.00
4.50
5.00
5.50
6.00
6.00
6.50
7.50
Montferrand........................................................GYAKA
Medoc............................................................
St. Emilion....concate
St. Estephe......Tieden
St. Julien....A LUAS TOES AN
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GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer. Hongkong, 19th August, 1904,
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE
SPANISH CLARET.
THE Undersigned have received instruc- Bouled by La Compania Vinicola del Norte
de España, Bilbao,
tions-to Sall by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,
on WEDNESDAY,
the 24th August, 1904, at 3 P.5, at their
Sales Rooms, No. 8, Des Voeux Road, (Corner of Ice House Street),
"HOICHING,"
Under the protection of a detachment of the Redcoats the next moming the foreman went to the works, where a big force of coolies were The coalies received 40 cents a day “Mex," assembled, willing to go to work. The know- a stipend considered good in China. The pay ledge that the executioner had arrived had of an init te hace, but with overtime caused them to quiet down. Each foreman THE British Screw Steamer "Max" month to $200, had a special guard of two soldiers detailed to they easily averaged the latter sum. Besides follow all his steps. At the slightest sign of this the company allowed each man 560 month Mex for rations-a very liberal malice the offender was arrested and brought before the magistrate, who invariably sentenced amount, indeed, considering the cheapness of him to blows ranging in number from to to 500, the living.
or to the cangue, a big, beavy, wooden collar, Btted around the neck and worn sometimes for two weeks without relief, During the morning, leaders of the riot were arrested, brought up for trial and promptly beheaded,
AGITATOR BRINGS TROUBLE.
TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company ROBINSON PIANO and work Chinese who had been in the with the help of some friendly natives, the ring-
will be CLOSED from 16th to 29th instant,
both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, General Agents.
>
Co.. Ld.
Hongkong, 9th August, 1904.
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Hongkong, 3rd August, 1904,
All hands worked away in apparent contes & United States. This traveller started telling stories to the coolies about the wages pald for, similar work in America. Thay very soon came to the conclusion that they were under officialdom took a band in the matter, to the [39 paid. And then they proceeded to demonstrate | detriment of the company's efforts at discipline
As if these labour troubles were not enough
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She has a Government Licence to carry 400 Passengers, TERMS AI usual,
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For Further Particulars, apply to...
HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers, Hongkong, 4th August, 1904,
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Per Case. I dox, qt,
Rioja Clarete....munamorano $12,00
J
APANESE
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BEER,
"KABUTO" BRAND.
Per Case 4 doz. gile monimu $10.50
8 doz, pis, more $12.00
IRANO.
WA TEB,
"PEACOCK* Brand,
Per Case 4 dox pts. num.$5.50
Hongkong, 5th August, 1904.