TELEGRAMS.
[Reuter's]
The Biots in Warsaw.
Lonnay, and Mny.
The Warsaw disturbances were renewed in the suburb of Praga last night; the Hussars fired, killing four and wounding many. At a bomb was thrown into a military
*9.45 pm.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY MAY
NEW HONGKONG IN-
DUSTRY.
FLOUR MILL TO BE ERECTED,
THE PROPOSALS OF. THE HONGKONG
MILLING COMPA›Y/
Under the title of the Pongkorg Milling Company, Limited, a new business which pro mises to become one of the leading and most
been fluated by a number of well-known
succulent sow need fear no lack in Hongkong, ni least 6,
THE PIG RANGH
THE SULLY A
COFFERDAM READY,
1905.
COMMERCIAL
RAUB CRUSHING heeyft of work for four weeks ending sand
Bakit Koman. Stone crushed 3,500 tons,
The cofferdam, built for the salvage opera, ions on the French cruiser Sally, has been | April completed, with the exception of a faw minor finishing details. It is expected gold obtained sér oz, average per ton 3.10 the launching will take place on Saturday wis
Bukit Malacca-Stone crushed 2,196 tons, morning, after which ate will be towed to the
put into goll obtained 146 oz, average per toms 1.34 stranded cruiser, and immediately put position for the work it is sanguinely expected dais. she will be enabled to perform. We under
the speed and satisfactory manner in which this big job has been put through, and great credit is due to the dock people in achieving the completion of such a work in so short time.
patrol in the chief street, and the troops fired prosperous industries in the Colony, has just the week is compelled, by circumstances over stand that all concerned are highly pleased with Business reported:-Indo-Chinas ut - Tis, 91.
three volleys; the bomb killed two Cossacks and a policeman, and wounded two ladies many were killed and wounded by the vol leys, but the number is not ascertainable, as the tramps immediately surrounded the whole district,
Later.
WOMEN AND CHILDREY C UNDED,
Reuter's correspondent in Warsaw wires that, in the fighting of yesterday, the troops not only fired but used the butts of rifles, bayonets and swords, breaking the heads and limbs of women and children and, in 'flicting terrible injuries.
commercial men in Hongkong. In the past, Hongkong, like South China Renerally, bas been coment to free va lis supplies of flour from American soulces, and until of late years the idea of opening a fi ur factory in the Colony to meet the wants of the people in this part of the world, does not seem to have received much attention. But about six years ago, the attention of Mr. A. H. Rennie directed to the possibilities of a flour factory and, after considering the matter from all pints of view, the subject of his thoughts has now arrived at fruition, and the Hongkong Milling Company, Limited, is the result."
THE DIRECT RS.
The Company will, according to the articles of association, have a capital of 51,cco,oco, and should the occasion arise that amount The troops in Kalisini in Poland entered may be increased. The directors are to be Mr. A. H. Rennie, managing director; a church where a congregation was singing Sir aul Chater, Mess, A. J. Raymond, H. patriotic songs, and a fight ensued, a num.N. Mody, and H. J. Gedre, while the Com- ber of women Ucing killed.
In consequence of the bloodshed a general strike has been proclaimed in Poland and
Lithuania.
Loss of a British Destroyer. During the naval manotes at Berchaven on Monday night, the destroyer Syren ran on a reef and broke her back; no lives were
lost.
THE CHINESE ENGINEERING
AND MINING CASE.
pany's bankers are the Chartered Bank of
Australia and China. India, A
The enterprise will be started in no half-hearted way; from the beginning the Company will go ahead with the utmost energy confident in the belief that no competitor can touch them in this market. The flour mill will be erected at Chung Kwoon O, which lies at the farther end of Junie Bay. The land, on which the factory will be situated, was bought some time ago by Mr. Bennie in view of the formation of th's new Company, and it is admirably suited for the purposes required.. Already a start has teen made with the construction of the building, the excavations for the foundations being now. in course of construction. It is expected that in something like eighteen months the mill will be built, the machinery inpalled, and everything ready for the manufacture of four.
An Aplicating was made to Mr. Justice Far-
THE LINDing stage. well in the case of Chiang Yen mao and the
The land on which the mill will stand when Chinese Engineering and Mining Company completed has an extensive, sea frontage. It against Moreing aid others. Counsel (Mr. is therefore proposed to erect a sex wall, from which will project a pier. The depth of water Jenkins, K. .) stated thi His Excellency alongside the pier is stated to is 16 feet, so Chaug seemed to have entered into an Anglo- that vessels of the draught of the German mail, Chinese alliance without consulting the Chi-forinstance, can be moored alongside and a cargo nese Engineering and Mining Company, who of flour expeditiously taken aboard. In the same were co-plaintiffs with high. On behalf of that way vessels bringing wheat to the mill will expe- company he had a motion to strike their numerience no delay in unloading. There will, in off the records, As a matter of convenience, however, he asked that the matter might stand over, to become effective as 14th ult, there be ing an undertaking not to take any further pro- ceedings in the action in the meantime. The learned judge consenting the application stood over for a fortnight.
THE NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA.
fact, be no time last or money expended an the use of junks, which should mean a great saving 10 the Company, and a corresponding decrease in the price of the manufactured ar ticle.
ELECTRICAL ENERGY,
a
The imponance of this decision to have pig ranch in connection with the four mill is not confided to the question of working the mill at a profit. Recently the question of the price of meat in Hongkong has been under discussion, and at the present time the market prices of beef and pork averages about 30 cents per lb. for pork, and 24 cents per lb for heef, in other words, the poor Chinaman who prefers pork to beef any and every day of
which he has no control, to pay more than the European does who likes beef always and park at a pinch The establishment of a pig ranch, on which there will be at least 20,003 porkers in the first year, fed on the fat of the and wo to speak, tended by skilled keepers, and kept at comparatively little cost, will, it'i expected, have a wonderful effect on the price of pork in the Hongkong market. Instead of
The following results have been received by having to pay 30 cents per lb. it is anticipatedi and confidently declared, that the price of poik will be seduced to 20 cents per ib, and as the Hongkong Jockey Club and kindly sup- that price buyers will obtain an article, which plied to us by Mr. T. F. Hough, at the time of cannot be excelled. We may then expect to going to press. The later results of the racing see the pont Chinadian instead of carrying toon the second day are printed on page 3: his home & siringy tendon of pork-bardly enough for a child's appetite-swinging along with a substantial side of pork, for which he fias paid juu as much as he now does when he Roes to market for pork slices. It will be a small revolution in its way, and should benefit
great section of Hongkong's population who live on the flesh of the pig. Moreover, the demand for pork is, we believe, far greater than the supply at present, so that in every": way the new venture of the Hongkong Milling Company should prove of interest:
THE MECHANICAL POWER..... It has already been stated that the machin- ery will be operated by electricity. It is esti- mated that the water power will be sufficicat to generate 6:0 H.P. in the dry season. In the wet season, the power will be practically unlimited.
ཁྭཱ ' ན
THE MARKET FOR FLOUR,
With regard to the wheat supply, Mr. Rennie way asked whance it would come? He replied that, the Company hope to get the wheat from countries flying the British foge. it possible But the wheat must come from. the cheapest market, if the Hongkong flour mil is to pay for itself, and if they could not get wheat grown under the British dag. thon they would have to look for it elsewhere. As for the markets which would be entered by the manufactured product, naturally they would took to Hongkong, South China generally, and. the Coast Ports as ibeir principal customers, but' it was possible they might be able to go even The subject of American com- further afield. petition was broached, but as before Mr. Kennie held that the advantages which would be enjoyed by the Hongkong Company were so great that they could defy all competitors.
THE STAFF...
**
- SHANGHAI SPRING MEETING.
-THIRD' DAY..
THE GREAT NORTHERN PLATE. Value, Tz. aga Second pony, Tie. 5o. If five or more 'slatters," third "pány, Thu, 251 For China ponies that have run at this meeting. Weight for inches as per scale. Winners of one race at this meeting, 7 lbs extra; two or mor race, 10 lbs, extra Jockeys who have never
furlongs won an official race allowed ; lbs. Seven
Friendship Lancier,
Heather Kit gian: mizi) 3 THE HACE CLUB CHALLENGE CUP.-Value, Th, soo. For China panies, being bona fide griffins at date of entry. To be won at two consecutive meetings or three times in all by ponies the boi à fide property of the same owner or owners. First pony to receive Tis. 250, second pony, Tis. 50, and third pony Tis 25, until the Cup is finally won, when the second pony will receive 75 per cent and the third pony as per cent of the entrance fees. Weight for inches as per scale. One mile and a quarter.
Cedric ཎྞa***
Golden Eagle........ ... 2 ........... 3
THE SHANIU O STIKES-Valus, Tis. 200, Second pony, Th. jo. Third pony, Tla, 25. A forced entry for all Subscription griffins. otherwise entered at this meeting. Weight. for inches as per scale. Winners of one race 5lbs extra, two races-10 lbs, extra. Un placed ponies allowed 51bx. One mile.
Tiara..... May Duke que quisetu Opal
SUPPING JUTSAN.
1
SUICIDE OF EX-CATHEDRAL
VARGER.
Entimations.
ROBINSON PIANO COMPANY, LD.
Shanghai advices, of asth ult, state': With 17 years experience of the
for July, Langkats at Tis, 241 cash, and at
ris, 250 for July, she do
Business done direct :-Shanghai and Hong- kew Wharfs at Tis 1861 cash. Farnham, Boyds at Tis, 164 for July, and at Tis. 166 for August, Langkats at Tis 240 cash, and at Tis, 2463 for June.
To-day's Advertisements.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,
INFORMATION has been received from the 1 Military Authorities that GUN PRACTICE (NIGHT "FIRING) w be carried out TO..
sha-wan towards entrance to Junk Bay, at NIGHT (THURSDAY), the 4th May, at Pak -ranges of 600 to 4,000 yards, commencing at 7.30 F., and finishing at 8 PM if the range
is clear
If the weather is unfavourable on the above date, Practice will take place on dhe following day.
All ships, junks and other vessels are to keep clear of the range.
L. BARNES-LAWRENCE, Captain, R. N.,
Harbour Master, &c. Harbour Department,
Hongkong, 4th May, 1905.
(518 CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY CO,
NOTICE.
HA this AGENCY and the COMPANY'S HAVE-To-day. RESUMED CHARGE BUSINESS in the Far East.
D. E, BROWN,
Hongkong olimate
MÄNUFACTURE
IRON FRAMED PIANOS
$375,
$420,
$496
BEST MAKE OF
IMPORTED PIANOS
AT HOME PRICES."
APOLLO PIANOLAY $325, $495, $585.
PIANOS FOR HIRE
on on
Credit Payments.
TALKING
MACHINES
'AND
RECORDS.
PIANO TUNERS. General Agent. Only Experienced Men Employed.
[536
Hongkong, 4th May, 1905.
TO LET.
70. 12, KNUTSFORD TERRACE,
KOWLOON.
N
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO., LI, Hongkong, 4th May, 1905. .
"DEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
5.S. "BENMOHR,"
FROM LONDON AND ANTWERP VIA STRAITS.
"ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby
at their risk Into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or from the wharves delivery may
be obtained
No Claims will be admitted after the Good, have left the Godowns, and all Goods unde- vered after the oth instant will be subject
to rest
All Claims against the Steamer must be pre- sented to the Undersigned on or before the 17th Instant, or they will not be recognized
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are in be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the roth instant, at 11-A.N.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by No Fire Insurance has been effected,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents
[$15 Hongkong, 3rd May, 1905.
...NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES:
It is expected that the staff of European aud
The Mogul Steamship Co, Ltd., has registe Chinese will number about 300, There will be aed an assignment by way of charge an a vesicle informed that all Goods are being landed head miller, experienced in the manufacture of contracted to be built for the company and According to present arrangements, the flour, an electrician, and a chief en iner-all ofntended to be named the Patkan, supplemer four mill will produce 3,005 bags of flour whom will be experts in their particular line of tal to a trust deed dated Sept 4 1901, for secur per diem, or 240,000 bags per month, That'usiness. At present the managing directoring £80,coo debentures. means, of course, that the mill will be kept- is in communication with an exceedingly clever running night and day, which, as Mr. Kennie ruiller in Edinburgh, but it remains to be seen remarked, is the only way to make a flour mill pay. The machinery will be worked by elec. In the Court of Appeal on 5th ub. before tricity, generated on the premises, and it is Lords Justice Vaughan Williams, Bomer, and owing, in great measure, to the natural advan. Stirling, the case of the National Bank of tages at the disposal of the Company that China, was heard on the appeal of a holders success seems to be assured. The land at of the founders shares in the company from Chung Kwoon O is supplied by a large number a judgment of Mr Justice Farwell in the of streams. A natural reservoir receives the Chancery Division, sanctioning a schenie for water, which will be lored by a rom, row in the reduction, of the capital of the company, course of construction. The capacity of the the acts concerning which were reported reservoir will be four hundred and fifty million by us at the time. The appelants opposed the gallons, and with the abur dance of the water petition on the main grounds that the scheme supply at the command of the Company such was a breach of the bargain betwesh the com- thing as a water famine is practically out of the pany the holders of funders shares, as con- question. The water will be conducted by a tained in the articles of association, and that, conduit to the dain, from which it will be led in the circumstances, to wipe out the founders' by pipes to the dynams. The water will fall per shares altogether was unfair and inequitable. pendicularly 335 feet or in technical las guage Mr. Justice Farwell, being of opinion that the it will have a head of 325 feet-which means an scheme would do no injustice, sanctioned enormous horse power for the generation, of it. Hence the present appeal. The hearing electricity. But although there will be was adjourned.
45,000,000 gallons stored in the dam, there is such a thing to be considered as exceptio: al contingencies, and to guard against the effects. of an unusually dry season, a petroleum plant will be installed, so that the Company will never, Lack "power for the machinery
whether the negotiations for his engagement will prove successful. If they turn out fatile then an Englishman or an American may be
just after we had gone to press last evening engaged, but this much is certain, whoever is
rought to Hongkong, to manage the flour we received the news of the sad de th of Mr. mill will to a recognised expert at the Henry John Bernard White, a sanitary in- business. The work of erecting the flour spector and overseer of cemeteries, who up to mill, the machinery, and of stocking the end of December Izst was also verger of the pig ranch will be pushed on, with the ut. St. John's Cathedral, an appointment he had most speed, the olfect being to have the mill held for twelve years, and one which he only in full swing within eighteen months. The relinquished on it being held by Government capital bas all been subscribed, and it is under that he could not keep both positions at the stood that no shares will be offered to the outsime time. When he resigned the vergerslip,: side public. From all appearances, it would he was inmediately given promation in the THE 0. 5, N. Co.'s Steamer seem that the Hongkong Milling Company, Sanitary Board. Mr. White bad been eighteen Limited, is destined to be one of the principal concerns of Hoogkong. Ca
Mr. Upjohn, K.C., for the respondents, stated that although it had never been the intention of the company to do otherwise, to satisfy the Court the company would give an undertaking not to apply any part of the reserve fund, which was left after that which was mentioned in the petition, for the purposes of dividend.
It is on the water power that the Com pany rely, however, and it is for the same reason their peculiary advantageous position to ohtain a constant and unlimited supply of water that the Company are able to dely com petition, for they will have the only water power available in the locality.
HOW THE "WAS E' WILL DE UTILISED.
In conclusion, it may be added that the
1
"MALTA,"
FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO-AND STRAITS.
Consignees of Cargo by the above-namen
vessel are hereby informed that their is the Hongkong and. Kowloon Wharf and Godown being landed and placed at their rish in the Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed This vessel brings on Carge:-
years consecutively in the Colony, and spoke of taking leave for a trip to England about next. July. His first visit to this Colony was as buildings will be thoroughly up-to-date in steward in the as. And ocles, and electing to avery respect, the architects being Messer, settle down here he applied for and obtained Leigh and Orange. The machinery is of the the then vacant position of store-keeper in, the latest type and will cost about three-quarter of employ of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. a million dollars when completed. The Com-whence, after some years, having in the mean- pany expects to realise a dividend of at least time held positions in the Naval Yard, and the Hongkong Hotel, be joined the Public Works Department end was put in chargo ef the cemeteries, and still retained that position when the care of the cemeteries was transferred 'to the Sanitary Board, accuring also the position
of third class sanitary inspector. "Mx, White | 1 P.M., TO-DAY. was always of a remarkably cheerful disposition, and though he had frequently hinted of 'ate that he was going on a long journey, no pant
so per cent on the capital.
CORRESPONDENCH"
We do not nearly endorse ik opinions expressed i
Correpondentalis shila colizmin.)'
FARNHAM, BOYD & CO.
To The Editor or, the "Shanghai MercurY?”
Sik, is to be hoped that the shareholders of Mesars, Famban, Boyd & Co. will accordcular siguificance was attached to his words; due support to the reasonable demands of the gentlemen who lately addressed the directorate is the interest of that large class of shareholders who are purely investors. The inclusion on the directorate of an independent shareholders nomines os nominees, and the appointment of a chartered accountant, of reputation to bidit, etc, cannot fail to inspire confidence and in create the respect of the shareholders for
nor any hidden meaning suspected, until he began to talk of being tired of life, and wished he could end it. Yesterday alter being out with his wife in the morning, and calling on a num- berof friends whom he bade "good-bye", in a strange, way, he returned home about three o'clock, and told his wife and children that ho was going to have a long sleep and was not on any account to be disturbod is wild then
Lord Justice Vaughan Williams, in giving judgment, said that Mr. Justice earwell was satisfied in this case as to two propositions First, he was satisfied that in the state of things "which existed at the time when the petition was presented the prospects of the founder shareholders getting any return was so remote One of the principal questions to be con- that he thought he was doing no injustice to sidered in starting a four-mill-is-what shall them to treat their interess as bring of no sub-be done with the offal, the waste products, the stantial value. The next question was as to bran and shorit? and it is in this respect that whether the loss had been really proved the genius and enterprise of the Hongkong There was, however, yet another question, as Milling Company will be exemplified. Hong to whether, in effect, the present scheme did kong and South China might be termed the sot hand over to the shareholders in the bank home of the pig, and there is nothing better for board entrusted with the management of such becaine uneasy, the more so as he would not a sum of money which might certainly have fattening prposes than the offai of wheat, that been treated; if it had been thought fit, as part and shorts and coarser dour (which cannot be is to say the fatty matters, including the bran of the capital of the bank, and therefore avail. able as security for, creditors. In such a mai put on the fur market. Hongkong is pro ter the Judge who heard the petition had to bably one of the largest pig-consuming centres
→if the phrase may be allowed in the East, || 1 Dught be satisfied, and, if satisfied, that Court
there be proposed.in. order. MANN not lightly to interfere. Under the circum for its size, i stances, he was not prepared to say that Mr. to utilise this offal that a piggery, or rather a Justice Farwell's decision was wrong, and the Pig ranch, should be formed in
with the four mill. It should be, appeal would be dismissdr
r other Lords Justices concerre
Mr Kirby, on behalf of the company, stated, that the undertaking which had been refer
The company would noti
other
that unless disposed of the
that unleas these so-called waste products can
rofitable work
From London, &c., ex 5.5. India, Froin Persian Gull, er BLS,N, and 1 & P.,
SN. Co.'s Steamers,
Optional Goods will be landed hareu less instructions are given to the contrary before
Goods not cleared by the toch instant,
4 P., will be subject to rent,
No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in
any case whatever, in defekt week m
Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignee's and the Company's representative at an ap pointed hour.
All claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival bere after which date. they cannot be recognised,
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, to MI'S LEWIS, Acting Superintendent, Hongkong, 4th May, 1905,
12.
huge concern as that of Farnham, Boyd and let her go into the room with him, the door of Co.-Yours,etc,
which he immediately locked. A bort time THE DAIRY FARM CO.,
APALL
Shanghai, 28th April,
ARMED ROBBERY IN NEW TERRMORY
aher Mrs. Whits, heard some strange: Saunde coming from her husband's room, bur these having ceased, she concluded that he had fallen asleep. She was, however, shortly after start-
Ted os being told by her Inte boy that his FINE
ther was tied by the heck to the Sbp immediately seul for the police, and when the door of the room was forced open, the body:
On the 19th of March last four men armed with choppers and chirols broke into a house at Tung Cheung, New Territory, and alter teri rorizing the inmates, made them hand over two 550 notes, and a quantity of clothing and Mr. White was ducovered hanging other property. The affair was reported to bar of the bed, bis cet just touching the foor Sergeant D, H. Mackenzie, at thai station, who:
*for the men,, and on the and just."
capturing four persont and, had cately in the lock-up, where iker are: thestar This stalion, it appears,
impnica
LIMITED
FRESH
SAUSAGES.
25 Cents per Pound.
PIANO REPAIRS. Estimates Free.
OF EVERY
MUSIC DESCRIPTION.
PARCELS ON APPROVAL..
Banjos, Mandolines, Guitars Strings.
Henykong, 19th Apol igre
NOTICE TO SHIPFERS.
prepared, during suspension of their HI NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA re rang-l'acific, Service and until further notice, to BOOK CARGO and leste BILLS OF LADING PACIFIC COAST PORTS, alto to OVER. IO SEATTLE, WASH; VICTORIA, B,C., ind LAND POINTS in the UNITED STATES and CANADA in connection with the GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY FROM SEAT- TIE, as hitherto, by the Steamers of the NORTHERN PACIFIC S. S. Co., BOSTON
STEAMSHIP and TOWBOAT Cos., OCEAN S. S. Co. and CHINA MUTUAL S. N. Co.
For further Particulars, apply at the Com pany's Local Branch Office in PRINCE'S BUILDINGS, First Floor, Chater Road"
A. S. MIBARÄ,
Manager.
Hongkong, 27th March, 1005..
THE POPULAR
SCOTCH
BLACK&WHITE"
JUST MAREL
JAMES BUCHANAN & CO.
"SCOTCH WHISKY DISTILLERS,
EM THE KING
HRH the PRINCE of WALES
168
lied at all the LEADING CLUBS HOTELS and to be obtained Pfrom
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