tween Friday and Monday, although it recover. ed but slightly yesterday, thanks to one firm of brokers who were instrumental in making known though your columns the detailed figures held bick by the general managers, The drop in the market value of the shares ia imply staggering. So great a slump one could derstand if there was some radical difficulty either, with the manage. ment or unforeseen losses through the loss of a ship or soms material reduction in the position attained by the Company with regard to the South and North China trade, particularly emigration traffic from China to the Straits and back and the spitem traffic from India to China. But none of those contingencies has arisen so far as the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company is concerned at the present moment.
Var as far as human
knowledge can ste is any of them likely to arise so long as the Company continue to trade within the limits which they have set down (or
themselves ever since the formation.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1905.
Many years' experience has proved to us that these privileges are not generally known, hence our request to be allowed to publish them in your widely read journal.
We shall be pleased to give further informa tion, free of charge, to any of your roaders who who will send full particulars of their casos, We are, Sir, your obedient servants,
THE TAXPAYERS' APPEAL 'AGENCY.
191 Victorin Street,
1
London, S.W, and May, 1905,
INDO-CHINA S. N. CO.
PROFITS FOR 1904.
6th inst. As we go to press we receive the following communication from Messrs. Benjamin, Kotly, & Potts :-
"In connection with the recent announce ment by the general managers that the director In 1913 the Company upon an infinitesimally of the Indo-China S. N. Co., Limited, have smaller amount than that earned last year-recommended a dividend to shareholders of 13 £38,017-13-8 to be exact-did not think Ithillings per share, we are now in receipt of wrong to appropriate iron the underwriting further novices to the effect that, out of the account a sum equal to about twice as much ai profit on the year's working, a sum of £10,000 that year's profit, namely £55,291-7-2, sufficient has been transferred to General Reserve Fund, to enable them to distribute adividond of roland, we understand that, in addition, the follow- per share. It was subsequently stated at the ing amounts have been transferred
To Depreciation Account meeting in London, in reply to a question put
To Exchange Fluc. Account by Dr. Divers, that is connection with the
To Underwriting Account underwriting account, "outside cover had been
and a balance of about 4,500 has been carried provided which was an absolute protection against the risk which was covered. Conse forward. quently the risk was very greatly diminished. In the event of 'n lou instead of having a greater they would have a reduced loss. "1 but it was one that was absolutely to the ad was an arrangement that was a little complex, vantage of the company."
SKAREHOLDERS' PROTEST.
465,000 4,000
£35,000
8th inst.
Canton,-
Buildings & machinery $186,786.04. Since expeaded.................. 27,761.433
Furniture Since expended.
333.68 19.0
16,551.91 Since expended.................. 46.576.33 Materials, atores, fuel, &c. in stock
valued at. Proportion of promis an current
Fire policies................................... Sundry debtors in mudou Cath in hand..aim......nosis
We have compared the above statements with the books and vouchers of the company
SHIPPING JETSAM,
sih inst 214,547.47 || 2. Duncan Bourdette, cook of the, sailing ship Jordan Billy who was charged on Saturday before Mr. G. N. Orme, with disobedience of 12.68 order was this moming discharged with a
caution
CAPTAIN AND CREW. 73,128.34
Before Mr. G. N. Orme the afternoon 44,21968 Captain, Litlehale, of the 4.4. Sagami, charged sixteen members of his crew with impeding the 649 19 progress of the voyage to New York, by refus 51.104.33 ing to obey order, and deserting the ship at 10,41087 Hoogkong. Six of the crew brought charges of assault and ill-treatment against the chief $641,781.66 engineer. F. 1. Ingram, and the fourth engine cer, F. G.. Edwards. The cases against the engineers were dismissed. The case against the crew was then called, when Captain Little hafo testified that the crew went ashore on Saturday without leave, and the captain seeing some of them ordered them to return to the ship. They demanded to be paid off and the Captafo referred the matter to the shipping master, who spoke to them, and said they had no right to be paid off; it was entirely at the captain's option. On going on board the captain gave orders to have steam up to sail at daylight, and when the fourth engineer went to tell the men to light up the fires they all left, and the vessel had been detained ever since at a cost of 100 per day. The captain added that the men had been a nuisance all the voyage The second officer and steward give corrobora tive evidence. The captain, recalled, said that he would a to get rid of the men, as they were always giving trouble on board..
His Worship said they had committed a very serious offence, and they must go to gaol for three weeks with hard.labour.
and found the same in accordance therewith.
W. H.
GOURDIN, Auditors.
NAVAL NOTES.
5th inst. The battleship Africa was launched at Chatham on goth ult, and the cruiser Cochrane was launched at Glasgow.
Frederick Reeves, seaman on board HIM.S. Tamar, was charged this morning before Mr. F. A. Hazeland with stealing a pair of bino culars, valued at $tz, from a show-case at a shop in East Street, on the 4th insteDefon We are informed that a very largely signed dani denied being in the shop at all; but com. protest has been seat in to-day to Messrs.plaint and a foki swore that he was. It was Jardine, Matheson & Co., the general mana apparently a case of mistaken identity and the gers of the Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., defendant was discharged. expressing the dissatisfaction of the Hongkong. shareholders in respect of the proposed appro 1904. The firm of Messrs. Melchers & Co. head the list of signatories, which also includes other influential individuals. In the aggregate the signatories represent, in round figures, some seven thousand shares on the register, but their actual boldings total quite len thousand
7th inst
In 1993, the company, to quote the chair man's own words, "had. not earned from the absolute i come from the steamers a sufficient priations of the Company's divisible profits for Singapore yesterday. She is convoying the
shares.
sum fully to cover the depreciation, and therefore the sum taken from the under writing account was availed of to meet the difference in losses to pay the dividend," The directors in their raport in 1923 for the year 1907 referred to the depressed condition of the ship sing trade in the Far East, and said:
We are also informed that one of the leading "Owing to these causes a dividend would hardly have been looked for, but the absence of brokers in Hongkong is in receipt of a private. any total loss or of serious damage to the fleet telegram from Shanghai to-day that share- holders. in the Northern Settlement are also for a long period has allowed of an
moving in, the matter with a view to emphasise accumulaton of profit on the underwiting ac
the general disappointment felt over the dis. count, which nearly equals half the paid up
proportionate dividend on the handsome profits capital of the Company, and the directors cen
earned by the Company last year. sider this account has reached such dimensions
9th inst. that they are justified in the interests of the
In reference to the protest from the Hong- hareholders in transferring £18,655.16.9 to revenue, leaving still the large sum of kong shareholders, mentioned in our previous issues, we are informed that the latter was sent £140.000 at credit of underwriting account," This year, when the profit as shown by then to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. yester statement which you published from Messrs. day afternoon. A reply from the general Benjamin, Kelly & Poits yesterday amounts to managers to the signatories has been received over £157,00%, the dividend proposed is only to the effect that they would be willing to per cest, or 2/- better than in the year when the transmit the shareholders' message,, by tele company actually incurred a foss, and when to graph, exactly as it was worded. suit the general managers a dividend of five per cent, was declared There is only a differ ence of one per cent, hetween the fat year that! has passed and the lean year that proceded it. One item of your report stated that £35,000 would be placed to the underwriting account In addition to the provision of £65,000 for der preciation and a round £23,000 to the general reserve fund. From the chairman's statement made last year, one would infer that the com- plex system of re-insurance entered into since 1903 should not have rendered necessary the provision of any very large amount in any one year towards the underwriting account for it has been asserted that the company's risks on its own boats were very greatly diminished. Yet we have an appropriation of £35,000 con templated towards that amount when the divi- dend is reduced to a minimum.
The text of the cable message which the shareholders requested should be forwarded to London is as follows:-
"Hongkong shareholders dissatisfied distri- bution earnings. Urge bonus."
10th insi.
In their report dated to-day, Messes. Erich Georg & Co. state; "A telegram has been received from London saying that at the indo China meeting n dividend of 12 shillings bas been declared, the demand made by China shareholders for a bonus being negatived, in view of threatening keen opposition in trade."
THE CHINA LIGHT AND POWER CO. LD.
Annexed we have the pleasure to lay before shareholders a statement of accounts for the year ending 28th February, 1995.
The report for presentation to the shares What was the necessity for this dispropor-holders at the fourth ordinary general meeting to be held at the office of the general managers tionata distribution of the profits?
on Wednesday, zist inst, at it o'clock a.m., is I have heard it mid on all hands that the holding back of the figures of the proposed as follows appropriation by the general managers when dividend was declared on Friday last was an exceedingly unsatisfactor and by many held to be an unfair--concealinṛot of the exact posi tion of the Company. The result has been that quite a panic occurred on the local stock exchange and in Shanghai towards the end of last and the beginning of this week.
Regarding the present position of the Com- pany it can safely be asserted-and 1 turn to the official statement of the directors-that the
Company's deel was never in a better condi- tion than it is at the present moment. Old boats have been sold out of the fleet, and have been replaced by several new and up-to-date steamers, answering in the exact requirements of the Company's business in the East From present indications there is nothing to feat that, equipped as the Company is with a fleet of modern boats of suitable build, tonnage and speed, any competition would wrest from the company the business which it can control by virtue of the facilities it has enjoyed under the general management of a firm, who have, at their command, numerous outlets in varions branches of trade, which will ensure for the Company's boats à tonnage sufficient to give It a profit, and make it the splendid concern, which it is generally regarded as being.
Why is it, again, that in London the shares actually stands 11 sterling, with no depre. ciation, and yet in Hongkong and Shanghai directly the dividend was announced the big Blump of 20 per cent. occurred within 48 hours 7 These are some of the questions which I, along with other shareholders, would like to hear answered,-1 am, etc..
SHAREHOLDER,
Hongkong, 7th June, 1905. FS-The following table compiled from previous reports shows the position of affairs and the force of my argument at a glance
Year.
1902
Profils, £30.374.13-2
Dividend.
1903 4 1904
*2 30,647.16.B
£158,500, 0.0
After appropriating £65,191. 78, 2d. from
Underwriting account.
ENGLISH INCOME TAX.
TO THE EDITCA Of The "forakong Telmorach," SIR,--May we be allowed to draw the atten tion of your readers to the fact that all persons rosiding in the Colonies, or in fact anywhere out of the United Kingdom, are entitled to clalar repoyment of English Income Tax as follows:
(1) Total exemption on incomes not exceed
ing 160, or abatement on incomes not exceeding £700, derived from sources within the United Kingdom, irrespective of other sources of income in the Colo ales, ar elsewhere out of the United Kingdom.
(a) The whole of the tax deducted in En- gland from dividends of foreign bonde, and of Foreign & colonial corporation Stocks, no matter what the total income may amount lo.
(3) The whole of the tax deducted from any
pay or pension at the Indian Office. The above claims may be made for 3 years commencing the 6th April, 1952, and as the tax, for the year 1902-3 was at 1/3; 'the the full abatement for that year amounts to na less a sum than £to, and for the 3 year to a total of £23.6,8. In cases where some of the Incama is from foreign stocks the claims Would probably be fur very much large amounts,
The grass profit amounts to $13-755-39, and the net profit including the amount brought for ward from last year and after payment of inter est and other charges amounts to $26,856.12, which it is proposed to carry to the credit of next year's account.
The result is a great advance on the previous years figures as regards both Kowloon and Canton, but as will be seen from the accounts the company is heavily handicapped by inter est on loans and further capital is urgently.re. quired not only to wipe out the present indeb. teilness but also to enable the company to obtain additional plant to meet the demand at
Canton,
The dividend on the guaranteed issue of capital will be paid by the Guarantors, so río entry, appears in the accounts under this head. ing.
Consulting Committee.-In accordance with the articles of association, the Hon. Sir Paul Chater, M.G., Dr. J. W, Noble and H. P. White, Esq., retire but offer themselves for re-election.
Audito The accounts have been audited by Mesin, WH. Potts and A. O'D, Gourdin who are recommended for re-election.
gggg merking
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 30th May, 1905. The following are the accounts - STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS for the year ending 28th February, 1905. PROPIT AND LOSE ACCOUNT. Auditors fees.......... Consulting committee's fees...... Exchange
Interest
General charges mamuonadondis Balance
200.00
H.M.S. Iphigenia was expected to leave six torpedo-boat destroyers which are coming lo Hongkong.
H.M.S. Diadem is proceeding to Colombo to meet the Goliath and Canopur, and will embark 200 supernumeraries which these ships are bringing out for the China Squadron."
THE DESTROYERS,
All the River class of destroyer-six in num her-attached to the Atlantic Fleet, which are on their way to Hongkong are the Ere, the Ettrick, the Esne, the Dee, the Itchen, and the Arun. It is not long since these vessels, with all their spare parts of machinery, etc., were transferred from Malta to Gibraltar, and their despatch to China was quite unexpected. As soon as possible another division of the River class will be formed and sent to the Atlantic Float.
9th inst.
The cruiser Bonaventure left for Mira Bay this morning.
BATTLESHIPS ORDERED HOME.
I learn on good authority that most, if not all, of the battleships on the China Station have been ordered home, presumably for the purpose of joining other squadrons.
ADMIRAL'S FLAG SHIP. Admiral Sir Gerard H. U. Noel will hoist his flag on the Diadem when she arrives.
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INCIDENT ON THE "BARFLEUR.". [From our Naval Correspondent.] H.M S. Barfleur with the time-expired men from the Vengeance arrived at Portsmouth at 630 a.m. on the 7th ult. and was to be paid of two days later. Petween Gibraltar and the home port a rather peculiar incident occurred the facts of which appear to be as follows It seems that a certain number of men had been, employed in cleaning out one of the boilers, and when the time came to close up the apetures it was found that two of the boiler doors were missing. Search was made and
found. of them was
The other however, was not to be seen anywhere. From what I have been able to gather it seems ibat some one had taken them from where they were laying and hidden them from sight. Whether this was done as a remonstrance to the extra work that the engine room staff had been made to perform or otherwise is not yet known, but this act of same foolish person was responsible for the whole staff being paraded before the captain and search patties being organised. During their spare time the men had to look for the missing door and were threatened with further punishment if it was not found. In the meantime the ship's artificers had made a new door.
:
Toth inst.
H.M.S. Waterwhich has returned from a short cruise.
STRANGE TALE OF THE SEA. When a representative of the Hongkong Telegraph ran up against some members of the crew of the sailing ship Fordon Hill this after noon a strange tale was poured into his ears of the strange disappearance of same members of the crew, when within a few days' sait of [ava, By them it was stated that, when in that region, in sight of some apparently uninhabited rocky islands, three members of the crow, named Kennedy, Fuller, and another "with a difficult German name, built a raft out of some white painted planks that were on board, and, their labours ended, at 11 p.m. on the first Sunday in April, they lowered their raft and on it left the steamer, and were never seen or
heard from again. The men, it is said, took nothing with them, even a canvas bag of biscuits which they had prepared to take with them being overlooked at the last and left behind, sa that the crew were inclined to believe that if the men were not wrecked on the rocky coast they must inevitably have met their end by starvation. Some members of the crew stated that they had reason to believe that the islands were inhabited by cannibals, and they believed the fate of the three men to have been something worse than drowning or starvation. The man Kennedy, it was stated, was closely related to a pear of the United Kingdom, nu also had relatives in the British Navy. They knew nothing of the two Germans' antecedents. The Jordan Hill was becalmed for two weeks after the disap pearance of the three men mentioned, but no sign of them was ever seen.
6th inst..
The Russian steamer Prometheur is now the property of the M.-V. K., and is called the Urajheo Maru.
Captain Hay, of the ss. Hop Sang, which arrived here today from Wuhu, reports, that on the and inst., w' en passing Woosung, she saw seven Russian transport there.
Captain Combs, of the U. S. cruiser Rain bow, which arrived here from Cavite, P.I., this morning, reports that he sighted three Russian war vessels entering Manila Bay on the 3rd inst..
Captain Nicholson, of thesis. Aldgate, which left Moji on the 30th ulto, with coal for this port, arriving here yesterday afternoon, reports that just after leaving Moji he passed six Japanese warships and five torpede boats.*
The ss. Allezza went ground early on Thurs The Foochow Echo of the 27th uli, says day afternoon Gear Kushan Paint Attempts to get her off have so far. failed, but her caigo (bulk oil) is being discharged, and she may be
oated again at the next spring tide.
The master of the Charles Hardouin was summoned before Mr. Hazeland with catting a nuisance by using an inferior quality of coal when the vessel was alongside her wharf on the 2nd inst. His Worship inficted a fine of $15, and ordered the nuisance to be abated.
Patrick Flynn, an unemployed seaman, and R. Odin, seaman, both staying at the Sailors' The battleship Glory and the cruiser Hogue Homs, ware charged before Mr. G. N. Orie this morning with fighting and behaving. In a have left for Wei-hai-wei,
riotous and disorderly manner at the Home on the 5th inst. Patrick was fined $1 and Odio 53.
The British stop Cadmus has arrived from Sydney.
Cavite, P., June 2-The battleships Oregon, a companied by the cruisers Raleigh and Cin cinnati and the gunboat Frelic, left Carite to- day for a seven-day cruise, during which squadron evolutions, tactical manœuvres and wireless telegraph tests will play an important
part.
Since assuming command, Admiral Train has not had an opportunity to put his feet through the regular drills owing to the constant reports of helligerent vessels "being near the islands. flad he left the bay with the feet 1,500.00 before the last battle was fought such an action 771.93 would have put in circulation dozens of wildcat 26,715.17 rumours as to the destination of the feet; a 541):20 | thing which Admiral Train has studiously 26,896 17 avoided.
Not since December, 1903, has the entire $57.494-41 Asiatic feet boen assembled for manœuvres.. During that month Rear Admiral R. D. Evans, Halance from last year...S 3:739.03 then commander-in-chief, assembled the fleet Balance of Canton working account 47.712.08 at Olongapo and put them through the various Balance ofKowloon working account 6,043-31 evolutions.
The most important feature of the present $ 57,494 42 | trip will be the tests of wireless telegraphy, Every vessel of the fleet is equipped with it BALANCE SHEET,
and some most interesting experiments will be Liabilities.
made, Capital 10,000 shares at $10.00 each $300,000,00 Upon leaving the bay the Frolic will be Debentures ..................... 150,000.00 stationed at Cabra island and the balance of 97.87064 the fleet will stop at intervals of about one Sundry creditors nume Company's banke's............... 68,075.10 bundred miles, establishing a direct line of Balance of prefit and loss account... 26,896.12 communication with Cavite from somewhere in the Formosa straits. it will be nothing less 5642,782.06 than a relay system of nearly eight hundred miles and if it works out as planned the Asiatic station will hold the record of the Navy for
Assets.
..$ 32,770.18
Kowloon, Land
963.00 Since expended.......... Building & machinery 140,418,50 Since expended........***
Furniture Since expended.....
1,314.81
\z65,00
21.00
Lines
25,678.58 Since expended... 12,516.56 Material, stores, fuel, &c. in stock:
Inng distance communication,
In addition to this the fleet will be drilled at night by wireless telegraphy instead of the old $33,735,18 system of red and white light signals. (te The fleet will be away about seven days, and after its return will anchor off Manila, 141,733.31 where the different ships will be thrown open
to visitors,
The people of Manila should not let this 287.00 opportunity pass to inspect some of the most magnificent fighing machines afloat. Every Arrangement will be made for the accommoda, 38, 95.14 tion of visitors, and a more instructive and in teresting afternoon could not be spent than on 47,358.87. one of the battleships.--Cablenewi,
REFUSING DUIY,
Captain J. Gale, of the ss. Descan, this morning charged John Forrest, William Jack son, and John Cameron, seamen of that vessel, before Mr. F.A. Hazeland, for refuning duty on the 5th inst. The men said they wanted to be paid off and leave the ship, and the Captain said he was willing to do this and get rid of them. His Worship stated that under the cir cumstances he would adjourn the case studie and in the meantime the Captain and accused must go and arrange with the Shipping Master about their being paid off and discharged,
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COLLISION AT MANILA,
"That the Court seas no ground for blaming the conduct of the master or bis cffcers, whois certificates are hereby returned to them
Tremont, Pleiades, Hynder, and Zyra, and will called and corroborated the Captain's evidence, have the Dakota in Pacific waters this summer, which was to the affect that the accident was entirely unavoidable-In the course of the AND COWARDLY SHAMEN. afternoon the Court gave judgment, the follow Will Grant, C. Laffet, and Carl Patterson, ing being the substance of the findings three seamen from the 1s Deccan, were That in view of the ship having oncestranded charged with assaulting Edward Large, the in the endeavour to reach Tokoro and of the acond officer of that vessel, on board on the presence of large quantities of ice, it would fih inst. It was alleged that the trouble arose have been wisar for the master to abandon the over the bending of a sail while it was raining. voyage, con le The chief officer stated that the first defendant That the master appears to have navigated came up to him and asked if he wanted a his vessel in a seamanliks and proper manner, fight, as if so he would give it him. The and when a casualty was inevitable to hare second defendant struck him in the backland done everything in bin power to avold tois then held him up against the rail while he continued striking trim, and the first defendant also kept striking him. Some one kicked him from behind, but he did not know if it was the third defondant. The third defendant, a Swede,
Captain Killey, of the se Langdair, which could not understand English and the case was adjourned for half an hour to admit of the arrived this morning from Moji, with a cargo of services of an interpreter being procured. coal for Hongkong, reports that at a pime on There was some difficulty about this until a the 9th inst, when about so miles to the east Scandinavian sailor was discovered at the of Pedra Blince, he sighted close in shore, and Sailors Home, and he was duly sworn, The cook steering to the North East, a battleship, a ↑ of the vessel gave similar evidence to that of the second class cruiser, and twelve torpedo boats complainant, but said he did not see the third de- and destroyers. Inside of the fleat appeared to fendant do anything to complainant. Sergt. Pitt be some transporte steering in the same direc testified to the wounds sustained by the comtion: The nationality of this stilla was not plainant, and said the left eye was nearly mentioned, but there can be little doubt that it closed up, and there were cats and bruised on was Japanese. the cheek, and forehead. A witness for the defence said the second mate was the cause of the trouble; he " was always chasing the men around the decks, all the way from New York." Captain Gale said the second mate was a very young man and had only been promoted from apprentice this voyage. No complaints had ever been made to witness regarding the second male's treatment of the men. He, never heard the second mate are the bad language attributed to him. The first defend- ant had been logged for threatening the second mate with a kaffe.
His Worship said that the assault committed by the first and second defendants was of a inost brutal and cowardly character, and they must each go to one month's hard labour. There was no evidence against the third de fendant and he was discharged.
8th inst.
Sui Chang was, this morning, charged before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, with stowing away on board the a.s. Heungshan at Macan, and ob taining a passage to Hongkong, ite was fined $25, with the alternative of six weeks im prisonment.
The skal leit Chinwartan on Saturday last with a full load of coolies for South Africa. She will not call at this port but will touch at Singapore en route to Durban for supplies. She will be followed by the s.8. Catherine Parr, which is also expected to take a full load of coolies, and which is due in Hongkong to, wards the end of the month.
LAUNCHES IN COLLISION.
CERTIFICATE SUSPENDED. A
5th Inst. An inquiry, was held at the Harbour Masters
Office by Mr. Basil Taylor, assistant. harbour master, this morning, into the circamsiances connected with a collision between the steam launchos Cheung. On and Metha, on the st instant.
To Fat, master of the Cheung On, said that lie left Yaumati wharf at 8.15 am. on thể ist inst, for Fam Pak Hong wharf. On passing north of the Pant O, buoy he saw the steam launch Metha on his port bow, standing acresi his course. The P. and D. steamer was lying at her buoy on his port side, with har bows swung south. He blew one blast on his whistle and kept straight on." He blew bit whistle to attract the aften- tion of the other launch, and when they were the other launch having also kept straight on. about a boat's length apart ho ported his helm The Metha also ported her helm, and struck his, launch on the port bow He could not see what her engines were doing at the time of
the collision.
Chan Teun, master of the steam launch Metha, said he was on his way from the Police Pier, Tsim-isa-tsui, to West Polal. The south F. and O. buoy was right ahead of him, and no vessel lying at it. He saw the Cheung On on his turboard baw. Sha blew a blast on her The master of the .. Oscar II. was charged whistle and starboarded her helm. His ported before Mr. F. A. Hazeland this morning with and blew one short blast, and the bows of the anchoring his vessel in an unauthorized place two launches came into collision. He reversed in this harbour, to wit, Chang Kwong O Bay, his engines two or three seconds before the col just outside Lygemun Pass. The defendantlision, and had eased to half speed 40 sail he was anchored there while waiting for
pilot. He had been trading to this poit fur two years and had never done anything wrong before, and was not aware that he was doing Hi Worship wrong on the present occasion said he had go business to anchor there and must not do it again. He discharged the skipper with a caution..
gth inst.
The master of the launch Awong flung was charged at the instance of Lance-Sergeant Wills, with carrying 27 excess passengers be- tween Hongkong and Yaumat, on the 4th inst. He appeared before Mr. GN. Une this morning and His Worship fined him $23, and warned him against a repetition of the dangerous practice.
H
seconds before.
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Charles Witzke, manager of the North Point Iron Works, in whom the Metha bolangs, said he was on board at the time of the collision,
was raining very hard and he was in 'the cabin... He saw the other launch approaching, and went out of the cabin and saw a man jump. to the wheel of the Cheung On and put it hard antarboard. There was another man already. at the helm. His coxswain had already ported. in order to go underhho stern of the Chung On, and the result of her starboarding was that the collision took place. The Cheung On blow two short blasts on her whistle, when she star boarded. He was right in the bows of his launch before the collision, and signed to the coxswain to port his belm. All the crew of the Cheung On were ruaning about.
Chan Tsu, recalled, sald the Cheung On blaw.
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AN UNCHARTED REEF. The Nagasakt Press has received the follow.nly one blast on her whistle. He unders ing from H.D.M.'s Consul at Nagasaki. stend it to mean that she wanted to attract Captain W. J. Bland, master of the British 6.. attention, but the signal also indicated that the vessel blowing the whistle was going to star Thomas Turnbull reports that on May 27 at board. When he blew his whistle he only did
il to sliract attention. dusk Lat. 31.49 N. Long, 138.28 E. (approxi mate) near Meshima group of Islands passed alongside a reef not placed on chait, about 200 feet in length, and very narrow. When pass ing, the smell of sea weed was very strong
be very dangerous to shipping" Should there be little water this reef would
FLLWLM
THE C. F. R.
Leung Cho, one of the crew of the Cheung On, not certificated, said he was standing lore ward on the port side, and saw the Metho an
and when the two launches were about: 100 their port bows. The master was at the wheel, feet apart, he put the helm to starboard, hard over, and blew the whistle once.
Mr. Taylor said: To Fat is in fault, (1) by. On July 1st next the Canadian Pacific Com-making false whistle signals, (2) not stopping pany will establish its own agency at Shanghai and reversing his engines when he saw the located in offices on the ground floor of the collision was inevitable; and (1) not keeping new building adjoining the corner of Peking straight on as he should have done. His certi Road and Yuen Ming Yuen Road (betweenficate is suspended for three months. Chau the British Post Office and H.B.M. Consulate Teus, master of the Melka, is very deficient in Mr. A. Rosi Owen, formerly in the Company's knowledge of the meaning of whistle signals, service at Hongkong and Yokolania, is ap and he is ordered to present himself for re pointed agent, la charge of the company's busi- . examlantion to-morrow." ses at Shanghai from that date. Messrs. Jar dine, Matheson & Company, who have so long O and satisfactorily represented the company in North China, will continue, as formerly, to act. as agents at the other China Coast and Yang. ise Ports.
HINTS TO THE "HARD-UP."
FOR KOWLOON RESIDENTS.:
Fairplay publishes the following remarkable particulars extracted from the log of the Iron An ingenious correspondent of one of the sailing-ship Brynhilda, 1,501 tons grass regis- local morning papers made a bright suggestion ter, built in 1986, and owned by Messis 1 W. the other day. It seems that in Kowloon them Carmichael and Co., New Glasgow, Nova ricksha coolies have a scale of fares-5 cents Scotia, in connection with her passage from for a quarter of an hour, 15 cents for half an Buenos Ayres Adelaide Semaphore, a dis: hour, and so on "If you have to ride half an tence of 907 miles. The ship sailed from hour," he said, "change driver every ave Chico Bank Lightship at 4 1 on 15th January minutes and save thereby 5 conta Since that this year; passed the Cape of Good Hope on appeared we have been inundated with sug. 31st January; arrived at the Semaphore at gestions obviously cribbad from that tip 71 p.m. on 22nd February-difference in time
"If you have a bill to meet," writes:ona 18 hours, actual time 38 days 6 hours. It will individual, "tip the office boy To Cents to say be sean that the ship made in average of 237you are out, and save thereby to or more," miles per day. It is said that she beat some
Another correspondent writas!! If you have steamers between the Plate and the Cape to stay in lodgings, leave one day before the end of the month and save thereby a month's board.
A collision resulting in severe damages took place on the afternoon of the rat inst. in Manila
A rather amusing story is published of the bay between the Spanish mail steamer Alican capture of a Russian officer and men under Still the goes on. Here is another le which was entering the breakwater, and the his command by some Japanese seamon." On "If you have to use the ferry lose it, and there German steamer Albenga. The latter arrived the 5th uit. It appears the steamer Daishin by save 15 cents. It is cheaper to swim yesterday with quartermaster supplies, and was mari, yoo tons, was stopped by a Russian tor One writer, greatly daring, remarks"If you lying right in the centre of the deep water pedo-boat outside a Hokkaido port. A sub feel angry, bit a policeman, and save thereby channel. De the same day the harbour master lieutenant and thirteen men boarded the
an action for damages."Kadast gave instructions to the ship to move from her steamer, seized the master, who was removed. Among several proposals which have cóma position, as the was in the way of ships enter to the torpedo-boat, and then headed the to band is that suggesting that it in 'useless to ing that channel.
The alicante just from steamer for Vladivostok. For some reason, feel hungry and pay for the feeling whatever Spain tried to pass the Albenga, and as she was however, the vessel went near Gensan instead that means "Steal a loaf of bread or do a drawing some 29 feet of water was afraid of of going to Vindivostok direct, and when naar restaurant-keeper down' and plead poverty to ronning on the mud and therefore had to pass Gensan a Japaness steamer came in sight, the magistrate. You are sure to get off and closs under the bows of the Albenga. In do The Russians apparently mistook this vessat perhaps get a costribution from the poor box
for a Russian, while in reality the stranger was thrown in. But to retum to the orginal Ide ing so she struck the German ship in the for castle tearing a hole twelve fest long by about heading to capture the Daithin maru, seeing about the rickshaw, it is remarked by a while four feet wide: The injury was above the the Russian flag. The seamen on the latter. Why should the "fare ""pay anything a water line, however. The injury to the Allen saw the position at once, suddenly overpower all? At the end of 14 minutes 59 seconds
consisted of the shattering of her bows and ed the prize crow, and took the steamer to he observes, "stop the ricksbs at house with two entrancen. Tell the puller to man man carrying away of her martingale and other Gensen, and thence to Saseho, where she ar
and then slide through the opposite door, saving Wowrived on the 28th ultimo,« rigging-Cablenerus,
thereby cents. The pullar will be able to wyth inst.:
keep cool in this warm weather and will thank Mr Robert Dollar, who is now in Rumpe, THE WRECK OF THE 8.9. "ELLAMY..... saya the London Skipping Garsile, bas ordered An inquiry was held at the British Consulate you for your consideration. If he takes you to ages for medical attendance." Then there ! from Messrs. A. Rogers & Co. of Glasgow en 30th ult, into the wreck of the British Court or abuses you on the street claim dan another large steamer for the Pacific trade. He steamer Ellamy off Tokora, Hokkaido, on
April 29 The Court consisted of Mr. Rentiers, the happy-go-lucky letter which hints that th has recently taken over the Hast! Dollar and
Vica Consul, Mr. W. R. Coleman, master of fate should, walt till the pollers back. the new vessel will be a duplicate,
the Oro, and Mr. F. Baneett, master of the surned and then dart off with the 'rickane, Bu Rai Rowa-Captain Mace, the master of the of couras, that is just a trifle risky, . All ships Allamy was called, and read portions of the things, it may be added, apply to Kowloos vessel'slog, afterwards answering various goes alone. People in Victoris, Hongkong/alway tione put by the Court R. Ward and Mr. go to church on Sundays and when they.
Kendall, officer of the Eldiny, werk then not pay their 'rickebas they walk,
It is reported that in the near future the steamers of the Northern Pacific Steamship Co. plying is the trade between the Sound and the Orient will call at San Francisco on the return trip from the Orient. The company is now operating the steamers Minnesota, Shawmill
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