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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SA TURDAY NOVEMBER
SUMMING UP FOR THE GOVERNMENT..o): I thase took place at every whan and wann always
Cake | looked upon by dóck companies as their own, The Tanjong Pagar Dock Company Arbitra The Court adjourned. tion Court held is final sitting on the 26th in N
~with a full attendance of its members, and END OF THE SINUM VILE SITTINGS, AN
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10. And now he came to the really most important diferance of opinion in the case depreciation in the wharves The total amount of capital expended on these wharvan wan. $684,000 He thought this probably required a little modification owing to the value of the
Leall'it one million
dollars. twas suggested that
■ large attendance of the public present -Be-
The sitting was resumed and soʻfar as the dollar then and nuk the dépreciation on this fore, the proceedings begas, a photograph of Singapore hearing is concerned, concluded, an the umples, Arbitrators; experts and omiciald was taken in front of the building.nl 29 26th Ulz, Sir Michael and the two arbitrator, Bir Michael Hicks Beach took their Edward Bayle and Mr. Inglis being present, When chair
R in the Council Chamber at a few minutes the outset dealt with the Company
Lord Cocil replied to Mr. Balfour Brow Bend after ten o'clock pe common
Mr. Ballour Browne stated that he had on the and other lands upon. previous day called for a letter from Messrsame time. For the purpose
:dated day'
FOR
HONGKO
RECEPTION,
DESCRIPTION OF THE
had not been deceived by the
lie
t-it was not part of bla duty látniesty's sublecen na sha Peak, in this Colony, érett ended and it won doubtful who were the been surpassed of Lies" intthago
(charge.
"complated & Co. of Livernoalkeepeech, and said he was sorry to be so long did nei quefill the subject at all an ength of time knows that these fortune-tellers comatozo state all Sunday, laying in a stock of azened forth on every side, The Japaneva,
He
WAS
Lut the details were 'enormous. In the first
1 accuracy of Mr.
Balfour Browne repudiated the imps
been struck
allen-
viceable repair for commercial purposes and the recipient of the tufenhich never
wo
On a
H
aman, that is to say thoan, are not playing, Keep coội with the aid of soda water and black- labelled bottles of whisky Lemonadu in very veldom seen in 43ipgapore. It is supposed to bo dangamus to the; systems t Consequently it
• sbunned like Siamese cholera." I said that 1- hive seen all the men excert the players cool. 1g off in this way, but I have also seen the was $311,380-on wharves alone more than 50 To the Editor of the "HongkonE THENGRAPH, MATR
Inyers stop
most exching: game, which had eached vantage breath of Scandal
order Six,-Accorting to a report
to sample the which appeared per cent. They had been told the piles had a were prepared to admit an average of $151,000 Urdugh up in the l'alice Court charged with ife of six years........ They did not admit it. They on the newspapers yesterday, two Indians were
whisky Thero is/naver"a"
these therings Mind,
Mind, most of the The celebrations among the members of the for repairs. The whole of this can rested apos uniawfully pretending to tall fortunes or using plople have been to church in the forenood, Japanese community in Hongkong to honour Mr. Matthew's • evidence. : Eto what land was superfluous theRANT QUES
videopinnor in cross-there is to deceive and impose on any of Hite players-I have seen's free fight when a of character and
a great, re- subtle craft, meins or device by palmistry or
they are nonbeyond the mutes do Jus & Co, with reference to the repair of one whether or not it could be sold wal Midlevant.
of His Majesty the Emperor of Japan's" Afty, The join! I'am labouring lo for him
this i
third birthday took place to-day, and they were of their vessale at. Tanjong Pagar,This was
amination he said it leiter written upon report of the captain who the question was not what was its saleable
in scala which have not: to study economy, They munt look with some on the
imilar occasions next entitled to the greep as
@ady of val They
I say, these expressed satisfaction with the manner in which I valus but, what was the work to them. This { mazication upon his astikmate of the amount re- | 740308 29th inst. The witnesses for the prosecu
eah the numerous national the ship had been repsired and despatched. was the test in all compensation cases, big of quired" On the whRivas. Mr. Matthews had fights of imagination indulged in by the fer players wake up on Monday morning a fresh
small. They were, however, not claiming for | Vang
i deity and they are able to put in a fret Every Japanese residance and 2 Col When that; letter was
En (Mr. Baly produced,
banner of the four Browne) said that the captain had received superfluous land; They were clalulng for their: Deda out to Singapore more than once and was june-tellers, and on that ground the: Mugist." | "class" d‹y's work. They have stirred up their store in the clay, boasted thach
commission. He now produced the captain's Property. They were entitied to be paid for apellyasked to report upon Mr. Nicholson's remissed the
one who has been in 'ongkong for any livers to some effect. lastead of lying in Rising Sun; and the Emperors golden algas
manual, the sixteen-leaved chrysanthemung, wa re He however never made verything that was taken from them. Lord we report, and see how far the directors might receipt 10. 2. Mas produced correcillesanne Robert then came to the main items in lately on 1 himself
are perfect peat, fo the community. They be and a fund of supreme laziness and banke
yasaltude, they have re-furbished their mental shops were closed for the day, and all the peo
ware in holiday ol complain
dressi many. Japanska haunt, the not know more than Mr. Nicholson had
boarding botter, whine, at
no. At every and told him. Though he was specially called in passer-by, and and up with a torrent of abuse,
physical ¿with | Place,' he observed that Mr. Maltby admitted to check M. Nicholson's figures he merely their palms are not "crossed" with to their culties, and added a dozen yearile of Britain-in-tha-East, were in? bolld»Y
of silver. If they confined
Now, what do we And in Hongkong? Not mood. In Happy Valley crowds of Japanese referenca to the detention of their 'ships and also that those in figures as Bg adopted them who did they not sea, Mr.
ciency of
in their national costume were to be mat in ' of: Meurs" Jus! & Co's vemel received: this off by Mr. Halsey as dopreciation, reserve and Nicholson ? He asked the arbitrators to, con tion to Bair·pusna; jne, might be Bid, for he lawin tennis parties-we are far too good for the afternoon strolling under the shade: DEINS clude that the reason was a doubt as to what would be a numskull whe regulated his life by the docks, with their talk about brakkin' sheltering trees, chattering about the glories of
thai, The influence of those Scotsman across witness. These the baes on his hands or the breadth of bis the Sawbath is wondarial. The moral broad
Dai Nippon, and lamenting the absance of been reported nose. But it is to be feared that they take in wharves, remarked counsel,
cherry blossoms. At soon there was 1** recop. he would have said as on: more than any wharves in the world.
the Chinese of the ignorant class with their cloth they wear bay infected the heights. If a
tion at the Consulate for Japan, (Laughter). They were kept in perfectly sere rigmarole of what happened so long ago that that he would like to lamang bife to visitors who called to offer their congratula that he would like to stretch his legs n bit, bo tions were welcomed by Mr. M. Nome, the forgotten turas golfer. ban
crawls were in a better condition now than they all about it, and their
a Sunday be staalikily,
Conful, and out of his house, sneaks by back wayato Happy viser, who has been in Hongkong for some Captain Tonami, the Naval Ad. had ever been. Mr. Matthews could not
not come true. No gold can result from the efforts produce single gentleman in Singapore of these furtune-tellers to persunde the victims happy when he in well away to the fifth hole, Valley, grabs his clubs and only begins to feel
time now connection with Admiralty/affalis, to question this. He challenged his friend of their tonif ole y that they are all to Now, I maint, in that is not what it should be
The supreme evant of the day, however,
wer will be and no evidence was produced. At. 10 become mandarins and live happy with a
the "Mikado Ball" which takes place.io-night the bumping of ships on the wharves it plethora of female attend ints Heaven alone If a man does his duty six days of the week he in St. Andrew's 11ail. The bail originated in was done every day yet they were not knows how many thefts and crimes have been should be allowed to please himself, how he the minds of the Cnal, the officiate of the hurt in condition to satisfy the Adusiralty egged on by there fo rune-ichler, have deter hurt to any extent. Though they might committed by ignorant louts and rascals who spends the seventh,
Yokohama Specie Dank, the The average Britisher out here under a cove.
sepresentatives Hongkong, standard, for earning a dividend they were mined to acquire the promised fortune by pant is afraid in call his sout his own on Sun of the Mitsul Bussan Kaisha in
Таранеке day. The moral superiority which pervades and the prominent members of the s Having argued ahout the machinery, Lord otherwise. Robert arrived at the question of the number Again, these fortune-tellers, nothing more gravels ad becomes a lickspittle at the altar Declaration of Peace. So enthusiastically, was
of sham and pietence. He is less of a man of years purchase. Government allowed 18 than parasites, Fave excellent opportunities to years' purchase (in Mr. Balfour Browne's speech act as scouts. And feelers for the criminal than when he honestly called for a boitle of the suggestion for a "Mikado Ball received
Bass and a lump
mp of
by the leading Japanese families in Hongkong in a country Inn was (6). Take say 22,
Twenty-one
cheese years.
chusses. They pursue their vocation at all
at home and said he was having his luncheon that any doubt as to its success was dissipated years' purchase was given in the New Harbour hours, but preferably when there are few about Dock. This did not deal with
prospective
bouse. Who knows how many thieves have anything. So long as he had a "couple of
Then be "didn't care a sou" for anybody or almost before it had arisen. enhancement. Atr, Balfour Browne poted his been guided to a house by the descriptions bob in his pocket, and sported an up-to-date
that proposition
povided by the fortune-tellers? case, almost entirely on the they were
era exposed to competition. Io The Magistrate dismissed the accused pre-tie--and, if his means permitted, a fancy waist course of a lengthy argument counsel contend. sumably on the ground that
was coat he was happy, and free to walk out with ed. that Covernment would never have com-
no deception..
English magistrates don't the first date! who caught his eye and se. peted; and he disposed of the statements of ex-
conded his advances. No diagens of Cuennas CREO # straw whether the party whose ternal competition by the other ports, Counsel fortune was told, was deceived or not. the subject of some alter dinner discoure in those days. Now be lives in fear of being also ched parallels in the matter, prospective The fortune-teller is there with intest to enhancement, and he said this was undoubted dercive, The Chiel Warder of Victoris Gaol, for there had been an enormous increase here, Mr. Tierpont, was naked-"You did not and it was only reasonable to suppose that believe that he cou'd tell your fortune?" And, with increased facilities there would be a
of course, the answer was, "Ne." A servant girl
wou'd gigg's and answer “ o to the much larger increase in the future.
This concluded Lord Robert's reply, and it sime question. Perple don't admit they be was then stated that the value of the surplus lieve these forone-icters-they don't blazon and non-surplus land's would be determined their foolishness in the face of the world. But
d many
imaginings of the fortune-teller as gospel, and the so-heared woman looks around for the curly-haired man who is to bring her into the fun of luxury and provide wil all marry into the blood-royal; while the haired-brained expect | foster farti april to pick up The it ne-teller is 'n da moralising agent and shoud be supported. There is far too much of it in Honglong. Had I been on the bench yesterday, I think. "Could have found a section of the Penal Code, or whatever it is called, which provided for the punishment of these
from Messi pr ing of the general state of the pacemosion and management of Tanjong Pagar
that had Lord Robert.Cecil replied that if she
be captain bribe for his letter, it was paid not by the Com-Capital out of revenue, were in fact used for pany but by the Roard for thei 11th July 1. A charge of this kind, was dated pisl expenditure and (as he understood him)
should never
1 by were taken out of profit. He agreed there have been made in the absence of the captain as no distinction between what was actual who was accused, and the production of this done and dividing this sum in dividends and then re-subscribing it. Mr. Murray, another of receipt, in his opinion, merely added to the their witnesses did not put it quite so plainly as offence. It was a gross breach of privilege to air. Mullby, but he agreed to the same proposi make the statement that this letter was an An-
letter because the captain had been paid ton. Therefore at fat as he had got the ex trua write it..
peris were agreed, as to figures, He did not a tow anything for increased rates in 1950-1-3 tation which his learned friend had thrown out. on the ground that there was nothing shown in The
the books, only leiter Lord Robert could produce in
Browne: He actually said if there praise of his Tanjong Pagar Dock was written by this Company upon the authority of the might have been an increase, there might have
And it captain who received at
was quite
Lord Rober: Very likely, in point of fact.be/Ample in the past and would be in the future, dishonest mevy if they could not attain it the atmosphere is too much for him. He community," It was desired to colabrate the obvious that these gentlemen did not know anything about the condition of the ships for ggested that it was right to allow something what they said in their letter was. We have this unless there was reason to believe that
thera sing of the rates had led to the di no doubt we shall find the work well done,"
Proceeding to sum up the case for Governminishing of the trade of the part, because what he was names to find out was what was mont, Sir. Balfour Browne said the claim of the Duck
ck Company was of a most exaggerated the muntenable incume of the Company Chiracter. He had shown that the Company's The question was whether the Company's
Robert carried his siguiment. Why stop at Sir Michael aquited how far back Lord live years?
that
been a decrease.
tates could be mamamed,
Lord Robert replied that they had to make an estate of what were the mailainable pro
dis of the concern an the at july, 1909. If they took another periud they would be doing xn'injustice to his clien ́s, because in paint of fact the rates heta increased during the whole five years dril not diminish the trade of
por
the
Sir Michael: "But why does this argument not apply to the prestatis five years?
Lord teal replied that it was not a question of how far back they could take it, when Sir Michael joined that the whole thing rested upon hypothe is.
shares had steyer been more than $500, and after the amalgamation they had been down to little over $200 and only went up by the ex- propriation Me Halsey had proved that when the Company desired to raise money for sew works, the proposal was fon Beco shares at $50
whereas their electi
-present claim came not something like $1.00 per share They were told t Sarthe,directort
Pad
not divided all thr profi
they could have; if they had not done their duty But he believed they had divided at:
could. During The judiciously past five years the av rage amount distributed wa 5567,on. The money they rul away wa really in meet depreciation. Could that inconse bo-maintained in the future-substantiall maintained and made secure? The Govern ment made their estimate on a different basis.
Sir E. Bayle: Suppose in five or seven years „To begin with, the paymer to to contributing
members chowed that there was a chance of you put so per cent. on the charges and thin was maintained 1. don't think it signifies the business going elsewhere; therefore he
whe would ask the Court to disregard theseus pa long as you put it on.
you put it on one year or another.co ber of the profits and make them a deduction; also
Ford Raben: We are trying to look into the the bonus of $10,000 paid in bonuses to visi ployees should be treated as part of working fature and we have to find out whia this cons expenses. The total amount of deductions they pany would be worth if left in our hands. Wo made fur working expei ses apart from renewals should be glad if Government would abandon and replacements was $179,625, leaving a bal- their purpose comprew, and leave it in our ance of $1.0 §:274. It had been shown that hands. He added that in spite of the imposi the docks, wharves, godowns, coal sheds and tion of the rator there was no decline in the machinery were in a most unsatisfactory con-trade of the part, the number of vessi coming dition The amount that should have been into pori steadily increased in each expended on these in order to keep them in a years, and the number coming to the wharves rves
was not so great as it was,
*...
taler.
A
the
a
ago-d
there
when the old women of both sexes start in on their favourite hobby,
the Emperor's the
PREPARING FOR THE BAL -Whatever the Jap nese undertake they carry out with an energy and enthusiasm which makes an old-fashioned nation feel bland. There is no banging back on the past of those interested: And there is no indication of that, volunteers have been accepted before they offer spirit which induces people to wait till all the
Sir Michael in declaring this concluded the teff-hand a matter of fact, accept muscles, to shake up his liver, and to keep off roused the citizens of Hongkong to a burst of
sittings of the Court in Singapore, said he was sorry he had not been able to atend oftener. the way that chief course for his bearing of great length, S. F. Prasi.
make a charge of a dollar
the argumentu which had been taken at rather her with a family of five boys and, 1 x Liria who like. What hold is that the cricket blossoms, a fringe of chrysanthemums, and 4.
CANTON MACAO RAILWAY.
proper condition was $505,695, which, taken Bisu steadily cleaned, „It was quite true the fricts, has been ever, that the question of from $1,079,274,left the adjusted profits from value of the recep other circumstances and the Canton-Mačan Railway is still in the dis-
the undertaking available for dividends at $593100, whereas the amount so. divided was $562,400 on the average during the five years:
The President-ls it your contention that
X, Y, Z. Hongkong, jist October, 1995; .
SUNDAY I HONGKONG.
Mr. E. V. Brenan, the Acting Commissioner of Customs, stationed at Lappa, Macro, has the fo jowing remarks, to make on the above subject in fiis annual report for 1904 The Commercial Treaty, which if confirmed could not but sensibly improve the business scampa—I am, etc, the five
status of Macao and give greater facilities to The Chinese traders in the neighbouring dia
but awaits ratification. is understood, cussion
in November lust is not entirely at Shana; and that the Convention signed satisfactory. Such a ta Iway, if it were not too at the outset by the large outlay of capital required to cross the network of creeks and rivers in the elta, should be successful and would certainly "prove
of great advantage to the traders and districts it would traverie, It is not to clear where the benefit to Macao would come in Until the approaches to its part are in a condi. tion to permit at least consting vessels to enter and lie at anchor aflost and in safety, the Colony must be content to remain, so far as trade is concerned, a more warehouse subsidiary ́to. Hongkong.
all they put away from revenue was the differ. tha rate could and would have been maintains heavily handicapped to provide the bridges
ance between $593,000 and $562,000) ··
AN INSECURE REVENUE.
but this was not to the imposition of the rates. They had the evidence of Mr. Waddell, so far as he knew no contradicted, that in his judgment ed. Further there was no indication by Government that they proposed to lower the rates. If the Imposition of the rates had" not reduced the trade he did not see that he was not entitled to treat this as bringing increased them and thus they could estimate upon this the future value. The next question was that of contributory payments, competition. They
Mr. Balfour Browne: I am quite content, to hear what Mr. Stewart said too.
tables, but the Court would like to
Mr. Ballour Browne Yes. The Company,
counsel went on to say, proposed to mu tiply trade, for they had always been able to change / travelling public in the many large towns of the to keep them on the rack, but that does not fill
this by aa years. He had proved through Mr. Murray that the multiplier should be 16. Their revenue was not secured at all. Their action bad shown that there
พ.ท offered inducements tu shipowners to send their
ship to the T. P. D. wharves lest they might be sent elsewhere. There was active competi tion not only in neighbouring
Lord Robert: Certainly. He continued that. Singapore liself, as well as further possible these payments were originally made in or
info but in
der to induce people go to Tanjong · Pagar competition on the part of the proposed now
Or, as it then Keppel Harbour. These Government wharves, of which there was an
WRI estimated frontage of 5.000 feet. In the cir payments had been continued since the absorp cumstances, he thought 16 years was the out-on of Keppel Harbour, but whereas they side number of years that should be given.ce Bit Edward Boyle thought the only evidence they had was 18 years.
Mr. Balfour Browne said the only evidence was 16 years by Mr. Murray, who gave that figure on the dividends. Mr. Waliby took the adjusted figures which were higher than the dividends, and gave 8 years, Multipled by aa "yests, the dividends of $162,100 gave a total of $12 371,803; whereas the Government's adjusted figure of $593,578 AV8 S10,684,000 for capital value. A fur the Company's
claim for $25,00,000 for enhanced valus of their undertaking in the future,, it was ridiculous. They were asking for compenta, tion for works that were not in existence. All that they were
Ila under the head of en- entitled banced value only brought the total sum, which on Government's calculation ought to be paid, to $11,244 000, which would give could get ¡per share than the shareholders have
at any time before the expropriating except at that practically exceptional period in 1899 per jor In 1899 to the amalgamatipa..
BLA QUESTION OF COSTS.
out
As regnide the cost he suggested that they should be taxed on the armin scale as in the case of the London Water Companies. As to how the costs should be paid, he pointed out that the dollar had been appreciated by the Government's action with reference to the currency, and asked that payment be made either in sterling, or in dollars at the rate of
tion 30th June Instr
THE KIANGNAN DOCK.
to THE BOSTOR OF THE "Hongkong Thungraphi" Sin, is the proper thing to say that London on a Sunday is the dullest place on earth. But I would reply that I can produce a more dullest," and th it is Hongkong. What is there to do on a Sunday at all? If course people go to church, and turn up the hymns and wonder how much longer the preacher is up the entire day. The consequence. is that people are exhausted from pure anal and spend asleep. balt the greater part of the day in bed, Next day they are so tired that they can hardly raise enough energy to sling ink around. They are irritable and weary, and it is all due to the lack of something to do on sunday.
Some people in Hongkong adopt the sensible system of journeying to Macke every Sunday, nit because they wish to see that Portuguese Colony or 10
desire lese leir money at fantang because they find it the best way to
their services." Once the idea was mooted the Japanese in Hongkung went into the work of the morning and leaves off at 5 pm. Before tinn to suceed in presenting a unique spectacle This average Brittuber goes to work early in preparing for the ball with as much determinas
ne has changed, night is upon him and a games their compatriots did before Port Arthur, of tennis is out of the question. Sunday, is his Needless to say, where all warn animated by a common aim, they accomplished what some only 'free day. Why then should he not be. encouraged to keep his eye in, to exercise bis people might deem en impassibility--they that fired feeling by, playing tennis
amarement at the marvellous transformation Sthat I would suggest is that the cricket scene which was found at the City Hall Build- ground should be opened on Sundays ing For days past, Japanese residents have mest put up, and tennis started You could been labouring to produce a miniature Japas
zei if you i don't think many would object materialong, and, with, the scantlest of a few flowers, ahin: of cherry ke ground which on Sundays stands empty at boundless imagination which was treated do present should be the tennis green of the deeds, they evolved a picture which charmed 'olony. Think of the nice girls, who would and delighted all who were privileged to s** Rt. Even when chaos seemed to run rampant tror down to see your back-handed twist and your half-valleys and all the rest of the fargon this forenoon, when Japanese entrepreneurs of the green! Think how the millinery were bustling from ha I in ball, arianging and establishmeals magnify, seu for ever! Half the poor girls in the sensation of the artistic, which seems to be
in town would
nuld prise, hless and fixing the decorations, the touch of beauty and
Hongkong danh get a chance to show off their innate in every japanese mind, were dimly latest "cutions." Tennis at the cricket apparent, and they blossomed forth long before ground on Sand, ye would be the very thing night had fallen. for them. Then think how the natives, would astonished. Taken all in all, I don't see how could better my pian of starting tannie on the cricket ground on Sundays. Nobody is too old, or fat or ugly to play tennis indeed most people look rather better when playing tennis. And tennis would help to break down the barriers of Snubdom, which is a consummation greatly to be desired.-I am, etc
FAT AND FORTY. Hongkong, 1st November, 1905.
CHINESE AND THE AMERICAN BOYCOTT.
ba
you
be
THE DESIGNERS.
Mr. H. Yera, photographer, and Mr. M. Açki of the Mitsui Bessan Kaisha were the moving spirits in designing and erecting the decora tions, A aqund of bluejackets, from H,H,B. Tamar un er Yeoman of Signals Webb render
d
who appeared
the scene from fore
10%
Japazance, and there was a whole aku suk
OR
of Dal Nippon and a determination that the Mikado Ball should surpass anything of the sort that has been seen before in Hongkong, Where this excellent form of rivalry prevailed the result was a foregone conclusion.”
JAPAN IN HONGKONG,""}
On passing through the main entrance to the City Hall, the visitor walked right into Japan, with is wealth of floral beauties and its typical winding rivers. At one side, on the right, su artist in stocco-Mr. M. Aoki of the Mitenl Busan Kaisha--had transported one of the beautiful glimpses of scanery in Japan to kong. It was a taprasentation of a rocky sino over the rocks winding: thre
through tortuou course till it disappeared in the distance, stork stood on one bank watching trets and thrubs of the dwarf variety eprung out o
st of the giades and added to the
Among the many improvements being made | bui sa-Thay leave early in the morning, of the promoters of the boycott ngainst Ameri« iz 'Nikko. A waterfall tumbled andź eddied.
pass
get to Macão about roon, dawdla oves tiffin, spend half an hour in a rickaba and then diar. cover it
is time to get board again. I know severn): married couples who field weekly trip; they are such old-established travellers that the captain has certain places set apan for them which they take as a mat-
ter of course,
They tell the same stories they are my opinion, are doing well, since day with the care and clovorzass of a
there's
in Shanghal none exceed in importance, to were compulsory in 1899 they had "isten' shipping interests, those now being consum voluntary since. Were these payments really made in order to maintain trade of were they river frontage of three quarters of a molle. New mated at Kiangnan Dock. The dock has a merely fifté à consin large shareholders, by modern and costly machinery is being erected referred them to the evidence or Mr. Maliby. for the repairing and construction of sea craft Here was no question as to whether they wEIG The dry dock, which is nearly completed, bas legitimate, the question was, were they
only
a langth on top of 395 feet, length on blockets necessary? The Government would certainly of 375 feet, width of entrance 60 feet, water op quite clear the contributory payman It was sill, spring tides, 19 feet: . Two twenty-inch every wetain always says when soup souses n The Captain soup! conies on quite clear the contributory payments were not.
are being pumps, and orie ten-inch pump are
the table- "Hurry up, is contains n refer necessary for the purpose of the business, and stalled. These pumps have a capacity of pump the members of the Board were considering at
ing the dack dry in ninety minutes. There are peas in your soup which contatos the moment of expropriation whether they puent slipi for hauling up smail craft. To the erce to some antediluvian joke and always should not be discontinued.
new machine shop, a forty-ton overhead travel everybody laughs. Mrs. So-and-So invariably Mr. Balfour Browne: But, they were con-ling crane has recently been installed. The replies, with raised and amazement tinged and the end.
heavy machinery in this shop is second to Sir Michael: necessary they ought to be deducted from the profits: If not they should use in Shanghai. The shop, large as it is, le ia-actually, pea." and everybody laughs fully occupied by the rapidly increasing basi again. Weil, ti ese people have discovered ons ness of the Company, which is now building a way of getting rid of Sunday bagnation, Learned counsel for the Company agreed, steel towboat for a local firm, Three steam hat said it made no difference to the profits, launches, for harbour-use by the Company, They always had been made and the Company have been ordered, and are now on their way: did not like to stop the think suddenly. He Mr R. B Mauchan, well known in Shangha, submitted_that 'if' these payments were not is the efficient superintendent of the dock. necessary it did not matter whether the direc
Te Mercury. tore were justified to making them, They deduct them. The more were not e titled in ded unnecessary and improper they were the less likely that, they would be made in future, Assoming the there had been a 'gross breach of trust, and there had not, Government would
not have been made.
DRIFTING MINKS,
COMPENSATION FUND SUGGESTED.,
Lap | weil lurge on her in Captain, so there
not surely deduct this before arriving at the Japanese and Hassian Goverments in 'dis
the extreme case in his argument.
Sir
were charging the directors with this,
The President-Are you not asking us to you don't real
alk out at all;
And the other. Half of them are wonder ing whether, if they walk out wearing a straw hat they will be offending the bon fon of the Peak, and whether they should walk The other balf doesn't count. All the bachelors spend the early hours of Sunday in sewing on buttons. If the regiment of females in Honge kong could only have
of a few A glimpse on & Sunday morning they would be into Baying, avati, take. me and my fortune, and I'll sew on your buttons," without
piece
To the Editor of the "Hongxong Talsosary," SIR.-On B.nday lost there was a large and imposing procession in the village of Lappa, in Chinese territory, on the other side of the Inner Harbour, opposite Macau, in honour of a Chinese hero, known as Fung la Wai his sian, who resided at Shanghai, was known to atuent circumstanies and was ons
In
con manufactures and commerce in China. The inequitable procedure of the Americans directed against the Chinese in the States affected the unhappy patriot in such a way that he died at his own hands. His compatriots ake now endravouring to deify the de eased of the scene. It was a beautiful picture worked. and they, in
to the world at large that craftsman. It soothed the eye, and a the people of China, are, at isa and unich fra. In fact this was not the Cup Cathay
by a spirit of patriotism Hall. animated
City Hall terests, and seek justice accordingly see the Nikko was built on a generous scala and mus concerning questions affecting their vital in it was japan, and ||Japan" in the plenitude of its sutumnal beauties at that...The scene from From a window in my 100m who have have cost many an anxious hour; but belog the large gathering of people at Lapps congregated there from he neighbouring places, work of an enthusiast, who was honouring. L The wharver at the water-front were full of Emperor in this form of all, the completed of the fact of the Governmental prohibiting been expanded upon it. At any rate it earned passenger boats. I am informed that, in spite scheme amply repaid the trouble that used
in the the encomiums of all whɔlviewed it. infigh Macao Chinese against
panticipating in boycott
the Chinese movement,
THE RISING SUN AND THE UNION JACK, shops and res taurants in the city contributed each ita quota
The passage: leading to the Library, WA towards the popular demonstrations in Lappa screened off by two immense dags--the Ris From start to finish the function of honouring ing Son of Japan and the Union Jace of Great the memory of the departed Fung went of without hitch, It is saying much, for the Britain. Indeed, the Rising Sun and the Union jack were everywhere, in ayldance it orderliness of such an absoriaal assemblage was impossible to move step or furds the eye of the lower orders of the population is remembered that no troops are 'stationed of power and fraterning the twin; ByMD)
edwithout being confronted with
"The two LETU. et the district to maintain good order. In what were employed in every scheme of ambellin country, other than
their
In
On the
"and acted as
entrance, there
· Dealing with the responsibility of the more delay. So exhausting is this work boasted of, I ask, wilha, can ́such a fact be mant, and it should not be forgotten that many! The Americans have shown themselves very schemes, the designs of different minds had maintainable income of the concem. He put icminating dribing mines in the northern lacing buttons, fixing up braces with a
something or wiping out seas, the V. C. D. News holds that it is the gifts of gocer's twice, soaking straw hats in ungrateful for excluding the Chinese, from been carried out simultaneously. They al
creases,
territory
in such an irrational manner, which and merged into a perfect harmony
satisfied exchange that ruled on the date of expropriæ= |||| ichael could understand, if you of theat two. Powers to compensa the mind-
least the individuals who have lost their pro have the much-to-be admired and absolutely fatigable Chinese Inbourers, possibly the Facia
or been injured (brough mines, and the necessary-if-you-want-to-be-in-the-very-height railway might not have existed in lis present wealth of palms and ferrand downs which. perty of save the Goverment from the responsibility
Robert said these payments were Lord
in
of fashion wrinkle in the center, so exhaust form to-day families of t those who bave lost their lives.
MANATUM Off China's son had been obtained through, the Botanical and: of their own action), diamete
the nature of gifta, ne kay” subscription to When a vessel strikes one of these mines, it is ing, 1 say, is all this that
poor bachelor Mir. Balfour Browse-I am asking you not to charity and not necessary in any way to main. impossible for those on board to know wht in reduced to a mass of pulp. Then he Perish day that lack the Chinamat
places Russian or a Japanese mine, and his nether garments between the mal; taboos persons give this Company an artificial value for their tain the business. On the subject of bonuses ther it is
and things American, The up the scene, so that the stranger, whose artizile *sndertaking.; If the pr ce could have been to European employees, Lord Cecil merely therefore the two Governments, Dow happily treaser and has to go to bed to act as the opportunity is thus afforded for England, Belt tule had been almost salisted by the replies
provide fand sired spon on 30th June, it would have been said the wetted Basuring col com fried computation should be paid and we No wonder that he can't work on Monday, or to supplant Auserican commerce in the the pillars, and made the staircases per from weight which produces the crease required glum, Holland and other European Bistes of Nikko, turned with gratitude to the towers $10 which spread over the corridor, twined round
- paid
which MAAN EEN Bought to be deducted. Regarding con PaLord R. Cecil, speaking with reference to sumed and not paid for, ha cubmitted: it was faol sure that they will see the justice of thie on Tuesday or Wednesday for that malfects of Colestie, Empire al sont be gathered, have creation of nature,
almost in its entirety. Thị # represented to
10 recover from the Caste, said this arbitration was diferent from perfectly plain this should not be deducted. when it is
them. They cannot, takes the London Water Comppales, and be asked What ground was there for supposing that and we are dure they would not uy
Sunday 10 avade
lo with respa bay fear and do not confide lawn
tenais green mitchpilo I. Hers in after the Killer's Government took possession greanery from, the top branches between solicitor and client so that there should fattro What possible suggestion or argue these unforeseen and unavoidable dangers 14.
aubatantial indemnity to the Company meal! Her was practice perfectly innocent, navigation, It seems that they cannot hate Hongkong, green is the exception and of Kiaochen and an important allee of Shank cherry blossoms which share it The President remarked that he did not see and prevailing for 40 years He could not fralise what they have done, and it is only fair: by res means the rule. Of course, it la tung That high-handed action was very bad themum the diuinciion of being fas
degrees German authorities lack the fact of successful of lanteras of true Japeness fathl Colwas not true to say its orgie was due Ibey should be charged for the price of this can compensate, the entirely innocent victims yard
tennis on Sunday" in afternoon is the great, tennis stale, proof whereof is to be found in the guest, kendi heware hot Anangements are made chropic rising in Germany's possessions" in: people in Europea We have received from Masin Kally and weeks ahead. The ladies who are too delati,
gland's examples and p "Walk one of their useful, #Imperial: Kurtish; "to play--and truth to tell most of them araabMusica &They have yet much to leans from | with; Japan thesi
d precepty
in the art of just an hour sad to hold their own light men folls Lounge colention CustOF CHINA, and Chinese data blocks for the new year
¿Tara made of gracefully or as gracefully so they can, on 45
weak
CHERRY BLOSSOME
there the costs should be on the hlebait scale as f,this coal would have to, ba, pildiforking the Kekeir obvious responsibility for the existence of In Singapore nimos! every house no great love for the German whoa KuThe pillars were bidden='lY
Casa
not apply her putera bebe
Uppercute je to arrears in“weighing. It was due partly to can do, and it is their duty to do is SEN PLEtta angie Prasloga" government of the natives" of any conquered had come straight from:
that the taxation
place in England low
Lord R. Cecil, proceeding to sum up, referred in
the dimanly which the Company had a parcel
boured under through the Government declin
jeg to allow the opcials of the Docks: to give.
ReferrinK Int
thes &ccumulations
of
dust, and owners laying lumall
rogbing)
of their warlike operations. It is the least they