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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY NOVEMBER
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According to the highly. Ung letter which we published on Tuesday from our special representative with the American, Commission of Inquiry, appointed to in- be shifvestigate the causes which led to the kny rejectól MR,, lite to return any Contribution.
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massacre of missionatics at Lien-chan the other day, and to bring to book those who are chiefly responsible for the crime, the expedition has met with nothing but cordiality, up to the present, at the hands of the district officials en routs. Obviously that is a policy dictated by the prudent, officials at Canton, who, we are told, des. patched instructions to make the Commis sioners' journey as pleasant as possible. Our representative remarks: "So far the trip
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Ti Singh, Indian watchman at Shaukiwan, was charged by a brother watchman with the theft of 575. He was handed the mosey in notes by plaintiff and told to coine to Hongkeng and change them into subsidiary coin, but on returning to Shaukiwan, and being asked for the change, he denied all knowledge of the matter. He was then arrested and charged. The case was proved and His Worship senten ced him to six weeks' hard inbour,
The ninth annual,
#the shareholders of the Dairy Farm Company, Lid., was held at the Company's town de, ot, this afternoon, JAW, Noble, chairman of direct
and there were present Mr. Out tor, and Mesars. Seth, secrofatys Ja E. Blogi A Forbes, J. H. Underwood
The Secretary read the notice meeting.
The Chairman said Ger the usual custom, I will, with your
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The Jonghong Celegraph has been delightful," and that notwithstand-sew a boardinghouse ander and the are able to meet you again after another good
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1909.
HONGKONG HORTICULTURAL
SOCIETY.
ing the frightful noises" of the polemen and the rolling of the exaggerated sampans in which they pre travelling. At the same time it is apparent that a good deal of uncasiness prevails regarding the reception which the Commission is likely to get at Lien. All who delight in flowers will hail with chau. The report that the people, instigated, satisfaction the 'suggestion advanced; we no doubt, by the ringleaders of the outrage, have not the slightest doubt, on the authority are stated to be evincing a hostilo altitude, of His Excellency the Governor, and sup and are making preparations to resist the ported by Mr. ST, Dunn, the superintendentrance of the party, is not lightly to be ent of the Botanical and Afforestation Depart neglected. Naturally, the Chinese officials ment, that a Hordcultural Society should be with the Commission discredit the report; WHISKY. formed in Hongkong. It has been matter that is what they are there for, but when we
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for comment that a Colony which boasts a
flower market and designate's one of its prin- cipal thuroughfares by the beautiful title of Per Dozen $16.50 Flower Hill-forgetting the official name
learn that the guard' was strengthened at
Konghau that would seem to discount their views to "some extent, The North River, passing through gorges and lined with beel- under the prettier soubriquel—should be with-ling crags, would form an ideal place for an out the stimulus which is given by the ex- ambuscade by determined bandits, and istence of a Horticultural Society and its considering that the party had still to exhibitions. There is scarcely a hotike travel five days before they reached Lien- in Hongkong which does not
boast chau it was not, metaphorically speaking, an array of pot plants, which are
out of the wood. However, the men tended and nurtured, as carefully, even by charge of the expedition are not likely to
A. S. WATSON & CO. the poorest, as any greenhouse exotic in neglect any precautionary thieasure, arid
JJMITED.
WINE &
MERCHANTS,
SPIRIT
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
Hongkong, 28th October, 1995.
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GREGOR & CO.,
of floral decoration, when all his efforts are
England. But what encouragement has the should the murderers of Lien-chau attempt"| amateur gardener to excel in the art of pro-any of their games they are likely to get as ducing blossoms, of systematising his scheme good as they give. There is no doubt that a very bitter feeling prevails against Americans doomed to blush practically unseen? Only and American goods. The placards inciting a Horticultural Society, with its shows and the natives, and the stories about poisoned awards, can give that incitement and instil rice being sent from America to Canton that idea of competition which are so essen.
for consumption by natives in the interio,
a
second an unemployed conlie, who were charged with secreting opium in a house is Shektangisoi in order to turn informers and secure half of the foes, were again before the Court this morning on semand, when the charge was amended to one of conspiring to pervert the course of justice, and being con victed on this charge they were each sentenced to six weeks' hard labour and six hours stocks..
SERGEANT Macdonald appeared befors Mr. F. A. Hazeland this morning to prosecute Mulla Singh for grazing his cattle in the King's Park, Kowloon. The Sergeant stated that since the new law laying down the rules and regulations for the upkeep and proper
cattle.constantly was dark, and of cattle constantly waited till it used, eners then trespassed into the Park with their cattle to grate. In the present care the defendants' cattle had dose considerable damage to the new roads in the Park, and to the grass- borders. This was the first case to be brought under the new regulations His Worship fined the defendant $10, and warned him, that if he appeared before the Court again on a sinflar charge he would be very severely dealt with,
FIRE IN DES VŒUX ROAD.
At about 11.55 p.m. yesterday the fire alarm bell rang out denoting the outbreak of a con flagration in the Western district. The Fire Brigade, under Chief Inspector Baker, and will inspector Collell with his men, turned ou at No: 462 Des Vaux Road, West, in the Wing when it was discovered that a fire bad occurred Fuk Tai pear-nut and congee dealers. The fire fighters got to work, and soon had the fire
take us read the report and accounta sented, they having been in your hands for some days. It in with much pleasure that
year. During the period under review we have added largely, and yet economically, to our herd of cattle. We have made our purchases endeavour being to miss the standard of our heed by introducing only well-bred, good milk. producing animals. The actual value of the her has now become so large that we recom mend you to transfer from the year's profits to a. Cattle Reserve Fund, the sum of $25,000, This fand we lotend to keep to a liquid form so that it can at short notice be applied to pur chase of stock should that, for any reason, be came necessary. You will, I know, be disap pointed to hear that the frozen food business has not been as profitable as we anticipated, The public 1 am sorry to say have not given to receive, and which one would suppose they us the support which we hoped and expected would have given if they had considered their own interests, especially so we appeared in the field at a time when it seemed as though the prople of Hongkong 'were to be completely at the mercy of the moat guilds, and prices were continually rising without any good or ad equate reason. Our appearance immediately checked this rise in price and later was the cause of lower prices being demanded by the Chinese. You perhaps do not realize that there is really not the difference between our rates and those ruling for Chinese meat as would at first sight appear. You can at least depend on getting full, weight, besides which, it is now well recognised by those best able to judge, that one pound of our meat is equal, if not superior, la nourishment to one and a quarter portion at which the Military Authorities now pounds of the local article, this being the pro
serve the Garrison rations. Thats of you
in America, Australia" and "cotland, our
*percentage poin
one than you did last year
MU does well, should pay a dece The Chairma
that you are disse That is what directors, have,
very care
more carele
point of
the business. Cer apend the tim pany's business, about that. Our way, the Compan safeguarding the sharehol dissatisfied with our manas Mr. Underwood-No money to stoc
here to move for a bette
a company dons well that it should pay a better dividend.
parti- and to
The Chairman I am very pleased to bear. you say so. The directors, I can are very largely interested in the and have been for a long time and cular more perhaps than any suffer in declaring and taking as my share small dividend. But you not realiseƐthat this is a 50 per cast divider to set aside $25,oco as fund to meet any emergency
arise at a moment's notice.” (
wiped out. I may have to tell you that the Dairy Farm is shut up being careful and looking after the penal
able to present a report at all I have been and the dollars as they come in connected in an official capacli
wo are
tial to the successful rearing of the plants. are not without significance. As our re, under, but not before the ground and first who are particular about your meat supply Company for a good many yours And a Society under the wyls of His Ex-presentative indicates, these are only samples doors had been gutted, only the outer wall should come here, yourselves and make your many ups and downs and if it had not been for
cellency, Sir Matthew Nathan, and having as of the methods by which the misguided and its guiding spirits the leading citizens of the ignorant people are played upon by the Colony, is bound to be successful in these
astute ruffians responsible for the dastardly days when people long for a hobby scene at Lien-chau. The message which we which will while away the idle hour.published on Tuesday occupied seven days. It is a mistake, however, to think on the way from Konghat to Hongkong. The that if a Horticultural Society is formed at Commission was still-five days distant from the punto sing which takes place on the Lien-chau, so that we need scarcely expect to 8th of next month-and there need be no
learn the details of the safe arrival of the party until this day next week at the earliest. Mean time we must contain our solus in peace and trust that the force which accompanies the squadron" and the power it represents will suffice to overawe the desperadoes who think by pretence at braggadocin to frighten the foreigners back to Canton even though they have reached the gates of their destination,
doubt on that head-that it will be the first of its kind that has existed in Hong- kong. As a matter of fact, it will only be a resuscitation of a Society under the same name which was established in February the 13th-ominus date: 1873. But that Society was really a Government affair and 19, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL languished. There was an annual Nower
PORTS
FROM
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
ACCORDING to Mr. Jacob Garrard, consump tion had carried off annually one seventh of the population of the civilised world.
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THE Russian steamer Mercurie, Cap. G Trenert, arrived at Singapore from Odessa on the 16th inst. en route for Vladivostock. She has a general cargo on board.
THE property sale of t. Lots 1693 and 1694 at
Sunday next, at 2 36 pm. in the reons of the Chinese Branch of the Y.M.C.A.. by Mr. G. E. Woodward, in memory of the late Sir George
Williams, Founder of the V.M.C.A, who died in London on Nov. 6th, 1905, aged 85 years.
remaining intact, the second and third storeys. to the scene of the outbreak, but the adjoining being saved. The fire was fortunately confined
premises were somewhat badly damaged by the water from the fire hoses.
own salections, and this we hope you will do. If your wants are not fully and well satisfied, endeavour to make such changes as will enable complain about it in writing, and we will
you to get exactly what you require, but please bear in mind that if you and your friends do The cause of the outbreak could not be atdot in the future support us more heartily, present arceriained, nor the extent of the Hongkong will lose what we consider to be a damige sustained, but the contents of the very important branch of the Compay's bust the Meiji Insurance Company, Mitsui Busan Kai- adoption of the Report and Accounts, if there place are insured for $27,000 divided between ness, 1.0., frozen food. Before proposing the
shin, spent, and the Prussian National Insurance are any questions you would like to ask 1 will Company, of the latter of which Mears. Meyer be pleased to answer them. and Co. are the local agents, The Wing Fuk Tai Company have a branch shop at -245- Des Vœux Road, Central.
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The cause of the outbreak is now under investigation.
BLUE RIBBON OF THE
PACIFIC.
"EMPRESS" LINER STILL HOLDS RECORD.
Mr. Underwood should like to know how many cattle the Company has representing $61,174 againe last year?
The Chairman. Of course, you must re- member the cattle account changes from day to day, and from week to week. We are al- ways losing cattle and we are always replacing them, so that the cattle account is always a fluctuating one,,
Mr. Underwood.—I understand that, The Chairman. The total herd in August The steamer Siberia, of the Pacific Mail1924 was 357 head; the total berd at the cor Company, failed by 28 minutes to break the responding date this year was 315 head.
Mr. Underwood. I should also like to know record of the Empress of Japan for the trip across the Pacific from Yokohama. The blue how many farm for you have Tibbah of the Pacific is still held by the C. P. R.The Chairman.-We have a good many on Empress liner, whose record of to days and to lease in one way or another. Do you mean hours for the run from Yokohama to Victoria is how many do we ora yet the fastest time from port to port across the Pacific, The Siberia occupied to days, to hours and 28 minutes from Yokohama to San
toria is shorter. Travellers who wish to make a speedy trip across the Pacific must travel by the Canadian Pacific liners as of yore,
The Korea has made two attempts, each costing about 16,000 over the usual expenses of the voyage across the Pacific, to break the re- cord made by the Empress of Japan years ago, and now the Siberia has also essayed the altempt and failed. The Korea what she, brought Secretary Tait and his party of Con gressinen from Yokohama made the run to San Francisco in to days, 14 hours and so minutes) The Siberia leti Yokohama on the 13th with Miss Alice Roosevelt, E. t. Harriman and R,
Mr. Underwood. should like to know, if you own more now then you had last year?
The Chairman. We have not purchased
Mr. Underwood-But you have some on lease. I should like to know how many
The Chairman The number of lots we own is four. Some of them are divided up. One block would comprise several lots,***
Mr. Underwood. In last year's report, you named the number of lots the Company own?
ed. That has not been done this year.
The Chairman--Well, that holds good this years we have not made any increase this year,
Mr, Underwood-How
How many are on lease The Chairman-I was absent from the Co lony last year.
and vegetable show under its auspices, but every year saw a dwindling display of exe. hibits. In November, 1876, the Govern ment thinking, no doubt, that people, acting on the principle that the less one has to do with the constituted authorities the better, "would" patronise the society better if it were- under new management, handed over the control to some gentlemen who had evinced an interest in matters horticultural, and there was a brief revival of interest in the opera tions and shows of the Society. But the Horticultural Society of 1873 seems to have Wa Hing Lane, advertised in tak: place to-day Francisco, The route to Vancouver, and Vic. any land since last year.. been practically stillborn; it faded away and at the sales rooms of Messrs. Hughes and dicu, unhonoured and unsung ; indeed, it is
Hough, auctioneers, has been postponed for one doubtful if anybody knows the actual date week with a view to settlement of the matter. of its demise. What is wanted is a citizens"] Horticultural Society-not an affair which | A MRMORIAL Service will be conducted on will be meant solely for the snobs-to point with pride at exhibition times to the work of their gardeners and exhibit their own ignor ance of horticulture-but a Society which will allow the humble man, the poor Chinese gardener, the labouring Chinese coolie It appears that, after all, there was some truth SANDEMAN & CO., who keeps a few pot plants because of his in the rumour circulated in town a few days innate love of Nature, to come forward and ago to the effect that the 1.4. Hillston had compete on equal terms with the people of gone ashore near the 'Natunas. The Straite. Schwerin of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company on board, and it was decided before the Peak, a Society which will induce our Times says: Capt. De Crus, of the Billiton, the steamer sailed that she should attemps to native gardeners to cultivate bigger and reports that at 6.15 am. on the gib, while beat the fast run made by the C. P.Riner better cabbager, carrots, leeks and potatoes, coming out of the Natunas, his vessel grazed. The Vancouver Daily News Advertir says: age the amateur. As already remarked, the THE following matches have been arranged to derived would be worth the £6,coo or more the chickens and so'fonhj meeting for the formation of the new be played in the second round in the Kowloon Horticultural Society will be held on the Hotel Billiard Tournament; Blackledge v. 8th December, and after it has formally Pelling; Gourlay. Bond; Rodger v. Skian; been agreed to establish the Society, the A. Roza v. Clelland ; Quinn 2. Sibbett ; Herton meeting will proceed to discuss the scope. Stewart; Saxe v. Deas and Pitt v. Bishop and organisation of the venture. It is cer- These games must all be finished, according to tainly to be hoped that there will be a large the rules, by the 7th December next. attendance to support this worthy and most in Summary Jarisdiction this morning. His Honed, and the machinery was to excellent team for the attempt. From the time the steamer. our, Mr. A. G: Wise, Puinno Judge, dismissed left the breakwater at Yokohama until abe Mr. Underwood-It the partnership dispute case between Lee Kumssed through the Golden Gate the engine Company doing sayibing to give us a small Two ricksba pullers were charged this mom-Chee plaintiff, and Cheung Fat Ning, Young Sql room crews were kept hustling, and the steamer dividend ing with stealing a ricksha and trying to dis- San, and Pon Yat San, which was part heard made the voyage in so days, to hours and 25 pose of it. The owner of the vehicle identified last week. Neither the plaintiff nor himlautes-ass a minutes more than the m the ricksha and said the defendants were his solicitor, Mr, C, E, H. Beavia, of Messrste, however, is said to be 275 miles fonger
·preus of Japan took to cross the ocean. The day and night coolies. There was no evidence Wilkinson and Grist appearing, Mr. Dilo to Ban Francisco, and bad the two liners, been against the first defendant and he was dis Kong Sing, who appeared for the first and running on the same route the Serdan
Awepla charged, but was fined $3 for running a rick third defendants, and Mr. F. X. 2 Almada of coune, bays secured the record. But the aha without a licence. The second prisoner Castro for the second defendant, siked that the poor man mill the record for thei
Tubrery has the advantageof the baller ro was convicted and sentenced to seven days' | case be dismissed with costs against the plain, made across the Pacian Ocean from
Life: Judgment ant
entered according
OPORTO, PORTUGAL,
$20.00 to $42.00
PER DOZEN.
and a Society which will at all times encour-
excellent idea,
Hongkong, 24th July, 1905,
-16 | tard labour,
on a coral reef.
It was considered that the advertisement
speeding of the liner would cost. It was necessary to omit the usual call at Honolulu, Korea tried vainly to beat the Japan's time. as was done in the two instances when the
Fifteen extra coal-passers were taken; oo board and great care was taken in picking the best of fuel for the steamer's trip. The bunkers were filled with the best that could be procur
Mr. Underwood-1 am quite aware of that.. The Chairman-About half a dozen, Mr. Underwood-I should like you to ex plain what Stock in Hand includes
for sale. Anything that you can buy to the shop Mr. Underwood-Does it include the capone,
The Chairman-All stocks which, we carry.
The Chairman-Yes, it includes everything Mr. Underwood Pigs)
two members of the staff present here to-day we would not have had any Dairy Farm at all won't give their names; they are both present cow. There is no question, about that, -
at this table; old residents here will know whom I mean, it is only by harl careful that, we are able to unsw have endeavoured to enlighten you to the of my ability,
making these questions
Mr. Underwood-That was my object
The Chairman moved the adoption of the report and accouBIL
Mr. J. E. Bingham seconded.
The motion was unanimously carried. ̈;Mr. Underwood proposed; and Mr. Ruiter seconded, the re-election of Mesn land and E. H. Hinds as direc
Mr. Forbes moved, seconded, the re-appointment Potis as auditor, Agreed,
The Chairman.—We are very
to you for your attendance, will be ready for you to-morre
Mr. Forbes-1, beg to move a vote of thanks
to the chairman and directors for the way. have conducted, the business during the year
Mr. Ruffer seconded the motion which was unanimously cariled.
The Chairman-We thank you, I may sy we have devoted a great deal of our time which we don't get a great deal of remunera tion, and we don't ask it—to the Company and we hope in the future to appro priate as much time to the Comp for while looking alter, the. Comp safeguarding your interests
The meeting then ended
The Chairman-Everything we have them. Mr. Underwood-As regards the launch, acon count. You seem to have written off an enorm ous amount of money. Surely the launch does not depreciate to such ep enormous exiest as would appear by the
you to recommend.
The Chairman-ft.
that less should be wrill
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