Intimations.
A. S. WATSON & CO.,
LIMITED.
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
ESTABLISHED A.. 1841.
DEVONSHIRE CIDER.
NOTION
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1906.
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ence of over 30 years such as no Harbour Master could, acquire during, the period of his command. He is brimful of precedents and processes; the routine of the Depart ment is at the ends of his fingers; he is a
The Editor will not undertake in be responsible for living encyclopædia of local nautical affairs from the official standpoint. With equal truth our remarks apply to Mr. A. P, Guterres, deputy superintendent, Mercan tile Marine Office. In these circumstances, it is A wise Government which secks, by a judicious system of reward for faithful work done, to retain the ser, vices of such worthy officials on staff. Without the assistance which such officials tan afford, the chief of a de- partment would necessarily be at a dis.
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the
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
JAPAN is thaking extensive purchases of fiqur to supply the shortage in the rice crop.
18 a Gazelle Extraordinary issued this after. noon the Governor has proclaimed-Manila"a" port at which an infectious or contagious ducase prevails.
RTURE of visitors to the City Hall Library sad Museum for the week ending the 15th July, 1900:-Library, non-Chinese 258; Chinese isi "Total 419 Museum, non-Chinese 184 Chinese 2,579; Total 1,763,
FOR snatching a Jacket from a passenger on board the ss, fankow carly this morning, a coolie was this morning sentenced by Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz to "fourteen days' hard
Che Hongkong Celegraph advantage in the conduct of his office, and, labour and six hours' stocks.
HONGKONG, Tursday, July 17, 1906.,
We have just received THE HARBOur Master and a shipment of APPLE BRAND CIDER bottled
HIS STAFE.
Nothing which affects the interests of the by Messrs. ROBERT POR-ipping community of Hongkong can pass unnoticed by the Colony at large, for the TER AND COMPANY, Pro- prosperity of the shipping industry implies to a very great extent the advancement of the prietors of the famous Colony. The ceremony which took place BULL DOG BRANDS yesterday, when His Excellency Sir Matthew of STOUT and ALE.
Nathan formally opened the new Harbour Offices, is therefore invested with special interest'to all who are concerned with, the
It is highly recom-material progress of Hongkong. It had long mended by many medi-been apparent to those who had given the matter a thought that the old offices were cal men on account of its utterly inadequate for the requirements of beneficial action in cer- Department, and were sist derogatory to La jutt which can boast of dealing with the tain ailments particular- greatest amount of tuumage in the world. Indeed, the fact that the Harbour Authorities ly in complaints of a
conducted the immense business of the port gouty origin or tendency, Either by itself or mixed with SODA or GINGER
7.
Per Case of 8 Doz.
Pints
under such restricted and hampering con- ditions speaks volumes for the capacity of the Harbour Master and the able co-operation
on
his sistants. The saying that a good
THE Coxswain of the steam launch Hot Chu came before the Police Court again to-day. On this occasion he was charged with carrying sixteen passenger in 'excess, on the ith instant. A fine of $10 was imposed.
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what is more, the lengthened period of active duty gives force and authority to the advice rendered by such officials. The services of the chief clerk of the Harbour Office must, therefore, be invaluable to the Department, and his knowledge must greatly facilitate the A. M. Curie has arrived from Tientsin to business of the office, and in no small meatake up the duties of shipping manager of the sure relieve the Harbour blaster of much Chinese Engineering and Mining Co, led, onerous work, which he would otherwise be Shanghai. "Tientsin papers to land state that
followed South by many good wishes. compelled to supervise personally of delegate Mr. Currie hard a most cordial send-off and is to incompetent or at least inexperienced hands." It is gratifying to note that the Go. vernment recognises this fact, but it is still more gratifying to observe that a high official does not hesitate to express his appreciation of the assistance rendered by the principal
members of his staff. Captain Harnes Lawrence, in this respect, has set an example which should be a light and a beacon to other departmental heads, for it is manifestly obvious that a public recognition of the con- scientious labourer will conduce to increased efforts on the part of the individunt members of the staff-the subordinates who are. 100 often hidden away in cellar-like seclusion when praise is abroad-to secure the ef- ciency of the department with which they are connected. Probably the secret of the smooth working of the Harbour Office lies in the appreciative attitude of
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THE majority of the schools in this Colony, are now enjoying one month's "midsummor holidays," and the children are revelling in this recognized period of doles far niente.
ELEGRAM.
"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH”
SERVIOR
THE Coxswain of the steam launch Dismarck wax summoned by the Water Police this NEW JAPANESE WARSHIPS. morning, for dumping rubbish into the harbour
on the 4th instant. A fine of Sio was im posed.
Oux correspondent ai Canton states that $64,000 has been paid to the treasurer of the American Presbyterian Mission at Canton, by the Chinese authorities, towards the Lien-chan indemaity claim.
· ARRIVAL AT SINGAPORE.
· [From Our Own Correspondent.]
Singapore, 17th July, 2.55 p.m.
JOLY CRIMINAL SESSIONS,
THE CALENDAR.
The now Japanese warships Ka- THE Chief Justice's staircase at the Supreme | shima and Katore have been sighted Count is "closed for repairs, it has been found to be riddled by swarms of white nuts, and and are expected to arrive here in coolies are now strenuously occupied in pulling the course of the day. the whole staircase to pieces to eradiate the dangerous pests. It is feared that white ants may be found in other parts of the building wherein there is a considerable amount of woodwork for them to operate upon. AUTHORITY, says the Manila Coblenews, has been received by the division quartermaster from the war department, advertine for bids for repairs on the transport afcClellan, An examination of the machinery found it to be repairs necited will be reported upon and it is very bad shape. A definite estimate of the
expected that advertisements for the bids will be placed in a few days. Experts who have
claim that it will be necessary to equip the examined the machinery of the Afé Clalian hoat with new furnaces. This feature of the repairs alone will amount is the neighbour hund of $55,coo. It is hardly probable that the vessel can be repaired is Manila and in
in
that case the transport will have to be sent to Hongkong.
LAU U, an unemployed engineer, residing at
Mr. H. H. J. Gampertz to six weeks hard No. 34, Star Street, Wanchai, was sentenced by labour and six hours' stocks this morning for breaking open the tronk of another engineer and stealing $15 worth of clothing, yesterday.
*** UN page 7 of this issue we repro. doce the concluding portion of the report of the extraordinary meeting of the Weihaiwei Gold An article by Mr. 'Howard Mining Co., L.d.
REFERRING to the award made by the Arbi Evans' on the forthcoming International Con-tration Board appointed in connection with expropriation of Tanjong Pagar Docks, the ference on Disarmanent is printed on page 3..
Straits Times says:-The award, 527929, 77, THE case in which a cargo-boat owner was charged with being in possession of too bags is about a third of the amount claimed by the of unrefined sugar, valued at $103, was con. Dock Company's shareholders; it may or may not include the price paid for the surplus lands, tinued at the Police Court to-day, before Mr. Gompertz. The evidence was, in his Wor- but certainly tines not include the dividend for ship's opinion, insufficient to convict and the the half-year ended the 30th of June, 1905 defendant was discharged.
which was, large, and, for which the Govern ment declined to hold themselves' liable to that extent. The question was referred to a separate arbitration. Well, are the shareholder's
no means satisfied with their bargain; and
there is the award, and the matter is settled. would be glad to have got quit of it. However,
Tuz Chicese opium smuggler is nothing if not resourceful, observes the Bangkok Times, These came from Hongkong to Bangkok, by the s.a. Lonto the offter daya Chinaman whose
great floating drydock Dewey, towed by
Glacier was in the lead.
The Dewey
of Olutighps On the following day she was towed ww position "in front of the town was towed to her anchorage in the inner har hour, and will lie not far from shore)- The drydock is in excellent condition, and is none the worse for her long and hazardous trip.
A notification has been issued from the office of the Registrar of the Supreme Court, informing gentlenien who have been summoned to attend for service on the Jury at the Criminal Sessions to-morrow (Wednesday), that they will not be required to attend until Thursday, the 19th inst., at 10 am.
SINGAPORE DOCKS AWARD.
SHAREHOLDERS SATISFIED.
From the Singapore 'Free' Press, of 7th inst,, we clip the following A telegram was received in Singapore this morning. by the Honourable H. For stating that the arbitrators had fixed the price of the Tanjong Pagar sward at $17,929,177. The price 10 be paid to the London Consulting Commitee for retiring them and doing away with their London Office is £6,919, exis 5448.937.
Un the shareholders learning these figures general satisfaction was expressed.
Mr. Fort in a short interview remarked that
the award worked out excellently for the share- holders, but not particularly well for the Government; bui added that considering the miatter from the point of view of what the shareholders bad originally asked, and thought they might get, the figure was not, so satisfac- tory for them.
This wasks out at $75 per share. The following telegram has been received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Colonial Secretary
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The following is the Umpire's Award
A. $27,929,177-For Company's Under
taking,
$351,354.31 cents-For land for Rail-
way Extension to Docks; see Scho dule D of Report of Tomlinson and Maclaren.
workman does not complain of his tools | Captain Barnes-Lawrence towards his juniors. the augs Glacier, Casar and Brutus, entered
·BEER it makes a most contains a patent fallacy, for it is beyond It is so seldom that the suggestion of a com- Subig Bay at daylight on the lath inst. The satisfied? We think the Government are by and is forwarded to us by courtesy of the wholesome, palatable question that only under the best conditions plaint is heard against the Harbour Office can the best work be accomplished. The that when one does arise it is seized on with and refreshing summer old offices were dingy, craniped and un-avidity. Captain Barnes-Lawrence has had suitable; they were a standing reflection a long and varied experience in official beverage.
the niggardiness of the Colony, spheres. He has seen active service in every especially when it was taken into considera-
part of the world, occupied a position in the tion that minor departments were housed in Naval Intelligence Department, and before $30.00 palatial buildings, with every modern con- conving to thongkong was Captain of the fori Tik C. M., Klingyung, which arrived at principal luggage consisted of a signboard of 4.00 venience at hand and every facility provided of Gibraltar. His wide range of duties-ad- Shanghai from River parts on gurinst., reports: portentous size and weight!.. Never before was
such a signbard brought to At 3 aan, on the 5th instant, when off Leixu
touli and admired it, dis- for the quick despatch of business. Not mirably filled him to deal with the manifoldsigoted a capsized sampan. Stopped and have cussing a from every point of view. They withstanding all drawbacks. Havrsccupied ent nationalities are perpetually in a state of lifebuoys, but missed. Launched a boat and went so far as to bare a small hole in it and the post now so warthily held by the Hon, armed neutrality. He has secured the esteem, rescued a man, a woman, and a child, and this fed them to obtain other tools, with the Captain Barnes-Lawrence, k... and the staff and confidence of shippers and seafaring carried them to Hankow. Their story was result that it was found net in be of solid wood, men by reason of his, absolute fairness and that their junk capsized, when on a journey bit of thin boards back and front, cunningly succeeded in dealing with the multifarious duties of the Department in a manner which the high principles which guide his conduct from Wong shih-tong to Kiuking with a cargo joined to a aquate frame. The interior was
Per Doz.
Hongkong, 5th July, 190fe
$16.00
WILL BUY A CASE
GREGOR & CO.'S
IMPERIAL
HIGHLAND
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to, Bankok
B.
C.
D.
The
opium. The owner of the sign was then
120,100-For Annuity to Fraser. 6,91245-For compensation to Lon-
don Committee. $118,937-For cost of Reinvestment. 23. EarWay For cust of Liquidation.
(sd.) ELGIN. The announcement we are enabled to make
to-day writes "finis" for alt practical purposes to the history of one of the most interesting, we had almost sd romantic, enterprises, Sin
gapore has ever seen. To write & history of Tanjong Pagar Docks would mean writing the story of the progress and characteristics of sin
secured complete approval of those who had in departmental, work as well as in private olpeaches. A.boy, aged six years, was drowned. nllow, and filled with. flat tins all containing gapore for not far short of half a century, and businesswitirsheshipping office: There may life. Hongkong became the premier port MR. J. H. Kemp, who has been on leave to arrested. have been occasional hitches--tha: musthave the world since CaptainTM Barnes-Lawrence | England, during which he was called to the We are courteously informed by the local
ok command of the Harbour Office, and come to the notice of the general body of it is certain that every effort will be made by pria: German Mails.s. Prinz Regent Luitpold ageal of the Pacific Mail S.S. Company that of old Jan Kumpani, but six short years after him and his staff to maintain that position, relieves Mr. J. W, Lec-junes, as Deputythe xs. Korea was nine days late in leaving
been practically inevitable; but they did not
shipping men, and certainly were unknown
Br, returned to-day to the Colony, by the Im-
the detailing of the careers of half the men who in those near, yet far off, days were the merchant princes of their times and the founders of much of our trade. The Tanjong Pagar docks scheme was evolved in the days the Indian Mutiny, when Singapore held many an expatriated Sepay, and six years before the
to the public of Hongkong. The new build in which they will be greatly helped by the Rgistrar at the Supreme Court, who, after San Francisco, the delay in leaving being due opening of the Suez Canal was to bring to the
ing is by no means a pretentious structure,
the acquisition of their new and more cum- modious offices which were opened under
'BANGKOK APPEALS.
THE NEW ORDER IN COUNCIL,,
puncil
but doubtless it will suffice; at least it is aéti agreeable and felicitous conditions. vast improvement on the old ties. One of the features of the Harbour Master's in- traductory address at the opening ceremony, yesterday, was the evidence it atferded of the unanimity of interests which exists between In connection with the new Order
to which we referred in our eiitutial columns the bead of the Department and the staff. So seldom is it that the chief of a Govern the other day, the Bangkok Times in a leading article says: In view of the opinions expressed mem office recognises the valuable assist by the doyen of the local Bar in an interview ance rendered by, tried and capable assist- on the subject of the new British Order in ants, that the speech delivered by Captain Council, it is of interest to find in a Hongkong Rarnes-Lawrence becomes all the more note-paper just to hand an article on one of the chief worthy. The generosity of the Harbour points of interest in this new Order. In regard to appeals from the British Judge, the practice Master in this respect is only equalled by his modesty in matters concerning his personal work towards the development of the port
for years of arduous labour in that position to the strike. Leaving San Francisco on June ny goes on three months well-earned leave, 20th at 2.32 p.m. slie made the run to this port wich he will spend in Japan, in the salubrious in Honolulu, Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki, chate of which we trust he'will, while spend. and Shanghai, arriving here on Sunday at ida pleasant holiday, recuperate his health45 pm.. being thas, but one day behind her This while welcoming the incoming we may, scheduled time for arriving. She made the trip athe same time, speed the parting "guest."
in exactly 24 days, hours and 59 miles. but of this 4 days. 5 hours and 15 minutes were spent in the ports mentioned en route, so that her actual steaming was 20 days, 4 hours, and 44 minutes; an average of 16 knots an
ATHER Chinese Volunteer Corps, the A. 1. News understands, is being organised andaily drilled in the Chinese suburbs. The ornisation is the same as the one which pated the sheets of the Settlement on Suri dahamely, the members me all connected witrade and belong to Chinese mercanti'c hot and shops in the Chinese suburbs, of so Shanghai. When the two corps have be drilled to a certain degree of perfection
in Bangkok is, under the Order in Council this to be, we learn, a grand parade, and 1906, assimilated to the practice in Hongkong the will be joint drills of the two volunteer Where and when these are to take and Shanghai. On the face of it, to compel a
co.
WHISKY. Captain Barnesiawrence stated that when Judge to sit on ageal and revise his own judet: Bl is at present unciatio
NOT ONE OF THE BEST,
BUT.
THE BEST!
OASH LESS 10%
CREDIT LESS 5,
were being pensioned off and there was difficulty in getting men to come forward to
ments is an unsatisfactory procedure. But we
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hour being kept up throughout the entire dis- tance across the Pacific. This is a remarkable record, and with such a record before thems, the Pacific Mail 5. S. Company need have nothing to fear from strikes and strike's dolaya in future.
LAND COURT APPEAL.
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East the fist ripples of that flood of commerce which lins since lapped the cost line from Bombay to Nagasaki and far-away Vladivostok.
In those days Colonel Collyer bad idens of A deep water pier reading out far enough to give seventeen feet depth to boats benking alongside, and it is this notion which is said to have inspired a number of merchants in 1863 to start a docking business. It would be be yond the scope of these remarks to refer at length to the dock fiasco at Palo Brani or the old Bon Accord basin, so it suffices to say that In the year there was issued Ja prospectus of a company whose capital was to be one hundred soared in the region of four shillings. It may and twenty thousand of the dollars which then be of some interest to give the names of these carly believers in the port, since no single one Crainer, Davidson, Gunillan, Harrison, Tan of them is here to-day. They were Scott, Kim Ching, Lafta, and Wilsono, Three years have barels passed when we find the capital being increased to six hundred thousand dollars, and the subsequent additions to the ledge of all who have followed the more recent company's resources will be within the know- movements of the Company.
In Appellate Jurisdiction this morning, before the Full Bench, consisting of their Honours Sir Francis Piggott, Chief Justice, and Mr. A G. Wise, Puisna Judge, the appeal Of the many notable events which happened during the life of the company we mention only heard in the matter of the claim of To King to land in the New Territory, known as claim S., the great fire which in 1877 caused mach acquirement of the New Harbour property for a million dollars in the early nineties.
New Territories Land Court Ordinance, 1900
to 1934.
the present Governor arrived in the Colony, "the life blood of the harbour office was had never before seen any expression of dis-M H. P. E. Parker, of the 129th Baluchis, gradually ebbing away. The older officials satisfaction with the system, the Hongkong | předed against two Indians, before Mr. H. Survey District No. 2, and in the matter of the anxiety as to the fate of the buildings, and the H. Gompertz, at the Magistracy this inorn- or Shanghai Press; and it seemed reasonable to conclude that in practice the system did give inor absenting themselves from complain general satisfaction. The Hongkong Telegraph, service, without lease, on Monday. Com. enlist in the services of the barbour office on
however, submits that this system as il obtains pl said that one of the defendants was his account of the stagnation in promotion and in Hongkong is entirely unsatisfactory to all sythe biker was also a syce, but in the ser vef a brother-officer who was on leave, and the difficulties in conection with salaries." concerned," Moreover, compared with Bang- Accordingly, an investigation gas made, and tak, Hongkong is 'big community, and as a new system of promoting and
and rewarding rule there can be no tendency there for a Judge old and proved officials was brought into to be affected by local conditions, while that must be more difficult to secure in Bangkok. force, with the result that the Harbour The British community here will have, however, Master'could declare, with some pride, thai to make the best of it, and it will be interesting the services of two oficials who had 34 to see how the new method works out in and 36 years' record, respectively, at their practice. credit had been retained to the advant age of the Department and the bene
UNREST IN Kiangsi PROVINCE.
plainant had charge of the other's horse, cond syce was also employed by him Hefendants were at work on Sunday night befi on Monday morning and were bot ched until last night. Complainant paid date a wage of Sta each per monili, and lieved they obtained a better job at some ⚫ factory His Worship fined each de fat Sto.
Home time past a number of petty lar The Shanghai mandarins have received tele.
a have been going on at "Beaconsfield fit of the shipping community. There can be no doubt regarding the wisdom graphic news from Nanchang that an in- fe," but the thief could not be detected, of retaining in harness men of long ex-surrection has broken out in the district of Acconist in that block have suffered more perience and wide local knowledge. Har. Hsinchang, Juichou prefecture, in Kinngsi, ththere at the band of the thief. Two hour Masters come and go, here to-day and and that Mr. Hu Wei-bsien, the district msgis bicture frames containing post-carde, and were left outside the door, mysteriously trafe of that city, atsisted by a battalion of at the ends of the earth to-morrow. No troops under Lieutenant-Colonel Ch'en Chined some time ago and since then a con matter how energetic, self-sacrificing and tang, is engaged in restoring order. The twatch has been kept, with the result that de was arrested on Monday night trying younger brother of H. E. Hu Wei-te, the pres cannot fail to have recourse to his assistants, ent Chinese Minister at St. Petersburg, and away another picture frame of post- who have spent long years in the service, speaks and writes English quite fairly. This man-To Yau-was alleged to Another telegraphic dispatch, dated from olen the other frames. On being placed for advice and suggestions. To particularise, Chianfu, a prefectural city of the same province, Mr. F. A. Hazeland, at the Magistracy, Mr. Botelho, the chief clerk, has become acroparts an uprising amongst the inhabitants tharged by Messia. Sayce and Company,
there, due to the harsh behaviour of the col
lie was sentenced to six weeks' hard quainted with the endless forms and methods lectors of the rice tax, which had been up L36 of the Harbour Office, after an experiarreare for the past two youn~N. C. Dj News. | land six hours' stocks,
GREGOR & Co., gifted the head of a department may be, he district magistrate. Mr. Hu Weichsien, is a
19. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
Hongkong, 18th June, 1965.
Twenty years ago the shares were quoted at Hon. Sir Henry Berkeley, K.C., Attorney $169, ten years later at $335. In 1899 the Genera', instructed by Mr. F. 1. L. Bowley, of Company had a practical monopoly of all dock- Messrs, Dannys and Bowley, Crown Solicitors, at $295, after having been halved in nominal ing facilities, but in 19ɔt shares were obtainable appeared for the Crown Appellant, To King value. They opened in 1904, which was to be a very fateful year, at $300, sank in March to not being present either in person or by re presentation. The Honourable the Attorney $250, and after the resignation of Mr. Anderson General said this was an application for leare its methods, went down to $140. This was and his famous indictment of the company and decision and award of the Land Court in the the second week of December, 1954, at $232. to appeal on behalf of the Crown against the bout law water for them, though they stood in master of To King's claim. The respondeat from $24310 $300 in a week, and them to
*Then came a rise and the figure weot rapidly was not present, and probably would not come,
in the first few days of 1905, la February, $375 The Puiane Judge: Oh! we'll never see him. however, the scheme of the Colonial Secretary After quoting the law on the subject the for the improvements to be effected, was Hon, the Aiteracy General asked that his appll-published, and shares fell to $340, perhaps in cation be granted, and the order was given accordingly.
The Full Court then adjourned.
THE WHEATHER,
The following report is from Mr. F. G. Figs. First Assistant ofthe Hongkong Observatory
On the 17th at 11.55 a. The barometer has ison in Japan, and fallen over Chinn, Formosa and the Philippines.
The depression in the Pacific to the NE. of Luzon, is stili indicated.
An area of high pressure lies to the E. of Јаран.
Moderate E. winds are indicated in the Fot mosa Channel, and modemte variable winds over the N. part of the Chips Boa.
Forecast:-Light variable winds ; ftite
Consequence, though it may be noted that the anoouncement in December, 1904, that Govern- ment intended to expropriate, was probably the cause of the rise from $300 to $375. Prices hung about the $340 mark during the early part. of year, but when the expropriation bill passed its second reading in Council, the figure rose to $380, went back ten, and then steadily rose till in September it stood at the $300. October, a week before the Arbitration opened the price fell to $470, some weak-kneed ones evidently getting a little fearful, but it was soon run up again, and has with temporary depres sion remained at the highest figure.
After the meeting at which the accounts were called in question, there was a tendency to drop and the shares went down to $470, buyers, but the market soon recovered tone, and those who held ont at $500 are now in a position to thank themselves for their speculativo instiacis,
A