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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, AUGUST 4 1906.
and birds' nests are spread out only in compit: ment to the guest, so that he may return to his native land and brag about his acquaintance with all the culinary devices of the Chinese kitchen.
HARBOUR. REFORMS.
(and August.).
ublio large river frontage
as we live secured which
the Far East. Commander R. W. Glennie, ? China as a consumer of European products up of the harbour, and the perfunctory, attended Orientals who continually did very valuable." The shareholders as repro friends were sont to the Republic to the valua
of
Chin
Το to
of
on the Hongkong side in the narrowest part forthwith proceeds to attire itself in all the since the submission of Mr. Boulton's origi- | plò are too flippant and ribald in these days | stars, etc, 160, zf: al. 504 machine shops and the other figures, except to note that the whola
ice.
the
of salo, but we infer it to be that described in, from bow it is one mÁIN
figures
demanda sweet- might remain in abeyance for the presentham, that is inken for granted the couni 1*ch* give rather more than the area specified dint of great enterprise and considerable appli
an
Ti
has products direct some interesting figures Lurned and twisted and tossed in his bed the'} to fall back on. The Old Dock, for instance,
are forthcoming. The principal customer of In shipping circles that as a consequence of
Magistrate who had dealt with the urchin and is one of our most, valuable assets, and like the strong currents In certain portions of the
the ice-cream bucket in the forenoos could find everything else has a price, and should the China is Japan (incliding Formosa) which harbour there has deen a silting-up in the
took 35,464,963 taels' worth of goods, or about no rest. Sleep had fled from his pillow; he shareholders at any time decide on selling, Our remarks yesterday regarding the terms thought of Shakespeare's words: “Where,
two and a half million taels' worth less than in entrance waterways, which may in time
in the other properties will some day prove
1904. It will be news to many that the United seriously interfere with the passage of the
But when we commented the of the letter from the Colonial Secretary to lodges, sleep will never lle." And these care big figure could be obtained. This also applies
States comes third on the list of China's in the commercial senso, for last year great liners now plying between Europe and other day on the commercial, importance of the Chamber of Commerce, andnt the silting Magistrate attended by sprites and
Justice !" could think of nothing but the nied by their directors have now decided to R.N., of H.M.S. Waterwitch, by permission we had in mind Chinese of the travelledtion given to it by the General Committee
boy and the freezer. If he dosed for a
of 27,030,772 fuels, a fraction under the figures sell the roperty which, in the words of the moment he dreamt of the North Pole, of the Commander-in-Chief, took soundings and cultured class, men of standing and the Chamber, have elicited several additional
on which chairman, is one of the most valuable assets for 1904. Even France is a better customer he saw a Chinaman perched with a basin of of the Company" And that, it should realise from the Chinese point of view than Great of various sections of the harbour last year substance, whose association with foreigners facts which should interest all those who have
products from with the object of comparing the depths Ind-led then to understand the appreciation the everyone in ice-cream in his hand. Then he would Awake a big figure we have no doubt is the confident Britain, the rat ross the Middle Kingdom to found with those recorded in 1887. In a in which the latter hold certain luxuries, deed, everyone who is earning a livelihood in shivering, and in another minute would fancy expectation of the shareholders who have fol letter dated and July last, from the Colonial True, reference was made to the wants of the the Colony. In the course of the Colonial himself a second Lazarus, wailing for a pot of Inwed intelligently the progress of the develop the extent of 8,873,233 taale, while Great Bri-
elat Italy the Chinese exported native Secretary to the Chamber of Commerce, it peasantry, but these were only supposed to Secretary's despatch, the fact is established ice-cream which a grinning Chinese neophyte meat of commercial affairs in the northern tain tank 18,064,170 tsels' worth of goods,
"These sections show be in the way of cotton sluffs and articles of that the soundings taken by Commander J. was indling out to the blast from an enormous Settlement. The latest figures before us rol the amount of 8,170,304 taels, and the neigh- was stated that:
could have held a dozen Heidel ing to the Dock Company are given in the
A berg tune. most mysterious
erious night. very little change in the sea bed to have attire generally. It is usually found that as D'Arcy, R.N., in 1995, showed that there had ya,
Oliquidators' report, dated 30th June, 1906. The bouring Colony of Macas is worthy of a place be: book
value of the Old Dock property, with in the heart of Chinese merchants for she taken place in the interval between the two a race emerges from its barbaric state it been a deepening in the small part of the course, the Magistrate did not give such an
come responsible for goods, to the
valpe harbour comprised within Hunghom Bay explanation of his experiences in Court. Peo boilers, pumps, new moorings, sheer legs, cap 4,513,693
taela. It surveys. There has been a slight scouring begins by recognising its nakedness and
is unnecessary to go into Tix. is 691,500; the other in understand the workings of the mind office building, godowns,
continent of Europe, excluding Russia, coly of the barbour and a slight deepening gen. hues of the rainbow, until it eventually nai report. It is rather curious that the
His Worship merely said that he had thought dwelling houses, including ground, 3m. 71. 61 over the case while in bed, and he had 4h., is. valued at
Th erally in the western part and over Keller's reaches that dizzy height, attained by Chamber of Commerce accepted that state-
includ contributed a trifle over zó million tacle to the 10,850. Land,
analysis a few "bloods," "sparks," "Corinthians," ment without any investigation into the
to the conclusion that there was a doubt ing bunding, wharves and wall, soym. 5f pockets of Chinese merchants. The Bank. So far as it goes that is quite satis
coma
HI. 6h. is valued at Tis. 94,000; and to
of Chinese export trade in 1905, from which wo or whatever they may be called, whose causes which might have accounted for that
свад factory, but the paragraph which follows is
and the accused, who had been IB the
Chinese houses, including ground, gm. 3, ol. 8h.,
8h, take these figures, is published, of course, by entitled to some consideration. The Col habitat is the region of Bond Street. It deepening, especially as they are, not very looking forward to "double-drill and no
Maritime at Th was not suggested that the hol-polloi patent to the lay mind. On the assumption cream"if we may paraphrase Kipling was is put
29,000. Wa e cannot gather from authority of the Chinese Imperial onial Secretary wrote: "It is clear, there
in for volume the statements of the Company the exact pro- Custo
Customs and at a first glance the
of fore, that any further consideration of the would very materially affect the important that nothing could be done to Improve the told to go. The Magistrate did not use the
that
from perty defined in the second section of the notice question of extensive dredging in the harbour trade of China, simply because it was not condition of the harbour, the Committee came time-honoured and sanctified sentence
to end. If the compilers have will be an account of the increased number believed they had yet reached that standard to the conclusion that dredging operations erstwhile prisoner "left the Court without a
stain on his character," but, like the Irishman's theaccounts as the land, including bunding, etc. occasionally to make an explanation they do so of lenlightenment which
The old 'cod
in the most laconic fashion. And it is only and draught of ships that use it and not on
107 mows, and rof Ch aese houses, 9 mows, etc. meats as its due and luxuries as its right. Some explanation is necessary, however, as
gers who make a practice of 1 account of diminished area of deep water in
keeping the
statistics. it." In other words, while it seems evident Of course we have been confounded, and to the cause of the deepening of Hunghom busy should not attempt to make capital out of in the terms of sale. The combined properties cation that the curious reader is led to delve
have an area of 116 mows, whereas the tender, Into the interminable columps of
tender,into *** that the silting up of the harbour is a negli. In the most signal fashion. An urchin of Bay. When reference is made to the report, this incident. It will be no justification
calls for the purchase of only to mows. The However, there are one or two points which gable quantity there is reason to believe that the gutter type was hauled before one of the over the signature of Sir Paul Chater, of the should any of those whose finger-prints are
combined values of the properties, according afford matter for speculation. For instance the increased tonnage of vessels calling at Magistrates to-day charged with stealing, or Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, displayed in the police museum submit that
what became of the 119,000 piculs of fireworks, to the book estimates, as shown on 30th Hongkong will necessitate the adoption in attempting to steal, a freezer. Surely that is Ltd., dated 10th February, 1905, it will be they were only looking for a freezer when they
valued at overtwo and three-quarter million taels 915,350, made up of Tle. a clear indication that young China is found that the following significant statement are caught in a strange house. Not a bit of it; June last is
rather the very near future of an extensing scheme
balt may harden his heart against ice cream
the other properties. WB deduct the excess
of Kowloon, we learn, exported more than of dredging at the gateways to the harbour advancing, Luxury, pure luxury, was the occurs: The entire foreshore frontage has her the raverse, far it is just possible that his 792,359 for the Old Dock, and Tis. 133,000 for that entered Hongkong last year? The district if the vessels of the P. and D. Company, motive of the street Arab's misdemeanour, been dredged by the Canton River to facilitate and freezers alike for the future. And now revert-
manufactured, for foreign area on these accounts from the arcs mentioned the total quantain, under the heading
combustion. At the meeting to the Chinese epicure, we may expect to find in the second clause of the advertisement, N. D. L, and the American lines are to be at any rate, let us hope so. In this hot the repair of ships alongside."
ing extraordinary.
increase in the consumption nar
namely six mows, or Tis. 5.350, we have an
of "fisk and fishery producis" Great Britain appears as a customer to the extent of 42,904 piloted into the port without danger of weather, he yearned for the delights of whating of the Company held on the zoth of theated water. No wonder that the Director actual book value of the property of at least atriking a mudbank. The Chairman of the
tacls. What did Great Britain do with practi. used to be known as hokey-pokey, although same month, Sir Paul amplified that state of
Tigra,coo. We take it that no offer for that Committee which considered the Colonial we are far above slang nowadays. He saw ment by saying: The dredger Canton of Public Works shut down the supply when
or a lower figure will be considered by the cally £6,50 worth of Chinese fish? Hongkong River having been for the greater part of be found that all the spare gallons were being
directors of the Company. It is safe to assume in medicines from Chịon to the value of into cold storage products. Last Becretary's communication expressed the the freezer standing neglected, idle, for
converted
taels, an increase, in round figures, of opinion that the report was much more gotten; and believing that, everything is the period under review usefully employed night he turned on the tap, it is said, because the appreciation in the river frontage values in
in the work of dredging the foreshore from the demand had subsided, but he will have to Shanghai since the acquisition of the land in 14,020 taels as compared with 1934, and yet satisfactory than had been anticipated, made for a purpose, and convinced that his
1991 at 25 per cent., instead of the so per cent.isk rule, and in spite of all these medicines Hongkong is one of the healthiest spots under "and the question of dredging to provide purpose in life was to convert tepid liquids tage at the Kowloon Dock, thus enabling be on his, guard once again for the ice-cream
estimated
ibat by our correspondent, and on into icy draughts, he made bold to help vessels of deep draught and great length champion is at large. It is a pity that the
obstinately-
continues to be healthy. British an extension of mooring space was one
used, but that
If we should be in error. Tls 1,137,500. may come in time.
at all, The report may be satisfactory in a mea of the proverb. It was unfortunate that the pair, has not been able to seek outside the recipe he
Meanwhile, we trust that the gemin who play the mistake should certainly be on the right having acquired gems last year to the value of sure, but the hint that specified sections of freezer was temporarily invested with an evil employment," etc. Not being experts in
Hongkong, apparently, will have nothing to de the harbour are likely to become too shal-spint. It groaned and creaked so vigorously the matter, we cannot pretend to suggest the ed tricks on the freezer,and disturbed a Magis. side. The chairman of the Shanghai-Hongkew 116,381 taels out of a total of 125,975 tuels.
Irate's repose will swim in his favourite diet for Wharf Company observed last year, it may be
with Chinese pearls; at any rate, there is no low for vessels of larger draught is worthy of
that a foki who happened to be on the precise effect of the dredging operations in a month of Sundays, and we also sincerely remembered, that property on the l'aotung s de
of had appreciably increased in value for whatfage cord any having been sent to the Colony trust that his Worship will sleep the sleep of attention. Anything that is calculated to scene had his attention called to the freezer connection with Kowloon Docks on the sea-
and warehouse
Shareholders Lin ince 1932. It has been stated again and again impede the shipping traffic is of far ton and the urchin, and eventually the feki be bed, but it certainly seems to us, that the the just to-night and make up for the time lost
that Company will recollect how for a long that the people of Great Britain caupot appre excavations carried out by the Canton River last night.
of
Willi Chin much moment to be relegated to the limbo came the freezer and the gamin the freezed.
time the godowns on the Poctu gside remained Ciste the binek ten of the forgotten, and the slightest hint re- The methodical Magistrale wondered that opposite the Kowloon Docks might have
emply of goods because of their distance from lieved that Great Britain actually imported shipping centre. But such has been the early half the Total export of black tea piculs valued at 5,216,073 toels, last garding the probable requirements of the so small a boy should have attempted to attracted the detritus collected in the Bay, deal with a rolb, freezer, hut did not evid to the dredged portion, thereby levelling the
development of port cannot be neglected. It is all very well
Shanghai, and a greg they think. All Europe (outside Rusia) demand for property, that even at Pooting the to ony that the question of mooring space ently give him that credit to which he was Bay as a whole. Hence, we suggest, the
consumed 151,688 picula-1,107,584 taels: worth. can be left over for the present, but it has entitled. The very fact that the young reason for the deepening discovered in a
godowns are stacked from floor to ceiling, and burden on the hands to be faced, and the sooner a start is made generation as personified by the little vaga small part of Hungliom Bay. It is some
properties there, which at one time were a The United States alone exceeded that amount, of the proprietors, the import for 190s being 62,673 piculs, worth the better it will be for the Colony. Hong. bund should have endeavoured to tackle what strange that no reference is made in
1,251,884 tac's, but that was a decrease are contributing to day a very fair quota in kong is fortunate in having a natural har a job obviously beyond his strength the Colonial Secretary's letter to the condi-
the general revenue of the different warehouse nearly a million taels as compared with 1904. companies in Shanghai, ss witnessed by the Russia is a good friend to China so far as bour which so far has sufficed for the needs shows a vigour of mind and spirit which tion of the harbour in front of the Dock
property at Sham-shui-po,sale
black tea is concerned, having taken about eaoranous appreciation in the share values of the mercantile marine fleet. But there may yet lead to great heights or depths. Company's
120.000 picule valued at over two million has been a marked change in the conditions His palate was tirkled by the thought of known as the Cosmopolitan Dock. If we
all the various companies which hold property on that and on the Hongkew side. There is,. taels. America, however, profers Chinese Britnin also which existed twenty years ago and obtain ice-cream. Instead of sitting on his haunches recollect aright, it was also stated by the
green tea, although Great to-day. Then, a vessel of 8,000 tons was and bewailing his hard fate, or pestering Chairman of the Company, as one of the
therefore, all the more resson 19elieve that our estimate is not an over-sanguini hog when shows a penchant for that delicacy, But Chinese tea dusi finds no market in the considered leviathan-in Hongkong-bar- pedestrians with howls for cumshow, he meetings of the shareholders, that the
we place the increased value at 25. old country; doubtless Ceylon and Assam bour, but within the space of a few years seized the situation, and the freezer, in both bottom was shoaling very considerably at
above the book value of the property oldvide that quality for the cup which sheets, Shanghai Dack and Engineering Com this witole, China's export trade al there has been a marvellous development in hands after the accredited type of the self-that particular point of the harbour; so the size of the steamiers touching at Hong made man. The Magistrate saw nothing of much so that vessels of any great draught kong. Each of the great passenger lines all this; most prosaically he sent the urchin could only be towed into deck with the ut most card. In fact, our information from a has at length realised that the trade of the to prison, where there is no ice-cream and Ear East is worth cultivating, and that the never a freezer. There is a moral in the thoroughly reliable source is that an actual days when second-raté vessels and worn-out story somewhere. It would be interesting mudbank is forming at the entrance to the tramps were considered quite good enough and, perhaps, profitable if it were possible Cosmopolitan Dock. It was at first proposed *for ports beyond Ceylon have passed. Only to watch the career of the gutter-snipe that the Company should undertake the work the other day we noted the arrival of the who has been sent into an unsympathetic of dredging that section of the harbour, but luxuriously-appointed Afoldaris of the P. and world with the palate of an epicure and it was held that as all rights in the section in question belong to the Government, and O. Company's fleet, while last week the N, the individualistic energy of a Roosevelt.
Jealous people might say that he must have form a valuable asset of the Colony, the D: L. liner Prins Eitel Frederich accom
which could be left over for the present."" himself, in due consonance with the words to lie alongside our wharf when under re-Oriental Esquimeau-did not give particulars off-calculation we arrive at the aggregate-total of dia is China's best market for "real pearls »
SHANGHAI DOCKS.
(3rd August.] The announcement which we were able to make in our columns last evening that the directors of the Shanghai Deck and Engineering Company, Ltd. had decided to dispose of a
of its property is confirmed to-day by portion exchanges received from the northern Settle
wherein a police sapoare,
the advertising the Company's two excellently situated sites for godowns and wharver. The respective sales are detailed in the following terms: "(A) The whole of the Old Dock property (with exist ing
ment,
of
plished the journey from Singapore to Hong. been born of British stock and inherited the operatione should be carried out by the 15th Octoberperties in one lot, up to the Tis, 8 per share,
trait of seizing on everything in sight and proclaiming a lien on the next world, but such persons should be treated with the contempt they deserve. Meanwhile, the cause of these. reflections is reduced to bread and water.
ANALOGOUS' CASES.
etc.
1 be ba
diminution as against the aggregate valus of the exparis in 1994, continues steady and the analysis for last year may be considered s favourable augury for the present year.
Colonial Government for the benefit of the Colony. With that view we are at one, I the opinion of influential gentlemen who have been associated with harbour works and harbour improvements in Hongkong, the stages in the discussion of the possibility of | 157 and 16 per cent, on the Power of between way, but who ever heard of a battle-roya; over
л
fanciful names.
who brea
But
buildings) situated in Hongkew in the 6 section of the harbour, having an area of land, measuring as per title deeds. 23 nows, 2 f 81. h., and a river frontage of 264 feet, with 27 feet depth of water at low water spring tides.
now offered for nie. The sum of Tis though, as previously noted, it shows a slight (1) Part of the property between the Cormo. apportiosed among the $5,100 shares
sented politan and International Docks, situated on the
in the capital of the, compat Pootung side in the lower section of the har gives a Tis an relutn per share, Thi
the capital of the company will be reduced bour, buving an area of land of about 110 mws, and a river frontage of 1,300 feet, with to TIE, 2o, instead of Tis., og per share, the original value of each. We take tir an average depth of water of about 33 feet at
for grasted that by the disposal of the two pro tow water spring tidet. To the south of the
perties the earning powers of the Comp ny property lok houses are erected, suitable for Chinese employees." The notice proceeds to will not be curtailed, so that it should still be state that the directors are prepared to receive able to earn a dividend at itsalat since the THE BATTLE OF WEST POINT,
to the amalgamation-that of last year or example
eretur.. offers for the
addressed to the secretary 19,
of at least
That, is a of the Company at the head office, Broadway. of 10 per cent, per share. We dismiss consi
it is astonishing what people will do when Hongkew, where, plans and further particulars deration of the average return made by the
their lemper is rcused. They will massacre can also be obtained. The usual reservation Company since re-formation. Were we to
each other over a question about a right-of is made that the Company does not bind itself accept the high rates of dividend paid since
1909, we arrive at an earning
3 right-of-water? There have been cases where to accept the highest or any offer. Atarions
reduced capital of We concede the argument the Company.
blod has been spilt on the heights of Mac the question of the sale of the Company's pro- reducing the capital of the Shanghai Docks,
that the Company was never capable of gillicuddy's Reeks, and the Grampians are party with a view to effecting that desirable earning very handsome dividends like those soaked with the red stream of
Feuchemistically has been urged upon the attention of 28 per cent, etc, from
fought valiantly for their rights profits on
'montain rèw,” Readers of the Hongkok working accounts, and take its earning powers quebragh and other Board. Telegraph will recall the many communi
at is worst. But if trade should retur
return
to fight over a bucket of water seems t cations which have been made through our normal level again, a return of over 10
Yet, the determination of the natives of long- columns, by Hongkong shareholders, urging the cent, may be expected on the reduced capital say, Tis. 80. With regard to the financial
kong to be intanginal at all hazards, leads them
many strange places.
battis Today, there royal," as our under the old directorate a deaf ear was fent to
now proves to have been a a very sensible indicated hy our correspondent last evening. appears to have been a
solitary liability is one of Tis.. 134749.77.
representative describes it, at West Point, the proposal. The second section of the property the
position being-Who has the best right to now put up for sale was acquired, as stated by outstanding to sundry creditors. Seldom has
balance sheet been presented, which was less
watertap? When we remember that the the then chairman of the Company, for the
Director of Public Works is quite certain that liable to criticism. As a rule, companies' in the purpose of enabling it to join the
East Are overloaded with overdrafts
the Colony is being provided with an ample Docks. This, of course, entailed, with other with the bankers, and not infrequently the supply of water daily, we are apt to believe debenture holders and creditors are grouped,
that the water-tap was dragged in like the pro between the Cosmopolitan and International Fab improvements, an increase in the capital Company at that date, which was effected by together under the head of "aundry creditors," verbial sed herring, with intent to deceive. At the issue of 6,90 new shares in order to reduce but in this instance, apart from the capital all events two gangs of Hongkong Hunghutzer the then large overdraft with the Company's liability of the ampany and the handsome one from Connaught Road and another from bankers, consequent on the scheme of amal- reserve of million taels, berides a paltry Des Vaux Road-the names seem to lend an shareholders who have failed air of distinction to the tale, as we would say gamation. A correspondent writing in our last, indebtedness to
the Wars of the Roses-met over the waterstap, to collect their dividends to the extent of Tis. Liabilities," suggested the idea that the actual 5010, the Company is surcharged with nother evening's issue, over the signature Assets over
the battle of Stirling, Bridge was eclipsed. value of the Company's shares today. if the liabilities, Hence,
of a millios The combatants seem to have forgotten all property were realised upon what he
considers e
and one lakh, by the return of a
about the water the moment they met, or aels, a considerable amoun!
unattainable_watST the perhaps it was. a safe premium of 50 per cent. over the book of money will be available for circulation at a
which caused evil humourt to rise to value, should be at least Tls, 1gn at the mini- time when money is supposed to be tight.
The Company
lieve itself of the onus will relieve
ibeir heads. mum, instead of the market rate of the day Th
Cestainly there was no water in their veins, for they fought right Tin. 93. It would have been better had our of having to earn a larger sum in order to correspondent enlarged on the letter, for which maintain its dividend, and its position will be lustily. The battle-cry on one side was "For there was ample rom, By placing the actual stren
strengthered by it capital reduced to home and for set while the other side yelled. guries, whereby the cast of the share is placed absolutely safe figures considering the at Tis. 150. in making this suggestion we do
tude of its business ; and the shareholders and
Per
curred in England some months ago, Here, the sea opposite his property since 1847, or advisability of the step. It would appear that "tion of the Company, following the lines
what
of the
10
and
ridiculous.
A.
kong in three hours less than four days, which may be described as record time. Once, and that not a decade ago, the voyage between the ports was estimated to occupy anything between five and seven days, but
dredging of specified sections of the harbour nous avons chang? tout-gu. The Pacific is
should be commenced without delay It is the new racing track of the oceans, and hall
entirely unaccessary to deepen the harbour a-dozen lines are daily fighting for the lead
as a whole, for a recent sounding made inof the as regards speed and comfort. For the vessels
the interest of a large marine lot-holder dit trading on the Pacific, Hongkong is the
A case which came up in the Police Court closed the fact that not so much as a single terminus at this end and it is a strange day when the harbour is devoid of craft of the 40-day is on all fours with a case which oe foot of silting had occurred in the bed of farger growth. Every year sees the con- struction of huge floating palaces of steel; some excise offices decir 3 to make a raid sixty years ago, and vessels of considerable shipping companies are discarding their on an opium den, but they were first draught are at present anchored at the point ships of small tonnage in favour of vessels of by a friend of the habitues who warned the in question. Although the Chamber of Commerce has given a qualified veto to the great capacity and, consequently, great dis- the opium-smokers of the excisemen's inten placement. It therefore behoves the legis- tions. The result was that when the officers scheme, the necessity of dredging is recog. lators of the Colony to make every provision arrived the birds had flown and there was no-
consideration, and we trust that in the for the shipping interests on which so much body to wish them joy except the unctuously-nised by all who have given the subject depends. If it be the fact that the harbour polite "informer." Naturally the raiders best interests of the Colony the work will were in anything but a good temper when they be undertaken at no distant Cole. We may have to be deepened in order to allow discovered that there is a solid stratum of do not suggest that the work should be vessels of excessivo draught to enter with truta in Bums's muse which runs: "The best carried out under the supervision, or even safety then the matter should be taken up laid schemes o' mice and men gang aftagley,"
on the advice, of the firm of Messrs. at price, otherwise the future of Hongkong. So they arrested the only person in sight and Coode, Sons and Matthew, for the experience as a port may be jeopardised. Singapore marched him off to gael on a charge of no-
of other ports has shown that when the has adopted a cosily scheine of harbour
hey had favourites of the Crown Agents secure a Improvements--whether with or without the sisting misdemeanants to escape.
no evidence and the accused was discharged. footing in one of the Crown Colonies It is consent of the residents is beside the ques In England, a couple of constables were impossible to say when they will depart. tion. The authoritica at Manila have only ordered to conceal themselves in a shady The firm referred to serenely submitted an one object in view, to build up the shipping lane where it was believed motorists were ad estimate that the harbour of Hongkong interests of the port, and, if possible, to
dicted to the bad habit of exceeding the could be surveyed in two years at a cost of wrest from this Colony her supremacy in the
legal linsit of 12 miles an hour. They hoped £10,000. That would be the first outlay, Pacific trade. We cannot afford to shelve
to demonstrate the superior advantages of a but the Colony would be indeed fortunate the question of dredging the harbour for the for it involves the prosperity of the Hong. gorse over the lardly motorist and his satel lites but they reckoned without their host.
the value of the shares, for we would re- kong and Whampoa Dock Company and
A genial bucolic saw the manoeuvre and
mind investors and speculators in China practically all the industries of the Colony.
of the statements made by the chairman of It is to be hoped, in these circumstances, decided to outwit the police. Not that he had
the Company at a meeting held in 19oz.
the Company's that while the Chamber of Commerce may any love for motorists, probably, but it is more consider the Colonial Secretary's report amusing to witness the discomfiture of a more satisfactory than had been anticipat perspiting and angry policeman-win is com-
scheme had ed," the suggestion that it may be necessary, Pelled to bottle up his adjectival vocabulary effecting a much-needed improvement in Twentyman stated that! The accounts from to proceed with extensive dredging opera by reason of his uniform-than to see a few tions will not be pigeon-holed. Those who motorists "held up" by the minion of the the facilities for navigation in the harbour, an investor's standpoint may be regarded as of the dredging contract, if placed with com- the best, but are perhaps not so encouraging to
wing largely to the unfavourable weather law. Accordingly, he atationed himself well petent firms established in Hongkong, could trade which invariably follows war, and to which prevailed for a goodly portion of the
speculatori, We are passing through a dulnes
Warriors of West Point and send
under cover to Viceroy Shum as a small '-' are inclined to cry "Mañana, mañana" of even" Festina lente" should have no place away from the constables, and each motorist be carried but efficiently and would con of
as he passed was informed of the "plant tribute to the material well-being of the some may be regarded as a commercial panic year, and the unsettled condition of many token of our regard and esteem? They would
financial or a
de tricis dus in soms measure to the progress crisis which should not give u
be missed; they would never be in in a small, and they would frighten or any other body which presumes to be ahead.
of their sonnes. People the volume of business wo had the
fell considerably below those of the previous the and the work could be started forthwith,
previous
Value wh
who CH 6.ht Government, when a question vitally affect to the great disgust of the watchers. Their Thus all the preliminary expenses would be year, there is in any
like veritable demons on water. And so the unly capture was the countryman who had
During the year of goods exported to foreign countries ing the well-being of the Colony is under i spoiled their scheme and possibly their Colonial Treasury would be retained in the under review it has been demonstrated beyond amounted to 227.886,197 Haikwan taels,
saved and the money expended by the easiass to the shareholder no cause for un, year in quantity and value. The total
aels, battle waged now in favour of one side now in and especially the
decrease of over eleven and a half million favour of the other. There was no Froleert consideration,
chances of promotion. But when the case Colony, being circulated among the people that we are able to cope with almost anything: Inels as compared with 1904. As usual, long present, and so we are set told whether any the chief im gentle knight flicked his lady's deffing in the s of a rival, but as the residents at West Point the accused had only done his duty in warning instead of being dissipated far and wide.
bave had some very large undertakings, but i kong gets ta 'credit ohough we are
entitled to claim that we actually argon it is to be assumed that there was no are still agog over, the fight for the water. people against an infringement of the law.
ai and examples are not wanting of the effici.carmed of used all the imports, Laut waggonersonal element in the fray. OL The case excited a good deal of comment at
lack of
accommodation of vessels of high tonnage, stop-watch and a blue uniform hidden in the if it emerged from the magnificent ideas of not desire to raise the impression that our
in the counsels of the Chamber of Commerce
The result was that "scorchers"
having
u the chorus with intermittent shouts OVE LOV investors will benefit to the extent that the peen mavourceen," bedad," or words to thas business that might be faRuenced in the effect. It must have been an exclling scene. when some of the antagonists clambered upon the roots of houses and heaved flower pots on give it an impetus and so raise the value of its
friends and foes alike. Even the
spectator, properties which lie in the neighbourhood of the lands that are to be sold.
the Consulting Engineers under a ransom of corresponden in any way over-eftimated dista environment of the Campany will
ten times that amount. After all, the labour involved and the extent of the operations need not be so very great; the expense en tailed were the work kept in colonial hands
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for
of
would be comparatively trifling, and while spend year after the racemulide
SOME CHINESE FIGURES.
we are told, were afraid that somebody might be hurt, so that it must have been a marvel- lous imitation of
of the real thing." pasiant..
the fact our correspondent at Canton notes that the Tartar-General's troops have re fused to carve with
Viceroy Shum'
Ver
BIMY.
not enlist a few of the bold, un-
an Informally constituted adviser of the proceeded at a funereal pace along the road people. Wo know exactly what is requited any concern, and although we have not had of the recent war, Chineso exports during 1905 pirates outers for water would act
YOUNG CHINA.
came to Court, it was successfully argued that
HONGKONG'S SOLOMON.
An
ice-
We
до
encountered nothing too big or too heavy for porter of Chinees goods, ency of our machinery and European staff."
Ching's regeneration has arrived at the double," to use a military term. As every the time and is still a standing joke among, So the little whipper-spapper whose bighly. body knows the Chinese taste for Western motorista in, England. The two cases serin educated taste and panchant for seasonable luxuries has been educated until today the analogous, and the point is what would have luxuries led him to be associated with old-time delicacies of native fare are only happened had theexcise officers in Hongkong cream freeser yesterday it once again at liberty,
■pread on the table for the benefit of unso been able to produce evidence to show that it was a vell on life that the Magistrate partially Twentyman in his speech o the occasian value of the export sent.In 1934, and newly aces. But how many other towns could, bokat
lifted in Court this morning. All night long the phisticated foreigners. At left, there is a
vision of a Chinese spicure haunted his bedside suspicion held by a good many worthy peo
and palated the finger of score at him. Justice ple that the famous plats which are supposed
came down from her pedestal and swept the bandage from her eyes. No matter how he to be peculiarly Cainero, such as sharks' fins
the alleged culprit was responsible for the disappearance of the law-breakers, he have got off as easily as the English coun try labourer ?
But to come to the point of the immediate year, China exported goods to the value practical effect of the Company's decision in of 81,452,643 taels to the Colony; although course, there was no proper conclusion to the
to obtain a fair idea of what the pro- | that. 6
a fairly respectable total, it was nearly uprising. The police authorities simply ar
half A million taels below the rested
Around everybody in sight exactly. dozen-and magistrale impored the usual" party should realise, we may still follow Mr. five and
for 1973 But referred to. He said "When we re-valued eight millions under the figures
of a community which would actually go 19, the property before the formation of the present the record of Chinese products despatched to
Hongkong gives but idea where thore war over a water-tap). Decidedly Hongkong Is Company, and left what we considered a
goods eventually landed; when we turn to the advancing by leaps and bounds, but we have margin, which in itself represente reserve of no mean sum, there would be still a big amount detailed list of countries to which China reni i dot reached the high-water mark yel
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