OF COMMBKGB,
"THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY AUGUST 4,
HONGKONG general CHAMBER | They estimated the cost of the proposed survey "at" / 10,000, and that it would taks eighteen months to two years to complete and they re, tommended that the whole question of the information which would be furnished dredging should remain abeyance ami! by the new survey was available.
rst inat.
Minutes of a monthly meeting of the general committee of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce held in the Chamber Room, St. George's Building, longkong, on Tuesday, 10th July, 1906, at 3 30 p.m. President:-Hop, Mr. E. A. Howatt (chairman), Hon. Mr. W. J. Grasson, Messrs. A. Haupt, H. E. R. Hunter, wards the cost of a new se, report was re G. H. Medhurst, N. . Siebs, H. E. Tomkins and A. R. Lowe (secretary),
MINUTES.
on the 20th ulttino were read and confirmed.
MAN:-
SAN FRANCISCO DISASTER.
5. At the same time as he forwarded Messrs. Conde, Son & Matthew's repart, Mr. Lyttelton stated that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty were Roi patpated to contribute to
Consulting
Enginter's
ALLEGED ENDEZZLEMENT.
CHINESE MERCHANT CHARGED..
31st ult.
Mr. P. W. Goldring. of Messrs. Goldring and Barlow, prosecuted, and Mr. H. Helt, of Mears, Bruiton and Hett, defended. «
HONESTY REWARDED.
A CATHOLIC PRIEST AND THE PROTEST-
ANT BIBLE,
and inst
A chair coolin was the means of saving the Rev. Father A. Pelippi, of the Roman Catholic Cathedral, from being robbed yesterday in Queen's Road Central. Father Polippi arrived outside the Deutsche Asiatische Bank in a chair, but did not discharge the coolies. He entered the bank, cashed Stoo and came out on coroad counting the bills. He then told the coolles to follow him while he proceeded to walk. While doing so, he unknown to him- self-dropped à 110 bill, the chair coolie saw the bill lying on the side-walk and also saw a 'coolio pick it up. The chair coolie dropped his chair, approached the street coche and told hin to return the bank-oute to the priest, who was some distance to what wend of takings
away.
4,1906.
THE BRITISH NAPY.
BY A REAK-ADMIRAL..
(dem To a great extent the Briki in proves that
222
WOMAN'S SENSATIONAL report,
man
hind her back, gagged her, and attempted to
oycu
By virtue of a warrant, which was sworn out yesterday. Ny Kai Shek, a salesman, employ el in a fim in Bonham Strand Est, was arrested last night charged with embezzling the funds at his firm. He was removed to the 6. The
Cont al Police Station, where he was en'ered. ferred to Mr. Boulton who on further evidence, on the charge sheet, on two counts, and this having become available as to the datum used morning made his appearance before Mr. F. The minutes of the monthly meeting held in the preparation of the 184: Chart abtirely A. Tuteland. The charges against the accus
concurred in eliminating
ed were that he, on different dates commencing
had passed between the parties, w the soundings shown on it from future consideration of the subject.
from 16th February last, embestled about He reverted to the
fore$4.05, the property of the firm. The following letter was read by the Chale an examination of the 1841 chart that the ex- he had bald before opinion, he tent of shoaling in the harbour since the estab State of California,
lishment of the Colony, had been very small. Executive Department,
Sacramento, June 1, 1956.
The comparison of soundings of Hung Hom Bay that, since the submission of his original Sir,-I have the honour to acknowledge your report, had been taken for the Colonial Gov favour of the 30th of April confirming a des.
ernment in January, 1905, by Commander J. patch of earlier date and renewing an expres. D'Arcy, R. N., with the soundings of 1887 had
ios of sympathy with the people of San Fran. cisco in the great calamity which recently be the harbour.
indeed shown a deepening in this small part of
Mr. Boulton thought a complete survey un Permit me. speaking on behalf of the citi California, to express sincere appreciation of that Cateful test sections should, when oppor and gratitude for the sympathy so graciously way offered, be taken on certain lines sug- manifested by the members of your commer. xested by him. cial organization. Since the catastrophe of there has been such a world-wide April exhibition of the sentiments of human brother, hood as hall deeply touched the hearts of Californians and has served in mitigate their
8 I am directed to transunit for your Bense of suffering and loss.
It affords me great pleasure to say that Salion copies of Admiralty Charts Nos. 1459 | PICKFUL KRT'S NOVEL SCHEME.
and 3180 on which are indicated the lines on which the test sections were taken and a sheet
fell them..
2013
the Chung Shan firm, of Bonham Strand East. { heels and bolted down the road, with the chair rake were led by visions of the wealth to be sickall the premier and two gold finger.
arrested and on being removed to the Police suic and Main to forsake the
February last Ng Kaj Shek (the defendant) February last Ng Rai Shek (the defendant) and Ng Sing Sam were appointed managers of During their term of manngership a certain drafi on the Cheng Wing Bank was delivered to the Chung Shun firm, which, it is alleged, was appropriated by the managers. It is said that
present only $4,000 can be put down bezzled as the books have not been examined. After this, according to the report, Ng Sing
while the defendant was arrested.
name
was
THE RESULT OF HER STORY.
Ist inst. 2nd inst.
A Chinese woman, the wife of a fortune. Within the space of too pages, Rear-Admiral eller at Yaumati, walked into the Yaumati S. Eardley-Wilmot gives a succinct and dis- passionate account of the rise of the British
Pilice Station yesterday afternoon, and related a story that surprised the policemen- story and Present. The author is not so much con Navy, under the title, The British Navy Past which could hardly be believed by them be.. corned with the great baitles
cause of the good behaviour of the people in woged and won that district for some months past. The woman by the Navy us with the presonnel, nimament, said that at about 11.30 n'clock in the forenoon and character of the vessels which uphold three men entered her flat-top floor of No. 55. Britain's claim to be Mis reas of the Sea in all Station Street South-and told her that they parts of the world. Occasionally, we may harp had come to rem her cubicles. A few words upon the apparent apathy of the Navy when no
when four Immediate steps are taken to suppress piracies more men entered the room, closing the trap in the Far East, but there is always an inward door behind them. One of these
antered belief that the Navy to-day is as efficient and the kitchen and picking up a chopper, ap. powerful to maintain our Empire as it proved proached her. The seven then then pushed in the days of Nelson. And nothing in Roar her into an empty cubicle, tied her hands be
idea. a British Navy form- glass powder
Three the ed itself. Men ke Froblaber, Hawkins and robbers held her down, while the others ran: stealing a pair of gold found in the
mounted rattan pro- life of the fisherman. Pro rings, valued at $52.50,
50, and Saa in hard cash, bably they would be called buccaneers in these They then released her and left the house, arge of the station, after lizabeth would have denounced them as pi- the woman had fully sales and outcasts had the not been success- despatched a detective with the woman to hunt ful in their forays and attacks on Spanish gal.
for one of the robbers. 7 bey, proceeded leons, but in this case success was its own along the leading thorought tres, and by two reward. The Navy gradually came to be re-
street dentist was identified by the woman as the leader of the robbers. The man was never a time from that day to this when
was accordingly arrested and this morning Great Britain Iacked naval
appeared before Mr. B. H. J. Gompertz to answer a charge of robbery with violence. was thep that the tables were turned on the woman." She had no witnesses to corroborate her statement, while the accused, who is known to the police as a respectable man, had five. The true story was this. Some dayı
ago com plainant and her husband went to defendant's landlord to try to get him to rent them the fat in which the dentist lived. This the landlord would not do. On leving the premises the woman, in passing defendant's door, raised the curtain and looked in. The defondant
follow ed them below, where they had a
quarrel The complainant's husband stopped the in " was then faked for
of San Francisco and of the entire state of necessary At the present time but recommended the sum involved about $21.001, but up to the later, discovered profession, The priest enlightened days, and it is possible that Queen The inspector in Cribed one of the met
Francisco, although sorely stricken, will re- cover, and I think speedily, from the effects of the blow,
Atrendy the business organiza tion is re-establishing itself on former lines, and although it will necessarily take line to rebuild the structures which were destroyed, I hayer
e no doubt that in five years the chief Ameri con port on the Pacific will be a busier and mere prosperous city than before.
We shall ever retain a feeling of gratitude toward the people of those places, which, like the commercial community of Hongkong, have
the chair coolie's advice the man took to his
coolia behind him. The thiol was later
Station aid hia
Hang, Ting and a blacksmith by
the loss, but thinking that it would ent.
ba hopeless to
look for the bank-note, he returned to the mission house. About an hour later a constable call d'on him and related at the same time asking him to stlend Court the Police Court, the blacksmith appeared on a charge of theft, which he denied. The chair coolio evidence and the priest was called to the stand. The Magistrate told the priest to take the oath on the Bible. The reverend gentleman picked up the book, carefully scrutinised it both inside and outside, and said?
"This is a Protestant Bible,"
Sam absconded and a warrant is out for him. I the above sto next day. This morning, at cognised as the first line of delence, and there
7. By the courtesy of the Commander-in- Chief, China. Station, Commander R. V. Glen, N., of H.M8. Hater witch, was per. The case was adjourned unul Tuesday next. of the current year, mi ted to do this work in February and MarchHail refused,
infor
“SOMETHING ON YOUR SHOULDER."
1st inst
of these sections on which the difference in level of the seabed according to that of March 19:5 are shown.exaggerated 25 times al com- pated with the horizontal scale. These sections
Members of the light fingered gentry are show very little change in the sen bed to have
always introducing new schemes into their taken place in the interval between the twende. Yet another tick has come to light, survey. There had been a slight scouring on the Hongkong side in the narrowest part of the western past and over Keller's Bank. the harbour and a slight deepening generally in
It is clear therefore that any further con
*
which, as usual, erded badly for the trickster. Yesterday afternoon a coolie employed on board ss. Charles Hardouin went to the Central Market to make some purchases. He suitable, when from behind he felt a
manifested their sympathy in our less and their sideration of the question of extensive dred. was standing before a stall thinking what was
&C.
hope of restoration to our former state. I have, To the Chairman of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, Hongkong, China:
(Syd.) "Geo. C. PARDER,
Governor of California,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFAC - TURERS OF THE U. 5. k.
New York, May 29th, 1906, Dear sir,-Thais Association, as you doubl. less know, is an organization of leading manu. facturers of the United States in all lines of industry. Its membership is now about three thousand (1,000).
Frequently the bead of firms or companies embraced in our member ship, or their special representatives, make trips abroad, and in the interests of interna tional trade we have thought you might like to meet some of these gentlemen
Therefore,
if it should be agreeable to you we should take pleasure in placing your Chamber. on the of organizations to whose secretary or other officer we may take the liberty of introducing those of our Members or their sepresentatives who visit your City.
Naturally, at these interviews na little inform allon might be given and eceived that would be of mutual interest.
We assure you that we shall as al times be pleased to see any one from your City whem - you may introduce tp us.
We have commodinus offices in the business centre of New York City with a staff of over 50 people, comprising gentlemen who read write and speak all the leading commercial langua; ges, and the vanous facilities of the offices are always at the service of visiting business mee from other countries free of charge.--Very truly
yours,
5
(5gd) Wm. M. BENNEY,
Assistant Secretary, Secretary, Chamber of Commerce,
Hongkong, China The Chairman said the Chamber was already associated with the "hdadelphia Museum "a somewhat similar institution sy that of the present correspondents, and it was agreed to reply that the Hongkong Chamber would be
{
ging in the harbour will be on account that use it aast ung on secount of diminished of the increased number and draught of ships
area of deep water in it, have &c.,
(Sgd') TERCOMBE SMITH,
Catonial Secretary. Secretary, Chamber of Commerce.
The Chairman said the report was much more satisfactory than had been anticipated and the question of dredging 10 provide an extensio of moorin space was one which could be left over I r the present,
PIECE GOLDE TRADE. LATE DELIVERY OF
GOODS BY MANUFACTURERS.
The following report from the Sub-Committee appointed at the fast meeting to deal with this
question was fead-
Hongkong, roth July, 1906. Sir-We, the Sub-Committee appointed by de Chamber of Commerce, ha e considered the letter from the. Liverpool Chamber of Commerce daled 9th April, yo, asking the
of the Hong kong Chamber with regard
In the following proposal-
CHINA: LATE DELIVERY OF GOUDS BY MANUFACTURERS,
"At the present time the law tere does not olmit of any compensation for goods Inte against cont act, but we understand that some davichants of Manchester are taking this mat. ter up, is under present auditi es the tempta ten is open to unscrupulous manufacturers and others 'delay gonds in order to sell to advantage to others on a rising marker are informed that it is proposed that one months grace should be allowed, but if over
one
one month a penalty of 5% ad, valorem should be exacted. We think if the Hang Long Manchester, Liv rpool and Bradford Chamber would come in soure derisice on this uaint it might be possible in institute the clause
we have mentioned."
We have further considered the replies of local piece goods men bants to the Chamber of Commerces circular letter of 8th ating embodying the above proposed clause for in- sertion in piece goods contracts and unani.
A search was then made for a Roman Catho»' lic Bible, but to no purpose. There was not one of the kind at the Magistracy, Father Polippi then dug his hand into the pocket of his gown and brought out a prayer-book.
"Perhaps this would do ?" he said.
Is it a complete Bible?" asked the Court. "No," replied she priest, but the Gospel and the Faxions are there."
14
imp," was Mr. Gempertz's answer.
Juspector
Warnock, who conducted the case,
ul finding a bible to suit the worthy Father, but it was of no avail. The end of it was that the reverend Father seturned to the Cathedral and obtained the much sought for book. Then the case went on satisfactorily.
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with the dash, resource, aval leaders endowed spirit of adventure of Drake, Benbow and Nelson. One of the great faults of the Navy in It youth was the lack of co-operation, among the officers, Jack was as good as his master-or, rather, every captain thought himself entitled to obey or disobey the commands of his admiral on ho pleased. Admirals were jealous of each other, captains were insubordinate and there was no cubesion. Benbowfered from this rivalry in the West Indira and comptly hanged or shot two or three of his captains. Nelson seems to have been the only commander who did not
his
suffer from this want of co-o
co-operation. De and
ailing
him with
o'clock
"I am not quite sure if that would be bind readin were a "band of brothers": they quarrel, but said to his wife: "Get him
personal affection and obey, trouble" The " ed his slightest wish implicitly. The slight, the purpose of the accused. Wit Turning round he saw a stranger, who said:abed about the police barracks in the hope to figure was the bero of the quarter-nessel for the defence proved an alibi for the
and the lower-deck alike. The revolu on in the Navy came with the introduction of steam. No real sailor could be induced to admit the value of steam power. "They ob ecte in the boiler from projectiles. The
the clumsy paddle wheels and sa
screw propeller was to many equally objection- atlr. Even in 1854 when we sent boats to the Black Sea during the Crimean War only a few of the warships were propelled by steam. But steam would not be denied, and now quite as much attention is given to the machinery as to the armament.
shoulder." The unsuspecting contic turned Excuse me, but there is something on your
and looked at his left shoulder, where he dis- covered somebody had expectorared. While the costie, was engaged in cleaning his clothes, the stranger went to
his right side,
his passed hand gently into the coolie's pocket, extracted 48 in stall coins, and billed for the road. The coolie then discovered that he was robbed and pursued the thief oliceman McLennan, who saw the cholic pass him like a flash of light- as
ning, look up the case and afrested the man. who sad his name was Chan Fun, and an
engineer by profession. The $8 was found in his pocket. Chan Fun was placed before Mr. F. A. Hazeland, at the Police Court this morning, charged with stealing from the person, and the Case was remanded until to-morrow to allow defendant to produce witnesses to speak on his behalf,
小
“THE GENTLE AND POLĪTH KULIGHE
HOW THEY MANAGE IN MALAYA.
A Malayan bull-fight, in contrast to a Spanish bolt-fight, is a comparatively tame affair, says a special curses; ondent of the Singapore Free Phess There is little of a show or pageant about it; no huge enclosed ring, with its tiers and tiers of seats filled with fashionable Spanish beanies in graceful mantillas waving blind-folded horses to be toured, no picadors, no dat planting banderilleros, and no espadas to zisk air lives-in-an-tee any follo haja te
| multi-coloured fans
no poor,
bills and buffalnes only follow their own
His Worship sentenced the defendant to twenty-one days' hard labour and six hours' stocks,
After the honest chair coolie had been com pensated by the Father, his Worship called him in Addressing the coole, Mr. Gompertz said am very pleased to see that you helped the Government and the police in arresting a lad character. I make an order that you be given 22 frm the poor-box. You are a good man,"
IRADE-MARK PROSECUTION.
IMPORTANT FLOUR-CAB.
land inst.
Before Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz, at the Magis tracy this afternoon, Kwan' ai, cumpradore to the Pacific Mail S. B. Co., and master of the Kwan Yee Ying from, and Kwan Tong, his foki, were stintinned on remand
dan er
accused, and went so far as to say that at the time complainant alleged she was robbed, she was not in her house, but in the street. The evidence was sufficient, and his Worship dis refused to receive any compensation from the charged the accused, after the latter had
woman. His Worship severely lectured the virago, telling her it was a serious charge to bring against a man, and fined her $50, with the option of two months' hard labour."
CLAIM POR GOODS SOLD,
PARTIES NON-SUITED.
witness said defendant bever went to see him Cross-examined by Mr. d'Almada e Castro in Canton, nor offered to sell hins poultry. Wit ress used to send goods to defendant to sell for him and he had to send the money to wit ness in Canton, when the goods were sold. There was no written contract for this business it was a verbal contract.
His Honour Pin him on to that and find out where the contract was made, because ha says he never saw defendant in Canton,
Rear Admiral Eardley-Wil mot sketches the difficulties which had to be overcome by vessels built of iron and steel to secure the maximum of
znd inst. minimum of weight of protection with the
dwells on the import- In Summary Jurisdiction this afternoon, be-, ance of the battleships being armed with gudsfore his Honour Mr. A. G. Wise, Pulsne Judge, capable of penetrating then moured bettat great Lai Yip Kee, of No. 33 China Street, trader, distancer. Light or medium guns have little sued Lam Cheong, of Nos. 12 and 114, Vege value when it is remembered that at 5,000 andable Stalls, Central Market, for the recovery 6,bu yar's only projectiles from the heaviest në the sum of $77.11, being the amount dua for
have remaining pieces
energy
for effectual" "gonds sold and delivered by the plaintiff to the damage against even moderate armour protec defendant on various dates since 26th April. tion. The writer therefore believes that great Plaintiff appeared in person, defendnat being as the Dreadnought is in point of size and represented by Mr. F. X. d'Almada e Chatro, armament we bave not yet seen the extreme Plaintiff stated that the defendant owed him stage ached. It is interesting to note that the $77.11 for goods which he had supplied to vessels of the Diaden class, although satisfac-him. He had
had applied for, payment but the fale trade description to flour for applying tory from the speed point of view and steaming inoney had not been paid. He did not know Mr. G. E. Morrell (of Messrs. Dennys and comprises no gun heavier than the 6-in. In Central Market.
capacity, are considered defective because it the address of the defendant, except in the Bowley, Crown Soucitors) prosecuted, and Mr.teresting chapters deal with the cruiser quad- M: W. Slade, instructed by Mr. 1. Scott Barton rons and torpedo craft, while reference is made (of Messrs. Exens, Harsion and Harding) to the manning and ad sinistration of the Navy. appeared for the lie defence. Inspector Col· The author testifies to the great improvements Jett watched the case for the police.
which have taken place in recent years, and The facts of the case, according to the pro enthusiastically believes in the power of the secution, were, that on 14th July, the police British Navy. The book is ublished under raided a godown in Des Voeux Road West, the auspices of the Navy League, and as an and discovered a number of perans engaged introduction to an intimate knowledge of the in transferring American flour of the "Mowian Navy's history it could scarcely be surpassed al instincts, and fight with their own kind, Pony" brand into baga of the "Owl" (Set Every alternate page contains an illustration of hut being goaded on to the combat by havL) maikan Australian trade mark.
The British warships past and present, and there is being used, there are none of the basal and ing daris plunged into them, and heises rot prosecution held that the very fact of defend
ants transferring American finur into Aus ra vessels in the Navy which are at present on the an appendix giving the particulars of all the
bali-ring is in fact, bull-fighting from less exciting, is infinitely more sporting au naturel, viripped of all artificial ctiteities, and and defrauding we giving a false description Past and Present is eminently suitable for use in schools. It may be had from the Navy Liu Cham, managing partner, Ip Chan cake League, 13 Victoria Street, Westminster, S. W., though to Spaniards, all elmets of personal shop, 15. Eastern Street, was shown a bag of fanget being amitted, it would doubtless seem four. He said that according to the mark il
Ipr one shilling. a deadly dull affair.
was "Suet Li" Bour. He could not tell from A spectatorul a bull-fightin Pahang writes:
brand and yet wit- the appointed plice due to time, two ness could not tell whether it was American pollock; but the Sultan did not put in an flour or not. In hia cross-examination to get out of the earance oil four o'clock, the lateness of Mr. Slade wanted las arrival being really only custom, for when witness whether the words "Suet Li" was ever any show of this suit is on, the time is the Chinese meaning for "Sydney" or "pears."
The witness said "Suet Li" was invariably given about a couple of hours too
Sydney," eauty. Just outside the old chief's house, where but when questioned as to what a peer was we assembled, was the ring, a primitive arrange called in Chinese he closed like a telescope, meni, merely an open earth space not fenced He was shown some of the fruit, but witness
All round the circle squatted a did not know anything. natives, who put on their best "bajus" and
• sarongs" for the function.
The bulls were led i
1 in by the nose. aach by Malay, and, when within a few yards of each nther, let go and given a shove. They met with a crash, and then followed a posting match, their horns for the most part being agai, and then another. The two bulls in locked together, with a break-away now and
Mr. d'Almada e Castro: Where was the con-
question for some time, admitted that the cop tract made? Witness, after fencing with the
thera,
pleased to reciprocale ile facilities offered by niously come to the conclusion that the follow. Pas no niten witnessed in a liac bags, and selling it as, four imported effective list or building. The British Navy tract was made in Canton and the money paid
the Manul cturers Association as far as posmg clans would be best suitable, in local
sible.
ther instructions.
conditions:
the public.
what country came The
Mr. d'Almada said, the defence was that the case did not come within the juris diction of this Court, as the contract was made in Canton,
His Honour! And where was the breach, if
Bidden by the Sultan to a bull-fight, I arrived shop was the "Nam Tour he used in his | THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL any, committed?
BIX -H CONGR SS oF CUMBERY OF
Manufacturers to be allowed 4 days' grace, CO MERCE OF EL EMPIRE, 1906. after which period the bayer to have the option The preliminary fist of the Redolistons befen celling the gods or of taking them with fore the Congress was discussed and in view a penalty of 5% ad valorem for the first month of the Chamber's letter in the Delegates of the past of a month and 21% additional for each and ultimo it was decided not to cable any fur. succeeding month or part of a month of the extension a, reed upon between the minuter. turer and buyer Should further extension ALLEGED BILTING UP OF THE HARBOUR
be required by the ufacturer bey nd the The following letter was read:-
period already agreed upon, the buyer to again Colonial Secretary's Office, have the option of can elling the gods or tak
2nd July, 1906.
Them ing with a penalty of 21% for each tooth Sir,-1 am directed to bring to the notice of or part of a month of the further period, your Chamber certain investigations that have This substated clause was soufied to local recently been canied out with regard to the pice goods me chants in a circular letter of | # any way depth of water in the harbour of Hongkongh instant and we have now pleasure in reeley crowd of about three or four hundred which it is thought may be of interest to them purting that from the replies received it is 2. In the first part of the year 1954 Mr. J apparent that the great majority of merchants F. Boulton, then Acting Assistant Director are agreeable to the clause suggested by us of Public Works prepared an exhau tive
and ikat few have any other opinions to offer. comparison of the depth of water all over the Uuder the circumstances the Committee of barbour as indicated by the chats that had the Chamber of Commerce can be satisfied been issued from time to time by the Hydro- that in forwarding the new clause agreed upon grapher to the Navy. This report showed that they are voicing the opinion of the local piece
the shoaling that hark taken place hetween the years 1841 and 1893. involved the last of a considerable area of five fathom water, parti cularly in the western part of the harbour. a loss which if verified and likely to continue pointed to the pecessity of extensive dredging eperations being undertaken without delay.
rectness
ponds market. We have, &c.,
(Sgd.) A. BROOKE SMITH (Jardine, Mathe.
SOR & CO). G. ENGEL (Wm Meyerink & Co.), D. K. Moss (Alex oss & Co.),
fn.
S. BE, DUTTON (S. J. David & Co.),
It was decided to accept the report and for-
Mr. Boulton pointed out, however, that the corre o the Liverpool Chamber of Cons
of the re-ult he had arrived at de. Ha on the correctness of his assumptions regard to the zero that had been taken
with
for
the surveys and that it
it was doubtful what spro the earlier chans were referred to and how He recommended that rero was preserved that the Admiralty should be requested to make
complets ne
Dew survey
The Harbour bottom: 3. Mr. Boulion's report was forwarded to Secretary of State on the a'th October, 2004, with the request that the observations of
the
INDIANS FOR CANADA.
Ist inst.
in route to
#1
MAD
this case were badly matched-father and son, the latter a much more powerful animal with some liked one mark while others stouler hortis. The fight only lasted about six minutes, when "pa" bull turned tail and fled, chased by his son A general stampede took place, after an opening iad been forced, every ere rushing alter the bulls to secure them and bring them back for their wounds, which were very slight, to be examined.
1899, and used the marks to all customered
The old chief, it being his skow, then enter tained us
us all with coffee and Malay cakes, 11% of which were new to me. As a rule, native cakes are too sweet and too heavy for English taste, but these were exceptionally good. After a short rest and a smoke, a move was made for the buffalo fight farther up the ver, but the being quite overcast and rain an evident certainty, the part of the programme was posing, tre fore, I not up river again
Next day, in its place fixed on.. This show gave much better sport than the other, as the buffaloes were immensely powerful brates and very well m tched, the fight insting about ten minuter before one got a wound in the corner of his
to morrow,
AGENCY, LIMITED.
The report for presentation to the share. holders at the tenth ordinary annual meeting in be held at the offices of Messrs, Dudwell & Co, Ld., Queen's Buildings, on the 9th insi, at 12 noon, reads:-
The general managers have now the plea- sure to lay before the shareholders the accom- panying statement of accounts for the year ended 31st May, 1906.
990.00 757.11
That closed the case for the prosecution. In opening the case for the defence Mr. Accounts The balance at the credit of Slade pointed out that defendant was a well
profit and loss account, after writing off $6572.16 known person in the Colony. He was one of depreciation and including $1.41 brought the biggest flour merchants here and was in
forward from last year, is $13.672.1 which it is the trade for sixteen years. He was also
proposed to appropriate as follows:- compradore to, the Pacific Mail, and O. To place to reserve fund $3,000.00
of meant. The To pay a dividend of 15 per cent. on and O., and was a defendant had, eight separate trade-marks,
ordinary shares
*****དོ་ལྟ།14******༔54ཆ which were registered in Hongkong in 1883 to Togeneral managers remuneration... 2,0:0.00
for "To pay a further dividend of 2) per
cent on ordinary shares
990.00 another mark. He was also the proprietor of To pay $9.90 per share on 100 five other trade-marks, which included the
founders' shares............. "Owl" ("Suit Li") brand. These five zado- To carry forward to new account...... marks had not been registered although an application for registration was
made authorities. At the time the application was made defendant ordered a consigoment of "Owl four and sold it in Hongkong, Regently a broker, hearing that his client dealt in flour,, called on defendant and ordered some "w" brand) four, There was none in stock, and "Matan Peony four was put into bags of the "w" brand. Both brands were American and the four came i from the same mill, Tha question now was when be transferred the brands. He would whether defendant had a bona fide intention submit that it was bena-fide and above board. His client had first applied for a registration of the marks and there was no fraud intended.
· The case was adjourned,
to the
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Mr, d'Almada a Castro: Also in Canton, my Lord.
His Honour Of course, he is out of Court likes. tell him he can go and sve in Canton if he
Judgment for defendant with costs.
BREACH OF COVENANT..
JUDGMENT JOR SI,
17
2nd inst, In Summary Jurisdiction this morning, bis Honour Mr. A. G. Wise, l'uisne Judge, de Jivered his reserved judgment in the case in which Flora assoon, of Malabar Hill, Bombay, widow, sued Chiu Yueng Leung, of No. Connaught Road, Central, Hongkong, to recover from the defendant the sum of $112.75 being damages
for breach of a covenant contained in a mortgage deed, dated the 4th April, 1906, under which the defendant cov
covenanted with the plaintiff to pay the renewal premiums op the then existing policies of insurance covering the premises comprised in such mortgage, The defendant having failed to pay auch renewal premiums the plaintiff has had to PAY
the same, amounting to
10-5111-75
Mr.
$13,673.1 Auditor. The account now presented have been audited by Mr. W. H. Potts, who, being E. P. H. Laing, of Messrs. Deacon, Looker and eligible, offers hímuelf for re-election:
DODWELL & CO., LTD.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 26th July, 1906,
THE NATIONALISATION, UF RAILWAYS.
THIS YEAR'S purchases
P
to
Deacon.
represented the plaintiff, Mr. F. X. d'Almada o Castro appearing for the defendant.
His Honour sald that this case was brought for breach of a converant continued in a mort. kaya dated the 20th April, 1900, whereby Chin right, title and in- Yeung Leung assigned all his terest in the land known as sub-section i of section & of inland. Lot No. 2:2-13 to Flora Sasunon au security for a loan of $15,000, and in that deed of mortgage was contained a clause that the said Chin Young Leung providing Thould the renewal premiums on the insur
pay asces then existing on the property. This Chin Yeung Leung failed to do, claiming that he was not liable for the payment,
and, through his solicitor, quoted authorities in support his contention. The mortgage deed her of not been drawn la due form, and had defendant
damages would have got judgment against the plaintiff. But this he had failed to do. His llopourihen proceeded to quote several authorities, and said that under the circumstances he must give judgment for plaintiff for $1, but without
By the p.s. impress of China, which left this port to-day for Vancouver, vin Shanghai and Japanese posts, there departed some 300 natives of the North West Provinces of India, who are to be employed in the four mills in the Consulting Engineers, Messrs, Coode, Son Canada. The majority of these men came in Matthews, should be obtained with regard from Calcutta in the s... fghtning, and have to it and that the Admiralty should be ap been the cause of much wonder in this Colony proached with a view to reconsidering the de-since their disembarkation, as it was generally cision they had arrived at at the end of 1902,
The Japanese Government has decided surmised that they were bore
fake over aix private railways before the end of not to contribute towards a re-survey of the Panama to work on the Canal. Inquiries made
this year. The Kobu and Hokkaido Colliery Harbour.
in the proper quarters, however, olicited the Ол
the 38th July, 1905, the Secretary of above facts, with the additional information eye, and in consequence abruptly turned tail THE following proclamation was issued by the Railways will be taken over on October 1st, Blate trapsmitted
the Nippon and Ganyetsu Railwaye on Novem Canton-Hankow Railway Company on the 4th report by the Consulting that this batch of 300 is but the first instalment and was chased off the ground by his opponent. Can this moon. The Railway Company has her ist, and the Nishinari and Sanya Railways paid into Court the nominal
buffalo Engineers who had satisfied themselves by of what is expected to be very large number in these he only fight when another comes rentad the former Linng San I Tong, in the Ta
in December ist. The estimated prices are as | conferences at the Admiralty that it was im of emigrants from India, via the East lo Van. home, and practicable to utilize as
into his own particular haunt. In nearly every Tung street for the purposes of the Genera follows rollable basis of com couver for Canada. From what could be learn.
Nippon Railway ... ... Y130,532,540 parison the soundings taken before
or, spurred on link pois, no proved the Reveure Department and a day must be chosen shown on the earlier charis and were 1866, as ed we gather that these men are all under con
Sanyo the rules regula- victor, on, I suppose, by patriotic foal- of opinion tract, for three
years, and are to be paid at the
Kobu that the soundings of 1841 should be eliminated rate of $1 gold per diem. To anyone acquainting. As the fight lasted only a short time, the tions of the Department must be drawn up
Hokkaido Colliery Railway in all future comparisons as to the former ed with the conditions of the coalies in India Sultan seat for another couple of buffaloes. For the e purposes we respectfully ask the
Nishinari Railway... depths which existed within the harbour. In this must Indeed appear to be their harvest, but when they arrived, after a twenty minutes merchant guilds, the charitable institutions.
and
Gony tau Railway... view the most por. in it is
on the deputies tion of the harbour having been made is yer: worthy of note that not one of this particular obliged to be led away again. When buffaloes zu day at 12 o'clock in the Al Yu Hall to agg they recommended that it should be ra ba'ch has caused any trouble to the Police, are really well matched, as le the first fight, deliberate on these questions. All gentlemen surveyed, that the results of the now survey which certainly goes far to vindicate the there is great excitement among the Malays, i are also asked to bring their personal scale, should be compared with the charts published character they have earned for themselves as but in the ordinary way one buffalo turns tall in order that the regulations may be signed Fince 1886 and the extent of the changes which being, in the main, a law-abiding, peaceful lot after a few minutes' charging and shorting, and and sealed, to state their age, dwelling and Mad occurred in the interval thus détermined. 1 of willing workers.
the whole thing is over,
occupation."-Canton Daily News,
C358
absolutely to and
were
on
which to ›
74,047,980 9 729,020 29,168,180 1,9 6,505 2,584,500 As will be seen from the above figures, the in value of the rail, ays to be purchased this year amounts to. Yz. 8,013,821. This is the valus computed by the Government at the time when the Railway Nationalisation Law was published--Jogan Chronicle,
}
cosis,
It is stated that in view of the visit of tha British Squadron to Corean waters early next, month, Marquis Ito has asked the Corean Em. peror to recolva, the British Commander-in- Chief and others in audience. The Emperor is said to have expressed bis wilingders do do so, "provided that be is not indisposed,”
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