SHAMERN PUBLIC EDIFICES,
NEW CUSTOMS QUARTERS.
LAYING THE. YOUNDAYION STATION.,
[From Our Own Correspondent,]
·Shamean, 7th Marcb. Conspicuous among the edifices in course of erection here are those for the new offices of Messrs. Arnhold Karberg & Co. and the quar ters for the Customs Indoor Staff The former forms a large three-storied building and pre- sumably will prove to be a very imposing stracture, next to the premises of Messrs. Butterfield & Swire, whilst the fatter occupies a farge area on a site in the French Concession. The foundation stone of this building was laid by Mr. Commissioner Mayers to-day at noon in the presence of nearly all the Foreign Consuls and leading residents, and at the con- clusion of the ceremony the company pro- ceeded to the Coast Inspector's Office where the customary toasts were heartily tosponded
to,
The firm of Messrs. Puracil and Paget are to be congratulated in being the architects of this colossal building which, there is no doubt, will be one of the landmarks of the Concession, I am informed from a reliable source that Secretary Root has applied to Congress for A sum of Sri5,000 gold for an American Con sulate at Canton. The time is indeed ripe for the Americans to possess a building of their awn in this the principal port of southern China. Both the British and the French have their own Consulates in their respective concessions admirably suited for all requirements, and the Germans too, after many years, have now one of the finest buildings in Shameen.
The Portuguese Government also has ac quired a plot of ground, about iwe years age, and although plans have been prepared and submitted no signs of a commencement in build on it have been forthcoming, nod should not be surprised to see the Japanese Consulate, albeit in its infancy, located in a building of their owu ere long..
PROPERTY SALES.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY MARCH 16, 1907.
5. S. "DAKOTA..
ABANDONED TO UNDERWRITERS,
11th March.
The Nippon Yusen Kaisba, local agents for the Great Northern Steamship Co. write u under to-day's data :—
"We beg to inform you that we have recely ed telegraphic advice from our bead office in Tokio to the effect that the Great Northern, S. S. Co. have abandoned the s. Dakota to the underwriters. Prospects of salving cargo are poor, but may possibly save some."
"The Kobe Gerald of 5th inst. says:-On inquiry, late this afternoon, we learnt that no further particulars of the mishap to the Dakota had been received at the local office of the N.Y. It has been stated that there were 3,000 japanese labourers on the vessel, but we are informed that this is not correct.
The Dakota's cargo is reported to have in- cluded 3.700 bales of raw cotton, and 350 tons general cargo for Kobe, with 1,500 bales of raw cotton and 420 tons, general cargo for Yoko. hama. She also had on board 40 tons of sundries for Nagasaki, 'goo tons of cargo for Shanghai, and 2,150 tons for Hongkong,
The Yokohama branch of the N.Y.K. has received the following telegramı —
Mar. 4, 19 m.-The Dakota is in great danger. Her forepart is under water, and the interior of the vessel is flooded., immediate asalsiance is requested. All the passengers and crew are safe. Please make arrangements to send them Yokohama.
Mar 4, 2.20 am-The Datofa bas sunk The Afinnesota has arrived here to assist her.
*
THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN COM-
PANY LIMITED. "
at the twentieth ordinary annual meeting, to The report for presentation to shareholders ba bold, at the City Hall on Wednesday, 20th inst., at 13.15 pm, reads:m
The directors häva now to submit to share- holders their report with' a statement of ac- counts for the year ended 31st December, 1996, ACCOUNTS.
The profit on working was 5407,593:17,08 compared with $390,753.40 in 1995, being an increase of $16,940,07.
The balance at credit of profit and loss account, after paying Interim 'dividend of 5% and including $20,04005 brought forward from last year, is $348,107.91 which it is proposed to. appropriate as follows
Directors' and auditors' fees...$ Final dividend of 5% Transfer to depreciation and
repairs account Transfer to insurance fund... Carry forwardic account...
BUSINESS.
10,500.00 99,060,00
135,000.00
10,000.00 *3,047.91 $158,207.91
Excepting Bombay yarn, of which abnormal-
restricted and business throughout the year quantities accumulated, imports generally were was dull."
PROPERTY,
The Praya was handed over by Government in April. The price fixed for such portions as the Company may hereafter acquire is $3 per foot including an instalment of 15 cents per The following particulars are given in foot for the whole area (to be paid when the Tokio despatch The Dakota stranded off
exchange of land is settled). During the year Shirahama on her way from Seattle to Yoko- hama, at 7 o'clock at Sunday evening. She,238 feet were thus acquired. The building on K.M.D. 4 referred to în Inst report is now has not entirely sunk as yet, but her position is hopeless. The passengers are said to have occupied as offices. Nos. 6/7 godown and new been landed at Shirahama. There were 65 workshops were completed." cabin passengers, and twenty-five in the steer- age. The NY.K. steamer Und Maru le
Yokohama for the scene of the disaster at 5 o'clock yesterday morning, with Mr. McWil liams, representing the Great Northern Com pany, and Messrs. Atsumi and Chin of the Yokohama branch of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha on board The Kaisha has asked the Toyo Acting under instructions from Mesurs. Gold-| Sensui-Gyogya Kaisha (Oriental Submarine ring and Barlow, mortgagee's solicitors, Mr. Fishery Company) to undertake diving opera- Geo. Lammert, auctioneer, put up for sale by|tions with a view to the refloating of the vessel. public auction at his sales rooms in Duddell The Yokosuka Naval Station yesterday sent Street, on the 11th inst., the valuable leasehold the warship Varyama and a torpedo boat to the properties_situated at Kowloon Tong, in aid of the Dukofa, the New Territory, in the Colony of Hong kong, comprising respectively the pieces of land situate at Kowloon Tong, and registered in the Land Office as Lote Now, 402 and 413 of of Survey District No. 4. The first comprising an aras of 2.35 acres, and paying an annual Crown rent of $7.05, and the second 5.19 acres, paying Crown rent $14.07. At the last mo ment it was decided by the parties concerned to sell the property in two lots, Lot No. i being put up first, and falling to Mr. J. Basto when the bidding ranched $1,550 The second lot passed to Mr. C. B. da Róia, for $1,800.
The following lot of Crown land was let by public auction, at the offices of the Public Works Department on the Itth inst, the land being held for a term of 75 years from 15th July, 1898, with the usual option of renewal, and subject to the expenditure in rateable im provements, on the land of $2,000. This lot is registered as Sai Kung ioland let No. 38, situated at Hang, Hau, and containing 14,000 square feet, being subject to an annual rest of $64. The upset price was $180. This property was knocked down to Mr. Li Ping for Sagó, being one bid of $10 above upset price.
A message is stated to have been received is Tokio yesterday afternoon stating, that the vessel was then submerged to her second mast. In addition to the passengers, twenty_bags of mail have been landed.
It may be mentioned, that the Dakota,was. launched at New London, Connecticut, in 1904.
She had been on the service since 1905.
WHARVES.
Guide piles, found necessary by reason of the The new Ferry pier was completed in April. strang tide, were in course of erection when the typhoon of 18th September swept away: some three fourths of the whole pier.
LAUNCHES,
The Crane and Curlew were acquired. The langkong was lost in the typhoon and wreck
sold..
LIGHTERS,
Sixteen wooden lighter (each 19d coms) were
tracted for before the typhoon.
The following were acquired immediate- after the typhoon Shanghai steel lighters, 2 Weihaiwei steel lighters, 2 Hoog. lighters, 5 Moji wooden lighters, aggregating kong wooded lighters, 2 Canton wooden
1,000 tons and the following contracted far after the typhoon:-37 wooden lighters, each 100 tons, and 6 Kumsing boats
MACHINERY AND PLANT.
A secondhand 5-ton bleam crans, and a Diesel
TYPHOON, 18th SEPTEMBER, •1906. Praya--The sea wall was destroyed for a
oil engine for the workshops, was acquited.
distance of 250 feet (due to the S. P. Hitchcock pounding it); several coping stones were dis- lodged; throughout its length the pierre perdue was disturbed; and the concrete surface of the roadway broken up revealing numerous large cavities beneath.
11 is said, according to the Japan Herald that the close resemblance of the topographical features of the Sunosaki Point, in Awa province, and the foga-shima, on the Miura peninsula, misleads vessels trying to make Yokohama at night. The coast of Shirahama is very rocky, and extremely dangerous on account of the rapid currents and high waves which sweep the coast. It was on this coast that the N. Y. K. liner Tokio Maru stranded and sank in 1893; while the O. & Q. S.S.. Co.'s steamer
Buildings. Roofs were partially uplifted at Belgic shared a similar fate in August, 1897, the eaves and ridges in all tiled godowns. The Both these steamers were subsequently refloat-tilling at the eaves is being, replaced by a ed, however, and we may hope a similar out
stronger design with a view to prevent slipping. come will follow in the present case.
Doors and shutters were all more or less dam aged and have been strengthened. Floors of mised as opportunities permit; meanwhile the older godowns were flooded and will be
cargo is being restored on higher donnage, -West Point Buildings suffered very slightly.
DR. MORRISON'S JOURNEY. ** *
The substance of Dr. Morrison's telegram to The Times descriptive of his journey overland from Hankow-to the Tonkin border was as follows
Changsha, ibence by river to Hongchoufu and From Haskow Dr. Morrison proceeded to
CANTON Foreign secretARY
-NEW--APPOINTMENT,-
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
Shameen, 7th March. H.E. Viceroy Chow-iu has appointed Mr. Ho-yau to be the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and he will shortly assume the duties of his General for Chins at fear fiderable experience office. Mr. Ho-yau was formerly the Consul.
an official who has had
selected.
Wharver. →Nos, I and a wharves, and 5 small ones werk almost annihilated, whilst No. 3 wharf, the heers wharf, the new Ferry wharf and a small one were much damaged. No.-3 and sheers wharves have been repaired, (the wharves will be rebuilt. This will give 5 berths latter will be enlarged); No.2 and the small
as against former 6. West Paint.what suffer
BALANCE SHEET. 31st December, 1906.
Dr. Liabilities.
To capital 40,000 fally d
6,800
· paid up sbaros at $50 $2,000,000
Less '135' shares
not issued.
To estate of G. Sharp (deceased)
mortgage sijaonachoskuseram To reserve fund............... To insumice (und To Hongkong and Shanghai to depreciation and repairs ac
Banking Corporation
count
To accounts payable... To unclaimed dividends.........
To director and auditors' fees... To final dividend.........................................s To profit and loss account balance.
Cr. Assets.
By value of land and buildings at Kow- loon as per last account
Since expended on
$3,562,063.18
new buildings... 108,567,96
value of wharves
at Kowloon as per · · last account .......... Since expended on
new wharves,oran
value of railways and rolling stock at Kowloon as per fast account Since expended on
new rails, &C.'»»«
value of launches as perlast account Since expended on
110,000.00
37.391.03
(0,001.00
3,869.09.
new launcher...
25,000.00
31,050.00
It
Value oflighters as
per last account... 100,000,00 Since expended on.
new lighters... 207,020-88
Value of machinery
*
and plant as per
...last account
90,000,00
·
"
Since expended on
new machinery, &Ë 15,733.19
Value of sheer legs as per last
account
Value of land and buildings at West Point as per last account
Sundry debtors.......
19
H'kong & Shanghai Bank (up-
claimed dividends)...
Cash on hand are unis
2
Value of coal on hand
Value of timber, iron and stores on hand
#
10,500,00 99,660.00 3,047,91
3,170,631.34.
H.B, WU TING FANG.
A MAN OF MODERN. IDEAS
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that We Ting Fang is the brainlest rann in China to-day, and if the Empreen Dowager really intended to, reform. China's present system of government, she would fisten to him. But her dislike for Wu.comes
· TOO MODERN FOR HIS OWN PEOPLE.
from his fearlessons in telling his sovereign what is necessary in the way.of a generale It has no doubt ansmed strange to the many friends of Wu Ting Fang in the United States house cleaning at Peking before the reforms ant
can be begun, keeg that, in all of the newspaper correspondence 1,993,200,00
Wu knowa is own people as no other that has gone out of China during the last Chinese knows them, and he has their welfare 196,951.00 year regarding the proposed constitutional
from of government and other reforms; that his at heart. He has been accused of being anties $50,000,00
name has not been mentioned as one of the foraigo in bis attitude toward outsiders, and int 30,000.00
a measure this is true. He says China is one lendars in the reform movement. When he
of the wealthlon nations on earth, and bat; nae was Minister at Washington he was considered tural resources should be developed, bat prest #096,160.47
a man of modern ideas, and those who aferably by the Chiasse themselves. But he him then would naturally suppose that in such always adds that if the Chinese will not bulld 23,152.49
a movement as the reformation of his own railroads, open the mines and adopt, modarm 3.570.50 400,171.18 Government, We would be taking an active methods of agriculture, then the foreignars
part in the work..
should be glean the opportunity to do so. The truth is, Wu Ting Faug in down and out, This sort of talk has not made him popular so far as the Government of China is concern.
with the anti-foreign element that would driver ed. Two things bavo aided his political down- | every white man out of the country, born to detal $4,366.413.55 fall. He was loo modern for his own people, Wut takes no stock in the talk of a constitusion
and he is gifted with the most cynical tongue |tion for Chius. He full well realizes that not that was ever placed in the mouth of a Chinese. || ong-tenth of con per cent of China's 400,000,000 £2
DISGUSTED AT CLIQUES,
of people ever heard of a constitutional form of When he returned to China from Washington government, or for that matter, any other form a little over four years ago 'Wu was made a of government that goes beyond the village. member of the Wai-Wa-Pu, which, translated, magistrate. He looks upon the plan as chime. means Board of Foreign Affairs. And he con-rical at the present time, and has said so. Hand
has pointed out several ways in which reforma tinued to be a member of that body until Jast summer, when his resignation was accepted could be instituted, but he is not listened to. and be was given a minor appointment and allowed to depart from Peking. A few weeks ago he petitioned to be allowed to resign his new post and retire into private life. He gave as his reason ill health, but those who koow 147,351.03 the cynical Wu best any that his desire to get out of official life is prompted by disgust over the manner in which the clique that is now in control of the reform movement are handling it. Before he went to Washington Wu was like thousands of other educated Chinese who know that their Government is far behind the timen, 63,860.09 but who are willing to sit idle and let her drift.They consider, not only the matter of
along,
But his stay in the United States home consumption but also of the demands of, taught him that this would not do and when he of the foreign markets. They send their returned to his native soil he got busy. He manufactured goods abroad and import raw. talked right out in meeting and lectured his materials. In general business affair? wa 57,050,co confreres in the Wal-Wu-Po in the most amar should pattern after the Americans. We must ing manner over the way they were handling be energetic and not idle. Although but few of China's relations with the outside world. They us can go abroad to be educated, we must smiled and continued to pursue the even tenor endeavour to induce students at home to study of their way...
more modern books, and also with that end in view, we must establish more modern schools and colleges. As regards education the st12+ dent in America and Europe is not like the student in China. In those countries they da not hope to become officials, but desire to acquire a good general education to enable them to start out for themselves early in life, so that they may become independent and enjoy liberty. As regards constitutiona! government for China; there must be a more educated people before it can be successfully established. I wish you would all read more, newspapers so that you may learn more about. foreigners and their methods, and I also hops that you will send your sons and younger. brothers to school at as early ap ago as possible. Confucian teaching is good, but if any foreign. system proves to be better we must adopt it.
307,020.88
W
WU DISLIKES JAPAN. Now Wu has no use for Japan. He is fully ative to the fact that Japan's aggressiveness spells trouble in the near future for China, When Japan was sharpening her sword for Russia in China's interests, it was Wu Ting 105,723.19 Fang who wanted the Peking Government to
3.000.00
721.00
tell the powers that China had not asked Japan to go to war with any one in her behalf, He 163,143.88 said that it was all well enough for Japan to use China's interests as a casus belli, but those 215,330.13 interests would be forgotten when the guns began to boom. Not that he was particularly 3.570.50 friendly toward Russia did Wu take this stand, 633.13 but he pointed out that so long as Manchuria was already lost to China, she was just as well off with the Bear controlling the destinies of that province as with Japan in charge.. The result has proved that the old man, was right. Russia and Japan are both in Manchuria now, and will remain there. In talking with a newspaper, man at the time he was trying to get his Government to take his advice about the situation, Wu said:
28,379-48
$ 4.366,413-55
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT.. Dr.
To interest ...................... ...$ 70,356,31
To interim dividend.................... 99,650,00
To balance appropriated as follows:---
Directors and audi
tor! lees .................$-10,500,00- Final dividend ***** 99,660,00 Transfer to dépɔecial"
tion and repairs .account.......... 135,000.00
· Transfer to insurance
fund......... Amount carried to aaw
account
10,000,00
3,047.91
ILLUSTRATES RY COMPARISON, "You have seen two dogs fighting over a bone, you never saw the boce fight. back, Well, in this case, China is the bone of conten. tion, and if I can make my people see it, the bona will fight before the dogs are ready,"
When it became evident that the war was bound to come, Wu said that the natives of Manchuria would be the only real sufferers, and again he was right: That rich country is 258,107.91
now all but ruined." The people lost all they had, had in Southern Manchuria the Japanese are pursuing a policy that will, if it is not soon $428,224.22 checked, mean their further degradation.
ed partial destruction in the great typhoon and By balance from last account... 30,000
By nett earnings for 1905 407,093.17 By unclaimed dividends forfeited... By transfer fee
By premium on 1 share sold.........
by Chinese road 750 miles 10 Kweillo, Nanningwith. Western politics and has been in close still further damage in a later one, (the newly-opened port on the West river) and
** Launches-Oui of to launches 3 were wreck- Luegchow, near the border. He found officials touch with Europeans, the appointment is welled and salved. All others damaged. and people throughout equally friendly.
Lighters. Out of 65 boas 61 were wrecked (many full of cargo) and 29salved, With a excep tions (smashed to pieces by the 3.3. Petrarch), those lost were old boats of Chinese type,
Railways and Rolling stock-Some 2,500 yards of track were lost, of which one third has been salved.
To
BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT.
ALLEGED HOLD BURGLAR,
9th inst.
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Machinery, &c.-Six steam cranes and the dredger barge were lost and salved, The hopper barge was totally wrecked and thé steam hammer has not yet been found.
Summary. The losses caused by the y phoon will approximate as follows
Fitt-hand information on the spot revealed the recently reported rebellion on the borders of Kiangsi province as "a local frontier distur bance exaggerated by nervous accoupis sent from Changsha it was easily suppress ed in A few days by the modern-drilled troops sent from Hupeb, The insurgents Of samples of the ways that are dark and who have been represented as a powerful tricks that are gain" to which the coolie is to force equipped with modern magazine rifles much addicted, as we are told, by more or less were mostly scattered bands of disaffected vil-authoritative writers, there is no end. When a lagers armed with gingala, spears and swords. Chinaman is charged before the magistrate" for The German engineers employed in the Ping some or other of the daily perpetrated offences, hsiang collieries were required to withdraw to which keep their Honours busy, marvellous Miscellaneous Changsha, where they remained for a month, indeed are the excuses with which he is expenditure on but they saw no reason for that withdrawal and ever ready to prove to his own entire satis-abour,
gratu- the work in the mines went on regularly, the faction-his innocence of any such peccadillo.. ities,&c.(charged train running to Liling on the river four times If caught in a gambling den, with cards to working afc daily an usual.
and money in his hand, "Oh," he says, Kwangsi province Dr. Morrison found to be was gambling; I had only now quite tranquil, policed by troops who are just looked in to find a friend." If caught regularly paid and foreign-trained. The rebel-entering premises by the window, he heard a noise, and wanted to look-see" When art tion In this province had been repressed with
rested with stolen garments in his possession. such severity that the population had almost disappeared and it is now being re-peopled he was "gently walking down the street. Railway
when the garments fell from the clouds right with Hunanese military settlers.
In regard to the opening of Nanning on January 1, Dr. Morrison noted the satisfactory fact that the settlement is being laid out at the expense of the provincial government and the regulations especially provide that the whole clty and not the foreign settlement only will admit foreign goods without likin charges. The proposal to transfer the pro- vincial Government to Nanning has been abandoned.
Dr. Morrison was much struck by the im. proved condition of the soldiers, who, while not approaching European efficiency, might be trusted to deal effectively with any local dis- turbance. He was still more impressed by the spread of western education; all the town and many villages had school with foreign fittings. Frequently all the temples except the city temple and the Confuscian temple had bean converted into schools and colleges while students 'in semi-foreign dress were counted by thousands. There could be no question of the widespread desire of the people to learn about foreign things. In Kweilin there were excellent preparatory, middle and high schools; also a class taught by a Frenchman, singing English glees to the music provided by a Japanese harmonium. There was, how- over, a regrettable dearth of good teachers, Japanese educational appliances specially pre pared for Chinese use were 'to be found every. where sad avery school had its physical and military drill.
no!
tore.
Totalcs.. timated expendi.
......$9,000,00 Costs of repairing us. sets which were paițially destroyed:- Praya..........$30,000.00 Buildings...... 2503.00 Wharves.... 22ƒ 30.00 ned rol- cludes! Bagstock/sak.
1,010,00
Already expended
8,140.28
negotiated it will be remembered that Chin
When the treaty of Portsmouth wat boing
284.30 asked that a Chloose commissioner be allowed 157.00 $ voice in the hearings. We told his people 50.00 that this was useless that it was now too. late in tave Manchuria for the Chinese and when $428,224.22 both Russia and Japan told China very plainly to go away back and sit down. Wu again was DEPRECIATION AND REPAIRS ACCOUNT. able to say, "I told you so."
Dr.
Ordinary repairs, renewals and
improvements during 1905......$ 46,157.85 Typhoon repair. *******130,550.52 17 Balance
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RESERVE FUND. Dr.
HIS CYNICISM 'MAKES TROUBLE.
Wu is a cynic. He knows what his country ticeds, and he knows equally as well that her 50-called statesmen do not intend to supply 23,153.49 those needs unless they benefit financially, and he does not hesitate to tell them so. Els bit-' $200,160.86 ing sarcasm has got him into trouble more
iban nace during the last year. Cr. By Balance from last account: ...$ 65,160.85 When the Peking Government proposed to send a commission to America and Europe for Transfer from profit and loss
account incrinurus
135,000.00 the purpose of studying foreign systems of government Wu smiled a smile that meant $109,160.86 "There you go again." But he said nothing until he was asked what he thought of the proposition. He replied that he had no doubt the commissioners would absorb, a $550,000.00 great deal of useful information regarding the western school of cooking, the proper wines to go with each course of a dinner, and ac quire a taste for expensive brands of cigars, but he added: "What they will learn about the forms of government in the various coun- tries they visit will not fill as large a book as 30,000.00 the volume that will be required to register what they do not learn.". And as reports came back telling about the entertaining to which $30,000.00
the high commissioners were being treated, Wu was unable to bridle his sarcastic tongue. Especially was he cynical when the commis sioners cabled for more expenis money, as they did from almost every city, they visited. "Chorus girls and old vintages come high," be remarked, "but they all have their proper place in governments,"
10μ 14.00 198,0; 5.00 6,000,00
145.00 10,348.64 To Balance.... 11.701.79
Cr. 517.00 By Balance from last account 5.437.35 97.652.48 4,818.26
INSURANCE FUND.
Dr.
182,000.00
To Balance
on to his shoulders;" and so on ad infinitum. Launcher vage But it remained for Chan Kam, a coolic, kwingine. at No. 16, Ui Hing Lane, to give the Court a startler, when he was ordered to free à charge of attempting to commit burglary at No: 23, Sau Wa Fong, last night. The stereotyped question being put to him, "Do you admit the charge the accused blandly replied that he did he heard "a woman's voice in the house and wanted to look see" Evidence showed that accused was seen by a next door neigh bouring removing the bar from the door of the house, and giving the alarm, started to chase the accused, who dashed down the road yelling and shouting as if all the devils were 'after' him. He was secured at last and Inspector Gourlay took charge of him until this morning, when it was time to place him before the magistrate. There was some doubt as to the man's intentions, and he was given the benefit of it. Four weeks ago a similar occurrenceRebuilding No. 2 wharf $147,000 happened at the same house, and only one week agolbe place was entered and property removed, the thieves leaving no trace.
$191,000.00 138,690.00 Proportionate book value of assets which were totally destroyed:—
* $90,000.00 Wharves.......................... Railway, &c.................. 9.500.00 28,000,00 Lighters..................................... Machinery, &C.
3,500,00
PHILIPPINES CUSTOMS DUTIES.
Total amount of loss caused
$31,000.00
by the typhoon $312,000.00. *The actual value was $340,000, written down to $90,000.
.$$50,000.co
Cr. By Balance from last account.......5.20,000.00
Transfer from profit and loss account
". ..... 10,000.00 $30,000,00
EDWARD OSBORNE,
Secretary.
Further expenditure, the immediate result of THE JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE They submitted their reports, but very little
the typhoon, will be as follows:-
New Ferry wharf 30,000 Old
No. 5 wharf.....
Coal
EO DOD 8,500 -1,500 Yarn wharves (2) 5,000
Raising floors of godowns 50,000
DIRECTORS,
MERCHANTS' CLaima successful.
The Manila Cablenews of 7jh inst. says:- Yenerday Attorony John W. Haftasormann M. E. Shellim resigned and his place was received a cablegram from Washington an- taken by Mr. D. M. Nissim whose appoint- nouncing the fact that Congress had appro- mest requires confirmation. priated enough money to cover the claim of Werner, Baracs and company for refund duties, which amounts to over $70,000,
- OF THE PAST THIRTY YEARS,
• INCREASING FREQUENCY DUT DIMINISHED, SEVERITY.
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It appears from investigations made by Dr. Omori, that the number of shocks of earthquake in each of the years between 1905 was as $247,000.00 follows:-
16 1891. 1876 1877 71 1892 1878...... 50 1893. 1579 70 1894 1880 188
IR
64 1896 1882. 46, 1897 1883
mania 32 1898 1884
61 1899 68.1000 1885 1885
Outside Chibli Dr. Morrison saw no evi
Mass. E. Goele and A. G. Wood, retire in dence of attempts to enforce the recent opium
rotation, according to the articles of association, regulations, but their natura bas become well
but being eligible, offer themselves for re- known through the native Press und, every
The directors record, with deep Mr. Haussermann rays that this indicates that election, school was an important anti-opium agency.. all claims will be paid which will mean con- regret, the death of Mr. C. H. Thompson who
Neither wanany evidence ofrailway progressiderable to many business men of Manila,
during the past four years, held a seat on thei soen, though much talk of it was heard. The:
Board. The case case of Warner, Barnes and com- appointment of Yuan, lately Taoist of Shang- | pany, with that of Peabody and company was hai, na director-general of the Hupan section d'test case, and now that they have received of the projected Canton-Hankow railway bad, favourable judgment many other casos will be asfexpected, destroyed, what little confidence settled shortly, openly the people and gentry, previously, felt of the BMG W, W. Brown, has a claim of some possibility of the line being built without foreign" $45,000 which will probably be the next to be assistance-2. C, D. Newt.:
decided upon,
, ཧཱུྃ་ ",
AUDITORS. Meum, W. H. POTTS and A: O'D, GOURDIN. have audited the accounts now presented and
··offer themselves for re-election, Mais
W.J. GRESSON
Chaimmaning. Hongkong, 6th March, 1907,
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1889
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With regard to the large number of shocks experianced In the later years, it has to be moled that they were mostly of a slight mature.
RECEIVED BY EMPRESS DOWAGER. When the 'commissioners returond the Em- press. Dowager received them.in endiance.
has ever been given out as to the real con. tents of those reports, though from time to time the newspaper men in Peking have been given to understand that the high com missioners learned ail about the management of other governments. They probably did, for, as the cynical Wu pointed out, one of the com- missioners informed certain mighty officials in Peking that, after an exhaustive study of the British and French forms of government, cover. ing a period of nearly three weeks astomo. biling in Paris and London, he had learned that there were many things in the British system that could be used in China, and that the French system of goverarent was quite different from that of England,
WU GUEST OF HONOUR Last month a dinner was given by the, com- mercial guilds of the city of Canton, and Wo was the guest of honour. He made a splendid speech in which he told his audience that the country was poor and weak because the people. would not improve their ways and adopt more modern ways, especially in trading. "They do. not seem to understand that foreigners are shrewd and careful," he said, "and, look far into the future, particularly in mat tera relating to manufacturing industries,
FOR OF CERTAIN MISSIONARIES. ་ལྟ་ ། Certainly there was not much anti-foreign sentiment in that talk. And so it has been with Wu all the time. He wants to help China and her people, but those in power will not listen
to him,
Wu has been a most relentless foe of that class of missionaries who go into business in' China and use their religion as a cloak to make dollar. His Philadelphia'speech delivered in 1898 lashed this class mercilessly and they have never forgotten it. They have had no small part in the political downfall of Wo.
ile isnow growing old and is glad that he inno langer in the official class. He frankly admits he is too modern for the China of to-day, but' says that the time will come when his people will say that he was right.
SUICIDES IN JAPAN.
INTERESTING STATISTICS,
In the course of a recent lecture Mr. Kazan: Bunso, a well-known statistician, dwelt on in teresting statistics as to the number of suicides. in Japan. He said that the average annual number of suicides in Japan during the 15 years ended, 1905. was 188 to 200 per million population, which ratio is nearly similar in other countries of the world. It is inevitable. that to all countries the general depression of business should bring in its imin a largo aume ber of suicides. Formerly the number, of suicides in England was Influenced by tha abundance or failure of wheat crops, but at. present the prosperity or otherwise of foreign. irade has begun to have an important relation to suicides. According to the statistics of a few years ago the number of suicides in the various countries per million population is asj
follows:-
Danmark ... 253 Sweden...... 119 Franco... 218 'Bavaria i 118. Switzerland. 216 England... 80 Prussia....... 197 Norway -66 Japan 179 Holland. 58. Austria.....59 Italy
53 Belgium..... 122
Suicides in Japan have now gradually increased, and the ratio has risen to 300. The figures. for the last 15 years are as follows:-
Males, Females, Común. 4,600 2,700 2.700 swamim......uri 4,700 1893. * ́4,400 1,800
.1891 192
1894
1895
1800
1897
1808
1899
1900
1901
1903
1903.........
CITIZEN
1904 sqmantinom 1905 ..........
4,500 2,800 4,030 2,900
4,400 3,800
4,400
+
2,999
4,000
3,000
5,000 3,300
5,100 3,700
5,300. 3,300
5,700 3,300
5.600 3.300 6100 3,700. 3,900, 6,200 As shown in the above list, the total number of r suicides during the eight years 1891 to 1893, was 16,947 men and a2,869 women; and dur ing the succeeding tayon years 42,801 men and 26,647 women. The rate of increase is 141 per cent. in men and 16 per cent in women. Tha beavier rate in respect of the latter is attributs od by Mr. Kare to the altered condition of life of women who have now entered ·activa Ufa jä competition with mon
The months in which the largest numi ber of suicides generally occur, are April to September, especially in May and July." The method, of self-destruction resorted to most hangings drowning being | another" favourite method of suicide. As to the catan of suicides, statistics taken of 62,000. male, and- 37,000 female suicides showed the following resule --Montal aberration nearly 30,000 vi malex and 20,000, females; poverty;; been)/7.30% Women 273 on account of illness, men debils
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podkapovi "family trouble, men jp, women 70 ; despairing:i BAGE DRAINEST MAN IN CHINA,*S1599 of fature ¿hops, › man vag) women (45/1/and
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