DER AT POKFOOLUM.
GARBENER FOULLY MURDERED.
ALLEGES NURDERER ESCAPED.
ding in amat bed on the Pokfoolam Road, Yim Hung, faldy well-to-do perdanan re nacked with a chopper about the head back and face yesterday afternoc during a scpfile, which, followed a quarrel. He died shortly afterwards His alleged assailant
**The matshed in": the murder was Chiens
Kardas, owned "jointly by Yim Hong an ad- other gardener named Cheung Tal, Fast siidated on the Rokfoolum Read overlook, alegraph Bay, sed immediately, below di kal Company's cow shadadal
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
be allowed to take possession of the pre- Unises on the 8th, so that he could clean up and set on his furniture Defendant paid the rent 10 Wong Krok Chien, the Jandlord's son, There was no case against the defendant an there was no agreement, and one cannot soo
ily
ATURDAY MARCH 30, 1907,
Shanghai, and we trust that this question of Settlement extension will be taken up" and pushed to a successful conclusion. The time has also come when the whole of Pootung should be controlled by the Municipality and this last pulat should not be omitted from considemtion China Garsiis, Midn in a careful and comprehensive scheme-
THE FUTURE OF SHANGHAI, CA We have bad occasun lately to comm again on the curious, slackness which so can do. is manifested in Shanghai, to the obviorciat triment of the life of this great een so rapid ka excuse may be made that expansion has a clear mandate, Centre Watt in monicipal affair Antil the rate- during the past fire. your payers and public opinion; n of making an 13th hearked one of the nininlife! I doubts are felt about ditare the order of others FORGOT THE HOUR."
enormously lucrated est matterathore is no such
othther community, we would When the names of the jurymen summoned excuse. --In
Mr. Sternberg spoke to the above facts and for rental in the absence of an agreement said that no one asked him afterwards for any renta On the
fobia to clear away some rubbish on the floor,
| pay the rent. Witness told him that it was pot.
A JURYMAN FINED.""
(26îl inst.
COMMERCIAL
GOS YARN MARKET.
Phiroisha B, Petit & Co. write abo
In their report dated 220d inst, Messrs.
Our last circular was dated the 8th init, The long-looked for improvement is still to come and the fortnight which draws to a close to-day stands on record as another of duiness and stagnation. This is all the more to be regretted as, following ancient custom It was confidently anticipated, that upon the
dispatch of a WstyNar mission of inquiry, that the result of the perial Commissioner will kasasures to remove, the tion now obtaining to the serious loss of trade in general
adoption:
cond
MAYA NI and the salesman asked him why he did not | the day, in many much a thing be possible as has to serve on the jury for the trial of the Japanese resumption of butiness each · "China". -Namenco, in exchange alone would have sufficed Wilmitted is 'in, the centre of a large regqible, any business, of his as he was not his landlord tiketi yaz the Lyceum theatre? The only forger at the Criminal Sessions were called Year, yarn dealers would return with good Instead of this happening, we have agaid to
Vi
udala-Cheung Tal
Chim wels and threeskildren-
Farm
lida
and had nothing to do with it.
on In cross-examiortion: witness said the land. lond never told him anything about the Chun Wahy tonandy lasting till the 18th.
theatre of kles
Mr. Dixon: Why should the landlord comech amati maltors, only continued agitation had been impannelled, bis Honour Mr. A. G about a most.'unsatisfactory condition of ƒ has not attracted buyers into the market who:
boy here and perjuro himself?
Wliness: I have nothing to do with that,
the
that is his busined that is this case t
he
ong
evidence was very much mixed up, but def
́ ́Provinces with tffe ́ resultant effect in a
Bccordingly. For the past month, or, twatters dant certainly obtained the key from W the by one they decide to draw into their own sued for his arrest. Mr. Loureiro appeared marked shortago in the staple commodity of things should not take a different tura and a .
Ha
-+.
he plaintiff.
is
but I thought the time was for 10.30 am,
His Honour: That is no excuse; the time is plainly set forth on the jury notices. The trouble is that by your being absent another gentleman has been called upon to take your place and perform your duty.
rise in rates be at once established. gan || No, ans.-Owlog to lasty sellers prices ed business is reported.
changed hands at quotations
No. 16-Not in favour, only two threada
No. 125,--Move slowly at prices quoted
last circular exchange on India has had a big A compared with the quotations in our drop, from Rs 164 on the 8th inst. It is adverse factors explained above the differ to-day quoted Ra, 1571 per cent, “But for the
occurred win, thanks to parochial wran; this morning, amongst others was that of Peter
to push prices of yarn up several points. orders from the consuming during an entire season, and everyone to answered to the call and another gentleman districts. Under normal conditions this half to two dollars per bale, according to closedived of an enjoyment which is one of the had to be impannelled in his place. As Mr. would certainly have happened, but the chop: The lowering of rates all round
winter partimos
timos of Shangbai. In many Loureiro had not turned up when all the jury threatened famine in the interior has brought and two
succeeds in clearing up what should be settledWizn, Puiane Judge, who was presiding, affairs. This is almost Entirely dug to the appear to be quite alive to the fact that im for a business community in a very few minutes sent. and these methods have proved so unsatis with instructions to inform the absentee that if failure of the rice crops in the Southern remain firm there is no good reason why
a. bailiff to bring him to Court solo owners in the gardend hairbags, stomary • His Honour.
porters are cager sellen. Should holders for them to examine thardon
factory and iritating to many people that one be did not come at once a warrant would be kept by Yim each night, and Fettle was
shells, and have nothing further to do with
with the bailif
the people. The deficiency is further acceny relations between Cheong Tal and wid ip the was anything but friendly, Cheung Taung
public or quasi-public affairs.
That auch a condition is, eminently unsatis-is Honour: Why were you not here this tuated by the speculative operations of rice bave declined $t to Sa per bale, and a-lait-
morning?
merchants who hoarded up their supplies of opinion thit the account books were og Well kept and that he was -being' swind not | lie would non-suit the case, in order, necessary factory must be clear to everyone. The exs Mr.. Loureiro: I must apologize, my Lord, with a view to profiling by a rise in the price of rice. In spite of the fact that viceregal said nothing to his partner, regarding ed. matter, but allowed it to tackle in his mithe
measures have been decreed, such as, the The strained relations between the two mid
prohibition of the exportation of the grain continued untillat one o'clock yesterday after
from the country, the natives of one of the noon, who is reported, Cheung Tá
neighbouring districts (Tungkun) have demanded an explanatisayas to cartain entries In the books. T
actually been driven to rioting and pillaging of the rice shops, owing to the dearness in the price of the foodstuff. Thanks to prompt official repressive measures sad to the organising of relief committees at the South em capital, the impending famine which threatens the millions of Kwangtung, and Kwangsi may be robbed of some of the worst features attending such a calamity table institutions and the numerous mer Money has been raised by the various chart chante guilds in Canton wherewith to pur chase foreign rice in Hongkong to be resold at cost price within the suffering districts so as to relieve distress amongst the people. When it is reated that with commendable spirit of benevolence all classes of Chinese London TT. are coming to the aid of the poor famine Shangnal the wherewithal for the purpose of trade stricken populace it will at once be seen that
Kwok Chuan showing that he had obtaine cicat promises from him. There was not suplaintiff evidence of any agreement with the hat Mr. Dixon consider the matter and if his case bring another action or he could, I
true one see the landlord." “Non-sulted with coils against yo
SED. "BURGLAR SURPR
EARLY.
· STARTED WORK TON"
26th inst. Fot and tub manu. back wife and children at fac at Chat is a Norer, rosiding with his Street, Yad-ma-ti. At abot 154 Reclamation night Yau locked up his pine o'clock laseparing to retire when he heard and was gebling with the lock at the back domeone fun sted for a while and sudden. ly he hep He washot back. Then Yau, whis- ad the bolt to be quiet, slipped bebind pering some boxes wife saw the back door pushed open and a cuolio,wearing a cap which hid his face, "got ready for a tussle. The in- enter. Yau trader must have seen Yau, or have heard noise, for he grabbed a good-sized rub and bolted out of the door, Yan was after him. Down Reclamation Street the pair raced into Temple Stre, Yau gaining on his man, every stride. Temple Street the pursued inte A side lane and made one sliprance on the praya Yau by this chopper know, is about four inches in width, his apps within reach of the thief. He made
The worm had-turned. Whether the ex- planation was forthcoming, whether the books were produced and on examination certain accounts were discovered to have been falsi. fied, is at present unknown; but, as far as we understand, Cheadg Tai, with eyes blazing with anger, struck out viciously and suddenly at bis panper. The blow landed on Yim im Hung's face.
About that time Yim Hung's wife and a foki entered the shed, being attracted thither by the noise of a scule and the cries of the young. stars. They iried to separate the men, the worian hanging en to her busband and the foki to Cheung Tai, But both men were in a terrible passion, and brushing away the beaca makers, they went for each other with their fists. The struggle lasted for a time. The excited Cheung Tai then grabbed a chopper. The blade, as all who have seen a native meat about ten inches in length, the wooden handie
AS A TATOT./
ed man.
time
a
is nearly four inches long, and usually as sharpided bere had not the thief dropped the tub, at bis object and the chase would have
One blow was gai home on Yim'i head;
and Kipping over it, You measured his length another slash in the region of the neck brought in the street. He was not to be "done" how "forth a most heart-rending cry from the wound. exer, for he was up in a jiffy, and within the next twenty yards Yau was on top of the coolie, Who was GOOD winded, and consented to be ended over to the police without giving for trouble. Sergeant Appleton took him hist. The coolie, who said he was Ip in chading in Bülkeley Street, Hunghom, Sat wharged with burglary and theft at the Court, to-day, before. Mr. C. A. D. Mel- bound who passed sentence of fifteen days'
our and four hours' stocks, FANJONG PAGAR DOCK CO.
Grasping his throat with both hands he stag gered toward the door As he zig-zagged his way across the sogra Cheung Tai was alleged to have got in another cut. Among those who had seen the killing were the injured man's three children, who were nearly driven frantic at the sight of their bleeding father. Yim Hung staggered as far as the door and fell dead. His jugular-y had been severed.
Cheung Tal, ter those in the matshed had partly recovered from the first shock, then -'mada a dash ât the three children, Swinging the chopper from side to side. He struck the boy on the side of the face and one of the girls received some nasty injuries about the head. Then he slipped out of the back door and made off.
• १५
Inspector Collett and a number of minu trwm, No.7 Police Station mad to the scene as soo as they had heard of a tragedy. The two promptly attended to and later seat to the. Government Civil Hospital for treatment. They are in a serious, but not a critical condition. The slain man was removed to the mortuary,
The alleged murderer made away in the direc tion of Aberdeen, so it was said, having had a good start.. Detectives have been put on his Trail, and as his photograph is in the hands of the police the chances of a capture seam good
The murdered man was about thirty years of -age, his assailant being a few months younger. Up to a late hour this afternoon a capture and not been affected. A gang of detectives are scouring the hills in the vicinity of the scene of the murder; others are keeping their weather eyes lifting near the different steamers' wharves, thereby making it practically impossible for the fugitive to leave the city behind him.
-CLAIM-FOR-RENT.
14
hard
The report of the Board of Directors to be presented at a meeting to be held at Singapore
nzzad instant is as follows:-
1. The Directors beg today before the Mem bers of the Company a report of proceedings for the year ended jist December, 1906.
2. The compensation payable by the Govern- eat for the acquisition of the Company's pro- cty was by the award of the umpire, Lord St. Aldwyn, dated the 6th of July, 1096, détermined to be
For the undertaking. For Costs of reinvestment
For Costs of liquidation...... 37,865 and these sums are under section 23 of the Ordinance payable within twelve months from the date of the award. The Directors do not expect to receive payment of the sums award ed until the end of June or beginning of July.
In response to the invitation of Government your Directors appointed a Sub-Committee in London to confer with the representatives of the Colonial Government as to the issue to the Company of Inscribed Stack in payment or part payment of the Award,
! Model
Mr. Loureiro; I am very sorry. His Honour: You are fined $ay.
NANNING.
TRADE REGULATIONS ISSUED,
{From Our Own Correspondent.]
Nanning,-13th March. -The Customs Authorities bave issued a cir
that we live on mud banks, which have a do planation, if there is any explanation, may be pressing and enervating influence on everyone, and which seems to coinmunicate someibing of their insalubrious qualities to their inhabit ants. In no case is this clearer than with the Chinese. Shanghai Chinese known everywhere for their woman-like nervousness, and share with the other inhabitants of Kiangsu province the reputation of being the most easily terrorized of any people in the whole Empire. In this they resemble the men of Osaka, who in Japan are considered as wholly usmuitable for foldiers, and good only for factory or commercial servitude. Whilst such qualities may make for riches and easy life, they do not make for greatness or for far-reaching actions; and therefore, whilst Shanghal is now andoubtedly the richest chy in Eastern Asia,Nanning, has been formally opened to foreign cılar notifying merchants that the new part of it succeeds in implanting pre-eminently in de, and that the collectios of Duties will be the foreigners the same qualities as distinguish in future levied by the Nansing Office, from the natives, it will some day not be exactly a
the 19th March, 1907. Previous to this order, compliment, to claim the erstwhile Settlement" as one's particular habitat.
goods going to Nanning were shipped under As far as the foreigner is concerned, the West River Transit passes and duty paid at solution of this interesting problem musi ug
this port. This will of course be now discon doubtedly come from abroad-that is by the Nanning have been printed, and whilst a copy
tinned. Provisional regulations for the port o
of Europe and the constant improvement of Houses; these regulations are not supplied to constant imogrtation of new blood from
can be soon at any of the West River. Custom the network of communications connecting the merchants, but may be obtained at zd the principal cities. of Mid-Chine with the cents per copy from Messrs. Kelly and Walsh,
must have undergone a large shortage, pi rest of China and with the outer world,
"The second" of the retarding causes ex- Statistics show that this process in actually on the nook, and is addition to tarplaining the dulness in the yarn market is xoing on far more rapidly than is generally aces to the now port, and is addition to them to be found in the aggravating evils created and the improvements in steamer and rail maia in force, supposed, and that the numbers of newcomers West River trade practices and precedente
by the over-production of subsidiary coins by the Canton Mint: Since last noting in our connections during the past decade have been enormous. Thus shipping has doubled, if not
circular the discount in the value of the trebled; a beginning has been made in the
native coins they have suffered a still further munication with the vital portions of the Chi matter of placing. Shanghai in railway com-
depreciation and are now quoted at a dis- count of $go per $1,000. The situation thus nese Empire; and before the close of the next
engendered is extremely disconcerting, and decade it should be possible to entrain at
the seriousness of the evil from the mer cantile point of view appears to be fully realized in quarters taking a keen appre ciation of the handicap placed upon local trade.
CHINA MERCHANTS' STBAM, NAVIGATIONSMEETING AT HONGKONG
SKAREHOLDERS' BANK VIEWS,
The S. China Daily Journal writes editorially: We have referred to the meeting of the Cantonese shareholders of the China Merchants 5. N. Co. held at Hongkong [exclusively re- portediathe Hongkong I slagraph]with theview of exempting the Company from official control and interference and registering it as a limited lability Company in, Poking, in accordance. with the new regulations of the Ministry of
in this circulat. So S
No, ros--A moderate business is done in this count.
Nos, 8s, and 6--A trifle business is done. The market closes steady, No.-8.; 2,345 bales of No. 1o, 285 balcy Sales70. bales of No. 61. 35 bales of of No. 115.; 130 bales of No. 165.; and bales of No. zos., in all about 3,975 balcks.
1,110
Arrivals: Per steamers Laisang, Japan, and camsang (from Calcutta), and Malta, Ischia, Ceylon Mars, Persia, Totomi Mars, and Delta (from Bombay) of about 8,000 bales...
Unsold Stock--About 109,000 bales. Exchange -We quote to-day as under India 1. T. at Rs. 1561 per cent
Demand
#
Silver
Demand
19
> 12.
57
Sh... 2.1jd #222 7/160
Th721 $100,
30 13/16d. per oz. Writing under date March 23, Messrs. Ca- wasjee, Pallanjee and Co, report — 2017
Since the issue of our last report on the 8th inst, per a.a. Delk, the dépression in the yara tightness of money amongst the natives and market became more pronounced owing to the the dearness of foodstuff
consequent on the failure of the rice crops in the consuming dis tricts: Importers, however, with a view to realize submitted to a decline of $1 per bale at which a small business was done in the early portion of the fortnight. Subsequently as ex change.oo India continued to decline, efforts were made to strengthen the market, by asking higher prices but without success and holders bad to meet the buyers at ruling rates, and looking at the condition of the market the prospects of an immediate advance in pricom are very remote. We class with a quiet, sandy market. Nos, 6x and Es-Small skittat (4 fair decline of so cents per båls." No, lor, :—-A' business has been done in this countjal or
laqairy for superior tickets at a decline of $7. por bale. No. 165.:-Demand has greatly subsi
Oply special desirable me Far No nings have been dealt in at a decimné bale. Sales during the past fortnight comprise of about go bales of No. 61: 40 bales of No, år) 2,965 bales of No. 105, 11,195 bales of No. Lark 440 bates of No. 165. ; and lay90 baler of No. sce.; in all about 6,510 bales. Arrivals per steamers Malta, Ischia, Ceylon Mar Parila, Namsang, Tolomt Marse and Japde of about 7,590 bales. Shipment to Shanghai and Nox- thern Pons of about 9,500 bales. The unsold stock is estimated at about 80,000 bales,lig
|'to'4,684, in 1900 there were 6.774; and Ped Agriculture, fndustries and Commerce, There plained in the article, from which we about previous rates. No, izz:-In moderate
די די-
Local Mill:About 350Ɛbales No. 10, and 125, are reported sold at 383 and 585respectively. have changed hands at from $126 to 136
Japanare Yara -About ago balta No. 80s. Exchange-We quote to-day on Andikya, Rs-1574% London at 2/1.3/8
FREIGHT MARKET, SIA Messrs. Lamke and Regge report under date
Saigon, to this—Local fixtures: since last.
Shanghai and steam without a break straight to Europe, via: Chinkiang, Tientsio, Pek- ing,Kalgan and the Trans-Siberiat fine. The foreigu population, of Shanghai has likewise made phenomenal progress. In
| 1870 there were only 1,666 foreigners in re-
In its issue of the 14th inst, the Hongkong sidence; in 1815 approximately the same num.
Telegraph deals editorially with this vexed bert in 1889 rise to 2,1971 five years later there were 3,673 aliens; in 1890 a couple. of
question. The situation Is lucidly ex hundred more in 1895 the figures had
in 1905 more behind this agitation then
Marne The variettyro in financial: «Halys "bas 11,499. During the middle of last year the appears on the surface. For years the share total was placed at 12,000, but there is no doubt holders have been dissatisfied with the semi-some knowledge of the unsettling effect which that in the present year, if all Japanese and the official roanagement of the Company and the dispersal of a super-abundance of Chinese foaling population de included, there are fully this dissatisfaction has been shown by subsidiary coin bas had on trade generally in 16,005 ur 17,000 foreigners in Shangbai. It may the general disinclination to accept its Hongkong. The new Viceroy, acting up to $27,919,177 | be said then that in thirty-five years the foreign chates us a sale, and profiable means his public announcement that he would endea 418,937 population has increased about one thousand of investment. For this reason the 'shares vour to co-operate with the authorities in this per cent., or now tea times as much as in which were easily saleable some years ago Colony in all that was calculated to advance 1870; if th's enormous rate of increate is when the commercial status of the company the interests of the two centres of trade in maintained, by the time Chins will pass was not appreciably interfered with at Tlai ago South Chine, was induced to promise that he away from all possibility of foreign interference. are now quoted at 1'is. 130 and are not in great would restrict the output of subsidiary colas with the termination in the forties of the in-demand even at this figure. The shareholders from the Casion Mint, while, ea the other demaities and the Customs loans-Shangbai Justly complalo that under the recent semi-hand, the Government bere arranged to refure may have a foreign population of between one official management the Directors were appoint. admission to additional tokens of the small hundred and one hundred and fifty thousand. ed by the Government and not by themselves, values pending a readjustment of the financial Such a figure may seem almost incredible for The Company feet has been regarded as combined action of the British and Chinese situation. It was confidently believed that the the time being, but it would have been equally as Government property and has been placed at
authorities would have the effect of raising absurd for the inhabitants of the seventies ta the free disposal of the Government whenever "have written about the Shanghai'of to-day. required Free transportation of officials and within a short time the value of the depreciated The Government offered the Company`a
coins and lower the discount on the product of The native population, although it has not
their suites had become an established custom preferential allotment at a discount of ons per increased at the same rate as the foreign popu. and could not be denied. The finances of the the Canton Mipt, with the result that the de- cent below the price of issue to the public but lation, has gone up between five and six hun. Company were nel regarded as the property of pression in trade would eventually disappear were unable to give any particulars as to the dred per cent in thirty-five years. From 1870 the shareholders, but were liable to be “bor and fresh stability and cocouragement be rate of interest or price of issue of such pro- to 1905 the Chinels: population at each rowed" by the Peking Government in addition given to the commerce of Hongkong and Can-231d out, f
The demand for tonnage referred to in last PLAINTIFF NON-SUITED.
posed stock. It was therefore impossible to quinquennial period Was follows: to the handsome royalty which it annually tos. The Hongkong Government loyally ad report on the 8th March kas very much inciti Before his Honour Mr. A. G. Wise, Puisse put any schems before the Members of the 75,000, -95,000, 108,000, 126,000, 168,000, receives,
hered to the arrangement, and retarded some Judge, presiding in Summary Jansdiction at Company and you were in consequence notified || 241,020, 345,000, 452,000 At present Bot unsatisfactory as the recent management $205,000 in subsidiary coins which had beened during the interval and continues unabated.. the Supreme Court on the 25th inst, the Chun-
by Circular on January 3rd last that your the estimated aumber of Chinese in the has been, the Company's commercial status sent out for circulation by the British Minis. There has been a very large business: 'done wah Co. of No. 19 Queen's Road Central, sued Directors proposed to receive full payment in eight square miles of Foreign Settlement was not entirely lost, and matters might have
But while the Viceroy of the two Kwang allow during the fortnight under review tripwise Mr. Steraberg, Postcard-dealer, of No. 1, cash. Such a course is not, however, întended | is just under half-a-million, but there is been allowed by the shareholders to drift on. ed it to be known that he had ordered the daily principal y in toonage from Saigon to this, also Queen's Road Central, for recovery of the sum
io, preclude Members of the Company from reason to believe that if a careful census The recent action of the Paking officials in nutput of the Canton Mint to be reduced by a monthly charter basit, partly for univer
account, and at rapidly tling rates, of $42, being the rent of the lower floor at No. applying direct to the Government authorities were taken it would be even greater, conferring on the Yuchanpu railway and ship something like 50 per cent,, the issue of twenty cent piece being dealt with in particular, there 51 at $6 per day from the ith to the 17th inst, should they desire to take inscribed stock in Assuming that there is a mean annual increuse ping interest in Chico deter the rapid sppear to have been grounds for suspicion that ↑ Mt. C. F. Díron, of Messrs. Hästings and lice of cash.
of 15 per cent. in these figures, the increase the eyes of the 'shareholders to the grasping Hastings office, appeared for the plaintiff It has been arranged between the Govern must be even greater when the railways have tendencies of the Government, and in order to
If the actual coins sent into circulation had been'd minished, the Mint had made no effort while Mr. E. J. Grist, of Mosers, Wilkingement and the Company that any portion of the all been buill. In less than ten years' time safeguard their interests, they have been.com. and Grist, represented the defendant.
compensation which it may be desired shall be there will be far more than a million. Chinese, pelled to take action. The history of commer. 10 reduce the total number of coin produced At all events, no other deduction seems pos Mr. Dixon saidthisclaim was to recoverieverpaid in London shall be so paid at the fixed in Shanghai, and in thirty-five years' time there cial undertakings in China fully justifies the days' rent from the defendant for the bottoms; frate of as, and ad to the Dollar.
should be from thres to four millions.
apprehensions of the shareholders. Many of gible when it is stated, according to our tan- flour of No. 11, Queen's Road Centeği, . Thaize The Taxation of the Costs of the Com But here as important consideration has them are not ignorant, for instance, of the fate Ceneral considered it expedient to represent up to 30th April cancelling date. The sin
ton correspondent, that the British Consal city. Less for forward dales. Business cons, premises were based by the complainants au pay incurred in, and incidental to the arbi
to be introduced, and this consideration of the northern railways. The fires of those sub-let to the defendent. The agreement was | tration was referred by Lord St. Aldwyn to is the whole point of our argument railways was a line from the Chinese Engineer to the Viceroy the fact that the market was baments of the fortnight comprise a few, for a that the defendant should take possession of Mr. Edward Shelrme and bis Certificate was
The density of population in Shanghaiing and Mining Co.'s collerics at Tangshan ing swamped with Chinese subsidiary coins to rice of voyages, being proof of Chinese chas is already given at 86 persons per acre, to Tongku and subsequently to Tientsits. This the detriment of all legitimate trade and to the tres belief in the stability of freights. or more than fifty thousand people per line was constructed by the late Mr. Tong loss of merchants generally to answer to the square mile, in the 8 square milei com King Sing in the early eighties as a purely Consul-General, the Viceroy obligingly stated prised within the Settlement limits, it must be commercial undertaking, in connection with that the Canton Mint would be rigidly closed evident, even to those totally unacquainted bis coal mines at Tongshan, in order to afford against the production of twenty cent pieces for the next thres months. On the face of it, with population statistics that expansion is transportation facilities for the products of his
such prompt action seems to show the Viceroy Shanghai will be half arrested until suitable mices. TOATA FUNDAC Aveal under proper Municipal government, are Miter a few years of successful working 4. The Court of Arbitration sat on the and available for sellement by both foreigners and however, the Government stepped in and asked to the point of embarrassment, but there may be more in it than meets the eye. For months Li Choi Hing gave evidence in corrobora of August 1986 to determine the amount dis Chinese, in the near future. Already many of to have the railway extended to Shachalkway the Canton Mint has been working at full tion of the above statement saying that he was tributable by the Company as profits for the the 2,465 houses inhabited by foreigners are for military and strategical purposes," and
turning day into night the employees salesman to the plaintiff company and made half year ending on the 30th of June 19or beyond the Settlement boundary stoner; and greed to furnish the capital for the proposed orday, to meet the demands of the authori all the arrangements with the defendant for and adjourned to the 19th of October 1906, although the vast majority of the 45,786 native batension,
ties. If, then, the circulation of the subsidiary letting the premises. In cross-examination The Company claimed that the amount so houses are within Settlement limits the Chinese-3. When this extension was carried out, the
coins was restricted what became of the sex witness said that the arrangement was made distributable was $891,675,02 while the Gov-overflow has begun and must be followed up milway was operated as a commercial, under- the 11th inst. It was not arranged that the $132,000 only. The award of the Umpire was nest well-being of Shanghai is to be insured. Government concern from Kuyeh to Shan-Peels that the temporary suspension of the Saigon to Singapore there is some inquiry
Treasury vaults, till even Viceroy Chow owners, is unconfirmed so far, feat should commence on the 18th ou account dated the 6th November 1906 and awarded to In other words Settlement extension must now haikwan. Such a clumsy arrangement could manufacture of twenty cent pieces will in no have subsided. To Jars and elsewhere Also
Saigon to Japan further demand; appears to- of defendant having clean up the premises the Company the sum of $513,414.00. On this be insisted lupeo· at once,
not last, however, and afterba@yeur of two, "and klange the shopa:
sum $231,000 had been paid on account by The area, which very soon it will be locam The Government: took over control of the way affect the Treasury income? While bs inquiries have not come under our notice
can argue with every appearance of ingenuousy latest advices business from Saigon to → Won Kwok Cheen bald he was the son Government and distributed in November 1905. bent on the Municipal Council to demand entire line and converted it into an Im of the landlord of Not St, Queen's Road Government paid the balance of $291,414 on should be set under proper Municipal control, perial Government railway. The shareholder blandness that the Mint being, closed he can Barope was practically nil;› There is danger of
not be held responsible for an over-slacked Central and on the Strip, the defendant the 22nd November 1905 and a distribution of must be very carefully decided upon, and that of the commercial portion of the line were with the last witness camaro see personally $785 per share was made to Members on the be sufficient for the maximum expansion pos allowed to retain their shate script, the Go market in subsidiary tokens, what is there to the recent slump la exchange making tragac About taking the promises, witness said be 25th November 1956; the balance of 5064 sible during the next thirty or forty years. As forament guaranteeing to pay them a mini-prevent liin disposal of the superfluous coins of coasting business
which were in all likelihood manufactured in must arrange
Chun Wah as they had being carried in the general funds of the Dóm-" | suming that the present. 84: square miles are leased the premises.
Their lease expired on pay.
mum yearly interest of 6% on their shares.viaw; of the time when representations would rufficient for three-quarters of a million isba- The 6% interest was actually paid for one or
larger than for some time past, and a demand, the 18th inst and the Chun Wah moved their ****The Directon have found it necessary bitants, then extension must provide sufficient two years, but after that, the shareholders were b be made by the British Consul General ? It
to agree to pay Interest on any sume advanced, land for at least a further two-and-a-half million forgotten and the share scrips' became, pracli»ould have been much more satisfactory, if the has been evident for,spabags, fo: this; ports. British representative had not merely secured beyond what liners" supply. A small ficasser. 6, Directors.Mr W. A. Greig and M. square miles more is needed for the proper is foured by the shareholders of the CM the closing of the Ming, but had exacted a clear was secured locally for natives, sccount si the
London Cossulting Com
the floor and pay plaintiff the same rent as the fatter was paying. Defendant took possession on the 9th inst, but the rent was to commence from the 11th. The rest was to be Só a day, or $43 for the seven daye Defendant was wanked for reut, but he put off the plaintiff from day to day, and finally told him he was not going to pay the rest as plaintiff was not his landlord.
on the 20th November given for £33,599-19-7 and $79,144.70 aghinst £36,938-8-7 and $115,986.44, carried in by the Company for tow ation Included in the amount carried in were certain expenses of carrying on the Com: pany which are not costs under the order and the question of these is temporarily, in abeyance.
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will groga 2 cents to all and an alitan have risen from 20 cents for wall medium-, sized toconge to about 16 cents per pical, prompt Closing quotations for eary loading, may be named as 22 to 23 cents for big carriers, 24 cents for steamers of about 3,000 tons capa
4. Thô fact that this year's Saigon crop is one, of the lung prayed for "bumper" ones, is now clearly established. Other circumstances, the failure of Northern China crops, and large reduction in toonage brought about by the protracted dulness in local, freights, also, nii clearly point to good rates, for the immediate fature anyhow,
reported Saigon to Philip-
Some business
cents for 1 port.
pines at the very touch improved rate of 36/37
Saigon to China Coast, "ports including, Shangbai and Tientsin, there has been inquiry 6 report of, a charter Saigon to: Tientsip jas,
Lớn the oth and the rent was to commence from crement claimed that such amount was quickly by Municipal extension if the perma- taking from Tientsin to Kuyeh, and as 'a plus stock? Has it been allowed to accumulate - bìgh at 55 cents, on usual terms of liebterazo"
Im
• said he was the managing by Government in excess of the Taxed Costs
partner of the plaintiff Company. The Chung
Wah formerly occupied No. 7 Queen's Road
Centraly and defendant occupied a portion of re-election, y
people. That li to say an area of twenty or thirty cally waste paper, maakte kako
ment map indices as to the belief that a block
akura
by
sidiary coin should be issued by the Treasury is
tions in this directing feasible, to the detriment:
Bangkok applies at Bangkok hare beant
would be paid now for a suitable boat or bent.
There have also been orders
Concer
H. of territory two miles deep and eight iniler for bigistered x1"' a purely commercial one, it may other than those already in circulation dur
rupsing from the Point to where the fosfold that the Vüchusup is given full control over of out distinctly that to withhold; the liste of Pontos from Java to this and
the fate of the first northern rallway, nowing the "cipse season! Heshould have point 400rge from Rangoon id this, and road joins the poochow Creek, and taking in the 11 shiping interests, in China: All who are betidig is bone depares and show portocar Northern back of the Creek to the recent anxious for the promotion of commercial en-
“blind eye to the distribution of the color by not back Bettlement limits together with all the dia terprises in Chins will wach
another is not giving, affect to the la trictal Included in that area traversed by the for the ectcome of the present
Roftabs Hongkong Canton authoritas: Rubicon and ffuogjao roads, would be exactly part of favestors to “mafegit whit in veledy This bold way between Cedrichshund joli to be thirty and forty square miles, add
davalopment of o Apresentares would be the size
the prontions during their tehlicy, Hoʻaskode defendant for a Trust in advince, and defende, M. Simons and Mr Andrew Currie retire and ant promised to pay bye-und by the and eligible for re-slection:
Mary Orik and task the Cafench was that it was with deep regret that your Director fendien ziada no smangstent whatever with: on the 8th December heard of the very sudden People who were also did go to death of Mr. GW Galland, who so ably acted landlords and strokƒ| as Chairman of the London Consulting Com- handlord miss and your Directors have recorded in the fmade, by the latter: Minates their high appreciation of the valuable
onthly." 'services rendered by him raat was to be due
should sitam by #19047) Įsuch a progrAMMA IN NO:
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