HONGKONG.
`ITS MARVELLOUS DEVELOPMENT.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY JULY 22, 1907.
price of imported articles by no means moves as rapidly as do exchange values. The real crux of the position, and the main expenditure Following is the accoup: Mr. A. J. Angler, of civil servants, as with all foreign residesta, editor and proprietor of the London & China,owever, the local cost of living. When the dollar was low, wager, rents and bazaar prices Express, who visited Hongkong scently, sent
`went up, and they have shown little tendency to to his paper concerning the Colony:-
return to, shall I say normal, as a result of
Whatever may be the candillons of the mo} higher exchange. The bulk of expenditure is there is some gratificatios in the knowledge |
Today's Advertisements.
HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO
STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED,
to abide by the changes of the white; inetsl. The fluctuations of Chin se subsidiary colnare have also militated against good business. Those coins in which the native largely doss his business have been at a varying discount, amounting at tries to as much as 97 per cept Though business has been bad in 1906 far.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. these and other reasons, and was bad in 1901.
HE EIGHTY-SECOND ORDINARY that from the experience thus gained the
MEETING OF system of trading has bees, put on a sounder THALGHARAC basis than has been the custom hitherto, This SHAREHOLDERS in the Company will be Mansions, on TUESDAY, the 13th August, should give hopes of less risky business in the held at the Office of the Company, Hotel immediate future. How long this will prevail, at 73 o'clock, Neon, for the purpose of receiv or the bad system of long credlis again being a Report of the Directors together with a comes prevalent, one cannot say. To gain an Statement of Accounts, declaring Dividend;
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company. advantage over a competitor some one firm confirming the appointment of Directors and and then another may break away from the electing Directors and Auditors, Tablished. Whether the worst is past or not August, both days inclusive. one cannot say, but the casual visitor would scarcely think that matters were ao very bad to judge by the general activity and bustle of the place. It forces itself on your attention whatever portion of the colony you may hap pen to be is. The number of banks has also that they have not entirely started to live ou considerably increased, and one must imaging
There are now, I believe, no fewer than eleven their brethren who were there before them,
To-day's Advertisements.
FOUND.
the sand in front of the Belleview Hotel last evening, a SMALL KEY. Owner. can have same en rpplication to this office and paying for this advectisement..
Hongkong, and July, 1907,
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FOR NEW YORK. (With liberty to call at the Malabar Coast),
HE
Steamship
TUDOR PRINCE," Captain McDougall, will be despatched for the above Port, on or about THURSDAY, the
see that the politics of the near future centre tances you have also fewer for the current healthier and sounder conditions will be CLOSED from the 31st July to 13th |15th August
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ment in Hongkong, whether business is good in such things. The truth is that with a low bad, or 'indifferent, we may always remember the words of Dr. Eitel in his "History of the exchange and dollar pay, the recipient, whether Colony of Hongkong." This was published civil servant or mercantile, or bank employé, in 1895 but what the earned doctor, who had it hit hard if he has home remittances to make, With sterling pay, and consequently fewer been a resident in the colony for so many
dollars at the high rate, your local expenses in years, wrote then is equally applicable row, and we hope may be so for many years to come., Hongkong hit you, because though you may He states:"It requires no prophet's gift to have fewer dollars to disburse for home remit
in the East
Contests will be safe to monthly expenses, the more serious item of
the two.
One way or another, unless your arise, and lo these contests Hon, Long will te one of the stations most important for the pay is large enough to cover either contin- general strength of the British Empire...gency, you are sure to be hit. The remedy Hoogkong will yet have a prominent place is seems to me, for employés, whether civil ser- the future of the British Empire." This is a vants or assistants in banks, firms, or other very different opinion, fimulated after long-employment, is a combination of partly ster kong had been-under the British flag for over ing and partly local currency. It is to be hoped Half a century, to that recorded by one of its that the Secretary of State may be induced to earliest hi, torians. The shades the late look at the matter in this light. Whilst on Manigorety Martin must be turning uneasily matters pertaining to the Government and of it they could be er grisant of what the city of considerable interest to the forsig poprimion Victoria is at the pre ent time. There exist I may pote that it was more than once remark. likewise the a dreamed of town, stretching ed to me that the time has now arrived when above, all along what is generally known steater" facilities should be extended 'in ibe on behalf of white chil- As the Peak, and the equally nforeseen Jown educational way on the adjacent Kowloon, peninsula. Martin dren. The numbers have greatly increased, and at the same time the patents have not gave it as and c'um that Hongkong was a
useless and barren rack, unlikely, to be of the the same financial ability that they possessed faintest value to us. or any, other European in days gone by to send their progeny home the long hall that goes front to back of the mark by mark, and 'delivery can be obtained
much below what it used to be, and the conse
By Order of the Board of Directors,
W. E. CLARKE, Secretary. Hongkong, aznd July, 1907.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. "GLEN” LINE OF STEAMERS, FROM ANTWERP, MIDDLESBRO', LONDON AND STRAITS.
Steamship
in the colony. It is not so very many yens ago when the fingers of one band would have
"GLENLOCHY rufficed to tally all in the place. They all.
having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees seem fairly busy, and the Hongkong of Cargo by her are hereby informed that current accounts, for it is increasing its counter the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Shanghai Bank evidently feels the pressure of their Goods are being landed at their risk into where each consignment will be sorted out pace, so that it will run the whole length of Wharf and Godown Co., Limited, at Kowloon, building. I have noted the rise in exchange'as
as soon as the Goods are landed. operating generally against importers. A TT. rate of 25. 3fd, on London also had another
opportunity of belling out their, shares and effeel inasmuch as some per pla' seized the stacks and remitting the money on to a gold
Power," and 60 years ago the leading London for education. Dollars are not so plentiful, erwan predicted its downfall. What has been and if exchange has moved up of late, it is still achieved in the interval requies to be seen to be grasped in all the reality of the present conquent drag bears more leavily on many clanes ditions. The development is marvellous, and it of the community. The matter was even men. will certainly continue despite ocasional sets inped to me in Manila, whence a certain num- ber of children are sent for purposes of educa .back. A few landin.rks remain and go on from strength to strength, but the general facetion to Hongkong. This, of course, may being the local share maket. A favourable ia-
of things has been greatly transformed. It is
withal a handsome place. The banks, the new blocks of offices on the reclaimed Praya; round, th new Law Courts and Post Office n w under construction, and the dwel'ing houses, of which many may with justice be described as palatial, "It will perhaps be convenient to first look at the financial condition. This is in general sound enough, though the revenue for the current year shows an estimate of six fakhs of dollars 'less than the estimate for 1905: "The reduction is largely in opit in and the profit on subsidiary coin, It is perhaps useful that opium has given a sut of warning decrease. What I have already written respecting the Straits Settlemedisapplies equally so Hongkong. China is believed to be moving towards reductions and 'extinction of opium smoking amongst Chinese. The Brit sh Government at home has rightly promised to assist in reducing and extinguish, ing the growth of the poppy in India, presum ably or the assumption that "Cal helps the ese will themtrives honey-MARIESTASYON ter, we will assist her. It may be taken for certain that no Bruish Government would sanction the cominuance of the furns in
merely a desire to gel advantages near by that would only be derived-from-sending children home. At the same time, conditions of life and residence, and the consequently increasing difficulty of sending children home, seem to print to the time having arrived when some thing more might be done for the white population than can be obtained at existing in- stlimnions.
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THE KOWLOON RAILWAY,
· For Freight, apply to
ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co,
Agents. Hopekang, and July, tony
+1671
FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND CALCUTTA
*HE Steamship
"GREGORY APCAR,"
Captain S. H. Belson, will be despatched for the above Ports, on FRIDAY, the 26th inst., at 10A.M., instead of as previously advertised:
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DAVID SASSOON & Co, LIMITED, Agents. Hongkong, aand, July, 1907. • [674
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
Goods not cleared by the 28th instant will FROM SHANGHAI, YOKOHAMA," KOBE be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
All damaged packages must be left in the Godowns, and a certificate of the damage
ten
AND MOJI.
THE Steamship.
"GREGORY APCAR”
Intimations
THE
ROBINSON PIANO
CO., LD.
TALKING
MACHINES
RECORDS.
days after the steamer's arcival, within bites, affi ear from the above Parts Car New Stock just arrived
›
Noclaims will be recognized if not presented
MCGREGOR BROS. & GOW. within 14 days of the strip's arrival.
Hongkong, alst July, 1927′′
A1658
MURDER IN HONGRONG,
CHINESE FOREMAN MURDERED IN A LEADING THOROUGHFARE.
After a series of disputes lasting several weeks between himself and a number of other men, who accused bim of being responsible for their being discharged from their employment, Tok Cheung, a foreman, in the employ of
sigaees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside;
Cargo impeding the discharge will be landed At Consignees' riik and expense into the hazirdous and/or extra hazardous godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Go down Co., Limited.
Messrs. A.. S. Watson and Company's aarated waler depiitment, was foully done to death yesterday forenoon, in Des Voeux Road Central. Toh Cheung, who was about thinly years of age, had been working for Watson's for a number of yeas, and being in charge was part of his of some workman it duty to weed out those men whose work was not considered satisfactory. For some time anenage croiser pave been appealit g," in vain, to the foreman to be reinstated. The refusal on the foreman's part to take them back rankled in their minds to such an extent as to make them believe that Tob Cheung was conspiring to have none but his friends work- for Watson's his lad to several quarrels, which very nearly, ended in an encounter outside the factory on Thursday last. Mr. W. T. Pudsephs, the manager of the department, hearing the disturbance, 'caused two coolies to be a rested and taken to the Central Police Station. No one accompanied the prisoners. to the station as complainant-only a chit from the manager, asking the officer on duty to hold
basis. This had the natural effect of depress dication, on the other hand, was the compara. live ease and smallness of demand for money If China New Year. It is true: the Chinese- had fewer commitment; in other words, were doing less business, and either could notor would nr t, avail themselves of the ventures that came before them, Money was mire plentiful- at the New Year than usual, and failures were lew; but though the position was thus clearer, there was less business duing. Property, also, THE, SANITARY COMMISSION.
which had been largely invested in by Chinese, A matter that has caused a good deal of had likewise fallen in value, and as it' WAS attention has been the doings of the Sanitary generally mortgaged at high rates, and not Board and the resultant species of Royal Cam always occupied, it was either unprofitable or mission appointed to inquire into its proceed-had to be realised in the absence of further logs and working. The report had been sent in just previous to my leaving the Colony, but bad-ties, been made public. The inquiry' io.
Work on the Kowinon section of the line great number of sittings and volved a
ΤΕΙΩΝ from the peninsula opposite the examination of a large number of wit that
Judging by the little that has to Victoria to Canton has been actively ness05.
progress for some time. The whole leaked out concerning the report it would in seem, if the recommendations of the Com-line within the new territory' is about 21 that froth lapis. miles in length. running, through trather term accident. A tunnel about if mile has lo be constructed through the main range, and is fairly formidable piece of work. A shaft has been sunk near either terminus, between the two shafts roughly one mile has to be tunnelled through tolerably hard granite all the way. The shafts give four laces to work on instead ef two, and will later besist ventilation. The tunnel is for single line, which to the ordinary man with an eye on what the traffic should be seems to be wrong. Financial reasons, 1 un derstand, are the cause of the doube line so being provided for, There are now about 300 men on the various works-lapnelling, embrinking. ar.d making bridge foundations,
the men, was handed to the policeman. The tunnel is expected to take three years at feast to complete, and it was the earnest wish laspector Ritchie,, who was then on charge. of the ex-Go er or, Sir Matthew Nathan, to room duty, did wat consider this satisfactory. see the conclusion of he wok before his term He made several attempts to get Mr. Fuddepha of office expired. His removal to Natal will on the telephone la connection with the matter prevent his participating in this conclusion and finding that impossible--that gentleman one that, judging from the keenness his Excel-being out at the time-the inspector entered a statement in the "Refused Charge Book" and lency displayed in the work, would have bien very dear to him. The three years necessary released the prisoner to completo the tunnel will give, time for the Chinese portion of the line from the Kowloon frontier station to Canton to be constructed.. The loan agreement has a'ready been signed with the British and Chinese Corpor tion and the money had been raised in London. Work has to be started within eight months of the signature of the contract. The portion of the line should not be difficult to construci, but there wil be a certain amount of bridge work, and notably a fair sized bridge to cess the Tungkiang (East River). I may note that the terminus at the Kowloon sad will be on reclaimed land in un hom Bay, opposite the establishment of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company.
No Fire Insurance has been effected.. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned,
DAVID SASSOON & Co.; LIMITED,
Agents
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Hongkong, and July, 1907.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM CALCUTTA, L'ENANG AND. SINGAPORE..
HE Steamship
THE
LARGE AND VARIED
ASSORTMENT
Comio
MUSIC.
Opera Scores
and Dance Music.
"ARRATOON» APCAR," having arrived from the above Ports, Con signees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside.
Cargo impeding the discharge will be land- | K1 CEIVED BY EVERY MAIL. ed at once, at Consignees' risk and expense.
Hongkong, 29th November, 1906.
Cargo remaining on bussid ahia a CINA MALIN
29rd instant, will be landed at Consignees' risk
are requested to take IMMEDIATE DE Consignees of Cargo from SINGAPORE LIVERY of their Goods from alongside, such Cargo impeding the discharge of the vessel will be lauded and stored at Consignees' risk and
expense.
C
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned.
DAVID SASSOON & Co., LIMITED,
Aganis. Hongkong, 22nd July, 1907
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HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE,
THE H. A. L. Steamship
"SAXÓNIA," Captain Habel, having arrived, Consignees in their Hills 01 Lading for countersignature of Cargo are hereby requested to send by the Undersigned and to take immediate delivery of theit goods from alongside.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be givea before TO- DAY.
Any Cargo impeding her discharge will be landed into the határdous and/orextra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited, and stored at Con signees' risk and expense."
number of building ordinances and sanitary laws that have been passed, this would seem to be unfortunate, even if necessary, Be that as British Colonies when China and India had it may, the effect of the Comm'ssing has been ceased to grow the por py; and assuredly na startling in other ways. It has resulted in 39 Liberal or Radical Government would do so, out of 66 employds of the San.tacy Board being Chios may, or may not, be honest in her en dismis ed. The Commission was appointed to deavours to stamp nui opium: smoking, na.we inquire into the corruption alleged to exist, khall know in due time, but the possible danger The results recorded in the pages of the threatening se considerable a source of revenue Government Gazette of officers'suspended and to longkong is one that should not be over dismissed for corruption would certainly seem Jooked. Fresh sources of revenue should be to be a justification for the appointment of the sought for and marked down in due time. Commission. By the considerable section of The estimates for 1907 show reve: u:at, rough-the community which is in unison with the ly, six millions and a half of dollars; a re-work of the Commission, as far as it can be duction of nearly $1,000,000 on the estimates known, it is hoped that the result will be to for 1935; whilst expenditure is sel down at bestow further powers on the Sanitary Board, $6,430,000, against $7,56,000 for 1995. Under and by making it supreme as far as administra these circumstances nothing very special tive powers are concerned, without creating a is attempted beyond continuing the consider municipality would mean practically extingulib- able expenditure on waterworks sire dy sancing the Sanitary Department. Of course it tioned and in progress. Though the figures my be said that the report only gives one side are somewhat down for the current year the of the story, and that it is intended ja rive the Colony's finances may be generally said to be municipality peg home on it. It may be that
At about ten o'clock yesterday morning one in good fettle, whit its public debt only Hongkong is better off under its present fo.m of government for municipal affairs than it
of the coolies who was arrested for disorderly Amounts to roughly 50r,nca. This total
beh.viour four days previously, got together a includes the money for the Kowloon railway, wou'd be under a municipalay. There is no and the sum touned sa ile Viceroy Chang evidence to show, however, that Hongkong is
number of men and went to see the foreman, Chih-tung for the re-purchase of the American less able to look after its concerns in this way
Tuh Cheung, the police allege, had expected concession for ile Ulankow-Canton railway, than, say," hanghai of Lingapore, where they
this and he had his gang of about twelve men ready to meet them. The parties met in Des Though the revenue is d wn, and there are no have a free hand in such matters.
Yeux Road; there was some foud talking, and overflowing funds, I must say that I sympathise
TRADE AND COMMERCE, •
the sides clashed. The foreman's gang me; with the civil servants of the colony in the mat Considering the comparatively recent occur.
with victory and the enemy was driven off ter of sterling pay and the rite of exchange. rence of the disastrous typhoon of last year the
The defeated gang took to their heels, while It is true that a few years ago, when' exchange evidences of wreckage at the time.I write-in
the foreman's men pursued them. Just outside had to all seeming had the bottom kn ċked April--were low. Wharves destroyed. were
the Bank of Taiwan, Princes' tailding, a re clean out of is, petition tar sterling pay was still replaced with only temporary bamboo favourably received and the rates in stelling erections, the Apcurude still showed on the last
presentative of the losing side suddenly swung sound and whipping out a knife, the blade of fixed arcordingly. Now the civil servant is hit of Stonecutters' Island, the Phenix had been
which measured about four inches in length, he the a her way through' rise in exchange, and sold, and was being disirantled, the French
One of the terms of the contract between the plunged it into the foreman's chest, piercing hit as hard as he was before by the low safe; destroyer Fronde was completing for sea again,
Chinese Government and the British and Chin the heart. The wounded man sank to the but for diff rent reasons. I need not perhaps and some other reminders of the extent of fus Jabour the whol⋅ matter, but the conclusion 1 to property remained. But much shipping had ese Corporation provides that the Viceroy of the road and expired, his assailant disappearing think most reasonable people would come to already been raised, repaired, and was al work-two-Kwang shall arrange separate terms within the snard.
"A few minutes alter this had occurred "Police
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.. is that a certain proportion of the pay of each again well within six months, and other repara. egard to joining together the Canton line to
that of the Kowloon line. It may be said that Sergeant Moore, while passing along Des holder of office should be made in sterling tions had been carried out. There was enough the line should be worked throughout as one Voeux Road, was attracted by a large crowd "ONSIGNEES of Cargo from London ex and the rest in local currency. What the to show the extensiveness of the destruction
s.s. Charente and Medoc, from Havre ex proportions should be it is not easy to de- so swiftly effected, and to remind one of the single undertaking, and that in ibis respect assembled outside the Dispensary. Being un
account must be taken of the cost of contruct. able to arcertain the 'cause of the troubla tha | sa. Medie, and from Bordeaux ex.s.s. Pille de termine off hand, but as the balk of his foss of life that had unfortunately occurred.
ing the Kowloon section. Another matter that officer continued on his patrol and lower down Arrar, in connection with above Steamer, are
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All Claims must be presented within ten date they cannot be recognised.. days of the steamer's arrival here after which
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain ing ngdelivered after the 9th insinns will be subject to rent.
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All broken, chaled, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 19th instant, at 3 P.M. No Fire Insurance has been effected.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE Hongkong Office.
[67 Hongkong, zand July, 1907.
$.S. "SALAZIE."
COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES,
Co
.
ception of Oplum, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of Godown Co., Limited, at Kowloon, whence the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and delivery may be obtained immediately after-i landing.
expenditure is in local currency, pasibly 7 per The icfiaf fund that was raised was clasing should be provided for is through communica. ] the road he found the dead foreman, Tho re-hereby informed that their Goods, with the ex- fent, in local currency and 30 per cent. in ster-its account during the period of my visit. The ling would be near the mark. A small inquiry, sum of $280,non had been privately collected, commission could very readily ascertain what, which may be considered as excellent result. A would be fair proportions to take, provided the contribution received from Tong King was general principle was conceded and the basis much appreciated, but it was not merged into of salaries settled accordingly. The Secretary the fund, but will be utilised to elect a mono- of State has so far refused to adjust the matter ment to the French sailors who were drowned, he main argument being that: "in the matter in the typhonn.
tion with the Hankow fine. There must be mains were picked up and taken to the break in Caston, as it is al present apparently mortuary. Four men were identified as having contemplated by the Chiness. An electric had a hand in the murder and these were tramway connecting the two stations will arrested.
"This story of getting even with the foreman be a poor working machine for through. Iraffic, which requires two extra handlings, besides brcause in a measure he was instrumental in the cost of haulage between the two termini, getting some men put out of work may be of remittance to this country the Government Commercially I did not find matters very Finally it will be necessary to definitely motive for the murder, but I think that a Triad no mistake about Society row bad a good deal to do with it, too, servants in question are no longer affected by bright in the Colony, thou,h the concensus of decide that there is the rate of exchange, and a reduction in the opinion was that the worst phoses had been British management of the line, not only said a police inspector this morning,
The arrest of the four men does not conclude dollar valü of imposted articles must presumpassed through. The rise in exchange and during the currency of the loan by which ably be only a matter of lime if exchange con been ng tinst both importer and exporter. The the Chinese portion will be construc ed, but in everything. Two more men are wanted and it tinues to rule high. In my opinion the scale of former suffered because goods could be lait addition, subsequently to, that period, or the is expected, if they are still in the Colony, their pay of Government servants in Hongkong down cheaper by later purchasers, whilst the welfare of the Kowloon section may bejeo capture will only be a matter of days. compares favourably with that obraining in latter was not able to offer so many dollars for pardised, These three points must be kept most other parts of the mpire." The size of produce us with a lawer sato. It is difficult to clearly, in frost-to, asfeguard the interests of THE Chinese Engineering and Mining Co., one's family and the home educational bills say that Hongkong should go on a fixed ox. the colony, and the money it has suck in the Ldy announce that the total output of the Company's three mines for the weak 'ending largely influence opinion on the first statement change, which it could do, but fears to attempt, enterprise.
July 6, igaz, amounted to 26,591/01 tops and the ales during the period to 19,959,41 tóner- - bus práctical w' patience shows that the dollar } whilst Chins, on which it is dependent, prefer
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Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unless, intimation is received from the. Consignee before Neon TO-DAY, requesting it to be landed here,
THE
132.
LEADING COGNAC
TS
J. & F. MARTELL'S.
V.8.0.P.
V.V.S.O.P.
per dozen $25.00
28.00
49,00
00.00
SOLE AGENTS;
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undanigned Goods remaining unclaimed after MONDAY, the 29th July, at Noon, will be subject to rent and landing charges.
Allclaimammust be sent in to me on or before H. PRICE & Co., Ltd.,
the 29th July, or they will not be recognized.
All damaged packages will be examined on-
No Fire Insurance has been affected. MONDAY, the 19th July, at 3 F.,
DA KAGAMIG DE CHAMPEAUX,
Agent. Hongkong, sand July, 19074
WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,
--12, QUEEN'S Road Centrát:
Houghong, this