Bik Haney:Blake, was fately appointed a ma Ristrate, Denco Cork. Sir Henry and Lady Blake are souled at Mynie Grove, Youghal, a pictaraklus placa 10, where Sir John Pops Hen. Radly, another Irish Garitaor of Hongkong, Hohfalso zatired, and Sir Walter Raleigh resided:
ARTXIPECTOR Withers prosecuted a stallholder at in the Contral Market for being ju possèssion of a pair of ties scules. The law does not coupleoaped the existence of auch dubiour 10-davicos la the markets of the Colony. The buis Maglairste desired to impress upon the stall? To 10 holder that fact by ordering him to pay a fine
CHkUK TR01 and Chul Man had to answer, this morning, a charge of larceny, from the dead body of one Ah Cu, of a blankets, t cowalnicant valued at $sil Afty-cent piece, pair silver earrings and a copper ring,,at the Pub Ile Mortuary, Kowloon. The alleged thieves nies were romanded in police custody until Wedass.
onday hoxt,
THE chief quartermaster; of the division at Mooila aunounces that the opening of the bids for additional repairs on the transport Zlacum which was postponed would inke place on April 24 at 1 .m, This postponement was necessary, as additional work has been added to the estimated rephire which must be figured In the bids.
IN connection with the serious, aarault to the European senman, reported in our yesterday's isue, Ma Pany, a rickslta coulie, was charged with the alleged theft of $10 from John' Roberts and for assaulting the compliant by throwing him into the typhoon refuge at Causeway Bay, The case was remanded until Faesday next, bail being allowed in the sum of $50.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY
Tu Chinese Engineering and Mining Com pany ancounter that the total output of the Company's three mines for the week ending April 18, 1908 amounted to 24,474.95 tons and the sales during the same period to do,032.47
A: BOARDING HOUSE runner in his hurry to secure some of the On Sung's passengers for his bounding-house, Jast Wednesday, failed to obtain the captain's permission to bined the ship He had to pay Sia at the Police Court, on Thursday, for his negligence.
FOUR stowaways were found on board the steamer On Sang which arrived in port last Wed. nesday from Singapore,. The quariatio, ricksha copliss, were handed over to the Water Police, They were charged in the Police Court, on Thurs- day, and fined Sto each, for obtaining a passage from Singapore without paying their fares,
His Excellency the Governor has given his
MAY 1 10-8.
SHARE QUOTATIONS.
Supplied by Mess. E. 5. KADOORIS & Co. Corrected to noon; later alterations given under "Commercial Intelligence," page si
STOCKS.
BANKS.
Hongkong & Shanghal Banking Corporation
National Bank of China, Limited
MARINE INSURANCES.
Canton Insuranos Office, Limited
asont, in the name and on behalf of His Ma. North China Insurance Company, Limited jesty the King, to the following Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council-An Ordin ance to amend the Chinaie Extradition Ordin. ance :889; and An Ordinance to authorize the unton I making of Bye-laws by The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godoke Company, Ltd.-
AN affray occurred on board the steamer Yangtze Insurance Association, Limited Mached on the 24th alto, as a result of which Sut
FIRE INSURANCES, Kwa Chui, a slavedém's coolle, is lying in hospital for treatment of his injuries. Sui's three assailants were formally charged before the Police magistrate on the 15th. The case has hid to be adjourned till Monday to enable the complainant to be present before the charge can be proceeded with.
China Fire Insurance Company, Limited Hongkong Fire Insurance Company, Limited.
IT is notified that the cancellation of the mami otial of re-entry by the Crown of:-
Victoria Marine Lois:-247, 260, 201, 207, 2631. 264 and 265;
"
Victoria Inland Lots1030, 1031, 1932, 1033 1019, 1040, 1041, 1042, 1043 and 1102:
M
Shaukiwan Lots-33, 35, 399 and 400; and has been registered according to law.
Kowloon Toland Lot:-685, 685, 687 and 688
In their report of last Saurday's date Messrs.. Erich Georg & Co, write:→Business during the -week-under-review-hos cinckened-down; and,
THERE arrived from Singapore by the Parra last Monday morning M. Nalin, the chief assist. ant in the Singapore agency of the Messageries. Maritimes. M. Nalin succeeds M. Millet as acting agent of the company at Hongkong, a post for which he is eminently qualified by his long experience is the East and business capacity. M. Delacotie has already arrived at Singapore from the Aden agency as M. Nalin's successor.
A Toxio despatch "of 22nd ulto: says --The pegotiations with regard tn. Japanese sticly rights around Kwantung and in adjacent waters have been concluded without being transferred to Peking. The agreement anived at is that Japanese policemen in plain clothes will travel on board the convoys for the protection" of Japanese fishermen ; and that the latter may purchase nativa licencer to engage in fisheries in adjacent waters,
IT has been officially stated, that ng mors, encouragement shall be given at present to induce Chinese students to go injapan for study,
I' The openings in Canton are all filled up is pointed out, as indeed is probably rue, that men have gone to Japan and received a amattering of so called modern education. When they have returned has been found they are almost as useless as when they wents
· Täis is tœba stopped,
MR.J. Hutchings, of the Public Works De partment, prosecuted Yon Tit-yn, contractor, of Hollywood Road, at the Police Court this moralog, for using bricks in building which were unsound. It transpired in the evidence at the hearing that the bricks had been re- covered from a collapsed building's notion of economy cost him 5253, which was the amount of fine imposed by Mr. J. R. Wood, the magistrate, who tried the case..
A NORWEGIAN seaman, belonging to the s.. Terge Atken, while in a state of intoxication, did damage to a lower pou valued at 51 in No. a Police Station. The foreigner had to appear before the Police Magistrate to-day to render an account of himself. This he did. His ex planations led the magistrate at the Bench to call upon him to contribute $5 to the Colonial exchequer barides. Ir for the damage to the floral ornament of the Police Station,......
SHIPPING.
China and Manila Steamship Company, Limited..... Douglas Steamship Company, Limited.
NO. OF: SHARKS.
VALUE, PAID UP.
POSITION AS PER LAST REPORT
{AT/WORKING:) "RESERVE. :
SACCOUNT.
*
· LAST DIVIDEND,
- RETURN AT
QUOTATION. ÎNĂRED ON LAST
QUOTAI
157
£1,500,000
Stas
5125
$2,000,357
ƒFinal of £3 on old and C1.10/- on, LAW shares for 1-year ending 31,13:07, disinge
X
$690 {London 479,10]=
571,293
99.925
Si (London 3/6) för 1003
Sgt.
$250
1,000
$1,500,000 $119,018 $401,959 £135,000 Tis. 100,000
•Sao for rood
.S240
Tis. 204,424)
TIK, 48,942)
{Final of 1/6 par share making in’all 15/-)
for 1906e=Tix, 26§iara.
5$,000,000
Lace Society of Canton, Limited
13,400
$100
£90,000 $436,407 £135,137.15/
506.011
Final of Sry making Sag for 1946 and Linterim of bjartar, 1907-
-31 X
$7971 me 'div.'
$434,434
$1,000
12,00
$60
$199,032
391.763
Liz and bonus $3 lai 1906,
Siga ex dir.
$5,000
20,000
$20
$1,000,000 $346,007
5372,432
746 and bonus $2 for 19 (6...,
for bayara
.8,000"
$50
-$1,313,94
1.28,027
53to bayara
30,000
120,000/$25
$20
$7,000
$1,053
$10
$264,6287
$50
$96,988
Nil
Sa lor year ending 30. 1907
10 %
$150,000
*0,000
$15
$575,000
16437
$75,279
'† 'or and a'f fear, making in all'$z?? for your anding 31.12.07
8%
Sag buyers
$20,000,
60,000
60,000
L$
£60,000? £270,000
700,000 100,000
Tla 50. Tis, 50
£1 LI
Second interim of 11- (Coupon No.9 or Σ a/c 1907.sorayrokiner
$10
$11,00
137.
10,000
· 110
(1050)
for year ending 0.4.1907..
אא אאאא
{Tin. 45'sallars" „Tie 50 sailers-
Tis, 98,000
7. 419,479
Tis. 62,000
1,000
FI, 50 Ti 50
18730
Final 1, 'making Tis, 6 för 19ọ
12X
Tik, 47 buyers
Tis, 81,200
TIL. 30,000
1,000
1,000
100
1100
1450,000
19,118
E for your ending 31.17,05
Sugg sales
*100
$100
Srt sales:
7,000
ts. 50 Tis, 50
F'ke, 100,000
118. 8,933
Tis. (8%) of your anding 31.8.06
8%
Tia, yo sallams
Chinese Enginering and Minity Company,
Zaup Australian Gold Mining Company, Limited
Ld..
284,398
£15,000)
11,556.
∙Final of 1/6 (No. 9) för 1907.
zł X
Tis. 16.30 buyers
50,000
£4,873
13,358
No. 12 at (fam48 reals ........
50,000
'.
Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Co., Ld.
Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Ld. (Preferred)
" Do
do.
(Deferred) Shanghai Tug.and Lighter Company, Limited........ (Preference) Do. "Shell" Transport and Trading Company, Limited... 2,000,000 €10,000 Star Ferry Compary, Laredon
}
bough sates keep fairly steady—in fact in. some few isolated cases showing a further im provement-larger transactions are not feasible Taku Tug and. Lei Company, Lomhed at present, no time business being done, and almost every transaction being on a purely. investment basis,
| In Tin, a barber, of 60, Quero's Road West, took himself seroit to Kowloon last Tuesday to help a friend do some work; Ip was sent to the Indian barracks to'shave some of the man. and while there helped himself to some of the soldiers' cooking utensils. He was caught red. hauled. At the Police Court, on Wednesday, be was charged with stealing two brass trays and a pot and, on pleading guilty, was given a mnth's hard larbour.
ON the morning of Thursday, the gth ulto, 1.5, Mintes came into Port, he is a British vessel of 2,197 tons, 125 h.p., owned by Mears.. Thou Stephens and Sons, Captain' G. S. Done. She came in for banker conl only and is the firet vesial which has called at Sandakan for this sale wurpose. We hear she is taking 740. tons, and odenbt_will_find_the_coal.as.ex. cellent for steam, raising purposes as other vents have done.-B. N. Boraco Herald,
THERE was a tumour the other day in, lecat Chinese circles that Kao Erh-chia and Chung. yung-the two men who were found guilty in Paking of sending, accret information to certain foreign legationis, had been decapitated whilst en route to Chinese Turkestan as convicts. It is wow stated that the rumeur is without founda tion and that the two rxiles have alrendy reached the orders of Shensi province which is about, a third of their journey. As the sentence is one of banishment for life the idea contained in the tumour is that their families and friend's should consider these two new a alreedy dead,
the Marine Court, Inst Thursday, the Hasbour master fined two boarding-house runners-$10 each for boarding the steamer Eastery without the waster's consent. It was stated by Police.
PEFINERIES.
China Sugar Refining Company, Limited. Luzon Sugar Refining Company, L mited.. Perak Sugar Cultivation Company, Limited
MINING.
DOCKS, WHARVES &'GoDowns. Fenwick (Geo.) & Co., Limited
Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ld 63,000
Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Ld Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co, Ld. $5.700
bangbut and Hongkew Wharf Company, Limited.
LANDS, HOTELS & BUILDINGS.TSTİ Anglo-French Land Investment Co., Ld. Astor House Hotel Company, Limited (Shanghai)... Central Stores, Limited.............................. Hongkong Hotel Company, Limited ........ Hongkong Land lavestment and ucy C, Ld... umphreys Estate & Finance Company, Limited... Kowloon Land and Building Company, Limited..........
bangbal Land Investment Company, Limited ...... West Polet Bellding Company, Limited
COTTON-MILLE
THE coolles atraching" to the disinfecting station at Kowloon are enruing an arenviable reputation for themselves. Two of them were called upon to appear before the Police Magistrale, this forecoon, to render a Batisfac-man Edwards, the prosecutor, that about 1.50wo Cotton Spinning and Weaving Coeipaus, Ld. tory account as to how they came by 55 from Cheung Leung at Kowloon City. It is alleged that the coolles took the 5 bill from Cheung and hid it in a bamboo pole. When testched the bank note was found on one of the accused. Casa remanded. •
ON 18th inst. Lieut. Colonel and revel Colonel F. E. Keat, Royal Garrison, Artillery, commanding that arm in the Hongkong Gar- rison, will go on half-pay on the completion of five years as a regimental, lieutenant-colonel. Colonel Kent has been most popular since ha took over the command of the garrison com- panies at Hongkong, and the schemes for the defence of this place have been largely Improved under his supervision. He served In the Hazara Expedition, 1888, and in the Bouth African War, incinding the fight. bg at Natal, Transvaal, and Orange River Colony, bis services being recognised by men tion in despatches, Queen's medal with three clamps; and King's medal with two clasps.
pm on Wednesday, as soon as the Eastern got to her buoy, the captain informed him that n se.impan had come alongside while the ship wa under way nod that 4 boarding-house runners Liar boarded her. The officer was asked to search for them. He found the two defendants among the passengers exhibiting some papers, On examination the papers proved to be boarding-house advertisements.
MR. A. Shelton Hamper and Mr. Henry Hum phreys, two of the members of the Public Health Commission, were present at the meeting of the Legislative Council yesterday afternoon, and followed attentively the speeches by the various members on the second reading of the Public Health Amending Bill. Besides being interested in the Bill as members of the Com mission, which originated an amending exct- nicat to the principal Ordicance, Messrs. Hooper and Humphreys, because of their close personal connection with the extensive property atersite of the Colony, have evinced a large amount of concern in the passage of the new Bill through its successive stages in Council. FROM copy of the Korkshire Por reached us by the mail, wo pf which has Both these gentlemen left the Council chamber first professional axamise viice that, at the
stage of the Bill would be postponed. March
Royal Colleges of rgeons, Mr. Ha Bhal Kwong TAOTAS, Liu, Director of the Chinese Mining Ho Shalwas appointed in biology. Mr.
Kwong is a Hongkong bay and one Company at Taiyuan, has received back all the Peking Pingting of the four sons of Mr. Ho Fook, compradore properties of the Rating Syndicat at
Interests of the British concessionaires in that Mesars. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ld, is Hongkong, who am now pursuing a course of Province are now entitaly abrogated. By per higher education in England. Two months
advertising in the pany.is
native journals SO, Mr. Ho's alder brother passed the pre-mission of the Chinese Government the Com
Hongkong Cotton Spinning, Wearing and Dyeing *Company, Limited CANTAT FREDDY SEERSLUJO Dioceational Coitos Manufacturing Company, Ld.... *Laou-kung-mow Cotton Spinning & Weaving Co, L Soy Chan Cotton Spinning Company," Limited.......
"MISCELLANEOU
Bell's Asbestos Eastern Agency, Limited China-Borneb Company, Limited...... China Light and Power Company, Limited
1a.* Do. special shares.... China Provident Loan & Mortgage Company, Ld.....
Dairy Farm Company, Limited
Grean island Cement Company, Limited Hall & Holts, Limited
E
bold by at the end of when it was announced that the Committee Philippine Company, Limitad „mas
in
Iminary examinations in civil engineering North China for the subscription of Tls: 5,000,000 There is quite a number of young Chinese gestlemen in England, sons of some of the to enable the Byndicate to work coal and fron mings at Plogtingebou. The shares are offered at masst prominent and esteemed residents af Tis. 1oo sach, In order to carry out the policy of Hongkong, pursuing their studies in the
the people of Shanel, the shares are only sago
Chinese subjects. The share list tiable among English univeries.
closes at the end of April and the amount has In the Masino Bugistrate's Court this mornings now been over-subscribed, chiefly by Shaol native belare the Hen, Commander Basil Taylor, R.
as Chief Engipear, at a
anlary PC Edwards charged Chau Fak Wal and Li bankers. The company line engageda.
mining expert
quarters And B. Chung Cheung, masters of the Wal On Cheyes of Tis: 600 per month with frae quai when and Hang Fung boarding houses, for aiding allowance Sto per day travelling expenses counselling Chan Sing and Lau-Kwai, the he goes out to report upon mineral
educated In defendants; to unlawfully board the Baiern, Thit Chloers onginoor was therefore le miniog thout the permission of the master or officer England, and has been employed Az In charge of the on the 28th altimoj in operations in the United States during the Victoria Harbour. Chan Sing and Lau Kwai last twenty years. The company has ordered ware called as witnesses, Cross-examined as to machinery from Europe and the iron foundry whether they knew that it was wrong to go on will be established with capital of Ti
host, the permission of the master 1,000,000. The reason why this Company did yub pats toy, dia, pot: The stated that not experience difficulty in raiding capital thit 10 Beware Tent by thair, masters to recal time les chiefly in the highly satisfactory cop el frandi ba bold the steamer for himself,
mer: Chau Pak Wal dition of the shares of the Taching-ring Hong what he was doing was right, or National Bank of China.-N.G. Dir.
-April so at April')
to say
of them was dond Sta, the latter receive
warning that this was only a nominal fine.
10 ) board's steamst
Trade Els boy toned SidBa he should be Task permission of the mastery for
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Hongkong Electric Company, Limited wai Hongkong Ice Company, Limited. Hongkong Rops Manufacturing Company, Ld. Maatschappij tot Mijn, Bosch en Landbonwex-
ploitatie in Langkat, Limited Peak Tramways Company, Limited Peak Tramwaya Company (new) ......immatın
Shanghal Gas Company, Limited.........
hanghai-Sumatra Tobacco Company, Limited, Shanghai Waterworks Company, Limited.... South China Morning Post Limited....... Steam Laundry Company, Limited..... Tientsin Waterworks Company, Limited ........ Onion Waterboat Company, Limited... United Asbestos Oriental Agency, Limited Watson, (A. S.) & Co., Limited........ Villiam Powell, Limitad
* These shares are entitled to half of the profts.
អ.
ជាតិ ជា
Tis. 75,000 £400,000 1,871 $65,000
| 533,957,
£3.6945 for 1905 @ ex'2/28–52.14 por sharo
14 STO 172,370
„Final of Tis, 14 making Tis. 34 for 1907
םםם..
18,000
$15
'4,334
$3,726
$1.75 ear anding 31.12,06
$14
550
50
6,8 6
13.550
Final of 11) making $31 (ra927,
01%
$40,000
$100,000
10,000
550
* $50
$50,000)
8441.442
1510,459
(Interim of Tia. 21 for six months ending? 131st October, 1907 ...........................
Final of Så making $8 for 1927...........................
-74%
$103
7.%.
Tis. Es buyers
35,000 T15, 100
1. 100
.697,157 Th. 75,000
1s, 19676
Fi al of Tix. 9 making Ti», 17 for 1907
71%
Tla. 224 boyara
25,000
30,000 5123
Tls, 100
s, 100
Tis. 25,000
Sagit
Say
515
$30,000 $1,000
Tla: 6,531 510,903
Tis: 6 for 1957
Sat for year ending 30.6.07.rar
TIL 100 Sar buyers
39,178
$1.80 for 1906
$12 bajaru
5643,9752
- 12,000
$50
$50
$43,075
"Faga
Final of 1st making $71 for 1907
74%
396
50,000
$100
!100
$250,000
334915
52174287
(Final of $31. making in all $7 for your
ending 31.12.07
JX
moduprareturgonian)
150,000
$10
510
$50,000]
14,631
70 cents for 1907 Siminima
Sto buyers
San bayara
6,000 $50 $50
none
1055
fFinal of Thu 3 and bonus of Tls, zmaking)
---| G-Tia.-1,523,0453-
28,000 Th. 50 Tis, 50.
Tis 170,000)
Tis, 107,5 47
$3,500
Sca
nona
$1,540
in all Tls-for-1907-ser........................... Final of $2.10 making in all $4.10 for your { ending 31.12.07.1
X
Tis xxs nollars
BIX!
S48 sa, and b.
Tix. 8,807
$14,269
Tis. 21 for car ended 31.10.1907 versumme 50 cents year ending 31.7.07 ***y.........
41%
Tia, jë buyers
4%
Stoj buyers
Tis, 6 for year ended 3o9.06 (8 %)
• Tis. 19.
Ti 75
*+*5,000
,;
Tis. 150,000) 15,000. sok. 507133,276
$10 Sto
$60,000
10,000 Ts, 75 Tls. 75
8,000 Ti 100 Tis, 100 1,000 Tis. 500 Tis, 400
8,604 Lajo 12/6 60,900 Sia Siz 50,000 $10) $101
St
fls. 150,000
none.
Ts. 28,257
Tis. 85,519
„hone.
0,661
£638 Nil.
Tis. 8 lor 1906...............
Tla. 50 for 1905
1/3 per share for 1906 am
51.20 for 1997 wait to spea
Tia, são sailers.
Tia. 17,127 $2,055
St parah. for period from 19th Oct. to 30th Apr.078%
$295 Klu
Tis. 450 sellers
(Sis bayers
1 Sa buyer
1.299 $35,000
Stop buyers
none
50,000)
Sri
$15,000
60 cents for year ended 28.2.06
125,000
SID
Sto
$120,000
$3.593
20 canis får 1907 *munition
59 sales
$60,000?
15,000
$6
$5,000
$2,974
St.go for year ending 31.7.07 mi
16,350,
400,000 fto £10
21,000 $20 60,000 $10
5,000 $25 50,000 Sto $10
Tis. 547,500 25,000 G. 100 GB. 100, 22,6033 25,000 50,000
310 -75,0003 [10:510" SID
14,000 Tis. 50 Tis co Tis. 100,000.
Tik 24,8201 10,000 Ti, 20 Tis. 20TH. 75,000}
Ths. 190,000
$19,00
15078
Szo
$186,000
115,002
Final of 75 cents making in all $1ệ for 1907 114% $2 for year ending.38.2.07
Stof ax div.
52,953
fx per share for year ending 28,2.07 · 64 %
'516 boyard'.
$130,000
$4,578
Final of Sig making in all $19 for 1907
$100,000
18,191
Final of $1.20 making in ali Sa for 1907 ára
Interim of Tis, to for 1st quarter,omainon
nons
Nik
Tis 6,603
Final of Tits 4 making The 7% for 1907
Tis. 8,493
Final of Tia 9 making in all Tis, 14 for 1907
·Tls. 58,33)
Final of 37/6 making ga/5 for 1907
360
$18 bayers
6,000
S25
10,000 ·520
20,000 (-1,000 | Tls, 100 (Tis. 200
$0,000
$10
54
none.. дода
$45,934 $478
Nona Lámin
Tls. 25,295)
Tis. 201 SIIK
40 cents for year ending 31.5.07 innenkom Tis: óf for year ending 30.4.07
so cents for 1907
Dje
510
пова
$85,000
$1,360
90,000
15,000
Sro
5100,0007
64%
Stakuyers
$25,000}
510
Sto
虹O益合
(Bo cents on 9,900 ord, shares and $19.80 on? 100 Founders shares for yr, and, 31.5:075 Interim of a cents for account 1907....
· $5,482
(Final of 30 cte making, So cte, for the?
·Set |--| ||^, ysår unɗnd 30th June, 1900 % man
DIVIDENDE. PAYABLE !--- Hongkong Electric Company; Limited.z.
May and.