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bability" is that the terms will be somewhat similar to those agreed upon when the other railway undertakings in China which bave been advanced through the good offices of the Corporation were being arranged. It may be remembered, that when Mr. William Koswick,
A. S. WATSON & CO, chairman of the British and Chinese Corpora
tion, addressed a meeting of the shareholders in Landes some wacks ago, he expressed himmell far from optimistic with regard to hq immediate future of railway construc- lion in China, but that did not apply to
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841
HIGH-CLASS
CONFECTIONERY.
We have just unpacked our NEW SEASON'S CONFECTIONERY imported from the
loading London, Parisian and American
Honsci.
this now practically concluded Agreement. .A3 regards the
Hudan Hupth section. Me. "Keswick said that: "Recent events in China impress the Board at being favourable to progress and efforts as good government, but joo early to form any defisite opicion of the policy under the new regime: Railway building without foreign aid in construction may prove su expensive -èxperience to the Chinese, in which caso it would seem probable that in due course the Corporation's services may again be called for. The immediate pro spects are, however, not so favourable as we should like to see them, but our re- presentative is on the alert, and no oppor
FEBRUARY 4 1909.
CANTON
ON DAY BY DAY,
CANTON KOWLOON RAILWAY,
[From
MACAO'S
APPOINTMENT
From Our
For some time past and on tevdar ccasions the Chinese officials have been anxious to negotiate with the Government of the Parth--
Our Own Correpondent]
Canton, 3rd February. Total Wei Han left here yesterday to pro- cead to Shek Lung to inquire into the progress of the work on the construction of the Castonguese Colony of Macao with blew to clearly define the boundary lines between that Colony Kowloon Railway, Chinesa section.
and Chinese territory. Accordingly, a map has been forwarded to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Peking showing the limits of the foreign settlement, for the Board's information, is now reported that H.E. Ko Yu, Him bas been appointed by the Imperial Gavsremsst with instructions to conduct negotiations in Connection with the delimitation of MacKO.
HONGKONG BANKEK'S
CONSULAR VISIT. Yesterday morning H. E. thê, Viceroy, re- coived the British Vice-Consul at Cantón.
THE FLOWER-BOATS CATASTROPHIL
A number of simpans, engaged by the dir ferent charitable institutions and private parties, were still busily at work yesterday at Tai-sba tau recovering dead bodien. Up to yesterday afternoon, the total number of corpses recovered un iors than five hundred most of them, have been claimed by the relatives of the deceased. It is learnt from the bost people that many still remain to be picked up.
MARRIAGE
· STADD TOWNSEND.
At St. Paul', Knightsbridge, on gth;ult., the marriage was solemaised of. Mr. Newton Ja Stabb, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Hongkong, and Misa Ethel Mary Townsend, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. M, Townsend, of Wallington Court, Heights: bridge. The Rev. Canon Walpole, D.D., Rector of Lambeth, officiated at the ceremony, assisted by the Rev. H. Hughes, of St. Paul's, Knights. bridge. There was a large and fashionable church by her father, who gave her away, Sha congregation. The bride was escorted to wore a dress of white satin, trimmed with Brus scls face and a long tulle veil. Miss Edith Greive acted as maid of honour, and there were four bridesmaids-Miss Hettie Tomes," Mise Blanche Feilden, Miss Kathleen Moxon, and
of the Canton-Hankow; line-has not emerged | wonderful schlevement by some protornimic into any such practicable shape as to render entrepreneur. Still that solid wall of granite representation of any, avail. Recent evanis ́slands batweat our came and the sea. indicate that the Chinese Authorities are | Coriously
y enough it does not suggest in the coming to realise the inadvisability of waiting very slightest the idea of a penitentiary or any until China possesses the capital and engineer thing of that sort, as the reader, the citizan, of ing skill requisite for the building of the no mean city, might be apt to think. Rather it northern section, and it is to be hoped that hints at cyclopean forces at work and the myst the existing rumours of a foreign loan to aries of vulcan are suggested by the clamour of be devoted to that purpose, will, prove true." iron on iron, the hissing of steam, the flash of All that the chairman in his address had to say electric lights, the ponderous movements of on this particular aspect of the subject, was great bodies at work," But it is the'queer aspect "The difficulties of acquiring land for the Yuels of the road, that old narrow pathway most of Han Railway has bean overcome with com which used, to be occupied by the tramway. parative ease. What is it that makes the diffi. rails, that will strike the visitor. All the time culties on the Chinese section of the Kowloon one is in a flutter of expectation regarding the fine so much more formidable? No wonder ifronte to be taken, for it is evident that the line in this Colony we ask the question with some is to be changed and already a new route is impatience. We may let the matter. remain foreshadowed by the rails which are being la di at that for the present, content with the energy dowo, Gullies have been raised to the level shown in arranging a loan for the construction of the road, and a line of rails awaiting the of the connecting link of the line which will advent of the cara lịe buried at right angles
It will be remembered that, in July last; join Canton and Hankow.
almost to the old carving track. Handsome the fleet of flower-boals in Canton harbour, houses exist where formerly noisome swamps was almost entirely swept away by the disas trous typhoon, H.E.Viceroy Chang Jen Chan, 188 GENESIS OF A CITY. affected the 'olefactory organs, and there is a
sense of life and vigour about it all which calls-avalling himself of the opportunity, issued a pro- hibition against the boat people re-constructing For many residents in Hongkong a trip to for amazement that so much should have been their crafts and resuming business on these tanity will be lost, and it should be borne Shau-ki-wan in regarded as something in the achieved in so about a space of time. No wen-bonte na heretofore. On account, however, of CADBURY'S CHOCOLATES.
to mind that the Corporation enjoys the great nature of an excursion to the South Sea, der that the Chinese workmen look contented advantage of the Hongkong and Shanghai lands. That there is such a place on the island and prosperous. No wonder that the sampins Bank's support and influence." In commenting they are well award from hearsay and because which used to be the sole living feature of the IN FANCY BOXES : '
on that speech we remarked: "That Mr. Bland it is rumoured that the tramcars run to that landscape against the background of sullen CHOCOLATE ALMONDS, CHOCOLATE
is on the sleit is proved by the fact that an benighted spot, where there is nothing to be hills and placid water seem anachronistic. No WALNUTS, CHOCOLATE DE LA Agreement is on the paint of being signed be seen but huge processions of begrimed coolies one who has not visited the place will under
tween the Corporation and the Chinese Gov. and a plethora of smoke-stacks marking the stand what the gresi firm of Butterfield & exoment for the raising of a loan of £2,000,000 activity of the sugar refinery. Once upes & Swire, of their own initiative and at their own in connection with the Huban-flupeh section while they might be induced to pay an occa-expense, bave done ai Shau-ki-wan. It is of the Canton-Bankow railway; while negotia sional visit to the Bellevue Hotel in order to tions are proceeding with reference to the past a quiet afternoon, but since that hostelry FULLER'S CONFECTIONERY. Boating of a British loan to be devoted to. has closed down and there is no rendezvous words the construction, of the railway through nearer than the ricketty ion at Shau-ki-wap the provinces of Kwangtung and Kwongsi." they prefer to cool their heels in the city or at While we held the belief that the diplomacy of the utmost make a flying trip to Kowloon. As Mr. J. O. P. Bland would succeed in leading a matter of fact, nobody who has not seen that' hive of industry, Shau-ki-wab, during the last the Chinese Government to recognise, the fact
few months can have any conception of the that if the Calon Haokow railway was ever to
COMMANDER John G. Hough, R.N., 1.8.0. vast changes that have been quietly and un(Peking) has been elected a fellow of the Royal be completed it must be with the assistance of a British loan, we, were not unduly sanguine ostentatiously taking place there. It is undoubt. Colonial Institute. that the necessary arrangements towards this edly a wonderful transformation that has been end would reach an amicable settlement within brought about through the enterprise and wide visionofthe princely house of Butterfield &9wire. so short n period. Everybody with the least pre-
It is no misuse of Inaguage to say that what tension te knowledge of Chinese affuits knows how expert, and adroit the average Chinese was formerly a mere collection of shacks and official proves to be in the matter of manufactumble-down staviits which would not have dignified a hamlet is now being rapidly", "cor. furing reasons for delay, and up sooner is one reason shattered than another equally istaz.verted into a miniaturei city. Indeed, as pre-of electric fitters, Hongkong, to a similar posi. and experses, amount to $9,828.90. The direc Mrs. Cartwright, Mr. and Mrs. Cantlie, Mr. and gible pretext is found to postpone the inevitable. sent appearances go, it would not be surprising to find that, at no very distant date, the capital
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others, in Great Variety,
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&C.,
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S. WATSON & CO.
LIMITED,
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS
AND
KOWLOON DISPENSARY.
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But it is evident that an this occasion at least
the Chinese Government realising the bona-fide intentions of the British and Chinese Govern
have interposed comparatively low Anunturi Intended for publication to obstacles against the successful termination of the negotiations. lodred the main objections,
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which were latent rather than active, came
of the Colony will have to take a back seat in respect of both Kowloon and Shau-ki-wan. Prosperity abounds, a fact evidenced by the cheerful faces of the coolies and the pervading sense of successful achievements, and, beyond all, by the massive, commodious and modern tenements which have been erected and are in
worth anyone's while to mark the genesis of a coming city and those who take an interest in these things will be well rewarded by a visit to what may fittingly he termed the promised
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
TIK Gareste announces that the King has been pleased to approve of Konrad Ritter voD Wieser, as Cousu! of Austria-Hungary at Hongkong.
TUE following appointment has been approved by the Admiralty Mr. H. J. Quick, inspector tion at Chatham Dockyard.
WITH reference to the Calabrian earthquake HE. Tuan Foug, Viceroy at Nanking, has con- sulted his brother Viceroys and Governors in the coast and riverine provinces with a view to raising contributions for the relief of the sufferers, and, as a result, Tis. 41,050 and $30,000 in all have been subscribed. This sum has been forwarded to the Italian Consul sience of the labouring and mercantile classes, been sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs whose duties and business compel them to reporting the matter. make a home and babitation jo that part of the Colony, Workmen's dwellings are one of the
the numerous petitions received from the boat people describing the pitiable condition of their of the Water Police Authorities, the Viceroy lives, and through the strong recommendation reluctantly rescinded his erdes and ultimately granted the prayers of the petitioners. Now again, the flower boats to the number of over forty have beeu destroyed by fire, and Viceroy Chang will certainly enforce his former orders, and it is questionable if the boat people will be permitted to resume their business under any circumstance.
Miss Susan Addis. The best man was Mr. H. Huster, of Shanghai. A reception was afterwards held at the Hyde Park Hotel, which was numerously attended by a large circle of friends, including many who were unable to be at the church. The presents, which were not BUILDING COMPANY, LIMITED. exhibited, were very numerous and costly, Amongst those invited in the Eastern, world, and most of whom were present, were :-
THE KOWLOON LAND AND
ANNUAL REPORT.
The twentieth report of the board of directors held at the company's office, Victoria Buildings, to the ordinary meeting of shareholders to be
at noon on Tuesday, the gth insty is as fol- lows:-
Gootlemen, The directors now submit to you a statement of the affairs of the company, And balance sheet for the year ending 31st De
cember, 1908.
The balance of profit and loss account for the year, including $653.06 balance brought forward from last acconal, after writing off all charges
tors therefore recommend that a dividend of St.go per share, 'be paid, which, after writing off the directors' and auditors! fees, will leave n balance of $78.97 in be carried forward to the credit of a new profit and loss account.
DIRECTORS,
Mr. H. Pinckney/having retired, Bon, M. Murray Stewart was appointed in his stead. on. Mr. Murray Stewart having resigned, Mr. M. E. Machado was appointed in his stead
Messrs, A. Rodger and J. M. E. Machado re- tiera by rotation, but off themselves for re-elec- tion.
AUDITOR.
Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Addis, Mys. Arafold, Mr. and Mrs. F. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Angier, Mr. and Mrs. S. Blackwell, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Black....
well, Mr. and Mrs. R, A. Blackwell, Mrs. Robert Blackwell, Mrs. F. D. Barnes, Mr. Bigalay, Mr. and Mrs. Brent, Mr. and Mrs Bayne, Mr. and Mrs, Tom Bowring, Mr. and Mrs. Hoory Bowring, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Brenan, Mr. Burman, Mr. and Mrs. Butt, Mr. Balloch, Mr. A. M. Bruce, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Robertson, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Beasley, Mr. and Mrs. Cockburn, Mr. and Mrs. Catherley, Mr. and Mrs. Cruickshank, Mr. Coombas, Mr. and
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TR Japanese Diet reassembled on January
-ing the Budget-for-the-4and-year-of-Maiji,to Tor re-election,
the House of Representativer, said, that the .ordioney revenue was estimated at Yen 476,667,970 and the extraordinary revenue, nt Yen 45,531,845, making a total of Yên 516,200,795. The estimated total expenditure was You 516,200,795, which comprised an ordinary expenditure of Yen 400,912,101 and as extraordinary expenditure of Yon 115,289,693,
home, and perhaps one of these days work- meu's dwellings will become an accomplished fact there; but here in Hongkong we have the real article, built without outside suggestion or aid, and the very look of these new houses stands warranty for the general excellence of their arrangements. Probably it is thin circumstance, the comfort and satisfaction of the tenants, who have risen above the rank of A RESIDENT in Paris suburb, who was a coal dust victim of the confidence trick rečemily, bar mere hewers of wood and carriers
bad an ingenious revenge. Recognising 'at the Saint Latite Station the other day the con
Subscriptions for any period is than mo anttion of the line, believing in their simplicity will be charged na for å full month. The daily ine in delivered free when the address that thereby they were effectually giving the lie to me. Teak subscribers cars har scheme its quictus; and it can be imagined with what distress and dismay they will regard the action of the Chinese Govorament in ignoring their passivity in going straight ahead as if these country gentlemen did not exist. Every country has its share of these retired magnates who declare that the land is going to the dogs when they find that the advancement of modern science threatens intrusion upon their self to the position of recognised workmen that imposed retreat, but China is probably richer makes the rising city of Shah-ki-wan such a in that species of antediluvian animal than any self-interested and sell-reliant centre. Appar. other. So long as they are allowed to remain euently the people there have no thought of visit
ing Victoria except op special occasions, and apparently they have no need to do so if they are inclined to remain within the wide territory of their own demesse, Suspicions are not awakened as to the new order of things that
On January 22, 1959, at Shanghai, the wife of M, W. TAIFFENDERS, of a son.
On January 24, 1909, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. JAMIESON, a daughter,
On January 25, 1909, at Shanghai, the wife
of WM. MOWAT Law, of a sou,
MARRIAGES.
compassed in their own grandeur they are re- On the sth Jan, at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, garded by the peasanity as demi-gods, but when by the Rev. Canon Walpole, D D., Rector of Lambeth, assisted by, Rev. 11. Hughes, of Si
strangers arrive on the scene prepared to flout Paul's, Knightsbridge, NEWTON J. STABB, of the pretensions of the greas and ridicule their the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corpora tion, Hongkong, to ETHEL MARY, eldest peity conceit and egotism, then, indeed, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Townsend, of fear of the iconoclast becomes a 'realised fact.) have arisca until the lofty chimneys of Taikos Wellington Court, Knightsbridge.
The Honghang Celegraph
federates who fad victimised him, he assumed an innocent air, and allowed himself to be fleeced, in an identical manner, a second time, When the confederates proceeded to open the stolen purse a violent explosion occurred, the owner having placed in it a cartridge of ful- minate of mercury. The holder fell down, badly burned about the face and hands, and is
now in the infirmary.
→
On Monday, January 25, 1939, al Shanghai, and they are no longer thh salt of the earth, come into sight. The casual visitor is prepared Loan Li Ching-fang, Chinese Minister in. HENRY GEORGE HILL (of Messrs. Is. Captoro. Now that the signing of the Agreement with reto glance superciliously at the great dock built London, has telegraphed to the Ministry of vich & Co.) to 14. Dely daughter of Leon ferece to the two millions sterling load is to by Messrs. Butterfield and Swire, and to won Foreign Affaiss informing them that he has, on Biberman, Mosir, Western Rusia..
der lazily if these works are ever to be finished, | several occasions, discussed the annulment of On January 26, 19.9, at Shanghai, ARCHIE all ideals and purposes an accomplished fact, WILLIAM, son of Heary, Muers Brankston of we have to look forward to the time when the when, on suddenly turning a corner, it is dis- the Tangkuanshan Mining concession with Sir Whitley Bay and Alowick, Northumberland, Chinese in Kwangtung and Kwangsi will come
- covered that all the litter of cement blocks and John Lister Kaye, who firmly resists, the de- to ELIZABETH, daughter of the late Septimui Dooley, of Manchester, England.
to some arrangement whereby the work of idle machinery lying aimlessly all over the mind, and that the matter is becoming urgent. The Ministry has telegraphed to the Viceroy at pushing on the work of building the railway place has given place to ordered discipline and Nanking and the Governor of Anhui tost it through those rich and fertile provinces array. In fact, the visitor who hoped or ex-proposes to alter the contract for the joint work may be stimulated. Mention has been pected to act the part of the superior city residing of the concession on the same lines as ent is dumifounded, because unless he cranes those of the Lincheng coal mine in Chibli, by made of the proposition that the Chinese, on Hongkong, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1909 the suggestion of His Excellency Chang Chih his neck and crawl upon the roof of which the necessary land should be purchased by the officials and shares offered to the public tung, should borrow 5,000,000 through the the tramcar it is probable that he will to the full amoget of its value. ANOTHER "RAILWAY LOAN FOR agency, of the British and Chinese Corporation, see nothing whatever of the works pro-
CHINA.
with the abject of completing the railway which ceeding in cospection with the sew system of has from its inception been one of the pet docks. The roadway has been changed, the schemes of the venerable Grand Councillor. view is metamorphosed; the old landmarks are But whether the free and independent people of gone; desolation has become smiling abund. South China would consent to accept outside ance; a siding has become a railway junction, assistance, not lo gay interference, is a totally cluster of buts a manufacturing centering: B. J. D. Guy, V.C, to the Tamar, for the different matter; In dealing with this question, Right away from the refinery, the outer road the China Association in its annual report had way is lined by a high wall of granite blocks thefollowing remasks to make: "It need hardly topped with broken glass so that move except be said that the question of railways in China the elect may enter. As for the roadway itself, has been continually in the mind of the mem. it has been widened on both sides of the old tion of the various stages which have marked bers of your Committen. Very little corres. car line, the mountains have receded and solid
Provided that no hitch occurs to mer the negotiations which have apparently so far pro- ceeded satisfactorily between the Chlaers Gov ernment and the British and Chinese Corpora tion, the Agreement to raise a loan of twenty million dollars fortheconstruction of the Hunan Hapab section of the Canton Haukow railway will be signed by both parties next week. No thing has transpired, according to our recollec.
T. F. HOUGH,. Chairmas.
'Hongkong, 27th January, 1999.€
Assets.
December 31, tgok. Cost of properly..............
Cash
Accounts receivable..............
$180,000,00
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT. Dr.
December 31, 1908.
·To Charges an
Repairs.......
#
$199,346.73 Mr. and Mrs. Moxon, Mr. and Mrs. Miller, Mr. Medhurst, Mr. and Mra. H. Naliob, Mrs. Noble, Miss Noble, Mr and Mrs, Nugent, Mr.** and Mrs. Nicholson, Mr. and Mrs. Parker $18,032,17
Ness, Mr. and Mrs. Probit, Lady end 6,151.26 2,163.30
Miss Pauncefple, Mr and Mrs. Potts, "Mr." W. Reid, Mr. and Mrs. John P. Reid, - $190,346.73 Mrs. Ram, Mr. Rutler, Mr. L. A. Richard, Mr. and Miss Strachan, Mr. and Mrs. Shand, Mr. and Mrs. Gatshom Stewart, Di, Stabb, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Stokes, Mr. and Mrs. Stitt, Mr. and Mr. W. J. Saunders, Mr. and Mrs. Marens $89.99 Slade, Mr. and Mrs, de Berniè è Smith, MË.
2,844.40 Sanders Mr. and Mrs. Tomes, Mr. and Mrs 537.50 Tatsume, Sir Montague and Lady Tammer, Mr. 786.00 George Veitch, Mr. T. H. Whitehead, Mr. and
Mrs. Whalley, Mrs. Wetmore, Mr. and Mr." 1,075-35
W. Walter, Sir Hiram Wilkinson, Mrs. A. P.
·Wood, Mr. A. G. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Watas nabe, Mr. and Mrs, Youd, Mr, and the Misses J. Walter, Mr. and Mri. Vamaxa, Mr. and Mrs./M), Yamagiya, Mr. Nishimaki H, E. Lord Li Ching-fong and H. E. Wang Tahuilah were unavoidably absent owing to mourning for the recent Imperial Chinese deaths.
Fire insurance........ Crown rast nen Fiammie-ochezent Commission to agents. Balance to be appropriated as "
follows:--- Directors' fees... $ 500.00 Auditors' fees...
50,00 Dividend of $1.50 per
share ko muna 9,000,00 To be carried to new
· · profit and loss 0/2... 378.90
Cr.
9.828.90
$15,893.14
DR. Peter Quincey, third son of Mr. William- Quiacey, (formerly Tuspector of Police for the Tax'Admiralty announce the following-up-
-Naiive City and a well-known resident of Shang- Jan, 1st Dec. 31st 1908,- pointments:-Liautananta-D, Maxwell, to the
hai and at present. Superintendent of the Alacrity, R. D. B. Haddon, to the King Alfred By Undivided profits age
653.00 Governor's Police at Chinanth) bas been ............... 15,167.96 appointed Resident Surgeon at the new hos II. R. James, to the Co, A. E. P. Lyons, to By Rent......
55.12pital on the Chinese Bund, Shanghai, Dr. the Burke, additional, for voyage out, and to By loterest the King Alfred, and Pirays, on recommission By Scrip fees...
18.00 | Quincey is a graduate of the Hongkong Medi- cal College and was formerly Health Officer of $15,892.14 #fandy, in command, C. A. Fremantle, to the
the Sanitary Department at Chipsnfo, Mr. Tomar, for the fumus, in command, and J.
William Quincey` himself is at present in Kiddle, to the Tamar, for the Walling, in com-
Shaogkai on three monthy" leave of absence mand, all additional, on recommissioning un.
from Chinastu. He has had strong induce dated, and H. S. Monroe, to the lawke, and
to the Tamar, additional, for the Hari, in com- mand, undated. Commander E, Stevenson is reappointed, on recommissioning, to the Tamar,
the progress of these negotiations, with regard pondence has, however, parsed concerning it, · land exists where formerly there was a sheer to the security, which will be required by the as the larger question more immediately affect descent làto the unknown. It is all so sur- additional, for the Pirago, in command, tem, British and Chiness Corporation, hat the pro- lng the interests of the Colour-the progressTM prialng that it resembles nothlog so much as a , porary,
We are favoured by Messrs. Shewan, Tomes
& Co., the local agents, with a wall calenderments held out to him to join the Tastal's police
from the Brocklebank Line of stgamers.
CAPTAIN R, F. Boyle, R.M LL., has been ap. poloted as intelligence Officer at Singapore, visi Captain H, A. H. Jouse, RM-Lali
here, but be feals that after 39 years unbroken police service he is justified in refusing to take the fold unless the Trotai gives him a free hand to reorganize the force — Shangkal Her.