MACAO HARBOUR WORKS.
IMPROVEMENT SCHEME-BANCTIONED.
12
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY JUNE 11 1909.
THE MACAO BOUNDARY.
PORTUGAL'S BOVEREIGNTY OVER THE
TERRITORY.
GOVERNMENT NOTE ISSUR
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DESIRES
INFORMATION,'
The following letter has been addressed to Gaverament
INSURANCH BUSINESS IN
JAPAN.
A NAGASAKI TRAGEDY.
BAY PICTURE OF JAPANESE DOMESTIC LIFE.
"SARIOUS FIRE IN SHANGHAI,
OVER 40' HOUBLE DESTROYED./.
INVESTMENTS BY INSURANCE, COMPANIES.
PAA painful tragedy was brought to light at Although this establishment of insurance Nagasaki last week, revealing a phase in Hongkong Chamber of Commerce, companies in Japan dates back as far as 1977. Japanese domestic life, which is not uncom News of grd inst. A pony was barnt to death;
so real progress in the business took place mon. The Nagasaki Press reports that a young until ten years later. Even then the ideas of warga, aged az, the wife of Mr. Tsuruda, the people regarding insurance were in an on Nagaiaki telephone exchange official, with her developed state, and its advance was necessari- two children, one a child of two years and the
27th May, 1999-
A serious fire occurred fu Bast Hanbury Road last night, which unfortunately, was attended with" serious accident, reports tha A. G. 22, and foreman A. E. Fexion, of Hourkow, was seriously burnt about the lace and hands, his injuries necessitating his remoral to the hospi- tal for medical attention. Between forty and
Under data Shanghal, gist uit, "A Partn guese writes to the N. C. D. News:-In your leader of the agth inst. you write: "The Portuguese contention that by the 1887-8 treaty
Bir-With reference to your letter of the ith Chica 'confirmed perpetual-occupation-and government of Macas and its dependencies by April, 1909, (No. 3641/08) on the question of Portugal,' is obviously weakened by the attach the proposed introduction in this Colony of a vernor.from the Colonial Office authorising Hised stipulation that Commissioners appointed Government note issue on the lines of the ty slow. The ladustrial' nod business boòmother an infant, disappeared from her home fifty shops and housus, ware destroyed before
by both Governments, shall proceed to the system already adopted in the Straits Settle delimitations of the boundaries, Until suchments, I have the honour to point out that the delimitation is carried out (and costanding information now before my committee is not parties have managed without it for over sufficient to enab's them to form an opinion as twenty years) 'everything in respect of the
with more details so as to enable my com boundaries shall continue as at present, But this provision has obviously no bearing on the mitton to go fully into the question. forthcoming negotiations,"
The much delayed schowie of improvement for bettering the approach, to the harbour of Macao, has, at last, been sanctioned, thanks to the urgent and repeated representations of Go varnor Roçadas to the Minister for the Coloules In Lisbon. Our informatiho, which is derived from a source with best official connections in Macan, is to the effect that, on Saturday last, a telegram was received by the Portugues Go Excellency to accept the lowest tender for the Harbour Improvement Works. The tole gram added that appropriations for the purpose of carrying out the scheme of Improvements at Macas have been made by a vote which had baen passed by the Portuguese Parlament.
The scheme includes the purchase of a smail dredger for dredging the foreshore in the vicinity of the wharves and at the anchorage in the loner harbour. The capacity of the dredger will be one of 300 cubic meters of silt par work log day.
It is believed that the financial voto is one of $160,000 per annum until completion of the works which, in the main, have for their object the widening and deepening of the channel leading from the roadstead to the inner har boat of Macao.
The reading of this passage leaves me with the impression that the Luzo-Chinese Treaty is for Portugal a worthless document, if the effect of the malo provision of its Art. II can be destroyed by the clause added thereto as A upplement, and if this clause, which speaks of delimitation, cannot have any "boating on the forthcoming negotiations"
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1 venture to dissent from your conclusions. The confirmation by China of" perpetual occupation and government of Macao and its LANE, CRAWFORD`AND. CO., LTD. dependency by Portugal" constitutes, as far
ÁNNUAL MEETING.
The thirteenth ordinary general meeting of shareholders of Messrs. Lane, Crawford and Co., Ltd., was held at Shanghai, on 1st inst. Mr. Jas. Ambrose presided and there were also present Mr. D. W. Crawford (director), Mesare, E. H. Dunning, J. P. Lowe, H. H. Read, J. Trevor Smith, H. King Hiller, K, O. Mackenzie and W. S. Featherstonbaugh (secretary), re- presenting 1,266 shares,
At the request of the Chairman the secretary read the police convening the meeting.
The Chairman then addressed the share
holders as follows:-
The more important palais ppon which my committee would like to be informed are:-
1. The general lines which it is pròpored to adopt.
2. The arrangements for exchanging dollars-
·into notes and vics carsa.
of contracts, quoted by the Ketrai Zasshi:—,
Year Class
Number Amooot .803,468 Y195,587,000
ultimo. She stated before leaving that Shortly after eight o'clock, the alarm wan that followed the conclusion of the Japan-China anakurahaba, Nagasaki, on the 19th the fire was got under contre destroyed befo War of 1894-5 gave an impetus to the insurance business, which has since that time made a she intended to visit her parents at Taka- raised, and the bankde lorked our we remarkable progress, as will be seen from the shima, but at the same time she wrote usual promptitude. The first on the scens suicide, and this intimation was immediately was in charge of the fire truck. Seeing to the proposal I would beg to be furnished / killowing figuren, as to the number and amount † her parents that the intended to commit was Mr. A. E. Fenton of, Hongkew, who communicated to her husband. A search was that the seat of the fra lay towards the Han- instituted and carried on throughout the night bury Road bridge, Fenton took the track along with the result that at 8 o'clock on Friday morn East Hanbury Road, and endeavoured to duh ing one of the party found the woman, in an through the dense smoke and the fames on exhausted condition, in the cemetery on the the fringe of the burning balldings. The pony, Karagashing hill-side. Prosecating his search however, apparently became terrified, as it further he discovered the bodies of the two began to rear. Its actions awerved it in to children, covered with a cloth and hidden in awards the burning mass, and Mr. Fenton was neighbouring bamboo thicket. The woman thrown from the truck and the animal fell to after being sufficiently revived with restoratives the ground. So intense was the beat that al- proceeded to the police station, where she made though many people witnessed the unfortunate a statement and was charged with the murder pony struggling on the ground, and several at- tempts, were made to reach him and drag kim to a place of salety, the boat was no interra that no one could effect the purpose. It was not long before the pony was dead, and was only by repeated attempts that Fenton was rescued, and the fire truck, which was badly damaged, pulled away and the burning portions extinguished.
(a) Whether the Government will have their own treasuries and staff for wark- ing the issue.
"
(b.) If not what alternative system bave
they in view.
3. To what extant do the Government-er- titate the revenue of the Colony would benefit as against the present tax on Bank notes and as Portugal concerned, the chief stipulathe data on which such estimate is based. tion of the Luzo-Chinese Treaty,' As it was deemed expedient that there should be a delimitation of the territories occupied by us, in conformity with the ungs followed by civilized nations in similar cases, an additional clause baving in view this object, was attached ld the main provision' of the article recogniz |ing Portugal's position in South China as
legitimate.
How the maje provision of this article could be "workened Bygnother one, of a secondary importance, inserted in the same article, I fail to see. This can only happen if the recognition of Portugal's sovereignty over Macao and its dependencies depends on the delimitation of contrary, it is clear that the delimitation the territories in our occupation. On the springs from the recognition. Nor does it appear obvious that the deliberations of the Commissioners are not to be affected by this passage in the additional clause, i... "everything in respect of the boundaries shall continue as at present, without addition, di- minution or alteration by either of the parties." To my mind this passage was expressly put in to serve as a basis for the pending delimitation. At least from China's own point of view my in terpretation thereof is a correct one.
Gentlemen. The report and accounts for the ytar coded February 18, 1909, having been in your hands for some time, I propose, with your permission, to take them as read, but before proposing the adoption of dame I wish to draw your attention to several of the amounts shewn therein. The first is the result of the years working, which is much lower than in the past few years, boing $15,931.46 as against $44.557.86 for the year ended February 29, 1908. This I must admit is a very considera able decrease, but it need not, I think, give. the shareholders any anxiety as to the lature
to my letter of the zad ultimo I stated that, prosperity of the Company's business, Daring
when the Chinese Plenipotentiaries set their the past year we have been pat to severni
seals to the Luzo-Chinese Treaty, they must beavy extraordinary expauses by the removal to our saw premises and the engagement and have had in their minds the territories in our passages of assistants from home for the bran- Occupation, and I stated an actual fact. Prior to ches we have opened up. The former neces-the signature of this international-pact-in-1857, instructions were sent from Peking to Governor sitated payment of double rent for about four
Ung of Kwangtung toascertain the extent of the months and the expenses of the latter have
territories occupied by the Portuguese. To been charged sotirely to the year's working and not, as is done in some businesses, spread
carry out these instructions the Governor visit ed Macas, When in full possession of all the over .the term for which the assistants are engaged. The expenses of removal were also required information he sent his report to the heavy and the business dislocated somewhat Peking Government, and the Treaty was signed during that removal, and this and the loss by the Chinese Plenipotentiaries with the inseparable to opening new departments knowledge imparted by this report in their have all combibed to affect the net resul: minds. of the year's working and the consequent China's reason for thus acting arose obvious reduction in the dividend. With regard toy from the consciousness that she would be the latter there must in all businesses be called upon to delimit the boundaries of Macao both fat and lean years, but I do not think the on the basis as pointed out in the additional shareholders can have much cause for com. plaint when the amount distributed to them in
It is a well-known fact that the Luzo-Chinese dividends, is considered. This Company was Treaty is based on the principle of Dol des, started as from March 1, 1903, since which To the An. I whereby China recognized date and including the dividend about to be Portugal's sovereignty over Maçao and its da proposed to-day there will have been returned pendencies stands the Art. IV which reads to shareholders $195,000 or 7.8 per cent. per hus annum for the six years, which should be con
"Portugal agrees to co-operate with China sidered very satisfactory. The balance of credit
in the collection of duties on opium ex. of profit and loss account you will sea amount
ported from Macao into China punts in the to $95,936,37, which your Directors propose to same way, and as long as England co- deal with in the following manner: To pay a
operates with China in the collection of dividend of ten per cent. for the year, which
duties on opium exported from Hongkong," will absorb Sa5,000.00, leaving the balance
The co-operation of Portugal as required by of $70,926.37 to be carried forward to the
this article was immediately put into effect, but current year. Laad and buildings stand in our
we cannot say that Chins, on her part, has books at $199.779.52,-this item having been
shown the same readiness to fulfil her obliga- Tacreased during the year by $7,989,72 in im
tions as regards the delimitation of the Macao provements, additions and alterations to the pre boundaries, until she has now reached, through mises. Sundry debtors, after making provision quibbles of all sorts, the culminating point of for bad and doubtful debis, stand at 191.749.84, not only wishing to evade as much as possible an increase of $610.86 only over the previous her solema pledges in this respect, but also to year. Our stock, which has been valued on the tear up altogether the agreement she has enter lowest possible basin, stands at $203,686,81, ored into with Portugal. And this after she has $34,565.87 higher than the previous year which fully profited by this agreement according to its is ia a measure due to stocking the new depart- Art. 17 as set forth above. 'meats wa bave started. Furniture and fixtures
Happily, the effective occupation counts for something.
Now, as China is writing & history of Macao
rative the following chapter:
show a considerable increase. Last year this item stood
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$5,000.00, whereas
clause.
My committee, upon receipt of these faller details, will then be in a position to express their views on the subject, and I am directed to ask you to thank His Excellency the Governor for referring the matter to the Chamber.-1 have &c.,
(Sgd.), E. A. M. WILLIAMS,
Secretary, Hon. Mr. F. H. MAY, C.M.G..
Colodial Secretary.
*SIR RODERI HART.
1903 Lif...728,714.
1
327,054,000 197,684,000 351,306,000 181,653,000 427,857,000 17,071,000 106,874,000 608,414,000
1900 Life
19
Fire 1901 Life
*****221,837
.....787,689
À
Fire
*****341,841
1902 LH6
*
Firs Marine
...068,795. ,281,070 8,737
Fire415,227
M
Marice 10,545
Fire.....470,258
Maring. 10,003
11,730,000 213,377,000 693,417,000 30,907,000 .331,052,000
Firo
****558,100 Marina,........... 11,760
934,469,000
39,919,000 175,760,000 1,371,883,000
1903 Life739,015
1906. Life...,818,779.
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Fire 747,521 Marine ...... 15,235 . 44,235,000.
1907 Life ......947,043
п
3+
350,189,000
Fire.834,000 7,484,404,000 64,378,000 Marine ...... 11,667
Amoust. ¥32,912,000 247,476,000
In addition to the above the number and amount of contracts made by foreign insurance companies in Japan that were in force at the end of 1907 were as follows:--
Number. Life ............... 15,115 Firo...... 23,928. The Bombay Gaketin devotes the following
Marine
354 1,843,000 appreciative article to Sir Robert Hart: The Chinese Government have invited Sir Robert Besides the three classes of insurance mention. liant, their late Inspector-General of Customs, ed above there are some other forms of insu to return to his post, and though we are told he tauce in vogue in the country, such as those bas not yet decided wo think it very likely he against conscription, transit, fidelity, sickness, will respond to the invitation. It is true he is etc., but the amount of contracts involved in Dow in bis seventy-fifth year and would satur these is not very large, From a study of ally desire to seek rest for the remainder of his these returns it may be observed that the life. But Sir Robert's heart is in China, where total number, and amount of contracts of nil he has been for the last fifty-five years, with classes of insurance in force at the end noly two short spells of leave, till be came of 1900 were 1,025,305 and Y522,641,000 respec- home last year, as many thought, for good.tively. In 1907, however, these had increased But it is not generally known that he was
to nearly 2 million contracts, valued at more allowed to leave his responsible post on condi- than 2,000 million yen, showing an average tion that he would take it up again at the end annual increase during the seven years of of a year's holiday. That year has just ex 120,pce in the number of contracts and of about pired, for he left Peking at the end of April of 200 million yen in the amount. last year and it'is bot natural that the Chinese Government should have invited him to return If any one man is indispensable it is surely Sir Robert Hart, and it speaks volumes for his ser vices to Chinn that he should have been con sidered all along the official most difficult to displace. He became Inspector-General in 1863 and he has been continuously at this post till last year, with but two exceptions, once when be went home marry in 1866 and again when he took a year's leave in 1878-9. Daring the past thirty years' continuous service be wanted several times to get away on short leave, but the Government could ill spare him, till about two years ago his health rendered it imperative he should take a long rest. He applied to the late Emperor and the Empress Dowager for two years' leave, but be could get only one year. In Sir Robert's own, words "they did not want me to go away at all, but when I recognised that my work was beginning to suffer, I had to go." He was suffering from insamais, the result of continuous work, and it was this that compelled him
HOW INSURance funds ARE INVESTED.
it now stands at $10,55244, due' to our let me ask her to add to her interesting nar only book that he bas published shows thin materially narrowed down, The insurance
Dew premises having been cotirely. fitted. with
CAO
thuch
now fixtures, which are as up-to-date as they he made in this country. Our investment account, which last year stood at $4,387.11. has been re- duced to $1,938, 58 by the sale of nineteen Shang- hai Gas Co.'s shares. A new item appears in our accounts this year, viz., additions and im provements to No.1 Nanking Road of $1,041.43, less $347.14 written off. Those premises con- sist of the upper floor of the old building in which we now are and on which we have spent the aforementioned amount in alterations and for the departments carried on there and
bitings for the de puery reason to believe will prove remunerative. Those premises we hold under a three years' lease only, so we deemed it advisable to write off this year one-third of the cost of fitting them up. I retire from the directorate this year by rotation, but being aligible offer myself for re-election. That, gen- Homen, is, I think, all I can say in connection With the report and accounts now before you but before patting the resolution for passing same to the meeting, if any shareholder has any questions to ask I will do my best to an- swer them.
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sufficiently. As an intermediary between China and England and all Europo ha bas rea- dered very efficient service to the world; which he can only increase by going back to the scene of his labours. He has still consider able energy and cannot but like his old work again. Affairs, too, have changed considerably
of her children,
According to the unfortunate woman's state- ment, boms out by a post-mortem oxamida, tion, she suffocated the children, and intended to kill barself, but was unable to accomplish bar end, due to her weak and exhausted condi tion after wandering about with the children and taking no food.
Much sympathy is falt for the young woman by a large circle who knew her and the public generally, on account of the fact being reveal- ed that her life recently Bas pot been a happy one, and the iragady is held to be the result of a long period of persistent "squeeze," brought to bear upon her by her mother and a sister-in- law, the silent sacrifice and forbearance caus ing mental breakdown.
KULANGSU (AMOY) MUNICIPAL COUNCIL.
Minutes of a meeting of the Council bald at the Board Room, as the 18th May, 1909.
Presapt-Messrs. W. H. Wallace (Chair- map), W. Kruse, I. Mencarini, S: Okuyama, The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.
and the Secretary,
A letter was read from the Senior Consul forwarding the regulations for the licensing of chairs, &c, as approved by the Consular Body, and the secretary was instructed to have same put in force as soon as possible.
filled.
By order,
(Signed) W. H. WALLACE/
Chairman.
C. BERKILEY MITCHELL, Becretary.
THE SILENT GÜN,
DEMONSTRATIONS TO RE GIVEN IN JAPAN.
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Had the Hanbury. Road bridge been open. for traffic, Fanton, it was asserted, would have been on the scene fully fiva minuten zarlist than he was. Unluckily this bridge is closed at six o'clock each evening, as it is undergològ repairs, and authorities deem it unsafe to allow, traffic over it after sundown.
The fire is said to have originated in a to- bacco shop through a Chinese boy thoughtless- ly filling a kerosene lamp over an open tin of kerosend. The boy dropped the lamp into the oil, and an explosion followed, to be quickly succeeded by a sheet of flame which enveloped the boy, and caught the inflammable fittings and stock. The boy, for bis thoughtlessness, was believed to have paid the penalty-with his life,
na trace of him could be found, bat at a late hour he was found, having escaped through the rear of the pre- misca. The flames spread with extraordinary quickness, and when the firemen arrived, houses on both sides of narrow Hanbury Road were borning fiercely. No time was lost in
quickly connected up, and many streams of getting to work, and long lines of hose were water were soon playing on the heart of the fire, whilst efforts were directed towards saving those houres that were in imminent danger through the myriads of sparks that flew up, making a fine pyrotechnic display. The sceno · was an
awe-inspiring one, beam after beam failing with a crash, sending up frask_showers of spark and lighting up the night. In spite of the gallons of water that were poured on the burning baildings, the fire continued to rage, and those premiski on 'which the fire bad a good hold were consumed with a rapidity which defied the greatest exertions of the fire fighters. All the dremen could do was to save the adjoining houses, and this they did - as was shown by the scans of desertion in some
of the shops, where charred and dripping fit- tings showed how close the premiser had been to complete destruction,
After about two-and-a-half-hours) hard fight-
ing the flames were extinguished, and the members of the brigade must be com
manded for the excellent work they did in effecting so great a save, as although over twenty houses and shops were destroyed, still bad they been less prompt, even greater dam= Age must have resulted, and possibly morn serious loss of life. Much sympathy must be expressed for. Hongkew stating for the lais of their valuable pony, and the tainua injuriaa received by their popular foreman.
Detective Sub-isipector Fitzgibbon and number of officers were on the scene soon after the fire, with a view to making inquiries as to the origin of the outbreak, but the result of their inquiries was not known. Soms of the electric light cables were broken, but owing to the Council's system of carrying duplicate light. lines, very few consumers were left without
WATER Return.
Level and storage of water in reservoirs on the 1st June,
CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS-..
LEVEL.
wash
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1908, 53 to below. 24′ 11′′ below" averflow
Tytam.overflow TytamBye.
Tytam in termediate Pokfulum
*1909.
54′ 3′′ below. overflow
24' 3" below overflow
at *** bolo= 1 20 53° below. overflow
overflow
A letter was read from the Senior Consul The marked advance in the insurance, buxi informing the Council, with reference to the ness in Japan in recent years is no doubt chiefly Chinese membership, that he had written to due, continues the Tokyo journal, to the re-the-Tactar with a view to the vacancy being cognition by the people of the importance of
A cablegram' was read from Mr. E. A. insurance, but at the same time the strenuous efforts made by the insurance companies in Hartley, Calcutta, accepting the appointment of the matter of canvassing must also be largely Assistant to the Secretary and Superintendent
| of l'olice,' responsible for the great increase in the figures.
The Captain Superintendent of Police report And this latter circumstance bag brought about in some instances the failure of several insured that the following cases and been dealt with
at the Mixed Court since the last meeting ance concerns, inflicting much loss on the policy-holders who have been induced to enter Summonses. Throwing night soil water into contracts with them without making care into public drain 1, Contempt of. Court 2, fal inquiries as to their stability. The failure sing abusive language 1, Illegally removing or disappearance of concerns whose founda- boundary stones 2, Cruelty to childres
Breach contract 3, Illegally detaining pro- tions are unstable is rather desirable than
Debt & otherwise, as it means progress in nay busi.perly 7, Refusing to quit premises ness. With regard to the revelations of mis- Bummary Arrests: Creating a disturbance management in insurance and other com. Allowing pigs and cattle to stray 4. Assault 4 panies, of which there has been quite a crop of Attempting to commit suicide 1, Theft 2. late, the Government should be held respon- sible to a certain extent in bringing about this state of affairs, owing to the perfunc- tory way in which supervision has been seek complete rest for exercised over these corporations despite time if he was to avoid physical and mental the provisions of the law. The authorities, breakdown. He has benefited much by his evidently alarmed by the unpleasant dis- year's holiday, and his trouble of insomnia is closures in insurance circles, seem now to be so far cored that when.be entered upon his taking very strict measures eves in respect of seventy-fifth year a few weeks ago, be declared insurance concerns whose soundness is gener his intention of going back to China and re-ally admitted, This is going from one extreme suming bis duties. Sir Robert has passed his to another. Official supervision or interference whole life, since be attained his majority, in unless judiciously applied, concludes the Keirai It is stated by as exchange that the device China, which has thus become his country Zaashi, may have the effect of checking the known as the "Maxim silencer," is about by adoption and affection, and be would growth of a business or industry.
to be demonstrated to the Government of like to end bis days there. He is honoured in China as up other foreigner has ever. The same journal publishes an interview with and Hilliard Rosencrane, special representa China and Japan by Mesrrs. Joseph Kegan been honoured: he has the Red Button, the Mr. Abe, President of the Meiji Life Insurance lives of the inventor, who are coming Bast on Pencock's Feather, and his ancestors even have Company, who makes some remarks anent the the steamer dongalia. The value of the inven been ennobled according to Chinese custom. His constant Intercourse is with Chinese offi. investments by Japanese insurance companies. tion of smokeless powder in war time is now in creased a hundred fold by its use in connection cials and the Peking Mandarins who have
He says that the principal life jusqtânće com- complete confidence in him. This long and joint investments. Hitherto investments have exploding carriage to a mere puff which can panies have been adopting the policy of with this device, which reduces the sound of an Continuous contact has made him look at mostly been made it railway enterprise, not be heard a doren yards in the open. Is events through Chinese spectacles, and but since the nationalisation of the rail- determining the position of the enemy and the many things be may he said to be more of a
ways the field in Ibis direction has been strength of the attacking force the leader of a Chinese than the Chinese themselves. The
body of troops is dependent almost en companies, however, are not inclined to try intirely upon the sound or sight of the enemy's rifles. The factor of concealment is una vestments in industrial concerns, for these are At the time of the Taiping rebellion the peo-
of the most important in modern strategy. ple fled from the districts around Canton in
subject to periodical vicissitudes and most be every direction. A great number tamed their
regarded as more or less of a-risky dature. For and the mowing down of troops by as “anxious eyes to the two spots which appeared'
this reason Japanese insurance companies have enemy, the strength and location of which now turned their attention to municipal loans are unknown, may be calculated to upset the to them as barbour of refuge. Many found
for the employment of their surplus money, place of generals and strike fear into the hearts Wong-nai- *2* 8" below 245" below protection in Hongkong, but the British Colony
though investments, may be tried in other
of soldiers. The tests of the Maxim device
chung... Loverflow being yet, in its infancy, thousands upon thousands of families sought safety in Macao,
in China since he left it a year ago. The Em-directions where the soundness of the venture have demonstrated that even in an enclosed
STORAGE GALLONS. peror and the Empress Dowager are both pois assured. So far the Meiji and the Teikoku range the sound of the discharge of a firearm is
1908; Aud the majority of the refugees were people more, and the Heir-Apparent, whose Junior Life Insurance Companies have jointly under- reduced by 93 per cant, and the recoil 75 per Tytam of influential classes.
75,200,000 696,000 The Taipings would not think of following Guardian he had the high honour of being taken the Fukuoka Municipal loan for Y450,000 cent. A 31 calibre and a 30-30 Winchester rifle Tytam Byewash...
bas now mounted the. Manchu throne. Sir
at an interest of 81 per cent, the Meiji Life and were used with and without the silencer and it Tytam Intermediate 181,379,000 the relugees to the British Colony, and they Robert Hart would no doubt like to take his Teikoku Marius a Y500,000 load for the Na-was, shown that although the velocity of the Pokfulum ........ respected the autonomy of the old Portuguese accustomed share in guiding Chinese policy goya Electric Light Company at 9 per cent, bullet was not decreased the volume of sound Wong-nai-chung Colony.
towards Europe under the new regime, and we the Meijl and the Teikoku Life a loan of at the discharge of the 30.30 with the silencer to his civic devotion, assassinated in 1849-wasvitation of the Chinese Government with Company at B per cent, and the Meiji, Ninju, the device. Also there was an entire .ab. The cruel fate of Ferreira do Amoral may take it that he would avail himself of the jo-150,000 for the Toyohashi Electric Light attached was not equal to that of tän 32 without still fresh in the memory of the Portugeese alacrity. nation. We might have imagined the occasion
and Alkoku Life a million yen loan for the sence of "flash" so that even at night it would Otaru Municipality at y. per cent. Several other be impossible to locate the marksman. The favourable to exact reparation for his atrocious death; but, instead, we thought only of affording
investments of smailer amounts have also been silencer is a small sheet metalstube 1 1/6 inches | made.
in diameter and from 4 to 6 inches in length, shelter under the flag of Portugal to those who came for it.
Referring to the comparative advantage or according to the gun to which it is attached, disadvantage, between domestic and foreign For a 21 calibre rifle it is about four inches capital, Mr. Abe remarks that for trustworthy long and for a 30.30 six incher. The weight corporations or reliable enterprises it may be varies from 6 to 8 ounces. It is attached by possible to borrow foreign capital at a low rate pushing it home on the barrel and giving it a of Interest, but supposing the interest to be of a quick three-quarter turn to engage the thread. similar rate, the advantage to the borrower will It can be attached to any gun by cutting a sbort lie on the side of domestic capital, inasmuch as screw thread in the muzrls. The principle
upon which it acts is the changing of the direc the latter will be free from the bankers' com mission which are inevitable in the case of tion of the exploding gases from a forward to a foreign loans.. Its quite possible, therefore, rotary one, allowing them to reach the air It was stated in evidence w about half that investments prove more advantageous to gradually. At the test a steel plate one-quarter of an inch to thickness was pierced'with a clean past eight on the morning of the rath instant" "the pun0wa-Japan Chronielspeth the deceased was seen walking along the Praya
round hole at a distance of 100 feet hy a 0,30 East, nair the Naval Canteen. Cár No. 9, it
rifle carrying a 170 grain hard nosed ball, and THE Manda Time of 2nd inst. sys-About would appear, was travelling from east to west THE Shanghai Mercury says:-The bandsome the only sound to be heard was the impict Kowloon eleven o'clock last night a thrilling rescue and in Arsenal Street it passed another carnew triangular building which has been of the ballet with the steel. With the same | Gravitation was made in the bay near the steamer Rudi by Deceased, it was explained, crossed behind the erected for the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank rifé 42 boards seven-eighths of an inch the crew of the night patrol launch of the latter car and stepped in front of the westward ing Corporation at the comer of Broadway thick were penetrated, Mr. Alexander Hamil. Customs service. At that hour as the launch bound car. Everything possible was done by and Seward Road is now practically com too, who has personally tested the device, bas was making it torn around the Rubf's the motorman to avert the accident. Both pleted, and a branch office of the Hong stated that all the claims of the inventor had anchorage something dark was seen swim brakes were applied, but the car could not be kong and Shanghai Bank will be opened there been substantiated, and J. H. Kenniff, a woll ming around the bow of the vessel, and be pulled up in time, with the result that the within the next few months. Besides adding known fifle expert and manager of the gas thinking it might be a would-be opium smug. man was knocked down, the vehicle striking to the beauty of that particular locality, and ammunition department of the firm of gier, the launch bore down on the bobbing him fall in the back. Policeman Glendinning the opening of a branch office at the bank Baker & Hamilton, auserts that the silencer bend. When near enough to make it out it had the injured, man sent to the Government will be of great convenience to business people will be used extensively la big game hunting, was found to be a small bullock which had Civil Hospital, where he expirad sixteen days and residentially in Hongkew. The bamboo for it will be possible, to bring down a boat or Consumption 13,261,000 23,826,000 gallons fallen off soma vessel, probably the Rudi, as the latci
fencing around the building is now being tom deer before the salmal discovers the source of Estimated only other ship in the bay with cattle on board The medical evidence showed that deceased down, and the road on both the Broadway and the shot, President Roosevelt witnessed a do population was the Solstad which was quite a distance was in a very feeble condition and when his body Seward Road side will be considerably improvmonstration of the attachment, given by Consumption. away. The crew of the launch got alongside was examined a wound on the forehead, wared by an extension in width of several feet. Maxim, with the result that he is using a num. the animal and after almost supertaman efforts discovered. There was also another cat on the The re-building of the Astor House is now be ber of them in his African expedition, and tha
day succeeded in getting it on the launch and top of his bead In spite of treatment the man ing carried out, and when completed the King of Spain has had the device attached to
The Government Analyst reports that the brought it ashore, here it is now in custody of grow worse and died on the asth May, death be Broadway approach to Hongkew will also be all his hunting rifles. The inventor is at pre-water is of excellent quality, Me Sturtevant, of the Wharfingers office, ing caused by multiple injuries and septicemia considerably improved by a widening of eight swälting an ownSE,
A verdict of "Accidental death" was returned, 1 oz ten feet,
or the men who are now clamouring against Macao and pointing fingers of scorn at the be- nighted Portuguese Colony how many, looking back these 50-60 years, could not see among the terror-stricken faces of refugees flocked to
Macao, those of their ancestors?
There being no questions, the report and statement of accopals, as presented, were adopted, on the proposition of the Chairman,
Is there not among the Confucian maxima seconded by Mr. D. W..Crawford...
The following resolutions were also adopt-ne which enjoins people to be grateful to their **benchworks@ny the pingi kaving discarded
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TRAMCAR FATALITY.
OLD AND FEEble chinamaN KNOCKED.
DOWN AND KILLED,
Last Monday afternoon, at the Magistracy, a inquiry was held touching the death of a man named Tau Hong, eighty-five years of age, who was knocked down and killed by a tram car the other day. The Coroner (Mr. J. H. Kemp) presided, and the following wore the jurors empanelled:Mowers. David Keith, C. its past, and assumed the glorious title of New, and A. C. W. Najdt. That a dividend at the rate of ten per cent. Chian, has it altogether forgotten the teach- on the paid up capital of the Company be doings of the great Master? clared, payablo'în tuels at exchange 73 at the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, to shareholders on record Jane 1-proposed by the Chairman and seconded by Mr. D. W. Crawford:
That Mr. Jas, Ambrose by re-elected a director of the Company-proposed by Mr. J. P. Lows seconded by Mr. J. Trevor Smith.
-That-Mosers-G-H-and-N:"Thomson be re elected auditors of the Company to serve until the next ordinary, general meeting of share holders at remuneration of Tis, 3oo per annum, proposed by Mr. H. H. Read and seconded by Mr. J. P. Lowe.
This was all the business, and the Chairman annenaced that dividend: warrants would be ported to-day..
The Chairman then thanked the staff for their Per musistance in the work of removal last summer, and Mr. Read thanked the directors on behalf of shareholders. This was supported by Mr. Smithe Do With the Chairman's reply, the meeting
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sant engaged in perfecting the device for large
bore guns and hoary artillery
21' 2" below overflow
23,200,000
· 11' '7}" below *averdow
overflow
1909. 73,920,000 966,000
99,097,000
21,375,000
6,979,000
$,091,000
Total 287,566,000 | 202,267,000 Consumption of water in the City and Hill District during the month of May.
1908.
1909. Consumption...143,580,000 118,874,000gallons Estimated)
206,760 208,560 population Consumption per head per
18.3 gallons day........... ***Conciant supply in all districts during May, 1908.
22.4
"Intermittent supply by Ridar mains in Rider main districts during May, 1909, 9
The retam of consumption is subject to error owing to the difficulty of accurate mea- surement whilst the extension works at Albany Filter Beds are in progress.
——— KOWLOON WATER WORKS,
LEVEL. 1908...
Reservoir
1909
29" 3" below) 35': o" below overflow
overflow. STORAGE GALLONS,
1908, Kowloon Gra-
vitation Re-116,500,000 95,100,000 gallona servoir
1909,
Consumption of water is Kowloon during the month of May
*1908;
· per head per
-82,900
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