REUTER'S
TELEGRAMS;
SERIOUS MOTOR CAR
ACCIDENT.
SIR G. REID INJURED,
[Senvios to Tor "' Teleoratu."]
London, July 16, 10.50 p.u. While motoring in Broadstairs, * Sir Lisorge Ha Hojd, of New South Wales, with his son and daughter, wore the viotims of a serious
F'accidenti
COMPANY MEETING.
The notice calling the meeting having been read, the Chairman said:
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, JULY 17 1911
ABUSING A PRIVILEGE.
[TUN "TELEGRAPE" CORRESPONDENT
Canton, July 15, 1911.
AMOY MUNICIPAL COUNCIL
Fallowing are extracts from the
BULLION.
Mossra. Samuel Montagu and Co.'s Circular dated London, June 21. contains the following were about £800,000 of which Gold.The arrivals of bar gold 101,000 was reserved for India, the remainder after providing for limited demand for the Continent. and for the trade, will be sont into the Bank of England,
"
17, £ 5,000
The following amounts word received by the Bank :- June 15, £298,000 in bar gold,"
16, # 6,000
, sovereigns from France. Sovereigns froin Franco.
sovereigns from Egypt.
bar gold. Sovereigns from Egypt.
17, £100,000
19,
37,000
37
20, £175,000
BACON & HAM.
DO YOU WANT THE BEST FOR YOUR TABLE
S YOUR ORDERS
SEND. US
WE STOCK ABSOLUTELY 184 QUALITY.
AUSTRALIAN MILD CURED
BACON & HAMS.
PRICES MODERATE.
THE DAIRY FARM CO., LIMITED.
TO-NIGHT!
THE
TONIGHT!
S Moutrle and Co, Limited;" The twelfth annual general mcoting of shareholders in this Foreign purchasers and ex-minutes of a meeting of the Company was held at the flead
Kulangen (Amoy) Municipall, Ollice, Nanking Road, Shanghai, Forters of native produce or Mr, E., C. Poarce, Chairman of the merchandise from the interior of Council, hold at the Board Room, Company, presiding. There were Chiu, have all along boon.ex- on the 27th June, 1911 :--- present: Messrs W, J.isonman, J.ompted from the payment of Present:-Messre. W, H. Wala H. Hinton (Directors), F.J. Hinton,ckins on same by virtue of transit lace (chairman), J. S. Fenwick, (Seerotary), D. Watson; ( Laino, passes granted to thein on sub- W. R. MD Parr, Rovd. G. M. R. Wood and Mrs. Houston, re-inission to the Customs of in- Walen, W. Wilson, the Health presenting 1,018 simres.
voices giving the descriptions and Officer and the Secretary, quantities of the native produce or The artesian' woll contractor is merchandise for export. It hus present and informs the Council repeatedly been discovered that ilut he finds it impossible to con- Gentlemen: The reports and many exporters are exporting tinuo boring on the present site, accounts of your Directors for your native produce or merchandise in and lio connot guarantee that oven past financial year having been in excess of the quantities set forth given a fresh site he would be your hands for some few days, 1 in the Customs invoices, and that successful. The gnostion of what will with your permission, adopt their names are being made use action shall be taken in the mat- the usual procedure and take of by others in applying for ter is left over for further con thom ns road. Before usking you transit passes with intent to avoid sideration. to adopt the report, and accounts, the payment of lekin duty. These Correspondence with the Sonior A withdrawal of £5,000 “was I will briefly go over last year's malpractices have reached the Consul concerning the issuing of mado on the 19th instant for working. From the report you ears of the Superintonding Board warrants and summonses in cases Gibraltar, making the not influx will notice that although there is of Customs at Poking, and the of assault, and with 11.B.M. Con: during the week, C$16,000. 'Plio für in which the party wore an actual working prolit of foreign ministers in the Capital sul concerning a petition from a Silver.Until to-day the quota
$7,605:44, your Board, after going have been approached on the Chinese, is read..
tions during the last fortnight volling collided with another, vory thoroughly over your stocks matter, all of who agreed to in- It is decided to communicate huvo kept within' the smallest and accounts together with your struct to consuls in different with 11.1.J.M. Consul concerning possible variation, namely 1-10d. dashed into a trum standard,'aud | Monaging Director, havo decidet treaty ports to inform their re- tho repeated blasting of stone at of a penny, and nothing impor- CHANGE OF PROGRAMME. to recounnend to you various sums spectivo nationals that, in futuro, Ho-kee, and the public nuisance tant has occurred to affect the for depreciation, etc. as detailed in when they apply to the C caused by the hammoring of iron price or outlook. To-day how- the report, amounting in all to toms for transit passes, they must girders and the sharponing of over, thecash price foll to 24.7-16d. $23,114.80, leaving debit solemnly and sincerely declare tools, which goes on throughout the lowest quotation since May balance including last year's debit, that they are not exporting native the night, and makes sleep impos 4; but the market as a whole in Your produce or merchandise in excess oible for the residents in the not so good as at that date, for of $28,922.16, in all. Board not unnaturally regret the of the quantities put down on the neighbourhood, and to request forward silver then commanded unfortunate result, but let me invoices, that they are applying him to take action against Mr. 21.0-16d. compared with 24.1-9. to-day. Forward silver, has not assuro you that the business for the transit passes themselves, Lim Hock Sin the owner. during the
The Secretary is directed to been fixed. so low as 24.1-2d.THURSDAY, 20th lust.. the Semi- past your has that never have they allowed their been worked with the greatest games to be made use of by others communicate with Mr. Tan Jit since April 3, economy and care and a very big for the purpose of misleading the Siong and request him to alter the RAILWAY OUTRAGES IN roduction in expensos has been Customs authorities and that they iron gates at his house near the effected as promised at our last have bought and are exporting Club, so that they are made to FRANCE.
manual testing. It is hardly the goods themselves. The new open inwards and hot outwerde es necessary for me to point out that rules respecting the export of at present. during the period under review, native produce or inerchandise by Shanghai has passed through, and foreigners have just been tele is passing through a financial graplied to the Canton, Viceroy crisis such as I hope we shall who in turn has notified the TELEGRAFH."never sea again. We, more than Customs.
was demolished.
..
Sir George and his son
were
severely shaken, whilst Miss Reid was seriously injured and
had to be taken to hospitul..
GOVERNMENT'S ACTION.
(SERVICE TO TAR **
London, July 16, 10,50 pm:
The French fiovorumont has offered a reward of five thousand Trancs for the detection of the
persons implicated in the attempt to wreck, tho, llaves express on
the 1st instani.
A special detective foron is be- ing formed to deal with sabotago
on the railways.
There have been no less than 72,086 such cases on the railways
: since October,
AFFAIRS IN MOROCCO.
GERMAN OPINION:
WHY THE SPIDER WAS
THERE.
a
PRICE OF A PROFESSOR.
Permission is granted Mr. S. Yoshida to blast rock in the woll he is sinking.
A certain weariness is traceable
in the attitude of China which for so long a period has had to hear, alunost single handed, the task of coping with supplies.
POPULAR
Hippodrome Circus "ASAHI" BEER
and Menagerie.
ANOTHER
ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW, BOXING!
An open middleweight boxing com- retition (11at. Gilbs.) will be held at the bove Circus, when the Proprietor, Mr. Bystok, will present handsome trophies
the Winter und Runner np preliminaries will take placu
he
08
Finals on FRIDAY, 21st, and the Note our Price u pir care coll- Final on SATURDAY, 22nd.
Ju-
ending Competitors so requested to sen! in their namesto Mr. flysnok at he Circus, Causeway Bay, by WED- NESDAY morning, the 19th inst.
TINE AND PRICES AN UNUAL. Soldiers ia uniform: Fond Claim 30 ets. Stalls 30 cts.
Box Plan at Robinson Piano Co
Matinees-Wed. & Sat. at 4:80 1.3.
The presont paucity of forward sales may ho considered to be set off by the supplies of the Indian up-country demand out of Bombay REFLECTION OF ULTRA-peculative stocks, but the roduc
tion of these stooks is the more im- VIOLET LIGHT. portant item of the two because it will tend to restore that confidence which the huge speculative ac-after the Performance. cumulations had rudely shaken.
་
Prof. J. von Kowalski, in a letter 40" Naturo" (London), describes his observations of the spectra of sunlight reflected by snowfielde in Switzerland. He finds that the ultra-violet rays are reflected by show almost in their entirety. This fact helps to explain the try ing effects of audit light upon the eyes, and suggests theadvisability of wearing, during a period of snow and sunshine, glasses that are opaque to the ultra-violet rays.
FIRST ENGLISH LAND
BANK.
Between the. 10th and 19th instant the stock of silver rupeos in the India Currency reserve las increased by about one lac.
The stock in Bombay stands,
at 12,000 bars, and the off take bus eased slightly to 100 burs a day,
The stack in Shanghui hus risen. again and amounts to about £3,400,000.
The T. and O. stoumers carry about £190,000 to the Eust. A shipment of £40,000 has been made from San Francisco to Hongkong.
Messrs. Mocntia and Goldsmid's
.
taining 4 donen quarts or 6 dozen pints. Hongkong, 7th April. 1911,
PEAK TRAMWAYS 00.,
LIMITED.
TIME TABLE.
Week Daya,
Children under 12 years of age Hall-8.00 .. to 10.00 a.m. Price at Matines only.
10.00 am to 11.00. 8.m.
7.00 .m. 1 -8.00 am. Every 10 min.
·
19.
10 min.
15 min.
1
Sporial Trans will bu sün bufe:s and
11.80 a.m. to 12.45 p.m.
10 wi
1
12.45 p.m. to 1.15 p.m.
10 min.
N.B.-The Meangorie open all day.
Admission
1.10 p.m. to 1.45 p.m.
15 min.
#
cuts.
[1236
1.45 p., to 2.15 pm.
5.00 p.m. to 8.10 pm:
2.16 p.m. to 0.00 p.m. 15 min. 10 min,
#
10 min.
"
GRANITE &
MARBLE
Monuments
C. E. WARREN & CO.
NIGHT CARS.
8.45 p.m. and 9 p.m., 9.45 p.m. tu 11.80 p.m. every 15 minutes. SUNDAYS.
ft
RXPAIRE 8.00 a 10 10.80 a.m. ovely 25 min.:
-10,80 a.m. to 11.00 a.m. 10 min. CLEANING 11.45 a.m. to 12.00 noon
, 16 min. 12.00 noon to 1,00 p.m. 1.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m.
UNDERTAKEN.
WREATHS.
[874
SEEING IS BELIEVING And that is why the majority of the pla hera believe, that they can get Faster fitting glasses at our place, than anywhere else in the Colony. No charge for sight testlog, Doctors prescriptions ageunce'y
others have felt this depression vory koen y indeed, dealing ex- clusively in luxuries, as we do, especially in our native depart mont where sales have fallet off out of all proportion. Your go Whon Mark Twain, in his early neral business, however, has been days, was editor of a Missouri minintained. Turning to your ac paper, a superstitious subscriber counts two bright spots are notice-wrote to him saying that he had able, the reduction of the overdraft found a spider in his paper, and at your bankos from $90,930,58. asking him whother that was a to $58,077.20 and your stock sign of good luck or bad. The from $839,773.01 to $300,028.03. mourist wrote him this ansiver which after taking into
con and printed it: sileration the fact that we have old Subscriber: Finding completed the stocking of our spider in your paper was neither Singapore Brauch during current goud luck nor bad luck for you. your is a healthy sign, gentlemen, The spider was merely looking and reflects on the economy that over our paper to see which mer your Board have affected. In chant is not advertising, so that Inrest is about the same, bat this he can go to that store, spin his renr owing to the reduced, over-web across the door and lead has been started at Lewes, in The first English Land Bank draft with your Bankers, a reduce life of undisturbed ponco over Sussex. Its capital lins already Circular dated London, Juno 21, tion in this item'should soon show afterward:" itself. A careful comparison of
been privately subscribed but it says:- this year's Report and Balance.
has been organised to allow, of its Silvor. Owing to the holidays Shept with that of last, will show
being taken over by the State in connection with the Coronation should a national scheme of agri-of Thoir Majestics King George you gentlemen, that we have done very much better.
The Greek brigands who carried cultural banke bo started. It and Queen Mary, we have but With regard to the future the off Dr. Rialtor, the German ends money for the development a few days under review in our tide nust, soon turn, and I can archeologist, into the recesses of small holdings, and gives circular this week and the Silver only hope this time next year Mount Olympus, on the borders advances to approved small lold Market has been very quiet. your Board will be able to lay of Thessaly, have sent a letter byers to purchase their holdings. The quotation till to-day had before you a more satisfactory a shepherd demanding £50,000 Chore is no reason why such continued only to vary between state of affairs.
ransom, made up in stated pro- banks should not be starter all 34 9-10d, and 24 1-2d. at which The following resolutions were portions in different coinage, tower the country. Similar institu- rates there have been fair carried:
gether with a souvenir of gold tions have been of enormous purchases made for India, whilst (SERVICE TO THE " TELEGRAPH,"]
Proposed by Mr. E. C. Pearce chains and rings for the members service in countries which re- China, although not solling, has and seconded by Dr. W. J. Isen of the band. In the event of non-quire, development. In West refrained from buying. To-day, Loudon, July 1, 10.10 p.m.
man that the Roport and Accounts compliance the brigands state that Australia, for instance, the however, there has been a drop|Hongkong,
they will send back Dr. Itichter's agricultural bank is now to 24 7-16d. in the absence of From Berlin it is reported that as printed be adopted.
Proposed that Mr. F. C. Pearce head.
necessary part of all land support from the East, It is asserted that the capture settleinent schemos. 1t is the governmentally inspired be re-elected a director of the
Co., proposed by J. H. Hinton, of Dr., Richter is to revenge andor Government direction, but Germany's support of Turkey does not require subsidising-it organ, the "Koolnische Zeitung," seconded by W. J. Isenian,
Proposed that the appointment against Greers. Mount Olympus pays its way. It lends the in- Sideprecates. the Gorman papers of Dr. W. J. Jonman as Director is elbarly visible from Sulonica, migrant up to 300 on the
be confirmed; proposed by E. C. where the naval and military security of his lund at 5 per cont.. Gold. Most of the arrivals of taking it for granted that the Pearce soconded by J. H. Hinton, forces of Turkey are assembled in and after that up to £750, in all gold continue to find their way to
Proposed by Mr. G. Paino and honour of the Sultan,
at the rate to £1 for every £2 the Bank of England, though only possible solution of the seconded by. Mr. R. Wood that
worth of improvement, and stook there has bean a small Continen Messra. Lowe, Bingham and
he puts on the land. The money is tal demand and the usual amount difficulty in Morocro lies in Ger-Matthews bo elected Auditors for
repayable by instalments extend-required for India. Since our ing over twenty-five years. Over last circular the Bank has received many soeking compensation in the custing year.
Proposed by Mr. E. C. Pearce
€1,000,000 has been lent in | £323,000 in lays and soin, whilst and seconded by Mr. J. H. Ilinton
Within the bust fewnoaths the this way, and it speaks well £5,000 in sovereigns have been that the next Annual General mail from Seattle to Japan for the settlers to find that there withdrawn for Gibraltar.
hive been no bad, debts. In- Mosting be held during the month and China has been burdened of either June or July 1912.
cidentally, the Link valuers not with mysterious packages, out.
only value stock, and improve- wardly resembling cane of fruitment for purposes of advances; or vegetables, and m investig thay aro experienced men, who tion by the postal authorities us givethe soler valuable advice in disclosed the fact that Orientals agricultural and other matters. ---- A landowner in Japan, states a liave been inving the bodies of Review of Reviews.". British consular report, was the reintivos ercinated and have inail surface and product of thesurface ed the ashes to China and Japan of the land only; all minerals for burial, thus saving froight under the surface, apportajn, not billä."
Agadir.
The essential thing, says the journal, is indemnification. The locality thereof is non-essential, so
long as a genuine 'equivalent is received.
The "Morning Post" and other papers regard the “Kopinisolie's'
article as disquieting and declare
LANDOWNERS IN JAPAN.
ASHES OF DEAD SENT
HOME IN LETTERS.
AUSTRIA'S DREAD- NOUGHTS,
The steamer leaving for India
this week takes nearly £200,000
in bars which should reach Bom- buy in time for the July settle ment,
DON'T FORGET.
Monday, 17th July; way Bay, 9.15 p.in.
Hippodrome Circus, Cause-
Victoria Cinematograph, 9.15 | p.m
Bijou Cinematoraplı, p.m.;
Tuesday, 18 July, Criminal Bossions,
Weddodday, 10th July Organ Renital, St. Jol Cathedral, 9.15 p.m.
0.15
to him, but to the Japanese An examination of one can dia- Government Moreover, should closed the remains of one Bake potight bittledip, the Viribus Austria-Hungary's first, Droad- the Government or its nomineo Togo, wial to extract the minerals lying] The nalies of Mrs. George Mo-Unitis, was launched recently that Germany cannot sell horvital under a landowner's property, the Martin, wife of a wealthy Tacoma A second Dreadnought will Tuesday, 9th August.
latter, though he would, of course, (Wash.) manufacturer, wore n-take the water on November Hull-yearly meeting of share- interests in Morocco for a few receive compensation for loss cently mailed to him from Berlin, 3, third will be begun at once, holders, Hongkong, Canton, and cannot object on legal ground, to whore the women died while visi-and a fourth will be built by the Macao Steamboat Company, pieces of silver.
The developinent of Ulivesminerals, ing her öld home,
Danubius yards at Fiume. Hotel Miu done, at?
filled.
N. LAZARUS,
Ophthalmic Optician,
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10 min.
$1
15 min.
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10 win.
23
6.00 pm to 6.00 p.m. 6.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m. 15 mln. 7.00 p., to 8.10 p.m. 10 min. NIGHT CARS an on Week Days, SATURDAYS.
Extra Care at 11.40 p.m.
SPECIAL CARS.
By Armagemont at the Company's Offco, A'exandra Buildings, Don Voen Boad. JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers, Hongkong. 18th June, 1911.
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