LOCAL, INSURANCE AND THE TITANIC.
Unlon Insurance Society of Canton, Ltd., Meeting.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1912.
ALLEGED PERJURY,
Curious Sequel to a Simple
Charge,
At the Magistracy this after-
Eastor Monday in which 'a mun
SILENT LISTENER,
Using the Dictograph in Sult for Divorce.
EMPIRE BUSINESS.
Overseas Men of Commerce.
to Confer In London.
but that if fortune continued to smile upon us he saw no reason why we should not be able to somewhat increase the dividend by the payment of a bonus to shureholders when tho outturn of any particular year warranted it.
A now use has been found for The Congross of Chambers of The outlarn of 1910 would com noon before Mr. 3. A. Irving the dietograph, an electrical de Commerce of the British Empire The thirty-ninth ordinary must to warrant the payment of a Mr. Ciander made sa application vice for recording conversations, will be held in London early in ing of the shareholders in the small bonus to shareholders this Union Insurance Society of Can-year, but, Gentlemen, it was connection with so that by means of which the brothers Juno, and there are indications ton, was held this morning in the impossible for the chairmin in unto this Worship on Me Namura were sent to a pont that from every stend point the offices of the Society, when Mr. to foresee the breaking out was charged with having 20 thels tentiary and several United Statos proccodings will be of the highest of the robellica: in China and the of prepared opium on board the legislators have been convicted of importance, slates the "Evening | H. A. Siobs presided." There were consequent shrinkage and dis prosent Messrs F. Liob, A. Furbes, location of trade. Even the wise81. Empire without the pormit bribory, anys a message from Now Standard, "
of the Opin Farmer.
The congress is being organis the best-informed of us (tardner-pointed-out-that G. Friesland, F. H. Armstrong, and
yot tell what
"Between Mr. Earl Follaboru, ated by the British Imperial Coun-- the (. Madhurst, W. L. Pattondon, J. Jeannot
at the last hoaring two constables of that
lovemont W. C. Bonnar, W. E. Clarke, may be
had sworn that they found the millionaire steel manufacturer, cil of Commerce, farined in July or how soon. trade
and his wife Marguerite, aross Taylor, Ormiston, F. C. Mac Ponditions
begin pium on board the Empire snits for divorco are pending at lass, on which the leading Cham- may Donald, Dr. MacDonald, T. improve, and the fore after very find the sampan whose owners made an application to obtain the are represented. The chairman is Pittsburg. Mrs. Follaborn has bers of tho Commerce of Empire Hongh, Lo Cheung-shiu, 11. an-nature deliberation your directors could swear that the police found
custody of her daughter ponding Mr. Charles Charleton, and the it on their craft, which was the trial. But Mr. Fellabarn's of Ordinance 23 of 1000 under which the charge was laid. Ho
trini they will exhibit dictograph Machin.
Tho commercial interests of records reproducing conversations. hind ben instructed by friends of the prisoner to proceed against New York bunker staying in
between Mira Follaborn and a the Empire will be influentially would otherwise seem necessary the constables for perjury and hoher house which will establish roprosented. The Prime Ministor.
outcoino
ta
while he had since been able to
York,
cock and O. Montagne. Falehe wiser policy for them to not an offence against See. 30 counsel asserts that at the livorn, deputy chairman, Mr. Stanley
socrotary.
The secretary having rod the notice convening the meeting,,
The chairman said :- Gentlemen: the Report as been in your hands for sufficient time to enable you to study it and
I therefore propose to take it, well as the Auditors' report, as
read..
have come to the conclusion that
sue is to husband to pociety strength and carry forward to unlowwriting suspense arequnt a larger amount of money than In this view I feel sure that, you will all entirely concne and will endorse the recommendation of send on account of 1910 of $20 your directors that a final divid per share should be declared, that £10,000 shoubi ho added to ster- ing reserve fund, and that the balance of $518,000 shall be car-
applied for a copy of the deposit tious taken at the hearing of the original charge.
The request was granted.
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We are pleased to announce that the selling prices of our different BRANDS BUTTER at
present are as follows:-
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"DAISY
"DAIRYMAID"
'BUTTERCUP"
PASTRY
BRAND 80 cents per lb.
75
"
重
70
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will inaugurate the proceedings GARNER QUELCH & CO.
so to have the custody of her in his capacity as honorary pre laughter. A tiny, sensitive plate, sident, but the presidential du- the counsel said,concealed bohind the dressing table of Mr.ties during the congress will bo fulfilled by Lord Desborough, Fellaborn's boudoir, transmittor her coversations to a shorthand The bulk of the organising work is being undertaken by Mr. C. E. writer hidden in the summer. house in the grounds. For five Musgrave, the secretary of the The danger signals of Nature, days during her husband's London Chamber of Commerce. The figures for 1911 are quieted. Mr. Mark Webb, in absence, all that she and her I have already received a large mind that for the purpose of the satisfactory as wgirds probable lecturn at the Camera Club, Lon- friend the broker said was taken number of rosolutions on a va- I
The premium income for 1910 is somewhat greater than that of the previous year, which is satis factory, especially if que boara in
ried forward.
thure, although there is #
rant.
SIGNALS.
WINE
MERCHANTS...
DES VŒUX ROAD,
TELEPHONE 036.
Supply the nighest quality Wines, Spirits, Cigars riety of commercial subjects, said Mr. Musgrave to one of our re- and Cigarettes obtainale, consistent with price. All
account sterling, was exchanged shrinkage, in promiom income, lou, are black and yellow or down and is now being prepared into dollars at 1.10 5-10 as against dic, as I have just toll you, te black and whito. Black and yol for submission to the court. 1.10.1-16 in 1903. Interest shows
disorganization of trade.. Your low was the warning coloration
Denision on the application has presentatives. We anticipato an a satisfactory increase, and on
gates. The congress is held the other side of the recount that directors, however, feel, quite of creatures as diverse as the bean postponed until the records attendance of at least 500 dele-
justified in recommending the snake and the wasp, aid of car-
are producad.
triennially, and it is six years. most important item charges
The dictograph works on tho since it met in London. shows a material decrease. Our payment of an interin dividend in caterpillars and butterflies
that were not edible to birds. principle of the telephone. The A Useful Feature:- reinsuranes fund and underwrit of $30 per share and a bonus on ing suspenso account, bath contributory business of 20 per These colours were mimicked by receiving box is less than a foot [ other creatures as a moins of prolong and six inches deep. It is
In 1909, when the congreg® | tinue to rise and yearly provide
You, will be pleased to leun'ection-the black and white of a greater measure of security to our assurot,
that, while giving shareholder, young cuckoo, for instance, being necessary to speak into the instruas hold in Sydney, there were speaking within 15 feet and United Kingdom, and Australasin, A comparison of the Society's ad contributors full easilinton led to terrify the rat or the ment, which will take a voice forty-right delegatos from the Canada, South Afrien, and India convey the sound over wires to a 1910 ontiurn with that of the allon in strengthening our ro
The most remarkable example listance of 1,000 miles. This is wore represented. Only on one nino leading marine insurance serves, wo have not forgotten out of muniery in natura was furnish-A done by means of a focusing other occasion has the congross companies at home is instructive, daff to whom these continued
fed probably by the enterpillar of tained our fond both in takings neisure due, and we live voted and percentage of profit. The them a bonus of 15 perccut, of
stort.
world wide reputation. Wines and Spirits bottled in Europe by Shippers of
Hongkong, 15th January, 1012.
To day's Advertisements
FROM EUROPE,
As showing that we have main stresses are in a very large the lobster in th.. When first screen which collects the sound mot out of Great Britain, and THE HAL. Steamship
same
a
hately it was exactly like an on exactly the
waves from ovar a large area and
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UNION INSURANCE SOCIE- TY OF CANTON, LTD.
A
Final Dividend of Twenty Dollars par Share for the year 1910 and
sa Interim Division 1 of Thirty Dollars por Shate for the your 1911 will bo
** SITHONIA," was visited. The delegatos on Captain Kate, baring arrivel. Con- payable on TUESDAY, the 93rd inst. that was in 1903, whoa Montreal' that ocession were taken right signos of Cargo are hereby informed
Warrants may ba had an application
comparison also discloses their's salary to the provi lont fund funt; later it had the appearance principle is the modern earncross country in Vancouver. One that their goods are being landed and at the aflos of the Society.
10
3.
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Ja dried-up leaf; al when alarm-
it can shake its antennio and trumpets for deal people, mako itself look like a spider:
HULLO, TOMMY!"
The King and Queen at Guy's
Hospital..
a
DOES EXPERIENCE TEACH?
Points of Interest.
No chins will be adinittol after the
No Fire Insuranos will be elected by us in any case whatovor.
This staan bringa on cargo -
ASAHI BEER SAPPORO BEER
TO BE OBTAINED
1880
ILL WINE DEALER.
Note our Price $12.00 par oksa con- talning 4 dizei quarta er 6 dosen pints.
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Ex 8.8. Goteborg "from Gotterbarg.
Hongkong Office.
HAMBURG-AMERICA LINIE, ongior. 23rd April, 1912.
KING GEORGE IV
-SCOTCH WHISKY.
of the most useful features of place at their risk in the hazardous fact that the total interest earned f each member who is in on on investments by our larger service on the 30th of this month
these tours is that they afford and/or extra-inzardous Godowas of the Longking, 23rd April, 1912. competitors at home geally Thore being no questions the
delegates an opportunity of he-Longkong & Kowloon Wharf & excoads the total amount of chairman proposed the loption
coming acquainted with the Godowa Company, Limited, whence dividend paid by them, whilst of dio report and recounts.
conditions, and needs of other delivery may be obtained against Bills- of-Lading countersigned by the Under- countrios. our profits are such ne
Mr. Ormistion seconded and
Bigood. enable us to continue from your aid:-
Who was the man that gravely The aim of the congress is to
Optional goods will be canist 100 In rising to second the adoption
informed a credulous. world that focus the views of the Chambers aules noise to the contrary bs givan to year paying away in dive dend some two lakhs more than of the report and account ]
exparience teactics? We forgot.of Commerce of the Empire on to-day. our investments earn in interest should like to congratulate the
But his listeners accepted his ro-commercial matters in which they All claims must be presented within This policy, although so far Society on the excellent figures
"It is alymt two years since mark, just as they accepted any are vitally interested, and to ten days of the steauar's arrival hete, it has not prevented a steady they have placed before us. There last visited your hospital, but old statement as that the ring pressure to ber upon after which date they cannot be ro increase in our assets, should is no doubt the directors could hope it will not be long before earth is flat, and that if you governments in favour of reforma cogized. not be carriol too far, and share have paid the shareholders a como again.", wer the parting travel far enough you do the full which business mon consider as Goods Invo left the Godowas, and wil holders in their own interests bonus on the result of last year's words of the King at the end of 'm-over-the-elgo act. Happy sential to its material prosperity Goods remaining midelivered aft or the would be wise in being quite working, but still I think the surprise visit which his Majesty nya. You had a dip in the and development. The resolu-29th April, wa ba sabject to rent satisfied with the maintenance of majority of the shareholders con- and the Queen paid to Guy's on-air swimming bath at the tions I have already receiver All broken, ehted, and damaged the divilond which we have deer that, taking into account the Topital recently,
end of the garden, ato your bit of cover a wide range of subjects, goods mist be left in the Gotowns, clared for three successivo years. prosent unsettled state of China. Their Majesties were recoivol breakfast (Cold stuffed peacock, and there is every probability where they will be examine on the
It must be borno in mind that the directors have acted most by Viscount Gaschen (the tre please"), and then you sauntered that the discussions will be fruit- 29th April, at 0.80. afthough the necount this time is prudently in further incensing surer) and Sir Cooper Perry (the up and down the olive grove ful and practical. so favourable, it is quite con ho reserves rather than paying superintendent), who had just figuring it out with old Prof. ceivable that this pitch of exaway a bonus. At the same time concluded a formal visit of in Socrate that experience toaches.
The Indian delegates will in- cellonce may not be maintained. it is nice to know that, given or- spection. Under the guidance of Wo. don't know. Perhaps in Lord Farness, in presiding at the dinary conditions, and a Tavour the matron (Miss L. V. Haughton) those leisurely days it did. troduce the question of the com Jast annual moming of the Worldabo year the directors will and the assistant matron the But if you can find anyone potition of prison labour with Merino Tusurance Co., stated that not look upon
the payment Majesties made a tour of the how who thinks that experience private industry. There is an during the short period of four! of
bonus in any un-pital. They spoke eleerily to teaches nowadays, ask him to other resolution urging the monthia 28 steamers had beon re favourable inainer. I have soveral of the patients.
explain to you the Train Stagger.adoption of ponny postage ported missing and 13, had heard it suggested that "Hello, Tommy! what is the we are not a nation of amateur throughout the Empire, and foundered or been abandoned the Society is doing so well they matter with you?" asked the aerobits; yet, if you watch the among other subjects that will The Society has been fortunate in might be oxpected to reduce rates King cheerily of a diminutive behaviour of the average train- come under review are the all- British cable, the improvement escaping some of these lusses. This suggestion is refuted by the patient who was following every but the fact that they do occur events of the past fow months, movement of the royal party with | Koer when the train comes to a
stop at his getting-ont plaen you of telegraphic communication in such quantity points to the
viz., the loss of the "Delli' dwide, round, staring eyes enn hardly believe that his ex-with the West Indies, double necessity of underwriters main followed in quick successionHallo!" responded "Tommy"
traordinary gyrations are in-income-tax in the Dominions and taining rates and thus making the "Ocmann" and "Tita in an ecstasy of confusion. The voluntary. It is all the same at Home on investmonts, com ample provision for the possibili nic." With anéh disasters pos- King and Queen laughed heartily whether one or more passengers meruial arbitration, preferential ties which the future may have in sible to the highest class of at the lad's ingenuous reply are in the carriage when it stops, trade within the Empire, national ships it seems to me that the Their Majesties stayed in the Everybody is standing up careless defence, emigration, and the It is unusual for the chairman Sciety should try to maintain hospital for two hours and twenty and at ease, and fenly to alight: Panama Canal. to refor, in his annual speech, to full rates instead of consenting minutos, and on their departure there is a frightful jerk, and Among those who are actively events of the current year, but as to any reduction. Finally, gon-xpressed their utmost satisfac-whatever of humanity is in view associated with the congress are the Press of the whole world line tlemen, I am sure you will all tion with everything.
lenns into violent movement. past and prosent Ministers of the been largely occupied in giving most cordially approve of the
In a loscription of the visit, Somo simply sit down. Others Colonial Office, the India Office, details of the awful disaster bonus voted to the staff. The the "Nursing Times" states:elutch. Others perform a weird the Board of Trade, and other which overtook the Titanic excellent, results that liave been The King was much amused combination of rapid footwork Government departments special- s.a. and as the Society's limits on attained are in themselves a high by the wooden bara culting off and sinuous body-berling that ly interested in commercial mat vassele crossing the Atlantia are tribute to the morit of the staff. the night nurses quarters, and might form the nuolens of astrik-tera. The honorary vios-presidents very large, I have been asked by As a former chairman of your inquired whether any of the inely successful dance for Post include the Duke of Argyll, the my colleagues to tell you that it Society I can testify to their nurses wero militant Suffragettes Turkey Trottore. Silently and Marquess of Lansdowne, the Earl "On receiving a reply that swiftly the sorting-out process of Aberdeen, and Earl Grey, all the Titanio's case we escaped loyalty, while the figures them- with the comparatively, very selves testify to their ability. there were soveral very koen occurs, people, hurriedly knock former Governors-General of light loss of £42,000. This loss, The proposition was carried Suffragettes at Guy's, the King out the tents from their bowler Canada Lord Tennyson, an ax- as you will understand, only ananimously.
laughed very heartily, and ex-hate, and life goca on. The Governor-General of Australia'; partly falls on the Society, the
the Earl of Selborne and Viscount On the proposition of Mr. Dun- prossed the hope that they "Globe," balance being absorbed by our bar seconded by Mr. W. Clarka, wouldn't go smashing any
Milner, ox-High Commissioners of sister Company. You will fur-Mosers. Fr. Leib and G. Friesland windows,''
South Africa; Lord Curzon, ex- ther be glad to hear that we were re-elected to the board of di
Posts sing of the doop blue ros, Viceroy of India and the High but it is not always bluc. Millions Commissioners for the Common Bscaped lightly in the case of the rectors,
THE RAUB GOLD MINES. › "Oceana" 8,8., as practically the
Mosers. W. II. Hotts and A. R.
upon millions of mioroscopic wealth, the Union of South Africa, whole of our line was on treasure, Lowe were ro-appointed audi-
algae or seaweeds and subaquatic and New Zealand, and advices to hand are to the torn on the motion of Mr. Taylor Messrs Wright and Hornby, plants give the Red Fan its peon- offcot that it will all be salved at seannded by Mr. Macdonald have informed us that they are liar tint and the Yellow Ben of ik met begrebet
Captain W. Gilourist; Ist The chairman: That is all the receipt of a cable from Singapore, Chinnissail to be coloured by the My predecessor in the chair business, gentlemen. Dividend which states that the output from floods of the groat: rivers which K.OY.L.I arrived from Eagland year. Blated that he thought warrants are now rendy and can tho Rub Gold Mines, for the wash down vast quantities of mud; per ss. "Bornoo" on 21st Instant that a 880 dividend should be be had on application at the month onding 20 April, is 931 Generally speaking, the coean is, and is taken on the strength of regarded as high-water mark, office,
store.
,
comparatively small cost.
Last
Ounces.
blag in ratio to its saltimos,
the Command accordingly.
Scorg
This high-class Whisky
is noted for its purity, age and delicate flavour. It is essentially a Club Whisky. The quality and absolute regularity are guaranteed.
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WINE MERCHANTS"
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April, 1913 Co
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