THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1913.
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· THE GROWTH OF KOWLOON.
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[SPECIAL ARTICLE]
COMPANY MEETING. Hongkong & Shanghai Bank and Yokohama Specie Bank in Japan.
Hongkong Fire Insurance Co.. Ltd.
Before moving the adoption of the Report and Accounts I should be glad to do my best to mastery. any questions ar sing out of them The forty-fourth ordinary meet which shareholders may desire to
Thore being no questions be
If the average resident of ing of the shareholders to the put. Hongkong were asked whether longkong Fire Insurance Com- the Colony was progressing, or pany Ltd. was held to-day at noon report and accounts as presented yes-olorwise, the probabilities are at, the offices of the General were adopted on, the notion of that he would hesitate before le Managers, Messrs. Jardine Mathe the Chairman, stonded by Mr answerod. And oven when he on and Co., Ltd., the Hon. Mr U. D.K. Moss.
On the proposition of Mr W.E. per delivorel judgment, may be his H. Ross presiding. Thoro wore
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mative. The fact is that to live Mesare., P. White, F. Mait-Sir Paul Chator and Mossre Siberian Muil-Duo per scontinuously in a city, a Colony, land, and C. S. Cubbay consult Whito, Maitland, and Gubbay ing committee, and Messrs. W. E. were re-elected to the consulting a country is in casos, to unfit one to speak Clark, J. Barton, H Fook, D. K. committed.
Moss, C. Osborne, Chan Chan impressively of its advancement Nam. A. H. M. da Silva, C. A. R. Lowo were 10 appointed au- Mesra H. Peroy Smith and A.
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and plenty of it, but the changes da Roza, J. M. de C. Bieto, and ditors on the motion of Mr. Da
| Silva, seconded by Mr. Ho Fook. have come to pass almost with the secretary, Mr. L. N. Leofe.
The secretary having read the The Chairman: That con- `☀“ out being noticed. That is so because most changes are gradual notice convening the meeting, the cludes the business of the meet-.
ing, gentlemen, and I am much in their action--especially those chairman said: which have to do with streete, Gentlemen. The Report and obliged for your attendance, like. buildings, wharves and the Accounts have been in your hands Dividend warrants will be ready If blocks of tenements for some days, and I will there to-morrow morning and may bo sprung into existence over-night, fore, with your permission, take Lad on application. mushroom fashion, everybody, them as read. even the most unobservant, would
The Working account of the A SHABBY have his eyes open to the signs of soar 1911 has closed with a material progress. But when we profit of $284,317 18, which I see a house here, another there. trust you will regard as "eatie slowly rising, brick by brick, factory. Out of this it is popos-
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Departed, the present situation. As long Mr. and Mrs. E A M. Williams
THOROUGHFARE. ago as 1911 the Parliament Act fefs yesterday by the Bs. Chiyo became law, and in the Preamble Maru.
The Untidy Condition of to this enactment the following| »
Battery Path, The rates of Subscription to the "Hongkong Telegraph "will wordsappea"Whoras it is in-
tended to substitute for the House The Japapuose gunb at Yodo the process is not impressive;od to pay a dividend, as in former The few straggling azaleas that of Lords as it at present exists a arrived this morning from Shang-and even when the structures years, of $27 per, share, absorb are fifully blooming, on the are completed we seldom thinking $210,000, and to carry the rocky slip botwood Battery Path, Second Chamber constituted on a
of them as marks of pro balance to the credit of Reinsuraud Queen's Rond, call attention popular instead of hereditary Oplum Possession.
"be it therefore enacted,
nce fund after paying the staff to the generally untidy appear basis,"
As the Pulite. Court, this morn-gross. Wo have gazed
Viewed from etc., etc. By the use of those ing, a Chineo was fined $1,220 long at the hoardings and the a bonus of 10 per cent. upon their ance of this spot. words the Government has fallen for being in unlawful possession scaffoldings; enthusiasm has died salaries which, in the opinion of the City llall, this portion of the out within us. May be we grum-sour Consulting Committee, the city should be its finest sight, into a nico irap, and nobody can of 23 tacla of opium.
ble at the unconscionable length favourable out turn of the account with the Bank building, the fine blame the Opposition for taking
of time taken over the work. But fully justifios. Mr. Asquithat his word. We
palms, and the trees on the slope ** often that is dll.
It is perhaps advisable that I but these factors for beauty are shall await tho result of the division with deep interest.
should refer from the Chair to aby no means aided by tho under- So we had better turn to other desire which has been expressed growth of dingy ferns, their co- quarters if we want a striking to me from more than one source, four dimmed with dust, and the view of our Colony's position. that a larger dividend should be heterogeneous collection of shrubs Let an old llongkong hand, after paid.
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"Tom Jones' again.
A fortnight ago we had occa sion to comment, in this columh, on the action of a learned library
committee at Doncaster in burn ing Fielding's "Tom Jones." In
a recent mail paper we now find
Range Finding Class. The above class will be held at Volunteer Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Friday 14th in place of Thursday the 13th inst.
Magisterial Leniency. Mr. C. D. Melbourne, at the Police Court, this morning, fined Chineso fifty cents for wasting
a
water in Queen's Road West.
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A Decent Houl of Gamblers.
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Steady Progress.
too.
气
on thuse" on the development of opinion that the time for recom- look round, and he will Consulting Committee are of the
which at present occupy the site. Towards the junction of Queen's
also a water tup, where coolies Road and Battery Path, there is
foregather and add to the general impression of shabbiness.
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While not advocating anything
are
in the nature of landscape gar dening, we would like to suggest that there nagy flowering shrubs "wasting their sweetness on the desert air of the higher levels and the Hap- pr Valley, that might very well be transplanted to this spot, lo the improvement of the scene. The same remark might very well-
the Colony. What aspect of that monding an increase in the The Coronation Terrace Robbery development he would ponder Hongkong Fire dividend has not that "Doncaster Town Council The Chinoso charged with over most, would largely yet arrived, and a careful study the man. But of the figures will really admit of spent an hour in criticising the armed robbery at 3, Coronation depend on committee'enction, nodeventually Terrace, last week, was again whoever the observer might be, no other conclusion.
would strike im The maintenance of the dividend appointed a special committee. to brought before Mr. F. A. Tazs nothing inquire into the method of mans land, at the Pulico Court, this oro forcibly than the forward at $27 per share is dependent BUDGEN-WAGGOTT-On Mash 3, 1918, at H.B M. Consulate and ging the library. The mayor de morning, and remanded until the plunge made by the little penin- upon a substantial underwriting afterwards at St. Andrew's Church by the Rev. A. P. Centon Edward, ymag-clared that the town, which was 17th inst.
sula noross the harbour-Kow-profit being earned, and consider est son cl the late Thomas Badgen of Newhavon (England) to Llian Katsupposed to be a sporting cen
loon. Blocks of flits, groups of ing the violent fluctuations to eldest daughter of Captain and Mrs. Wagcolt of Sunderland.
tre had suffered a loss of prestige
villas and semi-detached houses which the figures of a fire insur through the incident."
At the Police Court, this morn galore, have sprung up every ance Company operating in
fold may be sub- This at least is a stop in the ug, before Mr. C. D. Melbourne, where. And the process still narrow Can I think, be he made, aleo, of the greenery at right direction, for it shows that laspector Mellardy charged goes on. The scroesh of the ject. There a whole town is not going to be twenty ono Chinese with gamb-builders' wheelbarrow is common no hope of the Company being Glenealy, and in fact, generally fed by the nose by a parcel ofling at Wandui. The first de music in Kowloon. The result of prudently able to make a larger of the whole Colony. The amount. ignorant Puritane who see evil fendant was fined $25 and the all this is that a new residential distribution to shareholders un-of land adjacent to roads, that where no evil (but only a true remainder $2 oxch.
Suttlement is arising. The day uil the margin between our in- might be transformed into pleas- portraiture of an average man);
has gone when to live in Kow come from interest and the cost ant flower-laden patches, is suffi. was intended; byprorites, who, A Good Working Arrangement. loon was to be ostracised; those of the dividend disappears. It cient, if the suggestion were bringing a dirty mind to The work of the Police Court days, one might as well have con- seems to me wiser to make this carried out, to earn for the long- bear on the words of Holy Writ. has been relieved considerably by fessed to a crime as to admit that statement in order that there may kong the title of Garden City.
As a commencement, however, would make even them dirty the new arrangement of setting Kowloon was his address. But at be no colour for the persistent But about this mayor. Does lie aside special days for the he ring last Kowloon has coms by its own. rumours, which occur annually, attention might he paid to both mean that it was unsportsmanlike of cases coming under the Opium
and for which there is no justifi-sides of Battery Path, and it is to burn the fruit of a mighty Ordinances. The days for cases
cation, and in order to avoid dis conceivable that, with a littlo brain like Harry Fielding's, or to be hoard in the First Court are grown in size and importance, in Hongkong Fire shares.
Bat if Kowloon had already appointment to those who invest consideration, that thoroughfare toes he wish to imply that Tom Monday, Wednesday and Friday, there are bigger days ahead. Even
might be charged from its present Jones" was n aporting novel and and in the Second Court, Tues the arrangements for the location shows a decline in the income which would be a thing of beauty, The working acount for 1912 shabby condition to something therefore should be patronised day, Thursday, and Saturday. of the new railway station bespeak from interest, which is due to the sad a pleasure to all who use it, by the hunting and racing com- munity of Yorkshire?
The Vacuum Oil Co.'s Founder Dead: the motor car and the possibility mortgages, and to the difficulty the probability of a wide use of drop in the local rate of interest for latter is quite possible; probable,,
WOMEN IN CHINA, even. We have met more than the Hongkong offices of the through railway connection is re-investment for a number of Lady Blake's Interesting Article.
We are roquesto "to stato that of a tramway servico. When experienced in finding suitable one person who mentally classed Vacuum Oil, Company will be
Tom Jones" with Nat Gould's closed to-morrow alternoon dare established with lankow, too, we mortgages which were paid off performances, oven as there are ing the time of the funeral of Mr. rail movement across the harbour;
may see something of an indust last year.
The conspicuous part played by doubtless many people who would B. Everest, the founder of the while even now residencos con
The premium income for 1912 women in the progressive move- dismiss Thackeray's Pendennis' Company, who has just died in tinue to rise into being one after but to a great extent this is to be Western imagination partly be is also lower by about $14,000, mont in China has impressed the se just a Society novel! There's Californix Over 400 offices of the other with amazing rapidity attributed to the higher rates of cause of the prevalent misconcep no limit to what some people have Company in various parts of the And they all get occupie 1, too; exnhango raling in 1912 than in tion regarding the traditional to say about the classics; we once world will be closed about the for few people who once go to 1911, affecting the premium position of woman in Chinese life.
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1913,
THE TWO VOICES.
knew a man who condemzed Carlyle's "French Revolution," and all Scott's novels," because they were such very bad history."
"The Court Cards "
яame time.
A Big Future.
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It is to be hoped that, in course of the debate on the King's speech, the politicians now in power at Home will be poreuaded into telling the precies truth regarding national defences. Mou are making overy day whether the Navy, in men and ships, is just what it ought to be, and the doubt which underlies the question is, in some measure, justified. Responsible politicians have talked, and are still talking, with two voices. In a little speech at Dundee recently, for instance, Mr. Churchill said that he was confident that not only is the Navy strong, but that it is getting stronger, both relatively and notually. There is no danger whatever," said the First Lord of the Admiralty, "to the position we have acquired." It is greatly to be hoped that that is a statement of absolute fact.
Kowloon to live return to Hoog- income from agencies operating Readers of a recent article by But it is impossible to forget that last year Mr. Churchill supplied
kong to reside. The life across at gold using centres. The Lady Blake, wife of a former to the Canadian Prime Minister a memorandum, the lone and terms
Sanitary Board, the harbour is more communal, underwriting results for the first Governor of Hongkong, in the of which were very different. The Canadian Prime Minister's
Yesterday afternoon a meeting and one of these days we may twelve months are however very "Nineteenth Century" will find demand for three battleships for the British Navy is based on that
of the Sanitary Board was held, seo a form of civic life taking satisfactory, and the balances car that woman suftrego does not re- memorandum and is urged on the score of necessity,
at which no business of public shape in the creation of a Rate ried forward affords prospzot of present to the Chinese mind sa When those clover, artistes importance Was tranenctar, payers' Association for Kowloon.
A good final result.
sharp a break with the pastas one There was a tono of alarm in the memorandum. What has who dub themselves the Court There were present, M. D. W. Such a bidy could certainly find You will notice that a new ac might imaginn. Thus we are told happened since the autumn of last year to persuade Mr. Churchill Cards" die, (and may the day Traiman, Head of the Sanitary much to which to devote its count has arisen in the shape of that "these retiring, apparently into changing his tone? It cannot be claimed that the probable bo far distant), their epitaph Department, the Hon. Mr. E.R. energies.
An Investment and Exobarge timid Chinese women" bave dis States have rendered our naval position more securo, because the koug laugh!" Such an achieve Clark, M. O. B. Dr. Pearse, Assist. Kowloon is atriking out gifts of battleships from Canada, New Zealand, and the Malay should be:-"They mide long-Halifax, Col Irwin, Mesare, Chan Member for Kowloon" Wanted. Fluctuation Account." This is tinguished themselves, not only in Kai Ming. Ng Hon Trz, Dr. T.j In fact, as time goes on, on account of the frot that, by the family, in the State, and in First Lord of the Admiralty has repeatedly stated that these gifts
on the wish of the Auditore, all our literature, bat "have frequently are not to be reckoned in framing the naval estimates; in relief ofment is worth chronicling Hong-M. O. H. and M. W. Bowen line of its own. Conditions fecurities were revalued accord displayed groat military prowess" the British taxpayer. They are, it has been said, to be units, of langbed, You can hear the
kong representative Hongkong Rowlands, secretary. a Pacific Squadron. Therefore, whatever danger existed last autumn Tommies and the Jaok Tars gul-
are totally different to ing to the prices and rates of The Amazons who fought, or in the North Sea and the Mediterranean still exists and must be faw, any night, at the B jou or the
those in Hongkong, which is exchange ruling on 31st December went to fight, at Purple Mountain, met. What does all this mean? The people of Canada are im-Victoria; when an American
almost solely immersed in last, resulting in a book profit were not poneers of their sex. business life and activity. of $17,188.87 which has been Two women generals and pressed with the danger of Britain's naval position in Europe; the
The day is coming, if it has carried to the credit of this new two regiments of women fought British people are assured that there is no danger whatever, there come dycompany comes here, the middle .olasses wili must be something at bottom of such a change of front,
not already arrived, when there account,
fercely in the Taiping Rebellion, chuckle and applaud; ond Lance Sgt. Wills charged should be on the Legislativo, During the year the £10,000 and in the sixth century If we read the signs aright, the explanation is that there has we once heard R-mo of the man at the Police Court, this Council a member whose sole alluded to in last year's report patriotic widow, who armed ler been a fight in the Cabinet over the question of the naval estimates artistocracy langh (it was when morning, with sealing a quantity business should be to represent as lying in the Hongkong & retainers and fought for them for next year, and the little navy party ha on. Ia July laat year two amateur performers came on of clothing on the 25th ult. Fle the interests of Kowloon. The Shanghai Bank London has been peror agaibat aborigines, re- Mr. Churchill stated that the 60 per cent gin was necessary, and dressed as monkeys-and Ferat stated that some of the clothing hand idea of a representative of invested in first clas gold securi-warded by elevation to 20 rank this requires that aix battleshipa be laid down. We saw a rumour chod); but never till" The Court been recovered. The defendant the beninsular community on the ties, and so great was the diff of duchors. After thy we may quoted in a Home paper the other day to the effect that only five Carde" arrived did we see the five pleaded guilty but the Sergeant Council has much to recommend culty last year, to which I have note that Chinese 18 appear battleships were to be laid down, and, putting two and two together, hundred different social grades asked for a remand for twenty-it, and we advance it seriously in already alluded, of finding openly in law co and that it is fairly safe to assume that, meantime at least, the little navyites of Hongkong sink their differ-four hours, in police custo ty, to the hope that it will receive due suitable investments in China, they have so litt omprehension il as to imagine have won. Apparently this is the reason why the First Lord has ences and laugh, ehorlder to enable the defended to show the consideration. Kowloon has a big that your sterling securities of the use of the already begin to talk smoothly of safety. He may have to justify a shoulder. like good men and police were the remainder of the future ahod. That is a fact were increased by a further pur- that an woman who
mall estimate with his previous statements regarding the standard trae. Wonderful people, these property is.
which we sinnot afford to over- obase of £7,000, and Y100,000 weard one per of safety, and he has already begun to assure the public that all is well, "Court Cards,
The remand was granted.
placed on fixed deposit with the wrong Look
PLEADED GUILTY,
there
t have something. Mer skin;