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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1913.'
RAILWAY TRAVELLING AND SAFETY.
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Ring Found.
The gold ring reported to be
son Road, has been found in ber missing by Mrs. Morris, 63 Robin-
box.
Stolen Cloth.
of cloth and five picces of cloth- ing valued at $60.
Missing Binoculars Found. The binoculars which were re-
Fell down the Steps. A Chinese has been sent to the
Oplum in a Bathing Basket.
The paragraph that appeared ported missing from Quarter- in our issue of yesterday relative master Sergeant Hardy's quartere to the laying of compressed. at the Gun Club Hill Barracks, asphalt at the bottom of Battery Kowloon, have been found by the Path opongan interesting question Police. as to the future of road making in Hongkong. It would be well to see the excellent wearing hospital suffering from a wound asphalt laid on account of the on his head, caused by falling ease with which it can to repair down the steps leading from ad, but the great factor in its Pound Street to Tai-Ping-shan favour is that it requires no alreet. yearly sum for upkeep. In the cars of ter macadam the opposite is the case. Every A Chinese was arrested by In- year the macadam has to be tarr-spector Dymond, yesterday, with ed and that means the putting 25 taels of opium in a bathing| aside of an annual sum of about basket. At the Police Court, this 5 to 7 cents per square yard. It morning, Mr Wood fined the man follows, then that the more raads $1.500. that are macadamised, the heavier becomes the cost of maintenance, and if an increasing yearly charge can be obviated by the use of a hard wearing material like com-to prossed asphalt, the sooner it is laid the botter."
TWELFTH NIGHT,
13.
Plate Glass Window Broken. Mr. Purcell, of Messrs Kelly Walsh and Company, has reported the police that some person broke a plate glass window in the shop, and that a large stone was found inside. It is supposed that some boy threw the stone.
An Innovation. Something in the nature of an innovation appears on the notice board of the Supreme Court, to- As will be seen from our to-day's day. It takes the form of a advertisement columns the Hong- kong Mummers have arranged printed notice surmounted by the to give a special Matinee, for royal coat of arms, giving the that the public information Children and Students at reduced Criminal Sessions will be held prices on Wednesday, October
on Monday October 20, 20 commencing at 4.30 p.m.
Prices of admission will be: Christmas Sale at French
Convent. Dress Circle $1.50, the other
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ACROSTIC,
PILLARS,
Twas in Trafalgar's Bay
BARS.. 1-A great North Road. Three
miles. No use for ski. Nor prospect either of
utility,
place between a Customs officer and the captain of a steam launch at one of the out stations a few ¡days ago :-
Customs Officer (in Englieh)- What do you have on board that! Juunoh?
COMPANY MEETING.
China Light and Power Company. Limited,
The annual general meeting of Captain (in Chinese)-A wod- the shareholders in the "Obins ding party.
|Light and Tower Co., Ltd. was Customs officer (who does not held this noon at the offices of understand Cantonese)-Bring a
Messrs Shewan, Tomes and Co., sample of it ashore and state in
2.-A.. robber lord was love-your manifest the quality and general managers, Mr. Q. A. making when heard he weight. I don't know but that Tomes presiding. There were The horn and stabbed him the whole lot is liable to be con present:-Sir O. P. Chater,
solf (the horn was play- ing Verdi) 3-Strange "chains as here, with links our hands mayn't seize
A different exerciso to
chopping trees.
fiscated,
["Tis a good lie, and it would .M.G., Mr. H. P. White, directors, have been improved if a hint had Messrs. Ng Hoa Tsz, H. F. been given as to who did the Campbell, H. R. B. Hancock J. translating.]
A. Young, J. A. T. MoMartris, A. A. Cordeiro, A. 8. Ellis and the secretary, Mr. T. Leeman.
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The Estimates.
The secretary read the notice: convening the meeting.
Chairman's Address.
The Chairman said; Gentlemen,
October 18-A meeting of the Legislative Council was held the 4-By, fierce invectivo man previous day. The Estimates for
may be reproved,
1889 were laid on the table. But gently here, with an-The estimated receipts, of the gry sting removed. year amounted to $1,887,718
the expenditure 5.In a new way? Perhaps and
to The report and accounts, in- $1,394,085. The story such is,
cluding the Auditor's certificate, The revenue and expenditure may with your permission be His love was wusted till
of those daya was less than the taken as read. The figures show increase, on either side of the an improvement over last year, accounts, between 1913 and 1914, but we have not reached the ex- Twenty-five years makes atent of business we had hoped differenc
for.
his page became the
duchess.
...
6. (Parthis hero missing) The
couples advance. What a pity that we can
not join in the dance.
7. Persuade him that he
hath been lunatic; And, when he says he is say that he dreams, - For he is nothing but a
mighty lord." [Answor on Monday.]
1888.
HONGKONG TWENTY-FIVE' YEARS AGO.
(Compiled from the "Hongkong!
Telegraph" filer for the Week Ending October IS, 1888.)
cent.
Canton Insurance Office.
The Head Man Won.
of
1888.
SHARE REPORT.
44%
The quotations which follow are from the "Hongkong Tele graph" for October 18, 1888.
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, 152 per cent. premium, sales and sellers.
Union Insurance Society of [Canton.-$85 per share, ex dir
buyers:
非子
Chins Traders' Insurance Com pany.-$68 per share, buyers. North China Insurance-Tls. 285 per share, buyers.
Canton Insurance Company. Ltd.,-$98 per share, buyers Yangtze Insurance Association
Tie. 05. per share, soilers... Chinese Insurance Company $165 por share, buyers.
Hongkong Firo Insurance Com
$335 pany
рег share,
cent.
The total number of consumers has increased by 21 per cent, but the total connection to the maina. in Kilowatta has not increased, as the replacement of carbon by metallic. filament lampa has necessitated a recount at & lower wattage per candle power; the connection now stands at 595.1 Kilowatts agaiust last years's 663.5, a reduction of a little less then 10 por cent., and the recepts from salo of our- rent have increased by 5 per cent.
For the last quarter to Sap- tember 30th, the receipts are 15 per cent. better than for the same time last year.
The population of Kowloon there has been some increase in seems to rise very slowly, and European buildings, but not enough to have any material effect upon the Company..
When Kowloon, takes a spurt generally we can hope for a satisfactory increase of profits and until then we must be satisf- ed with the small but steady pro: gress recorded in the past few
China Fire Insurance Company $74 per share, sellers. Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company-33 per
pre years. mium, byers.
The queation of utilizing some Hongkong, Canton and Macao of our spare load in the day Stoam hoal Company $218 per time for the sharging of electric share, sellers.
China and Marila Steamship Company-$115 por share, buyers.
motor buses should the outlook for profitable employment of such vehicles warrant it, has been under consideration for some time and, if the information being acquired is promising, we may have something to say on the |subject bys and bye.
Before moving the adoption of the report and accounts I shall be glad to answer any questions.
Octoler 12-The report of the Centon Insurance Office, Limited, appears. The profit on the working account for 1887 is selfers. staled at $206,677,77. A dividend of 10 per cent. has been paid and a bonus of 20 per
to contributors premia. It was propesod to add $74,000 to the reserve fond, and pay a further dividend of $ per elare to shareholders, making total for the year of $7 per share, equivalent to 14 per cent. on the paid up capital. In a note in our columns yesterday the subject of safeguarding the public during railway travelling was dealt with. We make no
October 12-Tolle how the 135 per share, sellers.
Hongkong Gas Company apology for returning to the subject in the light of a quotation from a Home paper which was given on our front page yesterday and of parts of the house $1.00.
The Rov. Mother Superior of head man at Kowloon City
Hongkong Hotel Company extraordinary ovidonce given at the inquest on the Aisgill victima, We are asked to state that the French Convent begs to travelled to that place from Hong $165 per share, sellers. which we have just rear in papers from Home. The evidence is special terms can be made for announce that the annual Christ. kong in the ferry-launch, reseated
Tado-China S.N. Company-17 that of the signalman who was on duty at the Mallerstang box on large parties, by supplying to mas Sale in aid of their Orphans being asked for his fare, was dis-
per cent, dis., sellere. the night of the railway accident. The signalman's story is that Messrs. Moutrie & Co. at au will take place on Friday, October respectfully told that he had to
Douglas Steamship Company- when the first express had passed into the Aisgillation the three early date.
24 at 2 pm, at the City Hall, pay, and did pay in ominous $53 per share, sellers.
There being no questions I beg signals were sot at danger. Ho telephoned to Aisgill, when the Owing to the phenomenal rash The sale of work, under the silence. When he arrived at Kow.
China, Sugar Refining Com- to move the adoption of the report headlights of the second express appeared, about half a mile away, on the booking for the first three distinguished patronage of H. E loon City, be sent a file of soldiers and was told that the signaltoan there had not seen nor heard any nights, it has been decided to the Hon. Mr Claad Severn, will" from the official shebeen," had any Ltd.-$184 per share, and accounts as presented.
buyers.
Mr. White-I beg to second thing of it. He then watched the second train coming nearer to open plane on Monday October be opened by Mrs. Kelly (wife of the captain and fare-collector Lazon Sugar Refining Com the adoption of the report and the box, and when it was about 200 to 300 yards away, he lowered 20 for a fourth and last per- H. E. Major General Kelly C. B.). dragged before him, and saw sun- pany, Ltd.-$79 per share, accounts. the "home" signal to safety. He was then under the impression formance to take place on There will be a large variety of dry strokes administered with the buyers.
The Chairman:-Proposed by that the driver had shut off steam. A moment later he saw that Saturday November 1 at 9.15 cheap articles suitiable for Christ bamboo. "He humourously re-
Hongkong Ico Company-$80|
myself and seconded by Mr White steam bad, not been shut off, and he immediately threw the "Lome" p..
mas presents, and a quantity of ex-marked that, maybe he would signal over to "danger" and waved a red lamp to attract the atten No seats once booked can be quisite fancy work made by the have a permanent pass on their Per share, buyers.
old tea-kettle in future. He will."ing Company, Ltd. $75 por favour please signify in the usual Hongkong Rope Manufactur- that the report and accounts as lion of the driver.
exchanged for another night.
presented be adopted. Those in orphans. In spite of the very heavy
Concerning Macao. share, sollers." October 16-Has a leading ar booking a number of very good
Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf way-against-carried unani- ticle saying far from pretty things and Godown Company.60 per mously. The next business is the AMERICAN BEAUTIES, about Senhor Costa Duarte, cent, premium, buyers.
election of the consulting com- mittee.... Colonial Secretary of Macao and the "pernicious influence he ex- Society beaution are stirred by orcised over the ex-Governor, thecminence given to the an- Senhor Da Costa. Calls the for- SOLDIER WHO' nouncement of the engagement of mer a colossal fire-eater" and a
BECAME VICAR.
stall acata are still available for October 28 and 30. *
Whether the driver saw that red lamp or not is of little con The chances are that he did not, for even the signal Bequence now. man was afraid that the warning came "practically out of time." In any case, he ran on, passed the third, or "starting" signal at about 25
Books with the story of the miles per hour and smashed into the standing train. The whole of this story is mystifying. Why should the signalatan have droppedbe obtained at Messrs. Moutrie's play and historical notes, can. his "home" signal from "danger" to "safety" kafore the first train free of charge.
had cleared the Aisgill section? Perhaps he would explain it on the score that he thought the driver was already on the alert, had shut off steam, and might be permitted to ran on slowly to the third or "starting" signal and stop there if the "line clear" message had not come through from Aiegill; and that; of course, was expected every moment. Everyone who knows even a little of railway work at Home is aware that no signalman will delay an express for a second if he can possibly avoid it. It is not easy to convince an inspector, after the event, that the delay was unavoid- able, and a black mark against his numo is generally the signalman's reward. If he does not actually take risks, therefore, he at any rate accelerates matters as far as possible.
HONGKONG TRAMWAY
COMPANY, LTD.
Pays a Dividend of 5 per cent,
it
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Mr McMurtrie:-I beg to pro- pose that Sir Paul Chater and Mr White be re-elected to the consulting committee for the ensuing year.
Mr Ng Hon-tez:-I beg "to
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the most beautiful girl in Amer-blustering Lusitanian bully" ica," according to Mira. W. K, Van- and winds up thus: "And derbilt and Mrs. Robert Goalet, to now we have done with Mr. James Hope Nelson, son of Senhor Costa Duarte and a dis-rose to be the vicar of St. The Chairman:-Proposed by.
The Rev. Richard Tebbs, who second that. Sir Jamen Nelson, the head of an agreeable topic. If ex-Governor Thomas, Wigan, after starting life Mr McMurtrie and seconded by English steamship line. She is Da Costa, who leaves for Lisbon as a private soldier in the army, Mr Ng Hon-taz that Sir Paul Miss Isabel Valle, of St. Louis, to-morrow by the French mail, has died at Wigan at the age of Chater and Mr H. P. White ba and is described as heiress to an possesses any patriotic instincts 61. immense fortune. The wedding, and has the interests of Portugal
re-elected to the consulting com We are officially iniformed that is said, will take place at St. in the Far East at heart, he will alion of the Queen's Regiment in favour-against-carried. The
He enlisted in the 2nd Batt-mittee for the coming year. cable advice has been received Louis in October,
use all the influence he can bring when he was 17, and had sorved next business is the election of There is no evidence, however, that the lowering of the home from the Board of Directors of
By way of contrast, equal si-to bear on the Colonial Office scarcely a year when he was auditora. signal to safety actually contributed to the disaster. In point of the Hongkong Tramway Com- fact, the evidence of the driver and fireman make it clear that they pany, Limited, that a dividend attention is being paid to the to induce them to send to drafted with his battalion out to
Mr Hancock-I beg to propose ад ex-India during the Parses riote at the election of Mr Potts and Mr. did not see any one of the three signals. They were to busily the rate of 5 per cent. per annum charms of Miss Marie Tailer, Macao employed on work on the engine that they ran past all three with for the half-year ended June 30 daughter of Mr. J. L.3 Tailor, of perienced administrator, a man Bombay. In 1874 he was in charge 4. O'D. Gourdin as auditors at a out observing them. Does not that baar out the argument advanced/will be paid on and after October New York, the leading Newport of advanced and liberal ideas, ac of the military police who were remuneration of $100 per annum. - in the cutting to which wo referred above; that while two men on 2 to all shareholders on the bello this season, as adjudged by quainted with both international entrusted with the protection of an engine were sufficient half a century ago, they are quite insuflici.register on the 22nd inst. ent in these days of rapid travelling and multiplicity of trains?
is the guest at Nowport of Mrs. abilities to restoring. that almost then Prince of Wales, visited The Chairman: What becomes, in the face of the evidence we have summarised, of
John Astor. He calls Miss Tai- dead Colony to its proper position India he formed one of the guard by Mr. Hancock and seconded Proposed the theory that people are as safe in a sleeping car at nights as they
lor the most beautiful woman as an important political factor of honour which received His by Mr Young that Mr A.O'Driscoll are in their beda at home? It is hardly possible to imagine auch
The Edinburgh Philosophical he has on in the United States," and useful trading emporium." Majesty. a combination of circumstances as led up to the disaster: one train
Gourdin and Mr W.H. Potts be Mr Tebba was bought out of elected auditors for the coming coming to a standstill for want of steam, a home signal dropped Institution has arranged that the and by way of a sweeping com Evidently the advice was not from danger to safety in the face of a following train, and the men on inaugural lecture of the session pliwent to American girls, the taken, Macao is still a dead
Colony.]
India he embarked on a clerical per annum. Allin favour against that train so busily employed that they had no time to look at the will this year be delivered on prettiest girl in the world.
The Duke is aid to be busily
career. He was Deputy Grand carried. That is all the busidesar signals. But that combination of circumstances actually did occur, November 7 by Lord Crowe, hist
October 18: The following Chaplain of the Orange Order in gentlemen thank you for your and it leaves one more than a little sooptical regarded the supposed subject being "Sootmen and collecting snapshots of all the safety of railway travelling at home,
India."Lord Rosebery will preside. ladies he moots in Newport. interesting little dialogue took" England.
affengange
Lord Crewe's Vielt,
no less a personage than the and commerical questions, and the women and children at Colaba, Mr Young I beg to second Grand Duke Michaelovitch, who who will devote his energies and and when the late King Edward, that.
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