GENERAL NEWS
The Chairman Reviews the Situation.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAFH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1913.
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EWO COTTON COMPANY. auch time de something has been done towards the amelioration of currency conditions, At present, To Connect Two Towns.
the heavy depreciation in the floating native note issues and in Tuas, new clin, ay lag been
Ballonkeromsubsidiary coinsge is a very ad- formed to connect North and Mr. CE Antos provided at verse fact r in all kinds of basi- Soath Shields by an underground thy meeting of shareholders in the neas. Last year's cotton crop tunnel and an electric railway. Ewu Cotton Spinning and Wear in China was an average one and A quarter of a million of money ing Co., Lt, held at the offices this season's outturn is expected is assured, and Parliament will of Mesars Jardine, Matheson and to be a little larger. There is still be asked next ression to sanction, general managera, Shanghai a good deal to be desired as re-
on the 18th inst, S the project. At present com
garde the prevention of cotton-ad munication, batween the two In the course of his speech the ulteration, but I take this op- portunity of expressing our ap-
No. 68 Peak, Mount Kellett towns is by means of steamer Chairman said :---- ferrios a6 2.
"The result of the twelve preciation of the excellent work! Church Mission Society Bunga Pottery Institution. months' working is a profit of Tla. accomplished by the Cotton Anti-low) from 1st October, 1913, l 30th May, 1914, partly fumished. At the recent annual dinner of 552,278 03, ne against Tis. 339, Adulteration Association, which the Pottery and Glass Trades 728.72 for the previous year, has been of very great assistance Cheap rentON VILLAS Bonevolent Insitution the list of which was then a record in the to the company. donations included a contribution history of the company, and with At last year's annual meeting of 125 guineas from Harrods, the amount of T. 12.474.29 the chairman referred to a possible Lt., through Mr. Richard Bur- brought forward there is a sumvision of the import tariff, and bidge. This is the largest in- of Tla. 564,758 22 available for understand that the Chinese Go 'dividual sum the institution has appropriati n. As you will have verament has now approached over received, and it helped me-seen from the report, it is propos the Powers with regard to an in- torially in making the collection fed, subject to your approval, to orease in duties. If this be so, it pay a dividend of Tls. 15 per is to be hoped that the cotton mill share on the ordinary shares, industries of this country may re which is Tla. 4 more than last ceive somo measure of protection, year, and I hr po that shareholdera and that the Government may my consider such return satis realize it can only be by a develop. ment of its internal resources and factory, (Applause.
a record ono.
Profitable Hobby.
Death on the Links.
A golf match on the Skke Poges course at Slough came to
industries that China con eventual ly hoped to put her finances on a sound basis, In this connection, I would mention that, on a special class of cloth produced at our usille, we have to pay, under the 5 per cent. ad valorem excise, 23 Candareene per piece, wheress similar goods from other countries only pay 14.1-2.candareens under the specific import tariff. This will;~I think, afford you "some indication that, under such condi- tion, there is no inducement to invest money in machinery for the manufacture of specialities.
You will recollect that a very
The Woman of To-day. "The condition of woman day is absolutely awful," said Miss Lena Ashwell in her address to members of the Women's Tax Resistance League at the Suffrage Further, it is proposed to write Olab. The reason why women off plant ant machinery Tla 60,- were where they were-and the 000 and off buildings Tle. 12, honestly did not think they could OCO The desirability of making get much lower-wae because it such provi-ion for depreciation was their own fault. Until thor must, I am sure, appeal to all of woke up and organised they you, and in this connection Imsy would never move the mountain. say that the General Manigers are fimly of opinica that no year The society ladies who breed should, in futuro be allowed to tiny Pekingese teriers, find the pass without legna e provision occupation eminently profitable. in this rest cat. It is al-o propos- On the eve of the Ladies Keuneled. to place to eqnalizati of Association exhibition at the dividen ace unt Tle, 100,000, Royal Horticultural Hall, it is and, if you approve, that fund interesting to learn that one of will then stand at balf a million the boat known members sold a trels. (Applause). Meanwhile, it terrier from her Pekingese ken-is not intended in the future to large fire occurred at our mills in nels for £500 This dog must be old to that amount, but as far as April this year, whereby our lar- worth many times its weight in possible to keep it at that level cest godown, used principally gold.
und to only transfer to it for the storage of cotton, was par sums from profits when it bestially destroyed. We were bow- been encroached upon.
ever, fully insured and, apart from the fact that we found With regard to the amount of
ourselves short of siorige a sudden termination owing to Tis. 125,000, which it is proposed. the death of one of the players.to place to a reserve account, this accommodation, we did not, on The Rev. E. P. Anderson is to be regarded as a nucleus of the whole, suffer much inconveni- scratch player, about 50 years of a fund for future developments, euce or loes. You will ace in the uge, who was matched against and I think you will agree with accounts the amounts received from the insurance companies for Captain Samads, collapsed at theme that in good times such asmage to the godown, and the seventh hole. He was carried reserve should be built up a
sum recovered for cotton, yarı into the club house, and when a much as possible. doctor arrived about fifteen
and cloth destroyed has been Then there is the bonus to dealt with through working minates Inter he found life stall. Last year, Tle. 3,000 was extinct. The Rev, E. Anderson voted to the European staff, but account. The remains of the Was the vicir of St. John the this year the General Managera godown are being turned into a Evangelist, Paddingt in. In the do-ire an appropriation of The weaving ehed, but it will be ased eighties Mr. Anderson way a 5000, in order that the native guilown until such time as the outlock becomes sufficiently' famous Association footballer. He. If may participa'e. represented Oxford against Cam to connection with these pro- encouraging to warrant a further bridge in the years 1887 and pored Tecommendations, I wirkxtension of oar weaving plant strongly to uiphasize the ad- Next year we propose to erect isa three storeyed godowns to vsability of building up our "A Beries of blunders in eignal-reserves whenever working e-
take the place of our present two iron godowns. ling" is the reason besigned byfta permit. As you know, we
Your General Managera are in- Mejr J. W. Pringle, Buard of experience, considerable Trade-Inspector for the collision petition from various sources and teresting themselves in the on September 30 on the Central it is possible, and indeed probable, formation of a Cotton Spinners & London Railway between two that we shall see from time to Wenve-Association, as they feel. trains at Shepherd's Bush Station time new concerns ontering the that the interests of the cotton A City-bound passenger train field of cotton-mill industry in industry at this port would be be bettor protected if there were was standing at the up-platform Shanghai. We cin, I think, oven when a following train collided on more than hold our own in some organization to take up with it. Twelve passengers. the trade, bat of course, although serione grievances. motor-man, and a con-ductor suf-
we wish to see a continuance of fered from cute or bruises or
1888.
shock,
Collision in a Tube.
com-
Motions for the payment of a good years, we cannot overlook dividend of Te. 15 and a bonus the probability of lean years, and, of Tls. 5,000 to the staff were carried, and Messrs U. E. Anton, The Inspector holds that nei- that being so, the larger our thor of the drivere was responsible reserves the better position we. R. Kinnear, P. E. Lavera and for the accident, but says: "It will be in to cope with times of Zoo Kuan-yuen were re-elected was caused entirely by Signalman bad trade and also to meet with the Consulting Commiteo. Broom's incautions and stupid misuse of the electrical lock any further competition which
ing apparatus. ".
Japanese Retrenchment. Mr. Kengo Mori, Japanese Financis! Commissioner in Eu.
may arise. Possibly, what I have said on this point may appeal more directly to the investors in our shares than to speculators in them
Placky Horse Show Feat. Captain Parker, one of the British officers competing at the
Reverting to the important New York Horse Show, rode
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rope, bas returned to London after question of provision for depreci- plackily for three days witha bro- several months leave of absence ation I think I am right in saying ken collar-bone, and he was londly Have Always in stock o large assortment in Japan' In discussing with that initial costs of plant and Router's representative the pie machinery obtainable in England cheered when on the third day he sent state of Japaness fioonce, are little, if anything, lower than won the first prize in Class 113 when the Ewo mill was started,horess suitable to become hun- The present financial strength that the coat of building, in tere with Bezu Sabreur. ⠀✨
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Asylum Mutlay. The inmates ofa lunatic asylum
of Japan is due to two factors, Shanghai is certainly very much first, a surplus of £9,400,000 in higher and that land here has, the accounts for the year 1912-13, since then, in many instances and, second, the economies doabled in value, so you will at Ponteseveso, near Milan, num- bering about 2,000, mostly boys brought about by the administras readily understand the advantages and girle, mutinied. Armed with tive reform of the present Cabinet we enjoy over new enterprises in in the actual operation of the one particular line of business broomsticks, they attacked and Budget for this year. Of this Our plant has been kept in first overpowered the keepers, smashed the windows, and attempted to surplus £3,400,000 has been al- clase order, and nurimille, worked
escape. Notwithstanding the ready set aside for supplementary fall time throughout the
year, the iteme of the Budget for the pre-production being the largest in efforts of the police and the fire- sent year, leaving a balance of our record. I think, however, we men, who deluged them with £6,000,000 available for the fio must regard our profite, for the water, nearly a thousand succeed- ancial year 1914-15. The exis- year as somewhat extraordinary ed in escaping, and are now Scattered over the neighbouring tence of this surplus is to be and beyond what we din in any folds, where the police are vainly attributed to the purely natural way rely on in the future, and I increase in revenue brought about may and that the unsatisfactory trying to secure them.
by the general prosperity of the state of affaire in China has caus country's ed and is causing much anxiety
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