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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1914.
:
H. M. S. Minotaur,
POPULAR KOWLOON.
Some Folats Concerning the Progress of the Peninsula,
[SPECIAL ARTICLE
COMPANY MEETING.
The Hongkong Hotel Company Ltd.
HONGKONG WEDDING.
Mr. A. Hamilton - Miss A.
... Laverick.
A quiet but pretty wedding
man.
The ordinary meeting of share In recent years there has been holders in the above Company was solemnised at St. Ca no more striking feature in the at 12, 30 p.m. to-day. Mr. F.ties being Mr. Alexander Flam- was bald at the Company's hotel Cathedral this morning, the par se.development of this Colony of Maitland (chairman) presided, ilton, of the Teikoo Dookyard and ours than the rapid and well- and there were also present: Engineering Company, son of the sustained growth of Kowloon. A Dr. J. W. Noble and Mr. J. Scott late Mr., A. Hamilton of Walleand- Harston (directors), Messre M. Doz.Tyne, and Miss Annie Lavrt decade or so ago those who pinned Silat, W. Logan, E. B. L. Bowley, ick, daughter of Mr. Rober their faith in the future of the G. T. Lloyd, Lai Chau, Fung Laverick, of Willington-on-Tyne, velations there contained were lands left for London by the Iyo peninsula were in a distinct min Tat-hang, In Chung-ahiu and I who arrived from Home by the ority. To-day they see their Gourger, shareholders; and G. sa Malta on Monday. Mr. David allegations made in it were true
H. Taggart, acting secretary, dreaind gradually coming true, the sufferings of these political
H. M. S. Minotaur, fying the and, with the progress of these it is now past the hour for
The Chairman:-Gentlemen, Keith, of Kowloon, was the bat
The bride, who was charmingly. prisoners were terrible." And Admiral's flag, has come out of many of them had not even bean the naval basin auf taken her movement, they find public which the meeting is called, I attired in oream, with tulle veil, tried. The whole thing made far position at the man-of-war Bearlier beliefs. A walk round the notice convening the same.
opinion veering round to their will request the Secretary to read was given away by Mr. George W. Anderson of Quarry Bay, and from pretty reading.
chorag
Kowloon is sufficient to indicate i The Acting Secretary read the Miss Katie Anderson was brides- maid. The ceremony was per the thorough-going character of notice convening the meeting. the metamorphosis which is tak. The Chairman said:-Gentle formed by the Rev. V. H. Copley ing place. The most obvious men,-The report and accounts | Moyle.
After the, wedding ceremony. sign is, of course, the extent of and auditora certificate having Whenever one goes, fresh blockers I will with your permission, adops kong Hotel, when the health of the erection of new residences. been in your bands for some time. reception was held at the Hong- The Tosa Maru Fire. of buildings loom up some com- the usual course and take them The sa. Seung Bee, which ar- uleted and occupied, and others as read, rived in port yesterday from all but ready for residence; while. As you are aware, the ordinary Singapore, reports that in Lat. as fast as one group is finished, half-yearly meeting with account
"True Heroes":
Just a year ago a demonstra. tion was held in Lisbon to do honour to the agasrains of King Carlos, and the official, eulogy described these men as destined to renown as "true héros, wor- thy sons of Portugal." This kind of extravagant sonsense sounds bally in Britishears. Those are
The Granting of Honours.
Theft of Clothinges The police bava^receive l ́a, re- port from & Chin; sa woman living in Bonham Road that a man, whom we can identify, stole two articles of clothing velaed $25
More Watch Thefts.
DIRECTORY AND CHRONICLE.
Ever,
will witness a continuation of 72.
he bride and bridegroom was proposed by Mr. Anderson and heartily honoured. Subsequently Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton left for
....
nagnificent property which the Company now possesses; and I
bink we ought to cordially en lorse the Chairman's expression of our gratitude to the Board and
26 N. Long 104.44 E, on the 20th others begin to spring into being. to 30th June, 1913, was unavoid- Macao, where the honeymoon is inst., she passed she Tosa Maro, There can, in fact, be little doubt ably never held; quite enough being spont A large number of heroes very different from those which eignalled "Fire in the hold that the past year has been a has been said as to the reasons, presents were received from The .a. record one so far na new building and I make no farther comment, friends both at Home and in of the sixteenth century when among the cargo.”
except to express regret that the Hongkong. portugal was a great colonising Romelis was following ber about in Kowloon is concerned. Power and" wae
num bored a mile astern.
Then if we turn to the railway dividend usually paid early we have seen an improvement of in September
Was beld amongst the greatest Powers of
Director the world. Britain, however, has
The engineer's cook at Tytam the service during the past year, up, and that your
to merge the thronghant had faith in her old Waterworks reports to the police to cope with the growing traffic. decided
two ally again finding herself. that someone has stolen bia watch The now railway station is now half-yearly accounts for 1913 intion to the best of my ability. A in hand. and though the building one. I am delighted to be able There being no questions, gentle Abuses always attach to a new and chain valued $5.50. The rates of Nabeription to the "Hongkong Telegraph" will form of government, and Port carpenter living at Chung Shau itself has not yet been com- to state that we have had a promen, I beg to propose the adop gal has only to be given time Kwan report that he has lost menced, the foundations have sperous year and I hope that you ion of the report and accounts to find herself. The amnesty 盘 watch and chain with a bien laid and the long stretches will approve of the suggested ap- is presented. bill gives hope that she is well soyareiganttashed, valued $18.50 of brick-work platforme constract propriations of the $200,258. 72, Mr. Bowley-Mr. Chairman her ancient ally Britain, "no
el, while the now ferry and rail-balance of Profit and Losind Gentlemen,-I have much, on the way to this end, and than
way pior is now almost finished. Account, viz.
pleasure in seconding the adop To accomodate the ordinary pe To pay a dividend of $7.00 per ion of the report and accounts. country will more gladly wel
destrian and vehicular traffic, too, share on 12,000 Old Shares which show an extremely saits- come the return to paths of
a start is being made with the $84,000. $3.50 per share on 8,000 factory result of strict justice.
the last Issue for 1914 As Accurate As extension of the main road; while New Shares-$28,000-Total. year's working, and I new business enterprises, both $112,000.00; 10 transfer to im sure shareholders must all European and Chinese," are one Repairs and Renewals Account: be congratulated on the write off result of the working and the The "Directory and Chronicle" by one coming into existence.-$25,000.00; to It was an interesting discussion for 1014 hos j ist been issued sad All the developments are sure Furniture and Fixturee Account: which took place in the House of is again welcomed as the most fall sign of growing vitality, and $25,000.00; and to carry Lords on the connection between and complete and accurate work we look ahead there is every forward to Now Account he granting of civil honours and of reference published in the Far reason to believe that the future $38,258.72-a total of $200,258 be contribution of money to East. It is late in the day now to this happy era of prosperity and Party funds, Lord Solborne's mark the many-sidedness of
In the past it has been the to the staff whose successful and motion was that a contribution to this volume, the wealth of inform progress. And one of the next practice to carry forward a large energetic working in the part has Party funds should not be a constion which it offers on many sub-eps will assuredly be the in- sum from the balance of Profit contributed those results. I beg sideration when a Minister recta. Its features have been too auguration of a tramway service and loss account for the first to second the motion. commends a name for honour to greatly familiarised over a course
The Chairman:-It has been across the harbour. That is a half of the year (during which His Majesty, and by his outspoken of years for that to Be necessary; in view is the plans for the erect exceed those for the latter by Mr. Bowley that the report contingency which has been kept period our receipts invariably proposed by myself and seconded. words he laid bare the hollowness It need only be remarked that ion of the new railway station. half of the year and and accounts for the year ending of the present system. It is not these features are as full as ever so much a question of the re-and are throughly up-to-date. the new houses which have been half-year, but in view of the fan be adopted. Will those in It is a good sign that most of small sum from the second 31st. December, 1913, anset forth cipient of the honour contributing Indeed, the most striking fact built recently, or are in course of that from the lat Jaunary, 1914, favour kindly signify in the to the Party chest after the about the annual issue of this erection, are of the better class dividends will have to be paid ssual manner? against. Carried honour has been conferred; the directory is that year by year it is European type. They are not on a Capital of $1,000,000 instead pranimously chief evil is that a man is brought fully in line with the lat being put up for show purposes, of $800,000 (the $25 per share on
The Chairman Gentlemen; ften given a title largely because at movements whether of places either; for, as soon as completed, the 8,000 new shares having been he has been an ardent supporter, r people or events. It has an they are quickly snapped up by called up on 20th inst), your Gaspcially and otherwise, of a established reputation for ac- the growingly large white popula. Directors have thought it prudent given Party. And as long as that duracy and the 1914 edition tion. Kowloon is fast becoming to recommend the carrying for is the case, there are grounds for maintains, and even enhancer, more popular ass residential cen ward of the large sum of $38,258 aying that many honours are, that reputation. There is no more tre, and this fast will have to 72. Profit and Loss 1913 show trictly speaking, bought. welcome and useful book pub- be kept in mind by the authorities nett balance of $199,852. 87 Lished in this part of the world. whose daty it will be to see that against $190,716, 96 for 1912, an it is provided with all the ne- increase of $30,136. 91. The cessary concomitants of civiliant-Profit and Loss Account has been Singapore, we notice, is still grappling with the motor-car pro
The system bas, in fact, get
ion. One thing which Kowloon helped by a small profit on sale blem, an amending Ordin'nce having been introduced in the ucb a bold that it has now be Application for Market Licenses. Hongkong has an abundance of increase in rents collected, a lacks is a hospital for Europeans, of the old steam launch, a slight Legislative Council there last week. Here in Hongkong the ques- when Bishoprice fall vacant the Board was held yesterday after cone,
come a recognised certainty that A meeting of the Sanitary these institutions, but Kowloon small saving in interest paid, and tion proved a very knotty one for the authorities, and if proof were new occapant of the See will be soon, Mr. D.W. Tratman (Presi- white population will in course Repairs and Renewals se com- and the growth of the large reduction in the cost of required of that fact it is to be found in the formidably long list off the political persuasion lent) presiding. Others present of time compel serious considerat-pared with 1012, perplexing regulations which represent the collective wisdom of the I the Party in power, were Dr. F. Clark, Medical Officer ion of this question. At the ImprovementsThe Loungeased by Mr. Gourgey and second-
the operation of the same princi FBL Bowley, Dr. Pearse, AR the pressing need; later on a re-tended and we are now erecting know ol of Health Colonel Irwin, Mr. moment it will suffice to mention and Grill Room have been ex ple when it comes to appointing distant Medical Officer of Health tara may be made to the quest handsome glass domes in the new Justices of the Peace. Lord Dr. Fitzwilliams, Mr. Ng Hon Tez, ion, when some facts will be cited entrance and corridora leading to rewe suggested that the state of Mr. Oban Kwai Ming. and Mr. in support of the idea, and sug the main dining rooms. A new things was greatly exaggerated W Bowen Rowlands (Becretary), gestions advanced which will steam launch has recently been nd said that it was not worse The President speaking with serve to indicate how the project completed and should prove of
The Chairman-The Inst. now than it was before. That reference to the proposed eito for may be taken in hand.
great service to the Company. mainess before nais the may be quite true, but that is no market at Tai Hang, said that
It will readily seen from the e-election of the anditore, Messrs. reason why an admittedly faulty since the last meeting he had
report and balance sheet. that Lowe and Gourdin, who offer atom, open to all manner of received five applications for continue. Mr. Asquith may or ure whether these applications
the Company is in a sound hemselves for re-election. buses, should be permitted to markot liconesa, He was not quite
position. We have had + Mr. Logan-I beg to may not have been in the habit of represented the real demand for
very satisfactory year, and 1 opose the re-election of Messrs. considering the Party funds in food supplies in Tai Hang, or
am sure the hotel will con- Lowe and Gourdin as auditors. ecommending honours. That is whether it was merely a quetion weekly circular dated London, in future, as it has been in the
Mesars. Moonttaand Goldsmid's tinue to be as well patronized r the coming half-year.
The Chairman-Will you add not the point. What is needed of various market people-a1 January 30, states that the silver pant. In this aconnection. be swept away, and we hope that other, sheep like, in the direction tive at prices fluctuating between the many improvements which that the whole system should Chinese would following each market has been quiet and inso-I may call attention to will be the result of Lord Sel of what they conceived to be a 26.7-16d. and 2014, the latter be have been, and are being, effected borne's motion.
good thing. At present he was ing the quotation on the 27th in- in the Hotel premises, which are not prepared to recommend tant. Owing to the Chins New of a nature well calculated to the construction of any permanent Year holidays, the Shanghai continue that degres of patronage building, and he thought the best market has been closed most of which such improvements must thing they could do was to re-the weak, and Indian Bear cover necessarily invite.. Your past commend the erection of a tom-ing is practically the only support Directors (I have only been on porary market with provision for silver bas had. The supplies of the Board a short time) deserve twelve stalls, and that a aite for a ready silver are by no means plen- credit for the present strong
OVERCROWDING MOTOR-CABS.
authorities on the matter. There is, however, one point which does not seem to base occurred to those responsible for the drawing up of these regulations-that is the question of overcrowding. By the amending Singapore Ordinaned we see that it is made an offence to drive a motor-car which is overcrowded with passengers. We have looked through the local regulations, but so far as we can see there. is not one of them which covers this point.
.
At the meeting of the Singapore Council at which this Bill was read a second time, some objection was raised to the overcrowding section. It was pointed out that one understood the overcrowding of carriages and rickehas, because the humanitarian sentiment entered into the matter, bat one of the speakers failed to see how such a sentiment could apply to an engine. That was a good point, to be sure, but it was counteracted by the remark of another mem ber who remarked that in case two or three people were sitting next to the driver the latter might have considerable difficulty in hand ling the car. Certainly under conditions of this kind overcrowding might very well be a danger. Then, too, there is the case of people riding on the top of a car-obvionaly a dangerous proceeding.
We have seen in Hongkong many instances of overcrowding when parties go out on" joy rides," and the law does not appea to deal with the evil. We are aware that one of the regulations in force here prohibits any person in any way obstructing the driver, unless and here in a vital provies with the permission of the driver. The matter is left to the discretion of the driver; the public
A Faulty System.
vhile .8
Stolen from Cabin.
SANITARY BO ARD.
Bullion.'
the next business to deal with is be Directors. Mr. Potts having been granted leave of absence, Mr. Maitland was invited to join 1913. and the appointment re- he Board on the 14th, of April, aires our confirmation, Dr. J. W. Noble retires by rotation but
Hers himself for re-election.
Mr. Gourgey-I beg to pro- 100 the confirmation of "Mr. Traccia Maitland and the re
lection of Dr. J. W. Noble 'to be Directorate.
bat.
Mr. Silaa:-I beg to second Chairman:-It has been pro
Laitland's
d by Mr. Silaa that Mr. Francis onfirmed and that Dr. J. W. appointment. be
Yoble be re-elected director, Chose in favour. Against. Uarried inanimously.
o that "at a remuneration of 3200 esoh" ? :
of $200 each.
Mr. Logan Ata remuneration
Mr. Bowley I have much pleasure in seconding the motion. The Chairman-It has been roposed by Mr. Logan and conded by Mr. Bowley, that Messrs. A. R. Lowe and A. O'D, lourdin bo re-elected auditors r the coming half year at a re
A Chinese clerk, living at the permanent market be reserved. tiful and the premium for "aport" position of the Company, and uneration of $200 each, Those Stag Hotel, room No. 4, raports He thought they might have to bat remained most days at 3-16d, take this opportunity of thanking in favour. Against. Carried unan- to the police that between the wait a couple of years before they over forward. The outlook them and our able and energetic mously. That is all the business, sure that a permanent for the market still remains very manager. Mr. J. H. Taggart, for entlemen. Thank you very
10th and the 21st inst., while on
wern
safety is not made the firat concern. It would, therefore, seem that the steamer Kwangtab, from market was really necessary. He adbertsin, for whilst buyers seem his good work in your interes such for your, atrandante.
Hongkong night well take a leaf out of Singapore's book in this Shanghai to Hongkong, someone matter by taking in hand the overcrowding question as it applies stole from his cabin a gold w tel de motor and other trafic,
and chain valued $250,-
pro osed that thin he agreed to. to have adopted a waiting attitude Befere proposing the adoption Dividend warrants are now ready Mr. Ng Hon Tz seconded and any forced sales on China account of the report and accounts I gol ani way to nhtäined in 21 plicâ the motion was carried.
might easily cause a lower level,, be pleased to answer an/ tion at the Secretary's office