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LATEST SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
THE SHANGHAI COMMERCIAL
CONFERENCE.
IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS ON SHIPPING FREIGHTS.
SUPPRESSION OF CANTON PIRACY TRGED.
IMPROVED CABLE SERVICE AT SWATOW WANTED.
(From Our Diu Correspondent,).
Shanghai. November 6. |
The following resolutions were passed at this afternoon's Session of the Chambers of Commerce Conference :
EARLIER· SPECIL TELEGRAMS.
(From Our Own Correspondents))
THE WRECK OF THE FAZILKA.
THE BULLION SALVED.
Singapore. November 6. News from Penang states that the Bharata is expected to-day
at the scene of the wreck of the Fazilka, where the steamer Nias, which is without wireless, is standing by, Definite news is expected about the vessel. The Captain. officers and crew of the Fazilka landed at Sabang. One butler in the saloon, named Lopes, was drowned. The bullion has been salved. The Tara has been diverted to take the crew to Madras.
CZECHS GOING HOME.
日五十月九
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THE SUN COMPANY.[CHINATOWN'S RITZ. TO-DAY'S EXCHANGE.
PETITION FOR WINDING UP WITHDRAWN.
THE HEIGHT OF NATIVE SPLENDOUR.
OVER $200,000 SPENT AT WEST POINT.
At the Supreme Court this morning. the application for the Hongkong Telegraph Specici.) winding up of the Sun Company Limited, niade by Chan Sin Hang. Amidst a blaze of light and to of the Commercial Union Insur-the accompaniment
of many ance Company. was with-noises. the patron of a Chinese drawn.
hotel takes his meal and pleasure.
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The closing rate of the dollar, on demand, to-day was 45/5-15-16d,
THE WEATHER.
Forecast Fair. Barometer 29.90. Temperature 2 p.m.-75. Humidity 2 p.m. 78,
Enough of these technical On Tuesday the application at any rate at West Point. In a details, it is more pleasant to was before Mr. Justice Melbourne, positive fairyland of electricity, in speak of what awaits one when the Hon. Mr. C.G. Alabaster, palatial rooms furnished with upstairs. Far the moment one has O.B.E stated that on Thursday blackwood and bung with to walk up the teak-balustraded (yesterday) a meeting of share mirrors he takes his meal of staircase, for the lifts have not holders was to be held as a result delicacies, listening the while to arrived. But mirrors make the of which it was probable that an music that pleases.. Whitty walking pleasant. To describe" agreement would be reached. The Street and the roads contiguous every room would be tedious but petitioner was asking for the to it have long been nightly there are wonders everywhere. return of $5,000 deposited by him. scenes of native splendour attract-Twelve large rooms on every floor but although the Company had ing hundreds with money to differ to please every taste and Shanghai, November 6. Nine hundred convalescent Czechs, with Red Cross Doctors and its was unable to raise the im- The largest hotels have vied with heavily furnished with carved assets far exceeding its liabilities, spend and friends to entertain. pocket. The room of honour is Nurses from Vladivostok en route to Trieste, arrived in the steam-mediate cash being demanded. ship Heffron. The American
each other in attractiveness, but blackwood inlaid with Red Cross here is supplying
silver Inecessities.
This morning the case came on
there has now been launched under plate glass. Even the before the Chief Justice (Sir
forth
hotel: enterprise stools are so treated, and wall William Rees Davies, K.C.), and
that puts the others into mottoes in silver characters add Mr. Alabaster stated that since To Europeans it may matter little abound everywhere.
a comparatively dim shade, to the effect. Marble pictures petitioner had filed the
There are petition certain discussions had what happens at West Point, but rooms furnished with sandal taken place as a result of which it is the Piccadilly of China wood-carved sandal-wood panels the petitioner was satisfied that town, and there is great containing silk embroideries; a be giving the Company time beristir over what is coming, into room where the partitious, chairs, and the other creditors would be for the last word in native cater- laid with fine Peking ware; being. And justifiable stir. too, settees and tables are all in- paid, and, therefore, it would anti be in the interests either of the fing and furnishing is about to be one in which a similar decora creditors or the Company if he written. The Kam Ling Hotel is tion has been carred out forced them to a winding up.. He soon to open, and it is a very big in ivory: Оле desired, therefore, to withdraw day that is coming. We of this designs have been worked out in where floral end may think it little, but down beaten gold, protected by thick West it marks a period,
glass; another in which act frost- As one alights off the tram-cared glass has been used to secure
THE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE CONFERENCE.
Shanghai. November. 6.
The Chinese Chamber of Commerce held a reception for Sir First:-While this Conference sympathises with the desire of John Jordan this afternoon, presenting an address. Sir John Chinese to see Extra-Territoriality abolished. and realises the replied. speaking in Chinese. There are other functions o-night. benefits accruing through throwing a country open to residence and trade, it considers, as essential preliminaries to the surrender of Extra-Territorial rights, the establishment of a stable Govern-
ment, a satisfactory Code of Laws, and satisfactory arrangements COMPANY MEETING Company, Limited. If it so hap
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for the administration of such laws; and this Conference suggestsS that efforts be made to carry into effect the Agreement by Britain¦ to assist China in reforming her Judicial System, in pursuance of UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY dealt with. The Society's share-negotiations have taken place at the Whitty Street "Island" the a very impressive effect; and one
Article Twelve of the Treaty of 1902.
OF CANTON, LTD.
"Second-Taat the basis of allotment and the general principle of the allocation of freight space by London in Homeward Conference Steamers be discussed with a view to ascertaining whether the Out-ing of the shareholders of the Port firms receive fair treatment..
An extraordinary general meet Chion Insurance Society of Can- ton. Ltd. was held at the Offices of the Company in Queen's Buildings today at noon, when resolutions were submitted for
pens that all the "North China' shares are exchanged, there will of course be no balance to be holders abroad have been cir- cularised and a large number of replies have been received to date ally putting the resolutions to signifying approval. Before form- the meeting, I shall be pleased to answer any questions you may wish to ask.
Third: That in view of the world-wide increase of freight rates and cargo values, this Conference is strongly of opinion that the utmost pressure should be brought to bear on all shipping Companies to increase the ordinary, cargo valuation to something more com-the amalgamation of the Society the mensurate with its present-day value.
with the North China Insurance Company, Ltd.
Fourth-That in view of the ever-increasing importance ofį Mr. J. A. Plummer presided.. Swatow as a trade and emigration centre and the eminently unsat. and there were present Messrs isfactory
and inadequate landline telegraph. service. W. C. Bonnar and R. Ross on which the Port - solely dependent. sais Conference Thomson (Directors), C. H. P. is of pinion that an efficient submarine cable service so long Hay (Deputy General Manager), enjoyed by other coastyports with a sinallar volume of trade and and the following shareholders :- fewer shipping facilities, should be instituted and that should Messrs. H. B. L. Dowbiggin. H. political or other considerations preciule the Cable Companies from M. H. Nem azee, R. Dastur, C. B. establishing themselves at Swatow, representations should be Bird, B. M. C. de Cunha, V. L. made in the name of this Conference through Diplomate dos Remedios, A. E. S. Alves, J. channel- 10 the Chinese Authorities with
view Gardner, V. R. V. Ribeiro, M. A. to a speedy and permanent improvement in the existing R. de Souza, J. C. d'Almeida, G. telegraph service, not only in regard to the transmission of mess-G. Franklin, A. Beattie, H. C.; ages, but in regard to the efficiency of the local staff of clerks, Sandford, T. Arthur. C. D.
etc.
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Wilkinson and Dr. A. B. Sanders. The Deputy General Manager Fifth :- That this Conference is of opinion that steps should he having read the notice convening taken as soon as possible to carry into effect the terms of Article the meeting, the Chairman Eight of the Mackay, Treaty, providing for the abolition of said:-Gentlemen,-On the 12th likin ¡11 return for an increase in import duties. but April last you were advised by considers it essential
that before giving their circular of the proposals made by -consent to increase the import duties the Treaty Powers the Directors of the Society and should obtain from the Government of China satisfactory guarantees accepted provisionally by the against the institution of any other forms of inland taxation on Directors of the North China! merchandise, direct or indirect.
Insurance Company. Limited, for? a fusion of interests of the two Companies and in a further! circular dated the 2nd June your recommending your acceptance Directors gave their reasons for of the scheme. It was pointed! out that, although it is not legally incumbent upon the Society to
The sixth resolution welcomes the new Anglo-Chinese en-operative movement evidenced by .co-operative prises and Social Clubs in Peking. Tentsin and Shanghai: and
enter urges the formation of similar institutions in all large Treaty Ports.
No questions were asked, and
Chairman proposed:--
1. That the fasion of the in- terests of the Union Insur ance Society of Canton, Limired, (in this and the following Resolutions referr- ed to as the Society") and the North China Insurance Company Limited (in this and the following Resolutions re- ferred to as "the Company") be approved of and agreed to on the basis following:
Mr.
$30,000 to
erect,
Its
the petition.
The Chief Justice-You say place between the petitioner and building, which has cost over where jade-stone designs make a the Company
directly fine green contrast to the carved Alabaster-Yes.
The faces one. Company is not now in a position picked out by hundreds of electric room some such scheme has been contour, black of the furniture. Ja every to pay the monies the creditors lights, shows that it is a four-carried out, every detail of furn- are demanding, but the petitioner storied structure of undoubted iture in it being part of the satisfied that assets of the Com-Chinese buildings seldom archow work and wrought fon and the other creditors are quite solidity. It is not imposing scheme. Those in which pany, although not liquid, vastly and it has no architectural lines designs figure are exceed its liabilities.
strikingly that please. But when one goes illustrative of native art. In The Chief Justice: If the to dine and spend one does not every room there is Company is given time, things stand outside to admire a bu ider's wash bowl with hot and cold a copper will be all right?
ar--so neither will we. At the water Mr.
supply; electric Alabaster: Yes. all entrance the first thrill of pleasure pushes; and tinted electric lamp bell demands will be met in full runs through the visitor. A bril-shades. That is the idea.
liant vestibule, be-mirrored and His Lordship intimated that resplendents awaits the crossing. do ampler justice to the farnish- A more descriptive pea might he bad read the petition and Caso of curios are dotted hereings of this West Point Ritz, bat and be asked where the and there, and on petitioner bad secured all the painted ceiling. ducks, teal, and that the Syndicate financing the a brilliantly enough has been said to show information about the Company's many another bird, are represent-undertaking has spared neither position that the petitioned as lying in the ligh: of a pains nor money to make it the
Terr real moon. There
iscentre of attraction. Over $120,- (a) That shares of the Society
Mr. Alabaster explained that nothing further here to interest 000 have been spent in furnishings of the nominal value of £10 the company had a meeting of the diner för be each whereof £4 per share creditors and had explained the upstairs to splendours new.
passes alone. On the big roof garden But there are already a crocodile and shall be credited as paid up position to them.
there is more of interest on the a small tiger to excite curiosity. be alloted to the shareholders His Lordship-It almost looks ground floor, this being a generat- When the licence is secured of the Company in exchange like a friendly petition.
ing plant worthy of the name. A and the opening day comes round for the shares of the Com- Mr. Alabaster:-It is not an 75 horse-power three cylinder oil there will be great times in pany in the ratio of one and unfriendly petition.
engine drives a dynamo general Whitty Street. The indispensible half shares of the Society for Regarding the question of costs, ing 2,200 volts. To make a safe Chinese band will clash its gongs sach one share of the Com-which His Lordship said Nr.and usable current three ten-and play its flutes and the Beau Alabaster was entitled to as the kilowatt transformers step down Brummels will pay their tribute Company had not put in an the voltage to 110. No fewer in expensive fere to coy maidens. appearance, it was stated that no than 1,060 lights have to be fed. claim for costs was being made. two lifts will have to be worked its tea dances and Grill Roan. His Lordship consented to the and.120 Westinghouse fans kept but Chinatown will have its Kam petition being withdrawn.
going,
pany.
(b). That the Society in addition make payment to the share bolders in the Company of the sum of £5. (Five pounds); Sterling in cash for each one share in the Company held by such shareholders ex- changing their shares in manner and upon the basis mentioned in clause (a) above.
This resolution was seconded
Seventh. That this Conference is of opinion that the Chinese hold any meeting to issue the by Dr. A. B. Sanders and unan- Coverament should he urged to institute Copy right Laws with a 15,000 shares required for the imously adopted view to securing for British authors, publishers and copyright purpose, it WES the wish of owners protection in China against unauthorised reproductions of your their literary, dramatic and artistic works.
The Chairma next proposed Directore that in the the adoption of the other two event of the Society's offer resolutions - being accepted by the
share- Eighth. That the attention of the Chinese Gorernment bolders of the "North China "the be urgently directed to the suppression of piracy and the opportunity should be given you te of lawlessness existing within the confines of Kwangtung. to express your approval. A and more especially in the Canton Delta, resulting in a condition of substantial majority of the North affairs most detrimental to trade generally and the prosperity of China Insurance Company's South China,
shareholders has already accept- ed our offer and this meeting is
The Conference also dealt with matters at Home which will convened in redemption of our probably be published on Friday.
THE AMERICAN COAL STRIRE.
UNLIKELY TO AFFECT THE PACIFIC.
Shanghai, November 6. Shipping men bere do not believe that the American coal strike will bother the Pacific. The Pacific Coast coal is mined in. British Columbia.
promise. There is still a number of North China" shareholders from whom replies have not been received and as we wish to give all an opportunity of exchanging their scrip, we bare decided to extend the time for the acceptance of our offer until the 31st March, next. The resolutions epeak for themselves and do not, I think, require any explanation. You will no doubt have realised that the last resolution has been so worded as to enable the Board
2. That for the purpose of
carrying into effect Resolut ion No. 1 (a) above, the So- ciety do issue 15,000 Shares of the nominal value of £10 each (whereof the sum of £4 per share is credited as paid
up) out of its unissued capitali of 104,000 shares.
3. That the 15,000 shares re- ferred to in Resolution No. 2 above as and when issued do rank for dividend and in all respects pari passu with the existing Ordinary shares of the Society and that the balance (if any) of such 15,000 shares be dealt with in such manner as the Board of Directors of the Society shall think most beneficial to the Society.
to dispose in such manner as it These two resolutions. were also shell think most beneficial to the unanimously adopted on being Bociety any balance of seconded by Mr. H. C. Sand- shares which may be left ford over after dealing with Ninety-five per cent of the freighters and liners are oil- all the assenting shareholders shareholders for their attend- The Chairman thanked the
of the the North China Insurance ance.
burners.
contained.
THERE
NO PLACE
LIKE
HOME
The Hongkong Hotel can have'
Ling.
WHAT IT MAY, YET COME TO.
NATHAN MUT.
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Jones, having at last discovered "somewhers fo live? entertain a bachelor friend to, the house warming