COMPANY REPORT,
BRITISH TRADERS' INSURANCE CO., LTD.
The report for presentation to the shareholders at the fifty eighth ordinary meeting of the British Traders' Insurance Co Ltd., to be held at the Company's offices at 12.15 pm, on Friday, the 16th May, states;
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
ADMISSION OF CHINESE:
In addition to the porpetual pensions granted by Act of
To Parks and to Clubs. Parliamont, recently referred to, Britain has had to pay large Lust Thursday one of our roa- amounts in the past in order to ders took exception to the numbers commute revonuos heedlossiy of Japanese and their buluviour created by the last of the Stuart in Jossfield Park; and he was Kings. The duty of a shilling on promptly onlied to order by Mr. every ton of coal oxported from Fowlor. To-day a Chinose ronder tho Tyne, granted to the Duke of protonte against indiscriminato The Board has now to lay before Richmond and his heirs in 1676, exclusion of Chinese from the the Shareholders a Balance Sheet was redeomod in 1799 for an Bund foroshore, arguing that at containing a summary of the pro-annuity of £19,000, and this was lenst a distinction should be
commuted perty and abilities of the Com-subsequently
for drawn between the well dressed
the pany on the 31st December, 1923, £633,333.. A sinocuro office held and the kompt, statos and a statement of Accounts to by the Duke of Grafton was North China Daily Nries in a the same date.
bought out in 1883 for £22.714. recent issue. In all these letters, 1922 Account.After payment of The third duko of Royal descent as in therold fable, there appears the Interim dividend of 9/- per St. Albans, hold the office of a measure of reason. The origin- share and the bonus of 20 to Muster of the Hawks until 1891, alone about the Japanese at Jess- contributors, passed at the last when the then holder of the title field, deserved to be published, annual meeting, there Pemud received £18,335 in compensa- because the writer's last son- balange of £149,779.19,6 nertion for a post which had long tonce.showed clearly that he was been obsoluto. In a different not indiscriminating. He apolo- annexed statement.
category was the Sovereignty of gized to the Japanese gentlemen the Isle of Man, attached to the and
whorn ho saw Dukedota of Atheli. The third in the park for his criticism duke disposed of this right to the of their humbler fellow nation- | British Government for £70,000 |els; and inasmuch as we believe In the 18th century, but the there is no class in this big and family still rotained privileges divers town more anxious to live and property in the island, and on good terms with thoir neigh-| another sum of £409,000 was paid bours than the Japanese, we may fou their rudonption to the fourth be sure that the hint conveyed in his lottor will bo passed on. Spoaking generally, we think ho was too sovero. Standards of
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The Board recommends that this sum be appropriated as follows: A final dividend to
shareholders of 8/-
per share on 96,000 shares ......... £ 38,100, 0, 0 To be carried forward
to Underwriting
Suspense Account
to close the account for the year 1922.. 111,3379.19. G
£149.779.19, 6
alut £25,000, and that the
duke about 100 years ago.
ladies
William Hillier, of Mitchem, manners vary in every country. the last of the fighting gypsies, The East dous things the Wost 1923 Account.—The Balance of has died in Croydon Infirmary, dislikes and vice versa. In the Working Account the 31st Forty years ago he was the main, the behaviour at Jessfield
single-stick champion December, 1923, was £294.823. 13. 1 gypsy
is far ahead of what may be soen of England. For the pasl as per annexed statement.
at Hampstead Heath on a public years the The Board recommends that an 18
crip: gypsy, Jaterim dividend of 9/- per share pled by rheumatism, had sold holiday and the park is also kept
much tidier. he paid to shareholders, gbsorbing matches outside Streatham and
As rogards Chinesu, the cuso `is Stations, where 110 £43,200, that a bonus of 20 he Balliam paid to contributors, absorbing became famous as the happiest different, most difficult and ro- Hillier grettable: Exclusion from the rehawker" in London.
was born in a tent on Mitcham Bund and. Public Garden was first adopted when these word Directors. Since the last-Gen-Common 68 years ago.
practically the only easily accos- eral Meeting Mr. A. O. Lang, Mr. middle-agedho trampol the Unitedible places of resort and the G. M. Dodwell, Mr. t. V. D. Parr, Kingdom as a hawker, inciden- European did not wish to be
engaging in first and and Mr. G. T. Edkins resigned from tally
swamped by numbers. The same the Board on leaving the Colony singlo-stick lighting with other uitive explains the embarge on and Mr. J. P. Warren, Mr. C. G. S. gypsies, easily beating all comers
He was an uncle of recreation ground and municip al parks. It is justified by Mackie and Mr. G. M. Young have in both arts.
Digger Stanley, the fainous
the fact that Shanghai, is, Joined the Board.
after all, a reservation for foreign Yy pugilist, who lived with the Hilliers at Notting-hill for
residence. Furthermore, the
years of age.
mainder be carried forward.
In accordance with the Articles of Association Mr. D. O. Russell
Till
and Mr. 4. A, Plummer 'relire, at many years. Mrs. Hilior is 7 East, which appears to prefer a
offer themselves for re-election.
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crowd rather than otherwise, cannot, perhaps, understand the Auditors. Messrs. Lowe, Bing- ham and Matthews, and Mr. C. The statement mado that thera Western dislike for being crowd- Bernard Brown, Chartered Acenua-are more deaths from alcoholismed and jostled. These facts must Nono the -tants, retire, but offer themselves in the United States since pro-be taken as they are,
hibition cario into affect is loss it is.obnoxious to an increas- for re-election.
obviously one that it not made ing number of Western residents quite bona fide. There is, of that wborcas any foreignor goes the parks, course, a tondency for those who unquestioned into will have their liquor whatever though ill in dress and worse in the law says, to drink in excess manners, a Chinese gentleman when they get it. But the real and his wife, whom any of us Terriers Back in Favour. cause of the higher deathrate would be delighted to entertain from alcoholism is not the greater in our own houses, must be turn- Though the blue Korry is still amount drunk but the poisons td away. The suggestion has the rage, smooth-roated fox-sold by the bootleggers. Most of been made that park tickets! terriers are likely to have another the cases ought not to be culled should be issued. But wo do not run of popularity. Irish terriers, alcoholism at all, since the think the Chinese would quite. Alsatian wolfhounds, and Seply alcohol is generally the most relish this method against which! constituent bams have passed out of fashion. harmless
of the it is easy-to-see objections, unless. Ever since the dog was" bootlogged" liquor. There is tickets were also issued to for- worshipped in Cynopolis there plenty to be said against pro- oignora.
The question of the use of have been fashions in dogs.hibition, but the idea that it Jovers of dog will always have really increases consumption is parks leade naturally to that of their favourites, and every breed absurd, while statements about clubs. In which respect a solu-DAVE KENNEDY has its following, from massivo the increase of deaths through tion is casior. because whatever St. Bernard to toy" varieties, alcoholism are dishonest. worth their weight in radium-to
their ownpr.
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his nationality a man is cleated to a club on his marits. It is difficult to see why Chinoso should
most
$ In an unostentatious paragraph not be eligible for membership of That every dog has its day ist indubitably trio in regard to in the memorandum of the Secre- Shanghai clubs. The Golf Club, the Army has the honour of having taken fashionable dogs, and when any tury for War on particular breed bus caught on Estimatos is the announcement the load in admitting them und big prices can be obtained for that in future the promotion of we believe it would bo
by merit;' so politic and in no way unreason. prize-winners. A collio has fet officers will be ched £1,500, a bulldog £700, that the.Army now offers a "good able that other clubs should, fox-terrier £500, and from £100 to career for a boy with brains." follow suit. It is decidedly hard £200 has been paid frequently for Thore are men living who bought that a Chinoso going to Oxford and sold comunissions in the and Cambridge is free overy. dogs of other breeds.
The Sealyham is "new"Army, for the purchase system where, but not in Shanghai; nor variaty produced by successful was not abolished by Royal do we see that the foreign control crossing and named after the Warrant until 1871. After that of clubs which it is naturally promotion was by soniority, wished to preserve, would be in home of its originator,
When a new type is produced, though men who specially dis- any way threatened by opening it is sure to have a run of popu- tinguished thomselyos were given the doors to Chinese mombors, larity. As the breed becomes brevet rank. Otherwise if an We are aware that many people popular the market weakens and officer got a stop in rank it was will dissont from this proposition; aro fortified by the priocs drop.
generally due to influence and not but wo Already the bottom has fallen seldem "potticoat influence," for thought that at least as many out of the Kerry blue market, which the War Officer was at one will heartily ondorse it.. And in and to-day Korrys do not fotch limo notorious. half the price they did a year ago, when a puppy that showed any promise cost at least £10.
TRAMPS SECRET CODE,
the long run it is the little things that count. The foreignor fights 'It will bo welcome nows to the Chinese for his treaty rights no il faoling: anauds, many, says an exchange, that and This is the time to produce a this year, after a lapse of several partly because the latter knows former in just- that tho now typo. Ex.
Boasons, Londonors are again to enjoy in their parks the flowers fled, partly that politics do not which they have loved so well greatly affect individuals. It is and of which since the war they the apparently little things like have been to some extent do exclusion from parks and clubs At a vagrancy conference at prived. A gift of 100,000 bulbs which produce a soroness that Inswich of guardians from from a Hollander and a kiko gift unquestionably, reacts on greater Cambridgeshire, Easox, Norfolk from a London newspaper the questions, concludes our contom- and Suffolk, the Mayor of Ipswich one
to the London County Porary, and when a more liberal said vagrants had a secrot moans Council Farks, and the other view is adopted towards theso, and form of brotherhood to lot spoolfically to Hyde Park-will thora will be less of the friction - one another know where they make this desirable achievement between Chinese and foreignor
were well treated. Any union possible. Those who have boen now so unhappily prevailing." which doult with vagrants on to enraptured by the eight tulip beds: generous or sympathetic lines at Hyde Park Corner will ap would be likely to suffer a heavy prociato what is meant by the financial drain. Au Essex dolegato statement that it is hoped again! said that while, thero wore to make this section one of the in conferences at the British hundreds and thousands of beauty spots of London." The Empire Exhibition the platforms habitual tramps on the roads, sooner this is done, the socnor one in the halls at Wembley have they hould do their utmost to more of the mute ovidondas of been fitted with microphones, help guntino travellers in search, the grout struggle between the while 200 soats have carpienos
attached. of work.
nations will be obliterated.
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