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Telephone in every room. ftor-dinner dancing every Tuesday.
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Telephone 2740. Printed and Published for the Proprietor by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong.
SINGAPORE LETTER.
New Decoration Hotel Incident Retiring Oficials
The Races,
(Our Own Correspondent.)
Singapore, May 10. The Straits and the F. M. S. have been mildly stirred by tho a few days ago announcements
A special that we are to have decoration of our very own. is the "Certificato of Honour," a kind of Mulayan O. B. E., of which the Government Gazette has given all information.
This
WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1926.
DUTCH HONOURS.
(Continued from Pago 4.)
terest. But this I wish you all to bear in mind that they have assisted the Dutch trade plongera of the last twenty years and over to peacefully develop our connec- tions in Hongkong and China and I am convinced that they both contributed to to strongthen our hold on business, finance, shipping and harbour de- velopment in those parts of the world.
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LIVELY DISCUSSION.
(Continued from Page 1).
Mr. ArculThat is one of the' things I should like to know.
the
AN ASSURANCE
Mr. Beavis I think, I am voicing the opinion of the Diretors when I say it does not appear ad- leable at this meeting to alactose name of the "particular persona. I any lvantage could
obtulind great extent be
in detare, they would be discloed. If any sharehjohl's wishes to asegrain. those names, he has
a perfect right to do so, but the directors do not consider it politic to give them at this meeting.
"
Mr. Arculli-My point is this. Not more than six will be given I do not think that it has often for the Straits and the same pum, | happened before that two Chinese object very seriously to the pass ber for the F. M. S. in any one merchants in Hongkong or China ing of these accounts when the year, and those eligible will be have been so highly distinguished dark. The shareholders are not shareholders are entirely in the people of at least fifteen years residence who have rendered good by my August Sovereign as our two satisfied. There are many thing. service to the country friends her. Tam inclined to be- which require explanation. There are big items of expendi- What is most important is that leve that their case is rather uniture which we should like to know recipients of the Celtindate of que and for myself it is a unique something about. This · Is Honour will be entitled to wear
occasion in the sense that I have primarily a building Company.and around the neck, pendant from a ribbon coloured red, white and the honour, for the first time of as far as I can see nothing has
been done or very little. blue and forty inches in length and my career of twenty years, and the Company seems to have concen one and a half inches wide, a silver great pleasure to present honour-trated on loan business. gilt badge," bearing on the ob- able distinctions of this kind. verse the portrait of the King and' on the reverse the armorial bear- ings of the Colony or the F. M. S., as the case may be.
Messrs. Kwik Djoeneng and
!|
The
LET SHAREHOLDERS KNOW. "Let the shareholders know," he
exclaimed. "Take them into your confidence, and we abali see what enn be done after that.".
Sum Pak-ming, I will now invest you, in the name of the Queen, This makes the Certificate of with the insignia of Officer in the
Mr. Benvis:It is a little diff Honour something really worth
Order of Orange-Nassau. laving. Nothing sets off one's The Consul-General having pin-
cult to proceed on any concrete form. dress on such an occasion, at aned the decorations on their coats, the names of the outstanding co- About the disclosure of Government House ball as a do the English text of the foregoing rmations, the directors do not coration hung round the neck, and was translated into Chinese by Mr. consider it politic to do so at the ordinary, civilian gazes with Li Tsan-fan, the Secretary-Inter- this meeting. Apart from that awe at the resplendent personages pretor of the Consulate-General, you have been generalising. thus decorated.
"C. M. G.'s and himself a Chevalier in the same must have specific questions.If we C. B. E.'s usually being the pre-
Order.
are to answer specifically.. serve of Government officials, the rank and file have not much
chance of being bedecked, but the new order opens up. possibilities. I do not know if you have a similar kind of thing in Hongkong, but perhaps it will comer
THE RACES.
OTHER TOASTS. "Later, the Consul-General posed, the toast of the Queen which was duly honoured.
We
Messrs. Kwik and Sum suitably Mr. Beavis-At the present time the interest from borrowers replied expressing their desire does not cover the bank interest. that their deep thanks might be conveyed to Her Majesty for the great honour done to them.
THE RECIPIENTS.
"OFFICIALS NOT INVOLVED.
Mr. Areuil-Could you tell me if any of the outstanding confirm- ations concern officials of the Company?
Mr. Ellis:No.
Mr. Atulli:-Do our loans in- clude any of our employees or directors?-No.
Mr. Arculli: I asked the direc- pro-tors a particular question "and failing to get an answer, I am left to generalise. The phrase "not politic" covers a lot of This toast was' followed by Jan-
ground. Does the interest the other one in honour of the two newly-appointed officers in the Company gets from its borrowers All talk of Races at the moment, Order of Orange-Nassau and en-cover the interest we have to pay for we are in the throes of a fivethusiastically drunk in champagne, to the bank on our overdraft? day meeting, with an amateur day to follow, Racing in Malaya is chicfly, a professional business, clever little men from Australia doing our riding for us. The Singapore meeting has grown to be a big affair these days, and the
Mr. Kwik Djoen-eng has been stakes offered compare favourably with those at any meetings at living in Java for over 40 years home, while the new totalisator and has met with great success- now in operation is said to be the thanks to his business abilities most up to date machine of its in extending his uncle's, Mr. Kwik
Hoo-tang's firm of Gim Moh in Solo Could you tell me why our rent kind in the East.
It,was kept hard at work on the Sourakarta) to one of great mag-has increased from $9,000 last mitude. He is now one of the big-year to $24,000 in the year under opening day, and some useful dividends were paid. Also there rest sugar exporters fom Sema- review? are sweeps on every race, and arang, Java. He founded a Chinese specially big sweep, totalling about school at Djocjacarta and the An- at Semarang, $70,000, each day, so there iso-Chinese school always the chance of picking up with which a considerable outlay some easy money. Hore springs
In 1921, Mr. Kwik returned to Can you assure me that the ut- eternal, and we peg' away at it. Meanwhile the Turf Club flour- Hongkong, where he has establish most you allowed on share securi- ishes by daly taking ten pered the Ching Siong" Company. It ties was 80% ?-Sometimes there
then that the idea occurred to was a greater margin. cent, of all tote and sweeps money. him to build a quay wall of over
Was the margin ever less?--I 1,700 feet for the accommodation don't think so.
Mr. Arculli:-That is not a Malaya has just lost two prom- of big cargo steamers which, sq Inent Government officers, who often, have to anchor in mid-har-" very satisfactory answer. have retired and left for homebour, thereby imposing much in- Mr. Ellis-When the loans last week after over thirty years convenience for the working of were made the margin was never. service in the country. They are cargo. The schome is being lees.
Maxwell, Sir George
K.B.E.. executed at North Point under the
Mr. Arculli:- want to press C:M.C., Chief Secretary to the approval of the Hongkong. Govern F.M.S., and Mr. A. M. Pountney, ment, which has afforded every the question about confirmations. Treasurer Straits Settlements and facility and deputed the Port En- Is there anything to shor Financial Adviser Straits and gineer to supervise the works. loan were actually" Je?
RETIRING OFFICERS.
is connected annually.
Mr. Ellis: The rent is $1,600 In the last balance per month. sheet rent covered only three or four months. The present balance
sheet covers fifteen months.
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F. M. S.. Both were very capable When completed, there will be Mr. Ellis-Yes, the securities officials who accomplished really foreign type houses, shops, domes- we received from them. valuable work for the country, and tie tenements, numbering over 400, There were securities?--Yes.
ple-Yos ample to the fact of doing over thirty years together with a Confucian School. of work here is in itself an The whole undertaking is estimat-the six loans. • nchievement of which they may be led to entail a capital outlay of Mr. Arçulli:-I should like to proud...
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move an amendment that this
Sir George Maxwell was a man
Mr. Sum Pak-ming has been con meeting be adjourned and that a who had his own ideas of how to drected with the Java-China-Japan committee of shareholders be ap-i things, and it is rumoured that he Line since its establishment in pointed to investigate the affaire and the Governor, Sir Laurence 1903, especially in the capacity of and position of the Company. Guillemard, who is also High Com-, Chinese agent. Many years he missioner of the F. M. S., did not was compradore of the German see eye to eye on everything. Sir Brm of Bornemann & Co., of which Further Laurence has propounded à now he is now a partner, scheme which would permit of more, he is the Chinese agent of each state of the federation hav- the Yokohama Specie Bank. In ing more control of its own affairs, 1917, the Hongkong Government and doing without a Chief Secret-appointed him a Justice of the
Peace. ary altogether.
A HOTEL CONTROVERSY.
These things may have a cercussion.
street, but what everybody is tak ing about
tain interest for the man in the It is generally agreed that the the great hotel con- manager might have been more troversy which has been raging tactful, and it is a warmly debated
point whether the
hotel dances?
Mr. Kew:I have never heard of such a thing in all my life. Is there any precedent for this? Such a proceeding as to adjourn an extraordinary general meeting, it is unheard of. (Applause).
Mr. Pasco:-I should like to as- sociate myself with that. I think the Chairman should put the reso tion to the meeting and take a vote. GIVE COMPANY A CHANCE. Mr. Hall Brutton, referring to the amendment, said that as far as he could see it would serve no use: ful purpose. "We have been told that any information we requiru
will be given afterwards; what more can we want?(Applause).
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owners of for the past few weeks. The ques- tion at issue is:-Are Eurasians licensed premises have the right fit and proper people to attend to exclude any people who are do- If it would serve any useful pur- ment has been seconded (by Mr. meeting and passed with four dis-
A. Curreem) and should be put to sentients. cently dressed and well behaved
the vote.
Mr. A. H. Rows proposed and from the amenities of the hotel, pose well and good. We all sympa thise. We have lost and we have "It arose in this way. A man The absurdity of selling people got to face it, but for heaven's Mr. Ellis--I do not think it is Mr. H. Ruttonjeo soconded the re- took a Eurasian lady to dinner and food and drink and then forbidding sake give the Company a chance I in order at this meeting, but election of the retiring directors,
Mr. C. E.H. Beavis and Mr. Sum. the dance which followed. They them to dance is sufficiently obvias Mr. Arculli to withdraw his will put it to the vote.
Pak-ming ng directors for the en started to dance and the manager oua. The light offered to a
amondment (Applause). promptly stopped the band and whole community is a particularly. Mr. Ellis: In view of the feel
ulng year. This was carried. told them that the dance floor was unfortunate one which is regretteding, Mr. Arculll, will you with
The auditors were ro-glected on for Europeans only. The proce- by all classes, and it is rumoured
the proposition of Mr. W. Login dure was, to say the least, brutal, that the last has not been heard of Mr. Arculli: I regret that I
The resolution was put to the spconded by Mr. W. Jackson. land it has given rise to warm dis- the matter.
cannot withdraw. The amend-
draw?
AMENDMENT DEFEATED. The Amondment was put to the meeting and defeated, there bo- ing only four supporters,