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PRICES OF ADMISSION: Dress Circle & First Rows Orchestra Stalla 83.50, Stalls 83, Pit Stalls $2, Fit $1. Plan Open next Wednesday, at Messrs. S MOUTRIE & Co, Chater Road.

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HONGKONG GÈNERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,

HISTORY FROM ITS INCEPTION. 29TH MAY, 1861, TO DATE. [BY THE HON. MR, E. &. HEWETT, CHAIRMAN.)

(Continuell from yesterday) Chamber and it was decided that the loss to the whole Colony, including the junk-men and coolies, in the event of all Sunday work adot being prohibited would more than outweigh, the gain to the comparatively low oflcers who might benefit by the proposed legislation.

At the annual meeting of the Chamber in March, the Chairman (Mr. E. Mackintosh)

A letter was unbsequently received from the London Chamber of Commerce to the effect that they had urged upon the Marquis of Ripon the necessity for coining a British dollar.

The Chamber later had to protest against the regulations made by the Chinese Government Empire, and the British Minister was communi to chock the importation of machinery into the cated with. Tho Diplomatic Body afterwards protested against the action of the Chines Government. The guestion remained for some years before the Chamber until finally disposed of. addressed to the House of Commons advocating About this time a memorial was drawn up Bimotalieni.

A COLLECTION OF STORIES.

HOW TO ADDRESS AN ARCHDEACON. of London, a correspondent writes to the Church Apropos of the resignation of the Archdeacon Family Newspaper that there is no ditenity in dignitary who discharges archdesoanel func describing an Archdeacon's duties. He is tions. It would appear, however, that it is not so certain as to how an Archdeacon should be addressed. The Archdeacon of Kingston some little time ago told a mosting that he had receiv Greatly se he esteemed the dignity of his office, ed a letter which was styled "Your Majesty."

During this year the first outbreak of babonte as he was the "conlus episcopi" (the eve of the he could not accept snoh a style of address, but plagas in the Colony took pines and shortlyBishop), he saw no reason why he should not be afterwards the Chamber was

passed some severo criticisms on the nation' of the manner in which sanitary 48 ot addressed as " Your Eyeness."

the British Government in regard to the Chefoo Convention. After years of agitation Chung king had been opened to foreign trade, bat at the last moment the Government had agreed to the alteration asked for by Chins, that the carrying trade on the upper Yangtze s should be confined to nativo sailing vessala.

Reference was again made to the question of the light duas, when it was pointed out that the extra tax on shipping for the construction of the Gap Rock Light would very shortly more than meet the expense incurred, and that in the rai interests of the Colony not only should light dnes not be used for purposes of general ravenue, but that they should be entirely abolish ed. Similar statements had been made in the Chamber's meetings in the earlier years of its existance.

At a meeting held in May, a letter dealing with this abject was drawn up for tannsmission to the Government.

Later in the year a special meeting was held to consider the proposed haw. Shares Bill.

The intention of the Bill was that while giving fulf protection to bad fide transactions it should check snok reckless gambling as in the pre vions two years had such a disastrous effect upon the Colony. The majority of the mem- ers present wore opposed to the Bill in the forza in which it then stood and a resolation to this effect was passed. In spite, however, of their expressions of opinion the Government passed the Bill shortly afterwards, with practically no amendments.

liers

being enforced amongst the Chinese.

Fore

The Committee felt there were grounds for HB. the Governor to make such modifications the complaints made, and it was decided to ask as could be conceded to moet so far as possible the objections of the native Community between China and Japan itis interesting tenots In view of the war which was now in progress that the Colonial Secretary wrote to the Chain ber stating that HM. Government refused to treat rice as contraband of war

A

Chamber was again revived, viz., the entire stop- question which had already been before the page of goods forwarded ander transit passes in South China. The reason for this being that the local Chinese Officials in the interests of their own lekin stations refused to recognise an agres with the Treaty Powers. mont entered into by the Central Government

In the Autumn, information was received from the Colonial Secretary that the Home Govern mant had agreed to the coinage of a trade dollar for the use of Hongkong and the Straits. passed between Amoy, Hongkong and Singapore, Early in 1895 a good deal of correspondence as the first-named port had been declared by the Straits as intented with bubonic plague This Amoy denied. An appeal was made to the Singapera Chamber of Commerce, who while deeply regretting the unavoidable interference with so important. not shut their eyes to the enormous loss, which A branch of their trado, could world have boou inflicted had plugae been in- tradus d into the Straits Settlements,

This attitude has since bota strongly muntain od, and was one of the reasons why in 1905

A MISTAKE

A doar old gentleman went to the station the Securing her a seat, he passed put of the car other day to see his daughter off on a journey. and went to the window to say & last parting. word. While he was leaving the car the daugh the same time a grira old maid took the sent ter changed her seat to speak to a friend, and at and moved up to the window.

Unaware of tho change, the old gentleman harriedly put his head up to the window and said

• Ono moro kiss, "pat."

brolla was thrust from the window, followed by In another instant the point of a cotton am. the wrathful injunction:

"Soat, you grey-hended wretch !"

INTERVIEW WITH “TOM BROWN,"

A representative of the Daily Mail Las had an interview with one of the heroes of tho fight described is Tom Erown's School-days," whose true identity has for the last seventy years

the Rev. Augustus Oriebar, who, though he is been known only to his nearnest friends. In

nearing his eighty-seventh birthday, still fulfils quiat Willington, a Bedfordshire village, Lives

all the duties of parish priest. For fifty-two years he has been vicar of Willington, yet the village boys have never dressied that i the year 1940 the vicar was for one day and night none other then Tom Brown, and that if was he who fought the battle with Slogger Williams, which of all public school battles "I am afrail," is perhaps the most famous. Mr. Orlebar said, that the loss of to-day are

that it is their own faalt. Nowadays boys are in the days of which my dear old friend Tom Hughes wrote. I don't imagine for a moment

too much pampered and ooddled. There is no moral teacher greater than hardship, and This question was before the Chamber for many years and was only satisfactorily settled

that. In my days wo sad trequently to fake renty years ago the Rugby boy had plenty of by the Native Customs being placed under the

our icy cold baths by the light of pale matches control of the Imperial Maritime Customs to afraid to dare their own Officials, and conse nothing but a warm bath seems to be good 1901 after the Boxer rising.

some of the boys would hold aloft. To-day Although it had already been stated the Teloquently refused to attempt to tako cargo up enough for a boy. Looking back, I often think graph Convention with China and ban nbau-

country under transit passes. doned, it was learned in the winter of 1891

In March, 1895, a serious strike of cookies that I owe my longevity to the lack of comfort fication of the Convention, The Chamber which the coolie population feared might bean bad fooling between us, and one day whou that Sir John Pender was pressing for a rati-took place in consequence of the proposal of the in my boyhood.

Government to register coolie lodging houses, Describing the fight with Slogger Williams, Mr. Orlebar asid "For some time there had therefore renewed the protests against this agreement both to the Minister at Peking and the Loudon Chamber of Commerce.

The question of appointing a Chinese Consul for Hongkong was again raised during the year, when the Chamber recorded their strong oppos Singapore refused to accept the new Paris not quite of the same hardy staff that they were tion to such an appointment. !

The local rivor steamer companies addressed the Chamber complaining of the preferential duties granted by the Hoppo in Canton on ten exported by native craft.

Convention, thas obliging Hongkong to abstain Buitary Convention which modified the Venies from subscribing to the Paris Convention which hal been accepted by most of the European

Powers.

but it was found impossibly to put the matter The question of transit passes again came up, to the test, as all Chinese Marchants were

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by squeroraf the apathy and indifference still, very.. great lossas being thereby in howspaper, the tongued to knock him shown by the British Minister towards trade in-rred. A public meeting was held on the 1st knowing what I did,' Imanaged to knock Produce the parest, freshest Soda Water toresta, as ovinced on many different occasione, April, 1895, when, after many strong specoles with.my hat. In a miauto we settled down to i and the entire ignoring of telegrams and were made both for and against the attitude of the what was one of the most prolonged fights letters despatched by the Chamber, the Committee were forced to address themselves leading Cinese in the matter, a resolation was diroot to the Foreign Office, with the result passed expressing approval of the firm attitude

taken up by the Government in enforcing its po that the Chairman was able to report at the ling in spite of the opposition of the Chinese Fannual meeting in 1892 that a most marked Community," As by such means alone can the / it very much worse, because we had so littla

change had taken place in the treatment the present dieulty be overcome and its recurrènes Chamber now received.

Freventel."

Rugby has ever known. In the book Hughes describes it as having taken place in the Close, but that is not correct. It was in the hall itself that we fought, and, of course, that made

room. Did I win F. I'm afraid neither of us can claim the victory, becaues when Dr. Arnold The following day a letter was received from entered the hall and himself stopped the fight the Colonial Secretary severely, commenting on both of us were so badly damaged about the the action of certain firms, who, it was maintained, face he did not recognise us. It was the first actually by their attit de lending tacit eupport to antagonist, the Lev. Chancellor Bulkley Owen while professing to support the Government, were and last occasion that I was in a ring, and my the strikers. The Committee took strong excop-ins

Jones, has ever since been one of my firmest tion to the substance and tone of Mr. Lockhart's letter, and decided to circulate the letter to the firms in question for an expression of their opinion.

In the summer of 1892 the Governor retroits the Chauber of Commaren to give an expression of their views on the Shares Bill, which had now been in force for a twelve month. Two mootings were held in August and September, at which long and able speeches were made by several of the lending Merchants of the Colony. The spesshes, were at times unfortunately of distinctly personal and aerimoniors charactor. Opinioas differed very widely from leaving the Bill as it was. amending it in one way or another, or in rescinding it awards, no further reference was made to this toto. In the end it was agreed by a small major question, but areciation was passed asking the ity to ask the Governor to give the Bill a further Government to provide more wharf accommoda six months trial and then again rofer this question for steam launches along the Praya front- tion to the Chamber.

At the annual meeting held shortly after-

In November Mr. O'Conor, the New Minister age, and another resolution requsting that the at Peking, passed through Hongkong, when the chopping of the British trade dollar should be Committee had an interview with him and

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Later in the year some discussion took place

discussed several matters of interest, the chief in the Committee as to the propriety of the being the Telegraph Convention and preferential Chamber having addressed the Doyen of the duties by Chinese enfi from Kwangtang

The next question under consideration of the Diplomatic Body at Poking (the U.S. Minister) Chamber was that of exchange, and at a meeting on the subject of the opening of the West River bald in November a resolution was adopted instead of the British Minister.

to the effect"that H.M. Government bo urged

he latter Sir N. O'Conor) shortly after-

to take such steps as may be possible in conwards passed through Hongkong, bat declined. junction with other Governments to los en

to receive a deputation of the Chamber for the above reason; be, however, expressed himself if not remove the serious mortainty with existed in exchange between silver and

This resolution was telegraphed to the willing to see any individual member of the

Chamber of Commerce.

Committee who might desire to meet him.

Precedents were quoted, to show that the unicated direct with the Doyen of the Chamber had ou more than one occasion com Diplomatic Body, while on the other hand it as urged that the Chamber representing a British Minister at Peking. British Colony should communicate with the

Early in this year Mr. John Andrew attemp

Barly in 1893, the unofficial members of the Legislative Council decided to forward a petition to the Seerotary of State protesting against the great increase in the cost of the administration of the Colony and asked the support of the Chamber After full consideration it was agreed that while certain parts of the petition were somewhat bo- yond the scope of the Chamber's operations, itted to take some piece goods under trazeit was decided to support the request for the appoint us to Washow. The sale of these goods was mout of an independent Commission to report on the cost of administration of Colony, and to address the China Association in London on the subject.

stopped by the lekin authorities, and as s consequence heavy loss was incurred. The matter was taken ap by the Chamber, pho telegraphed to the British Minister at Peking on the subject

In May H.E. Hr You Brandt, German Min- ister at Peking, and Doren of the Diplomatic quantly leone ta proclamat on authorising traders

Under pressure from Peking, the Prefect satse Body used through. Hongkong and granted to purchase Mr. Andrew's goods, but as the lekiu an interview to the Committee of the Chamber, at

which the gratitude of the Merabants of Hong-and-Customs dues would still be levied imme kony was conveyed to his Excellency for the diately on sale to the Chinese none would many services render d to trade by the interest the Chamber of Commerce direct to the Sec

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matter was therefore referred by he had displayed and the energy shown in endeav ouring to fares the Chinese Government to retary of State for Foreign Affairs, nd after con- carry put its treaty obligations,

While giderable delay the Centon Government recouped great regret

expressed ot His Mr. Andrew for the loss he bad sustained. Excellency's retirement. In reply his Ex-

(To be continued.) colleney d uit with several matters of importance, specially pointing out the desirability in the interests of trade both Chinese and foreign for opening the inland waterways of South Chins, more particularly the West River.

The Governor having asked the opinion of the Chamber as to the desirability of making the Japanese Yen legal tender in the Colony, a largely attended moeting was held in July, when it was unanimously agreed that this should be done. During the disqussion, which was a full one, the question of à British trado dollar was brought up, but no resolution was taken on the abjort, owing to the divergent opinions held by those present:

Considerable attention was given during the year to the advantages to be gained by the open- ing of the West River to foreign trade, the question being strongly supported by the British Minister.

The Governor having again addressed the Chamber on the subject of a trade dollar and the Japanese you, the Committcoreplied that owing to changes hieb bad, and were still, taking place in the Far East, they were not now inclined to urge upon the Government that the yon should be accepted as legal tender.

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