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CANTON.

[From Our Own CorresponNDENT. {

September 4th.

ROOTING OUT BAD CHARACTERS,

A regular campaign is being made all over the province with the idea of rooting oul piratmu and robbers, who have beconce inore pravalent than ever lately, I ne districts a new method of doing away with this evil is being tried, and that is to provide work for all the idle and un- employed about the place, goanething after the style of the workhouses for people at Hom and after the fashion of an industrial school in other quarters. Those idlers and out-of-workers constitute a grave danger to the enemunity, and in China it is a very difficult matter to deal with. Most of them are coolies who can

do nothing but unskilled labour, and there is great difliculty in getting them to work at anything. However, the idea of coping with one side of the question in this way is an excellent

ne and is

deserving of success. The other side of the question is not being overlooked, however, and soldiers are ming sent to the affected districts, while there have heen quite a number of executions lately,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 718, 1918.

A section of the Shamcen Defence Corps spent the week-end at a camp on the British territory opposite Sam Chun, where they went through training in shooting. A very enjoyable week-end was spent.

September Sil. -

NORTH GATE FORTS,

COMPANY REPORT,

THE DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COM- PANY, LIMITED.

The report of this Company is as follows:-

The General Managers beg to submit to the shareholders their report on twenty-ninth year's working of the Com

the pany, ending June 30th, 1912.

BONKAR

J. W. C. BONNAR) Members of Consult- C. H. Rosa

ing Committee. DOLOLAM, LAPRAIK & Co.

General Managers. We report having examined the above Halance Sheet with the Rooks, Vouchers and Securities of the Company and that

in

our opinion such Balance Sheet is properly drawn up so as to exhibit a true and correct view of the stato of the Company's affairs at 30th June Lately there have been made two strong

(912, according to the best of our in-

and these have been strongly fortified and remuneration to the Consulting Como-explanations we have required. forts just outside the little North Gate,

formation and explanations given us and After paying all running expenses, docking charges, premia of insurance,

as shown by the Books of the Company, We have obtained all the information and garrisoned to protect the city from attackmittee and auditors' fees, thore remains W. HUTTON Portal

a balance at credit of profit and loss in this direction. General Lung thinks

Auditors. place commands the whole of the sur- that still more ought to be done, as this account of $37,751.24, which, with the

A. R. Lowe, C.A. 1 Hongkong, 20th August, 1012. approval of shareholders, it is proposed rounding country, being on high ground,

to appropriato as follows:- and more extra soldiers are being bent there, while military camp in this place will also be formed This is certainly an important point to be well guarded, as any insurrectionists or rebels who could get pussession of the North Gate could di tremendous damage to the city..

DOUTORS FOR THE ARMY. Notices have been

ined inviting

applications from foreign-trained doctors for positions in the army. Only those with foreign training or those trained under European doctors in China will be appointed and an examination will be

To pay a dividend of 3 per cent. on the capital of the Company, absorb ing $30,000, and to carry the Balance of 87,761.24 to the reserve fund, and it is further proposed to transfer from this fund a sum of $38,132.74 in | order to provide for depreciation of the Company's properties." The reserve fund will then stand at $120,000,

HONGKONG SHARE MARKET.

Messrs. Vernon & Smyth in their weekly share report dated 6th September state : ---

THE NEW TERRITORIES.

LIFE OF THE PEOPLE.

CUSTOMIS, "HABITS AND RELIGION.

The following interesting observations form part of the Report on the New Torritories by Mr. G. N. Orme, District Oier :--

A visitor to the Territory of 1890, upon returning in, 1912, would find changes to remark in the outward appearance of the country, but he would not find the life or character of its inhabitants greatly alter- ed. Roads and railways have indeed been made through the centre of the Northern district and country folk who used to require a full day to reach Hongkong can How go in and out and do their shopping in the day. More and more of the young men from the country have been tempted Business in the local market is still higher wages, and many have returned into Hongkong or abroad, in quest of

whole continue to rule firm, and in some soewhat restricted, but rates on the

with their savings to their nativo villages: established. instances further advances have been money has been brought into the country again been the medium of a very fair railways, and with all this added wealth,

Sterling Rubbers" have

to purchase land required for roads and business between this and London at the date of our last report, the market built all over the Territory: a taste has slightly easier rates than those ruling many more substantial houses have been closing steady. Singapore Rubbers have spring up for many foreign luxuries, been more or less neglected during the interval, and most descriptions crime with and arated waters, cigarettes, clothes, sellers at current quotations.

Fine Hard Para is last quoted ́ per are quoted at 4 per cent. (Bank of Eng Contact with foreign ways has rendered land), 38/8 per cent. (open market), forward. Sterling T.T. closes at 2/-1/16 than of yore not many years ago the and Bar Silver at 281d. ready, 283d the average villager less superstitious and Shanghai T.T. at 13.

cutting off of the cock's head was slightly firmer with sales and small country witness' statement; but now it BANKS--Hongkong and Shanghuis are almost infallible test of the truth of a buyers at 8905. London is unchanged is seldom that a witness cannot reconcile at £82 107-. MARINE C. G.

INSURANCES. Unions have he is no longer so simple as to believe been hooked at 8806, and more shares can that as the cock's lead is cut off, so be placed. Cantons after sales at $2373 will his life be cut off, if he does not have been imported from the North at can now be placed at $240. Yangiszes speak the truth." $185 and more shares are wanted. North Chinas are unchanged, but there are probable buyers at quotation.

For the first three months of the period under review, trado was good and cargo plentiful, and there seemed reasonable but the outbreak of the Revolution in prospects of a successful year's working, October last effectively pat a stop to any slich anticipations and business for the major portion of the year was of a most restricted nature, and it was not until were manifest, since when coast trade appears to have resumed its normal cour

caps, towels and kerosene oil are now common objects of sale in the small

most of the victims being robbers cauche i bld of all applienuts. This is a big step April that any signs of improvemua Peuter" nt 5/- per ib. Discount rates market towns throughout the Territory.

In the act. For more than a week now there have been no reports of passenger junke being attacked and pillaged, ou the policy of the Government seems to be having some effect on the waterways of the delta; but repeated stories of robbery and pillaging come from villages in more remote parts, so that the task set the

authorities is no easy on

new

THE TUNG KWAN THEATRE.

lease

in advance from the old order of things One of the most noticeable things in the new Army is the Ambulance Corps, which is always prominent, and if these corps are trained by efficient doctors working on modern lines the health of the army ought to improve greatly and in time of trouble they will prove invaluable.

THE ADMIRALTY,

Some time ago a notice was issued by

the Compang have been maintained in The steamers and other properties of first class order and there have been no extraordinary docking expenses.

The amounts appearing as freights duo" and "accounts receivable" have since been collected.

Consulting Committee.--Mr. Mackie resigned his seat and Mr. J. W. C. Bonnar was invited to 6ll the vacancy. J. W. C. Bonnar, IIon. Mr. C. H. Roga and Mr. C. A. Tomes, who retire in terms of the articles, of association but offer themselves for re-election.

Auditora. The acecunts have been

The licence for the Tung Kwan Theatr the Naval Commissioner forbidding hoatsThe Committee now consists of Mr. having just run out, the tenders for a of any kind to anchor or lie in the river The opposites or alongside the bund opposite coming forward, are Government put the licence up to auction the Admiralty. This order Wan not and the price fetched was about $11,000, obeyed and no one appeared to take any so that there must be money in this sort notice of it and sampans and junke were of thing here, This method of mano-still-lying all round and opposite the poly, for monopoly it really amounts Admiralty wharf. Now, however, this to, is being carried out all over in some order has been enforced and all craft thing like the old way and quite a lot of moved away further up and further jaoney is finding its way from this down, so that the river here presents the channel into the exchequer,

appearance it ought to at the head- quarters of the Navy.

LAWYERS.

Numbers of Chinese with a foreign education, and sometimes without, have! set up in the city as lawyers, though most of them know absolutely nothing about law and they are successfully gulling the public. It trauspires that for a sufficient

auin of money these people will conspire with one another in such a way as to manufacture evidener to prove a guilty man innocent and will take up the matter the other way without compunction. The Law Commissioner has been trying to deal with these imposters, but he finds it & difficult job.

PLAYING ON DUTY:

REINFORCEMENTS FOR CHIC CROW.

audited by Messrs. W. H. Potts and R. Lowe, who now retire, but offer themselves for re-election.

DOUGLAS, LAPRAIK & CO.. General Managers.

PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30TH JUNE, 1912, To Reserve Fund Amount trans- Ferred as resolved at last Meeting

To Dividend paid for the year ending 30th June, 1911, at 5 per cent.........

To Exchange Account ......... To Consulting Committee Re

muneration for 12 months... To Auditors' Fees for 12 months To General Managers' Re-

muneration for 12 months ......

The Chài Chow prefecture has been the scene of quite a number of robberies, and the magistrate in charge reporte that things are very unsettled. The Military Oficer has not sufficient troops to keep order and wage

a guerilla warfare successfully against the pirates, and a con- siderable number of soldiers are being To Balance sent up as a reinforcement from Cantan. Alo, the Yuet-Han Railway is receiving the special attention of the Army Com-By Balance of Profit and ass missioner and they are here on the tracks of soveral notorious bandits.

Account, 30th June, 1911...$ By Interest Account

STUDENTS RETURNING.

The different schools and colleges A rather serious accident occurred at throughout the city have been re-opening one of the military stations on the bundlately after their summer vacation and At the doors of these stations are always numbers of students who left the city posted two soldiers on guard, and in this during the late troublous times are now instance these two soldiers were playing returning. At the beginning of the with one another and knocking each revolution many students left, and for other's riffes about. The result was that the next six months very few returned one of the rifles dropped and exploded, and many found their way to Hongkong, the bullet severely wounding one of the Shanghai and other centres of education, guards in the shoulder, and the man had while the majority found their way home to be removed to hospital. This laxity of discipline requires an example of this the next few months everything seerged to their native villages. Although for kind to show it up, and the incident has quiet, it is only now that they are return- caused officers to be much more strict withing to college in anything like the num sentries and soldiers on duty.

bey expected.

EXEMPLARY SENTENCES ON SHANGHAI GAMBLERS.

MORE ATTEMPTS ON TRAINS, Still another attempt has been made on the Yuet-Han Railway. Some distance from Kwan Tin, which was the scone of a former attempt, twelve armed men fired

Sente important prosecutions for gam- un the train and tried to stop it. They bling have been initiated at Shanghai by were unsuccessful again, however, and the the British authorities. engine-driver succeeded in getting his Arthur Harper, who pleaded guilty to train through safely by increasing the keeping a common gaming houac, has been fined $3,000 and his deportation from apeed. This district seems to be a verit- China ordered. The Judge said he be- able hotbed for these pirates, and the pre-lieved Harper was professional gambler Honoo of soldiers in the place seems to and that he had been engaged in the busi- ness for years. A man named William

A man named

have no terrors for them; as on every Hodds, who was associated with Harper occasion they are able to get off sint free. in running the house, was fined $500, and his deportation was also ordered, and it was further directed that he must pay for his deportation.

THE SANITARY DEPARTMENT.

The Sanitary Department is still very active and all sorts of improvements have been instituted. The streets, though still anything but clean, are a great improve ment on what they used to be and decay ing matter is not allowed to be about the

сазев,

With regard to deportation in both his Lordstop (Mr. Justice Bourne) added security would have to be given that Harper and Hodds would keep the peace and they would only be deported subject to proper security

..on

Dy Interest on Mortgages and

Fixed Deposits ....... By Proût on running the Com

pany's steamers during the

year

83,141

Enner with buyers at $355, and Chinas FIRE INSURANCES. Hongkongs are after sales at $133 are in further request.

SitePING,-Hongkong, Canton and Macaus have advanced rapidly to 299 closing with sales and further buyers Indo-Chinas are in local request at $05, the Loudon quotation being unchanged at 140/- middle price. Star Ferries have again advanced, and can now be placed at $45. Shell Transports have ruled stendy during the interval and close with sales and probable myers at 108/..

REFINERIES-China Sugars have ruled 60,000.00 dull, but there is no material change in 4,015.56 quotation, which remains at 8114 buyers,

Luzons are procurable at $33. 2,000.00 MINING.-Tronohs have been bought 600.00 fm London at 76, the selling rate betug now 76/6. In this connection our Lon- 10,000.00 don agents advise us by wire to-day that 27,751.24 further interim dividend of 2/6 per share has just been announced. Hea- $107,628.61 woods are obtainable at 4/3, and Raubs at $3.00. Kailans (Chinese Engineer- ings) are enquired for locally "ať" 32/6 3,231.81 after sales to London at the rate.

638.06

14,009,74

34,819.00

$107,628.81

BALANUR BREET, 30TH -JUNE, 1912. LIABILITIES.

Dividends written

off

581.50

Underwriting Account of the

Company

DOCKS, WHARVES AND GODOWNS.-Hong kong and Whampoa Docks continue quiet with sellers at $47 Kowloon Wharves have steadily appreciated during the in- terval, and sales at various rates can now be placed at $60. Shanghai Docks are wanted in the North at Tls. 47 and Shanghai and Hongkew Wharves at Tla

08.

LANDS, HOTELS AND BUILDINGS.-Hong-

an

his conscience to a small mis-statement:

It is not yet time to estimate the change made in the New Territories by the political events of 1011, but it is certain

that is has not been confined to the cut-

foreign cap. ting of the queue and tlie donning of the unanimity

The suddenness and the which marked this stop throughout the Territory were remark able, and Puntis, Hakkas and Hoklos all showed thereby that they had long been ready to join the party of progress, as soon as they were given a lead

There is another feature in the history of the New Territories under British rule that the economic mind of the villager appreciates to the full, namely, the rise in the cod of living. The following is u comparative list of the average prices throughout the New Territory in 1900 and in 1011:-

1900.

Ricu (best) per pisu).... § 4.00 3.50 ar (inferior)

10 Eggs per dozen Pork,

1911. 98.00 6.50

2

per picul

15.00

25.00

Firewood Potatoes

80

$5

40

00

30

70

20.00

Balt

Fresh Fish

(at fishing villages) 10.09 It can be scon from this table that the price of food has about doubled in the last 10 years, and wages have about doubled, too; end as money has come into the Territory, so the standard of living has risen continually, day are considered necessary to support the day labourer, who never dreamt of a midday meal a few years ago: and decent

and shoes, formerly) clothes, caps,

Three meals &

INTIMATIONS

DON'T LOSE YOUR HAIR

CUTICURA

SOAP SHAMPOOS

And occasional light dressings of Cuticura Ointment will prevent it when all else fails. Let us send you a liberal sample of Cuticura Soap and Ointment, free, if you have doubts about it.

Samples with p. book free feam: Newbery, dept. 8X, 27 Charterhansedot: Towar & Co.. Bydney. . H. W. Lanena. Lu, Copo Town: Mattre, Ainclean & Co. Enteutta and Hobar Folter D. & 0, Varp., male prose, Houston, B. d. A.

K

89-D

Chs. J. Gaupp

& Co.,

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

CHATRE ROAD.

Always have on hand a very large complote

stock of

SCIENTIFIC AND

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS

Transite, Lorals, Plane Tables, Prismatic and Bight Compasses, Hand Levels, &o, Anj

DRAWING

Bizo

INSTRUMENTS

AND MATERIAL

kong Lands are steady with probabie uxuries, are now among the necessities (T Squares, Sat Squares, Straight Edgen

buyers at $103, and Kowloon Lands are

of existence. House-building, and there

Scales, Inks, &c., &o.)

W. F. STANLEY & Co., LTD,

LONDON.

Capital Account Reserve

20,000 Shares at 850 ........$1,000,000.00 still in request at $34. West Points have fore house-rent, aro.much dearer, and the

ard De-

been booked at

365 and Humphreys Crown rent is much higher than it was prociation fund...$150,000.00 Add amount of us-

Estates at 874. Hongkong Hotels (old) ander Chinese rale-or is in the neigh- have again been done at $116, closing bouring Chines Territory: The latter, AGENTS FOR→→ paid Bonus and

quotations being $116 (old) $76 (new) though obviously much less prosperous, firm.

has still the great 'advantage of cheaper. COTTON MILLS-Ewos. (urd.) have fur-food and cheaper living, and an advant ther improved to Tls. 104 buyers, the age, which we may scorn, in a lower standard of living. And the oue great preferred being now quoted at Tls. 100.

MISCELLANEOUS.-China Borneos rule merit of Chinese rule is its tolerance: if firm at $. Electrica at 8223, and Union moves with the feelinge of the people, and Water Bosts at $101 China Providents does not force itself upon them; taxes aro are procurable at 88, Dairy Farms at obtained from those who can pay, whereas $23, Steam Fisheries at 82, and Pulps at many poor people across the border go on occupying their houses and plots of There are buyers of Cements at $39. $81. China Lights at 81.75, Wateons at land for years without payment of rent: $4.90 and Powells at 883.

again, if they go to law, they are QUOTATIONS-The following squeezed, but the large majority who quotations (middle price) were received avoid the courts are not troubled, and sea far less of the law and the authorities from our London agents by cable to-day:

than the average Westerner.

Unpaid Dividends 1911 account Sundry Accounts payable Profit and Loss Acemunt

ASSETS.

Value of Co.'s Stanmors:

Haitan, Haiyang, Haicking, And Haimun as per last account.81;023,572.00 Leas amount written,

off as resolved at list General Meet- ing

Additions since made

Value of Whari, Buoys and Moor- ings at Hongkong and Coast Parts and Furnituro ut Hongkong as per last account.......

Sale of Old

Maverial

150,981.50

117,088.96

165,00 46,807,54 37,751.24

81,352,188.04

LONDON

United Serdangs

Sapongs

121/- 22/6

London Asiatica. 12/6

Eastern Trusts

12/0 premium. 73/0 4/

....... 221.

33,572.90

$990,000.00 4,275.29

Rubber Trusts

Tronoha

H.K. Electric Trans

Shell Transports

108/

894.36.29

Kailans (CE. & Mining) 32/6

Indo-Chinas

140/-.

London Ventures.

1/3

Pabang Consolidated

10/9

Pegols.....

Ledburys

29,970.73

off $4,88.91

238.88

4,907.70

$24,012.94

603.47

streets as formerly, but is being re-not being found. That security must Less amount

In the case of written moved at once by an organised body of be very substantial.

Also, during the mouth of Harper he thought it ought not to be less scavengers. Angust, 37,189 rats and mice were destroy-nn himself in £2,000 and two sureties ed by the sanitary authorities in the of £2,000 each. In the case of Hodds, it would be, himself in £1,000 and two interests of public health, Bince this sureties of £1,000 each. If that security

ware given they would be released. department has been run by the Com-

Both men are well-known in Hongkong Additions since made. missioner of Police it has given general Batisfaction and done a great deal for and some of the neighbouring ports. improved conditions.

SUAMERN:

Another cinematograph exhibition was: given by Messrs. Ramos & Ramnes in the Club Theatre last night and was well

A PENNY PRAYER BOOK.

We have received from Mr. Frowdo

24,646.41. 116,000.00

55,000,00

Malayan Tin Dredging....

Linggia

Anglo-Malay

Chersonese

Merlimau......

Straits Bertam Eastern Trusts

46/- sellera

9/6 p. buyers

58/9 buyers

31/0 buyers 10- buyers 4- Bellers

4/1 sellers 3/ sellora 22/3 Bellers

CHARGE AGAINST NURSE.

The Chinese villager does not set great atore by cleanliness, or better housing; he finds himself entirely unable to under- stand our aims and ideas, and our be frankly dismal condition of unrests. dislikes our iconoclastic spirit, our want of imagination, and our blindness to all the forces of nature; he fears the inquisi- tions of the Police, and dreads the thought of the Sanitary Board; but he does recognise soms solid advantages from British rule-chiefly in the security of life and property, and the greater prosperity which has accrued from ro trictions placed on gambling and opium smoking,

The domestic life of the villager does not differ much from that of Chiness in other parts of China, nor has it altered much during the few years of British oc- if anything, it falls rather cupation: behind the general standard of freedom and enlightenment in the Canton pro- vince For this South corner of the Ban On District, which is now the New Terri- country: tory, was a remote and rugged The Court at Ipoh has been engaged in far from the seat of government and bearing a case against Mrs. Julia learning in Canton, and (before the Charles, a nurse in Ipoh Hospital, who casion of Hongkong) little touched by

external influence: and even now the cus was charged with causing muschief

by fire by igaiting oil-soaked rags in the tons and habits of the people are prob 40,320.45 European word..

Mise Henry, the ably little changed from what they were 1,312.68 Matron, in her evidence. said a hundred years ago.

A Chinese community like that of the 71,449.1 that she heard shouts of fire from the

European ward. Proceading there she New Territories is by its structure and 41,281.82, saw flames. She seized the door at its long habit of decentralised govern 1,661 S and tried to smother the flames which ment very easy to administer. But its old established customs and institutions 2,747.50 blazed up to a boight of six feet. The pro must not be lightly changed or affronted,

section alleged that the mischief was 21,362,138.64 done by Mrs. Charles because she had and necessary innovations have to be in

been reprimanded by the Matron for troduced with the greatest delicacy. neglecting her duty.

Loans on Mortgage Hongkong & Shanghai Bark

Fixed Deposit Hongkong & Shanghai Bank

(Current Account) of the Oxford University Press a speci. Cash in hand....... men copy of a new penny Prayer Book, Freights due on 30th June, 1912 which contains all that is required for Sundry a/c Receivable from

Agencies, &... In the river at present are H.M,S. Clio, ordinary services, namely, Morning and

Evening Prayer, continuously arranged Tonnage Duca Unexpired S.M.S. Tringtau, U.S.S. Piscataque and with the Litany, Collects, the Holy Com Coal Stock in hand. Callao, and the two French gunboats munion, Athanasian Creed, and the Psalms. There are 06 clearly printed Argus and Vigilante.

pages.

attended.

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E. R. WATTS & SON, LTD.,

LONDON.

WE ELIMINATE

BY USING THE LATEST AND MOST SOLENTIFIC APPLIANCES

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GUESSWORK

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