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COMPANY MEETINGS. HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY CO.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28 H, 1913.

HONGKONG LAND RECLAMATION.

CO., LTD.

THE P. & O, “NARRUNG'S

EXPERIENCES.

AN OFFICER'S STORY.

Mr. Hulton, the secund officer of the P. & 0, steamer Narrung, gave a Press representative the following account of the recent adventurous voyage:----

The twelfth ordinary meeting of shareholders in the above Company was The 28th ordinary meeting of, share-

held yesterday at the offices, Victoria holders in the above Company was held Buildings. Hon. Mr. C. H. Ross presided, yesterday at the offices, Victoria Build and there were also present:-Hon. Bir inga. Hon. Mr. C. H. Bosa presidod, Paul Chater, Messrs. E. Shollim, C. 8. and there were also present:-Hon. Sir Gabbay, and Ho Tung (directors), E. Paul Chater, Messrs. H. Sich, E. Bruce Shepherd (Acting Storetary),rately rough sc Shellim, G. Friesland, C. 8. Gubhay, M. S. Northcote, H. Percy Smith, A. E. and H. P. White (directors), M. Asger. J. H. Seth, Ho Fook, Ho. Kom Northcote (Acting Secretary), H. Perey Tong, Lo Cheong Bhiu and others.

notice convening the meeting Smith, H. J. Gedge, W. E. Clarke, F. B. Deacon, J. M. E. Machado, and A. C. having boẹn read, Hynes.

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MEDICAL MISSIONARIES IN CONFERENCE AT PEKING,

I bave bad thirty years' experienco of the Bay of Biscay," he continued," ani have never seen such a gale or auch tremendous seas as on that afternoon. A

ADORFSS EY PRÈSIDENT YUAN SHIH-KAL. mountainous wave struck un I had never

On the 15th inst. President Yuan Shih- seen anything like it before.

"It tore up the iron deck, turning it kai gave a reception to the delegates attending the Medical Missionary Con- back like brown paper.

ference.

The doctors to the number of about 80 went in a body to the President's The officers and Chairman of residence. address which was read to the President. the Conference had prepared a short He replied in a most unaffected manner in simple Mandarin. His address in sub- stance was as follows:

'P'ABBENGERS' STORIES,

Every passenger who was well enough to give details of the voyage bad a pitiful story to tell of the sufferings of all on board in those two terrible days.

"From the start the weather was unsettled, with a fresh wind and mode The conditions grow worse as we proceeded, and many of the The majority of the passengers, owing passengers spent Christmas Day in their to the floating of their bunks, were driven to the dining room, where they remained

You physicians have come from other bunks.

The ship was decorated, and a distri-huddled together preparing for death and

ing the people the laws of health. You Many of them were kept employed, in good deeds in healing the sick and teach- bution of toys was arranged, but very expecting every moment to be their lust.parts of the world to our country to do few of the children were about to receive

bavo opened hospitals and schools, trans them. The discomforts were great, but their night clothes, in baling out the

Iated medical literature, and given the were certainly not due to overcrowding. water.

people object lessons in hygiene and sanitation. We can take 280 passengers, and we had on board only about 200.

The CHAIRMAN said-Gentlemen,-Our The notice convening the meeting hav-report and balance sheet, together with the auditor's report having been in your

"On Boxing Day about 7 a.m., when ing been read,

we were off Ushant, about twenty miles The CHAIRMAN said-Gentlemen,-Ch possession for sound' days, may, I think, be reports and accounts, to which is attached taken as read. From the accounts now to the northward, we began to feel the the auditor's report, having been in your before you, it is satisfactory to note that inll force of a hurricane. The ship was

hove to and steamed at dead slow pace. possession for some time, I will, with your the negotiations for the sale of a part of pitching and lurching heavily, and we In the Bay of Discay the waves were approval, take them as read. From the your property, which 1 reported at our account now before you it is satisfactory last mesting, as pending, were success-rolling mountains high; I have been The wind never seen anything like it. to note that while commission account fully carried through in June, resulting through the Bay many times, but have shows a decrease of some $1,500 and the in the sale to the Government of $62,254 was blowing, I should think, from 60 to revenue derived from sales is only. 81,000 square feet of land with marine frontage 40 miles an hour. as against 857,141.87 for the previous at Kowloon Point, showing a profit of Our house property in year, your principal source of revenue,ses1,844.08. rent account, shows an increase of some Yaumati has been leased at a monthly $15,500 over 1911 and nearly 246,000 over rental of $300 and was put in thorough I am sure you will deem order when the lease was made. Interest this most satisfactory. During the year account, which for some years has been the only sales of property that have taken a debit, now shows a credit of $20,484,88 place have been the back portions of two for the last six months' working. While lots on the Praya East and the amount A derived has been credited to the

in our possession-the amount - shown under this lending, ie., $1,000, being a

the year 1910.

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"The captain was in charge of the vessel and I went on the bridge at noon. About five minutes afterwards two big waves came up all of a sudden.

"She ruse over the first and went

down in, the trough of the ses; but instead of rising over the second wave she went down, and the sea came over her and swept everything before it.

LIKE PIECES OF PAPER.

The women and children in particular suffered considerably, and being helpless through sickness were compelled to sit for some hours in their nightdresses knee-deep in the water.

Seven men were imprisoned in one part bunka as the only way of keeping out the of the ship by being boarded in their water.

In the bow of the ship forty women were possible to reach them with anything in similarly imprisoned, and it waa im- the nature of refreshments,

Every cabin was flooded, and bedding Many of the and linen saturated. passengers have had all their personal effects destroyed, and on the return of the ship to part some of them were engaged in salvaging what remained.

A lady said the huge wave crashed through the cabin door, and they had to "I was in my scramble on the tables.

nightgown and barefooted for two days and nights," she added.

"During the recent revolution many of you volunteered in the Red Cross work, following the armies or receiving the wounded into your hospitals. You fear- ing the love for humanity which impels you in all your work. We want to take lessly faond danger and hardships, show.

This opportunity to thank you for this in We are entering on a new China. We need your help and co-opera- service. We appreciate it deeply. tion. We are giving special attention to the question of physical welfare of our people and especially to sanitation and medical education. You can do much in teaching and in bringing to the people the knowledge of the laws of hygiene and sanitation.

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Many of you are citizens of Great Bri tain and America. Those two countries lavo repeatedly shown their friendship towards China. We trust you will do all in your power to cement this friendship." The President then shook hands with cach delegato and Mr. Sai led them to the next room where tea and cakes were The President by his courtesy and unaffected address made a deep im- Rotherham pression upon those present. They left with the feeling that they have the entire

Other passengers state that the effect of oil was tried upon the raging waters, but the result was doubtful, although some

noticeable.

Mrs. Blackshaw,

"The foremast was broken in three the year's working shows the satisfactory places, the winches for handling the cargo, profit of 8067,892.49 your directors have, were lifted and thrown over a though balance of the property still remaining} decided to only pay the usual dividend of they had been pieces of paper, part of the declare that its placid inflaence was served.

carried away, and the 7 per cent, on the paid up capital, and rigging was carry forward the remainder so as to be refrigerating room, just against the mast, passenger, said: I and another woman

was completely wrecked. profit made on sales of shares held by the in a position to purchase properties if "No. 1 hates was stove in and filled with three children shared a cabin. We sympathy of the President of the Chinese! Company. Turning to the other side of such be offering, in view of which we have with water to a depth of 4ft. 6in., while could not find out what was happening, Republic in the work that is being done i the fore well deck was flooded, and has or even get a drink of water. We had in the roissionary hospitals and medical nothing from Tuesday night until Thurs our profit and loss account, charges $680,000 cash on lean at call earning 6 sunk six inches below its proper level.

day night except a little spot of brandy, account shows an increase of some $5,500, which is principally due to the increasy per cent. interest. We still own 429,633 All the damage seemed to be done at which we shared between us. But for in salaries incurred by the leave of square feet with marine frontage of eso one blow. The waves were washing over that I do believe I should have died." absencs granted to your secretary, Mr. feet in Canton Road, Yaumati, which is blown over the bridge... Hooper, who left on a holiday, after 10 of grent value, and I hope that at our years' continuous service, in February next meeting I may be able to announce

the decks, and pieces of wreckage were The top of a ventilator narrowly missed my head. The cabins in the fo'castle were wrecked,, and women and

Mr. Phillis, of Glastonbury, describing his wonderful escape while he went to the assistance of the occupants of the saloon deck cabins on the port side when the doors were hurled away, said: "I was

schools.

last; during his absence his duties have a satisfactory sale thereof. Before pro- children were up to their knees in water.helping to get the ladies from the soaked Chén ping, Mr. Peterson, of the Chinese. been performed by Mr. Northcote. "Re-Posing the adoption of the report, and The doors of the saloon deck cabins were cabins to the dining-room, where beef to who recently submitted his resignation as

pairs to properties, I am pleased to say, show a decrease of $8,000. This is mainly due to the fact that we have heen fortunate during the year under review in escaping any severe typhoons, other- wise your properties have been kept in good repair,

accounts, if shareholders have any quee tions to ask, I will endeavour to answer them to the best of my ability.

There being no questions,

The CHAIRMAN proposed the adoption of the report and accounts, which

ripped off.

"Water was four feet deep in the starboard bilge of the engine room, and this caused the ship to list about 10degs.

THE 8.0.8. SIGNAL.

At 12.10, by the captain's order, the Marconi operator, gave the 8.0.8. call, w and it was answered by the Negada and

The Agures of interest seconded by Mr. PERCY SMITH, and by a French battleship.

account remain practically the same as in the last statement. As many of you are aware, in connection with the disappear ance of the compradore of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at the end of Septem- her last we discovered a shortage of cash in our own compradore's account of $21,000, but I am pleased to be able to tell you that this money has been in part already refunded and security deposited with the Company for the balance, so that we have nothing to write off in this respect and the compradore remains in our employ under a new and well secured agreement. Before proposing the adop tion of the report and accounts, if share- holders have any questions to put to me, I will endeavour to answer them to the best of my ability.

There being no questions, The CHAIRMAN proposed the adoption of the report and accounts."

Mr. GenGE-I have much pleasure in seconding the adoption of the report and accounts as presented, and I think that we have reason to congratulate ourselves and the Board of Directors upon the excellent results of the year's work. It is pleasant to note that although we carry

carried.

Messrs. C. S. Gubbay and Ho Tung were re-elected directors on the motion of Mr. SETH, seconded by Mr. Ho Kom

TONG.

The CHAIRMAN proposed that Messrs. W. H. Potts and A. O'D. Gourdin be

re-elected auditors.

Mr. AEGER seconded, and the motion was agreed to.-

The CHAIRMAN-That is all the business, gentlemen. Dividend warrants will be

ready to-morrow.

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WEST POINT BUILDING CO., LTD.

The ordinary meeting of shareholders in the above Company was held yesterday. Hon. Sir Paul Chater presided, and there were also present:-Hon. Mr. C. H. Ross, Messrs. J. W. C. Bonnar and C. S. Gub- bay (directors), M. 8. Northeste (acting secretary), F. Maitland, F. Smyth, F. B. Deacon, R. A. Carvalho, J. 3. E Machado, and E. Bruce Shepherd.

The Secretary having read the notice convening the meeting,

as read.

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We kept in communication with these and other ships until the Narrung had righted herself. We were able, as it happened, to do without assistance.

"All our eight lifeboats were ready for launching if required and would have accommodated everyone on board, with a boat still to spare. But they could not have lived long in such & see, and no order was given concerning them...

"Our only chance was to try and turn the ship round-a task requiring fee seamanship, because had the ship received a second shock like the first she must have foundered.

To the fact that we were able to bring her round safely we owe our lives. When once the had turned we ran before the gale and rode to safety. It was four o'clock next morning before the sea

moderated.

was being served, and had just taken hold a wave washed us both off our feet. I of an Australian girl-Miss Fritz-when thought I was in the sea, but we were both caught by the deck railings and so saved.

A TELEGRAPH COMMISSION. PROBABLE SUCCESSOR TO MR, F. N. DRESING. A Telegraph Commission, consisting of Mr. Sah Fu-Jin, son of Admiral Sah Telegraphs, and Mr. Yung Yung-ching,

of Telegraphs Director-General- nection with telegraph affairs, Peking, proceeds to Japan shortly in con Petersen's selection for this mission is thought to indicate his appointment as successor to the late Mr. F. N. Dresing."

Mr. Wm. Auld, of Tyneside, said:-' left Tynemouth with my two sons, my daughter, and my niece. We were going. to Australia-to the mines. My wife LAWS BY EXECUTIVE ORDER. brother has been there some time. But I never now wo are all going back. expected to see land, and I cannot face another voyage now."

Well advanced in years, this man, Mr. Wm. Auld, had found his berth flooded on Christmas night. "None of us have had my sleep sine," he added; we have all been walking about in our clothes.

TEA CULTIVATION.

AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE The Official -Gueelle states that the Hunglingpu has telegraphed, informing the Civil Administrators and Industrial Commissioners of Hupeh, Hunan, Anhwei, Kiangsu, Kwangtung, Kiangsi and Fu kien that an Agricultural Conference for the purpose especially of discussing "The captain remained on the bridge tea sultivation, will be held on February during the whole time the storm raged, and requesting the appointment and about fifty hours and neither he nor the despatch of representatives from the chief officer, Mr. Postle, who helped him,

provinces in question. tasted food. In point of fact the cooking galley was wrecked.

FIFTY ROURS ON THE BRIDGE.

"Every man on board showed the true British spirit, and I think the engineers deserve special praise for the way they

stuck to their work.

Though the ship looks much battered it is clear that if she had not been a good seaworthy craft sic would never have returned."

THE CAPTAIN.

OPIUM AT CANTON.

The Commissioner of Customs for Kwangtung states that statistics show that the amount opium imported between January 1st and 15th of this year was less than one-third of the quantity ina- ported during the same period in 1912.

The British Const-General as Cantan has protested against a clause in the now Opium Prohibition Law, but a telegram the Canton Government is paying no at- a national and not a provincial our. tention to the protest because the law is

MODERN POLICE SYSTEM.

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A Canton dispatch says:- Laws are enacted in the Province of Kwangtung by Executive order so fre- quently that no comments have been aroused in the local press regarding Pre sident Yuan Shih-kai's procedure in issuing the temporary Provincial laws and regulations without their having re- ceived the approval of the National As sembly.

The Governor General has ordered the establishment in the various districts of Kwangtung of police systems on modern lines. Each district will have to meet the expenses of its own system, and the Pro- vincial Government will appoint inspee- ters of Police.

OPIUM SUPPRESION.

POPPY ROOFED UP.

According to reliable reports from foreigners, no opium is being grown in the Chungking, Yungchwan, Pishan,

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Suiting, Horchow and Klangget die MAPPIN & WEBB'S tricts. A few weeks ago several thousand

acres of poppy were growing in the Lin- shui district, owing to the weakness; of an official who was himself an opium smoker This official has been replaced and his successor has ordered all the poppy to be rooted up. The price of opium at Chung. king at present is 3,000 cash per ounce, road between Chungking and Chengtu. THE WRECK OF THE “SALĄZIE.”

ESCAPE OF 154 PASSENGERS ON RAFTS.

A message from Paris, dated the 25th ult.. says:--

The CHAIRMAN said ~ Gentlemoen, -The report and statement of accounts for the year 1912 together with the auditor's re- port thereon having been in your hands Captain R. Bidwell, surveying the forward only some $16,800 as against for the past week, may, I think, be taken Kentish shore on arrival at Gravesen appearing in Northern papers states that No opium is being grown along the big? $41,768 at the end of 1911, yet after

The gross receipts for the year remarked, "Well, I never thought very deducting all the ordinary working under review amount to $62,348.21, as much of Gravesend, but it looks prettier expenses we have derived more than our against $61,915.91 for the previous year, to-day that I ever thought it looked. annual dividend from what I might the Company having had the full year's - describe as the legitimate source of rental at the increased rate instead of revenue of the Company, without assist-only nine months as in the 1911 accounts, ance from sales of property, and it must as also the benefit of a considerable be borne in mind that it was due to the decrease in the amount expended on re

·large amount received from this last source pairs to property, which stands at 8901.50 in 1911 that we were able then to carry as compared with $4,312, the amount I also notice expended in 1911, which heavy expendi- forward so large an amount.

ture was, us I told you at our last annual with pleasure that five per cent, of the. ront roll is spent in repairs, from whien eeting, incurred in putting the property into thorough repair on the taking over it appears that the properties of the

by our present lessee, and we are there- Company are kept in good repair. It seems to me that the Company is in fore enabled to give you an extra 25 cents per share by way of dividend, making a a very sound position, and we may feel total dividend for the year of 84,25 per assured of a steady seven per cent. per share, the highest in the records of the annum at the very least. Gentlemen, the Company, and which I have no doubt will shares of this Company are being looked meet with your approval. I do not think. there is anything farther in the accounts upon how as the consols of the Far East and I hope they will continue to be so.

now before us which calls for remark, but I have pleasure then in seconding the before proposing their adoption I shall adoption of the report.

be pleased to answer any questions you may wish to put.

The motion was carried unanimously. On the motion of Mr. MACHADO, second- ed by Captain CLARKE, Messrs. E. Shellim and G. Friesland were re-elected directors.

The CHAIRMAN proposed, that Messrs H. Percy Smith and A. C. Hynes be re- elected auditore.

Mr. 'DEACON seconded, and the motion was agreed to.

The CHAIRMAN That is all the business, gentlemen. ready to-morrow. attendance.

Dividend warrants will be Thank you for your

There being no questions the report was adopted on the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Mr. MACHADO.

Mr. DEACON proposed that the Hon. Mr. Ross and Mr. C. S. Gubbay be re-elected directors.

Mr. MAITLAND Seconded, and the motion was agreed to,

The CHAIRMAN moved that Mr. A. C. Hynes ho re-elected auditor.

Mr. SMYTH seconded, and the motion was agreed to,

The CHAIRMAN-That is all the business, gentlemen. Thank you for your presence, Dividend warrants will be ready to

morrow.

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Odol possesses the three essential characteristics of a good dentifrice and mouthwash:

1. It is genuinely antiseptic and prevents decay of the

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2. It is innocuous to the most sensitive mouth,

3. It is agreeable and very refreshing to the palate. A liquid antiseptic is the only one which is able to penetrate all the hidden cavities of the teeth-tooth-powders or pastes can never do this-but in the case of Odol the antiseptic does its work thoroughly, the good effects lasting for hours after the mouth has been rinsed with it.

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Forty-nine members of the crew of the Messageries Maritimes steamer Salazie, wrecked on November 24th south of Diego- Sunrez, Madagascar, with 154 passengers. arrived at Marseilles inst night in the Thoy str. Djemmnah from Madagascar. state that the vessel failed to answer the helm in a violent cyclone and was thrown upon a coral reef forty miles from the mainland. From seven o'clock que even-

ing till nine o'clock the following night Panic the ship was swept by the waves, seized the passengers, women cried, and a group of English gathered in the saloon and sang "Nearer, my God, to Thes."

Next day, when the weather was caluer, two rafts were launched, and in a deluge of rain, after four successive voyages, all the passengers were success- fully landed on a desert island about fifty yards from the wreck. The 'crew followed, but the second officer, M. Brace, was swept overboard during the efforts to launch the raits.

For two days tho rescued passengers and crew drank rain water, for there was no food or water on the island. Eventu- ally the captain and some sailors succeed- ed in reaching land in a raft with a rude sail, and after walking for many hours found a Madagascar village, from which help was gent,

THE CUSTOMS SURPLUS.

The British, German and Rassian banks in Shanghai in which the Customs' funds are deposited have been instructed to parcel out the Customs surplus to the agents of their respective Powers,

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