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COMPANY MEETING.

CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.

The thirty-third ordinary meeting of shareholders was held at the Hongkong ifices of Messra, Jardine. Matheson & Co, Ltd, yesterday. The Hon. Mr. D. Landalo presided, and those also present were-Hon. Sir Paul Chater, Hon. Mr. E. Shellim, and Mesra D W. Craddock, F. Maitland, and G. W. Barton (Consulting Committee), with the following shareholders: Messrs. C. O. F. Cumingham, W. Looker, J. M. Alves, A. R. Lowe Ho Fook, Cho Shin, H Potts, and L. N. Leefo

· (Secretary)..

·G.

The Secretary read the notice conven- ing the meeting, after which

Mr. CONNINGHAM then proposed the re-election of the consulting committee, substituting the name of Mr. G. W Harton for that of Mr. HP. White, resigned on leaving the Colony.

Mr. PUMFRETT BCCouded, and this was unanimously carried.

Mr. Ho Fook proposed the re-appoint munt of Messra H. Percy Smith and A. R. Love as auditora for the ensuing year at a remuneration of $500 each.

Mr. ALVES seconded, and this was agreed to.⠀⠀⠀⠀

This was all the business, and the CHAIRSIAN nunounced that the dividend warrants would be ready on Tuesday orning and could be had on applica-

tion.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRE38, TUESDAY, MAY 19TH, 1914.

YOUNG LADY'S TRAGIC END AT

SHANGHAL

THE KOREA IN QUARANTINE:

DEATH OF MR. J. KENNARD DAVIES.

When the Pacific Mail stenner Kon A sad tragedy was enacted in the Astor arrived at Woosung from Hongkong at House Hotel in the carly hours of this mid-day on Tuesday, says the 1-7 Daily Nears, it was discovered during the medi- morning (snys the Mercury of Thursdaycal inspection that there was a suspected last) when an American lady, just recent case of plague amongst the Chinese ly arrived from the homland, committed orage passengers. The vessel was suicide by shooting herself with a passengers were allowed to come up to placed in quarantine, but the first-class revolver. The unfortunate lady was still Shanghai on Tuesday night. It is under alive when discovered after the report of stood that the Korea will be detained in the weapon, but she was beyond medical quarantine until the 21st instant, and aid and died shortly afterwards. Doccas her departure for Japan ports and Sau ed is a Mra A. H. Platt and her tragic Francisco has therefore been postponed end is rendered oven andder by the fact until Friday afternoon, the 22nd instant. that she was only 24 or 26 years of age. Her husband is employed by the British American Tobacco Co. and only recently CHINESE STUDENTS WITHDRAWN led his retirement. Up to the time of returned to Shanghai from the interior: The two were living at the Astor House at the time of the tragedy.

The details of the circumstances known An extraordinary general meeting of prior to the inquest were that at 12-47 the Company followed, held for the 4 to day the Hongkes Police wore purpose of passing the following extra- notified that a lady had shot herself in a The CHAIRMAN said:-Gentlemen-The ordinary resolution: That Article 51 of through by room clerk Thompson, DS room in the hotel, the message being sent report and accounts having been in your the Articles of Association be altered by Kiloh and Det, Schmidt were detailed on hands for some time, I will, with your substituing the words twenty-five for the affair and on immediately proceeding permission, take them as read. The figures the words Afteen. A

to the hotel they were taken to Room 102 where they found the lady lying on which we have to present cannot, I think, The CHAIRMAN said-Gentlemen. The the bed. Blood was flowing from her left fail to give you satisfaction, for they intention of the resolution which has just side and Dr. S. A. Ransom, who lives in disclose the fact that we have had very been read to you in the notice convening Platt was beyond all aid and died at the hotel, was in attendance, but Mrs. good year. The premium income, you this meeting is to raise the fixed allowance 1.10 am. It appears that she shot herself will see, shows a considerable increase. which the general agents are authorised at about a quarter past twelve A 22 This is partly to be attributed to to receive from $15,000 p.a. to 820,000 p.«. Colt revolver was found levide the body uxchange, which accounts for a difference It should be clear to shareholders, being spent, and the wound was found with two cartridges in it, one of these of about 6 per cent, as compared with think, that an increase in imperative. in the left side of the body just under the year before, in the premiums earned The existing allowance was arranged at the heart. The American Consular at agencies having a gold standard, but a time when the cost of management was authorities were informed and after an also to the fact that at nearly all our undoubtedly less than it now is, but not Perkins, Vice and Deputy Consul examination of the body by Mr. M F. agencies we base, in the period under unly that, the Company's position has, General, it was removed to the Mortuary. review, done more business. It is very during the last few years, greatly

The China Freas sayer Mrs. Platt was gratifying to note that this accession of advanced, and there is now

a premium 24 or 25 years of age and came of very premium has not been attained at all income of some, two and a half million good families, her father being Adjutant General Cameron, of North Carolina, at the expense of quality, for the ratio dollars to control, and funds approach whilst her mother was a daughter of of losses is the lowest probably that we ing five million dollars to manage and General Hayes. Her brother is the have ever before experienced Expenses safeguard. This, I think, suficiently manager of the Standard Oil Company's

states the case. have also been kept down to

The effect which the agency at Canton and one of her sisters is married to the United States Military increase will have upon the cost of work-Attache at Tokio, ing is very slight. Had the larger When a very young girl, she was allowance been imposed during 1911 it married at Manila to Lieut. Wadsworth, of the United States Navy, by whom she would have added about half of one per had one child, now about seven years of cent. to the expense ratio, and since the age. The union proved unfortunate and premium incomes for 1912 and 1913 show the pair were divorced at Rono. Then substantial advances, the effect upon she met Mr. Platt, to who she was sub- them would obviously be less. The quently redards he joined the matter has received the attention of the British-American Tobacco Company and

been to Szechuen and only returned to hangiani on the 10th instant. Mrs. Platt had come out from the States on the 2nd instant.

B very

married.

FROM JAPAN

PERING, May 13th. President Yuan Shih-kai has sanctioned the request of the Tatuhs of Hunan, Anhui, Kiangst and Kunngtung for the withdrawal of students sent to Japan ground that most of them are relatives by the former Kuomintang Tutuhe on the and friends of rebels and so, it is feared, have been imbard with rebel ideas. They would, therefore, be of no service to the Government after the completion of their studies. About six hundred students will be withdrawn from Japan this year-Router.

FATHER OF THE CALEDONIAN

SOCIETY.

Wilke Notman, aged 80, of West Hamp

The death is announced of Capt. Henry stead, where he had lived for 40 years. as the father of the Caledonian Society. He was an Aberdonian and was known

Scottish, and was for some years manager Formerly be served in the London. of the South Indian Railway Company:

THE NEW LIGHT OF ASIA.

The late Sir Henry Maine, that eminent jurist and political philosopher, once based an elaborate argument on the assumption that women were essentially conservative and averse from change Bat Maine was a mid Victorian. should have lived in these times. Then he would have modified his opinions on the immutable feminine,

A tolegrain was received in Shanghai last week announcing the death of Mr. James Kennard Davies, which took place at his residence, Rochampton, Loudon, on the 12th inst. The deceased gentleman, who was well-known in both Shanghai North China Insurance Co. practically and Hongkong, was associated with the from the founding of the Company in 1883. From 1869 to 1882 he acted as the Company's Agent in Hongkong, and from 1883 to 1886 he was Secretary of the Company at its head office in Shanghai. In 1890 he was appointed Agent, to the Company in London, in which capacity he neted until 1908, when ill-health com“.

his death, however, he had cocupied a seat on the London Committer of the Company, PA

THE LATE EMPRESS DOWAGEN OF JAPAN

'A+DINGE,

The Juu Times reporta-The Department of Education has published

the following poem by Baron Songe as funeral, song for the Empress Dowager,

-Kongericht nu meantoshi m

alguku kokoro-no tanie-kuhaki Sode no namida wa havaiteme 6 Trašīnu mugeki a tkanisen. -Pakri no hare no mioshie, u

Bukaku kukuro u kizamitant sir Mangbi nosenza ni inashimité

Omirumu għa nagusamen. Literally translated:

The jewelled bronin to polish the mind

We have inthy Lesson of the

Diamond,"

It will cleanse the sleeve of tears.

But can not heal the sorrow inex-

haustible.⠀

Chiselled deep in the mind

Is thyLesson of the clock's hand." We'll strive in learning

To vase thy soul.

RUBBER ESTATES.

THE KLABANG RUBER COMPANY. The

INTIMATIONS

WATERY ECZEMA ON

HEAD AND FOREHEAD

Head and Ears Were Right Raw, Red and Scabby Patches at First. Al- waysScratching and Rubbing, Cu- ticura Soap and Ointment Cured,

College Road, Frattingham, Suffolk, Eng. My boy's head and foreboad, vinder his Bars and on his shoulder, wore affected with

"watery oczeria. Whori Ito was about six meks old he

began to have it. The rest keptgeing't

out on his forehead

to his cars Tinn ble head and ears were tight raw, Thọ vecsema Jooked 16e red: aud

· scabby, patefrew at flest; when you touched them water oozes out of them fu raw places. Tid fich, very much, he was” alwaya wratching and

data' think I retailrust. stopped him mucha from sleeping, mora of

day times." "He was fritful ad times; **The eczema, took all his hair oft drit but it has thick again since his head has boog

first but they did no part,

о

tado

* E-tarkoil. Then

in the paper about Cuteur Soap and Cuticura Ointment, I use the coinploté tevatment, bolyCutierra Soap aric Outeurs Olutmens every morning and they cured. Dusieurs Soap and Oltment gave my boy a beautiful stda." (Sigood) Mrs. M. Woods, Jan. 11, 1912.

Cuticurs Soaps and Cuticura Olaiment arð. sold throughout the world. A single set a oftem Buliksont when all else fails. Sample of each with 32-p, kipele free from nearest depot: F. Nowhery & Sons, 27, Charters house Sq. Loadan; R. Towns & Co., Syd- ney, N. B. W.; Lennon; Lid., Cape Town: Muller, Mastoan & Co., Calcutta and Beru bay: Patter D. & C. Corp., Boston. V: 8. A.

·Terirler=ftend món abordit shiva with Cutletira Sonje Shaving Blick, Sample free.

(96-25

CHS. J. GAUPP & CO.,

AND

JEWELLERS.

moderate scale, and compare favourably with the cost of business which our com- potitors have to pay. The income derived from investments shows a lower average return then that which we have been accustomed to This, however, is explained by stating that a large portion of our funds nearly 50 per cent, in fact —is now invested in gold, The decline

Income, resulting from the lower consulting committee, who are in complere came out to the Far East. Lately he has and sex novels, slowly and with mis £5,639 brought forward, -of: £48,003. The return which selected gold investments accord in yield, has, however been stayed by there having been more funds to invest fao that actually we have an increased revenue from this sourc. The purchase of many of our gold investments was fortunately for us, made at a time when the market was suffering from serious depression We therefore have, in more

profit for 1918 18 124,005. The balance brought forward was £180. The directors He recommend a dividend of 4 per cent. They write off the balance of the pre- liminary expenses, 2004; transfer to WATCHMAKERS reserve for development, £1,000; to Woman is progressive enough in the reserve for income tax. £145; and carry West, as we know. She is moving quite forward £415. For 1912.9 per cent, was as fast in the East. The male Oriental is paid. awakening such modern is THE SUNGEL KAPAR. RUBBER COMPANY. Parliaments, the Referendum, motor cars, The report shows profits, including giving. But the female of his species is directors hava transferred £6,050 changing more rapidly. Everywhere, reserve fund, written 3,557 af ostutes, from Cairo to Yokohama, she is emerging buildings, and machinery and reem- from behind the veil and asserting her mend a final dividend of 25 per cent., 3,103 to be carried forward he eati mated crop for the current year is 640,000 lb.

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thinking that the change embodied in the resolution should he made, and with these remarks I will ask the proposer of the resolution to more.

Sir PAUL CHATER then moved the resolution given above..

The Hon. Mr. A SHELLIH Recorded, and it was unanimously carried. ** than one.

The CHAIRMAN announced that the instance, nequired our holding at prices resolution, having been passed, would be which are nearly the

be lowest that have submitted for confirmation as a special a second extraordinary been recorded, and in stating them, as resolution to We have done, at their market value on meeting which will be subsequently the 31st December last, there is little to convened. provide for in the way of depreciation, and what little there is is much more than made up by the fall in exchange. As evidence of this, you will note that our investment and exchange fluctuation account has doubled itself in the year. It is obvious, however, that such a fund may decline as readily as it may : rise, and hearing in mind our larger

REDEMPTION OF CANTON NOTES.

A BUSINESS-LIKE OFFER.

HIS ADVANCE WITH FOREIGN SUPERVISION.

PEKING, May 14th..

&c.

to

be

INSTRUMENTS.

Mr. M. F. Perkins, Deputy Consul-individuality with amazing energy, making 371 per cent, for the year, leaving SURVEYING AND NAUTICAL General for the United States, who was called to the hotel as soon as the tragedy was discovered, at once held a prelimin- ary examination, after which the body was removed to the mortuary and the inquest adjourned until Thursday afternoon. It stances connected with the case rendered was then decided that certain circum it advisable to hold the inquiry in camera. A considerable number of witnesses for early four hours and at their con- were examined, the proceedings lasting clusion a digest of the evidence was given to a representative of the China Press, as follows :

***The shot was heard by a Chinese boy employed at the hotel and he immediately informed & Sikh watchman, who was on duty near by. The room from which it camo had been engaged by another guest, but Mrs. Platt was in it by herself.

"The boy and the watchman went in, and found the lady kneeling before a chair, with her head resting on it. She was bleeding and a pistol was on the floor

The other day in Porsia 2 number of ladies went and broke the windows of the Legislative Chamber as a protest against

THE CHANGKAT SALAK RUBBER AND TIX a Government they disliked. They had

COMPANY The proâts, including: £159 read about our Pankhursts and Drun monds and understood that this was the brought forward, amount to £9,640. The ZEISS PRISM BINOCULARS. womanhood interested in politics. La paid on the Preferred Ordinary shares, proper course of conduct for emancipated directors recommend that 10 per cent. Turkey and Egypt there is quite a lively buildings, plant, machinery,

and SUN GLASSES. Suffragist movement on foot, though we promoted by arson and bomb-throwing £2,350 to be carried forward. The all-in SILVERAND PRINCE'S PLATE. have not as yet heard that it has been £1,000 allocated to reserve account for catate capital requirements, leaving Perhaps this is to come, cost was 19, 9.93d, per lb. The estimate in China. We gave some account Tm: SexGEI BULON RUBBER Co.-The But the most remarkable development for 1914 is 300,000 lb.

yesterday of the address on the subject revenue account for the year 1973 shows which Bishop Scott, who has long been a balance to be carried to profit and loss. at the head of missionary enterprise in account of £21,107, against - £17,668. the Far East, gave at an S.P.G. meeting Including £4,215 brought forward, the this week. The Chinese woman has total amount available is £28,503. suddenly quitted the "inner apartment directors recommend a final dividend of MAPPIN & WEBB. where she has been immured for centuries, 25 per cent, less tax, making 35 per cent. and is making abundant use of her for the year (the same as for 1919), liberty; in fact, there are very few leaving £8,003 to be carried forward, Th departments of human activity which she original estimate for 1913 was 300,000 lb. of dry rubber. The actual outturn was Needless to say, those emancipated 349,200 lb., being 49,200 lb. in excess of the The all-in cost was 19.

possession of gold funds, it seems to the The Chinese Government recently pro- near to her. One shell had been fired a not threatening to invade.

from it. MWA

root, including Mr. Ellicott. Mr. Stan- ford and two ladies. Their testimony corroborated that of the watchmen and the boy and established the fact that there were no signs of violence or a struggle of any kind."

DJEMBER RUBBER

The

The

at a higher figure than ever before. The largely to benefit the Salt Administra Mr. Platt had retired to his own room Many of the girls have passed examina The realizations by sale of rubber, includ

Representatives-

LTD..

LONDON.

ALEXANDRA

BUILDINGS,

CHATER ROAD.

#31

CALDBECK,

(ESTABLISHED: 1864).

SOLE AGENTS FOR

general agents and consulting committee posed to the Quintuple Group that a por-Tha Sikh watchmen placed her on the Eastern ladies are eager for education. I estimate. imperative to seize such an opportunity tion of the £2,000,000 of the Reorganiza-bed, whilst the boy notifed the manage In Egypt we cannot open girls' colleges 3.0d, por lb. and the average gross sale: as is afforded by the present occasion to auginent this fund, which will stand, tion Loan that was set aside for the ment. The alarmi quickly spread through fast enough, 1x China the schools and price realized 2. 7.13d. per. 16. after the addition it is proposed to make, Purpuses of the Salt Gabelle, and which the hotel anti several guests came into the seminaries for women, who used to be estimate of outturn for 1914 is 400,000 lb. at just over $200,000. Our re-insurance hitherto has not been touched, should be

forbidden by custom even to read, lest of dry rubber. Eritis-The the knowledge should render them fund shows a small increase as compared at temporarily to the Kwangtung

insubordinate, are being established in report for 1918 states that during the The recent troubles sear under review the sum of £6,921 has with last year, but before we can get Government in connexion-with-a-scheme

all the large towns.

the Anglican and

been spent on capital account for the American gayo the full beneat of the idea which governed of note redemption.

missionaries a great opportunity upkeep and further extension of the its institution, it is necessary for it to The bankers at first declined to accede Dr. Ransom and Mr. Gerrard, the There were a good many female orphans plantations, new buildings, &c, making be much larger, and the addition of to the request on the ground that it was hotel manager, came in soon afterwards about, so the clergy took them in hand, a total of £59,545 since the formation of the company. The quantity of coffes $190,000 brings it up to just over $530,000, incompatible with their obligations to and the doctor found that there was no placed them in the mission schools, and harvested during the year was 3,522 hopu of saving Mrs. Platt's life, the Laught then religion and mundane cula (4,183 ests.) and the quantity of which will go some way to achieve the bondholders to devote a portion of the wound being at the base of the heart. She accomplishments. Just before the bishop rubber collected was 13,448 lb. The desired end. It is satisfactory to remem-on to an object not exactly specified in was practically unconscious and, though left, he saw the pupils of one of these receipts from the sale of coffee in Java MACGREGOR&Co. ber that, with the addition of $100,000 the loan agreement. Sir Richard Danc. she was muttering, the words were Pied Piper of Hamelin, with Brown end of the year, taken into account as academies giving a performance of The were £14,005; with stock unsold at the the coherent. to the reserve fund, this fund will stand however, pressed the scheme on

bankors, as being calculated indirectly

Fürther corroborative testimony was ing's verses presented in a tongue which £32, there is a total of £14,320, equal to given by Mr. Thompson, the night clerk. the actresses imagined to be English 44 guilders per picul (or 609, per cut.). item of agency balances" represents a somewhat unusually large sumu. This is tion, the revenue of which in Kwangtung some time before the shot was fired. tions and received diplomas, and have ing stock at the end of the year, taken into accounted for by the fact that at the time is paid in heavily depreciated notes. Captain C. Burl, Quartermaster in the been sent up the country to convey the account at 15. Sd. per lb., were £1,405 The bankers, it is understood, have now United States Ariny, an acquaintance of new learning to their countrywomen. The total charge against revenue is £9,363, of the closing of our books a considerable...

Mr.

This is the greatest of all the trans thus leaving a profit of £6,565, to which sum was lying ready in London to pay agreed to advance £1,000,000 on condition Ing him of undertook the task of notify formations which is pussing over the East. has to be added 22, 192, brought into the for certain now investments, the purchase that the money is employed solely for the Mr. Platt's tastmony was to the effect In Asia, dynasties have come and gone, accounts, making £8,697. It is proposed the lands, to place £5,000 to reserve, leaving £3,607 that for some time past, his wife had armies bare swept over of which, at that date, was not quite redemption of the notes in Kwangtung been in a very nervous condition and un conquerors have imposed their language, to be carried forward.AKER DANA concluded. It will be noticed from the that the scheme is administered by one or two occasions she had gone to their laws, their faith upon subjugated

THE ALLAGAR RUBBER ESTATES,The total condition of the underwriting suspense committee composed of three foreigners sanatoria to undergo treatment for peoples, but life behind the veil has gone output of rubber for the past year was account that the previous year has run and the operation of redemption will be nervous prostration. She had of late on unchanged, Among the poor woman 184,607 lb., being 34,607 lb. in excess of the made several threats to take her own was the household slave, among the rich estimate. The crop for 1914 is estimated off very satisfactorily, and by the add supervised by two foreign and two life and, though, of course, he was dazed she was the petted prisoner; a soulless at 210,000 lb. The directors have acquired |

Chinese cashiers, Val tion of $145,000, the provision for Meanwhile it is expected that & Pre- and overcome by the report of her death; toy for tyrant's lust." That she should further 165 acres, about 100 acres of which were planted. The planted area outstanding losses, is, we believe, ample, sidential Order will be issued forthwith still it had not occasioned him the sar daim to possess, not merely a soul but a has since been increased to 125 acres. It is with great satisfaction that the declaring that these notes are no longer prise that might ordinarily have been mind, seemed as unlikely as it would have the amount expended on capital account legal tender, and authorizing their ex expected under such conditions. seemed in the England of Elizabeth that .com- ebange for Government notes at a price Detective-Sergeant Kiloh, who was men would fly through the air Bat during the year on improvements and the and in order to provide for this and for miste, at making these necessary and equal to their average value during the called to the hotel and investigated the Mohammedan women aro rankings speeches purchase of new property was 211,46, FOR THE FIRST TIME, BUT LONG substantial additions to

affair, also gave evidence stating that on the platform, Persian women are the balance of expenditure under this FAMous at Home anD IN THE the various past three months. ---- funds, find it possible to propose an

there was no indication of foul play. asking for the vote, Chinese women-foot heading, the directors have decided to After this the inquest was adjourned, for bound no longer go to public banquets, issue the remaining £9.100 First Mortgago increase in the dividend so large is that

AS THE FINEST It is also understood that the Govern further testimony, until Saturday morn and finish up the evening with a danes Debentures, and to make the whole of the COLONIES of 8 per share, and I am sure the sharement's proposals to the Quintuple Grouping, the coroner giving his permission for

One wonders what the Eastern husband Debenture issue convertible into shares holders will be equally pleased. This is for a loan, which were originally for the body to be interred."

Standards £95.000.000, then £18,000,000, and finally

general agents. and consulting

QUINTUPLE LOAN REDUCED.

TIENTSIN RACE MEETING STOPPED BY RAIN

not the occasion to say much about the £15,000,000, will again be modified to Working account for 1913, but the figures provide only £7,500,000 to meet short before you are such as to justify the terms loans and redeem outstanding Treasury bills. This modification is dus expectation of a satisfactory result, and to the increased influx of money from the payment now of an interim dividend the provinces, and to the fact of the The Tientsin Race Meeting opened last of 815 per share. With these remarks with regard to the Canton note question records were broken. In the first four "above-mentioned arrangement being made Tuesday in splendid weather. Three have pleasure in proposing the adoption The question of a further loan for a races, Mr. Vida had two wins and two of the report and accounts.

general scheme of note redemption seconds, and Mr. Burkill one wie. Mr. X V. Looker seconded, and the rency reform has been postponed for Wednesday owing to exceptionally hon

throughout the provinces and for cur- The races had to be postponed on future consideration-A-C. Daily News.rain early in the morning.

proposition was unanimously carried.

CANTRELL

COCHRANE'S

DRY GINGER ALE.

NOW EXPORTED TO HONGKONG

GINGER It is intended that the company AROMATIC

and brother thinks of at all-Evenings share capital by £25,000

LONDON RUBBER NEWS.

HEAVY, SHARE FAILS.

shall

in order to provide the shares necessary

to answer the conversion of the present ON THE MARKET. issue, and the £15,800 already issued, as

and when the debenture holders exercise

ALE

$3.20

SPLITS

· “$2.60

their rights. The present issue of PER DOZ. PINTS Debentures will be offered for subscrip-

declared: Henwood 64, Bujong 1 the balance at credit of trading account LONDON, May 11tion to the debenture-holders and share- The following final dividends are holders. Including £1,148 brought in 2 Selangor Biver: 10, raising £5,700 ad-amounts to £11,135 Capital expenditure

ditional capital.

reacted on rubbers, causing a heavy de-carried forward. A dividend of 9 per

written off requires £2,500, a dividend of SEND FOR A FREE SAMPLE. Heavy liquidation in other markets has 7 per cent, absorbs £6,003, and £1,711 is preciation, Singapore Free Press.

cent. was paid for 1912.