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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1889.

THE AUSTIN ARMS HOTEL AND BUILDING 'COMPANY, LIMITED.

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THE DYING FETICHES.

to act, the treasurer and secretary to be members ex.officio, three to form a quorum. The Chair- man for the meeting to have a casting vote.

The old, decaying "shores" of Monarchy are The next alteration proposed was in Rule 12 with regard to the admission of Indly members, stooping to their fall Every day the great This rule as revised would read: Ladies who machine, which, for ages and ages.bas ground out human misery with every revolution of its are residents in Hongknog and over 16 years of jarring wheels shows new signs of the de- age are eligible for election in the same way as

creptlude which accompanies unhonoured age, described in Rule 6. Their subscription shall and every day the cataclysm comes nearer. All be one dollar per annum." The amendment with regard to age had been suggested because urope and two-thirds of Asia are filled with the whispers of a stupendous upheaval which is to it had been found that there were lady members break out somewhere, and in which aimed under the age of twelve months. (Laughter);

Mr. Andicw said he had to propose an addi-millions are to tear each other to pieces for some Moch foed purpose which never takes visible, tion to the rules. It was not proposed out of any form; and every where a shapeless ferrar hangs disrespect to the Army, or the Police, but the over the hd Work and portends the approach- Association was growing to be very large, and as the Police and Military had their own ranges hein breakdown of the hoary tyrannies which thought it only right to bring it forward. Its the nineteenth century to the era of the Goths and Huns. Long years of ceaseless retro- was "No member of the Army or Navy shall be

under the rank of an Inspector.”

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mental as so many wooden gods, this cart-borse race of thirsty beer-drinkers held out well. against the destroying diseases which, in Europe, have become the prerogative of kings; but of later years epilepsy, the sure forerunner of insanity, has appeared among them, and the Great States of the Old World can now beast. without fear of contradiction that very few of their anointed rulers are thoroughly responsible sings, while more that one is incompetent even to come in when it rains. Of kingly rulers. there are none left, unless Humbert of Italy may he su described; the only other sovereign of recent times who even aspired to the designation was the gilded Caesar who went down at Sedan, and left behind him a legacy of wae which France will never forget.

HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION,' A meeting of the members of the above Association was held at the Hongkong Hotel yes- terday afternoon. The President, Mr. T. Jackion, previded, and there was a good attendance.

The Chairman, in proposing the adoption of the report and accounts, alluded to the departure of the 58th Regiment, of whom, they numbered so many amongst their members and spoke of the assistance given at all times by the officers of that Regiment to the Association. Their thanks were also due to the naval officers on the station. Before putting the adoption of the report and accounts to the meeting he should be pleased to hear any remark any member might wish to makė.

Mr. Kennedy said that he noticed that the auditors of the accounts were three members of the Committee. He thought the accounts should be audited by some member not on the Com-eligible for election who holds lower rank than gession have brought Europe back to the mittee. He was perfectly sure that there were a commissioned officer, and no police constable Point from which she started iwenty centuries ago; arts, science, Christianity, civilisation, have Inany members in the Association who were per-

Mr. Cross proposed that these resolutions.be/added a polish to the barbansın af older days, I toutering potentates are feebly shoring up each fectly competent to audit accounts of that nature.

hat the system of Government has undergone no Mr. Woolley-As one of the auditors may. I-

material change; now, as in the distant past, ask if any reflection is intended to be cast on the

every man is a soldier, and all Europe is a camp, Committee?

and public policy is summed up in the sentence, Let us kill somehody," and the world is grow. ing weary of this dismal era of bloodshed and intrigue. The tired olid figureheads of monarchy, ***which never, since monarchy was first invented, served any one useful purpose in the scheme of creation, still refuse to recognise that a new era is dawning on mankind, and that the time is approaching when the many will refuse to be buichered for the amusement of the few? but princes are more obtuse than common men and the deluge always comes upon them unawares. prematurely removed from this mundane sphere A few months ago a great potentate was General Gordon was of the same opinion. when well on towards his hundredth birthday. The question of accepting this new rule was a For many years the eyes of Europe had been very important one. (Hear, hear). A great num-fixed upon him as he sat on his throne gorged ber of the 58th and a great many of the Police had been members and had helped substantially, He thought they should consider the question well before deciding on it. There was no doubt that the soldiers and police were trained to shoot and got much more practice than many of the other members, but on the other hand it appeared just a little harsh to bar them from becoming members.

Mr. Kennedy-Distinctly not, but I never heard of any concern where the directors audited their own accounts.

printed and forwarded to members and another meeting called.

The Chairman thought the sense of the meet- ing should be taken, should they proceed with the revision now ?,

The question having been put to the meeting was answered in the affirmative by a majority of four,

The alterations to Rules 3, 4, and 12 were carried unanimously,

Mr. Hooper said that he, perhaps, should' mention the new rule proposed did not affect in any way those who were already members of

the Association;

Mr. Robinson thought the new rule needed discusion and that as it was now too late to go into it fully, it should be postponed.

Mr. Francis proposed the postponement of the consideration of the question for a fortnight. Mr. Woodin seconded, and the motion was carried,

into insensibility with buttered crab, and filed almost to the top of his head with a soup of barbarous construction, in which red herrings, sour wine and ancient cabbage soaked in vinegar were prominent features. Apart from his crown this commonplace old cast-iron drillmaster was nobody in particular. He was always hungry and always anxious for something to cal. Practically he swayed the destinies of the world, but the destinies of the world froubled him little in his later years; the fate of hations was in his hands but a cease- less stomach ache harassed him, and so the This concluded the business of the meeting. overfed old man drifted on as a living example Mr. Francis said he was sure that those present of the menuness and littleness, of kings. Then wauld fully agree with him when he suggested, he died, and half the world was stricken with that a very hearty vote of thanks should be panic, because a race of fools had entrusted to passed to their President, Mr. Jackson, who was this gluttonous patriarch the power of drenching about to leave the colony, for the assistance he the earth with blood, and spreading ruin and had given them. He did not know where they desolation and death and bankruptcy over all would have found a Chairman who would have the lands between the German Ocean and Kam- helped them as he had done and who could bringt-chatka; and the clay god having caten himself to bear on every question such strong and good | to death, all was a blank. And now the eyes of sense and so excellent a discretion. (Applause) Europe are turned on a young prince with a They had seen that evening, if they had never distorted frame and inasses of cotton wood in seen it before, of what value such a Chairman..his ears, on whose head the crown of the was, and he asked them to give him a hearty Hohenzollerne has devolved, and whose single vote of thanks for having acted so long and intellect must decide whether the results of effectively as their president,

centuries of material progress are or are not to The vote of thanks was carried amidst great be undone. applause, and the Chairman baying returned thanks the meeting terminated.

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Such as they are, the monarchs of Europe are now filling that continent with rumours of com- ing bloodshed and new disaster. Lunatics, epileptics and drunkards are massing gigantic armies to guard thrones and crowns which are of use, to no one but the owner; diseased and

other with treaties and parchments; almost every able-bodied 'man in a whole continent, is posing in uniform ; and yet no one knows even now why the great struggle which everyone foresees should be undertaken. A bugs phan- tom of coming desolation looms through the mist of intrigue and royalaberration, but there is still no visible casıas belli, and no national fasue is at sinke. Meanwhile, underneath the thrones of the dull, ignorant tyrants, the ground is being hollowed out by the undermining influence of disaffection and incipient revolt, and the tline is steadily approaching when crowns and sceptres will topple together into the abyss. Out of the chaos which is has proved itself too expensive an institution to dawning a new world will be built. Monarchy be much longer endured. The barren waste of history-the arid, lifeless, interminable desert of sand on which is written the record of the past tells of nothing but bloodshed and horror; every hill in Europe and Asia looks down on a battle-fild where human misery was piled up to avenge the petty differences of kings, and the kings of the present day are the same as those of long ago. And war has now become a terribly expensive experiment. Six months of strife costs hundreds of thousands of human lives, and amasses dels which three centuries of industry cannot repay. The last hundred years of warlac las mortgaged Europa. for 3000 years to come, and yet in the whola ghastly catalogue of murder and wrong there is not written the story of one campaign which was undertaken for any other purpose than the gratification of one man's lust and malice. And, great as have been the horrors of war, it is ques tionable if the horrors of peace have not been. greater still. Morally and intellectually the monarchs of the present day are the very dregs of humanity, and, if history is not a gigantic fiction, they have mostly been little else since Monarchy began.

It is for the purpose of taking a hand in this great game of insanity and demoniac folly that the shirt-sleeved Caesars of Australia are invited to come forward and be a pale and ignominious reflex of the other Cæsar-the, bounceable crusader who did not dare to die at Sedan. Com- pared with the politicians of modern Europe the hyena follows the higher walks of diplomacy, and T the policy of the kites and crows is a refinement of the science of Government when contrasted with the rufflanly violence and dull hypocrisy which pass for statecraft in an era which is called Christian because its empty.onths are sworn in the name of a dishonoured God. Yet "Loyalty," as now understood in Australia, means that this country is called upon to cast in her lot with the dying world and share the destinies of Europe ata time when Europe is on the brink of a fathomless abyss. We are cheerfully summoned to touch pitch and not be defiled; to challenge an Imperial lunatic let loose; to go 16,000 miles out of our path to place ourselves between two millstones which grind exceeding small. There is so much to lose and so little to gain that the programme is not an attractive one. The man who seeks the tion of the desert for the express purpose of reading on its tail is not generally regarded as an individual of genius, but his action is an inspiration from heaven compared to the pro gramme of the Imperial Federation grovellera who are now loose in this Continent.Sydney war, of Bulletin.

In answer to the Court he described on a paper many others, beginning with the well-known (B) with a line drawn from wharf to whaif' the Donkey' case in which perhaps some cinfu, position of the Afeeance, and his course as far as sion has arisen from. the language used rather her stern and he then volunteered a statement than in principle, is summed up" Marsden's that the_Metanee's anchorage had been recently Law of Collisions at Sen, p, 23; but 1 think changed more to the eastward. The look-out it sufficient to state here that 1 do no man was then called and in examination in chief agree with the view urged by Mr. Caldwell, on corroborated the statement in the petition and the ground that I have come to the conclusion to some extent the evidence of the last witness that only by extraordinary skill and foresight but in cross-examination he stated that the could those onboard the Pioneer have anticipated Morning Star passed the fecanes's stern the extraordinary and unaccountable conduct about 10 cheung off, a much greater distance of those in charge of the Aforning Star. 11 the than that stated by the last witness, and he also case of the Fortuneris and Khedive, also referred stated that "Just' as our head went to starboard ato by Mr. Caldwell, the facts were somewhat bit (after passing the Afecanee) and at the time similar to those in the present case, that is to he saw the Pioneer we starboarded first say both vessels were travelling on parallel before we saw her! no doubt meaning "our head courses, green light to green light, but the went to starboard before we saw her." He also Vorwaarts in that case suddenly shewed the stated that when in collision the Morning Star's red light half to three-quarters mile off, whilst head was pointed toward Whitfeild Station in the present case the Morning Star did not and the Pioneer's towards the Naval Yard. shew her red light until almost immediately The engineer gave evidence as to reversing the preceding the collision. Suit dismissed, with engines of the Aforning Star and the purser costs. who was standing by the steersman when the Morning Star passed the Afecante stated that he did not see the Pioneer until about 10 yards past the Afteancels stern and then her lights were about straight ahead and added he could

ot see them before as they were at the back of A general meeting of the shareholders of the the Mecanes and in answer to the Court he above Company was held this afternoon at the replied that the Mzzanee's anchorage had not Offices, 22, Queen's Road Central. There were Mr. Woolley-This is not a public company. been changed. If the plaintiff's evidence stood present:-Messrs. J. D. Humprheys, (Chair-was for two years secretary of this Association alone it would be impossible to come to any man), EL. Woodin, E. L. Rewer, (Directors), { myself, and I know the vast amount of work satisfactory conclusion. The evidence of the J. Andrew (Secretary), and the following share which is necessary to keep the thing going, first witness was prevaricating and capped holders: Messrs: S. J. Gower, J. Hancock, Capt. Mr. Andrew said there were constantly sums voluntarily by an unnecessary falsehood as to Burnie, J, Orange, C. Ozorio, J. da Roza, J. W. to be paid, and it was only possible for the Com- the change of anchorage of the Meeener. But Noble, F. Hatherly, A. [.May, R. K. Leigh, mitted to understand the accounts. If they assuming the plaintiff's evidence to be taken as J. Willmott, W. E. L. Clement, W. D. Braid- 'appointed an auditor he would have to accept to the cause of the Morning Star coming up to wood, B. Buschmann, W. G. Humphreys, R. the vouchers given him and would be unable to the stern of the Aeenner and having regard to the Fuhrmann, and C. Peermann. Mr. F. H. O.

know whether they were correct or not. position of the two wharves and the Mennes it Wilson attended as Solicitor to the Company..... Mr. Kennedy said be presumed that the is impossible to conceive that the Pioneer when The Secretary having read the notice conven Secretary, of the Association had to submit his first seen or when she ought to have been first ing the meeting, the Chairman said: -

proposals of expenditure to the Committee seen was either on the port side of the Morning Gentlemen,This meeting is convened in before making disbursements. Star or directly ahead. Moreover, if the course accordance with the Companies' Ordinance No. Mr. Forbes thought that the question was of the Morning Star was as shown on the of 1877, and we have therefore no formal report unnecessarily taking up the time of the meeting. exhibit ♬ there is no reason why those on board to make or statement of accounts to render; but He asked what Mr. Kennedy expected to gain the Morning Star should not have seen the as much misapprehension appears to exist in by having an outsider auditing the accounts. Į lights of the Pioneer's bow before they did, or on reference to our venture, I will endeavour It was purely a formal affair; every member of the other hand the Pioneer mast necessarily to put before you a short statement of the Association was satisfied that the accounts have been considerably on their starboard how, the real facts attending the formation of had been properly audited, and it was only if she was hidden by the Mecanes. The position the Company as far as we are concerned; taking up time, in his opinion, to discuss the of the vessels in collision as sworn to by two First, as to its' promoters. one of the question further. (Applause). witnesses also tends to show that the Pioneer Directors, namely, Mr. Reuter, was a promoter, General Gordon said he would like to say a not only deliberately came out of her course on and made a profit by the sale of his share of word while on this question. When he was a starboard helm. but that she must have also the Austin Arms property to the Company. The Chairman of Committee this question was raised poried before the collision actually occurred. other Directors and myself have siniply taken and he advocated the appointing of a member The more probable, story appears to me to be shares on the same footing as the rest of not on the Committee to audit the accounts, that in "rounding" the stern of the Mecance, the shareholders, and have had no other advant. His first reason was because he thought that an expression to be found in the plaintiffs' petition, age of any kindi whatever. When 1 jained the those who were responsible for the expenditure she was under a port helm, and thus brought Board, Mr. Findlay Smith's name was down on should not audit the accounts; and the second the Pioneer on her port bow. Although in their the list of Directors, he baving consented to be reason was that at the last spring meeting there petition plaintiff's allege there were several passen- one of the Board, but he retired shortly afterwards, were one or two objections made by members gers on board the Morning Star at the time of The Peak Hotel will not interfere with us. We who stated that they had not got prizes of the the collision upt one was called to give evidence, propose to construct a comfortable Family Hotel | value announced. This was a very painful On the other hand on behalf of the defendant after the style of such places at home, consist-statement, but such complaint was made Company, the look-out man on the Pioneer gave ing of bed and bathrooms on the first and second to the Committee. It was not necessary evidence that when he first saw the Morning doors, and public and private dining and now to enter into details as to how the Star, she was a little off the Afccanee straight drawing rooms, smoking and reading rooms matter was settled, but he felt then and re- ahead from them but he added he could only on the ground floor; with all the offires and presented it strangly to the Committee that the see her green light and that his vessel was then conveniences one is accustomed to lind in accounts should be aurited by an outsider. The steering a little to the east of Pedder's wharf so England in hotels of this class. We did not question was postponed and no decision was as to pass the stern of the Mccance. When he propose to interfere with any existing busi- arived at when he left the Committee. He was saw the Morning $tar circling 'round they ness in this Colony-in any way whatever, but urged to this view because a gentleman who had changed their own course to the eastward to the best of our ability to bring within the acted as treasurer for two or three months had

Further East a drunken and ignorant Czar when she was about 150 cubil feet off or some reach of every resident on the lower levels who also acted as auditor. He was not casting the

sits uneasily on a seething mass of disaffection where about go to 60 yards. In cross-examina wanted a change, an opportunity of getting it in slightest reflection on his friend, Mr. Andrew,

and prays the only prayer which now passes the tion he swears that he never saw the red a quict family hotel of the good old sort, without but he did not think it was quite correct that a FUNERAL OF MAJOR PREVOST. lips of a Romanoff-that things may last his light of the forning Star until the Pioneer being forced to go out of the Colony for it. The man who acted as treasurer should audit, the

time. His father offered up the same petition had changed her course. The steersman of the Hotel will no doubt be a convenience to residents accounts. (Applause). He hoped and trusted The mortal remains of Major Prevost, of the before him and offered it up as he does on the Pioneer also deposed that when he first saw theat the nehgbouring Parts, and will' induce that the meeting would agree with him in his gtst Regiment, whose sudden death whilst in

points of four million bayonets. In his case the Morning Sinr he was steering to pass the many to visit this colony who would not other view of the matter that a member outside the the performance of his duty we chronicled petition was answered. He went forth one day stern of the Meenner a little to the east of wise do so. Next, as to the price paid for the Committee should be appointed as auditor. yesterday, were buried in the Happy Valley this

to show himself to his loving subjects, and an Pedder's wharf and the Pioneer then was on two properties. It is generally supposed that Mr. Legge said he had been secretary to the morning with all the pomp and ceremonial of hour later an almost unrecognisable mass of the Hongkong side of "e Mezance, a litle this was excessive, and, in point of fact, a long R gatta Club and Treasurer to Victoria Lodge, full military honors. In accordance with orders crowned cats-meat was brought back in a car to the west of their staruoard bow, and that way beyond their real value. No doubt the and in both institutions the accounts had always issued last night the funeral cortige left Wellringe, and the world knew that Alexander had he could only see her green and white lights; vendors made a very good thing for themselves been audited by other members. (Applause). Ington Barracks, the band playing the Dead been taken from the wrath to come. His, pre- that there was plenty of room to pass, by the sale, but did we pay more than the land Mr. Francis said that as the opinion of the March, shonly after 10 o'clock, and was composed decessor, Nicholas, died a natural death of rage and that he only saw her red light as she came was worth to us, or more than its niarket value meeting was evidently in favour of what Mr. of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders under and liquor and, it is more than whispered, of poi- up into collision and then he starboarded; he also at the time? I think not. The upset price of Kennedy had said, he presumed the Committee the command of Colonel Forbes-Robertson, son, and so he also escaped the deluge; but few said the Morning Star began to circle round Crown land in the vicinity is 20 cents a foot; understood that in future they must appoint an the oferers of the Garrison Staff, Royal of the Crars came to so peaceful an ending. after passing the chequered buoy about 300 Peak sites as a rule do not, I am informed by the outsider as an auditor.

Engineers, Royal Artillery, and of the company These memories of the past are fast driving Chinese ft. off, and he saw her begin to part at Architects, yield on the average more than one Mr. Hooper said he thought the names of the of the Northamptonshire Regiment still in the Alexander II. into Insanity. He has already that distance. Mr. Humphreys, a passenger on foot in four of level land suitable for building Committee were well enough known to prove colony. In addition there was a powerful con- become a dreary hypochondriac who sees visions the Pioneer, said he first saw the Morning Star, purposes, and to get this involves an expen- that every thing would be done fairly and above tingent of Naval officers, headed by Commodore and dreams of phantoms, and starts from shape- some little time before the collision considerably diture of not less than five cents a foot. This board. (Applause.) With reference to what Maxwell. His Excellency the Governor was less terrors; and, in his distraction, be masses to the west of the Pioneer. He did not notice would make the average cost at the Peak at General Gordon had said about one of the audi-represented by his aide-de-camp, Capt. des great armies and conducts incoherent maneuvres her lights but he could see her hull fairly and this moment of level building ground avail-tors acting as treasurer, he begged to say be Veux, and, his private secretary, Mr. Slingsby and dicates inebriated protocols, and is steadily as we neared she seemed abruptly to turn right able for use not less than 5 cents a foot was responsible for those accounts and that they Bethell, and Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon by his drinking and divelling Europe into down upon us, and to me it seemed wilful. I was Messre. Danby and Leigh inform me, that upon bore his name and not Mr. Andrew's.

flag-lieutenant; Mr. J. F. Lea, and his private which no one can see the end. And meanwhile, quite astonished; I was alarmed. It was when these lots respectively we have the following

secretary, Mr. R. B. Rigbye. Major-General throughout his empire, the clank of fetters is in CHILDREN starving to death on account of their she was some hundreds of yards away." In areas available for building purposes. On the

Cameron, who was attended by his aide-de-camp, the air, and the cries of thousands of tortured inability to digest food will find a most marvellous cross-examination be said. there was a wide Austin Arms Estate 71,046 square feet at 85

Capt. Somerville, joined the procession at the prisoners as they eat their lives out in noisome food and remedy, in Scott's Emulsion of Pure margin between the two vessels. Mr. Scott, cents a foot, $60,389.10. This cost us $50,000;

Monument. A strong detachment of the High- dungeons, go up to heaven, andalf Russia exists Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites. Very palat- another passenger, also gave evidence, but as the leveling will cost $5,400 leaving us a

landlers, with arms reversed, led the way, and in a living death that one worthless Romaportable and easily digested. Read the following he did not see the Morning Star, until she was margin of $4,999 10 The "Orange" property

were followed by the band and pipers of the may not die. coming, as he says, direct at them about go contains a net area of building land already,

Regiment; then came the body of the deceased

testimonial :-"I have prescribed 'Scott's Emul sion in cases of chi'dren suffering from wasting yards away, his evidence is not very important, made for us of 69.117 square feet at 85 cents a

officer on a gun carriage, the coffin being draped

and mal-nutrition and can report most favour but so far as it goes it corroborates the foot, $58,749.45; it cost us $50,000.00, leaving a

with the British flag, and bearing his sword and

ably of its good effect; it has bean in each case other evidence for the defence. Mr. Woolley, margin in out favour of $8.749-45. I may further

helmet and a large number of appropriate floral

taken most readily."-W. PERKINS, M.R.C.S. passenger, deposes that when be state for your information that we purchased two

wreaths. Officers of the Garrison Staff walked at first saw the Morning Star she, was on their lots of Crown land extending from the Austin

each side of the carriage, which was immediately

Medical Superintendent, Butleigh Hospital. starboard bow and he saw the green and Arms fot to Umbrella Scat at Public Auction at

followed by Colonel Forbes Robertson and half-

Any Chemist can supply it.-A. S. Watson white lights and the vessels seemed to an average price of 32 cents a foot and have

a dozen brother officers of the deceased. The

China-Adv. & Co. (Limited), agents la Hongkong and be going to pass green light to green and he obtained an extension from the yard to

naval and military contingents, several members said she turned completely round and he saw improve the road frontage and the property

of the Legislative Council and of the Hongkong her lights for a moment only before the collision.generally. These purchases give us the whole

Government Service,. a considerable number of He also said when the Morning Star was first of the road frontage from the Gap Police

leading residents, and another strong body of seen by him the Pioneer was steering straight Station to Umbrella Seat and a site admirably

the Highlanders brought up the rear. for Peddar's Wharf. Having regard to the adopted in every way for our purpose. nature and class of evidence given on behalf of We propose, after the work of laying out the the defendant Co. and to the unsatisfactory ground is completed, to build up to the full limit evidence on the plaintiff's behalf I can only nur building area as soon as practicable. The come to one conclusion upon the facts, namely, work is bring proceeded with as rapidly as possi- in that when the Pioneer and Morning Star first ble. As soon as we can do so at a fair proht, we sighted each other they were green light to intend to realize on the Terrace property and green and that if each had kept their course no confine our entire capital and energies to the collision could have resulted, and looking at the development of the Austin Arms. I think that is evidence of the independent witnesses on the all I need say, unless any shareholder ban any defendant's behalf what alone brought about the questions to ask. collision was the act of the steersman of the Mr May asked whether the vacancy that oc- Morning Star in abruptly porting at whatevercurred in the Board of Directors should be filled exact distance it may have been that the up. Pioneer was off. However it is clear to my The Chairman-Not necessarily, but I shall mind that it was at so short a distance off be pleased to hear of any proposition to that that it at once rendered a collision Imminent. effect." It is almost unnecessary to state that the role of Mr. May said he would propose Mr. Hancock the road (Art. 15) ar to porting when vessele are as a Director. meeting end-on or nearly end-on does not apply Mr. Hatherly seconded by night to cases where the green light of one The Chairman remarked that he had just vessel in opposed to the green light of the been informed by the Company's Solicitor other, -as was the case here. Nor does that as this was only a formal meeting, they Art. 18, on which Mr. Caldwell relied, could not do any business appertaining to seem to me to have application. The words the ordinary: routine of yearly meetings. After *if necessary,' at the end of 9th Article appears reading a Sub-section of the Articles of Associa peculiarly applicable the present case; tion referring to the appointment of Directors, no doubt the Pionier's atceraman said he saw he said the wishes of the shareholders would the Morning Star, circling some distance off, always have the Directors' beat attention, but but being, until shortly before the collision, green in the present instance, he was advised to light to green, he was entitled to assume the decline entertaining any proposal. would maintain that position until he saw her Mr. May then withdrew his motion. red light, or, as Mr. Humphreys put it, until she The Chairman, continuing, said he wished turned abruptly in such a way as to cause him some one would put a question concerning the alarm and he could not reasonably have appre- manner in which the Company's shares had hended danger before; when he saw a collision been allotted. Rumours were prevalent outside imminent he did what he could in the agony that some irregularity, had taken place in the of the collision (see the Bywell Castle," "disbelbution of the shares applied for. He was, 4 P. D. 219) to avert the impending blow by moreover, in a position 10 state. that the allot throwing off bis own ship's head to port. ment had been perfectly regular, The number With regard to the case of Radley and L, & N. of shares that were to be applied for W. Ry. Co. (App. Ca. 754) and the doctrine of had been declared in the Statement published contributory negligence referred to by Mr. Cald- at the time. The application was not legally well, it was no doubt said in that case that bindings the greater number was taken by the though the plaintiff may have been guilty of Directors and their friends and the balance by contributory negligence and although that negll the public. The Directors object in making this gence may in fact have contributed to the accl. declaration was to put an end to the disquieting dent, yet if the defendant could in the result by rumours, which were in circulation, ad to afford exercise of ordinary care and diligence have the Company a start on a fair foting (Ap- avoided the mischief which happened, the plause). plaintiff's negligenes will not excuse himy Lt. the" defendant, fi The 'result of that sses and',

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There being no other business to transact the meeting terminated,

Mr. Robinson agreed with the last speaker, This was not a commercial society. In a society of this sort if they gave unnecessary trouble to those who took office they would find difficulty in obtaining anyone to serve. If it was the opinion of the meeting that the members of the Committee were incompetent to audit the accounts then they should not re-elect them.

The Chairman said there was a right and a wrong way of doing everything. He was cer tain that those who had audited the accounts were perfectly competent to do so, but he was of opinion that it would be better that the Com- mittee should nominate two other members to do it in future, provided that two men were avail- able who had the necessary qualifications. If no one had any further remarks to make he would move the adoption of the report and accounts,

Mr. Woodin seconded, and the motion was, carried unanimously.

The Chairman said the next business was to elect a Committee, which he thought had belter be done by ballot. There was no specified number of members to form the Commitice, but on the last occasion they had selected thirteen including the Chairman, and he though they had better follow that precedent. Some of the members of the present Committee had left the colony, and as he himself was leaving shortly he might add that he was not seeking re-election It would be advisable to have some of the officers of the new Regiment on the Committee, but as none of them bad yet joined the Association they could not be elected. However, it was at all times open to them to add to the Committee, and if any officers jolaed they could be elected | afterwards,

The scene along the line of march, which was by way of Prays East, was most impressive, and attracted thousands of spectators. Nearing the Racecourse the pipers played that most plaintive of all Scottish melodies, The Flowers of the Forest," the road from the Monument to the Protestant Cemetery being thickly lined with sight-seers. Bishop Burdon, assisted by the Military Chaplain, performed the burial service, and the usual three volleys were fired over the grave. On the homeward journey the Higb. landers were formed "lato sours and returned to the barracks at quick march," their splendid appearance and soldierly bearing eliciting high encomiums from every side.

To-day's Advertisements,

No. 535.

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A LODGE will be held in FREEMASONS HALL, Zeland Street, THIS EVENING, the 18th instant, at 8:30 for a O'CLOCK precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited.

Hongkong, 18th January, 18°9,

N EMERGENCY MEETING of the shove

NOTICE...

In Austria a dull and commonplace man of no account sits on the throne, and, with stupid, cambrous motion, prepares for the war which everyone feels to be inevitable, though where or why or by whom it is to be waged none can tell with any certainty. He belongs to the oldest reigning house in Europe, a family which is slowly decaying under the pressure of insanity, epilepsy, and other hereditary maladies, but the Hapsburgs cling with a tenacious grip to the Roman crown, and a stupendous levy of armed men has been ordered to prop up their bedridden dynasty. To the south of his territories a mystic and melancholy Oriental, whose father and brather were both lunatics, and who is alternately the deepest schenter and the most harmicus driveller of the East, lurks in his seraglio ZETLAND and orders the rifles of his guards to be kept. unloaded lest they should go off by their against the wall; while to the North, annther own accord and scatter" his corrupted "brains crowned madman, brother and successor to a madman, howls in a padded room to the Bavarian capital and gibbers through the windows of the divine right of, kings. The rest of the upon the subjects over whom he rules by virtue German states which survived the disastrous, daya of 1866 are governed by a multiplicity of petty princesshadowy potentátes with morgen- OIL UPON THE WAVES. atic wives and families of dubious origin; hungry, drunken monarchs who sway their The Umballa, commanded by Captain G. F. bereditary sceptres in ramshackle chateaux and Withers, was coming up to Madras from Bombay, whose sons polish their own boots in Prussian in ballast trim, when she encountered the cyclone barracks while awaiting the advent of the day. on Thursday, the 13th Dec. Being so light, the when they will succeed to the inverted kerosene Umballa tolled fearfully, to an angle of Rearly: sin of their fathers and guide the destinies of a 45 degrees, and the spray blew over her in little territory a day's donkey-ride in diameter. blinding showers the sea rushing upon her in History, so far, tells of no German prince who heavy and confused masses from the north-east ever look in washing, but the royal beadles of and north-west at the same time. The wind blew Fatherland bave experimented on every other the fore topmast and yards clean over the star form of degradation, and persistent intermarriage board side, and two boats were literally blown haa-spread an incradicable taint of insanity out of their chocks. Two more of the boats through the ancestral humpies in which they were smashed by a bege ses, but happily wield the green cotton umbrella of sovereignty, no personal damage was done beyond bruises Denmark, which exerts in Central Europe an and cuts, received by the officers from falling influence altogether disproportioned to its she gear, blocks; &e, and being: hurled against the and resources, is slowly dying under the rule of Tails and stanchions The Captain and Officers a foolish and stone-deaf tyrant, who has long wore on the bridge for thiny-six hours posed before the world as a bogus philanthropist without rest or food. The Engineers, too, had of the first magnitude; and his stone-deaf family a very bad time, the Chief Engineer, and his promises favourably to keep up the traditions of three pesistants having to stand by the engines the dynasty. The taint of scrofala and mental the-whole of the time. On Thursday night, disease which a constant series of royal alliances when the steamer was hove to, Captain Withers has spread throughout, nearly every reigning used kerosene oil to break the force of the sea house in continental Europe is now making itself. with excellent effect. The oil was towed over the felt in the palace at Copenhagen, and is also fast bows in five gallon drums with holes perforated corrupting the sturdy physique in 10 the bottom. As the waver cane rush of Bernadotte in Sweden; and the ceaseless flow. cofthedescendants. Mr. Hooper said the first alteration consisted fog up the effect of the oil was immediately of the impure blood of the minor Gennan prices simply in striking out the word "General" before apparent, for the mountains of water were into England has given to that country Committce in Rula 3 Rule 4 was altered, to smoothed in a manner described as simply series of wooden-headed and sordid rulers of read as followsThat the Committee appoint marvellous,, so that instead of breaking over the whom the Anglo-Saxon race bas little cause, to their own Chairman and Vice-Chairman and vessel, as they imminently threatened to do, hoy be proud. For many years the Guelphs with have power to add to their number, to fill up glided under her, and only the spray from their stood the contagion: Dull, stagnant, illiterate, vacancies and appoint sub-committees with pawar 4. tops blew on board, Calivita Mali Ang mead, Immoral parsimonious, and queenth-

The ballotting then took place with the result that the following gentlemen were elected:- Mesars. E. L. Woodin, J. Andrew, A. Woolley, H. J. Holmes, Major Dempster, Captain Collin son, A. S., Hooper, E. Robinson, Major Tripp, J. W. Noble, General Gordon, A. K. Travers, and Colonel Storer.

The Chairman-We have now to consider the revision of the rules.

Mr. Cross-Is this in order ? We have had no time to consider this matter. It has been sprung upon us. Should not notice be given us of the proposed alterations.?

The Chairman-There is nothing in the rules about the revision.

Mr. Cross-Then I suggest that seven days notice be given.

The Chairman said the meeting was all-power fu. If it agreed that seven days' notice was to be given he should rule accordingly, if not he should proceed with the revision,

Mr. Francis suggested that the proposed alterations in the rules be put before the meeting, and they would then be in a position to see whether it was necessary to postpone the con sideration or whether they might proceed with the revision at once.

HE

SANITARY BOARD.

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shall allow the same or any portion thereof to no person who shall erect a domestic building. he occupied until such building shall have been examined by a duly authorized OFFICES of the SANITARY BOARD and certified by him as having. been built in compliance with the entire provi. sions of the Public Health Ordinance.

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