To-day's Advertisements.
THEATRE
CITY HALL.
ROYAL,
MR. HENRY 'DALLAS'
COMIC
OPERA SEASON.
LAST 3 NIGHTS. LAST 3 NIGHTS.
TO-NIGHT!
AND
TO-MORROW (THURSDAY),
The Belle of New York.”
THURSDAY NIGHT,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1901.
To-day's Advertisements.
THE SUPREME COURT OF
HONGKONG, -
THE COURT will sit in SUMMARY THE
JURISDICTION, TOMORROW, (THURSDAY), the 4th instant, at 10 A.M., instead of FRIDAY, the 5th instant
J. W. NORTON KYSHE,
Registrs
Hongkong, 3rd April, 1901.
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Intimations. EYE SIGHT.
Mr N. LAZARUS, Occulist-Optician, of London and Calcutta, may be consulted for SPECTACLES at 16, Queen's Road Central, (R. HOUGHTON &.Co.) (Nearly opposite the HONGKONG HOTEL), Business hours 1---9 AM to 5 PM.
MR. G, M. BAIN, Editor and Proprietor of our evening contemporary, was a passenger for home by the Emprese of Chiun to-day."- THE new flag of United Australia is the Union Jack, with six stars on the crossbars, each star representing one of the federated Colonies., A HOME paper under heading "Money & Stocks says the escape of De Wet is responsi ble for a fall of Kaffiry. We have always beam that the famous Puer leader was brutally cruel to the natives..
The swing likely to result to the Indian Military estimates next official year, owing to the continued absence of the Indian Contin- gents, in South Africa and China, is placed at thirty-five lakhs.
I
GREAT proportion of cataracts ind A
diseases affecting those adruncing in life occur to those having, some deficiency in the construction of the eyes the many years of Eye Strain' ending in serious forms of disease. Glasses specially adapted in youth to those requiring them save and preserve the sight.
Constantly recurring headaches, spells of dimness when reading, weak eyes, the letters running of these symptonis Sale of Crown Land by Pune Auction, cate a deficiency in the form of the eye squirshire Regiment to which he had been gazetted, to be held at the Offices of the Public Works ing Glassca only to correct and cure. Department, on
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
No. 179.
HEfollowing Particulars and
TUESDAY,
the 9th day of April, 1901, al 3 P.M.,, are published for general information.
By Command,
Mr. LAZARUS supplies his SPECTACLES only after testing the sight.
ADVICE FREE.
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WE learn that Mr. Herbert Grant Smith, who left here a short while back to join the East York.
has been ordered to South Africa after being only a fortnight in England. It is not often one gets a chance of two campaigns within a year, and Mr. Grant Smith is to be congratulated. THE plague in India continues to increase.
in March, was 7,879, being an advance of nearly a thousand on the previous seven days. Bengal [394 A. S. WATSON & CO., district had 4,535 deaths and Calcutta 557. The North-Western Provinces and Oudh, 417; and the Bombay Presidency, 2,018 deaths.
J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary.
Complimentary Beatfit to Mr. & Mrs. DALLAS, Colonial Secretary's Office,
SATURDAY,
LAST NIGHT OF SEASON.
“SAN TOY.”
LAST NIGHT!
LAST NIGHTI
PLAN at ROBINSON PIANO CO2.
BERTRAM HERMANN,
Business Manager.
Hongkong, 3rd April, 1901..
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HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
EASTER MEETING.
ENTRIES will be received at the Under-
noted Addresstill NOON, TO-MORROW, the 4th instant, after which NO ENTRIES can be received till FRIDAY MORNING, on the Range. ENTRIES for the all Comers' Aggregate will CLOSE at MIDDAY, CA FRI- DAY, but other all Comers' Events will remain open as per Programme. TIFFINS will be provided Each Day on the Range 12.30 to
1.30
ALEX. MACKENZIE,
Hon. Secretary. 60, Queen's Road,
Hongkong, 3rd April, 1901.
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SANITARY A BOARD.
WNERS of HOUSES situated in the
What Division of the City of Victoria,
and in the Western Division of Kowloon, who
have not had their Premises LIMEWASHED and CLEANSED in accordance with Law, are reminded that the period during which the work should be FINISHED ends on the 30th day of APRIL, 1901, and the Sanitary Board being convinced of the necessity of Cleanliness in its efforts to Stamp out Plague, is determined to rigorously prosecute any owner in default alter the above named Date.
The Central Division of the City lies between Garden Road on the East, and Morrison Street and East Street on the West. The Western Division of Kowloon is all that part of the Kowloon Peninsula to the West of Robinson
Hongkong, 23rd March, 1901,
Particulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on Tuesday, the 9th day of April, 1901, at 3 M., at the Officer of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LAND, at Bowen Road, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 Years. with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Sarveyor of His Majesty the NING, for one further term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
*LOCALITY.
H.
Boundary Measurements.
f
it.
Bowen Rout, as 100
Ansual Rest
Upset Frice.
IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.
STEAM. FOR SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA
TH
HE Steamship
"PRINZESS IRENE,"
of the NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
LIMITED.
WATSON'S HYGIENOL. (Registered)
A POWERFUL DISINFECTANT, GERMICIDE, ANTISEPTIC
AND DEODORISER.
DONIAN GOLD MINING COMPANY LIMITED,
We would call the attention of local investors THE GREAT EASTERN AND CALE- to the prospects of William Powell, Limited, appearing in another column. This, well. known business shðukt prove a safe and pro- fitable investment,
"An extraordinary generalmeeting of The Great Eastern and Caledonian-Gold-Mining C Limited, was hold at the Offices of the General A GERMAN club for Colombo is the latest Agents, Messrs. Lütgens, Einstmann & Co, thing. A committee is already engaged in No. 14, Des. Voeux Road, to-day, at noon, for considering the ways and means of forming it. the purpose of considering, and if thought fit,
say! It is thought that there are a sufficient number Pessing the following resolution, that is to
That the Company be wound up Volun of Germans there to form the nucleus of a
tarily and that Max Bennecke, the business good club.
manager of the Company in New South Wales be and he is hereby appointed liquidator for the purpose of such winding up."
NINE essays have been sent in for the gold medal competition (1901) of the United Service Institution of India. The subject is: "The Practical Training of British and Native Troops in India with reference to the lessons of the
war in South Africa."',
We have received the following notice from the Manager of the Joint Telegraph Com- panies:- COMMUNICATION WITH TAKU, TIENTSIN AND
1
TEKING,
fod and Taks is restored.
Mr. R.C. Wilcox occupied the chair and there were also present Messrs E. Osmond Sent E. Kelly, R. M. Mehta Carl Georg, S. A. Joseph, C. E. Osmond, K. Edulgi,. Ezekiel, Gemarzen, K. Wiebel, G. Eergel, "Chan A Hoi and Mit Tell.
The Chaiman then said that
confirm the minutes of the they would
The number of deaths reported the second week | dian Enginuring says:-longkong Rope, to this alternative, or else that of making a call
A
CORRESPONDENT writes to the Afalay Mail:- Latest example of red tape. A Chinkman took a ticket on one of the railway's and died half way on his journey. The autho rities charged his relatives for freight on the dead body from the station at which he expired to the station where the journey ended. What
Ho!"
MESSRS. SHEWAN, Tomes & Co. the local Agents of The Yang-isze Insurance Associa tion, Limited, inform us that they have received information that the Directors will recommend at the General Meeting of Shareholders the payment of a further Dividend at the rate of RECOMMENDED BY THE MEDICAL 20% for previous years and that $50,000 be
PROFESSION.
CHEAP, HARMLESS CONVENIENT AND EFFECTIVE.
This DISINFECTANT possesses
carried forward to the reserve Fund,
LAST week the plaster "rose" which adorns the roof of the Raffles Museum in Singapore crash ed down on to the shoulders of the stuffed
meeting, held on the 23rd of March last, which was so poorly attended that the present meeting was convened. He was sorry that Telegraphic communication between Che- they had to meet under such circumstances as the present, which were necessitated by the state of the finances of the Company. As ha UNDER heading "Notes and Comments told them at the last meeting, they were driven on the shareholders. He did not think for a moment there was any chance of getting any call, and if they had got one they would not succeed in getting results that would enable them to obtain further capital because they had only $1 to call out and that would not carry them far or enable them to develop the profits to any extent. Besides the basis on which a call could be made was a very slender
The local article now entirely supplies the wants of the focal market in Hongkong to the exclusion of other manufactures, and in addition large quantities of the rope are shipped to all Easter poris and Australia.
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AT THE MAGISTRACY.
THE ATTACK ON THE VICTORIA GAOL WARDERS AND ASSISTANT
SUPERINTENDENT. Before Mr. Hazeland this? afternoon the three Chinese convicts, Mok So, Ip Sam, and Yeung Fuk, were chareed on remand with feloniously and maliciously wounding R. H. Craig, Assistant Superintendent at Victoria on the Caol, with intent to kill and murder, 27th of March last.
The Hon. F. H. May, C.M.G., (Captain Superintendent of Police) prosecuted.
An Indian warder gave evidence as follows: -On the 27th inst at 9.50 a.m. I was in charge of the three defendants with other prisoners in the lower yard. They were pick ing oakum at the time the Assistant Superin tendent and the Chief Warder were inspecting the yard. The prisoners were next to the wash- house on the south side. I saw the Assistant Superintendent walk towards the washhouse,
one.
They had not very encouraging reports from the mines and the only hope appeared to be in the Prospecting Shaft on the Great Eastern Mine, the one near Long's claim which had turned out successfully, though they never knew how long it would last. Their experience had been from time to time one of the mines fizzling out in rapid succession. They struck a patch of gold and sometimes got rich results and sometimes the results were moderate But
it
in
always fiziked out. That had been their ex- perience so far, and he did not think there was much in the Olivers' Mines. He did not think their success would encourage them, especially The Chairman then proceeded to read the regard to Queen's Mines. manager's last report, dated March 4th. He said it was not very encouraging; of course Long's claim might turn out good and their shaft joined it. It might afford them a chance but
he thought the chance was a slender one to
rhinoceros. The animal, however, was stout ly built, and suffered no damage beyond the loss of a toe-nail. The accident is supposed 10 be due to the white ants, which have eaten away the wooden supports of the "rase." "It was a fox-terrier, Sir," was the police Acid, but is IMMENSELY SUP | man's reply to the Commissioner of Requests East side. I saw the three defendants strike would have nothing to liquidate with, so that
in a case tried, recently, at Coloubo, in which
Captain P Wettin, will leave for the above all the good properties of Carbolic places, TO-DAY, the 3rd instant, at 8 P.M.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, For further Particulars, apply to
MELCHERS & CO., Agents.
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Hongkong, 3rd April, 1901. DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW.
THE Company's Steamship
*THALES,"
Captain Robson, will be despatched for the above Port, on SATURDAY, the 6th instant, at Daylight
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers.
[3900 Hongkong, 3rd April, 1901.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION
B
COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR MANILA
Read and includes Tsim Sha Tsui, Yau Ma Ti,HE Company's Steamship Mong Kok Tsui, Tai Kok Tsui and Sham Shui Po.
By Order of the Board,
Sanitary Board Office,
1st April, 1901.
G. A WOODtock, Acting Secretary.
"YUENSANG,"
Captain Rolfe, will be despatched as above
TUESDAY, the 9th instant, at 4 P.M. This Steamer has Superior Accommodation For First class Passengers, is fitted throughout [393€
with Electric Light and carries a Doctor.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Managers.
[391C Hongkong, 3rd April, 1901.
WILLIAM POWELL,
LIMITED.
INCORPORATED under the Companies' Ordinance of Hongkong, whereby the Liability of Shareholders is limited to the amount of Shares.
CAPITAL
$120,000
DIVIDED INTO 11,000 SHARES OF $10 BACK. 5,000 Shares have been Subscribed Privately, the remaining 7,000 Shares are offered to the Public,
Directors:
ALEXANDER TILLETT, CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY CO. HENRY HUMPHREYS, Messrs. JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON.
Bankers:
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
Gelial Management: The Management of the Business, will be con- ducted as heretofore until the engagement of a competent Manager by the Co's Agents in London.
Solicitors:
Messrs. MOUNSEY & BRUTTON, 39 & 41, DES Vœux ROAD.
Auditor:
WILLIAM H. GASKELL
PROSPECTUS.
This Company has been formed for the pur pose of acquiring and extending the business at present carried on by W. FOWELL & Co., Queen's Road Central, Drapers, Furnishers, Milliners, Outfitters, and Upholsterers, &c.
The business was established over. sixteen years ago, by WILLIAM POWELL Junior, who has now to retire owing to ill-health.
The vendor is confident that the business can be further developed, especially in the furnishing department, with an increasingly profitable trade.
The purchase price is based upon the Balance Sheet of the vendor dated the 26th July, 1900, as certified by W. H. GASKELL Account ant, and the Company will take the net profits as from the 1st July, 1900.
The vendor ill provide all preliminary expenses of the formation and bringing out of the Company, and the issue of its Capital
The vendor, WILLIAM POWELL, Junior, will enter into an agreement with the Company for the sale and purchase of the business
Pmspectuses together with Application Forms, can be obtained at the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,.Queen' Road, or from W. H. GASKELL 14, Des Voeux RoadONE RO
SHARE LISTS Will CLOSE on the 30th day
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND
SINGAPORE, ·
'HE Steamship
THE
"ARKATOON APCAR," having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside.
Cargo impeding the discharge will be landed
at once.
Cargo remaining on board after the 5th instant, at 2 P.., will be larided at Consignees' risk and expense into the Gedowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited.
**Consignees of Cargo from SINGAPORE and PENANG are requested to take IMMEDIATE DELIVERY of their Goods from alongside; such Cargo impeding the discharge of the vessel willte landed and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.
-
No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.; Agents.
13920 Hongkong. 3rd April, 1901
IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
S.S., PRINZESS IRENE," of the NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.
Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed HE above named Steamer having arrived, that their Goods, with the exceptio pium, Treasure and Valuables, are being landed and stored at their risk into the Godowns of the
Hongkong and Kowloon Whan and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before NOON, TO-DAY
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns and all Goods remaining undelivered after the toth instant, will be subject to rent.
ERIOR in being NON-POISONOUS | ---even in its concentrated form, thus avoiding risk of accident and in the facility with which it mixes with COLD WATER in any proportion. In its diluted state it will not injure, stain, or corrode the person, metals, furniture, cotton, linen, or woollen
fabrics.
WATSON'S
PURE CARBOLIC SOAPS
will be found most efficacious for the prevention of contagious diseases of all kinds.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
ESTABLISHED Å‚D, 1841.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1901.
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REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
RUSSIA AND CHINA.
LONDON, April 1st.
It is stated in Washington that information has been received that Russia has threatened China 'with a rupture of diplomatic relations.
BRITISH SOUTH :
AFRICA.
Commandants. De Wet and Botha are proceeding to meet each other::
PARLIAMENT.
The Chief Warder was following behind, but lie ran up and towards the Assistant Superintendent The first and second defendant ran to the back of Mr. Craig and the third defendant ran in front of him. He was going to the washhouse when the three defendants rushed at him. The three men ran through the south side of the gate in front of Mr. Craig, He was entering by the Mr. Craig with knives. I ran over and got the plaintiff sued, the defendant for value of a hold of the third defendant. He had a weapon in his hand like a knife. Then one of the guards dog shot by the latter. The constable was sup-spatched it from him, and the third defendant posed to have known the animal and was giv tried to strike him, I have a slight scratch on ing his evidence. "How do you know it was a fex-terrier?" asked the Commissioner. "Why, secured. I did not actually see the third de- my finger. The three defendants, were then Sir, it was the colour of a fox" was the prompi fendant strike Mr. Craig. I saw the other two reply. Tableau! A CEYLON paper says: "Two gentlemen, Ceylon residents, and a lady passenger, who were proceeding from the jetty to the mail
strike him on the neck with knives.
warrant them paying up more capital. He had come to the conclusion, and he thought it was en- darsed by many shareholders, that it was better mining prospects generally, that they should in the state of the market and in respect to liquidate. If they went on they might call up 35 cents till the dollar was called, and what would be the benefit? If they called up they it would hardly be a wise proceeding. They had telegraphed out to the mines and asked Mr. Bennecke to see if he could get any offer for the property, and to feel the market. He replied that he had been offered £1,000 for the whole property, and that offer could not a very grand offer but it was the best at only be left open to the cth of April. It was
in a better position.
Before proposing the resolution before the meeting he would be glad to answer any ques- tions or receive any suggestions from any
shareholder
present. They could instruct him to try and get a better offer. He thought-the property Dr. Thomson said-1 am Medical Officer was worth more but they would have to take at Victoria Gaol. On the 17th March what they could get. If they could get $20,000 made an examination of the various prison instead of $10,000 it would certainly put them officers and prisoners who were wounded steamer Onirali, about 9 o'clock on Sunday in the attack on Mr. Craig. The injur night, underwent a somewhat unpleasanties of Mr. Craig were two wounds, on experience. Whilst passing the French troop the pack of the head, just in the crown 3 ship Kut Long, which arrived the same day, inches and 2 inches long. The two joined in they were suddenly pelted with fragments of an angle and formed a wound six inches long. vegetables, etc, the onslaught being accom The hemorrhage from this wound was very panied by jeering. We have not heard whether severe and the scalp above the wound has any steps have been taken to resent the been numbed on account of the injury to the indignity offered."
nerves. There was also another wound on the front of the top of the head, somewhat on the left side. There were also two super ficial wounds, one on the shoulder. The in juries of Mr. Pierpoint, the Chief Warder, con sisted of a wound cut across the front of the right leg above the knee, 31 inches long and a cut about 1 inches deep into the muscle, inte the outer aspect of the front of the leg. I sent Mr.. Pierpoint to the hospital where he still is. Some Indian guards were also cut. There were two European prisoners injured. Wilson had a superficial wound on the arm six inches long and Lee received a kick.
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A HOME paper alludes to the romantic interest of the story of Richard Cromwell, who occupied the Throne of England for seven months, and stepped down from it to go into voluntary exile for twenty years. When Queen Anne, was engaged in some State ceremony in 1710, sur- rounded by a host of courtiers, a plainly- dressed old man was noticed in the throng. Thinking the impression of a simple country; man would be interesting, a gentleman asked the old man if he had ever witnessed such sight before. "Never, since I sat in her chair," replied the countryman pointing to Queen Anne. It was Richard Cromwell. The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge. with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospitals →→ Linstead and Davies H. N. Mody...
Ho Fook
Madame Musso
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E. H. Joseph
Kelly & Walsh, Ltd
Lutgens Einstmann & Co.
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N. Mody & Co.................... E. Pabandy
W. H. Percival W. Hutton Potts... Mrs. Stockhausen G. L, Tomlin Talati & Co P. F. Talati
Sums under $5.
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A STRANGE, weird smell descended upon Pen- ang yesterday, says the local paper of 23rd ulto. The statement that the House of Com It was not a common or garden smell, but mons had adjourned is incorrect,
RUSSIA'S INTERNAL TROUBLES. A revolutionary Committee consisting of 72 members has been arrested in St. Peters burg after a desperate fight with the police.
WEATHER REPORT.
The Observatory report says:- On the 3rd at 11.55 am. the barometer is rising on the China coast, falling over Japan. The depression is moving into the Sea of Japan Freshening monsoon on the China const, in the N. part of the China Sea, Forecast N. to N.E. winds, moderate to fresh; fair.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
d
THE Supreme Court sits In Summary Jurisdic All broken, chafed, and damiged Goods are tion to-morrow instead of Friday. to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on TUESDAY; the 9th instant, and MR. J. J. Francis, K.C., left by the Sluttgart THURSDAY, the 13th instant at 9.30 A-Mathis morning on a trip to Singapore.
All Claims must reach us before the 15th Fre instant, or they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned.
rather the concentrated essence of all that is awful. It fell upon and overwhelmed every thing and everyone. It was no respecter of persons. senses but the whole five. You could touch it, Taste it, see it, and (almost) bear it. You'could also ameli'it. Whither it, 'came or whence it departed we know not. In fact it so settled upon the place that there is some dalibr. whether it has yet gone. It was of remarkable solidarity, It penetrated everywhere, yet- nothing could penetrate it, and it caused people strange and profane language. Even the office to look askance at each other and use of this paper had to be disinfacite Scientific opinion differed about it, thoughflikt is nothing unusual, for scientific opinions always do differ. But the opinions of ordinary and un- scientific persons also differed. Everybody:: likened it io something that his neighbour did not, The only point of agreement was that the chemical, combination was one hitherto un known to Penang It was a dreadful visitation, and the durian was justly hurt at being for the first and only time touted in a-line which has hitherto been particuliarly its own. A combination of Penang draius, duriana, and decomposed fish, is the nearest approach which a limited vocabulary permits us to vise concern ing it. It must be smelt, to be believed [Evidently the Editor of our Penang content porary has never been in Hongkong for hid
It affected not merely one of the
A FIRE took place at the goods-yard at wala Lumpur recently, resulting in damage amount- Aging to $3,000 NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD... IT is reported that the Crar of Russia proposestad our port, no smell to spankly,
AMELCHERS & COMRA
Dr. Thomson thought several of the wounds might easily have been fatal if they had been in a slightly different spot and some of the in- jured men would probably have bled to death if medical assistance had not been available.
Further evidence was then heard.
THE PLAGUE,
LITH
Number of cases reported (Chinese........76 bp till noon of the 2nd Other Asiatics April, 1901.........
Europeans...... 9 Number of cases reported (Chinese........ 3 Other Asiatics o during the past 24 hours Europeans.....
Total number of cases reported to date...8o
Number of deaths reported (Chinese......74 up til noon of the and Other Asiatica o April, 1901....
Europeans...... Chinese ! Number of deaths reported Other Asiatice o
during the past 24 hours
Eltopeans...... 0.
Total number of deaths recorded to date...75
SMALL-POX.
Number of cases reported (Chinese
Mr. Georg should like to know if the preference shareholders will get their full valus. The Chairman:-We have at present about $6000 at the mines and of course there is profit. to realise. There are about 66,000 preference shares belonging to holders of preferenc shares only. Of course the preference shares held by ordinary shareholders would have to pay up on the ordinary shares and the pre- ference shareholders who have preference shares only are entitled to payment if we have money to pay. If any ! presăme they would have to take the dividend, ja
Mr. G-I would Gongly recommend that the company do not accept anything like 1,000for the machinery etc. Thereare probably about co tons of it and the cost of carrying it away would be about 1 per ton. It would sell for £60 the various engines and the battery alone.
The Chairman :—of: course I think that
£1,000 is a very low offer and we shall ask for
another offer.
Mr. Georg-in taking the property to pieces there is £200 worth of iron on the premises and if it was taken to the railway station you could get much more than you get in selling it in the block.
Mr. Kelly You may be sure that the managers will do all they can for the share bolders.
Mr. Georg-There are certain, fins who inake it their business to buy machinery on the grounds. We should be cautioned against such firms
The Chairman :-Your remarks will all be conveyed to the, General Manager and he will be put on his guard. We shall call for tenders and be will be instructed to sell it in sections or otherwise, to the best advantage in any case
If there are no further questions, I will now. propose the resolution before the meeting.
Mr. Kelly seconded,
Mr. Georg-Before putting it to the weer- ing I should like to know if you are going to call on the ordinary shareholders, Last year you were against liquidation chiefly because the money would be called from the preference shareholders. How much will the drdinary thareholders have to pay ?
up till mon of the 2nd Other Asiatics 5. April, 1901 (Europeans......10 The Chairman am in hopes that there Number of cases reported (Chinese 3 will be no necessity for making any call Those Diber Asiatics. ordinary shareholders who hold preference during the past 24 hours (Europeans shares, we should place one against the other
and we should only have to pay on the balance. The balance is very small.
• Mr. Georg--That would mean paying in
full
Total number of cases reponed to date...58 Number of deaths reported (Chinese 32
up till boon of the and Other Asiatics 2 The Chairman: The preference sharey
Number of deaths reported Other Asiatics of shareholders have to pay a call.
April, 1901, ...
Europeans... holders are entitled to any assets. Chinese ? Mr. Georg That means that we ordinary. during the past 24 hours
Europeans
The Chairman-In any case the ordinary. shareholders are most of them also preference *** Total number of deaths recorded to date 17 | shareholders. They would only pay out of one
BOER PRISONERS FOR INDIA,
The following are the fact says the Bombay Gazette, regarding the Boer prisoners, who are to be sent to India from South Africa Arrangements are being made for five thousand of them to be located, in batches of about a thousand fach, in various stations and they are expected to begin arriving immediately, as it is desired that they should not be on the road in India after the 15th April. The stations where they are to go are not yet entirely settled but Panttman, Deradun, Bellary, Trichinopoly Fand Kodalinal ag this ones that.. ill probab
pocket into another
Mr. Georg Unless the ordinary share, holding is larger than the preference, vodene
The Chairman I think we can settle that: question. I do not think there will be any difficulty about it; of course we could go on talking about it for a very long time but it can easily be adjusted, I hope there will not be much of a call
On putting the resolution to the metting it- was carried, 13 voting for, and 3 roting against
The Chairman That is all ther siness, gentlemen The resolution will be submitted for confirmation, 2824 special resolution
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.