THE GIFTSUL BUSSAN KAIS DA. baya ro- moved to their new premises in Prince's tupla- ings, Ice House Street.
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES During the week ended 714 Feturnary tie following cases of communicable disease were reported as accaring in the Colony-Diphuberin, one fatal "case; Enteric Fever, one fatal case; Smallpox, one fatal case, Chinese, imported fromthe Straits Settlements on the steamship Hong Ber. FOREIGNER SENTENCED IN JAPAN:- A Kobe telegram of 7th instant to the Shanghai Mercury says Mr. Guenther, arrested for wouad ng one of a mob of Japasere coolies trying to force its way into the godown of which he had charge, has been sentenced 'by the
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1902.
THE MERCANTILE MARINE,
WHAT THE OWNERS THINK.
Mr. Michnet proposed. and Mr. Sheppherd seconded and it was agreed that Messrs. T. Amold and W, H. Gaskell be reappointed auditors.
The Chairman thanked those present for their attendance, and informed them that the dividend warrants would be ready to-morrow,
It is perhaps somewhat premattire to discuss the views of the owners regarding the demands of the officer of the Mercantile Marine employed on the China coast. We are informed this morning that some of the principal shipping Grms in the Caloay have received a circular HONGKONG Y. M. C. ASSOCIATION. letter asking for an increase of pay from £14 to 20 per month for First Mates, from 8 to
4 ar Second, and from £7 to £11 for Third Mates. Whether or no the owners will grant the requests at present remains to be seen, but from the general tone of their remarks it would appear that the proposal is not accepted
OPENING OF THE CHINESE DEPARTMENT.
this important branch of the Y. M. C. A. here, The opening reception, în connection with
large number of Chinese adherents, and many occurred last evening. By eight o'clock a
Notice of Firm.
24, BANK BUILDINGS.
HAVE This Day-established myself at the above Address as MERCHANT and COMMISSION AGENT under the Style of JORGE & CO...
F. J. V. JORGE. Hongkong, 1st February, 1902.
+
Masonic.
PERSEVERANCE-
[14'c
LODGE OF
HONGKONG, No. 1,165.
REGULAR MEETING of the abuve
Japanese Court to one month's 'imprisonment with that seriousness which is perhaps warrant European friends of the movement, had LODGE will be held in the FREEMA
with hard labour,
MAN-EATER SHOT AT JOHORE-A male tiger that had been prowling about near Iskander Hall, Johore, of late; was shot recent.
ly. It is thought that the tiger and its temale companion had killed, perhaps, thirty Chinese nt various times within a few miles intana. The tiger was shot by Unkoo Ibram of Pahang, chief hunter to H, H. the Sultan of Johore, who did the business by sending a bullet through the brute's left eye, and brain. Residents in
|
ed by the statements of the men. It is pointed
out that their present rule of pay is far above that in vogne among the German and Japanese officers in similar positions, and the owners are not very greatly impressed with their action, seeing they are serving British Brins in British interests. Whatever was done at Singapore could have no bearing on the case, for there the pay of the officers was far below the present cate in these parts, and with the increase granted the remuneration is now only equal to that paid to officers on the China Coast.
assembled in the comfortable and spacious
rooms in Des Voeux Road Central.
The Rev. W. J. Southam, the promoter of the Y. M. C. A. movement in Hongkong, intro- duced the president, the Hop. J. J. Bell-Iring who in an able exposition of the purposes of the Y. M. C. A. movement in general, and of that of Hongkong in particular, laid stress on the great importance of the formation of character in youth and early manhood, and its necessity to the well-being of the community of Hong-
great future before it.
SONS HALL, Zetland Street, on, MONDAY, the 17th instant, at 5 for 5.30 p.m. precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited to attend. Hongkong, th. February, 1902. {181d
Intinrations.
NOTICE.
the vicinity are very thankini that the district | Asked whether there was any prospect of the kong, which needed men of integrity for the PLAGUE and RATS, the Sanitary Board
is rid of this dangerous animal.
THE CORONATION :-Dr. Matsukata, who
is at present in Shanghai, recently received a telegrara from his father, Conat Matsukata, ex- Prime Minister of Japan, stating that the latter has been appointed Ambassador to represent Japan at King Edward's Cotonation, along with
Prince Komatsu, The Count, it will be remen- bered, was for many years Finance Minister for
owners meeting the wishes of the men the principal of one of the largest shipping firms in Hongkang stated that if such an action was taken it would probably only be temporary, as there were many men not only willing and ready, but also capable of discharging the duties to the satisfaction of the owners at the present scale of remuneration.
A speech in the vernacular from Mr. Dyer Ball was very well received by the audience, whose appreciation, was shown by frequent applause. The Rev. W. J. Southam spoke ou the purposes of this department, giving particu lars as to membership etc, and placing | ̈ emphasis on the Christian character of the Association. He hoped that many would take advantage of the classes for Christian instruc-
Japan, and it was he who induced his Govern. THE KOWLOON LAND AND BUILD- | tion, strictly optional as they were. He further |
meal to adopt the gold standard. He is one of the strongest of Japanese politicis. He will leave Japan in March, and travel via America. After the Coronation, he will tour the principal countries of Europe. Dr. Matsukata's business in Shanghai is in connection with his own dockyard at Kobe, his tender for the steam launch for the Pilots Association being under consideration.
A NEW MONTE CARLO:-Much interest is felt in Constantinople in the proposal to
ING COMPANY, LTD.
The thirteenth annual meeting of the Kow- loon Land and Building Co., Ltd, was held at noon' to-day at the Company's Offices, Victoria Buildings. There were present. Messrs. J Gooseman (in the Chair), E. J. Hughes, J. H. Cox E. 1. Sheppherd, J. H. Michael, T. . Reed, C, Georg, and M. S. Northcote (Acting Secretary).
The following report was presented :- Gentlemen, The Directors now submit to you a Statement of the affairs of the Company, and Balance Sheet for the year ending 31st December, 1901. The balance of Profit and
N view of the Intimate connection between
invile the attention of Householders to the fact that RAT CATCHERS supplied with the neressary TRAPS, &c, will be sent to any Domestic Building which is infested with Rats upon application to the MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
By Order,
G. A. WOODCOCK, Secretary,
Sanitary Board. 132d
Hongkong, 28th December, 1901.
hoped that the members would enjoy not only GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF moral and social, but also mental and physical advantages. Applause followed Mr. Southam's cloquent and camest speech.
A conversazione, remarkable for its freedom from any stiffness, followed,jand ample refresh- ments were provided, the ladies being to the fore in this department. During the evening Mr. F. G. Whittick sang appropriate songs, which were greatly appreciated: Mr. Sykes accompanying.
Among those present were the Lord Bishop, Ven, Archdeacon Bannister, Revs. T. W. Pearce, Bird, Gusmann, Wong, Goed; Drs. Gibson, Glover and Thomson; Captains. Ben.
NEW YORK.
(AMERICAN BANK),
ESTABLISHED 1864,
PAID UP CAPITAL ..........................
U.S. Gold. SURPLUS AND UNDIVIDED PROFITS $4,544,514 ...$2,000,000
TOTAL......
Hend Office: NEW YORK.
$6,644.514
Adrian Iselin, Jr.
James N. Jarvie
Samuel D. Babcock.
Directors: George F. Baker. August Belmont, George S. Bowdoin.
turn the island of Samos into a sort of Monte Carlo. The National Assembly, by twenty-two votes to fifteen, has passed a bill granting a concession får ninety-nine years, to a Belgian Loss Account for the year, after writing off all son and Steven; Messrs. J. Pitt, W. Janstey, Frederic Cromwell. '
company to establish gambling-saloons, to be Charges and Expenses, amounted to $1,513.83. rau on exactly the same lines as the Rivieran The Directora, therefore, recommend that a resort. The Sultan has never yet countenanced
Dividend of One Dollar Kighty cents per share the establishment of gambling places in Turbe paid, which, after writing off the Directors
and Auditors' Fees, will leave a balance of key, although he has frequently been appro schied on the subject. He has the right of veto. $312.83 to be carried forward to Credit of a new on acts, passed by the Samos National As- sembly, which otherwise is autonomous, the
Prince of the Island being a Christian appoint ed by the Sultan. The island enjoys a magni- ficent climate, and has every possible adyant- age, and the syndicate is prepared to help in
every way to develop its resources.
BRITISH NORTH BORNEO:-"Eastward
Ho" at the conclusion of a letter to the
Profit and Loss Account.
"
DIRECTORS.
retire by rotation, but offer themselves for re
Messrs. J. H. Cox and E. Jones Hughes:
election.
AUDITORS.
The Accounts have been audited by Messrs. Thos. Arnold and W. H. Gaskell, who retire, but offer themselves for reelectiou.
The Chairman said he regretted having to Financial Times says:-The very name Britccupy the chair in the absence of Mr. F. Henderson. With their permission he proposed ish North Borneo is a byword to anyone out
that the report and accounts, which had been in
East from Ceylon to Shanghai, and you will never find a paper in Singapore or Hongkong or elsewhere saying one good word of it, and certainly it gets not one good word from any merchant or trader. "A Disgusted Share holders advises the shareholders to get the Imperial Government to lake the charter back frow them. This would be difficult, but I would advise them to approach the Colonial Office for permission to allow the Straits Settle ments or the Sarawak Government to in corporate the country, otherwise the country will drift and drift so long as the present Board continue not to take any interest, and simply allow mismanagement to continue at the head of affairs..
OBITUARY -Very great regret was felt yes- terday throughout the settlement when the news
Döring, Hu U Ming, T. Young Gee,. Ng Tien Po, S. Y. Lee, A. Mackie, A. J. Mackie, E, Pearce, S. Moore, W. I. Wright, Stockhausen, the Misses Fetts, Eyre, Johnstone, Alexander, Finney; Mrs. Southam and Mrs. Benson.
FIRES IN HONGKONG.
During the last few days five or six fires have occurred in the Colony three of which broke attention in Aberdeen Street has already been out yesterday. The one which attracted most
dealt with in these columas. At eight o'clock in the morning nine matshèds and two stacks of grass were destroyed by fire at Quarry Bay. The coolies employed on the new work in progress in the district had been living in the
matsheds which were burnt.
house, erected by the Sanitary Board at the About 8.40 in the evening a coolie bath- end of Ship Street was destroyed by fire. The Brigade turned out but their services were not
required.
Owing to the condition of house property, in their hands for some time, be taken as read. Hongkong hey had considered it right, in the interests of shareholders to establish a gradual increase in rents which would account for the better dividend they were enabled to pay this year. All the figures which appeared in the and, in fact, the Company was run on such, report and accounts explained themselves simple lines that he did not think he need CRAIGENGOWER CRICKET CLUB V.' DIOCESAN detain thein by any further remarks." He stated his willingness to answer any ques tions and, there being none asked, he proposed the adoption of the report and accounts.
Mr. Reid, in seconding, congratulated the management and the directors on the very economical lines on which the Company was, run. He saw from the Statement of Accounts
ORICKET.
SCHOOL PAST AND PRESENT.
A match between the teams of the above Clubs was played at the Happy Valley on Monday, the 10th inst, and after an exciting game resulted in a win for the latter by 5 runs.
CRAIGENGOWER CRICKET CLUB. *
L. A. Rose, b Herton ***
L. E. Laiment, e Goodrich, b Herten
was learnt of the death on the previous day off that the Directors' fees amounted to only $150 R. Pestonjee, b Branwn ...........
him
R. Basa, b. Brawn H. Harteam, run out...............
M. E: Asger, b Herton F. Rapp, b Brawn H. Rapp, b Brawn
Extras
Total..
2nd INNINGS.
Mr. Edward Davis, of Messrs. Wisner & Co, commission to agents, amounted to $965.32.
all told, and that the cost of management says the M. C. D. News of 7th instant. Mr.
He thought the shareholders had every reason Davis came to Canton some thirty years ago as
to be pleased with the manner in which the teaian to the firm of Oliphant.& Co, and was well known and liked there and subsequently Company was managed, but. in the forti- at Foochow After the closing of the firm of coming year he hoped it would be the policy Oliphant & Co, Mr. Davis established himself of the directors to encourage people, who E. Seth, b Brawn at Shanghai as a tea inspector, afterwards join-were likely to remain as permanent tenants to J. H. Seth run out ing the firm of Wisner & Co., and brightening take houses. It would be unbecoming of A. E. Asger, not our
43. a shareholder to upbraid the his life by a union with the widow of Mr. Harold Vale of Shanghai. His health was not
directors for attempting to get the highest robust when he left China some two years ago, had now reached a point where they might be rents for their honses, but he thought the rents
and he died at Vevey in Switzerland where he had gone for his health. Deep sympathy is allowed to remain for some time. If they did permit them to remain they would be more universally felt for his widow and his two likely to retain as tenants people likely to stepdaughters and daughter, by the many friends whom their sterling qualities attracted become, in some degree af permanency, per
manent residents of the Colony. As a tenant as well as a shareholder he took the opportunity
to the fact that the water supply at Knutsford of again calling the attention of the directors H. Rapp, b Ford....
H. Harleam, not out Terrace was exceedingly bad. It might be. H. Seth
E. Seth
ments made by the Government for the supply of Kowloon, but in the ease of some of the ten- ants, it was due also to faulty arrangements
to Mr. and Mrs. Davis.
Walter R. Gillette. E. H. Harriman. G. G. Haven. R. Somers Hayes.
Charles R. Henderson. "Harry Payne Whitney,
CRIES
Entimations.
At
every turn,
day and night, you hear the en- thusiastic praise of some one who is competent to judge and
prefers
RAINIER
BEER
to all others--the whole world has it and likes it.
SOLE AGENTS:
A. S. WATSON
LIMITED,
& Co.
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
Hongkong, 13th December, 1901.
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INCANDESCENT GAS LIGHT.
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THE INVENTORS OF INCANDESCENT GAS LIGHT..
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Richard A. McCurdy. Levi P. Morton, Walter G. Oakman. Alexander E, Orr. Henry H. Rogers. H. McK. Twombly. F..W. Vanderbilt,"
Walter G. Oakman, President.
Adrian Iselin Jr.,
Vice President:
Henry A. Murray,
Wm. C. Edwards,
3rd Vice President.
F. C. Harriman,
Treasurer.
Assistant Treasurer,
Geo. R. Turnbull,
and Vice President. John Gault, Manager,
Foreign Dept.
E. C. Hebbard,
Secretary.
R. C. Newton,
Trust Officer
London Committee: Arthur John Fraser, (Chairman),' Donald C. Haldeman. Honorable Levi P. Morton.
LONDON OFFICE:
33 and 35, Lombard Street, E.C R. C. Wyse, Manager.
London Bankers: PARK'S BANK, LIMITED.
A BRANCH of above Company has been established at No. 4, DES VEUX ROAD, Hong- kong, for the Transaction of Banking and Exchange Business.
· Hongkong, 31st January, 1902.
NOTICE.
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CHANGE TABLES with Rates in tfths from 1/1015/16 downto 1f8d, is now in the bookbinders' hands and will be published next week. These Tables, which run in columns of |100, from £999 down to £1. and from 19/11 down to 1d or from S999 down to 1 cent, enable the user to arrive at the value in Dollars of any sum in Sterling under £1,000 by simply 11 adding the equivalent of the Shillings and Pence to that of the Pounds; or to get the value
5
4
22
3
2
in Sterling of any Sum of Dollars and Cents under $1,000 by adding the equivalent of the Cents to that of the Dollars. By these simple means of computation a very considerablesaving of time and trouble, besides securing a ready, means of proving accuracy is secured, as is
4 illustrated in the following examples. To
o reduce £879,1711 into Dollars at Exchange
3/10/1/16-
6
R. Pestonjee, L. B. W. b Brawn......... L. E, Lammert, c Weittick, b Brawn.........
L.A. Rose, c Herton, b Brawn R. Basa, not out.
A. E. Asger, c Herton, b Brawn .......... F. Rapp, b Brawn.
4
47
2
I
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did not bat.
Extras....
Total..
A CAT STORY:-"There are more things in heaven and earth," etc. The Japan Mail says that on the morning before the recent accident
side of the Sturgeon it larwich. Upon the former vessel dwell, two cats, who were the special pets of the crew, and who had never been known to show the smallest inclination in the supply. He hoped that in the coming DIOCESAN SCHOOL-PAST AND PRESENT:
year, as the Company was not likely to ex. S. Ford, b Pestonjce...... pend very much in the way of repairs, that an E R. Herton, hw, b Pestonjen atiefhp would be made to rearrange the water A. O. Brown, b Harteam supply of Kautsford Terrace so that the water O. R. Chunnelt, b Pestonjer would be distributed more equitably amongst J. H. Cubbias, b Pestonjeo the tenants from one end of the Terrace to the H. Goodridge, b Pestonjee other
to desert. But on this particular morning they made five separate attempts to get from the Salmon and on to the Sturgeon in spite of the fact that their advent was hotly resented by the Sturgeon's dog, and that the crow drove them away whenever they appeared. In spite, however, of being chased by the crew and worried by the dog, the cats never filtered in their deterministign to get off the Salmon and on to the Sturgeon, and when the first-named destroyer had weighed anchor for what was to prove a disastrous voyage, the cats made ofje last spring as the vessels separated, and landed tliemselves on, the Sturgeon's deck.
CO
DENTS DRIVING
F. G. Whittick run out
The Chairman thanked Mr. Reid for the A. Nunro, c Lammert, b Pestonjce....... compliments and assured him that his further Fan Kam, c A. E. Asger, b Lammert remarks would be considered. The motion L. Le Breton, cand b Lainment...... was carried,
WWW.Blumenburg, not out....
Extras.
On, the proposition of Mr. Michael sacoaded by Mr. Reid, Mesers, J. H. Cox and E Jones Hughes were reclected as directors
COTTAM & CO. PLAID RUGS and
„Total
£879, 0, a=$9,561, 926-
17.11.
9: 745
$9,571.-671
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£800, 0, 0.58,702 550
70. 0. 0=
9.0.0
17, 0, II.
761. 473
97. 904
9. 247
0. 497
$9,571 671 or to reconvert the dollars into
same rate of exchange:--
$9,000,000-£817. 6.10. 8. 571.000 51. 9. 9.11 671= 12.03
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