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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1902.0

CHINESE MERCHANTS AND TEADERS EULOGISE SIR

THOMAS JACKSON.

RUNNING AMOK :—A Malay quartermaster

The rain fell in torrents deluging streets and was this morning charged by two Chinamen with pavements and everything not under cover. cutting and wounding them with an sxe on the People stayed indoors or crouched beneath 13th inst; sentenced to 2 months hard labour verandahs, yet there were many only too willing to face the storm in order to show their THE LILY OF THE VALLEY and some appreciation of the eminent services rendered other flowers have been mentioned in various by Sir Thomas Jackson. These were some quarters as likely to receive Royal favour at the of the principal Chinese, merchants and British Coronation; but there is not one the traders of Hongkong, and they assembled at Gardener's Magazine declares, that is at all the City Hall at noon to-day for the purpose likely to be the Comation dower except the vase, of presenting the retiring Chief Manager of the Hongkong and Shangbai Banking Corporation THE DEMON CYCLIST Chang Kit Sang, with a well merited testimonial Clerk, was this morning charged with recklessly riding a bicycle in Des Voeux Road and hurt ing one lo Ying, and also with neglecting to carry a lamp between sunset and sunrise On the first charge he was ordered to pay $5 com pensation to the complainant, as the second fined $20 or 14 days,

DEATH ON THE SUNGKIANG-John S. Gortes, the second engineer of the steamer Sungkiang, died on the sth inst. very suddenly aboaid ship at Manila. The Sunghiang is the first ship to go in from Hongkong, without a five day quarantine detention at Mariveles, the quarantine against Hongkong having been raised quite recently,

Mr. Ho Tung occupied the chair, and among others present, in addition to Sir Thomas Jack son and Miss Jackson, were noticed Mesars. Ho Fook, Lau Wai Cheen, Tam Tsz Kong, Leung Shiu Kong, Lino Tre Shan, Yung Yik Ting, Wong Ki Sam, Lau Chin Ting, Wong Kam Fook, Ho Kom Tong, Lo Cheong Shi, Man Kwong Tin, Tong Lai Chuen, Ip Shun Kam, Kan Tin Hong, Ma Fat Ting, Lau Wan. Kai, Leung Yau Po, Chan Oi Ting, Wong Leung Him, Fung Shu Tong, She Po Sham, Chan Chas Nam, Kwok Sin Low, Chun Lai Sang, Ho Wing, Pan Sow Chuen, Low Hip Cher, and Low Kom Ting

GOOD BYE," SIR THOMAS. Mr. Ho Tung, upon rising to address Sir Thomas Jackson, was loudly applauded. He said:Sir Thomas Jackson, ladies and gentle men, The Chinese merchants and traders of

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enveloped it, to a splendour ranking it with the leading banks of the world

Auction.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

"HEUndersigned have received instructions

The era of its revival was coincident with your appointment to the supreme command and it is impossible not to see that the increasedom E. A HARDOON, Esq., to Sell by prosperity which each half-year (with but fow exceptions, owing to the vicissitudes of fortune) has recorded, was most closely identified with the name of its Chief Manager.

It is not, however, in financial matters alone that your influence for good has been exercised for the benefit of this Colony. In spite of the cares and anxieties inseparable from your "onerous and responsible duties you have found time to serve the Colony on various public occasions, conspicuous amongst which are your honorary treasurerships of the Irish and Indian Famine Relief Funds; the Hongkong Jubilee, the Queen's Diamond, and Queen's Memorial Funds and the Typhoon Relief Fund of 1900, the last by its spontaneous manifestation of sympathy avoking from the Chinese of Hongkong heartfelt gratitude. Aş member of the Colonial Retrenchment Com. mitter, the Insanitary Properties Commission, and the Queen's Statue Committee, respec- | tively, you devoted your valued services ao less to the public weal, and as member of the Legislative Council your wisdom was consulted in the framing of laws for the promotion of our good. In the furtherance of the interests of commerce of our world.") renowned port also you took an important part by sharing with the leading gentlemen of the mercantile and shipping communities, their labours in the Chamber of Commerce. And

PUBLIC AUCTION, within his Residence, No. 3, Century Crescent,

Kennedy Road,

On

FRIDAY, the 16th May, 1902, at 3.30 P.M.,

THE WHOLE OF HIS HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE,

Comprising TAPESTRY COVERED DRAWING- ROOM SUITE, TEAKWOOD OVERMAN- TEL with BEVELLED GLASS, TEAK- WOOD SIDEBOARD and DINNER WAGGONS with GLASS, MOROCCO. COVERED DINING-ROOM SUITE, DINNER SERVICE, DESSERT and TEA SETS, GLASSWARE, PICTURES, DOU- BE IRON BEDSTEADS with WIRE STOVE and UTENSILS, &c, &c. MATTRESS, CARPETS, RUGS, COOKING

ALSO:

One COTTAGE PIANO, by J. & 'J. Hop-. KINSON, London;

AND

A Quantity of FLOWER POTS and PLANTS.

TERMS-As Usual,

HUGHES & HOUGH,

Auctioneers. Hongkong, 9th May, 1902.

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Intimations.

(426d

THE "STAR" FERRY COMPANY, LIMITED.

· NÒTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

"HE FOURTH ORDINARY ANNUAL

be detained for two days at Wada point as one Hongkong have met in a body here to-day to finally, in fostering the good works of all classes MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in

THE N. Y. K. STEAMER SHINANE MARU, from Hongkong via ports, on her arrival at Kobe, on the 2nd inst, was ordered to

of the Chinese passengers was found to be suffering from a disease suspected to be plague. After an analytical examination the case was certified to be other than plague and the steamer was allowed to go into port,

formally say "Good-bye" to you on your retirement from the field of your labours in the East. They have done me the honour of electing me as their spokesman on this occasion. I do not propose to detain you, Sir, for many seconds, before proceeding to read the address which has been prepared as a result of a spontaneous desire on the part of its signatories to record in a public manner

THE HIGH OPINION

EXTENSION OF MISSIONS-A London telegram of 7th instant to the W. C. D News anya-Lord Alverstone presided at a meeting that was held to promote more extended and systematic Church Missions in the Far East. which one and all have formed of you after, so A proposal was made to found a second Ris many years of personal acquaintance with hopric in North-Ching. The Archbishop of your urbanity, goodness of heart, and remark Canterbury dwelt on the Church's vast respon-able genius. (Applause.) These sibility owing to England's present relations the possession plans on beare, qualities

to raise a person in the estimation of his fellow men. But when they are all combined in one and that one-as you, Sir-wielding so extensive a power for good or evil as the leader in the financial world of the

of charitable and religious institutions in Hongkong, without discrimination, your private munificence has long been recognised and. without doubt, will find living monuments amongst those who gratefully cherish the name and the memory of a universal bene- factor.

who are brought into contact with you the The urbanity of yourļdemeanour towards all

soundness of your judgment in counselling those who have approached you for advice; and the impartiality of your treatment of the Bank's clients have secured for you the respect of all classes alike. They are attributes that

serve as a standard for those who come after you to be guided by.

PANY'S OFFICE, No. 2, Connaught Road, at the above Company will be held at the COME- NOON, on WEDNESDAY, the 21st May, for the purpose of receiving the Repurt of the Directors, with a Statement of Accounts to oth April, 1902.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 12th to the zist instant, both Day inclusive.

EDWARD OSBORNE, Secretary. Hongkong, 12th May, 1902.

[340d

CHINA LIGHT AND POWER CO., LIMITED.

ANNUAL

entitle you to the highest admiration and should MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS I

the Company will be held at the COMPANY'S OFFICE, NO. 14, Des Voeux Road, on SATURDAY, the 24th instant, at, 11 A.M., for the, purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the year ending 28th February.

The limits of an address do not permit us to dilate upon the unvarying kindness and courtesy exhibited by you towards us as a distinct claas,

with China and Japan. 1. KIDNAPPING-Fas Kam, married woman, and Choy Kam, fishmonger, were this morning charged for unlawfully taking or causing to be taken an unmarried girl named Cheong Ho Farther East, it is impossible for those who and in confining ourselves to an expression of 1902, and electing a Consulting. Committee

being under the age of 16, out of the possession and against the will of her mother on the 19th April, 1902. The case has been remanded from week to week. Bail allowed $1,000. The charge was this morning withdrawn by the Police Defendants were discharged.

WESTMINSTER'S CORONATION DE- CORATIONS—Westminister City Council have settled their scheme of decoration. At Hyde-park-corner an arch will be erected.) Piccadilly and the Strand will be lined by venetian masts, joined by wreaths of evergreens ́and red roses. The piece de resistance is to be a great triumphal arch opposite the Houses of Parliament. This will represent the British Isles, and will consist of three gothic arches..

THE NEW MINING REGULATIONS The British, Japanese, and French, Ministers sent a protest to the Chinese Foreign Office, respecting certian clauses in the new regula tions compiled by the Mining Bureau,Owing to the protest put forward by Chang Yen Mao the director of the Mining Bureau, telegraphic instructions have been sent to the Viceroys and Governors of the Empire, instructing them to follow, the old regulation as before until further notice.

have benefitted most by that genius not to endeavour to recognise it in some fitting mas- per. (Applause). In our humble opinion the means lying within our reach is that of a public address, which we trust you will accept as a genuine expression of the feelings which we all entertain for you, (Applause). I will now proceed to read the address,

Mr. Ho Tung afterwards read the address which was beautifully executed in an illuminat- ed style on vellum, and bound in leather with silver mountings. It was as follows:

TO

SIR THOMAS JACKSON, Chief Manager of the Hongkong and Shang-

hai Banking Corporation, etc, etc, ela. Sis-We, the undersigned members of the Chinese Commercial Community of Hongkong, desire, however inadequately, to pay to you before your departure from Hongkong on re- tiring from the Chief Managership of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation our bumble tribute of admiration for your high moral character, and to express the very high appreciation in which you have been held by us and the sense of loss which we shall fee! when you have left these shores,

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bear to the most consummate tact and ability which have ever been consistently exercised by you in the management of this great institu- tion's affairs.

The Bank, over whose destinies you ruled with such conspicuous ability for the past A QUEER CHARGE-Tam Hay yun, coolie twenty-six years, enjoys an enormous and ever was this morning charged by Young Choy King, increasing clientele, and it may be asserted prostitute of No. 2 Chang Hing Street, for without fear of contradiction that of the very assaulting and throwing a packet containing extensive business which it controls in the human excrement on the complainant's headFarther East by far the largest proportion is and body and also damaging ber jacket that with China and the Chinese. As belong. to the extent of $18. On the night of roth

ing to that section of the Corporation's consti- instant, while she was coming back from Hangtuents we feel las of greater worth the value of Fa Lau, the defendant walked slowly in the testimony which we have the honour to front of the complainant and she caught hold of him. Defendant discharged.

DUTY ON TEA--At the request of the tea merchants,¦ HE. Sheng has memorialised the throne to reduce the export duty on tea. The memorial has met with the favour able consideration of the Government. The memorialist further added that the annual revenue from the export duly on the commodity is estimated at 14,000,000 taels. This reduced duty will bring down this revenue by 2,800,000 aels, which sum, according to the memori alists's calculation, can be easily made up by raising the export duty on silk from 2.5 per cent 5 per cent and a slight increase of duty, on other commodities, from the foriner rates will enable the Government to realise 1,500,000

more.

The colossal success which the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank can now boast of is the more remarkable when a retrospective view is taken into the pages of History.

collection of the very cordial relations that ever

chants and traders of Hongkong, existed between yourself and the Chinese mer-

In bidding you, Sir, "Good-bye," we fervent- ly hope that your life may long be spared

and Auditors,

grateful thanks we beg to proffer you the ac- The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company companying token which we hope may be will be CLOSED from the 20th to the 24th found acceptable as a link in the chain of re-instant, both Days inclusive.

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,

General Managers, Hongkong, 10th May, 1902.

[537d CORONATION CELEBRATION FUND.

Subscriptions towards the above Fund. THE Undersigned will be glad to receive Lists may be found at the HONGKONG HOTEL, HONGKONG CLUB, HONGKONG DISPENSARY, Messis, LANE CRAWFORD & CO., KELLY & WALSH, LD, W. BREWER & CO, and at the various Banks,

J. R. M. SMITH,

Hon. Treasurer.

you may enjoy in the home-land the rd that your long years of honest labour in the East in company with your respected wife, Lady Jackson, and family, for whose Health, Hap- piness, and continued Prosperity, coupled with your own, our good wishes accompany you wherever you gal

We have the honour to be, Sir,

Your most obedient humble Servants, Then follow a large number of signatures.

Hongkong, 7th May, 1902.

PRIVATE TUITION.

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Mr. Tam Tze Kong having read the address COMMERCIAL SUBJECTS, MATHE. in its NATURAL CARBONIC ACID GAS of the Hirano Spring of Hiogo Ken,

in Chinese the Chairman handed it to Sir Thomas Jackson with the following explana- tion: Sir Thomas Jackson we are handing you this address in its present form as it has not been possible for us to get the embroidered work done in Canton in time before your departure. It seemed to us that if it was executed in true Chinest style the address would be a more interesting memento to you from the Chinese.

SIR THOMAS REPLIES. Mr. Mo Tung and gentlemen, & accept this address at your hands with very great pleasure. It is a very graceful compliment to me on the day before I leave to have

such an excellent character given to me and so prettily bound. I have been a long time among you, longer perhaps than most people, but at the same time I can assure you that I never tire of our little ongkong. This, little spot has been very good to me and very good to my family, and we can all look back upon the days we spent here as days of great pleasure (Applause). In Hongkong we have a very

Hongkong, 1st May, 1901.

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happy blending of Eastern and Westem enterprise. For these two-to that happy combination to a great extent, in fact almost entirety, Hongkong at the present time as a commercial market is known all over the world When you first joined the institution in for its wealth its munificence and for its magni- August 1866, the Colony was just then beset ficence (applause). We, Sir, in our small way3rd February, 1992. by a great commercial depression that made have, all tried to cast a pebble or two upon the its influence felt in almost all the principal mountain of its prosperity. If we look back to branches of business the stagnation was

1841-by the way the year I was born-when threatened by a panic in the following year this Colony was annexed and was merely a fish. with the closing of certain leading mercantile ing village, and when we see what it is firms, and was further prolonged throughout now, what sort of an estimate have the years 1868 and 1869. This period of de- got to form of what may take place during

We

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Colony, in itself of a serious character, was hardly say any bound that can be set upon

PLAGUE RETURNS. but the precursor of worse days to come for the Bank, when errors and adversity combined to work the reduction of its Reserve Fund to one hundred thousand dollars and the cessa tion of dividends for one year.→→

A return showing (a) the Number of Cases of Bubonic Fever (Plague), which have been notified as occurning in Hongkong, during, two day ended noon of 12th May, 1902, and (1) the localities in which they have occurred.”

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Queen's Street,

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It was at this critical juncture that you, Sir, were transferred to the helm of affairs as the Acting Chief Manager, only to be confirmed in the substantive appointment five months after, In the face of these difficulties and en- cumbered as the Bank

then was with bad estates, by dint of inherent energy, unceasing care, and indomitable perseverance, the Bank was successfully steered through one of the most acute and prolonged financial crises ever kdown, until, from a depth of adversity and ater has been lifted to its present

placent position of prosperity. The Bank triumphant from a gloom which

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the prosperity of this place, as it is, on the borDLERS AND WATCHMAKERS. ders of a great Empire, an Empire that will not remain still, an Empire that will advance and an Empire that may yet astonish the world. (Applause.) In conclusion, I would only ex- press my very great thanks to all of you gentlemen. I do not wish to detain you much longer, but, indeed, I could say a great deal,-- a great deal that would perhaps give you plea. sure and give myself pleasure too, but I would just earnestly thank you one and all, not only for the compliment you are paying now, but for unvarying kindnesses shown during the whole of my career in Hongkong (Applause)

The Chairman:-Ladies and gentlemen, I am sure you will all join with me in giving, thres hearty cheers for Sir Thomas Jackson,

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