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ALEXANDRA

DES VIEUX ROAD,

BUILDINGS,

MONGKONG, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1904,

STATUS OF COLONIAL-BORN

CHINESE.

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The HOURS of BUSINESS of the

Chinese merchants in Bangkok have HONGKONG DISPENSARY in its new grievance against the British Consul at Swatow which they are bringing to the notice et Lord Lansdowne, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. In the main, they com-

premises are as follows:---

WEEK DAYS... 8.30 A.M. to 6 PM.

SATURDAY.

8.30 AM. to P.M.

SUNDAY..

10 A,M. 10 ? P.M.

LOCAL AND GENERAL

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MES. May will be "At Home" at "Mountai Lodge on Thursday June gili, Thursday June 23rd, Thursday July 7th.

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THE Emperor has appointed Yim Yun-Ghan, who was at one time Prime Minister of Korea,

INDU-CHINA S. N. CO.

A FIVE PER CENT DIVIDEND.

Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co. write informing us that they have received the follow ing telegram from the Bon d of Directors of the Indo-China-S. N. Co., 1.d, London:~

"General Meeting of Shareholders will take

A. SWATSON & CO, LTD),

ANNUAL MEETING.

The nineteenth annual ordinary general meeting of the above company was held in Alexandra Buildings this morning, when there were present Mr. B. Humphreys (Chairman), Ilon Sir Paul Chater, Messrs H. P. White, E.

The Chairman said Gentlemen-Before proposing the resolution hich you have just board read, you will, no doubt, be glad to have some idea of the manner in which it is proposed to issue the new capital in the event of the resolution being carried. I have already explained at the annual meeting the causes which, in the opinion of your general managers and consulting committee, render such a measure unavoidable, so I will confing myself

to superintend the reconstruction of the place. place on the 7th june when it is proposed to Osborne, H. C. Wilcox Consulting Committee), to giving you an outline of what we propose to

THE death is announced of Mr. John Davie, of the labuan Coal Company, who was ac | cidentally killed on the 29th ak, while taking

some machinery down a shaft.

declare a Dividend at 5%."

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A. H. Mancell (Secretary), G. M. Bain, J. Ado. The intention is to issue the new capital", Jupp, Hamilton Sharp, C. W. May, N, Mumford, on 28th September, and to offer the shares at a premium of 15 per cent. to the registered.

THE CHINA LIGHT and Power T. F. Hough, E. W. Terry, W. Lysaught, J. A.

CO., LTD.

The report for presentation to the share- It is officially certified that at the close of last holders at the Third Ordinary General Meeting month, 3th April, the value of the Gwere to be held at the office of the general managers ment Currency Notes in circulation in Simon Thursday, 9th prox. at 11.30 o'clock a.m., is was Ticals 6,983,060, and 1e whole of that as follows: -- sum was retained at the heal office in silver. Annexed we beg to lay before shareholders The above to lisicals 27-879 les then be the annual statement of accounts. These a amount in circulation on the 3 st March.

of the best-known private detect ve agency 18 Angland, was held in heavy ba 1, char, ed with conspiring to preven the due course of jus tice. With him in the dick were Allen Osborne, his lawyer, and two private detecurves employed by Slater. They also were pat can- der heavy bail.

count are in two sets, une closed on 31st July last owing to the reduction of capital and con

IN Bow-street police coun Henry later, head sequent re-adjustment, and other brought to the

end of the usual financial year in February.

Again we have to record disappointment on ac- comm of unforeseen delay and expected expense in installing the improved machinery at Canton. The new work is however now almost quite complete, two of the new engines are running, and we are beginning to realise some profi at last. Business is less satisfactory at Kowloon as although the plant is in fine order and com-

should like to have, and the ume and attention plete we have not at present the field there we of the Superintendent has been so occupied

NEVER was anything so unanimously con demned as the sap now won by our soldiers, which is known as the Brodrick cap, sacs a writer in the Regiment. The top of it touches the wearer's head, and in a few years an ex-

with the new Canton installation it has not

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Tarrant, E. Miller, and others.

The Secretary having read the notice con- vening the meeting,

The Chairman said:-Gentlemen, The re- port and statement of accounts have been in your hands for the past few days, so, with your permission, I will take them as read. You will notice, if you compare last year's balance sheet with the year before, that 'stocks in rude' show an increase of $15,3 4,005, which is approximately bal.nced by an increase in. the liabilities. This material addition to our stocks is principally due to the opening last year of new European branches at Kowloon and on the Shameen, at Canton, but there has also been a notable increase in the stocks and plant of our various mineral water factories. you will also observe that our property at Iloilo no longer apperts amongst the assets. This was sold in September last, year General Managers and Consulting Committee being of opinion that the conditions prevailing in the Philippine Islands, did not offer sufficient in ducement for expanding our business in that direction. The small loss incurred by the sale has been met in the accounts under review. You are all probably aware that we have just

shareholders in the proportion of one new share for every two old shares, such shares to rank for dividend for the three months ending 31st December, 1904 payable in May, 1905. Ample notice and full particulars will be given by advertisement of the manner in which it is proposed to call up and allot the new issue. if any share holder has any questions to ask I shall be pleased to answer them to the best of may ability.

Mr. Murray Bain: I intend to second this resolution so that I am not in the least antag onistic to the proposition. I think it would be as well, however, if the Chairman would give us just a little more information as to the prospects of mecting the increased capital with

a reasonable dividend.

The Chairman: I think Mr. Murray Bain wishes me to assure the shareholders, or to give an assurance, in some sort of way, that the present dividend of 10 per cent will not be prejudiced by the new increase of capital. Is that so?

Mr. Bain Yes,

The Chairman :-Well, I do not think any chairman could actually promise, or could tell what is going to occur in the future. I

plain of the want of recognition with which soldier will always be known by a bald patch been explaited as it should be. The Company moved into our new premises. The building, think, however, that as far as we can tell, as

has been rather shorthanded in technical they are treated by the Consular authorities on the tup It is always uncomfortable. It is

as you can see for yourselves,. is a very 'fine | far as it is possible to predict, humanly speak. staff and many changes bave had to be made.

one and a credit to the architects. The fitting | ing, we can maintain a dividend of 10 per cent al the northern port, and point out that, an object of ridicule whenever a soldier leaves

A new electrician for Canton arrived in January his station

Hundreds of soldiers have been fast and one for Kowloon is now on the way, up of that portion of it occupied by our own in the future. The increase will not make a although Asiatics are not registered in Bangcourtmartialed for disobeying orders by not kok as British subjects without first having wearing it. It does more to prevent decent and this reinforcement of employees should shops has entailed a good deal of thought, very great difference to us for the reason that

their title to the nationality strictly inverti

An Assistant will be on duty at all times Bated. they are refused recognition as such in Swatow, despite the production of pass. ports and registration certificate signed by to dispense prescriptions.

British officials in Bangkok. On account of this relusal to recognise their true and proper nationalty the merchants, who have been for years past interested in the trade which

A. S. WATSON & CO.,¦ exists between the two ports, have suffered

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ESTABLISHED BAL.

Hongkong, 31st May, 1901.

TILLEPHONE NO. 255,

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material loss and inconvenience, while then business is rendered difficult by reason of the oppressive methods ut some of the Chiness officials with whom they are brought in contact. They declare that their British nationality cannot be questioned and, therefore, submit that they are as much entitled to the protec tion and assistance of the British Consular !35

authorities in Swatow as they are to the pro lection and assistance of similar official

A CHEE & CO.,

祥 Fill 廣

17, QUEEN'S ROAD,

fellows poning the Army than anything else I know of.

A NUMBER of sampan women were summoned before Mr. Goa pertz this afternoon for ciumang

to carry lares to the ships in harbour, on the 29th inst. Several of them were fined $4 with the alternative of fouuteen days, some were remanded to prove their defence that they were in the day employ of iners while in

were discharged

The police s ated that thady leathers proved their defence and complaints are made of the unwillingness of these women to take lares at night, and thus cause great inconvenience to ships' Likers, and those whose business calls them to the

steamers after dark.

THE very imperfectly known unra of Stanis being investigated by M. F. N. Williams w o has commenced an enumeration it the plants of this country in the last number of Bulletin de llober livissier- is work is based on the material in the Kew Herbarium. Cullec-

flora, and several sets of plants, said to be from Siam, are shown to be from localities outside its bouadanes, and cannot, therefore, be is clad.din lus enumeration. Some preliminary remarks on the flora were made by the same

bodies in Bangkok. This is the suitors have paid very scanty attention to this stance of a petition which some twenty of the leading Chinese forekitys laid before Mr. Kalpsis Paget, H.3.M. Chargé d'Affaires, at the British Legation, Bangkok, the other morning, with a request that it be forwarded

author in the fournal of Botany of September, 1903, where he mentions the interesting fact

benzoin, is obtained not hum Siam, but from a

prave ample,

The financial measures authorised by the special meetings in August last have been partly carried out. Debentures have been taken to three fourths of the approved issue, but the new shares up to the end of the finan- cial year were not in request. Since that date application has been made for some part of them, and arrangements are being made for placing more.

Consulting Committee.-Mr. 1, H. Lewis having left the Colony Mr. H. P! White was invited to join the Consulting Committee. In accordance with the Articles of Association, The Hon. Sir Paul Chater, CMG., Dr. J. W. Noble and H. 1. White, Esq., retire but offer themselves for re-election,

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Mr. Bain --Yes. Thank you.

The Chairman:-There being no other questions, i beg to move the following resolu tion, "That the capital of the company be increased to $900,000 by the creation of 30,003 new shares of $10 each.”

work, and expense. The work is not yet quite some of our liabilities, mortgages, and loann, complete, but s..fficiently so to enable you to

one thing and another, are, at the present judge what it will be like. The expenditure noment, paying 9 per cent, so that the margin on new fixtures and fittings amounts to $17,003,|| between the 9 aud the to per cent dividend, wa consequently, in last years' accounts, we have are now paying to shareholders, is, 1 consider, deemed it expedient to set aside a somewhat great one. Does that satisfy you, Mr. Bain? larger amount for writing off purposes than usual, as the old fitungs, when sold, will not fet. b anything like what they cost. We trust, however, that you will approve of what has been done and we trust-also-you-will-consider the new premises of the Hongkong Dispensary worthy of the community whose confidence and support it has so enjoyed. We have lately acquired the two businesses in Shanghai of Messrs. Mactarsh and Lehmann at what we consider a very reasonable price and on which we confidently anticipate a handsome yearly return. The greater ponion of the purchase money has yet to be paid. We hope is a short time that this Company will occupy the same predominant position in its own line in Shang has to that which it occupies in every other place where it is established. There is only one other mater I need refer to and that is the question of new capital. For several years past the Chairman has intimated at the annual meeting that it might be necessary in Mr. T. F. Hough, of Messrs. Hughes and flough, put up for sale by public aucuon this the near future to increase the Company's afternoon the properly registered in the 1 and capital. In the opinion of your General Mana Office as section A of Inland Lot No. 630, tgers and Consulting Committee that neces-ity has now arisen. Sine our last increase of comprises Nos. 70 and 72, First Street, and capital in 1892 the purchasing value of the Xos. 69 and 71, Second Street. It is held from dollar has decreased 40 per cent, while the dance.

Auditor. The accounts have been audited by Messes. W. H. Putts and A. O'D. Gourdin who are recommended for re-election,

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO,

General Managers.

PROPERTY SALE.

to Lord Lansdowne. According to the that the well-known commercial product, Sian; the Crown for the residue of a term of 999 volume of our trade has more than quadrupled. į

years from 26th December, 1860, at the

Bangkok Times, from which we take our locality, in the Lao province of French Indo- apportioned annual Crown rent of $36.44. The facts, Mr. Paget pointed out that correspon

FURNITURE dence was taking place between Bang

DEALERS.

DRAWING-ROOM,

DINING-ROOM,

and BED-ROOM

FURNITURE.

ELECTRO-PLATED),

GLASS, and

CHINA WAKES. PASTEUR'S MICROBE-PROOF

FILTERS,

ROCHESTER LAMPS,

kok and Peking regarding the matter.

China. Knowledge

THE purser of the Red Star huet Zerland has

buildings cover an area of 2,703 square feet and are let on montbly tenancies.

There was a large attendance of Chinese, besides the rep esentatives of the Hongkong

The development has been brought about partly by the larger turnover of the old business and it branches, and partly by the demand created by the new businesses we have either established ourselves or bought as going con- cerns. This decrease of purchasing power and

Mr. Murray Bain-Gentlemen, I have great pleasure in seconding that resolution. As one of the original shareholders in the Company, i have followed its workings all these years, and it has been borne upon the minds of all those who have taken an interest in the Company that it was essentially necessary that a larger food should be at the disposal of the Managers and the Consulting Commitee. The expansion of the business, as oor Chairman has said; has been enormeos, it has quadrupled in a certain number of years, and I think the resolution proposing an increase of capital will commend itself to every shareholder. I beg to second the resolution.

The motion was then put to the meeting and carried.

The Chairman:~There will be a confirmatory meeting later on, of which duc notice will be gives by advertisement. That is all the busi- mess, gentlemen. Thank you for your atten-

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CHILD STEALING.

for some time past the complaints have been made to the police concerning the dis- appearance of small children from the Colony. Sometimes the lost children are found in Chi-

Ernest Satow and the British Consul at Scooped his contemporaries on the bounding Land Investment Co. (Messrs. A. Shelton development of business affords in itself a full Dese boarding-houses with their kidnappers,

Swatow had been communicated with, and the former, in his reply, stated that according to the rules laid down for H. B. M. Con-

sular officers in China, the children of Chin- ese parents, not themselves British subjects, were not entitled to be treated as such

even if born in British colonies or posses sions. If the parents were not themselves British subjects, when they returned to China, persons born in British colonies or

main by publishing the first war exra ever issued on ise Atlantic. Heretofore the ships equipped with wireless aparatus have issued one paper on each trip east or west bound, giving the latest news received when in touch with a shore station on either side. On April 17th the Zw and picked up the cast-bund Zeeland about the report of the sinking of the Cunarder Umbris. The Umbri told the

Russian war ship Petropavlovsk and the drowning of Admiral Makaroff, as related in the papers on the day the Umbria left New York. The purser editor broke all precedents and speed records by getting out an extra

Hooper and Mowbray Northcote). The rea- dors' solicitors was represented at the sale by

Mr. V. H. Deacon.

Mr. Uing Lee, coal merchant, made the first offer for the four houses, viz., $40, which rapidly rose to $7,000 by bids of $500. From $7,000 to $9,000 bidding slackened and rose by

purchaser at the price of $9,0.0. only $100 at a time Mr. Chan Yan Po was the

SALE OF THE S.S.SZE WUL"

The screw steamier Sze Wut, lately running

pany's capital, but there are other equally of China, and have been returned to their and sufficient reason for increasing the Com waiting ship...ent to various ports on the coast sufficient reasons. We have, as you know, a parents. More often, however, they are not considerable amount of money invested in our heard of again. A very strict watch has been various mineral water factories, and during instituted on all steamers leaving for Chinese the past five years all these have been refitted ports, with the result that, this morning, the with new machinery and plant. I may men- police were enabled to return a little six-year- tion also, that since our last increase of capital old child to its parents. It appears that the the reserve fund has b. en increased by $150,000 mother went to No. 2 Folice station, in Wan- out of which the item of Sico,co› for good will cbai, yesterday - nd reported the disappearance and trade marks has been written entirely out of her little girl, whom she had not seen since of the books, and more than the whole of the noon. Steps were at once taken, and, this Company's capital paid to the shareholders in inorning, Chinese detective No. 274 discovered the form of dividend. We have been enable the missing child on board the boat ready to

WHITE TURKISH TOWELS. possessions could not be regarded as British edition of the Red Star News within an hour between Hongkong and Kongmoon, was put to do all this without making any call upon sail to Caulon. It was in charge of Su Tol

COUNTERPANES.

COOKING RANGES,

KITCHEN UTENSILS, and

HOUSEHOLD REQUISITES.

subjects after leaving the colony. Directly and half after receiving the Umbria's message.up to public auction by Messra. Hughes and they landed in China they became subject regular edition, and was entitled "First West-

The extra was printed a day ahead of the Hough, to-day, in the forenoon. Mr. Hang you owing to large profits on sales of property Yuco was the purchaser of the vessel for at different times, more liberal writing off in to the Chinese Government. Sir E. Satow bound Edition."

$17,000. This gentleman is of the Straits firm There is a point, however, beyond which it is

recent years and largely increased fiabilities concluded his despatch by saying that a cor

Di Wong Yee Loong, and we hear that it is inadvisable to borrow, and in my opinion that respondence was being conducted between

just possible he will send the vessel to the point has now been reached. Before moving Southern port to be engaged in the Straits the adoption of the report and accounts, I shall be pleased to answer any questions which shareholders may have to ask.

A CORRES/ONDEN

writes a lengthy leter

PHOTOGRAPHIC the Peking Legation and the Foreign Office dealing with the manner in which he has been

DEPARTMENT. DEVELOPING and PRINTING

UNDERTAKEN for AMATEURS.

GOOD WORK.

PROMPT RETURN. Hongkong, 8th January, 1904.

E. C. WILKS & CO.,

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MARINE SURVEYORS, CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND NAVAL ARCHITECTS.

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"OLLISIONS and Damages Surveyed.

Salvage Work undertaken. Ship Designs and Specifications prepared. Agents for the Construction and Sale of Steam

and Motor Lanaches. Contract for New Tonnage on reasonable terms

with First-class Builders.

A large stock of Canadian Asbestos and

Asbestocel goods kept. Agents

for Mesim. Allen & Sons Electrical Plant and Centrifugal Pumps. Telegram Address: "MARINEWORK."

Telephone:-No. 358

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with respect to these rules. The matter was already before the Foreign Office, and Mr. Paget said he would be glad to forward the memorial to Lord Lansdowne and to represent the hardships under

The coastal trade.

Following are particulars of the Sze Wui:- Length over all rig feet.

Between perpen.

treated by the Hongkong Post Office. other day a communication reached him from England enclosing two important letters which, in August last, were sent to him care of agendiculars, 108 feet. Extreme breadth, 18 feet. alemats at a well-known Hongkong address. Depth of hold, 7 feet. Draft with full dead These it appears were returned to the writer weight cargo and full bunkers--71 feet aft, 6 without being delivered at the address given. feet forward. Her engines were built by Ngai which the petitioners suffered. But, at On the 28th inst., be received another com- Sun & Co., and are of the compound surface munication from his sister enclosing two fur condensing type, HP. cylinder 12", low pre- the same time, it was a matter on which he ther letters the covers of which were addressed sure cylinder 24", stroke 18. Revolutions per as formerly, but which, for some reason or minute 135. She was built in Hongkong in another, were not delivered to him. They 1901, by Messrs. Ngal Sun & Co., being of were returned in Hongkong to England by 97 registered tons (gross) and 57 (net). the last Office.

The strange part of the occurrence, he says, is that hitherto letters

could not give them any assurance, or that

the

SEVERAL negroes who applied for admission into the United States navy, through the recruiting

There being no questions, the Chairman pro- posed, Mr. May seconded, and it was agreed, that the report and accounts as presented be adopted and passed.

CONSULTING COMMITTEE

The Chairman proposed that the appointment of Messrs. H. P. White and E. Osborne to the

Consulting Committee be confirmed,

Mr. Murray Bain seconded. Carried.

AUDITORS.

Mr. Jupp proposed, 'Mr. Hamilton Sharp seconded, and it was agreed, that Mesars Francis Maitland and W. Hutton Potts be te elected auditors.

The Chairman: That gentlemen, concludes

the petition would be effective. It was not in his hands. Judging from the above facts he Bangkok merchants have made out a very clear case for the consideration of Lord sent to him at the address given were always delivered and with a view to getting an ex- Lansdowne, who may, at the same time, beplanation he called at the Post Office yesterday office recently established in San Francisco well advised to give a glance at the lengthy and was told to communicate with the Post were not wanted in any capacity. Lieute. correspondence which has, of late, been Master General This, he thinics, is not at all nant Boyd, the recruiting officer, explained the business of the ordinary annual meeting. appearing in the British Press on the subject satisfactory, and as he has himself had seven that he had been instructed by the department Divide d warrants wil be ready, at eleven

years' experience in Post Office work in Eng to enlist only the most desirable men and he o'clock to-morrow morning. of Consular reform. There can be no doubt land, is of opinion that attention should be dmyn | did not consider negroes of the most desirable

CAPITAL TO BE INCREASED.

eral meeting of the to "such gross, negligence." It would have class. He intimated that the exclusion of the that, in the interests of British prestige in

extraordinary general own respeasibilitÿ," bat:{ "China, it would be well that the present

beca as well perhaps had the writer obtained negroes was on

head of our Foreign Office should take a tainly seems strangarbat imporanidornments,

an official explanation of the matter as cer there is good, reason to believe recruiting Company was then held at which the following quiet “tip” that the resolution was passed; "That the Capital of broad-minded view of the question which is such as these were, or in fact, aby

rous of enlisting any the Company be increased to Nine Hundred of first importance not only to our Asiatic the addresteg of their arrival grace

· be retébßél tő England without even notif

meBord said there Thousand Dollars by the creation of Thirty

lars each. subjects in Bangkok, but also to those in regard to the serious delay Singapore and this Colony, regul

and Chun On, who stated that the child be longed to the former. When placed before all knowledge of the infant, aying it bad fol- Mr. Gamperis this morning the men disclaimed

lowed them from Wanchai to the Canton Wharf. When searched, a ticket for the child to Canton was found in Su Tadi's pocket. Mr. Gompertz sentenced the defendants to: six months' hard labour, with six hours in the stocks, and recommended them for banishment Inspector Gourlay was in charge of the case, and is doing some good work in suppressing this form of crime in the Colony....

SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUE

English (Ballaarat) and prox. German (Oldenburg) 3rd p:ox. Australian (Changsha) 4th prox. "Indian (Latrang) 6th prox

Australian (Australian) 6th prox -American (Mongolia) 7th prox."

American (America Maru) 7th proz German (Seydlite) Sib prox. Australian (Chingiu) 11th prox. Canadian (Empress of India) 15'A prox. :

The Glen Line KL Glenfarg Left Singapore on 3eth irst, and may be expected here on prox

The E. A Co.4 £1. Princesit Saturday, Singapore pected here on 3rd prox

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can: Mallion 1,19 kiong

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