E
tons.
BLEND.
VERY OLD
LIQUEUR
SCOTCH
Per. Dozen
The Honghung Celegraph 07, 344 Lt would be interesting to know
@ Hongkong; THURSDAY, NOV1.9, 1905,-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY NOVEMBER 91905.
Swiss Bo, and so on till we come to Sun-li 3. For the double purpose of assisting jo Junction of lower. Latest Row, and Ladder secure continuity of policy and of collecting Street. It was considered that an opportunity data which would govern any large scheme was thus afforded of improving the neigh that may be undertaken in the future, 1 pro-| bourhood, which was a congested one, and pose that there should be continuous records Merits. Chadwick and Simpson formulated of all the resumptions undertaken These small scheme which they submitted to Go records would consist of Special Aunual verument. This schaine was only partially Report prepared by the Director of Public carried out, portion of it, which involved the Works, and printed as a Sessional faper which payment of heavy compensation without any would show on a general map the position of commensurate, henefit to help hbouring proper the areas that have been resumed or are in lies, being abandoned. The expenditure, on portion carried out way $38.097.79, the entire plans each scheme of resumption, and of re-area resumed being devoted to the formation process of resumption, and on more detailed the p
yng out the resumed ares, and the extent to of a street about 32 feet wide between. (he which each cheme had been carried out by houses fronting on Queen's Road and those the end of the year dealt with in the Report, fronting on Circular Pathway. It would show also the proportions of each
Kau-U-Fong Resumption The task. resumed area adiginally and ultimately devoted formulating and carrying out improvement Government purposes, and the progress that undertaken in 1903, when a start was made to streets, lanes, and open spaces, and lo schemes in a systematic manner was first had been made, in disposing of the new build with a densely built block lying west of ing lota it contained with the arch still remain Aberdeen Street and between Wellington and statement of accounts for each resumption Twenty-four houses In Kau-U-Fong, showing the expenditure it had involved un to, and West, and eight in On Wo!labe were date, both for resumings and for laying out, resumed, in addition to two in Aberdeen Street roads, etc., within the resumed area, and the and thres in Gough Street, and all of these receipts obtained in the form of prema for were entirely demolished. A new street 30- new building lots, as well as a general account feet in width, has been constructed and it is giving the total expenditure and receipts for proposed to dispose of the surplus land for all the tosumptions that had been undertaken building purposes. The scheme is not quite up to the end of the year with which the completed and a complete and accurate state- Report dealt
ntent of the cost cannot therefore be given
who these "Bundry.", are, and how they dropped into that column. There seem to be very few Burasians in. Shanghai; at any THE KING'S BIRTHDAY. rate only 3a3 acknowledge themselves to be Burasians, and half the number was compos King Edward the Seventh's birthday ised of infants who had no choice, or children, being celebrated to day in every part of the under 15 years of age. The total foreign great Empire which flick the Union Jack population of Slianghal-always bearing in When King Edward nacended the Throne, mind that the French Settlement is not in nearly five years ago, cavillers were not cluded amounts to 11,447 persons, nearly lacking who donbted whether King Edward double what it was in 1900, when the figures would inspire his subjects with that spirit of were 6,774; in 1895 the foreigners number loyalty and affection, and attract the regarded 4684; in 1890 they were 3821 and twen of neighbouring states, which were such
TELE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
SERVICES
LIÊN CHA
RE
OFFICIAL INQUIRY OPENED,
DRE MACULE APPO
From Our
ntative:
thameen (Canton) 9th November, 1005, 8:40 am. The official inquiry into the air-
eminent characteristics of Queen Victoria's ty years ago they amounted to 3,673. Soing for disposal. It would also contain a Gugh Streets and known as Kap-cuinstances attending the murder,
personality. King Edward has not only won a niche in the bearts of his subjects; he is recognised to-day as the leading diplomatist in Europe, the inspiration of Peuterte cordiale, the friend of Japan and the world's peacemaker, While closely observing the
in otiquette of a constitutional monarch and respecting the rights of a free and indepen dent people, King Edward has, nevertheless, contrived by the exercise of those qualities
that within twenty years the foreign popula. tion of Shanghai has nearly quadrupled.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
H.M.S. Moorhen played the newly-formed the afternoon, and on by three goals to one. meen Football Club at Canton on Tuesday
TRIPPERS returning from a visito-the-New Territory state that the second rice crop is an
of dignity, lact and á gracious honkomie-abundant one, while game of the smaller kinding the information already communicated to qualities which his detractors denied him tó nequire a preponderating position in the counsels of the nation, and within the brief space of five years to 'add new lustre to the Crown. President Roosevelt is no greater WHISKY.holder of liberty, no greater exponent of
If this proposal appears to you worthy of adoption the first Report to be issued for 1904 would deal with the Taipingshan resumption, carried out in the years 1894 to 1895, jembody. snipe and qunit-are plentiful. One party of you in Mr. May's de patch referred to above, four guns bagged 39 brace in just under wogos of the area near Lower Lascar Row, with the resumption carried out in the year hours. Wild duck and teal are also coming which formed the subject of Sir William Gas
colgne's despatch No. 223 of 27th May, 1901, and with the resumption, recommended Mr. Chadwick and Professor Simpsoded by 4th and 26th paragraphs of their report of the
$16,50
"
ADMINISTRATION has been granted in London of the personat estate and effects of Li Hung Chang, of Peking, G.C.V.O., Chinese diplomat the virtues of peace than King Edward; and who died on November 7, 1931, a widower and the strongest evidence of that fact is the intestate. He was reputed to be one of the close personal alliance which exists between richest men in China. His estate in the the Sovereign of Great Britain and the United Kingdom has been valued at £1,400, Chief of the Great Republic. A chapter of and administration has been granted to his international history, which when it comes son, Li Ching Mai, of Peking. to be writtes must prove of absorbing in JarANESE papers state that on the day of the turest, will reveal the influence which King Naval Review the fragments of the Russian „Edward exercised'in securing peace between, shells which fell on the Asama during the war, Russia and Japan, and who can realise howtogether with articles of furniture damaged by S. WATSON & CO., his power has been employed to calm the the enemy's fire, were arranged in a group sear Gery outbursts of his flamboyant nephew in the seat occupied by His Majesty on that vessel Germany Within a few years, and mainly Many of the articles showed very clearly the owing to His Majesty's efforts, Great Britain hotness of the fire to which the Arama had at Ins come to be looked upon as a friend various times been exposed. Admiral Togo. by France, feeling between Kermany and gave detailed explanations of the circumstances,
connected with these relics to the Emperor. Great Britain has been reduced, we have His Majesty is stated to have been much im cemented our relations with the United pressed and to have ordered a few of the shells States and Japan, and only against Russia and other articles to be sent to the Palace, as a is there any Spirit of mistrust. These are memento of the hard service undergone by the great accomplishments, achieved by a monarch who might be described as an unaccredited fliplomat, but they are not to be, gainsaid. In the Colonies, the Crown as represented in King Edward' was never more respected, and there is not a little hamlet in the wide vastnesses of (32 Canada or the back blocks of Australia
LIMITED.
WINE & SPIRIT
MERCHANTS, ·
ALEXANDRA RUILDINGS.
'Hongkong, 38th October, 1905.
GREGOR & CO., CO.,
Wine Merchants,
Will Shortly
REMOVE
No. 19,
to
where His Majesty would not find a respon- sive heart. As a fact, His Majesty's birth- day is being celebrated with greater tokens of loyalty and good-will in the Colonies. Dan probably in London, the heart of the Empire, for the King's Birthday is a holiday
Britain generally it serves simply as a text for discourses on the greatness of the British Empire. In Hongkong we have rejoiced in time-lionoured fashion, sedately and without much clamour, but the deepest depths are nol productive of the loudest noises, and that feeling of unbounded respect for His Majesty the King is pot to be gauged by any outward or visible sign or expression, It is deep-seated, permanent, inviolable, and is founded on a sure basis. The King at tains his 64th birthday to-day. (God save the King."
SHANGHAPS FOREIGN
POPULATION.
On the 14th of October last, the Munici pal Council of Shanghai took a census of the foreign population of that centre of industry-exclusive of the French Settlement *—and some interesting figures are the result. It appears that the total number of Britons; that is to say British-born, is 3713, nearly 1600 ahead of the next nation. There were in Shanghai on the day of the census 1702 |inate and 1102 female adults; and 459 boys and 450 girls. "It would appear that the number of Britishers is steadily increasing at Shanghai this year the number is 3713; in 1999 it was 2694; in 1895, 1936; in 1890 1574 in 1885, 1453 ; and in 1880 the number was 1057. Japan comes second on the list with 2,157 of that nation, which is a big jump from the figure, 736, recorded five years ago, and 250 in 1895. The Portuguese number. 1,339, as compared with 978 in 1900, and 731 in, 1895. Then comes
Asama.
İNSANITARY PROPERTIES
RESUMPTION,
The following correspondence and report are reprinted from a. blus-book on the subject of insanitary property resumptions, during the ten years 1894-1905, laid on the table of the Legis:
lative Council yesterday.
GOVERNOR SIR M. NATHAN TO' MR. LYTTELTION,
Government House, Hongkong, 26th Sep
tember, 1904.
Sir, Mr. May has in accordance with the in- structions cautained in your Despatch No. 161; dated the 26th May last, placed before me crust to carry out schemes for the resump- tion of insnati
areas and the improvement of the City of
*2. I entirely concur with him that a consider- able sum should be devoted each year to the | resumption of insanitary property, and that this resumption should proceed on continuous Ines.
4th May, 1901, and carried out in the years 903 and 1904 of the interior of the block Central, Wellington Street, and Aberdeen bounded by Gough's Street, Queen's Road
Street.
7.1 The comparatively small amount of the receipts from the sale of leases within the Tai- pingshan rosumption, and the anticipated small proportion of receipts to outlay in con- nection with the Gough Street, resumption, justify the doubt expressed in the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs of your despatch No. 283 of the 18th December, 1903, as to the immediate re munerativeness of this necessary sanitary work.
I have, etc.
M. NATHAN
/ MR, LYTTELTON TO GOVERNOR SIR M.
NATHAN,
Stx,
THE INTERNATIONAL COTTON- MANUFACTURING CO, LD.
The report to be presented at the tenth an- office of the company, Shanghai, on the 14th nual meeting of shareholders, to be held at the inst, is as follows
American missionarios at chau has been opened.
Dr. Muchle, who with Miss Patter son is the only other survivor the American missionary workers in that district, lins returned to Canton.
Dr. Machle has been appointed member of the official Commission of Inquiry.
POST-BELLUM INSTRUCTIONS,
HOME MINISTER'S MESSAGE TO THESE,
GOVERNORS.
The directors have now the pleasure to sub- mit to the shareholders the audited accounts of the Company for the year ended 30th Septem- ber 1995.
Conditions generally have been favourable for the spinning industry. An ample supply of for Yath, with excellent working at the millicle of 20th October cotton at reasonable rates and a good demand.
have combined to make this the best year the company has had since it cummenced opera•, tions.
The following is taken from the Japan Chiav
Peace being finally assured and su Iraperial Rescript baving been issued; Baron: Kiyaura, Profit & Loss Account. Including the the Minister for Home Affairs, has issued gen. balance brought forward from last year of Teral Instructions to the Coverabr, of prefectures 13,619.19 there is a sum of Tle 153,727,27 at the credit of this account, which would be quite for their guidance in future admfulstra sufficient to pay a dividend if other conditions. These instructions begin by calling the atten- were favourable; but it will be seen that the tion of the local authorities to the fact Company still owes the Russo-Chinese Bank & Empire has now taken upon her should the largs amount, and until this is liquidated your serious duty of guaranteeing the peace of the directors consider that the best interests of the Company will be served by not attempting to Far East. By this, combined with the renewal. pay dividends, and they propose to dispose of of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, the prestige of the above balance as follows:=;
ng the Empire has been greatly enhanced and off plant and machinery Tls. 50,0:000 now the movement of the Einpire as a nation
mill buildings
and the behaviour of the people will be watch. 5:416.20 51787.71ed by the world with increased attention, Rus 5,000.00 sia has become once more a friendly country, 50,0:000 and no discrimination should be made against 18,718.85 Russians. The people should therefore be on their guard to avoid, such conduct as would impair the good name of the Empire. In par Tia. 152,727-47
ticular, increased attention should be directed to the protection of foreign religio gand-any) cause likely to lead forelguere character of the Japanese people should studiously eradicated.
掌肉
OF
Downing Street, 3rd NovemberWrite have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch No. 349 of the 16th of September with regard to the suggested Trust to carry out schemes for the resumption of 18. any areas and the Improvement of the City
of Victoria.
: 2. 1 ngice generally with your views on
#
Chinese houses.{0})
mill stores...
»» ginning mill Place to reserve
Carry to new account
inalter, and approve your proposal with regard Debenture Account-In accordance with
to the issue of special reports.--t have, etc.,
ALFEED, LYTTELION.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT, TO MAY 1ST, 1905.
Dr.
Taipingslyan.
$81,269.32
To amount spent on se
sumption of property including all costs, fecs, etc............. Amount spent on con- struction of roads, sewers, etc................... $ 23,059.47.
Lower Lascar Row,"
To amount spent on re
Bumption of property including, all costs, ices, etc... $ 36,050.co. Amount spool on con- struction of roads, sewers, etc.
1,147.79
Kalt-u-fang. (Now in progress.). To`amount spent on re-
'sumption of property: including all costs, fees, etc... Amount spent on con
struction of roads, sawers, ele irmaniaş
37,156.50
1,187.50*
5914.327.79
】
Referring to the future economic situ the instructions proceed 15 MAY
Course of the war the country dreds of millions of you for the War Fund and yet the acosomic situation was
perfectly sound condition, more private business enterprises coming into existence than before the outbreak of ward. TSHSWAS mainly due to the fact that the people at homes displayed great public spirit, ware - diligent in their business and performed their duty will ogly, remembering the hardships of officers and men at the front who were heroically giv,
the conditions under which there were issued, 25 per cent of the net profit has to be paid to the trustees to form a fend for their redemption. As will be seen from the ac counts, the sum at credit of Debenture Trust Fund is T. 37,600.00; adding Tla. 31,181 31, 25 per cent of net profit of year just closed, there w 1 be a total of Tis 21,781.31 at the credit of this fund, while out of a proposed issue of Th, 500,00307 debentures, only Tha. 34,000,00 bave so far been taken up. With the improved finances of the Company, it is thought the balance of these debentures may be placed, as they form an excellent Invesi- ment, otherwise steps will be taken to pay off all those issued, as soon as possible (the earliest date being.31st March 1907), but
Prospects for the current year are favourable, and your directors, have been able to dispose of the mill's production for some months ahead at prices that should show a satisfactory margining their lives for their country. The yar 38,097.79 if nothing unusual takes place. The mill Fund: was lately spent in the purchase of
generally is in
in excellent order, and the Com-war material at home, and this also went, a pany's yarn ranks in the arket with the best long way. But by the conclusion of peace produced locally.
those of the people who had been living by the manufacture of war, materials are to be tematy porarily thrown out of employment. It is there. fare necessary for the local authorities; at (Nm) present moment to devise menna- for relieving these unfortunate persons. At the beginning of the war the prosecution of new local works was suspended, and the works in progress worn. also brought to a stop in order in lighten as far as practicable, the burden on the people..." It “16," says the massage, "necessary to direct care- fal attention to the consolidation of finance in. general, but the advancement of the prosperity of the State does not allow the country to be contest with negative Operations, and now works should be prompted where the circu stances require them! The
-5/240,344 00 |
Total amount expended"...$1,211,769,58
Cr
By amount received.
hom sales of land...$171,393.50 By sale of building asa. terial; earth deposit. edin Praya Reclama- tion, etc..........
Receipts....................................... Receipts (salvage land not yet dealt with)... Financial deficių.
$ 49,930.87
Nil.
Nil
-$191,374.37
$1,033,445.21
Total ..................$1.223 769.58 *Estimated further amount required to complete work, Stä,500. The following report is signed by the Hon. Mr. W. Chatham, the director of public works
Directors-Messrs. J. L. Scolt and C. Ray ner resigned their seats on the Board upon their departure from Shanghai and their places were filled by whose election it is necessary to confirm. Mr. Ponte retires by rotation but, being eligible, offers himself for re-elections and
Auditor. Mr. Arthur R. Leaks, CA,, audited the accounts now presented and offers himself for re-election.")
Messre F. Ayscough and M. March,
Following are the accounts:-
· PROFIT AND LOSS'ACCOUNT, AS ON,
30TH SEPTEMBER, 19059) BU
Dr. To interest account ... Tia. 36,495.57
Less Rent on 'Chi-
nese houses
To directors' fees
*,, auditor's len „L
#
balance brought
forward, 30th September, 1905. Profit, 30th Sept
1905.
488.17
Th
32,007/30 4,500.00 350.00
excited among the people during [berwar refulted in the promotion of various usel public undertaking and not for public works," "which" could not be underaken on account of local dissension, in time of peace, have been successfully accomplished, Forestry and other useful works have been promoted us mementoes of the war, and thêje "must be maintained with great care.) It is feared that the people may become tired of these exertions,- but they must be rencouraged to continue. 152,727-47 || Doring the war the people stihome, old and
YouDg, men and women; worked, Tls, 189,584 77sitting each other in harmony,
13,629.29
139,098.18!
By balance 30th September, 1954
#
transfer fees working account:
accrued inteiast debenture:trust
fund
Th
3. I do not think it would be desirable that it should be laid down either that a sum of $355,000 plus half the proceeds of land sales, as proposed by the Committee that reported on the 24th September, 1903, or that a sum of not less then $400,000 as recommended in Mr. May's despatch No. 150, dated on the 9th April, 1904, should be devoted to resumptions. With regard to the first of these proposals i mates of the principle, which, if introduced, am adverse to the introduction into the erti
would admit of various logical extensious, of allocating a special source of receipts to a special subject of expenditure; and with re gard to the second I am convinced that were you to lay down any standing instruction for the allocation for a perind of years of a large sum for resumptions you would frequently be Asked to suspend it. For instance, in the draft Estimates for 1905, it has been necessary, on account of contracts already entered "intɔ, to $153 500 fur continuing the Erection of in- set aside $750,000 for water supply scheme and
portant public buildings that have been com- menced. These sums, fogether with $359,800 for some smaller continuation services, and a few minor works of sanitary and urgent neces fity, bring up the total Public Works Extra ordinary, Estimates to St,button, and it has. Taipingshan Resumption.-The serious.out.
way the necessary labour, was bén considered that 5:70,00 is the minimum break of plaque in 1894 gave rise to the first
despite the large number of rah sum that can be added to this Estimate for resumption scheme undertakes for the purpose
1829 drawn for mintary service 173,554.74able behaviour should be highly compensation and resumptions of insanitary of improving the sanitary condition of the City property underthe Public Health and Buildings of Victoria. During the course of the epidemic,
Care should also be extrcised, with Ordinance of 1893. Had such a standing, the inhabitants of a large area in the Taiping,
soldiers returning (with distinction been in force it would have been necessary. Ing provided elsewhere for those who liked to instruction as that which has been suggested shan District were evicted, accommodation be
front that they live up to their! either to have asked for its suspension, or to avail themselves of it, and after resumption of
continus worthy of their decorat * After referring at some length raised. additional taxation to meet the the properly by the Government, the area was
for the relief of the widowa wants of the particular year, or to have broken entirely cleared of buildings and laid out afresh contracts and stopped the execution of the Im in building Ints with streets and lanes suitably To
628,800.comen fallen on the field;
boes maimed, the instructi portant works in hand, or to have undertaken arranged. Owing to the irregularity and steep.
$34,000,00 reserve fund Suomiljenimi,
50,000.00 e consolidation of the no other works, however important or urgeatness of the ground, the operations involved
must not be neglected : That I think that for the present it must be left to were of a very extensive and costly nature; Russo Chinese bank. 180,751.90 "by the people during the the Governor to suggest each year as inige a
Numerous high
sundry creditors pre retaining walls had to be built, sum as he thinks can conveniently be appro- streets and laves formed, and sewers. and slorin -profit and loss account m priated and profitably spent on resumptions water drains constructed to suit the re-arrange- and compensation
ment of the building lots. The various warkı America, fourth on the list, with 991 repte. Į set aside for resumptions on a vary extendedditure'qu them, 'after deducting various credits By property account diED
In the circumstances that no sum can be were not completed until 1899 and the expon sentativer: twenty years ago there were only scale, at any rate until the extensive water for materials sold or deposited as filing in the plant and machinery. 274. Americans in Shanghai. Germans are supply schemes are completed in 1906, that the Praya Reclamation, amounted to $103,128 6
860ginning will plant,
furniture account- lines on which resumptions should be carried The cost of resuming the property, including Ti fifth with 785, which is respectable when
out are to some extent already indicated in Mr, ail charges, was $821,268,32, making the total sundry dobtors compared with the figure 159 recorded in 0. Chadwick and Dr. W. J. Simpson's Report cost of scheme $924.396,92. The amount real s unexpired fire prem 1880. There are 393 French who do not of the 14th May, 1907, on the question of the ed by the sale of building loss up.to
stock on band. Housing of the Population of Hongkong, and sent time amounts 16 $171.393-52
Cottone prefer their own Settlement for residential that various
the land reader
Yara mejor purposes; five years ago there were only 176; Sanitary Board Contains are received from the A considerable proportion of
Waste & Seeds contain specific recommendand available for building purposes was utilized tions for minor zerumpiloos, I do and twenty year ago the figure was 66. sent support the proposal for the post at pre- for the creation of public gardens or devoted in Mill stores,
establishment other public purposes, thus reducing thes Russians number 354-due no doubt to the of a Trust embodied in the Report submitted intended for sale and largely aug presence of the warships-at the time of October, spot Dre patch, 485 Lower Lascar Row Resumption-No further fand goth Rep
argely augmenting the il loss on the schame of 23rd 1903, nor that for an Advisory the census in 1880, Russians numbered 3 Board recommended by Mr. May's No. 150, resumptions on sanitary grounds were under The list falls away sadly as it goes down the dated the 9th April, 1994. I would leave be taken und 1907, when Mezent, Chadwich)
tendering of advice as to the areas or buildings | Simpson visited the. Colony to répart Messrs. Kelly & Walsh.nationalties, the eighth on the roll being to be resumed and the utilization of the fatum condition from an try point of view and
Austro-Hungarians with 1 58 members. Then ad areas to the members of the Government advise ibe, Government, with regard to follow Italian with 148 Spanish 148, the allization to the best advantage of Croma During their larg occurred
responsible for its sanitary mossures and for Adopijon "of measures," for "It Ippress (35 Danish ry, Norwegian 93, Swedish 80, Lands,
Mily destroyed a numbit of houPE
QUEEN'S
ROAD
CENTRAL
lately occupied
by
Hongkong, 4th November, 1995,
have
to the
2.372.95 T1, 189,584.77 LIABILITIES AND ASSETS AS ON JOTH SEPTEMBER, 1995..
capital account....
顱
debenture account
Coal
9,375.00
By debenture')} frust
tember, 1954-30
Acciped interest
$70,000:35 153727:47
312,285.72 TE 320,321:40,
630,000,00
15,000,00
war
to work in time of peace, and exert themselves, advancing amassing weelik, sad so prosperity. Only by so glory be preserved and the pire maintained for ever”.
5,000.000 14,179-80 4,123.98
SHIPPING AND
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