DAIRY FARM COMPANY.
ANNUAL MEETING,
INTERESTING DISCUSSIONI ADAL
ajed inst.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 25 1905.
point of view, and I think we bare studied it more carefully than anybody not familiar with the business. Certainly it does got pay us to spend the time we do in looking after the Com pany's business, but was not complaining about that. Our object is to safeguard, la every the Company, and by doing so, we are
with our management.
HONGKONG SIBAM WATERS
BOAT COM ED
'ANNUAL MEETING.
14th inst.
ENSALE OM HIMSERTWERDMAN
The ninth annual meeting of the abareholders dissatiss,” the shareholders, but if you are the above Company was held at the company's rising by $1,000 bidə-till they reached So.co.
of the Dairy Farm Company Ltd., was held at the Company's town depot, this afteroon. Dr. JWH oble chairman of directors, presided and there wore present Mr. K.“ asbare, Cor" and" Maästi. Walker, manager,
direc
S. A. Kütter,
Sath, secratoyu meland snd A. Stevenson. | you say so. The directors, i
¿year,
... let
to
my share a
This afternoon atis pyon board the boat, H.M.S gunboat Tweed was put up for sucilon by Masers, Hughes and Hough, and after keen The fifth annual meeting of shareholders in competition, the bids starting at $5,000 and
office, 13, Hotel Mansions at book to-day, and thereafter by 3503 bids and one of Si00 the chair), Chat Siu Ki, Francisco Tase Yanocked down to Mr. Chec On coal merchant There were present Mesurs. G. C. Maxon (in until they reached $10,400, the, vasisi was (consulting committee Capt W. I Clarke decided upon the use to be marle of the vessel who we understand, has not yet definitely Measts, Duncan Cluk, E. O. Murphy, Chid How, Kwan Chu Ngan, F. R. Fox,
*w (manager).
o manager having read the solice conven.
The
-Gentlemen, the re
!
one as
*A HONGKONG SCHOOL..
OUTRAGE IN CANTO
JAPANESE PROFENSOR FOULLY, MURDEREA
THE ALLEGED CRIMINAL CAPTURED.
[From Our Own Correspondent.]
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THE ARRESTS ON ANESE POLITICAL LEADERS.
owing!
MORE LIGHT ON THE TOKIO DISTURBANCES?
We take from the Japan Mail the reference to the äirests of political Tokio which were briefly recorded in our issu of the other day
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andeavour being to raise the standard of our 8 Dalry. Farm. is shut.up. It is only by quefly suffered to a certain extent. The best! Re a tiny red dot on the map,, ·And when they spite had nothing to do with the, crime, signal. The method was that he would proce
Mr. Underwood-That was my object in asking these questions.
school.
know
and
with A
Dome
The Chairman moved the adoption of the | vesscis water In this port about 200% cheaper educated in our big English children and by, the steamed Liang Zung. The Japanese Dict, Mr Sakurai is barrister and Mr. Hosono.
report and gingham seconded.
''
and accounts,
The Emotion was unanimously carried,,
Mr. Underwood proposed, and Mr. Rotter land and E. . finds as direck-es. Agreed.
These schools for the
is-or was- member of the Asahës Vale
3. nderwood—No, no ; 1 am not. 1 I come perely to ask a few questions, I didn't come
› Canton, agrd November. here to move for a better dividend, but he
known Professor Kado, the Japanese Pro-Hosonoro and Sakura Kumaar wo
A dastardly outrage was committed, at The arrests of Messrs Kong Hirdnaken, Otake Canton on the ist inst., when the well-Kanichi, Yamada Kinosuke;" C well I think it is only fair a company does
Orewa Belkich that it should pay. A better dividend. A. Forban,
The Chairman-1 am very pleased 10 bear The Secretary, read the notic
fessor of Medicine at the Whampoa Military-reatly surprise the public. These four men, above all Mr. Kone Hironaks, were prominent CAD ASHUTO. you, 'the notice calling the tre vary. Jargaly : interested in the Companyi | Ing the meeting, ET
School, was brutally murdered by a throughout the anti-peace treaty demonstration notoriously bad character from Honam.and rumour persisted in alleging that the agita mertaman sald--Gentlemen,Following cular, more perhaps than any one else stand to ind have been for a long time and I, in parti
Professor Kado was engaged some time ago tion must have derived impulse and support, the usual custom, I will; with your permission, suffer in declaring and taking as
To the November issue of the Yellowly the Viceroy at Canton to teach the from some source other than popular indigen 'port and accounts for: year ending 318ragon, Mr. E. A. Irving contributes an tako ne read the report and accounts as pre sented, "they" having been in your hands for
mall dividend. But you may not realise that August having now been in your hands for aride on a Hongkong School. This is how medical students at the Military School and tion. We ou solves were informand, on evidence some days. It is with much pleasure that wo
this is a so per cent, dividend. We are obliged some days, I will with your permission adopt the inspector of school describes one of the was greatly respected by all who know him. of a nature scarcely admitting doubt, that the
boxes in Tokio was a are able to meet you again after another food fund maidē. Sa5,000 av a'Special Roserve the usual custom and take them as read. flty small, schools in the Colony where only It hasnot yet been definitely ascertained what. filestruction of thei
The past e at a moment's notice. Our cattle may be Rood year has not been a particularly. | Chinese 18 taught .......
*meet, aby, emergency "that may the period under review we have
motive actuated the murderer, whose name free use of money! This man was observed by cted by a leader ho made weight arise
regards of shipping in added Jaring
and yet economically, to our wiped out. I may have to tell you to-morrow
the harbour and our business has coase kong they are apt to remember the place only the act but it is believed that personal carried dole which he blow-by
When people in England think of Hong ie sald to be Chok Sui Cheung, to commit several citizens. He rade In Jinrikisha herd of catle. We have made our purchase
and in 18 America, Australia and
addcotland, our careful and looking after the pennies
18 only litles between
Rue
and Japan now happily think of Chisamen, sometimes they imagine nd the dollars as they come in that we are Dy introducing only well-bred, good milk to post: a report at all. I have been "panese dag, from these waters for soma-iime; claws; whereas they are really very much time the keeper of disorderly houses in mints would assemble in obedience to
at an end have caused the absence of the them to be a sort of fuany people, ather live Chok Sul Cheung was for considerable ed to the neighbourhood of
police-bux there his flute, whereupon body of
Food herd has now become so largo that we recomCompany or owns and if it had not bees for met producing animals. The actual value of the cont
but it is to be hoped that a general improve like onoacted in an official capacity wit this
other mortals when you come to.
conam, Canton; but on the representationsunter and attack the object of destruction. Sp ment in trade and consequently in shipping them. Their schools are not so very unlike of the Japanese Consul, who pointed out a good many years; have seen mend
to transfer from the year's profits to you
will be apparent next year. A any up and
change the English schools, Cattle Repares -Fund, therium of $25,000. two members of the staff. present bare to-day method of our supply of water. from: the. Gov. There are in Hongkong two schools resary. | of these "houses, and the crimes which had with the flute would scatter handfuls of yen the evils which resulted from the existence middle of the street and set on fire the man soon as the hox had been pulled out into the This fund we intend to keep in aliquid forms sows would not have bad that it can at short notice be applied to par now. There is no question about that.
erament whilst ensuring us excellent quality ed for scholars of the European British parent originated there, Viceroy Shum recently mong the rioters and then nove en to ADY Dairy Farm
har considerably enhanced the cost to us and chase of stock should that, for any reason, be won't give their names they are both present
as any increase in our rates is much resented is taught to Chinese, Portuguese
age. There are also several big colleges where issued an order that all disorderly houses inther box Evidently he worked in accordance come necessary. You will know, be disapat this table old residents here will know
by our clients we are
en la more by the English s. one has an enrolment of 1,500; that deserie to have rankled in the mind of section, at ad execs of out prepared to obey change referred to. We underwrite our own and not only may you fud Queen's College the accused, who determined to take them. Iftbeas facta bi credible, it is hard to avoid
district should be summarily closed. pointed to hear that the frozen food business |
previously arranged programme, and has not base as profitable as we anticipated. careful that we are able to answer you. I whom I mean. It is only by having been
boals (as premium required
all events, of the rioters obeyed his would make
ald boys" The public l'am sorry to say have not given have endeavoured to enlightes you to the best sideration the risk we dally run our prices ty, when some governor of a Chinese provincs met, and Professor Kado was the first party politics, and that the disturbance
in our profits very small) and taking into con down the coast of Chine, but also occasional revenge on the first Japanese citizen he
merchants' offices all up and us the support which we hoped and expected of my ability. to receive, and which one would suppose they
he conviction that the trouble had its origin in for water cannot be considered other than it is difficulties because he does not know he encountered. Immediately after com- did so much to discredit Japan in the eyes of the which would have given if they had considered their
remarkably cheap. In this connection whether own interests, especially as we appeared in the deld at a time when it seemed as though the
Auram is an island, he will send for mitting the murder, Chok Sui Cheung made world was deliberately planned. Of the six may mention that investigation shows that and consult his young secretary who was his way to Canton and was bound to Macao en now arrested, four are members of this people of ongkong, were to be completely at
than in Singapore, Shanghai, Manila, and other the mercy of the meat guilds, and prices were.
neighbouring ports and our profits depend to a the educated Chinese and others can speak for Consul at Hongkong was apprised of the continually rising without any good or ad
Fosse probably aware we use threatened with themselves, and it would be a very good thing murder and telegraphed to Viceroy Shum of the rith, and the police seems to have per Tha Arrests were made early on the morning checked this rise in prices and later was the
positio portin ng world and it is the beached the League of the Empire Magazine. But arrested. The Viceroy telephoned to Cap. sidaated with prison for co you are aware we are if they would give accounts of themselves in requesting that the assailant be immediately formed the unpleasant duty with all con- cause of lower prices being demanded by the
port in the it is to be hoped am now going to try and describe one of the tain Yeung of the Shameen Guard to detain life. His connection Chinese. You perhaps do not realize that there
well is really not the difference between our rates
there may
ybe room for two companies doing I believe that any
where only. Chinese is taught.
with the Fukushima affair in 1883 led to nina and those ruling for Chinese meat as would at
the trade in which we are engaged. Time will first sight appear. You can at least depend on
aure at least that Chise schools are not so and at 4 p.m. on the sand the accused was getting full weight, besides, which, it is now
ment is fully alive to the situation and it does go on to think, if this is so, Chinese cannot be Tung was on the point of leaving. He is well recognised by those best able to judge,
not seem probable that any competing com
so very different from English after all. still detained in the guardhouse here. that one pound of our meat is equal, if not
yutre boats are clean and well kept and a schoot of 30 or 40 Jittle Chinese boys be pay can underbid us with any profit in themselves. Your fleet is in good order; roof and by two windows at one end, is housed In a long, narrow room, lighted from the
this port there is no reason why your business given a continuance of shipping prosperity in tween six and thirteen years of age. There is one teacher, a thin refined-looking young should not fourish. I do not think the ac- Chinaman, dressed in a short white jacket. If will have seen your consulting committee have to he has hung up his long coat of white craps counts call for much spacial coniment. As you is summer, and very hot here under the tiles: made ample provision for depreciation and re- behind his desk. He is calling the roll. duction of goodwill.
speedily as circumstances allow. Before formale is dressed in a louse blu's jacket, unbution. The latter was incurred Cheung Lok! Cheung Lek springs to his when the business of Messrs. Lane, Crawford feet, cries 'Hi' holds up his right hand and & Co. was absorbed and will be written off as remains standing till the next name is called, ly moving the adoption of the report and aced, which shows his small yellow person, dem counts as presented I shall be pleased to ans swer any question if possible.
a pair of short blue knickerbockers, and that is His aix Inches of queue we plaited with a string, which bobs about comically round his sbaven head.
Let us look at their lessons. Standard V. are told off to write to their parents in China by Mr. E. Murphy, the following gentlemen scratching and rustling prevails, as they pour On the proposition of Capt. Clarke, seconded the subject of the plague. A mighty
for the ensuing year. Messrs. G. C. Moxon, brown paper. Soos their, brushes are at work. were re-elected on the consulting commities #ator-into' their palettes; and tab their ink North Kores after the battle of Mukden,. This sticks and smooth out their scraps of whitey To Father, Great man. Lille Son reverential ly petitions. With these Present Greeting Mr. Duncan Clurk proposed, and Mr.
Little Son at Hongkong is at peace and tran Murphy feconded, that Mr. W. H. Patta ber year there ain't no Plaque not anxious re-elected auditor.
''year there ain't no Plague' (you will get your ear twisted for that lapse into the vulgar speech Little Sonf
superior, ie nourishment to one and a quarter pourds of the local article, this being the pro postion at which the Military Authorities dow serve the Garrison rations, Those of you who are particular about your meal supply should come here yourselves and make your own selections, and this we hope you will do, If your wants are not fully and well satisfied complain about it
writing
and we will endeavour to make at you require, but please A will enable you co
to get ac
what axactly bear in mind that if you and your friends do not in the future wispport us more heartily, Hongkong will lose what we consider to be a very important branch of the Compay'ı basi- neus, ie,, frozen food. Before proposing the adoption of the Report and Account, if there
Are any questions you would like to ask I will be pleased to answer them.
Mr. Underwood—I should like to know how
many cattle the Company ha representing
$61,174 against last year?
The Chairman.Of course, you must re- member the cattle account changes from day 10 day, and from week to week. We are al. ways losing cattle and we are always replacing thom, so that the cattle account is always a fluctuating one.
Mr. Underwood understand that.' The Chairman. The total herd in August 1904 was 357 head; the total hard at the cor- responding date this year was 3;5 head,
Mr. Underwood:- should also like to know how many farm loir you have?
The Chairman. We have a good many on lease in one way or another. Do you mean how many do we own?
Mr. Underwood.I should like to know if you own more now than you had last year?
seconded, the re-appointment of Mr. W. H. Polls as auditor. Agreed.
Mr. Forbes moved, and Mr. Stevenson that this position will be maintained. and that so small schoolshoy who reads this will feel any person resembling Chok Sui Cheung, years in jail, and he emerged only because of The Chairman.We are very much. obliged show. You may rest assured that your manage very different from English schools. He might arrested at the Macao wharf just as the Kiang te amoesty granted at the time of the pro-:-
will be ready for you tomorrow.** to you for your attendance. Dividend warrants Mr. Forbes-1 beg to move a vote of thanks have conducted the business during the past to the chairman and directors for the way. they
Mr. Rutter seconded the motion which was ananimously carried.
The Chairman We thank you, I may say
year,
we have devoted a grauf deal of our time for which we don't get grent deal of remunera tion, and we don't ask it-to the work of the Company and we hope in the future to appro- for while locking alle: the Company, we are priate as much time to the Company's affairs, safeguarding your interests (hear, hear).
The meeting then ended.
RUSSIAN CRUISER AT SAIGON,'".
DEPARTURE. OF THE "DIANA,”
According to the latest issue of the Cen rier
Satgonnais (the 13th Inst.) received in Hong
kong, the Russian cruiser Diana which has
heen interned at Saigon for fifteen months had received orders from St. Petersburg to leave The Courrier adds a query mark. after that CAVD next day, on a mission in the Mediterranean." quotation, indicating that the port for which the Diana is bound was unknown. The vessel looked a perfect treat. The Courrier expresses had been repaired and painted white, and it the belief that the commander and officers will and will not regret the days they spent in the remember with pleasure their sojourn in Saigon,
Extreme Orieni.
The Russian cruiser Charewitch having left Shanghai [Tsingtau] on the 12th, was daily to be expected at Saigon.
..
The Korea, another Russian vessel, arrived
There being no questions, the chairman pro- posed, and Mr. Duncan Clark seconded, that the report and accounts as presented be adopt- ed and passed. Canied.
CONSULTING COMMITTEE,
Chau Siu Ki, Francisco Tize Yat and A, II. Skelton
Carried.
AUDITOR,
The Chairman This is all the business. Dividend warrants will be ready to-morrow and shareholders are requested to apply at the office for the same. I thank you for your at tendance, gentlemen.
VOTE OF THANKS.
Mr. E. J. Murphy proposed a vote of thanks to the chairman for presiding at the meeting,
A
alleged murderer is a countryman, that is to ambiguous on the point as to whether the [Our correspondent's message is somewhat
say a Japaness, of the murdered man or noi. The writer, however, seems to hint that the added that the surname Chok is said to be accased is also a Japanese, which is quite possible in the circumstances. It may be Japanese not Chinese–Ed., #7.X.T.]
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EXPERIBNOBS in the field, INTERVIEW WITH MAJOR-GENERAL MARUI.
S
'the
mulgation of the Consiliutlos
Te will
probably sound strange in
ears that a such a record should have been at, once a man with olected a member of the House of Repre sentatives and should have actually hold the
position of President for a brief period, but bis
camo.
was
countrymen regard Mr. Kono at the victim of his own impetuous patriotism and not at all as
travelling. When the fact of the arrests be a common malefactor. Mr. Hasong was up-
Wakayama, where be prehended
known several of the leading barristers of Tokio repaired to the office of
of the Chief Procurator' and suggested that be
the suspe were all public men whose reputation criminated them from the rank of common felons and as there was not the least-fear of their absconding they should not be kept at A representative of the Osaka Shimpo has obliged to, remain in their own homes, The the house of detention but should be merely been fortunate in obtaining some interesting Procurator promised to comply as far as pos- particulars from Major-General Marui, com manding the 16th Reserve Brigade, of his ex sible with this request, but explained that no
that he and his men were dispatched to Periences during the war. Leaving for Manifefinite step could be taken pending fulier churis in January last, General Marui, utated examination,
move involved a march of 40 days use the ordinary means of transport were useless, broiling sun, through passes and defiles where Korean trucks, drawn by one horse, had to be
A RECORD OF PROGRESS., employed eventually to convey the guns, sup plies, and baggage of the brigade, through To-day is Charter Day-the twenty-fourth
The BN. B. Herald, of fat inst»,. Bays:— these rocky and difficult
anniversary of the incorporation by Royal Chinese truck, drawn by, six or eight Charter of the British North Barnes Company. tandard III. are doing geography. The horses, carries a load of from 40 to 70 The occasion is one for ladulging in retrospect, lesson is on our island, with the map before 1 bags of rice but the Korean truck has a find that, retrospect appears, to is to be o us. The dance has just stated that the blue capacity for only five bars. The slow method which ma wail as to those original mem? be eminently satisfactory, to the shareholders bers of the Court of Directors-few ไป
enough number now who have borne the burden and heat of the day from the commencement of
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of transport and the scarcity of inhabitants in part (aca) is heaven. There is a general litter. the cour through
Country
which Grubby paws are waved imploringly by well-
[they passed made Good water, 100, WAS the Union Jack over the door, there is a informed persons, anxious to correct. Besides progress difficult.
and the troops sunk wells as they The water from the rivers was
BRITISH NORTH· BORNEO,
operations. Notwithstanding the Carping
The Chairman:-We have not purchased at Saigon on the 17th inst., having on board and the staff for the results of a very good year coloured sheat of flags upon the 'wall, and the rinkable after being filtered, 'but no good criticism which certain of the newspapers of
any land since last year.
Mr. Underwood-But you have some on lease. I should like to know how many?
The Chairman.The number of lots we own is four. Some of them are divided up. One block would comprise several lots,
Mr. Underwued.In inst year's report you named the number of late the Company own- ed. That base
has not been done this year. The Chairman-Well, that holds good this year we have not made any increase, this year.
Mr. Underwood-How many are on lease? The Chairman-I was abrent from the Co Jony last year."
Mr. Underwood-I am quite aware of that. The Chairman-About half a dozen. Mr. Underwood-I should like you to ex- plain what Stock in Hand includes ?
The Chairman-All Blocks which we carry for sale. Anything that you can buy in the shop. Mr. Underwood-Does it include the capons, chickens and so forth?
The Chairman-Yes, it includes everything. Mr. Underwood-Pigs?
The Chairman-Everything we have Mr. Underwood-As regards the launch ac count. You seem to bave written off an enorm. our kmount of manay. "Surely the launch does not depreciate to such an enormous extent as would appear by the accounts.
The Chairman-It is for you to recommend
t-loss should be written off
that.
whom were many sick and wounded. The medical officers on board were assisted by members of the Red Cross Society. It was expected that the vessel would remain in port
a few days.
The Courrier states that the Russian cruiser Oleg would enter the big dry dock on the 14th- inst., in all probability.
THE LAVITE DRY DUCK.
..DIFFICULTY IN TOWING.
Now that the big floating dry dock built by The Maryland Steel Company at Baltimore for the United States Government is ready, to be dispatched to Cavite, Manila bay, the Navy Department is apparently in a quandary how the Atlantic coast, namely, the Ajux, large to get it there. There is only one vessel'on
used for towing such a cumbersome structure, enough and suitably equipped which can be
companion craft to accompany the tow has had to be obtained on this Coast. The Navy Department has, in fact, been forced to put the Callic, now moored at Mare island, ints commission, and she will be sent to the Enstern coast to assist the Afar in the long
and A
LOW.
The folly of building on the Eastern coast floating dock intended for the Philippine islands
Was
questioning
French flag.
the Company might be able to show still better into our barbon Yes, French ships come was extemporined from blankete and sand, tha
results.
The meating then dispersed.
NEGLIGENT NAVIGATION.
MASTER'S CERTIFICATE Suspended,
24th inst.
Before the Hon. Captain Barnes-Lawrence, Harbour Master and. Marine Magistrate, this morning, an inquiry was held into the circum. stances connected with the charge of negligent navigation preferred by Lieut John Kiddie, R.N., commander of H.M.S. Offer, against Kwok Kiu, m
master of the steam
Now,
ships with black funnels. Right, big white me on the big map their water-road. And in this way we proceed from the known to the unimagined.
water being also purified with alum. This heavy rains that continually fall in the north of was only workable on fire days, as the Korea sweep down the hills in a tremendous 24 torrent, before which huge rocks are carried,
Several officers and men were drowned
and
in from time to time, we maintain that the record of progress in this State is one of which the country has been administered for less that any country would be proud. Shortly stated,
to be built hayat, the whole fabric of administration up prosperous towns have
constructed at each of the
arisen whe
Standard III go back to their seats and the four rulas, while "Standard 11, bring out the many injured by these floods, Under these where none existed; wharves have been
readers. A year or two back-poor children 1- they would have had to recite the trimetrical clasic, without understanding a single cyl able. But that is not surprising. It begins in this way-..
Man is originally By nature vinudus, Born one family; Conduct estranges 13,
Standard 1. are laboriously grinding out a plan of the schoolroom, their noses to their
lates.
They all work hard with an endurance that memories are phenomenal, and they hardly English children might wonder at. Their
ever play in school,
launch Fun Sum in Now they have readers with pretly coloured the waters of the Colony on the 15th inst., pictures of animals and flowers, done by native Licut-Commander Kiddle said he was a passen- artists. gor in a steam barge of H.M.S. Hecin, crossing
direction of Stonecutter's faland at right angles from Hongkong to Kowloon, when he saw the steam launch Fun Sum coming from the
naturally, expected the coxswain of the to the course the bargo was steering. He Fun Sum to alter his course so as to pass under the barge's stern, instead of which less from him, and seeing a collision was be held straight on. When about 20 yards or
and he heard his coxswain tell the 'imminent, witness gave
the order hard-sport," engine. driver to open out all he could. Witadas went starboard and went round the launch, which
On the 4th instant a heavy gale was expe. cleared the barge by some five yards. The de-rienced in Hekikai and fast districts, in Aichi fondant appeared to treat the whole matter as prefecture, and considerable damage was caur find witness held on to his course he would a joke, and he laughed when witness got clear. ed crop. At one spot in the Heki tal district, the Japna Chronicle says, no less have been struck about the region of the boiler- than eight to of rice ware lost per fan of the
Having working party on board he total crop. The total loss of grain in the dis
Mr. Underwood-It seems to be a case of the Company dbwg 'anything to give us a smaller the ed out by the Chronicle at the time ahead and when clear put the helm: hard-a-
dividend.
The Chairman-There you are wroug Mr. Underwood-The Company has bad a very, very successful year, and you are actually Proposing to pay a less dividend this year than you did last time the dividend was paid.
Alvidend I was not paid in' London.
contract was awarded to the Maryland Steel Company. Now that the big hulk has been com pleted, the blunder, which was committed is more causpicuous than ever. The San Fran cisco Chronicls anys, at only has the problem of the route to be followed in towing to be solved, but a big ship must be sent hence so making a voyage, double
the
length
THE JAPAN RICE CROP.
FURTHER DAMAGE
were on half-rations, - ~!* with General Marul in length has been pushed through the
circumstances, as may be imagined, the food a telegraph line has been me principal ports
rus right across the supply was frequently short. For eight days State, with necessary branches; a railway 120
succession the The brigade experienced no heavy fighting less jungle and engineered over morasses,
over rushing
streams and
and up the most during its march through Korea and they re difficult l'adas Gorge & Invenue ralued gretted that the rains impeded their operation which in the present year, is estimated At considerably. Had it not been for the foods, $1,020,000; and an import and export trade they would have reached the Tuman before the fostered, of the combined total last year occasional skirmishes with the Russian troops, armistice had been declared. After the of $7,168,000, of which the experts were over four millions and the imports nearly three great care was taken lo' pick up all the dead millions, The rapidity of progress can better. were found, prowling at night in large num for the 15 months' administration by the Provi and wounded, as tigers, bears, and leopards be appreciated when we read that the revenue bers
sional Association prior to the grant of the Charter was but £6,350--say $100,000 at the then rate of exchange; and that, during the succeeding 18 months' administration by the new Chartered Company up to the end of 1883, It comes with something of a shock to learn the total reached 24,801-Bay $360,000 or that our old friend silver, ance "despised and 8240,000 per annum while between 1900 and rejected of men," is regaining ita former status and recovering from the stigma which once $687,000 to nearly $925,000 shewing
1904, the actual revenue received rose from In the tasted upon it. Time was in these islands, former year's surplus over revenue expenditure the Manila Times observes, when a man of $180,000 and in the latter year a surplus: of
avold
d
THE RISE IN SILVER,
the
1 refer to the previous year. Last year' & Eastern feaboard to aid in the towing, thus, oldered that several mon's lives wèrà ̧en friel is estimated at about 17,760 koki, vaload] and adding to the weary load under which ha
The Chairman-You mean 1903? Mr. Underwood-I do
The Chairmen-What do you make out wa
paid in 1903)
M
The
you
That's correct.
Mr. Underwood And I think we should have had a better percentage this year,
The Chairman-We have capitalised a car tain amount of our stock reserves which
dividend or the present year, bearing that fast year, 1904, to pay a dividend of $1.25 It required Ja
3,500, whereas this year we give In addition to that we bave sot $20,000 Laked you for one penny of capital.
Underwood Granted that is the case; you have had very good year and wa should get a larger dividendy look at it in
The Chilman-Yon may
that why, but if you are an old shareholder. In the Company you may congratulate yourself that you are gating a very large dividend from the percentage point of view a very much larger
you did lust.
Mr.
at roo,000. In the Hait district, the loss is the teacher came in fróm the provinces it wonderful commercial position is cut out
of the one dangered.
W. Willes First Class Peity officer, H.M.S. estimated at about two de per fax, Fame, corroborated the evidence of Lieut. Commander Kiddle, and explained the position RETURNING TROOPS AND FAMIME-STRICKEN W
models.
the dry dock would have been required to make to reach its destination had it bee built here. It is presumed that an effort will be made
to get the dock through the Suez Canal. When it was proposed to tow the Havana'dry dock to Manila bay via the
· canal sume doubts were entertained
of getting it through. That dock was eighteen than the new one. The canal is in its feet narrower and nearly three feet fuss in draft
RELATIVES.
as
impunity It is true that we didn't reach the stage of
the
governed
would walk two blacks out of his way to a dearly $375,000, Tho estimated surplus this ipaking it acquaintance. It was then decided year to carimated at $430,000, Burely these carabao seemed to feel the ly "de trop and even the poor. degraded who decry the administration of the British
ignominy heaped
North Borneo Company are oblivious to 'or Noticing a forlorn peso lying on the atrasts one of Protected State can aber a better compara
with the weight of
of results. What Colony would think twice before stooplog to
pick it пр tive record? What was the revenus of Penang
for inau
instance after the first 24 years öf adralnis. was even then grunting and sweating, When tration What that of Singapore evan with its usually took him two weeks to
and what that recover from.
of Sarawak) Perak what
#the known
and dhobia sinala,” and
of the comparison since they were already in only a in good health and of a vigorous possession of ascertained mining industries
could Kwok Kiu, master of the Pan-Sum, said he
handle bis week's salary when the British Residential system terved the complainant's boat crossing his of the rice crop, and according to a correspon northern Chips, where the month's stipend of a
The peasants of Miyagi prefecture are suffer. | with was proceeding towards Hunghom and ob ing great hardship as the result of the failure
introduced, and British Borneo had no ascer
| Industry at all. That the administration est part 108 festmids on the bottom and
bewa, He altered his course to go under tier of the Trakt me living on Crusoed straw well-fed official necessitates seven ox-cars and does not bear bardly upon the HARTOW
Born of the naval boat, but he did not blow any and what can be obtained from the mountain small army of pick-and-shayel men, but we immigrants; and in the continued formation.
shown by feat as the top, with a depth of thirty-one feet
Increase in
and In population and 196
whistle. He caused as trouble to the com 111
plainant.
tide. These famipe-stricken people Bre were serging closely on it when relief: arrived may be possible to squeeze the dock (brough,
and it in a feet long and 134 wido brer all, which
Kwok Kiu was found to be in. fault, and bi../troubled over the sort of welcome they will be | sad the siego was' raised. And now 'our dear and other industrial companies which mostly" development of tobacco, mining, rubber able to extend to the troops of their district friend from whom we have been estranged an leares, but Jiulė" spare waterway in the esnal.
when they return. The correspondominal
says long it once more on the highway of prosperity the dock must be towed around either the
that at the railway stations only
with Block going up like a hot-air
balloon of Good Haps of
Cape Horn the risk will
arches are erected. There is no rejoicing, and f one delights in putlidg mysteries and
rentes and cur some of the families with that the return of researyptograms the rich must connection their relatives will be delayed as long as opponesity presented in tracing the connection
dis possible, as there is nothing for them to eat. between the visit to the Far
Prophet, William Johnings Bryan), and aber killed.
The JI!! Shimps, which has ampe special when the man who would be President dumps inspirad very frequently we leurs by partial
precocions Tie
time of the child of ble adoption. Died from
correspondant to the districts stricken with timine in the north east to report, on the can- wounds... Wounded & 13
ditions of the peasantry, bas opened' sub- teripalou Hot for the relief of the sufferere, The following Agures are given concerning Subscriptions 181 "be "received" both at the
wounded Qulta Kéco....
"Tokyo and fisica offices of the Fiji, varede Crippled Buil undar
Certificate, No. 1,533, was suspended, for one montb.'
be increased and the law lengthened enormous have now been Enally, ascertained, and are Will |TRE Japanese naval casualiloa 'during the war fy; if the dock had been bulls at this port as officially stated to have been as follows
tahould have might have been strife more than what it has been, the Cost of construction been by having it bulit at the Baltimore yardıj but the towage to Manila bay would have been short and safe and comparatively inexpensive. As it is, the dock will undoubtedly have st
Med grindarwoodka-FastCOMPRAY the Government, when delivered·rat, Cavite,
wall, 1 tblak alt fo only, right that you much more than if it had been built here.
pays décení dividend, ¿Chairman.—it is int you to say to us
you are dispatialed and to make a motion. THE Russian steamer Mercuria, Capt. G Tüle la bat warare here for fornyer The Treuen, arrived at Singapore from Odhasa on directory have, of course,,,sindlad, the matter tho-tóth inst, en route for Vladivostock. She Rgery carefully in mii its bearings and from every 1, has a general cargo on board a
Proyidi_Petty Bindlack- Qflows. Vicary Olités. Feat Odars.
Ollons. ∙159
36
|«Tarz", Sarawak) revenue):for 11906)
-$1,088,ton against an outlay of sit
their handselsfactory results and reports to their head offices, Licenses and customs are items of revenue which afford a true index to the gures in cooo their combined total wa the progress of countries like Borneo: here are $139,000; in 1904, is wal: $654,000) and this 'year of 1905, it is estimated at $725,000, Macis site, say we, British Protected State of Nohh Borneo, In spite of all c
|| carping criticism-
sometimes malicious correspondenta,
bin bag and baggage on this pilgrim shore, thats aught to be some interesting develop ments From present appearances he will sad to give his famous cross of gold cost of A Tokyo dispatch states that the owner of whitewash. From now on there is likely to be rice fields in the North-eat Ang Kwanto dist money in silver, both for exporter and reporter.trict where the crops have proved a total faite! Onta threw thousand peso deal, disedward, ontornare applying to the Imperial Government. themaand goes to the latten «Horn is a chance" for a period of grace, to soable them to páy chu; for our local disciples of the great SherlockLand (as. It is estimated that the taxating on the Holmes
land la quastion amounts to abajitoa
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