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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY JANUARY 9 1906.

must have been the surprise, then, whon last. All communications intended for publication inweek the pews was telegraphed South that

"The HONGKONG-TELEGRAPID" sindi Eg added to The Editor, 1 Ice House: Kord, and should be accompanied by the

the Writer's Name and Online munication should be addressed

address,

17 The Manager.

BALLY-$80 per kugun. WEEKLY $18 per annum.

The ratos per quarter and per meures, propontinual, The dally imus in delivered from when inside

actemible to messiger. Ou cop on sunt by post an

ditional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage.. The postage on the weekly issue to any part of in

world is 30 conta por quarter, 1 Single Copics. Daily, can easter Weekly, twenty.

the Company had declared an interim divi. dend at only Tls. 4 per share, as against Tis. g for the corresponding period last year? The Editor will not undariake to reponsible for

This seems to be conclusive evidence that any rejooted MS,, nor ti return any Contribution, the "bear" were in possession of know SUBSCRIPTION RATES (IN ADVANCE),ledge fax in anticipation of their Unwary opponents, who, as it has turned out to be, wrongly cherished the delusion of so-called confidential information which led them into grievous mistake. The Hongkong Telegraph last year printed a two-column article the subject of an interview with a gentleman well acquainted, as an inves. | tor of long standing, with the workings of this Company and we were flattered by the

Hongkong Tel graph received a "slating" at the hands of the then Chairman, Mr.

. R. Twentyman, now jelifed. In that. article it was stated that, "as constituted at presem the Board is largely composed of employés of the Company-a thoroughly anomalous arrangement. Being employés, their mouths are shot; they are in the hands

recents,

"RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT IN

CHINA...

18 Summaty Juridiction, this morning, His Honour, Mr. A. GW, Putina.Judge, pre- siding, Tong Yip; a, træder of No. 4 Yan Shau At the present time, when the subject of Lane, sued Wong Yan l'o and Chau Shup, of railway development in China is one of the No. 46 Wellington Street, for the recovery of burning topics of the day, the telegram which of money leat to the defendants by the plaintiff - the sum of $86 8æ¡being the balance of a sum we published yesterday with regard to the in December, 1904. Mr. Otto Kong Sing ap construction by the Chinese Board of Com-peared for the plaintiff, the defendants being merce, or Shangpu, of a line running unrepresented, only the second defendant' ap-; between Canton and Sta-ning-chu has pearing in penost. There was no defence, and aroused general interest. According to the judgment was given for plainuff with costs,

runcular papers in the North, the construction of this line was ascribed to French enterprise, but on the authority of Mr. G. Liebert, Consul för France in Hong- kang, we are enabled to state that such an idea has never catered the mind of

act, Mr. Liebert. explains to us, a junction with Suning-chu would mean that the French would have to build a line which would traverse a bleak and barren territory. Such a line would yield no results commen- surate with the expensive outlay that would be involved. In reality, the, Krench con- cessionaires comtemplate the construction of

coast-a line which would he extended northwards from the capital of the province to the city of Chungking in Szechuen.

SANITARY BOARD:

The usual fortnightly meeting of the 'Saul- tary Board was held in the Hoard room, this afternoon, when the following business was transacted,

SMALL-POX ÎN CANTON, : The following correspondence and minutes were laid on the table: copy of an editoriál which appeared'in the Hongkong Telegraph of 22nd December last under the above caption.

Dr. W. Pearse, Medical Officer of Health, minuted: One thing which we might do

in Ilio

•{}, ke· Jongkweg (hziegrapu | prominence given to this journal when the any French concessionaire. As a matter of Street some time last month. Á street coolie the cold season is the small.pox season in

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1906,

FARNHAM, BOYD & CO.

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Mr. E. A, Hewett minuted: The notice might be served, but I do not understand that small-pox is worse than is usual at this sea-. son. It is, however, no una asking people to be vaccinated unless a full supply of lymph, be provided.

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Ar the Police Court this morning, three China-suggests itself to me; namely, the distribut men pad two women were placed before Mr. tion of hand-bills, in Chinese, advising vac C.A. D. Melbourne, on charges of stealing and cination. As the Chinese believe in the receiving a diamond ring valued at $400.1 efficacy of this measure, 'n deal of good appears that a Wanchai schoolmaster named might be done. An English advertisement Yeung Hidropped the ring in Possession

papers reminding residents that.

lound it and handed it to one of his confrerer Hongkong, and advising people, especially to sell for him. The latter coolie then gave the new comers, to be vaccinated would also be the ring to his wife, who, with another woman, beneficial: went to a shopkeeper and sold the ring. Mr. P. W. Goldring appeared for the shopkeeper, The case was adjourned until Thursday next.

British High Commissionar in South Africa, In a blue book just lasted, the Earl of Selborne, describes the Chinese employed on the Rand

fed, and as being permitted freely to wander over wide areas of the veldt. He mentions that Mr. Evans, the late Superintendent of Foreign Labour, on his own responsibility, corporal punishment similar to that, indicted in the schools in England for breaches of discipline and for trivint offences, if administered after inquiry at which the offender was present and before a Chinese-speaking compound manager. Lord 'Milner, who was High Commissioner at Evans's action, but the permission was abused the time, states that he did not object to Mr.

Mr. Lau Chi Pak minuted: The Tung Wa branch offices already had notices printed, and amongst the Chinese if a sufficient supply of lymph can be obtained. The question is. When can lymph be given them?

The President remarked, that on the ques-

stock, each labe being capable, of vaccinating two or three people. Within the next jen days, owing to the supply of calves, they would probably have at least another 2,000 tubes, so there was no dearth of lymph in the

that he had disposed of tutes to any one who Colony at present. Dr. Humphrey assured him

had asked him and all orders had been filled:

STAR FERRY CONVENIENCES.

the Star Ferry Company's new wharf, Salis- An application was submitted for the erec- tion of eight water-closets and six urinals at

bury Road, Kowloon,

The telegram from our correspondent in Shanghai yesterday in reference to S., C. Farnham, Boyd & Co., Ltd., is one of more than relative interest and importance to of the managing director. Of course, the a trunk line from Yunnan, to the Tonkin as being well cared for, well housed, and wellnie prepared to proceed with free vaccination Hongkong. We are not, as a rule, im-shareholders "have themselves mostly, to mediately concerned with the commercial blame for having elected such a Board. If doings, of the northern port, but in the independent men had been appointed to Shanghai Dock Company so large a propor. the Board in the past matters would never The Kwong-chibiy-wan concession which permitted mine managers to inflict slight tion of lymph they had 2,150 tubes of vaccine in tion of Hongkong capital is invested that have reached the lengths they have. I 19 will be remembered, formed the news of the character conveyed by our

should say that some of the partners of the subject of negotiations between French Shanghaiprepresentative is of more than or

leading shipping firms in Shanghai should subjects and the Chinese Government, dinary interest. That the state of affairs, elected to the directorate of Farnham, has for its object, the construction of Boyd and Co. For instance, there might be branch lines radiating from the city of with regard to the conduct of this Company, representatives from Jardine, Matheson and Kwong-chow to a distance of about, 100 ünder its present constitution, is such as to Co., Melchers and Co., Ilbert and Co., and miles into the interior. These would tap warrant the interference of the shareholders at other large firms, this stage by their convening à special meet.

As it is, now they the hinterland, which is capable of profitable ing to consider the winding up of the under affairs, an extraordinary state of things."

have their own employés at the head of commercial development; but, beyond the A CHINAMAN was placed before Mr. F. A. taking, with the view obreconstructing it on The news now cabled to us from the North there is no object in carrying the railway,Chinese lads into the Colony on the 7th inst: 100-mile limit, Afr. Liebert is of opinion that Hazeland this afternoon, at the instance of a popular basis, is sufficient, indication that wears out entirely the assertion, which was inasmuch as the line would be taken into the boy's, it appears, went out for a walk one inspector Collett, on a charge of decoying two the long standing grievance against the Con then criticised by the chairgan of the Com an absolutely unproductive country, and evening at Canton, and defendant with others A. S. WATSON & CO., pany's constitution, which formed the subject pany as a standerous and vituperative re- would not justify the expenditure of capital asked them to go and have tea. The men took would he a convenience, but there cannot be of criticism in these columns on more thais flection upon himself impartial readers necessary. The subject of railway expansion them down to the waterside, placed them on one occasion during the past year, is well will have no difficulty in discerning that, by is one of supreme importance to Chinn, and founded, and is one which will be endorsed the altitude of the Shanghai shareholders, all thinking people are watching the trend of Hongkong to see n procession. They were a vessel and brought them here. The boys were told that they were being brought to by the large majority of people; holding

taken on arrival to No. 15, U Lak Lane, interests in that great undertaking in

tends to throw light on the plans in further-West l'oint, and were about to be sold for $50 the Northern Settlement. As we have fair play and a boldness, which the Press infance of the general sehenie which will give each when one afternoon one of the boys on stated, at the outset; Hongkong has more this part of the world' de not frequently as China her network of railways in the end looking out of the window saw his father pas than a relative interest is that Company, hibit towards the directorate of public com deserves careful study and close observation. The commercial community of Hongkong panies in general; and we are glad to see that

sing by and he called him. The defendant. at first refused to give up the boys, but the police has invested in it, and had a large amount

our action isendorsed, although late in the day,

settled matters, and arrested the defendant. of money in scrips of that concern, at, we by shareholders in Shanghai in now calling

After evidence was heard, his Worship sen are sorry to say, such an appreciated figure in question the anoinalous constitution of the

tenced defendant to six months' hard labour: that, were the presem market value of the Company. A word of commendation is duc shares, to be considered, it is no exaggera. those public-spirited shareholders in Shang tion to say that the depreciation in the hai who have taken upon themselves the

LIMPTED,

WINE & SPIRIT

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MERCHANTS,

· ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS,

Hongkong, 28th October, 1905.

$16.00

WILL BUY A CASE ·

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GREGOR & CO.'S

IMPERIAL

HIGHLAND

the independent criticism which appeared in events. Any information, therefore, which these columns was prompted by a spirit of

actual investment between last year and now

initiative; for it must have been a most dis. is one of quite 25 percent, Investors, not tasteful task to oppose the constitution of a to speak of speculators (who have purchased, directorate, or of a board, which has far from

gard to what was once a most prosperous business in Shanghal. We allude to the time when the shares of the Company stood at Tls. 325, as against the Ts. 118 to-day. Yet

Mr. Dlewelt minuted Urinals, no doubt,"

any reason for water closets, unless some of the staff of the Ferry Company live on the jetty.

Dr. Pearse minuted: 1 think that urinal Wharf, but I am not prepared to recommend accommodation is à desirability at the Ferry water closets,

Mr. J. J. Bryan, Sanitary Surveyor, minuted: The Hon, the Director of Public Works should be asked if he has any objection to the fittings discharging into the harbour. If he has not, 1 should like, further particulars as to how thesa closets are to be fixed, a pin connected to a' long length of soil pipe without the intervens tion of a trap is likely to be objectionable.

The Hon. the Principal Civil Medical Off- cer minuted: I think it would be a great mistake to allow water closet to emply

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thrax will be a meeting of the Committee of the C. U. S. Rine Association on Thursday at the Ri A. Mess, Bowen Road, at 4 pm. LEAVE of absence to England has been granted is Lieutenant II. F. Daukes, Royal Engineers,

1906. from the 22nd December, 1925, to 2169 June: united in the bands of wedluck to Miss Nellis the erection, of the six urinals, and to refuse

the adoption of the Penny Pastal system. Yet only now they are advocating a similar system to cover the whole of the British Empire! For taking letters out of the Colony withous

A PRETTY, if quiet, wedding was solemnised at St. John's Cathedral, when Sergeant C. F. yesterday, by the Rev. F. T. Johnson, M.A.,

Aris, of Kennedy Town Police Station, was Aris, who had arrived in the Colony from the Homeland but three days previously.

into the Harbour at the Ferry Wharf

It was resolved to grant the application for

it with regard to the eight water closets.

A VAUMATI DAIRÝ.

Bux for the renewal of the licence for his An application was submitted from Feer cattle shed, and pig sty, at Nos. 1 and 2 Yau- mati. The applicant was informed that bis premises were now considered unsuitable for

a dear experience), have had faith in the olet the general views of shareholders in re TO-MORROW will be the 66th anniversary of The bride, who was instefully arrayed in hand- earning powers of Farnham, Boyd & Co., and who will blame them when the average divisible. earnings for the past five years, as represented by the balance sheels are taken into consideration?. On this is an undertaking winch, it is generally beating the necessary stamps or passing bonnet, who acted in the capacity of brides. that purpose, and he would only be granted

on the

removed."

some wlute silk gown, trimmed with delicate lace and chiffon, was given away by Sergeant

silk, with a white plush "Grandmother Mackay, and was attended by Inspector Col- lett's little Kathleen, prettily dressed in white

pair, escorted by a party of some guests, adjourned to Thomas' Hotel where notice to quit in order that he could oc

Ko in the same line of business, one month's déjeuner was served, and the healths of the cupy the premises himself' if the Board 'con- bride and bridegroom quaffed in bumpers, sidered them suitable. The Surveyor asked if while the happy young groom was cheered to the Board had full power to refuse "three mater of ceremonies for the occasion, and full power to refuse all licences to castle sheds the echo. Sergenni Lee acted as host and licences. The Secretary said the Board had performed his duties as if to the manner boin The bride brought out with her a very large to a Select Committee consisting of the Pre- and pig stys, and this right had been relegated number of handsome and useful presents, and sident and Secretary these together with the offerings of the bride- groom's local friends and colleagues, made a happiness to Mr. and Mrs. Aris. very handsome display, and everyone wished

EXAMINATION IN HYGIENE..

THE WATER SUPPLY. The Government Analyst submitted his re- port showing that the water taken from various parts of the Colony, and analysed, was of excel- lent qual ty.

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FOOD AND DRUGS. The return of samples examined under the It will be remembered that, early in the past

Food and Drugs Ordinance, 1896, for the quar year, a manual on hygiene was published by six bottles of beer and sight bottles of milk ter ended December 31st, 1995, showed that the Government, and the subject was made Seliools. His Excellency the Governor kindly from any form of WASHING compulsory in all Government and Grant were analysed, and all found pure, and free' offered prizes of $co, $50, and 25 to the 3. best competitors in Standard's VII and VI, and

also offered a shield as a trophy, to be held for one year, by that school which should send up the best team of 10 competitors out of its lower Standards (V, IV and 111.)

LIME-WASHING.

636 houses were cleansed and while washed,

During the fortnight ending the and inst

Board officials. under the superintendence of the Sanitary

their present basis, the showing is that, the admitted, is possessed of immerise resources through the hands of the Post office, two maid; while Sergeant Addington, performed rent year, until he could find more suit- Company is capable of paying, on their mar

a temporary licence for a portion of the cur and is unrivalled in the unique position it seamen were each fined $20 by Mr. C.A. D. the duties of "hest man." After the nup: able premises. Applicant notified the Board> ket value of. Tls. 118 per share, an annual enjoys as a first class ship-repairing concern seturn upon the capital invested of ten per in North Ching. Much capital. has been THE body of Captain Smith, late Captain of

Melbourne, at the Magistracy this morning. tial knot had been tied, the newly wedded that he would give one of his tenants, cent. In reality, the quotation represents the made in the North of the Kiangnan Arsenal the s.3. Siberin, whose tragic death we recorded par value of the stock, for with the Reserve as a formidable competitor of S. C. Fare a the time, having been embalmed, was Fund standing at Tls. 1,000,000, the $5,200 am, Boyd & Co. but the ridiculous shipped to the United States by the Pacific sharea in the Company when credited with contention of interested parties, who trot Mail s.s. China, which sailed on the gth inst the proportion of the reserve represent out the Kiangnan Arsenal as the phan The following telegram has been received shade over their original value when the

tom of the leading commercial under from the Secretary to the Government of Company was reconstructed five years ago taking in Shanghai, will be clear to those Turms dated th instant-Continuation of It is curious that a business whose goodwill who see in a single dock, of only 325 my telegram dated 28th December, No. 8os, must have greatly appreciated, and whose feet, which has to carry out all the Govern restrictions against arrivals from Hongkongport plant, machinery and stock-in-trade havement works for which it was primarily re been added to, quite apart from the in-opened, the power it has for competing On the Hongking Heckey Club ground at creased value of its land in a Settlement which against a company which has so many docks Happy Valley yesterday afternoon teams re- has seen quite a land boom. within the of dimensions far in excess of the single one

presenting H. M. ships Alacrity and Hecla half. decade, that the shares of this same concern should be a dearth in the market, the most of the point of Government consulted in a draw of one all..

of the Government Arsenal. While making played a friendly game at hockey. The teams were very evenly matched and the game re- and have undergone a steady career of retro petition the detractors of the Shanghai gression for the past eight or nine months. Decks make no allowance whatever for the AT a meeting of the Sanitary Board this after Slackness in ship-repairing business has increased tonnage which is bound to enter dress, in the course of which he stated that the noon, the President delivered his annual ad been attributed in some quarters as the the port as a result of trade expansion-a death-rate of Hongkong during 1935 was lower WHISKY. raison d'etre for the low quotation of the factor which must become apparent sooner than it had been during the last five or ten

share value, but fi la inconceivable that several

or later, now that commercial enterprise is years: Lárt year it was 6.7 against 16.94 in months ago Shanghai speculators, almost to again being restored to its normal level, 1904-the lowest death-rate an record, a man, were consistent. "bears'

upon the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese stock in the market. It cannot be said war. The favourable situation of the that any one of them, much less the aggre: Northern port gives it 'the same advantage gate collection of individual bears," could

as Hongkong possesses in the South, and for a moment have had the prescience of even with the addition of an extra dock we discovering what the condition of the are not expressing too optimistic a view ship-repairing business would be nine

when we hazard the opinion that the time is months later, say from April of last year, not so very far distant when the docking It is a fair assumption, justified by sub- facilities in the North will be found just sequent events, that the "bears" possessed enough to meet the requirements of the ship the envious power of divination of the ing entering the port of Shanghai from the inner workings of the Company, which Pacific. The trade of China has immense were not apparent to the average oper- possibilities yet undreamt of, and when alor in the exchange.. The result of each

once the Kingdom is exploited by the best quarterly settlement has revealed how truly system of railways-whose initiation las ignorant the "bulls"-who, for the most part, been carried out within the past few months were to be found in Hongkong-were of the position, and they have been caught in the ing the China purta will exceed the expecta ---the volume of tonnage entering and clear- trap which Shanghai had prepared for them. tions, and probably far surpass the most For it had been asserted at one time that itanguine estimates, that can be formed at the was an open secret, revealed by "one who present moment. Not only, then, will S. C. should have known" several months ago, Farnham, Boyd & Co, profit by the increased that were the Company unable to maintain trade, but we are confident that in all its dividend at last year's basis, S, C. Forn branches of business, towards which shipping ham, Boyd and Co. might well put up their stands as the feeding agent, will profit by the shutters and abandon the field of operations developments which careful observers in the [36—8), to some competitivo enterprise drother. What East predict for the near future of China,

NOT ONE OF THE BEST,

BUT

THE BEST

GREGOR & Co.,

19" "QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,

Hongkong, 15th Juns, 1905..

KI CHAN, a fruiterer, was charged, at the ins

this morning, with taking an unmarried girl, tance of Inspector Gourlay, at the Police Court

named Lai Chun Loi, under the age of 18, from the custody of her guardians. Defendant said. he had married the girl, but possessed no marriage papers. They had "sworn" to live together. The case was remanded.

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By kind permission of Lt-Col; Aitkin and officers, the Land of the 1:9th Infantry will play the following programme of music, at the King Edward Hotel, during dinner, on Thuis. day, 11th January, (weather permitting):-

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March...The Belle of Chicago"...oor. Overtura... "Haydee" Aubor. Waldo... "Tonera". Selection ...........Veronique........... Messager. Serenata" Tova in idleness", ......... Maćkesk. Two Step ... "Dixieland* ..komat Haines. God Save the King..

A GAMPAN man appeared before Mr. F. A. reland this morning, at the Magistracy, with discoloured left eye, to prosecute A. Schaoll, mercantile marine officer, for behaving in a disorderly manner on board his sampan on the Defendant pleaded guilty and was fined $io night of the 8th and damaging property.

on the first charge and ordered to pay $3 as compensation for the damage done, falling which one month's hard labour,

ing of December, and the results are now Both examinations were held at the begin. made public.

At the examination on the Advanced Courie out of 79 Competitors the following are prize winners:-

1st, N. T. Ezra, of St. Joseph's College. and, W. Drude, of the Diocesan Home and

Orphange..

3rd,

(Eariqueta Felices, of the Italian

Convent.

(Hung tu-chi, of 'Queen's College. In the Team Competition to teams, number: ing 98 boys and girls competed. The shield was won by Queen's College, with 239 marks, The other schools in order of merit were: 2. St. Joseph's College...........137 marks, 3. Italian Convent deskamion.724

4. Wantral District School'............ 18 5. Belillos Public School for girls214

6. Diocesan School for girls.....205

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SHIPPING AND MAILS.

MAILS DUE American (Doric) toth inst, English (Arcadia) 11th inst., 4 pæn. Canadian (Athenian) 12th inst. German (Prins Siglimund), 14th inst. Canadian (Empress of India) 17th fasti German (Preussen) 18th inst.

The Glen Line's.. Glenstras leit Singapore an 8th inst., for this post.

The O. & O. S. S. Co's sa. Doric left Manila, yesterday, at 11 am, and is expected to arrival about 8 am, to-morrow morning.

The Imperial German Mail sa. Prine Elle, Friedrich which left here on Wednesday, at noon, arrived at Singapore on Sunday, at 8 almos

The Imperial German Mailas. PreurSER, CARA rying the German, Mails with dates from Berlin of the 19th ult, bus fest Colombo on Bih insta p.m., and may be expected here on 18th Insti

The C. P. R. Co's ka. Alkeniam arrived at Shanghai at 9,30 4.m, og dib jost, and laft H. E. also offered prizes for the two best again at 5 p.m., same day, for Hong Kong. papers in the winning team, and these fell to where she is due to arrive at 6 s.mon Robert Eastlake and Ip U-pak.

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7. Diocesan Home & Orphanager94 B. Ellis' Kedooria School,..........188- 9. Cathedral School, ........................................146.

(B competitors only.) 10. Yaumati District School 105 H