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TELEGRAMS.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH ".

SERVICE.

[Private.}

SUN-NING RAILWAY.

PLANS APPROVED BY SHANGPU,

Peking, 20th April,

7 a.m.

TERRIBLE STEAMER

DISASTER.

"BENTONG" SUNK AFTER COLLISION.

SEVENTY-ONE PASSENGERS AND CREW SAVED,

TOTAL LOSS OF LIFE UNKNOWN. [From Our Own Correspondent.}

Singapore, 28th April, 11.10 a.m.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY, APRIL 28,

THE COST OF LIVING:

(27th April:)

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not have done more to secure that result. Imate of Br.50 a month-the whole tranine That is the result with which, when Singapore tion seems to have been a wonderfully com- has done playing with moles and reclama-plicated affair, but that appear to have tions, the Municipal Engineers and Health been the arrangement. Well, the China Officer of that colony will have to devote all man doubtless believed that out of the 820 their professional ability and technical skill. or gas which he earns every month he could The undoing of the work of ignorance and afford. $1.50. But his neck was in the folly is ever an expensive operation, and the noose now. He paid up, honestly, likely a Singapore Municipality of today, or to man, for two or three months-to be pre- 'morrow, is undertake to grapple cise, he paid 49, or £1 less than the amount with the lamentable effects of the un he had borrowed. Then trouble befell him conscious stupidities of dead and gone for his wife died, and the funeral expenses generations of Land "Officern. These and the general and varied surus which have sensible remarks will be supported by to be disbursed on such an occasion, swallow The plans, accounts and the report all who have given the matter of sanitation cd up every farthing in his possession, and it is possible that he had to mortgage part of any consideration Whether in years to relating to the building of the Sun-come the present-day scholars will show his next month's wages to meet immediate ning Railway, submitted to the their appreciation of their education in requirements. He was deft with two children, Shangpu for approval, by the pro-hygiene by preserving sanitary principles and, no doubt, had to engage help to look moter, Chan I i, have had the'con. in their abodes, remains to be seen. But after them while he was at work. It all sideration of the Board of Commerce. the Sanitary Board can never afford to halt meant money, of course, and while the for a moment in their work of reform. It is funeral arrangements were in progress he The plans, etc. have been paused, a great duty which has been undertaken by was necessarily absent from his occupation after being scrutinized by the Throne, the members of the Board; involving the and therefore lost his carmings during and the Throne has ordered that the health mud lives of all in the Colony. the mourning period. When the month work in connection with the con-

ingapore has wakened up, and for that was up, the Indian moneylender wanted Ifongkong may be glad, for disease in the his instalment or interest, or whatever struction of the line be commenced authern Colony can readily he transmitted he called it, of $1.50. The borrower was forthwith.

n the port and all the watchfulness of the unable to pay. Next month the debtor Sanitary officials may fail to prevent the

was still up to the ears in difficulties, and i vasion of imported disease.

|The Indian began with his threats of a sum

mons to Court. Probably the Chinaman temporised, but it was useless; Shylock could not stand out of his savings any longer. He obtained the help of a solicitor and a bill was drawn up. It should be remember. | A wave of indignation appears to be passed that the Chinaman had borrowed $ie ing over the Far East at the extortionate and repaid $9. Firstly, then, the Indian pices which are charged for house instructed his solicitor to set down $30, as hold necessaries, which, together with the the debt due by the borrower; then there, increased rentals charged by landlords, and came interest, so much, and the Court fees the comparative inadequacy of the present another little lot of $7 or thereabouts-until day salaries to meet ordinary every day the total reached over $46. Here we have requirements, are making life a burden and sum of 146 due on $10 or 360 per cent. a perpetual fight to keep the wolf from in the way of interest and expenses. What the door.. People are compelled to could the Chinese workman do?. He was A disastrous collision occurred be- struggle and contrive so that both ends may

bound, band and foot by the Indian money tween the steamers Bentong and mbet; the heads of families have their mindsender and it was true he had borrowed the Haversham Grange, olf Cape Ro-tacked with schemes in eke out a scatty money. He admitted the debt and judg- purse and satisfy hungry stomachs; and, even ment was given against him, with costs. As chado (7) on the night of the 20th.

when they have pinched and skimped then-

we may put the costs at $50, the total inst.

selves to provide for the household neces amount due by the Chinaman for a $10 bill The Bentong sank shortly after saries, to pay school fees, keep their sons reaches the remarkable sum of nearly $too! the collision, with the result that the decently shed and their daughters, in rib. Of course, the Chinaman is as likely to meet bons, they find it difficult to balance accounts. that demand as he is to reach the moon. He crow and.

were pre- The landlord, who continues to increase his is a poor man, now ruined, and all because passengers cipitated into the water.

rents, and takes very good care that the he failed, through circumstances over, which Help was rendered by the Haver-tenant pays the rates, has his haul; the we feel certain he had no control, to comply sham Grange, which stood by, and market-sellers have another; and the only with the demands of an Indian, who pre- one who labours and gets nothing is the bably finds money-lending a more profitable lowered boats.

working individual, the creature of the com- business than ordinary trading, It is, how pas-munity. Yesterday we published ab extract

ever, saddening to see a poor man cast into from an editorial on this very subject which the gutter simply because he incurred a appeared in the Kobe Herald. Our con miserable debt in the past, a debit which would resident on returning from a sojourn abroad temporary remarked that nothing struck the

have been practically cleared off, if a com- mon rate of interest had been charged. As more that the alteration in the cost of it is, the man and his young, helpless family living in Japan. But in Hongkong people will probably find their lodging in the street; have watched with ever-growing amazement and they will still have the knowledge that round, and their very helplessness has manages to reach a semi-degree of prosperity of increasing the prices all if the sole, money-maker of the family

rendered them more than ever indignant again, he will still have the shadow of an [The steamship Rentong was a veste) of 448 The dollar want down-up went the prices enormous bill dangling over his head. It is tons, belonging to the Straus Steamship Cou-the dollar went up-the prices are still a pity that the judges in the Supreme Court pany of Singapore, She was built by the going up. There is no correlation between of Hongkong are unable to reduce the Tanjong Pagar Dock Co., Lid, for the present

the use of the dollar and the price of com charges on a bill when these are manifestly owners in 1903 and engined by the same firm

But preposterous; at least, the instalments in The Bentong was engaged in carrying goods modities, particularly of food stuffs. and passengers between the Malayan poris

there is an intimate relation between the repayment should be reduced to such a and Singapore. Presumably, the larger prs.

fall of the dollar and the rise in the cost of minimum that moneylenders would fling up portion of the passengers on board were Chin household necessaries. It is true that a the game of living on the poor as a discre- ese employed in the tie mines. The Haver price list is periodically published purporting dited and discreditable proceeding. We skam Grange is a large vessel with a gross to give the cost of gonds exposed for sale would also suggest, with all deference to the tonnage of 7,57. She was built in England in 1898, and accouting to the latest edition of the dealers or stallholders wish to stand refused to handle auch cases and left the in the Central Market. Whether it is that members of the Hongkong bar, that if they port Company. She is registered at Greenock well with the Inspector and quale low prices, plaintiff to the tender inercy of men of the -Ed, K. 1

or that the customer arrives too late in the world and men of experience like Mr. day, or that the market varies from minute Justice Wise there would be fewer cases of to minute, the fact that the quotations are the sort heard in Hongkong. always tending to jump upwards, no one can deny. Mr. Shelton Hooper seemed, the other day, on the verge of elucidating the mystery, but he allowed the point to pass,

Seventy-one of the crew and sengers on the Bentong were picked up by the rescuers.

Several of those rescued wore in a state of extreme exhaustion, and many suffered from injuries sustained in the collision.

The loss of life is not yet definitely 'known.

Lloyd's Register, belongs to the Empire Trans.

SANITARY MEASURES,

this process

MISTAKEN MERCY,

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1906

pleted and the o'jects Limed at may bẹ cụn- "idered as secured. The goodwill has been re- aithe charges have been reduced, the Son has secured an excellent investment, and the China Traders' shareholders will not, wa hope, regret the change. At the same time I should not like this opportunity to go by without expressing the very high appreciation which your Board bas of the admirable way in which this difficult work has been carried out from first by your acting secretary

start and than by your s

details were worked out, than the fact that the pleted practically without a hitch and almost new working arrangemeals have been com entirely in accordance with the scheme, at originally proposed. Before proposing the adoption of the report and accounts I shall be glad to know if anyone has any questions to ask.

No questions being asked,. The Chairman proposed the adoption of the report and accounts.

Mr. J. A. Jupp seconded.

between $25 and $50," he remarks; but with their meat teas every day and fancy there is a wider and more dangerous prin dress balls every evening. No wonder, the ciple at stake. Every day the ladies of ladies of Hongkong will have nothing to do Hongkong are left at home with nobody to with us, poor plain outcasts ! Now, we protect them against the blackguardly as know the reason, so let us groan. What it saults of house-coolies. There is no protec must be to be in the Civil Service! But tion at hand for them should the coolies let us rejoice; it is not all milk and honcy break out against what they might consider for Probationer Clerks with their $20 a to be an unlawful order, and after this ten month. If they do not accept nominations tence, which there can be go doubt will be lo a post worth $40 a month their services. Edo, well circulated amongst the coolies in Hong will be dispensed with. In other words, if ders, since he took over charge again upon bis ir secretary, Mr. Saun. kong, what safety is there for these ladies? they resign they will get the sack. More etura from home. I think

you will Ingres with The mistress of the hourd may be left at over, if they do not take up their positions me that nothing else is required to prove the home Ill or ailing; she may be somewhat they won't get a month's pay. A farsightedtet and ability of Mr. Saunders by whom the querulous owing to weakness, but she dare Government this in Hongkong. Throw not chide the coolie nor threaten him with them out if they don't come in, and let them punishment when the master returns from forfeit a month's pay if they refuse to accept his labours, lest the coolle take the law into it. In fact, the Government really does not his own hands and unmercifully maltreat went him, for if he happens by some mir her. Here is a pretty state of affairs Here culous chance to refuse the job, the Gover- is the higher education being inculcated atment will stick to his Sto which he deposited. the Police Court! We humbly suggest that Shrewdness could hardly go further. Then the Magistrate totally, failed to recognise the a scheme of i laries has been framed for seriousness of the offence and extended to the guidance of the candidates, but hear these coolles a degree of mercy which was, the sylph-like thunder of the official notice: to put it mildly, wholly irrational. Our cor- these salaries are "liable to modification from respondent is only one of many who takes time to time." They will not be liable to in- this view, for the possibility of house-coplies | crease from time to time-that would be too assaulting their mistresses comes very close much to expect-but they certainly will be to many hearts. We can only trust that ible to modification," ́ So that a man of should a similar case occur again the coolic 21, say, who started at $ao, might find that committing the assault will be made tho by the time he was 40 his salary had been roughly to realise the heinousness of his "modified" to zo cents per month. A most offence.

paternal idea founded on the principle, Blessed is he that doth not expect much, for he shall not be deceived." Probably, by the phrase "tiable to modification " the framer of the conditions meant "subject to alteration," but he does not say Ro explicitly, and how is a candidate for honours to guess what the authorities are driving at ? We

"may" and as we do not wish to paint the have said enough to show candidates what wealth may be theirs-emphasis on the lily. or point a moral or adorn the tale; we leaves to our readers, to see the advantages which may fall to their lot if they are mode- rately careful, industrious and ambitious.

CATON INSURANCE SOCIETY

HOW TO REČOME A HONGKONG

CIVIL SERVANT,

One of the bulwarks of this great and glorious Empire is that famous institution known officially as the Hongkong Civil Ser that Service is so highly appreciated by se vice. The privilege of being attached to

heads of Departments that they never cease singing the Jubilate Deo, unless they join in Justy chorus in one grand Te Deum. The minor branches of this wonderful Service is manned by a hardworking staff, which seeks to eke out its livelihood, when in its pristine youth, by contemplating from afar the radi ant brilliancy of the stars in the firmament of the blest. They may even indulge in visions, for which no charge will be made,

the superiors on high being very far removed from those wily innkeepers of the west who charge for the view of the scenery as well as for hopes never realised. But these same members of the Junior Service, so to speak, tious of the Service by advancing some mar must not attempt to get beyond the regula vellous excuse that they cannot live on the extravagant salaries they receive, or suggest that they 'desire a rise in salary--and, re- member, they get salaries, not wages like the

common ruck. No wonder then that there are people who are not casuists but place profound faith in the Hongkong Civil Service; they will argue that it gives the civil servant a status in life; they may boast of desk stamped with the hallmark of Govern what he will be when entitled to sit at a

ntent superiority; they may do anything, in fact, so long as they join in the peon of praise and if they do that and behave properly

OF CANTON,`LTD,

ANNUAL MEETING.

The thirty-third ordinary annual meeting of shareholders in the above company was held the Society's office, No. 2, Queen's Build.

at noon to-day. Mr. H. W. Stade presided, and among others Sich, A. Forbes, G., Medhurst, W. J. presant were:-Messrs. A.. G. Woud, N. A. Saunders (secretary, C. M. G. Burnie, H. D. Murray, 11. 1. M. Carmichael, O. A. Cruz, 1. 13. Whittall, B. M. 1, Nemazce, W. H. chers, F. P. Heil and Capt. Hogge. Carmi bael, J. A. Jupp, H. M. Tibbey, W. Mel-

The notice convening the mieting having been read,

The Chair. an said:-Gentlemen, with your permission I will take the report as rond. To begin with I would like to explain in as few

October. In the past we have at each annual words as pssible the Bard's reasons for hold ing the annual meeting now instead of next mesting in October presented accounts to the a june and have cinned the working account of the preceding year and divid ap the pro-

fits. In order to render this passible wo

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had a system of estimating the proportion.te still outstanding on the old year's account and amount of premium on all unexpired policies transferring bath, premium and liabilities on these unexpired portions of policies to the new arduous task and any very great accuracy was years you may imagine this was rather an hardly, to be aimed at We have long been system, and, now that under nur bargain with seeking an oppurtunity for amending this

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On the motion of Mr. W. H, Carmichael, secunded by Capt. H. W. Hogg, Messrs. A. Forber and H. W. Slade were re-elected direc

Messrs. W. Hutton Pots and A. R. Lowe were re-elected auditors on the motion of Mr. libbey, seconded by Mr. Nemaree..

The Chairman-That is all the business, gentlemen. Dividend warrants will be seat nut on Monday.

CHINA TRADERS INSURANCE CO., LTD.

ANNUAL MEETING,

The fourteenth ordinary meeting of share.

holders in the above company was held at the

(chairman). E. Goetz, A Haupt, C. R. Lang. company's office, Queen's Buildings, at 12.30

to-day.

maan, E. Ormiston, directors; A. Ough, W. J. Saunders, C. M. G. Burnie, D. B. Murray, R. C. Gray, A. E. Alves, H. J. M. Carvalho, J. A. Carvalho, V. L. dos Remedios, ", da Cunha and J. Whittall, secretary.

There were present:-Messrs. H. W. Slado

The notice calling the meeting having been read,

The Chairman said,-Gentlemen-Follow- log our usual custom, I propose, with your permission, to take as read the report and statement of accounts to-day presented for your adoption, and which have been in your hands for some filtle time past. You will have noticed that the accounts are rendered to the 31st December last in accordance with the special resolutions passed and confirmed at the recently held extraordinary general meetings of the company. The working account is for the eight months only; from May to December of last year, and as stated in the report-out of the balance in hand your Directors re commend the payment of an interim dividend of 53 a share, and of a bonus of 15 per cent, on that period, the balance to be carried forward bonus-bearing contributions received during 10 meet whatever further liabilities may be in. Curred, and any profit remaining to be dealt with at our next ansual meeting, Inthenextslatement of our 1905 account the amount paid as com pensation to those of our late staff who have not been offered employment with the Union Insurance Society of Canton will appear as a charge against this balance. As a record for our Tale shareholders who still retain an in- terest in the ultimate intrinsic value of our shares as at the 31st December last, as well for the information of the present holders of our stock, I may state that the company's assets have been valued, and exchanger taken at the current rates, as at ilat date—the differ- ences in exchange being passed to exchange Aluctuation a/c, and the differences on the ro valuation of aners being passed to investment fluctuation a/c. and that, with the exception of only one or two minor valuations which ware not available when the books were closed, and which have still to be added, the statement as presented is complete at date. If any farther Information is desired I shall be glad to give it before formally moving the adoption of the report and balance sheet.

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The Chairman proposed the adoption of the report and accounts.

Mr. Ough seconded. Agreed.

pore has lately been alarmed at the terrible crops up at a later date, it is to be feared duties of the Magistracy are arduous and, but a horse marine. They must in the words Considering that the main part of your dividend, board of directora was confirmed on the motion

The sanitary conditions, prevailing in Hongkong and Singapore are a perpetual source of concern in those who have to spend their lives in these Colonies. Singa

high rate of mortality per mille and has gone to some trouble to find out the cause.

Experts are to be secured to examine into practically official, it is interesting to give make the punishment fit the crime" satisfactory proof of age when the applicant and therefore we have called you together now

The appointment of Mr. E. Ormiston to the of Mr. Saunders, seconded by Mr. Burnie,

On the motion of Mr. Ough, seconded by Mr. Murray, Messrs. E. Goetz and Mr, A. J. Raymond were re-elected directors,

Messrs. T. Arnold and H. U. Jeffries were re-elected auditors, on the motion of Mr. Burnie, seconded by Mr. Carvalho,

The Chairman-That is all the business,

AN INDIAN " WATCHMAN'S" SUIT.

27th inst

While everybody will admit that the and unless sonte new phase of the question

to a great extent, thankless, it will also be that the matter will be allowed' to slide. But remembering that these price-lista are

recognised that there is frequently, such an altitude on the part of the Bench "to them a casual glance. In Hongkong, which should find a superabundance of vegetables

that it amounts almost to a temporary at its very door, the prices qunted for the obscuring of judgment. A few days ago, -commonest vegetables compare unfavour. Such a case was reported in our columns, when the applicant was not born! And |. final dividend for the year 1905 and an interim gentlemen. Dividend warrants can be had on ably will current prices in the United the judgment being an inadequate and ex-

application on Monday. It is the same with beef and hibiting such a lack of fitness that we con- Kingdom. mutton; while pork, which charms the heart cluded it might be left without comment on of the coolie, is dearer than the meat our part, the fatuity of the whole thing being bought by the foreign element of the apparent to the meanest intelligence. More

Our Kobe contemporary is ,population..

over, it is not our purpose or desire to harass the Magistracy or to belittle the importance not very sanguine that any steps can be taken to remedy this state of affairs. We have

of the office. It is wholly alien to our seen how the buycoli has struck at the policy to minimise the capacity of the Bench American trade with China, and it is quite in the view of those who might be tempted possible that if the community made a stand

throw dust in the eyes of the Magistrates, against rapacious deaters they also would be But there are occasions when the Magis effectively inbroed by the wholesale mer

trates should learn the opinion of the general chants. We can only trust that with the community on their decisions, so that should opening of the new railway lines between similar cases occur in future they may have Canton, Kowloon and Hunkow, on to Pek the matter. Regarding the case to which the benefit of lay reflection to guide them in

for the harassed householder in Hongkong. has written as a vigorous and trenchant criti

we have made reference, a correspondent waited till he was 13 years of age and left the figures speak for themselves, and I woulds Honour Mr. A. G. Wine, Puisna Judge, ciem of the Magistrate's judgment. Last week, two house-coolies employed at the Cosmopolitan Hotel refused to carry out a legitimate order, and when pressed to per- form the work they thrashed their mistress, who was ill at the time. Not content with that, they also thrashed the son of the pro- prietrix. The Inspector in charge of the

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At the Supreme Court this morning, in Sum mary Jurisdiction, an Indian watchman- who was erroneously stated in the summonĘ to be in the employment of the Hongkong

Telegraph, although the man never had ar

the Government will smile upon them and bid them be good, premising always that out of their $20 or even $40 a month they contribute towards a Superannuation Fund, which is also a mystery, and ask-no questions. From the current number of the Govern ment Gateife, we learn that there is to be an entrance examination for clerkships in the the opportunity for budding genuises, But Hongkong Civil Service in June. Now's

The China Traders' shareholders we have to perhaps they would like to learn the con- ditions under which they will gain admittance provide exact figures up to the end of the year 1905: "we find it necessary to abolish the to this Service of all the talente. In the system altogether and allow all claims on first place they must be between 16 and 24 199; policies to fall on the 1935 working years of age which is a definite and precise account. Under diese circumstances we cannot statement to be understanded of all, Next form any proper estimate of the 1955 profits they must do a variety of things, and submit until we have all the accounts in up to the end of 1920 and this means an annual meeting not auch proofs as might well bewilder anybody earlier than April 1997 to deal with the profits.

of the section-and let us be exact above all comes out of interest on your reserve funds, we things-present:-"Acenificate of age, when thought it unreasonable to ask you to wait. the applicant was born in the Colony, or until April 1907 for the whole of your dividend,

the sanitary conditions and in frame. sugges

was not born in the Colony." Prodigious as to receive the recounts up to the end of 1905

and to pass an interim dividend out of

1905 tions, for keeping a check on the spread of

the Daminie might well say. A proof of age interest. We propose next April to pay a disease. The mortality rate in Hongkong

not born in the Colony either! The mir dividend for the year 1406, and, to continue is but half that of Singapore, but of course these figures are not absolutely reliable;.for

aculous individual who can prove when he is avstem in future years. We now come to Chinese in Hongkong, when they feel that

"was not born in the Colony" should be the 1905 working account. The figures pub dissolution is át band, make every effort to get

handed over to Barnum and Bailey's show shed, we think, are very satisfactory; but we into their own country before the end, thereby

for exhibition. Supposing a candidate never canilor, of course, forecast what the ultimate awelling the death-rate of Canton and neigh

had been born at all would he be a fit and profit will be at the ris..s have not yet, yo

off. The interest account amounts in nearly MR JUSTICE WISE'S TRENCHANT REMARKS. bouring treaty ports to the advantage of this

proper person to become a candidate? Of $37 per share, but of this at least 17 per Colony. A writerin a Singapore contemporary

course, the draughtsman of the sub-section share must be counted as interest on the the Free Press, has discovered one of the

in the conditions evidently had in his mind premium in hand for the year 1905 and causes which make for disease in the herd

the case of such applicant as might have ought not to be anticipated as a profit Ing together of coolies in the 'il ventilated

been born out of the Colony. Then he this stage.. The Board therefore recommends an interim dividend of $30 per share. This and badly constructed houses of Chinese

must produes à certificate from a school with the usual bonus of 20% to contributors design. He remarks that although there

master or employer covering a period of will absoth some $575,000 and save about are natural climatic differences between

three years before his application. Of course $2,200,000 to be carried forward to be dealt Hongkong and Singapore owing to difference

If a candidate went to school at two years with next April Most of it will, of course, go of latitude, the former having a much wider

a certificate by hook of by crook; but if he fair balance ell. As regards the balance sheet and left at five he might manage to obtain to pay losses and clainis, but we hope to have a range of temperature than the latter, the great common sanitary disability from which

school at 17 and forgot to be employed be sterling being 2/4, instead of tito as in our exchange (Dr both towns suffer arises from identical cause.

referring to a case haard at the Police Court The first of these consists in all the evil

cause his rich father had not died penniless last balance sheet, kome of the itens naturally in which Manda Singh, formerly in the em conditions that are connoted in the expres

in the meantime, he would certainly be show a reduction in dollars. Qur furniture ploy of Messrs. A. S. Watson and Co., as watch- alve phrate "back to back building," includ.

ineligible. He could call himself a money and office leases" bave been valued for the man, sued that firm for wrongful dismissal, and ing permanent exclusion of light and air, Now and again an echo of the misery

lender, however, and present himself with a purpose of getting at the final intrinsic value in consequence of an alleged false report sald of our share ter an, and a new asset appears at the time to have been made by certain pews. and permanent retention of a stagnant and which is entailed on the native workman who,

certificate from himself. Then he must pay

under this heading of 530,109,53. To this must papers, observad :- foul atmosphere, and its saturation with noi through misfortune or hard luck, is compel

an examination fee of Sto. Whether he some organic emanations and products that led to have resort to the moneylenders.

ever saw that fee again would greatly depend be added the value of our London Office must practically decompose in situ. Apother Most of these moneylenders are sharks, for

upon circumstances he might if he were written advices of which have not yet reached us. The next pojņi dealt with in the of these consists in the overcrowding that whom no sympathy ought to be shown; but, case stated in Court that the lady was re-sharp, but then he wouldn't be a candidate report is the new issue of shares. There are with such a race as the lowest class of Chi-unfortunately, they have the law on their ported to be dangerously ill. When if he were so sharp as all that, and again, he 24,9.9 China Traders sharos, and we are issu peso is the inevitable concomitant of the side and can afford to be merciless. The witness for the prosecution, in reply to might. We will pan over the vulgar ques: ing one new share in the Society in exchange M. J. H. Gardiner, who represented Manna structural evils alluded to. These two causes workman, on the other hand, earning but a question from the Bench, stated that one of tion of the subjects to be set for examination, for each ten of them, as well as a cash certificato Singh at the Police Court, and who had aggravate each other by an eternal evli action meagre wage, and trying to keep his head the coolies had a swelling on his forehead well knowing that our candidate if he had for the balance of intrinsic value. Up to the held that the report of the case as it present date 19,730 China Traders shares have appeared in the newspapers was incorrect, was and interaction, with the result that, even above water, is helpless once in their toils, through breaking a screen in the fracas, his passed these preliminary tests could by no

come in for exchange. Besides this the present to another case, and said That was Inspite of the notorious Chinese constitutional and it is difficult to say what one will not Worship sarcastically remarked, "You don't manner of means fail at vulgar fractions or holders of 1457 further shares have accepted not the denial. It was the statement that the tolerance of conditions destructive to health do when all hope le gone and the curdon of want me to believe that!" However, hit a simple affair like geography. Then he our offer but have not yet completed delivery man ought to be dismissed. His Honour and life, death-rate of Singapore chiefly debt is drawn still closer around the un- Worship could scarcely dismiss the charge would become that extraordinary and of their documents, 36 shareholders holding spoke rather stronger than i was reported. amongst men of an age that is best able to happy man. In the case which has been against the coolies. He fined them 83 each hemaphrodite like creature, a Probationer 2,086 shares have not replied and 31 share- told him he ought to be dismissed, wald it resist causes producing mortality, runs up to brought to our notice, a Chinese workman for behaving in a riotous and disorderly Clerk, all in Capital Letters, and would holders bolding 737 shares have elected to re- twice, and it was reportad once. I say it again, manner at the hotel, while one coolla was receive-what do you think ?wthe amazing those who have not replied are executor of him because he was a useless man. Oo ona tain the China Traders' shares. As many of I asked once why Watson's did not dismis a figure that is, comparatively, abnormally one who would be termed a skilled work- high. And it is only that Chinese imperman in the United Kingdom was the fined an extra $5 for the assault. It seems sum of $10 a month! No wonder there are deceased estates who hate pt yet obtained occasion I tried to get out of him why he was viousness to insanitary influences that helps victim of a foolish transaction with an In ridiculous that a house-coolie should get off so many spendthrifits, profigates, rakea proper powers and there are era, who, owing able to appear in Court so often. It ras Bug to keep down the death rate to even that dian moneylender. Most of these Indians with a paltry fine of $3 for assaulting a sad bloods in Hongkong. It makes the to change of addrein, have ply recently re gested he was a night watchmin, which rather

bear $10 a month! high figure, It is admitted that the Govern have a penchant for the business of usury, lady, in an admittedly dangerous stata mouth water to

the Society's offer open until the end of night watchman. the year to give them all a further chance. By fatal pattern of land sale allotments, scanty In this instance, the Chinaman borrowed a best of condition, a 85 find would have beon | that rhint of money.. Buy up the Docks, or frontage, inordinate mele depth, side by paltry 10 and signed an L.O.U. for 830. A absurd. Our correspondent is stronger in negotiate with Butterfield & Swire for the that time we shall be able to know how many new shares are left on cur hands and to decide side and back to back, were not aware that man who is hard up will do practically any. his language and more pronounced la bis purchase of their business, or, better how they are to be disposed of, I have no they were desigofag corpso factories. But thing to tide over his troubles, but the In-views on the mistaken clemency of the acquire the Peak, and still have a lot of thing more to say except that our scheme for they were, and short of inoculating the po-dian certainly drove a hard bargain with his Bencls. "Had a European laid a finger on money over. Reckless blades these Pro Joining forces with the China Traders an pulation with disasse virus, they really could client. The debt was to be peld of at the In coolla he would have been fined anything bationer Clarks an Sas a month must be,ance Company has now been successfully com

ing, a new era of cheap food stuffs will open

PUNG KONG MONEYLANDERS.

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me ely point our that the rate of

connection with this affice-sued a Chiness promissary note.

compositor for the recovery of $37.ço, dus on a

ant, and said that Sie only was borrowed la

Mr. Otto Kong Sing appeared for the defend.

for 537.

I notice that an old friend of mins WAK the Police. Court the other day and mada some very curious remarks. If I said "I don't want to see him here onco, I said. it a dozen times,

;ments of former days who sanctioned the as a good many Chinese know to their cost. of health. Even if the lady had been in the | One pictures what he could do with all our circular, the Board has decid'd to took me aback, but it turned out he was not a

Mr. Gardiner-No, he was not.

His Honour-He told me he was, if he was

a night watchman he could spong his days as he liked.

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Mr. Gardiner explained to your lordship

His Honour-Judgment for plaintiff with

Caste,

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