1906-12-29 — Page 9

The

NEW SERIES No 5847

CONTENTS,

Births, Marriages and Deaths. Leading Articles ¦

Dock Extension in Hongkong. A Pension Scheme and is Sequel. Mysterious Marguetita. Railways in China.

Telegrams:-

Central China Famine.

The Japanese Tramways.

The Japanese Dlet.

Opening of Nanning.

US, Court for Chida.

Meeting :---

Sanitary Board

Polios.

Excitement at Wanchal,

Highway Robbery.

An Unruly Sailor.

Fun in a Photographer's Studio.

A Football Enthusiast.

An Ingenious Reply.

Chinese Pawoshop Looted

An Obstreperous Seilor.

Correspondence

The Latest Admiralty Memorandum.

Miscellaneous Articles and Reports :---

Central China Famine.

Repairing the Frendi,

Concert al Government Civil. Hospital.

New Macho Steamers.

Along the China Coast.

Palluted Water Supplies.

Bacteriology. Analysis,

St. Peter's Seaman's Church,

Property Sales..

Canton Day by Day..

The Yuet-han Railway.

Likia in Swatow.

Kulangsu Municipal Council..

The Insurrection.in Kiangai.

Railways in China.

The Shanghai Frauds.

United States Court for China

Anti-Footbinding Society.

The American Dinner.

Ewa Calton Spinning and Weaving Co., Ld Chinese Administrative Reform.

Wuchow Note...

The Situation in China-1.

Accident to General Nogi,

Alleged Breach of Contract.

Japan and America.

An Exchange Mystery. Canton-Kowloon Railway.

Fatal Accident on the Empress of Chiņa, The "Tansun" Building, Case.

The Charge against a Bank Compradore.

The Japanese Budget.

Hongkong Telegraph.

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OPENING OF NANNING.

AS A TREATY PORT.

"

ON IBT JANUARY,' 1907,

[From Our Own Correspondent]

Shameen, 27th December,

11.25 a.m

Naning is to be opened as a Treny port on the 1st January,

U.S. COURT FOR CHINA.

EXAMINATION FOR ADMISSION

TO THE BAR AT SHANGHAI,

(From Our Own Correspondent.}" Shanghai, 20th December,

3.40 p.m.

have committed the manager of Powell, Ld., disinterested gentiomen, to investigate and' for contempt of Court, and sent the Gaancial audit the accounts of this big undertaking expert who heads the directorate to the Tower, into which money from Cantonese all over. Hut being of a benign disposition more fitted the world flowed when requested. The paid- to adorn the best parlour of a country parup capital of the concern is said to be snage than the uneasy seat of a police 18,000,000, and with the support of the last charitable institutions at court bench; he merely tapped out a question Viceroy the about the merits of the case. Now, it seems, Canton were instrumental in exploiting "there aint no rich person" at Fowell's the concern and disposed of the greater as Marguerita. The commander of the part of the shares, besides investing heavily forces of the millinery department abso their own surplus funds in the railway. litely denies, and is prepared to kiss As regards the investment of the funds, and - the book, that she was ever familiarly dubbed the condition of the shares it is said that Marguerits, even by the youngest and most notwithstanding the protests of Chang To 1007

It is reported that the Commis- kittenish apprentice on the premises. The chai the head director, something like others one and all asseverate that they were $1,000,000 were invested by the board in never called Marguerite and look as though the unprofitable undertakings in Canton a missioner of Customs at Wuohow will name was a synonym for the nether regions, ter which, no doubt, if true, will be brought proceed to Nanning to make all the though why, nobody knows. It is unlikely to light by Tatai Shen.hetare rumours necessary arrangements in connection that the male members of the staff would circulating concerning the shit, and it is with the opening of a Custom-house respond to a shout of Marguerita," and claimed that of the shares, $2,000,000 worth at the new Treaty port. none of them admits that he has any relative have not even been applied for. H.E. who at any time dons or doffs the charming Viceroy Chow-fu has already denied that the name of Marguerita. Some of them pre-official investigator has caused friction ceivable his appearance on the scene was tend that they have sung about "Marguerite," between the shareholders, though it is-com but she was no relative to the party men tioned in Court. Then where is Marguerila? not welcomed by many, and the Viceroy bas If we wanted Mary Ann, or Susan ur buinted out that Tactal Shes is simply ap even Venus and Dians they could be jointed to protect the interests of the public. found at a moment's notice, but Mar- Turning to the condition of affairs in Fukien, guerila is one of the other stories referred four contemporary sounds the following note to by Mr. Kipling. The mystic Maggie is of warning: "If this is the state of affairs at not to be found in the Colony; she has dis Canton, where the native capitalist is usual- ly shrewd enough to look after his own appeared like the Arabs of poetic famic who folded their tents, and she has as silently interests, what are we to expect in lukien stolen away. So long as she does not steal We commend the enterprise of the Straits a right-of-way the general public can hear Chinese, enterprise which compels admira with the loss. Some of those who composetion; but we are astonished that they should this cosmopolitan community have heard abe so far deprived of their ordinary caution ditty in which a lady is supposed to be as to part with their money for the promo shrieking for her wandering boy to-night. tion of railway schemes at a distance, and What can the feelings be of those interested over which they can exercise no effective in the wandering, wonderful, mysterious control, let them take warning from the Canton-Hankowscheme before they subscribe any more capital for the Fukien railway pro Ject. The opinion seems to be that there is a danger of the conditions in the Canton. lankow Railway scheme occurring in Fukien, but this would appear to have been arrived at from somewhat insufficient premises. However that may be, the fact remains that the project is an excellent one from every point of view, and if there are differences uust go through eventually, since the and difficulties in the carrying it out, it exigencies of trade and commerce demand it, and for its successful carrying out funds are the first necessity. It therefore appears to us somewhat of a pity that our contem.

known as the Admiralty dock, to a length | had been collected by the arbitrary deduc of 700 feet so that it may accommodate the tions made from the wages and salaries of largest vessels entering the port of Hong- officers in the civil service of the Colony kong. Of these there are only four steam should be swept away by a stroke of the pen ships trading to Hongkong at present for and irrevocably lost. Had that happened which provision cannot be made at the No. none of those interested in the Fund, none dock with its length of $76 feet, so that of those having a legitimate claim in the an expenditure of $325,000 is to be laid out event of its distribution, could ever hope for the docking of four goliathe whore headto trace the amount they had assisted to create, and the Colony would have acquired office and whose interests aro altogether on

an addition to its revenue by perfectly the Pacific coast. It is problematical if these vessels will ever be docked at this end unless illegal methods. Even as it is the Pension in the unusual and extraordinary case of an Fund operates in the most confusing fashion emergency. However, that is not a question and very frequently to the gross disadvant- for the public Press to take within its pur age of the recipients of its bounty. We view; it is for the shareholders themselves to cited the case of a widow who has to walk a consider the advisability of the expediency of dozen miles in order to draw the munificent adopting or rejecting the measure proposed. annual income of $4 or 55, and we have We will assume that the shareholders have referred to the fact that although a man may have been compelled to add his quote considered the lengthening of the No 1

to the Fund for twenty years it may dock advisable in their own interest, and as voicing the shipping interests of the Colony yet happen that the provision which he has we hail with satisfaction the proposition to hoped would exist for his family after his extend the facilities, excellent though they death will be denied them under the regular be, for ducking in Hongkong. Butations governing the granting of allowances, measure of so much general importance in Many of the civil servants have never volving an expenditure admittedly of over thought it worth while to devote a second three lakhs of dollars, but which may ulti-thought to the matter, simply because they or mately end in anything approaching half a their dependants are unlikely to claim relief million, is one which certainly should have from this impracticable form of life insurance, been given publicity and ample scope afford and look upon the monthly deductions as ed for a public discussion to the best advan- an unfair but legalised evil. As a matter of tage of the shareholders. As it happened; fact nobody appears to have penetrated the the meeting on the 18th August last, though plan on which the Fund is worked and few Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Go, representative in a measure, was certainly can pretend to understand the exact mean The 1.3. Kwongchow.

not so largely atiended as the character and ing of the regulations which have to be ap importance of the scheme demanded for its plied when an application for, assistance is However had the principle on thorough and proper ventilation. There made. was a scheme cut and dried, which, on the which the scheme was started, it was best statement of the chairman, had been con- that it should continue rather than that the sidered by the commilles. The nature of money should be stolen for the doubtful the scheme, which must unquestionably benefit of the community and the undoubt. have occupied considerable time in ordered injury of the contributors and bene to mature, was literally at a moment's ficiaries. We know or have means of learn-Marguerita? notice foisted on the members at a pri- ing the amount at the credit of the Fund;.

RAILWAYS IN CHINA. vate meeting assembled. Those of the but if that money were absorbed in the shareholders who do not. care to attend the general revenue no auditor could tell, in a

In another column of this issue appear informality of the half-yearly meetings as we couple of years, what had become of it. It know them in Hongkong were not permitted would have been dissipated in a variety of some particulars of the mission of H.E. the opportunity of hearing even the skele-directions. Presumably those entitled to Cheng Pao Seng to Singapore, which mis tonised outlines of the scheme, although appropriations from the Fund would never 'sion has for its object the raising of funds. H.E. Cheng has, we their interests were deeply involved: We have been allowed to suffer even in the pro- for Chinese railways. have good reason to believe that since that blematical event of the Colony's bankruptcy, learn from the Straits Times, already met meeting the discussion which originated on but that is no reason why the possibility with signal success, for he has managed to the spur of the moment was officially reported should exist. As the result of considering obtain from the Straits Chinese no less a and copies of the transcription were printed, the main fest objections to the scheme the sum than $500,000 for the proposed rail but, unless to the directors and possibly a Government withdrew the Bill which bad ways in Fukien province. If this, informa- few of the favoured shareholders, such been laid before the members of the Legislation is correct, and we have no reason to report is, to all intents and purposes, a dead Live Council and introduced a measure which doubt it, continues our contemporary, "then it fetter so far as the general body of the was stripped of its predecessor's faults. That shareholders or the general public are Bill was allowed to pass and the Fund is concerned. We are cognisant of the fact essentially in the same position as it was be: that strong opposition has been raised to fore. In Singapore, however, they were not the'mathad...hovaly the waye and means half su sharp as Hunghung, hur the Go- were proposed to be provided for the carry-vernment of the Straits Settlements was ing out of the scheme, by raising at a most allowed to pass a Bill which swept the Fund unfortunate moment the capital of the out of existence. That occurred eighteen company by surcharging the share assess months ago, at a time when Singapore, was ment with a premium of 100 per cent. rabid on the question of the expropriation of We also know that representations were the.docks and the scheme of dock extension made against the projected procedure, of and harbour improvements. Consequently it raising the funds and we know, moreover, in probable that the matter was lost sight of that, in answer to these representations of in the magnitude of the larger proposition, the shareholders, the directors have decided and became merely an uninteresting side that at the present moment an increase of line. Too late, the civil servants woke up to capital may not be considered necessary, the loss of their Fund and memorialised the But that does not furnish us with any as Secretary of State on the subject. The surance that no such new assessment will answer they received to that, memorial is ever be foisted, as the scheme has been, on instructive and shows how amply warranted the shareholders at a time when it may be we were when we assisted squelching the the most injudicious and impracticable to raise Hongkong proposal. According to the money. Four years ago when the ques Singapore Free Press, Lord Elgin has tion of buying a site for an absolutely new sent a wordy reply in which he traversed the On December 12, at Peking, the Rev. ARNOLD GEORGE BRYSON, of the L.M.S., dock was mooted and discussed with con-objections submitted by the memorialists Ts'augchow, so ORAIL

LENWOOD, M.D.,siderable warmth in the Iress and at public and politely ended with the remark: It is Ch. of the Women's Hospital, Peking, meetings of the company, the shareholders necessary to add, however, that if I have eldest daughter of the Rev. Waller I enwood, agreed to the extension of the dock, but the dealt with their memorial at length, it must directors thought otherwise and siselved the not be assumed that any useful purpose can scheme. Now they force it upon the share. he served by prolonging this correspondence holders willy-nilly, at a time when the cry la The Fund ceased to exist nearly eighteen continually being heard of tightness of money months ago and it is impossible to revive it." throughout the length and breadth of the Our contemporary also giver the following East. It is fortunate in one sense that as the information:" Another letter from the Secre result of the lamentable disaster of the 18th❘tary of State for the Colonies directs ceasing September last the Dock Company has reap the issue of the report of the fund, which On December 18, at Shanghai, ROBERT PEL ed a large contribution of remunerative work, was published in accordance with a pledge HAM, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Camp and we believe that this fact has been urged given to the unofficial memliers, and because, bell, aged 5 months.

hy the shareholders on the attention of the according to Lord Elgin, the rates of such On December 22, Shanghai, ALFRED, the directors with the view of utilising the profits pensions would not be liable to be increased eldest son of Captain J. Ar Scott, ss. Saul, towards the appropriation of the money for hereafter or reduced under any circum- aged 19 years,

SETNA-To-day, the 27th inst., - Victoria carrying out the dock extension. If this stances." So that as far as the general public Hospital, Barker Road, Peak, Mist DHUNDAI, enlargement were to be paid out of the or the contributors are concerned fiere youngest daughter of Mr. Sorabjee Dhunjeebhoy company's earnings we are in agreement is nothing to show what has become of the Setus (of Messrs, Phitosha B. Petis & Co. with those shareholders who have repre money which stood in the name of the civil aged 9. Deeply regretted. (Bombay and Shang-sented the advantage of adopting such servants. That is exactly what would have course; but there is nothing to show happened in Hongkong and what we strove that the directors will listen to the good successfully to prevent. The result of the counsels of the shareholders and appro-apathy shown in Singapore when the scheme suggested to them. We fear that the idea followed when the matter was under the of the increase of capital has not yet been consideration of the Legislative Council of absolutely disposed of, and that at some Hongkong. time or another it is the intention of the HONGKONG, SATURday, December 19, 1906. | board of directors to force upon the share-

Fire Insurance in Japan.

Bangkok Docks,

Marriage of Sir T. Jackson's Daughter. The British and Chinese Corporation, Lid, The Typhoon at Hongkong,

Conveyance of Chine e Emigrants.

Commercial:-

Yarn Market.

Baum o. 14, C.

Exchange,

Opium,

Local and General.

BIRTHS,

On the 15th inst., at Foochow, the wife of

JOHN C..OSWALD, of a son.

On December 19, at Shanghai, the wife of On December 19, at Soochaw, the wife of W. W. BROCKMAN, Soochow University, of a

J. KOPELMAN, of a son.

jon.

On December 23, at hanghai, the wife of P. N. KARANJIA of Messrs Framjee Sorabjee & Co...of a son.

MARRIAGES.. November 30, at Bromley, E. J. Lewis to ALICE MARY, daughter of fate E. Burnie, of Hongkong.

• D.Ay L. LaNg of Hheffield, Yorkshire.

On December 23, at Shanghai, HOWARD C. J. WILSON, eldest son of John Wilson, of Banff, Scotland, to LILIAN K. LUND, late of the Victoria Nuning "ome.

DEATHS.

On December 16, at Shanghai, on board the 1.3. Ponchi, ROBERT PURDON DUNAMORE, aged 33 years,

bal papers please copy),

TELEGRAMS.

"HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"

SERVICE

?

CENTRAL CHINA FAMINE

CHINESE IMPERIAL GRANT

TOWARDS RELIEU FUND..

From Our Own Correspondent.]"

Shanghai, 27th December

2:55 p.m.

is evident that this Chinese emissary is drain-porary should endeavour to prevent the ing away from this Colony a considerable subscribing of the Straits Chinese, at the portion of its surplus capital and we wish very initial stage, to the funds. Funds they we could accept the assurance that the must have, and a loan outside would be result will be beneficial to the Chinese re-difficult to obtain without impossible terms siding in the Straits." With the generalise, and conditions-to say nothing of conces (ions set out in Cheng's "advertisement," to sions, his compatriots, it is easy to agree. Un

most pressing doubtedly, one of the needs of China is the means of rapid trans portation. Until she obtains this, her poten tal resources, dwelt upon in glowing terms by all who know China, cannot be develop. ed; and, given the judicious expenditure of capital in the initial stages, and careful management after construction, any railway. in any of the Provinces of China should be. come a financial success: The Chinese bave all the qualities necessary to commercial success; but their success has been most marked in China herself when they have associated themselves with foreigners and accepted their advice and assistance. "Know- ing what we do of Chinese syndicate con-

An Imperiul decree has been issued cerns, and having watched the slow progress made with the railway projects of South at Peking granting a further contri- China for many years--due, to a great ex- tent, to the distrustfulness of the people as bution of one hundred thousand tools well as the officials-we are not sanguine," towards the Central China Famine remarks the junior Singapore journal, "of Relief Fund. the success of any railway undertaking in the South, unless foreign aid is invoked at the start. In other words, without imputing dis honesty or dishonest intention to Cheng a pessimistic view of Pao Seng, we take the enterprise in which the Straits Chi- nese are embarking their money," fter some further criticisms the same Journal has the following trenchant remarks: "An excellent example of the way things ought not to done is provided by the Canon Hankow railway scheme. This is the pro- ject for which the Colony of Hongkong bor rowed £2,003,000; that is to say, to prevent the concession from being taken over by a Belgian syndicate (with Russians in the background) from the original American concessionaires, the Colonial Government raised a loan, and, then lent the money to

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FLOUR WANTED FOR THE FAMISHING.

COMMITTEE CALL FOR TENDERS, [From Our Own Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 28th December,

2.30 p.m. The General Committee of the Central China Famine Helief Fund are calling for tenders for the supply of fifteen thousand bags of flour for immediate delivery."

The owners of the various River shipping companies have undertakba

A written examination of Ameri»'. Can attorneys for admission to the Bar of the newly constituted U.S. Court for China was held on Monday forenoon.

Eight candidates presented them. selves for examination, of whom two passed and six failed,

SANITARY BOARDING

+27 b inst.

The second meeting for Det mber of the Sani ary Board, postpared from Tuesday lastoD account of the Christmas holiday, was bel) is the Board room this afternoon, the usual mem bars being present.

THE WELL QUESTION,

The question of the condition of the water in the well at Stanley Street again came up for " discussion.

It will be remembered that at the last masling Mr. Humphreys submitted an imy portant minute, or the subject, and it was de cided to postpone the further consideration of. the question till the next meeting, and on this, Dr. W. Hunter, Government Bacteriologist, minuted: It is now generally recognized by experts on water analysis that bacterial of water for drinking purposes. By it we agy is the most direct and delicate test. obtain exact information, not alone as to the constitution of a water, but as to its potentiality to cause disease. Bacteriological methods are more. delicate than chemical examinationt. Klein, Houston and others have shown that by bacteriological means it is possible to detect smaller degrees of sewage pollution than by chemistry. With "A" of Mr.. Humphreys minute agree entirely I have. never con-

colt communis. I am thoroughly Justified, however, in gárding any water as suspicious demned a water because it contained bacillus

which contains the bacilius coll communie, in I.C.C, or any such small quantity, With that part of the minute marked "D" I disagree. Here, again, I regard a sample of water as an picious if it contains a large number of bacteria per C.C., of whatever kind, and especially to if the number of species represented is large. With "I'am in entire agreement, yet thehighartha number of bacillus coli in any sample of water, the heavier will have been the recent sewage or pollution, and the greates the probability of the presence of disease-producing bacteria, of considerable scientific dispute. Our informa The question raised it "D" is still a matter

on upon this point, bacteria necessary for digestion has, think, advanced somewhat since the days of Pasteur. It would be well for the author of the minute to carefully com sider the more recent investigations of Nuttal and Thirselder, Levin, Schotilins, kod Bizzo. Polar bears in the arctic regions zero, possées sterile intestinal canal, yet they. appear to thrive well. With E," se hace 14 ogist of any repute would conclude as to the presence of bacillus coli before ba ing carried out the main crucial · system of tests. With "E" I agree. The authority for the statement in "G" ought to be given. This is my experience in Hongkong, and is borne ant by other competent observers, as Dowar and bacteriologias. With regard to "15, if the am acquainted with micro-organisms which water is boiled ordinary bacteria are killed. I Can will stand boiling for 16 hours. My own to the whole question of opinion regard

Crookes, chemists, and Kisin," Houston, sic.

coi

water examinations is the following: A water.

The Hangbang Celegraph prate the money in the way that has been was put forward fully justice the course we Chang Chihtung to enable him to repurchase to carry all supplics to the famine- it contiov van lace must ber of bacteria dif

MAIL SUPPLEMENT,

'ISSUED GRATIS TO SUBSCRIBERS.

(24th, December.)

MYSTERIOUS MARGUERITA,

the foreign rights. In return for this, the stricken districts free of freight, Colony expected to see the speedy completion

MUNICIPAL. ACQUISITION

REJECTED.

[From Our Own Correspondent,]

Shanghai, 27th December. 2.55 p.m.

irrespective of souice condemned

C.C. of whatever kind; if it contains bacillya coll in 1.C.C; !! It forments glucose, lactose, cici- if it gives the enteritidis change in milk. The presence of liquifying organisms is also of great importance. rely upon no singis test, reaction or phenomedon, and place but little weight upon the mere quanti- tative estimation of the micro-organisms in any sample of water. The samples of well-water which | bays examined recently went so ́im. pure as to power to every condemnatory test. necessary, from a’bacteriological stand-point. In the case of water supply, however, the Con dition of affairs is somewhat different. Here re-topography, must be considered; before it is condemned. I am in agreement, however, with the statement made by the fourth report of the Royal Commission on water, supplies and disposal of 1904, that typical bacilige sewage

fio 1: C. C. of a sample of water is sufficient to condama it for potable purposes, and as indication of sewage pollution. If the polic tion be a recent one, the presence bi dizillus coll affords a much more delicals test of pollu Hon than any chemical examination which can be made.

of the railway to connect Canton with Hong. THE JAPANESE 1 RAMWAYS. kong, a scheme upon which the future success of the Colony so largely depends. We have no concern, for the moment, with' holders the proposed increase. They may

the obstacles that were placed in the way of DOCK EXTENSION IN HONGRONG. | argue that, no resolution can be carried

(20th December.)

The latter project, now under fair way to without a majority of the shareholders them- selves, but as we know in Hongkong how Much interest has been evoked in the realisation. It is the bigger scheme which In another column we give the result of loth shareholders are to express and whereabouts of a certain mysterious Mar provides an example of Chinear ineptitude. the leasing, by public auction this afternoon, ventilate their views at public meetings we guerita. Last week a case came before the An inquiry is now being conducted into

It is reported from Tokio that of a substantial portion of land, or rather can hardly take the resolutions arrived at Police Court in which a lady with two the affairs of the native syndicate entrusted inillock, at Hunghom, adjoining the Hong upon such a momentous question as indicat- daughters, named Rosa and Marguerite, with the construction of investigation the Japanese Aldermen have

This kong and Whampoa Dock Company's pro-ing the true feelings of those interested alleged that two Japanese of the feminine Canton to Hankow. perty, which has been acquired for the pure in this matter. They are guided sheepishly gender had assaulted her, also Foss and is one result of the refusal of the principal jected the proposal for the Munici- pose of extending the No. 1 dock. The by those at the helm.

Incidentally Marguerita. The Magistrate Hongkong shareholders to pay the calls on pal acquisition of the Tramways at was in fue form as the man in the street their shares until the scheme was placed upon the capital. would say, and after the charge was read over a legal basis in accordance with the rules he demanded: "Where is Rosa?" A young laid down by the Chamber of Commerce at lady answered to that name by bowing Peking. The Chamber nominated Troial politely and expressing the hope that his Shen to 'carry out the investigations called When the Government proposed last year Worship was quite well. But the for, and since the arrival of the Trotai the to abolish the Widows and Orphans'. Pen- Magistrate was not in a jocular mood, managing director of the concem, Chang sion Fund and absorb the balance at the for he instantly queried "Where is To-chui, has repeatedly tendered his resigna- credit of the Fund, in the general revenue of Marguerita ?" There was an awkward tion to Viceroy Chow-fu, who has declined the Colony, we offered a vigorous resistance pause, until somebody volunteered the state to accept it until clean balance sheet of to the scheme for several sound and sub- ment that she was employed with Powell's the affairs of the syndicate is produced In stantial reasons. In the first place, It was and could not get leave of absence, Rad the absence of this document, it has fallen wholly undesirable that the capital which the judge been an irascible man he might to the lot of Total Shep, assisted by other mas Day.

land which has an area of 175,430 square feet

· has been knocked down to the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, Ltd., at the offer of $36,319 The scheme for the exten slon of the No. 1 dock was considered in camera at a meeting of the shareholders of the Company on the 18th August last. It was a scheme, according to Sir Paul Chater, who occupied the chair, which involved a total expenditure within a period of two or three years of, at the maximum-by so it was stated-8385,000; The scheme purports, extend the No, dock, which is

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A PENSION SCHEMÍ AND. 175

„SAQUEL,

THE JAPANESE DIET. MEETING ON CHRISTMAS DAY.

[From Our Owk Correspondent.]

Shanghai, 27th December,

2.55 p.m.

all the findings of bacteriology, chemistry and

coll'ia

Lieut-Colonel J, M, Raid, R.A.M.C., said), 1 agree entirely with the Bacteriologist's views, A

MINUTE 18 LEGAL OPINIONSNAT

The Japanese Diet met on Christ The President having asked (bo on, the

Colonial Secretary whether the written opinions, of the law officers could be dubräitted to a' cane