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BIRTHS.
On April 5, 1908, at Shanghai, in Mr. and Mrs J.G. PETERSEN, A 100.
On April tc, poß, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. VINCENT VIZENZINOVICH, a daughter,
MARRIAGES.
On April 2, 1908, at Shanghai, DaVID HILL of Chacgtchfu, unan, 5th son of George Young, Glasgow, to EMILY, younger daughter of the late Rob McCaw, Lurgan, Ireland.
On April 8, 1908, at Shanghai, WARRINGTON II. CORNECC to MARGARET({AI5V) PHILLIPË.. DEATHS.
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On March 18, 1908, at Stoke Nowington, London, F. L. CROMPTON, late Organist of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, aged 42 years.
On April 3, 1908, at "Tsingtau, after a long and painful illaess, Joun BAPTIST ROCHE, aged 48.
On April 8, 1908, at Shanghai, Jous Durr, Engineer, China Merchants S. N. Co., aged
44 Years,
On April 10, 1948 at Shanghai, SAMUEL FREDERICKSON, aged 39 years.
LAGISIATIVE, COUNCI
Hongkong was not adequate in the matter of A meeting of the Legislative Council was Card 43 one of an exceptional character and trespass and the Government regarded this held in the Council Chamber this alter that the bye-laws allached to the draft Bill noon. Present His Excellency the Gayer were sufficient to meet the caso The Gover nor, Sir Frederick Lugard, K.C.M.G. Colonel nor-in Council bad power to deal with the bye Darling, R., Hoa. Mr. F. H. May, Claws. The draft Bill had been approved by (Colonial Secretary), Hon. Mr. W. Rees Davies the Chamber of Commerce and the Govern (Attorney General), Hon Mr. A. M. Thomson ment saw no objection to it. (Colonial Treasurer), Hon Mr. W. Chatham, C.M.G. (Director of Public Works), Hon; Capt. Basil R. H. Taylor, R., (Harbour Master), Hop. Mr. E. A. Irving (Registrar General), Hon. Dr. Ho Kai, M., C.M.G., Hon. Mr. Henry Keswick, Hon. Mr. Wei Yuk, Hon. Mr. H. E. Pollock, K., Hos. Mr. E. Osborac, and Mr. C. Clementi, (Clerk of Councils),
MINUTES.
The minutes of the last meeting were rend and confirmed...
1
NEW MEMBER. of office and his seat at the Council table.
Mr. Murray Stewart took the statutory path
PAPERS
The Colonial Secretary laid on the table the following papers:~-~
Reports of the Captain Superintendent of Police and of the Superintendent of the Fire Brigade, for the year 1957.
Observatory, for the year 1907,
Report of the Director, of the Hongkong
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Mr. Keswick seconded. *Agreed.
THE SUPREME COURT
A YEAR'S RECORDS..
this afternoon the report of the Registrar of the Supreme Court for the year 1907. Mr. Arathnón There was laid before the Legislative Council
Soft writes ima
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ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.
The number of actions instituted in this division of the Court during the year 1917 was 261, and there were 161 peoding at the com- The Bill passed through Committee, was mencement of that year. Of these, 143 were read a third time and pasted..
disposed of during the year, 39 being settled or withdrawn before trial, leaving a balance of 280 undisposed of,
THE PUBLIC HEALTH HILL.
Ordinance. to amand, the Public Health and The second reading of the Bill entitled An
Buildings Ordinance, 1993, and the Public Health and Buildings Amendment Ordinance, tp03, was not proceeded with, this afternoon.
ADJOURNMENT..
The Council was adjourned until this day fortoight.
FINANCE COMMITTEE:
A meeting of the Finance Committee the Colonial Becretary presiding. It was agreed held immediately after the meetion of Council to recommend that the following-votes be adopted by the Council:-
BTREET FIRE ALARMS.
The total amount involved was $3.27,203 22 The debts and damager recovered amounted to $8 9.0.9.16.
There was oo jojuncting or interim injung tion granted.
The tota fees collected and piid into the Treasury amounted to $16,201.35:
BUMMARY JURISDICTION. The number of actions institated was 1,894 wading the year 1977, and 243 were brought posed of, 792 being settled or withdrawn before forward from 1906. Of these, 1,912 were dis trial, and 231 being struck out of the Cause Book as having been standing over generally for more than a year, leaving a balance of 215 The total amount involved was $474, 00:43 And the total fees collected and paid into the The number of distress warrants for set issued was 469, representing aggregate unpaid
A sum of three thousand, three hundred dolla in aid of the vote, Police and Prison
Returns of the Police Magistrates' Courts for the year 1957, utan sa da, maksaa zo
Report, of the Registrar of the Supreme Deparments. Fire, Brigade,. Special Expendi- Treasury amounted to $1,305.10.
Court for the year 1957.
FINANCE..
ture, Street Fire Alarms.
SLIVINGPUN SCHOOL.
vote Education, A.-Inspector of Schools
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The Japanese Boycott.
A MEMORIAL PHOTOGRAPH.
- FORCEFUL APIRAL FOR CHINESE UNITY.
Many bave been the novel expedients adopted,'
movement in Canton to keep the enthusiasm by the organizing body of the anti-Japanese
against the Japanese and their goods We have mentioned the adoption of fans, stationery, The most recent and the most striking to and booklets in spreading the propaganda, reach our notice is a caplially reproduced
at Canton when the declaration of the Boycott photograph of the memorable monster meeting
wai proclaimed in the presence of an assembly. Chisamen including 'all sons and conditioon of Dumbering, according to reports, over 50,000
men in the great Southern capital".
· pictaras """of the
The photo print illustrates the tiled roof of the ancestral hall of the Chao clan under which the speakers platform was the background the
Merected. In
speakers can be discerned to the act of foreground depicia a veritable sea of heads haranguing the enormous assembly. The with hundreds of craning ecely intent upon listening to the patriotic decimations of the promoters of the retaliatory movement. On a sheet of white cloth the Chiness emblem af mourning-spreid over and across the entire ideographs the equivalent of the rendering width of the platform are written large-sized for National Disgrace Memorial.* The
The Colonia! Secretary" laid on the,iable sum of eight hundred dollars in aid of the rents' amounting to $55,614.26, of which the tablet on the right pillar supporting the Other Charges, Salyingpun Anglo-Chinese "BRregate sum of $22,122,50 was recovered, roof bore the inscription in Chiness: **Uterine
report of the Finance Committee (No.5)
FINANCIAL MINUTES,
The Colonial Secretary laid on the table Financial Minutes Nos. 14 and 15. It was agreed that they be referred, to the Finance Committee,
CHINESE EXTRADITION ORDINANCE. A Bill to amend the Chinese Extradition
('he Hongkang Celegraph Ordinance, 1889, was presented by the Attorney
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1908.
CHINA AND JAPAN.
As showing the gradually changing attitude of the British Press towards the Japanese, the settlement of the Tatu Muru'seizure furnishes clear evidence To is editorial columns the Pall Mall Goartin drals "with the question in the following strain. If there had been the slightest desire on enher side to and a cause of quarrel, the Tutu Maru incident would have set China and Japan at loggerhead. While it is certainly true that the commander of the Chinese cruiser treated the Japanese
A. S. WATSON & CO., flag with less respect than was due from
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ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
Hongkong, 7th April, 1908.
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THE CENTRAL STORES, LD.
SHANGHAL '
ISSUE OF TLS. 250,000 8 PER CENT DEBENTURES,
DIRECTORS:
G. 1. SHEKURY, Esq., Chairmas, A. R. MURPHINE, E19,
J..H. THESDALE, ER.”
SECRETARY:
M. J. NATHAN, Esq.
one friendly nation to another, it must be observed, on the other hand, that he had very good reasons for suspecting that the arms and ammunition carried by the Tattu Mary were not legitimate cargo,
This
to be acknowledged by the decision of Jap n to allow China to buy these munitions of war, although it was originally stated that they were consigned in the Portuguese in Macao, The settlement is practically an acknowledg ment than there was some fault on both sides, and it has been arrived at after negotiations in which there has been a remarkable.display of firmness and courtesy on China's part.. For this reason it is not without a wider political interest. There has been too much readiness
to look upon China as under the thumb of Japan, She is not in that position, but the much stronger, one of maintaining her own
General.
2. The following definition' shall be added and read at the end of Section 2 of the Prin. cipal Ordinance
Chinese Government" includes the Viceroy or other officer administering a Provincial Government.
School, rent of temporary quarters,
This was all the business,
CANTON DAY BY DAY.
ANTI-OPIUM MOVEMENT.
[From Our Own Correspondent.] ་་་་ The object of the Bill is to add a new
Canton, 14th April, 1908. definition to the principal Ordinance. This is
Seeing that many official lave not yet rid proposed to be effected by Section 2 whichthemselves of the habit of opium smoking, as reads:-
Imperial Edict war issued on the 5th instant appointing five high officials, Princes Kung and Po Wei, Their Excellencies Lu Chuan Lin, Mo Ching Sing and Ting Chun-tok to be special commissioners to ascertain the extent of suc cess which has attended the Imperial Orders on the prohibition of opium smeking through- His Excellency the Governor said that this out the Empire. These Commissioners are in- Bill had been introduced in order to make a structed to draw up a set of regulations and to slight alteration in the original Ordinance of establish an anti-oplum institution within thres lately by the Full Court. The Tientsin Treaty matter foreign or Chinese, to Allend patients 188 consequently upon the ruling given months and to.engige experienced doctors, so upon which the Ordinance was based used the These Commissioners are required to report on words "Chinese Authorities." That had been any official who may be found still addictedato incorporated in the Ordinance in one or two the drug, and the smokers will be admitted sections, which were to the effect that the into the institution for treatment. Also, those Chinese Government could not try a prisoner officials who are suspected of not having en except upon the complaint on which he had tirely rid themselves of the habit will be sent to been extradited, and in the event of his being the institution to be examined, without regard discharged and charged with another offence to the degree of their influence. A sum of he must first be returned to. His Majesty's 30,con taels is now authorised for the establish dominions. Since the Ordinance did not use
ment of the înstitution and 6i 1,000 taels will be the actual words that were used in the Treaty appropriated towards stie maintenance of the upon which it was based, this Bill was intro institution annually. duced to interpret the precise meaning of the Chinese Extradition Ordinance as to the mean. ing of the words "Chinese Authorities." The lill introduced no new procedure whatever,
The Bill passed the first reading. The Attorney General asked the permission of the Council to move the suspension of the Standing Orders in order to pass it through the subsequebl stages,
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THE RAILWAY TERMINUS. The Canton-Hankow Railway Company has been desirous of purchasing the building, and tand along the band at Wang Sha for the pur pose of extending the railway terminus there, and the Company has therefore requested the owners of these properties to remove. A con sitterable discussion has taken place on the question between the two parties, but the, owners of the properties, after all, refused to comply with the Company's wishes. The Cab The Attorney General moved and the ton Chamber of Commerce war, therefore, ro Colonial Secretary seconded the second read-quested by the Company to persuade the ing of the Bil
owner to yield to the Company, and yesterday Agreed.
a meeting was held at the offices of the Cham ber where the owners again maintained their
The Colonial Secretary seconded, Agreed.
Tare prepared to receive applications for dignity, while showing readiness to learn an The Council went into Commites on the Bill
HE Directors of the
..Tls, 250,000 8 per cent debentures terminable in ten years from the 30th day of June 1938, but redeemable by the Company in 3 years from that date or at any time after such 5 years on giving 6 calendar months previous police In writing. These debentures are issued by the Directors in pursuance of a resolution pary ed by them at a Meeting held at the Company's offices on the 3rd day of April; 1908, Wah the sum raised it is intended to pay off all the existing outstanding debentures of the Com pany of Tis: 150,odo issued in favour of the Hongkong & Shanghaj Banking Corporation and to employ the balance in the expense of
she can from a clever neighbour,
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
**There will be an issue of the Hongkong Telegraph to-morrow, Good Friday.
completing the building and fitings of the THE 'French mail of the 17th March was deli
Palace Hotel frooting the Bund, Shanghai, vered in London on the 15th inst. The present issue of Tls, 250,000 will rank as
afri charge on the said property of the The steel stem-launch Wheeler built by the Company held on a lease to the Company for Rock Co. arrived at Manila yesterday. a term of which 48 years and 9 months are still
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229 warrants having been withdrawn on settle. ment between the parties
The fees collected for issuing distress war. rants and paid into the Treasury amounted to $1,773,
CRIMINAL JURISDICTION... There were 34 cases and 70 persoas con mitted for trial at the criminial sessions.
The number of persons actually ind pled was 56, of whom 48 were convicted and 8 were acquitted. Against 13 perspee on indictments were filed, and they were di: charged pursuant in the provisions of "The Criminal Procedure Amendment Ordinance, 1904," and one case was postponed.
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APPELLATE JURISDICTION.
year, being -
There were 53 appeals instituted darin, the
From the decision of the Chief Justice... 5 of the Puisna Judge 3 Magistrates.tvnímu 4° Award of an arbitrator
of which 9 were disposed of, being":-
From the Chief Justice..
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Puise Judge... Magistrates......
leaving 4 pending.
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Leave in appeal to the Privy Council was granted in one case, fe., In ́Original Jurisdic tion Action No. 149 of 1993, Caesar Leuba nod Charles Leuba v. J. Ullmann & Co..
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AD GIRALTY JURISDICTION," There were 5 actions instituted, a of which was disposed of, 1 having been seriled before trial, leaving 3 peoding.
brethren of National Disgrace meeting." That as the opposite pillar was inscribed with the characters which read: "Ualty is the strength of the Nation,"
The photo is described as the "Grand National Disgrace Meeting held on the 17th day of the and moon in the 341b year of Kwang Su."
peror. is inteligent there is no fear of the The other inscriptions read:"If the Em country being werk.' ́
the natural consequence will be strength for If the people arouse to a sense of their duty.
the country."
"Bo sparing in the use of punishments and fines; and make the taxes and levies light."
"Prom: to. manufactories."
Use bative articles." " "May Heaven bloss Chang the Viceroy]}" "Let not the race be extinguished!"
Let us unite to endure the contumely and strive to become powerful."
"Be careful cot to be too rash."- "Lift up our country and our home." "Wake up, our uterine brothien." "Never forget, this great disgrace." "Retaliate after a civilised procedure,"
Mouse yourselves to a sense of your duty."
The L. & C. Express comments as follows on the Tatsu Afari settlement dat
Fortunately be Tatau Aaru incident has now been cloud, and the question arising out of het se zure gear Macao has been adjusted
hout undue friction.. Ao apology has been given for the bauling down of the Japanese flag" and it seems to be agreed anw that the seizure. did not take place in the territorial waters of
The number of vessels arrested, was t The total fees received and paid, Into the Macan, China has apparently not been able to Treasury amounted to $314.50.
BẠNKRUPTCY JURISDICTION, '.
creditor petitions and 17 being petitions by There were 5 petitions filed, 34 being
the debtors themselves.
jusity her sette of the arms, though, as we have already sid, sympathy, must be felt för
students from Japan are believed to be mixed China, who is codeavouring to put down this Arms traffic. Several of the returned Chinese
The number of receiving orders made was in the revolutionary movement, la the 46, being 31 on creditors petitions, and 15 on doing a considerable arms business in supply. south, and Japanasa speculators have been debtors pétition. Ope administration ordering malcontents. Both China and Japan appear was made.
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The number of public examinations held was
There were 39 adjudications; a compositions
by the Court.
and the sections were adopted "without' altern- opposition against the Railway Company's and 1 scheme di arrangement were approved has been discovered 'whereby the bonour and
nian
desire, and declared their refusal to be dis On resuming, the Bill was read a third time possessed in any wib. and passed.
There were 3 discharges.
The railway, materials impoded into Can- The aggregate amount of declared assets ton for the use of the Canton-flankow was $860,10%.99, and declared liabilities Railway Coompany have beer santioned by $2,183,714.06. the Waiwapu'to be exempted from Customs The fees paid into the Treasury amounted duty but not Lilin dues, while the materials to $6,255.21, including the official receiver's for the use of the Canton-Kowloon Railway commission as trustee where po. trustee bas
Chinese section) are to be exempted from
been appointed by the creditors. Likin dues no i not Customs duty. For the
PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION.
Casioms duty And Likin dues by the purpose of kvoiding inistakes in the collection Customs and Likin officials en materials for the age of the above railways, the Viceroy has now given detailed instructions to the officials concerned,
FOREIGN CORPORATIONS. The Attorney General moved the second reading of the Bill entitled, an Ordinance to enable Foreign Corporations acquire and TELEGRAMS to India and Burmah are, now he said, practically, stated the object of the
hold land in the Colony. The preamble accepted without restriction...
Bill Several Ordinances had recently been the desire being to ensure that foreign corpora of pisted with regard to individual companies, lions which required land in the Colony should have a gond title which should, in no way handicap them in their business, although they were foreign corporations. The Government. charge on the other property and undertaling The annual report of the Hongkong Electric of opinion that instead of passing alece
meal legislation for individual companies it was
HOVCOTT AT "SAMAHDI. of the, Compary as carried on upon the raid Co., Ld., is printed on page 2 of this issue.' premises and will be secured by a Deed of
desirable to have a general Ordinance to deal
At a National Diagrace meeting held on the 12th instant by the Samahiri Self-Government Trust, and mortgage to be hereafter executed LEAVE of absence, on private affairs, to Eng. with all foreign corporations which in virtue of belog a first mortgage of the said leasehold fand, has been granted to Major R. J. Ross.their constitution were entitled to hold and own Sociel et "Samshul, afier a resolution was property buildings and undertaking of the Company to Messrs. Alexandr McLealand D. A. A and Q. M. G., from 18th April to 17th, land in the Colony, subject to their complying Duncan McNeil as Trustees for the Debenture October, 1908, inclusive, on, termination of with the requirements of the Ordinance. He holders. The present issue of debentures will Staff appointment. be at par in soms of Tis. 1,000, Tis. 500and Tla. 100 as may suit the convenience of appli. cants. They will bear interest at the rate of 8 per cent per sanam and will rank ambeg themselves pari passu.
unexpired including the buildings and a floating
:
might say the the Bill was rather more elaborate than the Ordinance recently paused, but it was
CAPTAIN Walter T. C. Jobes, Royal Marine based on the same lines, it had been most fully Light Infantry, who has been doing duty at considered and persoas interested outside the Hongkong yard for two and a half years, is to Government had had an opportunity of looking The first instalment of interest calculated be relieved by Major Horace C, Evans, of the | at it, and it was deemed to be generally ac from the day of payment will be paid on the
same corps. Major Evans transfe-a to bis new ceptable. The object was, to ensure in fature goth day of funt, 1968 and thereafter balfor ly on the 30th day of June and he 31st day of duties from the command of the marines aboard that the Council would not have to deal with December, Applications should be filled in the battleship Prince of Wales in the Mediter individuals that made applications with regard and soot to the Company's Binkers the, Hong-ranean Fleet. He is the author of "Company to the acquisition of land bare, but that there kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation accom: Training Made Easy,"
should be a general measure to ensure their panied by the amount of the debentures applied
competence to hold land..
for.
The Colonial Secretary seconded, The Bill passed the second reading. The Council went into Committes, as the
THE congratulations which have been shower. Application will be received up to the 31sed upon, the Chios Squadr . for ils superb day of May, 1908 and will be dealt with the display of gunnery, both in the gun-laying day and should any such deboptures remiin unapplied for, subsequent allotments thereof test and the barile practice, should nerve the Bill, which was passed with some "slight
will be made and carry interest from the date of issus. Bankers receipts to the applicant will be issued for the amount of his debentures and exchanged for debentures. If an allotment
li made. Forms of application can be obtain
bandymen for still gieater achievements this alterations. year. The Chion Squadron will have its work
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KOWLOON WHARY AND GODOWN CO.
cut out for it, as at least four oiber squadrons The Attomey General, in moving the second
are determined to have a better fock in on the
reading of the Bill cotted no Ordinance to
to have shown good sense in their accommoda. tion of a difficulty which seemed for a moment to be threatening an ingenious.compromise
the interests of both parties are favéd... Onp report received in Japan appreciates the good" offices rendered by Sir Jordan, the British Minister in Peking, in bringing the two parties.
to a 18itlement..
Telegrams.
There were 174 grauís made by the Count Destruction of a Famous Church.
being
Probater, Letters of, administration,
B2 92
# $74
by, Fire.
London, 14th April, · The famous Garrison Church in Berlin, The faglegate value of the estates was where the Kaiser worshipped, has been burris $12.075.747.00, 7
Probate doties amounted to $368.938.co.ed, and the priceless collection of fluga, des Court fees amounted to Str,820.go and Official troyed. Administrator's commissing paid into the Trea The Crown Prince assisted the firemen in aury to £1,468,1g/
There were 42 estates vested in, or adminis- their efforts to save the buildingvesn Parsed to fall in with the Japanese boycattered by, the official administrator during, the
The United States and movement, over a thousand shares of the Canton year, representing an aggregate value of
$4.560.78.***
Mr. Root and Baron de Rosen, have had Shipping Company were subscribed for by 1bo present. It was also decided to open an office
long conference in Washington on the in that city for the registration of shares and
Manchurian situation, after which Baron de collection of subscriptions for the said Com-
Rosen started for Russia.com
pady,"
Yesterday a mau sent to the Canton Sell Government Society a letter enclosing $6 is notes towards the expenses of the League. In the teler the man requested the League to make out a list showing all the goods and ar ticles of Japanese origin and to pript copies of same to be freely distributed to the people in order that one and all máy have a thorough' knowledge of the Japan¿se prodecty, and to boycott them without any mistake
CANTON SHIPPING COLLE
Mr. Chab Chung Tong, a native.of Weihai wai, residing at Canton, yesterday called at the Capton Shipping Company and applied for some copies of the prospectus of the company and other forms for receipt, C. He said he next opportunity. It is this healthy spirit of authorize the making of bye-laws by The Hong-was going back to the North and he would have rivalry and emulation which keeps the gunnery kong, and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Company in soliciting as many shares as possible. pleatura in renderlay: bis servicer to the Com up to the standard it shouldˇattain, A curious pany, Limiled, said that this Bill conferred on The Canton Self-Government League bat result of the improvel ¡gunnery is the greater, certain company, the Hongkong and Kowloon received a letter from the Chinese residing in expenditure of (mansy upon targets, these Wharf and Godowe Compisy, Ltd., power to Manila requesting the League to forward të em having been knocked into rags and splinters make byelazi in connection with the conduct Shipping Company together with other Brees
some copies of the prospector of the Canton. Intterly, However, it is an item of expenditure, fits basicest and the malaipnance of order onary particulars so as to enable them to collect 1413's which the laxpayers' will cheerfully accade to.
lieged, that the law of - subscriptions there for the Shipping Company,
ed at the office of the Company or at the Hong, kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation and the Deed of Trust and form of Debenture can be seen at the office of Messrs, Stokes, Pluit & Teesdale, the Company's Solicitors,
By Order of the Directors, dra
NATHAN
Kia Secretary SAO
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32 catales were 'wound up during the year, as
against 30 in 1906, representing an aggregate value of $20,977-40-
OFFICIAL TRUSTS.. The total number of trost, estates in the hands of the official trusted at the end of 1907 was 22, and the aggregate amount of Trast funds S116,215 47 au against. 24-calates aggre- gating St11,707.58 in 1906, and certain house property,
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REGISTRATION OF COMPANIES." The total number of compables registered from the commencement of the Companies. Ordinance, 1865," was 530 with an aggregate capital of $1455 803,
Russia,
The interview, it described enirely satisfactory on both sides, and further friction relative to the Harbin Contul's recognition of Russian authority is not expected.
RussiaTM
The Duma le still debating the Amur fall. way, Moder
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Stolypin urged the importance of the Of the 530 companies on the register or are line, not merely strategically, but to develop defunct, 1 were not floated, 120 were wound up, the settlement and meet inroads of foreigoers. and sa were in the course of being wound up, leaving 261 on the Register at the end of 1907. representing an aggrogate capital of $165,494,- $28,
1997
revenue from companies registered is
the
There were ig
Registration fees, ........
Filing and other fees, lindai/ 1,969.90
56,197,40
FEIS AND COMMISSIONS. way of fear and commision paid into the The total soms collected during the year by Treasury; amponted to 536,156,76, as igainst 553,coë 13 in the previous 1985,
The Macedonia Question, Semi-official newspapers say that the inter views between Prince von Buslow and Sia Titioni have resulted in a complete "gree ment re the Macedonia question.
The Kaiser in the Medit
The Kaiser remained'i
the officers. His Majesty H.M.S.Implacably chatt!
mander and the Officern Men with
ranean. board:
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