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Telegrams.

· HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"

SERVICE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY JUNE 17, 1908.

THE WEIRAIWEI LAND AND

BUILDING CO., ED.

An extraordloury general meeting of share- holders in the above company was hold at Shanghai on rath Inst. Those present ware” CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT, Meurs. A. MacLeod (chairman), J. M. Young

C. W. Wrightson, E. J. Hogg, W. A. G. Pla PARLIAMENT, FOR UHINA. B. F. Ball, H. G W. Baytar, W. S. Murray, | W. S. Jackson, A, P, Wood, and P. F. Lavers [By courtesy of the "Sheung Po." | (secretary), representing 1,158 shares,

After the secretary, had read the notice Peking, 16th June.ing the meeting the chairman sald;— At our meeting on March 13 last,

NG AND

· RUMOURS CF AN ATTEMPT AT A SETTLEMENT.

THE BRACHCOMBER.

Sheltered under the enormous roots of glant cocoanut palm, that had been torn up by the hurricane of the week before, and now

To-day's Advertisements.

ODEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN, IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

"GEBEN,"

Reverting to the article in our insus of 231d straiched po the ground, he lay half of last month in which we recounted the parti- asleep, his bare feet' cooled by the waters of culars of the transaction of the diagonal of the swept higher and higher on the burning sand,HR Beamship

tilpcoming lido, that in soothing swishes old Kaiping Mining La to the present Chito atire silently before again mustering its Dese Engineering and Mining Co. Ld, forces to advance on the slowly receding beach. call-through, dar columns, as we learn, since that he stopped to roll up the legs of his trousers

again desire to draw attention to this matter As a larger wave that usual covered His ankles

article appeared, effons are being made to apa diity pair of bine dungaree pants, which with sinted point representatives approved of by ali parties a singlet. Comprised his outfit. For the first

of all questions in dispatar

of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are belag having arrived, Consignces of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception, landed and stored at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hong

H... Chang Chib-tung is of opinion that provided the necessary formalities could interested to try and bring about a settlement time he became aware of my presence, and kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Com

that an early date should be fixed, for the institution of a Parliament for Ching in compliance with the wishes of the people.

Most of the Grand Councillors have fallen in with his views..

REORGANISATION OF THE NAVY:

DIVERGENCE OF VIEWS.

[By courtesy of the "Sheung" Po."],"

Peking, 16th June). A certain Viceroy has urged that the period of ten years be the maximum time within which the reorganisation of the Navy should be completed.

is completed in fifteen years.

.

be effected at a reasonal cost the Directors would take steps to repay to the shareholders' the funds which have been kept in seserve for

op 8th Company's late the at Weine wei, and as it appears certain that successive British Ministries have no definite policy, ek cept to neglect the dependency (heas, bear) we now ask you to adopt the resolution that has been read to 'you, 'I will be borne in mind that the poissued capital of the. Com pany will be available if at any time scope i offered for the profitable investment of capital. With regard to the means which we have of making this return 4 may mention that we hold debentures to, the par value of Tls. 20,000, but as we bought there

be subject to rent, Blig

Before, however, expressing our views uponjuration and began, "Beg pardon Mister, No Claims will be admitted after the Goods hastily vining to bis feet he raised a finger in pany, Limited, at Kowloon, whence delivery

may be obtained. V the desirability, or otherwise, of such a cours but I ain't had nothin' to eat since yester have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain. being taken, we recapitulate, as a case for the day. To drink you mean, I broke in saring undelivered after the 33rd of June, will Chinese, some of the most important points castically, listening to a string of denials and dwelt upon in our article of 23rd ulto, a protestations dading up with "elp me Gord." many of our readers failed to obtain copies of Motioning him to be seated, I promised sufficient for a drink, if he would honestly tell me what had brought him into his present plight, adding I was no old wife or temperance woker to be gulled by his patier.

our issue of that date, viz, ;-

1. One of the conditions ofthe memorandum of sale of the entire undertaking to the new company was that, the affairs of the company should be managed ip China by a board of shareholders presided over by Chang Yen Mow as Director General of Minen.

These conditions were wholly disregarded. at a discount they stand in our books at Tiswill) was sold by the Chinese to the promoters 2-The entire undertaking (including good. We have in anticipation of this re of the new concere in exchange for £375,000 19.40. solution being passed and availing ourselves of worth of shares in the new company, the pro the demand which has existed during the Jasi moters re-selling the concern immediately afterwards to the new C. B. M. Co, Ld., for £1,000,000.

“Well, I'll tell you the truth," he said. “My || name, at leastaways one of them, is Dill Kent, and under that 1 shipped from Liverpool as

Liverpool Irishmen and you can guess what A. B. in one of the rollenest tubs as ever cheated the underwriters. The firemen were

that means, and the Old Man a Scottle from Aberdeen awa focile bands took up the beastly grub in their On the fourth day out the panaikios, and asked him to look at it as the

mortified refuse of the slaughter house, but be

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are examined on the 23rd of June, at 9 jú dalli "to be left in the“ Godowna, where they will be,

"All Claims must reach us before the 17th of June, 198, or they will not be recognized.

No Fire Insurance will be effected;

... Bitis of Lading Will be countersigned by the

Undersigned:

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,

MELCHERS & Co.

Agents

ringkong, 16th-jure, 1908. ";

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamer

FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, MALTA, "SOCOTRA,"

FORT SAID, SUEZ AND STRAITS. V

Consignees of Cargo by the above-named

essel are hereby informed that their Goods

Intimations.

THE ROBINSON

PIANO Co., Ltd.

SPECIALISTS IN

High

Class

Pianos

BY THE

Leading

Makers

OF THE

WORLD.

are being landed and placed of their risk in the

mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon a Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by STEINWAY,

Optional Goods will ba landed here unless. instructions are given to the contrary before 6 hours..

H.E. Tich Liang, president of the Ministry month for debentures of every description of War, considers it too long a period and is realized nearly all these debentures at a pro. miünt, of which the average is över one per desirous of a speedier scheme.

3-The new 'company, owing to its enor cent. To return five sels a share on 3,674 mous expenses of management, etc., (parti. Cursed us up hill and down dalo. for the laziest Contrary to all expectations, most of the shares which were issued will require Tis

culars of which were set forth very clearly iocu, declaring the food was according to the Grand Councillors are of opinion that it 18,370, so that as we hope to put through all our article of 23rd May) could only pay in the Board of Trade regulations, and winding, up will be time enough if the naval programme these legal formalities with the assistance of most Roarining, years of its existence, a divid. / with "You'liyet your.wback and you'll get nae Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown our friend Mr. Plait at a very reasonable end of 15% per annum. The old company, if it sea dog, asked if we had brought our foolmien mair, The boatswain, a monkey faced old figure (hear, hear), we shall have quite enough had been retained by the Chiness by raising s The War Minister is reported as. being money to pay back there.Tis. 5 of capital and loag instead of selling to the foreigner, coula/ aboud, and why we had left behind our French the Goods are landed. A

chef. So getting no satisfaction more than thoroughly disappointed at this consensus of still have a small credit balance to the Road

scalding the cook's face in throwing the muck I really think, gentleman, that in the interesta opinion,

of shareholders it is the very best thing we con

at him, we all swore to desert the first oppor .dot. It is no use keeping a lot of money in debentures which half of the shareholders do

When we arrived at Aden, Nod Penter brought out a copy of the Merchant Shipping not benefit by at present, and, as I have said

Act and with his thumb on the rule we went, before it at any time there should be a prospect of Weihaiwei being devoloped in any way we

aft demanding to see the shipping master. bave still a large amount of uncalled capital

CHINESE SUBJECTS.

FOREIGN NATURALISATION

DISCOURAGED.

By courtesy of the *Shawng Po."],

Peking, 16th June,

which may be available for this · purpote. With these law remarks i bag to propose the following resolution:-

"That the capital of the Company be re It is proposed by the Waiwypu to prohibit

duced from Tls, 250,000, divided into 10,000 Chinese citizens from naturalising them-bares of Tis. 25 each, to Tis. 20,000, divided. selves as subjects of other Powers.

into 100,000 shares of Tis. ao each, and that such This prohibition is intended with a view, reduction be effected by returning to the holders of discouraging litigation.

FRANCE AND CHINA.

THE YUNNAN TROUBLE...

[By courtesy of the "Sheung Po."]

Peking, 16th June, On the plea of protecting its own territory, France his despatched troops to the Yunnan frontier.

The Imperial Government has wired the Chinese Minister to Paris to ascertain the French Government's intentions in the

matter.

[Reuter's

Obituary.

LONDON, 15th Junc... The death of the Earl of Derby is" an nounced.

of the 3874 shares that have been issued paid up capital to the extent of Tla 5 per share and by reducing the nominal amount of all the

shares from Th. a; to Tls. 20 each.

Mr. E. J. Hogg seconded, and on being put to the meeting the resolution was carried uni animously.

at the present time, have been paying 40 to 50%.

4-It was obvious that the company had

taken'a form that was never intended by

Chaog Yen Mow when he entrusted full power to the agent of the promoters of the new com. pany in expectation of honourable treatment and an honest compliance with the 'conditions

agreed upon.

With these facts before us, we vagture to predict that the appointment of representatives approved of all parties, entrusted to try and bring about a settlement, although done with deadlock', unless these representatives are the very best intentions, cân only result in a prepared to agree on the main questing, which, in our opinion, is the only hadourable settle ment that can be arrived at, visi-

tunity.

་

"I never board of such a thing bafors," said ship with English hooligans instead of honest the chief mate, "that's the worst of manning a Dutchmen.or well behaved Chinese," but the Skipper knew better than refuse, though he sworn all round and abused us and our families.| back, to the first genaration as a' scab eaten dirty lot with a sea lawyer at our head, and we maiched ashore next day. A mild looking Hindoo gentician spoke quite nicely to us, saying animal food should be used sparingly and dhall, rice, ghee and such like was more

suitable in warm weather, and then we were

old to return to the ship and an official would be sent to examine into our complaints, “

That they insist upon the terms of the memorandum being genuinely put into force and that adequate compensation be given.

We consider it our duty as Chinese Jo the interests of our country so do our best to sepp

In the afternoon a stout European comes this meiter clearly before the notice of our aboard, and was met by the Old Man nearly readers and we trust our endeavours will foshaking his hand off at the elbow just for all the have been in vain."

The Chairman then said that the necessary steps would be taken to carry out the resolution,

world as if he wore a long lost brother, and but before that could be done they must call a If the mining company will not comedowe they goes to the cabin. Then we hears confirmatory meeting in about thirty days more terms on the main question, then, we feel sure,

This, the Chairman said, concluded the busi-bat British prestige in China will suffer, but the steward called' and a popping of corks. dess of the meeting and he thanked thosa we have every confidence that the British Gov. After, a little he comes up and as we were all present, for their attendance.

erament when thoroughly acquainted with the standing in order tells us that from all he can facts will not tolerate such a very palpable in hear the food is of excellent quality and tasted justice, but will insist upon ad honourable set. quite nice." "Oh it did, did it 7o cries out Ned Pøbler, "Well here's some more of it for you tiemsat-Chinese Public Opinion,

THE AMOR RAILWAY,

Goods not cleared by the 23rd instant, al 4 will be subject to rent.

* No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in

any case whatever.

Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowni for examination by the Consignee's and the Company's representative at appointed hour."

days of the steamer's arrival hare after which All Chaims must be presented within ten date they cannot be recognised.

*No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns.

Fr J. ABBOTT, Acting Superintendent. «Hangkang, 16th June, 1008,

TO LET.

17

HOUSES is AUSTIN AVENUE, Kowloon.

E A...at $50 plus taxer par montḥ,

Immediate possession.

Apply to-

A. RAYMOND,

C/o S. J. David & Co

· Hongkong, 17th June, 1908,

WATER RETURN, -

[601

Level and storage of water in reservoirs on the 1st June..

CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS. LEVEL

1907. 142) below?

1908.

to try," and be holds out a piece of newspaper Tylam. overflow. 53′ re" below

...*

Overflow

overflow

a" 71" below overflow

BECHSTEIN

BRINSMEAD,

WERNER,

and other makes of repute.

ALL PIANOS SPECIALLY CON-

·STRUCTED FOR TROPICAL CLIMATES AND FULLY

GUARANTEED.

Special Prices for Cash

OR

EASY PAYMENTS,

INSPECTION INVITED.

Hongkong, 4th Juna, 1908.

KOWLOON

HOTEL.

36 below 213 below OH! VERY BAD.

Overflow

Wong-nai-24" below

chung... overflow

overflow

22* B' below overflow."

STORAGE GALLONS

1907: 074,975,000 5,012,000

1908. 75,200,000 .695,000

58,420,000 27.553,000

181,399,000 22,200,000 8,09⚫,000

· General Subbolisch, who is a great opponent of the Amur Railway, has this to say about it -

TRADE IN BANGKOK.

under the gent's noso into, which the scraps The Government intends to complete this

over froin its dipost had been gathered. Tylam Bye!" below)_14_11_below"

WARD.. overflow It-is-by-no-means um unusual thing in Bang The smell was terrific, and the stout party fell _railway-of-1pjo-farefs-in-1912, that is, in four

Tytam In years (which, owing to the climate will only kok, an elsewhere, to hear complaints from back against the rail and began to cat over the

termediate yield sixteen working months), but to do so they business men as to slackness of trade, but ap side, then he makes a bolt down the ladder into

Pokfulum will have to employ from fifty to one hundred parently the complaints have never been ap his boat, getting stobbered over with the con men per verst, and as the local population isparently so well bared as they are at present, tents of the paper thrown after him by Ned. only 9.4 person per rat, and it would be expecially in the matter of imparts, says the The Skipper swore we had disgraced his ship Slam Observer. At any rate "absolutely no Impracticable to send nut from Europran business" is the general cry of the principal officer for which there were all sorts of dreadful and committed an assault on a Government The German Navy League, „Russia Fuch an army of workmen no would be At the annual meeting of the German required, the only thing the Government can do impon merchants, while for the most part the penalias, but we hears no more about it and Tylam Navy League, held at Dantzig, it was resolv. is to import an army of 220,000 Chinese labour. exponers have it that despite a certain amount things were better for some days, a lot Tytam Byewash... ed to oppose the participation in party poliers from Chelon, with the prospect of having to of business being carried on matters have to of stuff Leing chucked over the side. But Tytım istermediate

be run so fins as to reduce profits .10 a there were other bits of unpleasantness such Pokfulam keep a considerable part of this army pormá. tics of the elected new executive; but the gently, since the line will need to be repaired, vanishing polet. Many reasons are given for as the mate's babit of calling out the proceedings were carefully arranged to heal the snow will have to be cleared away, etc. In the existing condition of affairs, each of which watch at odd times, and all hands on deck the split following on the late executive's op other words the enemy whom Russian"patriots" probably is more or less correct, but it would when there were at no necessity, and to 1 position to the centre candidates' elections dread is to be pal in possession of this trite appear that the main one is the reflex of the made up my mind to balt first opportunity.

The Governor of the provinces conveyed gic" line, which is directed against them. Of practical stagnation in trade which so affected the wish of the Government that the league the RI, 3000,000 which the Duma will vote, Hongkong and Singapore at the beginning should not be dissolved, but consolidated on these Chinese will receive at least half of the year and which has not yet been that Chinese will noi, only have come, into entirely got over. bere are additional local g party lines.

causes for the present commercial stringency, peaceful possession of a good slice of our territory, but will have received a large *indemnity into the bargain,"

dis Imperial Majesty the Kaiser in a tele gram-said that the League in serving the Fatherland, was seeking to secure to the navy that which would ensure peace.

Prince fenry telegraphed later renewing. his patronship, and thanking the League for

brilliant and patriotic day's work.

„Later.........

Morocco. Mulai Hafid's adherents have captured the Algerian army instructore at Alcazar and sent them to Fez where they have been placed in irons.

We all expected aspell on shore at Singapore, which is one of the best places in the world to do a long snoore and sponge in, though i hear It's not nearly so grad as it used to be. Here you cap feed with a Chow on less than two-

Wong-naj-chong

Total ... 365 950,000 287,566,000. Consumption of water in the City and Bil District during the mouth of May,

***1907.

1908. Consumption ...133,288,000 143,580,000 gallons Estimated)

735,700 206,760 population Consumption)

day...........

per head per: 168). 12.4 gallons one of which is no doubt the uncertainly pence a day and have a real live lubricant for which existed as, to the continuity of the a penny Then the roads round the hotels are -fixity of exchange, which has now been, got 'a' gold mine, not to say anything of afternoon Intermittent supply by Rider maios up till

over, while the other, is not unusual at this time | trips to see the ladies_at_Taoplin,-where-a--the-17th-May, and constant-supply-in-all- -of-year just before the Budget Report makes starving wife and family at home is always a districts to the end of the month 1907,

its appearance. At this period of the year good chow.

JAPANESH CASTAWAYS AT -YOKOHAMAT:

there it a general tendency, not only of Govern However the orders were “no leave nabore, RESCUED BY A Brazilian TRAINING SHIP.

_ment Departments.but of many others, whose" and we discharged in the roads, from which The Br;zilian training ship Benjamin Con- business to no small extent is contingent upon we bunguity eyed the town blazing with lights stent, which arrived at Yokohama from Hono- the demands of the Departments for the com- and bought of all the goody goodies behind it.” lots on the 3rd instant, brought twenty Japan- ing twelve months, to keep as close as possible. We had about finished discharging when we ele castaways. These Japanese are the mem in the matter of expenditura beyond that abso-beard that the ship was bound for Rangoon to bers of the crew of the flokys Maru, a schooner lutely necessary. This, not unnaturally, makes load rice for Naples, no welcome news as of a tous, owned by Kawasaki Heisaburo, of itself felt in all surrounding directions until the there the beaks have a down on, sallermes, 10 Shizu ka prefecture. The schooner left Shi- extreme outskirts are reached. Trade gene" | many having son up country and became the zuoka in" January last for the purpose of taking rally languishes bere somewhat in May, husbinds of Burmese ladies, having' a_foal birds on a Pacific Island named Carpeny (?). June and July and picks up again during good time. They landed on the island with ag bags of rice, the period lasting from August until the and remained there until February 24th Jest next Chinese New Year, when its corrent Than they removed to Wake Island, and the again becomes sloggish. The good rice schooner telt for home promising to come back crops of this year over more than two in a month. Nothing was heard of the schooner thirds of the rice-growing districts of the from that date, sed the castaways had to face kingdom have, of course, done much towards The Russian steamers Amur and Dnieper, the prospect of death from starvation. For preventing the stagnation from ayer arriving belonging to the Far East Steamship Company, tunately, however, the men sighted a warship at a critical stage and it must be remembered are stiil detained at Nagasaki, where they were passing the island, and signalled for assistance that the prosperity evoked by a good rice-season attached three months ago by the Hisakata The vessel the Brnjamin Constant-responded does not make itself generally felt, except Colllery Company, of Nagasaki, on a claim to the appeal and brought them safely back to to the original cultivators, till many months against coal supplied amonoting to about | Japan...

after. It may be safely assumed therefore that According to a Nagasaki dispatch,

there is nothing to be particularly anxious

commercial stric about la the present

The Amur Railway. The Amur Railway Bill as adopted by the Duma hatabeen passed by the Russian Up. per House by a large majority. BUSSIAN STEAMERS DETAINED

AT-NAGASAKI.

having stopped, the captains BOTH Mr. Juin and M. Korestover, the new mers have no means to purchase Japanese and Russian Ministers to Ch ́as, which is due to natural aconomic, causer

and have appealed to may be expected in Peking about the end of | feature of Tokyo for sasistance, the present mont As both: Ministers are. | failures

the pticameray at smittance should be

pedanced in

ountry, their ointments. "elcomed by the forgi Alpese commuajitsi ja Naish Chist:

that thara kaY

Fortunately I sighted a sampan tied astern with a Chinese asleep in it, and getting my bundle together, I slid down the rope. One of the stokes saw ms and in a trice also got on board. Seizing the ours we made for land, kicking at the Chow who began to holler out, It was some time before we saw a boat put off. from the ship in purssity our mates haying oo great desire to hurry, as

Well, we reached the point, and struck in lind, biding in a cocoanut plantation all night, and when I woke up I found the dirty swab of made off with my clothes, which fot; a knowing I would get go sited Fyhad been a good cuSIOMAR.

dist for a day. that unless

Constant supply to all districts during May 1908 am

The retam of consumption is subject to error owing to the difficulty of accurate mer surement whilst the extension works at Albany Filter Beds are in progress,

KOWLOON WATER WORKS,

LEVEL.N

1907.

Kowloon Gravita- {

tion Reservoir.

STORAGE GALLONS,

1907,

av 3 below

4 1908, overfow

1908, Kowloon Gravita

116,500,000 gallons tion Reservoir..)

Consumption of water in Kowloon during the month of May:

1908. Consumption...18,681,000 210,000 gallons

88,436 82,900 Etimated population Consumpt

1907.

74

7 per head pa

5.6 gallons

The Goremment Analyst reports that the water is of excellent quality,

WACHA

OH!! VERY BAD.

BUT.

Remember the Phrase

TRY IT AGAIN,

TRY

IT

AGAIN.

Now entirely under NEW MANAGEMENT.

"WE NEVER SLEEP

PRIVATE BAR

and a

PUBLIO BILLIARD ROOM

will be opened

shortly

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