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THE APPROPRIATION BILL.

HONGKONG'R EXPENDITURE IN 1910. The text of the Appropriation Bill, which was read a first time at the meeting of the La gislative Council ibis afterecon, is as followston Whereas the expenditure required for the service of this Colony for the year 1910 bar, apart from the contribution to the Imperial Government to aid of military expenditure, been estimated at the sum of five million six hundred and twenty-five thousand six hundred and eighty-three dollars:

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong with the advice and cosmot of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1.

This Ordinance may be cited as the "Appropriation Ordinance for 19to",

2. A sum not exceeding five milling six hus. dred and twenty-five thousand six hundred and eighty-three dollars shall be and the same is hereby charged upon the revenus and other funds of the Colony for the service of the year 1910 and the said .sum so charged' may be ex. pended as heroinafter specified, that is to say

EXPENDITURE...

Governor.......

Colonial Secretary's Department and.

Legislature ...................

Registrar General's Departmest

Audit Department"...

Treasury

Harbour Master's Department.....

Observatory a výdrai Miscellaneous Services ....... Judicial and Legal Departments...... Police and Prison Departments...... Medical Departments...... Saultaty. Departments an Botanical and Foresity Department' Education.....ugeisersne

Military Expenditure-Volunteer!... Public Work-Public Works DC-

partment...

Public Works, Recurreat................. Public Works, Extraordinary Special Land Resumption

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY OCTOBER 7 10909

SUNDAY WORK AT SEA.

SHIPOWNERS OBJECT TO EXTRA' PAV.

UNDESIRABLE'INTERFERENCE.

To-day's Abvertisement.

NAVIGAZIONE GENERALE ITALIANA (Florio and Rubaitino United Companies),

Entimations.

CHEESE

currespondence which has passed between the STEAM FOR BOMBAY VIA SINGAPORE CHOICE CANADIAN.

A White Paper has been issued containing Board of Trade and representative shipowaon associations on the subject of Sunday labour on British merchant ships.

In January last the Board of Trade sont cal a letter addressed,severally to the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom, the Shipping Federation, and the Liverpool Steamıkip Owners' Association setting forth that the Board had had under consideration Adebate which took place in the House of Lords with regard to, the desirability of restricting, as far as possible, Sunday labour on board British ships when lying in port, whether at home or abroad. The Bourd siated that they were aware that the varying conditions under which British mer. chant ships carried on their business in different parts of the world made it difficult, not impracticable, to lay down hard and fast rules as to what work the crew might properly be required in perform on a Sunday, but they felt sure that they might rely on the co 68,542 operation of shipaneers in restricting such 45:585 work within the narrowest possible limits. They was of opinion that any reason- 28,305 59.597 able ground for dissatisfaction might to a considerable extent be removed if the officers and crew of a vessel received extra 144,307 remuneration in cases where work on Sunday 233,677 in part was found to be essential. The pay

84,878

239.931

11,019

AND PENANG.

Having connection with Company's Mail|

Steamers to PORT SAID, MESSINA, NAPLES, LEGHORN apd «GENOA, alio VENICE and TRIESTE,, ali, MEDITER. RANEAN, ADRIATIC, LEVANTINE and SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS up to CALLAO. Taking Cargo at through Rates to PERSIAN

and

GULY and BAGDAD, also BARCELONA,. VALENZA, ALICANTE, ALMERÍA MALAGA)

HE Steamship:

THES

"ISCHIA.

Captala Belsito, will be despatched as above- on TUESDAY, the Fath inst., at Noon.

For further Particulars regarding Freight and Passage, apply to

CARLOWITZ & Co.,

Agents.

"Hongkong, 7th October, 1909.

Intimations.

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NOTICE.

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Entimations.

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739,157 ment of extra remuneration in the ciscum. You will NEVER if you lange are requested to write care of Favoritos A Lopez, Favoritos A Correa, Perfectos Especiales, Exquisitos,

236,546 stances named was to a large extent the 358,018 practice at the present time: The inquiry.wes 50,495 made whether the Chamber of Shipping of the 237,459 United Kingdom, the Shipping Federation, 42,135 and the Liverpool Steamship Owners' Associa

tion saw any objection to the 'insertion of a 334,582 stipulation in the printed form of agreement 427,550 providing that the officers and crew should 940,810 receive extra pay at a stated rate per bour when called upon to perform work in port on 374,805 444,313 Sunday.

Post Office,

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Pensions

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CHAMBER OF SHIPPIXO'S REPLY,

176,206 In the reply received from the Chamber of 237,940 Shipping, the secretary, Mr. W. H. Cooke, 19456 stated that the Executive Council saw `great objection to the proposal that the officers and

·$5,629,683

crew should receive pay at a stated rate per hour, whenever they were called upon to perform work in port on Sundays. The prac tical expericace of the Council led them to believe that officers and crew were, as a rule, so desirous of receiving extra pay, that if such a bard-and-fast clause as that suggested were to be pot late ships articles, the work of the ship would be planned by the officetions to render it necessary that -

AN OPIUM TRANSACTION.

ALLEGED BREACH OF CONTRACT.

10.

Before Mr. Justice Gompertz (Puisbe Judge) in the Summary Court this morning the case was resumed in which the Po Shua Lung fitm,

of 109, Willington Street, are bringing an ac tion against Fa Chun Kai, trading under the firm Dame of Tsun Shing, to recover the sum of $300 for breach of a contract dated the 18.b "May, 1989,"whereby the defendant undertook-

to accept and pay for five cases of opium.

From the statement of, claim, it appears that the plaintiffs suffered damage by the breach of a contract dated 18th May, 1909; and made between the plaintiffs and the defendant, bearing the chop of Taus Shing firm, whereby the defendant undertook to accept and pay for Eva cates of New Paine, containing forty balls In each case at a price of $25.30 per ball, de- livery to be taken in full within two months from the date of the contract. The defendant did not take delivery of or pay for any of the casa, either before or after the period of twa montbs,..

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work should be performed on board ships (EYLON PRECIOUS in part on Sunday. If this should prove in practice to be the case the effect would, of course, be exactly the reverse of that which the Board of Trade, the Sabbatarinar, and the Weekly Rest-day advocates desired to secure. It was at present optional for the master of a vessel to decide whether Sunday work in port on board his ship was, under the special cir cumstances of the particular case, absolutely necessary, and if so then to arrange by special agreement with bis men the rate of remunera. tion which they should receive for the neces- sary overlime work on any particular Sunday, and the Council did not think that the existing arrangements on this matter should be inter- fered with in the way suggested by the Board of Trade.

·

MOST UNDESIRABLE.'

The Shipping Federation stated that they It was contended on behalf of the defendant that he admitted having entered into a contract had made exhaustive inquiry it every shipping district of the United Kingdom, both with re- with the plaintiffs, but on the 4th June, 1909, an agreement was entered into between the plain-gard to the employment of officers and crew on- tifs and the defendant to the affect that all out- standing accounts and claims between then should be settled by the payment to the de- fandan! by the plaintiffs of a sum of 563.67, which was duly paid and accepted to discharge of the alleged cause of action." The case was adjourned.

TYPHOON WARNING.

The telegram quoted below was received at the American Consulate General from the Manila Observatory'at 12 (noon) to-day.

October 7th, at 11 am. Cyclons or typhoon over N, China Sea moring S.W.

TAOTAI Tong Kai-son, who arrived at Shang- hai on Saturday morning on board the Hisinming from the north, is in charge cla batch of 5 students who ate proceeding to American on the... China to be educated

Sunday and the views of ship-owners upon the proposal. The results of the equity showed that work on board ship while in port on Sun- day was not only cot encouraged by ship- owners, but was habitually restricted as far as possible. The exigencies of the shipping busi ness were such as to require the crew to be connaptly at the disposal of the master, though not necessarily at work, and any differentiation in the days of duty applicable to seamen would lead to considerable friction and dis- organisation of work on board ship, and so gravely interfere with the efficient dealing-

The business of with the properly at stake. the British shipowner was carried on in active competition with foreign flags, under which wages, food, and other working expenses were substantially less costly than in British vessels. The shipping trade of the country was conse- gently. not in a.condition to support any additional burdens which would have the effect of increasing the severity of this competition. The Executive were of opinion that it was most undesirable that there should be any inter-

at American colleges. No better guardianference with the freedom of contract betwCOD for these young men could have been cho- son than Taotai Tong, who, baving had the advantage of an American education him- sell, is an accomplished "acholer-and-scientist- and cannot fail to direct the footsteps of bis "Charges, witely, sympathetically and auspicious.. ly, along thora paths which he himself bas trodden with so mach distinction,

shipowners and their employees on the subject of ibn rate of wages to be paid, and they would not in these circumstances, advise shipowners to sisect to the losertion by the Board of Trade in articlesôf agreement of any stipulation providing for extra payment for Sunday labour.

The Liverpool Steamship Owners' Altocia. tion stated that they were in full sympathy with the views expressed by the Board. It was at the present time the practice of the members of that Association to allow extra remuneration in all cases in which cargo bad to be worked on Sunday in port, but the Association réptured

to think that the insertion in the articles of

work performed.

Vzxy great regief will be fell by many friends at the sad now of the death of Captain A. E, Flagg of the 1.-05. Kut-o. Captain Flogg was seized with cholera at Anking, and at 19,0 p.m. on Saturday, 2nd însı., when the wi-s0 had reached Wohu be passed away. The reclaurds providing for such extra pay would lead mains were burled at Wake on the following directly to an increase in the amount of Sunday morning. Captais Flagg, who was an Ameri- can citizen, was one of the best known and, it may well be said, one of the most popular This evening at the lecture Hall adjoining of the captains on the Yangize. He first en Union Church, Kannady Road, the opening tered the Indo-Chlon service in 1887 as master meating' of the, Union Church Literary Club of the Aung-op, and at a later period commanded will be held when Mr. 6. T. Dunn, B., F.L..5 the Fuen-sso, in the days before the Auf-we was | is to give a lecture entitled “To the Far East. launched. The deepest sympathy will be felt, by the Siberian Railway," The lecture which for Mrs. Flagg, who is, but recently returned" ir epan' to the public is to be fully illaurated by from a mummer holiday at Chefoo, and for her lantern views, and a good attendance is expect- two daughters, Min, Thomas and Mrs. 8. H. | sẻ. The chair will be taken by the president, .

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Hongkong, rst August, 1909.

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