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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1912.
DAY BY DAY.
The greatest troubles in life ariso from the anticipation of inis- fortunes which never come.
Admiral Winslow In Peking. Admiral Winslee and British Naval officers visited the Wintor Palace at Peking on the 7th inst.
An Oplum Vendor.
THE NEW COMPANIES
* ORDINANce.
Interesting Correspondence,
between Government and Chamber of Commerce,
[
The following are copies of some interesting better which have passed between the Chambor of Commerce and the Govern At the Police Court this morn- ing a Chinese, was fined $20 forment anont the Now Companies solling opium without permission. Ordinanca : —
$300 Fine.
28th May. At the Police Court this morn-
Sir, I have to acknowledge ing a man was fined $500 for your letter of May 10 (No. 0342) being in unlawful possession of a11) dealing with the question of large quantity of opium.
the Now Companies Ordinance and the points raised thereon by my, Committee.
Discharged
A man who appeared before Mr. Irving at the Police Court to-day on a charge of snatching gold ear-ing, was discharged through lack of convicting ovid-
елсе.
Passengers Left·
I nm, Sir,
Your obedient sorvant,
(Sd) E. A. M. Williamsto
Secretary:
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Colonial Secretary's Offico, Hongkong, 10th May, 1912.
follows:-.
counts.
COMMENTS.
England's TeamT,
As regards the concluding para- It would then be possible in the NOTES AND graph of your letter, my Committee ovent of a winding-up to trace are heartily in agreement with the the receipts and expenditure on principle recognized and would [Capital Account and to form some vory much like to be informed an estimate of the trading result. to the method by which the to- In this connection, the enclosed England'a tonu against Austral- gistrar will prove the competency copy of a roport addressed by Mr. is, in the first test match botwcon of the Chinese Auditor, but, oven J. Hennessey Seth, Liquidator of tho pair next Monday, seems to granted compotoney, they cannot the Kwong Ou Cotton and Yarn be quite good enough to give the see that any more reliability can Co., Ltd. to the Chief Justice men from down under all the be placed upon the approved Chi- shows the urgent necessity for trouble they are likely to want. neso Auditor than the Govern- legislation of the naturo Bot forth One man still romains to be. the Chinese clerk with a know- 1 (b). The Committee did not been invited should form a fine ment is disposed to place upon in the preceding paragraph, chosen, but tho ten who have lodge of English,
suggest that the Auditor of a batting and bowling combination. My Committee trust that the Chinese Company should neces- By the time the Australians have whole matter will again receivo sarily be a European. They can-seon the last of Fry, Spooner, verument. tho enreful reconsideration of Go-not, however, agree with your Warner, F. R. Fostor, Hobbs, statenient that there are many holes and Woolley, they should Chinose of indepondent stand-be tired of leather-chasing; and ing who are competent Barnes, Foster, Woolley and Dean audit Chinese Accounts should trouble them while they As the European Aulitors are are at the wickets, Probably the compotent to audit English ac-man to be chosen will ben bowlor. Doubtless the Chinese There is still room for anothor My Committee regret very much the attitude adopted by the Gov-
Sir, Your letter of 12th March ledge of his accounting system, A New Bishop.
bookkeeper possessos equal know-who can take winkets, orament in this matter, as they tion of the Clovernment and I am pass, the Accounts of a Joint that the Ven. Winfrid Oldfield has rocoived the careful considera-but, the only person qualified to
It is reported in Home papere cannot help feeling that tho ob- directed to reply thereto as Stock Company and to make a Burrows, Arelleacon of Birming joction put forward by the repre-
really intelligent examination of ham, has been appointed to the Rev. II 0. Spink and Miss seutatives of the Chinese Com- 1 (a), Your Committee's the Company's books is an Audi- Bishopric of Truro in succession The rates of Subscription to the “Hongkong Telegraphi" will Korea. Dr. Sun Yat-sen and his altogether fallacious.
Spink left to-day by the 8.s.munity to the principle is the number of books to be kept by practical experienco. I may The new Bishop has boon Arch suggestions for the reduction in tor who has beentno compotent to the late Dr. C. W. Stubbs. be as follows:
Daily issue-$30 per annum.
wife wont north by the same
in English does not affect the point out that an export book loncos of Birmingham since As before pointed out, the Ge-objection of the representatives kooper does not necessarily pos- 1001, immediately prior to which Weekly issue-$13 per annum,
boat.
vernment has in the principal of the Chinese Community which seas the qualifications required he was Vicar of Holy Trinity, Will the Minotaur be Relieved? commercial countries of Europe, is to the principle. The English by an Auditor for the adequate Leeds; while before that ag tin ho The "N. China Daily News" the necessary precelent for the speaking clork on a few dollars a protection of Shareholders and was, for nine years, Principal of observes that it seems to be un- very logical point of view that month could not bind the directors the public. Tho public account the Leeds Clergy School A Lon- certain when the Minotaur will be the books of a Company should to relieved as flagship, and in all be kept in the language of the Directors' responsibility for their Chinose and is, indeed, vory much Rev. W. H. Burrows, afterwards his books. Failing the ing profession is unknown to the douer by birth, he is a son of the probability she will remain flag-country under whose laws the ship through another commission concern is incorporated. The valueless; and the Chinese of "saving face." It will there uated at Eton and Oxford, and books would against their recognised custom Canon of Rochester: Ho was edu- in its entirety.
views of the, foreign company books would have to be referred foro be very desirable that the while at the University he was a Cruelty to Ducks.
are not allowed to affect the to in any difficulty. Extra work Registrar should satisfy himself prominent curaman. Fifty-three situation. A Chinese was fined $5 or, in
and expense would thus be in that the composent Chineso to ears of age; he is called to the default, sovon days, at the Polica!
Tho contention that the curred without any compensating whom you refer can justify their Episcopal obair in the prime of Court this morning, for cruelty to English hooks of accounts could advantage.
life. In 1890 he married the |Police carrying them with their does not appeal to theintelligence by legislation that all auditors of of Commorca. would point out Death removed his wife. The now ducks. Ho was observed by the not bind the Chineso directors (b). It is intended to provide The Committee of the Chamber eldest daughter of the Right Hou. J. G. Talbot, but a year lator of my Committee.
Chines Companies (and in fact that in Chinese Companies are not of all Companies) must be ap Eniope and elsewhere the Jaws Bishop is related by marriage to forced to register under the Or-proved by the Registrar of Coin- oblige foreign firms trading there Bishop. Talbot of Southwark, dinance in question, but my Companies who would satisfy himself to keep their books in Directors of each Chinese concern whether they wore of European corned. mittee believe that among the of the competency of auditora language of the country con-
the while his decoused wife's youngest sister is Viscountess Dunluce.. which has become so far anglicor of Chinese nationality.
An Indifferent Translation. iso ne to desire incorporation undor British Laws, there will be found at least one with sullicien! English to read and understand ordinary books of Account, and At the Police Court this morn-if.it be otherwise it should be tho ing Mr. Melbourne in giving business of the individual Com- vice to a coolie who seemed apany to secure the services of stranger to water said:"An such a director if registration old gentleman like yourself should under the Ordinance be consider- set a good example." The charge ed necessary for the protection of was obstruction, and he was disits Members. missed with a caution.
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The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1912,
THE MOTOR CAR REGULATIONS.
honda down.
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Plague Return. The total number of cases of week was 128 and the total plague in the colony reported last deaths 101. Of the cases report. ed, 83 were in the city of Victoria and 43 in other districts. All the cases were Chinese.
"An Old Gentleman "
And Nothing" but the Truth. "If it is not true I am pre-
accuracy,
the
selection.
several countries ini
If this is considered necessary R. Saillens, has done in to French A French clergyman, Pastor I am, Sir,
in Europe, how much more 60 Mrs. Adams' hymn, Nearer my Your obedient servant, should this bo insisted upon in God, to Theo."
S. C. Clementi, British Colony when dealing with three of the verses, the second be.. We give below Colonial Secretary.firms who keep their own accounting the most successful
in a language such as Chinero.
The Chairman. of Commerce.
Hongkong General Chamber Hongkong, 12th March, 1912.
The Committeo very strongly hold the opinion therefore thit the minimum which should be dated 21st instant of His Excel- Colony and aro wishing to tako Sir-The Committee have pe-accepted whore Chinese Com- rasad, with interest, the reply panics are registering in the It would appear to my Com-loney the Governor to the sug-advantage of the Act should be mittee that for the sake of a posamondmost of the New Com-Book at least should be kept in gestions made by them for the that the Statutory Books and Cashi aible fow isolated cases where the
comment thereon as follows:-
1 (a). The Committee exceod-
I am, Sir, Your obedient sorvani, (Sd) E. A. Hewett,
Chairman.
The Honourable,
The Colonial Secretary.
pared to pay the penalty of language difficulty may exist. panics Ordinance, and beg to English. doath." Thus did a man affirm Government is prepared to nullify the truthfulness of his plea of not the effect of an excellent ordinanc No great surprise need be occasioned by the decision given by guilty when charged with break-which is admitted by professional ingly regret that His Excellency Mr. Irving in the motor car test case at the Police Court yesterday, ing and entering a house, at the opinion at home to be superior is not preparcel to entertain their Police Court this morning several points to the Imperial all companies registered under suggestion that the books of Act.
This attitudo my Committee
the Hongkong Ordinance should vory much deplore.
be kept in English. They may not be fully aware of the
It is possible that Government havo no desire to suggest (The remainder of the corres. manner in which Chinese Com-requiring the Chinese companies row's issue of the "Hongkong To- arbitrary a Inw as onepondence will appear in to-mor- panies conduct their business to change their system of accounts, legraph") To take one point alone, the but consider it in the best payment of dividend out of interests of commerce that the
We do not see, indeed, that he could have arrived at any other find-The caso was remanded. ing. From tho point of view of a police magistrate the matter was one which offered easy decision. Certain regulations had been
Library Return, passed into law, and he had only to find whether, in fact, the lawvisitors to the City Hall Library The following is the returnof had been broken and to inflict a penalty or dismiss the case, accord-and Museum for the week ending ing to his finding. As to the bronch of the law there was not any Jane 10 :--- doubt; it was never disputed, and the matter for him became one of
Library. Museum. no difficulty. The larger question of whether the Government-in-Chinese......... 164
Non-Chinese.. 485 134 Council exceeded its powere in passing these regulations and in
3,377 making them opérative, as it has done, was not for him to decide.
Total...049 3,81 1 The question of the validity of the regulations may, therefore, be left to be fought out elsewhere. What we are concerned about
The Commander of the at the moment is their reasonableness, or want of it. We confess
"Minotaur." Captain Caploy, who has been
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to seeing little ground, for instanco, in the closing of Jubiles Road reappointed to the command of punishment in the case of private/panies Ordinance
Jubilee Road?--Yes.
Does it contain bad corners?-Yes.
Just as bad as the Old Jubilee Road?--You.
Is there a bridge that necessitates a double turn?—Yes.
And is very narrow?—Yes.
seldom
ara
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Plus nut, plus haut! c'est
le cri de ma foi:
S'il faut courbor la tete sons.
la glaive,
Je veux encor que mon ame
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Plus proa de toi, mon Dieu,
plus prea de toi! Lorsque la nuit as fait autour
de moi,
Quand j'orre soul dans lo
desort immense, Que de mon amo cacor co
cri s'elance:
Plus pros de toi, mon Diou,
plus pres de toll
Quad to viendras, colosto Roi,
7
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Mo recueillir dans ta pure
lumicro,
Que jo redise a man beure
derniere:
Plus
pres de toi, mon Dieu, '
plus pres de toi!
which
Capital is freely indulged in. books should be kept in English In the opinion of my Comnitor duplicates kept in that langu-
This is yet another instanco of tee the Ordinance will defeat its ge. Doubtless the suggestion is
the difficulties to be encounton- owo object for it will be freely opposed by the representatives of
ed in translating verse from Eng- used as a cloak for malpractices the Chinese Community for, as Trouble over a Promissory Note. Surely it is almost better in leave lish into Freneb, or vice versa, which would even bring their own things are at present, the Com- to motor care. This is a road that was give to the public by others.M.S. Minotaur, the flagship of
is almost
This morning in the Summary literally, without regard to such work alone, or else to render than the Government to be used as a public road by the public the China Squadron, is one the
firms and partnerships.
inoperative so far as regards its Court, before Mr. Justice H. H. J. generally without exception. If one class is barred from it, the survivors of the ill-fated Victoringaged the attention of my Com-and indeod can be, and is, made Singh, Indian watchman in the
Another matter which has en- control of Chinese Companies, Gompertz, Puiane Judge, Sham rhythm or metre. A pose word- road ceases to be used by the public generally without exception, which was ramined and sunk by ing with Section 27 (3) of the not to fraud.
for-word translation of the beau and an obvious unfairness is done to that glass. Admit the com- her sister battleship Camperdown Ordinance ne regards the filing of
mittes is the question of comply- the cloak to gross negligence, if employ of the Pacifio Mail Steam-
tiful imagery in: "Een though it parative unsuitability of the Colony generally for motor care-wly of Tripoli in 1893. He was the Annual Balance Sheet and shareholders
ship Co., sued Kan Singh, watch be a cross that raiseth me," mast single out Jubilee Road? We quotes portion of the evidence given cadet on the old Monarch when Profit and Loss Account.
It must be borne in mind that man in the employ of the A.B. C., at least be preferable to such a by a driver on Friday:-
distortion of metaphor as that attend Commissariat Department, to Take the Old Pokfulum load from the University where it bambardment of Alexandria, sumably for the protection of the understand their right of criticism valed 8200
that battleship took part in the
General Meetings The
as do Euro-recover $200 for the wrongful contained in the second line of joins Jubilee Road, are the gradients very much heavier than 1882 (medal and Khedive's star).public who might readily search and even if they do, their idea of
Pastor Saillen's version.. purpose of this Section was pro-poans; they do not Feem to conversion of a promissory note |
More Howlers."
There are Plaintiff appeared in person,
" 'howlers" the files aud thus ascertain the
"face pidgin
is so strong but the defendant was represented are obviously manufactured, and financial position of a
Com-that it is very doubtful by Mr. W. Crowther Smith. others with a genuine ring, The
the actions of directors ALLEGED ASSAULT ON A stand that Balance Sheets &s, are ever questioned. The Directorate had a solicitor, but he had not,
pany. My Committee under-
Plaintiff, in the box, said he intest batch reported to the "University Correspondent" con- SOLDIER..
allowed to be filed in the Chinese is thus practically an autocracy, turned up yet:
tains onsortwo good examples :- The Judge's Clerk:-We have language and there is nothing in The suggestions made by the
A Passive Verb is when the the Ordinance to prevent a Hong-Chamber of Commerce are not been informed by telephone that subject is the sufferer, e.g., I am At the Police Court, this morn-kong Company filing its Accounts only for the protection of the he is no longer instructed. |ing, a Chinese was charged with in Sanskrit or some other diff-Chinese shareholders but for the Continuing, plaintiff said that Prince William was drowned Admit, agnia, the fact that motors have been responsible for 28 Joseph Allen.
assaulting a soldier named David cult language in which case the Banks and Merolante dealing on March 20 last, his box, which in a butt of Malmsey wino; bo accidents, including four fatalities, in sixteen months-not one of
members of the public might with these Companies.
was in his quarters at 47 Cains nevor laughed again. According to the story of the have some difficulty in securing unreasonable that where fraud is promissory note, the subject of murdered by some historians;
It seems to the Committee most Road, was broken open and the these has occurred on Jubilee Road. Not one of them, again, can complainant ho was walking past the necessary translation. be charged against a privately-owned our, and it is patently unfair the Soldiers' Club when the de- to penalire the careful owner or driver of a car for faults that have fendant, who was carrying some bable we know, but surely laws vestigation by a Liquidator, the was made out in Mr. Gardiner's
That such a difficulty is impro-suspected, or in the case of in- the action, was alofen. The note his real fato in uncertain. not been, and cannot be laid at his door. Allowing, again, that "joy salt fish, bumped into him de must cover what may be as well books of the Company must be office, and when the note was riding" after midnight cannot be tolerated, is it not possible to re-liberately. He held defendant by as what is and the consistency of translated before they can be stolen plaintiff's brother went to striot that without inflicting a hardship upon inoffensive owners the wrists until a policeman came the ruling is apparent when re-subjected to an examination: Mr. Gardiner's office and asked the o in French, against whom nothing can be urged in this regard? No one can and then he gave him in charge gard is had to Section 252 (a) by The minimum of protection to the clerk whether the promissory fail to recognise the difficulty of framing regulations which shall at once restrict the careless and do justice to the careful driver. The soldier was the aggressor.
The defence was that the which a foreign Company incor-commerce and of the investing note had been taken to them. He porated outside the Colony must public which, in the opinion of was informed that Kan Singh new regulations certainly fail in this direction, and they bear no evidence whatever, nor has any been adduced, to show that an at- fendant was a respectable citizen. English language of its Charter, Book or a copy thereof and the After hearing evidence for the Inspector Fenton said the de-ale a certified translation in the thie Chamber, Government should brought it to them and was going
make obligatory is that the Cash to sue on it. tempt worth the name was made to secure this end. And 'surely Mr. Melbourne dismissed the Statutes, Memorandum and Artatatory Books would be kept defence His Lordship found for a justios all round is the end most worth securing:
in English
And is there a very steep gradient down from the bridge men-
tioned?-Yes.
Near the bridge thero?--Yos,
I take it that in your opinion Jubilee Itoad is much safer than old Pokfulum Road?-Yos.
There is no getting away from evidence of that kind,'
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ticles..
'the defendant.
loved.
Richard II. is said to live been
A bishop without a diocese is
a suffragette.
called
An armadillo is used to soften
noun
You put c'est before a when you do not know its gender. A night watchman is a man
last one is not a "howler but employed to sleep in the open air. As applied to Hongkong the statement of solid, undeniablo
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