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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TAURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1913,

THE FINEST LONDON

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DISTILLED BY

Prison Reform.

It is stated that the Govern- ment at Home is to introduce

Sir Robert Burnett & Co. punislimont of hard labour" by

OLD TOM GIN.

DRV

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UNEQUALLED IN QUALITY,

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.

BIRTH.

20

DAY BY DAY.

The Malls.

Siberian Mail-arrived per

THE LOAN QUESTION.

3.300.53 Sensation Caused By American

COMPANY REPORT,

The China-Borneo Co.,

Limited..

House and Land Property- Value as per last *statement

Since added...

The report for presentation to

2,875.CO

Withdrawal.

Peking, March 21.-A corres

0,184.53

Rssbarsholders at the tenth ordinary House and Office Furniture:- prndent of The China Presa to

Try to look for the good and a Bill dealing with prison reform, not the evil in men and life. and it is understood that its prin- aipal object will be to abolish the courte of summary jurisdiction as a soparato award. At present there is hard labour and simple imprisonment, but there is practi cally no difference in the labour. It is proposed, so we read, to have prisonera sentenced to the first, second, or third divisions, tho latter being equivalent to simple imprisonment. In view of this, it is interesting to note that the

Linan last evening. English Mail.-Expected to arrive per 8.8. Assaye at 5 p.m. to-day (delayed). Siberian. Mail. Olosea per es. Assaye at 9.8.m. to-morrow. Siberian Mail.-Dus per

India to-morrow.

latest report of the Commissioners American Mail.-Due per

of Prisons emphasises the point that if Magistrates, in every case, pronounced in publio the division

Tenyo Maru to-morrow,

6.9

The English Mall. The English Mail of March 1st! in which a prisoner abould be was delivered, in London yester- placod, and ordered it to be en-day..

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tored in writing on the commit- Cable Communication, ment, inequality of punishment Mr. J. O. Hough, soling super- would be avoided. There seems intendent of the Great Northern to be a deal of sympathy about Telegraph Co., Ltd. informs us for the criminal in these days... that cable communication be- tween Shanghai' and Nagasaki is restored.

The Water-Carriers.

We have many times felt oblig ed to complain that coolica, bearing all manner of burdens, are permitted to use the pavements in all quarters of the city, even

LARGE On March 19, 1918, at Hannon fcid, Shanghai, to Mr. and at the busiest times of the day. Mrs. F. Large, daughter.

MARRIAGE.

WHIDLEY-BONDFIELD-On March 18, 1919, at Georgo 8t. Congregational Church, Oxford, by the Rev. James Robertson M..., assisted by the Hav. Charles Redale, M.A., Stuart Napier, sccord ton of Mr. H. G, Whibley, .. and Mrs. Whibley, Cambridge, to Mary Helen, younger daughter of the Ber. G. H. and Mrs. Bondfield, Shanghai.

The object of this paper is to publish correct information, to serve the truth and print the news without fear or favour.

Cable Address: Telegraph, Hongkong.

Telephone: No. 1

A B.C., 5th edition. Western Union

The Hongkong Telegraph.

"HONG, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1913,

VOLUNTARY OFFERINGS.

"In yesterday's "Telograph" we published a rough analysis of of the voluntary offerings made in the Church of England during the year ending Easter 1012, and a brief examination of the figures given tells us not a little as to the direction in which lio the sympathies of the donors. The total amount 'offered comes to over seven and three quarter million pounds-surely a proof in itself that the State Church is not so dead as she is popularly supposed to be; for when we consider the enormous number of English people who are either Catholics, Dissenters, Jews, or avowedly without religion, we shall realise that the members of the Anglican Church have been more than liberal in their offering.

Adjourned,

The case fised for hearing at the March Criminal Sessions, in which Mesare F. K. Tata and J. N. Ollig, were to have been the defendants, has been adjourned sind die on the application of the Attorney General.

Football Shield Final.

1

General

yearly meeting of the China- Bornco. Co., Limited, to be held at the office of the company at 11.30 am. on Thursday, 3rd

Gentlemen,The April, is as follows:- Manager and Consulting -Com- mittee beg to present to the shareholders the Tenth Ordinary Yearly Report of the Company. The accounts show a

profit of From this has to be deducted:

"

Tees to Consulting

Committee Leaving available for

appropriation The Consulting Com

mittee recommend that a dividend of 85 cents per share on the Subscribed Capital. be paid to Shareholders Write off Launches

and Lightera Write off Hongkong

Saw Mille... Write off. Sandakan The final tie to decide who Saw Mills... shall be holders of the Football Write off Plant ajo... Shield this season is to take place Write off Engineering at Happy Valley on Saturday, Department April 5, between teams repreWrite all Timber Con- Senting the Left Half Bd, D.O.LI. cessiona and the Royal Engineers.

Feventh Day of Hearing, To-day was the seventh day of

$68,785.28

4,000.00

$64,785.28

$30,100.00 7,500.00

5,000.00

Value as per last

"alatament...

Timber Concessions' :--- Value as per last state-

ment Less amount provided for depreciation....

day had an interview with Mr. 2,377.03 F. H. McKnight, senior special

representative here bf the Ameri oan Banking Group, doncerning $13,634.18 withdrawal and the effects of that action upon operations of the 1,089.14 Group in China, Mr. EoKnight

Baid:

11,665.04

"The American Group have an= Stocks of Timber and Inounced to their associates in.

Matorial....

................130,214.00 negotiations for the re-organiz Sundry Debtors.....104,405.72 tion loan, and on behalf of the Cash in hand......................... 5,770.05 American Group I have announced to the Minister of Finance, the $830,646.69 complete withdrawal of the Ame

Working Account To Management & Office Expenses in Hongkong and Borneo To interest.

To Exchange Account To Loss of s. 1. "Leila" To Auditor's Fee

To Balanced

By Profit on Sales of

Rough and Sawn Timber, etc.

By Sorip Fees

440

rican Group from the loan nego- tiations, I shall soon return to the United States and the offices of

the American Group in Peking

41,260.27 will be discontinued. The Infer

503.33 national Banking Corporation has 5,491.60 been delegated to carry on such 12,000.00 routine business as may be neces 200.00 sitated by our connection with 68,785.28 past negoliations."

$128,336.48

Sensation in Peklog.

"Peking, March 21-The sud- cis. den and unexpected abandon

ment by the United States of the 128,310.48 Sexluple diplomatic entente, and 2600 the action of the American Group in completely withdraw $128,336.48 ing from all loan negotiations

5,000.00 (8.) J.W,O, BONNAR 2,500.00 (8.) A.E. GRIFFIN

Members of Consulting Committee 5,000.00 (Signed) W. G. DARBY.

685.28

Latterly this grievance has to come greater than ever, for, since the establishment of the public stand-pipes, men, women and childron, carrying brimming backets of water, seem allowed to walk about the already crowded side-walks at will. The other day, in Queen's Road and not hundred yards from the Magistr acy itself, we noticed a coolie car rying two such buckets, one of which liberally splashed the dress and boots of a passing

on the Consulting Committee and that in my opinion such balance there is a variety of opinion about sohool-girl. Ought the girl to before the Chief Justice, Sir W. have walked in the roadway for Rees Davies K.C. There are Mr. A. E. Griffin has been invited sheet is properly drawn up so as this. Chinese attached to the This appoint to exhibit a true and correct view Government declare that this the greater convenience of the seven counsel engaged in the

means the immediate break-up coolie? Every day, both near case and seven prisoners on trial. to fill his place.

fairs at the 31st December, 1912, of the Sextuple Group, and the Shareholdere. this spot and also in various paris New Governor of British Northment requires the confirmation of of the state of the Company's of

In accordance with the Articles according to the beat of my in-formaation of a new Group under of Des Voeux Road, to say no. thing of the side streets, the pave- ments are used wholesale by perienced residents of the Fedorat. of Association, Mr. A. E. Griffin formation, and the explanations the leadership of America, How- these water-barriers. Could not ed Malay States, has been appoint-retires from the Consulting Com-given me, and as shewn by the fever, this view does not jibe with of British North mitice, but offers himself for books of the Company, The vari-the evidently sincere intention of ous stocks as in previous years the American Group to abandon an odd lukong or two be told off, ed Governor

AuditorThe accounts under aro certified for quantity by the the field, at least for the present. politely to request them, and Borneo in succession to the late re-election..

The appoint all other gentry who carry awk- Mr, Scott Mason, ward loads along the pavements, ment is for two years, and dates review have been audited by Mr. Manngere and for value by the It is evident that the Americans W. H. Potts who offers himself General Manager. I have ob are very much disgusted at this tained all the information and outcome of their effort and expense. from March 26

explanations I have required. (Signed) W. HUITON POTTS,

Auditor Hongkong, 20th March, 1913..

and closing its offices in Peking is the greateat sensation the capital has had since the Manobu abdication. Little also is dis, General Manager. cussed by Fo:signers and in-

I report that I have audited the telligent Chinese..

above Balance Sheet, with the Very naturally, the chief in- $64,785,28 books and vouchers of the Comtereat now centres in how the

Hon. Mr. E. Osborne, on leav-pany, and the returns from Bor-action of America will affect the hearing in the bank note case, ing the Colony, resigned his seat neo and the London Office and international combination, and

to use the road instead

The Worst City on Earth.

Borneo.

Mr. R. Parr, one of the most ex-

Cutting Flowers.

An Indian bugler and a cook were each fined $5 by Mr. F.A.

Distinguished Visitors,

for re election.

LW. G. DARBY,

General Manager, Hongkong. 20th March, 1913.

Statement of Accounts

LIABILITIES.

Ospital 60,000 Shares each

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British and Foreign Marine Insurance Company, Ltd,

Germany May Bolt.

A distinct ramour in current that Germany will be the next Power to scosde from the now Quintuple Group, and that on

The Directora of the British and account of her attitude the re Foreign Marine Insurance Com- maining Powers will be unable

year

tinuation of the negotiations. If unissued each $12 188,000 00 pany, Limited, in their Annual to agree upon a basis for con- Reportand Statement of Accounts, state that the Underwriting Ac this proves true, it is predicted. 552,000.00

count for 1911, now closed, has that the consortium will finally 9,861.41

resulted in a profit of £85,583 83. disrupt.

Chinese and some foraigners, 11d. The Interest Account for 68,785.28

the

1912 is £70,420 176. Od. contend that it will be futile to The combined result amounts to try now to hold the Group to $630,646 69

£156,004 59, 11d., which, with the gather; as the agreement in its balance of £231,601 4. 24. present form is un-acceptable to brought forward from last ac- China, and if the Powers continue count, leaves to the credit of Pro-to insist upon it the resulting fit and Loss Account 2387,606 situation merely will serve Russia's interests to the detri 10. 1d.

ment....

ASSETS,

Used a Knuckle-Duster se Before Mr. C.D. Melbourne, at A "Daily Telegraph" corros pondent has been telling his odt the Police Court, this morning, a tot that Chicago is the worst city coolio-employed by the Sanitary on earth. We doubt it, and for Department was charged with this reason: that we have heard, assaulting & foreman with a samie distinction confer ed on at a total denial and an alibi. Aie812-$720,000.00 during the past ten years, the knuckle-duster, The defence was

Less 14,000 Shares least forty other cities, including of $5 waa imposed.

、,·, London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Cairo, Paris, Algiers, and New York. Now which is the worse: Hazoland, at the Police Court, this municipal corruption and per- sonal vice, rampant, naked and morning, for cutting flowers at Sundry Creditors

King's Park, without permission. Balance of Working

Account unashamed; or the same two things is Worship told the Indian The largest item in the analysis is a little under four million

hushed up and smoothed over and pounds, which-is-classified under the head of general Parochia cloaked under respectable religiofficer in charge of the man to sito: Purposes-s term rendered all the more unbiguous by the fact that osity? We don't love the highway warn all his mon against this

Hongkong Saw Mills :- and takes our watch or purse: H. E, the Right Honourable Sir other sums are listed under such heade as Home Work, Clergy, robber who clubs us on the head practise. Parish Clergy, Philanthropy, sto. Presumably, however, we may but, as a choice of evils, give us West Ridgeway and Major Gener-Value as per last state- take it that that sum will go to the upkeep of the many parish him before the virtuous humbugal Sir Alfred Tarner who have churohes, and the various local organisations connected with them, who filches public money, and returned from a tour through Less amount provided The amount subscribed for the clergy is over a million, a fact that works all manner of jobbery, with British North Borneo have on for depreciation

words of piety on his lips. In one the guests of H. E. the Governar may provoke comment that is puzzled rather than unkindly dear, good, little oathedral city for the last few days and are

Sandakan Saw Mills: Religious bodies, other than the Established Church, are in the at Home that we wot of, there is leaving by the s.s. Assaye for

....809,834.35 habit of contributing to the support of their pastors because there as much immorality, as much Home, via Siberia. They will Value as per last state- Less amount provided is usually no endowment behind them; but, in view of the hage drunkenness, and as much jug- make a short stay in Peking.

gling with public funds, to the Leaving for Home,

for depreciation, 10,000.00 revenues of the Protestant Church, it seems hard on the laity that square foot, as we could look to Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Gedge and

80,834.35 they should be called upon to nugment thoso revenues, as well as find on the samo space of any of the Hon. Mr. C. H. Ross leave for humiliating to those of the clergy who are forced to accept a share the so-called great vice-centres of Home on May 6. Mr. W. Dickson, of the sums raised. Everyone at Home knows that the stipend paid the world. That" Daily Telegraph" Manager of the Chartered Bank, Steam Launches

man is talking nonsense; wick with his family, leave for Home and Lighters: to the Archbishop of Canterbury is 215,000; and everyone, or nearly misia in men: not in cities, the middle of April by the Value as per last state-

ment everyone, is equally aware that that paid to a parish curate averages

P. and O. 8.5. Assaye. Daring

Lese amount provided The Labourities are apparently Mr. Dickson's absence the mana- somewhere about a hundredth part of this amount. Again, it is The Labour Threat. ・・

for depreciation matter of common knowledge that the value of many benefices lins getting tired of saying Yea to gement of the bank will be in the fallen to as low as forty pounds a year, so that these can only be everything of Liberal origin. hands of Mr. A, 8. Hewett. held by men who have private means, or else who are helped very They are getting independent, considerably from the offerings of which we are speaking. To this and have taken to themselves the When the police raided an role of dictating to the Governopiam divan-in in Wing Fang we may add that a still greater number of benefices only produce ment, as is shown by their re- Street recently one of the men some three or four hundred a year; and, as often as not, the holder solve to oppose the Plural Voting jumped from a window in order Loss of s. L. "Leila" 12,000,00 200,044 0a, 4d.

coming and other Electoral Billa, until to evade Inspector Gerrard and the pay part of a curate's salary out of that the other part out of the voluntary fands under discussion. Is not some system a measure for the enfranchise police officers. The man was so ment of women has been intro badly injured that be had to be This of re-sorting necessary to do away witha muddle like this?

duced. It will be interesting taken to the hospital. Another point on which it is interesting to touch is the dis- now to see whether the threat morning he was well enough to parity between suma devoted to foreign missions and those to will be carried out. We all know appear at Court, and he was educational, philanthropio and other work. Foreign missions seem that the Cabinet is hopelessly fined $250 for "keeping." to claim over nine hundred thousand pounds or, roughly, one-eighth divided on the question of female

must

Recovered.

Art Curio Sale.

"

ment....

.$99,800.00

An Interim Dividend of 10gment of those of all other nations, 5,000,00

per share, less Income Tax, hay-Such a situation would effectually 04,800.00 ing been paid in July last, it is block fruition of the loan, and at now proposed to pay a Dividend the same time close European of 12 8 per share, less Income financial markets to the issue,

Chinese official circles make no Tax. After providing for Divid end and Income Tax on the attempt to conceal their jubila Profits of 1911, there will remain tion. Many friends of China, a balance of £311,958 Da. 3d. at however, fear that this rejoicing the credit of Profit and Loss Ace premature, until it is learned count, from which it is proposed whether any other nations will to transfer £200,000 to the Ra follow the example of America, serve Fund, raising that Fund to the Quintuple Group hold to $1,200,000, and leaving $111,058 gather, it may be that Ubina will 9a. 30. to the credit of Profit and be compelled to accept even more Losa Account. severe terms, than have been The Premiums for the year offered, or run the risk of direct. 1912 amount to £513,528 13. 2d. Coercion. and the Claims settled to £167,140

00,758.13

10,000.00

89,758.13

Sinco added...

∙11,411.044

101,169.17

13s. 3d., leaving a Nett Balance,

after deducting Expenses, of BILLIARD TOURNAMENT.

NEW BANDMANN OPERA

COMPANY

This week BAW the 16-00m- drament at the Soldiers' Club. mencement of play in the billiard

His Excellency the Governor On Tuesday evening was started has intimated that he will witness the match between the 87 RGA the New Bandmann Opera Com and the R E's. (B) which resulted pany's production of The Girl as follows:

89.169.17 Sandakan Engine Works *---- Value as per Inst

statement...

77,200,40 Lessammount provid-

6,000.00 ed for depreciation

the Texi on Wednesday 71,209.56

April 2,ond also of the latest Gaie- 438.10

ty Theatre success The Son- shine Girl" on Monday April 7. 71,647,56,

ALICE MEMORIAL

Since added

Bandakan Plant:-

statement...

of the grand total, Thie, of course, must not be taken to mean that suffrage, and thus the bringing It will be soon from an adver so big a sum is deliberately devoted by those in authority to mis- forward of measures on these tisement in to-days's issue that sions, bat merely that the general public, when asked to contribute, lines would practically make the the business of Messrs. Kuhn and does so more readily to foreign missions than to other causes defeat of the Ministry cortain Komor, art curio dealers, has against this sum, be it remarked, $38,015, or less than one-tenth of On the other hand, if the demand been sold to Messrs. Komor and it, was raised for educational purposes. Are we to infer that the souls is not concoded, Mr. Asquith and Komor, of Des Voeux Road. The Value as per lant or minds of Buddhists and Hindus (many of whom are far more highly his colleagues would find them sale of the stock in Queen's Road cultivated than moderately well-educated persons at Home) are of selves in an awkward hole with is being continued for a short Less amount provid more consequence to the Englishman than those of his own country out their accustomed Labour time, and those in search of bared for depreciation menor than their bodies, for that matter, for we notice that only backing when the electoral Bille gains should not miss this oppor half a million edd was subscribed for philanthropic purposes? came up for consideration. So it tanity. The business will after- John Bull is fond enough of telling us that oharity begins at home seems as though our Liberal wards be continued at Alexandra but if the figured at which we have been glancing tell the truth, bis friends are betwixt the devil and Buildings under both

the deep son, statement and his nations do not tally,

names.

Marm

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HOSPITAL.

18,825 81

The Hon. Treasurer of the 3,000.00 Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals bogato acknowledgo 16,825.81 with thank the following Binco added 8,353.34 donations 10, the funds of the

Hospitals R 84,170.16 Dairy Farm Co., Ltd.

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