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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1913.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. it was doing for military pur- BILLIARDS ASSOCIATION

Meeting the Cost of Typhoon Damages.

A mesting of the Legislative Council was held this afternoon in the Council Chamber.

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The Hon. Colonial Secretary: -The connection is obscure.

rather

think so.

The Hon. Mr Hewett :---I don'ı

Australian's Record Break Accepted.

At a committee meeting of the

| Billiards Association, Ltd., at the 'The' Hon, Colonial Secretary:-registered offices of the Associa Because that applies to every tion, 18.

There were present:-H, E, the Officer Administering the Governiteta. ment, llon. Mr Claud Severn.

H. E.Major-General F. Kell The Hon. Colonial Secretary

Mr. A. M. Thomson. ' •

The Hon. Attorney General, Mr. J. A.S. Bucknill, K.O.

The Hon. Colonial Treasurer, Mr. A. G. M. Fletcher..

The Ilon. Director of Public Works, Mr W., Chitham, C.M.G. The Hon. Registrar General, "Mr. E. R. Hallifax,

The for. Capt. Supt. of Police, Mr. McIlvaine Messar

The Hou, Mr Wei Yuk, C.MG The Hon. Mr. E. Selim. The Hon. Mr. E. A. Hewett,

C.M.G.

The Hon. Mr C. M. Edo. The lion. Mr D. Landale. The Hon Mr Lau Chu Pak., Mr R. II. Crofton, Clerk to the

Councila.

Financial Minutes.

Committee:

The following financial minutes were referred to the Finance A sum of $0,000 in aid of the vote Public Works:-Public Works, Recurrent, Kowloon, Buildings:-Maintenance of Bail diegs, $5,000. Now Territoras Building Maintenance of Buil. dinge,Mainland and island in Northern District, $2,000 Publie Works, Extraordinary, Kowloon Miscellaneous Works, $2,000 Total, $3,000

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were

Buckingham-street, Strand, WC, the following

present:-Mr | Sydeubam Dixon (president), in the chair; Colonel S. E." Atkin- son, Messrs S. H. Fry and H. E.

The Hon. Mr Hewett:-Well, membere does, but this is one of the items of the needless tax put upon us for military purpoena.

The Hon. Colonial Secretary- Is there no objection to the vote? There was no dissent, and both minutes were approved by the Committee.

The Appropriation Bill The report of the proceedings

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The opinions expressed by our correspondente are not necess- arily those of the "Hongkong

Telegraph" ". Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co., Ltd, and the

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of the Finance Committees moet-E. A. Boyle (hon. secretary of the ing of the 23rd inst, stated :- Amateur Billiard Association of Appropriation Bill for 1014. N 8.Winforming the committee The Committed then considered that in the final of tho amateur clause by clause the Bill untitled championship of N.S.W., Mr An Ordinade to apply a aum not G. B Shailer made a break of exceeding Eight million eight 268, the table having been duly bundrol and inety-six thousand tested and passed as a standard": eight hundred and seventy-six with the registered templates of Dollars to the Public Service of the the Association, and asking that The year 1914. On the motion of the this break should be officially Colonial Secretary the following recognised as the amateur world's amendments were agreed to record. The competition in which,

In the Title the words eight it was made was played at Mesire. hundred and ninety-six thousand Heiron and Smith's saloon, eight hundred and seventy-eir" Sydney, and bonzoline balle ware used. It was unanimously decid- were deleted and the words " bundred and sixty-roven thoused that Mr G. B. Shailer's break of 268 he officially recognised aa and one hundred and two"

the muteur world's recor!, and substituted therefor..

that the silver medal of the Asstointion be presented to him tommemorate the fact of his bolding this record.

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were

In the Preauble all the words after the word "Expenditure" were deleted and the words "and charges on account of Publie Debt, been estimated at the sum of Eight million one hundred and sixty-seven thousand one hundred and two dollars were tubstituted

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A letter was read from the secretary of the Amateur Billiard Association of Western Austrilla

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A sum of $95,581 in aid of the vote-Harbour Master's Depart

acknowledging receipt of the gold (Sd.) A. SHELTON HOOPER medal presented by the commit-

Secretary, moat Harbour Office, other therefor,

(Copy) tee to Mr. A. W. Appleton, the 1 Section 2the works eight winner of the amateur champion- charges, oil and sundry stores,

Hongkong, Oct. 28-1913. $155, steam launches, other bundred and ninety-six thousand ship of Western Australia in 1912. Stowart Esq., M. P., charges, repairs, $300. Sanitary eight hundred and seventy-six

Whiteholme. Lettera were also, read from the Department, Other Charges:were deleted and the words "one respective boa, societaries of the

Hoylake, Cheshire. Sanitary Staff, lanoli, steam hundred and sixty-seven thousand Amateur Billiard Asscoation of Dear Sir, On the 9th, inst, 1 barges and lightere, repairs, one hundred and two" were sub Queensland and the Auckland received a printed and undated THE Steunship $2,500. Botanical and Forestry stituted therefor the fares Amateur sports Club, announ- copy of letter bearing the names PRINZ EITEL FRIEDRICH," Department, Other Charges 0.077" were substitued for ecing the dates of their amateur if some of the shareholders on the having arrived, Consignees of Forestry, New Territories, $180, figures 738,851" aguiart the championships for 1013, the subject of the management, etc. cargo are hereby informed that Maintenance of gardona and trein "Charge on account of secretary stating that the gold of this Company and that of the their Goods, with the exception grounds, $1,006. Public Works Public Del" and the total medal of the ass ciation had been Hongkong Land Reclamation of Opium, Treasure and Valu Recurrent-longkong, malecel-$8.896,876" was altered to read duly forwarded to the respective Company.

Jables, are being landed and stored laneous, typhoon and rainstorm" $8;187,102".

winners of the amateur champion-

This letter appears to have been at their risk into the hazardous damages, $53,700, new Territor-

ships of Queensland and nor published in each of the local and/or extra hazardous Godowns papers as an open letter addressed of the Hongkong and Kowloon

Wharf and Godown Company,) rainstorm damngs, Mainhard and

An application for affiliation to the Secretary of this Company Kowloon, and West Point Go- It has been laid before the downs, whence delivery may be Islanda in Northern District, $10,800. Kowloon Canton Rail Ordinance to apply a sum not from the newly constituted South

Australian Amateur Billiard Bard who will take it into con obtained. way, Details of Expenditure:-exceeding Fight million one.

hundred and sixty-seven thousand Ass ciation of Adelaide was then sideration and will refer to it at Optional Cargo will be forward- Main Line, maintenance of one hundred and two Dullara to laid before the meeting, and was the next Ordinary General Meet ad on unless intimation is received

the Public Service of the year upenimonsly granted. Three aping of Shareholders.

plications for reinstatement as en 1914.

The proceedings were purely tel, Two new members were

amateur were unanimausly gran-(Sd) formal, the Hou. Colonial Secret-unanimously elected to the

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The Budge.

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ies, miscellaneousTyheon and The Coumil wet inta Com-Zealand.

and works, stations; $10,770'; Fanling Branch, mintenance of way and works, $770. Total, $25,581

Referring to the first financial minute, His Excellency said that with regard to financial miante 69 members would see that the amount of damage caused by the two typhoons of August 17 and September 18 bad heen very con siderable. The largest damage was that done to important roads

mittee on the Bill entitled. An

Yours faithfully, A-SHELTON HOOPER,

Secretary.

ary moving the amendmente 10 Association. It was resolved HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS the Bill which had been approved that the various amateur *

championship competitions for

by the Finance Committee:

The Bill was then passed.

Council then adjourned sine in Victoria and was caused chief-die, the sitting having lasted ly by the typhoon synchronising only about five minutes.

with a very high tide, and the

whole of the front of the Praya:

was swept by heavy sous for some

from the Consignees before noon to-day requesting it to be landed here.

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No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns,} and all goods remaining un-

delivered after the 6th of Nov. will be subject to rent

All broken, chafed, and" dai- aged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 6th of Nov.,

All claime must reach us before

These were approved, and the 1914 be decided one month A. Chapman, V. D., state-

Corps. Orders by Lieut. Col. Bill read a third time in its earlier than WIR the cuse

Joined-The undermentioned amended form.

last year. It was further decided members having joined the Corps. that two sectional competitions are allotted Corps. Nos, and post at 9.30a.m. for the amateur championship of ed as follows: No. 1466 Pte. Jthe 13th of Nov., 1913, or they England abouli La held, the nor- Brown, Centre Beotion M. G. Co will not be recognized. thern rection at Birmingham and No. 1437 Pie. D. Blankiron, Cen No Fire Insurance will be the northern seation in London,tre Ection M. G. Co., No. 1466 effected. at Mesare. Orme 'and Sons' Saloon, Pte.. R. G. 8 utherton, Contre Soho-equare. It was also pro Section M. G. Co.; No. 1468 Pte. visionally decided that the com-A. L. Gace, Scouts Company. petition proper for the amateur. —————— championship of England should be played in Birmingham im- mediately following the northern

hours. If it had not been for that, INSPECTION OF TROOPS, the damage would not have been anything like so large. The

This morning H. E. Major damage cansed by the typhoon on General Kelly held an inspection September 18 was nothing like of the RE's. and the 25th and

To-day's Advertisements

TO LET:

Bills of Lading will be counter- signed.

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,). ;

MELCHERS & Co.,

-General Agents. [99! Hongkong, 30th Oct., 1913.

From EUROPE. THE H. A. L. Steamship

"ANDALUSIA,"

so great, but there was an unfort- 20th Punjaubis, The ceremony sectional competition there, upata accident to one of the steam took place on the open spaca be- It was also resolved that "the barges belonging to the Sanitaryween the racs conres and the sea, amateur championship of Scotland Department. Another big item innd was witnessed by a fairly be held in Glasgow, and it was the former typhoon was the wash large concourse. The troops were provisionally decided that he TO LET Top floor, 50, Captain F. Nelfer, having ar outs on certain parts of the rail-in excellent form and gave a fine amateur championship of Ireland Bonham Road. SEPAR-rived, Consignees of Cargo are way between Shatis and Taipo. display, and when they left the he played in Belfast. It was un- ATE ENTRANCE 4 He was afraid the expenditure field at tiffin time were cheared, animously agreed that the amateur Rooms; electrio light. was unavoidable, the amount was more than three times the amouat which was put in the estimate each year for typhoon damage an as they had several years in which they were practically immune, they were now only paying up what was the average.

"At a meeting of the Finance] Committee which was subsequent- ly held under the chairmanship

roundly.

championship of the United King view front and back. The D. C.L.I's have been re-dom be played in Nottingham. Ground floor, same house. hearsing ceremonial drills in the A permit was granted to Mr. E. early mornings for some little Child, of Headingley, for am- timo past, with bands and bugles. ateurs to take part in the Leede

annual charity handicap, which was such a conspicuous succesa last season. The remainder of

Mare Destroyers for Hongkong. |the business was private.

Canton's Late Governor.

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NOTICE.

large hereby informed that their goods Fine are being landed and placed at Apply their risk in the hazardous and/or 1991 extra-hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Company, Limited, whence delivery may be obtained against Bills-of Lading counter- signed by the Undersigned.

IT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED

Optional Cargo will be carried on unless notice to the contrary be given to-day.

that, on and after Monday, All claims must be presented the 3rd November, and until within ten days of the steamer's further notice the SUPPLY OF arrival hero, after which date they WATER to the Rider Main DIB-cannot be recognized.

The Malay Daily Chronicle tricts will be controlled by bring- No claims will beadmitted after

into the Goods have left the Godowns,

All broken, thafod, and dam-

of the Hon. Colonial Secretary, The Admiralty have cancelled the Hon. Mr Hewett said he sup the orders for the destroyers | pased His Excellency would be Garry, Chelmer, Colne, and Ken- sending Home the debate on the net, of the "river" type to says there is a rumour that Chaning the Rider Mains Military Contribution, and he return to England from the Medi-Kwing-ming, the ex-Governor of operation and that water will be and all Goode remaining undeli hoped that when he did so terranean to pay off, and have Canton. who had to flee from turned on to each Rider Main vered after the 5th prox., will be he would draw particular atten- directed them to be recommis- China on the last scattering of daily for two consecutive hours. subject to rent. tion to the fact that they sioned at Malta with new crews, the southern malcontents, is Information as to the hours of had had to spend nearly & lakh and despatched to the China credited with the design of form-supply to any particular property aged goods must be left in the in one year on typhoon damage. Station, on which their sistering a "Dare to die" Society, in may be obtained on application Godowns, where they will be ox-

Authority or the Secretary for 9.30 a.m" That was one of the unknown destroyers, Usk, Ribble, and Wel-Kina. We bardly imagine such at the Offices of the Water amined on the 5th prox,, at items on which they had to land are at present serving. The an astute individual will so Chinese Affairs or at the Tung expend money; it might be new crews for the Chelmer, Garry, seriously abuse the hospitality he Wa Hospital. $4,000 and it might be $100,- Colne, and Kennet ars to take is receiving at the hands of the 000, and it was all the more passage to Multa in the light authorities of the E.M,S. He is at reason why the Government river Eclipse, which will bring pent living at Tambun should mot rob them to the extent home the paid-off orewa.

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