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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1914,

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The Amusement Craze.

DAY BY DAY.

TREE, MANY BRANCHED, AND CO-

COMPANY REPORT.

The China Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.

A FOOLISH TRICK,

Attempt to Board & Moving Tralu.

bis morning in the Police

POLICE INSPECTION. An interesting question bas been raised by a correspondent ARIOSTO, IN ONE OF THE RO 10 Calcutta paper who vehem- MANTIC LEGENDS, TELLS US OF A

His Excellency on the Decrease In Citme, ently protests against the obses-VERED WITH DELECTABLE BUN- sien of Europeans in India by the OHES BUT WHOSOI BHOOK THAT amusement craze. In his opinion TOO LATE THAT NOT FRUIT, BUT TREE TO WIN THE FRUIT, FOUND,

Yesterday afternoon in the The representation to Police Compound 8. E. the if frivolity continues to absorb STONES OF CRUSHING WEIGHT, the abareholders of the China Governor, attended by Captain Court before Mr F. A. Hazeland, all the attention of Europeans in CAME DOWN UPON HIS HEAD THE Tie Insurance Company, Ltd, at Alison, A. D. O., and the Hon. Chinese was charged with at- India, there is, indeed, a gloomy PLEASURE ARE SUCH A TREE the Forty-fifth Ordinary Meeting Mr. Claud Severn, inspected the tempting to board a train at future ahead. One of his observa-THEY WHO SEEK ITS FRUIT BE to be held at the Company's Police Force on their annual Taumati while in motion. tions is particularly sweeping in COME ITS VICTIM.-Coloy offices on Thursday, March 19, parade. A large body of men,

The Trafic Inspector of the character. It is that *in the

at 12 o'olook noon; in whole length and breadth of

follows Indio, there are hardly four out

BENSUALITIES WHICH FOOLSCALL

The Weather.

a hundred serious-minded Euro- Lower levels 8 a.m. Temp. 74,]

dall, peane." That, without a doubt,

At the Peak 8 a.m. Temp. is an over-statement of the case; |

heavy fog.

but, all the same, there is some-

thing to be said for the plas which the writer makes. The

remarks ere not alone aimed

at indoor amusements, but also against an undue attention to aport to the exclusion of business and other serious issues.

| Abus of Sport,

The Malls.

Friedrich

6

8.

at

Siberian Mail-Left per s.

Prinz Eitel Siberian Mail-Arrived per s, 8

midnight:

Liangehow to-day, German Hail of February 3.- Delivered in London March 5, Americaa Canadian and Siberian Maile-Close per s.8. Chiyo "Maru at 11 a.m. to-morrow.

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Siberian Mail.-Closes par 5.8.

Chegan at 5 pan, to-morrow,

Launch at Talkoo.

The sa, Tungchow is to he launched from the Taikoo Dook on Tuesday noxt at 5 p.m.

Italian Cruiser Coming.

WEB

as European, Indian and Chinese Kowloon-Canton Railway said were drawn ap in full accoutre- that at 5.25 o'clock he saw the The Directors have now the ments and ander the Hon. Mr. defendant on the steps of the pleasure to submit their Annual Mo.. Meeser, Captain Superin-train bound for Samchun. The Report and Statement of the Com-tendent, Mr. Sayer, Assistant train defendant was on was No, yany's Accounts made up to the Captain Superintendent. 14, but when No. 9 which was 31st December last.

and Assistant Superintendent also in Yasmati Station, got into at Barlingham, went

motion the defendant jumped through various drille, and the celerity from the steps of No. 14 to those dose of No. 9. He missed the stepe with which this was worthy of the highest praise. and had it not been for some one His Excellency having inspected who was there gripping him by the lince, addressed

the the neck he would have fallen men who

between two coaches and have drawn were up in hollow square formation. been injured.

His Excellency said I have The witness said there was not To add to Extra Ros-

Intoly received the draft report much of this sort of thing done, erve Fund, which

on the year 1913 and I have to and the defendant was fined $5 will then stand at

congratulate the Captain Superor in default 14 days' imprison- $877,588.30 135,013,17 intendent, officers and other mem-ment. Bouns to Office Staff 6,389,90 bera of the force on a very satis- w factory decrease in crime. of $341,403,07 recent years we have been some-

1012 Account. This accoor bows a net profit on working $341,403,07 which sum it is pr posed to apportion as follow- Dividend of $7.00 and Bonus of $3.00 per share on 20,000 ebares ...

4

200,000.00

1913 Account) - The · Balance at Credit

of this Account is $426,277.34

Directors:-Mr. F. Lieb resign"

ts

what accustomed to annual in- including officers, from the creases in crime. This year Chief Inspector down to the we are able to record a decrease newly joined constable. So in serious crime for the year 1913, you all have a share in the satia- of 19 per cent, as compared with factory result, and it depends

No aane man can, of course, object to sport as aport, but a protest of the kind under notice is worthy of consideration when it has to do with sport usurping] the place of things that matter. There is a time for everything, though that foot is not given due regard to by many a young man in the East. This abuse of spert can be seen in Hongkong an elee where in fact, it is ́ woll-nigh

ad his seat on leaving the Colony the year 1912. 1012 had an upon you, by your united effort, universal. Everybody has seen The Italian ornire: Sebastiane and Mr. E. Goetz was appointed increase over 1911 and if you to keep that good record as high it at Home, where hundreds of Caboto was to lay Singapore to fill the vacancy, which appoint-compare the figures for 1913 with as possible. Circumstances may youth think far more of football on the March 3 for Hongkong en ment requires the conarmstion those for 1011 you will find a sometimes be against you, and than business, and spend the best route to Shanghai and Hakow, of shareholders. Mears. J. W. satisfactory decrease of three and you may have to record an in- part of Mondays discussing, the

C. Bonnar and W. L. Pattanden three-quarters per cent. There- orense in crime, but if you do will week-end matches. And perhaps

Fine weather until within ten retire by rotation and being decrease over 1911 of nearly 23 doubt the increase will not be fore in 1913 you have affected a your best, I have not the slightest out East, where the facilities for miles of the Colony, when stormy eligible offer themselves for sport are greater than at Home, weather with S.W. wind was ex-re-election.

per cent.

serious. "There is another feature the evil is intensified among a perienced, was reported by the

Auditors: Owing to the ab-

Now I have, in the first about 1913 which I wish to sence of Mr. W. Hatton Potts place, to congratulate the Captain notice. Of late years it has been certain class of youngsters. After as. Taming on arrival to-day.

from the Colony, Mr. O. Bernard Superintendent on that result. somewhat the fashion for the all men, or should be, out here for experience. Life is

Brown was appointed to take his He is the man who is responsible Hongkong police to lean for sup place,

for the efficiency of the force, but port upon the garrison. Now, not a hugo picnic. But that is

The annexed accounts have lie knows, as well as I do, that there is nobody who has a what many would like to make it.

been audited by Messra. A. R. such a result could only be higher admiration for the British Lowe and O. Barnard Brown who effected by loyal co-operation of military officer and soldier than I offer themselves for re-election. all the members of the force, have. There is no finer officer

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The Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1914.

NAVAL NECESSITIES.

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A Scottish Navy.

-Weather Report.

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Filipino Labourers. The 8 Taming, which arrived Manila this morning, from brought along. ten Chinese and 48 Filipinos in transit for Hawaii by the Chiyo Marn.

Killed at Quarry Point. A Chinese named Chung Yoen Sir Alfred Ewing referred, the Loi was working on the hillside other day, to the growing Scot- yesterday at Quarry, Point when tish element in the navy. Scoles stone detached itself from the men have never contributed hillside and rolling down Charges greatly to the navy, except per- killer him. haps in the matter of engine 958, Stolen from : Show Case, and this is curious if we remember A Chinese-accountant living st that Scotland had once an inde97, Wellington. Street has com- pendent and powerful navy of her plained to the police that goode owd. James IV. was the monarch to the value of $18 have been who created it (he was a stolen, from a show case in "the shrewd King in many ways) front of his shop. and he

G. FRIESLAND,

Chairman."

51,841.82

and no fiuer soldier in the wide world, but soldiers and military. officers are trained to shed Working Account 1013:-

Balance si Credit 420,277.34 that you place them in a false blood, and I always think

TF

€8,000,00 141,803.80

E. SHELLIM

Losses and Claims $325,082.71 WORKING ACCOUNT 1912.

Directors' and Audi-

tors' Feon Commissions Exchange... Amount Written off Furniture .Account Balance

was greatly proud Lady Clementi-Smith, of it. The Beet numbered All her old Straits friends will twenty-six vessels and the largest hear with much regret that Lady of them was the St Michael which, Clementi Smith, the wife of the Net Premia e- indeed, wee then the largest ves-Right Hon. Sir Cecil Olementi- el afloat, Sho carried 1,500 Smith, is suffering from a serious sailors and marines, so that she illness, saya the Singapore Free was a boat of considerable dim- | Press. ensions and importance, for her day. Scotland always seems to have built vessels which were bigger than those built by any one else.

PICTUREDROME.

Delightful Open Air Effort' Succeeds.

Naval matters have loomad large in political oiries of Hoe of late. The anti-Navy faction has been very busy trying to sm down the expenditure on our first line of defence, but happily the KOWLOON good sense of Parliament Las so far succeeded in preventing the ideals of these folk being put into effect. And we imagine that the lamentable facts revealed by the Army report for last year, showing, as they do, a marked falling off in recruiting will prove another bolow to the passo-at-any-price fanatics. It is fatal to trifle with big issues of this kind. The taking of risks must be avoided at all coat. We may regret the heavy expenditures on fighting machines, but in a matter of this kind it is better, if we err at all, to err on the right side. It has been well said that the day of peril is too late for preparation.

Pigs Killed,

Intereat

$3,362,788.68

G. FRIESLAND

ASSETS.

י,

461.44 Cash at Bankers :----

127.70

On Current Account Silver On Current

341,403.07 Account Sterl-

$888,810.54 ling

ceived Less Returns and Reinsurances.

8088,051.20

and

180,616.31 143.00

$868,810.54

Dividends Transfer Fees

Mr. Stevenson, Desistant man. ager of the Dairy Farm, has re- ported to the police that between 6.30 p.m. on the fourth and 6 p.m. WORKING ACCOUNT, 1913. on the fifth of this month some Losses and Claims, $238,628.96 person entered the premises of Charges

the Dairy Farm and killed by Directors' and Audi- stabbing, twelve pige valued at tore' Fees $125. The mattor is in the hands of the police..

Commissions

Exchange... Amount Written off-

Furniture Ac-

count

Treacle on the Pathway. For causing an obstruction by packing treacle a Chinese Was There were six hundred de-at the Police Court this morning,

charged before Mr. F. A. Hazeland Balance lighted spectators of the pictures by Laspector Dymond. The shown at the Wigwam Tennis Irospecter explained that the Net Premis Receiv Clab, Kowloon, last night, by defendant had treacle all over the

ed, Less Returns Kowloon. The drawing pisture dred yards. It formed a swarm- Interest and Divid- the Variety Film Exchange of pathway for a distance of a hun- and Reinsurances was, of course, the one showing ing ground for thousands of ends the races at Happy Valley, but flies. A fine of $7 was imposed. Transfer Fees

The Missing Portmanteau, pictures

A Chiness amat of 238, Des played Vaaaz Road Weat reportet to the

wind

there were

56,941,84

8,000,00

position when you ask them to come forward and play the part, Directors. of policemen, whose training is in the opposite direction. You

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$ cte, are expected to protect and son- trol without shedding any blood

33,739.31 at all. Circumstances may arise of so serious a nature that a call for assistance from the garrison

... 4,284.13.10 44,229.07 may become necessary, but it On Fixed

used to be the proud boast of this"

Deposit Silver

On Fired Deposit Sterl ing£12,497.5.7. Investments:

In Silver. Securities

In Sterling Securitien

101

120,004.17

523,658 74 force, and I know it is the proud boast at present, and I hope it very will be, that they are able to control the population and protect life and property within the colony by their own united and unaided efort. I hope you will all bear these words in mind. I am sure

707,782.07

‚£53,682 10.0. 554,141.91

£70,464 95

Loans on Mortgage:--

On Properties in

137,483.70 Hongkong... $891,800.00

On Properties in Shameen, Сап-

511.24

ton

***

$150,000.00

your

you are all animated by the same idea thar Captain Saperiat endent is, and that I am, who at one time was Captain Superinten dent of Police, and that is that the protection of life and property in the Colony, and the control of all sections of the population is the business of the Hongkong Police, and they ought never to confess themselves ansble to carry out their duties until circumstances arise which aro obviously beyond the control of

comparatively small body of --- men, as, after all, you are not very i numerous. And there is one other point of which I would like to remind you. This force, 157,004.11lthough I may be regarded as an and I say it without contradiction

120.00 On Proportie in 426,277.34 Shanghai $169,779,27 $885,943.08

1,211,579. 27

Furniture Account:- Office Furniture, &o,... 1,850, 00 $680,087.08 Accounts Receivable:-

Premis due from 185,695.00 Agencies Interest 161.00 due on Deposits and Investments, &a.....

$885,943.03

Balance Sheet,

LIABILITIES.

20,000 Shares of $100 each, $20 per Share paid

8 cts.

On general lines, the attitude of Mr. Churchill on thie question apart from this of home defence has won the approval, not only of the saner men overal other good of his own party, but also of the whole rank and file of the shown. The weather Unioniste. He is too far-seeing sad shrewd a stateeman to listen its little tricks with gusta police that she engaged a coolie to to the petty talk of the so-called economists. But, at the same time, there are occasions when he appears to throw a sop to these turbed the curtain, at times above address. He did so, but that slightly dis carry come luggage for her to the individuals in such a case, for example, as his rather fantastic putting it just out of focus, but had to leave a portmanteau at the Capital Account:- **naval holiday" proposal. This latter ides is based on a considera-thin in no way marred the show. bottom of the stairs while he car- tion of what other Powers may or may not do, and we see the same A special string orchestra was in ried other portions of the luggage principle operating in his recent statement that Britain would be attendance, and the large com-up. On his return be found that prepared to consider the matter of an agreement restricting the pay thoroughly enjoyed itself. the portmanteau was missing. size of ships of war. Then, too, there was his very pointed denial Special collapsible chairs were That and the clothes it contained, Reserve Fund Act. 1,090,000.00 that Britain had led the way in the movement for increasing the provided. It is to be hoped that were valued at displacement of men-of-war.

this worthy effort at catering for the public need will be apprecia ted to the full.

Labour for Sagon,

for its labour, permission baring Saigon has now gone to Java, recently been granted to Megre.

пр

$19.50 Extra

Latest Advertisemgats.

Reserve

400,000.00

$3,308,7

C. PEMBERTON,

Secretary.

2,788.08

old member of it, and an interes ted party, this police force has in. the past enjoyed a reputation : 4 Sterling Exonange taken at la police force in the Empire. The which is second to none in any 11.1-4d. Auditors ReportsWe report tone that has pervaded it has at that we have examined the Ac has been the object of the envy all times been very high and Counts of the Company with the of commanders of other forces in and Returns received from the this one. That prond record and books and vouchers in Hongkong colonies not very far distant from various Agencies for the year enllied reputation was some 877,588.30 ending 31st December, 1913.

We have also satisfied curselves years ago besmirched under 32,378:94 28 to the existence and value of take the trouble to remind you circumstances which I will not the Securities for Investments, of. There are many here present 41,823,01 the Cash at Bankers and on

Mortgage to the amounts speci- Now for some yours pre- o know what I refer to. 210,715.01 fied. We have obtained all theviously to that occasion there was

information and explanations we have required, and in our opinion Colony about irregularities in the B good deal of talk in the the above Balance Shoot, which

Fand Account... A parinor for a good business Investment Fluots-- is advertised for. Page 5,

ation Account... Consignses" notice concerning Exchange Fluctua1993 the ss. China is issued to-day. Page 5. |_Consignees' notice concerning the s.8. Yatabing is issued to-day: -Page 5.

The loyal Britisher will willingly pay what he is called upon to do, for naval expenditure, by those who are noting on expert advice, realising fall well that such cost is nothing, other than on insurance premium. But what he has a right to demand is that the extent of that expenditure shall be measured by no other factor than Britain's own necessities. As wo see the matter, the size of other rations, programmes..or the dimensions of their battleships do not enter into the queation at all. And it is about time that fact was made plain. In the

Alexandra Buildinge, advertite Mesere. Alderton and Co, defence of our own shores there is only one consideration to be kept Diethelm and Co., to recruit a Lipton's celebrated provisions In view. That is the safety of the people and their property. maximum of 3/0 native labou Whatever amount of money is required to assure this, should be rers for the rubber estate belong- Contributed without question. Aud on this point only the advice ing to th Societe des Caoutchoucs of experts at the Admiralty can or ought to be listened to. The de Indo-Chine of Thubamot. Little Navyitos are in no wise qualified to speak

and Mason'scondiments-Page5. boxing display at the Theatre There is to be an excellent

Royal on the 14th, inst, Pòga õ

ass.

tion Account Reinsurance Fund

Account Account Payable :--

Dividend

1912...$200,000.00 for Losses Out-

standing and Eun- dries

105,005.18

365,005,181

includes the allocation of the moke without fire; in fact there force. Now there is seldom 1912 Working Account balance as shown by the Directors' report of date attached, ia prop

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nover is, and these uneasy ramoura proved to be true and in? the result considerable changes had to ho chida. Now I am glad