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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY

The Speed Craze,

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Lower level 8 n.m. Temp At the Peak Sam. Temp 67

APRIL 20, 1914.

SANITARY BOARD

ELECTIO

COMPANY MEETING

Hongkong Cotton Splaning,

Weaving and Dyeing Co., Ltd. Mr. W. L. Carter Nominated for

the Vacaney:

· [VERB \TIM.]M

JUNK CAPSIZED.

Gallant Rescue of Crow at Tal 0.

Yesterday the police at Tui O saw a junk capsize about a mile Pleasant to use, CLEANSING and POWERFULLY ANTI-Sunday after Sunday at present,

An extraordiny general meet- Mr. W. L. Carter, manager of away from the shore. Seeing the SEPTIC, Destroys disease germs which invade the mouth much excitement amongst the passengers of the three bosts

Spinning, Electric Co., Ltd., has been hailed another junk to go to the Hongkong Co ton ing of the shareholders in the the China Japan Telephone and crew clinging to the vessel they sball arrive first in Macao and

Weaving and Dyeing Company nominated to serve as a tempor rescue and after several attempts, which shall be first back ia

Ltd. was held this morning at the ary member of the Sanitary Board in a very rough ees, managed to Ilongkong. Now, the average

72;fices of the General Managers, during the absence of Mr. F. B. sve four men, a woman, and a boy aged eleven years. It was person who goes to Macao en adult.

Messrs Jardine, Matheson and L. Bowley. Sunday is out for a blow on the

Co., Ltd., the Hon. Mr. D. Landale The nomination is proposed by discovered, however that a young presiding. There were water. The run on the steamer fog.

also the Hon. Mr. H. E. Policek, K.O., girl, eight years of age, was miss- A hole was out in the is what really matters to him.

present-Sir C, P. Chater, Mr. and seconded by the Hon. Mr. Eing.

bottom of the overturned vessel Yot be is considerably annoyed French Mail.Arrived pera.s. Cor-J. W. C. Bonnar, Mr. Ho Fook, A. Hewett, O.M.G.

and the dead body of the girl was dillere at daylight yesterday.consulting, committee. Mr 0. Mr. Carter was formerly a American and Canadian Mail. W. Bawick, secretary, Mr. J. temporary member of the Board discovered.

The master of the ill-fated Closes per 8.8. Shidzooka Harrop, manager and Messrs. H. during the absence of Mr. Llewett.

Gttens, B. L. Dowbiggin. A. The election takes plaos on May junk declares that bot for the Rodger. Lo Cheung Shui, A. Ellie, 1 and nominations have to be in geliantry of those who came to his Atlantique at 11 s.m. to. Byworth, Ho Yn Shang, P four clear days before that date.help the whole of the crew would

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HONGKONG, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1914.

THE NAVAL POSITION,

The Malls,

Moru at 10 6.m. to-morrow.

French Mail-Oloses per 8.8.

morrow.

· French Soldiers. · Twenty-five French soldiers

passed through to Shanghai by the s.s. Cordillere, from Marseil les.

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Back Again. The passengers by the 8.8. Hargang from Swatow yesterday ingladed Lieut. Col. Ilee, Capt Wakefield and Mr. F. Smyth,

R.0.4.Sports.

The R.G. ports, which were postponed fra Saturday, will

noon.

Cordillere's Passengers.

Plague and the Port. Wearo informed by the Colonial that Secretary's Department quarantine regulations bave been imposed against Hongkong by Tientsin on ace unt of plogue.

Auction Sale.

"The Thunderstorm.

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Meantime it appears to have escaped general notice that the change b18 been made af Mr. C. P. Lammert is selling what is practically the con- by ublie auction at his sales tenary of another epoch in

rooms to-morrow, at 2.30 p.m., the history of the great quantity of valuable household newspaper: It was in 1814 that furniture and Canton blackwood. being the first British paper The s., Haiyang, which arrived printed by steam Lower. At from Swatow yesterday morning, that time it had a leading article reported moderate wind and sea, in which it claimed with pride dall, overcast weather and thus thas no fewer than eleven hundred der, lightning and heavy rain at copies could be printed in an hour times. Newspaper production bas prog

even the least important of local papera can now be ran off at more than eleven hundred an hour.

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have been drowned.

The police afterwards rescued the personal effects of the crew 1. Looker, company's solicitor, gained in the Southern outlets and towed the craft into Tai O and C. Bernard Brown, liquidator, for we can make the same yarn harbour

The chairman As it is past in Shanghai, and thus in addition the time for which this meeting have the wider markets of the has been called, and there is a quorum present I will ask the secretary to read the notice convening the meeting,

The secretary read the notice convening the meeting.

The Chairman eaid:-Gentle men, were mot here to-day to con-

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inviting tenders earlier than usual. Presumably it is now to go in ag body, the Legislative Council, removal to the Government Civil the Hongkong Mill did not make done during recent years you will the new company, I do not think

Hospital.

Costly Pants.

North to fall back upon when to be taken over may be larger demand here has been satiefied, than was anticipated. We have also to bear in mind the With regard to Resolution 4, possibility of a revision of the which refers to the land and Import Tariff of China, and, while buildinga hoje, I might point out it is not possible to make any that tentative negotiations have de finite statement, it is a fact, I been commenced regarding a take place at the U.S.R.U. ground,

believe, that the Chinese Govern-sale of the land and buildings of Kowloon, on Wednesday after-sider, and if thought fit to passment has approached the Powers the mill, which if brought to a the resolutions that have been on this matter, and we may con-uccessful issue would obviate circulated, and which are necess-clude that at perbapa no distant the necessity and expense of The French mail steamer Corry if the shareholders desire to date the import duty un yarn will forming the proposed Sukunpoo dillere, which arrived in port sanoin the transfer of the mill be materially increased, whereas Real Estate Co. Ltd., and rescue Shanghai. The details of the given the same measure of pro- drawn up conferring the neces yesterday, had 176 passougors for machinery and undertaking to mille operating in China may be tion. No. 4 has thereto e been scheme were fully set before you teation in taxation as at present, airy powers upon the liquidator Hongkong and through ports.

in the circular issued on the 27 il

Un general grounds therefore to sell, or form the proposed February last.

there is little doubt that Shanghai company. I may say to commence with is a more suitable place for a I may mention that the pros. that it is with much regret that cotton mill and although I would pects of wiping out the debit your General Managers feel it not like to admit that a mill bere balance of $117,000 carried for- their duty to recommend the cannot be made to pay, I think it ward from last. financial year are withdrawal of this industry from is probable a mill in Shanghai not so good as appeared to be the I have now case at the time we issued our. the Colony but we consider it is would pay better. only right that the facts, as they said enough I hope to convince virgular letter of 27th February are, should be faced, and I will you that the proposal to transfer owing to the unsatisfactory posi give you, as briefly as possible, the machinery to Shanghai is aion into which the local yarn he reasons upon which our de sound one and I will pass on to market has drifted. On the other cision to place this matter before the financial part of the scheme hand the prospects of obtaining you have born based.

we have laid before you.

a reasonable price for your land It is, of course, impossible for

In exchange for each share you and buildings to judge from the us to prophesy what the future now hold it is proposed that you number of enquiries we have had of cotton spinning in China will should accept one share of Tools for the property are apparently be, but we know what we have 5 in the Yangtizspoo Cotton better than we expected.

AVIO 10 uo' www.

With Mill Lid, which is the name Lf these proposals receive your Tivolity Freer has returned we manage in Shanghai, under which the new company in sanction, work on the new build from Canton where he appeared and. 8 Jew with much succese on Saturday. comparing the results we have ed your land here is not previous immediately, and they should be figures Shanghai will work, and providings Shanghai will be commenced He hopes to be back in two months attained there with the working ly sold you will also receive one ready to receive say one half of and will appear both in Hong of this mill will be of interest to share in the Sakuopoo Real our machinery by October or kong and Canton.

you. I will take, the working of Estate Company Ltd., for e.ch of November of this year. If pro- Coolie's Fall,

the Evo Mill in Shanglist during your shares in the Hongkong fitable conditions prevail, we Hongkong's Bye-Election.

Daring the thunderstorm of the years 1911/12 and 1912/13. Cotton Mill.

would of courss work the remain- From time to time the point is down an embankment at Shauki-profit of Taels $1.22 per spindle you will show you that if Shang- Shanghai is ready to receive it.

yesterday afternoon & Chinese fail to 1911/12 the Ewo. Mill made a I think the figures I have givender of the machinery here until raised that at least some of the wan near the market, and received and daring 1912/13 a profit of bai mille continue to earn any. The Admiralty, according to a telegram in Friday's issue, is members of Hongkong'e govern injuries which necessitated his Taela $6,81 por spindle, while thing like the money they have winding up and the formation of As regards the details of the

for unusually rapid construction. Something of the kind was anti-

should be popularly elected, the

& proft in 1911/12 and only the have a more valuable cation mill that I can add anything further argument being that they would cipated from Mr. Churchill's speech recently on the navy estimater. then have a more direct and

equivalent of Taele $173 per share in course of time then the to the circular and extraordinary, In that speech Mr. Churchill did not give very clear answers to the binding responsibility to the Befora Mr Melbrune, at the spindle in 1012/13. You will, one you at present bold. -resolutions you have already had questions about the missing Canadian ships and about the fleet ratepayer. There is much to be Police Court, this morning, a magnitude of these differences, hai Taels 625,000 to be paid by I shall be pleased to answer any perhaps, better understand the I may mention that the Shang-bafore you for consideration, but the editerranean. A year ago he said that if Canada did not build said for this contention, and, Obinose who was charged by when I tell you that during 1012 the new Company for our 45.696 questions or endeavour to eluci

frankly, we should like to see the Inspector Fenton with the larceny the three ships projected by her the Home government would have electise principis put into oper- of a pair of trousers, was sentenc 13, which of course was a very spindles is equivalent to Taels date any points that shareholders to build them. Lost summer he expedited the laying down of three ation. The only body in the ed to six weeks imprisonment and good year for cotton spinning, 13.68 per spindle. You will may bring forward. battleships as a partial and temporary device for making up the Colony, to which members are four hours' stook.

thie mill, if it had done as well recollect that Shanghai Taels 15 I

8 the Ewo Mill, should have per spindle was paid by Messrs. deficiency. In the new financial year, Leginning this month, be popularly elected is the Sanitary

I will now propose the first was, as a further expadiept, to lay down, as soon as possible, two of have what is something in the the acting Attorney General equivalent of Taels $70,324."

earned the equivalent of Tuela, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., resolution and after it has been Bard, and on May we are to At the Supreme Court to-day $311,418 instead of only the Shanghai for the 9,930 spindles scoonded, the matter will be. the four battleships on the new programme. In 1915-16, if Canada nature of a novelty for Hongkong entered a nolle prosequi in the

bought in 1912, but a half of that before the meeting for discussion. still remains inactive, the Admiralty, he said, would have to lay a bye election. On the last case of Li Chung on the charge you that the poor results obtained sad in view of the greater age of

Now, gentlemen, I can assure was practically new machinery, Tao first resolution is down one battleship earlier than usual.

occasion, when three sent fell of eta bizzling $1,850 bolonging bore have nothing whatever to that now available for disposal, Mr. Churchill said that in the year just ended the 10 per cent. the retiring members, but this The defendent was therefore foreign management. We have per spindle is a fair valuation, vacant, there was no oppostiion to to Tam Cheong and Lo Kit Ping. do with the personnel of the it is considered that Taola 13 68 surplus of capital ships available for general purposes outside the time there is already one can discharged. North Sea-where Britain maintains in theory a fleet half as large didate forthcoming, which ia at

every confidence in those we have although it carries with it the again as that of Germany-has been increased by one ship and that any rate a bealthy sign.

Signalling Duties. employed to carry out the general engines and boilers of the mill. it it will be increased by another ship next year, and one in the year

Lieut. J. U. Bradney D.0.mill, and I do not think that poo Mill of 0.936 spindles bought and technical management of the As regards the small Yangteze Command Signalling officer, pro following. Thus, by exceptionally rapid construction, involving Too Many Dogs,"

ceede on two months leave on more could have been done than from you in 1912, which the new increased expenditure for the three years, we are, he declares, to

April 20, and during his absence has been done to make the busi- company will take over at Shang-

had been laid down at the expected time. This is a very ingenioas useful service in kooping away porarily undertaken by Lieut. A are many circumstances which experts of the land aud buildings, which you have just heard read,

that dags many perform a very Signalling will be

While we are ready to admit bis Command and Regimentalness's success. We have found, bai Taels 250,000, you will find in argument and a fine example of a puzzle in figures. But the fact burglars we cannot shut our eyes W. Batarn, D.C.LI remains that Britain will have added no ships to the regular pro-to the fact that it is psible for

militate against Hongkong as s thereof, and chartered account has been proposed by myself and gramme and that Canada will not have built her three ships. The

suitable place for cotton spinning. janta certificates of the book seconded by Mr. Tester, and is naval difficulty will only have been postponed for a year or two and a neighbourhood to ba

In the first place, the hot, damp value, totalling Shanghai Tools now before the meeting for dis will bave to faced later when it will give more trouble than ever. aupplied

This concern has cussion. As no shareholders have As for the Mediterranean, Mr. Churchill proposes to send there is in this position. We are told Sir. Robert Baden Powell, the St: labour obtainable in Hongkong is able to be handed over on 31st hold up their heads-thons against From what we can bear, Kowloon the desire of the Chief Scout, spinning operations. Again the past 18 months and will be avail-favour of the resolution please a battle squadron, based on Malte, and to withdraw the four battle that the place is swarming with Joseph's College Boy Scouts and more expensive and less efficient October of this year. cruisers. It ie a tacit.confession that the attempt to abandon the all manner of dogs, and that night Bodyguard will parade to salute than that to be found in Shanghai. There is one only other item

arried uranimoualy Mediterranean was a big mistake. No doubt it was prompted by is often made hideous by their the fig at 6 p.m. in the College The raw material has all to be in the capital expenditure of the propose the second resolution:

The Chairman will now motives of economy, but it was calculated seriously to damage barkings and snappings, Many compound when a abort talk will imported, and to the cost price of new company to which I need refer British interests in the Levant and in the trade routes to India and of these creatoren are kept with be given to the scoals by the raw cotton bought in Shanghailand that is the cost of land and

That Messrs. Jardine, Matheson the Far East. The revived Mediterranean Fleet will consist of out licenses, too. There appears Inspecting officer.

& Co., Ld., the General Man sight battleships, all but two of them modern, and there may be to be a woeful slackness so far as

for Hongkong we have to add the buildinga adjoining the Yangtze agers of this Company be some discussion as to whether it is quite sufficient. The main thing the licensing of dogs goes in thie

cost of packing, freight and ex-poo mill in Shanghai stated in authorised and requested to form and procure to be in corporated a new Company to be called the Yangtzepoo Cotton Mill Limited (of which they shall be appoint ed by agreement Generel Managers) with the objects (inter alis) of taking over the machinery and plant of this Company, and of carry ing on business in or near

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GVBT-

Disch-rged

Hongkong Boy Scouts.

That it is desirable to recon- accordingly that this Company atract this Company, and

be wound up voluntarily, and that Charles Bernard Brown of Victoria, in the Colony of Hong kong, Chartered Accountant, be appointed Liquidator for the purposes of such winding up. Mr. Tester have pleasure seconding that,

On Thusday April 23, St. climate we have for so many 253,367,00. with these animals. George's Day, in accordance with months here greatly hampers been successfully worked for the any remaks to marke, those in

Khiva's Cargo..

is, however, that a bad mistako has been tacitly admitted and re. Colony, and because of it, a The cargo shipped by the P. port duly. A mill here, therefore, as the circular to shareholders as trieved and that Britain is to be represented, with something like considerab'e revenue is lost by and O. steamer Khiva from far as China cotton is concerned, Thele 151,000. This is subject oredit, in the Mediterranean once taore. Mr. Churchill took the Government. Dog-owners Hongkong on the 15th inst, is handicapped from the start as to an adjustment when the exict occasion to emphasise the importance of the Japanese alliance, are seldom troubled by the included 60 bales of human hair compared with a mill in Shanghai: area of land required for the mill renewed till 1921, as a protection for Australia and New Zealand authorities, who appear to leave for Hull; 40 rolla of matting for It is true that this difference does has been determined and is a The Dominions are not quite fo roady to trust to a paper treaty it to folk to please themselves Amsterdam: 100 packages of ten not exist in the case of Indian or matter that will be settled with with Japan as is the Home Government, but at any rate the outlook shout taking out a license. That for Monte Video; 199 rolls of American colton, but Chins cot the consulting commit'es of the in this part of the world is not unfavourable. The danger lies being so, ons need not wonder at muts, 1,450 bales of canes and 90 ton has been found more suitable new company is Shanghai. I nearer Home and it is on the pinta of danger that efforts should the big number of caninee which bales of feathers for London: 60 for spinning the yarn required mention the matter now as it is be concentrated. But they should be honest efforts and not mere may he seen both in Kowloon Cases of essential oil for Havre; for this market.

[ probable the cost will exceed the expedients to stave off the evil day.

and 5,072 saoke of copra for

It is not our intention to relin amount of Tools 151,000 men- Marseilles

quish the hold our chops have tioned in the circular, as the area

and Hongkong.