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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH | 26. - 1919.

On the 14th instant at Chunju, in Challspukto, a serious conflict occurred between a mob of about 1,000 and a large number of Japanese navvies who were

were arrested.

COMPANY MEETING.

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TO-DAY'S SHARE QUOTATIONS.

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Mr. T. E. Pearce, in seconding CHINA BORNEO CO., LTD. |the report and accounts, said he | was sure shareholders would be interested in the remarks that had fallen from the hire of the Chair- man, and was also sure that they would be satisfied at the report and gratified at the return which has been obtained this year. Shareholders would also pleased, he maid, to learn that provision for a provident fund for the employees had been made. { H. K. & S. Banks v.

The report and accounts were

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The sixteenth yearly meeting of the shareholders of the China Borneo Co., Ltd., was held this morning at the offices of Mer Gibb, Livingston and Co. (agents) when there are present Ir. W. G. Darby (Chairman), Sir Paul Chater, Messrs. A. 0. Lang, and A. E. Gritin (Directors) H.W.B Kennett (secretary), E. M. Raymond, O.1 Ellis, O. Baptists, LY. Po, L W. Sang, M. & On the proposal af Mr. M. S. Northcote, T. E. Pearce, A. W, Northeote, seconded by Mr. O. I. Smith and A.HM. da Silva,

Ellis and unanimously agreed to, The Chairman said-Gentler A. O. Lang was re-elected a men,-With your consent we will Director of the Company. take the report and accounts,

M C. Bernard Brown was together with the auditor's certi-elected anditor for the ensning ficate, as read. I think that you year at a remuneration of $150 will agree that the figures we on the proposition of Mr. Baptists, BK Fires are able to place before you on seconded by Mr. Kennett,

The Chairman announced that this occasion are satisfactory and it is a source of great relief and

dividend warrants ware now Douglases gratification to us that after all ready and could be had at the steamboate I. the difficulties and anxieties of office of the Company. the last four years the termina- tion of hostilities should find us in such a sound financial position. Our cash and liquid assets amounted at the and of the year to over $300,000.00, or more than half of the capital of the Company. Our outstandings ander the heading of sundry debtors show an increase of some London, Feb. 1.-To presume Kallans $30,000.00bus they are all the death of Mr. Harold Soomes, Langkata quite sound and a considerable a wealthy man, who disappeared Raubs proportion of them has been mysteriously from" Bournemonth collected since the accounts were on Boxing Day, was what Mr. closed. Our stocks of timber Justice Coleridge was asked to and material, notwithstanding do in the Probate Court this week. the high cost of production, showNot often is a drama so full of decrease of approximately pathos unfolded in the tuarts. $35.000,00, - and have been Behind him he left touching valued on a very conservative letters of farewell, intimating his basis. During the year we intention of drowning himself, have inangarated a Provident and expressing a fervent hope Fand for our staff, and I feel sure that the sea would not give up that no shareholder will grudge its dead. Seemingly, that dying the moderate contribution for wish has been fulfilled.

а

LADY BADEN-POWELL'S

FATHER.

HIS DEATH-PRESUMED.

which the Company will be Mr. Soares was father of Lady liable in order to encourage our Baden-Powell, and formerly lived employees to mak:

somest Gray Rigg, Parkstone. He provision for the future. I trust was staying, said counsel who ahareholders will approve of the made the application, at Bourne- manner in which we propose to mouth with his wife, with whom allocate Our profita. It has he lived on the most affectionate always been the policy of this terms. He was sixty-three years

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Centrals H. K. Hotels and lavest. H'phreys Est Kiooni ands

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Company and considering the of age, and bad been suffering Kang Yika

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nature of its operations, I

from nervous depression think it has been 2

wise dyspepsia. Mrs. Soames herself policy to be conservative in the was confined to her room. payment of dividends, and the! special bonas which we propose time he was seen. At four o'clock Christmas Day was the last to distribute on this occasion is in the nature of a windfall and in the afternoon he went to see representathe Company's sasce ia

his wife, having proviously pre- some salvage operations in which pared his will, the signature to

which was witnessed by a maid.

two

we were interested some years ago and which has since been paid. The establishment of

TRUST IN INFINITE MERCY.

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Borneos: Providents Dairy Farms H.K. Electrics s Fund for Replacements and only too plainly that he had Macao Electrics a Renewals does not imply any drowned himself. He left letters Ropes existing need for further deprecia- for his son, Captain Soames, and Trams, Low Level b. § 71 sa. 8 tion of our properties. It is his daughters, Mrs. Davidson Trams. Peak,cld b. $7.40 only intended as a provision for and Lady Baden-Powell. His | Trams,Peak,new b any extraordinary repairs and estate was worth £250,000.

Laundries renewals which may become

Steel Foundries One of the letters was to the U. Waterboats b. necessary from time to time sad maid, Eva Gale, and read:— which

Watsons auditor considers

Wm. Powells. cannot properly be charged to capital. Gentlemen, during the

Wisewona's past four years our programme for the extension of the Company's

Dur

For Eva. Do not slarm Mra, Soames if I have gone. It is only that as opiates can no longer give me sleep. I am mad with in-

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Horgkong, March 26, 1919.

LAST THOUGHTS OF HIS WIFE. There was also, said counsel, a diary, and in one entry, dated Nov. 10, he had written

WANTED-Offices in Central engaged an road construction business has necessarily been at omnis. I can no longer be of

position by a large mer-work, The disturbance was cantila firm on long lesss. Reply pacified by the police, gendarmes which gave good promise of

a standstill and fresh markets, any use to saybody.-S.

Good-bye all Sleeping draughts to Box 127 c/o Hongkong and ex-soldiers, who combined successful development, have no good. I must try to drowa. their efforts to restore order. been lost 10 as for the time Return library books, as I have Eighty-one arrests of Koreans THE KOREAN DISTURBANCES.were effected on the occasion. being, but now that the too many out, and the librarian

Apparently none of the Japanese Waris happily over we might suffer.

hope to make up for lost time In another letter he wrote.-

I seem to have reached the According to a Seoul dispatch and we propose to devote our For my dear to the Mainichi, up to the 14th cash resources to the acquisition

limit of my endurance. Wher Wife.-In The Mainichi says that out of instant 6 gendarmes were killed of the most modern and up to the

from nervous dyspepsia days are case I can no longer bear

dreariness and nights sheer horror misery of upwards of 800 Korean students and 6 others were injured. All of date machinery for logging and nervous dyspepsis and insomnia waiting for dawn, when one's

of years in Tokyo 600 are students of the those fatalities occurred in converting timber. We anticipate I have to take my life when bodily tortures, and when, one mental effort breakes before various universities, while about Pyungannamdo. Among 180 attend the middle schools. police, 7 are reported injured,

the that by these means we shall endurance fails. I leave this considerably increase our output word of love to you (with my The university students have been BLOODSHED IN SEOUL.

realises one is no longer any use absenting themselves from their It is reported in a Seoul dispatch and lower our cost of production, will) to thank you for all you to others, one is justified in studies for some time, but the to the Mainichi that on the 14th which is now much higher that have been to me in our life ending a life that is so hopeless. middle school boys have kept instant at 11 am. a mob of 5,000 was before the war and together, and to ask forgiveness could be any help to my dear I hung on as long as I felt I steadily on. As a result of meet-attacked the local office of the is likely to remains. As regards for all my short-cominga ings they have secretly baen hold-Gendarmerie. They were fired our prospects for the immediate

wifs in the sad ills that have ing of late these 180 students ceas upon and some casualties resulted. future I would warn shareholders

I have borne all my miseries overtaken ber, and the suffering ed to attend school on the 15th On the 17th instant, a

es long as I felt I could be of ahe has bome a patiently. But con-that they must not reckon on instant, and it is said that they ference was held at the Honcho any continuance of the exception any help to you dearest and best, my int se sympathy has broken have agreed to return to Korea Police Station in Seoul between al prosperity enjoyed by the hindrance, as each year I only trouble, so in vain.

but now I feel that I am only a me in my longing to assuage her by the 5th proximo.

the judicial and police authorities, Company during the last year into deeper ill-health and The situation in Korea con-as the result of which three public which was due to very unusual tinues to cause disquiet at procurators, four police inspec-

For one's impotence to help some places. At Punsan. in 1ors, and some 20 constables re-

circumstances which are not melancholy,

— if only one could bear Hamkycugpamdo, a mob of 1,000 paired to a hospital under the likely to recur, On the other I am leaving nearly everything some for her, if only one adherents of the Heavenly Path management of a person of certain hand, we gather from reports to you, and I know you will dis- could feel that to morifice

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Large stocks of spare parts and children's "Skudders" ca scio. Motor car, lauash and cycle repairing done daily Call and lospect.

THE HONGKONG SCHOOL

OF MOTORING,

APPLICATIONS FROM STUDENTS ARE NOW BEING ACCEPTED.

syllabus including courses for MECHANICS Bes and DRIVING**

collected on the 14th instant nationality in front of Nandaimon which reach is that as pose of it justly... I trust my one's poor life would really help The SCHOOL has accomodation for 200 PUPILS, the They intruded into the premises (Great South Gate) station soon as things settle down body may not be found to horrify aggravates one's sadness, and of the local office of the Gen-(evidently the Severance Hospital) there will be a keen demand for you, but if it is, let it be buried know only too wall that we live darmerie and tried to carry of and conducted a strict domiciliary timber throughout the world, in the simplest grave. It needs alone and suffer alone. the arms. The gendarmes fired search on the premises. Another and provided the requiste no words, but welcome your affee. At the crowd, with the result that party of judicial and police tonnage is obtainable there is tonate thoughts. This but six ripters were either killed or officials visited the Korean streets wounded. On the 14th instant, on the Kyangsung and made son to hope that we shall be have faith the Infinite Merey will Kongju, in Chyungchonguardo, domiciliary search on the premises able to dispose of output to good grant me rest. made a violent attack upon the of several ringleaders. In advantage. Before formally pro-

· local police station, resulting in fixumatory manifestoss are still posing the adoption of the repart

the arrest of five rioters by the being distributed among the and secounts I shall be pleased m Police

to answer any questions con nach

Koreana

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And now that my nerve and digestion and whole body have to pieces I am only a I think now she better without me.

Coleridge Dave leath as from

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