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TUESDAY,

JUNE

21, 1927.

COMPANY MEETING.

EASTERN EXTENTION AUS- TRALASIA & CHINA TELEGRAPH.'

The

Ninety-third Ordinary General Meeting of the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company, Limited, was held at Electra House, Moorgate, London.

Sir John Dentson-Ponder, G.B.E., K.C.M.G. (the chairman), presided and said:

"A Chinese lad twelve years of age, after a quarrel with his cousin, followed by a beating from his un- cle, with whom he lived, ran away from home some three weeks ago. He appeared in the wiiness box In the Central Magistracy yoster; day, when a Chinese was charged before Mr. R. E. Lindgell with, kidnapping and harbouring him.

The boy told his story in a very

As compared with 1925 there is incoherent manner, the Magistrate an increase of £93,100 in the gross having to use threats in order to revenue of the year under review, make him speak. Finally, how-which, however, is due to what I ever, the following story was ex-might describe as two"windfalls,' tracted from him:

After leaving his uncle's house; not to be expected to recur in any subsequent year. One of these he strolled about the streets aim represents refunds of income-tax lessly until nightfall. He spent received from the Netherlands the night on the Wing Lok Wharf Indian Government-n matter to and in the morning the defendant which I referred in my remarks et him and after questions dia- to you on July 25, 1928; the other covered that the bay had run away is an amount which had been held from his home. The then hungry lad was taken to a meal and later in suspense pending the result of a lawsuit, which, I am pleased to to a house in West Point. The hay had perfect freedom and could inform you, was decided in favour leave and enter the house whenever of the company. he desired to do so.

Trafile Receipts.

LOCAL WILLS.

CHINESE LEAVES ESTATE OF $665,400.

Probate of the will of Pun Pul- yu, aliaa Pun Young-wo, other wiso Poon Yung-wo, allas Pun Fook-yan, allag. Pun Bhin Cheung- tong, late of 99 Caine Road, who died on January 6 1927 has been granted to Leung Wan-han, his concubine, and Kwok On, late of No. 8 St. Stephen's Lane. De- consed left cstate In Hongkong to the value of $665,100. Bequests are made to his sons and their children.

Letters of administration for the estato of the Rev. Charles George Gordon Vaudin, of Witherley Raz tory, Atherstone, who died on Murch 30, 1923 have been granted! to Mr. G. G. N. Tinson, the lawful attorney of Mr. M. L. M. Vaudin, of Courtlands, Kingsbridge, the administrator, Deceased left local estate of $4,000.

Probate of the will of Alexander Gillan, master mariner, late of Zetland House, Hongkong, who died in the Government Civil Hos- pital on October 11, 1926, has been granted to Samuel Mitchell; Bander. Deceased left estate in Hongkong, of: $7,700. His estate is left in trust for the children if his executor until they attain the age of 21..

Asked by the Magistrate why he did not go back to his uncle's The actual traffle receipts really house, the boy replied that, he did show a decrease of 285,115, Taking not want to do so as he feared a into consideration the, disorganized beating, and besides. he was dis-trade conditions prevailing during gusted.

1926, the result cannot be con- The Magistrate' remarked to Ins-sidered as unsatisfactory." pector Grant, who was prosecuting, On ordinary working expenses that it seemed perfectly clear that there is an increase of £16,458. the boy ran away from his home. You will notice that there is a It was not an offence to harbour large increase under the item COLOMBIAN DISASTER. such a boy; but in the case of giris "income-tax

payable abroad,"

Federal ta: ntion, against the payment of which we The unsuccessfully appealed. amount payable, £35,983, covers however, period of some years to March 31, 1926. In addition, Victorian State tax to similar date, £9,984, had to be mot. The balance to be dealt

with fy plus the carry-forward

from 1926 of

making a total of ...

£951,996

413,484

£1,365,430

TWENTY DEAD RECOVERED FROM RUINS.

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New York, June 20. The bodies of twenty dead have been taken from the ruins of a textile plant at Rosselon near Medellin, Colombia, which collaps- ed on Saturday during a landslide. Over a hundred persons working in the mill were buried in the wreckage but it is reported that a number were removed alive.- Reuters American Service.

it would be an offence. To con-which is principally on account of viet the defendant it had to be Australian proved that he enticed the boy way, but in this case there was neither enticement nor force. The boy had gone with the defendant of his own free will and there was no hindrance in the way of his returning home. In fact he had plenty of opportunity of doing so. Addressing the unele his Wor- ship said: Your nephew deliber ately ran away and this man pick- ed him up, and that is not an of- fence. If the boy chose to run You away it is your lookout. never made a report to the police from which sum £550,000 has been and you ought to pay for that placed to the general reserve fund, 1 should suggest that you send him £400,000 paid in dividends, and back to the country to his own £415,430 has been carried forward. people. He will probably run

In conformity with the action away again and the best thing you taken by the cable aystem owned can do is to give him a thorough by the Governments of Great Bri- benting und send him away.

tain, Canada, New Zealand, and The Magistrate then warned de-Australia, and worked under the Tendant not to pick up stray chil-name of the Pacific Cable Board-graph and telephone service dren from the streets in future, or which system was duplicated last he would get into trouble,

year-our tariff has been reduced, Inspector Grant: The reasons from February 1 last, from 28. why the defendant was actually 6d. to 28. Od. per word on ordinary charged was, that exactly a month trafille exchanged between the ago be had a similar cas, United Kingdoar and Australasia. but the police then believed his story.

The defendant was discharged after a further warning by the Magistrate.

SIX WHEELERS.

Beam Wireless.

Board of Communiations, £75,411" In April 1911, a loan of $500,000 was granted by the Great Northern and our companies to the Imperial Chinese Board of Communications for the purpose of reorganizing, improving, and developing the tele- throughout the Chinese Empire, the security granted to the com- panies being a preferential lien on China's telegraph revenue vable on Through and Limitrophe traffics. Repayment was to be made by equal half-yearly instal- ments, the last of which was pay- before December 81,

Also, as you will know, a beamable on or wireless service was opened on the 1980. 8th ultimo between this country and Australia-also worked by the Government-at a tariff of 15. 8d. per word, that is, 4d. cheaper than

ARMY DEMONSTRATION ON the cable rate.

WEDNESDAY.

With the object of training drivers in the handling of six wheel lorries both on the road and neross country a demonstration of the capabilities of the Morris six wheel lorries now in Hongkong will be given in the New Terri- tories on Wednesday. His Excel- leney the Governor will witness the demonstration."

The lorries will assemble near the Diocesan Boys' School and pro- ceed to Chang Taw Ho, Shatin. There the lorries will cross wet, loose sand and mud in the sea, and non skid chains will be fitted to demonstrate the ease with which these can be attached to enable the vehicles to negotiate more severe gradients and deeper mud.

After this the lorries will go across country to Klung Tung where severe country, banke, ditches, buah and undergrowth, rivers, and ploughed fields will be negotiated.

There will also be a demonstra- tion of the vehicle climbing a hill descending a 1 in 2 gradient. The party will then proceed to Fanling for tiffin and return to the Dioce san Boys' School about 2.15 p.m..

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CIGARS FOR TH' GANG!

The aforesaid reduction of eable tariff and this new competitive service must naturally result in a certain loss in our revenue, of which I shall be better able to in- form you at our next meeting.

Our thanks are due to the Com- monwealth Postal Department for the speedy construction of the now land line between Adelaide and Perth, which was handed over to the company on March 25 last. Worked in conjunction with the duplicate Perth-Cocos cable, it has already proved itself a valuable adjunct to our system.

Financial Position as Regards China,

You will naturally be anxious to hear how we stand as regards China. With the state of affairs at present ruling in that country, it has been found, of course, im- possible for the Great Northern Telegraph Company and ourselves to continue negotiations with the Chinese Telegraph Administration, and these have been postponed until a more opportune time.

Our financial position as regarde China is as follows:

You will observe the item in the balance-sheet "Loan to the Chinese

dert-

China failed to pay the instal- ment which fell due on June 30, 1922, which default has continued to December 31, 1926.

After extending to her every possible consideration and realiz ing that affairs in China were not tending to become atabilized, but rather the reverse, the companies decided to exercise the lien in question, whereby amounts falling due to the Chinese Administration as its share of the revenue derived under the Joint Perse Agreement have, since January, 1927, been retained by the companies and placed towards the liquidation of outstanding instalments.

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Efficiency of the Service. I am pleased to state that inter- ruptions of our cables have this yoar been few in number, and, owing to the duplications through- out our system, quite immaterip? as regards the maintenance of efficient communication.

In again recording your direc- tors' appreciation of the able and efficient work performed by the staff at home and abroad, I wish to mention their particular grati fication of the excellent services rendered by all members of the staffs at stations in China, where for some time past conditions have been exciting and trying.

A dividend of 10 per cent. was passed.

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