During his absence Mr. Phillips was in charge, and the Board wish to record, their opinion of the valuable services ren tere i by him and ably soconded by the staff of Entopeans.
Mr. Blamey, da ing his vacation, was of great as. sistance to the Company in Australia, visiting mines and cyanide works, and obtaining valuable informa- tion as to plant: do.
'Mr. J. H. Lewis was offered and has sccepted a seat at the Board.
In köcordance with Artiole 104 Mensre. D. Gillies' and Geo. Fenwick retire from the Board, but being eligible offer theinselves for re-election.
The accounts have been audited by Messrs. F. Henderson and W. Gaskell.
James Orange, Chairman. Hongkong, 3rd January, 1595. BALANCE SHEET, 1st October, 1593, TO 30TH
To cost of estate
SEPTEMBER, 1894.
ASHETS.
To machinery and plant
0.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
Cr.
By balance from last account By gold account. By interest
By sale of concentrates By transfer fees...... By license account. By profit on sale stores. By profit on sale provision By profit on sale opium
[January 17, 1895.
:-0.] duration. -I have the honour to be, sir, your 15,005.68 most obedient servant, 183,278.29
669,41 6,049.68
(Signed). F. HENDERSON.
Secretary.
87.00 The Honourable J. H. Stewart Lookhart, Aot-
ing Colonial Secretary.
71.00
1,055.75
1,418.28
2,825.34
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 7th January, 1895: Sir,—In reply to your letter of the 5th instant $910,290.41 I am directed to state for the information of the Chamber of Commerce that a copy of your lefter of the 20th August last was duly forwarded to the Secretary of State and that the reference to your letter of the 27th idem was made because it was the last received from the Chamber on the subject of the correspondence, `
THE EXEMPTION OF MAIL STEAM. ERS FROM THE SUNDAY LABOUR ÖRDINANCE.
The following further correspondence bag Order in Council, published in Notification No. I am also to point out that paragraph 2 of the 152,172.52
46,359.15 passed between the Government and the Cham-395 of the 2nd November, 1893, provides ezpli- 12,304.94 ber of Commerce with reference to the exemption To Hongkong Bank, Singapore, fixed deposit 15,000.00 of mail steamers from the Sunday Labour
10,000.00 Ordinance
To stores at min s
To main shaft..
To oyanide plant
To accounts receivable :-
Part value of gold, August
orashing
$15,297.20
Part vaine of gold, September
crushing
10,252,43
Balance due, June crushing
899.14
Balance due, Jnlý orushing
306.25
'Bonus, China Fire Insurance.
Sundries
215.52
37.50
To suspense account
To buildings
To reconstruction Klidah Dam
To Hongkong Bank. Hongkong
To opium
To live stock
To office furniture
To furniture at mines
To petty cash
To provisions
To sundry debtors.
By share capital :-
LIABILITIES.
Ordinary shared :
Authorized 60,00 (shares at $4. $240₤000.00
Lose S90 shares at $4
anallotted
Less 2nd call of 25 cents on 143 shares outstanding
Les 3rd call of 50
cents on 874 shares outstanding
$2000.00
$ 3,560.00
35.75
437.00
Less balance 59,110
shares uncalled at
-25 cents.
14,777.50
18,810.25
221,189:75
Preferenos sharon :
30,000 shares at $1 $30,000.00
Authorized expital
Less 1,191 shares un-
allotted...
By Pekan agency
By Manager at Punjom.
1,451.00
28,309.00
331.25
939.11
By accounts payable :
Stores on the way...
$4,401.30
Legal expenses
Due for printing and advertis-
ing.
Directors' and auditors fees... Insurance...
2,650.00
By royalty Sultan of Pubang
By Syme & Co.
By Hongkong Bank, Singapore
By sandry creditors
By balance
WORKING ACCOUNT.
Dr.
To cost of mining and milling
615.09
To sundry charges, insurance, freight, &c. To head office expenses
To Panjom office and travelling expenses
To legal expenses
To assaying expenses
To administration.
Less earnings.
To disbursements, Sin Yum
To directors' fees
To auditors' fees
To amount written off :
Buildings
Main shaft
Machinery and plant
Water wheel
Cost of estate.
To balance
11,469.11
26,908.04 4,287.20 1,551.56 3,266.85
t
737.40
| Colonial Segretary's Offlor. Hongkong, 20th November, 1894 Sir. With reference to your letter of the 27th August last I am dirested to state for the information of the Chamber of Commeros that a despatch has been received from the Secretary of State in which His Lordship desires the
Chamber to be informed that he sees no suficient reason for allowing any further exemptions from the provisions of the Sunday Cargo Working Ordidance, 1991.
192.67 His Lordship also requests that it should be 1.773.17 pointed out to the Chamber of Commerce that 1,833.76 the exemption allowed to certain mail steamers 270.30 only applies in cases where they are running ander time contracts entered into before the 365,74 865 7 coming into operation of that Ordinance and 62.30 only for so long as those contracts are in force. -I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedi- $288,926.02 ent servant,
$221.00 15.50
$10,000.00 5,0 0.00 16, 54.91
500.00 14,350 00
C.
249.698.75 1,774.27 4.337.52
(Signed) J. H. STEWART LOCKHART
Acting Colonial Secretary. The Secretary of the Hongkong General Cham-
ber of Commerce, &c., &o, to.
Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce
5th January, 1895. ⠀
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oitly for the cessation of the privilege in ques- tion on the termination of existing mail con- tracts.
warded to the Secretary of State as requested. A copy of your letter under reply will be for- have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient
servant,
(Sd.) -J. II. STEWART LOCKHART,
Acting. Colonial Secretary. Secretary, Chamber of Commerce, &o, &o.
&c.
THE SUPPLY OF MORPHIA TO THE LATE BARON DE GRANDMAISON.
At the Magistracy yesterday, bofors Com mander Hastings, the case in which Mr. H. G Stevens, of the Hongkong Dispensary, was fined $5 for supplying morphia to the late Biron de Grandmaison without a doctor's prescription was reheard.
Mr. Creasy Eweas appeared for the defence the facts for and said-1 will prove all my case, but I should like to point out to your Worship what the law is in England and what it was in this colony prior to the passing of the Ordinance of 1893. The law in England with regard to the sale of morphia is governed by the Pharmacy Act, 1868, and morphia comes within the second schedule, under which poisons are dealt with. The only regulation in England with regard to the sale or morphia is that the bot. 1le must be labelled plainly Morphia-Poison." It is qestionable whether this Act was ever in force in this colony; and no previons restrictions ob fained here other than labelling the bottie
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Sir, I am directed by my Committee to ac- knowledge receipt of your letter of 20th Novem- ber last, No. 2,261, and I am to point out that the Chamber in its letter to you of the 20th August, not. 27th August as quoted by you, did not ask that further exemptions from the provisions of the Sunday Labour Ordinance [should be granted, as you indicate was the reply of the Poison " as in England. In 1893, in con Secretary of State to that letter, but that the sequence of a practice having sprang up in the provisions of that Ordinance should be enforced colony, very injurious to the interests of the without favour against all vessels, It is clear pium Farmer, of injecting morphis, thus re- from this that the Secretary of State cannot ducing the sale of opium, the Government have understood the request of my Committee. brought in a Bill for the suppression of the I am therefore instructed to again call your at pernicious practice of injecting morphine tention to the Committee's letter, the 20th | by unqualified persons." The preamble says, August, and to beg that His Excellency the "Whereas it is desirable to forbid, in this colony, Governor will be pleased to again lay the mat- the practice of injooting morphins exoept in cases ter before the Secretary of State for the Co-where such treatment has been prescribed by lonies And with reference to the reason ad- some daly qualified medical practitioner, and to vanced by him for the exemption of the mail make provision for effectually suppressing steamers from the Ordinance above referred to, such practice," and section 4 says, “ Any person I am to emphasise the fact that the British mail who shall, except in cases where morphine bus steamers are quite able to, and do, perform their been prescribed by some duly qualified medical 8,966.75 passages within the specified contract time, practitioner, furnish morphine to any persons.
500.00 without the aid of the exemption gratuitonsly I need not read any more of the section. 152.44 granted, which concession, as my Committee un- So it appears from this that no person, derstand, was given them without solicitation. whether he is a chemist or not, shall furnish 15,309.20 With reference to the extension of this relief to morphine unless it has been prescribed by a duly foreign-owned subsidised steamers, I am to point qualified medical practitioner. It does not, you $288,028.62 out that, in my Committee's opinion, relief so will observe, say "prescribed in writing.” Now, granted, on the grounds that foreign mailsteamers I hold that the Ordinance was intended to were under time contracts when the" Sunday La-prevent the indiscriminate sale of morphia, bour Ordinanco was passed, present no sufficient because it wou d injure the Opium Farmer, and 4,519.15 reason for their exemption. In regulating more to provide that it should only be supplied to 6,260.36 important Imperial considerations, which may people having medical advice. In this instance 3,251.97 affect foreign countries, for instance, the im- M. de Grandmaison came to the Dispensary lato. 2012.84 position of Custom duties, it is not usual to take at night on Christmas Eve, accompanied by Mr
13.59 into consideration how the impost will affect the Potts, and stated that he was in great pain. 39,352.74
If that he had been in the habit, under, medical- position of the subjects of those conutries. therefore in such major matters no difference is advice, of taking morphia, that he had left 205,50 permitted my Committee urge that none should his syringe and morphia at Saigon, and that 2,500.0) | be shown in lesser regulations, such as this local he wanted a supply. Mr. Stevens at first- 150.00 Ordinance provides, particularly when it is de- declined to supply him, but seeing the man monstrated that the coucession works nnfairly was in great pain gave the morphia to him against British commerce. Further, I am to on the condition that it should be administered point out that there is no provision in the order by a medical man. He went further than was of the Exoutive Council of the 31st Octobər,] necessary under the Ordinance, But I would 1893, that the exemption to all mail steamers point out that if a medical man administers the 46,704.91
shall cease upon the termination of their present morphia it must be prescribed, and, therefore." 15,309.20
respective mail contracts, thus leading to the Mr. Stevens carried out not only the spirit $210,290.41 inference that the privilege is indefinite in the Ordinance, which was not meant to deal with
8,076.62
110.47
c.
$ 80,879.86
.
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