April 23, 1896.J
ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
The annual meeting of the Finance Com. mittee of the Alice Memorial Hospital was held at the Hospital on the afternoon of the 20th April. Hon. J. H. Stewart Lockhart presided, and there were also present-Hon. A. M&Cona- chie, Dr. Chalmers, Dr. J. C. Thomson (Secretary), Mr. W. H. Wickham (Treasurer): and Mr. G. Murray Bain.
The first business was the election of Chair. man for the ensuing year.
Dr. THOMSON-I have very much pleasure in proposing that we re-elect Mr. Stewart Lockhart to the office of Chairman. Mr. Stewart Lockhart has been Chairman for the past year or two during troublous times, which he has seen safely through, and I should like to see this year something like the ease and comfort which characterised the chair in ordinary times. I therefore propose that Mr. Stewart Lockhart he reappointed Chairman. (Applause.)
Hon. A. MCCONACHIE-I beg to second. Carried.
The CHAIRMAN-I thank you very much for the honour you have again conferred upon me in re-electing me to this important post, and I hope, and trust that the ease and comfort which Dr. Thomson has promised will become a reality.
The report of the sub-committee appointed to consider Dr. Young's bequest was read and it was resolved, on the motion of Mr. BAIN, seconded by Mr. WICKHAM, to confirm the action taken by the sub-Committee.
On the motion of Hon. A. McCONACHIE, seconded by Dr. CHALMERS, the report and accounts were adopted and passed.
The CHAIRMAN-That is all the formal business we have to transact, but there is one other matter which I regret I have to bring to your notice. Mr. Wickham is about to leave for England for a well-earned holiday, and he has found it necessary on that account to send in his resignation of the post of hon. treasurer. As you are all aware, Mr. Wickham has discharged the onerous duties of that post for many years, and has fulfilled them in a manner satisfactory in every way to the hos- pital and to the public generally (applause);
and I am sure I am expressing the feelings of all the members of the Finance Committee when I say that it is with great regret that we have to part with the services which have been so generously rendered by Mr. Wickham. (Ap- plause). It will be exceedingly difficult to
find a successor, and in order to facilitate matters in that direction Mr. Wickham has kindly promised not to resign his post until every effort has been made to find someone who will undertake the duties which he is about to give up. With a view to a satisfactory settle- ment of this matter I suggest that a sub-com- mittee be appointed to find a successor to Mr. Wickham, the sub-committee to consist of the .Superintendent, the Chairman, and the Trea-
surer himself.
Dr. THOMSON-I beg to second the proposal, and in doing so I should like to add to Mr. Stewart Lockhart's remarks about Mr. Wick- "ham's work. I have been most closely in con. tact with Mr. Wickham during the past four years, and he has been most angrudging in his labour and most ungrudging in the time he has put at our disposal, and he has always generously met all the demands made upon him in connec- tion with the post. (Applanse.) I think we ought to give him our thanks, and our very great appreciation of his kind work for us ought to be put on the minutes of the Committee. (Applause.)
The CHAIRMAN-Before we leave I think I am expressing the views of the Finance Com- mittee when I say that they regard the work of the hospital during the past year as having been conducted in a most successful manner.
That success is in a great measure, if not entirely, due to the exertions of our tactful superintendent, Dr. Thomson. (Applause.) I think I may safely say that so long as he is superintendent of this hospital it is bound to succeed in the future as it has done in the past. I trust the public will support the hospital during the coming year as they have done in the past, seeing the good work it has done and see ng the excellent way it has been managed under
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
the able superintendence of Dr. Thomson. (Applause.)
The meeting then ended.
The following is the balance sheet:-
THE WEST RIVER,
339
In view of the opening of the West River the China Merchants S. N. Company intends
THE HONORARY TREASURER IN ACCOUNT CUR- to establish a branch at Shui-hing and build a
RENT WITH THE ALICE MEMORIAL
AND NETHERSOLE HOSPITALS. During twelve months, 1st February, 1895, to 31st Jan. 1896,
31st January, 1896. Dr. To special donations from: To donations as per donation list
Childrens' theatricals, per Miss
Barker
Market Charitable Fund, per
Hon. Registrar-General Mount Austin concerts, per W.
E. Crow, Esq..... Samaritan Fund, support of
nurse probationer..
To refund of scholarships
$25.00
50.00
737.50
30.00
To rent from College of Medicine To interest on Permanent Fund, Belilios Medicine Fund, Young Request,
and current acconnt..
To bouts on fire insurance To Dr. Richard Young's Residuary
Legacy, £1,350..
1st Feb., 1895.
Cr.
By llance from last account 31st Jan., 1896.
By salaries, wages, and scholarships By food of poor patients By medicines and surgical appliances By clothing and bedding.
By ordinary repairs during the year.. By special repairs By stationery, printing, Crown rent, fire By sundry expenses, as per House Sur- insurance, laundry, and petty charges
By
By
gem's monthly memos... purchase of 100 shares in
ment and Agency Co.,
Hongkong Land Invest-
Limited,
out of Dr.
Young's Legacy
$10,967.50
12.80.
stamp and transfer fee of
the same
Byalance to credit of account with the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank
$. c. 7,358.38
pier there. Some days ago the manager of the Company went with the Magistrate of Ku-In district and a military officer to find a suitable place for the pier, and two sites were selected, the names of the places being Shik-tsui and Tsun-long. The Company has decided to buy the land from the natives.
We hear that Mr. Wenyon, accompanied by Mr. Cowen, correspondent for the Times during the war, started from Canton on an expedition up the West River on Friday last and that they expect to be away about three months, so apparently they are going to push well on to the. Tonkin or Burmese frontier. We hear also that later on Mr. Wenyon, accompanied by his brother Dr. Wenyon, intends to make the journey from Canton through to Rangoon. As Dr. Wenyon is an experienced and observant traveller and an able writer and speaker the 1,205.37 public will doubtless benefit from his obser- vations on this journey through a country still little known.
812.50 615.00
120.00
3.98
12,342.83 Mr. F. W. Watts, of Watts & Co., intends to take a cargo of goods under transit pass to Wu- $22,488.00 chow. We learn that he duly passed his goods through both the Foreign Customs and the native $ C
lekin office and started off from Canton in a large -1,050.98 native boat at about noon on Saturday. Mr. Watts was accompanied by a European assistant, 3,307.50
Mr. Woods, and a native gentleman who is 82-.36 3,793.47 reported to be a member of a Hongkong legal firm and who will doubtless take notes on the 72.45 legal bearings of any opposition they may meet 1,307.54 or difficulties that may be thrown in their way. We understand that the Consul, Mr. Fraser, telegraphed to Peking to give notice that the party were going to Wuchow, and apparently he got a favourable reply, for he advised them to push right on. They did not engage a launch, to avoid complications.
92.41
439.19
568.28
10,980.30
41.58
$22,488.06
The Sub-committee appointed at Monday's meeting of the Finance Committee of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals to arrange for a successor to Mr. W. H. Wickham as Hon, Treasurer have secured the services of Mr. W. H. Whiting, Chief Constructor, H.M. Dock. yard, who will from this date hold the office.
THE SIRANDING OF THE “EXE.”
On the morning of the 14th April a survey was made of the Exe in dry dock. She has sustained so much damage that it will take five or six weeks to accomplish the necessary repairs. Her bottom is damaged from the bridge forward and alto- gether fifty plates are out, while two lengths of the keel will have to be replaced, together with a part of the stem, a large number of frames, and a portion of the double bottom. Consider ing the extent of the injuries the greatest credit is due to Mr. Pell, the captain of the Exe, for his able exertions in getting the vessel afloat again.
R. Cooke. Acting Manager of the Hongkong In justice to the captain of the ce, Mr. and Whampoa Dock Co., requests us to state, with reference to our report, that beyond giving a few suggestions he had nothing to do with the salving of the vessel, the whole of the operations having been very ably directed by the captain.
BRIGANDAGE IN KWANGTUNG.
robbers
were
To give some idea of the boldness of the brigands in the neighbouring province of Kwangtung, some weeks ago a steam launch which was carrying about 12,000 taels in trea- sure from one point to another had to pass through a narrow creek in the neighbourhood of the Bogue Forts. Notwithstanding the secrecy with which the treasure had been shipped -for owing to the daring of armed thieves great precautions are necessary-a party of in waiting and as the launch steamed slowly along the narrow channel a line with a small grapnel attached was thrown by them on board the launch and the party then deliberately set to work to drag the launch to the shore in order to board her. For tunately for the owners of the treasure there were good arms on board for defence and two shots at this short range took effect on two of the piratical gang, wounding them severely and causing the others to bolt. The launch got out of that dangerous vicinity at once. The owners and the people on the launch were so scared at the prospect of the piratical gang watching for an opportunity to avenge them- selves at some other time that the name of the launch has been changed and the launch herself painted a different colour in order to conceal her identity. The wounded robbers apparently escaped. What a satire on the Government of the district.
now
These armed gangs, which are apparently com posed largely of disbanded soldiers, are so daring and have such numerous agents to get information for them that in moving trea- sure in the country the greatest secrecy is observed by the owners of it, even their own servants being uninformed as to what is going to be done till the moment the treasure is put on board the boat-a steam launch by pre- ference-which is to convey it to its destination.
The Kobe Chronicle of the 13th April says: The steamer Kirkhill, chartered by the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, went ashore dùring a fog about 11 o'clock yesterday morning at a spot about
We learn from Mr. Jno. A. Sullivan's share sixty miles from Kobe, Mr. Kaya was the report that it is rumoured the Yangtsze In- pilot in charge. She soon got off again, how-surance Co. will ada."Fire" department to its ever, and proceeded on her way to Bombay. The steamer Energia stood by for some little time, but her assistance was not required.
business next year, in consequence of which the shares rushed up last week from $155 to $178§, for delivery in August,
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