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ANOTHER Russian fineD FOR TRESPASSING IN THE FORTS.
At the Police Court on the 10th Feb., before Commander W. C. H. Hastings, J. Anoutchin, fourth engineer on the Russian cruiser Rurik, was charged with unlawfully trespassing in the field works and fortifications at Kowloon. Mr. V. H. Deacon defended and Captain P. de S.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE. REPORT.
been there for an improper purpose, was it. conceivable: at he would go in the uniform of a Russian officer P. * Counsel concluded 88 follows And now I would suggest that more. care be taken or a notice board put up to warn people that
the place 18 à fort. This is the third or fourth time we have had trouble with the Russians and I have no doubt wẽ shall have more trouble.. There was one case at Stonecutters' and this is the second or third here and there will always be trouble unless there is a guard over the east and west entrances.
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His Worship-The papers are taking all that down. If this was a local Ordinance, such as the Opium Ordinance, there might be some ground for ignorance; but we are not the only people who guard our fortifications, and defendant belongs to a nation which is particn- larly careful about its fortifications. We have it in evidence that he was in a place from where he could overlook the forts, and I cannot help thinking that when he was overlooking the forts he must have known he was in a place where he ought not to have been. I shall impose a fine of $300.
THE OBSERVATORY REPORT.
Dr. Doberck's Observatory Report for 1896 is published in the Gazette.
The result of an analysis of Mr. Figg's weather forecasts for 1896 is given as follows :- Success 67 per cent., partial success 30 per cent., partial failure 2 per cent., total failure 1 per cent.
The amount of success attached to the firing of the typhoon gun to indicate local gales has been determined according to the method adopted at meteorological offices at home, According to this method of counting, the storm-signal is justified if followed by a gale of force 8 and upwards within 48 hours at a place near sea-level within 50 miles on the place where the signal is hoisted. It is a failure becanse too late," if it blows a strong gals (force 9) before the signal is hoisted. Accord
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORAL
The ordinary holders in the Hon ing Corporation was Saturday, 13th Feb. at presided and there were J. Bell Irving, Me Ezekiel, R. M Gray, R. Sassoon, N. A. Siebs (Dire (Chief Manager), Hon. C. P. Ch E. R. Belilios, V. A. C. Hawking, A C. S. Sharp, J. H. Lewis, C. A. Tomes Ray, G. Stewart, F. Henderson, Hart Buck, C. Palmer, F. Dodwell, G. H. Potts, G Murray Bain, R 0. F. Maitland, C. F. Gonsalves, D. §. P. Sachse, P. Jordan, J. R. Michael, I W. Ramsey, A. Coutts, W. H. Benjamin, H. M. H. Nemajee, 8. J. A. Chinoy, W. Lysaught, F. N H. Michael, D. D. Gudzar, H. M. Hancock, Captain Goddard, and Chuen.
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The CHIEF MANAGER read the noti the meeting.
The CHAIRMAN read the an after which he said Gentlemen, are glad to meet you again with a able report for the last half-year. to pay what has now become the usual divi of £1 58. per share, and place five lacs of dol to the reserve fund. At the last meeting I advised you that we had sold £188,000 of our holdings of Consols, the profit on which, ray £25,582 168. 3d. is included in the accounts new submitted. Our holdings of Consols remaing £500,000 standing at £95. Our other ments both in sterling and rupees stand books at very favourable rates. I am glad say that we have a large portion of the profit apon the loans we recently participated in still unappropriated; same will go to enrich future profit and loss accounts, and will help us to maintain a steady dividend of £1 68. per share in bad times as well as in good ones that is the goal we are aiming at, and we are confident of realizing it. (Applause.
Barney was present on behalf of the militarying to this way of counting, a failure has to be Margins and profits of every kind are not what,
authorities.
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On Tuesday afternoon, at 12.30, Corporal Edmonds, who was the non-commissioned officer in charge of the Kowloon Dock Fort, saw the defendant close to the hill near the depression range-finding pedestal and the telephone operat- ing cells, close by which were some pillars, marked "A 1. military reserve.'" He was with- in the field works and could easily see the fort. sent three members of the Asiatic Artillery to arrest the trespasser, who was taken to Hongham Police Station. He was dressed in full Russian uniform. No suspicious papers were found upon him. Edmonds was asked by Mr. Deacon if there was a notice board on the road by which the defendant reached the spot and Edmonds replied that he was not sure about
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Mr. Deacon admitted that the defendant was
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within the fortification and said that about eight o'clock on Monday morning the Rurik went into dock and the defendant had a lot of work to do in connection with the engines. On Tuesday he finished his duties about eleven o'clock in the morning. He then had his lan- cheon and at 12.30 went for a walk, having nothing particular to do. He naturally went up the hill-and technically the defend ant had been - guilty of a breach of the Ordinance, He (counsel) was perfectly aware that ignorance did not excuse, but the defendant holly ignorant of the regulations that force concerning this particular part lony, as to which there had already been deal of
ohibiting him from going did not see "any « notice board on
• look. When he got to the hought he would like to have ship as shọ lay in đook and he lace from where he could see her, He had a pooket fact that there
the winter for a "Norther," although the cannot see that the future will bring us any recorded every time the gun is not fired during they formerly were in Eastern banking → We Observatory does not presume to forecast those, relief in this respect. It is therefore, sound able, from the interior and northern ports, e.g., ing up our reserve as we are doing we are as that cannot be done till information is avail-policy to húsband our resources, and in build. from Hankow and Chefoo, from which ports no accomplishing two desirable ends, firstly im- telegrams have as yet reached the Observatory. proving (if that be possible) the credit of the round, since the Observatory was started on the in future half-years to place before you satis The typhoon gun has been fired 27 times one Bank, and secondly rendering it all the easier 1st January, 1884, .e., during the past 13 years. factory reports. (Applause.) In my During the same period it has 30 times blown at the last meeting 1 alluded to the February (norther), once in June (typhoon), 5 with us in London in current account belong. a gale of fores 8 and upwards: once in amount of sterling that was then deposited times in July (typhoons), 3 times in Augusting to the Chinese Government.· Our London times in October (typhoons), and twice in A considerable amount of said funds has since (typhoons), 11 times in September (typhoons), current accounts then aggregated £6,315,097 December (northers).
bean withdrawn, reducing the sterling current
the 81st Decemb accounts to £3,888,564
have passed over the colony during the past 13 | A corresponding arrasa has taken place
A table is given showing all the gales that years and the warnings given by the typhoon our cash balance, say $25,765,722 on the gan. This shows 75 per cent. of success count- December as against 852,409,687 on the 30th ing all the gales and all the times the gun was June, 1896. Our fixed deposits in gold arð fired, or 83 per cent. of success if the "Northers"
by £144,000 than they were six month be left out of the account. This, Dr. being £2,626,307 against £2,770,7 Doberck says, compares favourably with the receivable on the Slet December percentage of success in the British Isles: $80,217,513 as against $71,727,698 58 per cent. only of which are just fed by half-year. The dearness of mone subsequent gales of force 8 and upwards during the half-year brought (mean of the 10 years 1884-93 inclusive). business to the Eastern banks, and This leaves out of account the fact that were fully and profitably en
emplo in those isolated instances where the gun
most of the time. So much was not fired warning was given by notices issued and, of late years, by lanterns hoisted During the first eight years it was
ouble. He did not know there | the wind blew 37 miles per hour, oned when the field than there
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while during the past four years it was fired when the wind blow only 27 miles per hour on an average. This shows an improvement with the increase of staff that took place in the mean time, and with the increase in the number of telegraphic reporting stations.
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let us hope that the efforts so generously.
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fact:| Limited, Yokohams, in the past half year, was the ye
go $32,580, and it is proposed to pay a dividend of If he had 20 per cent. «
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