34
SHOOTING.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
ment of the Company is $37,434.14 and after deducting all expenses, remuneration to General HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS,
Managers and Consulting Committee's and The Jannary competition for the "Captain Auditors' fees, there remains a balance of Francis Carbine Challenge Cup between $24,738.37, which it is roommended be appro- the Field Battery and the “A” Machine Gunpriated as follows, viz :—— Co. resulted in a win for the former by 29 points. Below are the scores :
FIELD BATTERY, 200
tod dve
·400 500 yards. yards, yards.
Sergeant Hayward...!” (29
33
32
Sergeant McPhail... 31 31
31.
Gunner Stewart
28
29
29
Total..
94 93 86
Sergeant. Rutter
30
27
28
.85
Sergt. Drum. Brown 28
31
25
R4
Bomb. Deas ...
27
23
30
-80
"A" MACHINE GUN
CO,
Sergeant Lammert 32:
82
31
95
Sergeant Smyth: 1. 30
33
28
32
27
88
21
23
29
Sergeant Skelton ... 29 Sergt. Underwood Captain Sanders : ....... 24 Gunner Plummer ... 22
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To place to Reserte:Fund:7.2 To pay a Dividend of' 40 cents
per share
.:
$ 4,000.00
1
20,000.00
*
To dárry forward to the credit of
738.37 next year's account. Although the Company was registered ou 19th February, 1898, the final call was only paid on 31st March, and for so short a period the results obtained cannot but be considered highly satisfactory. Some time necessarily elapsed at first before the aims and objects of the Company were fully understood by the public, but latterly there has been no dearth of business, on the contrary it is evident that our present resources are quite inadequate for all the employment that is open to them and that we can look forward with every confidence to the future of the Company.
73 26 23 73 29 22 73 The “A "-Machine Gun C.,'s monthly com petition was fired at the same time.. Sergeant Lammert scored the first win on the No. 1 and Gunner Plummer the first win on the No. 2 cup. The spoons were won by Sergeant Lam-election. mort and Gunner Plummer.
WANCHAI WAKEHOUSE AND STORAGE CMPANY,
LIMITED.
cup
The ordinary general meeting of shareholders in the above company was held at the office of the General Managers (Messrs. Mayer and Co.). No. 5, Queen's Road Central, on the 16th Jan., for the purpose of receiving the report of the General Managers and statement of accounts to 31st December, 1898. Mr, T G. Schroeter presided, and the other gentlemen present were Messrs. J.Orange, O. Von der Heyde, C. Rogge, H Ehmer, C. Schroeter, G. E. Huygen, H. Nolke, Kwok Alum, C. Rockstrohen, and Ful larton Henderson.
The notice convening the meeting was read. The CHAIRMAN said-Gentlemen, the report together with the accounts for last year has been in your hands for several days and in the usual way I may be permitted to take them as read. I do not think any explanation is necessary for the accounts, as they have been made up in the same manner as before and are easily understood. I need only add that Messrs. Palmer and Turner held the annual survey of our property at the close of the year and sent in their report declaring the premises practically in the same state of repair as, when taken over. by the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Go- down Co. There is still one other point I would · like to mention and that is the increase in the routs for piers which the Government published last year.
You will have seen from the papers that the original high rates have in the mean- time been withdrawn and I understand that they will be reduced, but whatever the charge may came to for our pier it is no matter of con- cern for the present shareholders as the amount has to be found by the lessees under the terms of our agreement. Nothing else of interest occurs to me, but before moving the adoption of the report and accounts I shall be happy to answer any questions.
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No questions being asked the report was adopted, on the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Mr. RoGoB
On the motion of Mr: O. VON DER HEYDE, seconded by Mr. EHMER, Mr. F. Henderson was re-appointed auditor.
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The CHAIRMAN That is all the business,
·
Consulting Commities.—In accordance with the Articles of Association, Messrs. J. Lewis, J. S. Van Buren. Chow Hing Kés, and Chau Tung Shang retire, but offer themselves for re- It is with regret that we have to record the death of Mr. Wong Hoi Chow.
Auditors.-The accounts have been audited by Messrs. F. Houderson and W. H. Potts, who are recommended for election.
SHEWAN TOMES & Co.,
General Managers.
Hongkong, 14th January, 1899.
Profit And Loss ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR 1898. charges, preliminary expenses, lawyers' fees,
do.
Allowance for office expenses onsulting ommittee's fee Auditors' fee Balance
Interest on mortgages and loans $37,434.14 Less interest paid, commissions,
brokerage, &o.
3,457.27
BALANCE SHEET.
LIABILITIES.
Capital 50,000 shares at $20 ($10 paid up) Debentures at 6 per cent. Sundry creditors
Due to General Managers Balance of profit and loss
ABETS
$34,589.33
.95,163.29
Loans-Provident loans
Loaus on
mortgage, goods, shares, &c.
Furniture Sundry debtors Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation Cash
200.00
$ C.
(January 31, 1899)
ality could not but seriously general welfare of the community, devoutly to be hoped that such questions not be raised in the future,
Mr. F. E. Haskell, who supported, the i resolution on behalf of the American Association, also referred to the question of Settlement Extension. He said :—-We want this Settlement greatly extended, but. we want no nationalisation of any of the ter ritory embodied in the enlargement of our. borders. We desire an area that shall incall times of trouble be what Shanghai was during- the late war between China and Japan—an ob- solutely inviolable and neutral zone. «(Hear,,, hear.) If. in Shanghai, extension is granted.. on any other terms it seems to me it would bei the thin edge of the wedge to bring about the partitioning of China. The course, pursued in the extension here will surely serve as a pre- cedent elsewhere in China, and if we consent to enlargement for the special benefit and gain of for any nation now, we only pave the way further partitioning of the Chinaman's estate.
may say that the American Association has expressed this opinion in letters to the Presid ent of the United States, and the Minister at Peking; not, perhaps, in these words.
Mr. M. Rohde, speaking as a German, also' spoke in support of the resolution," making': short and witty speech.
Lord Charles Beresford in his reply followed generally the same lines as in his speeches at Hongkong. In view of certain récent refer- ences to China's Irish advisers the following extract from the speech may be quoted the remarks which I have ventured to make and”. those which I heard, I am delighted to think" $ there has been no question as to which countrd' 1,538.50 would benefit the most. Given security" any 3,750.00 sound finances, there is no country which would 3,760.00 benefit to the same extent as China hersele. 24,738.37 Just think of what Europeans have donf for China, and remember that General Gor- $93,976.87 don was really the man who kept the pre- sent dynasty on the throne. Then we have Sir Robert Hart, who has provided the only available asset that China ever had in the shape of the Customs. That has all, as you know, been allocated to pay foreign loans, and Sir Robert Hart, if he had done nothing else be- youd lighting the coast of China which I say as a seaman is as well lighted as any in Europe
deserves the lasting gratitude of all nations.. (Hear, hear:) And while we are cosmopolitau 3,900.00 we must not forget that Sir Robert Hart is an 3,965.00 Irishman (Laughter, and hear, hear.) Talk- 13.64 ing of Irishmen I know another Irishman who 24,738.67
has done a good deal for China and I know, if there are banking interests represented in
Fin, this $532,617.01 room, they will be obiv Irous enough, to agree
with me when I refer to Mr. Jackson..... (Hear, - hear.) Mr. Jackson has done, as muchofor British trade as any manninëthis country; and, as au Irishman I am proud to see him in the position that he holds, commanding the and esteem, not only of Chinese but of every foreigner having financial or banking intereats in this country.
53,976.37
$33,976.87
$ • 500,000.00
6.
629,752.67
91.00
672.11
1,419.04 682,19
632,617.01
LORD CARLES BERESFORD AT SHANGHAI,
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THE EMPEROR KWANĒNU,
The N. C. Daily News publishes the following translation of an Imperial decree isqued on the Sth January :-
of the Princes, Dukes, Nobles, and high Ministers occassion we will present ourselves at the Head
gentlemen. I am obliged for your coming here was in the chair, and proposed the following of the Court at the Hnangchieh Throne-hall to
The dividend garrants will be ready to-morrow.
THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MOLTGAGE C.... LIMITED. The following is the report för presentation o the shareholder
'st the second Ordinary General Meeting to be held at the office of the general managers on Friday, 17th February, at
Boon :----
Annexed we have the pleasure to lay before shareholders a statement of acsonn's a
Up to olat December, 1895.
The total amount earned since the commence-
pay our New Year congratulations and obeisances to the Empress Dowager.
As we are not in good health all (ogrt pere- On the 8th January Lord Charles Beresford was entertained at a farewell banquet at the monies, festivals, and banquets usually held Shanghai Club by representatives of the Cham during the closing mouth of the Old Year and ber of Commerce, the Shanghai Branch of the that of the New Year are hereby commended to be China Association, the Municipal Council, and discontinued until further orders, with the only the American Asiatic Association. Mr. E. F.exception of that of New Year's Day, of which Alford (Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce) resolution: That our coʻdial thanks be ten, dered to Lord Charles Beresford for the service he has rendered to Foreign Communities in
The translator appends the following note --- China by personal investigation into the condi.
The Throne-hall where the above ceremonis tions of the various interests we represent '
Mr. C. J. Dudgeon, on behalf of the China are to take place on New Year's Day (10th February) is seldom used, and its designation Association, seconded the resolution.
Mr. J. S. Fearon, on behalf of the Municipal | Huangchieh-Acme of Imperial Excellence. is, Council, supported the resolution and in the
on an occasion like this, most significant.” In course of his remarks said that if Shanghai other words the Empress Dowager has would remain the Model, pettlement of the that Throne ball to emphasise her, su future, she had but to carry on the traditions power. of her past, and to abide by her watch word, Omnia Juncta in Uno. The introduction of questions of exclusive rights to any one nation
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The editor of our Shanghai contemporary adds that a foreigner who saw the Emperor recently reports him to be apparently in excel-
lent health.
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