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conatry, cutting as it does at the very roof and
· foundations of the state structure-Ancestral to the charge of hypocricy, the
Worship religion to further their own
making use pecuniary ends, although, of course, there have been, and are such cases, taken as a body, they are as sincere as the rest of people, and so sweeping a charge is hardly worth the trouble of refuting; but as regards the charge of political intrigue, the truth of this, alas! was only too clearly demonstrated to the world by the Shanghai Press recently, on the part of the Catholies, and only last year the late Viceroy T'an complained to the Tsungli-Yamén of Protestant Missionaries being guilty of the same thing in the Kwang Tang provinces, and a circular was issued by the American Cousul warning all missionaries against mixing themselves up with Chinese law suits under over of religious privilege.
Canton, May 12th, 1900.
Your truly,
VERITAS.
THE TRANSPORT OF PLAGUE VIC. TIMS AND INFECTED CLOTHING.
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Hongkong 16th May, 1900. Sir,-While the sanitary regulations are being so stringently inforced, it seems a glaring in- consistency that an utter lack of precaution should characterise the removal of plague vic. tims and infected clothing.
Every day a grim sight is to be seen along the most frequented roads-the S.B. ambulance, coffin, and large baskets. As they are being jeggled along, the patient, corpse, and clothing, therein conveyed, may spread the bacilli, and these, when the weather is dry, may float about with the dust.
bo advisable for the Sanitary Perhaps it
may Board to have, for every infected district, a bamboo jetty and sumpan to convey patients and corpses; and the clothing disinfected in the premises infected. Sometimes the contents of the baskets stink, and things drop along
the route.
Even if deemed non-hazardous, the actual process is most disagreeable to passers-by, and constitutes a most uncanny nuisance. Is it because Hongkong has lost the terror inspired by plague?-Respectfully yours,
BALTHAZAR.
TEN ALICE MEMORIAL AND NETHERSOLE HOSPITALS.
The Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospitals:
A. Chinoy
W. Stuart Harrison
R. Cooke
H. N. Cooper
Anonymous A. Hancock E. W. Mitchell
A. Shaw
E. W. Butter
H. P. Wadman
G. L. Tomlin R. W. Dale
Heuermann, Herbst & Co.
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A Tokyo dispatch to the Osaka Asahi an. nounces that the value of opium for smoking manufactured in Formosa now exceeds Yea 4,500,000 a year, the raw material being chiefly supplied from ersia and India.
H. B. H. Prince Abhakara of Siam, who was for some time in Her Britannic Majesty's Navy, has invented a new submerged torpedo- tube, which the Admiralty is said to have ac- cepted from him.
CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT:
A. S. WATSON AND CO., LIMITED.
On the 14th inst, at noon the fifteenth aunnal
ordinary general meeting of shareholders in the above company (since its registration) was held at the Hongkong Dispensary, Mr. Hart Back presided. and there were also present Messrs. G. Murray Bain, W. Hutton Potts, H. Veitoh, Paul Jordan, W. C. Taylor, R. C. Wil cox, J. A. Tarrant, W. J. Gresson, and A. H. Mancell (Secretary).
HUMPHREY
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On the 16th just toon an extru general meeting in conne ou with company was held the offices, 68 1 Queen's Road Centrar. Hart Buck and there were also present Messrs. cell, Clement, J. A. Tarrant, G. E. Willi E. R. Millar, H. Sutton, and W. C. Tarl (secretary), ·
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New Regulations ap-- , and for the purpose * Lubribed by the Chairman same are hereby approved, nd that such Regulations be, and they are hereby adopted, as the Regulations of the Com- pany to the exclusion of all the existing Re- gulations thereof." He proposed the confirma- lion of this resolution.
Captain CLEMENT seconded and the motion was carried.
This was all the business.
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.
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44 "} SHOOTING— A The second shoot of the present series took place on the 13th inst., resulting in a win for Sergeant Lammert of the "A" Cup and for Corporal Barrett of the "B" Cup,
The following are the six best scores :---
200 500 600 Handi-To- tal. yds. yds. yds, cap. Sergeant Lammert 31 33 29 80. 93 Gapner J. Grant Smith 25 27 23 6 81. Guaner H. S. Holmes 21
80 31 4 Sergt.-Major Smythe 27 25 27
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17 16 20 Grauer P, A. Cox 26 23 14 9
HONGKONG.
The CHAIRMAN said Gentlemen: The report and statement of accounts have been in your hands since the 5th instant, so which your yer-eral menting. mission we will, as usual, take them as r ead. The total of our liabilities in the East and in London, including amounts on mortgage and Bills payable, is $119,423.43 larger at the 31st December 1899 than it was at the 31st December 1898. From this, however, must be deducted $75,000, the loan account from the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, which was paid off in October 1899, making the net inorease of your liabilities $44,423.43. Against this our total of stocksin-trade at the 31st December 1899, is $9,917.24 larger than at the 31st December 1898. We have thus a balance to the good of increased stooks over increased liabilities of $45,493.81 ▲ large proportion of this increase in stooks has taken place at Manila, where this year we are consequently beginning to reap the benefit of being able to meet the requirements of all comers, resulting in a steadily increasing business. Here also., in Hongkong, stooks hare been added to, with the result that a greater uriety of goods brings us an exisnded trade from the local public and from travellers and who pass through Hongkong in tourists,
We have constantly increasing numbers.
established at West
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ad. ditional well-equipped and up-to-date aerated water factory and are constructing in the same bulding suitable storage for large stocks of wines and spirits. Regarding our property assets, section "▲ of Iuland Lot No. 17 and the buildings thereon has been written down $4,000 from the amount it stood at in the previous balance sheet, for depreciation merely as matter of ordinary business prudence. In re- forence to the Kowloon Inland Lots, a portion. of Lot, No. 549 was sold in July last at $1.20 per square foot, the resulting profit, after spending $1,920 during the year in improve ments, etc., on the whole p operty, was 83,537 which has been included in profit and loss account. The remaining land now stands in the books at 40 coats per square foot. Inland Lot No. 16 and the buildings thereon remains in the accounts at 149,000 as before. Daring the
beeu past year $15.500 have
speut this property in structural altera- tions and repairs and the whole of this amount has been charged to and written off under repairs account. The buildings have thus been brought into a sound and modern condition, and the property was valued by Messrs Leigh and Orange iu November last at $170,000. The whole of the block is well let at remunerative rentals. The company's net pro. fits for 1899 show an increase over the net pro- fits for 1898 of $15,523.09, and as tho volume of business generally for this year up to now is larger than it was for the corresponding period of last year, there is every reason to suppose that good results will attend the 1990 working. If the business continues to expand as it has been doing in the past, it may be necessary in the future to ask shareholders to subsoribe additional capital, but this is a matter that for the present I think need not be further gone into. pleased to answer any questions referring to the report and statement of accounts now before you, before proceeding to move their adoption.
A Malay gentlemen who has recently re- turned from a visit to the interior of Kelantan, tells the Perak Pioneer that the people there appear to be happy, and to consider their State second - to none. From an agricultural point: of view he says the State is a very flourishing one. Cocosunts and paddy are extensively grown. The Siamese Government has now placed a Resident in each of the States under its protection on the west coast, and there is also a Resident-General.
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The funeral took place ou the 12th inst. at 230 p.m. of a well-known and much repeated member of our Chinese community, the late Mr. Lee Sing, of Lai Hing & Co,, who died on the 8th iust., in his 71st year.
On the 13th inst. Capt. Eland, adjutant of the Volunteer Corps, met with an accident in- volving considerable damage his right thumb. It appears that he got his hand caught in an electric fan. Fortunately, however, the report that it was necessary to amputate the thumb tarned out not to be true.
The Japanese ships in harbour dressed ship one Thursday, and the Japanese firms hung out th tir national ensign in honour of the marriage ofe he Crown Prince. On the evening of the 10th inst the Japanese Consulate was gaily illuminated and Mr. K. Uyeno, the Consul, entertained a largejnumber of guests.
Among the passengers by the homeward German mail on the 16th inst. was Sergeant Dunlop, of the R.W.F. who has received a com- mission as second lieutenant and is p oceeding to South Africa to join the Second Worcesters.
At the Magistracy on the 15th inst. a Chinaman was sentenced to three months' hard labour for at. tempting to steal the wheel of a private ricksha. A lukong caught him going away with it. Inspector Baker informed His Worship that it was a common occurrence for men to steal either the wheel or body of a ricksha, fitting the wheel of one ricksha to the body of another, so that there would be less danger of identifica- I shall b.
No questions being asked, the report and statement of accounts were adopted, on the mo- tion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Mr. VEITCH.
On the motion of Mr. POTTS, seconded by Mr. GRESSON, Mr. F. Maitland was re-elected audi- tor.
The CHAIEMAN announced that this was ali the business, and that dividend warrants would be ready at 11 o'clock to-day,
On the motion of Mr. G. MURRAY BAIN, seconded by Mr. Paul JordAN, a hearty vote of thanks was acorded the general managers, secretary, and staff.........
tion.
At the Harbour Office on the 16th inst. Mr. Basil Taylor held an inquiry into the circumstances connected with the collision be tween the steam launch Rising Sun, Chan Mi master, and a second-class cargo boat, of which Tang Kan is master. Chan Mi said that at 6-15 p.m. on the 16th ult he leff Pedder's Wharf. He went astern from the Wharf and then turned round to go to Kowloon, The junk was standing to southward right off the Wharf. When he had turned he got on his course. He passed close to the junk and her boom fouled his funnel. Tang Kan corroborat- ed. He added that his boom and rudder were | broken.-Chan Mi's certificate was suspended for two months for not observing the rule of the road,
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