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THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
--In accordance with the articles of association, I THE MCAULIFFE-RYAN MATCH. the following: directors alɛo retire-Mr. A. Rickmois, Mr. Samuel Fomuel and Mr. James Stevenson, and, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election, which the Directors recommend. The auditors, Metsis. Turquand, Youngs & Co., retire under article 100 of the articles of ́association and are eligible for re-election.
The accounts are as follows:-
Dr.
PROFIT AND LOSS.
For the year ending 31st December, 1801.
£ To management commission (covering <ffice rent, salaries and expenses) and directors' and auditore' fecs..
To income tax, year 1960
To interest account..
To provision for depreciation of steamers, with £20,000 in respect of installations
To balance carried to balance-sheet
Cr.
By balance from year 1960 Iy profits for the year 1901
Dr.
BALANCE-SHEET. At 31st December, 1901. LIABILITIES.
This event, the greatest that has ever taken place in the bruising world of the Far East, came f in Gordon Hall, Tientsin, before a crowded and appreciative audience of enthusiasts. One would require the pen of a George Barrow to do justice to the Homeric struggle between two such doughty champions of the modern cestus. No one who has ever read Larengro can forget the passage where the s. d. pious evangelical Bible-seller breaks forth into his lapecdy over the bruiters of England. McAuliffe came up here in the exercise of his profession as tutor in athletics with the hope of meeting Corporal Nicholson of the Royal Welsh, but circumstances intervened, and when he received a challenge from Private Ryan of the 9th U.S. Infantry he willingly accepted it, though the conditions of weight and age were much against the wisdom of his policy. The patrons of the noble art of self-defence, under the auspices of the Tientsin Club, subscribed a purɛe of $2,000 to be divided between winner and loser in the ratio of 3 to 1, and this with the 'gate," which went entirely to the professional, made it worth the while of both men to put themselves in training for a really serious struggle..
23,579 15 10 10.905 010 16,138 1 0 92,770 18 0 226,731 18 11
£370,125 14 7
£
B. d. 115,964 110 254,161 37
£370,125 14 7
£
To capital authorised and paid up, viz. :-
2,000,000 shares of £1 each
2,000,000 To creditors :--
£ a. d. Bills payable........ 89,382 16 10 Cn current accounts ...321,014 1 4 On deposit accounts ...157,000 0 0 Unmatured liabilities
and charges
upon steamers and installa- tions
441.335 9 6
E. d.
0 0
1,008,732 78 To drafts current against shipments... 007,214 0 0 To insurance fund
9,003 8 L
To reserve fund :-)
Amount at 31st December, 1900 (in-
cluding £310,000 for premium on issue of shares)..
To balance of profit and
loss as per statement 226,731 18 11
Deduct interim dividend declared 18th June, 1901...
Cr.
.125,000 0 0
ASFETE.
400.000 0 0
We do not propose to deal with the contest in detail, the less so as our daily contemporary has done ample justice to so rare sn event. McAuliffe seemed generally to be very careful in protecting his heart, but by elevating one shoulder he also seemed to lay himself open to what is known among the cult as half-hcok blows or severe slinging blows on the side of the head. Early in the contest the shortness of reach of the elder man showed that he was under an impossible handicap; Ryan on the other hand very early in the game began to get in swinging blows in the Leighbourhood of the ear, to which his opponent quickly reacted. In the second and third bouts this type of blow showed cumulative effect. In the fourth round the professional seemed for a while to have the best of it, and floored his man, but he failed to follow up his advantage. The following rounds saw things entirely reversed, and but for the mcrest chance iu the calling of time," the match would have been finished in the eighth found, by a huge lunge from the American which com letely placed the Irishman hors de combat. This was virtually the end of the struggle, for though the match went on to another round before the coup de grace was given, it was 2,21,503 2 0 clearly seen that McAuliffe was dazed and not altogether himself. He showed splendid cour- age and dogged steadfastness, but that was all. He had to take very severe punishment, and did so with a cool determination which was half pathetic.
101,731 18 11
£4,126,681 15 1 8. d,
ly property of the company, viz. : steam ships, lands, buildings. barves, teis, storge works, plant and installations; concessions, Zenta acts, &c.
Amount as per Lalance-sheet at 31st
December, 1{(0
Fxciditure year 1901, viz.: Cost of
1 niw steamer added to the feet; cost of fitting certain of the com- reny's steamers with machinery and appliances for using liquid fuel; extensions, new installations and additional plant, &c.
Pedret provision for depreciation of stcamera, and in respect of instal- lationis
/mcunt at 831st Decem- £ 8. d.
ter, 1800.....
192,569 11 0 Amcunt added this year £2,770 18 0
fy Nederlandsch-Indische Industrie
minal
C1.sh advanced
£
205,364 011
2.726,957 211
285,140 9 0 2,441,616 13 11
en Handelmaatschappij Shares Fl. 2,000,000 no-
.183,622 3 5 ...677,794 2 9
By debtors on current account By balances in respect of pending
Voyages...a
861,416 6 2 64,764 60
21,314 18 1
Ty stccks cf petroleum oil and liquid fuel afoat and in store at cost, freight and insurance...
By sundry stocka........
Ey cash at bankers
625,145 6 9 30,216 7 10 82,007 16 4
[July 28, 1902.
SUPREME COURT.
Friday, 18th July.
IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION,
BEFORE HIS HONOUR W. MEIGH GOCD- MAN (CHIEF JUSTICE).
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ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE. Fivé acts of armed robbery and one of robbery
and wounding were charged against Lam Fun, Lai Fung, and Tang Ki Hi.
The Attorney General (Sir Henry Spencer Berkeley, K.B.), asked his Lordship's permission to add a count to the indictment against the second prisoner of receiving stolen goods.
His Lordship assented, and the charges were read over to the prisoners, who pleaded not guilty, stating that they were with the robbers, but remained behind in a sampan and took no part in the affair.
The Attorney-General said the plea was tantamount to one of guilty.
His Lordship said it was hardly safe to accept it as a plea of guilty from these men. It would have been different had they been educated.
The following jury was empanelled :—A, R. Lowe, A. Ritchie, W. Kissum, 8. E. Sykes, H. W. B. Kennett, J. Dickie, J. M. P. Tavares.
The trial was then proceeded with, and the first witness said that while asleep on board his master's junk on the night of 24th June, he was awakened shortly after twelve o'clock by the noise of some person or persons on the deck above. He rose and went up to see what was the matter, and as soon as he gained the deck one of several men who were on board pointed a revolver at him and fired. The bullet struck the witness on the forefinger of the right hand, and when another of the robbers threatened to stab him he became so frightened that he jumped into the hold and remained there till the meu went away.
Another of several witnesses for the prosecu tion, a seaman, said one of the robbers also threatened to stab him, and in order to escape the danger he jumped overboard and swam ashore.
Evidence was given of the identification of certain of the stolen articles found in the possession of the second prisoner.
The accused were found guilty, and two of them were sentenced to seven years' hard labour each and 20 strokes with the birch; the third a boy, got twelve months' hard labour and was also ordered togeceive a whipping of 20 strokes. ALLEGED LARCENY OF $10,000. Pun Pak Lim pleaded not guilty to stealing $10,000, the moneys of a Chinese bank, in | Bonham Strand. He was defended by Mr. E. H. Sharp, lairister-at-law (instructed by Mr. J. S. Harston, solicitor).
The following jury was empanelled:-J. D. Logan, C. Perkins, D. A. Andrews, B. L. de Carvalho, A. Ritchie, H. Haynes, E. E. Deacon.
There was great excitement during the contest, and visitors from Peking were highly jubilant over the is ue, which was really never in any doubt. The evening's entertainment was supplemented with some interesting boxing ccntests between soldier amateurs. There was an exhibition box between Privates Watkins and Morris, and a six-r and spar between Stock of Peking and Giles of Tientsin, in which the latter was easily disposed of. Finally in an eight-after le had gone the prisoner returned to say round contest, Waters defeat Dean on points.
The whole entertainment was under the strictest rule and discipline, and the disagreeable features which many think inseparably con- nected with the "Ring" were in complete abeyance. The whole thing was admirably managed and the issues decided under the Queensberry Rules.-P. and T. Times.
The Chefco correspondent of the N.-C. Daily News wired under date 14th inst that informa. tion has just been received there that four £4,126,681 15 1 French sailors, presumably lof a man-of-war, have been poisoned by eating hell-fish and evails on board their vees 1 in spite of cautions as to the danger of doing ke. Two have died in the hospital whither they were removed, and the now better. The s.s. Tungchow, others are which left Shanghai for Weihaiwei, Chefoo, and Tientsin on the 11th inst., was quarantined for three days on account of a native dying of cholera during the voyage, and the 8.8. Chungking was also detained on Friday for a similar reason, but was released by Sunday last. I he general health of the place is good, the recent deaths being purely accidental and exceptional.
On the 7th inst, at Bangkok, a murder was committed, the victim being a boy of about twelve years old who is said to have been the central figure in a top-knot cutting ceremony, The reason of the murder is difficult to ascer- taip, but the boy's mother says he was stabbed in the neck and shoulders by several men who afterwards fled. The toy died almost immedi- ately. She says that she called upon a police constable to airest the murderers, but that he refused to interfere.
The Attorney-General (who was instructed by Mr. H. W. Looker, solicitor) said the money was given to the prisoner, a messenger in the bank, to pay to a firm at 162, Des Voeux Road. This was on 20th May last, and shortly
that he had lost the $10,000. He told his em ployers, in answer to their enquiries, that he had not been robbed and knew nothing as, to how he lost the money beyond the simple fact that when he reached the staircase leading to the premises of the firm in Des Voeux Road le put his band to his breast pocket, where the money had been placed, and found it all gone. Evidence would be led, said the Attorney- General, of a statement alleged to have been made by the prisoner which would be found not to coincide with the account he gave to his employers.
Evidence was then led, after which the jury, by five to two, found the prisoner not guilty, and he was discharged.
A woman named Maɛaki Kiku, 27 years of age, a second-class pa senger on the 0.8.K. steamer Taichu Maru, jumped overboard with a baby in her arms on the morning of the 5th inst., while the ship was on her way to Nagasaki from Kobe. Both were drowned, says the Nagasaki Press, fòr all efforts to resous - or recover the bodies were in vain. The reason for the suicide is unknown,
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