June 18, 1904.]
A. S. WATSON & CO., LD.
CONFIRMATORY MEETING.
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An extraordinary general meeting of the above Company was held at the offices of the Company. in Alexandra Buildings, on the 15th inst. at 11 o'clock. There were present Mr. H. Humphreys (chairman); Hon. Sir C. P. Chater C.M.G., Messrs. H. P. White, J. Harston, and E. Osborne (consulting_com. mittee); and Messrs T. F. Hough, E. R. Miller, E. J. Moses, J. A. Tarrant, F. Banks, J. A. Jupp, and A. H. Mancell (secretary).
The SECRETARY read the notice convening the meeting.
The CHAIRMAN said :-I have nothing to add to the remarks I made at the meeting when the resolution you have just heard read was passed. Before asking you to confirm the resolution I shall be pleased to answer any questions.
After a pause the CHAIRMAN continued There being no questions, I beg to move that the following resolution be confirmed ----
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That the capital of the Company be increas. ed to nine hundred thousand dollars by the creation of thirty thousand new shares of ten dollars each."
Mr. HOUGH :-I beg to second.
The resolution was carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN said:-This is all the busi ness, gentlemen. Thank you for your attendance.
HONGKONG.
A Camera Club is being formed in Hong kong, Mr. H. W. Merrill being Hon. Secretary. Lieutenant W. Arbuthnot-Leslie, 2nd Scots Guards, has been nominated as Aide-de-Camp to Sir Mathew Nathan, Governor of Hongkong.
Rear Admiral Fauque de Jonquieres of the French flagship Chateau Renault, paid an official visit to H. E. the Officer Administering the Government this week. He was received by a guard-of-honour from the 110th Mahratta Light Infantry.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
We have received from Mr. E. A. Hewett, Hon. Secretary of the Russo-Japanese War Fund, an account of the money raised by public subscription in the Colony. The total amounted to $30,566, of which Mr. Ho Fook collected $10,086 from Chinese. The full statement and correspondence are unavoidably held over.
Major Sir Mathew Nathan, K.C.M.G., the Governor-designate of Hongkong, booked his passage by the P. & O. steamer Moldavia, which leaves London on the 24th inst. and connects Nathan is accompanying His Excellency. As with the steamer Simla at Colombo. Lady
ship at Marseilles on the 1st prox. we have already announced, they are joining the
On the morning of the 1st inst. Police-Inspec- tor Robertson looking over a bridge at Shauki. wan saw the body of a man lying on the stones about twe've feet below. On it being conveyed to the mortuary it was identified as that of Gunner Stokes, of the 83rd Company, R.G.A. Deceased had been stationed at Lyeemoon, and was last seen alive in Hong kong on May 30 about 10 p.m. Dr. Hunter after a post mortem examination certified that death was due to an injury to the spine. It is believed he had an accidental fall.
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The new rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association which were formally opened, on the 10th inst. are handsome
and well fitted, occupying the whole top fat of Alexandra | Buildings.
bed-rooms. spacious dining-room, a billiard-room, smok. reading-room, ing-room. writing-room. B well-stocked drawing-rooms and class- rooms, while the hall into which one steps on leaving the lift is fitted up comfortably as a lounge-room. The fittings throughout the expected that the whole place will be in full premises are excellent in every respect. It is
Educational occupation by the 1st of July. classes will be started when once the hot weather is at an end. note that success has attended the Chinese It is interesting to
A shocking tragedy occurred on the night past three months by Rev. W. Bridie, who class which has been conducted during the of the 13th inst. at the house of Mr. Wong Kam taught the class, not in the ordinary individual Fuk, the compradore of the Hongkong and Kow-style generally employed in teaching Chinese, loon Wharf & Godown Co.. Ld. At about 9 p.m.. a Chinaman called at the house in question. No. 56b, Peel Street, to see an amah, one of three or four female servants. He told the woman that he felt sick, asking her to massage him; and she brought him into the kitchen. Shortly afterwards cries of "Save came from the woman, causing the other servants to awaken their master and also the people living next door. On going to the kitchen it was found that the man had disemboweled the woman with a knife, inflicted other wounds on her body, cut his own throat, and stabbed himself in the stomach two or three times; both the man and the woman were dead. The deceased man, Mak Su Tong by name, then out of employment, was about 30 years of age; and the woman was a widow 28 years of age. Jealousy is supposed to be the cause of the crime, the woman having engaged herself to
another man.
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The Masonic Lodges in Hongkong working under the Ecottish Constitution have formed a District Grand Lodge. The following officers have been elected:-District Grand Master, Wor. Bro. Dr. G. P. Jordan; District Grand Deputy Master, Wor. Bro. L. Ma lory; District Grand Substitute Master, Wor, Bro. F. Howell; District Grand Senior Warden, Wor. Bro. J. Dickie; District Grand Junior Warden, Wor. Bro. J. 1. Andrews; Distriot Grand Secretary, Wor. Bro. H. Horley; District Grand Treasurer, Wor. Bro. J. A. Tarrant; District Grand Chaplain. Wor. Bro. H. T. Jewitt; District Grand Senior Deacon, Wor. Bro. H. B. Bridger; District Grand Junior Deacon, Wor. Bro. C. F. Fooken; Distriot Grand Architect, Wor. Bro. G. A. Watkin; District Grand Director of Ceremonies, Wor. Bro. W. C. Claret; District Grau I Director of Music, Wor. Bro, C. J. Tyndale-Lea; District Grand Inner Guard, Wor. Bro. J. Loobead; District Grand Standard Bearer, Wor. Bro. T. Spafford; Distriot Grand Sword Bearer, Wor. Bro. P. D. Hyett; District Grand Bible Bearer, Wor. Bro. W. Farmer; Dis riot Grand Tyler, Bro. J. Vanstone; District Grand Stewards, E. A. Earby J. L. Cotter, F. Last, P. Jackson, J. W. Graham, and D. Harvey.
Chinese will be among the subjects when the but on the lines used in European schools.
classes re-start.
MISCELLANEOUS.
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At the Yokohama regatta. Yokohama won in the interport fours and single sculls.
A petition signed by a large number of mis- sionaries has been sent in to the authorities at Amoy praying for the abolition of the Municipal Lottery, on the ground that it is a bad example to the Chinese, who are already such gamblers. to see a Foreign Council obtaining money for administration through a lottery.
The following telegram was received in London last month from one of the prospec- tors in the British North Borneo Company's territory-Rich deposit of iron ore has been discovered near the Labuk River; assay has been made from two points 1,000 yards apart; average 94 per cent.. 1,500,000 tons in sight.
The H.K, C. & Macao Steamboat Co. have now no less than three chartered steamers running to Kongmoon, the newly opened port on the West River. These are the San Ui, the Lin Tun, and the Tak Hing. Still another is likely to be put on shortly, so that this Company should retain a firm hold on the trade until the new steamers which they are said to be con- templating building are ready for service.
Mr. E. A. Evers, senior partner in the well. known firm of Simon, Evers & Co., of Kobe and Yokohama, died at Kobe on the 2nd inst., after a comparatively short illness, aged 65. Mr. Evers came to Nagasaki in 1861 to the firm of C. Kniffler & Co., and founded the branch of that firm at Kobe when the port was opened on New Year's Day, 1868, and was appointed German Consulat Kobe and Osaka. Some three years afterwards he and his friend Mr. Julius Simon started at Yokohama the firm of Simon, Evers & Co. He belonged as much to the British as to the German community at Kobe, and is deeply and universally lamented.- Mr. John W. Hall, the well-known Yokohama auctioneer, died at that port on the 3rd, aged 56. He came to Japan from London in 1872.
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As we have already announced, the contract with the P. and O. Company for the carriage of the Eastern mails has been continued for three years from January 31 next year, with an acceleration of 24 hours on every section. For this increased speed the company are to receive an addition of £10,000 a year to their annual subsidy of £330,000, and during the three years it will be ascertained whether further im. provements can be obtained by open tender. The Postmaster General states that he has also procured from the company the option of pro- tional years. longing the arrangement for two or four addi- If the prolongation is for two years from 1908 the subsidy for the whole period from 1905 will be £330,000, but if the arrange- ment is made for seven years in all the subsidy for the whole period will be at the rate of £315,000 per annum.
The Siamese Government has granted formal permission to Messrs. B. Grimm and Co., says the Bngkok Times, to have Kohsichang and Bangkok connected with the Telefunken system of wireless telegraphy by way of experi ment. The "Telefunken representative, it is stated, has had every success in Japan and China. He has sold a lot of apparatus to both the belligerent nations. The Custom House in Shanghai has ordered 28 stations, and is con- necting all the lightships therewith. Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg and Co., in Shanghai, are to connect Shanghai and Hankow with the "Tele- funken wireless system, as a private enter- prise, and they expect that the outlay will yield good results, as the telegraph lines in China are often not in good working order. From Shanghai the representive goes to Hanckau (?) to instal 10 stations ordered by the French army commander.
The thirty-eighth anniversary meeting of the China Inland Mission was held last month
at the afternoon assembly. The annual report. at Exeter Hall. Sir George Williams presided
which was presented by the Secretary (Mr. F. Marcus Wood), stated that, although the clos. ing months of 1903 were darkened by the dread. ful cloud of coming war, the work of the Mission throughout the whole of inland China was, with few exceptions, unhindered by politica, disturbance or unrest. On December 31 there were in connection with the Mission 783 mis- sionaries (including wives), of whom 146 were associates connected with six affiliated societies. These labourers were working at 199 stations, 19 of which had been opened during the past year; 1.688 persons confessed their faith in Christ by baptism during the year-the largest number ever reported for one year. There had been a net decrease in the annual income of £12,878, as compared with 1902, but there was no deficit to record. Lord Kinnaird presided at the evening meeting.
The first annual meeting of the Java-Chins- Japan Line way to be held on 19th ult., but the report issued states that the head agent. Mr. Roosegaarde Bisschop, established himself at Hongkong in August, 1903, and in the various ports touched by the steamers, agents have been appointed. Netherlands firms for preference being chosen. The three steamers of the company. Tjipanas, Tilaljap. and Tjimahi, were delivered in due time, and after their trip were loaded with a cargo of coals to Java. The regular four-weekly service, in conformity with the contract made with the Government, commenced on Sept. 17, 1903, from Batavia with the steamer Tjipanus, and has since been continued without interruption. The voyages are, some changes excepted, as follows: -Batavia, Samarang, Sourabaya, and such other ports on the north coast of Java as are necessary for the loading and discharging of goods Macassar, Hongkong, Shanghai, Yokohama, Kobe, Moji, Amoy, Hongkong, Singapore, Batavia. Although little can be said as yet about the financial results, only one voyage being completely performed, there is reason to believe that the expectations will not be disappointed. The steamers could always be despatched to China and Japan with a full cargo, and they received a sufficient share of the cargo on the other route, as also of cabin passengers. The war between Russia and Japan has not interfered with the service as yet, but the prospects are uncertain. The profit and loss account shows a profit of fl.36,862, which is devoted to writing off on the cost of establish-
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