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the adoption of the report and accounts I shall be pleased to answer any questions you may wish to pat
No questions being asked,
The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report and acount.
Mr. B. C. WILCOX seconded, and the motion was carried unanimously.
Mr. SMYTH proposed that Sir C. P. Chater, C.M.G., and Mr. A. G. Wood be re-elected as the Consulting Committee.
Mr. YUEN HOP seconded, and the proposition was agreed to.
Mr. W. A. C. CRUICKSHANK proposed, and Mr. Lo CHEUNG SHUI seconded, the re-election of the auditor, Mr. Frank Maitland.
This having been carried, the meeting ter- minated.
The CHAIRMAN announced that dividend warrants would be ready to-day.
THE CHINESE ENGINEERING & MINING CO., LD.
L.
The annual general meeting of the share- holders of the Chinese Engineering & Mining Co., L1, was to be held in Londoa o the 13t Sept.
According to the directors' report, the net result of the year's transactions shows a balance to the credit of profit and losi account of £102,820, made up as follows:-
Net profit after providing for all charges
in China
Add balance brought forward
from last year
Gross receipts in London
£151,685
€2,119
2,754 4,873
£156,558
Deduct expenditure in Europe, viz:
Salaries, stores, &c.
Debenture interest
Debenture redemption
Directors' fees
Preliminary expenses propor-
tion written off...
£5,906
29,900
10,000
3.250
4.682 58.738
Learing a net balance of
£102,820 which the directors propose to dispose of as follows:-
In placing to reserve for depreciation £20.009 In payment of a dividend of 7 per
cent. for the year
Carrying forward.
Ο ΑΝΤΟΝ.
10%
75,00 7.820
£102.820
[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]
10th September.
VICEROY SHUM.
It is said that H.E. Shum, the Viceroy, will return to Canton about the 15th of the 8th moon, he having ordered a reception room to be nicely fitted up in the Viceroy's yamen for the reception of guests. It is to be fitted with glass in every room so as to overlook the people at work.
NEW CHINESE COMMERCIAL FLAG.
The flag henceforth to be used by the Chinese merchants for their houses on boats is red with a yellow moon in the centre, and in the moon is a green three or four-clawed dragon. A dragon with five claws, representing the Im- perial, is to be used by the officials only. Permission has been granted by the Waiwupu at Peking for this purpose, and communicated to the Commissioners of Customs at different ports, the Chinese officials, Consular authorities and the Ministers of the different nations. But the China Steamship Navigation Company, in which the officials have the greater interest, is allowed as hitherto to retain its flag of the present form, that is red ground with a yellow moon in the middle. A flag with two dragons represents a public company with one dragon, a private trading company. Notifications to that effect have been issued and posted up in every district and town in China.
DWINDLING RAILWAY RECEIPTS. When the Canton and Fatahan railway was first opened it did a very good business, the collection of fares amounting to three or four thousand dollars a day, but by degrees it fell
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( off to four or five hundred dollars, because of the inconvenient hours of travelling, and of taking luggage. Availing themselves of this unpopularity, the passenger boats have started again at low fares to run in competition with the railway, and are doing a roaring trade.
EXTRADITIONS.
When the ex-magistrate Pai King Fuk bolted to Macao a few months ago the ex-gambling farmer Li Sai Kwai had also run away to Hong- kong, where he cut his queue, disguised himself in foreign dress, and escaped to Saison.
The Viceroy having got information of his whereabouts sent a couple of wiyuins to track him; but being unable to find him out the latter returned to canton. Upon further information this time the Viceroy sent a requisition to the French authority at Saigon to have him arrest- ed. and extradited. It is said that Li has been arrested, but the question whether he will be extradited or not remains uncertain, seeing that there has been such a lot of trouble in the extradition Cas of Pai King Fuk, where. $170.000 is said to have been expended in legal
costs.
400 STUDENTS DROWNED.
A passenger host overcrowded with more than 800 people was taken in tow by a steam launch, the Hoi In, from Waichow to Canton. When passing Sui How Ching with the swiftest head tide. the tow rope snapped, and the boat capsized. Passengers and crew were thrown into the river. About 400 of them were saved; the rest were drowned. The greater number were students who had returned from examina- tion at Waichow.
HARD RECRUITING FOR THE TRANSVAAL.
Some time last week one Li. dressed in Furopean clothes, was lecturin to a multitude of idler and vagabonds in the vicinity of the Temple of Longevity. His theme was the advau- tage of emigration to South Africa. He asked them if they would not like to go to the golden hill to dig for gold and be rich. At last it came to the knowledge of the police, and the latter took him up to the station, accom- panied by the shouting and yelling populace. In the station Li confessed that he was au emigration agent employed by a certain Yip A Kam in the Fung In Street to collect emigrants for South Africa. Thereupon the weiyuin sent a number of police to arrest Yip. While the police were away looking for him. Yip A Kam came into the station to bail Li. He was detained and examined. He said he was employed by a foreign firm in Canton to collect emigrants. Shortly afterwards the police brought in his two partners and they also were detained in prison pending communica- tion with the Viceroy. In other districts similar cases have happened.
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posted up in every diatric and town in China to invite people to open the mines, but they are not worth the paper they are written on, 5
KWANGTUNG TROUBLES,
By the recent heavy rains and storms many places in the province of Kwangtung have been flooded and people rendered homeless. Many districts and towns are so infested with robbers and banditti that the gentry thereof are apply. ing to the Government for soldiers to suppress these murderous men.
(FROM THE CHUNG NGOI SAN FO]
VICEROY BAUM. Information has been received in official circles that Viceroy Shum will arrive at Wuchow on or about the 22nd irst, His Excellency is expected in Canton at the end of the month.
CHINESE ARMY REFORM.
It is reported in Canton that a telegram has been received recently from Shanghai that the War Deparmentin Peking has sent a memorial, which has been sanctioned by the Emperor, to the Throne asking leave to dress the soldiers in European costume, cut off their queues, and drill them according to the way of Japanese.
BANDITTI.
The robbers are becoming more fierce and daring thau ever. There is hardly a day on which no case of robbery is reported. Some days ago a gang of about one hundred and twenty robbers, all well armed, marched in broad daylight to the market place named Shau. Tong in Ching Un district. After every shop and house had been completely ransacked, they went on their way to the villages in the vicinity of Tai-Ping market place, where on account of frequent robberies the villagers had already r movel all their valuables to other places for safety. On finding no valuables, the robbers captured about ten persons and held them for ransom. A captive surnamed Luk was redeemed for the sum of six hundred dollars, and for all the other captures the robbers demanded from one thousand to several huudrel dollars.
PAKHOI.
The report on the Trade of Pakhoi for the year 1903, by › r. Acting-Consul Hughes, has been published. It says that the total value of the trade of Pakhoi for the year 1903 shows a slight increase, as compared with the previous year, being £452,183 against £428,849, or 3,431,594 taels against 3,298,841 taels.
The
The spring crop of rice and other grain was a pantial failure. The neighbouring free port of Kwangchowan diverted a part of the trade of this port, notably in the export of sugar. disturbed state of the country along the Kwangsi border during the past year has also naturally affected trade and agriculture. With and of robbery and piracy generally in this the suppression of the disorders in that region,
part of the province, some improvement in the the possibilities of Pakhoi as a distributing trade of this port might be expected, although
centre must remain 'very limited.
CORRESPONDENCE.
It is reported that a foreign watcher in the Kongmoon Native ustoms has killed a Chinese passenger. The story runs as follows:-A mau by name Leong, of the village Tsat Po, in the dis- trict of Sun Ui, had been to a foreign country. and was employed there for upwards of ten years. Having amassed a fortune he on the 31st August returned to his native place. On passing Kongmoon, where there is a Customs barrier, a foreign watcher went on board to search for contraband. He insisted
проп Leong opening his box for him to search. Leong said that
85 he had а lot of THE LATE MR. DORABJI NOWROJI. money and jewellery in the box he objected to have it opened in the presence of a number
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS” of people, and asked the watcher to delay his search for a short while until the people had dispersed, and then he would let him see, Somehow or other the watcher flew into a terrific passion, and kicked Leong into the river. Leong was drowned. The bystanders who saw it, in great excitement threatened to pull down the Customs. Someone interceded for the watcher and offered to pay an indemnity of $3,000; then the mob began to disperse.
MINING "ENTERPRISE." As to mining enterprise in China a few words may be said. Some time ago the Viceroy Shum had arranged a loan of two millions of dollars to open mines, to fill the embankments, and to construct waterworks, but none of them have met with any success, owing certainly to the barefaced lying, squeeze, and obstruction on the part of officials, who are ever ready to put a heck upon any enterprise whenever they see no way to make money." Notifications have been
Kobe, 31st August. SIR-1 most respectfully solicit your kind indulgence to permit me to make a suggestion to all nationalities through the medium of your widely-circulated journal.
The recent decease of the late Dorabji Nowroji is yet fresh in our minds, and I sincerely believe that many, very many of his admirers (of whatsoever caste) would readily acquiesce in the formation of a Committee; the object of which would be to perpetuate the memory of the late Dorabji Nowroji, by inviting the cosmo- politan communities to subscribe towards a fund for the purpose of erecting a bust of the late Dorabji Nowroji, of such a nature, and in such a place, as the Committee may decide..
It may be safely assumed that the memory of many far-less distinguished men than the is te Dorabji Nowroji has been immortalised by! ■ bust or statue; this being the case, how much
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