HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTUR-
ING COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
[April 3, 1905.
memorial an Imperial decree has been issued | CANTON'S BUDDHIST TEMPLE, ordering viceroy Chang Chih Tung to devise plans in conjunction with H. E. Sheng, the director general of the railways of China, to
Mr. J. Dyer Ball, in continuation of his
The report of the Directors of this Company settle the question as soon as possible so as to Y.M.C.A. series of lectures on the religions of
for presentation to the Shareholders at the twenty-first Ordinary General Meeting on Saturday, 8th April, is as follows
Annexed we have the pleasure to lay before shareholders the annual statement of accounts made up to the 31st December 1904.
The net profit including the balance brought forward from last year amounts to $121,137.07. which it is proposed to appropriate | as follows:-
To place to Reserve Fund
$10,000.00 To pay a Dividend of 20 per cent 100, 00.00 To carry forward to next year's
scoount
11,137.08
CONSULTING COMMITTEE.-Mr. J. II. Lewis having left the Colony, Mr. H. P. White was invited to take his place on the consulting com- mittee, and Dr. J. W. Noble was also invited to join the committee. In accordance with articles of association, Mes.rs. A. J. Raymond,
D. E. Brown, H. P. White and Dr. J. W.
Noble retire, but offer themselv1s for re-election. AUDITORS. The accounts have been audited by Messrs. T. Arnold and W: H. Potts, who are recommended for re-election.
SHEWAN TOMES & Co. General Managers,
The accounts are as follows:
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT.
For the year ended 31st December, 1904.
Interest
Exchange
Auditors' fees
Consulting committee fees Depreciation for 1904 written off Balance
Balance brought forward from 1903 Balance from working account
Capital:
BALANCE-SHEET. LIABILITIES.
10,000 shares at 350 paid up.
Reserve fund..
Sundry creditora
Due to General Managers. Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corpora-
tion
Balance of profit and loss account.
ASSETS.
and, factory, machinery & ̈*.
as per last account
Since expended
Less depreciation
$245,000,00
6,151.14
$251.151.14 15,151,14
Rope, hemp &o. in factory, valued at
Rope on consignment, valued at..
Fire insurance premia, for 1905
Bundry debtors
Cash in hand...
Investment of reserve fund:
3,800 shares in the China Provident Loan and Mort- gage Co., Ld. at $8
2,50 shares in the China Light and Power Co., Ld. (New issue) at $8.
$ 30,400,00
20,000,00
regain the rights and privilege of the railway
in question for the sake of the Chinese merchants who should be awarded adequate protection.
INTERESTING.
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Pui King-fook, the late Namhoi Magistrate and well known squeezer," who absconded and took refuge in Macao after the arrival of the smart viceroy, and was afterwards handed back to the Canton Authorities by the Macao Government at the request of the viceroy, will be banished to Chinese Eastern Turkestan in a few days to work at hard labour. The viceroy was very anxious at first to take his head off, but as Pai is backed by many in- fluential officers in Peking, his execution is refused by the Peking Government, so that His Excellency was obliged to ask his banishment to the place mentioned, which has been sanctioned by the Peking Government. The
viceroy has already selected two officers to go
with him to Chinese Eastern Turkestan, which is under the jurisdiction of a Tartar General,
and the chief resort of convicted officials. Nearly all the convicted officials who are rich enough to pay bribes to the officials, and backed by influential friends, are treated us friends instead of convicts when they are sent there, and moreover they will be given appointments. The Tartar General will memorialise the throne in the course of one or two years, asking for their release, 128.77 and to restore them their ranks and titles under 400,00 the plen of good conduct. It is now said that 4,000.00 Pri will be favourably accepted in Eastern 129,157.14 Turkestan where he has many good friends, especially the Provincial Treasurer, for his $144,904.62 extortion of money has already made him a
millionaire.
0.
4,087.64
121,137.07
COTTON CULTIVATION SPREADING.
8 395.13
Some gentry in Hing Ling district where 136,509,49
there is a large extent of tableland are now $144,904,62 working hard to encourage the natives to cultivate cotton, which is at present chiefly imported from foreign countries for the purpose $ 0. of the development of the trade. Some of the 500,000.00 gentry have been abroad and have thoroughly 50,000.00 acquired the knowledge of cultivating cotton, 6,808.84 They have brought back a large quantity of 2,955.75 cotton seeds, which they are now distributing to the natives who are much pleased to try their 71,000.04 121,137.07
fortune. The gentry have also given them printed slips containing the way of the $751,941.70 cultivation of cotton.
EDUCATION AT PAKHOI.
The French school at Pakhoi continues to
meet with considerable success. At the recent 236,000.00 prize distribution, we learn from a French 267,257.91 contemporary, Mandarins of all ranks and the
98,476.00
principal notabilities of the neighbourhood were 1,422.31 96,950.25 present. The French Vice-Consul at Pakhoi, 2,435.23 who distributed the prizes, said that during the five years the school had been opened, by the devotion and skill of the teachers, by the assiduity and willingness to work of the students, they had seen every year an increase in the number of students who were prepared to remain the number of years
necessary
to
50,400.00 perfect themselves in the French language and $751,941.70 of the French language.
European sciences. He emphasised the utility
CANTON NOTES.
FROM THE “CHUNG NGOI SAN PO.”
CANTON-HANKOW BAILWAY.
Though the gentry and merchants of the provinces of Canton, Hupeh and Hunam have contemplated and worked for several months for the purpose of regaining the rights and privilege of the Canton and Hankow railway, the work of which has now been practically suspended, no final settlement has yet been arrived at, the financial question being hardly mastered. A censor named Wong Cheong Lin has recently memorialized the Throne asking to take steps to settle the question without unnecessary delay. In response to the
Pakhoi he said, was situated near to Tonkio, and the relations with
the French Colony were so frequent that the
students would understand the interest which
they had in speaking a language which would enable them to develop their relations with the French people, increasing their commerce and also qualifying themselves for honourable positions in their own country,
Pakhoi or Canton, as well as in Indo-China
While impressing on the students the desir. ability of learning the French language thoroughly, he urged them at the same time not to neglect the study of the Chinese language, to write it as well as to speak it well, so that they would not seem strangers in their own country. The speech, the report says, translated into Chinese and heartily applanded "especially by the mandarina."
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China, on March 26th spoke on Buddhism in
China. Whereas last week he described Can- ton's described Canton's Buddhist Temple:-
Taoist Temple on this occasion he
Turning from the narrow street into an unpretentious gateway, on either hand are two large images, guardians of the temple. A stone-paved path leads from this smaller shrine to a larger one where there are four gigantic igures enshrined, the four Deva Kings. This is an example of how Buddhism took over the gods of the old Hindoo religion. Each of these four Maharajas is a King over one of the four continents into which Buddhism divides the world. They have respectively green, red, white and dark faces. One holds a sword; another a guitar, the sound of which causes the whole world to listen and his enemies' camps to take fire; one an umbrella which when he raises, a violent thunder storm arises, and universal'darkness sets in; and the fourth has a snake which is charmed
to obey his will. The Devas or popular Hindoo gods are mortal and limited in power, and made Inferior to a human being, Buddha.
As Buddhism took over much from the
Hindoo mythology in the first instance, so in China it borrowed from Taoism, both with relation to heaven and hell, in order to attract to its worship. King Yams is the Hindoo king of death, but the nine other judges of Hades are of Chinese origin.
the masses
Continuing through the temple, on each side of a quadrangle is a shrine, one to Wei-t'o, a Deva who protects the Buddhist religion. There is another to the God of War, who was a famous general in ancient China, and is now a Chinese state deity This is an example of Buddhism borrowing a god from the land of its adoption. In the main hall there are images of the three Precious Buddhas: -Buddha, the personal teacher; Dharms, the law or body of the doctrine; and Sanga, the priesthood. In temples in South China, however, these gigantio images are sometimes looked on as the Past, Present and Future Buddha. They have altars before them on which are placed candlesticks, flowers, incense, burners etc. There is also a tablet on the central altar to the Emperor. Large lanterns hang from the roof, also red camlet banners on which in letters of velvet appears the sacred name of Amida Buddha. Down the isles of the grand shrine are arranged nine images, the most highly renowned of Buddha's disciples, those who came to China. Two of these are Chinese and sixteen Indians. Altars with all their paraphernalia stand in front of these, and they also receive worship, Twice a day a service is held in this hall by a score or so of monks, and the big drum and large bell are beaten while they chant sacred litanies in the languages of India, unintelligible to them. The monks while thus engaged march in pro- cession about the shrine to the accompaniment of tinkling bells and the beating of wooden fish.
In another quadrangle is a marble pagoda where is preserved a relic of Buddha. Another quadrangle contains a shrine to the goddess of Mercy.
In the temple are the sacred books, complete collections of the scriptures of the Buddhists, presented at different times to monasteries by different emperors. These books are preserved in eight or ten large cases. The priests seldom make use of the libraries, being too illiterate for
that.
Many buildings are scattered about on either side of the main structure. In one part is a pen containing enormous pigs, some being so at that they can scarcely stand. They have been offered by devotees, and are preserved until they die a natural death in all the odour of sanctity, thus enabling those who have put them there, and the monks, to fulfil one of the doct rines of Buddhism, to preserve life. Fowls, ducks, geese and goats may also be seen thus enjoying a life of leisure.
Dormitories, in one of which mendicant and are accommodated; guest visiting monks rooms; the abbot's apartments; a refectory, where only vegetarian diet is served; and kitchen, where enormous cooking pans are used, In a large are also worthy of attention garden, attached to the temple, is a pond into
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