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ANIMAL DISEASES.
The damp weather has brought on epidemics amongst cattle and pigs, a great many having died recently. It is reported that the flesh of these diseased animals is being sold in the city. The police have received instruction to prevent the sale of such meat and to arrest the offenders.
LATE MAILS.
The foggy weather has been making Hong- kong steamers late; they have been arriving between eleven and noon. The French mail was delivered here at about 12 o'clock yester. day.
THE SOY CHEE COTTON SPINNING CO., LTD.
The rport for presentarion-to the share- holders at the eleventh ordinary meeting, to be held at the offices of Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg and Co., on March 6th contains the following information :-
The general manager submits a statement of accounts to December 31st, 1905.
The native cotton crop of last year has been a very satisfactory one and the whole of the production during the year under review has been sold at very remunerative prices.
The working of the year shows a balance at oredit of profit and loss accounts of Tls. 206,824.19, including an amount of Tls. 22,050.78, carried forward from 1904, It is proposed by the directors to deal with the above balance as follows:-
Tls.
To pay a dividend of Tls, 25.00 per
share on 2,000 sharos, absorbing 50,000.00 To write off for depreciation of
machinery
THE HONGKON) WEEKLY PRESS AND
AUDITORS.
Messrs. W. Hutton Potts and A. R. Lown have audited the annexed accounts and offer themselves for re-election.
A. G. WOOD, Chairman.
WORKING ACCOUNT, 1st January ty 31st December, 1905. Dr.
To charges account:-
Rent, salaries, legal and sur- veyors' fees, taxes, stamp", stationery, &c Directors' and auditors' fees
To commission account: --
Agents' commissions To exchange account :- Difference in exchange
To losses account, 19 5 :-
$
41.338.8€ 7,400.00
Claims after deduction of re-insurances
To amount written off:--
Furniture account
To balance
By premium account :---
Cr.
Premiums after deduction of re-insur
ances
By interest account:-
Amount at credit, including interest due on deposits and investuients, &c. By transfer fee account :-
Amount at credit
BALANCE SHEET 31st, December 1905. LIABILITIES.
Capital account... Reserve fund
Extra reserve fund
2.
48,738.36
[February 24, 1906..
HONGKONG
DRAMATIC CLUB,
AMATEURA ***
PRESENTATION OF
CL
PRINCESS TOTO." The Hongkong Amateur Dramatic Club are to be congratulated on their successful presenta tion of "Princess Toto." On Feb. 15 witnessed the inaugural performance of a week's run in the Theatre Royal, and it is satisfactory to be able to pronounce the venture as praiseworthy as any in the history of the Club. This țis all the more gratifying when it is remembered that the organisation has suffered the loss of some of its more prominent members, notably Mr. George Lammert, who had recently to leave very hurriedly in the interests of his wife's health, but worthy successors have been found to take the places of those who from various causes are no longer found in the ranks of the amateurs, so that the club's reputation for doing things well is not likely to experience any $505,931.Gchange or betray any. indications of
deterioration.
41,773.13
2,972.48
68,218.21
100.00
341,098.98
$ C.
371.162.46
134,639.09
139.14
In sзlecting "Princess Toto " for per- formance, the Club have exercised a wise judg ment. It is not too intricate, and affords ample scope for individuality, especially for some of the principals in the domain of | fun and frolic, while the chorus work is pleas
ing without being too exacting. The opera is at the same time thoroughly Gilbertian. It $305,031.69 bristles with laughable absurdities and grotesque situations. As is pretty well known, the story, such as it is, centres round the movements of a very eccentric Royal family. King Portico, $ C.
who might be described as an amiable nonentity 400,000.00 1,000,000.00 filling an exalted position, is harassed with 229,488.02 the necessity of maintaining his dignity,
2,616.75 so that
we may not appear ri liculous in the eyes of surrounding nations."
The extent to which this feeling possesses him is indicated by his rejoinder to the minister who opined that they would all "go stark staring mad' in the event of a certain contingency:
141,(86.48
344,098.98
$2,117,294.24
66,146.39
Investment fnctuation account. Accounts payable :-
Dividend for 1904
120,000.00
To write off for depreciation of
furniture...
208.24
Losses outstanding and sun-
dries
21,086.48
To write off for depreciation of
buildings...
13,061.64
Working account, 1996 :--
Balance at credit
To place 5 per cent. to legal reserve fund (in accordance with rule 24 of the articles of association) To reduce the book value of the mill
stores account by
10,341.21
ASSETS,
10,397.66
20,682.42
35,986,63
Cash at bankers.. Fixed deposits at banka:-
Hongkong and Shanghai
Banking Corporation Chartered Bank of India,
Australia and China. Mercantile Bank of India,
$
197,035.53
30,000.00
Limited
20,000.00
Tls. 206,824.19
International Banking Cor.
poration
25,000,00
Investments : ·-
To grant 10 per cent, to the manager as a bonus (in accordance with rule 24 of the articles of association)
To carry forward to 1906 account
CHINA FIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD.
The report for presentation to the share. holders at the thirty-seventh ordinary meeting on March 8th is as follows :—
The Directors have now the pleasure to sub. mit their annual report and statement of the Company's accounts made up to December 31st last.
1904. The balance at
credit of working
account as per last
report was.. ...$260,374,35 Add premia since
received
46,680.41
$307,054.76
24,385.86
Deduct claims paid...8151,220.61 Deduct return pre-
mia, &c., &c.
175,606.47
Balance of profit ... ...$131,448.29 It is proposed to apportion this sum as follows:-
$120,000 to shareholders as dividend for the year, at the rate of $6 per share, and the balance of $11,448.29 to credit of extra reserve fund, which will then stand at $229,488.02.
1905. The balance at credit of working ac count at the close of this year was $344,098.98 which is a satisfactory increase compared with the previous report.
DIRECTORA.
Chinese Imperial Govern:
50,000.00
ment E. bonds
76,058.53 Hongkong Club debentures 37,100.00 Hongkong Hotel Co., Limited,
debentures Shanghai Land Investment
Co., Limited, debentures... 49,877.40 Shanghai Waterworks Co.,
Limited, debentures Shares in public companies.
C.
272.035.53
A
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Well, go mad in a dignified manner, and in your severest paroxysm remember to inaintain your self-respect."! To add to the per- plexities of the troubled monarch, his only 26,352.08 daughter, besides possessing in abund .nce the usual eccentricities associated with youthful femininity, suffers from extraordinary failures of memory which naturally lead to awkward situations. Betrothed at the age of one to a Prince (Doro) who was understood to be ship- wrecked, and eaten by savages when he wandered from home, she was later promised in marriage to another Prince (Caramel). This youth is apparently a tardy wooer. He fails to present himself at the court at the time fixed for the wedding. Three days pass, and still no word of the claimant for the hand of the Princess. Naturally the King is becoming anxious. He dreads being made to look ridiculous in the eyes of surrounding nations. On the third day a visitor arrives at the Royal palace. This is no other than Prince Doro, who was thought to have been the victim of the cannibal instinota of a savage tribe. He is anxious to claim hia bride, but the Royal parent refuses to countenance his suit and informs him that he is 'oficially dead." Not unnaturally, Doro does not appreciate his position and after some persuasion induces the King to consent to his marriage in order to save face." While the ceremony is being performed, the missing bridegroom presents himself at the Palace. The minister left in charge has to explain Prince, the matter diplomatically to the and to make him see the humour of the thing. quite successful, but the Prince decides to take advantage of the bride's volatile and romantic temperament to come before her as a brigand chief. He does so, and she is so charmed that she goes off with him, forgetting all about with the prospect of "deeds of derring do”
35-4, 403.15 .....1,373,300.00
8,472/22 132,595:00
Loans on mortgage :-
On properties in Hongkong
Furniture account:-
Office furniture, &c..
Accounts receivable:-
Premia due from agencies, interest due
on deposits and investments, &c..
913.10
90.256.37 $2,117,200.23
On February 9th, as the people of Woosung were holding a procession of one of their idols, some "braves
belonging to the garrison in that town, having insulted some young women who were sightseeing, were set upon by the populace and badly beaten. The companions of the soldiers who had got off in time then or seventy men more to get revenge on the went to the camp and brought out some sixty populace, which by this time amounting to some couple of thousand would have made it hot for the "braves" had they not thought, as usual, Then the magistrate of Paoshan appeared on discretion the better part of valonr, and run off. the scene and with difficulty pacified the people, who demanded the punishment of the guilty soldiers. Fortunately, no one was very badly hurt and so, having promised the people that
finally got them to return to their homes.
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In this the minister is not
Prince Doro and the fact that she is married. But when she finds that the brigands are rather namby-pamby sort of people, she becomes dis- gusted. In this frame of mind she is susceptible to the primitive charms of a Red Indian tribe, who carry her off with them. This tribe is also artificial. It is made up of the august members of her father's royal court, with the King at their head, who had formed this plan to
Hoň. Mr. R. Shewan and Mr. N. A. Siebs retire by rotation, and, being eligible, offer 'he would get justice for them, the magistrate I induce her to return to the paternal aboca themselves for re-election.
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