June 11, 1906.1
A gents should be able to hold their own against
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solution as to appróting the Directors: eport was then put to the meeting and carried adsaimously
The Chairman proposed, and it was seconded by Mr. King, and carried unanimously : That -dividend to shareholders be and is hereby declared at the rate of one taal per share, pay able half-yearly on the 1st day of July and the 1st day of August next,
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The Chairman proposed, Mr. Lee Yung-kee seconded, and it was carried unanimously That a vote of thanks be tendered to the medical referee, head office staff,”, district managers, and agents of the Company. In replying, Dr. Goode referred to the great importance of exercising care in the selectio i of risks. The Company had had a unique experience, having been the first Company in China to make a speciality of insuring native lives. - He considered that the death rate hitt erto experienced, was very moderate when it was remembered that the field was an entirely new one, and that the Company had absolutely no vital statistics concerning the natives on which to base, their rates. Mr. Hughes, however, had informed him that the death rate had not exceeded the amount expect under the standard tables of mortality. Asian illustration of the fact that the company is confining i's Chinese business to the better classes only, be stated that since the Company's inception, only two deaths had occurred from Imbonic plagne. This disease, he understoĝd, | was confined almost entirely to the lower classes, and he had been informed that other companies operating in China had been by no means so; fortunate in this respect.
THE N.D.L. S.S. “ROON."
CAPTAIN'S ACCOUNT OF THE ACCIDENT,
Accidents are so rare to N.D.L. ships that unusual interest is taken in the case of the Room The Nagasaki agents of the Norddeuts oher Lloyd, Messrs. Ahrens & Co., have sent to the local paper. Captain Meiner's report of the accident to the Roon, as follows:
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We left Nagasaki on May 16th at 9 a.m. Shortly after having left the harbour fog set in which kept on until the afternoon with Bhort intervals and made ne slow down s∙veral times as well as anohor twice. The Iki channel under these circumstances being too dangerous we sel our courseTM westward of Iki. Towards eveling the weather cleared and at 8.15 pm. we were abreast of the northern end of Ikisims. Later we had, however, again on account of fog, to slow down. At 10.43 p.m. the sound, of am” whistle raised a striking echo. Im- the engines were ant fall speed astern. med the ship struck ground a few after and did not fost again. All oleared to take in passengers. The were aroused and supplied with life belts. happened in perfect quiet and quickness rumour made public in osrtain papers that passengers were agitated is not tene. According to soundings taken immediately or the stranding, only the fore peak and hold No. 1 were making water. There was therefore no immediate danger for the passen gers. Towards 2 a.m, on the 17th we heard feg signs's of an approaching steamer which was steering the very same course high the Roon had taken. With rockets and blowing of the steampipes this steamer was informed of our position, whereupon she stopped and kept close to us. In the early dawn a bost was sent by the captain to ask whether the steamer could take our passengers. The steamer roved, to be the late British .s. Stanley Dollar, ound for Moji. The Captain of the steamer onsented to take our passengers aboard send us all possible aid, the more kung we, he the Captain himself lared, had prevented the Stanley Dollar stranding,” which would surely have taken bad he continued on his course a very o while longer.
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critor Moji by the steamer to attend to them. The There is a light hexigonal wood rumour in osrtain papers that the passengers fastened to a central post. Oa suffered from hunger cannot therefore be given are got six small sails of cotton. any credence. It must be admitted that the with booms so fastened as to allow them to Stantry Dollar is not s pissenger boat and was, swing out at au angle of about 45 degrees therefore, only provided with what was absolutely ↑ the bottom of the post is attached a horizon necessary. We did all in our power to make cog wheel which fits into the vårtical cogs of the short stay of our passengers on the Stanley | horizontal shaft. The outer and of this sha Dollar as comfortable as possible under the works the pump. The pump is of the
typs. There is an endless chain, on whi vertical wooden disks about 5 by 9 inch 9 inches apart. These disks run in a rectanga- lar wooden trough, 9 inches wide and 5 inches. deep, open at both eads. The lower end of the trough is submerged in the salt water sul the upper end is abve the small ditohes which supply the evaporating basins. This trough_máy b3 10 to 20 feet in la depending upon the heights the water is to be r a klopa of about 20 deg At the upper end of th pisses around the hori windmill, and this shaft is
After the passengers had been transferred, an attempt was made with tow ropes to refloat-the Roon, but without avail. As the Stanley Dollar | ́wanted to land our passengers as quickly as possible, no further effort was made by her to tow the Roon off the rock and at 1 p.m. she started on the voyage to Moji.
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On the Roon everything possible was done to Fave the ship. By shifting cargo from the fore part to the after psrt and filling several com. partments in the stern with water, we tried to lift the vessel's bow. Several attempts to get clear with our engines and the dropping of au anchor to help to heave her off were of no avail. The shifting of cargo was continued by the crew by day and night without ceas stion. [
On the 18th inst., lighters arrived from Moji and the mails and passengers' personal effects were taken to Moji by them. At 7 p.m. the 8.M.8 Hanza appeared and her commander immediately sent hands on board the Boon to assist in the shifting of cargo. Ou the morning of the 19th inst. tow ropes ware taken to the Hanes and two attempts made to ref at the Boon, but the ropes broke magh tim: Moan- while, hold No. 6 was filled with water by the salvage steamer Jura-maru which had arrived on the soane. Some cargo from the fore hold and a quantity of opal wère jettisoned. Towards noon, Japanese orniser arrived and offered to help. At 6 p.m. the Roon suddenly refloated and got clear without aid and steamed to Nagasaki, accompanied by the S.M.8. Hansa, arriving here safely on the 20th inst. at 11 a.m.
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It may be stated, adds the Nagasaki Press, that the stranding is directly traceable to a quite unusual strong turn of the current to the North.
THE SALT INDUSTRY IN CHINA.
Consul-General Ragsdale, representative of the United States at Tientsin, describes the methods of making salt along the northern coast of Chin. Many tons of impure salt are made each year at different points on the coast of North Chia, extending from Tongka to hanhaikwan and Newchwang. The methods employed are the same in each place, and the same have been in use certainly from the time of Marco Polo's famous journey through Eastern China. The salt is made by the evaporation of ses water. The water is pumped into the evaporating basins by wind power and evaporated by the heat of the sun.
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from Extending many miles Tongku the coast is nearly level and only few inches or feet above high tide. On this flat coast are the salt works. The evaporating basins are made on the flats and have much the appearance of innumerable tennis courts of great size. They are separated from each other by small ridges of mud about 8 inches high. The bottom of the basin is made level and hard-rolled with a stone roller. The basins are filled to a depth of 3 inches with sea water, which is evaporated by the heat of the sun-in from one to three days, leaving a costing of salt on the bottom. This is carefully serped into a pile, and after re-rolling the bottom more water is pumped in. These bising are located about two feet ahore tide level and in groups, so as to be served by a central pump. The flats are cut in all directions by email canals, giving each group water connection with the main salt yards at the railway station or the river. The alt as fast as it is made is shovelled into small boats, which are panted through the canals to the main yards, where it is thrown into great heaps and covered with mats, waiting to be sold and packed for the Ti»nʼsin -market.
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sprockets which fit between the disks. the revolution of the windmill the shaft revolv and the ohsin with the disks travela na trough, each disk pashing its complemant water to the top, where it falls into the am ditches and rans off to one or the other of many evaporating basins. The amount of wate pamped depends, of course, upon the spard of the windmill, and is from 1.000 tỷ 5,000 gallons pir hour. These mills nraerected in groups of thres (a small pisat) or five (large pleat), and there ars about 240 mills which feel the collection depeta near Tongku. The mills turn out about 1730- tons of salt par mill per year. They cannot be operated during rainy or freezing weather are consequently idle more than half the time. The windmills and pumps are constructed entirely of wood and their motion is antomatic. They require but little attention and can repaired by the coɔlie in charge. About оде coolie per mill is sufficient for all the work required in making the sit The making and selling of saltiris a Garernment manopɔly Und valuable one, The position of salt tuota of Tiantain is one of the most lucrative Govern- ment positions in China. The groups of o belong to individuals who have purchased Government permit for their ersation.” All salt made must be delivered to the Gover collecting stations, for which the mikar a price just suficient to keep him about 2 dollars Mexican per ton delivered the depot the salt is packed in basketä and and will corded, each package weighing 500 pounds. The cost of this packing is dollar Mexican per tin. The approximats annual production of salt in the Tongan region is 161,000 tons, of which the provings of faibli produces 80,000 tons, the province of Hoons 76,000 tons, and Tientsin and vicinity 5,000 tons.
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THE NEW AMERICAN JUDICATURE FOR CHINA.
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Now that America has taken steps that will probably end the forensic fares freq Shanghai, we may resuscitate an and by no means mal à propos.
It is related by an Amṣriona inwynt judge who does not mind defisting an i platitudes when he sees an opportun one occasion, in the court over whic presides, a certain advocate
As I stand at this bar to-day? “in behalf of a prisoner whose that he may at any moment be greater Judge than the Judge of am reminded "-----“ The counsel fence" interposed the judge with it, will kindly confine himself to ! the jury, and not permit hime of invidious comparisoni
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Daring the forenoon the passengers were transfered to the Stanley Dollar by the ship's boats. Sufficient provisions for 14 days, includ- ing several razas of fruit and large quantities The windmills used for pumping the the Chinese, who of tea and milk, were sent aboard the steamer salt water into the basins are most ingeni-, but thom of for the passengers and the Captain ordered the ons and of a type met with only in ' Germany until
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