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The 40-ton electric crab referred to in the last report has proved of great service in building the large boilers for the Yangtzze river steamer. With the old orane these boilers could not have been completed in time.
C. P. CHATER.
Chairman.
30th June, 1906.
CAPITAL ACCOUNT.
АВЯЕТЕ. Aberdeen.
To value of Aberdeen Docks, as per last.
statement
To
Kowloon. $ (. value of Kowloon Docks, as per last state- ment
To amount paid in connec tion with purchase of H. H. I. L., 86
To final payment account
new drawing office To amount paid on account of new electric installation To final payment in connec- tion with new accumulator To final payment in connec. tion with 8-ton locomotive
$
C.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
CHINA'S FOREIGN TRADE.
IMPORTS AND Exports, 1905.
Taels, value 3a 0,1,d
100,000.00 | Hongkong
(Direct Import from)
The following
table may be awful for reference. The figures represent Haikwan
(Direct Export
to 118,071,198 81,452,643 2,921,923 4,823 693 1 653,572 2,324,692 247,847 1,253,700 4,061,088 3,803,481 4.490.324 546 526 34,798,437 || 2,791,540
Macao
French Indo-China Siam
Singapore, Straits, etc. Dutch Indies British India Turkey, Persia, Egypt. Aden, Algeria, etc... Great Britain
113,707 2,031,587 86,472,343 18,064,270
69,642
140 2,058
820 47.649
95 14.846,075 : 5,877,649 1,468,127 443,204 2,266,686 9.534, 34 3,811,634 · 18,872,233
(7,813
249,176 8,170,304
2.308,934.71
2.750.00
700.00
5,879.00
Norway
2,635.00
Sweden
Denmark
crane
2,254.00
Germany
To cost of 12 motors and twin cables for saw mill...
Netherlan is
20.524.00
Belgium
To cost of B motors, &c., for
boiler shop
France...
4.502.00
To cost of new machines for
Spain (including
Gibraltar
engine shop
400.00
2,426,578,71
478 2,397
Cosmopolitan.
Switzerland
27,975
Italy
424.794
301,712.45
Austria and Hungary
1,343,511
To value of tugs, dredgers. launches and
lighters
487.203.89
Russia, European Ports
To sundry debtors
429,742.16
To work in progress
$100,520.66
To value of material on band 1,543,523,22
Russia and Siberia by
land frostier Russia. Pacific Ports... 1,644,043.88 Korea
71.946 1,753.701
(including
To value of Cosmopolitan Dock, as per
last statement
30th June, 1996.
LIABILITES,
By shareholders for 50,000 shares of $51
By Admiralty loan ... £20,000, 0.0
By marine insurance account ............
Portugal
Japan $5,399,283.09 Formosa)..
c. Philippine Islands
Canada
2.500.000.00 | United States of America (including Hawaii)
1.945,066
488.111
3,555,978
2 923,478 2,952,661 2,185,927
47,168 13,84
71,928
[Angust 11, 1906.
CHINA'S OFFICEBLESS ARMY.
The greatest defect of the new army raised by H. Ě. Ynan Shib-kai is its lack of compe. tent and practical omoers. The rank shi fily are excellent material if they were in the hands of good directors, but as it takes at least ten years to make an efficient officer the making of a modern army cannot be effected so speedily as the Chinese authorities desire. The proposal bat been made, and I understand it is likely to be favourably considered, that 5,000 foreign officers should be engaged for that portion of the Imperial army of the North (Yuan Shih- kai's) which is now operating against the Manchuria. These, it is Hunghutzes in suggested, would take supreme command, having Chinese officers in subordinate positions in which they might learn the lessons of practic warfare and be promoted according to the merit displayed. The suggestion is that these foreign officers should not be drawn froni the armies of any of the great Powers, for political reasons, but should be taken from the armies of the Scandinavian kingdoms.
REVIEW.
Feudal and Modern Japan, by ARTHUR MAY KNAPP. Yokohama: The Advertiser Pab. liabing Co. Also Kelly & Walsh, Ltd, 1908 This is a reprint of a book form rly published in two volumes; and it bars evidence of revision to date. Its two-part predecessor was read by the present reviewer with very great pleasure, during a voyage to the country and the perpla with which it deals. This probably accounts for the diminished enjoyment with which its re-per- usal was accomplished. The author has hat exceptional facilities for becoming acquainted 61,315 248. 35,464 963 | with his subject, and brought to the work 825,892 141,285 Bostonian culture, American wit, and a shrewd, 2,387,658 406,391 sane, comparative outlook that saves him from the faults common to so many writers on Japan, whether they be sympathetic or otherwise. A¤ 76,916,838 27,030,773 interesting addition to the work is a short-to¬ note Mr. short-bibliography, in which we Knapo says of the late Lafcadio Hearn (whose work he justly admir ») that “the chief-fault in his works arises from over-subtlety and a m›rbid That is shrinking from all that is obvias.' subtle criticism, and perhaps a little misleading, as it was that subtlety which added so mach The latter clans: charm to Hearn's book. stands, however, and we mention it in order to suggest that the chief blemishes in Mr. Knapp's book arise perhaps from a lack of courage to leave unsaid some of the many things that all writers on Jaran are expected to say. In the new preface, for instance, where he writes, " wa have been marvelling at the virile qualitie« dis- played by a people who for centuries have dwelt ia profound peace we feel reason- ably certain that the author speaks not of himself but of the uninformed public For it does not whom he should instruct. require his lengthy acquaintance with the Japanese to throw overboard the usual “bijou, petty. diminutive, and finnicking" absorbed from the average traveller's cickle, and to recognise the essential virility of the race. Also, the expression about centuries of profound peace seems to have been somewhat
each fully paid up
Less re-payments...
17,118.2.1
£2,881.17.11 at 1 19
Mexico
31,438.87
end Central America (including
By sundry creditors
57,500,0 2,044,855.68
Panama)
South America
By balance of profit brought
forward from last account
By profit.
3 362,232.10 403,256.44
C.
Australis,
New
Zealand, etc.
765,488.54
35,399,283.09
South Africa (including
Mauritius)
1.538,747
13.523
Total
REVENUE ACCOUNT.
20th June, 1906.
To interest
$ C. 62,637.20
To Crown rent..
3,119.05
To fire insurance
3,251.83
36,603.81
To office expenses, salaries, stationery and
rent of head office
To telegrams...........
To legal expenses
To marine insurance account
•
To towage...cē...s...»99 --
To dredger.
To profit....
1st Jan. to 30th June, 1906.
*
By net earnings of the Company's three
establishments
By bonus on insurance premia, &c....
1,400.67 180 v0 8,000.00 136.38 6,460.52
$525,015.90
$
55,252
461,194,532 227,888,197
NOTES FROM THE NORTH.
(FROM OUR TIENTSIN CORRESPONDENT.)
July 25th.
THE TRAVELLING COMMISSIONERS.
iders
I suppose the great event of the past week 403,256.14 has been the return-the safe returu of the Imperial High Commissioners from their foreign tour. The most extraordinary preoiu- tions were taken at Shanghai, Tientsin, and Peking to prevent any repeli ion of the bomb outrage which deferred the departure of the Commissioners on their outwd journey. It is satisfactory that they were eutirely successful.carelessly employed. Virility is not necessarily I have excellent authority for saying that the Peking authorities received specific warning that an attempt would be made on the lives of the Commissioners.
523,912.18 1.133.74
$525,045.90
OPPORTUNITY TO GET A TELE-
PHONE CANTON-HONGKONG.
The Canton Daily News says:-
It is stated that the Assistant Director General of Chinese Telegrapha and Telephones, Taotai Yang Shi-ohi, brother of the Governor of Shantung, who went from Shanghai to Tientsin and Peking to inspect there the local telephone system, has been rested with full powers by H. E. Viceroy Yasn to introduce whatever reforms or changes in the telephone systems at Peking and Tientsin he may deem necessary. It is also stated that the Assistant Director-General will visit Canton on a similar errand after his return to Shanghai.
If he arrives here there might be an opportunity to get a telephone communication between Hongkong and Canton, if the Cham- bers of Commerce of both places take the matter in hand and bringit before Taotsi Yang... -
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As to the Commissioners' reports, no details will be allowed to transpire till they have been laid before the Throne. The Emperor and Empress Dowager are at present away from Peking, and both have ben kick Their Majesties have postponed much formal business till their return to the capital, but the Empress- Dowager takes so keen an interest in the scheme for a reformed administration that an exception will be made in the case of the Commissionere
in
men
war shoot their
an outcome of foreign wars with scientitio weapons of precision The orestures of Mr. H. G. Wells' imagined posterity (or were they who Martians?). invertebrate intelligences fight and slay thousands with some sort of noxious vapour-producing instruments, could never be called virile, and they are bat a
two
the beyond logical step or bebind the long-range gun. The Japanese of the future will possibly travel to
and armoured airships, enemies before they see them, ascertaining, their whereabouts by wireless telegraphy, and getting the range by map; but though they may then out-Yala Yalu in the way of scientific The operations of the Hunghutzes in Man-wholesale murder, they will not be more virile. churis are causing considerable anxiety to the The Japanese who were trained to arms for Peking Government, Like your West River fendal wars, family fights, and Samurai duels, pirates, these bandits operate in plain clothes, were in a better way to becom› virile than if and are in no way distinguishable from the they had had centuries of practice destroying ordinary peasant. When the troops, of whom steel-clad navies. several thousands have been despatched, go out to look for Hunghutzes, therefore, they are com pletely bamboozled, and make little or no head way with their task.
HUNGHUTZE.
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The author presents many original reflections in treating of the crus» of nations", and one is that it is perhaps the only civilized people who can lay claim to the distinction of "being
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