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MACAO.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
September 6th.
THE PROPOSED LISBON·MACAO LINE.
THE HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS AND
in nearly a week's less time than the mails via Suez.
Every resident, I am sure, will be keenly interested to learn how this is to be done.
The P. & O. steamer Devanha which, accord- ding to the Post Office announcements, is due ing the London mail of August 10th. The here at 6 a m. to-morrow (Wednesday) is bring.
mail will thus have been only twenty-six days in transit from London. It seems to me that whoever is expecting" London mails to reach Hongkong by the C. P. R. route in about twenty days is expecting a great deal too much.
Its eems impossible-Yours etc.,
OUTIS.
We would be glad to know if there is anything real behind the talked-of arrangement between the Government and the N.Y.K. I personally am unable to see where the Japanese steamship company can hope to gain anything from such a contract with the Portuguese Government. There is no Portuguese trade worth mentioning. Portugal sends very few goods to the colonies, and imports little more. As for
passengers, there are not enough between the Portuguese colopies to warrant a special service, and the odd DEATH OF MR. WALTER DEANE, ones who do go back and forward would probably still patrouise the mail steamers. local authorities evidently think the trade of Macao is dead, otherwise they would hardly allow our harbour to silt up as it is. A regular line to Macao would be a farce unless the harbour were dredged or a railway run out to the place where ships must perforce anchor.
SENHOR ABREU NUNES.
'The
It is now positively known that Senhor Abreu Nunes, the director of Public Works, has ten- dered his resignation. This means a loss to this city, as during the term of ten years which this gentleman has been directing the Public Works Department, he has effected a good many improvements, the most important of which are the appropriation of the Volong property, the Avenida Vasco da tiama, the reconstruction of the S. Lourenço Church, the Dock "D. Carlos," and the reclamations near
the lleungshan wharf. Some of these works are, I am sorry to say, very much neglected, and the Government should see to their care, lest they go to ruins, and public funds and Senhor Nunes's trouble be wasted.
WHY IT IS DARK.
I hear that the services of the two electrical engineers of the Electric Company were dis peased with by the general manager. No wonder that we are still groping in the dark.
CORRESPONDENCE.
STERLING MEN.
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESS."
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C.M.G.
FORMERLY OF HONGKONG.
On Sept. 3rd, bythe French Mail, Mr. P. P. J. Wodehouse received news of the death of his uncle, Mr. Walter Meredith Deane, formerly of Hongkong.
The late Mr. Deane was born in London on June 22nd. 1840; and, according to Who's Who, graduated M. A. at Trinity College, Cambridge. competitive examination and obtained a place He was nominated from Cambridge in A
as student Interpreter in the Hongkong Civil Service in 1862. In three years he ranked as Acting Registrar-Goueral for the Colony, being an interpreter, and the same year (1865) was also put on the list of Justices of the Peace. From 1866 to 1891 he
W88 Captain Superintendent of Police, and during that period (1878) was severely wounded on duty. foreigners. Pirates were bolder even than now, year of many troubles for
and attacked goldsmiths' shops in the city. There was also an armed raid on a bank. There was a public meeting to consider the insecurity of life and property.
That was 8
He was
a member of the Executive and
Legislative Councils, acting as Colonial Treasurer (188)) and Colonial Secretary (1881, [890-91).
He was created a C.M.G. in 1890, retiring in the following year, with a pension of 84,012.80 He married in 1870 the daughter of a Herts magistrate.
S. C. FARNHAM, BOYD & CO., LD.
(IN LIQUIDATION.)
The flual meeting of this Company to receive the report of the liquidators, was held at Shanghai, on August 31st. There were present: Messrs. J. Prentice and H. von Rucker (Liquidators), J. H. Teesdale (Legal Adviser), A. E. Anderson (Acting Secretary), D. Cranston, W. G. Pirie, E. O. Cumming J. M. Young, G. H. Potts, J. G. Mackenzie, H. S. Robertson, A. Murphine, W. Taylor, J. Stewart, and M. Houston (Shareholders.)
S.--What are locally called " sterling men are expected to be of sterling character; so it seems only fair to note their circumstances occasionally. It has been pointed out to me that the Civil Service List of 19.4" gives some estimates of the cost of living for, inter alia, subordinate officers of the Civil Service, Sanitary Inspectors, P. W. D. Overseers, etc. It is there stated that such officers could live on $130 to $140 per month (married) or $70 (single). The cost of living is said to hare gone up since 1904, but owing to the rise in exchange, the wages of these men have gone Mr. J. Prentice read the following report: down. Their wages vary from $124 per month In accordance with the resolutions passed at upwards. As the Government acknowledged the Extraordinary Meeting of Shareholders in a saving last year of about a quarter of a milliou. C. Farnham, Boyd & Co., Ltd, held at the dollars in this way, I feel that these men have some reason to complain Yours obedien1ly.
"SYMPATHISER.'
OUR MAIL SERVICE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY PRESE"
September 4th.
SIR-Reuter has recently intormed us that "under the new contract the Canadian Pacific "shorten the mail route from London to Hongkong by 9 days, and to Yokohama and Shanghai by 8 days." The latter part of this telegram has puzzled a good many people, but the information intended to be conveyed evidently is that there will be a saving of 8 days in transit between London and Yokohama, or London and Shanghai-that is to say there will be no increase of speed between Yokohama and Shanghai and on the run from Shanghai to Hongkong another day will be saved. A saving of 94 days is sufficiently remarkable; but there are stall greater surprises in store apparently, for Reuter to-day informs us that the Empress of Ireland's mail is expected to reach Hongkong
Head Office, 26, Broadway on Tuesday, January 23, 1906, at 5 p.m., and on Wednesday February 14th, 1906, at 5 p.m., viz :
1.That it is desirable to reconstruct the Company and accordingly that the Company be wound up voluntarily and that Liquidators be appointed for the purpose of such winding up.
2. That the said Liquidators be and they are hereby authorised to consent to the registration of the new Company to be named-" The Shanghai Dock and Engineering Company, Limited," with a Memorandum and Articles of Association submitted at this Meeting to the shareholders and, if approved, to be confirmed at a subsequent Meeting.
3.That the said Liquidators be and they are hereby authorised to take all such steps as may be necessary to transfer the Assets and Liabilities of the old Company to such new Company, and carry into effect the two fore going Resolutions, and such Liquidators áre further authorised pursuant to section 149 of the Companies Ordinance of Hongkong No. 1 of 1865 Part 4 to enter into an agreement with such new Company, when incorporated, and to carry the same into effect.
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[September 8, 1906.
4.-That John Prentics Heinrich von Rucker, Sir Charles Dudgeon and William Jardine Gresson, be and are hereby appointed the Liquidators. For the purpose of carrying the foregoing resolutions iato eff at the Liquidators now beg to submit to the Shareholders their report.
The reconstruction of the Company has been duly carried into effect and the reconstructed Company came into existenes at and from the 1st May last under the name and style of
THE SHANGHAI DOCK AND ENGINEERING COMPANY, LIMITED.
The winding up of 8. C. Farnham, Boyd and Co., Ld., has been completed, and the Assets and Liabilities bave been transferred to the recon- struoted Company.
The Accounts, duly audited are on this table. Shares in 8. C. Farnham, Boyd and Co., Ld., have been exchanged for shares of an equal number and equal par value in the reconstructed Company.
Shanghai, August 31, 1906.
JOHN PRENTICE,
(Signed).
H. VON RUCKER, S Liquidators.
meeting and carried nem, dis.
The following resolutions were then put to the
Proposed by Mr. J. Prentice, seconded by Mr. J. M. Young: That the accounts submitted which the winding-ap has been conducted and to this meeting and showing the manner in the property of the Company disposed of, be received and adopted.
Proposed by Mr. H. von Rucker, seconded by Mr. G. H. Potts: That the books and accounts and documents of the company and of the liquidators, be handed over to the Shanghai Dock and Engineering Co., Ld.
This concluded the business of the meeting.
RI ER STEAMER "KWONGCHOW "
AGROUND.
PASSENGERS' UNPLEASANT EXPERIENCE.
When returning to Hongkong from Macao on September 2nd the excursion steamer Kwongchow ran aground on the south-west point of Lantao Island. It appears that shortly before noon Captain Maade went below for tiffin, leaving this second Chinese pilot on the bridge. The vessel's course was then right, but before he had finished dining the Captain found that it was radically wrong. The Kwongchow was travelling at full speed when she ran upon the rooks, being swung stern round. The impact sent the passengers sprawling in all directions, and caused considerable damage to the vessel, breaking a few plates and bending others badly
found that his craft was securely wedged Captain Meade was promptly at his post, and
between two rocks. Every effort was made to refloat her, and after about an hour's delay the crew's efforts were assisted by the ebb tide, and the vessel again floated. She Was then examined, and when the captain found she was making but little water he decided to come on to Hongkong, and set the engines full ahead. She arrived in port safely, was pumped out and immediately transferred to the Kowloon Docks where she is now undergoing repairs. The accident is said to have occurred through one of the rudder chains suapping just as the vessel was passing Lantao.
CHINA'S CONSTITUTION.
ANOTHER COMMISSION APPOINTED. Following is a translation of an Imperial Degree dated August 27th:-
"The High Commissioners who were sent abroad to inquire into the political methods of government and the constitutions of the varions countries of the world have brought back the reports and suggestions which they have embodied in ten memorials. We hereby appoint a Royal Commission, consisting of the members of the Grand Council, the Ministers of the Council of State Affairs, the Grand Secretaries and Yuan Shih-kʻzi, High Com- missioner of the Peiyang Administration, under the Presidency of Tsai Li, Prince of Ch'un, who are to take up the said memorials, examine them and then report to the Throne what should be done in the matter."
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