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taken away from the wharves; that at 7.30 a.m. the sea was breaking over the wharves at Kow- loon, and that no skiff could have lived in such a sea as was running then; whereas Captain! Onterbridge, who slept ashore on the night of the 17th, and whose ship was lying in or abont ; the centre of the harbour, did not leave the shore to rejoin his ship till about 8.45 a.m. on the 18th."
The intention of this paragraph is. I take it, to show that when Captain Unsworth toll the Committee that the sea was such in the harbour
at 730 a.m., on September 18th, that no skiff could have lived in it, he was allowing his imagination to run away with his tongue, for did not Captain Outerbridge put off to his ship about 8.452 Turning to Captain Onterbridge's evidence, I observe that the question put to him | WAS:
"What time did you leave the Bund ?"
· The witness answered laconically: " Abont. 8.34 or 8.45 a.m.' Instantly it seems toį have been assumed by the Committee that he put off to his ship in the ordinary way, by a skiff or a sampin, and so bis simple
statement that he did leave the Bund about 8.45 was fastened upon as rebutting the evidence of Captain Unsworth. But had the Committee asked the witness: "How did you get off to your ship?" they would, I believe, have received an answer which would not have justified them in such a use of his evidence as they make in their report. For remember seeing a state- ment by Captain Outerbridge himself that his only means of getting to his ship (which was; lying no farther away than the centre of the har bour) was by agreeing to pay to the Captain of a large steam launch a sum of $25 to take him on So bigh was the sea then running in the harbour that the launch could not venture to go close alongside the ship, and holding on to a ropa which was thrown to him from his ship, Captain Outerbridge plunged into the sex and wAY hauled aboard. "this nuts on his bare statement that he left the Bund shout 8.45 8.m. complexion very different from that given to it by the Committee.
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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT.
the lethargic Government to move in the matter, but it is the duty of the Senado to do something.
GOVERNOR DEPARTS
One Governor, H, F. Queiroz de Montenegro, and family are leaving for home on the 1st April. H. . is going by the French Mail leaving your port on the 3rd proximo. By the same boat Dr. Gourves Pereirs and family are also going bome.
A RIVALS.
Mr. A. H. Wilzer, deputy Commissioner of Customs to Lappa, arrived here on the 19th inst., with his wife.
CANTON RAILWAY POSITION CLARIFIED.
RECRETARY OF THE YUET HAN LA EMAT
PANY INTERVIEWED.
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Our Canton correspondent writes on March 27th:-
I had an interview with the secretary of the Ynet Han Railway Company yesterday and Baked him a series of six questions which' { append herewith with his answera : -
(1) What is the point on which the share.
! holders of the Yuet Han Railway Company | differ?
This was how the dispute originated : The time limited for the payment of the first on the Company's sharov call of 20 per cent expired at the end of the 5th moon "lut year (Chinese). Mesare Chan and Yoong of long. kong took the lead to invite people to take us shares in Hongkong and abɔnt $150,000 ware
nbscribed. As the first instalment a tho« |
shares was not forthcoming during the 5th moon The Company wrote on several occasions to the Hongkong representatives reminding them first call that the tim for paying the
gotica to expire. bat no was about 8
taken of the repeated applications. Finally the Company delegated special messengers to MARST". Hongkong to call on them personally
Another point that struck me ou reading the Report was the manner of dealing with the evidence of the French Consul as to the sky on the right preceding the typhoon. If the Committee had asked for it they could have obtained at the time plenty of evidence confirming M. Liebert's observations. I recollect being told at the time of an A siatio
staying then
Woman
at Kowloon who was so alarmed by the weather
indications on the night of the 17th September that she refused to remain on the peninsula that night, and crossed over to be with her friends on the Island.
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Chan and Yeong replied that they had already collected the first instalment and invested the They were money in local foreign broka. requested to forward the deposit receipts to the Company, but refus d to do so ou the ground that the Company was not properly established. On receipt of the above reply the 'mpany petitioned ex-Viceroy Sham requesting His
xcellency to direct the cancellation of all
shares subscribed by Hongkong merchants. Ex- Viceroy Rhum memorialized the Barsan of Railway Affairs at Peking to that effect and obtained their sanction.
(2) Ars accounts in order? (As rumour aconsed the management of haring invested part of the funds in unstable establishments).
Another noteworthy feature of the Inquiry is the total absence of Chinese evid-uce, and yet I read in the papers at the time that Chinese fishermen on the Territory coast-line (unt a great many miles from the Kowloon Observa. tory) were aware of the approsch of a typhoon ! establishments and the Company holds receipta
quite early in the morning. If that was so, it surely indicates that the equipment of the Oh. servatory for giving the community timely warning stands in need of improvement.
But it perhaps unneces<ary
to expatite further on the Report. There is the promise of a further inquiry "when the observations from Greenwich have been received" and we my hope that this further inquiry will result in better promise of future security than ontained in the Report Dow
published.- Yours truly,
OUTIS.
MACAO.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT).
March 25th. CHINES TRADER DESERT MACAO.
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It is indeed heart-rending to see how Chinese
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The monies collected from the first call hava all been deposited in local banks and business
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from them. The officials have audited the accounts with the exception of the daily nnning accounts which is an insignificant item. They have found them all correct, the best of my knowledge and belief. I am able to state that the banks and firms in which the
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Comment's money is invented are all sound establishments. Surely after the Booonnta were audited the oficials must have called on those establishments or made inquiries as to their position.
(?) What is the total amount of shares subscribed and how much has been actually paid? The actual amonnt collected on the first instalment was $8,817,562 and this figure represents the number of shares subscribed. This, of course, dose not include shares sub- scribed by the Hongkong merchants,
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(6). In the Company registered and what are its statutes?
The Company sent a memorial to Peking about two years ago applying for its registration sad the Throge has acknowledged recsipt of the memorial and plas›d on record that such applies- tion was duly made, But so far the eartiñoate of registration has not been issued. The Company has complied with the statutes ‘laid down by the Bureau of Commerce at Peking for limited companies.
A meeting of the shareholders will be he'd on the 2nd prox. to decide whether the Company will reject or admit the Hongkong shareholders. Á the meeting hall in the Company's Head Office is too small for an important meeting of this kind a large shed Las been erected at Wong Sha for the accommodation of three to four thousand people.
NANNING.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT).
March 17th.
OPENING COSTINS CEREMONT.
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It is now a matter of over 10 years since NuDoing, or Nemning, as it is pronounced in
open Cantonese, was nominidly declared an port.
After a la of the abure mationed period this place was officially announced to be effectively ́opened" to foreign trade from the 1st January 1907. Yesterday" Chinese pleoseds informed The pablic at larg, that the opening ceremony of the Imperial Maritime Custom House, known everywhere sa San Kwan te, the New Customs. sex to take place to-d1y.
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f'eu o'clock in the forenoon was the appointed tira of the function. Long before that hour all interested parties had arrived on the scene. The entire Customs personnel consisting of Mr. E. von Strauch, Commissionse, Mr. B. D. Marsfield, assistant, and Mr. M. Nabrinn, examiner, with the Chiuess staff of olerks, writers, shapaus, boitmen and Lingebnis io fall state attire we'e there Ind deveral Chiness officials headed by the Total and the chief of the local Likin department pat in an appearance. The latter wore dressed" in their gorgeous robes.
Salutations, à la chinoise, were gone through and tea having been partaken of in a houseboat specially engaged for this day, the Custom | House was declared open for the transaction of public basiness, which it will commsoes on the morrow.
(4) What is the ongstruction plan and is; work carried out at pregnɑt?
Owing to lack of civil engineers at pressat | the Company will push on with the work only |
W. have three business has decreased in this city since the
*t this end of the line. Chinese New Year. Many shops have clos d
present, Mr. K. G. Kwong i engineer at
8. Yamamoto their doors, and in the principal business Engines-in-Chief, and Messrs
(Japanese) and 0 Sharron (Norwegian). The quarters of Chinatown rows of houses are
two latter are assistent angioners. The work now vacant. This is a serious matter that "requires an inquiry, and the
progressing slowly but satisfactorily Leni Senado
(5). How long will it take to compists the Kwangtung section? The Company expecta to complete the Kwangtung ssation within six years from now.
shonid find out the real cause of this wholesale closing of so many business houses among the Chinese. The people of Macso do not expect
Amid a fusillade of fire orsokars and the discharge of several gingsis the yellow banner with the symbolic dragon was holsted and anfurled. A fast and interested crowd witnessed the ceremony and shortly after completion of which the company present dispersed.
The Customs will operate pro tam on a font- ing temple which has been requisitioned for that purpose, and in a month's time they will move into new offioms, a portion which is now being put together here.
KULANG SU (AMOY) MUNICIPAL
COUNCIL
Minutes of a meeting of the Kalsague (Amoy) Municipal Council, held at the Board Room on the 12th March 1937.
Present: - Mars. F. B M +rshall (Ohair- man), CA. V. Bowra, W. Krum, Hwaag, Trang Chow, 8. Okuyama, W. H. Wallnos the He Ith Officer and the Secretary,
1 The minutes of the last misting are read and confirm »d.
2 Applications for 15 fally paid up, and 30 $25 paid up, debeatures are considnend sad receive sa allotment in full.
3 The Superintendent of Polios reports the following_cmson karo been dealt with' in the
Court dinos the last mosting : Mixed Summonses breach of Municipal regulations 2. debt 2, non-payment of taxes 1, anunnit 1, brunch of bakery regulations 1, wiifully damaging property 1. Summary Arrests--bargingy 1, Committing a nuiminon 2, being it thogai possesion of a dagger 1.
By Order,
(Signed) Fazo B MAVSWALL,
Chairman.
C. Bankalar MITCHELL., Boorolary,
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