The tolas crime recorded is contained in the following table Re, Re pried eae ices gurca Cine "inet brevits Yonting smacin "month ad?
Murder 2 Attempted murder 2 canstaughter i "Armed kidnapping wil Abauetion 2 Armed robberies Other robberies 3
House, office, shop criminal gone. wa"
Breaking, ste." 30-295
Sm—On September 17 you publish-oda letter from Buson Eovucr in which he states that "it was common. knowledge that the arm of Jardine, Matheson and Ca, was first. started by Sir Jamsetjhee Jejheebhoy". This is an impossibility since he was not Born when the firm was founded in 1782, [snatching 4 alor property Opium fences 150133
Gambling offences 9 11-69 Sther crimes Cee Total Ta 1808180
The rst close connection between the firm and the famous Parsee families of Bombay took place when William Jardine frst came to China in 1819 as agent for Framjee Cowasjee of Bombay, Mackintosh and Ca, of Calcutta, and Thomas Weeding of London. Jardine was then in touch with Jamsetjhee Jejheebhoy and Ca. who at that time employed a Parsee agent in Canton, In 1823 Jamsetjhee Jejheeboy wi consigning goods to James Matheson, who was then trading under the name of Yrisarri and Ca, not until 1828 that he became one The total of 1432 cases of reported [crime shows an increase of 29 compared with that for July and an Hnerease of 34 over the corresponding, month last year. "A" Division shows decrease of 1, "B" Division increase of 35, "C" Division a decrease of 22 and "D* Division an inevense of Stolen property.—Property valued at $262,876.73 was alleged to have been stolen us against property valued at $64,704 38 In July, "AY Diviston $102,308.50 of the many constituents of Jardine, Matheson and Ca, who were then known as Magniac and Ca. He never had any capital in the firm, which would have been the case had. he played any part in their founding. The connection between the two firms continued until at least 1875.
Hig portrait does hang in the firm's private office in Hongkong. This picture hung for many years in tone of the late partner's houses in England and was returned to Hongkong in 1912.
The statement that "Indian merchants, who were the first real foreign pioneers of trade in China, were doing business in China long if before traders of other nationality set foot in South China," may be £0, It ts not, however, borne out by contemporary accounts, by the East India Company's records or by the Jardine Matheson papers. The first China the Arabs, who were cal foreign pioneers of trade in
doing business in Canton about 400
The Parsee merchants did however play an important part in the trade between India, China and the Phillippine Islands, for which Me suMicient credit is given to them in the text books, G. J. Yonce, Hongkong, Sept 25.
Property valued at $286,022.80 was recovered.
Suleides.—Fourteen Chinese males, nine Chinese females and" one foreigner came to the notice of the police as having committed suicide, Strikes.—Four strikes occurred in the Settlement affecting a total of 1,125 workers and resulted in a loss lof 4,825 working da Statistics of strikes which occurred the three areas are as follows:—No.of No.of No.of hands working settlement a aaa sas Area trikes, affected. days fast,
French Concession 1 "3 "08
Hawo areas, (Settle.
territory 4 5200 14.905, territory) 1 47208 ment and Chinese Total 10 TAs) "Bo819 Jrotat for" the corresponding month of 10912 4aTl 4670, Motor Horn Nuisance.—There were 152 prosecutions for this offence and addition eight chauffeurs had their Jdriving licences suspended for re-[peated convictions for this offence.
The two professional story-teliers visited and gave 199 addresses teashops, mills, ote, on "Safety First" themes. "Their audience roughly total lect 7.825 persons
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