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Intimations.
THE CHINA -MAIL.
INTERESTING REVIEW OF THE RUBBER POSITION.
Wil Prices Evor be Stable?
The price of crude rubber, present and future, is more interesting to the tince
will be as common, so ådjuret to a. rubbor fretory as the present reclaiming planti | Wara this scomplishéd, its effech would nat bo to kill the buigens of rubber gathering wild or planted. Reclaiming for the trade is nother killed por headi
than any other tople; To manufacturer,capped by the individual reclaiming į lanta, planter, importer, broker, whether he bof synthetic rubber enters the warkat it | MITSUBISHI COSHI KWAISHA in real es ffontevideo. Popsng will be quietly, gradually, and with no
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or Paterson, Manchester or Melbourne.apparout effee: upon existing conditions. | Akren or Aden the question is paramount Who makes the prices when they are
After aonference with the managers of made? Whether or not the law of supply selling branchos in all parts of the country, COAL DEPARTMENT. and demand is more potent than apsouls. the president of one of the leading motor. tive indonesia beside the question if car"manufacturing and vending conibina- only thora were any degree of certainty ticus in the United States expressos his about either the ups or the dewus. Two opinion that next year's demand for auto- čellar rubber, even throw dollar rubber, mobiles will require the manufacture of not does not matter if only it persists for a less than 210,000 power vehicles, for pleasure reasonable period. The present compara. and light business purposes, apart from tively low price of rubber can be of no mototrucks, and that 80 per cont. of these advantage to the manufacturer for long vehicles will be for utility purposes, with a time to come. A jars of rabber st.108 dol.distinct advance in the number of lower AGENTS for KISHIDAKE & SAKETU would be nens too long to enable makers of priced care sold for business and pleasure
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Always carry a large and varied Stock of HIGH CLASS JADE AND CHINESE-MADE
JEWELLERY SOUVENIR-SPOONS.
CHINKTANG: MODsr Gearing &
rubber goods to adjust their prices after a period of 3 dol, rabber., The price is im- material if only it be somewhore near permanent When one remembers that in 1909 the price of opriver ons was 76 shits, that three years later its average was 55 cunts higher, that still three years later it had dropped of 30 cents, that two your later still it jumped 224 dols, higbar chan in 1802, and then sagged back some 2 dola, [it will be seen that buyers were perforee
speculators..
The Amazonian producers do not want this sort of uncertainty. It is exceedingly hard on the industry there for them to see 3 dols, rubber for a time and be practically
Ilhotaires and then I dol, rubber and be
broke, No one eau blame them for trying to coral the surplus that at least
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This unless some genius comes to the front with a practical substituto-means a material increase in the demand for the hitherto indispensable rubber tire.
That the manufacturers propose to be propared to meet It will be apparent from India Rubber World of extensive additions the frequent reports in the colomas of the to their producing facilities made by the leading tire manufacturers.
For this important branch of the rubber nianufacturing trado, futres prospects, for some time to come, may therefore be regarded as satisfactory-provided the gure on which this prognosis is based is reasonably near the mark.-Budder World.
CRATHIE THEN AND NOW,
MANILA: Messrs Macondray & 1.50 dol. be realized. Nor, were they able to insure that price for, say, dive years, Ca
There stood, soma thirty years ago,,00 a would there be the slightest objection.camall wooded eminence at the foot of Orig SINGAPORE: Messrs Borneo "Co. the part of the rubber manufacturers.
Ltd For particulars, apply to
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'Hongkong, April 29, 1911.
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CITY
HALL:
It would, at first blush, seem as if Brazil's opportunity would be when rubber was high and there was plenty of money. Such lg human nature, however, that the revers in true. It is catastrophes that bring out what is in man or people. The low price 815 of rubber, the necessity for increased” ro- venue will be the aper that will urgo Braziling rubber producera to improved business methods, lower first costs, plant ing, etc., that they may compute with the ' reat of the rubber producing world.
Tickets
CATHEDRAL CHOIR
CONCERT
$3 & $2
(for the
Organ Fund)
Plan at
THE AUDIER MARKET CHANGING.
Chuío, a square white-washed building Unpretentions in appearance, severe in outline, it kid no claim to architectural style, it gratiñod no taste for the beautiful, yet, to many who dwelt near it it re- presented what was bighest in their lives. the old kick of their fathers. They bad
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1911.
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Intimations.
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ASH THE MODERN MILKMAN,
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THEATRE
The Robert Dollar Co, HOTEL MANNOXS.
CITY HALL.
known it from childhood, had walked Grand Orchestral
summer and winter up the steep little parh to its door and worshipped there with those dear to thom. Barn-like structure-the-amal? belfry in the south wall being
alicet the sole tosti- mony tuits
religious chamcterit simple inside out. It
Lard, straight, wooden powe, anderoath which often the faithful collie slept during the series, its
was a
AND
Vocal Concert EYESIGHT TESTING.
That the marketing of crude rubber is little old fashioned procentor's box and sur-TINDER the Patronage of HE. The likely to modergo noteblo chatges in the rotrading gallery were all part of a stricter, UNDOVERNOR LADY LUGARD next few years will hardly be disputed Tet, passessing noting that woolt 10" and HE, General and Mrs ANDERSON.
except by those who desire no change.
Plantation rubber in thousands of tons, free from sand, bark, mad, stones and water, has started the whole wild rubber world toward the production of gum | equally clean, equally dry. ̈ ̈
Time was when no rubber manufacturer would accept washed erade rubber. Be feared, and sometimes justly, mixtures of loss valuable norte, difficult of recognitira ROBINSON PIANO Co.opt in the cure Washed rubbers are ||to-day used everywhere, and the user finds that they are not as likely to be adulterated 1995 an aro the wild sorts.
Hongkong October 28, 1911.
attract:
OV
9.15 p..
OF
1st Bat. E. O. Y. L. I.
sterner
age,
An age we shall not see:
the eye of the Southerner, it appealed to the highest in the land, who for over forty seara during her stay in the North SATURDAY, November 11th
rely failed to be in her seat in the centre loft. The service, longer then than now, was attended chefy by the parishioners, who came from the neighbouring farme and glens, with occasional strangers during MILITARY and STRING ĮBAND summer months. It was essentially the Pariah Kirk, and those who gathered there Sunday after Sunday were natives of the Rail. The day of the bioycle and motor had not yet arrived, and many had to walk several miles to chamabile the more The prosperans jogged there steadily in dogcarts or vehicles of quaint forms and usually creaky springs. No ons harried there was no unestly rush; it was the Sabbath. Mr Gos007 and though the Queen was in their midst Dr&Mrs Schoziezy Mr H. I, JONES. it was ill-fashioned" to push and heatle
Bat things altered now.
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exchange is in the line of real progress. pas more
AUBDEZ INVESTORS FRIGHTENED Many conditions are conspiring to fill with fear the heart of Earapcas investors trom in rubber plantation stocks
ALFRESCO - FETE.
"IN"AID OF THE FUNDS OF TXB
SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL"! to be held in the Compound of the ROMAN CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL,
SUNDAY, 5th NOVESHER,
00
9 to 11-2
In this evolutionary paried, when crude rubber is gradually working up to higher and more stable levels, it is perhaps to neo her
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following Ladies and Gentlemen bare
kindly consented to appear 2 J
MF DESHAN FULLED
possible that American; listing on a stock white building has gone to make room for / PRICES 93, $2, $1 & 50 conta.
Foremost lathe exporating way in which the price of crude rubber clings to the NDER the most distinguished patron-dollar level, nor does the fact that rubber
DE age of His Excellency the Governor, planting is extremely profitable, even at ST.FEZOLNICE LUGARD, G.O.M.O., C.B.,
this low price, abate their fears." D.9.0. And Lady Lugard.
Booking at MOUTRIE'S,
Hongkong, October 30, 1911.
NOTICE.
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The old
a
modern, more suitabla ́ to the requirements of a progressive age,-- Grey
walla and red-tiled
now granite
mof stand on the little knoll and present a strictly eclesiastical outline to the "passer-by. Inside the pows are comfortably cushioned, hanging loft breaks the line of wall and window; loctern, prayer-doak, and tenutifal communion-table show the good taste of more artistic generation a generation mora tolerant in religious mat- tars, but also less tolerant of lengthy
TOR Convenience of Parsangers, It is services, lorg discourses, generation that Then there is syuthetic rubber, not ru- is always in a hire eager to boat notified that the Train corresponding mourn of it, but actual exhibitions of process the next thing. The church is all that to that leaving Kowloon on WEER DAYS and product, by men who must be taken Deeside body-esid, "The kirk's no bad INGS at 8.154...
the modern mind could desire. As one old at 8 am, will leave on SUNDAY MORN- The public is respectfully invited to furiously. So it happens that many are selling gis yo mata jart find the minister, bat By Order, spoct the various stalls from 2 to 7 PLU out even at a loss. Those who cannot find's aya bebbin' up in g
corners. Thin
E. S. LINDSEY, the 5th November.
Manager. Hongkong. Noormber 1, 1911..
Admission Ticket St-which is entitled to & Souvenir on its presentation at the Souvenir Pavilion on the evening of the Fete mly
Tea Cakes and refreshments will be served during the afternoon and night
Grand Cinematograph Show will be ezhibited during the evening and night.
By kind pormission of Lieut. Col. Hamil ton and Officers, the Baad of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry will play from 0 to 13-.--
Tickets can be obtained from To-day, at MCBATS GILACA & Co., Pedder Street, and at the Roman Catholic Cathedral Com- pound or Sunday, 5th November, from 3.A.H., to 7 P.M. and at the gate on the night of the
Fato.
no longer consiste entirely of placing innumerabla lenses before ones ayes Estil the patient becomes so confused that accuracy is practically impossible. Car tasting room is finished in dead: black and is fitted with instruments that accurately measure pyedefectá............ We supply you with-right-seeing, right-fitting glasses
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ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL..
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Prelude..
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a market at satisfactory prices are begin same spirit of sorest—if one may be call ning a campaign of inquiry and criticism, it-dominates the congregation on the so-
dayn
when royalty is at Crathie. Stran era For the first time they wish more light come whool, in motori, char-a-buzzer, car- P, plantation ez; enditures of every so fine, not with any desire to worship, hat «mply and "Bolely to nae the great once F They studiously compare production re-
the land. The eraning of necks daring the turns for Ceylon, the Malay States, and service, slow
absiding into
outsatthe close Jarn they write letters of omplaint, of of psalm or byen, and the unseemly basta
TOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that a advice, and the banner companies, as with which all the visitors burry out of
IN MEETING of the Hongkong Share Vallambros, watince paying almost no
church barely waiting for the benediction,
holders (whether registered or unregistered) | reflect little credit on their good teeing or of the Headwatern Mining Co. will he held beliovably big dividends,
their respect for holy thing. Other at the Offices of MESTS DEACON, LOKEE & times, other manners." No doubt there Deacon, Prince's Buildings, on MONDAY, iss mighty gap between the Sabbath at 8th Nov at d.30 for the purpose of Centhic thirty years ago and 38 Sabbath of
considering the
ring the financial position of the today. The world probably mored more Company. of attitude towards the little sanctuary on slowly then, but there was a certain dignity
BY ORDER the freind bill which is how sadly wanting. Hongkong, Petales 30, 1811”.
nce, the kick han akailed and the clouds there is again silence in the strath. Graig THE CHINESE ENGINEERING AND of dent fr m moter and estringe kubelded," Gowan-looks over the Das to Craig Chue
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“SINTHÝMU" BÙBDEN BYFLUTE. Special arrangements have boon, and The bugaboo of the rubber planter, with the Peak Tramway Co., Ltd., to run synthetic rubber, has arrived at last, not alate trem at 11.50 . for the conveniences a fearsome dream, but as an actuality Caterers, of the Pack residents,
Two companies with laboratories in Hongkong, October 28, 1911, 1990
England produce it at will: Not in ton lots, to be auro, and unt of the quality of eprivor. Ano, but real rubber devertheless and at cost if their figures are correct, that polate to commercial pou ibilitien.... the pacer of the everlasting bills and, It had always been supposed that such gently flowing river is over us, and man's works are 'as maught b ́sido those of his
VEUX ROAD CENTRAL,
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Price 40 cents.
From the GHINA MAIL Offos.
Popular, *.
ASAHI BEER
in whose shadow the shoreboa have rested,
a discovery would immediately put milli Craator. A. G. K. in Glasgow Herald.
Into the pockets of the discoverers, and pati out of business those who gather from nature's sources. There is no fodicsilon that either happening is imminent. It will be a long time, under the most favoural lo sircumstance), before the laboratories can be turned into. factozies, and a production, say, as great as that of gúnyola in roached. Or supposing withio'ono or two years auch) amount were marketable would it not be absorbed with ease as were guayula, the higher grade of reclaimed subber, and the mineral plasion, and would the only marked effoot be a steadying of the market Furthermore, the pioneere in extracting and treating gunyala, powe tlanak and in bigh grado reisimming, four d OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE, that the world over were satractieg,
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treating and reclaiming by methods Imitative or original, and that some kopt PRce with them la production. Is it not MITSUI-BUSSAN KAISHA. | Posibis” that this same alert manufacturers aro already making i-oprong, sod that one Hongkong, December 17, 1910,
daya plant for synthetic rubber praduation
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COUPON No. 17 is payable on the 2nd:
Authwised Capital £6,000,000 Subscribed Capital £3,814,845 Paid-up Capital £1,667,997 60 17-Fire Funda.:
3,842,215 4 20 III~-Life & Annuity Funds 15,645, 125: 9.7 Sinking Fund Account 97,365 18: 8 £21,252,899-17-3 Revenue Fire Branch... 2,343,260 17" 7 Life & Annuity 1,014,631 9 '9
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NOTICE.
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versed in literatura, has been a tacher' -Lu.Kuropean officials and merchants in chie Colony for over ten yours: penR MEAN
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and
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