WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 20, 1918,
Hughes & Hongh
AUCHONZIES TO THE GOVERNMENT
General Auctioneers
Share, Coal and General Produos
Brekers and Commission
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Agents.
FROPRIETORS
•T•KW*-Wan" Doal Storage.
Codes wand Bentley's
4. ́n ith & 5th Eritions.
Telegraphia Coda.
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Theprophic Address
HONGKONA
FOR SALE
CHUNG CHAU.
TOR
SALE.
THE TWO STORIED HOUSE on CHUNG CHAU known as the Mandow's House.
For particulars apply to THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.
HENT & AGENCY CO., LTD. Hongkong. Feb: 14 1918. ."
FOR SALE.
1.39
THE CHINA MAIL.
INTIMATIONS QUEEN MARY'S NEEDLE THE YANGTSEPOO COTTON throughout the year. I would like
YOUR EYES SHOULD NOT BE NEGLECTEL At the first symptom of eye strain you should consult us. We test eyes scientifically and fit glasses to individual. re- quirements.
LARK & Co. SCIENTIFIC OPTICIAN
RK BLOGS, CHAIER RO
CLARK
HONGKONG
HONGKONG & MANILA.
MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA (Mitsubishi. Coj: COAL DEPARTMENT.
SOLE PROPRIETORS OF
HE Undersigned have received in-.
structions to sell at their Balca TAKASHIMA, OOHI MUTABE Booms, No. 8, Des Yaux Road, Corner
Ies Eouse Stret,
MOTOR YACHT
Built 1816, bad very little usage, Hull
...Teakwood
Length, water-lina 29" 9"; over all 35′
444
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3
Beam.... Draft... Motor "Scripps, Heavy duty 14 H. P
Complete with Lavatory, Refrigerator, Bit of Sails, and all Accessories. Price and fall particulars may bad from the Undersigned.
Torus:-Cubi,
BUGHES & BOUCH. Auctioneers
Hongkong, Jan 9, 1916.
TO LET
TO LET.
OFFICES in York Building
HOUSES on Shameon, Canton..
Apply to-
ATMENT & AGENCY Co., I
WORK GUILD
REPORT FOR JANUARY.
"CITY" HALL WORK PARTY (under Mrs. Stabb)
Que cad w20 sent to the 48th Ecapital, Alexandria and 3 esses sent to Bombay for Mesopotamis.
For Alexandria-10 muffers, 1 pair
MILL, LTD
THENTY-FIVE FER CENT
DIVIDEND...
to explain that to safeguard the work- ing of our Mills, it is absolutely notes- sary to purchase and store a large quantity of cotton throughout the year. For the same weight of cotton The third ordinary meeting of we requim 200 per cent, more work- sharsholders of the Yangtsepoo Coting capital es compared with twenty on the 9th inst., at the offices of the Appreciated 150 per cont tou Mill, Ltd, was held at Shanghai years ago, yarn stocks likewise have As regards future prospects, Chimi General Managers, Mecers. Jardine,
There is
of socks, 22 pallows 26 Vests, 48 bed. | Matheson & Co Mr. John Johnston is in such a chaotic state at the
to say what will eventuate. jacketz 24 ore bandages, 2 mosquito Ching-pu (Director), Mr. Jas. Kerment that it is extremely difficult nets, 17 abdominal belts, 4 capa, 7 dos foot (Secreary) and the following handkerchiefs, 37 pairs of pyjamas, 11 shareholders:-Messra. A. Michael, one thing certain, that the present shrouds, reversible bodjackets, Ja, Harrop. H. J. Clark. W. C. policy of those in power, and those surgical suits, 6 ganze veils, 17 pairs Fastor, Douglas Fleming, R. Sho would like to be, is proventing upper 12 tray govara, 34 milk ayam, Pierey, A. Brooks-Smith, Charles R. trading throughout the country. The 16 head bandages, 14 scrubbers, 2 bax, B. C. Sethna and S. H. Peak, people in the interior want aupplice, pairs of bedboots and 1 basique.
There were 115.815 shares repre- Bented
of
For Bomber pillows, 103 rasts, 78-bodjackets, 24 eye bandages, 40 mosquito neta, 41, daz handkerchiefs, 66 pairs of prismas, 15 abroads, reversible bed jackets, B surgical suits, 13 pairs of slippers, 36 tray, covers, 12 milk covers, 9 head bandages, 30 scrubbers, 3 pairs of bedboots, 76 shirts, old linen and playing carda.
"OTE LITTLE BIT SOCIETY (under
Mrs. Groon)
To Hoo Supt., Red Cross Depot, No. 3 Shed, Alexandra Dock, Bombay
Case No. 11-805 rolled bandages, 60 fannel vests, 43 white woollan belts, white woollen caps, 30 pairs white woollen bed socks 3 quilts 3 pillows, 60 slippers, 7 floor cloths and
lot magazine.
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Case No. 13–171 rolled bandages, 150 suite pyjamas and 60 flannel vests Case No 13-120 rolled bandages, 99 flannel vests and 63 suits fannel pyjamas.
Case No. 14-10 pairs stretcher boots, KINKIDARE. YOSHINOTANI, 40 suíte pyjamas, 30 sleeveless sweaters, HOJO, NAMAZUTA, BAYO KANADA 50 pairs sooks, 53 pain mittens, 30 milk SHINNEW, KAMIYAMADA, BIBA!covery, 38 woollen mufflers, 64 white woollen caps, 2 quilts, 2 pillows and 1 lot magazines.
& OYUBARI COLLKERIES, *
AGENT FOR SAEITO COLL
Head Ofoo:— MARUNOUCEL, TOKYO
BRANCH OFFICES:— Nagasaki, Koji, Karatsu,” Wakamataz
Otaru, Muuran, Hakodate, Kobe; Ozaka, Kum, Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Terruga, Vladivostock, Hankow, Peking, Daire, Talpah, Londen, How To, Shanghai Hongkong, Haiphong, Canton and Singapore.
Cable Address—"IWASAKI Coden :—A 1, A. E. 0. Mà Ed, Western Union, and Bentley's
AGENCIES:-
For distribution to local troops
The police calling the meeting and the report of the auditors having been read, the Chairman addressed the meeting as follows-
Gentlemen,-1 pmpose, with your approval, to taka the Report and Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1917, which have been in your hands for some days, as read,
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but, owing to the insecurity during transit, stocks, are steadily increasing in the Treaty Forts. Directly the situation becomes normal again wa shall certainly have a demand for our productions, and the high prices and difficulty of obtaining supplies from other countries Tend, me to hope that our products will show a fair margin of profit.
I noticed in one of the local papëra
When last addressing you, and a correspondent inferred that the reviewing the situation, I said pros- larger profits made by the Japanese perte were brighter and the statistical Mills were mainly due to the higher position good. We were favoured percentage of preparation machinery with good trading throughout the employed in the latter as compared year, especially during the last six with that used in Chinese Mills. months when the profits on our yam Up to a certain point the argurient were exceptionally large. Cloth basis quite sound, but it is far from not done as well as the previous year, accounting for the difference in the due to the higher price, which always profits made in the Cotton Mills of restricts consumption, but we muss Japan and China. not complain; in fact, it is a matter The root cause of the non-succéss for congratulation that in a little over of the Chinese Mills is that it takes three years working we can place too much. Chinese cotton to produce before you such a satisfactory state a bale of yam. This is due to the The profit for the twelve excessive molature found in Chinese months, after deducting Tls. 35,000, cotton as compared with the cotton which have already been paid in
used by the Japanese Mills. dividend on the preference shares for 1918, amounts to TIN, 872,400.25,
The differenco will average about B
ment.
120 khaki handkerchiefs and 200 wool-which, with the amount brought for per tent: on the total cotton con-
len mufflers.
UNION CHURCH WORK PARTY (under Mrs. Maconaahie).
ward, leaves Tis. 677,480,48 available for the proposed appropriations, which the Consulting Committee ven. To Sex, Medical Officer, Amars,
ture to hope will have your approval. Masopotamia:-565 rolled bandages, 35 suíte pyjamas; 101 shirts, 14 vests, As you will have seen from the report,
it is proposed to pay
a dividend of 156 pairs, socks, 69 mufflery, 19 pairs mittens, 14 helmets, 16 pains knee cape, Tis. 1.25, or 25 per cent, on the 33 weel caps, 7 trench water, 36, ordinary shares and I hope that share milk covers, 101 handkerchiefs, 6 pairs bolders may consider such, retura alippers, 14, scrubbers and 13 mopa.
Bliss Loursico):23 pair socks, & pait bed "socka 43 muffers, 34 knitted
sumed. You will readily see what it means to any concern to be compelled to receive three piculs of water with every hundred piculs of cotton, and at the present time pay from Tls. 30 to 40 per picul for it
In making comparisons between Japan und China, another important factor must not be overlooked, and that is the Cotton Industry of Japan has a protected market for its pro atisfactory. Further, it is proposed ducts, whereas China is the dumping NAVAL AND DOCKYARD (under Mrs.to write off plant and machinery Tle round for every country. If time. Sandeman)-8 shirts, 13 vests, 80,000 and off buildings T. 20,000. matters which militate against the would permit, I might mention other Pyjamas, 18 socks, 47 mußen, 5 pillows, Since the inception of the Company, Chinese Mills As I and my pre- 1 helmet and 3 caps.
including this year's appropriations, decessors have repeatedly pointed: CATHOLIC WOMEN'S LEAGUE (ander
Tis. 245,208.74. The desirability:hibiting the adulteration of cotton, we shall have depreciated alogether out, until the Chinese Government take" dristic action as regards pro-
scrabbers, 3 knitted floor scrubber, 43tion, must, I am sure, appeal to sil uphill fight as compared with the making auch provision for deprecia the mills in this country will have an
kkaki handkerchiefs, 67 food covers, 40 dos. gauze swabs and 2124 rolled of you. A liberal policy in this con- Japanese Milla
I cannot think of anything else that nection should be maintained not bandagen..
will interest you, but if shareholdera ITALIAN, CONTENT:-11 muffers. only to build up the
Serves and
wish to ask any questions, I shall be WESLEYAN CHURCH, WORKING PANTY reduce interest charges, but also to pleased to answer them to the best (under Mr. Robinson)-20 towell, 20 safeguard our position against com- of my ability shirts, 37 pairs socks, 1 68 handkerchiefs, the Grand Hotel,
3 varta,erubbers, I paid surgical petitors, who may be able in the near. No questions were naked, and the socks, 1 pair mittens, 20 mullers and future, with high exchange, to lay following resolutions were "unani- also 18 muffers for local troops.
mously adopted- down machinery at a lower price. VARG. Branch, Kowloon (under Mrs. Kaigwin)1066 rolled bandages; The appropriation of Tis. 250,000 11 capellino bandages, 600 swabs, 30 for an Equalization of Dividend Fund,. shell swabs, & shrouds, 15 wool capa, 12 will doubtless have your support balaclava belmets, 67. mufflers 15 wool will be available as a provision socks, & pairs surgical stockings, 2 vesta, 2 cardigan jackets and 31 scrub against years of bad or restricted trade, did, also to meet competition Alap mufflers, socks, rests, cardigan which becomes keener each year; and jackets and balaclars helmets given to the Consulting Committee firmly Local troops
TO LET.
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THE HONGKONG LAND. INVEST CHINKIANG: Mesara Gearing &
Co MANILA. Messrs Masondray &
Co. SINGAPORE: Mesars Borneo Co
Ltd. GLAS007. Mesas A. B, Brown McFarlane & Co., Ltd.
MMEDIATE ENTRY; four very desirable SHOPS sinated in Ioa House Street, opposite recently reconstructed.
For rent and other particulars apply to the Manager, Hongkong Les Co.,
Connaught Boad Centra
Bongkung, August 2, 1917.
A
TO LET
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FLAT in Nathan Road, Kowloon
Four Foamed houses in Kowloon.
Apply to--
HUMPHREYS ESTATE & FINANCE
CO., LTD.
Alexandra. Buildings
gong, August 32, 1917.
SILIMIPOPON (REBATIK)
COAL
FBE Underigned having been appointed!
QUAL QU., LTD., are prepared to quote prices for best quality 8ILIMPOPON COAL trimmed into Bankers at SEBAT. TIK BANDAKAN (British North Borneo),
compares fTOZIP-
BILIMPOPON COAL ably with the better grades of Japan. Coal and gires, good results on • viny moderate consumption, t
Steam calling a BATTIXor SANDAKAN exclusively for: SILIKPO FOR COAL (either cargo or Bankers) ace'ezompt from payment of all Fost
At Babattle Stonzzers are certbed along de the Company's wharf whare there is a initom desk af 27 to 23 feet as low water Spring Tidene way
Charms of Niboko. Bay: (Sabatik: Har nar), Prices, and all other information genewing the Port mm. bp had kon "application to the Agente
BRADLEY & CO., LTD. Agasta. Cowie Harbour Coal Company, Limited.
WAI KEE
TLAG & BALLMAKER
Hoad Contra.
ECHOKONG
For Particulars, appír to
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Κάπας Na 27Frozen Breast,
Hoezono.
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KEATINGS LOZENGES
cure the worst Cough
MARTIN'S A PIOL & STEEL SPILLS
A PIENO RAMSEY Sepatikananlaridian
MARTIN'S APIOL & STEEL FAZLADPILLS
METALS
of all kinds especially for shipbuilding and engineering “works.
best assorted stock in the Colony
SINGON & CO.
(bers...
HELENA MAY (under, Mr.Jordan) 1500 rolled bandages, 3 bead bandages, mary-tailed bandages, 3.psin stockings, 479 owels, 22 mufiore and 840 cigar attes (sent in December);
Proposed by the Chairman and seconded by Mr. Dagliesh-That the Report and Accounts as presented he adopted and passed that a 'dividend of Tis. 1.25 be paid on the ordinary 12,000 he paid to the staff at the millsE
shares, and that a bonus of Tis,
Proposed by Mr. Clark and second-
Bar 1830
Still going throng-
COLONEL
JORN BOLL: "I Believe in having plenty of reserves and in gettiates them in good condition.”
INTIMATIONS
JOHNNIE WALKER: You are quite right
that's been our policy since 18ao."
JOHNNIE WALK;R, “White Label”. 6 fenen oldi... JOHNNIE WALKER * Red Label ma fenty oldi JOHNNIE WALKER “Black Label"
the world
Guaranteed same quality through.
Agents General, CALDBECK. MACGREGOR & CO.
JOHN WALKER & SONS, LTD, SCOTos Wanke: Distalgan, Kilraznoće.. So-TLARD
Quality.
With LEA & PERRINS' SAUCE, few drops sprinkled over the meat, fish or cheese, &c., are all that is required to impart the most elicious piquancy and flavour.
- The QUALITY and concentration of its ingredients make a little of this sauce go
-long way.
Lea
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Perrine
JAPANESE MAKERS.
Every kind of Footwear
MADE
ORDER
ed by Mr. Douglas Fleming that a donation of Tis. 7,500 be paid soch to believe that we can only meer it the British Red Cross and the successfully by building up reserves Soldiers and Sailors Widows and CHERRY & CO.
during good times.
The contribution to the British War Funds of Tis. 15,000 will I am sure,
PRIE CLUB WAR WORK PARTY (under Mr Sutherland) 150 rolled meet with four approval. It w our › bandages, 96-many-tailed bandages and
678 swabs
KOWLOON UNITY WORKELS: (under Mra Young)
first donation since the war started, and as a British Company, receiving protection from our Government, the least we can do is to give our financial support. It is proposed to subscribe children this sum equally between the Red
To Miss Tacker, Soldier ad Sac Help Society, The Institute, Mansfield Street, London SE15 pieces of men's clothing
To Mis Douglas, Children's Aid an
Cross and Widows and Orphans Society, No. 9 South Motten Street, London West --27 pieces of children's Funds. In recognition of the good clothing, made from material supplied work of our European and Chinese by the War Charities: 2 woollen bonnats Staff at the Mills, the Consulting by a member of the K. UW
To Mr Lefroy Vice President Committee recommend that the sum 8.8.F.A. Hoxton Branch, Britannia of Tis. 12,000 be paid as a bonus Street, London, North-40-pieces of fa
Our working posts during the year women's and children soothing. MENCITAS
To Miss Wragge, Maurice Hostel, 114 have been high and we can expecta Sheperdess Walk, Horton, N. London relief in this respect in the Eeor 46 pieces of women's and children's future. The expenditure in interest clothing
ALICE D. HICKLING,
Hon Acting Secretary,
WHEN YOU WAKE
TO-MORROW MORNING
fo-day's liverishness, biliquausas, of sick- Jacadinobe will have dispared if you rock the aid of
PINKETTES
Was Tie 47,636.04, which was less that the previous year due to the better demand and deliveries of yarn
Orphans Funds100%
“PEDDER" STREET, Upposite Hongkong Hotel.
Proposed by Me Forstar ard, seconded by Mr. Shaw-that Meas
Johnstone R ME. Dalgliesh, Fopphone No. 491. J. W. C. Bobnar, Woo Ling-ahu and
Hongkong, March 20, 1914. Pan Ching pu be re-elected, as the Consulting Committee.
Proposed by M. Michael and EUROPEAN AGENCY. seconded by Mr. Piercy that Mesra
ESALE Indents promptly Lowe, Bingham and Matthews been dat den pro re-elected auditors!
The Chairman thanked, sharshold for all British and Continental gudds,
including ers for their attendance and said that dividend warrants would be posted immediately.
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"Trade Edeceivő:
on Accounts
SONS
80%
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