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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1912
THE ADVENT OF PETROLEUM.
'BY AIR MARCUS SAMUEL, BIRT.
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Sixty years ago, I think it would be safe to say, petroleum, ab all events in the many uses to which it is devoted today, was unknown Motoring was not even thought of; the heary combustion oil engine was o invented; and the advent of
ariation was even troro remote.
BILLIARDS.
THE GARRISON TOURNAMENT.
STAFF & DEPTS. v. 83RD CO. R.G.A.
The match will be resumed on
Delibagutely considered, it appears extraordinary that so much of the darelopment work, both in the pro- follow -duetion of petroleum and its use,
STAFF & DEPTS. should have been performed by Eng- Sgt. Stone ........ Listamen, seeing that they had; noue of the incentives of either the Staff Sgt. Lyth Americans or the Russians, who had Sgt. Major Sainsbury... Large supplies availible, and to
mom crequently the world might well dave looked for pioneers in pro- ETUSK.
Athia article is intended, for a paper having a large Eastern circula-) stion, I will come inmediatoly to the development of oilfields in the Fur
When the Shell " Com- pany first started the business, which
has grown to such enormous propor- | tions, the East was supplied from the United States and from Russia with oil packed in cases; two tins to The inceptibe of the bulk acuse.... dil tade arse from the realisation by the writer that every timeta mutive bought oil ise did not require to buy tins and a case, any more than would man who bought a pint of bier need to buy a pint pot. And so it cœne about that steamers were designed wtels were specially_constructed to carry oil in bulk, and a systern was melalomted for erecting large tank
for, the glotage of petroleums in bulk at pritically every port thngbout the Für East. The expectation that She ingentity of nutives would pro ville utensils for the containing of oil in stall quantities was not im- mediately realised, although from the very first oil the served over and over again.
S.QMS. Sherrif.....
THE CHINA MAIL.
SINGAPORE'S CENTENARY. SHOOTING A CONSUL.
One hundred years ago on Feb. 6, the port of Singapore was founded Carceiro, has been sentenced to
Carlos Carneiro, son of João]" by Sir Stamford Rafles, whose three years deportation to Timor on epitaph in Westminster Abbey the says
"At the Soldiers Club last night, the Staff and Departments won two out of three games and turned a deficit He founded an Emporium at Sin of 67 into a lead of 23 points. The gapore. Where in establishing Free- best breaks were 24 and 17 by S.Q.dom of Person as the right of the M, Sergt Sherrif, 21 by Gunner Sol And Freedom of Trade as the Simpson and 18 by Staff Sergt. Lyth. Right of the Part. He secured to the British Flag The Maritime Monday night. The scores to date Superiority of the Eastern Seas.
Not the least of the factors which made for the early success of Singa pore was the fiscal system which 133 Raffles introduced. Farseeing in all ... 184) things, the eminent man realised ...
200 especially the necessity of an unre- ...200 strained trade to the prosperity of a Settlement such as Singapore, which 717 would naturally draw to itself all the commerce of a wide area, not merely ... 200 in the Straits, but in the Eastern 200 Archipelago. He therefore resolutely 136 put aside all idea of a revenue from 158 import duties, believing that the surest means of making the position 694 self-supporting was to build up a large trade,, which would justify, in the long run, the imposition of internal taxation. Acting on these principles Raffles constituted Singa- pore a Free Port at the outset, and a free port it, it has since remained, to great advantage of British commerce and the infinite good of the Colony as 3 Imperial possession."
self-sustained
83RD.CO. R.G.A... Gunr. Gregory ...
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Sharpe
Morrison... Simpson ...
ROYAL HONGKONG
*"GOLF CLUB,
Mr. H. J. Gedge has kindly offered to present a silver cup for a Hon Four ball competition to be competed for under the following conditions..
To be played as a knock-out tournament by four ball matches over the main course, at Fanling..
Scoring to be on the American plan, e. one point for the best ball, and one for the lower aggregate score of the two players of each side at each hole.
Completitors (all of whom mast be members of or subscribers to the Club) to enter in couples, both must belong to the same Hong (or Govern ment Department, Regiment etc.) Any number of couples belonging to the same Hong etc. many ent
the
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In his proclamation of 1823, Sir Stamford Rafes said these fine things, which his successors have not managed to live up to
Let all men he considered equal.in the eye of the law.
Let no man be banished the coun- try without a trial by his peers or by due course of law.
Let no man be deprived of his liberty without a cause, and no man detained in confinement more than 48 hours without a right to demand a hearing and trial according to due course of law.
The business would retrety Turve
Let the people have a voice through i had the steminets been t Handicaps to be arranged b theMagistracy by which their senti- pelled to resun in ballost to tie special Sub-Committee to be appointments may at all times be freely Black Sea Ports, to load, and so they led for the purpose.
expressed. fiad to be .nstructed time they Entries may be, made at Happy could be chapel, and, being Valley, Fanling or to the Hon. Secre- eleaned, muki transport general tary. Estries to close 28th inst. bongo home even of the most deli- All disputes to be referred to the cute alaructor. And this was re- above Sub-Committee whose decision complished by the Shell steamers, shall be final. which reportedly bule rice, anlịa over tre, without any deleterions The winter of the February Round
with a score of 93-11-82 net. for this Cup was F. Maitland
effect the cargo.
CAPTAIN'S CUP.
Let the native institutions as far as regards religious ceremonies mar- riage and inheritance be respected when they may not be inconsistent with justice and humanity or injuri ous to the peace and morals of Society.
held by the Straits and F. M. S. The present powers of banishment Governments would have shocked him. However things could easily have been worse.
HONGKONG'S ADMIRAL.
Feb. 6 had this:
The "Singapore Free Press" of
the
charge of shooting Portuguese Consalin Shanghai, The cousin of Carlos Carneiro, being
EX-POLICE RESERVISTS AGAIN · SENTENCED.
taria, ex-Police Reservists, who were.
Henrique d'Aquino and Jose For|
convicted, along with Chan Kau, för demanding money with threats from Chinese woman living in 8, Sal Street, received a further six weeks'
minor, was sentenced to imprisonprisonment yesterday for stealing ment for three months, to date from evidence against Chan Kau was weak, a purse from the same house. The the day of arrest. He was, there and he was acquitted. fore released but was subsequently Fre-arrested pending the Attorney. General's appeal to Gos against the sentences.
The affair, it will be remembered, arose out of the case in which three Portuguese, J. L. Carneiro, L. Lemos and R. P. Carneiro were arrested in Japan in connection with alleged extensive share frauds which were discovered in December, 1917. They were brought back to Shanghai on April 13th of last year and the next day Carlos Eugenio Carneiro and Francisco Estevao Carneiro, son and nephew of J. L. Carneiro, called at the Portuguese Consulate and produced to Mr. D'Oliveira a local newspaper containing photographs of the three prisoners, asking in effect what the Consul General had to do with their publication. The newspaper was alleged to cover a re volver, which Mr. D'Oliveira on see ing endeavoured to seize. It was fired, wounding the Consul Gea- eral, while the other man it was alleged, also commenced to shoot with a Browning pistol. Mr. D'Oliveira was hit twice but fortunately only slightly injured.
The affair caused some stir in Shanghai, and the Consuls and a deputation of Portuguese called on Mr. D'Oliveira to express the sym pathy of the Portuguese community
PASSENGERS DEPIRTED.
February 14.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS."
HONGKONG HOTEL 00 LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING, of the SHAREHOLDERS
in this Company will be held at the Company's Hotel, Hongkong, an FBI- DAY, 28th February, 1915, at 12.13 P. for the purpose of receiving the Bapart of the Board of Directors together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ending Slat. December 1918.
THE REGISTER of SHARES of the Combaty will be CLOSED from FRIDAY, 21st February to FRIDAY, 28th February, 1919, (both days-de- planine dating which period TRANSFER of SHARES can be REGISTERED
By Order of the Board of Directors,
„J. E TAGGART, Manager
Hongkong, Feb. 15, 1919.
'PUBLIC AUCTION.
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HE. Undersigned has freceived in- sell by Public Auction at o'clock structions from the Mortgagees to
P.M. at MONDAY the Sod-March 1919 at his sales rooma Daddell Street Hongkong.
All that piece or parcel of ground situate at Victoris in the Colony of Hongkong and registered in the Land Fer Dunera: Mr. S. J. Kolapore, Ming Office as the Remaining Portion of K. A. Blair. Miss Lai Tong, Mr. H. Section B of Marina Lot No. 199 to- Coelho Jr, Mr. A. N. Row, Mr. and Mrs getter with all memuages erections and W. R. Hutton, Mr. R L. Williamson, Mr. N. J. Kilborne. Mr. P. McCaull. baiklings thereon now known as No. Captain Barver. End Lieut Fellowes Mrs WL Christie. Major Tresidder, 298 Des Voeux Road West. Cint. W. I Christie. Mr. and Mresidue of a term of 999 years created.
The lot is held for the unexpired Frimodt-Moller and infant. Mies therein by an Indenture of Crown Steenstrup, Miss A. Rasmussen, bir and
N. Damn, Mr H. M. Charm, MiF Mrs. B. M. O. Briem Master L. Harris, Lease of Marine Lot 199, Miss W. S. Kwon, Mr. E W. She
Shaw, MA
The annual Crown Rent $21,00 Campbell, Hiss Yuen So Yi Mr of sale apply to
For further particulars and conditions Hercules Coelho, Miss V. William B. E. Tinstman, Mr. W. G. Fletcher, Mr. T. W. Kwan, Mr. and Mrs. C. Borup, Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Orpen and infant. Cap tain Rindall, Lient Dryidate, 2nd Lieut Henderson, Mr. Gahan, Mie B. Frimoot Moller, Miss K. Hange, Miss M. Olara, Mr. A. Tororkolf, Master J. Morris, Sister C. Natalina, Captain J. Richards, Mr. R. Charan, Miss A Waits: Mrs. Yaen Las Shi, M. and Mrs. H. Coelho, Me and Mrs. J. Vredenber, Mr. Me. T. C. Halten, Lt Col Constable Houston, Mr. Page, Miss Wong.
Lieut. Both, Mr. Halliday Miss Tablets and the healthy, condition of ienced after taking Chamberlain's Dolmer, Miss S. Oxholm, Mrs. EW. body and mind to which they contributo, Lezze, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Morris, Mr. makes one feel that living is worth while. fees. Sister K. Briekett, and Miss For sale by all Chemists and Stara- J. Pelletier.
keepers.
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ME. S. W. TS'O, Solicitor for the Mortgagees
or the undersigned
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer. Hongkong, Feb. 15, 1919.
THEY MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD.
TO-DAY'S NEW ADVERTISEMENT.
This state of things might are continuel but for the discovery of oil in Sumatru, and so long as the Royal Dutch Company continued grant industries will arise from them. the business in the antiquoted Printing bk, varnish, and last, but fashion" the "Shell" fempitny could by no means least, a great series of coinpete with Russian eleven base.dye products are manufactured long hopelessly handicappel by from this oil, whilst a chance dis
e geogmphicul position of their overy of human interest hus beed":
On behalf of the community of supplies. When, however, the profound in the fact that one particu Singapore, we should like to express duction of the Dutch lies in lar fraction of the oil the art their regret at losing Vice Admiral creased, the Royal Dutch Company wonderful hair restorer that is yet Tudor, who leaves to-morrow for followed the methods of the Shell" known to Nature; and after the war Hongkong by H.MS. Suffolk, to hoist Captain Fawcett, Lieut. Carter. ad pleasant purgative effect experi- -Company, and began to transport this boon will be placed before the his flag there in command of the China and market their oil also in bulk. world, lor it is not only applicable Station. Lady Tador follows later. And so thegame necessary for the to human beings, but to all animala. 'Until the war we never had the
Shell Company to find, pos- sible. producing territories also in freed from the necessity of import- hoisted here, and due "apprecia- In the time the Far East will be honour of the Admiral's Flag being the East, and we were fortunate in ing any lubricating oil, for the Fast-tion was felt at first at Sir Low. obtaining these in Kotel in Dutcher oils contain tie in huge quanti Grant being in residence here, and BUDAYA
tes, and it is age strprising that later Sir Frederick Tudor Tudor, Success in striking oil was attain this important branch of the business both of eminence in the Navy. The ed, but the petroleum proved of very has not reached greater proportions work of the Navy is mostly unknown heavy specific gravity, and it threat earlier, but the conditions attaching to the world, but everyone has learn- ened great difficulties in finding as the sale of lubricating oil, as those ed something of the arduous, con- market. So we deckled to adapt our in the bruce know, rendered a stant and varied nature of the work slips to burning it as fuel under their business requiring methods which the Admiral has to deal with. Vice poilers. This method of using petro grant self-respecting companies could Admiral Tudor and Lady Tudor have Jeum was so successful that we urged not associate themselves with, and joined in the general life of the it upon the British Government, it is only the advent of the internat Colony, and their daughter Mrs. -giving them every opportunity for combustion engine and aeroplanes, Fisher has done good work in the seeing its working and for their bet which require supplies of lubricating charities. Singapore appreciates them ter conviction, bringing home aoil in such quantities ne to render it heartily and will miss thent and the steamer under liquid fuel from capable of being conducted on sound Staff more than a little, with a hope Borneo via the Cape to London, ordinary businese principles that will that the flag will soon again, appear And no one can, or probably would, lead to its expansion. dispute the claim of the Shell 4 The discovery of oil in Egypt, s.50 Company to have been the mission-due to the Shell" Company's en aries in the use of liquid fuel and terprise, nes andther link to the its practical use new throughout the long chum of buses from which the work. The steamer which accom- East, may, he supplied for in the plished this historic voyage brought Paelfie we have, Caliomin, in the petr in bulk the first time that it Persian Gulf Abudan: in Rangoon the had ever been, so carried, constitut-Burnish Oil Company, whilst the ang another record for "British enter prise. In those days the consutip Aion of petrol in the United Kingdom did not exceed 20,000 tons a year, and probably the entire world's con- sumption was under 200,000 tons.
Shell" Company" donninate the Dutch Indies and Sarawak, and in the West vast supplies will be furnished by Mexico and Venezuela, No wonder, then, that hundreds of stecniers are being fitted to-day for The necessity of marketing the burning liquid fuel, that great plans petrol compelled the "Shelf Com exist for building ships with internal pany to accept low prices for their combustion engines for the use of product in competition with the heavy oil, and that vast preparations Standard Oil Company, and it may are being mute for developing avio- gain be truly said that the motor- tion, by which places unknown either áng industry would never have reach to motor traffic or to nulway may sed the proporticus it has since at be reached, and some of the advic dained if the writer had not had the tages of civilisation carried to many courage and the enterprise to bring astonished natives. The whole mat the Far Eastern petrol to Europe. ter constitutes a gigantic subject, and Shell" spirit is now known there few lines can only be taken as throughout the world as the best mere compendium of a question so that existe, and the trade in petrol vast that it would require a volume Sas reached stupendous proportions, to expound thoroughly and probably, if the consumption of the United States is taken into so-ed so prominent part in the erea- I am naturally proud to have play count, is not less than five million tion of a very edustry fraught toas a year. Another result of the with nothing but blessing to the character of the oil discovered in human race, and I will conclude by Borneo was the necessity of extract adding that only an insignificant part ing the paraffin wax from the crude has been played by Germany in oil in order to make this liquid. This, petroleum production L. & C. too, was successfully accomplished, Express."
and the sale of paraffin wax produced throughout the East, including Bur mah, is not less than 60,000 tons à
year, and the value run into my millions sterling H
A FORTY YEARS' TEST. -
AMBERLAIN'S Couh Remorly
has been curing coughs and cold's for the past forty yours and has gained
The peculiar character of the Borin popularity every year. What better. nen oll has test to the discovery of recommentation is younired? For sale extremely valuable by products, and by all Chemists and Storekeepers."
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