ENTERTAINMENT
ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.. THE FIRST FESTIVAL SERVICE
of the
HONGKONG DIOCESAN
CHORAL ASSOCIATION will be hold in the above. Cathedral. TO-MORROW (TUESDAY). 17TH DEC, at 5 F..
Stabat Mater
ORDER OF SERVICE. — Ororture Procional Hymn "Onward Chria- CANTATA
Voluntary
tinn Soldiers" Sullivan. "THE HOLY CITY"
A. R. GAUL "Stabat Mater" Rossini.
[PUBLISHED BY-SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT:] TOWARDS THE SUNRISE.
BY
WIRT GERRABE. [COPYRIGHT.]
CHAPTER IL
THE NEW AMERICA.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 167, 1901
in the "new America. Not all macosd; in devour to employ only regular workers. Of every class there are fallares; butin sondering these there are not many, and though the indi the possibilities of sonantry these may belguor-vidual workman may be ready to stay on be ed. It is sufficient to know that with average may not do gif required for military service, fortune and good nisnagement, large praits are if his village commune will not agree to his absence, or if the police decline to renew his obtaicable.
passport. In the engagement of hands the Russian employer has to conform to conditions far more onerous than suy demanded by a trade-unton in Great Britain Hedged mund with laws that take away the essense of all free contract, employers and employed are fraquent- ly unable to agree on minor points, and are not free to give and take to their matusi að. vantage. Says the employer: "The state safeguards your interests; I conform to the law, I will do nothing more." Say the
One point all who would became ints asted in Russian enterprises must remember-Russia is a despotic country, and there is a direct variable ter upon trade and industries. In 1887, this The Russis of to-day is often torned the "new Rogai America"; the Russian themselves so regard it, direct impost yielded nearly 29 million roubles; but when one wishes to fail exact points of rait increased during the next ten years at an semblance ons is told that the portion of the average rate of about two million roubos per Russian empire which is most like the United anum, which may be taken as a fair, roascomb is increase considering the growth of the indus States is the industrial and agricultural region tries. Thus in 1888, over 48 million roubles in the south-cast of European Russia., Travellers say that this country is much the were derived by direct taxation of the trades samo as the "middle states", but for the sad industries of Russia; in 1899, the sum Russians there, the "now America" is the actually received was over 61 million roubles, distant land towards the sunrise: in contral an increase in one year nearly equal to the aggregate increase of the ten previous years, Siberia it is sail to be beyond Baikal, and those and itself schis seven millions in excess of the there say that the now America" is Man-budget estimate. In 1900 the direct tax was expected to yield 59 millions; and for 1001 the estimate is 62,701,500 roubles. If, therefore, trade has doubled its turnover during the past dacade, the dicoot impost has likewise doubled in the same term.
By kind permission of Colone! the Hon. E. H. Bertie and Officors of the Royal Walsh Fusiliers the Band of the Regiment will Assist.
SOLOISTS:- Soprano: Mrs. ANDERSON; Contralto:
Mr. DEALYS Tonor: Mr. G. P. LAMMERT; Basser: Mere 6. HP. HAY and W. J. TERRILL. Organist: Mr G. GRIMBLE. Conductors: Mr. J, H. MOIR, 2.W.F.; and Mr. A. G. WARD.
Soatholders are requested to be in their Beats before 4.55 P.M., as all Seats unoccupied will be considered free after that time.
It is hoped that those who attend will contribute liberally to the collection, especially remembering that the Order of Service and Words of The Holy City' will be distributed froe."
ALFRED CUNNINGHAM, Hongkong, 30th December, 1901.
PUBLIC COMPANIES
THE DAIRY FARM COMPANY, LIMITED.
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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the ADJOURNED EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above named Company will be bald at the COMPANY'S OFFICE, No., Albert Road, Victoria, in the Colony of hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, the 18th day of December, 1901, at 4.P.M., for the purpose of considering, and if thought it passing the following Resolation, viz. :--
RESOLUTION.
That the figures in Article No. 10, Clause 15 of the Articles of Association of tha Company be altered to read $1,500 (Fifteen hundred Dollars)." Should the above Rogolution be passed by the requisite majority, it will be submitted for eonfirmation, as a Special Resolution, to a Second Extraordinary General Meeting which will be subsequently convened.
chúria.
Again, without warning, an extra import duty of one rouble the pros of 16 lie. was placed upon raw cotton, without drawbacks for existing contracts. Spinners were aghast, but;
such is the law of the "new America."
It is unlikely that Russia as represented by
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CHRISTMAS
PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS of HONGKONG, JANTON, MACAO and PEKING Mounted as CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR CARDS, with CHINESE GREETINGS Stamped in real Gold in Chinese Characters with English Translations.
MOTTOES
A. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Plenty chances, larges gain ;
Dollar come alla zame rain
Wishing you Happiness and Longevity
Success Crowns your Undertakings
My shin chin in Hongkong Makes you happy and strong Everything as you wish
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遂順車業
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MESSES. KRUSE & CO.
MESSRS. ACHEE & CO.
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STORES.
workers: The conditions are too onerous;'
Ceas to MESSES, KELLY & WALSH, LD. we cannot alter the law, we work, we will," With the complete code of MESSES. W. BREWEN & CO. factory regulations, with the government in- spectors, the resident responsible manager, and the host of officers whose business it is to adjust the relations of workers and masters, such a strike cannot, accur, that is, theoretically it RUPTURE RELIEVED AND cannot. If it does it is a misdemeanour and
OFTEN CURED the penalty is fixed by the code. All the mud, the workmen scheme. In one mill all weat as usual to their places, but refused to do any work. According to the code they bad not struck, they had not left their work, or broken their agree. mente, Had committed no offence in the go of
of
BY THE USE
OF OUR
PATENT TRUSS INVENTION.
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The Lancet, October 3rd, 1885, says: "It is comfortable, adapts itself readily to the movement
the body, and is vary affectiva."
British Medical Journal, May, 1885, says: 10 is a very ingenious and successful truss," Medical Times and Hospital Gazette, 1885, says: Hoiges & Co. lave for years past devoted their attention and skill to the improvemem of trussos, for the treatment of various kinds of Harnia, following the principles laid down by Frafessor Woud, of King's College Hospital."
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Some of the regulatins 11 hours too much. the employers thought, so too, but in the "now America" all must be in accord before any change can be offected.
In attempting any comparison of Russia and Amories it is useless to regard latent mtural. resource. Possibly Professor Neudelaff is right in his assertion that the Ural region fias
GREGRECKE
& CO.
19 and 20, FEATHERSTONE
LONDON, E.C.
STREET
ESTABLISHED NEARLY A QUARTER OF A CENTURY.
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: GREGRECKE, LONDON,"
illimitable supplies of iron ore, and suleiont charcoal to produce from that ore several million tons of pig iron annually, but, as long as ore. and fuel belong to the Government and may not be worked by private enterprise. the in- dustries dependent on iron may consider the CONTINENTAL AND COLONIAL PRESERVED PROVISIONS,
AND DRIED FRUITS, VEGETABLES, &c. deposits as non-existent.
(BEST QUALITY ONLY).
POULTRY, EGGS, BUTTER, AND FARM PRODUCE.
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. [2750
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GENERAL PRODUCE BROKERS. MANUFACTURERS OF SAUCES & DELICACIES.
WHOLESALE EXPORTERS OF ·
Physically Rassismay resemble Awnica, it
Russia is presumed to rival America in ex- tent, natural wealth, and recently, in productive ness. In the south-east of Russia there grows bottor whost than that of the Dobrusche, a wheat that equals, if it does not surpass, the best of the Red River soustry. The wheat belt is an intense tract, but it can be extended almost indefinitely, und, it is
the law. It nevertheless required the inter- said, the land to be brought under cultivo tion south-east of Samara is even better than
ferences of the police and the propinquity of a the Ministry of Finance has any wish to cripple, body of Cossacks to get the mill emptied. The may yet sown. It it on the black soil," and much of the black-soil coautry remains to be much less kill, the gease which Iny golden, tax-hands were all discharged, and a fresh lot on- oponed up by railways and pioneer settlers. Hon. Snoretary, S. J. C. Choir. Here it may be said that the celebrated black. ubio egge. It is within the Minister's discretion gaged. The point of dispute was the old com
soil consists of a layer of thoroughly decontries can afford to pay. An average assament posed pure vegetable mould on a subsoil of
is sure to press hardly upon some industry, sand or gravel. The thicknese varies from two inches to more than two feet, and where it is thus it is that those inanufacturing concerns which survive are those which have been, and thickest it is not likely over to become ex-
are, making the largest profit on a small capital hausted providing that it is formed is a sensible and tarnover. To be successful in the "new Amories" there must be an ampla margin; it is manner. Up to the present the land is culti vated in primitive fashion; the rotation of suicidal to attempt either to cat prices or maat crops is not attempted muros and top competition. The apparent success of industrial dressings aro unused, the only remedy practised Russia, therefore, is wholly dependent upon the is to allow the land to his fallow. In the pro- market being reserved by artificial means and a duction of wheat and other cureals Russia may monopoly conferred apan home products. Rus- rival America in the near future.
sin has not a surplus of asuufactured goods for export, nor with the present taxation could she tell at a profit in a free market, even if the bulk of the produce sold in the protected market-ut present high prices. In a word, the compati- tion of Russian manufacturers abroad is not to be feared at present. For one thing, there is roady a protected market in Russia and the east for all that the new America" is capable of producing. Bussia and Siberia are hangoring for goods, for machinery of all kinds and especially for machinery to make machines, The railways require more rolling stock, and development of new territories in hinlored bo- cause the fiscal policy requires that the things so badly needed must be made within the umpire. Bussia experts whout it would be preferable to export flour, and wills of the latest typa. are being erected All that leads, guides and pushes the public in over the best wheat-producing ares; there the way it intends they should take. The state' is, and long will bs, room for many more. is not only the greatest landowner, but is the Reaping machines, harvesters, threshers, and greatest trader, and the greatest railway con- agricultural implements generally, are in great tractor in the world. It works over 20.000 miles demand. As a Chicage drummer in Samura of railway, and besides alministering the vari informed me, the country is a" soft cop" for ons manufacturing and other departments in- The aggregate growth during the quinqne the firms doing business and having stocks cidental to governing a modern state, it is more The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company Dial period 1892-1897 was four times more rapid
or less directly responsible for avery enterprise will be CLOSED f.om the 20th to 20th inst...
It regulates than the preceding five years, which itself was
undertaken within its territories, both days inclusivo.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON six times more rapid than the increase during
the hours of labour and even adjusts the scale of General Managers
the preceding ten years. In the words of the
wages; by altering imposts it affects the prices Hongkong, 14th December, 1901. [3171
Minister of Finance, the progress in our
of commodities and manufactured goods. So manufacturing industries proves clearly that
far reaching is the band of the state that there the policy of protection has giren eralleut
seems little for the individual to do apart from result." In fact, the development of industries
it, consquently nearly all the best men are in luis been so repid that the production of raW
sian State in a gigantic "trust," endeavoring to material, coal, and iron, has been unequal to the
the employ of the state. In one word the Rus-
demand, and has to be met by imports from foreign countries, although immense stores of both a worked at home.
By Order of the Board of Director
B. P. MOFFITT, Secretary Hongkong, 14th December, 190L 19004 THE HONGKONG HIGH-LEVEL TRAMWAYS COMPANY,
LIMITED
The next natural product of importance is timber; of this there is in Russia and Siberia an apparently inexhaustible supply. It is not so large as American timber; much of it is at present inaccessible, and the science of forestry is neither understood nor valued. Much of the forest is birch, and birch-wood makes the best paper-pulp. This is an industry which is in its infancy; it must grow and there is more than one forlage in it for the right people."
The exports cf vegetable products, and even of mineral deposits, do not make an America. Giren abundant natural resources, and the means to exploit them, than industries will re- sult, and it is 'mdustrial America that Russia attempts to rival.
TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
It expects to attain the and by adopting the SEVENTEENTH ORDINARY
same method of rigid protection. The general GENERAL MEETING of the SHARE- HOLDERS of the shore Company will be held state of Russian industries is considered to be at the Registered Offices of the Company, 38 satisfactory Guaranted a market, they have and 40. Queen's Read Central, on FRIDAY grown ander the influence of protection, sou the 27th day of December, 1901, at Noo, for increasing dvs, some Lar and some three-fold the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers together with a Statement in a decade. The majority have just about of Accounts for the year ending 30th Novem-doubled the turnover in the same ber, 1901.
CHRISTMAB 1901.
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THE undersigned is now prepared to
supply
CHRISTMAS CAKES of the best quality weighing from 1 lb. to 20 lbs., and also Mines Pier, Assorted Cakes,
3o. &o.
DORABJEE NOWROJEE, Hongkong Bakury,
51, Dea Your Road.
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Hongkong, 7th December, 1801 THE TRADE MARKS ORDINANCE, 1896.
APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION OF
TRADE MARKS,
NINA SUGAR REFINING COM YOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN that the
term.
In the metal industry, the works of the Eng. lish Now Russia Company are an easy first. The
mines are in the Kherson Government, about
75 miles from the port of Matinpol, on the See of Azov. The works were started so long ago as 1869, by, Mr. Jolin Hughes, of Dowlais, and have now grown into a town with a population
era: To him it was a revelation that the users and consumers hunted about for the sellers instead of waiting for the new goods to be brought to their notice by travelling agents. A firm only recently engaging in besiness has sold 167 harvesters in Western Biloria in a single season, Should the tariff war between Russia and the United States contine, British
made machines, against which then is now a goods ought to take the place of the American- differentiated tariff. Many other goods also could be supplied, for the new America" is hungry-very hungry.
It is in the south-west of Russia that improv ed methods of agriculture are soonest adopted; the peasants of the west and middle districts seem content to go on in the old inefficient way, or when by hard drudgery they fail to make
SHIPPING SUPPLIED.
NESBIT
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may have a similar climate and equal natural DEALERS IN ENGLISH, FRENCH AND ITALIAN advantages, but unless the Russian people possess certain qualities the Americans have, they will not make any "new America" of any part of the empire. The difference is immense. In the United States of America the state is the servant of the public, in Russia every individual is a servant of the state. In America number of individuals combine for a certain purpose, achieve their purposo, and the state conlirmis or legalises their action. In Rassia it is the stato that initiates, the state that
It is the state achieves. and the state that looks to the public for approbation.
a
regulate its multitudinous bustnesses in a way that will return this largest profit. How it is grappling with various social probleme and in what manner its action is affecting theinterests of different classes of subject, the student of Sociology may know. It is enough that its methods are different to those of the American Republic and bear no close resemblance to any
To be continued.j
a living, they migrate east and there coutions of the means employed by European states to compels them to change. There is no conser. of over 25,000. It is named Usora after the their simple methods until the force of example achieve pre-eminence. founder, and is in every way a model settle.ratism in Siberis outside official circles, but in PANY, LIMITED, whose Registered Office is ment The company employs some 15,000 Russia the old methods are clung to with sar- bave on the 6th day of November, 1801, applied
situata at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong hands, and is by far the largest iron producer prising teneity. There is lack of education, you want your Boots well polished, tell
inability to adapt manners and methods, to changed circumstances; a supreme belief in, A circular label with a double border bearing tous of steel rails, 20,000 tons of manufactured and absolute reliance upon, the central govern
for the registration, in Hongkong, in the in Basis, though in point of capital it is ninth Register of TRADE MARKS, of the follow-down the list of iron companies. A year's out pat comprises 296,065 tons of pig iron. 120,000
ing TRADE MARKS, viz
ment for everything.
In the new America" thore is no initiative;
your Valet or the Maid to ask for WALTON'S BOOT CREAMS
AND VARNISHES.
the letters CSR in a diamond shaped enclosure iron, 160,003 tons of steel, three-quarters of a in the centre of the Isbel while also in the million tons of coal, and tou million bricks, centre of the label and beneath the diamond.
ull has to be brought in from the outdde. Given WALTONIAN CREAM, WHITE & BLACK. shaped unclosure aforesaid are the following besides lime, flux, manganese, and the like the idea, shown the way, helpod to a fair start the sories of combinations of letters and marks: The company provides a hospital and dispensary. whose teaintenance costs nearly £10,000 a year School for 1,000 children turn over £15,000 year, and in addition there are clabs, baths,
GDA, GBD, GDF. CSR, ALIW AIIIL, and
C
眼
Passion can go ahead with facility. The tencber JANUE MOSCOVITE, TA-3 SHADES, is delighted--worn apt pupils never were found.
All goes well until the machinery wears, or
within the border are the words co-operative supply storos, water-works, drainage some little thing goes wrong; then things are CH IN
SUGAR BEFINING and sanitary works, short, this English or at a standstill until outside help has been PARY in Ruerin is abreast of the best American brought in to right them. If the same accident COMPANY, LIMITED, HONGKONG, in the name of the CHINA SUGAKREFINING companies in many things. Year after year it occurs from the same cause a second time, the COMPANY LIMITED, who claim to be the increased its dividord until it reached twenty Russian will be able to right matters; but if Bole Proprieters thereof
per wat: about a decade ago it paid. 30 it is from a similar cause he is nonplussed. As a The TRADE MAZE is intended to be tured, by the Applicante in respect of the following per cent; in 1894, in addition to a cash parrot speaks by zote without understanding, gheds in the following olas viz-As Series dividend of 25 per tant, each share was doubled the Russian workman does his task and since then dividends of 15 per cant 20 mechanically and without comprehending or per cent, and 25 per cent. have been paid. No attempting to comprehend the rhy and the soon at the Office of Coloffial Sporetary of companies in the mus industry have done bate wherefore of the different parts of the more Hongkong.
Dated the 15th day of November, 1901, ter, but in Russia several have done exceedingly or less complicated tools he has to tend daily. well compared with similar undertakings in can do what he has done or sen what he has seen done before, but in the simplest things other countries.
heme unable to trace the caise from the effect, or to remedy a trifling defect in a rough
in Class 42 in respect ARES can be
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Musio, via Cperatio Lieves, Church tory, chemicals and paper, In all these, large Music, Songs (with o, without accompaniments role have hoen made. In must there is con experienced workman are source since the hands R
stant expansion of business and primarily to for the most part merely take to factory work serve these staple industries, there has been a in the intervals of agricutural employment. corresponding incremes of miner, collateral, They are migrants, if not nomads, roing in manufacturing tradea Small traders, manu suramer to their villages to fill the communo's facturers, and adventurers in tentative fashion holding, and returning, sometimes, to the mills are not encouraged, the larger and bolder the for the winter. The changes become so annoy [916] undertaking the greater its chances of success" ing and expensive that factory managers on
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