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INTIMATIONS
MOUTRIE
& CO..
LTD.
TO LET
TO LET,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PREAS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13cm, 1907.
G Bording A Bicol LENWOOD" CAINE ROAD, suitable
taining 26 Rooms.
OFFICES on the Third Floor of "Horez MANSIONS" 3 ROOMS Corner over Meters, Kruse & Co. Fine position. Cheap rental.
BEACONSFIELD ARCADE, Fine Oficas
THE ORCHESTRELLE CO'S and Dwelling Rooms,
**
NEW MODEL
AERIOLA
PIANO PLAYERS RETURNED AFTER A FEW MONTHS
ON HIRE
REDUCED To $350.
A MARVEL OF MECHANICAL GENIUS AND THE MOST PERFECT INSTRU·
MENT ON THE MARKET,
50/- WHEAT?
WORLD'S SHORTAGE.
The extraordinary rise which has taken place progress, is likely to cause bread to homineraly in the price of wheat, a rise which is still in doar this winter, and already the prospect of the
aven-penny loat la being discussed, markete on Saturday (Oct. 12th are significant Two reports received from provincial corn of the conditions which prevail throughout the kingdom....
No. 15, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,
They read as follows:- Top Floor, (over Caldbook MaoGregor),
"Peterborough,.-The highest price reached OFFICES in Queen's Road Central.
for wheat in the last decade was recorded here on RELILIOS
TERRACE
Saturday, when 408. was obtained for the best HOUSES, ROBINSON ROAD.
samples.
The ruling prise was 35s. 6d, an "THE EYRIE" Peak (Farnished) for advance of us rly. 10. since new wheat was put Months from 1st September 1907. Cheap on the market a month ago. Rental.
BISHOP'S LUDGE SOUTH (Pxx) Partly Furnished, Immediate Possession.
No. 1 MOUNTAIN VIEW PEAK) Farnished. For 4 or 6 months from
December, 1907.
They will probably ex sust their legal ramedy by Court proceedings, and when these fall there will be an appeal to diplomacy and to the inter- pretation of Conventions promising to protect industrisi property, However, Mr. W. I on et a Lover le a member of Parliament who site
when it comes to diplomatic intervention he may possibly beable to exercise greater pressure of patent lawa iz Japan. -Japan Chronide. than some other victims of tho interpretation
COMMERCIAL IMMORALITY, nUINING CREDIT AND HONOUR OF SINGAPORE, The following letter, dealing with the con- dition of the local share market and the Com- panies Ordinance, has been sent to the Straits Times for publication.
"Norwich, Wheat further advanced 28. á
Singapore, October 29. quarter, a quotation of 38s. a quarter being referring to the sale of another apparently Sir, Your paragraph, a few days ago, touched for best wheat. The tone of the market valueless property to trusting Singapore specia prosented a remarkable change from the dopestors should cause all thoughtful men to think, lation of the last thirty years, and the general This is only another reqrnit to the ghastly opinion was expressed that whent quotations procession of frauds which has-stalked through will be carried during the next six months to 458 the Colony during the last few years. Some of and possibly 54a aquarter."
Throughout the country the same story is known, and their appearance raises a sickly mile the participants in this proocasion are well- told. On the Baltic on Saturday prices for on the faces of many viotime. But there are foreiga wheat were at least an average of de, a many others who have quietly done their work, quarter above those of October 1, while they and have not auscumbed to the assitheties of were ever. 78, above these ruling at the begining the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies. of September.
No. 6, DES VEUX ́VILLAS (PEAK). No. 2 BEACONSFIELD ARCADE. No. 55, ELGIN STREET (Corner House)
Apply to
LINSTEAD & DAVIS, 3rd Floor, Alexandra Buildings, Hongkong, 25th September. 1907. (102
TO LET. IMMEDIATE Possession
A WRITTEN GUARANTEE GIVEN NO. 2, HOLLYWOOD ROAD.
WITH EACH INSTRUMENT.
SOLE AGENTS:
8. MOUTRIE & CO., LD.,
York Building, Chater Hoa).
Hongkong, 13th November, 1997. - 38:1
NEW CARTRIDGES.
DY Popular English Manufacturers. Ja
Ball Bores and Sizee
"SMOKELESS POWDER and CHILLED SHOT. From No. 10 to 888G, at $6, $7 and
Apply to
ARRATOON V. APCAR & Co., 45, Wyndham Street. Hongkong, 2nd March, 1907.
TO LET
The position is well evidenced by the following figures issued by the Board of Agriculture, giving the average prices of British wheat in the markets of the country, including London, last week, as compared with the corresponding wooks in previous years:→
33 3 per quarter, 26 3
1907
491
1906.
3975
26.11
1974
30 5.
1903
25 8
1902
25 1:
1901
ROUND FLOOR of No. 4, Des Voeux
GRoad including a Strong Booms and
servants' quarter.
The Top Floor of No. 2, Wradhan Street lately vacated by the Hotel Baltimor, aitable for & Club or Boarding House.
Apply to-
DAVID SASSOON & Co. LTD. Hongkong, 11th November, 1907. 1698
TO LET.
$7.50 per 100 SPORTING REQUISITES NO. 2, MACDONNELL BOAD.
and AIR GUNS in Variety.
Inspection Invitad.
WM. SCHMIDT & CO. Bongkong, 28th October, 1906.
TO LET
TO LET.
1669
FFICES in ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS.
Apply
SECRETARY,
A. 8. Watson & Co. Limited. Hongkong, 23rd April, 1907,
(800
TO LET.
HOUSE in KNUTSFORD TERRACE
KOWLOON.
Apply to-
"TŘE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.
MENT AND AGENCY CO., LD, Hongkong, Ist November, 1907, (92
TO LET.
[O. 5, MORRISON HILL,
No. 5
(97
Apply to-
COMPRADORE'S DEPARTMENT, Nippon Yusen Kaight. Hongkong, 3rd June, 1905.
TO LET.
Toad, to storied Houses with Bath
MANG YUEN 18, and 188, Macdonnell
rooms, &o, at moderate rental.
Apply to
WING CHEONG CHAN
3 "Connaught Road West. Hongkong, 18th October, 1997, 1602
TO LET
IMMEDIATE POSSESSION. (ODOWNS Nos, 93, 96, 97 and 101, Frays
East. Apply to-- CHATER & MODY,
Victoria Buildings. Hongkong, 20th June, 1997, 4059
N
One-FOUR-ROOMED HOUSE at Prays Kowloon, -East, Dear East Põlut,
Apply to
TO LET.
· 1900
25 10 28 4
.
It le noteworthy, too, that never during the eight years has the week son so many quarters of wheat said, the total being 105,273 quarters, The nearest approach was in 1905, when 85,449 quarters were sold,
It is also noteworthy, in view of the pries of wheat at Norwich on Saturday, that the average price there of British wheat for the whole wook was 32s. 6d. The average for the weak in London was 35s, as compared with an average of 39. in Mark line at Friday's market. In both cases, therefore, the week closed with a very substantial rise on the average price for the week.
The opinion expressed so freely on the Norwich market that 50s. wheat is well within the bounds of possibility was trong ly confirmed in wheat ciroles in London. The expert view is that the continuanos of the riants inevitable.
"Look at our trade returns for the first mine mouths of this voir," said one large importer, And you will find there a partial explanation of the high prices. The fact is that the world's demand for wheat is growing faster than is the supply.
Is it not time that come one raised his voice in the cause of commercial morality? There existe such a virine, and in the home c have been put into gaol for breaches of its onde, country people in former years unwritten, but now, perhaps imperfectly, inscribed on the Statute Book.
I am aware,
Sir, that we have, a Companies' Ordinance, but I am also aware that it leaves as
T where our fathers and uncles stood in 1962. The proverbial coach and four can drive through this Ordisaner. In at least two of these roant failures, applications have been sought without a prospectus being pablished, and the promoters. have, therefore, been able to shield thomsalvos behind the imperfect memories of themselves and their dupes.
anyone down to definite statements, or to In such flotations, it is impossible to mai obtain sa authentic statement of the profits of the promoters. Many an applicant for shares would ранцу if he knew the amount of profit, and the division thereof, which some promoteri make on a proposition, the option to purchase which probably cost them 810,
amendment of the Companies Ordinance of I submit that the Colony requires a drastic 1889, Surely British investors bere have a right to as good a protection as they get at bome in Companie foated there to oxp'oit Straits properties. If space permitted, I scald point out to your readers many BECOLMTY amendments to our Companies' Ordinance 1889, bat have we not a Chamber of Commerce and Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council? The inevitable result of the present state of commercial immorality is to injars the oredit, and repatstion of the deny in the eyes of the merointile world. The oration of over- capitalised heavily.watered compaies, whos sasets are prophetic, will give car market, at vo distant iste, reputation which should make some well-known dəfunct financiers turn in their graves-1 am, yours, sta,
INVESTOR.
Take Russia, for instance. Three years ago wo imported no less then 18,701,200ents of wheat from there, is the nine months. This year our imports have only totalled 8,455,000 BALLOONISTS EXCITING VOYAGE, cwts. Russia's political troubles have had a vast influence on her wheat crop, and she is growing nesrer and nearer the tins when she will want all the wheat she can grow for her own purposes.
"America is in nearly the same plight, so far as the growth of population is concerned. Within the past thirty years abe has changed from an agricultural country to a manufactur ing country, and the millions of man and their
TO. 38, CAINE ROAD.
AUCTION ROOMS, No. 2 Zetland Street. No. 2 FAIRVIEW, ROBINSON ROAD, families engaged in the manufactures of the country have to be fad. The result is that Apply to
although her wheat fields are far greater in ertent than thirty years ago, there is nothing like the surplus available for export. It must be remembered, too, that China and Japan are making yearly increasing calls on the American
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD. Hongkong, 21st October, 1907. 169)
TO LET.
LEIGH & ORANGE,
Hongkong, 9th October, 1907.
TO LET.
1. Des Voeux Road.
94
NModerate Rental
TOS. 2 and 5 Observatory Villas, Kowloon TWO GODOWNS No. 7, Wanchai Road, sad No. 8, Prays East, at moderate rental.
Apply to-
£
T'euuls Court and
Apply to
Electric Lights.
Possession 1st November, 1997.
ÁRRATOON V. APCAR & CO..
45, Wyndham Street. Hongkong, 5th October, 1907.
TO LET,
1620
ATHERLEIGH", CONDUIT ROAD.
A HOUSE in CLIFTON GARDENS, Conduit
·Road,
OFFICES in Yoas BUILDING. GODOWNS in
PRATA BART, BLUE BUILDINGS and No. 16B, Des Vour Road
next to the HONGKONG HOTEL.
FLATS in MORETON TERRACE. Apply to--
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY 00., LTD Hongkong, 9th November, 1907., 1792
TO LET.
9 ROOM HOUSE, with Tennis Lawn and out-houses. Good view of the harbour. 13, aodonnall Road. Apply to-
DR. HO KAI, Barrister-at-Law,
Des Voeux Road. Hongkong, 16th October, 1907.)
UPE
TO LET.
*1004
WANCHAT GODðWN CO.
Wing Cheong Chan, Agent,
3, Connaught Road, West. Hongkong, 2nd November, 1907.. 1669
TO BE LET OR SOLD.
WITH POSSESSION FROM 1ST JUNG- IN WANGHAI ROAD.
GODOWN built of bricked, about
just thoroughly repaired, about 4000 square feet spot, concrete flooring. Suitable for storage of any kind of merchandise.
Apply to
Care of Daily Press " Ofen. Hongkong, 3rd May, 1907.
TO LET.
870
erop.
enormous increase in the Cauafisa wheat wa Then the figures will show you that the imported into this country last year as compared with 1905-8,252,000 swis. as comparet with 3,000,000 cwts.—has not been continued, and the total this year has only exceeded that of last year by a few hundred thousyed hundredweights.
THE PIRACY OF TRADE-MARES,
MEISHA, LEVER BROTHERS AND THE JAPANESE
GOTHENBURG, Monday, October 14. balloon Mammoth after their voyage from The three aeronauta who escaped from the London sustained some bruises,
When they came so sight of the Wener Lake they believed it was the sea, and descended, sliding down the guide rope.
The empty balloon descended at 4.30 yesterday damaged. afternoon in a forest. The car was badly
One of the aeropants makes the following statement
"We left the English oast at Yarmonth,'sad continued our voyage all night, without knowing when we should reach the Continent. We did not see any land until nine o'clock on Sunday morning, and, to our astonishment, we found that we were over Denmark, having thus beaten. the record for balloon voyages over the cassu.
We hoped that we should be able to cross Scandinavian Peningals, where s dense fog shat the Baltic, but the wind carried us to the
out the view.
"We began to feel uneasy, and let the balloon go down through the clouds. We then saw before us a very large sheet of water, but sacceeded in landing safe on the shorə
3
Undeterred by recent exposures, the piracy of plexion, Mrs. Ellen's Creme Charmante. Lait
How To EN BEAUTIFUL-Keep your com"," trade-marks goes merrily on in Japan.
Charmant will enable you to do it. Hex Specialities. for the Skin are the study of a The Charmant and 8pecial Skin Tonic and Pondre
lifetime. A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd,, Sole Agents
latest victims ex Limited the soap firm of Port Sunlight. Eog- land, who have become famous not only because of their soaps, but by reason of their saccess in obtaining from the London Daily Mail the sum of £50,000 damages for libel. We are afraid, however, that in the present condition of the law in this country they will not succeed in obtaining 5 zon by reason of the injary done THE WHOLE of the SECOND FLOOR offenos is most glaring, not to say impudent. to their basiness by Japaneso piracy, Yet the of No. 34, Queen's Road Central, (opposite the pirates began cautiously some time ago the General Post Offies). The Rooms are light, by imitating in part the appearanos and desiga spacious and well ventilated; 13 in number of the boxes in which the soap of Mesara. beside kitchen, pantry, bathroom, servaate Levor is sold. Gaining course from im. quarter sto. Very moderate rent. Immediate possession. Apply to
PPER Level, TWO ROOMS, in private 16
family. Tennis Court..
For particulars apply to
E HL, Care of "Daily Press." Office. Hongkong, 29th October, 1907, 1785
TO LET FURNISHED. LEMISH No. 101, The Peak.
Apply to- MESORS. HASTINGS & HASTINGS,
Solicitors
38, Queen's Road Central, Rongg Hongkong, 4th September, 1907.
TO LET.
∙1445
FURST Class European Houses, Lochiel
Toon.
Terrace and Humphreys Arenue Kow
Apply to-
HEWAN &00., Care of China Merchants S: N. Ca. Hingkorg, 1s. October, 1907. 1590
TO LET.
TO. 5, ORMBBY TERRACE, Kowloon
NCheap Bontal.
Apply to
SPANISH PROCURATION.
Hongkong, 18th Ooteber, 1907.
1677
YEE SANG FAT &
Same Address, Hongkong, 7th October, 1907,
TO LET..
Co
1627
"STONHEVED" 85, Robinson Road
59, CAINE ROAD. Nos. 27, 31 and 33, SEYMOUR ROAD.
Apply to
SAM WANG CO. LTD.,
81, Queen's Road Central. Hongkong, 8th November, 1967,
(108
TO LET. TO, 4 QUEEN'S GARDENS-7 Rooms and 4 Bathrooms, fately colourwashed, Sittinge, &n, can be taken over at a valuation. painted and repaired throughout. Electrioni
Apply to
Care of DENISON, RAM & Gras. Hongkong, 5th November, 1907.
H
TOLET
1769
It
it he had
panity, however, they have now me the whole hog, as Mr. Joseph Chamberlain would say. We have before us two oblong boxes bearing the words" Velvet Skin Soap in white le ters on a red ground. At first sight the two boxes Bre identical, and, even when given to understand that one is a piracy, it is diffenit to say which is the offender. Un close eximination, however, is soon that in place of the word "Lavar Brothers, Limited, Por. Saslight, England." the piratical bo contains is similar shaped lettora
8. M. Aigle & Cie., Savonneris. Fabrique Par. England." The last word stards in a line by itself, just as is the case with the genuine box in order to increase the likeness, and a Japanero not knowing Baglish would probably be deceived ever
both bures batore There is one slight differendo, however, The nine box has the picture of a lady with har hair down her tack sitting on a black ball representing the world, faint white lines indios ting the degrees of longitude and latitude. In the imitation the lady remains untouched, but the sphere on which she is sitting has alternate white and black longitudinal lines which give it the appearanes of a football, ferhaps this is emblematic of the raw with which Japan with the faventions of the whole world. They afe hers to kick about as she pleases, without was once asked if he believed in baptism.Yes" he replied "most certainly, especially with In this sense the Japanese bave been Baptista fox and ablutionary devotions the and now they have added soap to their Innermost mystery of the religion of clean- liness has been reached. But when to this are added the virtuous delights of a Velvet Skin op, they should see that they are not put aft with colourable imitation. What Momri. Lever Brothers are gong to do we cannot say
denta
HOPS and FLATS in Den Vaux Road, money and without price. Colonel Ingersoll
Contral,
No. 14, SALISBURY AVENUE, Kowloon,soap." No. 8, BAST TERRACE, Kowloon.
Apply to-
HUMPHREYS ESTATE &
FINANCE CO., LD. Hongkong, 15th July, 1907,
1135
نا
654
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LOZENCES
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CASE
OLD VAT
$14
THIS VAT WAS STARTED BY THE LATE ROBERT THORNE OF GREENOCK AND HAS BEEN-SOLD AS KA SINCE (83)
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1200-
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By Royal
Warrant to
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BOVRIL
is a true food-and-contains Albumen and Fibrine which go to form Blood, Bone, Brain and Muscle. Beef-teas and Meat- Extracts are stimulants only.
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