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INSURANCES
TORTH BRITISH AND MEROAN-
TILE INSURANCE COMPANY. TOTAL FUND IT 81er Do, 1905
£17,887,119.
· AUTHORISED, CAPITAL £3,000,000 SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL... 2,750,000
PAID-UP CAPITAL
II. FIRE FUND
687,500. 0 0 8,386,720 19 8
The Undersigned, AGENTS for the bora Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKA ngainat FIRE at Current Rates,
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., Ageria.
Hongkong, 27th April, 1907.
1186
AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN- SERANCE CO.
OF AIX LA-CHAPELLE.
3
THE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the shore Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
REUTER, BROCKELMANN & Co.
Agents.
Hongkong, 21st April, 1897,
114
THE GLOBUS INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURG.
THE Undersigned, having been appointed. AGENTS for the above Compsky, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Estes,
CARLOWITZ & Co. Hongkong, 13th August 1906,-
FOR SALE
FOR SALE.
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A FINE COPY OF CAMOENS' WORKS
in Portuguese. Four Volumes, Royal Octavo. Pablished in Lisbon. 1869-4 and bound Half-Green Calf. Splendid Condition. Apply to
CAMOENS,"
Care of "Daily Pross" Office. Hongkong, 21st December, 1907,"
FOR SALE..
INLAND LOT No. 1706.
2001
Abbey's vescent Salt
Effer
You will be thankful when you become acquainted with Abbey's Salt, for you will find it pleasant and effective.
Abbey's Salt conquers head- acke,constipation,indigestion, biliousness, and all troubles that come from a disordered condition of the stomach, liver and bowels.
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When you do become ac-- quainted with Abbey's Salt, you will probably be sorry you did'nt know about it sooner.
Sold in two sizes by all Chemists and Stores, Gam by Watkins, Ltd., and A. S. Watson,
Lid, Hong Kong.
The Abbey Fruit Saline Co., Ltd., 144, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C.
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OLD VAT
$14
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OF GREEN CK AND HAS BEEN SOLO AGL SINCE 1881
ITUATE at North Point, Shankiwan SCOTCH WHISKY.
Hotel).
Roid, Hongkong, (next to the Metropole
The property contains by admoasurement 103,950 square feet. Crown Rout, $233.00 por
·BENIKE.
For further particulars, apply ta
GOLDRING & BARLOW, Solicitors,
10, Queen's Road Central.
Hongkong, 12th September 1907.
ON SALE.
THE FIFTY YEARS
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ANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR 日麗英中年十五
FROM 1ST JANUARY, 1881 TO 31ST DECEMBER
1913, DANG FROM HE 1ST YEAR OF THE
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BISHI GOSHI-KWAISHA
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00 AL DEPARTMENT MARUNO UCHI, TOKIO.
Cable Address, 【WASAKI," which applies to all Branch Omoea
AT ABC 5th Ed., Western Union Codete und "All Letters Addressed: MANAGER MITSU BISHI Co.
with wine of place under,
BRANCH ORFICES
NAGASAKI, MOJI KOBE, KARATSU SHANGHAI, HONGKONG, &
HANKOW.
AGENCIES:--- YOKOHAMA MASADA, Esq. CITINKIANG: Messrs, GEARING & Co MANILA: Mlusars, Maconda&y & Co. SOLE PROPRIETORS of Tokashims, Ochi, Shinen Namanta and Kami-Yamada Collories, and also Mojo Colliery, which will shortly broody to produce on x larga saalo the best Enza Col
The Head Branch Olives and the Agencies of the Company will receive any order o la pretuced from the above Collieries,
T. MATSUKI, Manager, Hongkong;
No. 2, Pedder Street. 9148
SURGEON DENTIST.
No. 10, DAGUILAR STREE!
TERMS: VERY MODERATE. Consultation Free, Hongkong. Flat September, 1905 1540
NATAL LINE, OF STEAMERS
THE Undervigued GENERAL AGENT: CHINA snd JAPAN for the above Lin are prepared to issues THROUGH BILLE OF LADING for all the principal ports in SOUTH AFRICA, in connection with.INDO. CHINA STRAN NAVIGATION CO's fortnightly. service hence to CALCUTTA Sailing from For CALCUITA for CAFE PORTS every fortnight
Fr Freight and further particulas,
apply to
DODWELL & CO., LIMITED
General Agente for Chins and Japar: Hongkong, 4th August, 1838.
ON SALE.
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P. AND O. STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
The ordinary general meeting of the propria fors was held on December 11th at the offs of
the company, Leadenhall-street, E.C.. Sir T. Butherland presiding.
The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the report, said the year which had passed over their beads had been one of somewhat varying experiences, bus closed on the whole more
problem which he believed was at the
present moment insolable. He had not been much sar- prised, therefore, to see by correspondence in the Press that there was a gratu, toning down of the idea of this express speed for tie Polic part of the service, and it had been suggested that the ships engaged in this service should coat at Honelalu. But, goed ho vans, if the ships ware to coal at Honolulu, what became of the "all-red" ronte? For Honelaid was an American port, and the "all-red" route would appear to be a phrase merely to throw dust in the eyes of an
Buccessfully that at one time some of thera Innosost public. Speaking of the passenger
ventured to hope. They were enabled to pay a dividend and bonus averaging a return of 9 per cant. on the total amount of the paid-up stock
brado, he was sorry to observe that the Common- wealth had adoptod the policy of excluding companies like theirs from participating in the cousting trallo of Australis. If the threatened monsuto passed, as it seemed likely
to de shortly, company
would be deprived of an income da their Australian, liars of between £25,000 and sousewhat disagreeable. Unfortunately this £30,000 a Pear, which was, to
TO Bay
the lonat,
polior of the Commonwealth synchronized with the new tariff, which certainly imposed upon them immediately a very high charge leviably on all the stores on board their vessels, and might have the aron more serious effect of Interfering with guoral exports from this country. In conclusion he expressed the opinion that the company had never been in a stronger position.
after setting aside the handsome appropriation of £460,000 for depreciation--that was to say £30,000 more than the normsl
this per cont. oa the original cost of the fest. The soundness of that policy in writing dowa the values of the flost was, he thought, reflected in the market value of their stook, the comparative steadiness of which was remarkable amid the bouleversement of what were called gilt-edged securities. Tho most prominent feature in the revenne Rocount was, of course, that of freight receipts, amount ing to £1,165,613, about £14,000 above the cut rsiaed Isat your. Troy had had some special drawbacks to contend with which serionaly affooted their resouroes and their revenus. Un doubtedly the most serions of these drawḥacks was the great fight which they halat Antwerp with their German friends, The treaty of peace had not been operative so far as rates wero Concerned, as they had in their eagernes to Alght the battle, entered into engagements for months forward at fighting rates.
Autwerp a apart was more necessary to them now than ever before, because it was impossible for them to all their ships either to or from the Port of London alone. The trade with the Continsat in connexion with the Far East was increaring, and, after all, Europe was a good deal larger than this little island.
THE PORT OK, LONDON,
Perhaps the situation would be somewhat improved if London should happily become a more economical, port The long-promised legislation for settling the future port authority was, he believed, at last near acalorament. Is ventured to hope that, when the port authority was constituted, the improvement and extension of facilities on the Thames would take rather the direction of being increased at the month of the river than up river in the vicinity of the Victoria Docks. He confessed to having changed bis mind absolutely on that subject on account of the inoressing six of vessals and the necessity of facility of access for those great vessels: mise his view had been affected by the consideration that traction on land bad undergone a revelation, and they were enabled, provided they be proper ronds and bridges, to bring the district of Tilbury as conveniently near to the centra of London as the Albert Dosk was at tan
present moment.
CHANGES IN FAR EASTERN TRADE,
Mr. S. B. Gladstono asconded the motion for the adoption of the report, which was agreed to anaiavusly.
THE ANTI-OPIUM MOVEMENT IN
CHINA.
SATISFACTORY PROGRENA. The Times correspondent at Peking wired on Deo mber 8th-
The Chinese Government has addressed a
note to the British Minister expressing grateful recognition of the British Government's sympt- thetip oo-operation in China's endeavours to abolish the opiam trada; accepting the condi tious stated for the reduction of the import of the Indian drug pari prasu with the decrease of the production of native opium; and at the same time foregoing the proposat to increase the import duty on foreign opium. The docu meat affords welcome evidence of the good faith of the Chinese Government and its genuine desire to effect this reform.
Recent information from Consuls and mis. sionaries is generally of a conflicting nature, chiedy depends on laeal publia opinion and on showing t that the offset of the Imperial odiola the personality of the responsible offloials. But it may be safely stated that the anti-opiam movement commands the support of a large sotion of the people and has already produced hopeful result Whorover' public" satiment and vested interests combine to oppose the
regu- lations the Government has no effective means of enforcing them, and, therefore, the most satisfactory feature of the movement consista in the fact that the people, as distinct from the Government desire the suppression of the traffic,
PROGRESS OF BRITISH NORTH BORNEO.
Speaking of the Far Easton trade, he stated that the whole of their colonial trade between Bombay and Japan had been wiped out by the energy of their Japanese competitors They had, he imagined, been formed by their
China, in July, accepted is prinsiple the Government, to increase their departures from
American Government's proposals for an inter- Bombay That trade, consleting chiefly of raw national conference to investigate the question cotton, and amounting to about 7010 10 bales, of opium abolition, but, presumably owing to was worked a monopoly between a masonilack of initiative, no stop has been taken to tion of splaners and the shipowners. Sometime ngo they had thought it impossible that an appoint or conreno delegates, enlightened people like the Japanese could ahat their eyes to the advantages of free tra lo And competition. In order to demonstrate their case the "board caused to be purchased one of two cargoes of cotton and sent it to Japan, when they found to their surprise and horror that they could not sell a single halo and The people directly interested in British had to bring it back.. This policy on the part North. Bornoo held their thirteenth annual of the Japanese seed hardly fair to the dinner at the Hotel Cooil on Desember 11th. P. and O. and to others, seeing test during Sir Charles Fessel sooupled the chair, and the the war they carried on the whole of that company of 280 included Count Muten, Baron businers for the benefit of the Japanese manumils d'Erlanger, Major-General Sir A. E. factoring interest. The donourment was starti ing in the extreme. It seemed as if the son of the people had suddenly awakened to a degree of almost supernatural activity. There was adother curious feature in connexion with their trade between Bombay and China. The trade. bad been somewhat dull in China during hat year, and, as far as he knew, for the first time in history 50,000 bales of Bombay cotton rara bal this year found their way into Europe. Was this a passing incident, or was it a proptelic note of the influence of cheap labour in the Far East of which we might hear a great deal later? But while they had had drawbacks they bad also had somna abuntervailing advantages, although he could not say that the prospects of shipping in the way of trade at preaut Tere of a brilliant character. To sum up the tet results of income and expenditure, there was a difference in favour of this year of between £7,000 and £8,000. The accounts showed as good & result as last year, and something approaching £3,000 better.
THE NEW MAIL CONTRACT,
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COTLANDS BES
JOHNSTONES
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Have You Considered
how very many serious illnesses develop from small allments? The digestive and secretive organs become slightly deranged, and unless the cause is removed,. the trouble becomes aggravated, and lasting sickness is almost certain to follow. The secret of good health is to right the wrong in its early stages, and no better corrective is known than
BEECHAM'S PILLS..
By their specific action on the stomach, Ilver and kidneys, they assist those ergans to perform their proper functions, and so restore normal condition.
Don't wait until you are really ill, but when you feel out of sorts, take BEECHAM'S PILLS, the handy remedy of the horne, REMEMBER that in taking BEECHAM'S PILLS you are not trying an experiment. They are, and have been for many years, the only Family Medicine In tonumerable. healthy homes. With a box of BEECHAM'S PILLS handy you have a ready rallel without riski
Bold at all Drug Stores and by all Mediaino Vendors in China; in boxes, prico Pid., 1/14 and 2/3.
1760
Turner, Sir W. Baile Hamilton, Sir W. H. Trescher, Sir R. B. Martin, Sir Charles P. Lucas, Sir Ralph Moor. Sie Charles Forrest of Comision, Sir H. F. Hibbert, Colonel Bir Augastos Fitz-George, Vice Admiral Sir J, Dureford, Vice-Admiral Sir Bouverie Clark, Major General Sir Ronald Line, Sir Montaga Ommanney, the High Commissioner for New Zealand, the Agents General for Victoria, West Australis, South Australia, British Co- lambi, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia; the Hon. C. H. Strutt, Mr. Colin Ross, Mr.. A. Dick-Cunyngham, Mr. J. A. Maitland, Mr. E. Hudson, Mr. C. V. Crengb, Mr. E. Dent, Professor Wyndham Dunstan, Mr. Stasuor de Stein, Mr W. C. Cowie, Mr Towkay Loke, Rev. W. H. Eitos, Mr F. C. Stoop, Mr H, G. Forbos. Mr G. C. Irving, Mr Newton, Mr H. Wagstaff, Mr J. W. Wilson, and the bon. secretary (Mr. W. P. Flynn). After an inter esting bioscopie exhibition of scenes in North Borneo Mr. C. Cowie'said that thirty-fire yours ago when he hoisted the British Flag over the first trading & ation in North Borno he had no: On this the first opportunity bacongratuated idea that the region would become a thriving the proprietors on the new mail contrset, which British Colony. The revans which is 1900 rottled and defined in grest measure the course was £63,000, bad grown to £140,000 last year. of the company's business for the more The British public did not seem to realise the years, Thoir proposals were accepted after a value of British North Horues, which comprised interval, because they were sent abroad to 30,000 square miles of territory, a milway 120 India and. The Far East for the consideration of miles long and telegraphs extending over 800 the authorities is that part of the world, but miles. Within the territory were seven com panies engaged in the rutiivation of rubber. they were accepted eventually without aey nogotiation whatever (hear, hasr), and, sesing The prospects of sobicco planting were equally the trouble that some companies had in settling of minerals and goal was being exported.
encouraging, There were vast deposite of POLLARD'S LILLIPUTIAN OPERA CO. their mail contracts with the Government or ant settling them it all, they might consider The British in North Borneo had stopped themselves fortunate. Although in undertak piracy, abolished head, bunting and slavery, ing this more arduous service, having regard to opened a new field for the profitable employ the present prins of nal, tiny fet a littlement of British capital, and made a most anxiety for next year, they were perfectly important addition to the Empire (Chears). confident that in the long run the atrast would answer the company's purposes, as these contracts had done heretofore, Last year they wore threatened with a new Australien servise in powerful hands, but that scheme perinbed still-boru,, which was certainly the best result fox all concerned, and most assuredly for the investors who intended to place their money in it. The Australian muil content, which rau alterna oly with their own, had been given to their good friends Die Orient Company, sed they were glad that should be the case Bat now they were threatened with another niíl in their coffe.
THE ALL-BED" ROUTZ. : They were threatened with an “all-ról” route, the sebeme of which they heard a great deal about at the time of the great Colonial Conferanos. Under it, express ships like thoj Lasitania and the Mauretania, he supposed were to run via Canada to New Zound and Australia. It had been the ambilion of Canada for many years to Inve-sexpress service of this character. He had himself bern applied to ouco or twicà in cannexion with the project, buf to the present time nobody had bou willing apparently to meet the necessary expè1. diture Το
accomplish no express service, New Zealand and Australia would indeed demand gigantic resoures, and it would be a matter of great interest to
to find out whore thos
up
resources were to be found. And there", was another question. The distang: baleea Van. couver and Wellington, New Zasland, was in round figures-6300 nautical miles and how. oxpress steamers were to be built in order to casry coal for that distance was an ôngineering
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Firstly it is pure, an important matter when you consider how often in the day Soap is used, and how sensitive your skin is.
Then it is antiseptic as well, (10% Crystal Carbolic) emollient and delicately perfumed.
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Sold by local Chemists and Storem,
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