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It is an admilled fact that most of the suffering caused by Indigestion could be avoided. There la no satisfaction in that knowledge to you if you are being tortured now. If that is your condition, put your organs of digestion the stomach, liver, and bowels-inta proper working order, so that you can digest what you cat. That's the way, the only way, to get rid of Indigestion and other kindred stomach and liver troubles. You can do it, as thousands have done before you, by taking after each meal 30 drops of Moller Seigel's Syrup. The medicinal extracts from which this popular herbal remedy is made have such a wonderfully strengthening andtoni-effect on the stomach, liver, and bowels, that they soon enable them to do all the work thatisrequired of them efficiently and thoroughly. Thousands Live testified that other Seigel's Syrup does prevent and remove Indigestion Mr. JA. Rowe, 13, Lundle Street, Sydenham, Port Elizabeth, wrote: April 17th, 1914" For over eight months I suffered from indigestion so severe that I was often unable to retain what little food I had calea At a later. period colic developed, and I was on several occasions completely prostrated,
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13TH, 1915,
RUBBER MARKET IN 1914. GOW WILSON & STANTON'S REVIEW
FLUCTUATIONS OF THE YEAR.
Messrs. Gow, Wilson & Stanton's rubber market report for the year 1814 is to hand and is reproduced below in its entirety:
It is computed thas the world's output of rubber during 1914 will have amounted to 107,000 tons, or appoximately the same figure as for the previous year. During 1013 the production of plantation rubber was 46,000 tons, and for 1914 it will total about 68,000 tons, in spite of the political sad financial difficulties which have pre vailed during the later hell of the year Thus the East already supplies more than 60 per cent of the world's output.
EXPORTS OF FLANZATION RUBBER FROM MALAYA AND CEYLON SINCE 1905.
Part - Singapore
Ceylon. Total Tons. Toss
75 205 146 591
Synthetic rubber has played its usual part in the year's history, The Jerusalem artichoke was the innocent victim respon sible for the sensation. Considerable sums are said to have been devoted to the ox ploitation of a process for reducing the glucoso obtained from this and other? bases to rubber.LE
INDIAN AFRICAN LINE.
Cargo carried on through Bills of Lading from HONGKONG to BEIRA, DELAGOA BAY, DUEPAN (Natal), EAST LONDON, PORT ELIZABETH and CAPE TOWN with transhipment at COLOMEO to Steamers of the INDIAN AFRICAN ITINERARE
FROM HONGKONG
--26th Feb.
PROPOSED BAILINGS
Connecting with “GUJARAT:
FROM COLONBO
17th Mar.
It is impossible at the time of writing to give any definito figures as to exports from the East, and no Para figures are available, Likewise, owing to the prohibi- tion of exports, stock figures in London ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE. and Liverpool are very misleading, as rubber has been purchased on American account, and is now awaiting the removal of the embargo for immediato shipment, Consequently the stock figures include much rubber which does not in reality form part of the available market supply.
EXOBLIEST A COMMODATION WOR HIT AND 2ND CLASS PABSENGREB,
Too little attention is still given by. planters to those most important matters, grading and packing. It is essential that the contents of each package must run evenly, and neither colours nor qualitiea should be mixed Cases should be very carefully put together. As present Momi and other ordinary wooden cases are run up very quickly, and sufficient caro is not taken to make them proof against the entry of dust and other deleterious matter
1,030 248 1,199 between the joints. When packing crepe,
Swetten and
han. Penang
Tons. Tons.
1905
130
1908)
885
∙1907:
1003
1900
1010
LOIL
1012
74
1913
1914
79-1
86
13212,010.
871
686
2,010 care should be taken to cut the strips into 3,007 convenient lengths so that when folded in 3,487 2,574 1,485 7,621 four each strip can lie flat in the case. 5,406 6,873
3,104 13,979 Thus, for the ordinary size of case the 15,490
5,800 6,391 27,620 strips should be 6 ft., giving 19 ins., es 23,463 11,880 11,008 46,300 the length when folded. This method of *27,860 17,80312,854
packing enable more to be put into a case 11 months ending November 30th than when the crepe strips are rolled into During the year ductuations in prices books,
have been less marked than in 1913; standard crepe then ranged between 45. old. and Is. 11ļd, whilst in 1914 the highest and lowest figures were 38, and 18. 113d. respectively, un
The market was at its lowest at the beginning and end of the period, the highest point being touched during the latter part of April The sharp upward movement in April was brought about by a temporary shortage of supplies, and the financial and political uncertainty were largely responsible for the steady fall to the end of June, this being accentuated by strikes in the Busgian factories. The difference between the values of sheet and crepe has amounted on the average to about d. per lb. in favour of sheet
FECTS OF THE EFECTS
THE WAR
At the outbreak of war, dealings in the rubber ruarket were at a standstill, pend ing the arrangement of machinery for the settlement of forward, commitments under the new conditions brought about by the moratorium. Owing to the prompt and energetic steps taken by the Rubber Trade Association of London, a method had been devised to overcome these difficulties by the middle of August and business in spot rubber was resumed under almost normal conditions, except that auctions had been abandoned in favour of sale by private treaty. Quantities of rubber fully up to the average of the first half of the year have been easily handled by private treaty and the market values of the differ- ont grades tave been established on a definite basis without the aid of auctions
In spite of the uncertainty as to statis- ties, arrivals, shipping facilities, and the monetary situation, the market maintain ed a surprising steadiness until the prohibition of all exports from the United
Kingdom, which cante into force on November 16th Except to Russia and France, it has since then been impossible to arrange re-exports, and direct ship- ments to France from the East have only been permitted since the middle of December, Vigorous stepa have been taken by the committees of the Rubber Growers' Association and the Rubber Trade Associa tion of London with a view to arging upon the authorities the gravity of the plantation rubber market position caused by the prohibition of experts and the financial and labour difficulties in the East which are bound to follow, but no solution has yet been found. - DAN QUALITY AND STANDARDISATION,
VIN PARA, AND OTHER KINDS.AS. For the season 1013-14 receipts at Para showed a decline, and the decrease in the crop for the year amounted to some 3,000 tons. The tendency to a reduction of cut- put from the rest of the world has con- tinued, and it is not anticipated that the total will amount to more than 14,000 tons.
RECEIPTS AT PARA DURING THE LAST: TWELVE YEARS..
1002-3
BEIRA Regular Direct Berrios from JAPAN, CHINA and BTRAITS to DELAGOA BAY, DURBAN, FAST LONDON, PORT ELIZABETH and CAPE TOWN, calling at MAURITIUS er route, and sfferding the Qudokent Freight Transport from the ORIENT bò SOUTH AFRICA,
211
PROPOSED SAILING.
"SALAMIS"
From Hongkong
Si ch FIRET CLANS ACCOMMODATION FOR PABLENGEDA, FRIED WITH Wise:170147) 1, For Kates of Fraight and Famage, apply to
THE BANK LINE, LIMITED,
MARANTE A CUSTA
ELLERMAN LINE.
JAPAN, CHINA AND STRAITS
TO
MARSEILLES, LONDON AND LIVERPOOL.
A Frequent Service of Fast Cargo Steamers will be maintained between abore
Forts, commencing with the
Sailing from
8.8. "CITY OF DURHAM,' Honghong on the 18 h February, to be followed by the
S.S. “CITY OF CORINTH," en the 70th March and other high powered Steamers, at frequent intervals. 5. For rates of freight and further information spfly to serve
THE
Tons, 28,190
Tonsi 1909 38,150
Hongkong, 8th February, 1915.
1603430,580 1004533,100
1000-109, 130 1910-11
37,500
1905-6, 34,710 1000-7 1507-8
- 1012-12
30,300
37,810 38,680 1913-14
1912-13
41,005
30,130
BRITISH SHIPPING LINES. TONNAGE OWNED BY LEADING
COMPANIES,
The New Year's number of the Syren and Shipping Illustrated is again an ex- cellent one. There are photographs of men distinguished in the shipping indus try, and many photographs illustrating the articles on the shipbuilding of the past year, and there is the usual article.
Big Shipowning,"
It is pointed out that as, regards ton- nage the first and second places are again rotaised by the British India and the Ellerman lines respectively; but that while the total tonnage of the former is
686,810, as compared with 13,087 a age, the latter has increased its agures from 598,123 to 642,561 tons. something very much akin to a race be ** Thus,' the article states, “there is tween the two, and the result at the end note
year will ho interesting to
of the
The third place, which a year ago was held by the P. and O. Company is now taken by the White Star Line, whoso in orenso from 487,007 ons to 866,007 toas has enabled it to o trip Messra Alfred Holt & Co. as well: The Furness Line remains sixth on the list, but Messrs. Elder Dempster & Co., who were seventh | last year, have gone down three places to the tenth, having been beaten by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, the Union- Castle Line; and the Cunard Line,
The following figures extracted from the table in the article show the position of the first nine companies
No. of Grass Average ressels, tannage, size, British India ......144 €89,8104,700 Ellerman Lines (Ltd.)...138 642,561 4,656 White Star Line ...... 40 566,067 14,151 P. and O. Company ... 67 550,407 8,215, Alfred Holf & Co....... 17 820,933 8,757 Forness Line
124 439,613 8,450 Royal Mail Steam Pack
ket Co.
.....69853,628 6,014 Union-Castle Line 47 240,883 7,360 27 -844,057 13,743. Cunard Line
In all particulars of 74 lines are recorded in the complete table, the smallest amount of tonnage being 54,418.
The considerable discount at which plantation rubber was selling at the beginning of the rear caused some modi- fication in methods of manufacture The premium on Fine Hard Porn has been attributed to the fact that the rubber is smoke cared, and this has caused a con- siderable increase in the popularity of plantation rubber made in the form of smoked sheet. Various new methods have boen tried for curing latex directly by the agency of smoke, but up to the present no new process has been proved commercially, and it is difficult to see how any advantage can possibly be attained by a direct emok ing method over the indirect, Efforts have again been made to produce some new type of plantation rubber, such as by the elimination of every sort of manufacture on the estates and shipment of rubber n the raw wet scrap form, thus saying cop+ siderable expense, These efforts have not found favour, and ribbed smoked sheet. and crepe remain the two-established standards, which have been proved by con Returns issued by Lloyd's Register sumer and producer alike to combine the how that, excluding warships, 402 vessels best results of all the scientific research of 1,627,318 tons grows were under "con- devoted to the industry since its inception, struction in the United Kingdom at the The attention which has been given to end of the year. The tonnage is about system and cleanliness in the factories,96,000 tons less than under construction thanks to the work of the chemists now at the end of September, and about employed, has further mereased the pro- 329,000 tons less than building a year ago. portion of first quality, and the majority The highest figure ever reached was of estates now aim at reducing the per- $,050,000 tons at the end of the first centage of lower grades to less than es quarter of 1913. Only vessels of 100 tons per rest of the total No striking new and upwards, the construction of which departure has been made in machinery.
has actually begun, aro included in the calculations
- RUBBER EXHIBITION
DECLINE IN MERCANTILE
SHIPBUILDING.
LLOYD'S REGISTER FIGURES.
The Register points out that "in con- sequence of the war it is not possible to publish the usual information regarding the shipbuilding industry throughout the world. The present returns are therefore confined to merchant ships in course of construction in the United Kingdom,
A very large and representative collee tion of samples of all kinds was shown at the rubber exhibition held in London in the summer, the manufacturers section especially being better supported than previously, A conference was hold at the Agricultural Hall, undian International Congress on Tropical Agriculture took place during the period of exhibition at A rather unhappy heading to the the Imperial Institute A varied collec seventh report of the Belgian Committee tion of used motor tyres made from plan of Inquiry into the atrocities committed tation rubber, with their records of per- by Germans in Belgium was copied by formance, was exhibited and the demon us yesterday from a Indon paper. The sization of the suitability of plantation | nrincipal line was Belgian atrocities." rubber for this very important purposo. It was obvious from the text of the report was one of the most interesting and satis-"Atrocities in Belgium" by Germans factory results of the show,mod would have been the correct headline.
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BANK LINE, LTD., GENERAL AGENTS
to H.M. THE KING.
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