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Entertainment, METROPOLE THEATRE.
METROPOLE HOTEL.
Sole Proprietor..........Mr. JAS. CHRISTIE.
COMPLETE CHANGE OF PROGRAMME.
· TO;MORROW, (SATURDAY), July 9th, 1904.
NEW SKETCHES!
NEW DANCES }!
Intimations.
ENDERS
dre
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1904.
invited for the TEN
SUPPLY OF COOLIES for HM. Secretary's Office. A Guaranice: Deposit of NAVAL YARD. Apply personally at the $5,000 will be required from the man selected.
Hongkong, 7th July, 1904
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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO.,
LIMITED.
NEW SONGS!!!OTICE is hereby given that the FIF
NOTICENT ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS will be held at the Company's Offices, No. 4, Queen's Buildings, on SATURDAY, the 16th July, at 12.30 P.M., for the rurpose of present- ing the report of the Directors, together with a statement of accounts to 30th April, 1904, and electing Directors and Auditors.
A Clayer Performance by Clever Artistes.
...Prices...
...$2 and $1. -
Overture 8.45 p.m. Performance 9.15 Sharp.
Hongkong, &b July, 1904.
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Auction. #
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
DARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS of
Pecting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 11th day of July, 1904, at 3 PM, at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excel-
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 2nd to the 16th July, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of the Directors.
GIBB; LIVINGSTON & Co.,
Agents.
Hongkong, 29th June, 1904.
A. 5. WATSON & CO, LIMITED.
a
TH CONDITION OF INDIA.
'ECONOMIC, AND INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS.
o Hongkong where a Chinese jar factory tura- ed him out 500 identical to sample, at the ridi- culously low charge of $3 per jar fo.b at the
fatimations.
:
SHIP-CHANDLERS, SAILMAKERS, COAL AND PROVISION, MER CHANTS, NAVAL CONTRACTORS AND GENERAL COMMISSION
AGENTS,
16, DES VOLUX ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG,
SOAP AND SODA MANUFACTURERS
Sir James Mackay presided at a meeting of Kowloon wharf. Then the Malay returned to F BLACKHEAD & 00., the India Section of the Society of Arts, held Kuching with his carge of debased currency, at John Street, Adelphi, on May 31. Mr. J. R. and proceeded to do basincas. He offer O'Conor (late Director of Statistics, India) rended to sell his $3 jars, "as good as, if not and condition of that country. Mr. O'Conor ficial figure of $80 apiece, and the Dyaks paper on the economic and industrial progressuperior to the $400 articles," at the sacri- said he had come to the conclusion that India went jumping over each other in their an- had made very great progress, and that much xiety to become purchasers. The authori of it was due to the really splendid work of the ties got wind of the matter, and convened the administration. There was no doubt, however, Uyaks and explained to them the deceit, and that India was extremely backward when com assured them they would rue it. The Dyaks, backwardness was due to various causes, for still persist in suppressing the sport of head pared with Western nations, and that this however, looked askance at the officials who the existence of which the State was not direct- hunting, and detected in their warnings an- ly responsible. He reviewed the economic other effort at oppression. The officials, re- advance which had taken place during the last cognising the futility of endeavoring to teach 40 years, pointing out the influence of railways those wily grandmothers how to suck eggs, gave up the task in despair. The Dyaks and irrigation.
returned to their jungles heavy-laden with jars' and happiness. The Malay with his $37,000 easy dollars went off to perform the Hay, and thank Allah for his goodness as near head- quarters as possible. Then the Rajah's col- lectors went out to gather their fines and taxes. The Dyaku received them with smiles of welcome and Hongkong-made jars; and when the collectors refused to receive $3 worth of bigh-class modern earthenware in lieu of a $300 fine, the Dyaks jibbad. What had come over the collectors? What did they want? Jara? Well there were the jars! They had
';
Referring to the fact that the province of Burma imported more than double the amount imported from foreign countries by the other Indian provinces, he attributed it mainly to the facts that the Burmese were Buddhists, who were not debaned by laws of caste from the use of any article that pleased them, that the [776 standard of living among them was much higher than in India, and that illiteracy was far less common. An even still more important consi deration was the fact that Burmese women re- ceived some education, were as free as women
ISSUE or 30,000 NEW SHARES OF $10 EACH,
Jency the Officer Administering the Govern. DURSUANT to Resolution the General in the Western world, and took quite as large sold all the old ones to buy the new, and if the
ment, of One Lot of CROWN LAND at Plantation Road, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the KING, for one further term of 75 years.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
LOCALITY,
Rural Building
Plantalice Road,
| No. of Sale.
Reglaus No.
Boundary Measurements.
K. ጉ K. 1.
[..
£26° 0°
It..
Hongkong, and July, 1904.
9 Ex
Annual Rent.
i we
❤ Upset Price.
Managers of A. H. WATSON & Company, Limited, hereby invite applications from the Shareholders of the Company for the issue of 50,000 new shares of $10 each at a Premium of
10 per cent. or $11 a share.
Each Registered bhareholder on the 18th day of September, 1901, applying for the New Issue will be entitled to one share for every two shares registered in his name. Shares not applied for by those entitled to apply will be dealt with by the General Managers in accordance with Article 40 of the Company's Articles of Association,
Applications for Shares in the New Issue will be received by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hongkong from the 28th September, 1904, to the 30th September, 1904, both days inclusive, and the whole amount of $11 per share will be payable on application The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 28th September, 1904, 10 the 8th October, 1904, both daye 1788 inclusive.
18,570 106 2,728
Insurance.
NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSURANCE
THE
.COMPANY OF HAMBURG.
HE Undersigned AGENTS of the above Company are prepared to accept First Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS CURRENT RATES,
SIEMSSEN & Co:
Lorions. Th Mai That,
Notices of Firms.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
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R. ALFRED HENRY MANCELL bas
Mthis day been appointed AGENT for
the GENERAL MANAGERS of the Com-. pany, and in that capacity will reside in Shanghai, with general charge of the Company's interests at Shanghai, Hankow, Tientsin and in North China.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers.
Hongkong, 1st July, 1904.
A. 5. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
[791
Mhis day been appointed ACTING
[R. JOHN ARTHUR TARRANT has
SECRETARY of the Company.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers.
Hongkong, rst July, 1904.
-Intimations.--
ROYAL AERATED WATERS
PRODU
MANUFACTORY.
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RODUCE the highest Class AERATED
WATERS in the Far East on account of their High Class Machinery and also of the superior ingredients they use in the manufacture of their goods, and the cleanliness, &c., are all under strict supervision of Europeans only,
REPORT OF AN EXPERT..
The representative of Messrs. BRATBY and HINCHLIFFE, LIMITED, Aerred Water Engineers and Chemists, Manchester, visited our factory recently in the course of a tour
The present paid-up Capital of the Company is $600,000, divided into 60,000 shares of $10 each, and the New issue is required to increase the Capital of the Company to $900,000 divided into 90,000 shares of $io each.
The whole of the premium received from the New Issue will be placed to the Credit of the
Permanent Reserve Fund.
The New Issue will rank for Dividend for the three months ending 3tat December, 1904, pay- able in May, 1905.
Forms of application for the New Issue can be obtained at the Company's Offices in Alex-
andra Buildings or at the Hongkong and Shanghat Banking Corporation in Hongkong, Shanghai, and London.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers. Hongkong, 22nd June, 1994.
THE
ment of India was its remissness in the matter.
a part in social and business life. The most serious fault which he imputed to the Govern-collectors did not like the new ones they might leave them. They suited the tax-payers any Were they not regulation. Dyak jars? What how,
and wherefore not the tax-collectors?
was the Rajah going to do about it?.
of education. They had given much attention to secondary and higher education, but the teaching of the masses had been reprehensibly neglected. Mr. O'Conor declared that what India wanted was a system of taxation alike simple and good, the maintenance of taxation at a moderate level, and the removal of customs and of octroi duties. With respect to the proposed new department specially constituted
to deal with the commercial and economic
problems, he considered that the value of the department would be greatly impaired unless it bad the power to formulate and declare a policy without first submitting it to the local Governments for criticism and opinion.
The chairman expressed a general agree- ment with Mr. O'Conor's views, and said that the British nation had good reason to be proud
That is the problem which is now, worrying the financial luminaries of Sarawak and, in a minors very minor degree, it is also, gaid to puzzle the Dyaks.—Straits Times.
FRENCH INDO-CHINA.
--
ITS VALUE TO FRANCE.
Mr. Consul Little in concluding his report on the trade of indo-China for 1903 says:—
1. may, perhaps, usefully bring together bere some facts which indicate the present condition and future prospects of the colony. The follow-
of its achievements in India. Sir W. Lec-ing are some of the annual charges of a strik- Warner, Mr. J. D. Rees, Sir M. Bhownaggree, ing character paid by the colony-Subsidies M.P., Mr. J. A. Baines, and other gentlemen to mail boats, 64,000; subsidies to other ship. took part in the discussion and generally apping, paid or about to be paid, £40,000; to- proved of Mr. O'Conor's paper, while taking gether, £104,000; other subsidies, £40,000; exception to some of his views.
JARS IN SARAWAK.
Sarawak, we deplore to leard, is now con- fronted by a currency problem compared to which the recent vicissitudes of the Straits dollar must be regarded as a mere bagatelle. I ars have fluctuated ever since dollars were known. Sarawak, however, has a financial [754 trouble that is unique, inasmuch as that it is based upon a slump in antiquities. In other words the higher currency of the Dyaks-that in which they pay their fines and taxes, and which consists almost exclusively of antique earthenware jars has recently become de based, and the Sarawak financial officials do not know what to do about it. Among the 100,000 Dyaks, more or less, that are domiciled within the dominions of the Rajah Brooke there is scarcely one silver dollar per capila in actual circulation. They do their trade in "kind," but when large sums have to be paid to Government for taxes, fines, licenses or rentals, the regulations forbid the payments being made in "kind." Only currency, will be accepted. Dollars are not to be had, so jars
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FLATS.
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Polo Groped. A OFFICES in course of erection, Co.
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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO., L.D. Honkong, 27th June, 1904.
1777
TO. LET,
[O. 1, STEWART TERRACE,
N. THE PEAK.
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.
MENT & AGENCY CO. LD. flongkong, 26th March, 1904.
TO LET.
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· ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. Apply to
T
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THE CHINA AND JAPAN TELEPHONE
AND ELECTRIC COMPANY,
IS
LIMITED.
HONGKONG EXCHANGE.
UBSCRIPTIONS.
PAYABLE QUARTERLY IN ADVANCE,
EXCHANGE LINES: $25 Per. Quarter,
NO CHARGE FOR ÎNITIAL
INSTALLATION,
of more than average length.
DESK TELEPHONES
Sets can be supplied.
say a total of £150,000. Subsidies and bounties to planters, about $500,000; administration of Kwangchouwan, $500,000; cost of supporting 20 to 30 doctors, schoolmasters and postal agents in China and Siam; maintenance of four commercial attachés or agents in China N.B.-A Special Charge is made for Lines and Siam; nearly the whole cost of maintain- ing an army; of some 35,000 men, and four or five small gunboats, besides at least 10,000 native police with about 400 French officers maintenance of about 4,000 French officials; interest on loans of some £6,000,co. The following are the known items of extraordinary expenditure incurred during the last few years:-Railway surveys in China, about For a small additional annual charge Desk $150,000; erection of post offices, schools, and hospitals in China, probably $100,000 to $300,000; at least $12,000 has been spent on post office at Cantos, and about $10,000 on buildings at Pakhol; cost of Hanoi Exhibition, $2,433,000. In addition to the foregoing items should be noted the large sums spent on public works, which include, to mention only a few and probably at least an equal amount on har- about £1,000,000 on the canals in Gochin China, bour works; erection of a telegraph system o barracks and public buildings; making and some 14,000 kiloms ; erection of numerous fine
Dyaks were skilled in the art of making large repair of some thousands of miles of roads ornamental jars wherein they stored their rice (partly done, however, with proceeds of loans) and grain and other household necessities. The railways I do not include, as they are being They were fine jars, and were adorned with built with borrowed money, although some of life-like presentments of snakes and lizards the big bridges, eg, at Hanoi, Saigon and Hue, which displayed considerable cuoning and costing nearly 10,000,000 fr., have been paid for ceramic skill in their fashioning. During the out of current revenue. The above list is by excitement and vicissitudes of some unduly no means complete, but I think it goes a long protracted head-hunting season in the dim long way towards justifying the views I have express- age, the potters' wheels got broken and the fased regarding the actual and potential value of
are used in lieu thereof. Time was when the
--became a lost art..
SAMPLES ioning of Dyak jara-never a common calling the colony to France. People who visit the These simple but country often make the mistake of forming their murderous tribesmen in time developed an in- opinion of it by what they see in the chief stinctive wisdom in ceramic lore that would be a credit to any habitud of Christie's. Any well-bred head-hunter of respectable ante- cedents and decent bringing-up, could tell in
OF
UPRIGHT PLANOS
amongst Eastern Aerated Water Makers, and RACHALS,
was greatly surprised at the compactness of our
factory and also the methodical way in which everything pertaining to the making of Aerated Waters was carried out. He also expressed bini- self strongly on the absolute cleanliness of our whole establishment, which he assured us, was -equal to any ha had yet visited and superior to a great many. He also reported that the
• quality of our goods was of a first class nature, and they showed that scrupulous care was exercised in the course of their manufacture.
Onder Books and Price List. Please apply to FACTORY and OFFICE, West Point. Tél, 367, Depot, Ice House Street. Tel. 374.*
Dr. Y.DANENBERG & F. P. DANENBERG, General Managers.
Hongkong, zoth May, 1904.
JUST UNPACKED.
STUART,
&c.,
&C.
&cc
AND
towns.
Intimations.
the cock of an eye exactly what epoch or age GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,
this, that or the other ancestral jar belonged to, and exactly how much it was worth in dollars. When it is explained that these jars vary in
value from $100 to $300.07 $400 apiece, it will
be understood how very necessary such seen. |
LIMITED.
PORTLAND GEMENT.
ingly abstruse ceramic knowledge must be toth Casks of 375bs.net $4.75 ex Factory.
a young Dyak of fortune and prospects. As In Bags of golbs, net 82,85 ex Factory, Juck would have it, no crash of cročkery disturb-
ed the fiscal balances of Sarawak for many,
many years. Trouble, however, was brewing in an entirely unsuspected quarter. A Malay with an eye for business came to Kuching ons
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
**General Manageri, Hongkong, 15th August, 1903,
2783
BABY-GRANDS, day when the taxes were being brought in, and ESPECIAL OLD TOM GIN.
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BY
·A. CONSIGNMENT OF
PROVISION S
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FRESH
*** from Messrs. CROSSE & BLACKWELL and
PHILLIPE & Cunard's.
ALSO
Messrs. HUNTLEY & PALMER'S Varied Assort
ment of
BISCUITS AND CAKES,
AND
WINKELMANN,
(Established 1837).
They are only 5 FEET LONG, occupy
CADBURY CHOCOLATE SWEETS. ing the space of a Cottage, but with!
Inspection Earnestly.Solicited.
H. RUTTONJEE,
No. 5, DAguilar Street,
36 to 38, Elgin Road, Kowloonį,
Hongkong, 5th July, 1994.
the fine appearance and TONE OF HA
FULL GRAND.
** Hongkong, 13th May
learned the value of those ancient jars. He Marshall and purchased two or three, jams as samples, and paid the full market rates for them. Then he packed them up carefully and took them away
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THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.
THE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for the WINE GROWERS' SUPPLY COMPANY OF PARIS, are now prepared to answer inquiries and receive orders for all kinds of WINES and SPIRITS, at zz and 24, Bank Buildings.
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