Captain Charbonnel, will be despatched for $4.50 per Cask 375 lbs. net ex Factory. North China Insurance Company, Limited MARSEILLES TO-MORROW, the 18th |$2,70 per Bag 250 lbs. net ex Factory. April, at 1 P.M.
Passage tickets and through Bills of Lading issued for above ports.
Cargo also booked for principal places in Europe.
*Next sailings will be as follows ----
S.A, ARMAND BEHIC and May.. S.S. DUMBEA..............16th May. S.S. ERNEST SIMONS...30th May.
G. DE CHAMPEAUX,- Ageat.
TUBORG BEER.
A FIRST Class
[50 Yangtsze insurance Association, Limited.
PILSENER BEER guaranteed free from Salicylic Acid, and any other Chemicals.
FIRE INSURANCES. China Fire Insurance Company, Limited .....
Hongkong Fire Insurance Company, Limited.
SHIPPING, TUuo and Cargo BOATS, China and Manila Steamship Company, Limited...
PRICE SIago per case of 48 bottles (quans) | Douglas Steamship Company, Limited.................. at 6 doz. pinti.
Special Prices for Quantities.
Mails.
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES
FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS.
STOCKS.
NO. OF SIFA RBS
BANKS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, APRIL 17; 1905.
For Sale.
FOR SALE.
NE 2-foot TRUSTCOTT MOTOR
BOAT, handremely finished, fitted with Cushions, Awning, &c.. A brand new 31 Horse Power Motor never been used for more than test trials, everything in excellent condition, speed 9 miles.
SHARE QUOTATIONS.
Supplied by Messrs. BENJAHIN, KELLY & POTTE. Corrected to noon; later alterations given un der "Commercial Intelligence," page, j.
LAST DIVIDEND,
VALUE. PAID OPPOSITION AS PER LAST REPORT RESERVE.
AT WORKING ACCOUNT.
ATIČKIMATA INTURN AT FALKENT QUOTATION.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
MM
STEAM FOR SAIGON,; SINGAPORE, BATAVIA,!
COLOMBO, ADEN, Boyet, MARSEILLES,LONDON,
Apply to-
+
Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corpamtion
Ec,000
$125
$125
£1,000,000) $8,000,000
$1,493,40B
(Div. of £1.10 and bonus of £1 @ ¢x») change 1/1 f16-$25,46 för second
ሁኔ
ORIENTAL CONSTRUCTION CO.,
Alótundra Buildinga. Blangkong, 13th April, 1905.
$150,000
half-year 1904 m
$780 sales (London £80
1469
National Bank of China, Limited..
Marine InsURANCES, Canton Insurance Office, Limited
99,915
£7
ཕི
£7
5175.533
$21,668
$2 (London' 3/6) for 1903
st%
$37
S191,973
110,000
$250
$50 $1,400,000
81,7395
$159494
$17 for 1903′ etmişore
01:%
$283 buyers
HAVRE, BORDEAUX, MEDITERRANEAN AND BLACK SEA PORTS,
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
$950,000
China Traders' Insurance Company, Limited
24,000
$83.33 $25
$151,992
Nil.
$41 for year ended 30.1.1904
-71%
$58 sales
$367,365
The 8.8. "TONKIN,"
PORTLAND CEMENT,
$371,445
T
10,000 £15 £5
Tis. 800,000
Tis. 217,119
Final of tof making £t for 1903..................................
8%
Tla. 95 sellers
".
$1,850,000
£20,000
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managers,
Únion Insurance Society of Canton, Limited
10,000
$250
$roo
$372,749
$2,078,097.
$35 far 1903 outdate
5%
$700
$893.Itn
$846,773
8,000 $100
$60
$700,000
Hongkong, 7th March, 1905,
$37,7943
$486,284
$12 and $3 special dividend for 1903
ot%
$155 buyers
$1,000,000
20,000
$100 $20
2,000 $250 $50
$125,675
$329,047
$6 dividend & $1 bonus for 1903
# %
$86 sellers
$2,561
$1,200,505
$360,372
$34 for 1903 LINUXLAVY
0%
$3071 sellers
30,000
$25
Sas
$5,000
$8,832
Sr for 1904....ian .........
5%
$21 mies
20,000 $50.
$50
$185,000
Nil,
$2 for year ended 30.6.1994
st%
$35 sales
$85,4393
$250,000
Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Co., Ld.
20,000 515
$15
$600,000
$26,160
ft for second half-year 1904.
98%
$26, sales
$158,444}
Sola Agents:-
157
Do.
RICHTAL
STEAM
Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, Limited... (0,000 Shanghai Tug and Lighter Company, Limited..... 200,000
(Preference) 100,000) "Shell" Transport and Trading Company, Limited....coo
"Star" Ferry Company, Limited...oz
Lio
10
100,000 £205,000
£5.853
30/- for 1903 @ 1/10 5/16=$5.378,
4%
is. 5o Ts, 50
LI
Tis, 25,000
Tis. 43.762
£400,000)
£4,1161
£58,852
10,000 10,000
$10 $10 $ro
$5
$60,000 $15,093
51,287
(Saga & b. 20 cts.}
(s. 2
al making Tls: 41 for 3904 ...
Interim of 1 (Coupon No. 1) for 1904
($1.80 & b. 45 cts for year ending 30.4.04
Tls. 6nal making Tis. 31 for 194...S
$400,000
MAY COMPY
Straits Steamship Company, Limited.
5,000 $100 $.co
$ 21,075
521,231
$10 for 1904
8 %
se acatae acae ae
$21 buyers Tib, 54 sales Tis. 47 buyers 21/.
$371
$28
$125 sales
maan
$130,153
30,000 TTis, 50T TIs. 50
Tls, 125,000 Tls. 275,679)
Tis, 6,190
Final of Tis. 1) making Tis. 3) for 1904 ... 10 %
Tis, 28 buyers
20,000
$100 $100
$450,000
$42,812
7,000
$100 $100
none
Dr.
$85,987
Final of $15 making $20 for 1904koran des $3 for 1897......................
9 %
$220 sales 537 buyers
7,000
Tis, 50 Tis, 50
Tis. 100,000
Tis. 1,635
Tis. 2 for year ending 30.9.04 .....
Tis. 55 buyers
1,000,000
£40,000
£7,820
No. 3 of 1/6 anime a
TiB y sales
tone
G $672,093
so cents making G. $1 for 1904
51%
$17 sales
Dr. £4,873
£4,029
No. 12 of 1/48 cents
$4 buyers.
انجو
517
{Fcs.1,529,652)
FCB. 85,706
Final of Fes, zs making Fcs. 55 for 1903..
$490
6,000
515 $25
$70,000
$8,577
1175 for 1904
10 %
$35
NCANDESCENT
ན
558,473
40,000
$50
Ico
$10,000
529,422
Final of $z making $5 for 1004...................
41%
Stoles
$300,000
$250,000
50,000 $50 $50
$33.500
$498,289
586 dividend and $1 bonus for and half-Į
year 1904 n
61%
Howarth Erskine, Limited
12.000 $100
Floo
$60,000
$1,000
$61 $64
$55,500
6.000
Do.
SHADES &c.,
5. C. Farbam, Royd & Co., Limited Shanghai and Hongkew Wharf Company
2,750)
$100 $100
$150,000
$5.200 Tls. 100 Ts, 100
32,000 Tls, 100 TR, 100
{
·6%
37,000
$100 $100
He Hatataze * Hæ
2,500
Tis. 100 TIE. IDO
30,000
Sai
$203 buyers $250 buyers $230 buyers Stit Tls 156
TIL: 185
Saro buyers
Tis 187 sales
$31
Tia, 150 sellers
$140 buyers
$129 sellers Tis, 11 buyers
$12.40 buyers $391 buyers
Tla 115 sales
Hongkong, 17th April, 1905.
THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.
STEAM FOR STRAITS, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, PLYMOUTH AND LONDON,
(Through Bills of Lading issued for BATAVIA, PERSIAN GULI, CONTINENTAL, AMERI- CAN and SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.) HE Steamship
TH
"SIMLA,"
Captain F. R.Summers, carrying His Majesty's Mails, will be despatched from this for BOMBAY, on SATURDAY, the 22nd April, at Noon, taking Passengers and Cargo for the above Ports in connection with the Company's $.5. Moldavia, 9,300 tons, from Colombo, Passengers'accommodation in which vessel is secured before departure from Hong- kong.
Silk and Valuables, all Cargo for France, and Tea for Loddon (under arrangement) will be transhipped at Colombo into the Mail steamer proceeding direct to Marseilles and London, other Cargo for London, &c., will be conveyed from Bombay by the RM.S. Mace- donia, due in London on the 4th June.
Parcels will be received at this Office until 4 P.M. the day before sailing. The Contents and Value of all Packages are required.
For further Particulars, apply to
L. S. LEWIS,
Acting Superintendent.
Hongkong, 8th April, 1905.
NORTHERN PACIFIC LINE.
BOSTON STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong, 10th January, 1904,
LEVY HERMANOS.
IAMOND MERCHANTS, JEWEI LERS AND WATCHMAKERS.
DIAMO
EASTMAN'S
KODAKS and FILMS.
Sole Agents for "OMEGA" WATCHES. "OMEGA " is the best, "THREE YEARS" guarantee given to every purchaser.
40, QUEEN'S ROAD,
Watson's Building.
FOR SALE.
GASOLINE
|
Taku Tug and Lighter Company, Limited
REFINERIES.
China Sugar Refining Company, Limited Luzon Sugar Refining Company, Limited.. Perak Sugar Cultivation Company, Limited.
MINING, Chinese Engineering and Mining Company, Ld. Oriental Consolidated Mining Company, Limited Raub Australian Gold Mining Company, Limited
Société Francaise des Charbonnages du Tonkin......
Docks, Wharves & GodownS. Geo, Fenwick & Co., Limited.....
LAMPS Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown, Co., Ld.
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS, from the best makers.
INCANDESCENT
MANTLES,
CHIMNEYS,
GLOBES,
for
GASOLINE AND GAS LAMPS
at the most moderate prices.
Lamps fixed up for Buyers free of charge.
Naphtha of the best kind kept in stock. TẢI KWONG GO
Hongkong, and May, 1904.
56. Lyndhurst Terrace.
[$4
TSANG FOO & CO., COAL MERCHANTS AND STEVEDORES,
48, DES VEUX ROAD.
BOSTON TOW-BOAT COMPANY. SHIPS Coaled from alongside at the shortest
Connecting at Tacoma with
NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY
COMPANY.
PROPOSED SAILINGS FROM Hongkong for
VICTORIA, B.C., AND TACOMA,
VIA
MOJI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.
Steamers. Tone. Captains.
notice, and with all possible despatch. Prices Moderate. Telephone No. 329. Hongkong, 1st October, 1904.
A
To Let.
TO LET.
BUILDING at CAUSEWAY BAY, at present in occupat on of the Steam
No. 1, RIPON TERRACE.
Laundry Co., Ltd. Sailing.
Tremont...... 9,606 T. W. Garlick.At.April25 Lyra....... 4,417 G. V. Williams, May 15 Shawnut... 9,600 E. V. Roberts
FLATS in MORETON TERRACE, facing
Polo Ground.
OFFICES in course of erection, CON-
NAUGHT ROAD (Dear BLAXE PIER), GODOWNS: PRAYA EAST.
|
Hongkong and Whampoa Duck Company, Ld.
New Amay Dock Company, Limited
Riley Hargreaves & Co., Limited........................isa (Preference)...
Tanjong Pagar Dock Company, Limited Yangtze Wharf and Godown Company. Limited,..... LANDS, HOTELS & BUILDING. Astor House Hotel Company, Limited (Shanghai)... Astor House Hotel, Limsted (Tientsin)
Hongkong Hotel Company, Limited
Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co., Ld.... Hotel des Colonies Company, Limited (Shanghai)... Humphreys Estate & Finance Company, Limited Kowloon Land and Building Company, Limited.......
Shanghai Land Investment Company, Limited Tientsin Hotel des Colonies, Limited...................... Tientsin Land Investment Company, Limited........ Wei-hai-wei Land and Building Company, Limited... West Point Building Company, Limited
COTTON MILLS.
£ 50,000 GS10 G. $10 150,000!
18/10 £1 50,000 16,000 Frs. 250 FesztoFcs. 251,337
$25 $25 2,000 T.Tis. T.Tis. 50 12,000 $50 $50.j
50,000 $100 $roo 9,000 Tls. 25 (Tis. 25
we Colton Spinning and Weaving Company, Ld.... 15,000 T1. 50 Tls, 50 Hongkong Cotton Spinning, Weaving and Dyeing?
Company, Limited
International Cotton Manufacturing Company, Ld.... Laou-kung-mow Cotton Spinning & Weaving Co., Ld. | Soy Chee Cotton Spinning Company, Limited..
CIGARS AND TOBACCO COS. Alhambra, Limited-ana, rast gett Philippine Company, Limited...esent postanem
Shanghai-Sumatra Tobacco Company, Limited
MISCELLANEOUS.
A. S. Watson & Co., Limited
Anglo-German Brewing Company, Limited......... Beil's Asbestos Eastern Agency, Limited Campbell, Moore & Co., Limited.. Central Stores, Limited",
Do. Do.
(Founders'). "New Issue) China-Bomeo Company, Limited..... China Flour Mill Co., Limited..... China Light and Power Company. Limited...
Tis. 900,000 Tls. 487,210? Tis. 59,8805 $2,500,000 Tls, 17,500
nope
Tis. 41,000
Done
Tls. 828,8137 Tis. 170,000
Hone
$489 $40,936 Tis. 48,153 Tis, 10,711 $200,645 Tis. 2,762
$9,989
Tls, 655
Tis. 50,000? Tls, 35,227)
Done
Tls. 8,115
$779
Tls. 24,820) Tls. 25,000 $ $250,000 $25,000
Tis, 10,000
******
$2,883
fro div. & 55 bonus for year end. 30j6j04.
514 for 1903e|
(515 div. and $11 bonus? for 1993 ............ 137 dividend
Ts. 5 interim for 1904/5 .....
Final of Tis, 6 making Tis, 10 for 1904.
$20 for 2nd half year making $26 for 1904 Tis. 18 for 1904) .................. -- - ----- -g **
Sat for year ended 30.6.1504 ...............ame Interim of Tls. 4
Final of 56 making $12 for 1904.............................
Ta 3 final and Tis. 2 bonus making? {11s. 8 for 1904
(Preferential of 7 per cent for 1904...
Sr for 1904.
Tis. 5 for 1904 amaromig
fit for year ending 31.7.1903
$5 div. and Saj bonus for 1993 ................
{First Year
8
$100,000
$10,000
$3,554
$$ for second half-year making $10 for 1904
7%
$250,000 Tis. 13.986
$37.875
ot%
Tis, 680
Tls, 0.87 for the year ending 31.3.1904
150,000
510 $10
{
$300,994
$50,000 $
£11,958
90 cents for 1904 .....
6,000
iza 530
5377
$3 for 1904
Tls. 40,c(6
**
71%
71%
$2,000
Tis, so Tis. 50
Tls, 670
1,400
Tis. sa Tls. 5o
Tls 5 for 1904
7,726
Tis. 1oo Tis 100
Tls, 617,300
Tls. 725
3,764
T15. 25 Tis. 25
12,500 $50
Done
aone
$50
Tis. 5,150 $1,247
Final of Tis. 4 making Tis. 7 for 1904 None
S
acze ze sebe se at de sese
Tis, 47
Tia. 135
Tis. 12 buyers
Final of $1.70 making $3.20 for 1904 *****
3 %
$55 sellers
none
поле
Tis. 11,655
Tls. 4 for year ended 31.10.1903
10 %
Tls, 40 sellers
125,000
$10
$10
$22,862
50 cents for the year ending 31.7.04.
3 %
$16) buyers
10,000
Tls. 75 Tls. 75
{
Tis, 13,629
Intérim of 3% a/c 1898
Tla, 38 sales
8,000
Tls. 100 Tis. 100
2,000
Tls. 500 Tls. 500
Tis. 22,050
Interim of 4% afc 1898 on 6,000 shares ........ 4% for 1897
Tl5, 42 sales
Tia, 150
300 £7,500 $10 $10
30,000 Tls. 20 Tis. 20
90,000 $10 STO
$100 $200
nil
$125 for year ending 30.6.1900
First year prežný os
$100 59) sellers
Tls. 1,091
Final of Tis, & making Tis. 9or
131 %-
Tis, 68 sales
Interim of 50 cents for 1904
8.
$13 buyers
4,000 $100 $100
none
First year
$115 sales
B,604
Aone
L161
6d. per share for 1903 ......
12/6
1.200
12/6 $10 Sic
$8,000
$1,182
$3 for 1904.....ila
6,000
(laterim of $1.20 for 1904
$15 123
$11
$20,000
$1,253
None
24,000
$$
-60,000
$12 $12
note
Nil.
4,000
Tis. 5o Tls. 50
Tls. 30,000
Tls. 718
hexexe' xKa'
30,000
510
$10
none
$3.739
China Provident Loan & Mortgage Company, Ld.... 100,000 Dairy Farm Company, Limited
$10
$8,0000
5,581
Bo cents for 1904
25,000
$71
Si
$36
$21 sellers
Stoo
$8 sales
$131 ex div.
Tis, 05
£10
$24
$171 buyers
Tis, 25 sales
E. L. Mondon, Limited........
7,000
The 50 Tls.
note
Dr. Tls. 152,318
Tis. 5 for 1903......
Fraser and Neave, Limited
4.500
550
$112,500
$2,706
Green Island Cement Company, Limited......
100,000
Sio
$400,000?
Do. Hall & Holte, Limited ......
(New 15sue)....
50,000
$10
$25,000
$95,054
($2 for 1904.au.
21,000 $20 $20
$186,000
57,551
Final of $1 making 521
11 %
£33,109
169
Hongkong & China Gas Company, Limited..
7,000
LIO
វ
*£3,000
£7,435
(1 div. and aj, bonus for 1903
Hongkong Electric Company, Limited .....
30,000
$10
доде
$1,747
TO LET.
30,000
Hongkong High-Level Tramways Company, Ld......
THE PRAK Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST.
MENT & AGENCY CO., LD.
Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Company, Ld. Hongkong Steam Waterboat Company, Limited.... Katz Brothers, Limited
170
Lane, Crawford & Co., Limited (Shanghai) Maatschappij tot Mijn, Bosch. en Landbouwex
ploitatic in Langkat, Limited
Maynard and Company, Limited.,
South China Morning Post, Limited .......... Steam Laundry Company, Limited'.............
167
OHEAP FARES, EXCELLENT ACCOMMODATION, NO STEWART TERRACE, Hongkong Ice Company. Limited
ATTENDANCE AND CUISINE, ELECTRIC LIGHT, DOCTOR AND STEWARDESS. The twin-scrow 8.5. Shawmut and Tremont are fitted with very superior accommodation for first and second class passengers. The large size of these vessels 'ensures steadiness at sea. Electric fan in each room.
Barber's shop and steam-laundry, Cargo carried in cold storage,
For further information, apply to
DODWELL & CO., LIMITED, General Agents.
Queen's Buildings.
Hongkong, 14th April, 1905,
BOO CHEONG,
昌
[8
STATIONER AND PAPER MERCHANT, No, to, Postinger-Street.
LTAS always on hatid all-varieties of
Printing
Copying Presses, also Automatic Cyclostyle and Ellams Duplicator.
Hongkong, ayd February, 190j.
164
Hongkong, 26th March, 1904.
Dentistry.
THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF
ENTISTRY.
DENTI
M. H. CHAUN, D. D. S.,
37, DES VOUK ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG, From the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Hongkong, 4th Tane, 1904
TSIN TING.
LATEST METHODS OF DENTISTRY,
STUDIO AT NO. 14, D'AQUILAR STREET.
· REASONABLE FEES.
Consultation Free. Hongkong, 10th July, 1904.
S. Moutrie & Company, Limited
Shanghai & Longkong Dyeing and Cleaning Co., Ld. Shanghai Gas Company, Limited... Shanghai Horse Bazaar Company, Limited Shanghai Pulp and Paper Company, Limited Shanghai Waterworks Company, Limited....... Singapore Dispensary, Limited
16,cos Tls. 50 Tls. 50. 168,172}
250,000 -510 ST0{
Straits Ice Company, Limited ............. Straits Trading Company, Limited.................. Tientsin Native City Waterworks. Company, Ld...... 2,941 TIs. 100 Tis. 100 United Asbestos Oriental Agency, Limited......... Tientsin Waterworks Company, Limited
2,000...11. 100|ITLICO $10
$42 $10 $10
.. Do.
William Powell, Limited
(Founders')
9,900 100
12,000
$10 $10
** for year ended 31,5,1904.........
de aciers?
"Jaterim' of [ 50 cents for year 1901/1905...... 701 %
Printed and Published by JOSE PEDRO BRAGA, for the Hongkong Telegraph Company, Limited, at the Prisling Office of the Company,
No. 1, les Honra Road, in the Olty of Victoria, Hoogkong.
$10
($1.00 for year eading 304.1904 250 cents
1,250
$100
$100
$50,000
$2,795
5,000
$25 $25
$60,000
$5.356
$15 for year ending 30.11.1904
Final of $13 making $17 for 1904...................
10,000
$50 $50
$60,000
511,137
Sto for 1904
(Final of 70 cts, and go cts, bonus making ↑
15,000
$10 $10
$2,500
$299
10,000
$100
$100
$475,000
2,500
$100
$100
none
$1,400 $21,582
$8 for 1904 1904 Y
$1.go for the year ended 30.9.04.........
to%
25,000 Gs. 100 Gs. 100
Tls. 328,zio?
Tis. 19,4655
Tls. 35,849
ast quarterly of Tls. 73, paid 15:3.05......
3,400 Sto
$2 for year ended 31.10.1904 ...............
$10
Done
4,000
$50 1,200 $50 $50
550
$4,000
3832
None Tis 145,000
DER $$.537
Tis. 8,011
5,400 Tls. 50 Tls. 50 4,500 TIs. 100 Tit. 100
Tls. 45,000
Tis. 10,247
Tls. 25,000
TIs. 6,968
7,200 600
Ths. 140,000
Tis. 7,369
$50
$50
6,000
525 $25
5,000
$5
$20,000 None ·
tions
$1,769
Dr. $39,020
$3,544
10,000
2,000
5100 $100
$25,000
$750,000? $50,000
$700
Final of $3 making $5 for the year ending?
Nope.9302193
Final of Tis. making Tis, for 1904 ... 7%
Tis. 5 for 1903** ********
Final of Tls. & making Tis. 14 for 1904.))
Final of 376.making 53/6-for-1904
36 for year ended 31.7.1994 .........................
None
(60 cents for year ended 31.5.04....akovi
First year
Sto for second half year 1904.
| ($1 div. and›35 cents bonus for half year) $84,813
ended 309.1004
Szczereze de sese so NN
f9o buyers
$27 sales $17 sales $23 buyers $160 buyers
$11 buyers
$200 buyers
$245
$145
5:21 sollers
$135 buyers
131 %
9 %
$135 buyers Tis. 240. sales 523
·9%
$50
›* ac' ic' aedeseze ze
4$55 sales
Tis. 112 sales
Tis. 88 sales
Tis. 155 sales
попе
Tls.
2,035
Tis. z for half yêkr........................
Tis. 13,259 $10,000
$3,000
Tis. 2211
Final of Tis. 4 making Tis. & for 1903/4 foo.cents-7
$88.
Tla.410
$50
$23 sales
1st %
S41, buyers 5150 pales
63%
542:sales
T.Ts, 100
T.Th. 125 sales
59) buyers
3180 buyers
Sit buyers
$7 buyers
Cargo only.
FOR MANILA.
The largest, steadiest, and most comfortable steamer for Manila.
Lyta
Apply to
17 G.
V. Williams At. May 3 4.417
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 30th March, 1905.