Intintation.
POWELL'S
LADIES'
DEPARTMENTS,
"Alexandra
Buildings,"
Des Vimix Road.
NOW SHOWING
TWEED
SKIRTS,
CLOTH
SKIRTS, MOIRETTE
UNDERSKIRTS.
COATS,
CAPES,
SILK
and
JACKETS.
BLOUSES,
VIYELLA
BLOUSES,
DELAINE
SHIRTS.
GOLF JERSEYS,
KID BELTS, -
SILK BELTS,
Slate, Tan, Beaver,
White and Black KID AND SUEDE
GLOVES.
SMART.
TRIMMED
MILLINERY.
NEWEST
DRESS
FABRICS
for Morning, Afternoon, and Evening Gowns,
FIRST CLASS
DRESS-MAKING
MODERATE CHARĢES, Satisfaction Assured. *
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY JANUARY 13 1906.
Auctions.
(DY ORDER OF TUR. MORTGAGEES),
PUBLIC AUCTION.
received instructions to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION.
UN
MONDAY,
the 15th day of January, 1956, at 3. PM4. at their FALES ROOMS, THE FOLLOWING
"SHELI" IRANSPORT AND - TRADING CO.
ANNUAL MEETING.
Intimations.
sincere thanks to Sir Thomas Sanderson, who, for so many years, has been Permanekt Under Secretary at the Foreign Ofce, and with whom this company have had the most cordial relations and sympathetic support. He,
FOUNDED IN HONOUR. at all events, has never been under any misap
No doubt you have seen in the papers such The annual general meeting of the share prehension as to the British character of the announcements as this concerning some MESSRS HUGHES AND HOUGH have holders of the Shell Transporna done in Company, or of the good they have inedicine, or other If, on trial, you write that Company Limited, was held at Winchester done in the advancement of British trade. this medicine has done you no good we will Hosie, E.C., on 12th ult, the chairman, Sir feel that the public service will lose mot refund your money. Now, we have never had Marcus Samuel, Bart., presiding. The sacre- valuable and loyal servant in his retirement, tary (Mr. E. A. Smith-Revse) having read the which, I am sure, all those who know him, will reason to speak in that way concerning the antice convening, the eting and siso the
with him good health to
bis well-esined remedy named in this article: In a trade auditors' report, the Chairman said:
lejuure, and
and the honour his sovereign has just extending throughout the world, nobody has 1.now have the pleasure to submit the bestowed upon him. (Hear, hear.) The pre-ever complained that our medicine has failed, seventh annual report of the "Shell" Transport text of the Standard Oll Company, that they act or asked for the return of his money. The
Ltd., and I ask the in the inte and Trading Company, LEASEHOLD
of Intereste
oil only is further American Attention of
of the shareholders t
to the fact that, shattered by their undisguised attempts to sublic never grumbles at honestly and skillfully in this comparatively brief period of the com foster production in Roumania-nas, I contend, made read, or at a medicina which really and pany's existence, we have accumulated a reserve benefit their own trade, but to inflict loss ctually does what it was made to do. The fund 400,000, and pla
placed to the credit
Upon what other pos depreciation a sum very little short of hat of upon their competitors.
asible hypothesis can we go when we take their foundations of not include the amount which have been amounts to something like 700,000 tons a year. Hillen sterling, These figures, however de ci
Action in benzine? The trade in America We have been able to send Eastern benzing loof placed to depreciation in the various subsidiary and in the accounts of each of which due pro Companies in which we are now interested, he United States in considerable quantities, sinn is made under this heading. Turning river in Europe-thanks entirely to the action pro and to oblam for it a better price than we can t th ritems in the blance-sheet, and dealing of the Standard Dil first with the credit side, I will point out that,
Company. including the sum brought down from the year York Herold, of September 3, they are repre- In an article which appeared in the New large senied as gloating upon the injury which they had to thake our
VALUABLE
PROPERTY,
situate at Victoria, in the Colony of Hong All that PIECE of PARCEL of GROUND, situate at Victoria, aforesaid, and registered in LOT No, tot, containing by superficial mea. surement 2,800 square feet and having a front ke to Queen's Road Central of 30 feet and
ches he thereabouts and a depth of Po feet. In this Section stands the very valuable house I premises, known ak No. 35. Queen's Rond
the Land Office as SECTION A of MARINE
d
id. We
76. id.
1:
WANPOLE'S PREPARATION are laid in sincerity and honour, the knowledge which on the part of the people explains lis disguise or conceal. It was not dreamed out, popularity and success. There is nothing to
or discovered by accident; it was studied out, science. It is palatable as honey and contains on the solid principles of applied medical
{"entral. All the said premises are held (or not the gross profits amount to the very las believed they had inflicted upon the "Sheil all the nutritive and curative, properties of Pure
• residue of n term of 984 years granted by a total of £2ect upon the estimated results Company, for they ate that we could not Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cod
Crown, Lease of Marine Lot No. 101 and which Lease in dated 16th April, 1859
For further particular andy conditions of de, apply to
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for the Mortgagees,
Measca, HUGUES & HOUGH,,
Government Auctiore is. Homebung: path December 198 71901-F
PUBLIC AUCTION,
It lo
BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGE", of VAL
ALUABLE LEASEHOLD
PROPERTY, siruare in Caine Road, Victoria, in the Colony
of Honkong.
IN. TWO OTS nv
MG GEO. N, LAMMERT, Auctioneer, ON SATURDAY,
1903 balance- from the accounts which then still had to be rendered is the Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd., and these figures include an amount from that year in excess of what we had estimated. We regret that there should have been such a delay in preparing the accounts, but fully anticipate that, now the business is in established work
Hypophosphiles and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry. This remedy is praiend by all who have employed it in any of the diseases it is recommended to relieve and cure, and l effective from the first dose. In Anemia Scrofula, Nervous and General Debility, In fluenza, La Grippe, and Throat and Lung it is said to be, and has won the confidence of Troubles, it is a specific. It is precisely what the public on that basis. You may resort to it with a faith and hope that arise from the history of what it has done for others. Dr. Thos. Hun Stucky says: "The continued use of it in my practice, convinces me that it is the most palatable, least nauseating, and best prepara- tion now on the market." One bottle proves
"You cannot be dis its intrinsic value, the world. appointed in it. Sold by chemists throughout
Intimations.
SK
THE POPULAR
SCOTCH
"BLACK&WHITE"
JAMES BUCHANAN & 00.
· ACONGLE WHISKY DISTILLERS” By Appointment to
E. M. THE KING
obtain supplies of Texas oif, and that purers combined with the Compound Syrup of profits bad been reduced to vanishing point. In the first allegation there is not a word of truth, since the Guffer Company, are loyally observing their contract obligations, whilst the present balance-sheet is our reply to the second statement. We had instituted order, this will not riccur again. It will be an action for libel against the New York seen that under the head of " Assets" there'is Herald, but as they have withdrawn all their an alteration in the wording of our previous statements, apologised, and paid our costs, balance sheets. It will no doubt be entirely
tisfactory to the shareholders to know that ion as showing the attitute adapted to this we could tot go on with it, but it is a revela- the amount of the assets which, irrespective of company by the Standard Oil Company if the depreciation, stond in the company's books at
statements attributed to them are correct. As £1,011,519.11. 6d. is represented by property to
to the opposition of the Consolidated Company of the most tangible and solid description, the shareholders in the Russian Liquid Fuel whilst the items of "Concessions" and "Con- and the Baku Companies (both of whom have tracts have been eliminated, these standing kerosene through the Consolidated) should insist at nothing in our books. We have now writ upon finding from their directors what the war en £30,000 off the cost and expenses of the against us has cost them. We have scarcely issue of preference shares. We have failed in had a bed of roses in the Eastern trade, and aur dispute with the Commissioners of income- ax, and the large amount which we have paid cough, for the period under review, average
prices in connection with the issue of our preference months of the year the Standard Oil Company in the East were good, during the latter shares has had to be written off entirely out of waged war furiously against is, and, prices our profits without any abatement for income. rapidly declined until, thanks to their action in tax. The American expenses have been re- India, which forced the Burma Oil Company duced to £4,000, this Item being represented to also lower their prices, the Indian trade has by concessions to erect storage in certain ports, been conducted at a vary heavy loss. which may prove of considerable value.
THE ACTION OF THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT, Turning to the debit side of the balance- heel the only items which call. for special vernment accused us-suffering, as 1 have Incredible as it may seem, the Indian Go mention are the sum of £6,615, expended on
fur oil in Zante, and which was unsucaiready shown, by the attacks upon us want:THE NINTH ORDINARY ANNUAL sful and the item'
of
MEETING £112,685 r. od. only made by the Standard Oil Company-of
OF SHAREHOLDERS less incurred our in the Company will be held at the Officer known as No. 76, Caine Road, Annual then to the Petroleum Producte Actien Gesell facilities for exploration in Burma, equivalent January, 1906, at 11 AM for the purpose of
of the duty in India, or through being
of the Company, St. George's Building, No. 6, schaft. This loss has been inflicted upon us by the futile attempls made by the Standard, those given sá our compet difference, Report of the General Managers for the year
the Burma
FIRST Class PILSENER BEER A O Company of America and by the Con Oil Company, were treated with
and ail solidated Company who distribute Russian oil
our representations were rejected. Ear
guaranteed free from Salicylic Acid, (partly consigned to them; and some purchas: was lent to our many opponents, who, for their ending 31st December, 1905, declaring a Divind any other Chemicals.
dend and electing a Consulting Committee and ed on their own account), to prevent our gain purposes, represent us as being
foreign
Auditors,
PRICE $10.50 per case of 48 bottles (quarts) company. Now, gentlemen, no more grave,
•ng a fooling in the European markets,
issue has ever confronted British merchants than the one proclaimed by more than one of the ex-Ministers of the Crown, that firm invest
the rath day of January, 1906, at 12-o'clock Noon, at bin Sales Rooms, Duddell Street,
LOT J.-Pegistered in the Land Office as SECTION OF INLAND LOT, No. 532 with the Menkunge and Ruildings thereon known as No. 72. Caine Road. "Annual Crown Rent $36 70. LOT. 2-Pegstered in the Land Offer as
with
CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE COMPANY,
LIMITED:
the Messuage and Buildings thereon company' on consignments of oil made by efforts to obtain redress, either by the abola. Connaught Road, on SATURDAY, zoth
Crown Rent $5.6%.
For further particulara, apply tamda
EWENS, HARSTON & HARDING, Vendor's Solicitors,
or to
Mr GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer
Hongkond, 11th January, thos
Hotels.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
A HIGA CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL,
LADIES AFTERNOON TEA-ROOMS. PRIVATE BAR and Billiárd-Rooms. FOT and COLD Water throughout, ELECTRICALLY LIghted. Electric FANS
(if required).. ELECTRIC PASSENGER Elevator 10 each
floor.
TABLE D'HOTR at separate tables. For Terms, &ng apply in the...
- MANAGER. Hongkong, 4th December, tong
OCCIDENTAL HOTEL.
KELOO) NE BUSINESS IN EUROPE,
I indicated two years ago when the su, plies
own
receiving a Statement of Accounts and the
*
and
HRH the PRINCE OF WALES
Supplied at all the LEADING CLUBS Fapd HOTELS, and to be obtained from
the principal Stores.
Isa.
TUBORG BEER.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company or 6 dox, pints. will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, the 17th January, until SATURDAY, the 20th January, 1906, both days inclusive.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 5th January, 1906,
Los
an article which that Empire, vast as it is, does not furnish are to be proclaimed aliens. It matters not that, as in the case of this gren! company, a splendid carrying trade was secured for British ships; that orders for material amounting to millions were placed with British manufacturers; nd that a school was created for British geologists. This company was condemned as bei foreign corporation, merely because they were getting their pro duction in Borsen, blist at the time they. undertook, the development of those fields,
develop to exist in quanties NORDINARY MEETING OF SHARE petrolcum Was Bol in any part of the British Empire. We'r the eve pi
of devolution in financial matters. Are we to understand from responsible statesmen who advocate Tariff Reform that protection means monopoly? Because, if so, I have po doubt whatever as to what the reply of the City of London will be. Are we to understand that it means parochialism? For there is no other definition of a policy which would confine Uritish capital to employment is British lands only, and would overlook the enormous ex traneous advantages derived by British trade as a whole by its world-wide employment.
c'are on
of liquid fuel from the Guffey Petroleum Coming capital outside the lintisi Empire-even in pany diminished to such a degree, that we could not, in that träde, keep our steamers em. ployed, that it was out of question for us to allow them to remain idle, and your directors, consequently, d voted their attention to build up
such business in kerosene in Europe as would fulf! this necessity. The two com- panies 1 have indicated chose to consider that we were poaching upon their preserves. The sales of our united companies in Europe for the perid 19:4 until April, igos, amounted
110.000 tons. Th se of our united op It is a ques ponents reached 2,325,000 cons tion of simple arithmetic to ascertain, tour loss amounted to £112,000, what the loss of our competitors has amounted to. I can only hope that the altered position in the piroleum trade, showing, as it did, the insensate folly of the course partied, will bear its results in the future, and that our opponents will recognise (30 that we have come to stay, and that we are sufficiently strong to hold our own in so far as necessary for on to do so. The position in the Russian markets has simplified an ar rangement, seeing that there barely enough ail to go round. It will no doubt interest, you to hear that our Eastern, trade, as I long ago predicted, is wholly independent of Russian oil, and the supplies at our command of our own production and those of the alked Eastern frents, Had it been otherwise, it is quite clear chut, owing to the stoppage of the Russian upplies, keruscoe would have been at famine rites. Apart from the circumstances which ! have recounted, and which may be summarised
.
EXCELLENT CUISINE.
MODERATE PRIČES
ELECTRIC FANS
TO ORDER IN
EVERY ROOM.
EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT
Eeuwkos, "ÓWLOON..
A Ma
จ
31 A
THE INDUSTRY IN BORNEO,
I turn with feelings of great satisfaction to speak for themselves, and you will see that the aspects of our industry in Borneo. Figures the total qua 100,00 teta, tu ly expe 19,000 1905 exceeds 100s, as against
in 1904, and. 104,000 in 1903. These Sgures
THE HONGKONG LAND RECLAMA- TION COMPANY, LIMITED.
TOTICE hereby given that the FIFTH HOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Company's Office, Victoria Buildings, on SATURDAY, the 20th January, 1906, at 12 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, together with 's State ment of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1905,
The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Com pany will be CLOSED from TUESDAY, the January (both days inclusive), during which 16th January, to SATURDAY, the 20th period to Transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
MOWBRAY S, NORTHCOTE,
Secretary.
Hongkong, rith January, 1906,
fres
do not indicate the true position of affairs, be THE WEST POINT BUILDING COM. cause they only give the quantities actually exported, Still, more satisfaction will be felt
A keen competitive war between the dis by the shareholders when I give you the tributing companies, it is evident that the prefigures to date showing the enormous quanti duction of kerosene in the world is in excess ties of crude oil and products in store. ol it requirements, and unless the Russian Government (when such is established) alier
the policy that they had instituted of discourag in the consumption of kerosens in Russia, where there is an enormous outlet, I cannot but look with misgivings to the resumption of
ORIENTAL HOTEL,al supplies from the Russian fields, since
МАСЛО,
FIRST CLASS HGFEL situated in the Centre of Praya Grande with splendid ylaw of the Harbour,
LARGE AND LOFTY ROOMS,,
Elegantly Furnished.
IXCELLENT:CUISINE.
2
THE MANAGER, Macan, 16th ctober, t
the increased production in other directions precludes the possibility of finding remanera. live markets for it abroad,
them.
These are the figures to date
Kerosene............ Liquid............... to stock by th
Cru
Moexi lir Co.) for refining)
Kerosent
In Stock
1905. 21,230 tops 19.09.11 45.410
15607
Shipments
N
PANY, LIMITED.
OTICE' is
hereby given that the EIGHTEENTH ORDINARY MEET. ING OF SHAREHOLDERS in this Company will be held at the Company's Offices, Victoria Buildings, on THURSDAY, the fit February,
Special Prices for Quantities.
-Sole Agents
SIEMSSEN & CO.
Hongkong, thunuary, cont.
THE WINE GROWERS
SUPPLY CO.
BARRETTO & Co.
General Agents, Hongkong,
FRENCH CLARETS.
BOTTLED BY
JULES MERMAN & CIE.,
BORDEAUX.
receiving the Report of the Directors together Cotes... $9.50 Per Dozen Quarts. with Statement of Accounts for the year ending Medoc 31st December, 190§.
In Stock 1904. 7,290,cont 3.9:0 24,120 11
H
1906, at 11.30 o'clock A... for the purpose of
3.390 #.
In 1905. 118,722, tons.
Shipments in 1994. 68,120 tons
30
1936.
Liquid Fuel... 130,425 Crude Oil.
St. Estephe
9.50
19
3.
9.50 "
?
要
The REGISTER or SHARES of the Com. pany will be CLOSED from BATURDAY, Paulacje o ma' 13.50 The 20th January, to THURSDAY, the Ist
February (both days inclusive), during which | Margaux me 14,00 period no Transfer of Shares can be registered. Chateau Ludovice 17.00
By Order of the Board of Directors,
A. SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary to the Hongkong Land Jovest.. ment sud Agency Co., Ld., Ceneral Agents for the West Point Build, ing Co., Ld. Hongkong, toth January, 1996.
THE STANDARD OIL COMPANY. The general policy of the Standard Oil Com- pany has led the Government of the United States to in the a Commission to investigate |
12 $90+ the, conduct of it business. The Standard The production of crude oil for the
$5,800
year 1905 pose as the champions of American oll, will be about 420,000 t
and
tons, as against 185,730 they allege that the whole object of their being tons in 1904, the present production of crude WINES AND SPIRITS of the best quality, difficult to reconcile this statement with their the production being purposely curtailed in is to benefit that industry: find it very oil being at the rate of 1,000 tons per week, BILLIARD TABLE, the best in the Far East. they bought Russian ail
nctions,
for it is within our own knowledge that consequence of all storage being full, The
largely for ship busi ment to indis, and they chartered at least one deviate at all from what i ventured to assert still in its infancy. "I do not EVERY COMFORT FOR RESIDENTS AND TOURISTA.
of our ships, we know exactly what the oil cost before this era of prosperty Was
that reached, Fur Terms, &c., apply to
Their action, apparently, was prompted the lerritories are rich and are capable of solely by the desire to inflict the heaviest loss yielding practically any amount of oil that they could us on the Burma Oil Company and we can handle, but the qualities of the prói
for $79. ourselves below cost, and a comparison of hitherto been placed on the market, and we are
sold the oil in India very ducts differ materially from those which haveE The prices realised by them, under their distri. at a considerable disadvantage through this A. CHAZALON er abartly, will show that they oils were the only oils sold on the Eastern bulion average over Europe (except Italy to refer to the fact that for many years American are selling their all abroad at prices giving markets, and the lamps in vogue were made them a lower return than they can obtain in for this description
of all rosene the United States,
very light I have referred to Italy as being the anech in carton, and it sequires a different type
specific gravity. Our
extremely country in which, throughout the war of prices,uf lamp to burn it properly,
the car the unfortunate consumers have had to pay bou is not consumed it results in smoke, any rate demanded by the Standard Oil Com whereas if the combustion is perfect it gives pany. I do not know any more conclusiva not only a better light, but is of much great NOTED for their WINES, SPIRITS Pans gravity, apd PROVISIONS of which they have prices verament to make comparisons of It takes time to overcome these
& CO.
6, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
Italian
paid by
by their own unfortunate with those charged to consumers. Britain and in Germany. It is very
which it of
because
to
Chateau Galic Chatead Pantet
18.00
Canet 20.00
Chateau Mutton
d'Armafilacq 24.00
Merman...... 27.00
[108 Chateau Marbuzet
HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT Chateau Rauzan. 30.00
AND AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED,
EIGHTEENTH ORDINARY MEET. is hereby given that the
Victoria Buildings, on THURSDAY, the in ING OF SHAREHOLDERS in this Com pany will be held at the Company's Omees, February, 1906, at 12 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Direc the year ending stat. December, 1905. tom, together with Statement of Accounts for
The REGISTER OF SHARES of the Com. pany will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the
SPANISH CLARETS.
BOTTLED BY THE COMPANIA VINICOLA DEL NORTE DE ESPANA BILBAO.
Rioj■...... Copa Ruby
our
arr
(both days inclusivo), during which period
AP
succeeded, I am
happy means, at very little cost, Although,
during the current year, Wm. POWELL, Ld., The oldest published EUROPEAN the Standard Qil Company, Wa hays had the wo thould, owing to the fact we have only just have granted such an absolute monopoly to have not derived the benent from this the
to understand why the tallang lamps for the perfect burping of on 20th January, 19 THURSDAY, the 1st Febru
HONGKONG.
ongkong, 4th January, Food,
always a large assortment in stock,
BAKERS in the Colony,
Hongkong, soth Sapiamber, 1903.
most cordial cooperation of our Foreign Office solved the difcoli, I am quite convinced in endeavouring to get redress, to apabis pa that in time a great outlet, will be secured for to establish our business in Italy, and got all the kerosene we can produc 16 pass over this incident, without landedes My
Transfer of Shares can be registered, By. Order of the Board of Director,
ASHELTON HOOPER,
Secretary
Hongkong, 19th January, 1998
(109
$13.00 Per Dozen Quarto,
6.00
BARRETTO & Co., Agents,
„Moë, 21 & 24, Bank Buildings, Queen's Road Central,
Hongkong, fib Juns, 190j.-