Intimation.
Powell's
ALEXANDRA
BUILDINGS.
Bargains.
The end of the Summer "Season being at hand,
we are now clearing
the remainder of our Stock of
LADIES'
MUSLIN
BLOUSES.
SUNSHADES
and
WASHING
at
SKIRTS
Very Low Prices.
NEW STOCK:
of
GOLF JERSEYS,
MILLINERY,
&c., &c., de
Just arrived.
WM. POWELL,
LTD.,
ALEXANDRA
BUILDINGS, Hongkong.
Hongkong, 5th October, 19 7.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY OCTOBER 12 1907.
THE
Entertainment.
A GRAND FROMENADE CONCERT will be held on
THE VOLUNTEER PARADE GROUND,
on
MONDAY, the 14th instant, at 9.15 PM..
The Concert will be in aid to the following
THE DEBT OF CHINA..
England, and the Deutsch-Asiatische Bank for Germany. Of these lobes, with a total face ritue of £47,830,000, there had been paid off December 31, 1906, the sum of 65,93,835, leaving £41,887,105 Gutmanding... Of these loans the first will be entirely paid off in 1931, the second in 1933, and the third in 1943; and all are secured upon the Maritime Customs revenue and on certain additional taxos placed under the supervision of the Maritime Cus. toma,
Entimations.
THE BRIGHT SIDE
So seldom is it that anything approaching full statement of the public obligations of China is to be had, says the "Investors' Re... view" of the 24th ult, that the following extract front the Financial Supplement of the "Times" possesses much more than a one-day interest. We therefore reprint it here. It is from the paper's Shanghai corresponden, and needs only to be supplemented by an equally | circumstantial and trustworthy summary of China's resources and revenues to place the The following Ladies and Gentlemen have creditors of that vast amorphous empire in kindly promised to assist :-Ms. A. G. Gordan, possession of all they require to know. Un. Mr. Claxton, Mr. F. Jakl, Mr. F. Carr, Mr. happily the lacome of China is much more Walter Benedeti, Mr G. Koenix Capi, G. difficult to get at than the catalogue of Lammert, Mr. S. Moore, and Mr. W. A her foreign debt. Actually the inquirer can September 7, 1901, it was seitled at £67,500,000, cloud it bangs over a multitude na, ónő”)
Charities-
The Ladies' Benevolent Society. The Seamen's Minión,
Hannibal.
By kind permission of Cal SCOTT-MON CRIFFE and the Officers of the 1st Middlesex Regiment, the Band will also play selections during the evening,
Tickets $2 and $t, can be obtained from Volunteer Headquarters and Meiers, Kelly and Walsh, I td.
A. J. THOMPSON, Capitalo, Staff Officer, H.K.V.C Hongkong, 12th October, 107.
Consignees.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE P
HE P. & Q. S. N. Co.'s Steamer
"NORE,"
Public Companies.
THE DAIRY FARM CO, LD of life. It is a feeling common to the majority of us that we do for get quite the autount of
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. happiness we are entitled to. Among the count THE ELEVENTH ORDINARY less things which tend to make us more at leasYEARLY MEETING OF SHARE- miserable ill health takes first place. Hannah HOLDER in the abova. Company will be More said that sin was generally to be attri- beld at the Company" town Office, 2. Lower buted to billousness. No doubt a crippled 14th October, at 12.30 P., for the purpose Albert Road, Hongkongit an MONDAY, the liver with the resulting impure blood, is the of presenting the Report of the Directors and cause of alors mental gloom than any other Statement of Accounts to gist July, 1907, single thing. And who can reckon up the The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company fearful aggregate of pain, lost and fear will be CLOSED from agte September to the raising from the many allments and diseases 14th October, 1937, bold days inclusive.. which are familiar to mankind; like a vast
By Order,
M. MANUK,
Acting Secretary, Hokong, 26th September, 1907.
T
HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
B
ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEETING will be held at the Jockey, Club Office(Hongkong CuB: Antx)) on / SATURDAY, 19th October, at 11.50 P..
Hongkong, 7.b.October, 1907": [903
CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.
The next historic event for which China had to pay was the midsummer madness of, 1900, A careful inquisition was made into the amount which the Empire could pay, warrant ed sufficient to keep it quiet for 40 years to come, and, in the International Protocol of only be sure of the figures presented by This was the total of the amounts claimed by can number. You can see these people every- the Imperial Maritime Customs service, all the acveral Powers for companration for in where. For them life can scarcely be unld to other Chincie ersources being matters of juries suffered by their nationals, and for the have any "bright side" at all: Hence the guessing mere darkness for the most part.: cost of military operations in restoring older Cagerness with which they search for relief and We speak father in the dark, last years in North China, and the amounts were sub-cure, Remedies like report of the Customs. Department not hav.jected to ng audit, or examination. Approxi WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION ing reached us. Several, however, of the mately the amounts claimed by each Power have not attained their high position in the loans enumerated below enjoy special se
were as follows:-
confidence of the people by bald assertions '935curities in the form of railways, and there is no
L and boasting advertisements, They are Rusia. good ground for doubting the adequacy of the
19.375.00obliged to win it by doing actually what is Germany security at any point, provided China enjoys France.....
13,500,000 claimed for them. That this remedy deserves internal peace and has no quarrels with Great Britain,
........... 10,6.0,0ooit reputation is conceded. It is palatable as her neighbours. Chidh has begun to wake Japan
mjeru mod 7,475,000 honey and contains the nutritive and curative
1400,000 properties of Pure Cod Liver Oli, combined T MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS, WH up, to adopt new ideas, in imitate Japan United States.. in seeking economic development along Italy.
4.725,000 with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites be held at the Offices of the undersigned at Western' lines, and, lelt to themselves, the Belgium.
4,050,000 and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry. 11.30 PM. OD FRIDAY, the asth instant. rulers and people are much more likely to Austria-Hungary
* 7,350,000 Nothing has such a record of success in Scrofuta, The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company strive to accelerate the sedemption of their Holland and Spain.
675,000 Anemia, Throat and Lung Troubles, and will be CLOSED from the ith to the 'asth
instant, both days inclusive. 200,000 emaciating complaints and disorders, that tend to interfere with the
vigour. Its use helps to show life's brighter to undermine the foundations of strength and
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO; ÈTO,"
General Agents, Canton Insurance Office, Limited, side. Dr. H. L. Reddy, B. A., M. D., L. R. C. S., Edinburg, L. R. C. P., London, Physician
Hongkong, 4th Octobet, 1907.
1897
Bishops College, Caunds, says: "I have much Woman's Hospital-Professor University of pleasure in sting that I have used it in casce! of debility and have found it to be a very valuable remedy as well as pleasing to take." You can take it with the assurance of getting well. It never disappoints. Sold by all
FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, MALTA, PORT SAID, SUEZ AND STRAITS.
Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are ing long place Wherd Godowe Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each and delivery can be obtained as soon as the consignment will be sorted out mark by mark. Goods are landed,
Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contrary before
6 hours,
Goods not cleared by the 15th inst, at
4 P.M., will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by me io. any case 'whatever,
Damaged' Packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignees and the Company's representative at an appointed hour.
All claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here after which date they cannot he recognised.
No claims will be admitted after the goods
have left the Godowns.
E. A. HEWETT.
Superintendent'
12
Hongkong, 9th October, 1907. NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE Steamship
foreign debts than
due payment of the charges these involve
their freedom, dispense with the interference of the foreigner. It is in the rald foreigner accordingly that the real danger lies: 11 China
an antual charge of £5,364,500; and with an It was decided that the Empire could stand existing annual charge of about £3,540,000 for ante 1900 loans, there remained a sum of £2,814.500, which was assigned to the pre- sent service of the indemalties, principal and be provoked or plundered, treated with inso-interest at 4 per cent. Id-order to provide for a fent, agressive injustice by the powers always progressive increase in payment of the principal festling each other. in Peking, always jealous of the indemnities in proportion as prior debt Test one should seap while the others merely charges were liquidated, and to keep the annual provide or sharpen the sickles, a few years charge for existing obligations at about the may bring another upheaval that would same amount of £5,354,500, the annuities for rain all. And some
the indemnity were divided into five series — and £671,910 paid off to December 31, 1906,
(3) £11,250,000, amortisation began in 1902)
of there Powers must be in evil odour now. In a cold-
blooded way they agreed to load China with a debt called indemnity, weighty enough to hold her at their mercy for 40 years, and already Ch na is on. her feet again, asserling her right to exist as an unfettered empire, and her temper is rising as her seorganisation goes en. The diplomacy of the next generation will have to be more prudent that of the Inst if disastrous mistakes are to be avoided.
Of the debts of most of the countries of the world official statements are made from time
chemists.
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I
A. CHAZALON & CO.,
(b) / 9,000,000, amortisation begins in 19437- (<) £31;500,000, amortisation begins in 1915.WINE, (d)£7,500,000, amortisation begins.in 1916. (e) £17,350,000 amortisation begins in 1932. be paid off or December 31, 1940.
All five series culminate and are finally to
The Russo-Japanese War for the redemp direct cost to the Chinese Government but one tion of Manchuria (1904-5) was fought without loan was issued in 1905 for £1,000,000 at 5 per
to time, and the authorities of debtor nations ceh On this loan £500,000 was paid 'off' in
SPIRIT AND COAL MERCHANTS AND
6, Queen's Road Central,
GENERAL STOREKEEPERS,
Just Unpacked. BARCLAY PERKIN'S, STOUT is pints and Baby bottles, FRENCH SYRUPS GRENADINE, GROSEILLE, &o.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE TWENTY-SIXTH ORDINARY
Intimations.
THE
W
*HINA. PROVIDENT LOAN AND
MORTGAGE CO., LD. (CAPITAL PAID UP..................$1,000,000.) Undertakes and Executes THE OFFICE OF TRUSTEE, EXECUTOR OF WILLS, ATTORNEY, &c. &c,
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managers, Hongkong, 22nd May, 1907.
PEAK
(535
EAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY,
LIMITED.
7.00 B.M.
TIME TABLE.
WEEK DAYS,
are most care'ul in preachting to the public | January, 1977, and the balance is redeemed by ICHY,' PERRIER, ROCHEMAURE 1.30 am. to 12.45 p.m....Every 15 minutes.
equal instalments up to 1929
Of the Government loans and in lempities
AND
ALSO.
now outstanding in whole or in part, the Other FRENCH MINERAL WATERS original face value was £133,070,080. Of this amount, £6,350,241 had been redeemed by. outstanding. The last of the loans will be December 1, 1916, leaving £113,710,839 then redeemed in 1944, and the last of the fademai
the state of their finance. China does not act in this way, the overnment being as averse to publicity as the Chinese bankers; and the public is left to find "ROON,"
om frase: the financial condition of the Em baving arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby nie. The result in wonderful amount of in. informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being complete knowledge and most of the publica landed and stored at their risk into the hazard-tions to which we turn for information give the nus and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the same figures from year to year, with no acties paid off in 1910. Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown colini taken of amortisation during the yeas, Company, Limited, Kowloon, whence delivery and not always any account of new debt in may be obtained...
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before WEDNESDAY, the ghof October, at Noon.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain-
ing undelivered after iba 14th of October will
be subject to rent.
curred,
..
Before the ou break of the war with Japan, 1894-5, the foreign debt incurred by China was insignificant in amount, the only loan of being a small one of £115,080 at 7 per cent, which any portion now remains outstanding issued in 1886, of which Lor,980 has been redeemed (to December 31, 1906), leaving £53,100. sill to be redeemed. The Gover inent had some knowledge of the financial his- tory of Turkey and of Egypt, and had no intention of having that history repeated on its Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the awe soil, and it steadily resisted all blandish- Undersigned.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 14th of October, at 9.30 A.M.
All Claims must reach us before the 18th of October, or they will not be recognized.
No:Fire Insurance will be effected,
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD;
MELCHERS & Co..
Agents. Bengkong, cili October, 1907
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY, LIMITED. FROM CALCUTTA, FENANG AND SINGAPORE. THE Company's Steamship
"ROOKSANG," having arrived from the above Ports, Consignens of Cargo by her are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside.
Cargo impeding the discharge or remaining on board after 4 P.M., the 13th ins will be landed at Consignees' risk and expense. No Fire Insurance will be effected. -Hills-of-Lading will be countersigned by
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LD,
General Managers. Hongkong, 10th October, rony.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE P.&O.S. N. Co.'s Steamer
"CANDIA,"
ments to "improve its estate" on borrowed money; it was encouraged in this attitude by the long continued peace of 30 years from 1864, and by its daily habit of resisting what appear el to it always to be foreign aggression, Be sides this, it was in the position of the mer chant who keeps no bank account, as were the Governments of Europe down to 200 years ago, and bad not acquired the borrowing habit.
China formerly always fought her wars, even the disastrous Taiping rebellion, on a cash basis, the only credit she obtained being from her own troops and her own purveyors. Her idea of the sinews of war is the Kriegschatz and not national credit. The Japanese War, fought to ideas, and she was compelled to resort to loans, some extent on modere lines, introduced new
There were a few unsuccessful attempts to flost domestic-loans,-aad-boe-domestic loan for 5,000,000 taels (£750,000) which issued' at y per init. per mensem (about 8 per cent per fansum), succeeded only because it was manag. ed directly by the Commissioner a Custome at Canion; this was a short term loan, and was wholly paid off by 1932. These were also four foreign loans for a total of £6,635,000. One, a silver loan for 10,000,000 taels (£1,635,000) | issued in 1814 at 7 per cent, has been fedeem- 'ed to the entent of £495,570, leaving £1,144,500 ou'slanding. The other three were gold loans, issued in 1895 at 6 per cent, and of them £2,200,000 has been redeemed, leaving 42,800,con outstanding on December 31, 1906," Then came the settlement of the bill to Japan of 210,000,000 taels(£34,500,000) for wor la indem. nity and with it the scramble of the European Powers for politico-financial influence, During the three years following the conclusion of peace thres loans were issued for a total of £17,820,000, to pay the indemnity, to clear off" floating debt, to provide for 're-armament, and to cover expenses of flotation and underwriting. The first, issued in 1895, for 4c0,000,000 francs (15,820,000) at 4 per cent, and guaranteed by the Russian Government "in case of need,"
FROM ANTWERP, 'MIDDLEBROUGH, LONDON, MALTA, PORT SAID, SUEZ AND STRAITS, Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowas at Kowloon," where each consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.
Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contrary before 6 hours.
Goods not cleared by the 17th inst., at 4 P.MA, will be subject to rent.
No Fire Tasurance will be effected by me in any case whatever,
Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns. for examination by the Consignes's
pointed hour.
and the Company's representative al AD AP was issued by a combination of French bankers: All claims must be presented within ten days the sad for £16,000,000 at 5 per cent.
of the steamer's arrival here after which dates faded in 1896, and the third, for
they cannot be recognised:
No claims will be admitted after the Goods bave left the Godowns,
E. A. HEWETT,
Superintendent, Hongkong, 11th October, 1907,
„ar9005,000 at 5 per cent, was issued in 1895,
each on its line of railway and all with a There remain the railway pans secured
Government guarantee. These are:----
(1) Imperial Chinese Railway, £2,500,000 at 5 per cent., of which £115,000 has been paid' off
francs (4,503,000) at 5 per cent, of which re- (2) Peking-Hankow Railway, 112,500,000 demption begins in 1939.
(3) Shanghai-aaking Railway, £1,900,000 (out of an authorised issue of £3,250,000) at 5
per cent.
tent by the Government of Hongkong al 4 (4) Canton-llankow Railway, £1,000,000,
per cent.
course of issue (June 1957) at 3 per cent,
(5) Canton-Kowloon Railway, 1,500 in
The total amount of the foreign debt con- stituting an obligation of the Imperial Govern. ment and secured off its revenues, including Government loans not yet paid off, indemnity (1951) and railway loans, is as follows:-
Total amount of ori ̧ìnal'issue, £135,270,080. Charge in 1956 for interest and sinking fund (including one redemption in January, 1907), £7.433,749.
Paid off to January 31, 1907, £9,973,241 Outstanding January 3, 1907, £135.295,839 -Shanghi Times, · ·
For Sale.
"PAFST BREWING COMPANY, MILWAUKEE,
FRESH SUPPLIES `Always kept` IN STOCK
BY
SIEMSSEN & Co.,
Agents for HONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA. Hongkong, 29th July, 1907.
SWATOW DRAWN WORK
COMPANY,
38, WELLINGTON STREET.
Dealers in all kind of HAND-MADE DRAWN CHINESE LINEN, GRASS CLOTH; &c., all of the best quality;
ALSO
SWATOW BEST PEWTER-WARE,
LACES,
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› suitable for Pic-nic. Hongkong, 15th May, 1907.
LEE YEE HAIR DRESSING-SALOONTMTM
`7.30 am; to . 9.30 a.in. ...Every 16 minntés" 9.30 am. to. 11.00 a.m. .....Every 15 minuter
12.45 p.m. to 1.15 p.m....Every to minuter. 1.15 p.m. 10 1.45 pm. ...Every 15 minnies 1.45 p.m. to 2.15 p.m....Every to minutes. 2.15 pm to 3.00 p.m....Every 15 minuter: 3.30 p.m. to, 5.00 p.m....Every 15 minuter, 5:30pm to 8.00 p.m....Every to minuter,
NIGHT CARS fa 8.45 p.m. and 9 pm 9:45 pm, to 15.15 1.00.
every half hour, SUNDAYS, 8.com. to 9.00 a.m....Every'is minuitda.. "9:00 am, "td" 9:30 am....Every 30 minuter 9.30a.m. to 10.30 a.m. .....Every. 15 minutar, 19.30 am to 11.00 am....Every 10 minutes 11.49 am to 13.00 Dood...Every 15 minuter. 12.00 Noon to 1,00 p.m....Every 10 minute
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NIGHT CARS as on Week Days SATURDAYS.
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AND
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THERAPION.
This preparationisut suprably one of the moal genuine and reliable Pagini Medleines ever join duced, and has, we understand, been used in the Continental Hospitals by Ricord, Rostan Jobert, Velpesu. Maisonseuws, the well-known Chanalg nac, antindeed by all who are regarded as autho nities in such matters, including, the celebrated Lallemand, and Kaus, by whom it was some time riere uniformly adupled, and that it is worthy the attarsion of tho wis require such a ready w think theres no doubt. From the time of Aristotle downwards, polent agent in the removal of these diseases has (like the famed philosopher's stone) been thin abfect of search of some hopeful, generousminds and far beyond the mere power
such could rvér hava been discovered—of trany- muting lebasermetals intu gold is surely shadi- covery of remedy as potent acto replenish ile fall- ing energic of the conference tapeedily and safely w is the nas case, and in this ather p
to expet from the systers without the old, or even the knowledge, of a second pasty, the poisons of sequedar inherited disease in all their protean forins atleave no ieinter ignes þebind. Bachis- THE NEW FRENCH' REMEDY
+
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which miny certainly rank wikis, If not taku pance. ence of, many of this discoveries of our day, about w no little oitentation and noise bave been made, and the extensive and ever-increasing de seand that has been created for this medicinewber. ever introduced appears to prove that it' la dos tined to cast into ubilving all those questionable remedies tit were formerly the sole reliance of medrar Theraplan may be obtained of the principal chemists and merchants throughout the worth. - Diamond Fieldt Advertiser, Kimrit,
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Extra cars at 3 15 p.m., 11.30 p.m.and 11.45 pm. SPECIAL CARS by Arrangement at the Company's Office, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGM Des Vaux Road Central,
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers, Hongkong, 4th June, 1007:
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED.
PORTLAND CEMENT.
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General Manager Hongkong, 3rd October, Jong
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