Intimation.
Powell's
ALEXANDRA
BUILDINGS.
NOW SHOWING.
New Fabrics
FOR
SPRING
A D
SUMMER
GOWNS
STRIPED ZEPHYRS
50 ots. Yard
MERCERISED
LAWNS
75 ots. Yard
FLOWERED MUSLINS
M
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY APRIL 16 1010
Auction.
BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE
PUBLIC AUCTION.
ESSRS HUGHES & HOUGH bave
received instructions to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,"
FRIDAY,
THE FOLLOWING
the 2204 day of April, 1910, at 3 "P.M., at their Biler Rooms, Ice House Street, VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY, Situate at Victoria in the Colony of
Fongkong, vis, t
ALL THOSE PIRCES or PAROELS of GROUND altante Vicions, aforesaid, ro- gistered in the Land Office respectively as The REMAINING PORTION OF SEC. TION A OF INLAND LOT No sos, and
TO REMAINING PORTION OF INLAND LOT No. 3os, together with the messanges theroon, known as Now: 54, 56, 58, 60 and 62, Stone Nullab Laos, and Nos. 4, 6, 8; to and e), Wanchal Road. Atan 1694 Square feet or thereabouts, Term 999 Years Annual Crowd rent 5$5.05.
The point mised by w
"Pall Mall Gassils of the oth gard 10 rubber prices, and is one that must appear who bas doticed how quially the sumers, are taking, and
"Abla Siamun, Sekt rig Cond
Fone:Good
bluejacket" "mis lings be it
office equently, E
himself officially at the month! open-list... In less formal surrou prices, considering" that they
mallow designation not poslios nil along to get their Jppl as all
accompanied by fervid embellishments. lower rate (ban they are's liged to pay Occasionally be serves in adorn the moral but everything points to
clear understanding of a temperance tract; a sporter, hard-pres ed between some of the manufactnier, brokers, for polics court, new, may record in flowing and company promoters, er, at any rate, to their journalese a momentary lapse from the paths general folcrest in the rubbe
rabber market. This of convention ashore, Otberwing literature
thay seem sitoog, but they hava either to admit | this or openly admit very poor busloans ability and foresight in not making progisten against the farly rapid rise in prices, at least by so interesting themselver,
knows him not
hat... dein:
bor acc "by'a loyalty that at times approaches the hero.
worsh
Intimatt
[you ara
anced old
aner in the work, but not in buEDOES.
tion are often profitable to,
yet detection is certain sooner
comes the mash-up and the best and safest way is to tell the
ing with his shortcomlogs call from Bim ahillings to the pound everywh
of the school-on) Leniency in dealsima. Thus you make friends
and a reputation that is, prallude but cnptempt. He accepta pholu. ment at the bands of his superior in the spirit
-are-offered for sale We that be accepts rain or toothache. Its justice
affirm, that it is on this basis that the wide popularity of
then
adoletered by the power that rules his paths, resta The people have discovered that this
Ar may not be without question, but
it is the law, as irrevocable as fate,
WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION
medicine is exactly what it is said to be, and Morally, he has basa represented fu two that it does what we have always declared It
ntains of Pura
For further particular and conditions of rubber shipping or exporting season (to Europe, and a not vanstarsi reaction prompts him to found the men as he really is. Religion pro-Wild Chery. A combination, of supreme
sale, apply to
Mets, JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Prisca's Building, Ice Hoare Street, Solicitors for the Mortgagee,
or to Mein. HUGHES & HOUGH,
Auctioneers.
Hanekene, 11th April, 1919.
Public Companies
T307
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD. NOTICE is hereby given that the TWEN
TY-FIRST ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS Will be held at the Company's Offices, St. George's 1910, in 182, SATURDAY; the 33th April, at for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors, -to- gether with a Statement of Accounts to 28th February, 1910, and electing of Directors and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 16th to the 30th *pril, solo, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.
Agents. Hongkong, 13th April, toto."
f314
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED. '
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS;
i
Guasrally speaking, bis appearance is familiar enough, though it is to be feared that the world-the unfamiliar world of street and They surely bad a fair idea of the amount of Innumerable-does not levariably see him a
shod, people, of parish “pubs * and pitfalla subber likely to be consumed, and also of the hir best. For here he is a stranger within the probable output, and taking September, 1995, gates of a community to whom difcipline has when robber was over 45, per lb (ños Para) and yet to reveal its many and valid inward. the Uailed States slump over, from that month, asses. The SDA.. stem nurse at whose which is practically the beginning of the Brar! | iroz breast he was nurtured, rolazes ashore,
and the United States), the price monated tilt of his cip on the back of his head and a. steadily to ge, jd. par lb, is March-the end of fine indiscrimination in the meter of liquid the heavy exporting month Than the buyers refreshment, or consu nors should have known where thay were, and could have made provision, seeing that from Match to Juse is the time when Amaton" rabber growers secure their year's arierchandise, etc. They had a fair warning, :eing that the price from March to June 30, 1J09, went straight to 65, 41d. for Sue Park. (This date begins the boom year in rubber 1999-910) From July 1 to the second week In August, 1969, the price went to 81, 441., and by the beginning of the heavy export season,, September, had reached os, per 15. After this is was to have been expected that prices would go down, but there was a drop of only about as per Ib. during the last quarter of 1999. And now, before the season is over, the prices has gone up to over 10s per lb., and any firm res quiring raw material will have the not vary, pleasant prespect before them that Brazil's April, May and June quarter will be much fasi than the January to March, and also that July to September will be the smallest of all, so that it may be an easy matter to force rubber | up to 135, or 149, per lb., If the present price of
for is genuine...
BRAZILIAN-OUTPUT.
In an article last September I stated that Brazil would not be able to increase the out pat much, with rubber below 6, per this la
A FINAL DIVIDEND of Twealy Dollars, she does not appear to have done so with
per Sbare for the vir 19:8 and an INTERIN DIVIDEND of Thirty Dollars per Share for the wear 1909 will be PAYABLE on THURSDAY, the 14th instant.
Warrants may be had on 'application at the Office of the Society do and after that date,
By Order of the Board,
0. MONTAGUE RDE, -
Secretary,
Hongkong, 13th Apr'1, solo.
Notices of Firms.
CHINA TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED..
FROM
NOTICK
ROM this date nad during my absence from the Colony. Mr I, B. K. WHIT TALL wil ACT, as SECRETARY of the
By Order of the Board,...
50 cts. and $1.00 Yard Company.
FLOWERED VOILES
O, MONTAGUE EDE,
·Secretary," " Hongkang, 14th April, too.
€315
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF . CANTON, LIMITED,
NOTICE.
50 cts, and $1.00 Yard Fat from the Colony Mr. B. K. WHIT
CREPOLINES
LINENS $1.00 Yard
POPLINS
All the above are of
Exceptional Value.
POWELL'S
Alexandra
Buildings
ROM this date and during my absence TALL will AUT A SECRETARY of the Society,
By Order of the Boyd,
C. MONTAGUE EDE, Secretary. Hongkong, 14th April, toro,
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oil
light. Idealisia claim for bloquillassert will do. Its nature also has been frankly minde of soul that would insult an Arcadian shepherd, known. It is palatable as honey to his detractors he is merely a godless scoffer, all the nutritive and curative prop rudely antagonistic to religion, a brand not Ced Liver Oil, extracted by us fro even wanh snatching from the burning; some livers, combined with the Compound Syrup of where midway between these extremat is ta be Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Mall and
sants, liself to him (when he considers the excellence and medicinal merit. Nothing bas matter at all) as a form of celestial naval dis. been so successful in Anemia, Scrofula, Bron, ciplies tempared by a strain of sentimentality, chitis, Infuansa, Loss of Flesh and Wasting. Bat to be appreciated be must be seen lo Awaken his interes appeal to his generosity, Diseases, Weakness, and Low Nervous Tone, his proper sphere. On board ship he realises rally, or courage: lat him deliver himself and all complaints caused by Impure Blood. he is required to play up to no 1018: po troefal bymus, and your sattor will respond have used it in cases where cod liver
with not nemusical ballowing, of familiarly Dr. Austin D. Irviga, of Canada, says: "I one regards him with curiosity or even with the enthusiasm of a revival convert. But was indicated but could not be taken by the terest, and ke is in consequence voimal (for your sailor-man ashore, anate of observation,
patient, and the results following were very is as undainesi as a self-conscious child), &
gratifying. It is effective from the first doss very genuine pride in his appearance is partly
and agrees with the most sensitive and nervous the outcome of tradition and partly fostered by
stomachs. It cannot deceive or disappoint you, the jealous supervision of his divisional lieu
and comes to the rescue of those who hare tenkot, A score of subtleties' go to make his
received no benefit from any other treatment. "rig": pover was tide bound by mors answer.
it ving laws than those that set a spas to the width of his bell-botomed trousain or the depth of his collar. This collar was instituted by his forebears to protect, keir jampen from the gemary queues the queue has passed away, but the collar remains, and its width, is sixteen inches, no more, no less, The triple row of tape that adoras its edge commemorates the three victories that won for him bie baritage, and, in perpetunt mourning of their hero, the tar of to-day kostí a black silk hundkerchief beneath it. It - is doub.ful whether he realizon
thunder at him the penalties of his wrong, doing, intrede upon his natural reserve with the importaition of printed tract and recept and lo 1 ba has withdrawn, jolo su Impane trable shell of salky stupidity and indifference. There are generalities, but they will be found to auswer well enough for the majority, of Poseidon's humbler sons. Rumours of war leave him, as has been said, grimly imper: torbable and unmoved. But let thet rumour change to a deeper note, and lis realisation will find him-given time to hitch his pants and spit to leaward—ready, kye, ready, Till that hour he is content to remain as he is, bare of foot and tattooed forearm, rude of speech and manner, but with shoulders ever braced to meet the bordes of an Empire's destiny,--Pall Mall Golf,
the portent of these emblems, for be is not Intimations
commonly of an inquiring turn, of mind, but they are as they were in the beginning'; they must be "just 10,” and that for him suffices.
HIS MODES OF SPRECH;""
A number of factors go to make his speech
the obscure jargon it has been represented, Recruited from the nailb, south, east, and west, he brings with bỉm the dialect he spoke
stands for the medicinal triumphs of the age, Watch carefully against imitations." Sold by chemists throughout the world,"
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY,E
LIMITED.
PORTLAND CEMENT.
in childhood. And it were easier to change In Carke of 375 ibe, not 85,50 per Cask the colour of his eyes than to take the brogan
ax Factory, VERK
70. to 88,, but I prefer to see the April ship meats before saying anything on that head. With subber in London at ya 64. per lbs grower would be able to give his labourers on an estate 48. par lb., and get mest of it back in trade (although the merchant would get the | hp lipped in his cradle out of a mac's'month. lion's share) Bad rabber only averaged from 68, to 7. per lb. during the past nine months the Amazon yield should have equalled the present year's total; so that a bit of an under standing may and does appear to exist between grower and exporter to supply only so much per month, and I should not be surprised to Sed the two usually loan quarters, April: to | October of this year, compira favourably with the present quarter, as far as exports from Para ase concerand.
I am not going back on any of my former assertions with regard to what Brazil can turn
|
ex Factory.
SHEWAN TOMES & GO.
General Manager, falhas
Hanokong, vith Angust, tonƐ,"
▲ succession of commissions abroad enriches Bage of ago lbs, net 63,45 per,, Bag his vocabulary with a smattering of balf the tongues of earth, Arabic, Chinese, Malay; Hindustanee, and Japanesa : smatterings truly, and rightly untranslatable, but Pentecostal in their variety. Cantly, and bewiaying bis vocation most surely of all, are the undying hea-phrases and terms without which no sailor can express his meaning. The orders he receives ate couched in them, for they re- present the things that make up his world. Even tho úveryday objecin of life ashore need translation. The floor becomes a deck, stairs out in any year, but on dozens of estates by a batchway, the window a scutile or gunport, very little forcing as n uch money could be | There are othsis; smacking of masir and yards made by ona yaar's nutput at the present bigh - and the "tar-and-spunyara” of a bygoun Navys prices as would have given many a grower the price for which ha,would have band, prepared to sell his estate outright daring spo6-7, when rubber was a good price; viz.: 40. Bd, to 51, 6d, per ib., and this after allowing sufficient to pay cost of gathering and export duty. My estimate of extra tapping and some hundreds of additional labourers during end of season and, say, 1,cos,co scattered trees, should have given an extra 5,000 tons, but cannot account for the small retures of the last few months.
It may not be generally known that if a man wished to sell some raw rubber, say a few pounds, in London, he could not do so, and if Igre he did it would be like selling diamonds in Kimberley No scrap dealer dare buy raw rubber and if he does, the salier must give a recelp take the price of scrap, and explain ŢOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the how he came by it, no matter what the quality, NOTI
partnership hera'afara, eabsisting been you will see the ting has got thirgi vary tween as the undersigned carrying on business | fice, and no smell deals or antes, are likely to
SHARR and GENERAL BROKERS & No. Queen's Road Central. Victoria, under 20 through outsiders,
NOTICE.
the style or firm of "VERNON & SMYTH"
· MANUFACTURERS POSITION.
pics
has been DISSOLVED and the interest and rapanalbility of the undersignad JOHN ber, I tried to ludace many manufacturer to As I mentioned in my article last Septems YARDLEY VERNON VERNON in the sid firm bas CEASED is from the 31st March, buy supplies to Brasil direct from grower tota.
Sense some said it could rat be dones others claimed All Debts due to and owing by the fata dros - they could buy here locally at a fait price. Que of Vernon & Smyth will be received and paid firm wated they had a satisfactory contract respectively by the undersigned FRANK Only mill arms admitted they were gelling SMYTH who will contiene to carry on the the worst end of things, but the big ones of sald business under the style or of London, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham,
Vernon & Smyth, de, me
Dated the tst day of April, 191o.
and Edinburgh all ware satisfied, and, men tioned having their brokers' arrangements
To cocclusion
· [390,
I may say it now, appear clear that, so long as cash can be secured for 'malaten outside the Para Belde, no money can be put into the Amazon or Hevea Estates; but as soon as the boom 1 over, and speculators want tonihing sell ) for their mopsy, then a change of front will be made,
(88) J.Y, V. VERNON: (Sd) F.SMYTH.:
A TOO STABLE.
LEIGHTON HILL ROAD, (next to Nolly Police Biatlon),
AS eginblished a SHOEING FORGE at
Posler can be shod by EXPERIENCED SHANGHAI FARRIERS by arrangémánt.”
Sbosity of Horses and Ponial Klay unders taken - at — Kowloon, eniticeipt of Ownerg #fastractions/GANARAK
At the
WANT
GINES 10 jako
Ku hears watching
FREE TRIAL
TRY THE
ROYAL STANDARD
fluxu are absolute to day, yet curent speech among men who at heart remain unchanged, in spite of higher education and the introduc tion of marmelade into their schla of dist. Tha tendency to emphasis that all vigorous forms of life demand finds outlet in the meaningless oaths that mur"the tailor's speech. Lack of culture denies him a wider range of adjectives the absence of privacy or refinements in his mode of life and a great familiarity from our last youth would seem as expl astion of, if not an excuse for, a habit which remains in. eradicable, in spite of all efforte tocounteract it The conditions of naval service saver his home-ties very icon in life. The isolation from (aminios and ganiler induences that It Cost $165 Lättle, Last Long, Will carries with it is responsible for the curiously Intimate friendships and loyalty that exist on the mess-deck of a man-of-war. With a friend
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(VISIBLE)
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your office for free trial.
Repair to any Make of
WRITERS,
GRAMAPHONES.
the bluejacket is willing to share all his world" PHONE No. 482 and the machine ly Doscessione svan to the contents of the mysterions little bag that holds bis cisaning raga, polishing" "paste, and emery papar.. And since the work of polishing brans work leaves the mind free to wander at its ¿wa kwast will,
from the fact that the recipient of there low the sailor chooses this time to “apin'». yam“I volcad, quaintly worded confidences pedally shares his chasing fagh, the tar in wont lo describe his, friend as his "Raggia." To the uninitiated the world signifias little, bai to the sailor-man it midans much, for it repressuLE CO him all in his hard life that "suffereth long and ls kind.": : His love for animals, which is provar- bial,, #fforda but another outlet for the springs of anection that, exist in all hearts, and in his case baing barred wider scope, are intensified. A Speciality. Satisfaction Guar
Work in over for the day ƒ ması-dacke me cleared up, his hammock is alung, and the bluejacket lights his pipe with the complacent calm of a man who for, waal or woe bas sarned
AND
BEWING MACHINE
pay. Then, seated on an aptarned MOTOR CARS, BLØYCLES and
ula;'s spit-klå fast inside.
{the mali
FOR HIRE
DRAGON CYCLE
DEPOT
to
FRENCH STORE.
NOTICE.
We beg to inform our numerous customers and the public in general hat we have been appointed Agent for the "CREME SIMON" and all Simon's Produces for
Requisites, Perfumery, Powd Boep, ets.
INSPECTION D
Hongkong, arst January, 1910,
F. BLACKHEAD
Co.
SHIP-CHANDLERS, SAILMAKERS COAL AND PROVISION MIR CHANTS, NAVAL CONTRACTORS
AND GENERAL COMMISSON
AGENTS;
GROUND FLOOR.
-I"ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING;
HONGKONG, SOAP AND BODA MANUŸACTURERS,
JEIGU SOLE AGENTS FOR
ARTMANN'S RAHTJEN'S GENUINE
BRAND, HARTMANNS GREY. PAINT, TV: DAINLER'S FATENT MOTOR.
H COMPORTION RED HAND
Bole Agrils for FERGUSON'S SPROIAL CREAM”
P.&. O, SPIOIAL LIQUER HOITOR WHISKY, &c.
EVERY KIND OF
'SHIP'S 'STORES AND REQUISITES
* ALWAYS IN STOJE
REASONABLE PRICES.
FURNITURE WAREHO
LI KWONG LOONG
GABINET-MAKERSAND`AKY, DR001
from Shanghal, Más 1970
FURNITURE, STORE
19. Dza Vaux ROAD